University Of Oklahoma Press: 604 books
Junípero Serra
California, Indians, and the Transformation of a Missionary
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2015
Franciscan missionary friar Junípero Serra (1713–1784), one of the most widely known and influential inhabitants of early California, embodied many of the ideas and practices that animated the Spanish presence in the Americas. In this definitive biography, translators and historians Rose Marie...
War Party in Blue
Pawnee Scouts in the U.S. Army
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2011
Between 1864 and 1877, during the height of the Plains Indian wars, Pawnee Indian scouts rendered invaluable service to the United States Army. They led missions deep into contested territory, tracked resisting bands, spearheaded attacks against enemy camps, and on more than one occasion saved American...
After Custer
Loss and Transformation in Sioux Country
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2012
Between 1876 and 1877, the U.S. Army battled Lakota Sioux and Northern Cheyenne Indians in a series of vicious conflicts known today as the Great Sioux War. After the defeat of Custer at the Little Big Horn in June 1876, the army responded to its stunning loss by pouring fresh troops and resources...
by Stan Hoig
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2013
Sometimes called "The Chivington Massacre" by those who would emphasize his responsibility for the attack and "The Battle of Sand Creek" by those who would imply that it was not a massacre, this event has become one of our nation’s most controversial Indian conflicts. The subject...
by Louis Kraft
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2013
When Edward W. Wynkoop arrived in Colorado Territory during the 1858 gold rush, he was one of many ambitious newcomers seeking wealth in a promising land mostly inhabited by American Indians. After he worked as a miner, sheriff, bartender, and land speculator, Wynkoop’s life drastically changed...
Prelude to the Dust Bowl
Drought in the Nineteenth-Century Southern Plains
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2016
Before the drought of the early twenty-first century, the dry benchmark in the American plains was the Dust Bowl of the 1930s. But in this eye-opening work, Kevin Z. Sweeney reveals that the Dust Bowl was only one cycle in a series of droughts on the U.S. southern plains. Reinterpreting our nation’s...
Powder River
Disastrous Opening of the Great Sioux War
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2016
The Great Sioux War of 1876–77 began at daybreak on March 17, 1876, when Colonel Joseph J. Reynolds and six cavalry companies struck a village of Northern Cheyennes—Sioux allies—thereby propelling the Northern Plains tribes into war. The ensuing last stand of the Sioux against Anglo-American...
American Carnage
Wounded Knee, 1890
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2014
As the year 1890 wound to a close, a band of more than three hundred Lakota Sioux Indians led by Chief Big Foot made their way toward South Dakota’s Pine Ridge Reservation to join other Lakotas seeking peace. Fearing that Big Foot’s band was headed instead to join “hostile” Lakotas, U.S. troops...
Gunfighter in Gotham
Bat Masterson's New York City Years
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2013
The legend of Bat Masterson as the heroic sheriff of Dodge City, Kansas, began in 1881 when an acquaintance duped a New York Sun reporter into writing Masterson up as a man-killing gunfighter. That he later moved to New York City to write a widely followed sports column for eighteen years is one of...
When Money Grew on Trees
A. B. Hammond and the Age of the Timber Baron
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2014
Born in the timber colony of New Brunswick, Maine, in 1848, Andrew Benoni Hammond got off to an inauspicious start as a teenage lumberjack. By his death in 1934, Hammond had built an empire of wood that stretched from Puget Sound to Arizona—and in the process had reshaped the American West and the...
Fort Worth
Outpost, Cowtown, Boomtown
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2014
From its beginnings as an army camp in the 1840s, Fort Worth has come to be one of Texas’s—and the nation’s—largest cities, a thriving center of culture and commerce. But along the way, the city’s future, let alone its present prosperity, was anything but certain. Fort Worth tells the story...
From POW to Blue Angel
The Story of Commander Dusty Rhodes
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2016
As only the third fighter pilot to become leader of the Blue Angels, Raleigh E. “Dusty” Rhodes helped develop the most famous aerobatics team ever formed. From POW to Blue Angel tells his story—a fast-paced drama teeming with action and human interest and capturing the initiative and tenacity...
Napoleon in Italy
The Sieges of Mantua, 1796–1799
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
In the center of Mantua, in northern Italy, a covered bridge stretches over the narrow Rio where vendors sell fish from pushcarts just as locals did more than two hundred years ago when Napoleon Bonaparte laid siege to the city. Four cannon balls protruding out of an adjacent wall offer a tacit monument...
Masquerade
Treason, the Holocaust, and an Irish Impostor
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2017
Phyllis Ursula James. Nora O’Mara. Róisín Ní Mheara. Like her name, the life of Rosaleen James changed many times as she followed a convoluted path from abandoned child, to foster daughter of an aristocratic British family, to traitor during World War II, to her emergence as a full Irish woman...