The University of Oklahoma: A History, Volume II: 1917-1950, Hardcover - David W. Levy

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. The product of two of Oklahoma's foremost authorities on the history of the 46th state, Oklahoma: A History is the first comprehensive narrative to...

Reducere. For anyone who wants to know more about the Sooner State The drama and excitement of the Oklahoma story unfold in this comprehensive history coveri...

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Reducere. Everyone knows the name Calamity Jane. Scores of dime novels and movie and TV Westerns have portrayed this original Wild West woman as an adventure...

For an element so firmly fixed in American culture, the frontier myth is surprisingly flexible. How else to explain its having taken two such diffe...

Reducere. Spur AwardsEveryone knows the name Calamity Jane. Scores of dime novels and movie and TV Westerns have portrayed this original Wild West woman as a...

Oklahoma is home to nearly forty American Indian tribes, and includes the largest Native population of any state. As a result, many Americans think...

Reducere. Even before he was shot and killed in 1881, Billy the Kid's charisma and murderous career were generating stories that belied his brief life--and t...

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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 ...

Reducere. In the past 150 years as many as two thousand Oklahoma hamlets, villages, towns, and even cities have bloomed and then died. Some have faded away, ...

Reducere. This is the story of a legendary expedition across four thousand miles of the future United States, led by an explorer searching for an illusionary...

Reducere. In the late 1880s, John A. Anderson, a young Swedish-born settler near Fort Niobrara, Nebraska, bought a camera with earnings from carpentry work. ...

Reducere. The conflict that historians have called King Philip's War still ranks as one of the bloodiest per capita in American history. An Indian coalition ...

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...

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Reducere. Volume II of David B. Honey's comprehensive history of Chinese thought covers a vital 500-year stretch in China's history, from national unificatio...

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. The Color of the Land brings the histories of Creek Indians, African Americans, and whites in Oklahoma together into one story that explores the wa...

Reducere. This long-awaited resource complements its companion volume on Classic Period monumental inscriptions. Authors Martha J. Macri and Gabrielle Vail p...

Chopin: Piano Concerto No. 1 in E minor, Op. 11Live recording 1950Tonhalle Orchestra, Otto AckermannMazurka No. 32 in C sharp minor, Op. 50 No. 319...

Reducere. When Andrew Jackson's removal policy failed to solve the "Indian problem, " the federal government turned to religion for assistance. Nineteenth-ce...

Reducere. Few people may realize that Long Island is still home to American Indians, the region's original inhabitants. One of the oldest reservations in the...

Reducere. For the soldier on the front lines of World War II, a lifetime of terror and suffering could be crammed into a few horrific hours of combat. This w...

Reducere. Beginning with the birth of the Cherokee patriarch Major Ridge in the 1770's, Thurman Wilkins tells the events that led to the Trail of Tears, thro...

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. Wyoming attorney John W. Davis retells the story of the West's most notorious range war. Having delved more deeply than previous writers into land ...

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. The diaries and letters of women on the overland trails in the mid- to late nineteenth century are treasured documents. These eleven selections dra...

This is the first volume of a new integrated documentary history of the Soviet Union. Conceived as companion to the highly-regarded, best-selling 4...

Reducere. Born in 1922, Kenny Thomas Sr. has been a trapper, firefighter, road builder, river-freight hauler, and soldier. Today he is a respected elder and ...

Until now Apache history has been fragmented, offered in books dealing with specific bands or groups-the Mescaleros, Mimbreños, Chiricahuas, and th...

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DescriptionAs new networks of railways, steamships, and telegraph communications brought distant places into unprecedented proximity, previously mi...

Intends to recreate the Pablo Picasso's life and work during the decade of 1907-17 - a period during which the artist and Georges Braque invented C...

Reducere. The big Horn Basin of northern Wyoming was one of the last frontiers in the continental United States. With settlers did not arrive until 1879, whe...

Reducere. Nothing can change the terrible facts of the Sand Creek Massacre. The human toll of this horrific event and the ensuing loss of a way of life have ...

Reducere. In August of 1942, Great Britain faced a desperate situation. German bombers hammered the nation's industrial cities and towns daily, and the toll ...

Reducere. DescriptionAfter the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, a fear of invasion swept North America--particularly the West Coast. Immediate steps needed t...

This is the first full biography of George Washington Littlefield, the Texas and New Mexico rancher, Austin banker and businessman, University of T...

Award NameSpur AwardsAward categoryNonfiction-ContemporaryThe Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument is the site of one of America's most fam...

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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'...

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. After the end of World War II, General George Patton declared that artillery had won the war. Yet howitzers did not achieve victory on their own. C...

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Reducere. The Mixtec peoples were among the major original developers of Mesoamerican civilization. Centuries before the Spanish Conquest, they formed litera...

Reducere. "What would rodeo look like if we took it as a record, not of human triumph and resilience, but of human imperfection and stubbornness?" asks anima...