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The Frontier World of Doc Holliday by Pat Jahns 9780803276086
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $28.48Eaten by tuberculosis, sustained by alcohol, John Henry "Doc" Holliday walked the streets of Dodge City, Dallas, Denver, Leadville, Deadwood, and Tombstone in their roistering heydays. The... -
The Solace of Stones: Finding a Way through Wilderness by Julie Riddle 9780803276864
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $29.46Everything changes when Julie Riddle's parents stumble across the wilderness survival guide How to Live in the Woods on Pennies a Day. In 1977, when Riddle is seven years old, she and her family-fed... -
The Definitive Journals of Lewis and Clark, Vol 6: Down the Columbia to Fort Clatsop by Meriwether Lewis 9780803280137
RRP: $48.28Booksplease Price: $42.76Since the time of Columbus, explorers dreamed of a water passage across the North American continent. President Thomas Jefferson shared this dream. He conceived the Corps of Discovery to travel up... -
Rain or Shine: A Family Memoir by Cyra McFadden 9780803282414
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $18.80Cy Taillon was the molasses-voiced king of rodeo announcers. When he died in 1980, newspapers in the West canonized him as the dean of rodeo and compared him to John Wayne. A reformed rake, handsome... -
The White Earth Tragedy: Ethnicity and Dispossession at a Minnesota Anishinaabe Reservation, 1889-1920 by Melissa L. Meyer 9780803282568
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $31.88This compelling interdisciplinary history of an Anishinaabe community at the White Earth Reservation in Minnesota offers a subtle and sophisticated look at changing social, economic, and political... -
The Winning of the West, Volume 4: Louisiana and the Northwest, 1791-1807 by Theodore Roosevelt 9780803289574
RRP: $46.18Booksplease Price: $42.19After 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... -
Outpost of the Sioux Wars: A History of Fort Robinson by Frank N. Schubert 9780803292260
RRP: $48.28Booksplease Price: $43.13In 1874, Fort Robinson was founded amid the piney ridges of northwest Nebraska to stem the attacks of the Sioux, angered by settlers encroaching on the High Plains and by gold prospectors invading... -
Black Cadet in a White Bastion: Charles Young at West Point by Brian G. Shellum 9780803293151
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $24.80Born in slavery, Charles Young (1864-1922) was the third black graduate of West Point, the first black U.S. military attache, and the highest-ranking black officer in the Regular Army until his death... -
Portals to Hell: Military Prisons of the Civil War by Lonnie R. Speer 9780803293427
RRP: $39.88Booksplease Price: $38.72The holding of prisoners of war has always been both a political and a military enterprise, yet the military prisons of the Civil War, which held more than four hundred thousand soldiers and caused... -
General Lee: His Campaigns in Virginia, 1861-1865 by Walter Herron Taylor 9780803294257
RRP: $37.78Booksplease Price: $34.42The crucial Civil War battles in the East-from First Manassas to Antietam to Gettysburg-are described from the point of view of General Robert E. Lee's staff officer, Walter Taylor. Originally... -
Savage Pellucidar by Edgar Rice Burroughs 9780803262645
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $28.75When David Innes and Abner Perry set out to search for mineral deposits in Perry's newly invented Mechanical Prospectro, they never dreamed of discovering the beautiful, terrifying world of... -
The Cheyenne Indians, Volume 2: War, Ceremonies, and Religion by George Bird Grinnell 9780803257726
RRP: $44.08Booksplease Price: $38.45The Cheyenne Indians: Their History and Their Ways of Life is a classic ethnography, originally published in 1928, that grew out of George Bird Grinnell's long acquaintance with the Cheyennes. In... -
Tomorrow! by Philip Wylie 9780803226623
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $28.08This book may change your life. It may save it. It is one of the most important-and most shocking-books ever written. Tomorrow! is a story of average, nice Americans living in the neighboring cities... -
Rockne: The Coach, the Man, the Legend by Jerry Brondfield 9780803226791
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $29.11On April 1, 1931, newspapers in all parts of the country announced in giant headlines that Knute Rockne had died in a plane crash in Kansas. Who was Rockne, age forty-three, to receive all this... -
Wyoming Folklore: Reminiscences, Folktales, Beliefs, Customs, and Folk Speech by Federal Writers' Project 9780803243026
RRP: $29.38Booksplease Price: $26.42In 1935, in the depths of the Great Depression, Franklin Roosevelt issued an executive order creating the Federal Writers' Project (FWP). Out-of-work teachers, writers, and scholars fanned out across... -
Love Song to the Plains by Mari Sandoz 9780803251724
RRP: $48.28Booksplease Price: $42.13Love Song to the Plains is a lyric salute to the earth and sky and people who made the history of the Great Plains by the region's incomparable historian, Mari Sandoz. It is a story of men and women... -
Bad Company: The Story of California's Legendary and Actual Stage-Robbers, Bandits, Highwaymen and Outlaws from the Fifties to the Eighties by Joseph Henry Jackson 9780803258662
RRP: $39.88Booksplease Price: $36.35Bad Company begins with Joaquin Murieta, whose myth started in the early 1850s and who remains California's most glamorous outlaw. Then there's the story of Dick Fellows, who would have been a... -
Pulp Writer: Twenty Years in the American Grub Street by Paul S. Powers 9780803259843
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $28.08He wrote under at least eight pseudonyms, published hundreds of short stories and novellas in pulp magazines, and lived a life at times as outrageous as his fiction. Pulp Writer tells of Paul S... -
Scientists and Scoundrels: A Book of Hoaxes by Robert Silverberg 9780803259898
RRP: $29.38Booksplease Price: $27.59As if history and nature had not provided wonders enough, through the ages humans themselves have contrived more marvels to deceive one another. Sometimes they have concocted evidence when none was... -
Scoring from Second: Writers on Baseball by Philip F. Deaver 9780803259911
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $33.10Why do accomplished writers (and grown-ups) like Ron Carlson, Rick Bass, and Michael Chabon (to name but a few of those represented here) still obsess over their baseball days? What is it about this... -
The Galvanized Yankees by Dee Brown 9780803260757
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $31.75Here is the fascinating and little-known story of the Galvanized Yankees, who stood watch over a nation that they had once sought to destroy. They were Confederate soldiers who were recruited from... -
Honne, the Spirit of the Chehalis: The Indian Interpretation of the Origin of the People and Animals by George Sanders 9780803271500
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $30.47Honne, the Spirit of the Chehalis embodies a narrative tour de force that interweaves episodes (that stand alone in ordinary tellings) into an integrated series of installments. This collection of... -
The Rise and Fall of Jesse James by Robertus Love 9780803279322
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $34.67Jesse and Frank James were household names long before images of America's most wanted were televised. For several decades after the Civil War, they were hunted by hundreds who supposed them to be... -
The Mountain Men (Volume 1 of A Cycle of the West) by John G. Neihardt 9780803257337
RRP: $39.88Booksplease Price: $35.91The first volume in this two-volume edition of A Cycle of the West includes The Song of Three Friends (1919), which received the National Prize of the Poetry Society of America, The Song of Jed Smith... -
On the Trail to the California Gold Rush by Alonzo Delano 9780803266490
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $30.32Lured by "the astonishing accounts of the vast deposits of gold in California," Alonzo Delano (1806-74) of Ottawa, Illinois, bid farewell to his wife and children and joined the rush to El... -
The Omaha Tribe, Volume 2 by Alice C. Fletcher 9780803268777
Booksplease Price: $32.80Originally published in 1911 by the Bureau of American Ethnology, The Omaha Tribe is an irreplaceable classic, the collaboration of a pioneering anthropologist and a prominent Omaha ethnologist... -
Omega: The Last Days of the World by Camille Flammarion 9780803268982
RRP: $29.38Booksplease Price: $28.96Omega, written by astronomer Camille Flammarion (1842-1925), is no less than an epic history of our future-a startling and unforgettable vision of the end of the world. Reasoned scientific... -
Famous Indian Chiefs I Have Known by O.O. Howard 9780803272415
RRP: $39.88Booksplease Price: $35.03In 1872, President Ulysses S. Grant sent O.O. Howard, widely known as the "Christian general", as an ambassador of peace to the western Indian tribes. Famous Indians Chiefs I Have Known is Howard's... -
Covered Wagon Women, Volume 5: Diaries and Letters from the Western Trails, 1852: The Oregon Trail by Kenneth L. Holmes 9780803272941
RRP: $29.38Booksplease Price: $28.67Abigail Jane Scott was seventeen when she left Illinois with her family in the spring of 1852. Her record of the journey west is full of expressive detail: breakfasting in a snowstorm, walking behind... -
Ojibway Tales by Basil Johnston 9780803275782
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $24.97The Ojibway Indians' sense of humor sparkles through these stories set on the fictional Moose Meat Point Indian Reserve, connected by a dirt road to the town of Blunder Bay. If some of them seem... -
Nez Perce Country by Alvin M. Josephy 9780803276239
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $20.81The rivers, canyons, and prairies of the Columbia Basin are the homeland of the Nez Perce. The Nez Perce, or Nimiipuu, inhabited much of what is now north central Idaho and portions of Oregon and... -
The Floor of the Sky by Pamela Carter Joern 9780803276314
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $25.89In the Nebraska Sandhills, nothing is more sacred than the bond of family and land-and nothing is more capable of causing deep wounds. In Pamela Carter Joern's riveting novel The Floor of the Sky,... -
Good Enough to Dream by Roger Kahn 9780803277793
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $28.08Roger Kahn's first major league hit was a grand slam: The Boys of Summer, his runaway bestseller that immortalized the 1950s Brooklyn Dodgers. Now Kahn does the same for players whose moment in the... -
The Definitive Journals of Lewis and Clark, Vol 8: Over the Rockies to St. Louis by Meriwether Lewis 9780803280151
RRP: $48.28Booksplease Price: $42.76Since the time of Columbus, explorers dreamed of a water passage across the North American continent. President Thomas Jefferson shared this dream. He conceived the Corps of Discovery to travel up... -
The Oldest Orphan by Tierno Monenembo 9780803282858
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $20.27Tierno Monenembo was among the African authors invited to Rwanda after the 1994 Tutsi-Hutu massacre to "write genocide into memory." In his novel The Oldest Orphan, that is precisely what Monenembo... -
Jefferson's Nephews: A Frontier Tragedy by Boynton Merrill 9780803282971
RRP: $41.98Booksplease Price: $38.49The brutal axe murder and dismemberment of a Negro slave, committed in 1811 by two brothers, Lilburne and Isham Lewis, whose mother was Thomas Jefferson's sister and whose father was his first... -
I Tell You Now: Autobiographical Essays by Native American Writers by Brian Swann 9780803293144
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $28.08I Tell You Now is an anthology of autobiographical accounts by eighteen notable Native writers of different ages, tribes, and areas. This second edition features a new introduction by the editors and... -
Dakota Diaspora: Memoirs of a Jewish Homesteader by Sophie Trupin 9780803294141
RRP: $25.18Booksplease Price: $21.86To most Jewish immigrants New York was America. Not many ventured as far as North Dakota at the turn of the century. Sophie Trupin writes of her father and other Jewish farmers who came to the... -
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Corporal Si Klegg and His "Pard" by Wilbur F. Hinman 9780803224735
RRP: $48.28Booksplease Price: $44.35Although many books about the Civil War have been written by veterans, few provide an accurate and entertaining portrayal of the daily life of a soldier, as does Corporal Si Klegg and His "Pard." The... -
Owen Wister: Chronicler of the West, Gentleman of the East by Darwin Payne 9780803237698
RRP: $56.68Booksplease Price: $49.37In what remains the only full-length biography of Owen Wister (1860-1938), Darwin Payne details the life of the man who created the popular image of the cowboy that dominated American culture from...