University Of Oklahoma Press imprint: 604 books
New Mexico
A History
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2013
Since the earliest days of Spanish exploration and settlement, New Mexico has been known for lying off the beaten track. But this new history reminds readers that the world has been beating paths to New Mexico for hundreds of years, via the Camino Real, the Santa Fe Trail, several railroads, Route...
Californio Portraits
Baja California's Vanishing Culture
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2015
First published in 1981, Harry W. Crosby’s Last of the Californios captured the history of the mountain people of Baja California during a critical moment of transition, when the 1974 completion of the transpeninsular highway increased the Californios’ contact with the outside world and profoundly...
Hubbell Trading Post
Trade, Tourism, and the Navajo Southwest
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2015
For more than a century, trading posts in the American Southwest tied the U.S. economy and culture to those of American Indian peoples—and in this capacity, Hubbell Trading Post, founded in 1878 in Ganado, Arizona, had no parallel. This book tells the story of the Hubbell family, its Navajo neighbors...
Lone Star Unionism, Dissent, and Resistance
Other Sides of Civil War Texas
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2016
Most histories of Civil War Texas—some starring the fabled Hood’s Brigade, Terry’s Texas Rangers, or one or another military figure—depict the Lone Star State as having joined the Confederacy as a matter of course and as having later emerged from the war relatively unscathed. Yet as the contributors...
Cotton and Conquest
How the Plantation System Acquired Texas
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2013
This sweeping work of history explains the westward spread of cotton agriculture and slave labor across the South and into Texas during the decades before the Civil War. In arguing that the U.S. acquisition of Texas originated with planters’ need for new lands to devote to cotton cultivation, celebrated...
Calamity Jane: The Woman and the Legend
The Woman and the Legend
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2011
Forget Doris Day singing on the stagecoach. Forget Robin Weigert’s gritty portrayal on HBO’s Deadwood. The real Calamity Jane was someone the likes of whom you’ve never encountered. That is, until now.
This book is a definitive biography of Martha Canary, the woman popularly known as...
Wavell in the Middle East, 1939–1941
A Study in Generalship
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2013
This masterly study of generalship covers two years of intense operational activity during which Field Marshal Wavell, as Commander-in-Chief, Middle East, was at one point conducting no fewer than five campaigns simultaneously. Two of those campaigns will stand in history as truly great victories,...
Native Peoples of the Olympic Peninsula
Who We Are, Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2015
The nine Native tribes of Washington State’s Olympic Peninsula—the Hoh, Skokomish, Squaxin Island, Lower Elwha Klallam, Jamestown S’Klallam, Port Gamble S’Klallam, Quinault, Quileute, and Makah—share complex histories of trade, religion, warfare, and kinship, as well as reverence for the...
Hollywood Beauty
Linda Darnell and the American Dream
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2014
At fifteen, Linda Darnell left her Texas home and normal adolescence to live the Hollywood dream promoted by fan magazine and studio publicity offices. She appeared in dozens of films and won international acclaim for Blood and Sand (playing opposite Tyrone Power), Forever Amber, A Letter to Three...
Invasion of Laos, 1971
Lam Son 719
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2014
In 1971, while U.S. ground forces were prohibited from crossing the Laotian border, a South Vietnamese Army corps, with U.S. air support, launched the largest airmobile operation in the history of warfare, Lam Son 719. The objective: to sever the North Vietnamese Army’s main logistical artery, the...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2012
Mark Twain is revealed here in an entirely new autobiographical light from his own writings as they reflect his career, his thinking, and his humor. This volume captures the grandeur that distinguishes Mark Twain as, in the words of George Bernard Shaw, “by far the greatest American writer.” Made...
Black Spokane
The Civil Rights Struggle in the Inland Northwest
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2014
In 1981, decades before mainstream America elected Barack Obama, James Chase became the first African American mayor of Spokane, Washington, with the overwhelming support of a majority-white electorate. Chase’s win failed to capture the attention of historians—as had the century-long evolution...
Popol Vuh: The Sacred Book of the Maya
The Sacred Book of the Maya
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2012
The Popol Vuh is the most important example of Maya literature to have survived the Spanish conquest. It is also one of the world’s great creation accounts, comparable to the beauty and power of Genesis.
Most previous translations have relied on Spanish versions rather than the original K’iche’-Maya...
Tlacaelel Remembered
Mastermind of the Aztec Empire
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2016
The enigmatic and powerful Tlacaelel (1398–1487), wrote annalist Chimalpahin, was “the beginning and origin” of the Mexica monarchy in fifteenth-century Mesoamerica. Brother of the first Moteuczoma, Tlacaelel would become “the most powerful, feared, and esteemed man of all that the world had...