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"[The authors] have created a history rich in synthesis and made all the more pleasing by a style that is crisp, occasionally ironic, always persuasive, and frequently eloquent...quite simply, the best history of the state available."--L.G. Moses, Oklahoma State University

In 1875, a team of cartographers, geologists, and scientists entered the Four Corners area for what they thought would be a calm summer's work completing a previous survey. By skillfully weaving the surveyors' diary entries, field notes, and correspondence with newspaper accounts, this book brings the survey to life.

Written with the skill of a gifted storyteller and graced with photos that capture both of Helen's worlds, A Letter to My Father is a poignant story that will resonate with anyone familiar with the struggle to reconcile past and present identities.

The conflict that historians have called King Philip's War still ranks as one of the bloodiest per capita in American history. Because Connecticut lacked a chronicler, its experience of the conflict has gone largely untold. Jason Warren makes clear in Connecticut Unscathed, this imbalance has generated an incomplete narrative of the war.

Backed by an unparalleled military force, Sargon II outwitted and outfought powerful competitors to extend Assyrian territory and secure his throne. As Sarah Melville shows in this analysis of his campaigns, the king used his army not just to conquer but also to ensure regional security, manage his resources, and support his political agenda.

From its beginnings as an army camp in the 1840s, Fort Worth has come to be one of Texas's - and the America's - largest cities, a thriving center of culture and commerce. Fort Worth tells the story of how this landlocked outpost on the arid plains of Texas made and remade itself in its early years.

The first comprehensive account of Wounded Knee to appear in more than fifty years, this volume explores the complex events preceding the tragedy, the killings, and their troubled legacy. In this gripping tale, Jerome Greene explores why the bloody engagement happened and demonstrates how it became a brutal massacre.

In a career in public office spanning five decades, Mark Odom Hatfield (1922-2011) never lost an election. This book tells Hatfield's story-as an Oregonian, a politician, and a man of practical vision, deep convictions, and far-reaching consequence in the civic life of the state and the nation.

With clarity and compelling detail, Vernon Kniptash describes the experiences of an ordinary soldier thrust into the most violent conflict the world had seen. He tells of his enthusiasm upon enlistment and of the horrors of combat, as well as the drudgery of daily routine, and renders unforgettable profiles of his fellow soldiers and commanders.

Think gunfighter, and Wyatt Earp or Billy the Kid may come to mind. But what of Jim Moon? Joel Fowler? Zack Light? A host of other figures helped forge the gunfighter persona, but their stories have been lost to time. Celebrated western historian Robert DeArment here offers more biographical portraits of lesser-known gunfighters.

Tells how people of African heritage came to blend their lives with those of their Indian neighbours and essentially became Creek themselves. Taking in the full historical sweep of African Americans among the Creeks, Gary Zellar unfolds a narrative history of the many contributions these people made to Creek history.

Agnes Morley Cleaveland found lasting fame after publishing her memoir, No Life for a Lady, in 1941. In Open Range, Darlis Miller expands our understanding of Cleaveland's significance, showing how a young girl who was a fearless risk-taker grew up to be a prolific author and social activist.

Texas Southern University is often said to have been "conceived in sin." Located in Houston, the school was established in 1947 as an "emergency" state-supported university for African Americans, to prevent the integration of the University of Texas. Born to Serve is the first book to tell the full history of TSU.

This biography of the explorer Hernando de Soto, explains how he was obsessed with finding a second Inca empire, but instead he encountered the Mississippians. It tells of how Soto's obsession pushed him deeper into the wilderness, until he died and was secretly buried in the Mississippi river.

Captures George Hearst's ascent, casting light on his actions during the Civil War, his tempestuous marriage to his cousin Phoebe, his role as disciplinarian and doting father to future media magnate William Randolph Hearst, and his devious methods of building the greatest mining empire in the West.

The US Supreme Court's 1937 decision in West Coast Hotel v. Parrish, upholding the constitutionality of Washington State's minimum wage law for women, had monumental consequences for all American workers. In Making Minimum Wage, Helen Knowles tells the human story behind this historic case.

"How can women wear diamonds when babies cry for bread?" Kate Barnard demanded in one of the incendiary stump speeches. In A Life on Fire, Connie Cronley tells the story of Catherine Ann "Kate" Barnard (1875-1930), a fiery political reformer and the first woman elected to state office in Oklahoma.

That Muhammad succeeded as a prophet is undeniable; a prominent military historian now suggests that he might not have done so had he not also been a great soldier. Best known as the founder of a major religion, Muhammad was also Islam's first great general. While there have been numerous accounts of Muhammad the Prophet, this is the first militar

Main Currents in American Thought will stand as a model for venturesome scholars for years to come. Readers and scholars of the rising generation may not follow Parrington's particular judgments or point of view, but it is hard to believe that they will not still be captivated and inspired by his sparkle, his daring, and the ardor of his political commitment. In Volume II, The Romantic Revolution in America, 1800 - 1860, Parrington treats such influential figures as John Marshall, John C. Calhoun, Andrew Jackson, Abraham Lincoln, Washington Irving, James Fenimore Cooper, Herman Melville, Daniel Webster, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, and Nathaniel Hawthorne.

Acclaimed by critics as one of the greatest literary achievements of the Roman Empire, the Civil War is a stirring account of the war between Julius Caesar and the forces of the republican senate led by Pompey the Great. Reading Lucan's Civil War is the first comprehensive guide to this important poem.

From the 1520s through the 1580s, thousands of African slaves fled captivity in Spanish Panama and formed their own communities in the interior of the isthmus. African Maroons in Sixteenth-Century Panama, a primary source reader documents this marronage in the context of five decades of African resistance to slavery.

Since well before ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment in 1920 secured their right to vote, women in Oklahoma have sought to change and uplift their communities through political activism. This book brings together the stories of thirteen women activists and explores their varied experiences from the territorial period to the present.