Bison Books
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American Indian Stories
$14.95 Add to cartAmerican Indian Stories, first published in 1921, is a collection of childhood stories, allegorical fiction, and an essay. One of the most famous Sioux writers and activists of the modern era, Zitkala… [more below]
- Author: Zitkala-Sa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 196
- Publish Date: September 01 2003
- ISBN10: 0803299176
- Language: English
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Hush of the Land: A Lifetime in the Bob Marshall Wilderness
$21.95 Add to cartThis inspirational memoir chronicles the six-decade quest of packer and outfitter Arnold “Smoke” Elser to protect wild lands by bringing thousands of people deep into the mountains of Montana on horse… [more below]
- Author: Elser, Arnold Smoke
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: March 01 2024
- ISBN10: 1496231007
- Language: English
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Almost Somewhere: Twenty-Eight Days on the John Muir Trail
$22.95 Add to cartWinner of the National Outdoor Book Award in Outdoor Literature
It was 1993, Suzanne Roberts had just finished college, and when her friend suggested they hike California’s John Muir Trail, the adven- Series: Outdoor Lives
- Author: Roberts, Suzanne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 318
- Publish Date: October 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1496236920
- Language: English
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Down the Santa Fe Trail and Into Mexico: The Diary of Susan Shelby Magoffin, 1846-1847
$24.95 Add to cartIn June 1846 Susan Shelby Magoffin, eighteen years old and a bride of less than eight months, set out with her husband, a veteran Santa Fe trader, on a trek from Independence, Missouri, through New Me… [more below]
- Series: American Tribal Religions #3
- Author: Magoffin, Susan Shelby
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: August 01 1982
- ISBN10: 0803281161
- Language: English
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Sister to the Sioux: The Memoirs of Elaine Goodale Eastman, 1885-1891
$16.95 Add to cartIn 1885 a genteel New England girl traveled to the western frontier to open a school on the Great Sioux Reservation. For six years, Elaine Goodale Eastman taught, hunted with, and lived among the Lako… [more below]
- Author: Eastman, Elaine Goodale
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 183
- Publish Date: May 01 2004
- ISBN10: 0803267525
- 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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A Journey Through Texas: Or a Saddle-Trip on the Southwestern Frontier
$31.95 Add to cartBefore he became America’s foremost landscape architect, Frederick Law Olmsted (1822-1903) was by turns a surveyor, merchant seaman, farmer, magazine publisher, and traveling newspaper correspondent. … [more below]
- Author: Olmsted, Frederick Law
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 539
- Publish Date: December 01 2004
- ISBN10: 0803286201
- 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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Stories of the Sioux
$9.95 Add to cartLuther Standing Bear, a Lakota Sioux born in the 1860s, heard these legends in his youth, when his people were being moved to reservations. In haunting mood and imagery, they celebrate the old nomadic… [more below]
- Author: Standing Bear, Luther
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 82
- Publish Date: November 01 2006
- ISBN10: 0803293356
- Language: English
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Watch the Bear: A Half Century with the Brown Bears of Alaska
$21.95 Add to cartDerek Stonorov has spent the better part of fifty years watching brown bears as a research scientist and guide in some of Alaska’s most beautiful wild places. As a dyslexic kid who was more interested… [more below]
- Author: Stonorov, Derek
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: March 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1496233433
- Language: English
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The City Game: Basketball from the Garden to the Playgrounds
$22.95 Add to cartPete Axthelm follows the 1969-70 season of the New York Knicks and provides a parallel focus on basketball as it was then played in the black neighborhoods of New York City. Throughout, he writes clea
- Author: Axthelm, Pete
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 218
- Publish Date: February 01 1999
- ISBN10: 0803259344
- Language: English
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Ojibway Heritage
$19.95 Add to cart“A colorful, beautiful book which teaches us about ourselves as much as about one of North America’s native peoples.”—Vancouver Sun
Rarely accessible to the general public, Ojibway mythology is as ric
- Series: Basil Johnson Titles
- Author: Johnston, Basil
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 171
- Publish Date: March 01 1990
- ISBN10: 0803275722
- Language: English
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Coyote Stories
$19.95 Add to cartA powerful force and yet the butt of humor, the coyote figure runs through the folklore of many American Indian tribes. He can be held up as a “terrible example” of conduct, a model of what not to do,… [more below]
- Author: Mourning Dove
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 246
- Publish Date: April 01 1990
- ISBN10: 0803281692
- Language: English
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Women of the Dawn
$17.95 Add to cartWomen of the Dawn tells the stories of four remarkable Wabanaki Indian women who lived in northeast America during the four centuries that devastated their traditional world. Their courageous response… [more below]
- Author: McBride, Bunny
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: September 01 2001
- ISBN10: 080328277X
- Language: English
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A Bride Goes West
$21.95 Add to cartBlizzards, droughts, predators, unpredictable markets, and a host of other calamities tell the history of the daily struggles of Western ranching, and perhaps no one has told the story better than Nan… [more below]
- Series: Bison Classic Editions
- Author: Alderson, Nannie T.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 290
- Publish Date: June 01 2023
- ISBN10: 149623507X
- Language: English
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Billy the Kid-Pa
$19.95 Add to cart“It’s certain to remain the authoritative biography that at last makes the Kid’s life whole and understandable.”—San Francisco Chronicle
Robert M. Utley does what countless books, movies, television s
- Author: Utley, Robert M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 342
- Publish Date: August 01 1991
- ISBN10: 0803295588
- Language: English
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Wild Cow Tales
$21.95 Add to cartIn thirteen stories full of rope burns and brush scratches, the author of the classic Horse Tradin’ tells of the days when he made a specialty of catching wild cows. Ben K. Green calls himself a “stov… [more below]
- Author: Green, Ben K.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 306
- Publish Date: August 01 1999
- ISBN10: 0803270887
- Language: English
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Dakota Texts
$24.95 Add to cartElla Deloria (1889-1971), one of the first Native students of linguistics and ethnography in the United States, grew up on the Standing Rock Reservation on the northern Great Plains and was trained by… [more below]
- Author: Demallie, Raymond J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: June 01 2006
- ISBN10: 080326660X
- Language: English
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Winter Wheat
$21.95 Add to cartFor this Bison Books edition, James Welch, the acclaimed author of Winter in the Blood (1986) and other novels, introduces Mildred Walker’s vivid heroine, Ellen Webb, who lives in the dryland wheat co
- Author: Walker, Mildred
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 306
- Publish Date: December 01 1992
- ISBN10: 0803297416
- Language: English
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Wallace Stegner’s Unsettled Country: Ruin, Realism, and Possibility in the American West
$29.95 Add to cartWallace Stegner is an iconic western writer. His works of fiction, including the Pulitzer Prize-winning Angle of Repose and Big Rock Candy Mountain, as well as his nonfiction books and essays introduc… [more below]
- Author: Fiege, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: February 01 2024
- ISBN10: 1496236173
- Language: English
