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In Reach by Pamela Carter Joern 9780803254831
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £13.08In writing both rich and evocative, Pamela Carter Joern conjures the small plains town of Reach, Nebraska, where residents are stuck tight in the tension between loneliness and the risks of... -
By Cheyenne Campfires by George Bird Grinnell 9780803257467
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £18.12Here are the folk tales of the Cheyenne--stories of their heroes, their wars, their relationships with supernatural powers--as told to George Bird Grinnell during the winter months in Cheyenne tipis... -
Field of Schemes: How the Great Stadium Swindle Turns Public Money into Private Profit, Revised and Expanded Edition by Neil DeMause 9780803260160
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £14.91Field of Schemes is a play-by-play account of how the drive for new sports stadiums and arenas drains $2 billion a year from public treasuries for the sake of private profit. While the millionaires... -
The Happy Family of the Flying U by B. M. Bower 9780803261303
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £11.87The boisterous and bow-legged Happy Family of Montana rides high in this sequel to Chip of the Flying U. Originally published in 1910, The Happy Family is, like Chip, cinematic in its fast action,... -
Poems of Ambrose Bierce by Ambrose Bierce 9780803261334
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £10.92Ambrose Bierce is one of the most colorful figures in American literary history. A writer whose Devil's Dictionary remains the delight of misanthropes and fans of satire throughout the... -
A Dose of Frontier Soldiering: The Memoirs of Corporal E. A. Bode, Frontier Regular Infantry, 1877-1882 by E. A. Bode 9780803261600
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £10.82Emil Adolph Bode, a German immigrant down on his luck, enlisted in the U.S. Army in 1877 and served for five years. More literate than most of his fellow soldiers, Bode described western flora and... -
Three Years With Grant: As Recalled by War Correspondent Sylvanus Cadwallader by Sylvanus Cadwallader 9780803263697
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £14.28Sylvanus Cadwallader, a war correspondent for the Chicago Times and later for the New York Herald, was attached to General Grant's headquarters from 1862 to 1865. He enjoyed rare access to... -
Streak: Joe DiMaggio and the Summer of '41 by Michael Seidel 9780803292932
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £13.40Streak vividly and poignantly tells the story of "Joltin' Joe" DiMaggio's legendary fifty-six-game hitting streak and the last golden summer of baseball before America was engulfed by the maelstrom... -
The Song of the Axe: The Pelbar Cycle, Book Six by Paul O. Williams 9780803298460
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £12.21Twenty years after the great battle at Northwall, the disparate warring tribes are moving toward a peaceful unity for the first time since before the Time of the Fire. With the comfort of peace, the... -
Holocaust Girls: History, Memory, and Other Obsessions by S. L. Wisenberg 9780803298668
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £10.68This bracing and vivid collection of essays gives voice to what some American Jews feel but don't express about their uneasy state of mind. These essays creatively and sometimes audaciously address... -
Buffalo Nation: American Indian Efforts to Restore the Bison by Ken Zontek 9780803299221
Booksplease Price: £15.79The gruesome story of the devastation of buffalo herds in the late nineteenth century has become uncomfortably familiar. A less familiar story, but a hopeful one for the future, is Ken Zontek's... -
Scarlet Plume by Frederick Manfred 9780803243644
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £14.91In 1862 the largest Indian uprising in American history occurred in southern Minnesota. Enraged Sioux attempted to throw off the broken treaties that still bound them and to avenge the insults and... -
The Mover of Bones by Robert Vivian 9780803243651
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £10.19In one hand, Jesse Breedlove holds a bottle of Cuervo Gold-or what's left of it-in the other, the shovel with which he has just unearthed the bones of a small girl buried in the cellar of a Catholic... -
The Apache Diaries: A Father-Son Journey by Grenville Goodwin 9780803271029
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £14.61In 1930, four decades after the surrender of Geronimo, anthropologist Grenville Goodwin headed south in search of a rumored band of "wild" Apaches in the Sierra Madre. Goodwin's journals chronicling... -
![Belle Starr: "The Bandit Queen" by Burton Rascoe 9780803290037](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/2480181/2479526/9780803290037__83552.1714120874.jpg?c=1 "Belle Starr: "The Bandit Queen" by Burton Rascoe 9780803290037")
Belle Starr: "The Bandit Queen" by Burton Rascoe 9780803290037
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £14.08Legendary comrade and consort to train robbers, bootleggers, stagecoach robbers, bushwhackers, bank robbers, horse thieves, cattle thieves, and outlaws of all stripes, Belle Star (1848-89) was born... -
![Skylark Three by E. E."Doc" Smith 9780803293038](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/2480190/2479535/9780803293038__76349.1714120881.jpg?c=1 "Skylark Three by E. E."Doc" Smith 9780803293038")
Skylark Three by E. E."Doc" Smith 9780803293038
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £12.85In this exhilarating sequel to The Skylark of Space, momentous danger again stalks genius inventor and interplanetary adventurer Dr. Richard Seaton. Seaton's allies on the planet Kondal are suffering... -
Fast Guys, Rich Guys, and Idiots: A Racing Odyssey on the Border of Obsession by Sam Moses 9780803210967
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £15.90Sam Moses, a motorsports writer for Sports Illustrated, was assigned to go racing and write about what happened. Fast Guys, Rich Guys, and Idiots is a personal odyssey that peers over the cliff of... -
Madah-Sartre: The Kidnapping, Trial, and Conver(sat/s)ion of Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir by Alek Baylee Toumi 9780803211155
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.77"Hell is other people," Jean-Paul Sartre famously wrote in No Exit. The fantastic tragicomedy Madah-Sartre brings him back from the dead to confront the strange and awful truth of that statement. As... -
Interior Places by Lisa Knopp 9780803211438
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £15.28“We must include Knopp among those whom Barry Lopez calls our ‘local geniuses of the American landscape,’” Fran Shaw remarks in the journal Parabola. And, indeed, in this new book, Lisa Knopp’s... -
Inventing Wyatt Earp: His Life and Many Legends by Allen Barra 9780803220584
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £15.16On October 26, 1881, Wyatt Earp, his two brothers, and Doc Holliday shot it out with a gang of cattle rustlers near the O.K. Corral in Tombstone, Arizona. It was over in half a minute, but those... -
Coda: A Novel by Rene Belletto 9780803224414
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.83"It is to me that we owe our immortality, and this is the story that proves it beyond all doubt." With this sentence Rene Belletto begins a novel that compresses every genre he has worked... -
The Brokeback Book: From Story to Cultural Phenomenon by William R. Handley 9780803226647
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £17.82An American Western made by a Taiwanese director and filmed in Canada, Brokeback Mountain was a global cultural phenomenon even before it became the highest grossing gay-themed drama in film history... -
The Golden West: Fifty Years of Bison Books by Alicia Christensen 9780803234888
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £12.26In the fifty years since its inception in 1961, the Bison Books imprint at the University of Nebraska Press has published some of the best historical, literary, and original western literature. The... -
Bound to Have Blood: Frontier Newspapers and the Plains Indian Wars by Hugh J. Reilly 9780803236271
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £10.41The Plains Indian Wars were always front-page news in frontier newspapers, and it was to such local newspapers that the public invariably turned for information about the fighting. The vivid,... -
Wright Morris Territory: A Treasury of Work by Wright Morris 9780803236585
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £15.68Best known for his novels, including the National Book Award winners The Field of Vision and Plains Song, Nebraska-born author Wright Morris has long been regarded as one of America's most gifted... -
Broadax and Bayonet: The Role of the United States Army in the Development of the Northwest, 1815-1860 by Francis Paul Prucha 9780803251519
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £13.18"In a style that is clear, unhurried and ...vigorous, Francis P. Prucha has written a definitive study of [the] frontier army that was itself a pioneer. It pushed the line of occupation far beyond... -
Glory Enough for All: Sheridan's Second Raid and the Battle of Trevilian Station by Eric J. Wittenberg 9780803259676
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £18.54After the ferocious fighting at Cold Harbor, Virginia, in June 1864, Union Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant ordered his cavalry, commanded by Maj. Gen. Philip H. Sheridan, to distract the Confederate forces... -
We Talk, You Listen: New Tribes, New Turf by Vine Deloria 9780803259850
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.37We Talk, You Listen is strong, boldly unconventional medicine from Vine Deloria Jr. (1933-2005), one of the most important voices of twentieth-century Native American affairs. Here the witty and... -
A Stronger Kinship: One Town's Extraordinary Story of Hope and Faith by Anna-Lisa Cox 9780803260184
RRP: £18.50Booksplease Price: £15.05In the heartland of the United States 150 years ago, where racism and hatred were common, a community decided there could be a different America. Here schools and churches were completely integrated,... -
The Hunting of the Buffalo by E. Douglas Branch 9780803261372
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £13.86The Hunting of the Buffalo, originally published in 1929, tells all about the marvelous and useful animal that once roamed the American plains. Its gradual extermination is chronicled by E. Douglas... -
Pellucidar by Edgar Rice Burroughs 9780803262041
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.65In this sequel to At the Earth's Core, return to the world of Pellucidar-an exotic, savage land at the center of the Earth, an untamed wilderness where the sun never sets. When American explorer... -
Tarzan at the Earth's Core by Edgar Rice Burroughs 9780803262560
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £11.81Continuing the saga of Pellucidar, the empire located in the Earth's hollow center, Tarzan at the Earth's Core is the fourth work in this classic series. The American explorer and emperor of... -
Kiowa: A Woman Missionary in Indian Territory by Isabel Crawford 9780803263871
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £12.65Near the close of the nineteenth century, Isabel Crawford went to the Kiowa-Comanche Reservation in Oklahoma and founded the Saddle Mountain Baptist Mission. This book, written in journal form,... -
Cole Younger: Last of the Great Outlaws by Homer Croy 9780803264007
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £11.08Violence dictated the daily rhythms of Cole Younger's life. During the Civil War he was selected to join Quantrill's Raiders because he owned his own revolver. His participation in the brutal 1863... -
Miss Ravenel's Conversion from Secession to Loyalty by John William De Forest 9780803266155
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £17.43Miss Ravenel's Conversion is important in American literary history as the first novel to depict the Civil War with realism. Its battlefield scenes owe much to John De Forest's own experience as a... -
American Indian Leaders: Studies in Diversity by R. David Edmunds 9780803267053
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £12.94Throughout history, Indian leaders and their methods of leadership have both perplexed and fascinated other Americans. Because war chiefs played leading roles in the confrontations with whites, it is... -
Broken Hand: The Life of Thomas Fitzpatrick, Mountain Man, Guide and Indian Agent by LeRoy R. Hafen 9780803272088
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.47Known by the Indians as "Broken Hand," Thomas Fitzpatrick was a trapper and a trailblazer who became the head of the Rocky Mountain Fur Company. With Jedediah Smith he led the trapper band that... -
The Medicine Men: Oglala Sioux Ceremony and Healing by Thomas H. Lewis 9780803279391
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.37For the residents of the Pine Ridge reservation in South Dakota, mainstream medical care is often supplemented or replaced by a host of traditional practices: the Sun Dance, the yuwipi sing, the... -
Tim McCoy Remembers the West by Tim McCoy 9780803281554
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £12.93Well remembered as a star of Western films in the 1920s and 1930s, Tim McCoy was also a working cowboy and rancher, a U.S. Cavalry officer and adjutant general of Wyoming, a performer in the Ringling... -
Dr. Norton's Wife by Mildred Walker 9780803297821
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £12.01Dr. Norton's Wife was praised for its quiet honesty and artistic integrity when it was first published in 1938. It stands up firmly as a portrait of a marriage subjected to the strain of unexpected...