Cultural Region/Plains
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Lonesome Dove
$24.99 Add to cartThe Pulitzer Prize–winning American classic of the American West that follows two aging Texas Rangers embarking on one last adventure. An epic of the frontier, Lonesome Dove is the grandest novel eve
- Author: McMurtry, Larry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 864
- Publish Date: June 15, 2010
- ISBN10: 1439195269
- Language: English
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In Cold Blood
$19.00 Add to cartNATIONAL BESTSELLER – The most famous true crime novel of all time “chills the blood and exercises the intelligence” (The New York Review of Books)—and haunted its author long after he finished writi… [more below]
- Series: Vintage International
- Author: Capote, Truman
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: February 01 1994
- ISBN10: 0679745580
- Language: English
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Little Britches: Father and I Were Ranchers
$16.95 Add to cartA most appealing book . . . Its genuineness and its simplicity will build up a large audience of enthusiastic readers.—San Francisco Chronicle
Ralph Moody was eight years old in 1906 when his family m
- Author: Moody, Ralph
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 260
- Publish Date: September 01, 1991
- ISBN10: 0803281781
- Language: English
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The Fields of Home
$16.95 Add to cart“A lively story . . . warm with humor; bright with incident and personality.”—San Francisco Chronicle
The fatherless Moody family moved from Colorado to Medford, Massachusetts, in 1912, when Ralph was
- Author: Moody, Ralph
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 335
- Publish Date: January 01, 1993
- ISBN10: 0803281943
- Language: English
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Bloodthirsty
$7.99$6.39 Add to cartJOHNSTONE COUNTRY. WHERE OTHERS FEAR TO TREAD.
From the masters of American frontier storytelling, another chapter in the Buckhorn saga–a blood-pounding tale of one man’s sacred mission to bring jus
- Series: Buckhorn Western #3
- Author: Johnstone, William W.
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: January 29, 2019
- ISBN10: 0786044888
- Language: English
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Roadside History of Nebraska
$24.00 Add to cartThis overview of Nebraska history leads both visitors and residents on an in-depth tour of the state’s past. Divided into five geographic divisions, the book follows roadways to all the well-known and… [more below]
- Series: Roadside History (Paperback)
- Author: Moulton, Candy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 420
- Publish Date: June 15 1997
- ISBN10: 0878423478
- Language: English
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Outlaw Trail: A History of Butch Cassidy and His Wild Bunch
$24.95 Add to cartThe Wild Bunch, the confederation of western outlaws headed by Butch Cassidy, found sanctuary on the rugged Outlaw Trail. Stretching across Montana, Idaho, Wyoming, Colorado, Utah, Nevada, Arizona, an… [more below]
- Author: Kelly, Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 398
- Publish Date: May 01 1996
- ISBN10: 0803277784
- Language: English
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Medicinal Wild Plants of the Prairie: An Ethnobotanical Guide
$27.99 Add to cartThe Plains Indians found medicinal value in more than two hundred species of native prairie plants. Unfortunately, modern American culture has not paid much attention.
White settlers did learn a few pl
- Author: Kindscher, Kelly
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: July 06 1992
- ISBN10: 0700605274
- Language: English
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Plains Indians
$9.95 Read moreThis title teaches readers about the first people to live in the Plains region of North America. It discusses their culture, customs, ways of life, interactions with other settlers, and their lives to… [more below]
- Series: First Nations of North America
- Author: Santella, Andrew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 48
- Publish Date: July 01 2011
- ISBN10: 1432949616
- Language: English
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The Golly Sisters Go West
$5.99 Add to cartA funny introduction to pioneer life, perfect for classrooms and homeschoolers
The Golly Sisters are heading west. They’ve got new dresses and the best show on either side of the Mississippi. But can t
- Series: I Can Read Level 3
- Author: Byars, Betsy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 64
- Publish Date: February 18 2003
- ISBN10: 0064441326
- Language: English
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Prairie Chicken Little
$8.99 Read moreWhen Mary McBlicken the prairie chicken hears a rumblin’ and a grumblin’, she sets off to warn her friends in this prairie-style twist on Chicken Little.
Mary McBlicken is sure a stampede’s a comin’!- Author: Hopkins, Jackie Mims
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: February 03 2015
- ISBN10: 1561458341
- Language: English
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Rising from the Plains
$19.00 Read moreRising from the Plains is John McPhee’s third book on geology and geologists. Following Basin and Range and In Suspect Terrain, it continues to present a cross section of North America along the forti
- Series: Annals of the Former World #3
- Author: McPhee, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: November 01 1987
- ISBN10: 0374520658
- Language: English
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Makoons
$16.99 Read moreIn this award-winning sequel to Chickadee, acclaimed author Louise Erdrich continues her celebrated Birchbark House series with the story of an Ojibwe family in nineteenth-century America.
Named for th
- Series: Birchbark House #5
- Author: Erdrich, Louise
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: August 09 2016
- ISBN10: 0060577932
- Language: English
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So Incredibly Idaho: Seven Landscapes That Define the Gem State
$49.95 Read moreIdaho, unknown to most and loved by those who have experienced it, comes alive in this innovative work. This title reveals the many aspects of Idaho’s varied landscapes. It describes the hidden forces… [more below]
- Author: Schwantes, Carlos A.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 146
- Publish Date: January 01 1996
- ISBN10: 0893011932
- Language: English
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Moccasin Trail
$8.99 Read moreA Newbery Honor Award-winning book
Jim Keath has lived for six years as a Crow Indian when he learns that his two younger brothers and a sister are journeying west to take up land. Although Jim finds- Series: Puffin Newberry Library
- Author: McGraw, Eloise Jarvis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 07 1986
- ISBN10: 0140321705
- Language: English
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The Utter Disaster on the Oregon Trail: The Utter and Van Ornum Massacres of 1860
$16.95 Read moreThe greatest disaster to befall a emigrant party on the Oregon Trail occurred in September 1860 in what is now southwestern Idaho. A party composed of eight wagons and 44 men, women and children was a… [more below]
- Series: Snake Country
- Author: Shannon, Donald H.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 218
- Publish Date: June 01 1993
- ISBN10: 0963582828
- Language: English
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A Lantern in Her Hand
$8.99 Add to cartThe classic story of Abbie and Will Deal–pioneers who left everything behind for a new life on America’s frontier.
Abbie Mackenzie dreamed of becoming a fine lady like her aristocratic grandmother,- Series: Puffin Classics
- Author: Aldrich, Bess Streeter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: April 01 1997
- ISBN10: 0140384286
- Language: English
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More Perfect Than the Moon
$7.99 Read moreThe fourth book in the series that began with the Newbery Medal-winning Sarah, Plain and Tall by Patricia MacLachlan.
I am a watcher. I am a listener, too. I am invisible. I can make myself so small an
- Series: Sarah, Plain and Tall #4
- Author: MacLachlan, Patricia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: July 26 2005
- ISBN10: 0060751797
- Language: English
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Nebraska Birds: An Introduction to Familiar Species
$8.95 Read moreNebraska has an impressive bird diversity, with over 470 species having been recorded, the majority of which are either permanent residents, regular breeders, or annual migrants. State bird Western Me… [more below]
- Series: Pocket Naturalist Guides
- Author: Kavanagh, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 12
- Publish Date: May 30 2017
- ISBN10: 1583551859
- Language: English
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Never Sniff a Gift Fish
$18.99 Add to cartMore humerous observations and insights into the agonies and ecstacies of hunting, fishing, and camping by the author of They Shoot Canoes, Don’t They?and other celebrations of life in the wild.
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- Author: McManus, Patrick F.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 217
- Publish Date: September 15 1984
- ISBN10: 0805000313
- Language: English
