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Lakota Society
$24.95 Add to cartAs agency physician on the Pine Ridge Reservation from 1896 to 1914, Dr. James R. Walker recorded a wealth of information on the traditional lifeways of the Oglala Sioux. Lakota Society presents the p… [more below]
- Author: Walker, James R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 243
- Publish Date: February 01 1992
- ISBN10: 0803297378
- Language: English
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Forty Years on the Frontier
$24.95 Add to cartThere is no other pioneer record of this section quite like it.—American Historical Review
When originally published in 1925, one reviewer called Forty Years on the Frontier “the odyssey of a nineteen
- Author: Stuart, Granville
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 265
- Publish Date: November 01 2004
- ISBN10: 0803293208
- Language: English
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The Dull Knifes of Pine Ridge: A Lakota Odyssey
$29.95 Add to cartA fine story of cultural survival and a history that should find a place alongside those of a Crazy Horse or a Sitting Bull-integral parts of the American experience.—Booklist
Joe Starita tells the tr
- Author: Starita, Joe
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 392
- Publish Date: May 01 2002
- ISBN10: 0803292945
- Language: English
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American Indian Cooking: Recipes from the Southwest
$21.95 Add to cartThis handy cookbook is an enjoyable and informative guide to the rich culinary traditions of the American Indians of the Southwest. Featured are 150 authentic fruit, grain, and vegetable recipes–food… [more below]
- Author: Niethammer, Carolyn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 191
- Publish Date: November 01 1999
- ISBN10: 080328375X
- Language: English
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Basketball: Its Origin and Development
$15.95 Add to cartJames Naismith was teaching physical education at the Young Men’s Christian Association Training College in Springfield, Massachusetts, and felt discouraged because calisthenics and gymnastics didn’t … [more below]
- Author: Naismith, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: January 01 1996
- ISBN10: 0803283709
- Language: English
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Tsimshian Culture: A Light Through the Ages
$28.50 Add to cartThe Tsimshians are a Northwest Coast Native people known for their dazzling works of art and rich array of social, religious, and oral traditions that have captured the attention of scholars for over … [more below]
- Author: Miller, Jay
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 204
- Publish Date: October 01 2000
- ISBN10: 0803282664
- Language: English
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The Great Platte River Road
$29.95 Add to cartThe Great Platte River Road through Nebraska and Wyoming was the grand corridor of America’s westward expansion. A number of famous trails converged in the broad valley of the Platte, forming a kind o… [more below]
- Series: Great Plains Photography
- Author: Mattes, Merrill J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 600
- Publish Date: November 01 1987
- ISBN10: 0803281536
- Language: English
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Indian War in the Pacific Northwest: The Journal of Lieutenant Lawrence Kip
$13.95 Add to cartThroughout the 1850s, Native peoples of the inland Northwest actively resisted white encroachments into their traditional territories. Tensions exploded in 1858 when nearly one thousand Palouses, Spok… [more below]
- Author: Kip, Lawrence
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 151
- Publish Date: October 01 1999
- ISBN10: 0803277911
- Language: English
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The Negro Cowboys
$19.95 Add to cartMore than five thousand Negro cowboys joined the round-ups and served on the ranch crews in the cattleman era of the West. Lured by the open range, the chance for regular wages, and the opportunity to… [more below]
- Author: Durham, Philip
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 278
- Publish Date: October 01 1983
- ISBN10: 0803265603
- Language: English
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Hardtack and Coffee Or, the Unwritten Story of Army Life
$24.95 Add to cartIncludes six color plates of corps badges and more than 200 black and white illustrations
Most histories of the Civil War focus on battles and top brass. Hardtack and Coffee is one of the few to give- Author: Billings, John D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 413
- Publish Date: August 01 1993
- ISBN10: 080326111X
- Language: English
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Hidatsa Social and Ceremonial Organization
$24.95 Add to cartHidatsa Social and Ceremonial Organization, a study of an important horticultural Plains Indian tribe, synthesizes the rich material Alfred W. Bowers recorded in the early 1930s from the last generati… [more below]
- Author: Bowers, Alfred W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: October 01 1992
- ISBN10: 0803260989
- Language: English
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The Wild Bunch at Robber’s Roost
$16.95 Add to cartRobbers Roost was a hideout for outlaws and hunted men long before Butch Cassidy found it in 1884. The impenetrable wastes and wilds of this high desert country in southeastern Utah, cut through by ca… [more below]
- Author: Baker, Pearl
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: February 01 1989
- ISBN10: 080326089X
- Language: English
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The Truth about Geronimo
$24.95 Add to cartBritton Davis’s account of the controversial “Geronimo Campaign” of 1885-86 offers an important firsthand picture of the famous Chiricahua warrior and the men who finally forced his surrender. Davis k
- Author: Davis, Britton
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 263
- Publish Date: June 01 1976
- ISBN10: 0803258402
- Language: English
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The Log of a Cowboy: A Narrative of the Old Trail Days
$14.95 Add to cartJ. Frank Dobie, in his Guide to Life and Literature of the Old Southwest, has declared that “if all other books on trail-driving were destroyed, a reader could still get a just and authentic conceptio… [more below]
- Series: Bison Book S
- Author: Adams, Andy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 397
- Publish Date: May 01 1964
- ISBN10: 0803250002
- Language: English
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In Search of Powder: A Story of America’s Disappearing Ski Bum
$21.95 Add to cartAs a recent college graduate and fledging newspaper reporter in the Lake Tahoe area, Jeremy Evans became immersed in ski bum culture–a carefree lifestyle whose mantra was simply: “Ski as much as poss… [more below]
- Author: Evans, Jeremy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: November 01 2010
- ISBN10: 0803228392
- Language: English
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The Training Ground: Grant, Lee, Sherman, and Davis in the Mexican War, 1846-1848
$24.95 Add to cartDugard’s spirited narrative animates a group of men whose force of character, professional skill and ability to think outside conventional limits revitalized the sclerotic arm.—Publishers Weekly
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- Author: Dugard, Martin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 472
- Publish Date: December 01 2009
- ISBN10: 0803228120
- Language: English
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No Friday Night Lights: Reservation Football on the Edge of America
$26.95 Add to cartNo Friday Night Lights is the story of a rural Nevada high school football team that never wins. Veteran reporter John M. Glionna examines the 2022 season in which the McDermitt Bulldogs practiced for… [more below]
- Author: Glionna, John M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 278
- Publish Date: June 01 2024
- ISBN10: 149623149X
- Language: English
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Left Handed, Son of Old Man Hat: A Navajo Autobiography
$26.95 Add to cartWith a simplicity as disarming as it is frank, Left Handed tells of his birth in the spring of 1868 “when the cottonwood leaves were about the size of [his] thumbnail,” of family chores such as guardi… [more below]
- Series: Bison Classic Editions
- Author: Left Handed
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 354
- Publish Date: August 01 2018
- ISBN10: 1496205154
- Language: English
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Boarding School Blues: Revisiting American Indian Educational Experiences
$21.95 Add to cartLike the figures in the ancient oral literature of Native Americans, children who lived through the American Indian boarding school experience became heroes, bravely facing a monster not of their own
- Series: Indigenous Education
- Author: Trafzer, Clifford E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 274
- Publish Date: September 01 2006
- ISBN10: 0803294638
- Language: English
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Standing Bear and the Ponca Chiefs
$13.95 Add to cartStanding Bear was a chieftain of the Ponca Indian tribe, which farmed and hunted peacefully along the Niobrara River in northeastern Nebraska. In 1878 the Poncas were forced by the federal government … [more below]
- Author: Tibbles, Thomas Henry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 143
- Publish Date: September 01 1972
- ISBN10: 0803294263
- Language: English
