Univ.of Oklahoma Press

Kit Carson: The Life of an American Border Man

By David Remley - Published 2011

Genres:

NonfictionWestern

While Kit Carson was known in the 19th century as a fearless frontier hero, some modern scholarship paints him as a notorious Indian ...Read Review

Blue Heaven

By Willard Wyman - Published 2011

Genres:

Western

Fenton Pardee learned the packer’s trade with Buffalo Bill’s Wild West show – how to handle horses, and how to strap packs ...Read Review

Pipestone : My Life in an Indian Boarding School

By Adam Fortunate Eagle - Published 2010

Genres:

Nonfiction

This extraordinary memoir follows the life of Ojibwe activist and author Adam Fortunate Eagle from 1935 to 1945, from age five to fifteen. It’s ...Read Review

Pushing the Bear: After the Trail of Tears

By Diane Glancy - Published 2009

Genres:

LiteraryWestern

The Trail of Tears is over, but the Cherokee who survived the punishing winter march from North Carolina to Oklahoma must now face ...Read Review

Coach Tommy Thompson and the Boys of Sequoyah

By Patti Dickinson - Published 2009

Genres:

Nonfiction

A joint biography of both a famed advisor, coach and surrogate father, and nineteen of his students, spans the lifetime of Coach Thompson ...Read Review

Strange Business

By Rilla Askew - Published 2009

Genres:

LiteraryShort Stories

Strange Business is a collection of short stories written about the people of Cedar, Oklahoma, focusing on specific events between the years 1961 and 1986. ...Read Review

Daughters of Gaia: Women in the Ancient Mediterranean World

By Bella Vivante - Published 2008

Genres:

Nonfiction

The study of women in antiquity has already seen a great deal of important scholarship. In this book, the author undertakes a sweeping ...Read Review

Cherokee Thoughts, Honest and Uncensored

By Robert J. Conley - Published 2008

Genres:

Nonfiction

Novelist Robert J. Conley explores his own heritage in this nonfiction collection of essays about the Cherokee people, their history and culture. In ...Read Review

Best of Covered Wagon Women

By Kenneth L. Holmes (ed.) - By Michael L. Tate (intro.) - Published 2008

Genres:

NonfictionWestern

Collected in Best of Covered Wagon Women are eight mid-19th century accounts of the Western overland journey. These journals and several letters ...Read Review

The Singing Bird: A Cherokee Novel

By John Milton Oskison - Published 2007

Genres:

Romance

A newly discovered novel set in the turbulent mid-19th century period of the removals and intertribal conflict, The Singing Bird details the ...Read Review