Bison Books
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Mad Seasons: The Story of the First Women’s Professional Basketball League, 1978-1981
$24.95 Add to cartAs the popularity of women’s basketball burgeons, Karra Porter reminds us in Mad Seasons that today’s Women’s National Basketball Association, or WNBA had its origins in a ragtag league twenty years e… [more below]
- Author: Porter, Karra
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: May 01 2006
- ISBN10: 0803287895
- Language: English
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Portrait of a City: Lincoln, Nebraska, at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
$29.95 Add to cartOnce just a scattering of houses on the open prairie, by the late nineteenth century the city of Lincoln, Nebraska, had evolved into a modern metropolis. The changes ushered in by the Industrial Revol… [more below]
- Author: Pauley, Bruce F.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 334
- Publish Date: September 01 2023
- ISBN10: 149623412X
- Language: English
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Recollections of a Handcart Pioneer of 1860: A Woman’s Life on the Mormon Frontier
$11.95 Add to cartIn the summer of 1860 the author of these recollections, Mary Ann Stucki, then six years old, walked beside her parents’ handcart from Florence (Omaha), Nebraska, to Salt Lake City, Utah. The family, … [more below]
- Author: Hafen, Mary Ann
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 100
- Publish Date: May 01 2004
- ISBN10: 0803273401
- Language: English
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Some More Horse Tradin’
$21.95 Add to cartFrom the same corral that produced the widely loved Horse Tradin’, Ben K. Green has rounded up fifteen new yarns filled with the ornery yet irresistible style that has earned his books a place in clas
- Author: Green, Ben K.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: February 01 2000
- ISBN10: 0803270925
- Language: English
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Need for the Bike
$16.95 Add to cartA book like no other, Frenchman Paul Fournel’s Need for the Bike conducts readers into a very personal world of communication and connection whose center is the bicycle, and where all people and thing… [more below]
- Author: Fournel, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 150
- Publish Date: September 01 2003
- ISBN10: 0803269099
- Language: English
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The Smart Take from the Strong: The Basketball Philosophy of Pete Carril
$18.95 Add to cart“The strong take from the weak, but the smart take from the strong.” So said Pete Carril’s father, a Spanish immigrant who worked for thirty-nine years in a Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, steel mill. His so
- Author: Carril, Pete
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 206
- Publish Date: October 01 2004
- ISBN10: 0803264488
- Language: English
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In Cold Storage: Sex and Murder on the Plains
$16.95 Add to cart2016 Nebraska Book Award
In Cold Storage is an excellent history of one of the more sensational crimes in Nebraska history.— Steven Guenzel, Nebraska HistoryIn 1973 the small southwest Nebraska rail
- Series: Law in the American West
- Author: Hewitt, James W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: July 01 2015
- ISBN10: 0803256639
- Language: English
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The Rhythm Boys of Omaha Central: High School Basketball at the ’68 Racial Divide
$21.95 Add to cartIn the spring of 1968, the Omaha Central High School basketball team made history with its first all-black starting lineup. Their nickname, the Rhythm Boys, captured who they were and what they did on… [more below]
- Author: Marantz, Steve
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: March 01 2011
- ISBN10: 0803234341
- Language: English
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The Battle of the Little Bighorn
$21.95 Add to cartMari Sandoz’s beautifully written account of the battle in which General George Armstrong Custer staked his life–and lost it–reveals on every page the author’s intimate knowledge of her subject. The… [more below]
- Author: Sandoz, Mari
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 220
- Publish Date: March 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1496229118
- Language: English
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Standing in the Light: A Lakota Way of Seeing
$17.95 Add to cartFor most of his adult life Severt Young Bear stood in the light-in the center ring at powwows and other gatherings of Lakota people. As founder and, for many years, lead singer of the Porcupine Singer… [more below]
- Series: American Indian Lives
- Author: Theisz, R. D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 209
- Publish Date: March 01 1996
- ISBN10: 0803299125
- Language: English
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The Kingdom of God Is Within You
$18.95 Add to cartFirst published in Germany in 1894, after being banned in Russia, The Kingdom of God Is within You reveals Tolstoy’s world outlook after his conversion to Christianity. He argues that the kingdom of G… [more below]
- Author: Tolstoy, Leo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: November 01 1984
- ISBN10: 0803294042
- Language: English
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Come on Seabiscuit!
$14.95 Add to cartMaster storyteller Ralph Moody tells the thrilling story of a plucky horse who refused to quit, a down-on-his-luck jockey who didn’t let horrendous accidents keep him out of the saddle, and a taciturn… [more below]
- Author: Moody, Ralph
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 172
- Publish Date: March 01 2003
- ISBN10: 0803282877
- Language: English
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Bataan Death March: A Survivor’s Account
$21.95 Add to cartThe hopeless yet determined resistance of American and Filipino forces against the Japanese invasion has made Bataan and Corregidor symbols of pride, but Bataan has a notorious darker side. After the … [more below]
- Author: Dyess, William E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 196
- Publish Date: June 01 2002
- ISBN10: 0803266332
- Language: English
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Charcoal’s World
$11.95 Add to cartCharcoal’s World was bounded by the mountains, hills, and plains of southwestern Alberta. That was the homeland of his people, the Blood Indians, but Charcoal was not free to enjoy it as his ancestors… [more below]
- Author: Dempsey, Hugh A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 178
- Publish Date: November 01 1979
- ISBN10: 0803265522
- Language: English
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We Talk, You Listen: New Tribes, New Turf
$19.95 Add to cartWe Talk, You Listen is strong, boldly unconventional medicine from Vine Deloria Jr. (1933-2005), one of the most important voices of twentieth-century Native American affairs. Here the witty and insig… [more below]
- Author: Deloria Jr, Vine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 221
- Publish Date: May 01 2007
- ISBN10: 0803259859
- Language: English
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River City Empire: Tom Dennison’s Omaha
$24.95 Add to cartMore than any other political boss of the early twentieth century, Thomas Dennison, “the Rogue who ruled Omaha,” was a master of the devious. Unlike his contemporaries outside the Midwest, he took no
- Author: Menard, Orville D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 370
- Publish Date: November 01 2013
- ISBN10: 0803248334
- Language: English
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Coyote Warrior: One Man, Three Tribes, and the Trial That Forged a Nation, Second Edition
$21.95 Add to cartFrom White Shield to Washington DC, new Indian wars are being fought by Ivy League-trained lawyers called “Coyote Warriors”–among them a Mandan/Hidatsa named Raymond Cross. Coyote Warrior tells the e… [more below]
- Author: Vandevelder, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 360
- Publish Date: January 01 2010
- ISBN10: 0803225466
- Language: English
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The Last Heir: The Triumphs and Tragedies of Two Montana Families
$19.95 Add to cartThe only thing the Herrins and the Burkes had in common was their Irish ancestry. Opposites in most ways, the families nevertheless personified two common threads in the history of the West. As the ow… [more below]
- Author: Vaughn, Bill
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 258
- Publish Date: March 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1496229754
- Language: English
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The Last Sovereigns: Sitting Bull and the Resistance of the Free Lakotas
$24.95 Add to cart2021 Spur Award Winner for Best Historical Nonfiction from the Western Writers of America
The Last Sovereigns is the s
True West Magazine’s 2020 Best Author and Historical Nonfiction Book of the Year- Author: Utley, Robert M.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: October 01 2020
- ISBN10: 1496220226
- Language: English
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Downwind: A People’s History of the Nuclear West
$24.95 Add to cartDownwind is an unflinching tale of the atomic West that reveals the intentional disregard for the inhabitants and the environment in nuclear testing by the federal government and in uranium extraction
- Author: Fox, Sarah Alisabeth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 306
- Publish Date: October 01 2018
- ISBN10: 1496207661
- Language: English
