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Civil War on the Western Border, 1854-1865 by Jay Monaghan 9780803281264
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £15.12The first phase of the Civil War was fought west of the Mississippi River at least six years before the attack on Fort Sumter. Starting with the passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act in 1854, Jay... -
These Were the Sioux by Mari Sandoz 9780803291515
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £8.11"The Sioux Indians came into my life before I had any preconceived notions about them," writes Mari Sandoz about the visitors to her family homestead in the Sandhills of Nebraska when she was a child... -
Midwinter Rites of the Cayuga Long House by Frank G. Speck 9780803292314
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £12.58During his last years ethnohistorian Frank G. Speck turned to the study of Iroquois ceremonialism. This 1950 book investigates the religious rites of the Cayuga tribe, one of six in the Iroquois... -
Fleet Walker's Divided Heart: The Life of Baseball's First Black Major Leaguer by David W. Zang 9780803299139
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.91Moses Fleetwood Walker was the first black American to play baseball in a major league. He achieved college baseball stardom at Oberlin College in the 1880s. Teammates as well as opponents harassed... -
A Complete Life of General George A. Custer, Volume 1: Through the Civil War by Gregory J. W. Urwin 9780803297425
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.45In the election year of 1876 the Battle of the Little Big Horn was horrifyingly fresh to opinion makers, who divided along political lines in assigning blame. The late General George A. Custer, who... -
Fireweed by Mildred Walker 9780803297586
Booksplease Price: £11.16Mildred Walker was immediately recognized for the quality of her first fiction in 1934. Fireweed won the prestigious Avery and Jule Hopwood Award. The setting is a small lumber town in Upper... -
The Brewers' Big Horses by Mildred Walker 9780803297869
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £14.73Little Sara Bolster loved the great shining horses that drew the Henkel brewery wagon through the streets of Detroit in the 1880s. Those horses came to signify her fate, for she married the Henkel... -
The Underworld Sewer: A Prostitute Reflects on Life in the Trade, 1871-1909 by Josie Washburn 9780803297975
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £15.83For twenty years Josie Washburn lived and worked in houses of prostitution. She spent the last twelve as the madam of a moderately fancy brothel in Lincoln, Nebraska. After retiring in 1907 and... -
Under the Big Sky: A Biography of A. B. Guthrie Jr. by Jackson J. Benson 9780803222861
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £22.01Author 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... -
Private Property by France Grenaudier-Klijn 9780803234802
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £12.77When Tiffany Murano's parents, French expatriates in Africa, send her to a Catholic boarding school in France, her homeland feels nothing like home. In leaving colonial Africa, she loses the natural... -
Football's Last Iron Men: 1934, Yale vs. Princeton, and One Stunning Upset by Norman L. Macht 9780803234017
Booksplease Price: £12.37In November 1934, the Princeton football team-unbeaten in its last fifteen games-faced the 3-3 Yale Bulldogs, who gave new meaning to the term "underdogs." As much a thrilling play-by-play account of... -
Waheenee: An Indian Girl's Story by Gilbert Livingston Wilson 9780803297036
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £12.17"I was born in an earth lodge by the mouth of the Knife River, in what is now North Dakota, three years after the smallpox winter." So begins the story of Waheenee, a Hidatsa Indian woman, born in... -
Buffalo Tiger: A Life in the Everglades by Buffalo Tiger 9780803218857
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £11.81Frustrated in their attempts to gain official recognition by the United States, a group of Miccosukee Indians met with Fidel Castro in 1959 and were recognized by the Cuban government. The man behind... -
Kit Carson: A Pattern for Heroes by Thelma S. Guild 9780803270275
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £17.37Kit Carson was shown on the cover of an old dime novel slaying six Indians with one hand while protecting a fair maiden with the other. Stories about him, mainly apocryphal, circulated well before... -
The Enders Hotel: A Memoir by Brandon R. Schrand 9780803217690
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.82In the center of the rural boomtown of Soda Springs, Idaho, stands the historic Enders Hotel, Cafe, and Bar, a three-story brick building that has been many things to many people. But to one family... -
The Real Thing by Kurt Andersen 9780803220553
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £10.65You may already know that Belgium is the most boring country on planet Earth, but do you know why? Or what makes the Mark 44, Model O Lazy Dog Missile Cluster, the sexiest piece of military hardware... -
The Oglala Sioux: Warriors in Transition by Robert H. Ruby 9780803226227
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.96Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) physician Robert H. Ruby arrived on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota to oversee the health needs of the Oglala Sioux tribe during a period of significant... -
From the Hilltop by Toni Jensen 9780803226340
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.35For the characters we meet in Toni Jensen's stories, the past is very much the present. Theirs are American Indian lives off the reservation, lives lived beyond the usual boundaries set for American... -
The Final Invasion: Plattsburgh, the War of 1812's Most Decisive Battle by Colonel David Fitz-Enz 9780803227941
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.37On September 1, 1814, under the command of Lt. Gen. Sir George Prevost, nearly 15,000 veteran British troops, fresh from victory over Napoleon, crossed the Canadian-American border-the largest... -
The John Lardner Reader: A Press Box Legend's Classic Sportswriting by John Lardner 9780803230477
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.37This collection marks the return to print of John Lardner, one of America's press box giants, a classic stylist whose wry humor and tireless reporting helped elevate sportswriting to art. The... -
Sandhill and Whooping Cranes: Ancient Voices over America's Wetlands by Paul A. Johnsgard 9780803234963
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.65Driving west from Lincoln to Grand Island, Nebraska, Paul A. Johnsgard remarks, is like driving backward in time. "I suspect," he says, "that the migrating cranes of a pre-ice age period some ten... -
Trappers of the Far West: Sixteen Biographical Sketches by LeRoy R. Hafen 9780803272187
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £18.12In the early 1800s vast fortunes were made in the international fur trade, an enterprise founded upon the effort of a few hundred trappers scattered across the American West. From their ranks came... -
Fort Laramie and the Pageant of the West, 1834-1890 by LeRoy R. Hafen 9780803272231
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £12.58To weary travelers on the Oregon Trail during the middle decades of the nineteenth century, Fort Laramie was a welcome sight. Its walls and flag-decked towers rose from the high plains, their... -
The Last War: A World Set Free by H. G. Wells 9780803298200
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £10.39"From nearly two hundred centres, and every week added to their number, roared the unquenchable crimson conflagrations of the atomic bombs. The flimsy fabric of the world's credit had vanished,... -
The Genuine Article by A. B. Guthrie 9780803230286
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.23Not many people in Midbury especially liked F. Y. Grimsley, a rancher with twenty thousand acres and five hundred head of cattle. Still, when Grimsley is found dead on his back doorstep with a... -
Wild Pitch by A. B. Guthrie 9780803230293
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £13.16After Buster Hogue is shot at the annual town picnic, plenty of motives appear, but no clues point to the sniper. A lot of people had reason to dislike Hogue or even to wish him dead because of... -
A Journey in Other Worlds: A Romance of the Future by John Jacob Astor 9780803259492
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.37What did our ancestors dream of when they gazed up at the stars and looked beyond the present? Wildly imaginative but grounded in reasoned scientific speculation, A Journey in Other Worlds races far... -
Quilting Lessons: Notes from the Scrap Bag of a Writer and Quilter by Janet Catherine Berlo 9780803262232
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.86In the middle of a successful academic career, art historian Janet Catherine Berlo found herself literally at a loss for words. A severe case of writer's block forced her to abandon a book manuscript... -
They Called Them Angels: American Military Nurses of World War II by Kathi Jackson 9780803276277
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £15.05With the insight and intimacy of firsthand accounts from some of the thousands of army and navy nurses who served both stateside and overseas during World War II, this book tells the stories of the... -
This Death by Drowning by William Kloefkorn 9780803277991
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.96The first volume in William Kloefkorn's four-part memoir which, when completed, will cover the four elements: water, fire, earth, and air. This Death by Drowning is a memoir with a difference-an... -
Taking in a Game: A History of Baseball in Asia by Joseph A. Reaves 9780803290013
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £11.81In Taking in a Game, Joseph A. Reaves examines the development of baseball in Korea, the Philippines, Mainland China, and Taiwan, as well as the more widely known story of baseball in Japan. In this... -
Your Name Is Hughes Hannibal Shanks: A Caregiver's Guide to Alzheimer's by Lela Knox Shanks 9780803293281
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £11.81Your Name Is Hughes Hannibal Shanks is Lela Knox Shanks's personal account of caring for her husband, Hughes, in their home after he was stricken with Alzheimer's disease. Lela describes her initial... -
Sailors in the Sky: Memoir of a Navy Aircrewman in the Korean War by Jack Sauter 9780803238312
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £14.73"On previous flight ops, when a launch was delayed, we usually passed the time telling jokes or exchanging the latest scuttlebutt. Tonight was different. Each of us sat silently with our own thoughts... -
The Sky Clears: Poetry of the American Indians by Arthur Grove Day 9780803250475
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.82From the totem-pole makers of the Northwest to the hunters of the eastern woodlands, from the horse nations of the plains to the desert dwellers of the Southwest and the Mayas and Aztecs of ancient... -
Winged Words: American Indian Writers Speak by Laura Coltelli 9780803263512
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £10.41In Winged Words Laura Coltelli interviews some of America's foremost Indian poets and novelists, including Paula Gunn Allen, Michael Dorris, Louise Erdrich, Joy Harjo, Linda Hogan, N. Scott Momaday,... -
Kit Carson and the Indians by Tom Dunlay 9780803266421
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.98Often portrayed by past historians as the greatest guide and Indian fighter in the West, Kit Carson (1809-68) has become in recent years a historical pariah-a brutal murderer who betrayed the... -
Cowgirls: Women of the American West by Teresa Jordan 9780803275751
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £15.12American lore has slighted the cowgirl, although at least one can still be found in nearly every ranching community. Like her male counterpart, she rides and ropes, understands land and stock, and... -
Son of Old Jules: Memoirs of Jules Sandoz, Jr. by Jules Sandoz 9780803291904
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £8.48Mari Sandoz immortalized her irascible father in Old Jules. Now her brother, Jules Sandoz, Jr. fills out the story of their family life, dominated by Papa, in western Nebraska in the early l900s. A... -
Hopi Animal Stories by Ekkehart Malotki 9780803282711
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £15.68The fascinating world of the Hopis is brought to light in this original and informative collection of thirty animal tales featuring Field Mouse, Coyote the Trickster, Cicada and his flute, Medicine... -
The Winning of the West, Volume 3: The Founding of the Trans-Alleghany Commonwealths, 1784-1790 by Theodore Roosevelt 9780803289567
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £19.34After political defeats and the loss of half his capital in a ranching venture in North Dakota, Theodore Roosevelt began writing his ambitious history of the conquest of the American West in 1888. He...