Books published by University of Oklahoma Press

Here for experts, beginners, and do-it-yourself horse owners is all the information necessary to the modern farrier's art of horseshoeing. In this second edition, Robert Wiseman describes and illustrates not only basic shoeing techniques but also hoof diseases and defects that cause lameness.

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, its brave crew, and how their lives were intertwined.

A confederate soldier, pioneer merchant, rancher, newspaper publisher, and town builder, George Washington Grayson also served for six decades as a leader of the Creek Nation. His life paralleled the most tumultuous events in Creek Indian and Oklahoma history, from the aftermath of the Trail of Tears through World War I.

The hero of the War of 1812, the conqueror of Mexico City, and Abraham Lincoln's top soldier during the first six months of the Civil War, General Winfield Scott was a seminal force in the early American republic. John Eisenhower explores how Scott, who served under fourteen presidents, played a leading role in the development of the US Army.

Centred on the volatile issue of the repatriation of Native American skeletal remains, Chancers follows a group of student Solar Dancers who set out to resurrect native remains housed in the Phoebe Hearst Museum of Anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley.

Pierces the thick fog of falsehood, calumny, ignorance, and legend surrounding the four years Sam Houston spent among the Cherokees in what is now northeastern Oklahoma, the broken years in Tennessee, and his advent in Texas on the eve of the War for Independence.

First published in 1942, this work provides a reference source on the Caddo Indians. It presents their history and culture according to the principal French, Spanish and English sources. Beginning with De Soto's encounters in 1521, the work traces Caddo history through to the 1890s.