Cultural Region/Plains
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The Blackfeet, Volume 49: Raiders on the Northwestern Plains
$24.95 Add to cartThe Blackfeet were the strongest military power on the northwestern plains throughout the eighteenth century. But the near extinction of buffalo in the late nineteenth century brought dire poverty to
- Series: Civilization of the American Indian #49
- Author: Ewers, John C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 362
- Publish Date: May 31 2017
- ISBN10: 0806118369
- 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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Prairyerth: A Deep Map
$24.99 Read moreNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER. By the author of Blue Highways, PrairyErth is “a majestic survey of land and time and people in a single county of the Kansas plains” (Hungry Mind Review).
William Least Heat… [more below]
- Author: Heat Moon, William Least
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 634
- Publish Date: February 15 1999
- ISBN10: 039592569X
- Language: English
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They Called Him Wild Bill: The Life and Adventures of James Butler Hickok
$26.95 Add to cartHis contemporaries called him Wild Bill, and newspapermen and others made him a legend in his own time. Among western characters only General George Armstrong Custer and Buffalo Bill Cody are as readi… [more below]
- Author: Rosa, Joseph G.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: April 15 1979
- ISBN10: 0806115386
- Language: English
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Winter: Notes from Montana
$16.99 Add to cartThis book is a classic celebration of winter in a remote Montana valley.
- Author: Bass, Rick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: February 09 2011
- ISBN10: 0395611504
- Language: English
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Winter Brothers: A Season at the Edge of American (Ameri)CA
$18.99 Add to cartThe author of This House of Sky provides a magnificent evocation of the Pacific Northwest through the diaries of James Gilchrist Swan, a settler of the region. Doig fuses parts of the Swan diaries wit… [more below]
- Author: Doig, Ivan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: June 15 2011
- ISBN10: 0156972158
- Language: English
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Talking to the Ground
$18.99 Add to cartFrom the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller The Lost City of the Monkey God comes an entrancing, eloquent, and entertaining account of the author’s adventurous journey on horseback through the… [more below]
- Author: Preston, Douglas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: June 04 2019
- ISBN10: 1982112190
- Language: English
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Land in Her Own Name
$21.95 Add to cartLand is often known by the names of past owners. “Emma’s Land,” “Gina’s quarter,” and “the Ingeborg Land” are reminders of the many women who homesteaded across North Dakota in the late nineteenth and
- Author: Lindgren, H. Elaine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 318
- Publish Date: September 14 2018
- ISBN10: 0806128860
- Language: English
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Rubber Legs and White Tail-Hairs
$18.99 Add to cartAmerica’s favorite outdoor humorist is back with an outrageously fresh collection of stories. He introduces a variety of friends old and new, and takes readers to many exotic locales outdoors and indo
- Series: Holt Paperback
- Author: McManus, Patrick F.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: October 15 1988
- ISBN10: 0805009124
- 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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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
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Encounters at the Heart of the World: A History of the Mandan People
$22.00 Read moreWinner of the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for History
Encounters at the Heart of the World concerns the Mandan Indians, iconic Plains people whose teeming, busy towns on the upper Missouri River were for cent- Author: Fenn, Elizabeth A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: March 17, 2015
- ISBN10: 0374535116
- Language: English
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They Shoot Canoes, Don’t They?
$18.99 Add to cartWith tongue pressed firmly in cheek and a gentle but penetrating eye for human foibles, Patrick F. McManus celebrates the hidden pleasures, unappreciated lore, and opportunities for disaster to be fou
- Series: Owlet Book
- Author: McManus, Patrick F.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: September 15 1982
- ISBN10: 0805000305
- Language: English
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Dust Bowl: The Southern Plains in the 1930s
$25.99 Add to cartIn the mid 1930s, North America’s Great Plains faced one of the worst man-made environmental disasters in world history. Donald Worster’s classic chronicle of the devastating years between 1929 and 19… [more below]
- Author: Worster, Donald
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 290
- Publish Date: September 30 2004
- ISBN10: 0195174887
- Language: English
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Chief Left Hand: Southern Arapahovolume 159
$21.95 Add to cartThis is the first biography of Chief Left Hand, diplomat, linguist, and legendary of the Plains Indians. Working from government reports, manuscripts, and the diaries and letters of those persons–bot
- Series: Civilization of the American Indian #159
- Author: Coel, Margaret
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: March 15 1988
- ISBN10: 0806120304
- Language: English
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Atlas of Nebraska
$34.95 Add to cart2018 Nebraska Book Award
The state of Nebraska has a rich and varied culture, from the eastern metropolitan cities of Omaha and Lincoln to the ranches of the western Sand Hills. The first atlas of Ne- Author: Archer, J. Clark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: March 01 2021
- ISBN10: 1496227832
- Language: English
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Dakota: A Spiritual Geography
$15.99 Add to cart“A deeply spiritual, deeply moving book” about life on the Great Plains, by the New York Times-bestselling author of The Cloister Walk (The New York Times Book Review).
Kathleen Norris invites readers … [more below]- Series: Dakotas
- Author: Norris, Kathleen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: April 06 2001
- ISBN10: 0618127240
- Language: English
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Forty Miles a Day on Beans and Hay: The Enlisted Soldier Fighting the Indian Wars
$24.95 Add to cartThe enlisted men in the United States Army during the Indian Wars (1866-91) need no longer be mere shadows behind their historically well-documented commanding officers.
As member of the regular army,
- Author: Rickey, Don
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: December 15 1973
- ISBN10: 0806111135
- Language: English
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Jim Bridger, Mountain Man: A Biography
$21.95 Add to cartEven among the mighty mountain men, Jim Bridger was a towering figure. He was one of the greatest explorers and pathfinders in American history. He couldn’t write his name, but at eighteen he had brav
- Author: Vestal, Stanley
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 333
- Publish Date: March 01, 1970
- ISBN10: 0803257201
- Language: English
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The Franklin Scandal: A Story of Powerbrokers, Child Abuse and Betrayal
$24.95 Add to cartA chilling expos of corporate corruption and government cover-ups, this account of a nationwide child-trafficking and pedophilia ring in the United States tells a sordid tale of corruption in high pl… [more below]
- Author: Bryant, Nick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 648
- Publish Date: January 22 2012
- ISBN10: 1936296071
- Language: English
