Book Description
Multi-format, multi-cultural biographies which focus on the early childhood, school years and goals of famous and infamous people from the state of Oklahoma.
Author : Carole Marsh
Publisher : Carole Marsh Books
Page : 60 pages
File Size : 31,46 MB
Release : 1989
Category : Curriculum planning
ISBN : 0793318793
Multi-format, multi-cultural biographies which focus on the early childhood, school years and goals of famous and infamous people from the state of Oklahoma.
Author : Barry M. Gough
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 17,89 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780806130026
Chronicles the perils and triumphs of the intrepid Scotsman who explored Canada's northwestern wilderness
Author : Glenda Riley
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 38,19 MB
Release : 2018-08-14
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780806135069
A biography of America's greatest female sharpshooter delves beneath her popular image to reveal a conservative but competitive woman who wanted to succeed.
Author : Carole Marsh
Publisher : Carole Marsh Books
Page : 63 pages
File Size : 22,15 MB
Release : 1994
Category :
ISBN : 1556095767
Author : John Scott
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 47,99 MB
Release : 2021-10-14
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0806177012
At the end of World War II, the top ten college football teams were largely the same as they are today—with one exception: Oklahoma. In 1947, Bud Wilkinson was named OU’s head football coach and became the architect of Oklahoma’s meteoric rise from mediocrity to its present status as a perennial powerhouse. Based on interviews with Wilkinson, former OU president George L. Cross, and numerous former players, author John Scott gives us the behind-the-scenes story of Wilkinson’s years at the University of Oklahoma. Scott takes us through the teams Wilkinson directed from 1947 to 1963, revealing the philosophies and tactics Wilkinson used to turn OU into one of college football’s elite programs. A close-up view of games—from strategy to execution—brings OU football and its cast of colorful characters to life. Scott details the Sooners’ 47-game winning streak as well as thrilling games against Notre Dame, Army, USC, and others. He also provides details of Wilkinson’s breaking of the color line in OU athletics and the infamous food-poisoning incident in Chicago in 1959. Before his death in 1994, Wilkinson reviewed the first draft of the book and wrote in a letter to the author, “The explanations of football strategies are concise and clear. They rank among the best I have ever read.” Including vignettes of Wilkinson’s closest coaching friends (Royal, Bryant, Leahy, Sanders, Blaik, Tatum), Bud Wilkinson and the Rise of Oklahoma Football captures all the drama of Oklahoma’s ascendance and serves as an authoritative and entertaining history of the sport that will appeal to all college football fans.
Author : Carole Marsh
Publisher : Carole Marsh Books
Page : 63 pages
File Size : 50,85 MB
Release : 1994
Category :
ISBN : 1556095775
Author : Carole Marsh
Publisher : Carole Marsh Books
Page : 60 pages
File Size : 12,31 MB
Release : 1994
Category :
ISBN : 079335983X
Author : Michael P. Malone
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 20,4 MB
Release : 2013-06-14
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0806174269
In this volume, Michael P. Malone provides a succinct interpretive biography of James J. Hill, the "Empire Builder"-so called for his work in developing the region of the United States between the Great Lakes and the Pacific Northwest. Malone explores Hill’s complex life and personality, his activities and interests, and recreates both the story of the railroad race to the Pacific and the complex interactions involved in the development of the region. "Michael Malone has written a model. . . .interpretative biography of James J. Hill. He has drawn on the research of others, published and unpublished, as he says, but also on his own knowledge of American economic development in Hill’s time as a leading historian of mining and of a state in whose development Hill’s railroads were major factors." -Earl Pomeroy, Professor of History, Retired, University of Oregon and University of California, San Diego
Author : Richard W. Etulain
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 486 pages
File Size : 22,87 MB
Release : 2020-07-09
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0806168048
Even before he was shot and killed in 1881, Billy the Kid’s charisma and murderous career were generating stories that belied his brief life—and that only multiplied, growing to legendary proportions after his death at age twenty-one. In Thunder in the West, Richard W. Etulain takes the true measure of Billy, the man and the legend, and presents the clearest picture yet of his life and his ever-shifting place and presence in the cultural landscape of the Old West. Billy the Kid—born Henry McCarty in 1859, and also known as William H. Bonney—emerges from these pages in all his complexity, at once a gentleman and gregarious companion, and a thief and violent murderer. Tapping new depths of research, Etulain traces Billy’s short life from his mysterious origins in the East through his wanderings in New Mexico, Arizona, and Texas. As we move from his peripatetic early years through the wild West to his fatal involvement in the Lincoln County Wars, we see the impressionable boy give way to the conflicted young man and, finally, to the opportunistic and often amoral outlaw who was out for himself, for revenge, and for whatever he could steal along the way. Against this deftly drawn portrait, Etulain considers the stories and myths spawned by Billy’s life and death. Beginning with the dime novels featuring Billy the Kid, even during his lifetime, and ranging across the myriad newspaper accounts, novels, and movies that alternately celebrated his outlaw life and condemned his exploits, Etulain offers a uniquely informed view of the changing interpretations that have shaped and reshaped the reputation of this enduring icon of the Old West. In his portrayal, Billy the Kid lives on, not as a cut-throat desperado or a young charmer but as both—hero and villain, myth and man, fully realized in this twenty-first-century interpretation.
Author : Rose Arny
Publisher :
Page : 1084 pages
File Size : 16,13 MB
Release : 1990
Category : American literature
ISBN :