Bison Books
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Lincoln’s Generals
$17.95 Add to cartIn Lincoln’s Generals, Gabor S. Boritt and a team of distinguished historians examine the interaction between Abraham Lincoln and his five key Civil War generals: McClellan, Hooker, Meade, Sherman, an… [more below]
- Author: Boritt, Gabor S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: August 01 2010
- ISBN10: 0803234546
- Language: English
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The General and the Jaguar: Pershing’s Hunt for Pancho Villa: A True Story of Revolution and Revenge
$26.95 Add to cartOn the cold, dark night of March 9, 1916, Mexican revolutionary Pancho Villa–el jaguar–and his band of marauders crossed the border and raided the tiny town of Columbus, New Mexico. It was a vicious… [more below]
- Author: Welsome, Eileen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: November 01 2007
- ISBN10: 0803222246
- Language: English
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My Indian Boyhood
$16.95 Add to cartAlthough the traditional Sioux nation was in its last days when Luther Standing Bear was born in the 1860s, he was raised in the ancestral manner to be a successful hunter and warrior and a respectful
- Author: Standing Bear, Luther
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 198
- Publish Date: November 01 2006
- ISBN10: 0803293348
- Language: English
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George Drouillard: Hunter and Interpreter for Lewis and Clark and Fur Trader, 1807-1810
$19.95 Add to cartGeorge Drouillard’s service to the Lewis and Clark Expedition was long obscured by the stronger light cast on the leaders and Sacagawea. Drawing from the various journals of the expedition and from ma… [more below]
- Author: Skarsten, M. O.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: March 01 2005
- ISBN10: 0803293097
- Language: English
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Lewis and Clark among the Indians (Bicentennial Edition)
$21.95 Add to cart“Particularly valuable for Ronda’s inclusion of pertinent background information about the various tribes and for his ethnological analysis. An appendix also places the Sacagawea myth in its proper pe
- Series: Lewis & Clark Expedition
- Author: Ronda, James P.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 310
- Publish Date: June 01 2002
- ISBN10: 0803289901
- Language: English
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The Apache Diaries: A Father-Son Journey
$19.95 Add to cartIn 1930, four decades after the surrender of Geronimo, anthropologist Grenville Goodwin headed south in search of a rumored band of “wild” Apaches in the Sierra Madre. Goodwin’s journals chronicling h… [more below]
- Author: Goodwin, Grenville
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: March 01 2002
- ISBN10: 0803271026
- Language: English
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Cherokee Americans: The Eastern Band of Cherokees in the Twentieth Century
$19.95 Add to cartCherokee Americans combines . . . high-quality scholarship and eminent readability.―Choice
Much has been written about the forced removal of thousands of Cherokee Indians to present-day Oklahoma
- Series: Indians of the Southeast (Paperback)
- Author: Finger, John R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: February 01 1993
- ISBN10: 0803268793
- Language: English
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Dakota Cowboy: My Life in the Old Days
$21.95 Add to cartWhen the most romantic of cow outfits, the British-owned Matador, shipped out from Texas with 3,000 head of cattle bound for Dakota and the Cheyenne Indian Reservation, an observant young bronc twiste… [more below]
- Series: Bison Book S
- Author: Blasingame, Ike
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 322
- Publish Date: January 01 1964
- ISBN10: 0803250150
- Language: English
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Wildflowers of the Western Plains: A Field Guide
$29.95 Add to cartStretching from western Texas and eastern New Mexico up through Oklahoma, Colorado, Kansas, Nebraska, Wyoming, Montana, the Dakotas, and into Canada, the vast western plains often appear sparse and dr… [more below]
- Author: Kirkpatrick, Zoe Merriman
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: September 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0803219059
- Language: English
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The Life of the Afterlife in the Big Sky State: A History of Montana’s Cemeteries
$19.95 Add to cartThe Life of the Afterlife in the Big Sky State is a groundbreaking history of death in Montana. It offers a unique, reflective, and sensitive perspective on the evolution of customs and burial grounds… [more below]
- Author: Baumler, Ellen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: June 01 2021
- ISBN10: 1496214803
- Language: English
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The Heart of California: Exploring the San Joaquin Valley
$24.95 Add to cart2022 Oregon Book Award Finalist
Aaron Gilbreath uses his keen eye and environmental consciousness, historical records, and the occasional imaginative flight to give us an invaluable portrait of an over
- Author: Gilbreath, Aaron
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: November 01 2020
- ISBN10: 1496218639
- Language: English
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Black Cadet in a White Bastion: Charles Young at West Point
$16.95 Add to cartBorn in slavery, Charles Young (1864-1922) was the third black graduate of West Point, the first black U.S. military attaché, and the highest-ranking black officer in the Regular Army until his death… [more below]
- Author: Shellum, Brian G.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 258
- Publish Date: April 01 2006
- ISBN10: 0803293151
- Language: English
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Grandmother’s Grandchild: My Crow Indian Life
$16.95 Add to cart“I became what the Crows call kç•lisbaapite–a ‘grandmother’s grandchild.’ That means that I was always with my Grandma, and I learned from her. I learned how to do things in the old ways.”–Alma Hog… [more below]
- Series: American Indian Lives
- Author: Snell, Alma Hogan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 215
- Publish Date: September 01 2001
- ISBN10: 0803292910
- Language: English
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The Way to the Western Sea: Lewis and Clark Across the Continent
$24.95 Add to cartCritics have called David Lavender a “master storyteller” (Library Journal), his prose “virile, disciplined, yet personal” (New York Times), and his book “a balanced, learned, and lively history of an… [more below]
- Author: Lavender, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 444
- Publish Date: September 01 2001
- ISBN10: 0803280033
- Language: English
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Sacajawea’s People: The Lemhi Shoshones and the Salmon River Country
$19.95 Add to cartOn October 20, 2001, a crowd gathered just east of Salmon, Idaho, to dedicate the site of the Sacajawea Interpretive, Cultural, and Education Center, in preparation for the Lewis and Clark Bicentennia… [more below]
- Author: Mann, John W. W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 258
- Publish Date: July 01 2011
- ISBN10: 0803238193
- Language: English
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The Book of What Stays
$17.95 Add to cartFor any of us, what stays? For the arsonist’s wife who has not yet left? The devout saint trudging another mile in his nail-shoes? The lost couple in their dying moments in a Nebraska blizzard? The ol… [more below]
- Series: Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry
- Author: Crews, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: September 01 2011
- ISBN10: 0803236352
- Language: English
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Atomic America: How a Deadly Explosion and a Feared Admiral Changed the Course of Nuclear History
$21.95 Add to cart“Incorporating the career of Admiral Hyman Rickover, the creator of the nuclear navy, Tucker’s work importantly recalls a forgotten warning from nuclear history.”–Gilbert Taylor, Booklist
On January 3
- Author: Tucker, Todd
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: November 01 2010
- ISBN10: 0803234023
- Language: English
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The Gathering of Zion: The Story of the Mormon Trail
$24.95 Add to cartPulitzer Prize-winning author Wallace Stegner tells about a thousand-mile migration marked by hardship and sudden death–but unique in American history for its purpose, discipline, and solidarity. Oth… [more below]
- Author: Stegner, Wallace
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 348
- Publish Date: April 01 1992
- ISBN10: 0803292139
- Language: English
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The Life and Adventures of Nat Love
$14.95 Add to cartThousands of black cowpunchers drove cattle up the Chisholm Trail after the Civil War, but only Nat Love wrote about his experiences. Born to slaves in Davidson County, Tennessee, the newly freed Love… [more below]
- Series: Blacks in the American West
- Author: Love, Nat
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 162
- Publish Date: September 01 1995
- ISBN10: 0803279558
- Language: English
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Field of Schemes: How the Great Stadium Swindle Turns Public Money Into Private Profit
$22.95 Add to cartField of Schemes is a play-by-play account of how the drive for new sports stadiums and arenas drains $2 billion a year from public treasuries for the sake of private profit. While the millionaires wh… [more below]
- Author: Demause, Neil
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 424
- Publish Date: April 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0803260164
- Language: English
