315 títulos para "University Of Oklahoma Press"

The Grizzly Bear

/ Baker, Mary

When European colonists first touched American shores, the grizzly bear ranged throughout western North America, from Mexico to the Arctic Circle. He was one of the largest and fiercest animals on the continent, easily entitled to the name he was later given, “Lord of the Wilderness.” Bu...

Custer's Luck

Stewart, Edgar I.

This is undoubtedly a remarkable book on a period of American history about which much has been written - the period of the Indian wars in the Northwest, from the close of the Civil War until the Custer disaster on the Little Big Horn. It presents in graphic detail and on a vast canvas the great eve...

The Polish Doctor in Nazi Camps

Barbara, Rylko-Bauer

Jadwiga Lenartowicz Rylko, known as Jadzia (Yah′-jah), was a young Polish Catholic physician in ód at the start of World War II. Suspected of resistance activities, she was arrested in January 1944. For the next fifteen months, she endured three Nazi concentration camps and a forty-two-...

Fus Fixico Letters

Posey, Alexander

At the turn of the century, Muscogee (Creek) journalist, poet, and political humorist Alexander Posey (1873-1908) was widely read in Oklahoma and throughout the nation. His most enduring literary legacy is the persona of Fus Fixico (sometimes translated as "Heartless Bird"), whose "co...

Running with Bonnie and Clyde

Phillips, John N.

Kent Frates proposes a book that will, in rapid-fire fashion, cover about a dozen of Oklahoma’s most notorious criminal cases. Primarily focused on the twentieth century, the book will devote a chapter to each case. Subjects run the gamut from the gangster era’s Machine Gun Kelly to the...

Comanche Jack Stilwell

Chambers, Clint E. / Carlson, Paul H.

In 1863, the thirteen-year-old boy who would come to be called Comanche Jack was sent to the well to fetch water. Instead, he joined a wagon train bound for Santa Fe. Thus began the exploits of Simpson E. “Jack” Stilwell (1850–1903), a man generally known for slipping through India...

Taking a Chance on Love

Phillips, George Harwood

When his friend George Gershwin persuaded Vladimir Dukelsky to change his name to Vernon Duke, what the music world already knew became apparent to the public at large—the man had two musical personas—one as a composer, the other as a tunesmith. One wrote highbrow music, the other lowbro...

Choctaw Language and Culture, Volume 1

Haag, Marcia / Willis, Henry

Choctaw Language and Culture combines a beginning language and grammar text with a selection of essays on Choctaw history, language, and culture from prehistoric times to the present.In part one of the book, "Chahta Anumpa," Marcia Haag, a linguist, and Henry Willis, a native speaker and C...

Frank Little and the IWW

Botkin, Jane L.

Franklin Henry Little (1878–1917), an organizer for the Western Federation of Miners and the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), fought in some of the early twentieth century’s most contentious labor and free-speech struggles. Following his lynching in Butte, Montana, his life and leg...

The Sundance Kid

Ernst, Donna

Indigenous Borderlands

Pervasive myths of European domination and indigenous submission in the Americas receive an overdue corrective in this far-reaching revisionary work. Despite initial upheavals caused by the European intrusion, Native people often thrived after contact, preserving their sovereignty, territory, and cu...

A Second Look

Faulkner, Edward H.

Edward H. Faulkner startled the agricultural world—all of it, on six continents—when he published Plowman’s Folly in 1943. As almost everyone knows, he launched a vigorous attack on the plow and dseveloped in a masterful way the advantages of surface incorporation of organic materi...