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Money Mountain: The Story of Cripple Creek Gold by Marshall Sprague 9780803291034
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £14.37"No novel could contain more dramatic events than the history of Cripple Creek."-Wyoming Library Roundup "This is the fascinating story of the great Cripple Creek gold mines. But it is not told with... -
The Horsecatcher by Mari Sandoz 9780803291607
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.65Praised for swift action and beauty of language, The Horsecatcher is Mari Sandoz's first novel about the Indians she knew so well. Without ever leaving the world of a Cheyenne tribe in the 1830s, she... -
What a Game They Played: An Inside Look at the Golden Era of Pro Football by Richard Whittingham 9780803298194
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £14.17In their own words, the pioneers and legends of professional football tell of the early glory years of the National Football League. From the 1920s through the 1940s, pro football players were paid... -
A Harmony of the Arts: The Nebraska State Capitol by Frederick C. Luebke 9780803279315
Booksplease Price: £24.64Since its completion in 1932, the Nebraska State Capitol has been widely recognized as an architectural masterpiece, one that justifiably inspires pride in the citizens of the state and admiration in... -
Bad Jews and Other Stories by Gerald Shapiro 9780803293120
Booksplease Price: £21.15Bad Jews and Other Stories is a nuanced and comic vision of life, love, and spiritual adventurism among the determinedly secular class of contemporary American Jews. Separated from the... -
Living Out of Bounds: The Male Athlete's Everyday Life by Steven J. Overman 9780803232877
Booksplease Price: £15.56Despite enormous differences in pay among professional athletes, most aspects of their daily lives remain surprisingly constant across sports and income levels. Living Out of Bounds provides answers... -
Aileen and Roy: From Sod House to State House by Mary Cochran Grimes 9780803232945
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £12.91Aileen and Roy is the story of the author's parents: Roy Cochran, who rose from a sod house on a hardscrabble farm in western Nebraska to the state house in Lincoln as governor, and Aileen Gantt... -
Custer's Last Campaign: Mitch Boyer and the Little Bighorn Reconstructed by John S. Gray 9780803270404
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £18.31'Easily the most significant book yet published on the Battle of the Little Bighorn."--Paul L. Hedren, Western Historical Quarterly "[Gray] has applied rigorous analysis as no previous historian has... -
Shiloh: A Battlefield Guide by Mark Grimsley 9780803271005
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.73Peabody's Battle Line, McCuller's Field, Stuart's Defense, the Peach Orchard, and Hell's Hollow-these monuments mark some of the critical moments in the battle of Shiloh but offer the visitor only... -
In the Ballpark: The Working Lives of Baseball People by George Gmelch 9780803271272
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £14.45In the Ballpark is a collection of interviews with twenty-one people who work in all parts of Major and Minor League Baseball: usher and broadcaster, beer vendor and sportswriter, clubhouse attendant... -
A Ticket for a Seamstitch by Mark Harris 9780803272248
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £7.34This is the third novel narrated by Henry Wiggen, a six-foot three-inch, 195-pound, left-handed pitcher for the New York Mammoths. Henry, who began as a rookie in The Southpaw and developed into a... -
Covered Wagon Women, Volume 11: Diaries and Letters from the Western Trails, 1879-1903 by Kenneth L. Holmes 9780803273009
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £11.93The stories seem simple-they left, they traveled, they settled-yet the restless westering impulse of Americans created one of the most enduring figures in our frontier pantheon: the hardy pioneer... -
Wounded Knee 1973: A Personal Account by Stanley David Lyman 9780803279339
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £13.38Stanley Lyman, who was the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) superintendent at the Pine Ridge Reservation in 1973, gives an inside view of what happened when the American Indian Movement (AIM) activists... -
Pueblo Indian Folk-Stories by Charles F. Lummis 9780803279384
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £17.52Charles F. Lummis's profound understanding of Indian and Spanish culture in the American Southwest is reflected in this collection of thirty-two myths centering around the Pueblo of Isleta on the Rio... -
Spring Came On Forever by Bess Streeter Aldrich 9780803259072
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.82Acclaimed for her 1928 novel A Lantern in Her Hand, Bess Streeter Aldrich became one of the most widely read interpreters of the prairie pioneer experience. In 1935, she published her masterpiece,... -
Masters of American Cookery: M. F. K. Fisher, James Beard, Craig Claiborne, Julia Child by Betty Fussell 9780803269200
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.67Ever since American soldiers returned home after World War II with a passion for pate and escargots instead of pork and beans, our preferences have moved from cooked to raw, from canned to fresh,... -
Upstream Metropolis: An Urban Biography of Omaha and Council Bluffs by Lawrence H. Larsen 9780803280021
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £18.93From its birth as interdependent towns on the Missouri River frontier to its emergence as a metropolis straddling two states, Omaha-Council Bluffs has been one of the great urban construction... -
The Way to the Western Sea: Lewis and Clark across the Continent by David Lavender 9780803280038
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £18.69Critics have called David Lavender a "master storyteller" (Library Journal), his prose "virile, disciplined, yet personal" (New York Times), and his book "a balanced, learned, and lively history of... -
Inside the White House in War Times: Memoirs and Reports of Lincoln's Secretary by William O. Stoddard 9780803292574
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.77Of the three secretaries who assisted President Abraham Lincoln-John G. Nicolay, John Hay, and William O. Stoddard-only Stoddard wrote an extended memoir about his time in the Executive Mansion... -
Men of Color to Arms!: Black Soldiers, Indian Wars, and the Quest for Equality by Elizabeth D. Leonard 9780803240711
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £14.75In 1863, at the height of the Civil War, Frederick Douglass promised African Americans that serving in the military offered a sure path to freedom. More than 180,000 black men heeded his call to... -
Bleed into Me: A Book of Stories by Stephen Graham Jones 9780803243507
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.92We stare at each other because we don't know which tribe, and then nod at the last possible instant. Standard procedure. You pick it up the first time a white friend leads you across a room just to... -
Journal of a Trapper by Osborne Russell 9780803251663
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £14.96"Reader, if you are in search of a Classical and Scientific tourist, please to lay this Volume down, and pass on, for this simply informs you what a Trapper has seen and experienced. But if you wish... -
The Melon Capital of the World: A Memoir by Blake Allmendinger 9780803255401
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £19.24In this psychologically gripping memoir, Blake Allmendinger returns to his childhood home after a forty-year absence. His homecoming to the struggling farming community of Rocky Ford, Colorado,... -
Memoirs of a White Crow Indian by Thomas H. LeForge 9780803258006
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.12Thomas H. Leforge was "born an Ohio American" and chose to "die a Crow Indian American." His association with his adopted tribe spanned some of the most eventful years of its history--from the Indian... -
A Season in Purgatory: Villanova and Life in College Football's Lower Class by Tony Moss 9780803259591
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.56At a school where basketball is king, the Villanova football team battles opponents both on and off the field. Low on cash and recruiting power, the Division I-AA Wildcats must constantly justify... -
Only a Game by Bill Littlefield 9780803260016
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £12.83It's only a game, Bill Littlefield's National Public Radio program tells us, trying to keep sports in perspective. And for all the deadly serious perspectives of sports commentators and fans,... -
Under the Moons of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs 9780803262089
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £15.21Ambushed 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... -
The Eternal Savage: Nu of the Neocene by Edgar Rice Burroughs 9780803262164
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £12.10Time travel, a millennium-spanning romance, and rousing action in modern African jungles and the untamed prehistoric wilderness ignite this classic adventure tale from the pen of Edgar Rice Burroughs... -
My Life in Baseball: The True Record by Ty Cobb 9780803263598
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £14.21Highly successful in knitting together this story of the life of a most remarkable and dedicated player - perhaps the most spirited baseball player ever to have graced the diamond. - Library Journal... -
The Great Range Wars: Violence on the Grasslands by Harry Sinclair Drago 9780803265639
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £15.96Harry Sinclair Drago writes with authority and a sense of drama about the bloodiest range conflicts in Texas, Arizona, New Mexico, Wyoming, and Montana late in the nineteenth century. He details the... -
On to Oregon: The Diaries of Mary Walker and Myra Eells by Clifford Merrill Drury 9780803266131
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £14.91In 1838, two missionary couples, the Walkers and the Eellses, joined the party going west as a reinforcement to the Oregon Mission. Just married when the trip began, Mary Walker and Myra Eells rode... -
Mormon Resistance: A Documentary Account of the Utah Expedition, 1857-1858 by LeRoy R. Hafen 9780803273573
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.42In 1857 President Buchanan quietly sent new officials to rule the Utah Territory and replace Brigham Young as the territorial governor. With no official announcement, the new leaders were accompanied... -
A False Spring by Pat Jordan 9780803276260
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £14.99In A False Spring, Pat Jordan traces the falling star of his once-promising pitching career, illuminating along the way his equally difficult personal struggles and quest for maturity. When the... -
The Nature of Home: A Lexicon and Essays by Lisa Knopp 9780803278141
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £13.04For Lisa Knopp, homesickness is a literal sickness. During a lengthy sojourn away from the Nebraska prairie, she fell ill, and only when she decided to return home did she recover. Homesickness is... -
Arsenic Under the Elms: Murder in Victorian New Haven by Virginia A. McConnell 9780803283091
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £15.37The attorney Virginia A. McConnell provides a riveting view of Connecticut in the late 1800s as revealed through the unrelated but disturbingly similar murders of two young women. The first, Mary... -
Crossing the Line: Black Major Leaguers, 1947-1959 by Larry Moffi 9780803283169
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £13.67From 1947, when Jackie Robinson joined the Brooklyn Dodgers, through 1959, when the Boston Red Sox became the last Major League team to integrate, more than a hundred African American baseball... -
Changing Military Patterns of the Great Plains Indians by Frank Raymond Secoy 9780803292093
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.65Frank Raymond Secoy wrote this classic work while at Columbia University in the early 1950s. In his introduction, John C. Ewers considers the influence of Secoy's book on scholars since its original... -
Middle Innings: A Documentary History of Baseball, 1900-1948 by Dean A. Sullivan 9780803292833
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £15.49Dean A. Sullivan presents a fascinating array of provocative, unexpected, and illuminating materials revealing the rich history of baseball. The 105 pieces in this work cover such topics as the... -
My People the Sioux by Luther Standing Bear 9780803293328
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £12.58When it was first published in 1928, Luther Standing Bear's autobiographical account of his tribe and tribesmen was hailed by Van Wyck Brooks as "one of the most engaging and veracious we have ever... -
Stories of the Sioux by Luther Standing Bear 9780803293359
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £7.09Luther Standing Bear, a Lakota Sioux born in the 1860s, heard these legends in his youth, when his people were being moved to reservations. In haunting mood and imagery, they celebrate the old...