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The Body of a Young Man by Mildred Walker 9780803297876
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $12.45James Cutler, a high school physics teacher, is shattered by the suicide of his most promising student. Hoping to gain perspective and peace of mind, he travels with his wife, Phyllis, to Vermont to... -
Voices of Wounded Knee by William S. E. Coleman 9780803264229
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $21.90In Voices of Wounded Knee, William S. E. Coleman brings together for the first time all the available sources-Lakota, military, and civilian-on the massacre of 29 December 1890. He recreates the... -
Sisters of Salome by Toni Bentley 9780803262416
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $17.25The origins of the art of exotic dancing lie in English drama and Viennese opera: Oscar Wilde's 1893 play Salome, and Richard Strauss's 1905 opera based on it, brought onto the stage a female... -
The Twinkle Tales by Frank L. Baum 9780803262423
Booksplease Price: $15.82L. Frank Baum (1856-1919), author of The Wizard of Oz and thirteen more Oz books, created many other appealing fantasies for children. Writing under the pseudonym of Laura Bancroft, Baum related the... -
Saddles and Spurs: The Pony Express Saga by Raymond W. Settle 9780803257658
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $17.66The story of the Pony Express, which carried transcontinental mail from April 3, 1860 to October 24, 1861, is one of the most invigorating and satisfying episodes in American history. Saddles and... -
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"Yellowstone Kelly": The Memoirs of Luther S. Kelly by Luther S. Kelly 9780803257849
RRP: $25.79Booksplease Price: $23.97'In the narrative of "Yellowstone Kelly" we have a rare story of adventure and service. General Miles, who knew him long and intimately, fitly compares him with such heroes of the American wilderness... -
Quotology by Willis Goth Regier 9780803217522
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $21.25Erasmus advised readers to learn quotations by heart and copy them everywhere: write them in the front and back of books; inscribe them on rings and cups; paint them on doors and walls, "even on the... -
Future Imperfect: Philip K. Dick at the Movies by Jason Vest 9780803218604
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $16.82Philip K. Dick was one of the most incisive, subversive, and entertaining American authors of the last half of the twentieth century. The cinematic adaptations of Dick's fiction have generated so... -
The Buffalo Hunters: The Story of the Hide Men, Second Edition by Mari Sandoz 9780803218802
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $19.23In 1867 conservative estimates put the number of buffaloes in the trans-Missouri region at fifteen million. By the end of the 1880s, that figure had dwindled to a few hundred. The destruction of the... -
No Planets Strike by Josh Bell 9780803220409
RRP: $15.47Booksplease Price: $13.09No Planets Strike, the debut collection of poetry by Josh Bell, reads as a playfully serious record of modernity. Subversive in their treatment of the contemporary voice, broad in their subject... -
Ten Years on the Rock Pile: A Collection of Stories, Some Hilarious, Some Tragic, about Life at the Summit of Mount Washington by Lee Vincent 9780803234130
RRP: $18.05Booksplease Price: $17.51Mount Washington, located in the White Mountains of New Hampshire, is the highest peak in the northeastern United States. It is often cited-by its inhabitants, no less-as the home of the country's... -
Ogallala: A Century on the Trail by Elaine Nielsen 9780803234475
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $14.05Founded in the late 1800s as the hub of the burgeoning plains cattle trade, Ogallala serves as a microcosm of western history. The town typified western outposts of the age with cowboys-the... -
Descanso for My Father: Fragments of a Life by Harrison Candelaria Fletcher 9780803238398
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $13.71When his father died, Harrison Candelaria Fletcher wasn't quite two. His mother packed up his father's belongings, put the boxes in a hall closet, and closed the door. The "man in a box" remained a... -
The Gentle Tamers: Women of the Old Wild West by Dee Brown 9780803250253
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $17.25All aspects of western feminine life, which include a good deal about the western male, are covered in this lively, informal but soundly factual account of the women who built the West. Among those... -
Saynday's People: The Kiowa Indians and the Stories They Told by Alice Marriott 9780803251250
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $19.22Saynday's People brings together two related volumes by the distinguished ethnologist and author Alice Marriott. The Saynday of the title and the central figure of Winter-Telling Stories is a... -
The Life of Abraham Lincoln by Isaac N. Arnold 9780803259249
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $21.74Abraham Lincoln "was a tall, spare man, with large bones, and towering up to six feet and four inches. He leaned forward, and stooped as he walked. . . . There was no grace in his movements, but an... -
Baseball's Natural: The Story of Eddie Waitkus by John Theodore 9780803259584
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $13.44Baseball's Natural is John Theodore's true account of the slick-fielding first baseman who played for the Cubs and the Phillies in the 1940s and became immortalized in baseball lore as the... -
Chainbreaker: The Revolutionary War Memoirs of Governor Blacksnake as told to Benjamin Williams by Thomas S. Abler 9780803264502
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $18.54One of the earliest memoirs by an American Indian, Chainbreaker presents the recollections of a Seneca chief, also known as Governor Blacksnake. A fighter in the American Revolution who lived more... -
The Definitive Journals of Lewis and Clark, Vol 5: Through the Rockies to the Cascades by Meriwether Lewis 9780803280120
RRP: $29.66Booksplease Price: $25.95Since 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... -
Glory-Hunter: A Life of General Custer by Frederic F. Van de Water 9780803296077
RRP: $25.79Booksplease Price: $24.19"All his life, he rode after Glory," writers Frederic F. Van de Water of George Armstrong Custer. Ironically, he found it at the Battle of the Little Big Horn. In his introduction to this edition,... -
It's Not the End of the Earth, but You Can See It from Here by Roger L. Welsch 9780803298088
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $18.02Roger Welsch did what many Americans only dream of doing. While still in his professional prime, the folklorist and humorist quit a tenured professorship and headed toward the hinterland. Resettled... -
Standing in the Light: A Lakota Way of Seeing by Severt Young Bear 9780803299122
RRP: $18.05Booksplease Price: $15.44For most of his adult life Severt Young Bear stood in the light-in the center ring at powwows and other gatherings of Lakota people. As founder and, for many years, lead singer of the Porcupine... -
Tales of the Frontier: From Lewis and Clark to the Last Roundup by Everett Dick 9780803257443
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $22.55"Anyone in search of the spirit of the Old West will find it in this book. In fact, any student in college taking a course in the history of the West or even in a general history of the United States... -
Famous by Kathleen Flenniken 9780803269248
RRP: $18.05Booksplease Price: $15.47She "became famous, finally, to herself," Kathleen Flenniken writes. This is the kind of fame at the heart of most lives and at the center of Flenniken's first collection, the winner of the Prairie... -
The Saga of Tom Horn: The Story of a Cattlemen's War by Dean F. Krakel 9780803277670
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $17.49An epidemic of cattle rustling in southern Wyoming in the 1890s and the desperate straits of stockmen set the stage for this saga of Tom Horn, a former Pinkerton detective, an expert hunter and dead... -
Adventures of a Mountain Man: The Narrative of Zenas Leonard by Zenas Leonard 9780803279032
RRP: $18.05Booksplease Price: $16.23"Strong mental faculties and a vigorous constitution" were among the attributes of Zenas Leonard, according to the publisher of the 1839 edition of this book, which the Bison Books edition reproduces... -
The Round and Other Cold Hard Facts by J. M. G. Le Clezio 9780803280076
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $16.58Set largely in locations near the French Riviera, these eleven short stories depict the harsh realities of life for the less-privileged inhabitants of this very privileged region. Distinguished... -
The Definitive Journals of Lewis and Clark, Vol 7: From the Pacific to the Rockies by Meriwether Lewis 9780803280144
RRP: $29.66Booksplease Price: $25.95Since 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 1: Diaries and Letters of the California-Oregon Trail by Dale L. Morgan 9780803282001
RRP: $29.66Booksplease Price: $27.99"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... -
Contemporary Jewish Writing in Hungary: An Anthology by Susan R. Suleiman 9780803293045
RRP: $39.99Booksplease Price: $34.98Contemporary Jewish Writing in Hungary features works by twenty-four of Hungary's best writers who have written about what it means to be Jewish in post-Holocaust Eastern Europe. This volume includes... -
Walter Johnson: Baseball's Big Train by Henry W. Thomas 9780803294332
RRP: $29.66Booksplease Price: $26.65"This lavishly illustrated narrative of Walter Johnson's life is the definitive work on the subject and is likely to remain so." - Lawrence S. Ritter, 'Oldtyme Baseball News'. "Henry Thomas's... -
The Wild West in England by William F. Cody 9780803243880
Booksplease Price: $93.92Army scout, frontiersman, and hero of the American West, William F. "Buffalo Bill" Cody was also a shrewd self-promoter, showman, and entrepreneur. In 1888 he published The Story of the Wild West, a... -
The War for America, 1775-1783 by Piers Mackesy 9780803281929
RRP: $36.11Booksplease Price: $33.93The events of the American Revolution signified by Lexington, Bunker Hill, Valley Forge, Saratoga, and Yorktown are familiar to American readers. Far less familiar is the fact that, for the British,... -
Such Men as Billy the Kid: The Lincoln County War Reconsidered by Joel Jacobsen 9780803276062
RRP: $34.82Booksplease Price: $30.32During the 1870s a group of merchants and their allies, known as "The House," gained control over the economy of Lincoln County, New Mexico. In 1877 this control was challenged by an English... -
Bruno Walter: A World Elsewhere by Erik Ryding 9780803290082
RRP: $29.66Booksplease Price: $28.61Bruno Walter (1876-1962), one of the twentieth century's greatest conductors, lived a fascinating life in difficult times. This engrossing book is the first full-length biography of Walter in English... -
Creek Religion and Medicine by John R. Swanton 9780803292741
RRP: $45.15Booksplease Price: $37.44Weaving together a wide array of historical sources with oral accounts gathered from fieldwork, this classic study provides a valuable overview of traditional Creek (Muskogee) religion and medicine... -
Encyclopedia of Frontier Biography, Volume 3: P-Z by Dan L. Thrapp 9780803294202
RRP: $39.99Booksplease Price: $36.42Stretching from "Aaron, Sam, Arizona pioneer" to "Zutacapan, Acomo pueblo chief," the three-volume Encyclopedia of Frontier Biography profiles approximately 4,500 frontier pioneers and Native... -
In Thought and Action: The Enigmatic Life of S. I. Hayakawa by Gerald W. Haslam 9780803237643
RRP: $29.66Booksplease Price: $28.04One of the most gripping images from the 1960s captures the slight figure of Dr. S. I. Hayakawa scrambling onto a sound truck parked in front of San Francisco State College amid campus unrest... -
The Lost Universe: Pawnee Life and Culture by Gene Weltfish 9780803258716
RRP: $29.66Booksplease Price: $26.34"A fascinating insight into the life and culture of the Pawnee people is achieved here by the author's presentation of carefully gathered information in the form of a narrative of one year in a... -
Helldorado: Bringing the Law to the Mesquite by William M. Breakenridge 9780803261006
RRP: $34.82Booksplease Price: $30.34Helldorado offers cinematic images of wagon trains crossing the Great Plains, of Phoenix and Denver emerging from the dust and mud, of Tombstone blazing through a silver bonanza, and of the railroad...