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The Life of Hon. William F. Cody, Known as Buffalo Bill by William F. Cody 9780803232914
RRP: $29.66Booksplease Price: $26.34What we know of Buffalo Bill Cody (1846-1917) is more myth than man. Yet the stage persona that took audiences by storm was based on the very real encounters of William F. Cody with the American West... -
Myth and History in the Creation of Yellowstone National Park by Paul Schullery 9780803234734
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $15.23Yellowstone National Park, a global icon of conservation and natural beauty, was born at the most improbable of times: the American Gilded Age, when altruism seemed extinct and society's vision... -
Pitchers of Beer: The Story of the Seattle Rainiers by Dan Raley 9780803240858
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $21.92In 1937, when local beer baron Emil Sick stepped in, the Seattle Indians were a struggling minor-league baseball team teetering on collapse. Moved to mix baseball and beer by his good friend and... -
Among the Indians: Four Years on the Upper Missouri, 1858-1862 by Henry A. Boller 9780803257146
RRP: $25.79Booksplease Price: $22.24Although the American Fur Company dominated the Upper Missouri fur trade during the middle decades of the nineteenth century, a number of small, independent firms (known as the "Opposition")... -
Mythology of the Blackfoot Indians by Clark Wissler 9780803260238
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $17.49Mythology of the Blackfoot Indians, originally published in 1908 by the American Museum of Natural History, introduces such figures as Old Man, Scar-Face, Blood-Clot, and the Seven Brothers. Included... -
Monsieur Ouine by Georges Bernanos 9780803261617
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $19.50In a small village in northern France, Monsieur Ouine, a retired professor, is taken in by the dull local squire, Anthelme de Nereis, and soon rules the life of both Anthelme and his wife, Ginette. A... -
A Maryland Boy in Lee's Army: Personal Reminiscences of a Maryland Soldier in the War between the States, 1861-1865 by George Wilson Booth 9780803261754
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $13.44The Civil War tore Maryland in half. Young George Wilson Booth followed the call of the Confederacy and served four years under the banners of the Army of Virginia. During the bright days of the... -
The Men of the Lewis and Clark Expedition: A Biographical Roster of the Fifty-one Members and a Composite Diary of Their Activities from All Known Sources by Charles G. Clarke 9780803264199
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $22.82Meriwether Lewis and William Clark did not embark on their epic trek across the continent alone-dozens of men and eventually one woman accompanied them. The towering triumph of the Lewis and Clark... -
The Girl in the Golden Atom by Ray Cummings 9780803264571
RRP: $18.05Booksplease Price: $16.47A classic work of science fiction, this novel was one of the first to explore the world of the atom. The Girl in the Golden Atom is the story of a young chemist who finds a hidden atomic world within... -
Tales of the Tepee by Edward Everett Dale 9780803266100
RRP: $10.31Booksplease Price: $10.09Tales of the Tepee grew out of Edward Everett Dale's close association with Indian tribes living in Oklahoma. During territorial days young Dale rode, hunted, and visited with the Kiowas, Comanches,... -
Indian Heroes and Great Chieftains by Charles A. Eastman 9780803267206
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $17.60Charles A. Eastman, a Santee Sioux, was four years old at the time of the 1862 Sioux Uprising in Minnesota. Separated from his father in the aftermath of the rebellion, he spent eleven years with... -
Rose of Dutcher's Coolly by Hamlin Garland 9780803271203
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $18.74Widely regarded as the best of Hamlin Garland's novels, Rose of Dutcher's Coolly tells the story of a country girl of precocious ability who is raised by her widower father on a small Wisconsin farm... -
Fremont's First Impressions: The Original Report of His Exploring Expeditions of 1842-1844 by John Charles Fremont 9780803271357
RRP: $29.66Booksplease Price: $25.98In 1842 John C. Fremont led a party of twenty-five men on a five-month journey from Saint Louis to the Wind River Range in the Rocky Mountains; his goal: to chart the best route to Oregon. In 1843... -
Into the Valley: Marines at Guadalcanal by John Hersey 9780803273283
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $11.17John Hersey (1914-93) was a correspondent for Time and Life magazines when in 1942 he was sent to cover Guadalcanal, the largest of the Solomon Islands in the Western Pacific. While there, Hersey... -
Falling Room by Eli Hastings 9780803273641
RRP: $18.05Booksplease Price: $15.98Coming of age poor in spirit in the America of plenty is an old story that is yet endlessly new, beginning afresh every time a confused teenager tries to make sense of his privileged place in the... -
A Season in the Sun by Roger Kahn 9780803277939
RRP: $18.05Booksplease Price: $16.63In 1976 Roger Kahn spent an entire baseball season, from spring training through the World Series, with players of every stripe and competence. The result is this book, in which Kahn reports on a... -
The Crow Indians by Robert H. Lowie 9780803280274
RRP: $23.21Booksplease Price: $19.78First published in 1935, The Crow Indians offers a concise and accessible introduction to the nineteenth-century world of the Crow Indians. Drawing on interviews with Crow elders in the early... -
Richmond During the War: Four Years of Personal Observation by Sallie Brock Putnam 9780803287457
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $18.63The Civil War turned the genteel world of Virginia society upside-down for Sallie Brock Putnam. She lived in the Confederate capital of Richmond throughout the war and saw it transformed from a quiet... -
Budapest Diary: In Search of the Motherbook by Susan Rubin Suleiman 9780803292611
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $17.36Can you forget the place you once called home? What does it take to make you recapture it? In this moving memoir, Susan Rubin Suleiman describes her returns to the city of her birth-where she speaks... -
Mister, You Got Yourself a Horse: Tales of Old-Time Horse Trading by Roger L. Welsch 9780803297173
RRP: $18.05Booksplease Price: $16.23Plains folklorist Roger L. Welsch has edited a lively collection of stories by some master yarnspinners-those old-time traveling horse traders. Told to Federal Writers' Project fieldworkers in the... -
Ham, Eggs, and Corn Cake: A Nebraska Territory Diary by Erastus F. Beadle 9780803261877
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $11.36Three years after the Kansas-Nebraska Act embroiled the plains states in a struggle that presaged the war to come, the irrepressible Erastus F. Beadle left his home in Buffalo, New York, and set out... -
The Wow Boys: A Coach, a Team, and a Turning Point in College Football by James W. Johnson 9780803276321
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $17.49In 2002 ESPN rated football's shift to the modern T-formation offense as the second best sports innovation of all time-just behind baseball's free agency. The story behind the move to the T-formation... -
A Yaqui Life: The Personal Chronicle of a Yaqui Indian by Rosalio Moises 9780803281752
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $21.76"The reminiscences of a Yaqui Indian born in 1896 in northwestern Mexico whose story begins during the Yaqui revolutionary period, continues through the last uprising in 1926, and ends with [his]... -
Stagecoach West by Ralph Moody 9780803282452
RRP: $23.21Booksplease Price: $21.75Stagecoach West is a comprehensive history of stagecoaching west of the Missouri. Starting with the evolution of overland passenger transportation, Moody moves on to paint a lively and informative... -
Cages to Jump Shots: Pro Basketball's Early Years by Robert W. Peterson 9780803287723
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $15.23Basketball is now over a century old. Cages to Jump Shots offers an unforgettable glimpse of its exciting and eccentric early years, beginning in 1891 when James Naismith drew up the first rules,... -
At the Right Hand of Longstreet: Recollections of a Confederate Staff Officer by G. Moxley Sorrel 9780803292673
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $18.45As a young man in Georgia, G. Moxley Sorrel enlisted in a cavalry unit even before the Civil War erupted, so eager was he to serve his home state. During the war, as an aide-de-camp on Brigadier... -
Memories of Two Wars: Cuban and Philippine Experiences by Frederick Funston 9780803222892
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $21.52Though America did not join rebellious Cuban forces against the Spanish empire until 1898, Frederick Funston (1865-1917) was so moved by a speech by Gen. Daniel Sickles in 1896 that he went to Cuba... -
Wallace Stegner: His Life and Work by Jackson J. Benson 9780803225374
RRP: $25.79Booksplease Price: $22.91In a career spanning more than fifty years, Wallace Stegner (1909-93) emerged as the greatest contemporary author of the American West-writing more than two dozen works of history, biography, essays,... -
The Heart of the Sound: An Alaskan Paradise Found and Nearly Lost by Marybeth Holleman 9780803230354
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $17.67How does one recover from disaster? That question is at the heart of Marybeth Holleman's lyrical, elegiac response to the repercussions of the Exxon Valdez oil spill, which devastated Alaska's Prince... -
A Sandhills Ballad by Ladette Randolph 9780803236301
Booksplease Price: $19.44After her life as she knows it ends in heartbreak, Mary Rasmussen, a strong-willed and independent young ranch woman living in the Sandhills of western Nebraska, suddenly feels that everything she... -
Haven's Wake by Ladette Randolph 9780803243576
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $19.09Early July, and the corn in eastern Nebraska stands ten feet tall; after a near-decade of drought, it seems too good to be true, and everyone is watching the sky for trouble. For the Grebels, whose... -
Chuck Hagel: Moving Forward by Charlyne Berens 9780803248304
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $19.23In late August 2004 the Republicans were celebrating the nomination of incumbent George W. Bush for another term as president of the United States. In the midst of the festivities, Chuck Hagel, a... -
Mother Mason by Bess Streeter Aldrich 9780803259133
RRP: $17.42Booksplease Price: $14.29Bess Streeter Aldrich is known for her portrayals of wise and witty women whose identities are strengthened, not smothered, in the bosom of the family. Molly Mason, fifty-two, is the devoted wife of... -
Make a Beautiful Way: The Wisdom of Native American Women by Barbara Alice Mann 9780803260429
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $12.45Make a Beautiful Way is nothing less than a new way of looking at history-or more correctly, the reestablishment of a very old way. For too long, Euro-American discourse styles, emphasizing elite... -
Lonesome Land by B. M. Bower 9780803261341
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $16.05Valeria had come to Montana to marry a cowboy named Manley, expecting a future full of companionship and bracing freedom, lodges with great fireplaces and bearskin rugs, manageable cattle and sleek... -
Trading Secrets by Paule Constant 9780803264045
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $18.64Winner of the Prix Goncourt in 1998, this book is the work of one of France's most celebrated and interesting novelists writing at the height of her powers. It is fiction that leads readers through... -
Incidents of Travel and Adventure in the Far West with Colonel Fremont's Last Expedition by Solomon Nunes Carvalho 9780803264441
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $18.64In August 1853, an American-born Sephardic Jew, Solomon Nunes Carvalho, accepted John Fremont's invitation to join his fifth expedition to find the best overland route to California. A Baltimore... -
Washakie, Chief of the Shoshones by Grace Raymond Hebard 9780803272781
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $19.26Washakie was chief of the eastern band of the Shoshone Indians for almost sixty years, until his death in 1900. A strong leader of his own people, he saw the wisdom of befriending the whites. Grace... -
The Hanging Tree by Dorothy M. Johnson 9780803275843
RRP: $20.63Booksplease Price: $17.26The title story, The Hanging Tree, is based on a true episode in Montana's gold-mining past. Three amazing characters meet: the cynical Doc Frail; the boy robber named Rune, whom Doc saves and... -
Norway 1940 by Francois Kersaudy 9780803277878
RRP: $25.79Booksplease Price: $22.24In the late 1930s, as Europe moved toward war, the peaceful kingdom of Norway found itself strategically vital to the interests of Germany, France, and Great Britain. Though Norway was strictly...