Bison Books
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A Journey Through Texas: Or a Saddle-Trip on the Southwestern Frontier
$31.95 Add to cartBefore he became America’s foremost landscape architect, Frederick Law Olmsted (1822-1903) was by turns a surveyor, merchant seaman, farmer, magazine publisher, and traveling newspaper correspondent. … [more below]
- Author: Olmsted, Frederick Law
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 539
- Publish Date: December 01 2004
- ISBN10: 0803286201
- Language: English
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Old Indian Legends
$19.95 Add to cartEarly in the twentieth century, a Sioux woman named Zitkala-Sa published these fourteen Native legends that she had learned during her own childhood on the Yankton Reservation. Her writing talent, dev
- Series: Bison Classic Editions
- Author: Zitkala-Sa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: July 01 2013
- ISBN10: 0803299036
- Language: English
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Stories of the Sioux
$9.95 Add to cartLuther Standing Bear, a Lakota Sioux born in the 1860s, heard these legends in his youth, when his people were being moved to reservations. In haunting mood and imagery, they celebrate the old nomadic… [more below]
- Author: Standing Bear, Luther
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 82
- Publish Date: November 01 2006
- ISBN10: 0803293356
- Language: English
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Watch the Bear: A Half Century with the Brown Bears of Alaska
$21.95 Add to cartDerek Stonorov has spent the better part of fifty years watching brown bears as a research scientist and guide in some of Alaska’s most beautiful wild places. As a dyslexic kid who was more interested… [more below]
- Author: Stonorov, Derek
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: March 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1496233433
- Language: English
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The City Game: Basketball from the Garden to the Playgrounds
$21.95 Add to cartPete Axthelm follows the 1969-70 season of the New York Knicks and provides a parallel focus on basketball as it was then played in the black neighborhoods of New York City. Throughout, he writes clea
- Author: Axthelm, Pete
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 218
- Publish Date: February 01 1999
- ISBN10: 0803259344
- Language: English
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Ojibway Heritage
$19.95 Add to cart“A colorful, beautiful book which teaches us about ourselves as much as about one of North America’s native peoples.”—Vancouver Sun
Rarely accessible to the general public, Ojibway mythology is as ric
- Series: Basil Johnson Titles
- Author: Johnston, Basil
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 171
- Publish Date: March 01 1990
- ISBN10: 0803275722
- Language: English
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Coyote Stories
$19.95 Add to cartA powerful force and yet the butt of humor, the coyote figure runs through the folklore of many American Indian tribes. He can be held up as a “terrible example” of conduct, a model of what not to do,… [more below]
- Author: Mourning Dove
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 246
- Publish Date: April 01 1990
- ISBN10: 0803281692
- Language: English
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Women of the Dawn
$17.95 Add to cartWomen of the Dawn tells the stories of four remarkable Wabanaki Indian women who lived in northeast America during the four centuries that devastated their traditional world. Their courageous response… [more below]
- Author: McBride, Bunny
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: September 01 2001
- ISBN10: 080328277X
- Language: English
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A Bride Goes West
$21.95 Add to cartBlizzards, droughts, predators, unpredictable markets, and a host of other calamities tell the history of the daily struggles of Western ranching, and perhaps no one has told the story better than Nan… [more below]
- Series: Bison Classic Editions
- Author: Alderson, Nannie T.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 290
- Publish Date: June 01 2023
- ISBN10: 149623507X
- Language: English
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Billy the Kid-Pa
$19.95 Add to cart“It’s certain to remain the authoritative biography that at last makes the Kid’s life whole and understandable.”—San Francisco Chronicle
Robert M. Utley does what countless books, movies, television s
- Author: Utley, Robert M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 342
- Publish Date: August 01 1991
- ISBN10: 0803295588
- Language: English
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Wild Cow Tales
$21.95 Add to cartIn thirteen stories full of rope burns and brush scratches, the author of the classic Horse Tradin’ tells of the days when he made a specialty of catching wild cows. Ben K. Green calls himself a “stov… [more below]
- Author: Green, Ben K.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 306
- Publish Date: August 01 1999
- ISBN10: 0803270887
- Language: English
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Dakota Texts
$24.95 Add to cartElla Deloria (1889-1971), one of the first Native students of linguistics and ethnography in the United States, grew up on the Standing Rock Reservation on the northern Great Plains and was trained by… [more below]
- Author: Demallie, Raymond J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: June 01 2006
- ISBN10: 080326660X
- Language: English
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Winter Wheat
$21.95 Add to cartFor this Bison Books edition, James Welch, the acclaimed author of Winter in the Blood (1986) and other novels, introduces Mildred Walker’s vivid heroine, Ellen Webb, who lives in the dryland wheat co
- Author: Walker, Mildred
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 306
- Publish Date: December 01 1992
- ISBN10: 0803297416
- Language: English
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Wallace Stegner’s Unsettled Country: Ruin, Realism, and Possibility in the American West
$29.95 Add to cartWallace Stegner is an iconic western writer. His works of fiction, including the Pulitzer Prize-winning Angle of Repose and Big Rock Candy Mountain, as well as his nonfiction books and essays introduc… [more below]
- Author: Fiege, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: February 01 2024
- ISBN10: 1496236173
- Language: English
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Myths and Legends of the Pacific Northwest, Especially of Washington and Oregon
$18.95 Add to cartThese collected myths and tales of the Indians of the Pacific Northwest–the Klamath, Nez Perce, Tillamook, Modoc, Shastan, Chinook, Flathead, Clatsop, and other tribes–were first published in 1910. … [more below]
- Author: Judson, Katharine Berry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 193
- Publish Date: May 01 1997
- ISBN10: 0803275951
- Language: English
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Black Officer in a Buffalo Soldier Regiment: The Military Career of Charles Young
$21.95 Add to cart“A valuable read for anyone with an interest in the final years of the frontier Army, American imperialism, African-Americans in military service, and American military history in general.”–A.A. Nofi
- Author: Shellum, Brian G.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 412
- Publish Date: February 01 2010
- ISBN10: 0803213859
- Language: English
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The Lewis and Clark Expedition Day by Day
$29.95 Add to cart“The Lewis and Clark Expedition Day by Day has several key strengths making it an admirable contribution to both historical geography and Lewis and Clark scholarship.”–Robert M. Briwa, Historical Geo
- Author: Moulton, Gary E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 774
- Publish Date: April 01 2018
- ISBN10: 1496203836
- Language: English
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One Man’s West
$24.95 Add to cartThe American West of the 1930s and 1940s was still a place of prospectors, cowboys, ranchers, and mountaineers, one that demanded backbreaking, lonely, and dangerous work. Still, midcentury pioneers s… [more below]
- Author: Lavender, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 01 2007
- ISBN10: 080326030X
- Language: English
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Goodbye Wifes and Daughters
$19.95 Add to cartOne morning in 1943, close to eighty men descended into the Smith coal mine in Bearcreek, Montana. Only three came out alive. “Goodbye wifes and daughters,” wrote two of the miners as they died. The s… [more below]
- Author: Resnick, Susan Kushner
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: March 01 2011
- ISBN10: 0803236107
- Language: English
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Back from the Collapse: American Prairie and the Restoration of Great Plains Wildlife
$26.95 Add to cartBack from the Collapse is a clarion call for restoring one of North America’s most underappreciated and overlooked ecosystems: the grasslands of the Great Plains. This region has been called America’s… [more below]
- Author: Freese, Curtis H.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 376
- Publish Date: July 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1496231325
- Language: English
