Geographic Orientation/Nebraska
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1922
$16.99 Add to cartThe chilling novella featured in Stephen King’s New York Times bestselling collection Full Dark, No Stars, 1922 is about a man who succumbs to the violence within–setting in motion a grisly train of … [more below]
- Author: King, Stephen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: November 12 2019
- ISBN10: 1982136073
- Language: English
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Bloodthirsty
$7.99$6.39 Add to cartJOHNSTONE COUNTRY. WHERE OTHERS FEAR TO TREAD.
From the masters of American frontier storytelling, another chapter in the Buckhorn saga–a blood-pounding tale of one man’s sacred mission to bring jus
- Series: Buckhorn Western #3
- Author: Johnstone, William W.
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: January 29, 2019
- ISBN10: 0786044888
- Language: English
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Roadside History of Nebraska
$24.00 Add to cartThis overview of Nebraska history leads both visitors and residents on an in-depth tour of the state’s past. Divided into five geographic divisions, the book follows roadways to all the well-known and… [more below]
- Series: Roadside History (Paperback)
- Author: Moulton, Candy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 420
- Publish Date: June 15 1997
- ISBN10: 0878423478
- Language: English
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The Schoolchildren’s Blizzard
$8.99 Add to cartWhen nine-year-old Sarah and her little sister, Annie, set out on their way to school on January 12, 1888, they have no idea what their day will hold. The weather’s so warm they go outside to play. Su
- Series: On My Own History
- Author: Figley, Marty Rhodes
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 48
- Publish Date: January 01 2004
- ISBN10: 1575056194
- Language: English
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Zoo Nebraska: The Dismantling of an American Dream
$14.95 Read moreA resonant true story of small-town politics and community perseverance and of decent people and questionable choices, Zoo Nebraska is a timely requiem for a rural America in the throes of extinction.
- Author: Vaughan, Carson
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 266
- Publish Date: April 01 2019
- ISBN10: 1503901491
- Language: English
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A Lantern in Her Hand
$8.99 Add to cartThe classic story of Abbie and Will Deal–pioneers who left everything behind for a new life on America’s frontier.
Abbie Mackenzie dreamed of becoming a fine lady like her aristocratic grandmother,- Series: Puffin Classics
- Author: Aldrich, Bess Streeter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: April 01 1997
- ISBN10: 0140384286
- Language: English
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Nebraska Birds: An Introduction to Familiar Species
$8.95 Read moreNebraska has an impressive bird diversity, with over 470 species having been recorded, the majority of which are either permanent residents, regular breeders, or annual migrants. State bird Western Me… [more below]
- Series: Pocket Naturalist Guides
- Author: Kavanagh, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 12
- Publish Date: May 30 2017
- ISBN10: 1583551859
- Language: English
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Battlefields of Nebraska
$18.95 Read more“Distributed by the University of Nebraska Press for Caxton Press”
Today, the state of Nebraska is as peaceful a place as one is likely to find in America. But that wasn’t always the case. Because of i… [more below]- Author: Phillips, Thomas D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 295
- Publish Date: July 01 2009
- ISBN10: 0870044710
- Language: English
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One of Ours
$14.95 Add to cartWilla Cather’s Pulitzer Prize-winning narrative of the making of a young American soldier.
Claude Wheeler, the sensitive, aspiring protagonist of this beautifully modulated novel, resembles the younge- Series: Vintage Classics #0000
- Author: Cather, Willa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: November 05 1991
- ISBN10: 0679737448
- Language: English
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A Lost Lady
$14.00 Read moreA Lost Lady is the portrait of a frontier woman who reflects the conventions of her age even as she defies them.
To the people of Sweet Water, a fading railroad town on the Western plains, Mrs. Forres… [more below]- Series: Vintage Classics
- Author: Cather, Willa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: June 16 1990
- ISBN10: 0679728872
- Language: English
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Dandelions
$9.99 Read moreEager to start a new life in a new land, Zoe and her family journey west to the Nebraska Territory in the 1800s.
When Zoe and her family arrive at their claim, nothing distinguishes it from the miles a
- Author: Bunting, Eve
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 48
- Publish Date: May 01 2001
- ISBN10: 0152024077
- Language: English
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My Daniel
$9.99 Read more“All I want to find is one dinosaur,” Daniel was saying. “And I’ll find it right here. Like I do all my fossils.” Wandering through the Natural History Museum with her grandchildren, Julia Creath feel
- Author: Conrad, Pam
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: April 15, 1991
- ISBN10: 0064403092
- Language: English
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Room One: A Mystery or Two
$7.99 Add to cartTed Hammond loves a good mystery, and in the spring of his fifth-grade year, he’s working on a big one. How can his school in the little town of Plattsford stay open next year if there are going to be… [more below]
- Author: Clements, Andrew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: May 20 2008
- ISBN10: 0689866879
- Language: English
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The Nebraska Indian Wars Reader: 1865-1877
$19.95 Add to cartThe Nebraska Indian Wars Reader, 1865-1877 provides the first comprehensive look at the Indian Wars in Nebraska, focusing on the years immediately following the Civil War, when hostilities between Pla… [more below]
- Author: Paul, R. Eli
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 289
- Publish Date: April 01 1998
- ISBN10: 0803287496
- 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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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
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The Mayans Among Us: Migrant Women and Meatpacking on the Great Plains
$29.95 Add to cartThe Mayans Among Us conveys the unique experiences of Central American indigenous immigrants to the Great Plains, many of whom are political refugees from repressive, war-torn countries. Ann L. Sittig
- Author: Sittig, Ann L.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: March 01 2016
- ISBN10: 0803284616
- Language: English
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Wildflowers of the Western Plains: A Field Guide
$29.95 Add to cartStretching from western Texas and eastern New Mexico up through Oklahoma, Colorado, Kansas, Nebraska, Wyoming, Montana, the Dakotas, and into Canada, the vast western plains often appear sparse and dr… [more below]
- Author: Kirkpatrick, Zoe Merriman
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: September 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0803219059
- Language: English
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One House: The Unicameral’s Progressive Vision for Nebraska
$24.95 Add to cartWhen Nebraskans voted to trade in their bicameral, partisan legislature for a one-house, nonpartisan body in 1934, it was a revolutionary decision. George Norris, a U.S. senator from Nebraska, argued
- Author: Berens, Charlyne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 286
- Publish Date: January 01 2014
- ISBN10: 0803235194
- Language: English
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Nebraska: Under a Big Red Sky
$21.95 Add to cartWelcome to a journey across Nebraska. Relax, take your time, and enjoy the vistas. From Chadron to Falls City, Carhenge to the Wayne Chicken Show, Burwell to Omaha, and everywhere in between, this boo… [more below]
- Series: Great Plains Photography
- Author: Sartore, Joel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: November 01 2006
- ISBN10: 0803259700
- Language: English
