Bison Books
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Home Below Hell’s Canyon
$19.00 Add to cartThe thrilling story of a modern pioneer family. . . . An intensely human account filled with fun, courage and rich family life.—Seattle Post Intelligencer
During the depression days of the early 1930
- Author: Jordan, Grace
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 243
- Publish Date: October 01 1962
- ISBN10: 0803251076
- Language: English
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Where the Trail Grows Faint: A Year in the Life of a Therapy Dog Team
$16.95 Add to cart“This is Hannah,” Lynne Hugo introduces her chocolate Labrador retriever to an aged woman in a wheelchair at the Golden View Nursing Home. “Would you like to pat her?”
“I don’t know,” the woman respon… [more below]- Series: River Teeth Literary Nonfiction Prize
- Author: Hugo, Lynne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: July 01 2009
- ISBN10: 0803224516
- Language: English
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Nobody’s Horses: The Dramatic Rescue of the Wild Herd of White Sands
$18.95 Add to cartDescended from the greatest horses of the American West, the wild horses living on the White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico were national treasures and living legends. But in 1994, after years of s… [more below]
- Author: Höglund, Don
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0803218737
- Language: English
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Buffalo Soldiers in Alaska: Company L, Twenty-Fourth Infantry
$32.95 Add to cartThe town of Skagway was born in 1897 after its population quintupled in under a year due to the Klondike gold rush. Balanced on the edge of anarchy, the U.S. Army stationed Company L, a unit of Buffal… [more below]
- Author: Shellum, Brian G.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 386
- Publish Date: November 01 2021
- ISBN10: 1496228448
- Language: English
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The Buffalo Hunters: The Story of the Hide Men
$21.95 Add to cartIn 1867 conservative estimates put the number of buffaloes in the trans-Missouri region at fifteen million. By the end of the 1880s, that figure had dwindled to a few hundred. The destruction of the g… [more below]
- Author: Sandoz, Mari
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 392
- Publish Date: December 01 2008
- ISBN10: 080321880X
- Language: English
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Twenty Miles of Fence: Blueprint of a Cowboy
$19.95 Add to cartTwenty Miles of Fence recounts a decade of transformation when Bob West, a westerner at heart, decided to escape the pretense of his unfulfilling architectural life and to become, quite simply, a cowb… [more below]
- Author: West, Bob
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 228
- Publish Date: March 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1496233573
- Language: English
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History of Wyoming (Second Edition)
$40.00 Add to cart“[This] may be the finest state history ever written. . . . Required reading for anyone with pretensions to knowledge about the West–past, present, future.”–San Francisco Chronicle
Winner of an Award
- Author: Larson, T. a.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 695
- Publish Date: August 01 1990
- ISBN10: 0803279361
- Language: English
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Covered Wagon Women, Volume 4: Diaries and Letters from the Western Trails, 1852: The California Trail
$18.95 Add to cartIn 1852 a record number of women helped keep the wagons rolling over the perilous western trails. The fourth volume of Covered Wagon Women is devoted to families headed for California that year. Diari… [more below]
- Series: Covered Wagon Women #4
- Author: Holmes, Kenneth L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 303
- Publish Date: April 01 1997
- ISBN10: 080327291X
- Language: English
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Nebraska: Under a Big Red Sky
$21.95 Add to cartWelcome to a journey across Nebraska. Relax, take your time, and enjoy the vistas. From Chadron to Falls City, Carhenge to the Wayne Chicken Show, Burwell to Omaha, and everywhere in between, this boo… [more below]
- Series: Great Plains Photography
- Author: Sartore, Joel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: November 01 2006
- ISBN10: 0803259700
- Language: English
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Light on the Prairie: Solomon D. Butcher, Photographer of Nebraska’s Pioneer Days
$21.95 Add to cartOnce President Lincoln signed the Homestead Act of 1862, which granted 160 acres of free land to anyone with the grit to farm it for five years, the rush to the Great Plains was on. Solomon D. Butcher
- Author: Plain, Nancy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: September 01 2012
- ISBN10: 0803235208
- Language: English
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Chasing the Ghost Bear: On the Trail of America’s Lost Super Beast
$24.95 Add to cartWinner of the 2023 New Mexico-Arizona Book Award
No animal shakes the human consciousness quite like a bear, and few compare to the giant short-faced bears th
Reading the West Longlist for Nonfiction- Author: Stark, Mike
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: April 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1496229029
- Language: English
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Wells Fargo
$13.95 Add to cartHenry Wells (1805-78) and William Fargo (1818-81) first worked together when they broke the Post Office monopoly on mail service along the Erie Canal in the 1840s. In 1852 they incorporated Wells, Far… [more below]
- Author: Moody, Ralph
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 186
- Publish Date: March 01 2005
- ISBN10: 0803283032
- Language: English
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The Village Horse Doctor: West of the Pecos
$18.95 Add to cartBen K. Green takes us back to the deep Southwest and the never-a-dull-moment years he spent as a practicing horse doctor along the Pecos and the Rio Grande. With precious little formal schooling but a… [more below]
- Author: Green, Ben K.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 307
- Publish Date: February 01 2000
- ISBN10: 0803270909
- Language: English
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No Life for a Lady
$24.95 Add to cartWhen Agnes Morley Cleaveland was born on a New Mexico cattle ranch in 1874, the term “Wild West” was a reality, not a clich?. In those days cowboys didn’t know they were picturesque, horse rustlers we… [more below]
- Series: Women of the West
- Author: Cleaveland, Agnes Morley
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 356
- Publish Date: August 01 1977
- ISBN10: 0803258682
- Language: English
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Taste of Heritage: Crow Indian Recipes and Herbal Medicines
$17.95 Add to cart“A rich repository of recipes, folklore and advice for living and healing.”—Lively Times
Drawing on the knowledge and wisdom of countless generations of Crow Indian women, the well-known speaker and t
- Series: At Table
- Author: Snell, Alma Hogan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: October 01 2006
- ISBN10: 0803293534
- Language: English
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Gang of One: Memoirs of a Red Guard
$24.95 Add to cartIn 1966 twelve-year-old Fan Shen, a newly minted Red Guard, plunged happily into China’s Cultural Revolution. Disillusion soon followed, then turned to disgust and fear when Shen discovered that his c… [more below]
- Series: American Lives (University of Nebraska)
- Author: Shen, Fan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 298
- Publish Date: March 01 2006
- ISBN10: 0803293364
- Language: English
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From the Heart of the Crow Country: The Crow Indians’ Own Stories
$14.95 Add to cartThe world of the Crow Indians comes to life in this extraordinary collection of stories from respected elder and famed storyteller Joseph Medicine Crow. Raised by traditional grandparents, who remembe… [more below]
- Author: Medicine Crow, Joseph
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 146
- Publish Date: August 01 2000
- ISBN10: 080328263X
- Language: English
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Kit Carson’s Autobiography
$14.95 Add to cart“Notice is hereby given to all persons, that Christopher Carson, a boy about 16 years old, small of his age, but thick-set; light hair, ran away from the subscriber, living in Franklin, Howard County,
- Series: Bison Book S
- Author: Carson, Kit
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: March 01 1966
- ISBN10: 0803250312
- Language: English
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Uphill Both Ways: Hiking Toward Happiness on the Colorado Trail
$21.95 Add to cartReading the West Longlist for Memoir/Biography
One grouchy husband. Three reluctant kids. Five hundred miles of wilderness. And one woman, determined to escape the humdrum existence of modern parent- Author: Lani, Andrea
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 298
- Publish Date: March 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1496229002
- Language: English
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The Turtle’s Beating Heart: One Family’s Story of Lenape Survival
$21.95 Add to cart“Grandchildren meet their grandparents at the end,” Denise Low writes, “as tragic figures. We remember their decline and deaths. . . . The story we see as grandchildren is like a garden covered by sno… [more below]
- Series: American Indian Lives
- Author: Low, Denise
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: September 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1496236890
- Language: English
