University Of Oklahoma Press: 604 books
by Helen Hunt Jackson
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2015
Helen Hunt Jackson’s passionate crusade for Indian rights comes to life in this collection of more than 200 letters, most of which have never been published before. With Valerie Sherer Mathes’s helpful notes, the letters reveal the behind-the-scenes drama of Jackson’s involvement in Indian reform,...
by Frederick Nolan
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2015
In The West of Billy the Kid, renowned authority Frederick Nolan has assembled a comprehensive photo gallery of the life and times of Billy the Kid. In text and in more than 250 images-many of them published here for the first time-Nolan recreates the life Billy lived and the places and people he...
Traveling with the Innocents Abroad: Mark Twain's Original Reports from Europe and the Holy Land
Mark Twain's Original Reports from Europe and the Holy Land
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2012
Here, collected in book form for the first time, are the letters written by Mark Twain on the famous Holy Land Excursion of 1867—letters that Twain once said would ruin him if published. Twain, a brash young journalist with one book under his belt, was one of seventy-seven passengers on the steamship...
An Aristocracy of Color
Race and Reconstruction in California and the West, 1850–1890
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
In the South after the Civil War, the reassertion of white supremacy tended to pit white against black. In the West, by contrast, a radically different drama emerged, particularly in multiracial, multiethnic California. State elections in California to ratify Reconstruction-era amendments to the U.S....
A Way Across the Mountain
Joseph Walker's 1833 Trans-Sierran Passage and the Myth of Yosemite's Discovery
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2015
From July to November 1833, Joseph R. Walker led a brigade of fifty-eight fur trappers, with two hundred horses and a year’s provisions, from the Rocky Mountains of Wyoming to the Pacific coast of central California. Toward the end of their journey the Walker brigade crossed the Sierra Nevada, becoming...
Road to War
The 1871 Yellowstone Surveys
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2016
By 1870, only one group of American Indians in the 300,000 square miles of the Dakota and Montana Territories still held firm against being placed on reservations: a few thousand Teton Sioux and Northern Cheyennes, all followers of the charismatic Sitting Bull. It was then that Philadelphia’s Jay...
Defender of Canada
Sir George Prevost and the War of 1812
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2013
When war broke out between Great Britain and the United States in 1812, Sir George Prevost, captain general and governor in chief of British North America, was responsible for defending a group of North American colonies that stretched as far as the distance from Paris to Moscow. He also commanded...
Uncovering History
Archaeological Investigations at the Little Bighorn
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2013
Almost as soon as the last shot was fired in the Battle of the Little Bighorn, the battlefield became an archaeological site. For many years afterward, as fascination with the famed 1876 fight intensified, visitors to the area scavenged the many relics left behind. It took decades, however, before...
Into the Breach at Pusan
The 1st Provisional Marine Brigade in the Korean War
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
In the opening campaign of the Korean War, the First Provisional Marine Brigade participated in a massive effort by United States and South Korean forces in 1950 to turn back the North Korean invasion of the Republic of Korea. The brigade’s actions loom large in marine lore. According to most accounts,...
Bound Like Grass
A Memoir from the Western High Plains
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2011
At the start of this haunting memoir, Ruth McLaughlin returns to the site of her childhood home in rural eastern Montana. In place of her family's house, she finds only rubble and a blackened chimney. A fire has taken the old farmstead and with it ninety-seven years of hard-luck memories. Amidst the...
by Jonathan M. House
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2014
The Cold War did not culminate in World War III as so many in the 1950s and 1960s feared, yet it spawned a host of military engagements that affected millions of lives. This book is the first comprehensive, multinational overview of military affairs during the early Cold War, beginning with conflicts...
Inventing Los Alamos
The Growth of an Atomic Community
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2014
A social history of New Mexico’s “Atomic City”
Los Alamos, New Mexico, birthplace of the Atomic Age, is the community that revolutionized modern weaponry and science. An “instant city,” created in 1943, Los Alamos quickly grew to accommodate six thousand people—scientists and experts...
Last of the Old-Time Outlaws
The George West Musgrave Story
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2014
Soft-spoken, cheerful, handsome, and well dressed, George West Musgrave “looked more like a senator than a cattle rustler.” Yet he was a cattle rustler as well as a bandit, robber, and killer, “guilty of more crimes than Billy the Kid was ever accused of.” In Last of the Old-Time Outlaws,...
Regular Army O!
Soldiering on the Western Frontier, 1865–1891
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2017
“The drums they roll, upon my soul, for that’s the way we go,” runs the chorus in a Harrigan and Hart song from 1874. “Forty miles a day on beans and hay in the Regular Army O!” The last three words of that lyric aptly title Douglas C. McChristian’s remarkable work capturing the lot of...