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By: Swann, Brian
Algonquian Spirit: Contemporary Translations of the Algonquian Literatures of North America
$34.95PaperbackAdd 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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By: Ralph Moody
Little Britches: Father and I Were Ranchers
$16.95PaperbackAdd 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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By: Moody, Ralph
The Fields of Home
$16.95PaperbackAdd 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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By: Bigelow, Brad
Virginia Faulkner: A Life in Two Acts
$34.95HardcoverAdd 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
$14.95PaperbackAdd 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
$14.95PaperbackAdd 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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By: Fussell, Betty
My Kitchen Wars: A Memoir
$19.95PaperbackAdd 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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By: Morris, Larry E.
Guns, Furs, and Gold: An American West History of Indigenous Peoples and Explorers
$34.95HardcoverAdd 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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By: Wilder, Kathryn
The Last Cows: On Ranching, Wonder, and a Woman’s Heart
$24.95PaperbackAdd 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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By: Ray, Shann
Where Blackbirds Fly
$27.95PaperbackAdd 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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By: Hollars, B. J.
Dinosaur Dreams: A Father and Daughter in Search of America’s Prehistoric Past
$21.95PaperbackAdd 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
$14.95PaperbackAdd 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
$24.95PaperbackAdd 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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By: Comer, Krista
Living West as Feminists: Conversations about the Where of Us
$24.95PaperbackAdd 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
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By: Norby, Monica
The Nebraska Sandhills
$34.95HardcoverAdd to cart“Like a rumpled wool blanket, the Nebraska Sandhills spreads out over twenty thousand square miles of north central Nebraska and is the largest stabilized dune field in the Western Hemisphere. It is a… [more below]
- Author: Norby, Monica
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: April 01 2024
- ISBN10: 1496235835
- Language: English
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By: Rogers, Brent M.
Buffalo Bill and the Mormons
$29.95PaperbackAdd to cartIn this never-before-told history of Buffalo Bill and the Mormons, Brent M. Rogers presents the intersections in the epic histories of William F. “Buffalo Bill” Cody and the Latter-day Saints from 184… [more below]
- Author: Rogers, Brent M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: March 01 2024
- ISBN10: 1496213181
- Language: English
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Cast Out of Eden: The Untold Story of John Muir, Indigenous Peoples, and the American Wilderness
$34.95HardcoverAdd to cartJohn Muir is widely and rightly lauded as the nature mystic who added wilderness to the United States’ vision of itself, largely through the system of national parks and wild areas his writings and pu… [more below]
- Author: McNally, Robert Aquinas
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: May 01 2024
- ISBN10: 1496227263
- Language: English
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By: Chorneau, Tom
Mrs. Cook and the Klan: Booze, Bloodshed, and Bigotry in America’s Heartland
$24.95PaperbackAdd to cartOn the day she was murdered, Myrtle Underwood Cook boasted to local authorities about new evidence of a major bootlegging ring operating out of the Rock Island train depot behind her house in a small … [more below]
- Author: Chorneau, Tom
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 276
- Publish Date: March 01 2025
- ISBN10: 1496235843
- Language: English
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By: Haefele, Fred
The Essential Book of Pickup Trucks
$21.95PaperbackAdd to cartOf the sixty million pickups on U.S. highways today, just one in eight was bought for work purposes. The remaining fifty-four million are what truck dealers call “lifestyle purchases.” Does the pickup… [more below]
- Author: Haefele, Fred
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 220
- Publish Date: May 01 2025
- ISBN10: 1496242289
- Language: English
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Lana’s Lakota Moons
$17.95PaperbackAdd to cartThis charming and poignant contemporary story about two Lakota girls and their Laotian friend illuminates for children and adults the Lakota meaning of family, friendship, life, and death. In the Lako… [more below]
- Author: Sneve, Virginia Driving Hawk
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: November 01 2007
- ISBN10: 0803260288
- Language: English




















