University Of Oklahoma Press imprint: 604 books
Call Me Lucky
A Texan in Hollywood
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2015
“Do you think you could teach Rock Hudson to talk like you do?”
The question came from famed Hollywood director George Stevens, and an affirmative answer propelled Bob Hinkle into a fifty-year career in Hollywood as a speech coach, actor, producer, director, and friend to the stars. Along...
They Died With Custer
Soldiers' Bones from the Battle of the Little Bighorn
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2013
Dead men tell no tales, and the soldiers who rode and died with George Armstrong Custer at the Battle of the Little Bighorn have been silent statistics for more than a hundred years. By blending historical sources, archaeological evidence, and painstaking analysis of the skeletal remains, Douglas...
New Perspectives in Mormon Studies
Creating and Crossing Boundaries
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2013
Scholarship in Mormon studies has often focused on a few key events and individuals in Mormon history. The essays collected by Quincy D. Newell and Eric F. Mason in this interdisciplinary volume expand the conversation.
One of the main purposes of this volume is to define and cross boundaries....
by Dwight V. Swain
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2012
Techniques of the Selling Writer provides solid instruction for people who want to write and sell fiction, not just to talk and study about it. It gives the background, insights, and specific procedures needed by all beginning writers. Here one can learn how to group words into copy that moves, movement...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2013
Since the end of the Cold War,interaction among communities across the globe has increased exponentially. Globalization has changed how we live, how we communicate, what we eat, and how we travel around the world. What do such social, political, and economic changes mean in a twenty-first-century...
Diminished Democracy
From Membership to Management in American Civic Life
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2013
Pundits and social observers have voiced alarm each year as fewer Americans involve themselves in voluntary groups that meet regularly. Thousands of nonprofit groups have been launched in recent times, but most are run by professionals who lobby Congress or deliver social services to clients. What...
Men Against Fire
The Problem of Battle Command
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2012
S.L.A. "Slam" Marshall was a veteran of World War I and a combat historian during World War II. He startled the military and civilian world in 1947 by announcing that, in an average infantry company, no more than one in four soldiers actually fired their weapons while in contact with the...
Sandalwood Death: A Novel
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2012
This powerful novel by Mo Yan—one of contemporary China’s most famous and prolific writers—is both a stirring love story and an unsparing critique of political corruption during the final years of the Qing Dynasty, China’s last imperial epoch.
Sandalwood Death is set during the Boxer...
Cherokee Thoughts
Honest and Uncensored
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2011
Gaming and chiefing. Imposters and freedmen. Distinguished novelist Robert J. Conley examines some of the most interesting facets of the Cherokee world. In 26 essays laced with humor, understatement, even open sarcasm, this popular writer takes on politics, culture, his people’s history, and what...
The Blackfeet
Raiders on the Northwestern Plains
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2012
The Blackfeet were the strongest military power on the northwestern plains throughout the eighteenth century. But the near extinction of buffalo in the late nineteenth century brought dire poverty to the tribe, forcing them to rely in part on the U.S. government for sustenance. In this history of...
by C. L. Sonnichsen
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2015
Frederick Webb Hodge remarked that the Eastern Apache tribe called the Mescaleros were “never regarded as so warlike” as the Apaches of Arizona. But the Mescaleros’ history is one of hardship and oppression alternating with wars of revenge. They were friendly to the Spaniards until victimized,...
Bandido
The Life and Times of Tiburcio Vasquez
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2011
Tiburcio Vasquez is, next to Joaquin Murrieta, America's most infamous Hispanic bandit. After he was hanged as a murderer in 1875, the Chicago Tribune called him "the most noted desperado of modern times." Yet questions about him still linger. Why did he become a bandido? Why did so many...
Contesting the Borderlands
Interviews on the Early Southwest
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2016
Conflict and cooperation have shaped the American Southwest since prehistoric times. For centuries indigenous groups and, later, Spaniards, French, and Anglo-Americans met, fought, and collaborated with one another in this border area stretching from Texas through southern California. To explore the...
Native Peoples of the Olympic Peninsula
Who We Are
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2013
Native Peoples of the Olympic Peninsula: Who We Are introduces readers to nine tribes: the Elwha Klallam, Jamestown S’Klallam, Port Gamble S’Klallam, Skokomish, Squaxin Island, Quinault, Hoh, Quileute, and Makah. Written by members of the Olympic Peninsula Intertribal Cultural Advisory Committee,...