Bison Books
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Epic Wanderer: David Thompson and the Mapping of the Canadian West
$19.95 Add to cartWell illustrated and served well by a thorough bibliography, this imaginative reconstruction will whet readers’ appetites to seek out the copious literature on Thompson, the ‘epic wanderer.’ —Choice
- Author: Jenish, D’Arcy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: June 01 2009
- ISBN10: 0803224524
- Language: English
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Wooden Leg: A Warrior Who Fought Custer (Second Edition)
$21.95 Add to cartTold with vigor and insight, this is the memorable story of Wooden Leg (1858-1940), one of sixteen hundred warriors of the Northern Cheyennes who fought with the Lakotas against Custer at the Battle o… [more below]
- Author: Marquis, Thomas B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 389
- Publish Date: October 01 2003
- ISBN10: 0803282885
- Language: English
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The Sun Came Down: The History of the World as My Blackfeet Elders Told It
$32.95 Add to cartAt the age of sixty-seven, Percy Bullchild (1915-1986), a Blackfeet Indian from Browning, Montana, with little formal education in English, set out to put the oral traditions and history of his people… [more below]
- Author: Bullchild, Percy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 392
- Publish Date: October 01 2005
- ISBN10: 0803262507
- Language: English
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Or Perish in the Attempt: The Hardship and Medicine of the Lewis and Clark Expedition
$23.95 Add to cartDavid J. Peck’s Or Perish in the Attempt ingeniously combines the remarkable adventures of Lewis and Clark with an examination of the health problems their expedition faced. Formidable problems indeed… [more below]
- Author: Peck, David J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 360
- Publish Date: June 01 2011
- ISBN10: 0803235119
- Language: English
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Old Jules (Third Edition)
$19.95 Add to cartFirst published in 1935, Old Jules is unquestionably Mari Sandoz’s masterpiece. This portrait of her pioneer father grew out of “the silent hours of listening behind the stove or the wood box, when it… [more below]
- Author: Sandoz, Mari
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 425
- Publish Date: April 01 2005
- ISBN10: 0803293240
- Language: English
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The Oglala People, 1841-1879: A Political History
$19.95 Add to cartIn the late nineteenth century the U.S. government attempted to reshape Lakota (Sioux) society to accord with American ideals. Catherine Price charts the political strategies employed by Oglala counci… [more below]
- Author: Price, Catherine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 242
- Publish Date: August 01 1998
- ISBN10: 0803287585
- Language: English
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The Power of Scenery: Frederick Law Olmsted and the Origin of National Parks
$29.95 Add to cartFeatured in Wall Street Journal‘s 2021 Holiday Gift Books Guide
Wallace Stegner called national parks “the best idea we ever had.” As Americans celebrate the 150th anniv
2021 Marfield Prize Finalist- Author: Drabelle, Dennis
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: November 01 2021
- ISBN10: 1496220773
- Language: English
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Great Plains Geology
$17.95 Add to cartGreat Plains Geology concisely guides readers through the geological development of the Great Plains region. It describes the distinct features of fifty-seven geologic sites, including fascinating pla… [more below]
- Series: Discover the Great Plains
- Author: Diffendal, R. F.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: April 01 2017
- ISBN10: 0803249519
- Language: English
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Birthing the West: Mothers and Midwives in the Rockies and Plains
$24.95 Add to cartReading the West Longlist for Nonfiction
Childbirth defines families, communities, and nations. In Birthing the West, Jennifer J. Hill fills the silences around historical reproduction with copious- Author: Hill, Jennifer J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 290
- Publish Date: March 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1496226852
- Language: English
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Atlas of Nebraska
$34.95 Add to cart2018 Nebraska Book Award
The state of Nebraska has a rich and varied culture, from the eastern metropolitan cities of Omaha and Lincoln to the ranches of the western Sand Hills. The first atlas of Ne- Author: Archer, J. Clark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: March 01 2021
- ISBN10: 1496227832
- Language: English
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Cherokee Women: Gender and Culture Change, 1700-1835
$17.95 Add to cart“An interesting and effective overview. . . . It is to the author’s considerable credit that she is able to re-create the values and behavior of Cherokee women through court records, myths, and observ
- Series: Indians of the Southeast
- Author: Perdue, Theda
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 254
- Publish Date: August 01 1999
- ISBN10: 0803287607
- Language: English
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The Lewis and Clark Journals: An American Epic of Discovery
$24.95 Add to cartFollowing orders from President Thomas Jefferson, Captains Meriwether Lewis and William Clark set out from their wintering camp in Illinois in 1804 to search for a river passage to the Pacific Ocean. … [more below]
- Author: Lewis, Meriwether
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 497
- Publish Date: November 01 2004
- ISBN10: 0803280394
- Language: English
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Skywalks: Robert Gordon’s Untold Story of Hallmark’s Kansas City Disaster
$34.95 Add to cartIn 1981 the suspended walkways–or “skywalks”–in Kansas City’s Hyatt Regency hotel fell and killed 114 people. It was the deadliest building collapse in the United States until the fall of New York’s… [more below]
- Author: Paul, R. Eli
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 376
- Publish Date: March 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1496233131
- Language: English
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Sitting Bull and the Paradox of Lakota Nationhood
$19.95 Add to cartIn this newly revised biography, Sitting Bull and the Paradox of Lakota Nationhood, Gary C. Anderson offers a new interpretation of Sitting Bull’s conflict with General George Custer at Little Big Hor… [more below]
- Author: Anderson, Gary C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 228
- Publish Date: March 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1496232674
- Language: English
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Seasons in Hell: With Billy Martin, Whitey Herzog and the Worst Baseball Team in History–The 1973-1975 Texas Rangers
$19.95 Add to cart“Disastrously hilarious.”—USA Today
“Even before the start of spring training, Herzog had said, ‘If Rich Billings is the starting catcher again, we’re in deep trouble.’ When that evaluation was passed
- Author: Shropshire, Mike
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 245
- Publish Date: December 15 2010
- ISBN10: 0803292775
- Language: English
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Jim Bridger, Mountain Man: A Biography
$21.95 Add to cartEven among the mighty mountain men, Jim Bridger was a towering figure. He was one of the greatest explorers and pathfinders in American history. He couldn’t write his name, but at eighteen he had brav
- Author: Vestal, Stanley
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 333
- Publish Date: March 01, 1970
- ISBN10: 0803257201
- Language: English
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Vanished Arizona: Recollections of the Army Life of a New England Woman
$19.95 Add to cartWhen Martha Summerhayes (1844-1926) came as a bride to Fort Russell in Wyoming Territory in 1874, she “saw not much in those first few days besides bright buttons, blue uniforms, and shining swords,” … [more below]
- Series: Bison Classic Editions
- Author: Summerhayes, Martha
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 382
- Publish Date: March 01 2014
- ISBN10: 0803248687
- Language: English
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Under Prairie Skies: The Plants and Native Peoples of the Northern Plains
$29.95 Add to cartIn Under Prairie Skies, C. Thomas Shay asks and answers the question, What role did plants play in the lives of early inhabitants of the northern Great Plains? Since humans arrived at the end of the I… [more below]
- Author: Shay, C. Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: July 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1496223381
- Language: English
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Northern Paiutes of the Malheur: High Desert Reckoning in Oregon Country
$34.95 Add to cart2023 Oregon Book Award Finalist
In 1870 a twenty-six-year-old Paiute, Sarah Winnemucca, wrote to an army officer requesting that Paiutes be given a chance to settle and farm their ancestral land in O- Author: Wilson, David H.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: May 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1496230450
- Language: English
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The Magnificent Mountain Women: Adventures in the Colorado Rockies
$16.95 Add to cartSince the Pikes Peak gold rush in the mid-nineteenth century, women have gone into the mountains of Colorado to hike, climb, ski, homestead, botanize, act as guides, practice medicine, and meet a vari… [more below]
- Author: Robertson, Janet
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 276
- Publish Date: October 01 2003
- ISBN10: 0803289952
- Language: English
