315 títulos para "University Of Oklahoma Press"

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...

Alternative Oklahoma

Joyce, Davis D.

How many of us really know every side to Oklahoma’s past and present?In this companion to his previous volume, “An Oklahoma I Had Never Seen Before,” Davis D. Joyce presents fourteen essays that interpret Oklahoma’s unique populist past and address current political and socia...

Regular Army O!

McChristian, Douglas C.

“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...

George Scarborough

DeArment, Robert K.

Now, 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...

After Custer

Hedren, Paul L.

Between 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...

Plato's Phaedrus

Ryan, Paul

Bugles in the Afternoon

Sr. Ernest Haycox

Rumors of a campaign against Sitting Bull cut through the ranks like a cold wind. Who would lead the charge? In Bugles in the Afternoon, legendary Western writer Ernest Haycox relates a compelling tale of Custers famed Seventh Cavalry and its fate at the Battle of the Little Bighorn in a balanced mi...

Historical Atlas of New Mexico

Beck, Warren A.

Japanese Proverbs and Sayings

Buchanan, Daniel Crump

Techniques of the Selling Writer

Swain, Dwight V.

Canterbury Tales, The

Chaucer, Geoffrey

Selections from Herodotus

Barbour, Amy L.