315 títulos para "University Of Oklahoma Press"
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Arizona's Deadliest Gunfight
Osselaer, Heidi
978-0-8061-6464-9On a cold winter morning, Jeff Power was lighting a fire in his remote Arizona cabin when he heard a noise, grabbed his rifle, and walked out the front door. Someone in the dark shouted, “Throw up your hands!” Shots rang out from inside and outside the cabin, and when it was all over, Je...
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Nicholas Black Elk
Steltenkamp, Michael F.
978-0-8061-5967-6Since its publication in 1932, Black Elk Speaks has moved countless readers to appreciate the American Indian world that it described. John Neihardt’s popular narrative addressed the youth and early adulthood of Black Elk, an Oglala Sioux religious elder. Michael F. Steltenkamp now provides th...
30.91€ (29.72€ sin IVA) -
Dragon's Head and A Serpent's Tail
Swope, Kenneth M.
978-0-8061-5581-4The invasion of Korea by Japanese troops in May of 1592 was no ordinary military expedition: it was one of the decisive events in Asian history and the most tragic for the Korean peninsula until the mid-twentieth century. Japanese overlord Toyotomi Hideyoshi envisioned conquering Korea, Ming China,...
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Regular Army O!
McChristian, Douglas C.
978-0-8061-6455-7“The drums they roll, upon my soul, for that’s the way we go,” runs the chorus in a Harrigan and Hart song from 1874. “Forty miles a day on beans and hay in the Regular Army O!” The last three words of that lyric aptly title Douglas C. McChristian’s remarkable wor...
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George Scarborough
DeArment, Robert K.
978-0-8061-2850-4Now, for the first time, Robert K. DeArment has told the full story of George Scarborough’s life, illuminating his activity as a lawman during the final part of the nineteenth century and his controversial killings while wearing the badge-he was tried for murder on three occasions and acquitte...
18.92€ (18.19€ sin IVA) -
After Custer
Hedren, Paul L.
978-0-8061-6044-3Between 1876 and 1877, the U.S. Army battled Lakota Sioux and Northern Cheyenne Indians in a series of vicious conflicts known today as the Great Sioux War. After the defeat of Custer at the Little Big Horn in June 1876, the army responded to its stunning loss by pouring fresh troops and resources i...
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Indigenous Food Sovereignty in the United States
978-0-8061-6321-5Centuries of colonization and other factors have disrupted indigenous communities’ ability to control their own food systems. This volume explores the meaning and importance of food sovereignty for Native peoples in the United States, and asks whether and how it might be achieved and sustained...
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A Matter of Black and White
Fisher, Ada L.
978-0-8061-6482-3A Matter of Black and White is the personal story of an Oklahoma woman whose fight to gain an education formed a crucial episode in the civil rights movement. Born in Chickasha, Oklahoma, of parents only one generation removed from slavery, Ada Lois Sipuel Fisher became the plaintiff in a landmark U...
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Washita
Greene, Jerome A
978-0-8061-3885-5On November 27, 1868, the U.S. Seventh Cavalry under Lt. Col. George Armstrong Custer attacked a Southern Cheyenne village along the Washita River in present-day western Oklahoma. The subsequent U.S. victory signaled the end of the Cheyennes’ traditional way of life and resulted in the death o...
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Rise and Fall of the Voting Rights Act
Bullock, Charles S. / Gaddie, Ronald K. / Wert, Justin J.
978-0-8061-5200-441.38€ (39.79€ sin IVA)