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Boots and Saddles or, Life in Dakota with General Custer by Elizabeth Bacon Custer 9780803234567
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $17.25The honeymoon of Elizabeth Bacon and George Armstrong Custer was interrupted in 1864 by his call to duty with the Army of the Potomac. Her entreaties to be allowed to travel along set the pattern of... -
Center Field Shot: A History of Baseball on Television by James R. Walker 9780803248250
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $22.70In Baseball Weekly's list of things that most affected baseball in the twentieth century, television ranked second-behind only the signing of Jackie Robinson. The new medium of television exposed... -
The Ojibwa Woman by Ruth Landes 9780803279698
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $16.46In the 1930s, young anthropologist Ruth Landes crafted this startlingly intimate glimpse into the lives of Ojibwa women, a richly textured ethnography widely recognized as a classic study of gender... -
Buffalo Bill: Last of the Great Scouts (Commemorative Edition) by Helen Cody Wetmore 9780803298347
RRP: $18.05Booksplease Price: $17.45Buffalo Bill: Last of the Great Scouts is the entertaining and fascinating story of William F. Cody, known to millions for over a century as the legendary Buffalo Bill. Born in a log cabin in Iowa,... -
Gladiator by Philip Wylie 9780803298408
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $20.85"'What would you do if you were the strongest man in the world, the strongest thing in the world, mightier than the machine?' He made himself guess answers for that rhetorical inquiry. 'I would run... -
The Fall of the Shell: The Pelbar Cycle, Book Four by Paul O. Williams 9780803298484
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $12.45Eleven hundred years after the apocalyptic destruction of the United States of America, peace between the remaining warring tribes has finally been achieved. Despite this peace, the Pelbar stronghold... -
Shelby's Folly: Jack Dempsey, Doc Kearns, and the Shakedown of a Montana Boomtown by Jason Kelly 9780803240049
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $15.47In 1923, not long after oil had started gushing from northern Montana fields, declining real-estate sales in nearby Shelby were dimming the little town's prospects of becoming the "Tulsa of the West... -
Big Jinny: The Story of a Grizzly Bear by Frank Bird Linderman 9780803280441
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $16.87"Bears are commonly misquoted." That's what Frank B. Linderman concluded after spending most of his life in the wild. In Big Jinny Linderman lets a little grizzly cub speak for herself, and... -
Island Victory: The Battle of Kwajalein Atoll by S. L. A. Marshall 9780803282728
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $18.96An on-the-spot history of a fight in the Pacific during World War II, Island Victory was the first battle history written by then-Lieutenant Colonel S. L. A. Marshall, a veteran of World War I who... -
George Drouillard: Hunter and Interpreter for Lewis and Clark and Fur Trader, 1807-1810 by M. O. Skarsten 9780803293090
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $19.00George Drouillard's service to the Lewis and Clark Expedition was long obscured by the stronger light cast on the leaders and Sacagawea. Drawing from the various journals of the expedition and from... -
The Fur Trade of the American West: A Geographical Synthesis by David J. Wishart 9780803297326
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $19.23"In stressing the exploitation and destruction of the physical and human environment rather than the usual frontier romanticism, David Wishart has provided for students of the trans-Mississippi fur... -
The Twilight of the Sioux (Volume II of A Cycle of the West) by John G. Neihardt 9780803257344
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $20.64The second volume of A Cycle of the West, dealing with the tragic defeat of the Plains Indians, includes The Song of the Indian Wars (1925) and The Song of the Messiah (1935). The former tells of... -
Son of the Gamblin' Man: The Youth of an Artist by Mari Sandoz 9780803258334
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $16.18The story tells of the gambler and townsite promoter who founded Cozad, Nebraska, and of his family, particularly his younger son, [who] became a world-famous artist and teacher known as 'Robert... -
Players and Pretenders: The Basketball Team That Couldn't Shoot Straight by Charley Rosen 9780803259645
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $18.10Players and Pretenders tells the story of the flip side of basketball's "March Madness," where the game is played by average players for love, not for money. At the end of the 1970s at Bard... -
The Peninsula and Seven Days: A Battlefield Guide by Brian K. Burton 9780803262461
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $19.03Often cited as one of the most decisive campaigns in military history, the Seven Days Battles were the first campaign in which Robert E. Lee led the Army of Northern Virginia-as well as the first in... -
Wakinyan: Lakota Religion in the Twentieth Century by Stephen E. Feraca 9780803269057
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $10.29Wakinyan is an excellent overview of Lakota religious thought and practice, introducing readers to its essential components. Through finely detailed descriptions of rituals and various types of... -
The Southpaw by Mark Harris 9780803273375
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $21.83The Southpaw is a story about coming of age in America by way of the baseball diamond. Lefthander Henry Wiggen, six feet three, a hundred ninety-five pounds, and the greatest pitcher going, grows to... -
Rebuilding the Indian: A Memoir by Fred Haefele 9780803273580
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $17.25The building of a vintage Indian Chief motorcycle is more than the restoration of a bike-it's the resurrection of a dream. Rebuilding the Indian chronicles one man's journey through the fearful... -
Westward Vision: The Story of the Oregon Trail by David Lavender 9780803279155
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $19.98"In one very real sense," David Lavender writes, "the story of the Oregon Trail begins with Columbus." This opening suggests the panoramic sweep of his history of that famous trail. In chiseled,... -
The Definitive Journals of Lewis and Clark, Vol 2: From the Ohio to the Vermillion by Meriwether Lewis 9780803280090
RRP: $29.66Booksplease Price: $26.26Since 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... -
Overland in 1846, Volume 2: Diaries and Letters of the California-Oregon Trail by Dale L. Morgan 9780803282018
RRP: $29.66Booksplease Price: $26.50"We pray the God of mercy to deliver us from our present Calamity," wrote Patrick Breen on the first day of 1847 as he and others in the Donner party awaited rescue from the snowbound Sierras. His... -
The Home Place by Dorothy Thomas 9780803282520
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $12.45Reproduced 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... -
Their Fathers' God by O. E. Rolvaag 9780803289116
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $19.60Susie Doheny, an Irish Catholic, and Peder Holm, a Norwegian Lutheran, fall in love and marry in South Dakota in the 1890s. Soon their marriage is tested by drought, depression, and family bickering... -
Turtle Lung Woman's Granddaughter by Delphine Red Shirt 9780803289963
RRP: $18.05Booksplease Price: $17.12Told in their own words, Turtle Lung Woman's Granddaughter is the unforgettable story of several generations of Lakota women who grew up on the open plains of northern Nebraska and southern South... -
Witchcraft in the Southwest: Spanish and Indian Supernaturalism on the Rio Grande by Marc Simmons 9780803291164
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $17.25A professional historian, author, editor, and translator, Marc Simmons has published numerous books and monographs on the Southwest as well as articles in more than twenty scholarly and popular... -
The Pueblo Revolt by Robert Silverberg 9780803292277
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $17.51The peaceable Pueblo Indians seemed an unlikely people to rise emphatically and successfully against the Spanish Empire. For eighty-two years the Pueblos had lived under Spanish domination in the... -
Never to Return by Esther Tusquets 9780803294387
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $15.44Never to Return is a witty, penetrating account of a woman's inner journey to understanding through her encounter with Freudian psychoanalysis. On the brink of turning fifty, Elena suddenly falls... -
Extra Bases: Reflections on Jackie Robinson, Race, and Baseball History by Jules Tygiel 9780803294479
RRP: $18.05Booksplease Price: $16.23Few sports have as much power and magic as baseball, and few writers have addressed the history of the game as well as Jules Tygiel. In his role as a historian, Tygiel purposefully takes his eye off... -
They Cleared the Lane: The NBA's Black Pioneers by Ron Thomas 9780803294547
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $18.67Today, Black players compose more than eighty percent of the National Basketball Association's rosters, providing a strong and valued contribution to professional basketball. In the first half of the... -
Fugitive Slave in the Gold Rush: Life and Adventures of James Williams by James Williams 9780803298125
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $14.33African American records of the Gold Rush are rare, as are underground railroad accounts from those fleeing to freedom; yet here is the account of a self-taught escaped slave and underground railroad... -
Weldon Kees and the Midcentury Generation: Letters, 1935-1955 by Weldon Kees 9780803278080
RRP: $32.19Booksplease Price: $21.99Before he vanished in the fog of San Francisco, Weldon Kees (1914-55) was a poet, storyteller, critic, painter, musician, and filmmaker. What remains is a body of work and a large collection of... -
Wells Fargo by Ralph Moody 9780803283039
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $12.16Henry Wells (1805-78) and William Fargo (1818-81) first worked together when they broke the Post Office monopoly on mail service along the Erie Canal in the 1840s. In 1852 they incorporated Wells,... -
Late Innings: A Documentary History of Baseball, 1945-1972 by Dean A. Sullivan 9780803292857
RRP: $29.66Booksplease Price: $26.50Late Innings: A Documentary History of Baseball, 1945-1972 is the third volume in Dean A. Sullivan's successful series on the vibrant history of baseball. Through 114 contemporary documents, Late... -
Gentleman and Soldier: A Biography of Wade Hampton III by Edward G. Longacre 9780803213548
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $20.86Winner of the Douglas Southall Freeman History Award, Gentleman and Soldier is the first biography in more than fifty years of Wade Hampton III (1818-1902), a Confederate general whose life provides... -
Scoreboard, Baby: A Story of College Football, Crime, and Complicity by Ken Armstrong 9780803228108
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $17.25The adjectives associated with the University of Washington's 2000 football season-mystical, magical, miraculous-changed when Ken Armstrong and Nick Perry's four-part expose of the 2000 Huskies hit... -
A Taste for War: The Culinary History of the Blue and the Gray by William C. Davis 9780803235229
RRP: $25.74Booksplease Price: $17.83For soldiers in all wars, mealtime is a focal point of the day. Armies do indeed "march on their stomachs," as Napoleon said. Soldiers of the Civil War armies, many away from home and mothers' and... -
Water and Abandon by Robert Vivian 9780803238060
RRP: $18.05Booksplease Price: $17.31It's been a year since the body of seventeen-year-old Kelsey Little was found in the river outside Dark Vespers, Nebraska. Although the town may have reached an uneasy equilibrium, those who loved... -
Great Western Indian Fights by Potomac Corral of the Westerners 9780803251861
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $18.56From 1832 to 1891 the states from the Great Lakes west to Oregon and south to Mexico saw scenes of massacre, bloody rout, ambush, fire, and pillage as the great Indian tribes-Blackfoot, Cheyenne,... -
The Cowboy Girl: The Life of Caroline Lockhart by John Clayton 9780803259904
RRP: $23.21Booksplease Price: $21.79In 1901, Philadelphia's celebrity female journalist stepped off a train in Blackfoot, Montana, and into a world of living legends. The miners and frontiersmen, Indians and trappers that Caroline... -
Green Plans: Blueprint for a Sustainable Earth by Huey D. Johnson 9780803260207
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $17.49"Green plans" are the most effective strategies yet developed for moving from industrial environmental deterioration to postindustrial sustainability. In this definitive overview of green plans...