University of Oklahoma Press
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Popol Vuh: The Sacred Book of the Ancient Quiche Maya
$21.95 Add to cartThis is the first complete version in English of the “Book of the People” of the Quiche Maya, the most powerful nation of the Guatemalan highlands in pre-Conquest times and a branch of the ancient May
- Series: Civilization of the American Indian (Paperback)
- Author: Recinos, Adrien
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: November 13 2020
- ISBN10: 0806122668
- Language: English
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Visions of the Tallgrass, 33: Prairie Photographs by Harvey Payne
$34.95 Add to cartIn centuries long past, a vast swath of grassland swept down the center of North America, from Canada’s Prairie Provinces to central Texas. This once-plentiful prairie has now all but disappeared. Hu… [more below]
- Series: The Charles M. Russell Center Art and Photography of the American West #33
- Author: Ronda, James P.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 180
- Publish Date: September 13 2018
- ISBN10: 0806160284
- Language: English
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Wildlife in American Art: Masterworks from the National Museum of Wildlife Art
$35.00 Add to cartThe first European artist-naturalists to tour North America in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries were awed not only by the continent’s varying landforms but also by the animals they encountered:
- Author: Harris, Adam Duncan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 287
- Publish Date: October 26 2009
- ISBN10: 0806140992
- Language: English
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William F. Buckley Sr.: Witness to the Mexican Revolution, 1908-1922
$29.95 Add to cartIn 1909, young William F. Buckley Sr. (1881-1958), who grew up in the dusty South Texas town of San Diego, graduated from the University of Texas law school and headed for Mexico City. Fluent in Spani
- Author: Adams, John A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: March 23 2023
- ISBN10: 0806191821
- Language: English
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The Indian Tipi: Its History, Construction, and Use
$26.95 Add to cartWhen the first edition of this book was published in 1957, the art of making a tipi was almost lost, even among American Indians. Since that time a tremendous resurgence of interest in the Indian way
- Author: Laubin, Reginald
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: September 15 1989
- ISBN10: 0806122366
- Language: English
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My Ranch, Too: A Wyoming Memoir
$21.95 Add to cartFor many outsiders, the word “ranching” conjures romantic images of riding on horseback through rolling grasslands while living and working against a backdrop of breathtaking mountain vistas. In this … [more below]
- Author: Flitner, Mary Budd
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 234
- Publish Date: January 10 2020
- ISBN10: 0806166150
- Language: English
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Handbook of Mediterranean Roman Pottery
$24.95 Add to cartIn the past, Roman pottery has been judged as inferior to Greek pottery. Recent excavations, however, have led to an increase in knowledge and appreciation of Roman wares. These wares now constitute a
- Author: Hayes, John W.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: July 15 1997
- ISBN10: 0806129395
- Language: English
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An Oklahoma I Had Never Seen Before: Alternative Views of Oklahoma History
$21.95 Add to cartAfter taking Davis D. Joyce’s course in Oklahoma history, a student once said, “I saw an Oklahoma I’d never seen before.”
“This is a splendid collection of writings in the true spirit of a ‘people’s h
- Author: Joyce, Davis D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: January 15 1998
- ISBN10: 080612945X
- Language: English
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Colorado Ghost Towns and Mining Camps
$29.95 Add to cartProspectors lured to the West in hopes of striking rich settled a thousand towns in the Colorado mountains. The cry of “Gold!” or “Silver!” or a few flecks of color in a tin cup sent them to remote, o
- Author: Dallas, Sandra
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 268
- Publish Date: March 15 1988
- ISBN10: 0806120843
- Language: English
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Life of George Bent: Written from His Letters
$24.95 Add to cartGeorge Bent, the son of William Bent, one of the founders of Bent’s Fort on the Arkansas near present La Junta, Colorado, and Owl Woman, a Cheyenne, began exchanging letters in 1905 with George E. Hyd
- Series: Written from His Letters
- Author: Hyde, George E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: May 21 2018
- ISBN10: 0806115777
- Language: English
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John Joseph Mathews, 69: Life of an Osage Writer
$21.95 Add to cartJohn Joseph Mathews (1894-1979) is one of Oklahoma’s most revered twentieth-century authors. An Osage Indian, he was also one of the first Indigenous authors to gain national renown. Yet fame did not… [more below]
- Series: American Indian Literature and Critical Studies #69
- Author: Snyder, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 284
- Publish Date: February 02 2018
- ISBN10: 0806160527
- Language: English
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First Manhattans: A History of the Indians of Greater New York
$21.95 Add to cartA concise history of the Indians said to have sold Manhattan for $24
The Indian sale of Manhattan is one of the world’s most cherished legends. Few people know that the Indians who made the fabled sal
- Author: Grumet, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: April 15 2011
- ISBN10: 0806141638
- Language: English
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The Sundance Kid: The Life of Harry Alonzo Longabaugh
$21.95 Add to cartUncovers new facts on the outlaw’s life and death
He gained renown as the sidekick of Butch Cassidy, but the Sundance Kid–whose real name was Harry Alonzo Longabaugh–led a fuller life than history o
- Author: Ernst, Donna
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: April 01 2010
- ISBN10: 0806141158
- Language: English
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Creating Characters: How to Build Story People
$21.95 Add to cartA jargon-free manual on the basics of developing interesting fictional characters
Vibrant, believable characters help drive a fictional story. Along with a clever plot, well-drawn characters make us wa
- Author: Swain, Dwight V.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: March 30 2018
- ISBN10: 0806139188
- Language: English
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Six Weeks in Sioux Tepees: A Narrative of Indian Captivity
$19.95 Add to cartThe Dakota War (1862) was a searing event in Minnesota history as well as a signal event in the lives of Dakota people. Sarah F. Wakefield was caught up in this revolt. A young doctor’s wife and the m
- Author: Wakefield, Sarah F.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 186
- Publish Date: April 15 2002
- ISBN10: 0806134313
- Language: English
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The Conquest of America: The Question of the Other
$29.95 Add to cartThe Conquest of America is a fascinating study of cultural confrontation in the New World, with implications far beyond sixteenth-century America. The book offers an original interpretation of the Spa
- Author: Todorov, Tzvetan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 292
- Publish Date: June 22 2020
- ISBN10: 0806131373
- Language: English
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Valley of the Guns: The Pleasant Valley War and the Trauma of Violence
$29.95 Read moreIn the late 1880s, Pleasant Valley, Arizona, descended into a nightmare of violence, murder, and mayhem. By the time the Pleasant Valley War was over, eighteen men were dead, four were wounded, and o… [more below]
- Author: Pagán, Eduardo Obregón
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: October 15 2018
- ISBN10: 080616154X
- Language: English
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Red Cloud: Warrior-Statesman of the Lakota Sioux
$21.95 Add to cartPerhaps no Indian leader of the mid-nineteenth century was as well known in his time as the great Lakota Sioux Red Cloud. Although his fame later was eclipsed by that of the legendary heroes who crush… [more below]
- Series: Oklahoma Western Biographies #13
- Author: Larson, Robert W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 354
- Publish Date: April 15 1997
- ISBN10: 0806131896
- Language: English
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Eating Peru: A Gastronomic Journey
$24.95 Add to cartToday, Peru is recognized as one of the top food destinations on the planet. But twenty-five years ago, the world’s foodies focused their attention elsewhere–except for wine merchant-turned-archaeolo… [more below]
- Author: Bradley, Robert C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 292
- Publish Date: September 05 2023
- ISBN10: 080619278X
- Language: English
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Nez Perce Coyote Tales: The Myth Cycle
$21.95 Add to cartAn incorrigible trickster, a clever thief, a rogue, sometimes a magnanimous hero, often a vengeful loser, but always a survivor, Coyote is the most complex character in the Nez Perce cycle of traditio
- Author: Walker, Deward E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 260
- Publish Date: February 18 2021
- ISBN10: 0806130326
- Language: English
