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My Ruby Slippers: The Road Back to Kansas by Tracy Seeley 9780803230101
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £10.90Sure, there's no place like home-but what if you can't really pinpoint where home is? By the time she was nine, Tracy Seeley had lived in seven towns and thirteen different houses. Her father's... -
The Indian Agent: A Novel by Dan O'Brien 9780803235885
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.37Dan O'Brien's earlier award-winning novel The Contract Surgeon introduced readers to Valentine McGillycuddy, a friend of the great war chief Crazy Horse. Through McGillycuddy's eyes, the novel... -
Street Shadows: A Memoir of Race, Rebellion, and Redemption by Jerald Walker 9780803240957
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £12.58Street Shadows recounts Jerald Walker's renunciation of the "thug life" he had embraced as a teenager on the South Side of Chicago in favor of the education and middle-class life his parents had... -
At Home on This Moveable Earth by William Kloefkorn 9780803243514
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £10.91Whether writing about a boyhood in the Great Depression, the bond between a young man and his family, digging storm cellars and ducking tornadoes, or the dropping of the atomic bomb as experienced by... -
High Country Empire: The High Plains and Rockies by Robert G. Athearn 9780803250086
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £17.52"It will make excellent supplementary reading for students of the American West, complementing the work of Bernard De Voto and Carl F. Kraenzel."—Walter Prescott Webb, New York Times Book ReviewBook... -
The Complete Roadside Guide to Nebraska by Alan Boye 9780803259683
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £17.76The second edition of The Complete Roadside Guide to Nebraska represents a major enlargement and revision of the first edition, making this the most comprehensive guide to the state ever written. The... -
War Elephants by John M. Kistler 9780803260047
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £14.91Elephants have fought in human armies for more than three thousand years. Asian armies boasted of their pachyderm power, while the Romans fielded elephants alongside their legendary legions but were... -
Rhubarb in the Catbird Seat by Red Barber 9780803261365
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £15.30For more than fifty years Red Barber was the voice of baseball. The game was broadcast sporadically until the late 1930s, when Barber burst into prominence by bringing it home to radio listeners,... -
Recollections of a Handcart Pioneer of 1860: A Woman's Life on the Mormon Frontier by Mary Ann Hafen 9780803273405
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £8.06In the summer of 1860 the author of these recollections, Mary Ann Stucki, then six years old, walked beside her parents' handcart from Florence (Omaha), Nebraska, to Salt Lake City, Utah. The family,... -
The Little Big Horn, 1876: The Official Communications, Documents and Reports by Loyd J. Overfield 9780803286016
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £12.58Noting that the documents pertaining to the Battle of the Little Big Horn are often garbled in editing and quoted out of context, Loyd J. Overfield set out to compile the original orders, letters,... -
The Conspiracy of Pontiac and the Indian War after the Conquest of Canada, Volume 2: From the Spring of 1763 to the Death of Pontiac by Francis Parkman 9780803287372
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.73Francis Parkman, America's greatest narrative historian, immortal for The Oregon Trail (1849), devoted much of his career to writing about the struggle of France and England for domination in America... -
Army Letters from an Officer's Wife, 1871-1888 by Frances M. A. Roe 9780803289055
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £17.32In the summer of 1871, Frances Marie Antoinette Mack married Fayette Washington Roe, fresh out of West Point, and left the East behind to join his infantry regiment at Fort Lyon, Colorado, where her... -
The Splendid Wayfaring: Jedediah Smith and the Ashley-Henry Men, 1822-1831 by John G. Neihardt 9780803257238
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £17.57With the publication of The Splendid Wayfaring in 1920, John G. Neihardt sought to restore the reputation of a mountain man who went far in opening up the American West. The exciting narrative begins... -
The Farming Game by Bryan L. Jones 9780803275829
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £10.44In cantankerous opinions, hard-headed advice, and free-swinging sketches of real farmers, Bryan Jones addresses everyone who feels the pull of the land. He accepts the emotional appeal of "going back... -
The Dawn of the World: Myths and Tales of the Miwok Indians of California by Lowell John Bean 9780803281936
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £15.45The stories collected in The Dawn of the World were related by the Miwok elders "after the first rains of the winter season, usually in the ceremonial roundhouse and always at night by the dim light... -
So Much to Be Done: Women Settlers on the Mining and Ranching Frontier, 2nd Edition by Ruth Barnes Moynihan 9780803282483
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £14.91In this new and enlarged edition the editors have built on an already strong collection with four new accounts. Colorado pioneer Augusta Tabor gives a sense of the heady days as Leadville became a... -
The Winnebago Tribe by Paul Radin 9780803257108
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.66This classic work on the Winnebago Indian tribe remains the single best authority on the subject. Based on Paul Radin's field work in 1908-13, The Winnebago Tribe was originally published as an... -
The Midsummer Classic: The Complete History of Baseball's All-Star Game by David W. Vincent 9780803292734
RRP: £31.00Booksplease Price: £30.09Since its inception in 1933, the All-Star Game has become an integral part of baseball. Yet there has been no truly comprehensive source for researchers that includes both a narrative and a... -
The Social Life of Stories: Narrative and Knowledge in the Yukon Territory by Julie Cruikshank 9780803214903
RRP: £50.00Booksplease Price: £30.30In this theoretically sophisticated study of indigenous oral narratives, Julie Cruikshank moves beyond the text to explore the social significance of storytelling. Circumpolar Native peoples today... -
A Time to Stand by Walter Lord 9780803279025
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £14.40On the morning of March 6, 1836, in an old abandoned mission called the Alamo, a small Texas garrison fought to the death rather than yield to an overwhelming army of Mexicans. Through the years the... -
The Mexican War, 1846-1848 by K. Jack Bauer 9780803261075
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £19.75"Much has been written about the Mexican war, but this ...is the best military history of that conflict...Leading personalities, civilian and military, Mexican and American, are given incisive and... -
Buffalo Bill from Prairie to Palace by John M. Burke 9780803243897
Booksplease Price: £73.98Advance man, press agent, and publicist extraordinaire, John M. Burke (1842-1917) was instrumental in turning William F. Cody into the iconic persona of Buffalo Bill. And with this biography,... -
The Definitive Journals of Lewis and Clark, Vol 11: Joseph Whitehouse by Meriwether Lewis 9780803280236
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £21.78Lively and curious, possessing a keen eye for detail and a knack for skin-dressing, Private Joseph Whitehouse produced an account that stands as the only surviving record by any army private in the... -
Touched by Fire: The Life, Death, and Mythic Afterlife of George Armstrong Custer by Louise Barnett 9780803262669
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.66For more than a century, Americans have been captivated by the legend of General George Armstrong Custer. But the various truths of Custer's life and last stand prove elusive. Why are we so taken... -
Waltzing Montana by Mary Clearman Blew 9781496225054
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £14.08Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781496225054Author Mary Clearman BlewFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprin -
A Life with Dogs by Roger L Welsch 9781496226693
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.47Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781496226693Author Roger L WelschFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint -
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The Orange Tree by Mildred Walker 9780803298644 [USED COPY]
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £3.34As in Chekhov's play The Three Sisters, the characters in Mildred Walker's Orange Tree search for meaning and happiness in their often uneventful middle-class lives-and yet from such a seemingly... -
Nourishing Growth and Suffocating Life: Water, Politics, and Infrastructure in Urban Oklahoma by Daniel Mains 9781496240194
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £17.24Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781496240194Author Daniel MainsFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint < -
Under the Big Sky: A Biography of A. B. Guthrie Jr. by Jackson J. Benson 9780803243583
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.77Author of The Big Sky series, The Way West, and the screenplay for the classic film Shane, among other timeless stories of frontier mountain men, icon of Western literature A. B. "Bud" Guthrie Jr... -
Jim Bridger: Mountain Man by Stanley Vestal 9780803257207
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £14.91Even among the mighty mountain men, Jim Bridger was a towering figure. He was one of the greatest explorers and pathfinders in American history. He couldn't write his name, but at eighteen he had... -
The Celebrant: A Novel by Eric Rolfe Greenberg 9780803270374
Booksplease Price: £17.65The first two decades of the twentieth century were a time of promise and innocence in America. Hardworking immigrants could achieve the American dream; heroes were truly heroic. Eric Rolfe Greenberg... -
Mountain Men and Fur Traders of the Far West: Eighteen Biographical Sketches by LeRoy R. Hafen 9780803272101
Booksplease Price: £17.93The legendary mountain men-the fur traders and trappers who penetrated the Rocky Mountains and explored the Far West in the first half on the nineteenth century-formed the vanguard of the American... -
The Legend of Baby Doe: The Life and Times of the Silver Queen of the West by John Burke
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.37In her pulchritudinous prime Baby Doe was called the Silver Queen of Colorado by journalists and "that shameless hussy" by the proper wives of the men who eyed her. Flirtatious, adventurous,... -
The Rhizomatic West: Representing the American West in a Transnational, Global, Media Age by Neil Campbell
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.42Is the American West in Sergio Leone's "spaghetti westerns" the same American West we find in Douglas Coupland's Generation X? In Jim Jarmusch's movies? In Calexico's music? Or is the American West,... -
Hopi Tales of Destruction by Ekkehart Malotki
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £18.12Hopi Tales of Destruction preserves seven powerful tales about ancient Hopi villages that now lie in ruins. These narratives shed considerable light on the Hopis' past, giving insight into cultural... -
Jessie Benton Fremont: A Woman Who Made History by Catherine Coffin Phillips
Booksplease Price: £15.18A favorite of President Andrew Jackson and the daughter of Senator Thomas Hart Benton of Missouri, Jessie Benton was acquainted with the famous from childhood. When the vivacious belle met John C... -
Tomboy by Nina Bouraoui
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.47How do you live in Algeria when you grow up speaking French, with a French mother? How do you live in France when you've spent your childhood in Algeria with an Algerian father? Tomboy is the story... -
Kill All the Lawyers?: Shakespeare's Legal Appeal by Daniel J. Kornstein
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.56Two-thirds of Shakespeare's plays have trial scenes, and many deal specifically with lawyers, courts, judges, and points of law. Daniel Kornstein, a practicing attorney, looks at the legal issues and... -
Pieces from Life's Crazy Quilt by Marvin V. Arnett
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £10.37Part memoir and part urban social history, Pieces from Life's Crazy Quilt is an African American woman's personal account of her life during a racially turbulent period in a northern American city... -
Young, Black, Rich, and Famous: The Rise of the NBA, the Hip Hop Invasion, and the Transformation of American Culture by Todd Boyd
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £11.83In Young, Black, Rich, and Famous, Todd Boyd chronicles how basketball and hip hop have gone from being reviled by the American mainstream in the 1970s to being embraced and imitated globally today...