Bison Books
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Saga of Hugh Glass
$17.95 Add to cartBefore his most fabulous adventure (celebrated by John G. Neihardt in The Song of Hugh Glass and by Frederick Manfred in Lord Grizzly), Hugh Glass was captured by the buccaneer Jean Lafitte and turned… [more below]
- Author: Myers Myers, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 237
- Publish Date: March 01 1976
- ISBN10: 0803258348
- Language: English
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Culture and Customs of the Sioux Indians
$19.95 Add to cart“[A] well-balanced history and overview of Dakota and Lakota Siouans.”—Choice
Although some aspects of Sioux history such as the Battle of the Little Big Horn and the Massacre at Wounded Knee are incl
- Author: Gagnon, Gregory O.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: November 01 2012
- ISBN10: 0803244541
- Language: English
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Eyewitness at Wounded Knee
$34.95 Add to cartOn a wintry day in December 1890, near a creek named Wounded Knee on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota, the Seventh Cavalry of the U.S. Army opened fire on an encampment of Sioux Indians. Thi
- Series: Great Plains Photography
- Author: Jensen, Richard E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: September 01 2011
- ISBN10: 0803236093
- Language: English
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John Colter: His Years in the Rockies
$16.95 Add to cartJohn Colter was a crack hunter with the Lewis and Clark expedition before striking out on his own as a mountain man and fur trader. A solitary journey in the winter of 1807-8 took him into present-day… [more below]
- Author: Harris, Burton
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: March 01 1993
- ISBN10: 0803272642
- Language: English
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Horse Tradin’
$21.95 Add to cartHere are the yarns of a true cowboy for those who have in their blood either a touch of larceny, an affection for the Old West, or better yet, both. These twenty tales add up to a true account of Ben
- Author: Green, Ben K.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: August 01, 1999
- ISBN10: 0803270860
- Language: English
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Guerrilla Warfare
$19.95 Add to cartThis indispensable book includes three of Che Guevara’s most influential essays describing his tactical philosophy of fighting a guerrilla war in Latin America. Guerrilla Warfare, written in 1960, out… [more below]
- Author: Guevara, Ernesto Che
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 175
- Publish Date: September 01 1998
- ISBN10: 0803270755
- Language: English
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Nebraska’s Bucks and Bulls: The Greatest Stories of Hunting Whitetail, Mule Deer, and Elk in the Cornhusker State
$19.95 Add to cartEclipsing Memorial Stadium on a Husker football game day, deer season is arguably the largest single sporting event of the year in Nebraska, with more than one hundred thousand hunters going afield wi… [more below]
- Author: Helmer, Joel W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 360
- Publish Date: October 01 2020
- ISBN10: 1496212819
- Language: English
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The White Earth Tragedy: Ethnicity and Dispossession at a Minnesota Anishinaabe Reservation, 1889-1920
$21.95 Add to cartThis compelling interdisciplinary history of an Anishinaabe community at the White Earth Reservation in Minnesota offers a subtle and sophisticated look at changing social, economic, and political rel… [more below]
- Author: Meyer, Melissa L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 333
- Publish Date: June 01 1999
- ISBN10: 0803282567
- Language: English
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Mythology of the Blackfoot Indians
$19.95 Add to cartMythology of the Blackfoot Indians, originally published in 1908 by the American Museum of Natural History, introduces such figures as Old Man, Scar-Face, Blood-Clot, and the Seven Brothers. Included … [more below]
- Series: Sources of American Indian Oral Literature
- Author: Wissler, Clark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 204
- Publish Date: January 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0803260237
- Language: English
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The Dakota Way of Life
$36.95 Add to cart2023 Bronze Medal in Western Nonfiction for the Will Rogers Medallion Award
Ella Cara Deloria devoted much of her life to the study of the language and cult
2023 WHA Dwight L. Smith (ABC-CLIO) Award- Series: Studies in the Anthropology of North American Indians
- Author: Deloria, Ella Cara
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 440
- Publish Date: December 01 2022
- ISBN10: 149623359X
- Language: English
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Rez Metal: Inside the Navajo Nation Heavy Metal Scene
$16.95 Add to cartRez Metal captures the creative energy of Indigenous youth culture in the twenty-first century. Bridging communities from disparate corners of Indian Country and across generations, heavy metal has to… [more below]
- Author: Soltani Stone, Ashkan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 108
- Publish Date: October 01 2020
- ISBN10: 149620509X
- Language: English
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The Collected Poems of Weldon Kees (Third Edition)
$18.95 Add to cartThe Collected Poems of Weldon Kees showcases the dark brilliance and absorbing vision of one of America’s most fascinating artistic and literary figures, Weldon Kees (1914-55).
- Author: Kees, Weldon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 180
- Publish Date: December 01 2003
- ISBN10: 0803278098
- Language: English
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The Legacy of the Civil War
$14.95 Add to cartIn this elegant book, the Pulitzer Prize-winning writer explores the manifold ways in which the Civil War changed the United States forever. He confronts its costs, not only human (six hundred thousan… [more below]
- Author: Warren, Robert Penn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 109
- Publish Date: March 01 1998
- ISBN10: 0803298013
- Language: English
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Revenge of the Pequots: How a Small Native American Tribe Created the World’s Most Profitable Casino
$18.00 Add to cartThe Mashantucket Pequots have had a long and proud history, enduring for centuries even after colonists and historians believed them to have been exterminated by the British in 1637. By the early 1970… [more below]
- Author: Eisler, Kim Isaac
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 267
- Publish Date: January 01 2002
- ISBN10: 0803267452
- Language: English
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Writing Brave and Free: Encouraging Words for People Who Want to Start Writing
$14.95 Add to cartSometimes setting pen to paper requires bravery, and writing well means breaking free of the rules learned in school. Liberating and emboldening the beginning writer are the goals of Ted Kooser and St… [more below]
- Author: Kooser, Ted
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 178
- Publish Date: March 01 2006
- ISBN10: 0803278322
- Language: English
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Why Sacagawea Deserves the Day Off & Other Lessons from the Le Wis & Clark Trail
$17.95 Add to cartMore than two hundred years later, the “voyage of discovery”–with its outsized characters, geographic marvels, and wondrous moments of adventure and mystery–continues to draw us along the Lewis and … [more below]
- Series: Bison Original
- Author: Tubbs, Stephenie Ambrose
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: October 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0803215851
- Language: English
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My Omaha Obsession: Searching for the City
$24.95 Add to cart2021 Nebraska Book Award
My Omaha Obsession takes the reader on an idiosyncratic tour through some of Omaha’s neighborhoods, buildings, architecture, and people, celebrating the city’s unusual history- Author: Cassette
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: November 01 2020
- ISBN10: 1496207610
- Language: English
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Covered Wagon Women, Volume 3: Diaries and Letters from the Western Trails, 1851
$18.95 Add to cartThe wagon trains to California greatly decreased in 1851 as reports of deadly cholera on the trail the year before and strikeouts in gold prospecting became known. Those who did go west–about 2,160 m… [more below]
- Series: Covered Wagon Women #3
- Author: Holmes, Kenneth L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 291
- Publish Date: August 01 1996
- ISBN10: 0803272871
- Language: English
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Blackfoot Lodge Tales: The Story of a Prairie People
$19.95 Add to cartThis collection of powerful stories reveals the complex and wondrous world of the Blackfoot nation in the nineteenth century. The thirty tales transcribed by George Bird Grinnell provide an intimate l… [more below]
- Author: Grinnell, George Bird
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 310
- Publish Date: October 01 2003
- ISBN10: 0803271093
- Language: English
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Solomon D. Butcher: Photographing the American Dream
$39.95 Add to cartFor millions of Americans, Solomon D. Butcher’s photographs epitomize the sod-house frontier. His images from western Nebraska constitute the most extensive photographic record of the generation that … [more below]
- Author: Carter, John E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: April 01 2016
- ISBN10: 0803260385
- Language: English
