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The Sky Clears: Poetry of the American Indians by Arthur Grove Day 9780803250475
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $26.62From the totem-pole makers of the Northwest to the hunters of the eastern woodlands, from the horse nations of the plains to the desert dwellers of the Southwest and the Mayas and Aztecs of ancient... -
Winged Words: American Indian Writers Speak by Laura Coltelli 9780803263512
RRP: $23.38Booksplease Price: $20.30In Winged Words Laura Coltelli interviews some of America's foremost Indian poets and novelists, including Paula Gunn Allen, Michael Dorris, Louise Erdrich, Joy Harjo, Linda Hogan, N. Scott Momaday,... -
Kit Carson and the Indians by Tom Dunlay 9780803266421
RRP: $37.03Booksplease Price: $33.11Often portrayed by past historians as the greatest guide and Indian fighter in the West, Kit Carson (1809-68) has become in recent years a historical pariah-a brutal murderer who betrayed the... -
Cowgirls: Women of the American West by Teresa Jordan 9780803275751
RRP: $33.13Booksplease Price: $29.48American lore has slighted the cowgirl, although at least one can still be found in nearly every ranching community. Like her male counterpart, she rides and ropes, understands land and stock, and... -
Son of Old Jules: Memoirs of Jules Sandoz, Jr. by Jules Sandoz 9780803291904
RRP: $17.53Booksplease Price: $15.42Mari Sandoz immortalized her irascible father in Old Jules. Now her brother, Jules Sandoz, Jr. fills out the story of their family life, dominated by Papa, in western Nebraska in the early l900s. A... -
Hopi Animal Stories by Ekkehart Malotki 9780803282711
RRP: $35.08Booksplease Price: $30.58The fascinating world of the Hopis is brought to light in this original and informative collection of thirty animal tales featuring Field Mouse, Coyote the Trickster, Cicada and his flute, Medicine... -
The Winning of the West, Volume 3: The Founding of the Trans-Alleghany Commonwealths, 1784-1790 by Theodore Roosevelt 9780803289567
RRP: $42.88Booksplease Price: $39.18After political defeats and the loss of half his capital in a ranching venture in North Dakota, Theodore Roosevelt began writing his ambitious history of the conquest of the American West in 1888. He... -
Blessing for a Long Time: The Sacred Pole of the Omaha Tribe by Robin Ridington 9780803289819
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $26.05Robin Ridington and Dennis Hastings ingeniously adopt the conventions of Omaha oral narratives to tell the story and convey the significance of the Sacred Pole. Portions of classic anthropological... -
The California Trail: An Epic with Many Heroes by George R. Stewart 9780803291430
RRP: $35.08Booksplease Price: $33.52In 1841 and 1842 small groups of emigrants tried to discover a route to California passable by wagons. Without reliable maps or guides, they pushed ahead, retreated, detoured, split up, and... -
David Crockett: The Man and the Legend by James Atkins Shackford 9780803292307
RRP: $40.93Booksplease Price: $35.57Davy Crockett has been America's best-known folk hero for at least 160 years. This informed biography by James Atkins Shackford first appeared in 1956, at the height of the television-inspired... -
Wearing the Morning Star: Native American Song-Poems by Brian Swann 9780803293403
RRP: $33.13Booksplease Price: $28.43With Wearing the Morning Star, Brian Swann presents a collection of more than one hundred Native American songs that celebrate the rich and vibrant oral traditions of the Indigenous peoples of North... -
Cold Snap as Yearning by Robert Vivian 9780803296237
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $18.70Whether confronting a gravel road, a hallucinatory vision of a horse-woman, a deep sensitivity to noise, or the curiosity of crows, Robert Vivian sees the world in a novel way, and this collection... -
War to the Knife: Bleeding Kansas, 1854-1861 by Thomas Goodrich 9780803271142
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $27.89Long before the secession crisis at Fort Sumter ignited the War between the States, men fought and died on the prairies of Kansas over the incendiary issue of slavery. "War to the knife and knife to... -
I, Nadia, Wife of a Terrorist by Baya Gacemi 9780803271241
RRP: $37.03Booksplease Price: $31.22The Algerian journalist Baya Gacemi takes a dangerous political step in writing the "autobiography" of a young Algerian woman whom she met through a program for female victims of Islamist violence in... -
The Last Farmer: An American Memoir by Howard Kohn 9780803278158
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $26.93Howard Kohn's The Last Farmer is a memoir of his father's last seasons working the Michigan farm where they both were raised. It is a place that Kohn, a former editor at Rolling Stone, has left many... -
From a World Apart: A Little Girl in the Concentration Camps by Francine Christophe 9780803264021
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $24.67"I'm frightened, Mother. Last year, I was seven years old. This year, I'm eight and so many years separate these two ages. I have learned that I am Jewish, that I am a monster, and that I must hide... -
Back to the Stone Age by Edgar Rice Burroughs 9780803262638
RRP: $33.13Booksplease Price: $31.10The fifth installment of Edgar Rice Burroughs's Pellucidar series, Back to the Stone Age recounts the strange adventures of Lieutenant von Horst, a member of the original crew that sailed to... -
From Society Page to Front Page: Nebraska Women in Journalism by Eileen Wirth 9780803232938
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $24.67Eileen M. Wirth never set out to be a groundbreaker for women in journalism, but if she wanted to report on social issues instead of society news, she had no alternative. Her years as one of the... -
Venezuelan Bust, Baseball Boom: Andres Reiner and Scouting on the New Frontier by Milton H. Jamail 9780803215719
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $27.63Though Venezuela is sandwiched between two soccer-mad countries-Brazil and Colombia-baseball is its national pastime and passion. Yet until the late 1980s few professional teams actively scouted and... -
Dog Soldier Justice: The Ordeal of Susanna Alderdice in the Kansas Indian War by Jeff Broome 9780803222885
RRP: $33.13Booksplease Price: $29.07In his study of the civilian population that fell victim to the brutality of the 1860s Kansas Indian wars, Jeff Broome recounts the captivity of Susanna Alderdice, who was killed along with three of... -
The Cattlemen: From the Rio Grande across the Far Marias, Second Edition by Mari Sandoz 9780803229839
RRP: $33.13Booksplease Price: $32.21The Cattlemen is the story of the cattle industry in America and of the men whose ranches reached from the Rio Grande into Montana, from the early Spanish days to Mari Sandoz's contemporary times. It... -
The Big O: My Life, My Times, My Game by Oscar P. Robertson 9780803234635
RRP: $37.03Booksplease Price: $32.12Perhaps the greatest all-around player in basketball history, Oscar Robertson revolutionized basketball as a member of the Cincinnati Royals and won a championship with the Milwaukee Bucks. When he... -
Four Years in Europe with Buffalo Bill by Charles Eldridge Griffin 9780803234659
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $18.82William F. "Buffalo Bill" Cody was the entertainment industry's first international celebrity, achieving worldwide stardom with his traveling Wild West show. For three decades he operated and... -
Jackalope Dreams by Mary Clearman Blew 9780803237681
RRP: $33.13Booksplease Price: $31.30The departed men in her life still have plenty to say to Corey. Her father, a legendary rodeo cowboy who punctuated his lifelong pronouncements with a bullet to his head, may be the loudest. But in... -
The March of the Mounted Riflemen: From Fort Leavenworth to Fort Vancouver, May to October, 1849 by Raymond W. Settle 9780803291966
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $25.02It was an awesome sight, that regiment of Mounted Riflemen slowly marching up the Oregon Trail, already crowded with gold seekers and their animals in 1849. In May of that year five companies of men... -
Where Wagons Could Go: Narcissa Whitman and Eliza Spaulding by Clifford Merrill Drury 9780803266063
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $27.96Narcissa Whitman and her husband, Marcus, went to Oregon as missionaries in 1836, accompanied by the Reverend Henry Spalding and his wife, Eliza. It was, as Narcissa wrote, "an unheard of journey for... -
Miles from Nowhere: Tales from America's Contemporary Frontier by Dayton Duncan 9780803266278
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $26.13Account of 30,000 mile journey to America's contemporary frontier coveringAccount of 30,000 mile journey to America's contemporary frontier coveringAbout the AuthorBorn and raised in a small town in... -
The 1870 Ghost Dance by Cora Du Bois 9780803266629
RRP: $37.03Booksplease Price: $32.53The 1870 Ghost Dance was a significant but too often disregarded transformative historical movement with particular impact on the Native peoples of northern California. The spiritual energies of this... -
Daughter of the Regiment: Memoirs of a Childhood in the Frontier Army, 1878-1898 by Mary Leefe Laurence 9780803279889
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $20.65The young daughter of an English-born U. S. infantry officer on the post-Civil War frontier, Mary Leefe Laurence had the childhood of an army nomad, accompanying the regiment from south Texas to the... -
Rose Mellie Rose by Marie Redonnet 9780803289529
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $16.89This is the story of Mellie, who as a baby is found in a grotto, then raised in a souvenir shop by Rose. At age twelve Mellie goes to the dying town of Oat, where she enters premature adulthood and... -
Masterpieces of American Indian Literature by Willis Goth Regier 9780803289970
RRP: $42.88Booksplease Price: $41.18The five complete and unabridged works collected here are parts of a long and passionate testimony about American Indian culture as related by Indians themselves. Deep emotions and life-shaking... -
Black Planet: Facing Race during an NBA Season by David Shields 9780803293540
RRP: $23.38Booksplease Price: $20.30The National Basketball Association is a place where white fans and black players enact virtually every racial issue and tension in U.S. culture. Following the Seattle SuperSonics for an entire... -
The Curlew's Cry by Mildred Walker 9780803297579
RRP: $31.18Booksplease Price: $27.57The Curlew's Cry is the story of three decades in the life of Pamela Lacey and a Montana town. Descended from pioneers and the daughter of a rancher, Pamela lives according to her own script, and... -
Lt. Charles Gatewood & His Apache Wars Memoir by Charles B. Gatewood 9780803227729
RRP: $62.40Booksplease Price: $50.90Lt. Charles B. Gatewood (1853-96), an educated Virginian, served in the Sixth U.S. Cavalry as the commander of Indian scouts. Gatewood was largely accepted by the Native peoples with whom he worked... -
Journal of Rudolph Friederich Kurz: An Account of His Experiences among Fur Traders and American Indians on the Mississippi and the Upper Mississippi Rivers during the Years 1846 to 1852 by Rudolph Friederich Kurz 9780803257139
RRP: $52.63Booksplease Price: $46.84As a clerk at Forts Berthold and the Union, Kurz, a noted Swiss artist, came to know well Indians, fur traders, and officers, and to understand the conditions of life in the region. He aimed "to give... -
The Life and Adventures of James P. Beckwourth by James P. Beckwourth 9780803260610
RRP: $60.45Booksplease Price: $54.13Throughout his long and lusty life, James P. Beckwourth epitomized much of the best and the worst of a fabulous breed, the mountain men of the early West. Trapper, hunter, guide, horse thief, Indian... -
The Company of Adventurers: A Narrative of Seven Years in the Service of the Hudson's Bay Company during 1867-1874 by David Reed Miller 9780803263505
RRP: $44.83Booksplease Price: $40.29The Hudson's Bay Company had been operating for nearly two centuries when young Isaac Cowie joined it in 1867. He sailed from the Shetland Islands to Rupert's Land, finally reaching York Factory,... -
Frontier Regulars: The United States Army and the Indian, 1866-1891 by Robert M. Utley 9780803295513
RRP: $44.83Booksplease Price: $42.39In Frontier Regulars Robert M. Utley combines scholarship and drama to produce an impressive history of the final, massive drive by the Regular Army to subdue and control the American Indians and... -
Frantic Francis: How One Coach's Madness Changed Football by Brett Perkins 9780803218949
RRP: $60.45Booksplease Price: $53.02When Francis Schmidt, a bow tie-wearing law school graduate with a bombastic personality, got started as a volunteer high school coach, football still followed Victorian tenets of caution and... -
Pueblo Indian Religion, Volume 2 by Elsie Clews Parsons 9780803287365
RRP: $68.25Booksplease Price: $58.93The rich religious beliefs and ceremonials of the Pueblo Indians of Arizona and New Mexico were first synthesized and compared by ethnologist Elsie Clews Parsons. Prodigious research and a...