University of Oklahoma Press
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California’s Channel Islands: A History
$21.95 Add to cartPrehistoric foragers, conquistadors, missionaries, adventurers, hunters, and rugged agriculturalists parade across the histories of these little-known islands on the horizon of twenty-first century So
- Author: Chiles, Frederic C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 300
- Publish Date: September 02 2020
- ISBN10: 0806146877
- Language: English
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Pioneer Days in the Black Hills: By One of the Early Day Pioneers
$24.95 Add to cartPioneer Days in the Black Hills is a rough-and-tumble account of the early days of Deadwood, Dakota Territory. In 1874, after leading an expedition into the Black Hills, George Armstrong Custer announ
- Author: McClintock, John S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: September 15 2017
- ISBN10: 0806131918
- Language: English
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Black Texans: A History of African Americans in Texas, 1528-1995
$24.95 Add to cartAfrican American have lived in Texas for more than four hundred years–longer than in any other region of the United States. Beginning with the arrival of the first African American in 1528, Alwyn Bar
- Author: Barr, Alwyn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: September 15 1996
- ISBN10: 080612878X
- Language: English
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Historical Atlas of Arizona
$26.95 Add to cartThis Second Edition, updated from the 1980 census, reflects the new county boundaries, the continuing Hopi-Navajo land dispute, the changes in Indian populations and congressional districts, the growt
- Author: Walker, Henry P.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 154
- Publish Date: November 11 2021
- ISBN10: 080612024X
- Language: English
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Life of Tom Horn: Government Scout and Interpreter
$21.95 Add to cartOn November 20, 1903, Tom Horn was hanged in Cheyenne, Wyoming, for the murder of a fourteen-year-old nester boy. Horn-army scout and interpreter for Generals Willcox, Crook, and Miles in the Apache w
- Series: Western Frontier Library #26
- Author: Horn, Tom
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 292
- Publish Date: February 15 1973
- ISBN10: 0806110449
- Language: English
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Warrior Spirit: The Story of Native American Patriotism and Heroism
$19.95 Add to cartFor decades, American schoolchildren have learned only a smattering of facts about Native American peoples, especially when it comes to service in the U.S. military. They might know that Navajos serve… [more below]
- Author: Viola, Herman J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: March 17 2022
- ISBN10: 0806180315
- Language: English
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This Land Is Herland: Gendered Activism in Oklahoma from the 1870s to the 2010s Volume 1
$24.95 Add to cartSince well before ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment in 1920 secured their right to vote, women in Oklahoma have sought to change and uplift their communities through political activism. This La… [more below]
- Series: Women and the American West #1
- Author: Janda, Sarah Eppler
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 318
- Publish Date: July 08 2021
- ISBN10: 0806169265
- Language: English
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Route 66 Crossings: Historic Bridges of the Mother Road
$29.95 Add to cartRoute 66 is a beloved and much studied symbol of twentieth-century America. But until now, no book has focused on the bridges that spanned the rivers, creeks, arroyos, and railroads between Chicago a… [more below]
- Author: Ross, Jim
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: February 19 2016
- ISBN10: 0806151994
- Language: English
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The Irish General: Thomas Francis Meagher
$24.95 Add to cartIrish patriot, Civil War general, frontier governor–Thomas Francis Meagher played key roles in three major historical arenas. Today he is hailed as a hero by some, condemned as a drunkard by others.
- Author: Wylie, Paul R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 418
- Publish Date: March 16 2011
- ISBN10: 0806141859
- Language: English
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Life and Legacy of Annie Oakley
$21.95 Add to cartWith a widowed mother and six siblings, Annie Oakley first became a trapper, hunter, and sharpshooter simply to put food on the table. Yet her genius with the gun eventually led to her stardom in Buff
- Series: Oklahoma Western Biographies #7
- Author: Riley, Glenda
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: August 14 2018
- ISBN10: 0806135069
- Language: English
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Origins: The Evolution of Continents, Oceans, and Life
$45.00 Add to cartChanges in climate and sea level are nothing new – over the last 700 million years, the Earth has been slowly but constantly changing from within. We now know that our planet’s surface, far from being
- Author: Redfern, Ron
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 360
- Publish Date: September 15 2001
- ISBN10: 0806133597
- Language: English
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Friends of Thunder: Folktales of the Oklahoma Cherokees
$21.95 Add to cartThe Cherokee husband-and-wife team who recorded and translated these folktales in 1961 helped to preserve the lore of seventeen elder Oklahoma Cherokees. This volume includes a wide variety of folklor… [more below]
- Author: Kilpatrick, Jack F.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: April 15 1995
- ISBN10: 0806127228
- Language: English
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The Germans from Russia in Oklahoma
$9.95 Add to cartIn 1980, the University of Oklahoma Press published a ten-book series titled Newcomers to a New Land that described and analyzed the role of the major ethnic groups that have contributed to the histor… [more below]
- Series: Newcomers to a New Land
- Author: Hale, Douglas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 88
- Publish Date: January 04 2011
- ISBN10: 080611620X
- Language: English
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Jim Beckwourth: Black Mountain Man and War Chief of the Crows
$21.95 Add to cartDismissed as a “gaudy liar” by most historians and often discredited by writers who deprecated his mixed blood, James Pierson Beckwourth was one of the giants of the early West, certainly deserving to
- Author: Wilson, Elinor
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: January 28 2013
- ISBN10: 0806115556
- Language: English
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Storied Stone: Indian Rock Art in the Black Hills Country
$24.95 Add to cartAncient petroglyphs and paintings on rocky cliffs and cave walls preserve the symbols and ideas of American Indian cultures. From scenes of human-to-animal transformations found in petroglyphs dating
- Author: Sundstrom, Linea
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 252
- Publish Date: November 10 2021
- ISBN10: 0806135964
- Language: English
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Native North America
$40.43 Add to cartWith abundant photographs, more than 160 in color, Native North America illustrates tribal life, sacred arenas, spiritual traditions, and artifacts of the indigenous people of North America, from the … [more below]
- Series: Civilization of the American Indian (Paperback)
- Author: Zimmerman, Larry J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: October 15 2000
- ISBN10: 806132868
- Language: English
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John Wesley Hardin: Dark Angel of Texas
$21.95 Add to cartThus spoke one lawman about John Wesley Hardin, easily the most feared and fearless of all the gunfighters in the West. Nobody knows the exact number of his victims-perhaps as few as twenty or as many
- Author: Metz, Leon C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: April 15 1998
- ISBN10: 0806129956
- Language: English
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Carbine and Lance: The Story of Old Fort Sill
$24.95 Add to cartFort Sill, located in the heart of the old Kiowa-Comanche Indian country in southwestern Oklahoma, is known to a modern generation as the Field Artillery School of the United States Army. To students … [more below]
- Author: Nye, Wilbur S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: April 18 2017
- ISBN10: 0806118563
- Language: English
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Popol Vuh: The Sacred Book of the Ancient Quiche Maya
$21.95 Add to cartThis is the first complete version in English of the “Book of the People” of the Quiche Maya, the most powerful nation of the Guatemalan highlands in pre-Conquest times and a branch of the ancient May
- Series: Civilization of the American Indian (Paperback)
- Author: Recinos, Adrien
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: November 13 2020
- ISBN10: 0806122668
- Language: English
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Visions of the Tallgrass, 33: Prairie Photographs by Harvey Payne
$34.95 Add to cartIn centuries long past, a vast swath of grassland swept down the center of North America, from Canada’s Prairie Provinces to central Texas. This once-plentiful prairie has now all but disappeared. Hu… [more below]
- Series: The Charles M. Russell Center Art and Photography of the American West #33
- Author: Ronda, James P.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 180
- Publish Date: September 13 2018
- ISBN10: 0806160284
- Language: English
