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The Little Big Horn, 1876: The Official Communications, Documents and Reports by Loyd J. Overfield 9780803286016
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £12.58Noting that the documents pertaining to the Battle of the Little Big Horn are often garbled in editing and quoted out of context, Loyd J. Overfield set out to compile the original orders, letters,... -
The Conspiracy of Pontiac and the Indian War after the Conquest of Canada, Volume 2: From the Spring of 1763 to the Death of Pontiac by Francis Parkman 9780803287372
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.77Francis Parkman, America's greatest narrative historian, immortal for The Oregon Trail (1849), devoted much of his career to writing about the struggle of France and England for domination in America... -
Army Letters from an Officer's Wife, 1871-1888 by Frances M. A. Roe 9780803289055
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £17.31In the summer of 1871, Frances Marie Antoinette Mack married Fayette Washington Roe, fresh out of West Point, and left the East behind to join his infantry regiment at Fort Lyon, Colorado, where her... -
The Splendid Wayfaring: Jedediah Smith and the Ashley-Henry Men, 1822-1831 by John G. Neihardt 9780803257238
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £17.55With the publication of The Splendid Wayfaring in 1920, John G. Neihardt sought to restore the reputation of a mountain man who went far in opening up the American West. The exciting narrative begins... -
The Farming Game by Bryan L. Jones 9780803275829
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £10.55In cantankerous opinions, hard-headed advice, and free-swinging sketches of real farmers, Bryan Jones addresses everyone who feels the pull of the land. He accepts the emotional appeal of "going back... -
The Dawn of the World: Myths and Tales of the Miwok Indians of California by Lowell John Bean 9780803281936
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £15.95The stories collected in The Dawn of the World were related by the Miwok elders "after the first rains of the winter season, usually in the ceremonial roundhouse and always at night by the dim light... -
So Much to Be Done: Women Settlers on the Mining and Ranching Frontier, 2nd Edition by Ruth Barnes Moynihan 9780803282483
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £14.91In this new and enlarged edition the editors have built on an already strong collection with four new accounts. Colorado pioneer Augusta Tabor gives a sense of the heady days as Leadville became a... -
The Winnebago Tribe by Paul Radin 9780803257108
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.66This classic work on the Winnebago Indian tribe remains the single best authority on the subject. Based on Paul Radin's field work in 1908-13, The Winnebago Tribe was originally published as an... -
The Midsummer Classic: The Complete History of Baseball's All-Star Game by David W. Vincent 9780803292734
RRP: £31.00Booksplease Price: £30.56Since its inception in 1933, the All-Star Game has become an integral part of baseball. Yet there has been no truly comprehensive source for researchers that includes both a narrative and a... -
The Social Life of Stories: Narrative and Knowledge in the Yukon Territory by Julie Cruikshank 9780803214903
RRP: £50.00Booksplease Price: £30.53In this theoretically sophisticated study of indigenous oral narratives, Julie Cruikshank moves beyond the text to explore the social significance of storytelling. Circumpolar Native peoples today... -
A Time to Stand by Walter Lord 9780803279025
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £14.33On the morning of March 6, 1836, in an old abandoned mission called the Alamo, a small Texas garrison fought to the death rather than yield to an overwhelming army of Mexicans. Through the years the... -
The Mexican War, 1846-1848 by K. Jack Bauer 9780803261075
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £19.75"Much has been written about the Mexican war, but this ...is the best military history of that conflict...Leading personalities, civilian and military, Mexican and American, are given incisive... -
The Definitive Journals of Lewis and Clark, Vol 11: Joseph Whitehouse by Meriwether Lewis 9780803280236
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £21.76Lively and curious, possessing a keen eye for detail and a knack for skin-dressing, Private Joseph Whitehouse produced an account that stands as the only surviving record by any army private in the... -
Touched by Fire: The Life, Death, and Mythic Afterlife of George Armstrong Custer by Louise Barnett 9780803262669
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.66For more than a century, Americans have been captivated by the legend of General George Armstrong Custer. But the various truths of Custer's life and last stand prove elusive. Why are we so taken... -
Waltzing Montana by Mary Clearman Blew 9781496225054
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £14.20Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781496225054Author Mary Clearman BlewFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Bison BooksPublisher Bison... -
A Life with Dogs by Roger L Welsch 9781496226693
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.47Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781496226693Author Roger L WelschFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Bison BooksPublisher Bison... -
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The Orange Tree by Mildred Walker 9780803298644 [USED COPY]
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £3.34As in Chekhov's play The Three Sisters, the characters in Mildred Walker's Orange Tree search for meaning and happiness in their often uneventful middle-class lives-and yet from such a seemingly... -
Nourishing Growth and Suffocating Life: Water, Politics, and Infrastructure in Urban Oklahoma by Daniel Mains 9781496240194
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £17.24Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781496240194Author Daniel MainsFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Bison BooksPublisher Bison Books -
Under the Big Sky: A Biography of A. B. Guthrie Jr. by Jackson J. Benson 9780803243583
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.87Author of The Big Sky series, The Way West, and the screenplay for the classic film Shane, among other timeless stories of frontier mountain men, icon of Western literature A. B. "Bud" Guthrie Jr... -
Jim Bridger: Mountain Man by Stanley Vestal 9780803257207
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £14.91Even among the mighty mountain men, Jim Bridger was a towering figure. He was one of the greatest explorers and pathfinders in American history. He couldn't write his name, but at eighteen he had... -
Sister Brother: Gertrude and Leo Stein by Brenda Wineapple
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.98Devoted, eccentric, and compelling, Gertrude and Leo Stein were constant companions, from childhood to adulthood, until, finally, they spoke no more. Americans, expatriates, and virtually orphans,... -
The Orange Tree by Mildred Walker
Booksplease Price: £11.04As in Chekhov's play The Three Sisters, the characters in Mildred Walker's Orange Tree search for meaning and happiness in their often uneventful middle-class lives-and yet from such a seemingly... -
Aminadab by Maurice Blanchot
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £14.91The world of Aminadab, Maurice Blanchot's second novel, is dark, bizarre, and fantastic. Reminiscent of Kafka's enclosed and allegorical spaces, Aminadab is both a reconstruction and a deconstruction... -
Kit Carson Days, 1809-1868, Vol 2: Adventures in the Path of Empire, Volume 2 by Edwin L. Sabin
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £22.33Volume 1 of Kit Carson Days shows Carson running away from his Missouri home at age fifteen in 1826. He joins a caravan headed toward Santa Fe and in the coming years shuttles between poverty and... -
Light from Arcturus by Mildred Walker
Booksplease Price: £12.00Stuck in the middle of Nebraska in the late nineteenth century, Julia Hauser felt restless. "The four walls of her parlor bound her world too securely," writes Mildred Walker. But what could she do?... -
Ethnicity and Equality: France in the Balance by Azouz Begag
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.36In the fall of 2005 the streets of France were rocked by civil disturbances on a scale unseen for decades. Only months earlier Azouz Begag, France's first minister for equal opportunities and... -
Roots of Change: Nebraska's New Agriculture by Mary Ridder
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £15.95Among the vast corporate and smaller family-sized farms and agribusinesses of Nebraska, the old pioneering spirit of entrepreneurship is rising again, this time in the form of sustainable and organic... -
White Spirit by Betsy Wing
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.37After answering a classified ad placed by an import-export company looking for energetic young men willing to take on responsibilities for its African branches-no diploma required-Victor finds... -
A Short Season: Story of a Montana Childhood by Donald M. Morehead
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £9.22A Short Season is Don Morehead's bittersweet story of growing up on a Montana ranch during the 1940s. In 1941 his parents eagerly took up residence on a ten-thousand-acre sheep ranch in northern... -
Brother Bill's Bait Bites Back and Other Tales from the Raton by Ricardo L. Garcia
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.93Much of the literature about northeastern New Mexico depicts range wars, bandits, labor union strife, and Indian depredations. This collection of twelve modern folktales describes events that never... -
Mandan Social and Ceremonial Organization by Alfred W. Bowers
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £19.41Generations before the Lewis and Clark Corps of Discovery wintered in the northern Plains, the Mandan Indians farmed along the banks of rivers. The traditional world of the Mandans comes vividly to... -
Flowers in the Snow: The Life of Isobel Wylie Hutchison by Gwyneth Hoyle
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.02Over the course of a dozen years, Scottish plant collector Isobel Wylie Hutchison (1889-1982) explored northern latitudes from the Lofoten Islands of Norway to the far reaches of the American... -
The Life of High Countess Gritta von Ratsinourhouse by Bettine von Arnim
Booksplease Price: £24.81Appearing for the first time in English, this delightful story of the adventures of twelve young girls will appeal to readers of all ages. Gritta, neglected by her father, is uprooted when her new... -
The Year 3000: A Dream by Paolo Mantegazza 9780803230323
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.37First published in 1897, The Year 3000 is the most daring and original work of fiction by the prominent Italian anthropologist Paolo Mantegazza. A futuristic utopian novel, the book follows two young... -
Artemisia by Anna Banti 9780803262133
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.36Artemisia Gentileschi, born in 1598, the daughter of an esteemed painter, taught art in Naples and painted the great women of Roman and biblical history. She could neither read nor write, and she was... -
Wooden Leg: A Warrior Who Fought Custer (Second Edition) by Thomas B. Marquis 9780803282889
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £14.91Told with vigor and insight, this is the memorable story of Wooden Leg (1858-1940), one of sixteen hundred warriors of the Northern Cheyennes who fought with the Lakotas against Custer at the Battle... -
The Power of Solitude: My Life in the German Resistance by Peter Hoffmann 9780803299153
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.98"Dearly beloved Child of my Heart, we are probably standing at the end of our beautiful and rich life together. Because tomorrow the People's Court intends to sit in judgment on me and others. I hear... -
The Kingdom of God Is within You by Leo Tolstoy 9780803294042
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £12.58First published in Germany in 1894, after being banned in Russia, The Kingdom of God Is within You reveals Tolstoy's world outlook after his conversion to Christianity. He argues that the kingdom of... -
The Savage Gentleman by Philip Wylie 9780803234604
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.65Betrayed by his wife, Stephen Stone spirits his son, Henry, away to a remote tropical island and trains him to be an ideal physical specimen and a perfect gentleman. After years of isolation, Henry... -
Indian Boyhood by Charles A. Eastman 9780803267190
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £11.81Indian Boyhood (1902) was the literary debut of Charles A. Eastman (Ohiyesa), a Santee Sioux whose eleven books aimed at bringing whites and Indians closer together. The favorable reception of the...