University Of Oklahoma Press imprint: 604 books
Mestizos Come Home!
Making and Claiming Mexican American Identity
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2017
Uruguayan writer Eduardo Galeano has described U.S. and Latin American culture as continually hobbled by amnesia—unable, or unwilling, to remember the influence of mestizos and indigenous populations. In Mestizos Come Home! author Robert Con Davis-Undiano documents the great awakening of Mexican...
Motoring West
Volume 1: Automobile Pioneers, 1900–1909
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2015
In the first years of the twentieth century, motoring across the vast expanses west of the Mississippi was at the very least an adventure and at most an audacious stunt. As more motorists ventured forth, such travel became a curiosity and, within a few decades, commonplace. For aspiring western travelers,...
Justinian Caire and Santa Cruz Island
The Rise and Fall of a California Dynasty
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2013
One of the fabled Channel Islands of Southern California, Santa Cruz was once the largest privately owned island off the coast of the continental United States. This multifaceted account traces the island’s history from its aboriginal Chumash population to its acquisition by The Nature Conservancy...
Blue Heaven
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2011
The year is 1902. A young stock-handler named Fenton Pardee has just survived the train wreck that almost destroyed William F. Cody’s Wild West show. Surveying the train’s smoldering ruins—and what is left of Cody’s company of stunt-riders, trick-shooters, and stage actors—Fenton realizes...
Dragoons in Apacheland
Conquest and Resistance in Southern New Mexico, 1846–1861
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2014
In the fifteen years prior to the American Civil War, the U.S. Army established a presence in southern New Mexico, the homeland of Mescalero, Mimbres, and Mogollon bands of the Apache Indians. From the army’s perspective, the Apaches presented an obstacle to be overcome in making the region—newly...
Building Yanhuitlan
Art, Politics, and Religion in the Mixteca Alta since 1500
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2017
Through years of fieldwork in the state of Oaxaca, Mexico, art historian and archaeologist Alessia Frassani formulated a compelling question: How did Mesoamerican society maintain its distinctive cultural heritage despite colonization by the Spanish? In Building Yanhuitlan, she focuses on an imposing...
by Clarissa W. Confer
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2012
No one questions the horrific impact of the Civil War on America, but few realize its effect on American Indians. Residents of Indian Territory found the war especially devastating. Their homeland was beset not only by regular army operations but also by guerillas and bushwhackers. Complicating the...
American Indian Policy in Crisis
Christian Reformers and the Indian, 1865–1900
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2014
In this book a distinguished authority in the field presents an account of United States Indian policy in the years 1865 to 1900, one of the most critical periods in Indian-white relations. Francis Paul Prucha discusses in detail the major developments of those years—Grant's Peace Policy, the reservation...
The Great Medicine Road, Part 2
Narratives of the Oregon, California, and Mormon Trails, 1849
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
During the early weeks of 1848, as U.S. congressmen debated the territorial status of California, a Swiss immigrant and an itinerant millwright forever altered the future state’s fate. Building a sawmill for Johann August Sutter, James Wilson Marshall struck gold. The rest may be history, but much...
Connecticut Unscathed
Victory in the Great Narragansett War, 1675–1676
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2014
The conflict that historians have called King Philip’s War still ranks as one of the bloodiest per capita in American history. An Indian coalition ravaged much of New England, killing six hundred colonial fighting men (not including their Indian allies), obliterating seventeen white towns, and damaging...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2012
In life and in death, fame and glory eluded Zebulon Montgomery Pike (1779–1813). The ambitious young military officer and explorer, best known for a mountain peak that he neither scaled nor named, was destined to live in the shadows of more famous contemporaries—explorers Meriwether Lewis and...
Archaeology, History, and Custer's Last Battle
The Little Big Horn Reexamined
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2015
On the afternoon of June 25, 1867, an overwhelming force of Sioux and Cheyenne Indians quickly mounted a savage onslaught against General George Armstrong Custer’s battalion, driving the doomed troopers of the U.S. Seventh Cavalry to a small hill overlooking the Little Bighorn River, where Custer...
Gathering the Potawatomi Nation
Revitalization and Identity
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2015
Following the 1833 Treaty of Chicago, the Potawatomis, once concentrated around southern Lake Michigan, increasingly dispersed into nine bands across four states, two countries, and a thousand miles. How is it, author Christopher Wetzel asks, that these scattered people, with different characteristics...
Ioway Life
Reservation and Reform, 1837–1860
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2016
In 1837 the Ioways, an Indigenous people who had called most of present-day Iowa and Missouri home, were suddenly bound by the Treaty of 1836 with the U.S. federal government to restrict themselves to a two-hundred-square-mile parcel of land west of the Missouri River. Forcibly removed to the newly...