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Extra Bases: Reflections on Jackie Robinson, Race, and Baseball History by Jules Tygiel 9780803294479
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £12.58Few sports have as much power and magic as baseball, and few writers have addressed the history of the game as well as Jules Tygiel. In his role as a historian, Tygiel purposefully takes his eye off... -
They Cleared the Lane: The NBA's Black Pioneers by Ron Thomas 9780803294547
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £14.47Today, 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... -
Fugitive Slave in the Gold Rush: Life and Adventures of James Williams by James Williams 9780803298125
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £11.11African American records of the Gold Rush are rare, as are underground railroad accounts from those fleeing to freedom; yet here is the account of a self-taught escaped slave and underground railroad... -
Weldon Kees and the Midcentury Generation: Letters, 1935-1955 by Weldon Kees 9780803278080
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.87Before he vanished in the fog of San Francisco, Weldon Kees (1914-55) was a poet, storyteller, critic, painter, musician, and filmmaker. What remains is a body of work and a large collection of... -
Wells Fargo by Ralph Moody 9780803283039
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.43Henry Wells (1805-78) and William Fargo (1818-81) first worked together when they broke the Post Office monopoly on mail service along the Erie Canal in the 1840s. In 1852 they incorporated Wells,... -
Late Innings: A Documentary History of Baseball, 1945-1972 by Dean A. Sullivan 9780803292857
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.54Late Innings: A Documentary History of Baseball, 1945-1972 is the third volume in Dean A. Sullivan's successful series on the vibrant history of baseball. Through 114 contemporary documents, Late... -
Gentleman and Soldier: A Biography of Wade Hampton III by Edward G. Longacre 9780803213548
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £16.17Winner of the Douglas Southall Freeman History Award, Gentleman and Soldier is the first biography in more than fifty years of Wade Hampton III (1818-1902), a Confederate general whose life provides... -
Scoreboard, Baby: A Story of College Football, Crime, and Complicity by Ken Armstrong 9780803228108
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.37The adjectives associated with the University of Washington's 2000 football season-mystical, magical, miraculous-changed when Ken Armstrong and Nick Perry's four-part expose of the 2000 Huskies hit... -
A Taste for War: The Culinary History of the Blue and the Gray by William C. Davis 9780803235229
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.82For soldiers in all wars, mealtime is a focal point of the day. Armies do indeed "march on their stomachs," as Napoleon said. Soldiers of the Civil War armies, many away from home and mothers' and... -
Water and Abandon by Robert Vivian 9780803238060
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £13.42It's been a year since the body of seventeen-year-old Kelsey Little was found in the river outside Dark Vespers, Nebraska. Although the town may have reached an uneasy equilibrium, those who loved... -
Great Western Indian Fights by Potomac Corral of the Westerners 9780803251861
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £14.39From 1832 to 1891 the states from the Great Lakes west to Oregon and south to Mexico saw scenes of massacre, bloody rout, ambush, fire, and pillage as the great Indian tribes-Blackfoot, Cheyenne,... -
The Cowboy Girl: The Life of Caroline Lockhart by John Clayton 9780803259904
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £16.89In 1901, Philadelphia's celebrity female journalist stepped off a train in Blackfoot, Montana, and into a world of living legends. The miners and frontiersmen, Indians and trappers that Caroline... -
Green Plans: Blueprint for a Sustainable Earth by Huey D. Johnson 9780803260207
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.56"Green plans" are the most effective strategies yet developed for moving from industrial environmental deterioration to postindustrial sustainability. In this definitive overview of green plans... -
Overland with Kit Carson: A Narrative of the Old Spanish Trail in '48 by George Douglas Brewerton 9780803261136
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £11.94Gold had just been discovered in California at the close of the Mexican War when Kit Carson started east from Los Angeles with Dispatches. Going with him was Lieutenant George Douglas Brewerton, who... -
Small-Town Heroes: Images of Minor League Baseball by Hank Davis 9780803266391
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £16.42In 1993 successful psychologist and journalist Hank Davis undertook an epic journey exploring the atmosphere and culture of both minor league baseball and the small towns that embrace it. Davis shows... -
Handcarts to Zion: The Story of a Unique Western Migration, 1856-1860 by LeRoy R. Hafen 9780803272552
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £12.39It is unparalleled in history, the procession of Latter-Day Saints pushing handcarts from Iowa City and Florence (Omaha) to their promised Zion by the Great Salt Lake. Many of the three thousand... -
Out of the Shadows: African American Baseball from the Cuban Giants to Jackie Robinson by William Kirwin 9780803278257
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.70For nearly fifteen years NINE: A Journal of Baseball History and Culture has been a leading scholarly journal of baseball history. Covering the cultural and historical implications of America's... -
The Tropic of Baseball: Baseball in the Dominican Republic by Rob Ruck 9780803289789
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £14.37In a new afterword Rob Ruck looks at the current state of baseball in the country that has produced Sammy Sosa and many other major league stars.About the AuthorRob Ruck teaches history at the... -
Mollie: The Journal of Mollie Dorsey Sanford in Nebraska and Colorado Territories, 1857-1866 by Mollie Dorsey Sanford 9780803293076
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £12.21Mollie is a vivid, high-spirited, and intensely feminine account of city people homesteading in the raw, new land west of the Missouri. More particularly, it is the story of Mollie herself - just... -
Standing Bear and the Ponca Chiefs by Thomas Henry Tibbles 9780803294264
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.38Standing 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... -
At the Earth's Core by Edgar Rice Burroughs 9780803261747
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £11.99Five hundred miles beneath the earth's surface lies a fantastic, timeless world of eternal daylight, prehistoric beasts, and primeval peoples-Pellucidar. Pellucidar is a world within our world, a... -
The Voice of the Coyote by J. Frank Dobie 9780803266599
RRP: £19.95Booksplease Price: £16.48In The Voice of the Coyote, J. Frank Dobie melds natural history with tales and lore in articulating the complex and often contentious relationship between coyotes and humans. Based on his own life... -
True to the Roots: Americana Music Revealed by Monte Dutton 9780803266612
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.60Americana music isn't just a musical form--it's a state of mind. In this book, Monte Dutton charts the coordinates of this state of mind with a series of interviews and intimate portraits from the... -
It Looked Like For Ever by Mark Harris 9780803272446
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £12.21Henry Wiggen, the bedraggled six-foot-three, 195-pound, left-handed pitcher for the New York Mammoths, returns to narrate another novel in his inimitable manner. Fans who loved him in Bang the Drum... -
Covered Wagon Women, Volume 8: Diaries and Letters from the Western Trails, 1862-1865 by Kenneth L. Holmes 9780803272972
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £13.37The overland trails in the 1860s witnessed the creation of stage stations to facilitate overland travel. These stations, placed every twenty or thirty miles, ensured that travelers would be able to... -
Old Home Town by Rose Wilder Lane 9780803279179
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.37In Old Home Town, Rose Wilder Lane has recreated small-town society of pre-World War I America with a precise feeling for decorum, dress, and kitchen dialogue. Like Sherwood Anderson in Winesburg,... -
Seneca Myths and Folk Tales by Arthur C. Parker 9780803287235
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £19.64"On the Cattaraugus reservation, it was part of a child's initial training to learn why the bear lost its tail, why the chipmunk has a striped back, and why meteors flash in the sky," writes Arthur C... -
Stories from Afield: Adventures with Wild Things in Wild Places by Bruce L. Smith 9780803288164
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £12.83Over the past four decades, Bruce L. Smith has worked with most big-game species in some of the American West's most breathtaking and challenging landscapes. In Stories from Afield, readers join... -
A Dynasty of Western Outlaws by Paul Iselin Wellman 9780803297098
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £17.09The organized gangs of robbers and killers who roamed the Midwest and Southwest from the 1860s to the 1930s went to the same school and were succored by each other's notoriety. So Paul I. Wellman... -
Union Pacific Country by Robert G. Athearn 9780803258297
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £24.52"No one has done before what Athearn has done in this volume. He has utilized company records and a variety of other sources to write a very attractive and readable, but scholarly account of the... -
Fremont: Pathmarker of the West by Allan Nevins 9780803283640
RRP: £31.00Booksplease Price: £25.86One of the most controversial and romantic figures in American history, John C. Fremont experienced a dizzying succession of public triumphs and humiliations. He made his name exploring the West,... -
Wyoming: A Guide to Its History, Highways, and People by Federal Writers' Project 9780803268548
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £22.48First published in the famous American Guide Series of the Work Projects Administration in 1941, Wyoming: A Guide remains a distinguished survey of the state, its centers of interest, and its history... -
John Wayne: American by Randy Roberts 9780803289703
RRP: £28.99Booksplease Price: £25.84"John Wayne remains a constant in American popular culture. Middle America grew up with him in the late 1920s and 1930s, went to war with him in the 1940s, matured with him in the 1950s, and... -
Rooney: A Sporting Life by Rob L. Ruck 9780803237674
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £24.28Born to an Irish Catholic working-class family on the Northside of Pittsburgh, Art Rooney (1901-88) dabbled in semipro baseball and boxing before discovering that his real talent lay not in playing... -
Fox at the Wood's Edge: A Biography of Loren Eiseley by Gale E. Christianson 9780803264106
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £21.81Loren Eiseley challenges us to this day with his uneasy interpretation of humanity's place in the world. The haunting melancholy that pervades much of Eiseley's work grew out of a loveless childhood... -
The Life That Ruth Built: A Biography by Marshall Smelser 9780803292185
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £22.21"Smelser demonstrates that a good historian can write good sports history and that good sports history makes good history. Of course Smelser had an ideal subject: Babe Ruth, the Sultan of Swat, the... -
The Aimless Life: Music, Mines, and Revolution from the Rocky Mountains to Mexico by Leonard Worcester 9781496222909
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.56Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781496222909Author Leonard WorcesterFormat PaperbackPage Count 186Imprint Bison BooksPublisher Bison... -
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In These Hills by Ralph Beer 9780803262096 [USED COPY]
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £4.06After a lifetime spent writing and working on his family's cattle ranch outside of Helena, Montana, Ralph Beer has gathered his best magazine essays into one collection called In These Hills. In... -
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Alex Posey: Creek Poet, Journalist, and Humorist by Daniel F. Littlefield 9780803279681 [USED COPY]
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £1.83Most of Alexander Posey's short and remarkable life was devoted to literary pursuits. Through a widely circulated satirical column published under the pseudonym Fus Fixico, he did much to document... -
Good Neighbors, Bad Times: Echoes of My Father's German Village by Mimi Schwartz
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.56Mimi Schwartz grew up on milkshakes and hamburgers-and her father's boyhood stories. She rarely took the stories seriously. What was a modern American teenager supposed to make of these accounts of a...