In 1939, at the age of fifteen, Linda Darnell left her Texas home and ordinary world to live the ...

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...

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...

A study of politics but also an analysis of different approaches to leadership, this is a portrai...

Volume 1 depicts the origins of the society and its objectives, cultural context, and expanding i...

Portraying Freeman for the first time in all his provocative complexity, The Man Who Dammed Hetch...

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...

As a detailed look at the rising stakes and urgency of the various interconnected issues, this bo...

A powerful, exhaustively researched study of modern political organization, party development, an...

This first organized sit-in in Oklahoma--almost two years before the more famous sit-ins in Green...

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...

Friesen portrays a time when American Indians--who would not long after return to Europe as allie...

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

Other books have dealt with western regionalism in general, but this volume is unique in its focu...

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

Looking beyond 'classroom management' and 'conflict resolution,' Snafu Edu carefully and clearly ...

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...

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...

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 ...

Called the 'Fighting Cock of the Sioux' by U.S. soldiers, Hunkpapa warrior Gall was a great Lakot...

Brings to life the personal and political experiences of a remarkable American'The most eloquent,...

This is a journal kept by Lieutenant James H. Bradley of the Seventh Infantry, which records in c...

George Armstrong Custer's death in 1876 at the Battle of the Little Big Horn left Elizabeth Bacon...

Volume 112 in the Civilization of the American Indian Series'This volume examines the effects of ...

A much-neglected source of first-hand views on the Battle of the Little Bighorn is presented in t...

Bull Run, Gettysburg, Appomattox. For Americans, these battlegrounds, all located in the eastern ...

During the mid-nineteenth century, a quarter of a million travelers-men, women, and children-foll...

'Outlaw Woman is the story, bold and honest, of Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz's extraordinary journey-poli...

'David F. Aberle's book on Navajo peyotism is by far the most comprehensive and complete of any o...

Traditionally, the Cherokees dance to ensure individual health and social welfare. According to l...

This fascinating survey blends anthropology and military history to reexamine the European invasi...