Bison Books
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The Poetry Home Repair Manual: Practical Advice for Beginning Poets
$17.95 Add to cart“No other poet seems better suited to represent the United States as its Laureate in this era than Ted Kooser, and The Poetry Home Repair Manual should enhance his grip on our slumbering Republic.”–L
- Author: Kooser, Ted
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 170
- Publish Date: March 01 2007
- ISBN10: 0803259786
- Language: English
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Oracle of Lost Causes: John Newman Edwards and His Never-Ending Civil War
$34.95 Add to cart2024 Spur Award Finalist
John Newman Edwards was a soldier, a father, a husband, and a noted author. He was also a virulent alcoholic, a duelist, a culture warrior, and a man perpetually at war with- Author: Hulbert, Matthew Christopher
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 360
- Publish Date: September 1, 2023
- ISBN10: 1496211871
- Language: English
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Without Warning: The Tornado of Udall, Kansas
$24.95 Add to cart2023 Martin Kansas History Book Award
In 1955 the small town of Udall, Kansas, was home to oil field workers, homemakers, and teenagers looking ahead to their futures. But on the night of May 25, an- Author: Minick, Jim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 250
- Publish Date: May 01, 2023
- ISBN10: 1496231457
- Language: English
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The Warriors: Reflections on Men in Battle (Revised)
$21.95 Add to cart“A superb study of modern combat man, and his relationship to death, and his thoughts about it.” —Chicago Sunday Tribune
Selected for the 2019 Commandant’s Professional Reading List
J. Glenn Gray ente- Author: Gray, J. Glenn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 242
- Publish Date: October 01 1998
- ISBN10: 0803270763
- Language: English
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Bury My Heart at Chuck E. Cheese’s
$19.95 Add to cartThis collection of opinion editorials and recent essays solidifies Midge’s standing as one of the most versatile talents in Native and American writing today.–Samantha Majhor, American Indian Culture
- Author: Midge, Tiffany
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 222
- Publish Date: May 1, 2021
- ISBN10: 1496224930
- Language: English
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Rise Up!: Indigenous Music in North America
$29.95 Add to cartMusic historian Craig Harris explores more than five hundred years of Indigenous history, religion, and cultural evolution in Rise Up! Indigenous Music in North America. More than powwow drums and woo… [more below]
- Author: Harris, Craig
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: November 1, 2023
- ISBN10: 1496236157
- Language: English
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The Home Ranch
$16.95 Add to cartLittle Britches becomes the “man” in his family after his father’s early death, taking on the concomitant responsibilities as well as opportunities. During the summer of his twelfth year he works on a
- Author: Moody, Ralph
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 279
- Publish Date: February 01, 1994
- ISBN10: 0803282109
- Language: English
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The Blue Tattoo: The Life of Olive Oatman
$21.95 Add to cart2019 Tucson Weekly “40 Essential Arizona Books” pick
2014 One Book Yuma selection
2010 Best of the Best from the University Presses (ALA) selection
2010 Caroline Bancroft History Prize Finalist
2009 Sout- Series: Women in the West
- Author: Mifflin, Margot
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: April 01 2011
- ISBN10: 0803235178
- Language: English
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Hell on the Border: The Bass Reeves Trilogy, Book Two
$19.95 Add to cartAdapted for the Paramount+ miniseries Lawmen: Bass Reeves, directed by Taylor Sheridan and starring David Oyelowo
2022 Oklahoma Book Award Finalist for Fiction
2021 National Indie Excellence Award F- Series: The Bass Reeves Trilogy
- Author: Thompson, Sidney
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: April 01, 2021
- ISBN10: 1496220315
- Language: English
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The Forsaken and the Dead: The Bass Reeves Trilogy, Book Three
$19.95 Add to cartBooks 1 & 2 of the Bass Reeves Trilogy adapted for the Paramount+ miniseries Lawmen: Bass Reeves
All heroes have fatal flaws and a moment of defin
2023 Foreword INDIES Finalist in Historical Fiction- Series: The Bass Reeves Trilogy
- Author: Thompson, Sidney
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 236
- Publish Date: October 01, 2023
- ISBN10: 1496220323
- Language: English
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Follow the Angels, Follow the Doves: The Bass Reeves Trilogy, Book One
$19.95 Add to cartAdapted for the Paramount+ miniseries Lawmen: Bass Reeves, directed by Taylor Sheridan and starring David Oyelowo
2022 National Indie Excellence Awards Finalist for Western Fiction
2021 Phillip H. McMat- Series: The Bass Reeves Trilogy
- Author: Thompson, Sidney
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: March 01, 2020
- ISBN10: 1496218752
- Language: English
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Black Gun, Silver Star: The Life and Legend of Frontier Marshal Bass Reeves
$24.95 Add to cartIn The Story of Oklahoma, Deputy U.S. Marshal Bass Reeves appears as the “most feared U.S. marshal in the Indian country.” That Reeves was also an African American who had spent his early life enslave… [more below]
- Series: Race and Ethnicity in the American West
- Author: Burton, Arthur T.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: September 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1496233425
- Language: English
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Mary Emma & Company
$16.95 Add to cartThe protagonist, Mary Emma Moody, widowed mother of six, has taken her family east in 1912 to begin a new life. Her son, Ralph, then thirteen, recalls how the Moodys survive that first bleak winter in… [more below]
- Author: Moody, Ralph
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 235
- Publish Date: February 01 1994
- ISBN10: 0803282117
- Language: English
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The Dry Divide
$16.95 Add to cartRalph Moody, just turned twenty, had only a dime in his pocket when he was put off a freight in western Nebraska. It was the Fourth of July in 1919. Three months later he owned eight teams of horses a
- Author: Moody, Ralph
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 230
- Publish Date: August 01, 1994
- ISBN10: 0803282168
- Language: English
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Horse of a Different Color: Reminiscences of a Kansas Drover
$16.95 Add to cart“Ralph Moody’s story is a perfect example of rural American enterprise in the early 1920s…this book is a glorious recollection of Pre-Dust Bowl, pre-Depression days and is highly recommended.”―
- Author: Moody, Ralph
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: August 01, 1994
- ISBN10: 0803282176
- Language: English
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Shaking the Nickel Bush
$16.95 Add to cartSkinny and suffering from diabetes, Ralph Moody is ordered by a Boston doctor to seek a more healthful climate. Going west again is a delightful prospect. His childhood adventures on a Colorado ranch
- Author: Moody, Ralph
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 236
- Publish Date: August 01, 1994
- ISBN10: 0803282184
- Language: English
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The First Migrants: How Black Homesteaders’ Quest for Land and Freedom Heralded America’s Great Migration
$36.95 Add to cart2024 Spur Award Finalist
The First Migrants recounts the largely unknown story of Black people who migrated from the South to the Great Plains between 1877 and 1920 in search of land and freedom. They- Author: Edwards, Richard
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 508
- Publish Date: August 01, 2023
- ISBN10: 1496230841
- Language: English
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Man of the Family
$16.95 Add to cartFortified with Yankee ingenuity and western can-do energy, the Moody family, transplanted from New England, builds a new life on a Colorado ranch early in the twentieth century. Father has died and Li
- Author: Moody, Ralph
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: January 01, 1993
- ISBN10: 0803281951
- Language: English
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Recovering Our Ancestors’ Gardens: Indigenous Recipes and Guide to Diet and Fitness
$32.95 Add to cartEducators, librarians, food sovereignty activists, culinary arts students, and those interested in Native American food history and sovereignty will find that this book is an excellent resource.–Elis
- Series: At Table
- Author: Mihesuah, Devon A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: November 01 2020
- ISBN10: 0803245254
- Language: English
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Black Elk Speaks
$24.95 Add to cartMore than one million copies sold
2017 One Book One Nebraska selection“An American classic.”–Western Historical Quarterly
Black Elk Speaks, the story of the Oglala Lakota visionary and healer Nicholas
- Author: Neihardt, John G.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 424
- Publish Date: March 01 2014
- ISBN10: 0803283911
- Language: English
