Society and Culture

Ghosts of Crook County named a Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2024 and Achieves #1 Amazon Best Seller Status

5 November 2024

Ghosts of Crook County: An Oil Fortune, A Phantom Child, and the Fight for Indigenous Land by Russell Cobb, professor in the Department of Modern Languages and Cultural Studies, has been named one of Publishers Weekly Best Books of 2024. It is also now a #1 Amazon Best Seller in two categories: Southwestern U.S. History and Oil and Energy History, and was an Editor's Pick in the category of History from Amazon in October.