Books published by University of Oklahoma Press

A study of Indian archery, past and present. Exploring the history and culture of all the tribes, the author shows that Indian bows had real power and accuracy and were perfectly suited to their need. There are sections on making bows and arrows and comparisons are made with English archery.

Recounts Thomas Jefferson's role in advocating and shaping the exploration, settlement and development of the trans-Mississippi West. Jackson argues that although he did not travel farther inland than the slopes of the Appalachians, Jefferson must take his place alongside the pioneers.

General George Crook planned and organized the principal Apache campaign in Arizona, and General Nelson Miles took credit for its successful conclusion, but the men who really won it were frontiersmen such as Al Sieber. In this carefully researched biography, Dan L. Thrapp gives extensive evidence for Sieber's expertise.

The story of the St Patrick's Battalion (San Patricios), which was composed mainly of Irish-American deserters from the US army who joined the Mexican army to fight against their countrymen. Treated as traitors by the United States, they were viewed as heroes by the Mexican government.

The Making of the Roman Army explores how a small citizen militia guarding a village on the banks of the Tiber evolved into the professional Roman army.

Homer's Iliad and Odyssey and Virgil's Aeneid are three of the most important - and influential - works of Western classical literature. Written in an accessible style and ideally suited for classroom use, Communication, Love, and Death in Homer and Virgil offers a unique comparative analysis of these classic works.

Douglas McChristian has written the first complete history of Fort Laramie, chronicling every critical stage in its existence, including its addition to the National Park System. He draws on an extraordinary array of archival materials to present new data about the fort and new interpretations of historical events.

Despite the countless books and films devoted to him, Billy the Kid remains one of the most elusive figures of the Old West. Now, award-winning western historian Frederick Nolan has scoured the published literature to offer this well-rounded compendium on the life and times of William H. Bonney.

The first overview of the subject in more than fifty years, Black Cowboys in the American West surveys the life and work of these cattle drivers from the years before the Civil War through the turn of the twentieth century.

This groundbreaking edition of the Codex Chimalpahin, edited and translated by Arthur J.O. Anderson and Susan Schroeder, makes available in English for the first time the transcription and translation of the most comprehensive history of native Mexico by a known Indian.

Provides the first complete history of an American Indian tribe in the colonial period. Although much has been written of the Spanish, French, and British explorations in North America in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, little has been known of the Indian tribes that explorers such as De Soto and De Luna encountered.