Professor Emeritus

Joseph A. Stout, Jr.

Vita

• Education

  • B.A., Angelo State College, 1967 (Spanish: History)

  • M.A., Texas A&M University, 1968, (History) MDEA Fellow, 1967-68.

  • Thesis: “The Influence of Public Opinion on the Drafting of the Taylor Grazing Act of 1934”

  • Ph.D., Oklahoma State University, 1971, (History)

  • Dissertation:  “The Last Years of Manifest Destiny:  Filibustering in Northwestern Mexico, 1848-1862”

• Teaching and Work Experience

  • 2002 Norris Professor of Humanities, Oklahoma State University

  • 2001  Regents Professor of History, Oklahoma State University

  • 1988-2001 Professor of History, Oklahoma State University

  • 1984-1988 Professor and Head, Department of History, Oklahoma State University

• Research Interest

  • Mexican frontier history; Mexican Revolution; Mexico 1920-1945

  • United States Southwestern Borderlands

  • United States Military History

• Publications

  • Dreamers and Schemers: Filibustering in Mexico, 1848-1920. Fort Worth: Texas Christian University Press, 2002.

  • Border Conflict: Villistas, Carrancistas, and the Punitive Expedition, 1915-1920.  Fort Worth: Texas Christian University Press, 1999.

  • Apache Lightning: The Last Great Battles of the Ojo Calientes. New York:  Oxford University Press, 1974.

  • A Short History of the American West. (co-author) New York: Harper and Row, 1974.

  • The Liberators: The Filibustering Expeditions into Mexico, 1848, and the Last Thrust of Manifest Destiny. Los Angeles: Westernlore Press, 1973.

  • The Mexican War: Changing Interpretations.  (co-editor) Chicago: Shallow Press, 1973.

  • Frontier Adventurers: American Exploration in Oklahoma. (ed.) Oklahoma Historical Society, 1976.

  • Ether and Me or Just Relax by Will Rogers. (ed.) Stillwater: Oklahoma State University Press, 1974.

  • There’s not a Bathing Suit in Russia and Other Bare Facts by Will Rogers, (ed.)  Stillwater: Oklahoma State University Press, 1974.

  • The Illiterate Digest by Will Rogers.  (ed.)  Stillwater:  Oklahoma State University Press, 1974.

  • The Cowboy Philosopher on the Peace Conference by Will Rogers. (co-editor) Stillwater:  Oklahoma State University Press, 1975.

  • The Political Convention Articles by Will Rogers.  (Co-editor)  Stillwater:  Oklahoma State University Press, 1975.

  • The Cowboy Philosopher on Prohibition by Will Rogers.  (co-editor)  Stillwater:  Oklahoma State University Press, 1975.

  • Letters of a Self-Made Diplomat to His President by Will Rogers.  (ed.)  Stillwater:  Oklahoma State University Press, 1977.

  • Five Frontiers in Oklahoma History.  (co-author) Tulsa:  Frontier Printers, Inc., 1978.

  • Cattle Country:  A History of the Oklahoma Cattlemen’s Association.  Stillwater:  Oklahoma State University Press, 1981.

  • A History of the Oklahoma State University College of Arts and Sciences (co-author) Stillwater:  Oklahoma State University Press, 1993.

  Chapters in Books

  • “Soldiering and Suffering in the Geronimo Campaign: Reminiscences of Lawrence R. Jerome” in Lonnie J. White (ed.), Hostiles and Horse Soldiers: Indian Battles and Campaigns in the West.  Boulder: Pruett Publishing Company, 1972.

  • “Will Rogers as Social Critic,” in A.M. Gibson (ed.) Will Rogers: A Centennial Tribute, Oklahoma City: Oklahoma Historical Society, 1980, 37-47.

  • Stout, Joseph A., Jr., “Veterinary Medicine in the United States Army: An Oklahoma Perspective,” in James O. Breeden (ed.), Medicine in the West (Manhattan, KS: Sunflower University Press, 1982), pp. 75-84.

  • Stout, Joseph A., Jr., “Professionalization of Veterinary Medicine: The Oklahoma Experience,” in Ole H.V. Stalheim, Veterinary Medicine in the West, Sunflower University Press, 1988, p. 47-51.

  • “The United States Army and the Native American” in John M. Carroll and Colin F. Baxter (eds.) The American Military Tradition from Colonial Times to the Present, Wilmington, DE: Scholarly Resources, Inc., 1993, pp. 95-115.

  Articles

  • Cattlemen, Conservationists and the Taylor Grazing Act of 1934,” New Mexico Historical Review, SLV (October, 1970), 311-322.

  • “Henry A. Crabb:  Filibuster or Colonizer?”  The American West.  VIII (May, 1971), 4-9.

  • “Joseph C. Morehead and Manifest Destiny:  A Filibuster in Sonora, 1851,” Pacific Historian, XV (Spring, 1971), 62-71.

  • “Soldiering and Suffering in the Geronimo Campaign:  The Reminiscences of Lawrence R. Jerome,” Journal of the West, XI (January, 1972), 154-169.

  • “Idealism or Manifest Destiny?  Filibustering in Northwestern Mexico, 1850-1863,” Journal of the West. XI (April, 1972), 348-360.

  • “Nicholas P. Trist: Scoundrel or Patriot,” Military History of Texas and the Southwest, VIII (Fall, 1970), 145-159.

  • “William P. Gwin: The Erstwhile Duke of Sonora,” Military History of Texas and the Southwest, X (Fall, 1972), 197-208.

  • “The Will Rogers Project,” The Chronicles of Oklahoma, LI (Fall, 1973), 356-358.

  • “U.S.S. Oklahoma: Minister of Peace,” The Chronicles of Oklahoma, LII (Fall, 1974), 283-289.

  • “Davidson’s Campaign in the Red River Wars,” The Red River Valley Historical Review, III (Spring, 1978), 194-201.

  • “The Santa Fe Trai,l“  The Red River Valley Historical Review, VI (Summer, 1981), 48-56.

  • “United States Army Remount Depots: The Oklahoma Experience, 1908-1947,” Military Affairs, 50 (July, 1986), 121-126.

  • “Professionalization of Veterinary Medicine: the Oklahoma Experience,” The Journal of the West, XXVII (January, 1988), pp. 47-51.

  • “A History of Veterinary Medicine in Oklahoma,“  The Oklahoma Veterinarian, vol. XLIII (December, 1990) pp. 61-67.

  • “A Critical Review of the History of the Professionalization of Veterinary Medicine in Oklahoma,” The Journal of the Oklahoma Veterinary Medical Association, XLIV (October, 1991), pp. 16-18.

  • “Historiography and Sources in Mexico for Mexican Frontier History,” in Five Centuries of Mexican History/Cinco Siglos en la historia de Mexico, 2 vols., (Jaime E Rodriquez O. and Virginia Guedea (eds.) (Mexico and Irvine, CA.: Instituto Mora and the University of California, 1992, pp. 426-433.

  • “Apache Menace on the Frontier, 1876-1886: A View from Chihuahua,” in La Ciudad y el campo en La Historia de Mexico, Eric Van Young, Ricardo Sanchez, and Gisela Von Wobeser (eds.) Universidad Autonoma de Mexico and the University of California San Diego, 1992, pp. 735-743.

  • “Military Veterinary History: A Bibliographical Essay,” Robin Higham and Donald JK. Mrozek, eds., A Guide to the Sources, North Haven, Conn., 1998, pp. 44-451.
    “Los Estados Unidos y Mexico Durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial: El Trato a Los Japoneses, Alemanes, y Italianos,” Istor: Revista de Historia Internacional, IV, Num. 13 (Verano, 2003), 61-72.

  • “La Expedicion Punitiva: Los Estados Unidos y Mexico, 1916, “ Provincias Internas, II, Num. 7/8 (otono/invierno, 2003), 93-107.