Reducere. Fishing is one of the most popular sports in Oklahoma, a state that boasts over 1, 000 square miles of water. Now Fishes of Oklahoma, the only comp...
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Reducere. The shaman occupies a key role as a healer mediating between the world of the living and the world of spirits and is a potent figure in alternative...
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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, ...
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Reducere. The Historical Atlas of Oklahoma has been an indispensable reference for longer than four decades. Issued on the eve of the Oklahoma Centennial, th...
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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 ...
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Reducere. Butterflies of Oklahoma, Kansas, and North Texas focuses on one hundred butterfly species common to the southern plains, a crucial crossroads regio...
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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...
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Reducere. Bone Game is a murder mystery on a grand scale. Cole McCurtain, a mixed-blood Indian professor of Indian Studies at Santa Cruz, California, is haun...
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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...
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Reducere. On March 20, 1822, the Missouri Republican published a notice addressed -to enterprising young men- in the St. Louise area. -The subscriber, - it s...
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Reducere. In Watermelon Nights, Greg Sarris tells a powerful tale about the love and forgiveness that keep a modern Native American family together in Santa ...
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Reducere. 566Leader of the Santee Sioux, Inkpaduta (1815-79) participated in some of the most decisive battles of the northern Great Plains, including Custer...
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Reducere. Oklahoma is home to nearly forty American Indian tribes and includes the largest Native population of any state. As a result, many Americans think ...
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Reducere. Although his audacious, erotic, and satirical verses survived the Middle Ages in only a single copy, Catullus has become in our time a canonical au...
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Reducere. Will Rogers was a true American icon. His newspaper column was read daily by 40 million people, and as radio entertainer, lecturer, movies star, an...
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Reducere. The skills of the ancient Egyptians in preserving bodies through mummification are well known, but less recognized is their expertise in the everyd...
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Reducere. In the saga of early western exploration a young Shoshoni Indian girl named Sacajawea is famed as a guide and interpreter for the Lewis and Clark E...
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Reducere. Who was Cleopatra? Who is Cleopatra? Viewed as both goddess and monster even in her own lifetime, she has become through the ages saint and sinner,...
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Reducere. The Latin poet Propertius (ca. 50-16 B.C.) is considered by many to be the greatest elegiac poet of Rome. Long neglected because of the obscurity o...
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Reducere. The writings of Herodotus, historian, observer, and delightful storyteller, have long been favorites among teachers and students of the Greek langu...
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Reducere. Award NameNew Mexico Book AwardsAward categoryMulticulturalWinner of the 2011 New Mexico Book Award in the multi-cultural catagoryJlin-tay-i-tith, ...
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Reducere. While blacks have played an important role--as explorers, scouts, Indian consorts, soldiers, cowboys, farmers--in the exploration, conquest, and se...
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Reducere. "The world is full of sorrow, " Agapita whispered to Alfonso.Did she stamp those words into his destiny?The story of Alfonso, a Nuevo Mexicano, beg...
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Reducere. Called the -Fighting Cock of the Sioux- by U.S. soldiers, Hunkpapa warrior Gall was a great Lakota chief who, along with Sitting Bull and Crazy Hor...
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Reducere. This is the first biography of Chief Left Hand, diplomat, linguist, and legendary of the Plains Indians. Working from government reports, manuscrip...
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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....
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Reducere. DescriptionChief Daniel Bread (1800-1873) played a key role in establishing the Oneida Indians' presence in Wisconsin after their removal from New ...
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Reducere. In the tradition of Thoreau's Walden, William Paul Winchester offers a chronicle of everyday life on Southwind, his farm of twenty acres. As a subs...
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Reducere. DescriptionScholars and enthusiasts of western American history have praised Elliott West as a distinguished historian and an accomplished writer, ...
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Reducere. Tornadoes occur everywhere in the United States, and each region of the nation has its own tornado season. Tornadoes have crossed mountains. Some h...
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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...
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Reducere. "Besides Homer, there is Hesiod." These words still contain much truth today. Hesiod is a very important poet, and for this reason his two survivin...
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Reducere. The stories of the Cherokee people presented here capture in written form tales of history, myth, and legend for readers, speakers, and scholars of...
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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'...
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Reducere. In the first third of the twentieth century, the 101 Real Wild West Show was known halfway round the world. It featured such headliners as Bill Pic...
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Reducere. Born during the American Revolution, Williams was a child of the early frontier. In his young manhood he became an itinerant preacher and appointed...
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Reducere. An exciting story of a Texas Ranger, adventurer, and immigration officer who became a symbol of his age while gambling with death in the wild front...
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Reducere. Crazy Horse was as much feared by tribal foes as he was honored by allies. His war record was unmatched by any of his peers, and his rout of Custer...
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Reducere. A classic in contemporary Oklahoma literature, Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz's Red Dirt unearths the joys and ordeals of growing up poor during the 1940s an...
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Reducere. For twenty years the Historical Atlas of Texas stood as a trusted resource for students and aficionados of the state. Now this key reference has be...
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Reducere. John H. Holliday, D. D. S., better known as Doc Holliday, has become a legendary figure in the history of the American West. In Doc Holliday: A Fam...
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Reducere. On a quiet Sunday morning in 1941, a ship designed to keep the peace was suddenly attacked. This book tells the remarkable story of a battleship, i...
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Reducere. The colorful figures of the western American frontier, the Indian fighters, the mountain men, the outlaws, and the lawmen, have been romanticized f...
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Reducere. "We're everywhere, and it's time to come out of the closet: I speak of the tongue-tied generation, buyers of books with titles like Master Spanish ...
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Reducere. George Armstrong Custer, America's most famously unfortunate soldier, has been the subject of scores of books, but The Custer Reader is unique as a...
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Reducere. In this powerful collection of free-verse poetry, immigrant, poet, and memoirist Jos Antonio Rodr guez encapsulates the experiences of an artist an...
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Reducere. For weeks in 1902 it commanded headlines. All of Wyoming and much of the West followed the trial of Tom Horn for the murder of a fourteen-year-old ...
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Reducere. In 1967, George Henderson, the son of uneducated Alabama sharecroppers, accepted a full-time professorship at the University of Oklahoma, despite h...
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Reducere. One of the most influential and popular works in all literature, Ovid's Metamorphoses is a weaving-together of classical myths, extending in time f...
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Reducere. Apacheria ran from the Colorado to the Rio Grande and beyond, from the great canyons of the North for a thousand miles into Mexico. Here, where the...
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Reducere. This extensively revised edition of Thurman Wilkins's masterful and engaging biography - well illustrated in color and black-and-white - draws on n...
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Reducere. No assessment of the Plains Indians can be complete without some account of the Pawnees. They ranged from Nebraska to Mexico and, when not fighting...
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Reducere. Latina poets occupy an important place in today's literary landscape. Coming from diverse backgrounds, they share an understanding of what it means...
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Reducere. A standard reference on horse breeds--illustrated and updatedCelebrating the animal that has been a stalwart servant to humankind for countless gen...
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Reducere. In a career in public office spanning five decades, Mark Odom Hatfield (1922-2011) never lost an election. First elected to the Oregon House of Rep...
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Reducere. With abundant photographs, more than 160 in color, Native North America illustrates tribal life, sacred arenas, spiritual traditions, and artifacts...
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Reducere. -A fascinating account of Apache history and ethnography. All the narratives have been carefully chosen to illustrate important facets of the Apach...
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