University of Oklahoma Press
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The Last Conquistador: Juan de Onate and the Settling of the Far Southwest
$21.95 Add to cartThis book chronicles the life and frontier career of Don Juan de Ote, the first colonizer of the old Spanish Borderlands. Born in Zacatecas, Mexico, in the mid-sixteenth century, Don Juan was the p… [more below]
- Series: Oklahoma Western Biographies #2
- Author: Simmons, Marc
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: February 04 2013
- ISBN10: 0806123680
- Language: English
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Running with Bonnie and Clyde: The Ten Fast Years of Ralph Fults
$24.95 Add to cartOne 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 me
- Author: Phillips, John Neal
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: February 15 2002
- ISBN10: 0806134291
- Language: English
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Invasion of Laos, 1971: Lam Son 719
$21.95 Add to cartIn 1971, while U.S. ground forces were prohibited from crossing the Laotian border, a South Vietnamese Army corps, with U.S. air support, launched the largest airmobile operation in the history of war
- Author: Sander, Robert D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 308
- Publish Date: March 02 2015
- ISBN10: 0806148403
- Language: English
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So Far from God: The U. S. War with Mexico, 1846-1848
$26.95 Add to cartThe Mexican-American War of the 1840s, precipitated by border disputes and the U.S. annexation of Texas, ended with the military occupation of Mexico City by General Winfield Scott. In the subsequent
- Author: Eisenhower, John S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 498
- Publish Date: February 19 2021
- ISBN10: 0806132795
- Language: English
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Aztec Thought and Culture: A Study of the Ancient Nahuatl Mindvolume 67
$29.95 Add to cartFor at least two millennia before the advent of the Spaniards in 1519, there was a flourishing civilization in central Mexico. During that long span of time a cultural evolution took place which saw a
- Series: Civilization of the American Indian #67
- Author: León-Portilla, Miguel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 274
- Publish Date: September 15 1990
- ISBN10: 0806122951
- Language: English
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The Dismissal of Miss Ruth Brown: Civil Rights, Censorship, and the American Library
$21.95 Add to cartIn 1950 Ruth W. Brown, librarian at the Bartlesville, Oklahoma, Public Library, was summarily dismissed from her job after thirty years of exemplary service, ostensibly because she had circulated subv… [more below]
- Author: Robbins, Louise S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 254
- Publish Date: January 15 2001
- ISBN10: 0806133147
- Language: English
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Chief Left Hand: Southern Arapahovolume 159
$21.95 Add to cartThis is the first biography of Chief Left Hand, diplomat, linguist, and legendary of the Plains Indians. Working from government reports, manuscripts, and the diaries and letters of those persons–bot
- Series: Civilization of the American Indian #159
- Author: Coel, Margaret
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: March 15 1988
- ISBN10: 0806120304
- Language: English
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Oklahoma Treasures and Treasure Tales
$29.95 Add to cart“Son, there’s more treasure buried right here In Oklahoma than in the rest of the whole Southwest.” Those words from an old-timer launched Steve Wilson on a years long quest for the stones of Oklahoma
- Author: Wilson, Steve
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 342
- Publish Date: May 15 1989
- ISBN10: 0806121742
- Language: English
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Sam Houston
$28.95 Add to cartIn the decades preceding the Civil War, few figures in the United States were as influential or as controversial as Sam Houston. In Sam Houston, James L. Haley explores Houston’s momentous career and
- Author: Haley, James L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 513
- Publish Date: August 30 2004
- ISBN10: 0806136448
- Language: English
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Forty Miles a Day on Beans and Hay: The Enlisted Soldier Fighting the Indian Wars
$24.95 Add to cartThe enlisted men in the United States Army during the Indian Wars (1866-91) need no longer be mere shadows behind their historically well-documented commanding officers.
As member of the regular army,
- Author: Rickey, Don
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: December 15 1973
- ISBN10: 0806111135
- Language: English
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My Ranch, Too: A Wyoming Memoir
$29.95 Add to cartFor many outsiders, the word “ranching” conjures romantic images of riding on horseback through rolling grasslands while living and working against a backdrop of breathtaking mountain vistas. In this … [more below]
- Author: Flitner, Mary Budd
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 234
- Publish Date: August 23 2018
- ISBN10: 0806160586
- Language: English
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Peyote Religion: A History Volume 181
$26.95 Add to cartOUTSTANDING ACADEMIC BOOK CHOICE MAGAZINE
In this definitive work-a product of more than half a century of research and close observation-the noted anthropologist Omer C. Stewart provides a sweeping re
- Series: Civilization of the American Indian #181
- Author: Stewart, Omer C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 476
- Publish Date: May 24 2022
- ISBN10: 0806124571
- Language: English
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Lakhota: An Indigenous History Volume 281
$34.95 Add to cartThe Lakȟóta are among the best-known Native American peoples. In popular culture and even many scholarly works, they were once lumped together with others and called the Sioux. This book t… [more below]
- Series: Civilization of the American Indian
- Author: Andersson, Rani-Henrik
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 440
- Publish Date: November 17 2022
- ISBN10: 0806190752
- Language: English
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Pueblos, Spaniards, and the Kindom of New Mexico
$21.95 Add to cartA distinguished historian paints an evenhanded picture of uneasy coexistence For more than four hundred years in New Mexico, Pueblo Indians and Spaniards have lived “together yet apart.” Now the preem… [more below]
- Author: Kessell, John L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 238
- Publish Date: August 05 2008
- ISBN10: 0806141220
- Language: English
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Where Custer Fell: Photographs of the Little Bighorn Battlefield Then and Now
$29.95 Add to cartThe Battle of the Little Bighorn has long held an eminent position among the chronicles of the mythic West. None of the men who rode with Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer to his “Last Stand”
- Author: Brust, James S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: March 01 2007
- ISBN10: 0806138343
- Language: English
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Warfare in the Classical World: An Illustrated Encyclopedia of Weapons, Warriors, and Warfare in the Ancient Civilizations of Greece and Rome
$36.95 Add to cartThis superbly illustrated volume traces the evolution of the art of warfare in the Greek and Roman worlds between 1600 B.C. and A.D. 800, from the rise of Mycenaean civilization to the fall of Ravenna
- Author: Warry, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: October 15 1995
- ISBN10: 0806127945
- Language: English
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Montana: An Uncommon Land
$21.95 Add to cartIn writing this classic history of his home state, K. Ross Toole consciously avoided a systematic presentation of chronological facts. Instead, he wrote a series of roughly chronological essays pointi… [more below]
- Author: Toole, K. Ross
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: May 29 1959
- ISBN10: 0806118903
- Language: English
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Shamanism
$21.95 Add to cartThe shaman occupies a key role as a healer mediating between the world of the living and the world of spirits and is a potent figure in alternative medicine. Shamanism, a richly illustrated guide, loo
- Author: Vitebsky, Piers
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: March 15 2001
- ISBN10: 0806133287
- Language: English
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Mountain Windsong: A Novel of the Trail of Tears
$21.95 Add to cartSet 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
- Author: Conley, Robert J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 226
- Publish Date: October 21 2019
- ISBN10: 0806127465
- Language: English
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Some of Tim’s Stories: Volume 2
$14.95 Add to cartShort Stories from the bestselling author of The Outsiders, plus exclusive interviews
A teenager when she first gained fame, now a seasoned writer, S. E. Hinton takes her trademark themes to a new lev
- Series: Oklahoma Stories & Storytellers #2
- Author: Hinton, S. E.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: April 26 2007
- ISBN10: 0806138351
- Language: English
