University of Oklahoma Press
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The Lives and Legends of Buffalo Bill: Native Peoples and Cattle Ranching in the American West
$24.95 Add to cartFew western American have been more often written about than William F. Cody, the “Buffalo Bill” of history, the dime novel, and popular lore. There are several important aspects of this biography. Th… [more below]
- Author: Russell, Don
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: October 01 2012
- ISBN10: 0806115378
- Language: English
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Who Is a Worthy Mother?: An Intimate History of Adoption
$24.95 Add to cartNearly every person in the United States is affected by adoption. Adoption practices are woven into the fabric of American society and reflect how our nation values human beings, particularly mothers…. [more below]
- Author: Wellington, Rebecca
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: April 09 2024
- ISBN10: 0806193700
- Language: English
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Here Today: Oklahoma’s Ghost Towns, Vanishing Towns, and Towns Persisting Against the Odds
$24.95 Add to cartThe history of Oklahoma runs through the thousands of towns that sprang up in the wake of statehood and even before then–readable in the traces of bygone days, if you know what to look for. In Here T… [more below]
- Author: Schmidt, Jeffrey B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: May 21 2024
- ISBN10: 0806193727
- Language: English
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Tulsa, 2021: A Massacre’s Centennial and a Nation’s Reckoning
$29.95 Add to cart2021: As the centennial of one of the nation’s worst race massacres approached, citizens of Tulsa faced the prospect with hope and dread. Hope that the anniversary would show Tulsa had changed since t… [more below]
- Author: Krehbiel, Randy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 310
- Publish Date: April 15 2025
- ISBN10: 0806195320
- Language: English
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American Indians in U.S. History
$29.95 Add to cartThis concise survey, tracing the experiences of Native Americans from their origins to the present, has proven its value to both students and general readers in the two decades since its first publica… [more below]
- Series: Civilization of the American Indian #248
- Author: Nichols, Roger L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 300
- Publish Date: March 25 2025
- ISBN10: 0806195282
- Language: English
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Low April Sun
$26.95 Add to cartOn the morning of April 19, 1995, Delaney Travis steps into the Social Security office in Oklahoma City to obtain an ID for her new job. Moments later, an explosion shatters the Alfred P. Murrah Feder… [more below]
- Author: Squires, Constance E.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 262
- Publish Date: February 11 2025
- ISBN10: 080619474X
- Language: English
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The Monarch Butterfly Migration: Its Rise and Fall
$29.95 Add to cartEach fall, millions of monarch butterflies migrate from Canada to Mexico. Their incredible journey–nearly 3,000 miles long–takes them through Oklahoma, Texas, and other US states, where butterfly de… [more below]
- Author: Maeckle, Monika
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: August 20 2024
- ISBN10: 0806194561
- Language: English
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The Western Abenakis of Vermont, 1600-1800, 197: War, Migration, and the Survival of an Indian People
$21.95 Add to cartBefore European incursions began in the seventeenth century, the Western Abenaki Indians inhabited present-day Vermont and New Hampshire, particularly the Lake Champlain and Connecticut River valleys.
- Series: Civilization of the American Indian #197
- Author: Calloway, Colin G.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 372
- Publish Date: March 15 1994
- ISBN10: 0806125683
- Language: English
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The Buffalo Soldiers: A Narrative of the Black Cavalry in the West, Revised Edition
$26.95 Add to cartOriginally published in 1967, William H. Leckie’s The Buffalo Soldiers was the first book of its kind to recognize the importance of African American units in the conquest of the West. Decades later, … [more below]
- Author: Leckie, William H.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: May 01 2007
- ISBN10: 0806138408
- Language: English
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The Bone Picker: Native Stories, Alternate Histories
$19.95 Add to cartUnder the shadow of gray clouds, three children venture into the woods, where they spot the corpse of an old man on a scaffold. Suddenly a wild figure emerges, with long fingernails and tangled hair. … [more below]
- Author: Mihesuah, Devon a.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 178
- Publish Date: October 08 2024
- ISBN10: 0806194677
- Language: English
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The Wrong Stuff: The Adventures and Misadventures of an 8th Air Force Aviator
$21.95 Add to cartBetween April and July 1944, Truman Smith Flew thirty-five bombing missions over France and Germany. He was only twenty years old. Although barely adults, Smith and his peers worried about cramming a
- Author: Smith, Truman
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: January 15 2002
- ISBN10: 0806134224
- Language: English
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Eating Up Route 66: Foodways on America’s Mother Road
$34.95 Add to cartFrom its designation in 1926 to the rise of the interstates nearly sixty years later, Route 66 was, in John Steinbeck’s words, America’s Mother Road, carrying countless travelers the 2,400 miles betwe… [more below]
- Author: Baker, T. Lindsay
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: October 20 2022
- ISBN10: 0806190698
- Language: English
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Making a Difference: My Fight for Native Rights and Social Justice
$26.95 Add to cartThis stirring memoir is the story of Ada Deer, the first woman to serve as head of the Bureau of Indian Affairs. Deer begins, “I was born a Menominee Indian. That is who I was born and how I have liv
- Series: New Directions in Native American Studies #19
- Author: Deer, Ada
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: September 26 2019
- ISBN10: 0806164271
- Language: English
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A Legacy in Arms, 10: American Firearm Manufacture, Design, and Artistry, 1800-1900
$60.00 Add to cartThe history of American firearms is inseparable from the history of the United States, for firearms have played crucial roles in the nation’s founding, westward expansion, and industrial, economic, an… [more below]
- Series: Western Legacies #10
- Author: Rattenbury, Richard C.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 244
- Publish Date: December 01 2014
- ISBN10: 0806144777
- Language: English
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Charles Goodnight: Father of the Texas Panhandle
$21.95 Add to cartCharles Goodnight was a pioneer of the early range cattle industry–an opinionated and profane but energetic and well-liked rancher.
Goodnight’s story is now re-examined by William T. Hagan in this bri
- Series: Oklahoma Western Biographies #21
- Author: Hagan, William T.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: March 01 2011
- ISBN10: 0806141956
- Language: English
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A Very Small Farm
$16.95 Add to cartIn the tradition of Thoreau’s Walden, William Paul Winchester offers a chronicle of everyday life on Southwind, his farm of twenty acres. As a subsistence farmer, he builds his own house and barn, put… [more below]
- Author: Winchester, William Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: January 15 1996
- ISBN10: 0806137789
- Language: English
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Tell Them We Are Going Home: The Odyssey of the Northern Cheyennes
$16.95 Add to cartTell Them We Are Going Home details the courageous journey of the Northern Cheyennes, under the leadership of Little Wolf and Dull Knife, from Indian Territory northward to their homelands in the Powd… [more below]
- Author: Monnett, John H.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: August 16 2011
- ISBN10: 0806136456
- Language: English
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James J. Hill: Empire Builder of the Northwest Volume 12
$21.95 Add to cartIn 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 Gre
- Series: Oklahoma Western Biographies #12
- Author: Malone, Michael P.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: January 15 1997
- ISBN10: 0806128607
- Language: English
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Tucson: The Life and Times of an American City
$24.95 Add to cartDedicated to all those living elsewhere who would rather be in Tucson
Tucson is the first comprehensive history of a unique corner of America, a city with its roots in Indian and Spanish colonial histo
- Author: Sonnichsen, C. L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: October 15 1987
- ISBN10: 0806120428
- Language: English
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The Rise and Fall of the Choctaw Republic
$24.95 Add to cartHere is the story of the Choctaws, a proud and gifted tribe among the Five Civilized Tribes of Indians. It is the record of a people whose forced migration from their ancestral homes in the South to w… [more below]
- Series: Civilization of the American Indian (Paperback) #06
- Author: Debo, Angie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 314
- Publish Date: January 15 1961
- ISBN10: 0806112476
- Language: English
