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Convention has it that Irish immigrants in the nineteenth century confined themselves mainly to industrial cities of the East and Midwest. The truth is that Irish Catholics went everywhere in America. Thia book examines the multifaceted experience of westering Irish and, in doing so, offers a fresh account of America's westward expansion.

Deftly interweaves a mass of archaeological, anthropological, and archival source material to resurrect the lost history of a forgotten people, from their earliest contacts with Europeans to their final expulsion just before the American Revolution.

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.

Offers a celebration of women's contributions to Oklahoma's recent past. The book records defining moments in women's lives - whether surviving the Oklahoma City bombing or surviving abuse - and represents a wide range of professions, lifestyles, and backgrounds to show how extraordinary lives have grown from the seeds of ordinary girlhoods.

In this first scholarly treatment of the politics of water law along the Rio Grande, Douglas Littlefield describes early interstate and international water-apportionment conflicts and explains how they relate to the development of western water law and policy and to international relations with Mexico.

Exploring the formal and informal struggles over acknowledgment, Renee Ann Cramer argues that we cannot fully understand the process until we understand three contexts within which it operates: the growth of casino interests since 1988, the prevalence of racial attitudes concerning Indian identity, and the colonial legacy of US-Indian law.

Traces the gradual movement of the Alabamas and Coushattas from their origins in the Southeast to their nineteenth-century settlement in East Texas, exploring their motivations for migrating west and revealing how their shared experience affected their identity.

If language encapsulates worldview, as the principle of linguistic relativity suggests, then this region's linguistic diversity is puzzling. Analyzing patterns of linguistic accommodation as seen in the semantics of space and time, grammatical classification, and specialized cultural vocabularies, O'Neill resolves the apparent paradox by assessing long-term effects of contact.

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.

A dedicated career soldier and excellent division and corps commander, Dominique Vandamme was a thorn in the side of practically every officer he served. In this first book-length study of Vandamme in English, John Gallaher traces the career of one of Napoleon's most successful midrank officers.

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.

In this first comprehensive history of the Presbyterian Church in Oklahoma, historians Michael Cassity and Danney Goble reveal how Oklahoma Presbyterians have responded to the demands of an evolving society, a shifting theology, and even a divided church.

Shows that concepts of Indigenous autonomy and self-governance have been vital to Native nations throughout history. The book also helps scholars better understand the historic policy shift brought about by the Indian Reorganization Act.

A masterful analysis of the most significant American political trend in the past forty years.

Banks, founder of the American Indian Movement, tells his story for the first time and presents an insider's look the group and its protest events--including the 1973 standoff at Wounded Knee--enhanced by dramatic photographs.