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Tsimshian Culture: A Light through the Ages by Jay Miller 9780803282667
RRP: $46.18Booksplease Price: $39.44The Tsimshians are a Northwest Coast Native people known for their dazzling works of art and rich array of social, religious, and oral traditions that have captured the attention of scholars for over... -
The Gospel in Brief by Leo Tolstoy 9780803294325
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $24.80"Are you acquainted with Tolstoy's The Gospel in Brief? At its time, this book virtually kept me alive. . . . If you are not acquainted with it, then you cannot imagine what an effect it can have... -
Works Cited: An Alphabetical Odyssey of Mayhem and Misbehavior by Brandon R. Schrand 9780803243378
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $24.80"Doing things by the book" acquires a whole new meaning in Brandon R. Schrand's memoir of coming of age in spite of himself. The "works cited" are those books that serve as Schrand's signposts as he... -
Myth and History in the Creation of Yellowstone National Park by Paul Schullery 9780803243057
Booksplease Price: $45.09Yellowstone 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... -
Lakota Society by James R. Walker 9780803297371
RRP: $39.88Booksplease Price: $34.00As agency physician on the Pine Ridge Reservation from 1896 to 1914, Dr. James R. Walker recorded a wealth of information on the traditional lifeways of the Oglala Sioux. Lakota Society presents the... -
Atlas of Nebraska by J Clark Archer 9781496227836
RRP: $56.68Booksplease Price: $52.67Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781496227836Author J Clark ArcherFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint -
The Mayans Among Us: Migrant Women and Meatpacking on the Great Plains by Ann L. Sittig 9780803284616
RRP: $50.38Booksplease Price: $44.50The Mayans Among Us conveys the unique experiences of Central American indigenous immigrants to the Great Plains, many of whom are political refugees from repressive, war-torn countries. Ann L... -
Out of the Dark by Patrick Modiano 9780803231962
RRP: $50.38Booksplease Price: $40.68Patrick Modiano, winner of the 2014 Nobel Prize in Literature, is the author of more than thirty books and one of France's most admired contemporary novelists. Out of the Dark is a moody, expertly... -
The Sacred White Turkey by Frances Washburn 9780803228467
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $31.14There is nothing particularly noteworthy about an Easter turkey. But when the turkey is stark white and appears on Easter Sunday on the doorstep of a Lakota medicine woman and her teenage... -
The Home Place by Dorothy Thomas 9780803251977
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $21.97Reproduced from the 1948 edition of The Home Place, the Bison Book edition brings back into print an important early work by one of the most highly regarded of contemporary American Writers. This... -
The Sod House by Cass G. Barns 9780803257009
RRP: $39.88Booksplease Price: $35.09"No one so well knows the life of pioneer settlements," writes Addison E. Sheldon in the foreword to this book, "as the country doctor, and the country editor, and it might be added, the country... -
The Way of the Warrior: Stories of the Crow People by Phenocia Bauerle 9780803262300
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $20.27With vigor and insight, Crow elders tell their favorite stories of the exploits of memorable leaders from years past in The Way of the Warrior. Rousing adventures and unforgettable warriors inhabit... -
The American Fur Trade of the Far West, Volume 2 by Hiram Martin Chittenden 9780803263215
RRP: $39.88Booksplease Price: $35.03The 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... -
The Absolute at Large by Karel Capek 9780803264595
RRP: $29.38Booksplease Price: $27.89In this satirical classic, a brilliant scientist invents the Karburator, a reactor that can create abundant and practically free energy. However, the Karburator's superefficient energy production... -
The Soul of the Indian: An Interpretation by Charles A. Eastman 9780803267015
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $19.19Charles Alexander Eastman (1858-1939) was a mixed-blood Sioux. His maternal grandmother, daughter of Chief Cloudman of the Mdewankton Sioux, was married to a well-known western artist, Captain Seth... -
Covered Wagon Women, Volume 9: Diaries and Letters from the Western Trails, 1864-1868 by Kenneth L. Holmes 9780803272989
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $25.83In their simplicity is their poignancy. On August 7, 1865, Mary Louisa Black noted in her journal that they were "nooning on a nice stream in a valey in the mountains." A day later she observed that... -
Indian War in the Pacific Northwest: The Journal of Lieutenant Lawrence Kip by Lawrence Kip 9780803277915
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $19.82Throughout the 1850s, Native peoples of the inland Northwest actively resisted white encroachments into their traditional territories. Tensions exploded in 1858 when nearly one thousand Palouses,... -
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: $39.88Booksplease Price: $34.59"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,... -
Indian Old-Man Stories: More Sparks from War Eagle's Lodge-Fire (The Authorized Edition) by Frank Bird Linderman 9780803280014
Booksplease Price: $25.49The Indians of the northwestern plains always laughed at the tales about Old-man, heard around the lodge fire in the wintertime after sunset. For a powerful character, he was comically flawed... -
Quiet Street by Zelda Popkin 9780803287709
RRP: $39.88Booksplease Price: $36.08Quiet Street is the story of Edith and Jacob Hirsch and their two children, Dinah and Teddy, who live in a suburb of Jerusalem among neighbors they have known for many years. Edith's protected life... -
A Tenderfoot Bride: Tales from an Old Ranch by Clarice E. Richards 9780803289307
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $26.19Clarice E. Richards of Dayton, Ohio, was a tenderfoot when in 1900 she moved to a ranch in Elbert County, Colorado, east of Pikes Peak. She was the bride of Jarvis Richards, a former Congregational... -
Comanche Bondage by Carl Coke Rister 9780803289345
RRP: $29.38Booksplease Price: $26.44No homeseekers were ever plagued with more bad luck than those who followed the Englishman John Charles Beales to southern Texas late in 1834. On the banks of Las Moras Creek, not far from the Rio... -
![Old Jules Country: A Selection from "Old Jules" and Thirty Years of Writing after the Book was Published by Mari Sandoz 9780803291362](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/2421620/2420966/9780803291362__91201.1713956086.jpg?c=1 "Old Jules Country: A Selection from "Old Jules" and Thirty Years of Writing after the Book was Published by Mari Sandoz 9780803291362")
Old Jules Country: A Selection from "Old Jules" and Thirty Years of Writing after the Book was Published by Mari Sandoz 9780803291362
RRP: $39.88Booksplease Price: $35.03By zealous research, keen observation, and wide-ranging and deeply probing commentary, Mari Sandoz has become one of the most famous and well-respected interpreters of the American West. Old Jules... -
Second Growth by Wallace Stegner 9780803291577
RRP: $25.18Booksplease Price: $22.83A New England village, untouched by history since the American Revolution, is the unquiet arena containing, but just barely, the aloof natives and the summer residents. Their paths cross, happily or... -
Secret Frequencies: A New York Education by John Skoyles 9780803293557
RRP: $29.38Booksplease Price: $27.49In this compelling memoir, John Skoyles guides us through 1960s New York. Caught between his uncle Fred, a mob associate and man-about-town, and his aunt Linda, a secretary at Paramount Pictures on... -
The Quarry by Mildred Walker 9780803297791
RRP: $29.38Booksplease Price: $26.42In this family saga, generations mine the Vermont earth and come to rest in it. Lyman Converse is too young to fight in the Civil War, but he lives to see his own son enlist in World War I. Through... -
Diamonds in the Rough: The Untold History of Baseball by Joel Zoss 9780803299207
RRP: $37.78Booksplease Price: $37.32Pairing their detailed, informative research with a sophisticated anecdotal approach, Joel Zoss and John Bowman have written a fascinating, original, literate, and concise compendium of the history... -
Landscapes with Figures: The Nonfiction of Place by Robert Root 9780803259836
RRP: $37.78Booksplease Price: $34.94For some, a sense of place is about travel, about plunging oneself into new settings. For others, it is about being-and knowing-home. This book is a collection of essays, memoirs, nature writing, and... -
Claiming Breath by Diane Glancy 9780803270664
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $19.74Like poets of legend, Diane Glancy has spent much of her life on the road. For years she supported her family by driving throughout Oklahoma and Arkansas teaching poetry in the schools. Claiming... -
The Conscience of the Game: Baseball's Commissioners from Landis to Selig by Larry Moffi 9780803283220
RRP: $39.88Booksplease Price: $34.63Baseball once evoked all that was wholesome and sound in the world of sports: team spirit and fair play. But recently the national pastime has exemplified much of what is wrong with the American... -
Nevermore by Marie Redonnet 9780803289598
RRP: $18.88Booksplease Price: $17.64When Deputy Willy Bost arrives in the mysterious border town of San Rosa, he does not know why he has been sent there or what he will find. What he encounters, gradually, is an obscure network of... -
Benjamin Franklin and the American Revolution by Jonathan R. Dull 9780803230330
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $24.84The inventor, the ladies' man, the affable diplomat, and the purveyor of pithy homespun wisdom: we all know the charming, resourceful Benjamin Franklin. What is less appreciated is the importance of... -
Body Politic: The Great American Sports Machine by David Shields 9780803260320
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $28.73In Body Politic, David Shields looks at contemporary America and its mythology through the lens of professional and college sports. The result is an unusually insightful and provocative book about an... -
Notes for My Body Double by Paul Guest 9780803260351
RRP: $29.38Booksplease Price: $24.84Who would guess that Godzilla, the Invisible Man, Elvis, Donald Duck, Ted Williams, and the Three Stooges might have something to say about the love and loss that shape the way we see the world? And... -
Games of the North American Indians, Volume 1: Games of Chance by Stewart Culin 9780803263550
RRP: $46.18Booksplease Price: $40.07Games figured prominently in the myths of North American Indian tribes, and also in their ceremonies for bringing rain and fertility and combating misfortune. In his classic study, originally... -
The Limits of Air Power: The American Bombing of North Vietnam by Mark Clodfelter 9780803264540
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $28.08Tracing the use of air power in World War II and the Korean War, Mark Clodfelter explains how U. S. Air Force doctrine evolved through the American experience in these conventional wars only to be... -
Shadow and Light: An Autobiography by Mifflin Wistar Gibbs 9780803270503
Booksplease Price: $27.34Adventure, danger, romance-Mifflin W. Gibbs seemed to invite them in his determination to better himself. He staked out considerable success as an entrepreneur and public voice in the American West... -
A Nice Tuesday by Pat Jordan 9780803276253
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $29.95In A Nice Tuesday, Pat Jordan chronicles his decision to reclaim the failed potential of his youth. A young baseball pitcher of inordinate promise, Jordan had been one of the Milwaukee Braves first... -
Under the Boards: The Cultural Revolution in Basketball by Jeffrey Lane 9780803280533
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $31.31The true story of basketball lives as much off the court as on the hardwood; it is about politics and race and cultural clashes as heated as a final-four buzzer-beater. This story unfolds in all its... -
Minor Players, Major Dreams by Brett H. Mandel 9780803282322
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $32.49Brett Mandel, tired of his nine-to-five job, dreamed of a life of baseball instead: not merely as a spectator, not in weekend pickup games, but in professional baseball. Unlike millions of other...