Cultural Region/Plains
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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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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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Colorado Ghost Towns and Mining Camps
$29.95 Add to cartProspectors lured to the West in hopes of striking rich settled a thousand towns in the Colorado mountains. The cry of “Gold!” or “Silver!” or a few flecks of color in a tin cup sent them to remote, o
- Author: Dallas, Sandra
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 268
- Publish Date: March 15 1988
- ISBN10: 0806120843
- Language: English
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Life of George Bent: Written from His Letters
$24.95 Add to cartGeorge Bent, the son of William Bent, one of the founders of Bent’s Fort on the Arkansas near present La Junta, Colorado, and Owl Woman, a Cheyenne, began exchanging letters in 1905 with George E. Hyd
- Series: Written from His Letters
- Author: Hyde, George E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: May 21 2018
- ISBN10: 0806115777
- 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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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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American West
$21.00 Add to cartRenowned storyteller Dee Brown, author of the bestselling Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, recreates the struggles of Native Americans, settlers, and ranchers in this stunning volume that illuminates th… [more below]
- Author: Brown, Dee
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: November 01 1995
- ISBN10: 0684804417
- Language: English
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On the Rez
$23.99 Add to cartOn the Rez is a sharp, unflinching account of the modern-day American Indian experience, especially that of the Oglala Sioux, who now live on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in the plains and badlan
- Author: Frazier, Ian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: May 04 2001
- ISBN10: 0312278594
- Language: English
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Red Cloud: Warrior-Statesman of the Lakota Sioux
$21.95 Add to cartPerhaps no Indian leader of the mid-nineteenth century was as well known in his time as the great Lakota Sioux Red Cloud. Although his fame later was eclipsed by that of the legendary heroes who crush… [more below]
- Series: Oklahoma Western Biographies #13
- Author: Larson, Robert W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 354
- Publish Date: April 15 1997
- ISBN10: 0806131896
- 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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Spirit Car: Journey to a Dakota Past
$22.95 Read moreA child of a typical 1950s suburb unearths her mother’s hidden heritage, launching a rich and magical exploration of her own identity and her family’s powerful Native American past.
- Author: Wilson, Diane
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: August 01 2009
- ISBN10: 0873517652
- 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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Bitter Harvest
$20.99 Add to cartTrue crime icon Ann Rule presents a “must-read” (People) New York Times bestseller–and inspiration behind the Lifetime movie A House on Fire–following a woman whose apparent perfect life hides a har… [more below]
- Author: Rule, Ann
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: February 28 2023
- ISBN10: 1668008718
- 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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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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Men to Match My Mountains: The Opening of the Far West, 1840-1900
$17.95 Add to cartAcclaimed author of biographical and historical fiction Irving Stone turns his magnificent talent to telling America’s most colorful and exciting story–the opening of the Far West.
Men to Match My M- Author: Stone, Irving
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 562
- Publish Date: March 15 1987
- ISBN10: 042510544X
- Language: English
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Buffalo for the Broken Heart: Restoring Life to a Black Hills Ranch
$18.00 Add to cartFor twenty years Dan O’Brien struggled to make ends meet on his cattle ranch in South Dakota. But when a neighbor invited him to lend a hand at the annual buffalo roundup, O’Brien was inspired to conv… [more below]
- Author: O’Brien, Dan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: October 08 2002
- ISBN10: 037576139X
- Language: English
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Heart Earth
$17.99 Add to cartIvan Doig’s companion memoir to his bestselling This House of Sky–inspired by the letters his mother wrote during World War II–is “a lyrical evocation of the Doigs’ gallantly hardscrabble existence … [more below]
- Author: Doig, Ivan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: August 16 2016
- ISBN10: 1501156055
- Language: English
