Cultural Region/Plains
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The Diary of Mattie Spenser
$19.00 Add to cartNo one is more surprised than Mattie Spenser herself when Luke Spenser, considered the great catch of their small Iowa town, asks her to marry him. Less than a month later, they are off in a covered w
- Author: Dallas, Sandra
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: May 15 1998
- ISBN10: 0312187106
- Language: English
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Fair Land, Fair Land
$15.95 Add to cartWith his revered classics The Big Sky and The Way West, A. B. Guthrie, Jr., claimed his preeminent post as the father of the western epic. Fair Land, Fair Land, first published in 1982, marks the sequ
- Author: Guthrie, A. B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: March 10 2011
- ISBN10: 0395755190
- Language: English
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So Far from Spring
$19.99 Add to cartA gripping and startlingly frank novel of life on a cattle ranch set on the Colorado-Wyoming border during the 1890s. The principle characters are Kelsey Cameron, his wife, Prim Munro, the ranch forem… [more below]
- Series: Pruett
- Author: Curry, Peggy Simson
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: September 01 2015
- ISBN10: 0871083205
- Language: English
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The Man Who Fell in Love with the Moon
$18.00 Add to cartSet against the harsh reality of an unforgiving landscape and culture, The Man Who Fell in Love with the Moon provides a vision of the Old West unlike anything seen before. The narrator, Shed, is one … [more below]
- Author: Spanbauer, Tom
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: January 06 2000
- ISBN10: 080213663X
- Language: English
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These Thousand Hills
$21.95 Add to cartWhen These Thousand Hills was published in 1956, The Saturday Review proclaimed it to be “so compelling that it is hard indeed to set aside until it has been devoured.” Conjuring up the ephemeral worl
- Series: Big Sky
- Author: Guthrie, A. B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: January 03 2012
- ISBN10: 0395755204
- Language: English
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My Antonia
$9.00 Add to cartMy ntonia evokes the Nebraska prairie life of Willa Cather’s childhood, and commemorates the spirit and courage of immigrant pioneers in America. One of Cather’s earliest novels, written in 1918, it
- Series: Dover Thrift Editions
- Author: Cather, Willa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: October 21 1994
- ISBN10: 0486282406
- Language: English
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Betsy-Tacy
$9.99 Add to cartBest Friends Forever
There are lots of children on Hill Street, but no little girls Betsy’s age. So when a new family moves into the house across the street, Betsy hopes they will have a little girl sh
- Series: Betsy-Tacy #1
- Author: Lovelace, Maud Hart
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: August 14 2007
- ISBN10: 0064400964
- Language: English
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Basin and Range
$19.00 Add to cartThe first of John McPhee’s works in his series on geology and geologists, Basin and Range is a book of journeys through ancient terrains, always in juxtaposition with travels in the modern world–a hi
- Series: Annals of the Former World #1
- Author: McPhee, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: April 01 1982
- ISBN10: 374516901
- Language: English
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Wigwam Evenings: Sioux Tales Retold
$17.95 Add to cart“Charles Eastman, in collaboration with his wife, Elaine Goodale Eastman, has assembled in this collection a composite, condensed sampling of his tribe’s values, and presents them in a language that i… [more below]
- Author: Eastman, Charles A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 253
- Publish Date: September 01 1990
- ISBN10: 0803267177
- Language: English
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Wapiti Wilderness
$26.95 Add to cartFor over thirty-seven years, Margaret and Olaus Murie made their home in the mountainous wilderness of the Tetons, where Olaus Murie conducted his famous studies of the American elk, the wapiti. Throu… [more below]
- Author: Murie, Margaret E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 302
- Publish Date: December 15 1987
- ISBN10: 087081155X
- Language: English
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Little Farm in the Ozarks
$11.99 Read moreThe second book in the Rose Years series, the story of the spirited daughter of the author of the beloved Little House series.
Rose Wilder, Laura Ingalls Wilder’s daughter, is the last of the Little H
- Series: Little House Sequel
- Author: MacBride, Roger Lea
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: April 08 1994
- ISBN10: 0064405109
- Language: English
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Crazy Horse and Custer: The Parallel Lives of Two American Warriors
$22.00 Add to cartThe full story of what led Crazy Horse and Custer to that fateful day at the Little Bighorn, from bestselling historian Stephen E. Ambrose.
On the sparkling morning of June 25, 1876, 611 U.S. Army so- Author: Ambrose, Stephen E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: May 01 1996
- ISBN10: 0385479662
- Language: English
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No Man Knows My History: The Life of Joseph Smith
$24.00 Add to cartThe first paperback edition of the classic biography of the founder of the Mormon church, this book attempts to answer the questions that continue to surround Joseph Smith. Was he a genuine prophet, o… [more below]
- Author: Brodie, Fawn M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 576
- Publish Date: August 01 1995
- ISBN10: 0679730540
- Language: English
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Bad Land: An American Romance
$18.00 Add to cartNATIONAL BESTSELLER – NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER – Startlingly observed, beautifully written, this book is a contemporary classic of the American West. – “As good a book as I have read … [more below]
- Series: Vintage Departures
- Author: Raban, Jonathan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 364
- Publish Date: October 07 1997
- ISBN10: 0679759069
- Language: English
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Myths and Legends of the Sioux
$15.95 Add to cartThe timid rabbit who outwits the tyrannical bear, the wonderful turtle who marries the Indian chief’s daughter, the pet crane who saves a family–these and many other legendary figures appear in Myths… [more below]
- Author: McLaughlin, Marie L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: September 01 1990
- ISBN10: 0803281714
- Language: English
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The Meadow
$19.99 Add to cartAn American Library Association Notable Book
In discrete disclosures joined with the intricacy of a spider’s web, James Galvin depicts the hundred-year history of a meadow in the arid mountains of the- Author: Galvin, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: April 15 1993
- ISBN10: 0805027033
- Language: English
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The First Four Years
$9.99 Add to cartThe ninth and final book in Laura Ingalls Wilder’s classic Little House series.
Laura Ingalls Wilder is beginning life with her new husband, Almanzo, in their own little house. Laura is a young pionee
- Series: Little House #9
- Author: Wilder, Laura Ingalls
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 134
- Publish Date: April 08 2008
- ISBN10: 006440031X
- Language: English
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Old Indian Legends
$19.95 Add to cartEarly in the twentieth century, a Sioux woman named Zitkala-Sa published these fourteen Native legends that she had learned during her own childhood on the Yankton Reservation. Her writing talent, dev
- Series: Bison Classic Editions
- Author: Zitkala-Sa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: July 01 2013
- ISBN10: 0803299036
- Language: English
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Blaze and the Forest Fire: Billy and Blaze Spread the Alarm
$9.99 Add to cartBilly and Blaze race a forest fire in this installment of the classic, beloved Billy and Blaze series, from renowned author C.W. Anderson.
Billy and Blaze are more than just friends–they’re heroes W- Series: Billy and Blaze
- Author: Anderson, C. W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 56
- Publish Date: April 30 1992
- ISBN10: 0689716052
- Language: English
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The Year the Stars Fell: Lakota Winter Counts at the Smithsonian
$49.95 Add to cartWinter counts–pictorial calendars by which Plains Indians kept track of their past–marked each year with a picture of a memorable event. The Lakota, or Western Sioux, recorded many different events … [more below]
- Author: Greene, Candace S.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 377
- Publish Date: June 01 2007
- ISBN10: 0803222114
- Language: English
