University Of Oklahoma Press: 604 books
Once Upon a Time in War
The 99th Division in World War II
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2011
For the soldier on the front lines of World War II, a lifetime of terror and suffering could be crammed into a few horrific hours of combat. This was especially true for members of the 99th Infantry Division who repelled the Germans in the Battle of the Bulge and engaged in some of the most dramatic,...
Victorio
Apache Warrior and Chief
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2012
A steadfast champion of his people during the wars with encroaching Anglo-Americans, the Apache chief Victorio deserves as much attention as his better-known contemporaries Cochise and Geronimo. In presenting the story of this nineteenth-century Warm Springs Apache warrior, Kathleen P. Chamberlain...
From Cochise to Geronimo
The Chiricahua Apaches, 1874–1886
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2012
In the decade after the death of their revered chief Cochise in 1874, the Chiricahua Apaches struggled to survive as a people and their relations with the U.S. government further deteriorated. In From Cochise to Geronimo, Edwin R. Sweeney builds on his previous biographies of Chiricahua leaders Cochise...
Violent Encounters
Interviews on Western Massacres
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2011
Merciless killing in the nineteenth-century American West, as this unusual book shows, was not as simple as depicted in dime novels and movie Westerns. The scholars interviewed here, experts on violence in the West, embrace a wide range of approaches and perspectives and challenge both traditional...
by Angie Debo
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2013
In 1906 when the Creek Indian Chitto Harjo was protesting the United States government's liquidation of his tribe's lands, he began his argument with an account of Indian history from the time of Columbus, "for, of course, a thing has to have a root before it can grow." Yet even today most...
Forty Miles a Day on Beans and Hay
The Enlisted Soldier Fighting the Indian Wars
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2012
The enlisted men in the United States Army during the Indian Wars (1866-91) need no longer be mere shadows behind their historically well-documented commanding officers.
As member of the regular army, these men formed an important segment of our usually slighted national military continuum...
Custer and the 1873 Yellowstone Survey
A Documentary History
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2013
Progress on the nation’s second transcontinental railroad slowed in 1873. The Northern Pacific’s proposed middle—the 250 miles between present Billings and Glendive, Montana—had yet to be surveyed, and Sioux and Cheyenne Indians opposed construction through the Yellowstone Valley, the heart...
by James W. Parins
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2013
Many Anglo-Americans in the nineteenth century regarded Indian tribes as little more than illiterate bands of savages in need of “civilizing.” Few were willing to recognize that one of the major Southeastern tribes targeted for removal west of the Mississippi already had an advanced civilization...
Chutzpah!
New Voices from China
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2015
To Westerners China has often seemed a monolith, speaking with one voice—whether that of an ancient dynasty, a socialist state, or an economic powerhouse. Chutzpah! New Voices from China shatters this illusion, giving Western readers a rare chance to listen to the brilliant polyphony of Chinese...
The River Was Dyed with Blood
Nathan Bedford Forrest and Fort Pillow
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2014
The battlefield reputation of Confederate general Nathan Bedford Forrest, long recognized as a formidable warrior, has been shaped by one infamous wartime incident. At Fort Pillow in 1864, the attack by Confederate forces under Forrest’s command left many of the Tennessee Unionists and black soldiers...
by Ross Hassig
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2014
What role did indigenous peoples play in the Spanish conquest of Mexico? Ross Hassig explores this question in Mexico and the Spanish Conquest by incorporating primary accounts from the Indians of Mexico and revisiting the events of the conquest against the backdrop of the Aztec empire, the culture...
Cochise
Firsthand Accounts of the Chiricahua Apache Chief
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2014
A Chiricahua Apache of the Chokonen band, Cochise (c. 1810–1874) was one of the most celebrated Indian leaders of his time, battling both American intrusions and Mexican troops in the turbulent border region of nineteenth-century Arizona.
Much of what we know of Cochise has come down to us...
Best of Covered Wagon Women: Emigrant Girls on the Overland Trails
Emigrant Girls on the Overland Trails
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2011
The diaries and letters of women on the overland trails in the mid- to late nineteenth century are treasured documents. These eleven selections drawn from the multivolume Covered Wagon Women series present the best first-person trail accounts penned by women in their teens who traveled west between...
Devil's Gate
Owning the Land, Owning the Story
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
Devil’s Gate—the name conjures difficult passage and portends a doubtful outcome. In this eloquent and captivating narrative, Tom Rea traces the history of the Sweetwater River valley in central Wyoming—a remote place including Devil’s Gate, Independence Rock, and other sites along a stretch...