Bison Books
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Six Armies in Tennessee: The Chickamauga and Chattanooga Campaigns
$21.95 Add to cartWhen Vicksburg fell to Union forces under General Grant in July 1863, the balance turned against the Confederacy in the trans-Appalachian theater. The Federal success along the river opened the way fo… [more below]
- Series: Great Campaigns of the Civil War
- Author: Woodworth, Steven E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 262
- Publish Date: August 01 1999
- ISBN10: 0803298137
- Language: English
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Waheenee: An Indian Girl’s Story (Revised)
$16.95 Add to cart“I was born in an earth lodge by the mouth of the Knife River, in what is now North Dakota, three years after the smallpox winter.” So begins the story of Waheenee, a Hidatsa Indian woman, born in 183… [more below]
- Author: Wilson, Gilbert L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 189
- Publish Date: November 01 1981
- ISBN10: 0803297033
- Language: English
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They Cleared the Lane: The Nba’s Black Pioneers
$19.95 Add to cartToday, Black players compose more than eighty percent of the National Basketball Association’s rosters, providing a strong and valued contribution to professional basketball. In the first half of the … [more below]
- Author: Thomas, Ron
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: March 01 2004
- ISBN10: 0803294549
- Language: English
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My People the Sioux, New Edition
$18.95 Add to cartWhen it was first published in 1928, Luther Standing Bear’s autobiographical account of his tribe and tribesmen was hailed by Van Wyck Brooks as “one of the most engaging and veracious we have ever ha… [more below]
- Author: Standing Bear, Luther
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 322
- Publish Date: November 01 2006
- ISBN10: 0803293321
- Language: English
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Nebraska: An Illustrated History
$36.95 Add to cartA unique history of Nebraska is presented in these pages, drawing on fifty-eight short topical chapters and a rich gallery of illustrations. Professor Frederick C. Luebke’s lifelong commitment to the … [more below]
- Series: Great Plains Photography
- Author: Luebke, Frederick C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: June 01 2005
- ISBN10: 0803280424
- Language: English
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The Night Country
$24.95 Add to cartToward the end of his life, Loren Eiseley reflected on the mystery of life, throwing light on those dark places traversed by himself and centuries of humankind. The Night Country is a gift of wisdom a… [more below]
- Author: Eiseley, Loren
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 241
- Publish Date: June 01 1997
- ISBN10: 0803267355
- Language: English
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Out West: A Journey Through Lewis and Clark’s America
$24.95 Add to cartOne hundred and eighty years after Lewis and Clark’s “Voyage of Discovery” (1804-1806), Dayton Duncan set out in a Volkswagen camper to retrace their steps. Out West is an account of three separate jo… [more below]
- Author: Duncan, Dayton
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 452
- Publish Date: September 01 2000
- ISBN10: 080326626X
- Language: English
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Breaking Into the Backcountry
$16.95 Add to cartWriting with an elegant simplicity and resilient reverence, Edwards proves to be an astute and passionate observer of both human and Mother Nature.–Carol Haggas, Booklist Online
In 2001 Steve Edwards
- Author: Edwards, Steve
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: October 01 2010
- ISBN10: 0803226535
- Language: English
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History of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway
$49.95 Add to cartIf you want an interesting look at railroading plus the social, financial, and political times over 130 years of America, consider this well-researched and documented book.–Stan Moore, Denver Posse o
- Author: Bryant Jr, Keith L.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: September 01 2020
- ISBN10: 1496214102
- Language: English
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Nez Perce Country
$14.95 Add to cartThe rivers, canyons, and prairies of the Columbia Basin are the homeland of the Nez Perce. The Nez Perce, or Nimiipuu, inhabited much of what is now north central Idaho and portions of Oregon and Wash… [more below]
- Series: Bison Original
- Author: Josephy, Alvin M., Jr.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 196
- Publish Date: December 01 2007
- ISBN10: 0803276230
- Language: English
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Land of the Spotted Eagle
$19.95 Add to cartWhen Standing Bear returned to the Pine Ridge Sioux Reservation after sixteen years’ absence, his dismay at the condition of his people may well have served as a catalyst for the writing of this book,… [more below]
- Author: Standing Bear, Luther
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 276
- Publish Date: November 01 2006
- ISBN10: 080329333X
- Language: English
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The Blizzard Voices
$14.95 Add to cart2007 Book Sense Poetry Top Ten selection
This book is a collection of poems recording the devastation unleashed on
2007 Midwest Booksellers’ Choice Award for Poetry, honoring Tom Pohrt (Illustrator)- Author: Kooser, Ted
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 64
- Publish Date: September 01 2006
- ISBN10: 0803259638
- Language: English
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Osborne Russell’s Journal of a Trapper:: Edited from the Original Manuscript in the William Robertson Coe Collection of Western Americana in the Yale
$21.95 Add to cart“Reader, if you are in search of a Classical and Scientific tourist, please to lay this Volume down, and pass on, for this simply informs you what a Trapper has seen and experienced. But if you wish t
- Series: Bison Book S
- Author: Russell, Osborne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 241
- Publish Date: October 01 1965
- ISBN10: 0803251661
- Language: English
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Bury My Heart at Chuck E. Cheese’s
$29.95 Add to cartWhy is there no Native woman David Sedaris? Or Native Anne Lamott? Humor categories in publishing are packed with books by funny women and humorous sociocultural-political commentary–but no Native wo… [more below]
- Author: Midge, Tiffany
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: October 01 2019
- ISBN10: 1496215575
- Language: English
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Forty Years a Forester (Second Edition, )
$24.95 Add to cartElers Koch, a key figure in the early days of the U.S. Forest Service, was among the first American-trained silviculturists, a pioneering forest manager, and a master firefighter. By horse and on foot… [more below]
- Author: Koch, Elers
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 246
- Publish Date: October 01 2019
- ISBN10: 1496213351
- Language: English
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Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits (Revised Edition)
$21.95 Add to cartThis English translation–the first since 1909–restores Human, All Too Human to its proper central position in the Nietzsche canon. First published in 1878, the book marks the philosophical coming of… [more below]
- Author: Nietzsche, Friedrich
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 275
- Publish Date: December 01 1996
- ISBN10: 0803283687
- Language: English
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Montana: High, Wide, and Handsome
$24.95 Add to cartIn these pages you will come to fall in love with a ruggedly diverse and strikingly beautiful state, a land that takes hold and won’t let go. Montana: High, Wide, and Handsome is widely recognized as … [more below]
- Author: Howard, Joseph Kinsey
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 349
- Publish Date: October 01 2003
- ISBN10: 0803273398
- Language: English
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The Orphan Trains: Placing Out in America
$21.95 Add to cart“From 1850 to 1930 America witnessed a unique emigration and resettlement of at least 200,000 children and several thousand adults, primarily from the East Coast to the West. This ‘placing out, ‘ an a… [more below]
- Author: Holt, Marilyn Irvin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: February 01 1994
- ISBN10: 0803272650
- Language: English
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Uses of Plants by the Indians of the Missouri River Region, Enlarged Edition
$12.95 Add to cartA classic of ethnobotany, Uses of Plants by the Indians of the Missouri River Region has been enlarged for this Bison Book edition with thirty drawings, by Bellamy Parks Jansen, of plants discussed by… [more below]
- Author: Gilmore, Melvin R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 165
- Publish Date: April 01 1991
- ISBN10: 0803270348
- Language: English
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A Narrative of the Life of David Crockett of the State of Tennessee
$16.95 Add to cartEven as a pup, Davy Crockett “always delighted to be in the very thickest of danger.” In his own inimitable style, he describes his earliest days in Tennessee, his two marriages, his career as an Indi… [more below]
- Author: Crockett, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 211
- Publish Date: September 01 1987
- ISBN10: 0803263252
- Language: English
