books by University of Oklahoma Press     books:       Warfare in the Classical World: An Illustrated Encyclopedia of Weapons, Warriors and Warfare in the Ancient ...29 reviews John Gibson Warry University of Oklahoma Press, 1995 Must have if you are interested in ancient wars I just got this for my son and I ended up reading it first. I am sure during this X'Mas both of us will want to fight for the book. The pictures and the drawings are of the highest qualities. I love the descriptions of major wars. I just wish that the author has given it more explanation of the drawings for the major battles like adding more legends. Also, it is kind of hard to read/understand ...             A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains (The Western Frontier Library, 14)12 reviews Isabella Lucy Bird, Daniel J. Boorstin University of Oklahoma Press, 1999 Well-written account of an incredible Rocky Mountain experience! I bought this book while visiting Estes Park, CO...hungry for books about life in the West that may not be so readily available here in NJ. I found it to be one of the most enjoyable books I have ever read! Isabella's descriptions of the Rocky Mountains and the climate through which she travelled are vivid and gripping. But more than that, she gives a detailed and honest account of what life ...             Survivor's Medicine: Short Stories (American Indian Literature and Critical Studies Series)10 reviews E. Donald Two-Rivers University of Oklahoma Press, 1998 Many Tongues I knew Harold Ball. I wasn't his friend because, as this book explains, for most of his life he drove people away. I wasn't at the party that changed his life, but I know some who were. In fact, I know everybody in this book. Set in the city, on the rez or on the road, these stories read as real to me as the last time I stepped out the door or walked into a truck stop. Each person has ...             The Indian Tipi: Its History, Construction, and Use12 reviews Gladys Laubin, Stanley Vestal, ... University of Oklahoma Press, 1989 The Bible of Tipis Enough said, you want to know anything about Tipis, how to build one, etc, this is THE book.             Bataan: A Survivor's Story9 reviews Eugene P. Boyt, David L. Burch University of Oklahoma Press, 2004 My Grandpa This is the story of my Grandpa. I hope you all enjoy this book! Now that my Pops is in a better place I can read this book and feel closer to him than ever. Through reading this book my family and I have learned so much that we never knew about our Pops. It shows the best and worst of the people of the Death March and the angels that helped my pops to survive so that I may be here today. I ...             Bat Masterson: The Man and the Legend11 reviews Robert K. Dearment University of Oklahoma Press, 1989 Well researched and written book about a western icon This is a well researched and written book about a western icon. Unlike many westerns, this one is a very interesting read - sharing not only the life of Bat Masterson but the gunfighters and others who lived around them and their experiences. For example, a whole chapter is on Jim Masterson and his experiences in southern Kansas and Colorado in the late nineteenth century. Although the book ...             Dark River (American Indian Literature and Critical Studies Series, Vol 30)11 reviews Louis Owens University of Oklahoma Press, 2000 First rate book by a first rate publisher Perhaps one of Oklahoma's better-kept secrets is the work done by the University of Oklahoma Press. To be sure there are some readers that know about the quality works published by the Press such as Lige Langston: Sweet Iron; The Dismissal of Miss Ruth Brown; and The Western Range Revisited, to name but a few. However, I am frequently surprised at the number of readers that are not aware of ...             High Country (Literature of the American West)15 reviews Willard Wyman University of Oklahoma Press, 2008 High Country a winner Great book if you love the mountains and enjoy escaping into a great story line with wonderful descriptions of the life of a packer in the mountains. I could not put the book down!             Infantry Soldier: Holding the Line at the Battle of the Bulge20 reviews George W. Neill University of Oklahoma Press, 2002 View from a fox hole George Neill presents a front line soldier's view of what it was like to be part of the WWII American infantry. While reading the book, I almost felt the cold and fear that were the soldier's constant companions. while the rear echelon soldiers got the winter boots, and the generals got heated quarters, Neill and his fellow soldiers tried to survive the cold, boredom and attacks. I felt like I ...             Techniques of the Selling Writer42 reviews Dwight V. Swain University of Oklahoma Press, 1975 The Best on Writing Dramatic Fiction I bought this book on account of all these rave reviews, and everyone was right - this is one of the very best books on writing fiction there is. I have over twenty, and even after all that, when reading yet another chapter on point of view is like slogging through sludge, Swain brings such refreshing verve and wit to the subject that everything seems new again. And it actually is, since he ...             The Sacred Pipe: Black Elk's Account of the Seven Rites of the Oglala Sioux (Civilization of the American ...8 reviews Joseph Epes Brown University of Oklahoma Press, 1989 If you want peace, read this book Joseph Epes Brown was fortunate in meeting men who possessed great human and spiritual qualities, especially Black Elk who had a unique quality of power, kindliness and sense of mission. Born in 1862, Black Elk grew up when his people had the freedom of the plains, hunted bison; he fought at Little Bighorn and at Wounded Knee Creek and knew Crazy Horse, Sitting Bull, Red Cloud, and American ...             Pioneer Women: The Lives of Women on the Frontier8 reviews Linda Peavy, Ursula Smith University of Oklahoma Press, 1998 A must read for women of all ages This book will open your eyes up to the way things were a century and a half ago. Back to the basics is an understatement. Imagine raising 8 children on a farm that you had to establish yourself because your husband and other family members perished on the trip west to get to an unknown territory far far away from immediate family? These women did it. They survived and thier children either a: ...             Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect8 reviews Richard J. Cunliffe University of Oklahoma Press, 1977 Worth Its Weight In Gold This dictionary is a godsend for anyone who wants to have more than a passing acquaintance with the poetry of Homer. Two things make it an indispensable aid in reading Homer. First, it gives an exhaustive listing of the various meanings and nuances of meaning that any given word has in different passages of the Iliad and Odyssey. Since there are many words, particularly verbs, that vary in ...             Finding a Fallen Hero: The Death of a Ball Turret Gunner9 reviews Bob Korkuc University of Oklahoma Press, 2008 "Captivating"..."Hard to put down"..."thoroughly enjoyable" 'Captivating'...'hard to put down'...'thoroughly enjoyable' - all apt descriptors of Bob Korkuc's "Finding a Fallen Hero: The Death of a Ball Turret Gunner". Clocking in a 242 pp. (inclusive of Notes), "Finding a Fallen Hero" is a real page-turner, one easily gotten through even by a slow reader like this reviewer in one sitting. Not only is the story told engagingly (we'll come back to this ...             International Encyclopedia of Horse Breeds9 reviews Bonnie L. Hendricks University of Oklahoma Press, 1996 The best, most complete horse breeds book I have ever seen! Bonnie Hendricks has gone far beyond what any other horse breed researcher has done...she has contacted every breed association she possibly could. She has written with far more detail, greater accuracy, and on many more breeds than any other horse book I have seen. Her intelligent ideas inserted into some breed descriptions are well worth noting. This is a MUST-HAVE for the serious equine ...             The Angry Genie: One Man's Walk Through the Nuclear Age8 reviews Karl Ziegler Morgan, Ken M. Peterson University of Oklahoma Press, 1999 A charming and important book. This charming memoir starts in 1943, when Dr. Morgan was recruited away from his happy research on cosmic-ray physics to join the atomic-bomb project. He was one of the four or five persons assigned to figure out how to prevent bomb-workers from irradiating themselves to death. In 1943, it was barely known how to measure doses from the various types of radiation, ...             Decent, Orderly Lynching: The Montana Vigilantes9 reviews Frederick Allen University of Oklahoma Press, 2005 A fair and balanced - and thorough - look at the Montana vigilantes One tends to associate the dark legacy of lynching almost exclusively with the South of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, but in point of fact the most extensive episode of vigilante justice in American history actually took place in the Montana territories in the 1860s. The Montana vigilantes have long been hailed as heroes in Montana (Montana Highway Patrolmen, for example, still bear a ...             Red Dirt: Growing Up Okie9 reviews Roxanne Dunbar Ortiz University of Oklahoma Press, 2006 The shaping of an activist. This book was my introduction to Roxanne Dunbar Ortiz. I read it before I learned more about her and her career as an activist for the past 40 years. She reflects on her life from birth until her move to California. She grew up in rural Oklahoma during some of the worst years ever. These were the years that shaped her, the launching pad of her feminist, anti-family, pro-socialist, anti-war, ...             Deep Enough: A Working Stiff in the Western Mine Camps7 reviews Frank A. Crampton University of Oklahoma Press, 1993 If one has ever worked underground in a mine this book is a Frank Crampton didn't have to become a tramp miner, he chose too. Born well conneced, he gave it all up to discover what it is like to become a working stiff in the western mines. His discriptive writings of the every day workings under ground are so real one can smell the powder after a blast. His experience while being traped under ground in the Bingham Canyon Mine, and being cold ...             Centennial Campaign: The Sioux War of 18767 reviews John Stephens Gray University of Oklahoma Press, 1988 The Best about the Sioux War In 1981 I made a phone call to a retired medical doctor named John Gray. I told him I had just finished reading his book, CENTENNIAL CAMPAIGN, and would love to talk with him. I figured we would talk on the phone, so I was surprised when he invited me to visit him in his home in Ft. Collins, Colorado. I accepted his invitation without hesitation. 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