University Of Oklahoma Press: 604 books
Running With Bonnie and Clyde
The Ten Fast Years of Ralph Fults
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2014
One of the most sought-after criminals of the Depression era, Ralph Fults began his career of crime at the improbable age of fourteen. At nineteen he met Clyde Barrow in a Texas prison, and the two men together founded what would later be known as the Barrow gang. Running with Bonnie and Clyde is...
Mountain Windsong
A Novel of the Trail of Tears
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2014
Set against the tragic events of the Cherokees' removal from their traditional lands in North Carolina to Indian Territory between 1835-1838, Mountain Windsong is a love story that brings to life the suffering and endurance of the Cherokee people. It is the moving tale of Waguli (Whippoorwill")...
Western Heritage
A Selection of Wrangler Award-Winning Articles
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2013
The enduring fascination of the American West marks this collection of essays by distinguished historians, investigative reporters, a novelist, and a celebrated screenwriter. All of these articles have won Wrangler Awards—the western equivalent of the Oscars—presented annually by the National...
From Huronia to Wendakes
Adversity, Migration, and Resilience, 1650–1900
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2016
From the first contact with Europeans to the French and Indian War, the American Revolution, and the War of 1812, the Wendat peoples have been an intrinsic part of North American history. Although the story of these peoples—also known as Wyandot or Wyandotte—has been woven into the narratives...
Through Indian Sign Language
The Fort Sill Ledgers of Hugh Lenox Scott and Iseeo, 1889–1897
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2015
Hugh Lenox Scott, who would one day serve as chief of staff of the U.S. Army, spent a portion of his early career at Fort Sill, in Indian and, later, Oklahoma Territory. There, from 1891 to 1897, he commanded Troop L, 7th Cavalry, an all-Indian unit. From members of this unit, in particular a Kiowa...
Yuchi Folklore
Cultural Expression in a Southeastern Native American Community
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2013
In countless ways, the Yuchi (Euchee) people are unique among their fellow Oklahomans and Native peoples of North America. Inheritors of a language unrelated to any other, the Yuchi preserve a strong cultural identity. In part because they have not yet won federal recognition as a tribe, the Yuchi...
Claiming Tribal Identity
The Five Tribes and the Politics of Federal Acknowledgment
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2013
Who counts as an American Indian? Which groups qualify as Indian tribes? These questions have become increasingly complex in the past several decades, and federal legislation and the rise of tribal-owned casinos have raised the stakes in the ongoing debate. In this revealing study, historian Mark...
by Lewis J. Moorman
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2015
Pioneer Doctor is the story of a half-century of medical practice, from the early days in Oklahoma Territory to metropolitan conditions. Lewis J. Moorman, M.D., once told a patient who apologized for calling him out late at night, “You must remember, I started with a team of Indian ponies twenty...
Reservation Politics
Historical Trauma, Economic Development, and Intratribal Conflict
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2017
For American Indians, tribal politics are paramount. They determine the standards for tribal enrollment, guide negotiations with outside governments, and help set collective economic and cultural goals. But how, asks Raymond I. Orr, has history shaped the American Indian political experience? By exploring...
James J. Hill
Empire Builder of the Northwest
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2013
In this volume, Michael P. Malone provides a succinct interpretive biography of James J. Hill, the "Empire Builder"-so called for his work in developing the region of the United States between the Great Lakes and the Pacific Northwest.
Malone explores Hill’s complex life and personality,...
Jay Cooke's Gamble
The Northern Pacific Railroad, the Sioux, and the Panic of 1873
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2014
In 1869, Jay Cooke, the brilliant but idiosyncratic American banker, decided to finance the Northern Pacific, a transcontinental railroad planned from Duluth, Minnesota, to Seattle. M. John Lubetkin tells how Cooke’s gamble reignited war with the Sioux, rescued George Armstrong Custer from obscurity,...
Pioneers of Promotion
How Press Agents for Buffalo Bill, P. T. Barnum, and the World's Columbian Exposition Created Modern Marketing
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2018
The average American today is bombarded with as many as 5,000 advertisements a day. The sophisticated and persuasive marketing tactics that companies use may seem a recent phenomenon, but Pioneers of Promotion tells a different story. In this lively narrative, business history writer Joe Dobrow traces...
Pathfinder
John Charles Frémont and the Course of American Empire
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2014
“The most eloquent, understanding, and yet very candid biography of Frémont that has appeared to date”—Howard R. Lamar, Yale University
The career of John Charles Frémont (1813–90) ties together the full breadth of American expansionism from its eighteenth-century origins through...
Testimonios
Early California through the Eyes of Women, 1815–1848
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2015
When in the early 1870s historian Hubert Howe Bancroft sent interviewers out to gather oral histories from the pre-statehood gentry of California, he didn’t count on one thing: the women. When the men weren’t available, the interviewers collected the stories of the women of the household—sometimes...