Bison Books
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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
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The Nebraska Sandhills
$34.95 Add 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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Buffalo Bill and the Mormons
$29.95 Add 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
$34.95 Add 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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Mrs. Cook and the Klan: Booze, Bloodshed, and Bigotry in America’s Heartland
$24.95 Add 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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The Essential Book of Pickup Trucks
$21.95 Add 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
$17.95 Add 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
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Black Robes Enter Coyote’s World: Chief Charlo and Father de Smet in the Rocky Mountains
$36.95 Add to cartBlack Robes Enter Coyote’s World brings to life the complicated history of Jesuit missionaries among Montana’s Native peoples–a saga of encounter, accommodation, and resistance during the transformat… [more below]
- Author: Thompson, Sally
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: December 01 2024
- ISBN10: 149623961X
- Language: English
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The Bears of Grand Teton: A Natural and Cultural History
$26.95 Add to cartThe Bears of Grand Teton is the first comprehensive history of bears, black and grizzly, and their interactions with people in Grand Teton National Park and the surrounding area of Jackson Hole, Wyomi… [more below]
- Series: America’s Public Lands
- Author: Consolo-Murphy, Sue
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 282
- Publish Date: April 02 2025
- ISBN10: 1496236270
- Language: English
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Starlings: The Curious Odyssey of a Most Hated Bird
$24.95 Add to cartHas there ever been a more hated bird than the European starling? Let loose in New York City’s Central Park by a misguided aristocrat, the starlings were supposed to help curb insect outbreaks and add… [more below]
- Author: Stark, Mike
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: March 01 2025
- ISBN10: 1496242025
- Language: English
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Budapest Diary: In Search of the Motherbook
$19.95 Add to cartCan you forget the place you once called home? What does it take to make you recapture it? In this moving memoir, Susan Rubin Suleiman describes her returns to the city of her birth–where she speaks … [more below]
- Series: Texts and Contexts
- Author: Suleiman, Susan Rubin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: May 01 1999
- ISBN10: 0803292619
- Language: English
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Buffalo Soldiers in California: Charles Young and the Ninth Cavalry, 1902-1904
$26.95 Add to cartWhen Captain Charles Young and the Ninth U.S. Cavalry stepped ashore in San Francisco in 1902, Young was only one of three Black officers serving in the U.S. Army. He had graduated from West Point as … [more below]
- Author: Shellum, Brian G.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 314
- Publish Date: August 01 2024
- ISBN10: 1496238516
- Language: English
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Nosferatu
$19.95 Add to cartFrom this prodigiously talented writer comes a stunningly original fictional life of the German director F. W. Murnau (1888-1931). Murnau ranks as a founding father of the cinema, not least for his le… [more below]
- Author: Shepard, Jim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: September 01 2005
- ISBN10: 0803293461
- Language: English
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Twisting in Air: The Sensational Rise of a Hollywood Falling Horse
$24.95 Add to cartTwisting in Air chronicles the gritty and glittery era when an extraordinary group of horses made Western movies come alive and explores how one of them, Cocaine, overcame a debilitating injury to bec… [more below]
- Author: Bradley, Carol
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: October 01 2024
- ISBN10: 1496239008
- Language: English
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Ojibway Tales
$16.95 Add to cartThe Ojibway Indians’ sense of humor sparkles through these stories set on the fictional Moose Meat Point Indian Reserve, connected by a dirt road to the town of Blunder Bay. If some of them seem “farf… [more below]
- Series: Basil Johnson Titles
- Author: Johnston, Basil
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 188
- Publish Date: October 01 1993
- ISBN10: 0803275781
- Language: English
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Song of Dewey Beard: Last Survivor of the Little Bighorn
$19.95 Add to cartThe resistance of great Native American warriors to the U.S. government in the war against the Plains Indians is a well-known chapter in the story of the American West. In the aftermath of the great r… [more below]
- Author: Burnham, Philip
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 294
- Publish Date: October 01 2018
- ISBN10: 149620767X
- Language: English
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Waterlily
$18.95 Add to cart“Exquisite evocation, in novelistic form, of the life of a female Dakota (Sioux) in the mid-nineteenth century, before whites settled the plains. . . . An unself-conscious and never precious or quaint
- Author: Deloria, Ella Cara
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: April 01 2009
- ISBN10: 0803219040
- Language: English
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Outlaw Trail: A History of Butch Cassidy and His Wild Bunch
$24.95 Add to cartThe Wild Bunch, the confederation of western outlaws headed by Butch Cassidy, found sanctuary on the rugged Outlaw Trail. Stretching across Montana, Idaho, Wyoming, Colorado, Utah, Nevada, Arizona, an… [more below]
- Author: Kelly, Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 398
- Publish Date: May 01 1996
- ISBN10: 0803277784
- Language: English
