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Myths and Traditions of the Arikara Indians by Douglas R. Parks 9780803287426
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.42When trappers and fur traders first encountered the Arikara Indians, they saw a settled and well-organized people who could be firm friends or fearsome enemies. Until the late eighteenth century the... -
Encyclopedia of Frontier Biography, Volume 1: A-F by Dan L. Thrapp 9780803294189
RRP: £31.00Booksplease Price: £27.85Stretching 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... -
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The Citizen-Soldier: The Memoirs of a Civil War Volunteer by John Beatty 9780803261419 [USED COPY]
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £1.20When Southerners fired on Fort Sumter in April 1861, John Beatty left his bank job in Ohio to answer President Lincoln's call for soldiers. Within a short while he was commanding the Third Ohio... -
General Jo Shelby's March by Anthony Arthur 9780803240773
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £15.49One of the most remarkable but surprisingly little known stories of the post-Civil War era is the unforgettable account of how a famous Confederate general forged a defiant new life out of crushing... -
Violations: Stories of Love by Latin American Women by Psiche Hughes 9780803224186
RRP: £36.00Booksplease Price: £30.53Forbidden love was a forbidden topic. Decorum was everything-in society, where Catholicism dictated the terms, and in literature, where a code of decency governed writers and readers alike. To women... -
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My Army Life and the Fort Phil Kearney Massacre: With an Account of the Celebration of "Wyoming Opened" by Frances C. Carrington 9780803264434
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £15.30First published in 1910, Frances C. Carrington's My Army Life and the Fort Phil Kearney Massacre recounted the author's adventures as an army wife on the Great Plains, but also sought to set the... -
Hardtack and Coffee or, The Unwritten Story of Army Life by John D. Billings 9780803261112
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £17.13Includes six color plates of corps badges and more than 200 black and white illustrations Most histories of the Civil War focus on battles and top brass. Hardtack and Coffee is one of the few to give... -
Wildflowers of the Western Plains: A Field Guide by Zoe Merriman Kirkpatrick 9780803219052
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.81Stretching from western Texas and eastern New Mexico up through Oklahoma, Colorado, Kansas, Nebraska, Wyoming, Montana, the Dakotas, and into Canada, the vast western plains often appear sparse and... -
The Definitive Journals of Lewis and Clark, Vol 12: Herbarium by Meriwether Lewis 9780803280328
Booksplease Price: £33.39This landmark volume contains the most complete listing and presentation of the plant specimens collected by the Lewis and Clark expedition. All but one of the plants were collected by Meriwether... -
Your Midwest Garden: An Owner's Manual by Jan Riggenbach 9780803240094
Booksplease Price: £22.45It's a rare midwesterner who doesn't grow something, whether potted plants on a porch, caged tomato vines, a blooming border, or a solitary rose. And it's an even rarer midwestern gardener who isn't... -
Covered Wagon Women, Volume 2: Diaries and Letters from the Western Trails, 1850 by Kenneth L. Holmes 9780803272743
Booksplease Price: £17.49The women who traveled west in covered wagons during the 1840s speak through these letters and diaries. Here are the voices of Tamsen Donner and young Virginia Reed, members of the ill-fated Donner... -
Navajo Coyote Tales: The Curly To Aheedliinii Version by Father Berard Haile 9780803272224
Booksplease Price: £14.90Coyote is easily the most popular character in the stories of Indian tribes from Canada to Mexico. This volume contains seventeen coyote tales collected and translated by Father Berard Haile, O.F.M.,... -
Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits (Revised Edition) by Friedrich Nietzsche 9780803283688
Booksplease Price: £19.94This English translation-the first since 1909-restores Human, All Too Human to its proper central position in the Nietzsche canon. First published in 1878, the book marks the philosophical coming of... -
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Shantytown Kid by Azouz Begag 9780803262584 [USED COPY]
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £8.85One day an illiterate Algerian immigrant in Lyon gave his son, Azouz Begag, a book, saying, "This book is a bird." How Begag took flight on the wings of learning is one of the stories that unfolds in... -
John Colter: His Years in the Rockies by Burton Harris
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £11.99John Colter was a crack hunter with the Lewis and Clark expedition before striking out on his own as a mountain man and fur trader. A solitary journey in the winter of 1807-8 took him into... -
Kit Carson Days, 1809-1868, Vol 1: Adventures in the Path of Empire, Volume 1 (Revised Edition) by Edwin L. Sabin
Booksplease Price: £18.55Volume 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... -
Windows by Anne Quinney
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.56At once a memoir and a personal version of the author's highly influential Language of Psychoanalysis, this work by one of the world's leading proponents of psychoanalytic theory and practice offers... -
Custer and the Great Controversy: The Origin and Development of a Legend by Robert M. Utley
Booksplease Price: £15.22Custer and the Great Controversy was the first book to focus on the origins of what has come to be called the Custer myth. The Battle of the Little Bighorn has always been wrapped in mystery and... -
Black '41: The West Point Class of 1941 and the American Triumph in World War II by Bill Yenne
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £17.48Black '41 opens with the arrival of the class of 1941 at the gates of West Point in the spring of 1937. It follows that class-nicknamed "Black '41" for their misdeeds while at the Academy-over the... -
Basketball: Its Origin and Development by James Naismith
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £10.41James Naismith was teaching physical education at the Young Men's Christian Association Training College in Springfield, Massachusetts, and felt discouraged because calisthenics and gymnastics didn't... -
The Robber by Robert Walser
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £12.34The Robber, Robert Walser's last novel, tells the story of a dreamer on a journey of self-discovery. It is a hybrid of love story, tragedy, and farce, with a protagonist who sweet-talks teaspoons,... -
Vanished Act: The Life and Art of Weldon Kees by James Reidel 9780803259775
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £15.21Critic, novelist, filmmaker, jazz musician, painter, and, above all, poet, Weldon Kees performed, practiced, and published with the best of his generation of artists-the so-called middle generation,... -
Apollo Moon Missions: The Unsung Heroes by Billy W. Watkins 9780803260412
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.56In 1961 President John F. Kennedy challenged the United States to land a man on the moon and return him safely to Earth before the end of the decade. It seemed like an impossible mission and one that... -
All the Strange Hours: The Excavation of a Life by Loren Eiseley 9780803267411
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.37A native of Lincoln, Nebraska, Loren Eiseley began his lifelong exploration of nature in the salt flats and ponds around his hometown and in the mammoth bone collection hoarded in the old red brick... -
The Expedition of the Donner Party and Its Tragic Fate by Eliza P. Donner Houghton 9780803273047
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £15.78George and Tamsen Donner and their children, among the very first to leave from Illinois, joined emigrants headed to California in the spring of 1846. Beyond Fort Bridger, Captain Donner led a large... -
Free Land by Rose Wilder Lane 9780803279148
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £15.21In the 1880s, when adventure lay in the conquest of the prairies, David Beaton and his bride came to Dakota to claim three hundred acres of grassland. Rose Wilder Lane tells of their struggle to... -
The Age of the Ship of the Line: The British and French Navies, 1650-1815 by Jonathan R. Dull 9780803235182
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.51For nearly two hundred years huge wooden warships called "ships of the line" dominated war at sea and were thus instrumental in the European struggle for power and the spread of imperialism. Foremost... -
The Most High by Maurice Blanchot 9780803261907
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.56Dystopian novel of post-World War II EuropeDystopian novel of post-World War II EuropeAbout the AuthorMaurice Blanchot has been for a half century one of France's leading authors of fiction and... -
Fable for Another Time by Mary Hudson 9780803264243
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £17.24Fable for Another Time is one of the most significant and far-reaching literary texts of postwar France. Composed in the tumultuous aftermath of World War II, largely in the Danish prison cell where... -
Homesteading Space: The Skylab Story by David Hitt 9780803236394
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.77As the United States and the Soviet Union went from exploring space to living in it, a space station was conceived as the logical successor to the Apollo moon program. But between conception and... -
Hard Hitting Songs for Hard-Hit People by Woody Guthrie 9780803244757
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £21.96Twenty-seven years in the making (1940-67), this tapestry of nearly two hundred American popular and protest songs was created by three giants of performance and musical research: Alan Lomax,... -
Main-Travelled Roads by Hamlin Garland 9780803270589
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.37Main-Travelled Roads contains eleven stories in this expanded and revised 1922 edition of an undisputed American classic. "Under the Lion's Paw" shows an honest, hard-working farmer victimized by a... -
Lonesome Traveler: The Life of Lee Hays by Doris Willens 9780803297470
Booksplease Price: £12.44During the Great Depression, Lee Hays, the son of a Southern Methodist minister, used his music to life the hearts of sharecroppers and miners and union organizers. He helped bring black music to... -
Walter Harper, Alaska Native Son by Mary F. Ehrlander 9780803295902
RRP: £25.99Booksplease Price: £22.702018 Alaskana Award from the Alaska Library Association 2018 Alaska Historical Society James H. Drucker Alaska Historian of the Year Award Walter Harper, Alaska Native Son illuminates the life of... -
Black Cherries by Grace Stone Coates
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.89In this series of linked stories the child narrator, Veve, cannot fathom all the mysteries of her family's life together, but by watching and listening she pieces together a painful past. Played out... -
Man of the Family by Ralph Moody
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.75Fortified with Yankee ingenuity and western can-do energy, the Moody family, transplanted from New England, builds a new life on a Colorado ranch early in the twentieth century. Father has died and... -
One Man's West by David Lavender 9780803260306
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.68The American West of the 1930s and 1940s was still a place of prospectors, cowboys, ranchers, and mountaineers, one that demanded backbreaking, lonely, and dangerous work. Still, midcentury pioneers... -
From the Heart of the Crow Country: The Crow Indians' Own Stories by Joseph Medicine Crow 9780803282636
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.64The world of the Crow Indians comes to life in this extraordinary collection of stories from respected elder and famed storyteller Joseph Medicine Crow. Raised by traditional grandparents, who... -
Eyewitness at Wounded Knee by Richard E. Jensen 9780803236097
Booksplease Price: £29.43On a wintry day in December 1890, near a creek named Wounded Knee on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota, the Seventh Cavalry of the U.S. Army opened fire on an encampment of Sioux Indians... -
Beyond Thirty by Edgar Rice Burroughs 9780803261846
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £8.85By the year 2137 Europe has become a largely forgotten, savage wilderness. Fierce bands of hunters rove the crumbling ruins of once mighty, war-ravaged cities. On the other side of the Atlantic a...