Bison Books
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Seasons in Hell: With Billy Martin, Whitey Herzog and the Worst Baseball Team in History–The 1973-1975 Texas Rangers
$19.95 Add to cart“Disastrously hilarious.”—USA Today
“Even before the start of spring training, Herzog had said, ‘If Rich Billings is the starting catcher again, we’re in deep trouble.’ When that evaluation was passed
- Author: Shropshire, Mike
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 245
- Publish Date: December 15 2010
- ISBN10: 0803292775
- Language: English
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Jim Bridger, Mountain Man: A Biography
$21.95 Add to cartEven among the mighty mountain men, Jim Bridger was a towering figure. He was one of the greatest explorers and pathfinders in American history. He couldn’t write his name, but at eighteen he had brav
- Author: Vestal, Stanley
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 333
- Publish Date: March 01, 1970
- ISBN10: 0803257201
- Language: English
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Vanished Arizona: Recollections of the Army Life of a New England Woman
$19.95 Add to cartWhen Martha Summerhayes (1844-1926) came as a bride to Fort Russell in Wyoming Territory in 1874, she “saw not much in those first few days besides bright buttons, blue uniforms, and shining swords,” … [more below]
- Series: Bison Classic Editions
- Author: Summerhayes, Martha
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 382
- Publish Date: March 01 2014
- ISBN10: 0803248687
- Language: English
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Under Prairie Skies: The Plants and Native Peoples of the Northern Plains
$29.95 Add to cartIn Under Prairie Skies, C. Thomas Shay asks and answers the question, What role did plants play in the lives of early inhabitants of the northern Great Plains? Since humans arrived at the end of the I… [more below]
- Author: Shay, C. Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: July 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1496223381
- Language: English
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Northern Paiutes of the Malheur: High Desert Reckoning in Oregon Country
$34.95 Add to cart2023 Oregon Book Award Finalist
In 1870 a twenty-six-year-old Paiute, Sarah Winnemucca, wrote to an army officer requesting that Paiutes be given a chance to settle and farm their ancestral land in O- Author: Wilson, David H.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: May 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1496230450
- Language: English
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The Magnificent Mountain Women: Adventures in the Colorado Rockies
$16.95 Add to cartSince the Pikes Peak gold rush in the mid-nineteenth century, women have gone into the mountains of Colorado to hike, climb, ski, homestead, botanize, act as guides, practice medicine, and meet a vari… [more below]
- Author: Robertson, Janet
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 276
- Publish Date: October 01 2003
- ISBN10: 0803289952
- Language: English
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Speaking of Indians
$14.95 Add to cartElla Deloria could speak intimately about Indian ways because she belonged to a Yankton Sioux family. A distinguished scholar who studied with Franz Boas at Columbia University, she had the gift of la… [more below]
- Author: Deloria Jr, Vine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 163
- Publish Date: August 01 1998
- ISBN10: 0803266146
- Language: English
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Crazy Horse: The Strange Man of the Oglalas
$24.95 Add to cart“[One] of the great stories of the West, and written . . . in the spirit of the sages, with a scrupulous regard for truth and history.”—Atlantic Monthly
Crazy Horse, the legendary military leader of t
- Author: Sandoz, Mari
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: March 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0803217870
- Language: English
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Hospital and Haven: The Life and Work of Grafton and Clara Burke in Northern Alaska
$34.95 Add to cartHospital and Haven tells the story of an Episcopal missionary couple who lived their entire married life, from 1910 to 1938, among the Gwich’in peoples of northern Alaska, devoting themselves to the p… [more below]
- Author: Ehrlander, Mary F.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 360
- Publish Date: October 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1496236181
- Language: English
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Lakota Myth
$21.95 Add to cartJames R. Walker was a physician to the Pine Ridge Sioux from 1896 to 1914. His accounts of this time, taken from his personal papers, reveal much about Lakota life and culture. This third volume of pr… [more below]
- Author: Walker, James R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 428
- Publish Date: April 01 2006
- ISBN10: 0803298609
- 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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The Summer Game
$19.95 Add to cart“Page for page, The Summer Game contains not only the classiest but also the most resourceful baseball writing I have ever read.”–New York Times Book Review
The Summer Game, Roger Angell’s first book
- Series: Bison Book
- Author: Angell, Roger
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 303
- Publish Date: March 01 2004
- ISBN10: 0803259514
- Language: English
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Katie Gale: A Coast Salish Woman’s Life on Oyster Bay
$19.95 Add to cartA gravestone, a mention in local archives, stories still handed down around Oyster Bay: the outline of a woman begins to emerge and with her the world she inhabited, so rich in tradition and shaken by
- Author: De Danaan, Llyn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: September 01 2019
- ISBN10: 1496215117
- 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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Plenty-Coups: Chief of the Crows (Second Edition)
$21.95 Add to cart“An exciting account by one of the last great chiefs.”―Los Angeles Times
In his old age, Plenty-coups (1848-1932), the last hereditary chief of the Crow Indians, told the moving story of his life
- Series: Bison Book
- Author: Linderman, Frank B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: November 01 2002
- ISBN10: 0803280181
- Language: English
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A Beast the Color of Winter: The Mountain Goat Observed
$18.95 Add to cart“In North America there is one large animal that belongs almost entirely to the realm of towering rock and unmelting snow. Pressing hard against the upper limit of life’s possibilities, it exists high… [more below]
- Author: Chadwick, Douglas H.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: April 01 2002
- ISBN10: 0803264216
- Language: English
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The St. Louis Commune of 1877: Communism in the Heartland
$29.95 Add to cartFollowing the Civil War, large corporations emerged in the United States and became intent on maximizing their power and profits at all costs. Political corruption permeated American society as those … [more below]
- Author: Kruger, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 330
- Publish Date: October 01 2021
- ISBN10: 1496228138
- Language: English
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Witchcraft in the Southwest: Spanish & Indian Supernaturalism on the Rio Grande
$19.95 Add to cart“Occasionally a truly remarkable book appears-one that takes a topic in need of discussion, thoroughly researches it, and presents credible results in a fascinating and extremely well manner. Witchcra… [more below]
- Author: Simmons, Marc
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: March 01 1980
- ISBN10: 0803291167
- Language: English
