Cultural Region/Plains
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On the Spine of Time: A Flyfisher’s Journey Among Mountain People, Streams & Trout
$18.99 Add to cartThis powerful story of one angler’s adventures in the Great Smoky Mountains is a descent into wildness, a meditation on the landscape bathed in greenness and truth, and the discovery of a people livin… [more below]
- Series: Pruett
- Author: Middleton, Harry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: March 01 1997
- ISBN10: 0871088924
- Language: English
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Local Wonders: Seasons in the Bohemian Alps
$18.95 Add to cartTed Kooser describes with exquisite detail and humor the place he calls home in the rolling hills of southeastern Nebraska–an area known as the Bohemian Alps. Nothing is too big or too small for his … [more below]
- Series: American Lives
- Author: Kooser, Ted
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 153
- Publish Date: March 01 2004
- ISBN10: 080327811X
- Language: English
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The Sixth Grandfather: Black Elk’s Teachings Given to John G. Neihardt
$29.95 Add to cartIn Black Elk Speaks and When the Tree Flowered, John C. Neihardt recorded the teachings of the Oglala holy man Black Elk, who had, in a vision, seen himself as the “sixth grandfather,” the spiritual r… [more below]
- Series: Bison Book S
- Author: Demallie, Raymond J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 462
- Publish Date: October 01 1985
- ISBN10: 0803265646
- Language: English
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Montana: An Uncommon Land
$21.95 Add to cartIn writing this classic history of his home state, K. Ross Toole consciously avoided a systematic presentation of chronological facts. Instead, he wrote a series of roughly chronological essays pointi… [more below]
- Author: Toole, K. Ross
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: May 29 1959
- ISBN10: 0806118903
- Language: English
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Covered Wagon Women, Volume 1: Diaries and Letters from the Western Trails, 1840-1849
$19.95 Add to cartThe women who traveled west in covered wagons during the 1840s speak through these letters and diaries. Here are the voices of Tamsen Donner and young Virginia Reed, members of the ill-fated Donner pa… [more below]
- Series: Covered Wagon Women #1
- Author: Holmes, Kenneth L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: September 01 1995
- ISBN10: 0803272774
- Language: English
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Great Plains Bison
$17.95 Add to cartA Project of the Center for Great Plains Studies and the School of Natural Resources, University of Nebraska
Great Plains Bison traces the history and ecology of this American symbol from the origins- Series: Discover the Great Plains
- Author: O’Brien, Dan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: September 01 2017
- ISBN10: 0803285779
- Language: English
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My Antonia
$27.00 Add to cartFrom A to Z, the Penguin Drop Caps series collects 26 unique hardcovers–featuring cover art by type superstar Jessica Hische
It all begins with a letter. Fall in love with Penguin Drop Caps, a new s- Series: Penguin Drop Caps
- Author: Cather, Willa
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: December 12 2012
- ISBN10: 143123157
- Language: English
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Buffalo Girls
$19.99 Add to cartA strange old woman caked in Montana mud pens a letter to her darling daughter back East–the writer’s name is Martha Jane, but her friends call her Calamity…
I am the Wild West, no show about it. I- Author: McMurtry, Larry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: November 13, 2001
- ISBN10: 0743216296
- Language: English
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Tracks a Novel
$18.99 Add to cart“[Erdrich] captures the passions, fears, myths, and doom of a living people, and she does so with an ease that leaves the reader breathless.”–The New Yorker
From award-winning, New York Times bestsell
- Author: Erdrich, Louise
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: August 29 2017
- ISBN10: 0060972459
- Language: English
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Journey Into Christmas and Other Stories
$19.95 Add to cartThe true meaning of Christmas emerges in these stories about reunited families, good fellowship, and restored faith. This is not to say that all is sugar candy. The mother in the title story faces a l… [more below]
- Series: Bison Book S
- Author: Aldrich, Bess Streeter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 266
- Publish Date: October 01 1985
- ISBN10: 0803259085
- Language: English
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Woe to Live on
$17.99 Add to cartSet in the border states of Kansas and Missouri, Woe to Live On explores the nature of lawlessness and violence, friendship and loyalty, through the eyes of young recruit Jake Roedel. Where he and his… [more below]
- Author: Woodrell, Daniel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: June 19 2012
- ISBN10: 0316206164
- Language: English
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My Ántonia
$21.99 Add to cartAfter the death of his parents, Jim Burden is sent to live with his grandparents in Nebraska, where he meets his first and most prominent love, Antonia Shimera. As pioneers in Nebraska, the Shimera f
- Series: Mint Editions (Women Writers)
- Author: Cather, Willa
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 222
- Publish Date: April 20 2021
- ISBN10: 1513221094
- Language: English
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The Honk and Holler Opening Soon
$16.99 Add to cartCaney Paxton wanted his cafe to have the biggest and brightest sign in Eastern Oklahoma-the “opening soon” part was supposed to be just a removable, painted notice. But a fateful misunderstanding gave… [more below]
- Author: Letts, Billie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: May 01 1999
- ISBN10: 0446675059
- Language: English
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Buster Midnight’s Cafe
$22.00 Add to cartMay Anna Kovacks was discovered on the dustry streets of Butte, Montana and went on to become a Hollywood star. War, fame, marriage, love, and heartbreak came and went. What never changed was the bond
- Author: Dallas, Sandra
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: April 15 1998
- ISBN10: 0312180624
- Language: English
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The Indian Lawyer
$25.99 Add to cartSylvester Yellow Calf is a former reservation basketball star, a promising young lawyer, and a possible congressional candidate. But when a parolee ensnares him in a blackmail scheme, he’ll have to de
- Author: Welch, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 350
- Publish Date: February 01 2007
- ISBN10: 0393329380
- Language: English
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Where the Heart is
$18.99 Add to cartTalk about unlucky sevens. An hour ago, seventeen-year-old, seven months pregnant Novalee Nation was heading for California with her boyfriend. Now she finds herself stranded at a Wal-Mart in Sequoyah… [more below]
- Series: Oprah’s Book Club
- Author: Letts, Billie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: June 01 1998
- ISBN10: 0446672211
- Language: English
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The Woman At Otowi Crossing
$21.95 Add to cartBased on the real life of Edith Warner, who ran a tearoom at Otowi Crossing, just below Los Alamos, The Woman at Otowi Crossing is the story of Helen Chalmer, a person in tune with her adopted environ
- Author: Waters, Frank
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 314
- Publish Date: August 01 1987
- ISBN10: 0804008930
- Language: English
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O Pioneers!
$6.95 Add to cartCather’s classic story of Alexandra Bergson, a courageous Swedish woman who must assume responsibility for the farm and family after her father’s death in 19th-century Nebraska. A Hallmark Hall of Fam… [more below]
- Author: Cather, Willa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: April 20 2023
- ISBN10: 0395083656
- Language: English
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A Lantern in Her Hand
$14.95 Add to cartFirst published in 1928, A Lantern in Her Hand has outlasted literary fashions to touch generations of readers. In this classic story of a pioneer woman, Bess Streeter Aldrich modeled protagonist Abbi… [more below]
- Author: Aldrich, Bess Streeter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 307
- Publish Date: January 01 1994
- ISBN10: 0803259220
- Language: English
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My Antonia
$10.95 Read moreMy Antonia is a classic tale of pioneer life in the American Midwest. The novel details daily life in the newly settled plains of Nebraska through the eyes of Jim Burden, who recounts memories of a ch… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Cather, Willa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: February 15 2009
- ISBN10: 019953814X
- Language: English
