Bison Books
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Taste of Heritage: Crow Indian Recipes and Herbal Medicines
$17.95 Add to cart“A rich repository of recipes, folklore and advice for living and healing.”—Lively Times
Drawing on the knowledge and wisdom of countless generations of Crow Indian women, the well-known speaker and t
- Series: At Table
- Author: Snell, Alma Hogan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: October 01 2006
- ISBN10: 0803293534
- Language: English
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Gang of One: Memoirs of a Red Guard
$24.95 Add to cartIn 1966 twelve-year-old Fan Shen, a newly minted Red Guard, plunged happily into China’s Cultural Revolution. Disillusion soon followed, then turned to disgust and fear when Shen discovered that his c… [more below]
- Series: American Lives (University of Nebraska)
- Author: Shen, Fan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 298
- Publish Date: March 01 2006
- ISBN10: 0803293364
- Language: English
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From the Heart of the Crow Country: The Crow Indians’ Own Stories
$14.95 Add to cartThe world of the Crow Indians comes to life in this extraordinary collection of stories from respected elder and famed storyteller Joseph Medicine Crow. Raised by traditional grandparents, who remembe… [more below]
- Author: Medicine Crow, Joseph
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 146
- Publish Date: August 01 2000
- ISBN10: 080328263X
- Language: English
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Kit Carson’s Autobiography
$14.95 Add to cart“Notice is hereby given to all persons, that Christopher Carson, a boy about 16 years old, small of his age, but thick-set; light hair, ran away from the subscriber, living in Franklin, Howard County,
- Series: Bison Book S
- Author: Carson, Kit
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: March 01 1966
- ISBN10: 0803250312
- Language: English
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Uphill Both Ways: Hiking Toward Happiness on the Colorado Trail
$21.95 Add to cartReading the West Longlist for Memoir/Biography
One grouchy husband. Three reluctant kids. Five hundred miles of wilderness. And one woman, determined to escape the humdrum existence of modern parent- Author: Lani, Andrea
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 298
- Publish Date: March 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1496229002
- Language: English
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The Turtle’s Beating Heart: One Family’s Story of Lenape Survival
$21.95 Add to cart“Grandchildren meet their grandparents at the end,” Denise Low writes, “as tragic figures. We remember their decline and deaths. . . . The story we see as grandchildren is like a garden covered by sno… [more below]
- Series: American Indian Lives
- Author: Low, Denise
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: September 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1496236890
- Language: English
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Six Armies in Tennessee: The Chickamauga and Chattanooga Campaigns
$21.95 Add to cartWhen Vicksburg fell to Union forces under General Grant in July 1863, the balance turned against the Confederacy in the trans-Appalachian theater. The Federal success along the river opened the way fo… [more below]
- Series: Great Campaigns of the Civil War
- Author: Woodworth, Steven E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 262
- Publish Date: August 01 1999
- ISBN10: 0803298137
- Language: English
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Waheenee: An Indian Girl’s Story (Revised)
$17.95 Add to cart“I was born in an earth lodge by the mouth of the Knife River, in what is now North Dakota, three years after the smallpox winter.” So begins the story of Waheenee, a Hidatsa Indian woman, born in 183… [more below]
- Author: Wilson, Gilbert L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 189
- Publish Date: November 01 1981
- ISBN10: 0803297033
- Language: English
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They Cleared the Lane: The Nba’s Black Pioneers
$19.95 Add to cartToday, Black players compose more than eighty percent of the National Basketball Association’s rosters, providing a strong and valued contribution to professional basketball. In the first half of the … [more below]
- Author: Thomas, Ron
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: March 01 2004
- ISBN10: 0803294549
- Language: English
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My People the Sioux, New Edition
$18.95 Add to cartWhen it was first published in 1928, Luther Standing Bear’s autobiographical account of his tribe and tribesmen was hailed by Van Wyck Brooks as “one of the most engaging and veracious we have ever ha… [more below]
- Author: Standing Bear, Luther
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 322
- Publish Date: November 01 2006
- ISBN10: 0803293321
- Language: English
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Nebraska: An Illustrated History
$36.95 Add to cartA unique history of Nebraska is presented in these pages, drawing on fifty-eight short topical chapters and a rich gallery of illustrations. Professor Frederick C. Luebke’s lifelong commitment to the … [more below]
- Series: Great Plains Photography
- Author: Luebke, Frederick C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: June 01 2005
- ISBN10: 0803280424
- Language: English
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The Night Country
$24.95 Add to cartToward the end of his life, Loren Eiseley reflected on the mystery of life, throwing light on those dark places traversed by himself and centuries of humankind. The Night Country is a gift of wisdom a… [more below]
- Author: Eiseley, Loren
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 241
- Publish Date: June 01 1997
- ISBN10: 0803267355
- Language: English
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Out West: A Journey Through Lewis and Clark’s America
$24.95 Add to cartOne hundred and eighty years after Lewis and Clark’s “Voyage of Discovery” (1804-1806), Dayton Duncan set out in a Volkswagen camper to retrace their steps. Out West is an account of three separate jo… [more below]
- Author: Duncan, Dayton
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 452
- Publish Date: September 01 2000
- ISBN10: 080326626X
- Language: English
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Breaking Into the Backcountry
$16.95 Add to cartWriting with an elegant simplicity and resilient reverence, Edwards proves to be an astute and passionate observer of both human and Mother Nature.–Carol Haggas, Booklist Online
In 2001 Steve Edwards
- Author: Edwards, Steve
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: October 01 2010
- ISBN10: 0803226535
- Language: English
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History of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway
$49.95 Add to cartIf you want an interesting look at railroading plus the social, financial, and political times over 130 years of America, consider this well-researched and documented book.–Stan Moore, Denver Posse o
- Author: Bryant Jr, Keith L.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: September 01 2020
- ISBN10: 1496214102
- Language: English
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Nez Perce Country
$14.95 Add to cartThe rivers, canyons, and prairies of the Columbia Basin are the homeland of the Nez Perce. The Nez Perce, or Nimiipuu, inhabited much of what is now north central Idaho and portions of Oregon and Wash… [more below]
- Series: Bison Original
- Author: Josephy, Alvin M., Jr.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 196
- Publish Date: December 01 2007
- ISBN10: 0803276230
- Language: English
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Land of the Spotted Eagle
$19.95 Add to cartWhen Standing Bear returned to the Pine Ridge Sioux Reservation after sixteen years’ absence, his dismay at the condition of his people may well have served as a catalyst for the writing of this book,… [more below]
- Author: Standing Bear, Luther
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 276
- Publish Date: November 01 2006
- ISBN10: 080329333X
- Language: English
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The Blizzard Voices
$14.95 Add to cart2007 Book Sense Poetry Top Ten selection
This book is a collection of poems recording the devastation unleashed on
2007 Midwest Booksellers’ Choice Award for Poetry, honoring Tom Pohrt (Illustrator)- Author: Kooser, Ted
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 64
- Publish Date: September 01 2006
- ISBN10: 0803259638
- Language: English
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Osborne Russell’s Journal of a Trapper:: Edited from the Original Manuscript in the William Robertson Coe Collection of Western Americana in the Yale
$21.95 Add to cart“Reader, if you are in search of a Classical and Scientific tourist, please to lay this Volume down, and pass on, for this simply informs you what a Trapper has seen and experienced. But if you wish t
- Series: Bison Book S
- Author: Russell, Osborne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 241
- Publish Date: October 01 1965
- ISBN10: 0803251661
- Language: English
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Bury My Heart at Chuck E. Cheese’s
$29.95 Add to cartWhy is there no Native woman David Sedaris? Or Native Anne Lamott? Humor categories in publishing are packed with books by funny women and humorous sociocultural-political commentary–but no Native wo… [more below]
- Author: Midge, Tiffany
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: October 01 2019
- ISBN10: 1496215575
- Language: English
