University Of Oklahoma Press: 604 books
Restoring the Shining Waters
Superfund Success at Milltown, Montana
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2015
No sooner had the EPA established the Superfund program in 1980 to clean up the nation’s toxic waste dumps and other abandoned hazardous waste sites, than a little Montana town found itself topping the new program’s National Priority List. Milltown, a place too small to warrant a listing in the...
by Richard W. Etulain
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2017
Western fans today may not recognize the name Ernest Haycox (1899–1950), but they know his work. John Ford turned one of his stories into the iconic film Stagecoach, and the whole Western literary genre still follows conventions that Haycox deftly mastered and reshaped. In this new book about Haycox’s...
Heart of the Rock
The Indian Invasion of Alcatraz
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2014
In 1969, Ricahrd Oakes and Adam Fortunate Eagle, then known as Adam Nordwall, instigated an invasion of Alcatraz by American Indians. From the mainland, Fortunate Eagle orchestrated the events, but they assumed an uncontrollable life of their own. Fortunate Eagle provides an intimate memoir of the...
Edward Eberstadt & Sons
Rare Booksellers of Western Americana
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2016
An unlikely bookseller in New York City became the leading dealer in rare Western Americana for most of the twentieth century. After working in western-U.S. and South American gold mines at the turn of the twentieth century, Edward Eberstadt (1883–1958) returned to his home in New York City in 1907....
Maya Exodus
Indigenous Struggle for Citizenship in Chiapas
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2013
Maya Exodus offers a richly detailed account of how a group of indigenous people has adopted a global language of human rights to press claims for social change and social justice. Anthropologist Heidi Moksnes describes how Catholic Maya in the municipality of Chenalhó in Chiapas, Mexico, have changed...
Congress vs. the Bureaucracy
Muzzling Agency Public Relations
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2011
Government bureaucracy is something Americans have long loved to hate. Yet despite this general antipathy, some federal agencies have been wildly successful in cultivating the people’s favor. Take, for instance, the U.S. Forest Service and its still-popular Smokey Bear campaign. The agency early...
A British Profession of Arms
The Politics of Command in the Late Victorian Army
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2018
“You offer yourself to be slain,” General Sir John Hackett once observed, remarking on the military profession. “This is the essence of being a soldier.” For this reason as much as any other, the British army has invariably been seen as standing apart from other professions—and sometimes...
Lone Star Mind
Reimagining Texas History
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2018
There is the story the Lone Star State likes to tell about itself—and then there is the reality, a Texas past that bears little resemblance to the manly Anglo myth of Texas exceptionalism that maintains a firm grip on the state’s historical imagination. Lone Star Mind takes aim at this traditional...
Charles Goodnight
Cowman and Plainsman
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2012
An exciting story of a Texas Ranger, adventurer, and immigration officer who became a symbol of his age while gambling with death in the wild frontier regions of Texas, Arizona, and Old and New Mexico. Charles Goodnight knew the West of Jim Bridger, Kit Carson, Dick Wooton, St. Vrain, and Lucien Maxwell....
Chenoo
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2016
Jacob Neptune, a wise-cracking, two-fisted Penacook private investigator with a checkered past, lives in upstate New York—four hundred miles from his tribal community on Abenaki Island. Then one night the phone rings. “We . . . got . . . trouble,” Neptune’s cousin Dennis says from the other...
Whose Names Are Unknown: A Novel
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2012
Sanora Babb’s long-hidden novel Whose Names Are Unknown tells of the High Plains farmers who fled drought and dust storms during the Great Depression. Written with empathy for the farmers’ plight, this powerful narrative is based upon the author’s firsthand experience.
Babb submitted...
Creating Characters
How to Build Story People
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2012
A jargon-free manual on the basics of developing interesting fictional characters
Vibrant, believable characters help drive a fictional story. Along with a clever plot, well-drawn characters make us want to continue reading a novel or finish watching a movie. In Creating Characters, Dwight...
Behind Every Man
The Story of Nancy Cooper Russell
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2011
After Nancy Cooper married Charlie Russell in 1895, she helped turn a journeyman cowboy and ranch hand who sketched and sculpted in his spare time into a full-time artist who sold and exhibited all over the globe. In Behind Every Man: The Story of Nancy Cooper Russell, Joan Stauffer offers the first...
by Glenda Riley
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2012
With a widowed mother and six siblings, Annie Oakley first became a trapper, hunter, and sharpshooter simply to put food on the table. Yet her genius with the gun eventually led to her stardom in Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show during the latter half of the nineteenth century. The archetypal western...