University Of Oklahoma Press: 604 books
Oil Man
The Story of Frank Phillips and the Birth of Phillips Petroleum
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2014
This rich, rousing gusher of a biography captures the life and times of an American hero and the birth of the modern oil empire he created.
Frank Phillips, founder of Phillips Petroleum, was one of the most prominent self-made business tycoons of the twentieth century. In Oil Man, Michael Wallis,...
J. C. Penney
The Man, the Store, and American Agriculture
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2017
What is now called JCPenney, a fixture of suburban shopping malls, started out as a small-town Main Street store that fused its founder’s interests in agriculture, retail business, religion, and philanthropy. This book—at once a biography of Missouri farm boy–turned–business icon James Cash...
by Lawrence M. Woods
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2016
The Swan name is inseparable from the history of Wyoming and the West, and when Swan made his mark in Wyoming in the 1880s, ranching was king. The largest among Alex Swan’s many corporate creations, The Swan Land and Cattle Company, Ltd., was one of the larger livestock companies to operate in the...
After My Lai: My Year Commanding First Platoon, Charlie Company
My Year Commanding First Platoon, Charlie Company
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2011
In the fall of 1969, Gary Bray landed in South Vietnam as a recently married, freshly minted second lieutenant in the U.S. Army. His assignment was not enviable: leading the platoon whose former members had committed the My Lai massacre—the murder of hundreds of Vietnamese civilians—eighteen months...
Nicholas Black Elk: Medicine Man, Missionary, Mystic
Medicine Man, Missionary, Mystic
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2011
Since its publication in 1932, Black Elk Speaks has moved countless readers to appreciate the American Indian world that it described. John Neihardt’s popular narrative addressed the youth and early adulthood of Black Elk, an Oglala Sioux religious elder. Michael F. Steltenkamp now provides the...
A Great Day to Fight Fire
Mann Gulch, 1949
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2013
Mann Gulch, Montana, 1949. Sixteen men ventured into hell to fight a raging wildfire; only three came out alive. Searing the fire into the nation’s consciousness, Norman Maclean chronicled the Mann Gulch tragedy in his award-winning book Young Men and Fire. Still, the silence of the victims’ families...
The Last Cavalryman
The Life of General Lucian K. Truscott, Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2015
“Truscott was one of the really tough generals,” soldier-cartoonist Bill Mauldin of the 45th Infantry Division once wrote. “He could have eaten a ham like Patton for breakfast any morning and picked his teeth with the man’s pearl-handled pistols.” Not one merely to act the part of commander,...
Muhammad
Islam's First Great General
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2011
That Muhammad succeeded as a prophet is undeniable; a prominent military historian now suggests that he might not have done so had he not also been a great soldier.
Best known as the founder of a major religion, Muhammad was also Islam’s first great general. While there have been numerous...
They Called Him Wild Bill
The Life and Adventures of James Butler Hickok
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2012
His 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 readily recognized by the general public. In writing this biography, Joseph G. Rosa has expressed the hope...
Lois Lenski
Storycatcher
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2016
For generations of children, including a young Oprah Winfrey, opening a Lois Lenski book has meant opening a world. This was just what the author wanted: to help children “see beyond the rim of their own world.” In Lois Lenski: Storycatcher, historian and educator Bobbie Malone takes us into Lenski’s...
Quest for Flight
John J. Montgomery and the Dawn of Aviation in the West
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2012
The Wright brothers have long received the lion’s share of credit for inventing the airplane. But a California scientist succeeded in flying gliders twenty years before the Wright’s powered flights at Kitty Hawk in 1903. Quest for Flight reveals the amazing accomplishments of John J. Montgomery,...
Deliverance from the Little Big Horn
Doctor Henry Porter and Custer's Seventh Cavalry
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2012
Of the three surgeons who accompanied Custer’s Seventh Cavalry on June 25, 1876, only the youngest, twenty-eight-year-old Henry Porter, survived that day’s ordeal, riding through a gauntlet of Indian attackers and up the steep bluffs to Major Marcus Reno’s hilltop position. But the story of...
Travels in North America, 1832–1834
A Concise Edition of the Journals of Prince Maximilian of Wied
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2017
The journals of Prince Maximilian of Wied rank among the most important firsthand sources documenting the early-nineteenth-century American West. Published in their entirety as an annotated three-volume set, the journals present a complete narrative of Maximilian’s expedition across the United States,...
Horses That Buck
The Story of Champion Bronc Rider Bill Smith
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2011
When asked in an interview what he most liked about rodeo, three-time world champion saddle-bronc rider “Cody” Bill Smith said simply, “Horses that buck.” Smith redefined the image of America’s iconic cowboy. Determined as a boy to escape a miner’s life in Montana, he fantasized a life...