Bison Books
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Writing Brave and Free: Encouraging Words for People Who Want to Start Writing
$14.95 Add to cartSometimes setting pen to paper requires bravery, and writing well means breaking free of the rules learned in school. Liberating and emboldening the beginning writer are the goals of Ted Kooser and St… [more below]
- Author: Kooser, Ted
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 178
- Publish Date: March 01 2006
- ISBN10: 0803278322
- Language: English
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Why Sacagawea Deserves the Day Off & Other Lessons from the Le Wis & Clark Trail
$17.95 Add to cartMore than two hundred years later, the “voyage of discovery”–with its outsized characters, geographic marvels, and wondrous moments of adventure and mystery–continues to draw us along the Lewis and … [more below]
- Series: Bison Original
- Author: Tubbs, Stephenie Ambrose
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: October 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0803215851
- Language: English
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My Omaha Obsession: Searching for the City
$24.95 Add to cart2021 Nebraska Book Award
My Omaha Obsession takes the reader on an idiosyncratic tour through some of Omaha’s neighborhoods, buildings, architecture, and people, celebrating the city’s unusual history- Author: Cassette
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: November 01 2020
- ISBN10: 1496207610
- 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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Blackfoot Lodge Tales: The Story of a Prairie People
$19.95 Add to cartThis collection of powerful stories reveals the complex and wondrous world of the Blackfoot nation in the nineteenth century. The thirty tales transcribed by George Bird Grinnell provide an intimate l… [more below]
- Author: Grinnell, George Bird
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 310
- Publish Date: October 01 2003
- ISBN10: 0803271093
- 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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Epic Wanderer: David Thompson and the Mapping of the Canadian West
$19.95 Add to cartWell illustrated and served well by a thorough bibliography, this imaginative reconstruction will whet readers’ appetites to seek out the copious literature on Thompson, the ‘epic wanderer.’ —Choice
- Author: Jenish, D’Arcy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: June 01 2009
- ISBN10: 0803224524
- Language: English
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Wooden Leg: A Warrior Who Fought Custer (Second Edition)
$21.95 Add to cartTold with vigor and insight, this is the memorable story of Wooden Leg (1858-1940), one of sixteen hundred warriors of the Northern Cheyennes who fought with the Lakotas against Custer at the Battle o… [more below]
- Author: Marquis, Thomas B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 389
- Publish Date: October 01 2003
- ISBN10: 0803282885
- Language: English
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The Sun Came Down: The History of the World as My Blackfeet Elders Told It
$32.95 Add to cartAt the age of sixty-seven, Percy Bullchild (1915-1986), a Blackfeet Indian from Browning, Montana, with little formal education in English, set out to put the oral traditions and history of his people… [more below]
- Author: Bullchild, Percy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 392
- Publish Date: October 01 2005
- ISBN10: 0803262507
- Language: English
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Or Perish in the Attempt: The Hardship and Medicine of the Lewis and Clark Expedition
$23.95 Add to cartDavid J. Peck’s Or Perish in the Attempt ingeniously combines the remarkable adventures of Lewis and Clark with an examination of the health problems their expedition faced. Formidable problems indeed… [more below]
- Author: Peck, David J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 360
- Publish Date: June 01 2011
- ISBN10: 0803235119
- Language: English
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Old Jules (Third Edition)
$19.95 Add to cartFirst published in 1935, Old Jules is unquestionably Mari Sandoz’s masterpiece. This portrait of her pioneer father grew out of “the silent hours of listening behind the stove or the wood box, when it… [more below]
- Author: Sandoz, Mari
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 425
- Publish Date: April 01 2005
- ISBN10: 0803293240
- Language: English
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The Oglala People, 1841-1879: A Political History
$19.95 Add to cartIn the late nineteenth century the U.S. government attempted to reshape Lakota (Sioux) society to accord with American ideals. Catherine Price charts the political strategies employed by Oglala counci… [more below]
- Author: Price, Catherine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 242
- Publish Date: August 01 1998
- ISBN10: 0803287585
- Language: English
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The Power of Scenery: Frederick Law Olmsted and the Origin of National Parks
$29.95 Add to cartFeatured in Wall Street Journal‘s 2021 Holiday Gift Books Guide
Wallace Stegner called national parks “the best idea we ever had.” As Americans celebrate the 150th anniv
2021 Marfield Prize Finalist- Author: Drabelle, Dennis
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: November 01 2021
- ISBN10: 1496220773
- Language: English
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Great Plains Geology
$17.95 Add to cartGreat Plains Geology concisely guides readers through the geological development of the Great Plains region. It describes the distinct features of fifty-seven geologic sites, including fascinating pla… [more below]
- Series: Discover the Great Plains
- Author: Diffendal, R. F.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: April 01 2017
- ISBN10: 0803249519
- Language: English
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Birthing the West: Mothers and Midwives in the Rockies and Plains
$24.95 Add to cartReading the West Longlist for Nonfiction
Childbirth defines families, communities, and nations. In Birthing the West, Jennifer J. Hill fills the silences around historical reproduction with copious- Author: Hill, Jennifer J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 290
- Publish Date: March 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1496226852
- 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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Cherokee Women: Gender and Culture Change, 1700-1835
$17.95 Add to cart“An interesting and effective overview. . . . It is to the author’s considerable credit that she is able to re-create the values and behavior of Cherokee women through court records, myths, and observ
- Series: Indians of the Southeast
- Author: Perdue, Theda
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 254
- Publish Date: August 01 1999
- ISBN10: 0803287607
- Language: English
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The Lewis and Clark Journals: An American Epic of Discovery
$24.95 Add to cartFollowing orders from President Thomas Jefferson, Captains Meriwether Lewis and William Clark set out from their wintering camp in Illinois in 1804 to search for a river passage to the Pacific Ocean. … [more below]
- Author: Lewis, Meriwether
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 497
- Publish Date: November 01 2004
- ISBN10: 0803280394
- Language: English
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Skywalks: Robert Gordon’s Untold Story of Hallmark’s Kansas City Disaster
$34.95 Add to cartIn 1981 the suspended walkways–or “skywalks”–in Kansas City’s Hyatt Regency hotel fell and killed 114 people. It was the deadliest building collapse in the United States until the fall of New York’s… [more below]
- Author: Paul, R. Eli
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 376
- Publish Date: March 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1496233131
- Language: English
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Sitting Bull and the Paradox of Lakota Nationhood
$19.95 Add to cartIn this newly revised biography, Sitting Bull and the Paradox of Lakota Nationhood, Gary C. Anderson offers a new interpretation of Sitting Bull’s conflict with General George Custer at Little Big Hor… [more below]
- Author: Anderson, Gary C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 228
- Publish Date: March 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1496232674
- Language: English
