Cultural Region/Plains
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Hidatsa Social and Ceremonial Organization
$24.95 Add to cartHidatsa Social and Ceremonial Organization, a study of an important horticultural Plains Indian tribe, synthesizes the rich material Alfred W. Bowers recorded in the early 1930s from the last generati… [more below]
- Author: Bowers, Alfred W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: October 01 1992
- ISBN10: 0803260989
- Language: English
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The Wild Bunch at Robber’s Roost
$16.95 Add to cartRobbers Roost was a hideout for outlaws and hunted men long before Butch Cassidy found it in 1884. The impenetrable wastes and wilds of this high desert country in southeastern Utah, cut through by ca… [more below]
- Author: Baker, Pearl
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: February 01 1989
- ISBN10: 080326089X
- Language: English
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The Log of a Cowboy: A Narrative of the Old Trail Days
$14.95 Add to cartJ. Frank Dobie, in his Guide to Life and Literature of the Old Southwest, has declared that “if all other books on trail-driving were destroyed, a reader could still get a just and authentic conceptio… [more below]
- Series: Bison Book S
- Author: Adams, Andy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 397
- Publish Date: May 01 1964
- ISBN10: 0803250002
- Language: English
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The Book of Yaak
$16.99 Add to cartThe Yaak Valley of northwestern Montana is one of the last great wild places in the United States, a land of black bears and grizzlies, wolves and coyotes, bald and golden eagles, wolverine, lynx, mar
- Author: Bass, Rick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: September 23 2010
- ISBN10: 0395877466
- Language: English
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Standing Bear and the Ponca Chiefs
$13.95 Add to cartStanding Bear was a chieftain of the Ponca Indian tribe, which farmed and hunted peacefully along the Niobrara River in northeastern Nebraska. In 1878 the Poncas were forced by the federal government … [more below]
- Author: Tibbles, Thomas Henry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 143
- Publish Date: September 01 1972
- ISBN10: 0803294263
- Language: English
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The Mayans Among Us: Migrant Women and Meatpacking on the Great Plains
$29.95 Add to cartThe Mayans Among Us conveys the unique experiences of Central American indigenous immigrants to the Great Plains, many of whom are political refugees from repressive, war-torn countries. Ann L. Sittig
- Author: Sittig, Ann L.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: March 01 2016
- ISBN10: 0803284616
- Language: English
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Pioneer Women
$22.00 Add to cartFrom a rediscovered collection of autobiographical accounts written by hundreds of Kansas pioneer women in the early twentieth century, Joanna Stratton has created a collection hailed by Newsweek as “… [more below]
- Author: Stratton, Joanna
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: September 17 1982
- ISBN10: 0671447483
- Language: English
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Life of Tom Horn: Government Scout and Interpreter
$21.95 Add to cartOn November 20, 1903, Tom Horn was hanged in Cheyenne, Wyoming, for the murder of a fourteen-year-old nester boy. Horn-army scout and interpreter for Generals Willcox, Crook, and Miles in the Apache w
- Series: Western Frontier Library #26
- Author: Horn, Tom
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 292
- Publish Date: February 15 1973
- ISBN10: 0806110449
- Language: English
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The Night the Bear Ate Goombaw
$19.99 Add to cartAmerica’s “most gifted outdoor humorist” (Detroit Free Press) regales readers with this collection of gut-busting, man vs. nature tales originally published in such magazines as Field & Stream and Out
- Author: McManus, Patrick F.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: May 15 1990
- ISBN10: 0805013407
- Language: English
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Newport In Rockies: Life & Good Times Of
$19.95 Add to cartIn 1871, General William Jackson Palmer, a Civil War cavalry hero, dreamed of a Rocky Mountain resort town where sedate, temperate, wealthy folk could enjoy life in tranquil comfort. From its inceptio… [more below]
- Series: Life and Good Times of Colorado Springs Revised for the 1990
- Author: Sprague, Marshall
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: February 11 1988
- ISBN10: 080400899X
- 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 Legacy of Conquest: The Unbroken Past of the American West
$18.95 Add to cartThe “settling” of the American West has been perceived throughout the world as a series of quaint, violent, and romantic adventures. But in fact, Patricia Nelson Limerick argues, the West has a histor… [more below]
- Author: Limerick, Patricia Nelson
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: January 01 2006
- ISBN10: 0393304973
- Language: English
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Yellow Wolf: His Own Story
$16.95 Add to cartThe Nez Perce campaign is among the most famous in the brief and bloody history of the Indian wars of the West. Yellow Wolf was a contemporary of Chief Joseph and a leader among his own men. This titl… [more below]
- Author: McWhorter, Lucullus Virgil
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: January 30 2020
- ISBN10: 0870043153
- Language: English
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Jim Beckwourth: Black Mountain Man and War Chief of the Crows
$21.95 Add to cartDismissed as a “gaudy liar” by most historians and often discredited by writers who deprecated his mixed blood, James Pierson Beckwourth was one of the giants of the early West, certainly deserving to
- Author: Wilson, Elinor
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: January 28 2013
- ISBN10: 0806115556
- 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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One House: The Unicameral’s Progressive Vision for Nebraska
$24.95 Add to cartWhen Nebraskans voted to trade in their bicameral, partisan legislature for a one-house, nonpartisan body in 1934, it was a revolutionary decision. George Norris, a U.S. senator from Nebraska, argued
- Author: Berens, Charlyne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 286
- Publish Date: January 01 2014
- ISBN10: 0803235194
- 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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My Life and an Era: The Autobiography of Buck Colbert Franklin
$29.95 Add to cart“My father’s life represented many layers of the human experience–freedman and Native American, farmer and rancher, rural educator and urban professional.”–John Hope Franklin
Buck Colbert Franklin (- Author: Franklin, John Hope
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: October 01 1997
- ISBN10: 0807125997
- Language: English
