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A Cowboy Detective: A True Story of Twenty-two Years with a World-Famous Detective Agency by Charles A. Siringo 9780803291898
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $21.63After years of cowboying, Charles A. Siringo had settled down to store-keeping in Caldwell, Kansas, when a blind phrenologist, traveling through, took the measure of his "mule head" and told him that... -
Unless the Wind Turns by Mildred Walker 9780803297814
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $13.47John Davis has a "dull aching sense of missing out, of not getting anywhere." There must be millions like him, he thinks. His relations with his wife, Serena, are shallow and unsatisfying. In the... -
Death as a Side Effect by Ana Maria Shua 9780803229891
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $17.32In Death as a Side Effect, Ana Maria Shua's brilliantly dark satire transports readers to a dystopic future Argentina where gangs of ad hoc marauders and professional thieves roam the streets while... -
The Sixth Grandfather: Black Elk's Teachings Given to John G. Neihardt by Hilda Neihardt 9780803265646
RRP: $29.66Booksplease Price: $25.95In Black Elk Speaks and When the Tree Flowered, John C. Neihardt recorded the teachings of the Oglala holy man Black Elk, who had, in a vision, seen himself as the "sixth grandfather," the spiritual... -
The Outlaw Trail: A History of Butch Cassidy and His Wild Bunch by Charles Kelly 9780803277786
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $21.25The Wild Bunch, the confederation of western outlaws headed by Butch Cassidy, found sanctuary on the rugged Outlaw Trail. Stretching across Montana, Idaho, Wyoming, Colorado, Utah, Nevada, Arizona,... -
Covered Wagon Women, Volume 1: Diaries and Letters from the Western Trails, 1840-1849 by Kenneth L. Holmes 9780803272774
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $17.25The 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... -
Another Burning Kingdom by Robert Vivian 9780803211070
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $12.19Lem Purchase is in California when a call comes in the dead of night: his younger, disturbed brother in Nebraska announces his plans to carry out an act of terrorism targeting the state capitol... -
Sketches from the Ranch: A Montana Memoir by Dan Aadland 9780803216365
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $17.25In 1892 a stocky Danish immigrant named Magnus Jensen rode into south-central Montana. He liked what he saw and staked his future on the ranch he would carve out there. Today, Dan Aadland and his... -
More Than Winning: The Story of Tom Osborne by Tom Osborne 9780803226630
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $19.20At age twenty-eight, when Tom Osborne agreed to join Bob Devaney's full-time coaching staff at the University of Nebraska, he resolved to be a head coach by the time he reached age thirty-five... -
Hoops Nation: A Guide to America's Best Pickup Basketball by Chris Ballard 9780803262355
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $20.09Looking for a game? Here's your guided tour of the country's best pickup basketball courts, from the blacktops of Brooklyn to the asphalt of Anchorage to the gyms of Jackson, Mississippi. It's all... -
The Politics of James Bond: From Fleming's Novels to the Big Screen by Jeremy Black 9780803262409
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $17.25The adventures and antics of James Bond have provided the world with many of the most gripping story lines of the last half-century. Fleming's novels were bestsellers in their day, and the Bond films... -
Journal, 1955-1962: Reflections on the French-Algerian War by Mouloud Feraoun 9780803269033
RRP: $25.79Booksplease Price: $22.24"This honest man, this good man, this man who never did wrong to anyone, who devoted his life to the public good, and who was one of the greatest writers in Algeria, has been murdered. . . . Not by... -
Breaking and Riding: With Military Commentaries by James Fillis 9780803269156
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $13.22One of the most important works ever written on dressage, Breaking and Riding is essential reading for the serious dressage enthusiast. In this work, the result of a lifetime spent training horses,... -
Father Francis M. Craft, Missionary to the Sioux by Thomas W. Foley 9780803269255
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $18.16Of all the western frontier figures who played a role in the lives of the Sioux, perhaps none was more intriguing, eccentric, or controversial than Father Francis M. Craft (1852-1920). Both fearless... -
Gambler's Wife: The Life of Malinda Jenkins by Malinda Jenkins 9780803276079
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $15.89Malinda Jenkins was born in 1848, the daughter of a subsistence farmer in Kentucky. Showing spunk early, she pridefully refused to attend school without the right textbooks and escaped as soon as... -
The Sokal Hoax: The Sham That Shook the Academy by Lingua Franca 9780803279957
RRP: $23.21Booksplease Price: $20.23In May 1996 physicist Alan Sokal published an essay in the fashionable academic journal Social Text. The essay quoted hip theorists like Jacques Lacan, Donna Haraway, and Gilles Deleuze. The prose... -
A Voyage to Arcturus by David Lindsay 9780803280045
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $15.23A stunning achievement in speculative fiction, A Voyage to Arcturus has inspired, enchanted, and unsettled readers for decades. It is simultaneously an epic quest across one of the most unusual and... -
Shadow Catcher: The Life and Work of Edward S. Curtis by Laurie Lawlor 9780803280465
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $19.34Many Native Americans photographed by Edward S. Curtis (1868-1952) called him Shadow Catcher. But the images he captured were far more powerful than mere shadows. When the twentieth century was just... -
Indians, Infants and Infantry: Andrew and Elizabeth Burt on the Frontier by Merrill J. Mattes 9780803281578
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $20.19During the years of the Indian uprisings in the West, Elizabeth Burt followed her husband, Major Andrew Burt, from one lonely outpost to another, with their three small children, a crate of chickens,... -
Moon of Popping Trees by Rex Alan Smith 9780803291201
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $19.23The last significant clash of arms in the American Indian Wars took place on December 29, 1890, on the banks of Wounded Knee Creek in South Dakota. Of the 350 Teton Sioux Indians there, two-thirds... -
Hide: A Child's View of the Holocaust by Naomi Samson 9780803292727
RRP: $18.05Booksplease Price: $16.14In 1942 German Nazis and Polish collaborators drove nine-year-old Naomi Rosenberg and her family from the town of Goray, Poland, and into hiding. For nearly two years they were forced to take refuge... -
Elsie's Business by Frances Washburn 9780803298651
RRP: $18.05Booksplease Price: $16.23Beaten, raped, and left for dead at the side of a road on the Standing Rock Reservation, young Elsie Roberts disappears into her self to revisit the haunts of her childhood and, perhaps, the depths... -
Rock, Water, Wild: An Alaskan Life by Nancy Lord 9780803240001
RRP: $18.05Booksplease Price: $16.23For Nancy Lord, what began as a yearning for adventure and a childhood fascination with a wild and distant land culminated in a move to Alaska in the early 1970s. Here she discovered the last place... -
The Training Ground: Grant, Lee, Sherman, and Davis in the Mexican War, 1846-1848 by Martin Dugard 9780803228122
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $23.76For four years during the Civil War, Generals Grant and Lee clashed as bitter enemies in a war that bloodied and scorched the American landscape. Yet in an earlier time, they had worn the same... -
All Indians Do Not Live in Teepees (or Casinos) by Catherine C. Robbins 9780803239739
RRP: $29.66Booksplease Price: $25.95Both a tribute to the unique experiences of individual Native Americans and a celebration of the values that draw American Indians together, All Indians Do Not Live in Teepees (or Casinos) explores... -
Final Innings: A Documentary History of Baseball, 1972-2008 by Dean A. Sullivan 9780803259652
RRP: $29.66Booksplease Price: $26.83With Final Innings Dean Sullivan concludes his four-volume documentary history of baseball, whose three earlier volumes have been called "a broad array of illuminating and often unexpected materials"... -
Voices of Vision: Creators of Science Fiction and Fantasy Speak by Jayme Lynn Blaschke 9780803262393
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $14.23As the world around us becomes more fantastic, and science itself more surreal, the realms of science fiction and fantasy become correspondingly both more bizarre and more relevant. Voices of Vision... -
The World Before Mirrors by Joan Connor 9780803264557
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $14.42"What do you do for a living?" the podiatrist (or the photographer or the woman in the train station) asks, and Joan Connor answers, "I'm a writer," waiting with a cringe for the inevitable... -
The Era, 1947-1957: When the Yankees, the Giants, and the Dodgers Ruled the World by Roger Kahn 9780803278059
RRP: $29.66Booksplease Price: $25.95Celebrated sports writer Roger Kahn casts his gaze on the golden age of baseball, an unforgettable time when the game thrived as America's unrivaled national sport. The Era begins in 1947 with Jackie... -
The Abysmal Brute by Jack London 9780803279940
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $12.38Before anyone knew there was such a thing, Jack London gave us the natural: Young Pat Glendon has never drunk alcohol nor tasted tobacco. He loves nature, is afraid of cities, and is shy of women... -
The Custer Story: The Life and Intimate Letters of General George A. Custer and His Wife Elizabeth by Marguerite Merington 9780803281387
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $22.39During separations enforced by the military, Lieutenant General George A. Custer and his wife, Elizabeth, corresponded about the Civil War, the perils of frontier life, and the chain of events that... -
Myths and Legends of the Sioux by Marie L. McLaughlin 9780803281714
RRP: $15.47Booksplease Price: $13.43The timid rabbit who outwits the tyrannical bear, the wonderful turtle who marries the Indian chief's daughter, the pet crane who saves a family-these and many other legendary figures appear in Myths... -
Plains Song: For Female Voices by Wright Morris 9780803282674
RRP: $18.05Booksplease Price: $16.23Novel of three generations of women on the Nebraska plainsNovel of three generations of women on the Nebraska plainsAbout the AuthorWright Morris (1910-1998) wrote thirty-three books, including The... -
Atlanta 1864: Last Chance for the Confederacy by Richard M. McMurry 9780803282780
RRP: $18.05Booksplease Price: $16.23The best compact history of the Atlanta campaign ever writtenAbout the AuthorRichard M. McMurry is the author of John Bell Hood and the War for Southern Independence (also available in a Bison Books... -
Indigenizing the Academy: Transforming Scholarship and Empowering Communities by Devon A. Mihesuah 9780803282926
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $19.23Continuing the thought-provoking dialogue launched in the acclaimed anthology Natives and Academics: Researching and Writing about American Indians, leading Native scholars from diverse disciplines... -
Two Leggings: The Making of a Crow Warrior by Peter Nabokov 9780803283510
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $17.31'Two Leggings ...was one of the last Crow Warriors. From 1919 to 1923 he told his story of Crow life and wars to William Wildschut, an ethnologist with the Museum of the American Indian ...This is... -
Family Farming: A New Economic Vision, New Edition by Marty Strange 9780803217485
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $18.64Americans decry the decline of family farming but stand by helplessly as industrial agribusiness takes over. The prevailing sentiment is that family farms should survive for important social,... -
Our Lady of the Artichokes and Other Portuguese-American Stories by Katherine Vaz 9780803217904
RRP: $18.05Booksplease Price: $16.02The stories in this prize-winning collection evoke a complete world, one so richly imagined and finely realized that the stories themselves are not so much read as experienced. The world of these... -
In Search of the Golden West: The Tourist in Western America, Second Edition by Earl Pomeroy 9780803228207
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $19.48The first transcontinental railroads brought fashionable easterners to the American West. In the 1880s and 1890s they traveled in sumptuous "palace cars" and stayed at luxury hotels. Westerners with... -
The Four-Cornered Falcon: Essays on the Interior West and the Natural Scene by Reg Saner 9780803236349
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $22.47The western United States is a region of open space that has profoundly shaped the American character. In The Four-Cornered Falcon, Reg Saner explores places that can still transform the human spirit...