Bison Books
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The Dawn of the World: Myths and Tales of the Miwok Indians of California
$21.95 Add to cartThe stories collected in The Dawn of the World were related by the Miwok elders “after the first rains of the winter season, usually in the ceremonial roundhouse and always at night by the dim light o… [more below]
- Author: Bean, Lowell J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 273
- Publish Date: July 30 2003
- ISBN10: 0803281935
- Language: English
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Algonquian Spirit: Contemporary Translations of the Algonquian Literatures of North America
$34.95 Add to cartWhen Europeans first arrived on this continent, Algonquian languages were spoken from the northeastern seaboard through the Great Lakes region, across much of Canada, and even in scattered communities… [more below]
- Series: Native Literatures of the Americas and Indigenous World Lite
- Author: Swann, Brian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 532
- Publish Date: December 01 2005
- ISBN10: 0803293380
- Language: English
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Rise Up!: Indigenous Music in North America
$29.95 Add to cartMusic historian Craig Harris explores more than five hundred years of Indigenous history, religion, and cultural evolution in Rise Up! Indigenous Music in North America. More than powwow drums and woo… [more below]
- Author: Harris, Craig
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: November 1, 2023
- ISBN10: 1496236157
- Language: English
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Little Britches: Father and I Were Ranchers
$17.95 Add to cartA most appealing book . . . Its genuineness and its simplicity will build up a large audience of enthusiastic readers.—San Francisco Chronicle
Ralph Moody was eight years old in 1906 when his family m
- Author: Moody, Ralph
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 260
- Publish Date: September 01, 1991
- ISBN10: 0803281781
- Language: English
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The Fields of Home
$16.95 Add to cart“A lively story . . . warm with humor; bright with incident and personality.”—San Francisco Chronicle
The fatherless Moody family moved from Colorado to Medford, Massachusetts, in 1912, when Ralph was
- Author: Moody, Ralph
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 335
- Publish Date: January 01, 1993
- ISBN10: 0803281943
- Language: English
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The Forbidden Fuel: A History of Power Alcohol, New Edition
$19.95 Add to cartThe Forbidden Fuel is the definitive history of alcohol fuel, describing in colorful detail the emergence of alcohol fuel in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and the political and economic force… [more below]
- Author: Bernton, Hal
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: March 01 2010
- ISBN10: 0803228082
- Language: English
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Our Voices: Native Stories of Alaska and the Yukon
$25.00 Add to cartStorytelling is a precious, vibrant tradition among the Native peoples of the Far North. Collected here for the first time are stories from the communities of interior Alaska and the Yukon Territory. … [more below]
- Author: Ruppert, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 394
- Publish Date: September 01 2001
- ISBN10: 0803289847
- Language: English
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Bummerland: Ruin and Restoration in Trump’s New America
$32.95 Add to cartWith radical candor and sardonic wit, Randolph Lewis offers an autopsy of the recent past, looking for glimmers of hope and redemption among the detritus strewn about by neo-Gilded Age billionaires, B
- Author: Lewis, Randolph
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: March 01 2026
- ISBN10: 1496244850
- Language: English
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Wildlife of Nebraska: A Natural History
$34.95 Add to cartIn Wildlife of Nebraska: A Natural History, Paul A. Johnsgard surveys the variety and biology of more than six hundred Nebraska species.
Narrative accounts describe the ecology and biology of the state
- Author: Johnsgard, Paul A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: October 01 2020
- ISBN10: 1496220269
- Language: English
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Virginia Faulkner: A Life in Two Acts
$34.95 Add to cartFeatured writer for the Washington Post at twenty. Author of a hit novel at twenty-one. Coaxed Greta Garbo out of seclusion for a Hollywood party. Ghostwrote the memoirs of New York’s most famous mada… [more below]
- Author: Bigelow, Brad
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: January 01 2026
- ISBN10: 1496230620
- Language: English
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Sandhill and Whooping Cranes: Ancient Voices Over America’s Wetlands
$14.95 Add to cartDriving west from Lincoln to Grand Island, Nebraska, Paul A. Johnsgard remarks, is like driving backward in time. “I suspect,” he says, “that the migrating cranes of a pre-ice age period some ten mill… [more below]
- Author: Johnsgard, Paul A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: March 01 2011
- ISBN10: 0803234961
- Language: English
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Those of the Gray Wind: The Sandhill Cranes, New Edition
$14.95 Add to cartWith Paul A. Johnsgard, we follow the migration of the sandhill cranes from the American Southwest to their Alaskan breeding grounds and back again, an annual pattern that has persisted over millions … [more below]
- Author: Johnsgard, Paul A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 174
- Publish Date: September 01 2017
- ISBN10: 1496201574
- Language: English
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My Kitchen Wars: A Memoir
$19.95 Add to cartAlthough My Kitchen Wars is a war story, this time the warrior is a woman and the battleground the kitchen. Her weapons–the batterie de cuisine of grills and squeezers and knives–evoke a lifetime’s … [more below]
- Series: At Table
- Author: Fussell, Betty
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: March 01 2009
- ISBN10: 0803220979
- Language: English
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Guns, Furs, and Gold: An American West History of Indigenous Peoples and Explorers
$34.95 Add to cartGuns, Furs, and Gold offers a riveting narrative of the American West by exploring the interactions of the Arikaras, Crows, Cheyennes, and Arapahos with each other and with Euro-American traders, expl… [more below]
- Author: Morris, Larry E.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: December 01 2025
- ISBN10: 1496237617
- Language: English
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The Last Cows: On Ranching, Wonder, and a Woman’s Heart
$24.95 Add to cartTold from the unique perspective of a woman, mother, environmentalist, cowboy, and rancher, this work of literary nonfiction conveys the joys, challenges, heartbreaks, and qualms of contemporary ranch… [more below]
- Series: Our Regenerative Future
- Author: Wilder, Kathryn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 284
- Publish Date: November 01 2025
- ISBN10: 1496239164
- Language: English
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Where Blackbirds Fly
$27.95 Add to cartA novel in five novellas, Where Blackbirds Fly offers a prismatic deep dive into the human heart through fierce narratives of intimacy both lovely and heartbreaking. Countering social upheavals, Shann… [more below]
- Author: Ray, Shann
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 484
- Publish Date: October 01 2025
- ISBN10: 1496243579
- Language: English
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Dinosaur Dreams: A Father and Daughter in Search of America’s Prehistoric Past
$21.95 Add to cartIn the summer of 2023, one of the hottest on record, B.J. Hollars and his nine-year-old daughter Ellie embarked on a two-thousand-mile road trip to complete the Montana Dinosaur Trail, a fourteen-stop… [more below]
- Author: Hollars, B. J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 01 2025
- ISBN10: 1496237714
- Language: English
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Great Plains Indians
$14.95 Add to cart2017 Nebraska Book Awards Nonfiction: Reference
David J. Wishart’s Great Plains Indians covers thirteen thousand years of fascinating, dynamic, and often tragic history. From a hunting and gathering- Series: Discover the Great Plains
- Author: Wishart, David J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: September 01 2016
- ISBN10: 0803269625
- Language: English
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Rooted at the Edge: Ranching Where the Old West and New West Collide
$24.95 Add to cartRooted at the Edge paints a portrait of a ranching community in a threatened landscape steeped in history, conflict, and beauty. In this narrative nonfiction work, Donna L. Erickson explores the hilly… [more below]
- Author: Erickson, Donna L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: April 01 2025
- ISBN10: 149624043X
- Language: English
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Living West as Feminists: Conversations about the Where of Us
$24.95 Add to cartIn the aftermath of the 2020 U.S. presidential election, Krista Comer invited fifteen colleagues into a conversation about feminism and the U.S. West. From her travels over some thirteen thousand mile… [more below]
- Author: Comer, Krista
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 316
- Publish Date: November 01 2024
- ISBN10: 1496229533
- Language: English
