University Of Oklahoma Press: 604 books
The Students of Sherman Indian School
Education and Native Identity since 1892
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2014
Sherman Indian High School, as it is known today, began in 1892 as Perris Indian School on eighty acres south of Riverside, California, with nine students. Its mission, like that of other off-reservation Indian boarding schools, was to "civilize" Indian children, which meant stripping them...
George Crook
From the Redwoods to Appomattox
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2013
Renowned for his prominent role in the Apache and Sioux wars, General George Crook (1828–90) was considered by William Tecumseh Sherman to be his greatest Indian-fighting general. Although Crook was feared by Indian opponents on the battlefield, in defeat the tribes found him a true friend and advocate...
A Surgeon with Custer at the Little Big Horn
James DeWolf's Diary and Letters, 1876
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2017
In spring 1876 a physician named James Madison DeWolf accepted the assignment of contract surgeon for the Seventh Cavalry, becoming one of three surgeons who accompanied Custer’s battalion at the Battle of the Little Big Horn. Killed in the early stages of the battle, he might easily have become...
Fort Laramie
Military Bastion of the High Plains
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2017
Of all the U.S. Army posts in the West, none witnessed more history than Fort Laramie, positioned where the northern Great Plains join the Rocky Mountains. From its beginnings as a trading post in 1834 to its abandonment by the army in 1890, it was involved in the buffalo hide trade, overland migrations,...
Monsters of Contact
Historical Trauma in Caddoan Oral Traditions
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2018
A murderous whirlwind, an evil child-abducting witch-woman, a masked cannibal, terrifying scalped men, a mysterious man-slaying flint creature: the oral tradition of the Caddoan Indians is alive with monsters. Whereas Western historical methods and interpretations relegate such beings to the realms...
Weaving Chiapas
Maya Women's Lives in a Changing World
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2018
In the highlands of Chiapas, Mexico, a large indigenous population lives in rural communities, many of which retain traditional forms of governance. In 1996, some 350 women of these communities formed a weavers’ cooperative, which they called Jolom Mayaetik. Their goal was to join together to market...
The Conquest of Texas
Ethnic Cleansing in the Promised Land, 1820–1875
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2019
This is not your grandfather’s history of Texas. Portraying nineteenth-century Texas as a cauldron of racist violence, Gary Clayton Anderson shows that the ethnic warfare dominating the Texas frontier can best be described as ethnic cleansing.
The Conquest of Texas is the story of the struggle...
The Army Surveys of Gold Rush California
Reports of Topographical Engineers, 1849–1851
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2015
As the army’s topographical engineer in California from 1849 to 1851, George Horatio Derby wrote detailed reports on the region, its people, its resources, and its geography—providing critical information for an understaffed military charged with bringing order to a vast new empire along the Pacific...
Rosebud, June 17, 1876
Prelude to the Little Big Horn
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2019
The Battle of the Rosebud may well be the largest Indian battle ever fought in the American West. The monumental clash on June 17, 1876, along Rosebud Creek in southeastern Montana pitted George Crook and his Shoshone and Crow allies against Sioux and Northern Cheyennes under Sitting Bull and Crazy...
The Civil War in Arizona
The Story of the California Volunteers, 1861–1865
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2012
Bull Run, Gettysburg, Appomattox. For Americans, these battlegrounds, all located in the eastern United States, will forever be associated with the Civil War. But few realize that the Civil War was also fought far to the west of these sites. The westernmost battle of the war took place in the remote...
by Andrew E. Masich
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2017
Still the least-understood theater of the Civil War, the Southwest Borderlands saw not only Union and Confederate forces clashing but Indians, Hispanos, and Anglos struggling for survival, power, and dominance on both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border. While other scholars have examined individual battles,...
Kearny's Dragoons Out West
The Birth of the U.S. Cavalry
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2016
Having banished eastern Native peoples to lands west of the Mississippi, President Andrew Jackson’s government by 1833 needed a new type of soldier to keep displaced Indians from returning home. And so the 1st Dragoons came into being. Will and John Gorenfeld tell their story—an epic of exploration,...
Soldiering in the Shadow of Wounded Knee
The 1891 Diary of Private Hartford G. Clark, Sixth U.S. Cavalry
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2016
In the aftermath of the December 1890 massacre at Wounded Knee, U.S. Army troops braced for retaliation from Lakota Sioux Indians, who had just suffered the devastating loss of at least two hundred men, women, and children. Among the soldiers sent to guard the area around Pine Ridge Agency, South...
Deadly Dozen
Twelve Forgotten Gunfighters of the Old West, Vol. 1
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2015
Wyatt Earp, Billy the Kid, Doc Holliday—such are the legendary names that spring to mind when we think of the western gunfighter. But in the American West of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, thousands of grassroots gunfighters straddled both sides of the law without hesitation....