Begun in 1927 by University of Oklahoma history professor Edward Everett Dale, the Western History Collections gathers and preserves rare research materials for scholars in anthropology, Native American studies, Oklahoma history, and the history of the American West. This guide has been compiled to make the photographs in the collections more accessible. The second edition adds descriptions of 165 new collections comprising 159,000 photographs.
The 826 photograph collections that this guide thus details encompass Native American culture; frontier and pioneer life in Oklahoma and...
Begun in 1927 by University of Oklahoma history professor Edward Everett Dale, the Western History Collections gathers and preserves rare research mat...
Kristina L. Southwell Jacquelyn Reese Paul N. Beck
In summer 1862, Minnesotans found themselves fighting interconnected wars the first against the rebellious Southern states, and the second an internal war against the Sioux. While the Civil War was more important to the future of the United States, the Dakota War of 1862 proved far more destructive to the people of Minnesota both whites and American Indians. It led to U.S. military action against the Sioux, divided the Dakotas over whether to fight or not, and left hundreds of white settlers dead. In "Columns of Vengeance," historian Paul N. Beck offers a reappraisal of the Punitive...
In summer 1862, Minnesotans found themselves fighting interconnected wars the first against the rebellious Southern states, and the second an inter...
