University Of Oklahoma Press: 604 books
Doc Holliday
A Family Portrait
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2012
John H. Holliday, D. D. S., better known as Doc Holliday, has become a legendary figure in the history of the American West. In Doc Holliday: A Family Portrait, Karen Holliday Tanner reveals the real man behind the legend. Shedding light on Holliday’s early years, in a prominent Georgia family during...
The Wrong Stuff
The Adventures and Misadventures of an 8th Air Force Aviator
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2013
Between April and July 1944, Truman Smith Flew thirty-five bombing missions over France and Germany. He was only twenty years old. Although barely adults, Smith and his peers worried about cramming a lifetime’s worth of experience into every free night, each knowing he probably would not survive...
Al Sieber
Chief of Scouts
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2012
General George Crook planned and organized the principal Apache campaign in Arizona, and General Nelson Miles took credit for its successful conclusion on the 1800s, but the men who really won it were rugged frontiersmen such as Al Sieber, the renowned Chief of Scouts. Crook relied on Sieber to lead...
Indeh
An Apache Odyssey
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2013
"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 reading....This is a major contribution to both Apache history and to the history of the Southwest....The...
by Blanche Caldwell Barrow
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2012
Bonnie and Clyde were responsible for multiple murders and countless robberies. But they did not act alone. In 1933, during their infamous run from the law, Bonnie and Clyde were joined by Clyde’s brother Buck Barrow and his wife Blanche. Of these four accomplices, only one—Blanche Caldwell Barrow—lived...
Under the Eagle
Samuel Holiday, Navajo Code Talker
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2013
Samuel Holiday was one of a small group of Navajo men enlisted by the Marine Corps during World War II to use their native language to transmit secret communications on the battlefield. Based on extensive interviews with Robert S. McPherson, Under the Eagle is Holiday’s vivid account of his own...
Yellowstone Denied
The Life of Gustavus Cheyney Doane
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2015
Frontier soldier and explorer extraordinaire, Gustavus Cheyney Doane was no stranger to historical events. Between 1863 and 1892, he fought in the Civil War, participated in every major Indian battle in Montana Territory, and led the first scientific reconnaissance into the Yellowstone country—his...
Cochise
Chiricahua Apache Chief
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2012
When it acquired New Mexico and Arizona, the United States inherited the territory of a people who had been a thorn in side of Mexico since 1821 and Spain before that. Known collectively as Apaches, these Indians lived in diverse, widely scattered groups with many names—Mescaleros, Chiricahuas,...
Fort Bowie, Arizona
Combat Post of the Southwest, 1858–1894
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2012
Fort Bowie, in present-day Arizona, was established in 1862 at the site of the famous Battle of Apache Pass, where U.S. troops clashed with Apache chief Cochise and his warriors. The fort’s dual purpose was to guard the invaluable water supply at Apache Spring and to control Indians in the developing...
by Paul Andrew Hutton
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2013
"Paul Hutton’s study of Phil Sheridan in the West is authoritative, readable, and an important contribution to the literature of westward expansion. Although headquartered in Chicago, Sheridan played a crucial role in the opening of the West. His command stretched from the Missouri to the Rockies...
by Harold P. Howard
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2012
In 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. Her fame rests upon her contributions to the expedition. In guiding them through the wilderness,...
Following Isabella
Travels in Colorado Then and Now
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2011
A world traveler, Isabella Bird recorded her 1873 visit to Colorado Territory in her classic travel narrative, A Lady’s Life in the Rocky Mountains. This work inspired Robert Root’s own discovery of Colorado’s Front Range following his move from the flatlands of Michigan. In this elegantly written...
Ancient Rome
An Introductory History
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2012
The events and personalities of ancient Rome spring to life in this history, from its founding in 753 B.C. to the death of the philosopher-emperor Marcus Aurelius in A.D. 180.
Paul A. Zoch presents, in contemporary language, the history of Rome and the stories of its protagonists?such as Romulus...
A Decent, Orderly Lynching
The Montana Vigilantes
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2013
The 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 time, the Montana vigilantes are still revered as founding fathers.
Combing through original...