Bison Books
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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
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Street Shadows: A Memoir of Race, Rebellion, and Redemption
$18.95 Add to cartStreet Shadows recounts Jerald Walker’s renunciation of the “thug life” he had embraced as a teenager on the South Side of Chicago in favor of the education and middle-class life his parents had alway
- Author: Walker, Jerald
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: March 01, 2012
- ISBN10: 0803240953
- Language: English
