315 títulos para "University Of Oklahoma Press"

An Autumn Remembered

King, Gary T.

In 1956, a group of young men—sons of the Great Depression—were now student athletes in every sense of the phrase. Their young coach was on the verge of an unprecedented winning streak, and Bud Wilkinson’s ’56 Sooners formed the touchstone of the University of Oklahoma’...

The Grizzly in the Southwest

Brown, David E.

In this lively, historically accurate account, David E. Brown chronicles the demise of the grizzly bear in the Southwest. He presents the personal narratives of those who knew grizzlies, accounts of hunters and administrators in wildlife management agencies, and the popular legends and lore of the g...

Strike Fear in the Land

George W. Lovell/Christopher H. Lutz/Wendy Kramer

The conquest of Guatemala was brutal, prolonged and complex, fraught with intrigue and deception, and not at all clear-cut. Yet views persist of it as an armed confrontation whose stakes were evident and whose outcomes were decisive, especially in favor of the Spaniards. A critical reappraisal is lo...

Rock of Chickamauga

Cleaves, Freeman

General George H. Thomas, the "Rock of Chickamauga" of the history books, was a Virginian who chose the northern side in the Civil War. While Thomas was considered a traitor by his family, his military superiors regarded him with a certain mistrust because of his southern background. Nonet...

Pueblo Indian Revolt of 1696 and the Franciscan Missions in New Mexico, The

Espinosa, J Manuel

Mountain Meadows Massacre

Carleton, James H.

The massacre of 120 emigrant men, women, and children at Mountain Meadows on September 11, 1857, by Mormons and Mormon-incited Indians shocked the nation. It was not until the spring of 1859 that federal authorities began to conduct inquiries into the massacre. Bvt. Major James H. Carleton, 1st Drag...

Thucydides's Melian Dialogue and Sicilian Expedition

Taylor, Martha C.

Best known for his account of the Peloponnesian War, Thucydides (c. 454–c. 395 b.c.) was an Athenian general and historian. This valuable commentary addresses the most famous part of Thucydides’s narrative: the Sicilian Expedition (books 6–8.1), which resulted in a major defeat for...

Introduction to Classical Nahuatl

J.R. Andrews

For many years, J. Richard Andrewss Introduction to Classical Nahuatl has been the standard reference work for scholars and students of Nahuatl, the language used by the ancient Aztecs and the Nahua Indians of Central Mexico. Andrewss work was the first book to make Nahuatl accessible as a coherent...

The Vigilantes of Montana

Thomas J. Dimsdale

The tainted sheriff in this narrative is Henry Plummer, who arrived in Nevada City, a gold camp in Californias high Sierra, in 1852 and soon had two murders to his credit-both the results of bawdy-house brawls. Ten years later he was a full-fledged villain directing a gang of criminals. In 1863 Plum...

Blood of the Prophets

Will Bagley

The massacre at Mountain Meadows on September 11, 1857, was the single most violent attack on a wagon train in the thirty-year history of the Oregon and California trails. Yet it has been all but forgotten. Will Bagleys Blood of the Prophets is an award-winning, riveting account of the attack on the...

What is a Western? : region, genre, imagination

Winning the West with Words

Buss, James J.

Indian Removal was a process both physical and symbolic, accomplished not only at gunpoint but also through language. In the Midwest, white settlers came to speak and write of Indians in the past tense, even though they were still present. Winning the West with Words explores the ways nineteenth-cen...