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On the Border with Crook by John G. Bourke 9780803257412
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £18.67From 1870 until 1886 Captain John O. Bourke served on the staff of General George Crook, who Sherman described as the greatest Indian fighter the army ever had, a man whose prowess was demon-strated... -
From Fort Laramie to Wounded Knee: In the West That Was by Charles W. Allen 9780803259362
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £15.70The varied and colorful career of Charles Wesley Allen (1851-1942) took him throughout the northern Plains during an exceptionally turbulent era in its history. He was at the Red Cloud Agency when... -
The Mysterious Private Thompson: The Double Life of Sarah Emma Edmonds, Civil War Soldier by Laura Leedy Gansler 9780803259881
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £14.03Resurrecting a lost hero of the Civil War, The Mysterious Private Thompson tells the remarkable story of Sarah Emma Edmonds (1841-98), who disguised herself as a man and defended her country at a... -
The Words and Music of Frank Zappa by Kelly Fisher Lowe 9780803260054
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £12.58The Words and Music of Frank Zappa moves beyond the details of Frank Zappa's life (1940-93) toward a focused treatment of the rock and pop songs of this great American composer. Today Zappa's music... -
Before the Heroes Came: Antarctica in the 1890s by T. H. Baughman 9780803261631
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £10.79Although the Antarctic ice pack and some offshore islands had been sighted and even landed upon briefly as early as the 1820s, it was not until an eccentric Anglo-Norwegian explorer, Carsten F... -
With My Own Eyes: A Lakota Woman Tells Her People's History by Susan Bordeaux Bettelyoun 9780803261648
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £12.58With My Own Eyes tells the history of the nineteenth-century Lakotas. Susan Bordeaux Bettelyoun (1857-1945), the daughter of a French-American fur trader and a Brule Lakota woman, was raised near... -
Land of Terror by Edgar Rice Burroughs 9780803262652
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £16.37If you have ever wondered what a civilized man of the twentieth century would do if catapulted into an Old Stone Age where huge cave bears, saber-toothed tigers, monstrous carnivorous dinosaurs,... -
The Origins of the Jump Shot: Eight Men Who Shook the World of Basketball by John Christgau 9780803263949
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.38Before the jump shot, basketball was an earth-bound game. In fact, inventor James Naismith did not originally intend for players to move with the ball. The inspired invention of the dribble first put... -
Magpie Rising: Sketches from the Great Plains by Merrill Gilfillan 9780803271074
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £10.22The rolling, billowing, delicate landscape of Nebraska's Sandhills; the tombstone of Billy the Kid-stolen so often that it must be caged and shackled-in Fort Sumner, New Mexico; an intercontinental... -
The Apache Indians: In Search of the Missing Tribe by Helge Ingstad 9780803271852
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £12.60Available in English for the first time, The Apache Indians tells the story of the Norwegian explorer Helge Ingstad's sojourn among the Apaches near the White Mountain Reservation in Arizona and his... -
Back in Keith County by John Janovy 9780803275607
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.48'Good biologist though [Janovy] is, he's an even better nature writer, with a special affinity for the mysterious and the mystic' - Noel Perrin. 'John Janovy has produced his best book...He gives us... -
Myths and Legends of the Pacific Northwest by Katharine Berry Judson 9780803275959
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £12.58These collected myths and tales of the Indians of the Pacific Northwest-the Klamath, Nez Perce, Tillamook, Modoc, Shastan, Chinook, Flathead, Clatsop, and other tribes-were first published in 1910... -
Memories of Summer: When Baseball Was an Art, and Writing about It a Game by Roger Kahn 9780803278127
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.37Acclaimed baseball writer Roger Kahn gives us a memoir of his Brooklyn childhood, a recollection of a life in journalism, and a record of personal acquaintance with the greatest ballplayers of... -
The Worst Team Money Could Buy by Bob Klapisch 9780803278226
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £14.28Even before the New York Mets began the 1992 season, they had set a critical record: the highest payroll ever for a major-league team, $45 million. With players Bobby Bonilla, Vince Coleman, Bret... -
Henry Plummer: A Novel by Frank Bird Linderman 9780803279896
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £13.37Sheriff and outlaw Henry Plummer needed no introduction to the citizens of Montana Territory in the mid-nineteenth century. And well into the twentieth century, Frank Bird Linderman sought out the... -
Chicago: The Second City by A. J. Liebling 9780803280359
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £12.20Many Chicagoans rose in protest over A. J. Liebling's tongue-in-cheek tour of their fair city in 1952. Liebling found much to admire in the Windy City's people and culture-its colorful language, its... -
The National Grasslands: A Guide to America's Undiscovered Treasures by Francis Moul 9780803283206
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.98The four million windswept acres of wildflowers and grass in the twenty national grasslands in the United States are scattered across a region extending from the Pacific Ocean to the eastern edge of... -
Bordeaux by Soledad Puertolas 9780803287488
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £10.08Bordeaux, a shrewd and moving portrayal of life in contemporary Europe, is the first novel to appear in English by Soledad Puertolas, one of the most acclaimed writers in Spain today. A novel that... -
The Rivals: William Gwin, David Broderick, and the Birth of California by Arthur Quinn 9780803288515
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £14.44"This is the story of two men-of how they achieved great power and how through their implacable rivalry they destroyed each other," writes Arthur Quinn. Anticipating California's admission to the... -
The Winning of the West, Volume 2: From the Alleghanies to the Mississippi, 1777-1783 by Theodore Roosevelt 9780803289550
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £20.08After 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... -
Adventures in the Santa Fe Trade, 1844-1847 by James Josiah Webb 9780803297722
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £14.17James Josiah Webb left Independence, Missouri, in the summer of 1844 and headed down the Santa Fe Trail with goods bought in St. Louis. Although his first venture as a trader was a failure, he... -
Touching the Fire: Buffalo Dancers, the Sky Bundle, and Other Tales by Roger L. Welsch 9780803297982
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £10.74The Turtle Creek band of the fictional Nehawka Indians wages a battle for the return of their sacred Sky Bundle, a medicine pouch containing artifacts. It reposes under glass in an eastern museum at... -
The Legacy of the Civil War by Robert Penn Warren 9780803298019
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.65In this elegant book, the Pulitzer Prize-winning writer explores the manifold ways in which the Civil War changed the United States forever. He confronts its costs, not only human (six hundred... -
The Disappearance by Philip Wylie 9780803298415
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £12.58"The female of the species vanished on the afternoon of the second Tuesday of February at four minutes and fifty-two seconds past four o'clock, Eastern Standard Time. The event occurred universally... -
The Appalachian Indian Frontier: Edmond Atkin Report and Plan of 1755 by Edmond Atkin 9780803250116
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £8.50Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Reviews"In 1754 the British Board of Trade, belatedly awakening to the need of winning the allegiance of the southern... -
Before Lewis and Clark: The Story of the Chouteaus, the French Dynasty That Ruled America's Frontier by Shirley Christian 9780803225244
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £18.19Before Lewis and Clark relates the extraordinary saga of the Chouteaus, the dynastic family that guarded the gates to the West for three generations. From their St. Louis base, the Chouteaus,... -
The Fifth World of Forster Bennett: Portrait of a Navajo by Vincent Crapanzano 9780803264311
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £12.58It is told that the ancestors of the Navajos journeyed through four worlds to reach the fifth, or present, one. The pressing complexities and underlying wonder of their fifth world of modern... -
The Oneida Creation Story by Demus Elm 9780803267428
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £10.93The Oneida Creation Story is the oldest tradition of the Onyota'aka (People of the Standing Stone) and is one of the greatest pieces of oral literature of Native North America. Ancient elements of... -
Covered Wagon Women, Volume 10: Diaries and Letters from the Western Trails, 1875-1883 by Kenneth L. Holmes 9780803272996
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £12.54Forty years after the legendary overland travels of Oregon pioneers in the 1840s, Lucy Clark Allen wrote, "the excitement continues." Economic hard times in Minnesota sent Allen and her husband to... -
The Cheyenne in Plains Indian Trade Relations, 1795-1840 by Joseph Jablow 9780803275812
Booksplease Price: £13.21In this illuminating book, the Plains Indians come to life as shrewd traders. The Cheyennes played a vital role in an intricate and expanding barter system that connected tribes with each other and... -
Apache Odyssey: A Journey between Two Worlds by Morris Edward Opler 9780803286160
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £14.91In 1933, famed anthropologist Morris Opler met a Mescalero Apache he called Chris and worked with him to record the man's life story, from the bloody Apache Wars into the reservation years of the... -
Guns on the Early Frontiers: A History of Firearms from Colonial Times through the Years of the Western Fur Trade by Carl Parcher Russell 9780803289031
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.12"Here is a book for the historian, the student, the gun collector or aficionado...It approaches understatement to call Guns on the Early Frontiers an outstanding contribution to firearms literature... -
The Winning of the West, Volume 1: From the Alleghanies to the Mississippi, 1769-1776 by Theodore Roosevelt 9780803289543
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £19.94After 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... -
Against Joie de Vivre: Personal Essays by Phillip Lopate 9780803222731
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.37"Over the years I have developed a distaste for the spectacle of joie de vivre, the knack of knowing how to live," begins the title essay by Phillip Lopate. This rejoinder to the cult of hedonism and... -
Houses of Study: A Jewish Woman among Books by Ilana M. Blumberg 9780803224490
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £13.11Houses of Study is an eloquent memoir of a Jewish woman's life and her efforts to reconcile the traditions of her faith with her belief in women's equality and the pull of modern American living... -
The Overseer's Cabin by Edouard Glissant 9780803234796
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.37With Edouard Glissant's The Fourth Century, the Village Voice observed, "we get the full effect of his overarching project: a literary exorcism of Martinique's scarred psyche and past, a lingering... -
My Nebraska: The Good, the Bad, and the Husker by Roger L. Welsch 9780803236332
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £13.02Roger Welsch is a fierce fan of Nebraska-not just the football team, or the state's famous beef, or its endless sky, or its ferocious and ferociously unpredictable weather, but the whole thing. His... -
You Can't Fight Tanks with Bayonets: Psychological Warfare against the Japanese Army in the Southwest Pacific by Allison B. Gilmore 9780803270893
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £13.37A startling omission from the extensive literature on the Pacific events of World War II is an analysis of Allied psychological operations. Allison B. Gilmore makes a strong case for the importance... -
The Lost Battalion by Thomas M. Johnson 9780803276130
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.37For a generation the Lost Battalion exemplified the best of America's involvement in World War I. Until World War II pushed the Lost Battalion out of the national memory with its own scenes of horror... -
Hot Chocolate at Hanselmann's by Gregory Conti 9780803280069
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.65A work of understated elegance and cumulative power, this novel eases readers into a drama unfolding within a Catholic family in Italy on the eve of World War II. As scenes only dimly understood by...