Oklahoma, Hardcover

Reducere. DescriptionOklahoma has an excellent photographic record, largely because the twin territories developed along the same general timeline as modern ...

Oklahoma might seem like an unexpected place for Cold War tensions to boil over, but the state played a key role in a conflict that threatened glob...

Reducere. DescriptionChoctaw are the largest tribe belonging to the branch of the Muskogean family that includes the Chickasaw, Creek (Muscogee), and Seminol...

DescriptionA Victorian district frozen in time, Guthrie was the first territorial and state capital of Oklahoma, and many of its former residents s...

DescriptionRoy Scranton, controversial and critically-acclaimed, brings us a formally daring road trip into the heart of present-day America. Suzie...

Reducere. Oklahoma is where East and West collide on Route 66, where the rolling hills that reach across its borders from Missouri and Arkansas give way to r...

Beautifully illustrated with color photographs, maps, graphs, and tables, the Oklahoma Winter Bird Atlas offers ornithologists and amateur birders ...

Reducere. At the end of World War II, the top ten college football teams were largely the same as they are today--with one exception: Oklahoma. In 1947, Bud ...

Reducere. Oklahoma was in the throes of the Great Depression when Preston George acquired a cheap Kodak folding camera and took his first photographs of stea...

In 1917 it was still possible for the University of Oklahoma's annual Catalogue to include a roster of every student's name and hometown. A compact...

Reducere. Saddles is the first complete work on the subject to appear in print. It is an exhaustive survey, in words and more than eight hundred illustration...

Reducere. Throughout the nineteenth century, the land known as "Indian Territory" was populated by diverse cultures, troubled by shifting political boundarie...

Reducere. For generations of children, including a young Oprah Winfrey, opening a Lois Lenski book has meant opening a world. This was just what the author w...

Reducere. In the late 1920s, a group of young Kiowa artists, pursuing their education at the University of Oklahoma, encountered Swedish-born art professor O...

Reducere. At War with Corruption began as a biography of Bill Price, the U.S. attorney and Republican candidate for high office who spearheaded prosecutions ...

Reducere. Oklahoma has a famously violent past and equally famous lawmen who brought peace and order to this once lawless land. Thanks to Oklahoma's relative...

Americans who now endure the inconveniences of crowded airports, packed airplanes, and missed connections might not realize that flying was once an...

Reducere. Award NameNew Mexico Book AwardsAward categoryMulticulturalWinner of the 2011 New Mexico Book Award in the multi-cultural catagoryJlin-tay-i-tith, ...

Reducere. When Heroes in Our Midst was published in 2016, I thought I had accomplished what I had set out to do-tell the stories of western Oklahoma veterans...

Reducere. "The convertors would spew it out, " employee Arturo Hernandez recalled, referring to molten metal. "You'd see the ground, the dirt, catch on fire....

Reducere. DescriptionChief Daniel Bread (1800-1873) played a key role in establishing the Oneida Indians' presence in Wisconsin after their removal from New ...

Reducere. Emory Upton (1839-1881) is widely recognized as one of America's most influential military thinkers. His works--The Armies of Asia and Europe and T...

Reducere. This extensively revised edition of Thurman Wilkins's masterful and engaging biography - well illustrated in color and black-and-white - draws on n...

Reducere. Throughout his long and prolific career, Ray Stanford Strong (1905-2006) strove to capture the essence of the western American landscape. An accomp...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Mary Budd FlitnerForeword by: Teresa Jordan For many outsiders, the word "ranching" conjures romantic images of riding on h...

Reducere. A true American hero who earned a Purple Heart, a Bronze Star, and a Congressional Gold Medal, Brummett Echohawk was also a Pawnee on the European ...

Reducere. The enigmatic and powerful Tlacaelel (1398-1487), wrote annalist Chimalpahin, was "the beginning and origin" of the Mexica monarchy in fifteenth-ce...

Reducere. In 1921 Tulsa's Greenwood District, known then as the nation's "Black Wall Street, " was one of the most prosperous African American communities in...

Reducere. Leader of the Santee Sioux, Inkpaduta (1815-79) participated in some of the most decisive battles of the northern Great Plains, including Custer's ...

Reducere. Today more than one hundred small, asymmetric, and revolutionary wars are being waged around the world. This book provides invaluable tools for fig...

Reducere. From its beginnings as an army camp in the 1840s, Fort Worth has come to be one of Texas's--and the nation's--largest cities, a thriving center of ...

The development of the Inca Empire was complex and often paradoxical. This lavishly illustrated volume, based on extensive archaeological research ...

Reducere. In this richly illustrated book, Neal B. Keating explores Iroquois visual expression through more than five thousand years, from its emergence in a...

Reducere. Even among iconic frontiersmen like John C. Frémont, Kit Carson, and Jedediah Smith, Jim Bridger stands out. A mountain man of the American West, s...

Reducere. George Armstrong Custer. The name evokes instant recognition among Americans and people around the world. No figure in the history of the American ...

Reducere. On Friday, July 27, 1973, two records were set that day.The temperature climbed to 96 degrees, the hottest day recorded that year, and a riot at th...

Reducere. When American explorers crossed the Texas Panhandle, they dubbed it part of the "Great American Desert." A "sea of grass, " the llano appeared empt...

Reducere. Canaanites explores the ancient population of the Western Levant (Israel, Transjordan, Lebanon, and coastal Syria), examining the development of it...

Some of Oklahoma City s earliest famous restaurants included a side of gambling, bootlegging and mayhem. Cattlemen s Cafe changed hands by a roll o...

Reducere. Grafton Tyler Brown--whose heritage was likely one-eighth African American--finessed his way through San Francisco society by passing for white. Wo...

Reducere. Mention Woody Guthrie, and people who know the name are likely to think of the "Okie Bard, " dust storms behind him, riding a boxcar or walking a r...

Reducere. For more than a century, American communities erected monuments to western pioneers. Although many of these statues receive little attention today,...

Reducere. Osage, a language of the Dhegiha branch of the Siouan family, was spoken until recently by tribal members in northeastern Oklahoma. No longer in da...

Reducere. One of America's most popular and influential American artists, Frederic Remington (1861-1909) is renowned for his depictions of the Old West. Thro...

In this groundbreaking work, Elizabeth Donnelly Carney examines the role of royal women in the Macedonian Argead dynasty from the sixth century B.C...

The definitive reference for scholars, collectors, curators, art dealers, libraries, and anyone who appreciates the art of Charles M. Russell Charl...

Reducere. If there was one man, other than Napoleon himself, who determined the course of the Napoleonic Wars, it was Jacques-Antoine-Hippolyte, comte de Gui...

Reducere. As the year 1890 wound to a close, a band of more than three hundred Lakota Sioux Indians led by Chief Big Foot made their way toward South Dakota'...

Reducere. From its very first land run days in 1889, Oklahoma City has been a mecca for daring men and women intent on transforming the flat, grassy prairie ...

Reducere. If we do in fact "remember the Alamo, " it is largely thanks to one person who witnessed the final assault and survived: the commanding officer's s...

Reducere. Route 66 is a beloved and much studied symbol of twentieth-century America. But until now, no book has focused on the bridges that spanned the rive...

Reducere. Changes in climate and sea level are nothing new - over the last 700 million years, the Earth has been slowly but constantly changing from within. ...

Reducere. In the past, Roman pottery has been judged as inferior to Greek pottery. Recent excavations, however, have led to an increase in knowledge and appr...

Reducere. The ancient city of Teotihuacan, North America's first metropolis, flourished for nearly eight centuries in central Mexico until its demise in 650 ...

There is the story the Lone Star State likes to tell about itself--and then there is the reality, a Texas past that bears little resemblance to the...

Reducere. Renowned today as one of the most important architects of the twentieth century, Bruce Goff (1904-1982) was only twelve years old when a Tulsa arch...

Reducere. Oklahoma State University was founded in 1889 18 years before statehood as Oklahoma A&M College (OAMC), under the Morrill Land Grant Acts that allo...

Reducere. From a city that was founded in the Land Run of 1889, to becoming the state's largest city and capitol, Historic Photos of Oklahoma City is a photo...

Born in San Diego in 1946 and raised in the American Southwest, painter Paul Pletka has created a body of work that owes much to the West of his ch...

Reducere. In the past fifty years, the study of indigenous and pre-Columbian art has evolved from a groundbreaking area of inquiry in the mid-1960s to an est...

Reducere. In War-Path and Bivouac, published in 1890, John Finerty (1846-1908) recalled the summer he spent following George Crook's infamous campaign agains...

Reducere. First published in 1981, Harry W. Crosby's Last of the Californios captured the history of the mountain people of Baja California during a critical...

Reducere. Among the Creeks, they were known as Estelvste--black people--and they had lived among them since the days of the first Spanish entradas. They spok...

Reducere. William F. "Buffalo Bill" Cody, star of the American West, began his journey to fame at age twenty-three, when he met writer Ned Buntline. The pulp...

Reducere. Although tribal traditions survive among the Tonkawa people, now located in northern Oklahoma, the Tonkawa language has been extinct for more than ...

Reducere. Raised in a one-room log cabin in a small North Texas town, Amon G. Carter (1879-1955) rose to become the founder and publisher of the Fort Worth S...

Reducere. The Huasteca, a region on the northern Gulf Coast of Mexico, was for centuries a pre-Columbian crossroads for peoples, cultures, arts, and trade. I...

Reducere. Artists and filmmakers in the early twentieth century reshaped our vision of the American West. In particular, the Taos Society of Artists and the ...

General George Crook was one of the most prominent soldiers in the frontier West. General William T. Sherman called him the greatest Indian fighter...

Reducere. On two separate days in August 1945, the United States dropped atomic bombs over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. As the seventy-fift...