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Field of Schemes: How the Great Stadium Swindle Turns Public Money into Private Profit, Revised and Expanded Edition by Neil DeMause 9780803260160
RRP: $40.44Booksplease Price: $35.49Field of Schemes is a play-by-play account of how the drive for new sports stadiums and arenas drains $2 billion a year from public treasuries for the sake of private profit. While the millionaires... -
The American Fur Trade of the Far West, Volume 2 by Hiram Martin Chittenden 9780803263215
RRP: $45.20Booksplease Price: $39.70The American Fur Trade of the Far West is the premier history of its subject. Its publication in 1902 invited historians and general readers to look more closely at the intricate connec-tions of the... -
Onitsha by J. M. G. Le Clezio 9780803279667
RRP: $33.30Booksplease Price: $29.94Onitsha tells the story of Fintan, a youth who travels to Africa in 1948 with his Italian mother to join the English father he has never met. Fintan is initially enchanted by the exotic world he... -
Memoirs of a Courtesan in Nineteenth-Century Paris by Celeste Mogador 9780803282735
RRP: $45.20Booksplease Price: $39.20When Celeste Mogador's memoirs were first published in 1854 and again in 1858, they were immediately seized and condemned as immoral and unsuitable for public consumption. For a reader in our more... -
Women of the Dawn by Bunny McBride 9780803282773
RRP: $33.30Booksplease Price: $29.94Women of the Dawn tells the stories of four remarkable Wabanaki Indian women who lived in northeast America during the four centuries that devastated their traditional world. Their courageous... -
Pilgrims on the Ice: Robert Falcon Scott's First Antarctic Expedition by T. H. Baughman 9780803216396
RRP: $40.44Booksplease Price: $35.49Robert Falcon Scott's 1901-4 expedition to the Antarctic was a landmark event in the history of Antarctic exploration, creating a sensation comparable to the Arctic efforts of the American Robert E... -
Inventing Wyatt Earp: His Life and Many Legends by Allen Barra 9780803220584
RRP: $40.44Booksplease Price: $36.20On October 26, 1881, Wyatt Earp, his two brothers, and Doc Holliday shot it out with a gang of cattle rustlers near the O.K. Corral in Tombstone, Arizona. It was over in half a minute, but those... -
Or Perish in the Attempt: The Hardship and Medicine of the Lewis and Clark Expedition by David J. Peck 9780803235113
RRP: $42.82Booksplease Price: $37.32David J. Peck's Or Perish in the Attempt ingeniously combines the remarkable adventures of Lewis and Clark with an examination of the health problems their expedition faced. Formidable problems... -
Wright Morris Territory: A Treasury of Work by Wright Morris 9780803236585
RRP: $42.82Booksplease Price: $37.32Best known for his novels, including the National Book Award winners The Field of Vision and Plains Song, Nebraska-born author Wright Morris has long been regarded as one of America's most gifted... -
Custer's Last Stand: The Anatomy of an American Myth by Brian W. Dippie 9780803265929
RRP: $45.20Booksplease Price: $39.20Defeat and death at the Little Bighorn gave General George Custer and his Seventh Cavalry a kind of immortality. In Custer's Last Stand, Brian W. Dippie investigates the body of legend surrounding... -
Indian Why Stories: Sparks from War Eagle's Lodge-Fire by Frank Bird Linderman 9780803280380
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $31.82Old-man, or Napa, as he was called by the Blackfeet, is an extraordinary character in Indian stories. Both powerful and fallible, he appears in different guises: god or creator, fool, thief, clown... -
Football's Last Iron Men: 1934, Yale vs. Princeton, and One Stunning Upset by Norman L. Macht 9780803234017
Booksplease Price: $29.44In November 1934, the Princeton football team-unbeaten in its last fifteen games-faced the 3-3 Yale Bulldogs, who gave new meaning to the term "underdogs." As much a thrilling play-by-play account of... -
From the Hilltop by Toni Jensen 9780803226340
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $31.82For the characters we meet in Toni Jensen's stories, the past is very much the present. Theirs are American Indian lives off the reservation, lives lived beyond the usual boundaries set for American... -
On the Home Front: The Cold War Legacy of the Hanford Nuclear Site, Third Edition by Michele Stenehjem Gerber 9780803259959
RRP: $40.44Booksplease Price: $35.49On the Home Front is the only comprehensive history of the Hanford Nuclear Site, America's most productive and wasteful plutonium manufacturing facility. Located in southeastern Washington State, the... -
Assassination! July 14 by Ben Abro 9780803259393
RRP: $33.30Booksplease Price: $29.94July 14. One of Europe's most sinister terrorist organizations hatches a brilliant plan to assassinate the feared and powerful leader of France, President Charles de Gaulle. Max Palk, an... -
The Social Life of Stories: Narrative and Knowledge in the Yukon Territory by Julie Cruikshank 9780803264090
RRP: $40.44Booksplease Price: $35.49In 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... -
Kit Carson and the Indians by Tom Dunlay 9780803266421
RRP: $45.20Booksplease Price: $40.41Often 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... -
The Frontier World of Doc Holliday by Pat Jahns 9780803276086
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $31.82Eaten 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 Nightmare and Other Tales of Dark Fantasy by Francis Stevens 9780803292987
RRP: $40.44Booksplease Price: $37.94Slithering from these pages are never-before-collected tales of suspense and wonder by the woman who invented modern-day dark fantasy: A man goes quietly to bed aboard the doomed Lusitania and... -
Alexander's Bridge by Willa Cather 9780803258631
RRP: $21.40Booksplease Price: $19.30Willa Cather's first published novel, set in Boston, London, and Paris, is the story of a man unable to resolve the contradictions in his own nature. The central figures are Bartley Alexander, a... -
The Big O: My Life, My Times, My Game by Oscar P. Robertson 9780803234635
RRP: $45.20Booksplease Price: $39.20Perhaps 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... -
The Indian Agent: A Novel by Dan O'Brien 9780803235885
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $31.82Dan 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: $33.30Booksplease Price: $29.94Street 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... -
Rose Mellie Rose by Marie Redonnet 9780803289529
RRP: $23.78Booksplease Price: $21.11This 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... -
Counting Coup and Cutting Horses: Intertribal Warfare on the Northern Plains, 1738-1889 by Anthony R. McGinnis 9780803234550
RRP: $40.44Booksplease Price: $35.49Counting Coup and Cutting Horses is the comprehensive history of more than 150 years of intertribal warfare between northern Plains tribes and a study of the complex rivalries that prevailed among... -
Alamo by John Myers Myers 9780803257795
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $31.82John Myers Myers authored sixteen books, including Doc Holliday and Tombstone's Early Years, also available as Bison Books.About the AuthorJohn Myers Myers authored sixteen books, including Doc... -
Mondo and Other Stories by J. M. G. Le Clezio 9780803230002
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $31.82In awarding him the Nobel Prize in 2008, the Swedish Academy hailed J. M. G. Le Clezio as an "author of new departures, poetic adventure and sensual ecstasy, explorer of humanity beyond and below the... -
![Kit Carson Days, 1809-1868, Vol 2: Adventures in the Path of Empire, Volume 2 by Edwin L. Sabin 9780803292383 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/10298771/11314997/9780803292383__91390.1790320487.jpg?c=1 "Kit Carson Days, 1809-1868, Vol 2: Adventures in the Path of Empire, Volume 2 by Edwin L. Sabin 9780803292383 [USED COPY]")
Kit Carson Days, 1809-1868, Vol 2: Adventures in the Path of Empire, Volume 2 by Edwin L. Sabin 9780803292383 [USED COPY]
RRP: $54.72Booksplease Price: $5.47Volume 1 of Kit Carson Days shows Carson running away from his Missouri home at age fifteen in 1826. He joins a caravan headed toward Santa Fe and in the coming years shuttles between poverty and... -
Beneath Blossom Rain: Discovering Bhutan on the Toughest Trek in the World by Kevin Grange 9780803234338
RRP: $38.06Booksplease Price: $31.82In a remote kingdom hidden in the Himalayas, there is a trail said to be the toughest trek in the world-twenty-four days, 216 miles, eleven mountain passes, and enough ghost stories to scare an... -
A Mine of Her Own: Women Prospectors in the American West, 1850-1950 by Sally Zanjani 9780803299160
RRP: $42.82Booksplease Price: $37.32From the California gold rush through the mid-twentieth century, a special breed of women played an integral and heretofore unrecognized part in some of the most stirring adventures of the pioneer... -
The Cavalry at Gettysburg: A Tactical Study of Mounted Operations during the Civil War's Pivotal Campaign, 9 June-14 July 1863 by Edward G. Longacre 9780803279414
RRP: $45.20Booksplease Price: $39.20"For cavalry and/or Gettysburg enthusiasts, this book is a must; for other Civil War buffs, it possesses the qualities sought by students of the conflict...[It] bristles with analysis, details,... -
Under the Moons of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs 9780803262089
RRP: $40.44Booksplease Price: $37.94Ambushed in the cold moonlight of an Arizona night, Captain John Carter is inexplicably teleported to Mars, called Barsoom by its inhabitants. Legendary Barsoom-where hostile tribes of towering green... -
Aminadab by Maurice Blanchot
RRP: $40.44Booksplease Price: $35.49The world of Aminadab, Maurice Blanchot's second novel, is dark, bizarre, and fantastic. Reminiscent of Kafka's enclosed and allegorical spaces, Aminadab is both a reconstruction and a deconstruction... -
Mandan Social and Ceremonial Organization by Alfred W. Bowers
RRP: $47.58Booksplease Price: $41.75Generations before the Lewis and Clark Corps of Discovery wintered in the northern Plains, the Mandan Indians farmed along the banks of rivers. The traditional world of the Mandans comes vividly to... -
A Beast the Color of Winter: The Mountain Goat Observed by Douglas H. Chadwick
RRP: $33.30Booksplease Price: $29.94"In North America there is one large animal that belongs almost entirely to the realm of towering rock and unmelting snow. Pressing hard against the upper limit of life's possibilities, it exists... -
The Robber by Robert Walser
RRP: $33.30Booksplease Price: $30.08The Robber, Robert Walser's last novel, tells the story of a dreamer on a journey of self-discovery. It is a hybrid of love story, tragedy, and farce, with a protagonist who sweet-talks teaspoons,... -
![Medic!: How I Fought World War II with Morphine, Sulfa, and Iodine Swabs by Robert "Doc Joe" Franklin 9780803218833](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/1567441/1567021/9780803218833__93554.1706198207.jpg?c=1 "Medic!: How I Fought World War II with Morphine, Sulfa, and Iodine Swabs by Robert "Doc Joe" Franklin 9780803218833")
Medic!: How I Fought World War II with Morphine, Sulfa, and Iodine Swabs by Robert "Doc Joe" Franklin 9780803218833
RRP: $26.16Booksplease Price: $22.97Lt. Gen. George S. Patton remarked that the "45th Infantry Division is one of the best, if not the best division that the American army has ever produced." Such praise, however, came at a steep... -
Homesteading Space: The Skylab Story by David Hitt 9780803236394
RRP: $45.20Booksplease Price: $39.91As the United States and the Soviet Union went from exploring space to living in it, a space station was conceived as the logical successor to the Apollo moon program. But between conception and... -
Into That Silent Sea: Trailblazers of the Space Era, 1961-1965 by Francis French 9780803226395
RRP: $40.44Booksplease Price: $36.20It was a time of bold new technology, historic moments, and international jousting on the final frontier. But it was also a time of human drama, of moments less public but no less dramatic in the... -
Main-Travelled Roads by Hamlin Garland 9780803270589
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $31.82Main-Travelled Roads contains eleven stories in this expanded and revised 1922 edition of an undisputed American classic. "Under the Lion's Paw" shows an honest, hard-working farmer victimized by a...