University of Oklahoma Press
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1889: The Boomer Movement, the Land Run, and Early Oklahoma City
$24.95 Add to cartAfter immigrants flooded into central Oklahoma during the land rush of 1889 and the future capital of Oklahoma City sprang up “within a fortnight,” the city’s residents adopted the slogan “born grown… [more below]
- Author: Hightower, Michael J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: September 20 2018
- ISBN10: 0806160705
- Language: English
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Baby Doe Tabor: Madwoman in the Cabin
$21.95 Add to cartThe story of Baby Doe Tabor has seduced America for more than a century. Long before her body was found frozen in a Leadville shack near the Matchless Mine, Elizabeth McCourt “Baby Doe” Tabor was the
- Author: Temple, Judy N.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 284
- Publish Date: January 07 2021
- ISBN10: 0806140356
- Language: English
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Historical Atlas of Oklahoma
$29.95 Add to cartThe Historical Atlas of Oklahoma has been an indispensable reference for longer than four decades. Issued on the eve of the Oklahoma Centennial, this fourth edition of the atlas is much more than an u… [more below]
- Author: Goins, Charles Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: January 23 2012
- ISBN10: 0806134836
- Language: English
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Triggernometry: A Gallery of Gunfighters
$26.95 Add to cartIn this now classic volume, Eugene Cunningham collects–in his “gallery” –biographies of nearly a score of master gunfighters, including such notables as John Wesley Hardin, Billy the Kid, Dallas Sto
- Author: Cunningham, Eugene
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 504
- Publish Date: October 17 2017
- ISBN10: 0806128372
- Language: English
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American Windmills: An Album of Historic Photographs
$29.95 Add to cartFrom the earliest days of European settlement, Americans have cherished the sight of a windmill–an instantly recognizable feature of the American landscape. Boasting nearly two hundred striking image… [more below]
- Author: Baker, T. Lindsay
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: February 10 2012
- ISBN10: 0806142499
- Language: English
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The Sons of the Wind: The Sacred Stories of the Lakota
$21.95 Add to cartThe Sons of the Wind presents the mythology and sacred spirits of the Lakota. Based on information given to Dr. James Walker a century ago by Lakota Holy Men, this compilation includes the cycle of cr… [more below]
- Author: Dooling, D. M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 164
- Publish Date: April 15 2000
- ISBN10: 0806132248
- Language: English
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The Blackfeet, Volume 49: Raiders on the Northwestern Plains
$24.95 Add to cartThe Blackfeet were the strongest military power on the northwestern plains throughout the eighteenth century. But the near extinction of buffalo in the late nineteenth century brought dire poverty to
- Series: Civilization of the American Indian #49
- Author: Ewers, John C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 362
- Publish Date: May 31 2017
- ISBN10: 0806118369
- Language: English
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Calamity Jane: The Woman and the Legend
$44.93 Add to cartForget Doris Day singing on the stagecoach. Forget Robin Weigert’s gritty portrayal on HBO’s Deadwood. The real Calamity Jane was someone the likes of whom you’ve never encountered. That is, until now… [more below]
- Author: McLaird, James D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 378
- Publish Date: February 15 2012
- ISBN10: 0806142510
- Language: English
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They Called Him Wild Bill: The Life and Adventures of James Butler Hickok
$26.95 Add to cartHis contemporaries called him Wild Bill, and newspapermen and others made him a legend in his own time. Among western characters only General George Armstrong Custer and Buffalo Bill Cody are as readi… [more below]
- Author: Rosa, Joseph G.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: April 15 1979
- ISBN10: 0806115386
- Language: English
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General Stand Watie’s Confederate Indians
$21.95 Add to cartThis is the story of Stand Watie, the only Indian to attain the rank of general in the Confederate Army. An aristocratic, prosperous slaveholding planter and leader of the Cherokee mixed bloods, Watie… [more below]
- Author: Cunningham, Frank
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: October 29 2010
- ISBN10: 0806130350
- Language: English
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Blood on the Marias: The Baker Massacre
$21.95 Add to cartOn the morning of January 23, 1870, troops of the 2nd U.S. Cavalry attacked a Piegan Indian village on the Marias River in Montana Territory, killing many more than the army’s count of 173, most of t… [more below]
- Author: Wylie, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 338
- Publish Date: March 24 2020
- ISBN10: 080615974X
- Language: English
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Tony Hillerman: A Life
$29.95 Add to cart2022 Mystery Writers of America Edgar Award Finalist
The author of eighteen spellbinding detective novels set on the Navajo Nation, Tony Hillerman simultaneously transformed a traditional genre and u- Author: Morris, James McGrath
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 360
- Publish Date: October 14 2021
- ISBN10: 0806175982
- Language: English
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Sacajawea
$21.95 Add to cartIn the saga of early western exploration a young Shoshoni Indian girl named Sacajawea is famed as a guide and interpreter for the Lewis and Clark Expedition to the Far Northwest between 1804 and 1806.
- Author: Howard, Harold P.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: November 19 2020
- ISBN10: 0806115785
- Language: English
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Land in Her Own Name
$21.95 Add to cartLand is often known by the names of past owners. “Emma’s Land,” “Gina’s quarter,” and “the Ingeborg Land” are reminders of the many women who homesteaded across North Dakota in the late nineteenth and
- Author: Lindgren, H. Elaine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 318
- Publish Date: September 14 2018
- ISBN10: 0806128860
- Language: English
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Navajo and Pueblo Silversmiths
$21.95 Add to cartProbably no Native American handicrafts are more widely admired than Navajo weaving and Navajo and Pueblo silver work. This book, which is now in its third large printing, contains the most important
- Series: Civilization of the American Indian #25
- Author: Adair, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 262
- Publish Date: December 15 1989
- ISBN10: 0806122153
- Language: English
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Indians of the Pacific Northwest: A History Volume 158
$29.95 Add to cartMore than one hundred Indian tribes in fifteen language groups inhabited the area of Washington, Oregon, Idaho, and Western Montana in the nineteenth century. This important work, the first composite
- Series: Civilization of the American Indian #158
- Author: Ruby, Robert H.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: March 15 1988
- ISBN10: 0806121130
- Language: English
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Saddles
$55.00 Add to cartSaddles is the first complete work on the subject to appear in print. It is an exhaustive survey, in words and more than eight hundred illustrations, of the one indispensable item of horse equipment,
- Author: Beatie, Russell H.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 408
- Publish Date: May 15 1981
- ISBN10: 080611584X
- Language: English
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Crazy Horse: A Lakota Life Volume 254
$26.95 Add to cartCrazy Horse was as much feared by tribal foes as he was honored by allies. His war record was unmatched by any of his peers, and his rout of Custer at the Little Bighorn reverberates through history.
- Series: Civilization of the American Indian (Paperback) #254
- Author: Bray, Kingsley M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: September 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0806139862
- Language: English
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The Oatman Massacre: A Tale of Desert Captivity and Survival
$21.95 Add to cartThe Oatman massacre is among the most famous and dramatic captivity stories in the history of the Southwest. In this riveting account, Brian McGinty explores the background, development, and aftermath
- Author: McGinty, Brian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: February 01 2006
- ISBN10: 0806137703
- Language: English
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Charles M. Russell: The Life and Legend of America’s Cowboy Artist
$21.95 Add to cartThis first comprehensive biography of Charles M. Russell examines the colorful life and times of Montana’s famed Cowboy Artist. Born to an affluent St. Louis family in 1864, young Russell read thrilli
- Author: Taliaferro, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 318
- Publish Date: November 03 2003
- ISBN10: 080613495X
- Language: English
