University of Oklahoma Press
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Decent, Orderly Lynching: The Montana Vigilantes
$24.95 Add to cartThe deadliest campaign of vigilante justice in American history erupted in the Rocky Mountains during the Civil War when a private army hanged twenty-one troublemakers. Hailed as great heroes at the t
- Author: Allen, Frederick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 446
- Publish Date: March 15 2019
- ISBN10: 0806140380
- Language: English
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Gall: Lakota War Chief
$21.95 Add to cartCalled the “Fighting Cock of the Sioux” by U.S. soldiers, Hunkpapa warrior Gall was a great Lakota chief who, along with Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse, resisted efforts by the U.S. government to annex
- Author: Larson, Robert W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: November 27 2020
- ISBN10: 0806140364
- Language: English
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Battles and Skirmishes of the Great Sioux War, 1876-1877: The Military View
$21.95 Add to cartThis volume offers accounts of the many battles and skirmishes in the Great Sioux War as they were observed by participating officers, enlisted men, scouts, surgeons, and newspaper correspondents. The… [more below]
- Series: Military View
- Author: Greene, Jerome a.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: July 29 2010
- ISBN10: 0806126698
- Language: English
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Mercer: BANDITTI OF THE PLAINS or The Cattlemen’s Invasion of Wyoming in 1892
$21.95 Add to cartIn 1894, when A. S. Mercer published this angry eyewitness account of the cattlemen’s invasion of Wyoming, the book was so thoroughly and ruthlessly suppressed that few copies of that edition remain t
- Series: Western Frontier Library #2
- Author: Mercer, A. S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: June 15 1954
- ISBN10: 0806113154
- Language: English
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The Five Civilized Tribes: Volume 8
$26.95 Add to cartSide by side with the westward drift of white Americans in the 1830’s was the forced migration of the Five Civilized Tribes from Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, and Florida. Both groups were deployed a
- Series: Civilization of the American Indian #8
- Author: Foreman, Grant
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 478
- Publish Date: March 15 1971
- ISBN10: 0806109238
- Language: English
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The Chisholm Trail: Joseph McCoy’s Great Gamble Volume 3
$61.58 Add to cartOne hundred fifty years ago the McCoy brothers of Springfield, Illinois, bet their fortunes on Abilene, Kansas, then just a slapdash way station. Instead of an endless horizon of prairie grasses, the… [more below]
- Series: Public Lands History #3
- Author: Sherow, James E.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 360
- Publish Date: September 27 2018
- ISBN10: 0806160535
- Language: English
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A Politician Thinking: The Creative Mind of James Madison
$29.95 Add to cartJames Madison presented his most celebrated and studied political ideas in his contributions to The Federalist, the essays that he, Alexander Hamilton, and John Jay wrote in 1787-1788 to secure ratifi
- Series: Julian J. Rothbaum Distinguished Lecture #14
- Author: Rakove, Jack N.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 244
- Publish Date: September 11 2020
- ISBN10: 0806157372
- Language: English
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The Chuck Wagon Cookbook: Recipes from the Ranch and Range for Today’s Kitchen
$26.95 Add to cartIn Cooperation with the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum
A cowboy’s life is more than steers, saddles, and spurs. There is also food, and lots of it, cooked out in the open after a rugged da
- Author: Price, B. Byron
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: February 25 2021
- ISBN10: 0806136545
- Language: English
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The World Rushed in: The California Gold Rush Experience
$26.95 Add to cartWhen The World Rushed In was first published in 1981, the Washington Post predicted, “It seems unlikely that anyone will write a more comprehensive book about the Gold Rush.” Twenty years later, no on
- Author: Holliday, J. S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 578
- Publish Date: October 29 2018
- ISBN10: 080613464X
- Language: English
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Men Against Fire: The Problem of Battle Command
$21.95 Add to cartS.L.A. “Slam” Marshall was a veteran of World War I and a combat historian during World War II. He startled the military and civilian world in 1947 by announcing that, in an average infantry company,
- Author: Marshall, S. L. a.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: June 19 2017
- ISBN10: 0806132809
- Language: English
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Quanah Parker, Comanche Chief: Volume 6
$21.95 Add to cartThe son of white captive Cynthia Ann Parker, Quanah Parker rose from able warrior to tribal leader on the Comanche reservation. Between 1875 and his death in 1911, Quanah dealt with local Indian agent
- Series: Oklahoma Western Biographies #6
- Author: Hagan, William T.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 158
- Publish Date: December 18 2020
- ISBN10: 0806127724
- Language: English
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Indeh: The Apache Odyssey
$24.95 Add to cart“A fascinating account of Apache history and ethnography. All the narratives have been carefully chosen to illustrate important facets of the Apache experience. Moreover, they make very interesting re
- Author: Ball, Eve
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 360
- Publish Date: September 10 2018
- ISBN10: 0806121653
- Language: English
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Come An’ Get It: The Story of the Old Cowboy Cook
$21.95 Add to cartCome an’ Get It was the most familiar and welcome call on the range era of the great trail drives following the Civil War. In this entertaining volume, Ramon F. Adams, author of the popular Western Wo
- Author: Adams, Ramon F.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 182
- Publish Date: May 12 1972
- ISBN10: 0806110139
- Language: English
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Ghost Towns of Arizona
$24.95 Add to cartArizona’s ghost towns exemplify man’s courage, tenacity, and perhaps even foolishness in his search for wealth. Inevitable by-products of the development of gold, silver, copper, and other mineral dep
- Author: Sherman, James E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 220
- Publish Date: February 17 2021
- ISBN10: 0806108436
- Language: English
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American Dude Ranch: A Touch of the Cowboy and the Thrill of the West Volume 8
$24.95 Add to cartViewers of films and television shows might imagine the dude ranch as something not quite legitimate, a place where city dwellers pretend to be cowboys in amusingly inauthentic fashion. But the tradit… [more below]
- Series: William F. Cody the History and Culture of the American West #8
- Author: Downey, Lynn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 246
- Publish Date: March 03 2022
- ISBN10: 0806180226
- Language: English
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Making a Difference: My Fight for Native Rights and Social Justice Volume 19
$21.95 Add to cart2019 National Native American Hall of Fame Inductee
This 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 Menomi- Series: New Directions in Native American Studies #19
- Author: Deer, Ada
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: January 12 2021
- ISBN10: 0806168765
- Language: English
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Full-Court Quest: The Girls from Fort Shaw Indian School, Basketball Champions of the World
$29.95 Add to cartMost fans of women’s basketball would be startled to learn that girls’ teams were making their mark more than a century ago–and that none was more prominent than a team from an isolated Indian boardi
- Author: Peavy, Linda
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 498
- Publish Date: April 26 2014
- ISBN10: 0806144696
- Language: English
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Best of Covered Wagon Women
$21.95 Add to cartThe diaries and letters of women who braved the overland trails during the great nineteenth-century westward migration are treasured documents in the study of the American West. These eight firsthand … [more below]
- Author: Holmes, Kenneth L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 308
- Publish Date: April 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0806139145
- Language: English
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Bravo of the Brazos: John Larn of Fort Griffin, Texas
$21.95 Add to cartMore than a century after his death in 1878, the mere mention of John Larn’s name can trigger strong reactions along the Clear Fork of the Brazos River in northern Texas. In Bravo of the Brazos, Rober
- Author: Dearment, Robert K.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 244
- Publish Date: February 26 2018
- ISBN10: 0806137142
- Language: English
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Lakota and Cheyenne: Indian Views of the Great Sioux War, 1876-1877
$21.95 Add to cartThe Great Sioux War of 1876-1877 is memorable to most Americans because of Lieutenant Colonel George A. Custer’s last stand at the Battle of the Little Big Horn. But to the Lakotas (Western Sioux) and… [more below]
- Author: Greene, Jerome a.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: July 27 2010
- ISBN10: 0806132450
- Language: English
