The Osage language is a vital part of Osage identity. The language suffered rapid decline during the twentieth century, but the Osage people are taking significant steps to revitalize its use. To that end, this volume-the first ever introductory Osage grammar textbook-is a much-needed resource for students, teachers, scholars, and anyone wishing ......
The Osage language is a vital part of Osage identity. The language suffered rapid decline during the twentieth century, but the Osage people are taking significant steps to revitalize its use. To that end, this volume-the first ever introductory Osage grammar textbook-is a much-needed resource for students, teachers, scholars, and anyone wishing ......
In Gilded-Age Montana, three former frontiersmen turned from speculation in minerals to speculation in Thoroughbred horses. The rest is horse racing history...or would be if the story had ever been written. When Montana Outraced the East retrieves the largely forgotten late nineteenth-century golden age of the Montana Thoroughbred industry, when ......
This concise survey, tracing the experiences of American Indians from their origins to the present, has proven its value to both students and general readers in the two decades since its first publication. This third edition, drawing on the most recent research, adds information about Indian social, economic, political, and cultural issues in the ......
The Mexican-American War and the Making of South Texas
The Mexican-American War, 1846-1848, resulted in the largest militaristic land acquisition in American history. It also, as Christopher Menking contends in this book, shaped the distribution of power and wealth in South Texas in profound ways that still resonate throughout the region's political and economic landscape. The US Army Quartermaster ......
In these days of an ever-expanding internet, generative AI, and term paper mills, students may find it too easy and tempting not to cheat, and teachers may think they can't keep up. What's needed, and what Tricia Bertram Gallant and David A. Rettinger offer in this timely book, is a new approach-one that works with the realities of the ......
In these days of an ever-expanding internet, generative AI, and term paper mills, students may find it too easy and tempting not to cheat, and teachers may think they can't keep up. What's needed, and what Tricia Bertram Gallant and David A. Rettinger offer in this timely book, is a new approach-one that works with the realities of the ......
One hundred fifty years ago the McCoy brothers of Springfield, Illinois, bet their fortunes on Abilene, Kansas, then just a slapdash way station. Instead of an endless horizon of prairie grasses, they saw a bustling outlet for hundreds of thousands of Texas Longhorns coming up the Chisholm Trail-and the youngest brother, Joseph, saw how a ......
Days before the armistice was signed ending World War I, Stratton D. Brooks, third president of the University of Oklahoma, sent a letter to every student, former student, and faculty member serving in the armed forces. He had a request: would each man write a letter in reply, describing his experiences and impressions during his wartime service? ......
