At fifteen, Linda Darnell left her Texas home and normal adolescence to live the Hollywood dream ...

This first collection of plays by an Indian playwright presents a spectrum of Indian life that ra...

In 1980, the University of Oklahoma Press published a ten-book series titled Newcomers to a New L...

In his new preface to this quality paperback edition, the author observes, 'The Indian world has ...

Although the American bison was saved from near-extinction in the nineteenth century, today almos...

This is not your grandfather's history of Texas. Portraying nineteenth-century Texas as a cauldro...

While the Western was dying a slow death across the cultural landscape, it was blazing back to li...

The U.S. Senate is so sharply polarized along partisan and ideological lines today that it’s easy...

Academia is not, by and large, a kind place. Individualism and competition are what count. But wi...

Between Loving and Leaving reveals the depth and breadth of this revived field, showcasing its va...

Though ethanol, a liquid fuel made from agricultural byproducts, has generated controversy in rec...

In the late 1880s, Pleasant Valley, Arizona, descended into a nightmare of violence, murder, and ...

In Tombstone, Deadwood, and Dodge City, Kevin Britz and Roger L. Nichols conduct a tour of these ...

Unlike earlier biographies of Murray, Alfalfa Bill brings issues of race, class, and gender to th...

When gold fever struck in 1849, John S. Darcy--prominent physician, general, and president of the...

Drawing on extensive research, Pittman provides active measures for withstanding intersectional r...

In Restoring the Shining Waters, David Brooks gives an intimate account of how local citizens--ho...

Drawing on extensive research, Pittman provides active measures for withstanding intersectional r...

Making Each Other Laugh provides unique insight into contemporary Northern Arapaho stories, told ...

Though instrumental in promoting individual photographers' careers--as in the case of Ansel Adams...

In telling Clark's story, White Hat illuminates the history of the nineteenth-century American mi...

Although the idea of the Lamanite is foundational to Mormon discourse, the formation and dissemin...

In Projecting America, the first-ever book on these silent epic Westerns, Patrick Adamson demonst...

Written shortly before her death in 1938, Rachel Caroline Eaton's A History of the Cherokee Natio...

One of the great and lasting influences on the course of Western culture, Roman law occupies a un...

The impact of World War II on Indian affairs was more profound and lasting than that of any other...

Catullus, Horace, Ovid, Cicero, and Vergil are the official Advanced Placement Program Latin auth...

In Light and Variable, the reader is invited to join celebrated Oklahoma essayist and commentator...

'The Vengeful Wife is an important contribution to American Indian studies and an exemplary treat...

Death and Life in Colonial Nahua Mexico presents seven dramas from the first truly American theat...

Wayne Padgett was a colorful, charming, and generous man. He was also one of Oklahoma's most elus...

This collection of tales and traditions from the Southwest includes stories of lost mines stacked...

First published in 1942, John R. Swanton's Source Material on the History and Ethnology of the Ca...

When Abbie Morgan arrived with her husband Ed in the Alaskan village of Kulukak in 1931 to teach ...

Ever since she was a small child, Helma Swan, the daughter of a Northwest Coast chief, loved and ...

'Few newcomes became so thoroughly Texas as did Rip Ford. His career reads like a dime novel. He ...

The Greek writer Lysias is a fascinating source for the study of Athenian law, society and histor...

The English essayist Charles Lamb once said, ''Man is a gaming animal.'' If he had known the Amer...

Beginning with the founding of the Hudson's Bay Company in 1670, the fur trade dominated the deve...

In this now classic volume, Eugene Cunningham collects-in his 'gallery' -biographies of nearly a ...

Sagebrush Soldier is an account of military life during the Indian Wars in the late nineteenth-ce...

Twelve decades after Billy the Kid's death in 1881, books, movies, and essays about this western ...

'Broad in scope, yet succinct, Discovering Texas History is a thorough, informative, and readable...

Best known for his account of the Peloponnesian War, Thucydides (c. 454-c. 395 b.c.) was an Athen...

With a bang—or rather, a barrage—Jacob Neptune finds his remote cabin in the Adirondacks besieged...

The Kickapoo Indians resisted outsiders' every attempt to settle their lands--until finally they ...

'Nothing more simple, I assure you. . . . But I'll tell you what. You must have your mind, your n...

Loud Hawk: The United States versus the American Indian Movement is the story of a criminal case ...