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The Melon Capital of the World: A Memoir by Blake Allmendinger 9780803255401
RRP: $30.95Booksplease Price: $24.70In this psychologically gripping memoir, Blake Allmendinger returns to his childhood home after a forty-year absence. His homecoming to the struggling farming community of Rocky Ford, Colorado,... -
Memoirs of a White Crow Indian by Thomas H. LeForge 9780803258006
RRP: $29.66Booksplease Price: $25.95Thomas H. Leforge was "born an Ohio American" and chose to "die a Crow Indian American." His association with his adopted tribe spanned some of the most eventful years of its history--from the Indian... -
A Season in Purgatory: Villanova and Life in College Football's Lower Class by Tony Moss 9780803259591
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $17.49At a school where basketball is king, the Villanova football team battles opponents both on and off the field. Low on cash and recruiting power, the Division I-AA Wildcats must constantly justify... -
Only a Game by Bill Littlefield 9780803260016
RRP: $18.05Booksplease Price: $16.54It's only a game, Bill Littlefield's National Public Radio program tells us, trying to keep sports in perspective. And for all the deadly serious perspectives of sports commentators and fans,... -
Under the Moons of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs 9780803262089
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $20.56Ambushed in the cold moonlight of an Arizona night, Captain John Carter is inexplicably teleported to Mars, called Barsoom by its inhabitants. Legendary Barsoom-where hostile tribes of towering green... -
The Eternal Savage: Nu of the Neocene by Edgar Rice Burroughs 9780803262164
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $16.46Time travel, a millennium-spanning romance, and rousing action in modern African jungles and the untamed prehistoric wilderness ignite this classic adventure tale from the pen of Edgar Rice Burroughs... -
My Life in Baseball: The True Record by Ty Cobb 9780803263598
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $18.32Highly successful in knitting together this story of the life of a most remarkable and dedicated player - perhaps the most spirited baseball player ever to have graced the diamond. - Library Journal... -
The Great Range Wars: Violence on the Grasslands by Harry Sinclair Drago 9780803265639
RRP: $28.32Booksplease Price: $20.58Harry Sinclair Drago writes with authority and a sense of drama about the bloodiest range conflicts in Texas, Arizona, New Mexico, Wyoming, and Montana late in the nineteenth century. He details the... -
On to Oregon: The Diaries of Mary Walker and Myra Eells by Clifford Merrill Drury 9780803266131
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $19.23In 1838, two missionary couples, the Walkers and the Eellses, joined the party going west as a reinforcement to the Oregon Mission. Just married when the trip began, Mary Walker and Myra Eells rode... -
Mormon Resistance: A Documentary Account of the Utah Expedition, 1857-1858 by LeRoy R. Hafen 9780803273573
RRP: $29.66Booksplease Price: $26.16In 1857 President Buchanan quietly sent new officials to rule the Utah Territory and replace Brigham Young as the territorial governor. With no official announcement, the new leaders were accompanied... -
A False Spring by Pat Jordan 9780803276260
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $19.23In A False Spring, Pat Jordan traces the falling star of his once-promising pitching career, illuminating along the way his equally difficult personal struggles and quest for maturity. When the... -
The Nature of Home: A Lexicon and Essays by Lisa Knopp 9780803278141
RRP: $18.05Booksplease Price: $15.45For Lisa Knopp, homesickness is a literal sickness. During a lengthy sojourn away from the Nebraska prairie, she fell ill, and only when she decided to return home did she recover. Homesickness is... -
Arsenic Under the Elms: Murder in Victorian New Haven by Virginia A. McConnell 9780803283091
RRP: $28.32Booksplease Price: $19.90The attorney Virginia A. McConnell provides a riveting view of Connecticut in the late 1800s as revealed through the unrelated but disturbingly similar murders of two young women. The first, Mary... -
Crossing the Line: Black Major Leaguers, 1947-1959 by Larry Moffi 9780803283169
RRP: $18.05Booksplease Price: $17.61From 1947, when Jackie Robinson joined the Brooklyn Dodgers, through 1959, when the Boston Red Sox became the last Major League team to integrate, more than a hundred African American baseball... -
Changing Military Patterns of the Great Plains Indians by Frank Raymond Secoy 9780803292093
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $12.45Frank Raymond Secoy wrote this classic work while at Columbia University in the early 1950s. In his introduction, John C. Ewers considers the influence of Secoy's book on scholars since its original... -
Middle Innings: A Documentary History of Baseball, 1900-1948 by Dean A. Sullivan 9780803292833
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $18.33Dean A. Sullivan presents a fascinating array of provocative, unexpected, and illuminating materials revealing the rich history of baseball. The 105 pieces in this work cover such topics as the... -
My People the Sioux by Luther Standing Bear 9780803293328
RRP: $18.05Booksplease Price: $16.23When it was first published in 1928, Luther Standing Bear's autobiographical account of his tribe and tribesmen was hailed by Van Wyck Brooks as "one of the most engaging and veracious we have ever... -
Stories of the Sioux by Luther Standing Bear 9780803293359
RRP: $12.84Booksplease Price: $9.17Luther Standing Bear, a Lakota Sioux born in the 1860s, heard these legends in his youth, when his people were being moved to reservations. In haunting mood and imagery, they celebrate the old... -
The Body of a Young Man by Mildred Walker 9780803297876
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $12.45James Cutler, a high school physics teacher, is shattered by the suicide of his most promising student. Hoping to gain perspective and peace of mind, he travels with his wife, Phyllis, to Vermont to... -
Voices of Wounded Knee by William S. E. Coleman 9780803264229
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $21.90In Voices of Wounded Knee, William S. E. Coleman brings together for the first time all the available sources-Lakota, military, and civilian-on the massacre of 29 December 1890. He recreates the... -
Sisters of Salome by Toni Bentley 9780803262416
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $17.25The origins of the art of exotic dancing lie in English drama and Viennese opera: Oscar Wilde's 1893 play Salome, and Richard Strauss's 1905 opera based on it, brought onto the stage a female... -
The Twinkle Tales by Frank L. Baum 9780803262423
Booksplease Price: $15.80L. Frank Baum (1856-1919), author of The Wizard of Oz and thirteen more Oz books, created many other appealing fantasies for children. Writing under the pseudonym of Laura Bancroft, Baum related the... -
Saddles and Spurs: The Pony Express Saga by Raymond W. Settle 9780803257658
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $17.57The story of the Pony Express, which carried transcontinental mail from April 3, 1860 to October 24, 1861, is one of the most invigorating and satisfying episodes in American history. Saddles and... -
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"Yellowstone Kelly": The Memoirs of Luther S. Kelly by Luther S. Kelly 9780803257849
RRP: $25.79Booksplease Price: $24.02'In the narrative of "Yellowstone Kelly" we have a rare story of adventure and service. General Miles, who knew him long and intimately, fitly compares him with such heroes of the American wilderness... -
Quotology by Willis Goth Regier 9780803217522
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $21.25Erasmus advised readers to learn quotations by heart and copy them everywhere: write them in the front and back of books; inscribe them on rings and cups; paint them on doors and walls, "even on the... -
Future Imperfect: Philip K. Dick at the Movies by Jason Vest 9780803218604
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $17.25Philip K. Dick was one of the most incisive, subversive, and entertaining American authors of the last half of the twentieth century. The cinematic adaptations of Dick's fiction have generated so... -
The Buffalo Hunters: The Story of the Hide Men, Second Edition by Mari Sandoz 9780803218802
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $19.23In 1867 conservative estimates put the number of buffaloes in the trans-Missouri region at fifteen million. By the end of the 1880s, that figure had dwindled to a few hundred. The destruction of the... -
No Planets Strike by Josh Bell 9780803220409
RRP: $15.47Booksplease Price: $13.18No Planets Strike, the debut collection of poetry by Josh Bell, reads as a playfully serious record of modernity. Subversive in their treatment of the contemporary voice, broad in their subject... -
Ten Years on the Rock Pile: A Collection of Stories, Some Hilarious, Some Tragic, about Life at the Summit of Mount Washington by Lee Vincent 9780803234130
RRP: $18.05Booksplease Price: $17.53Mount Washington, located in the White Mountains of New Hampshire, is the highest peak in the northeastern United States. It is often cited-by its inhabitants, no less-as the home of the country's... -
Ogallala: A Century on the Trail by Elaine Nielsen 9780803234475
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $14.29Founded in the late 1800s as the hub of the burgeoning plains cattle trade, Ogallala serves as a microcosm of western history. The town typified western outposts of the age with cowboys-the... -
Descanso for My Father: Fragments of a Life by Harrison Candelaria Fletcher 9780803238398
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $13.61When his father died, Harrison Candelaria Fletcher wasn't quite two. His mother packed up his father's belongings, put the boxes in a hall closet, and closed the door. The "man in a box"... -
The Gentle Tamers: Women of the Old Wild West by Dee Brown 9780803250253
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $17.25All aspects of western feminine life, which include a good deal about the western male, are covered in this lively, informal but soundly factual account of the women who built the West. Among those... -
Saynday's People: The Kiowa Indians and the Stories They Told by Alice Marriott 9780803251250
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $19.13Saynday's People brings together two related volumes by the distinguished ethnologist and author Alice Marriott. The Saynday of the title and the central figure of Winter-Telling Stories is a... -
The Life of Abraham Lincoln by Isaac N. Arnold 9780803259249
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $21.71Abraham Lincoln "was a tall, spare man, with large bones, and towering up to six feet and four inches. He leaned forward, and stooped as he walked. . . . There was no grace in his movements, but... -
Baseball's Natural: The Story of Eddie Waitkus by John Theodore 9780803259584
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $13.42Baseball's Natural is John Theodore's true account of the slick-fielding first baseman who played for the Cubs and the Phillies in the 1940s and became immortalized in baseball lore as the... -
Chainbreaker: The Revolutionary War Memoirs of Governor Blacksnake as told to Benjamin Williams by Thomas S. Abler 9780803264502
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $18.51One of the earliest memoirs by an American Indian, Chainbreaker presents the recollections of a Seneca chief, also known as Governor Blacksnake. A fighter in the American Revolution who lived more... -
The Definitive Journals of Lewis and Clark, Vol 5: Through the Rockies to the Cascades by Meriwether Lewis 9780803280120
RRP: $29.66Booksplease Price: $26.26Since the time of Columbus, explorers dreamed of a water passage across the North American continent. President Thomas Jefferson shared this dream. He conceived the Corps of Discovery to travel up... -
Glory-Hunter: A Life of General Custer by Frederic F. Van de Water 9780803296077
RRP: $25.79Booksplease Price: $24.15"All his life, he rode after Glory," writers Frederic F. Van de Water of George Armstrong Custer. Ironically, he found it at the Battle of the Little Big Horn. In his introduction to this edition,... -
It's Not the End of the Earth, but You Can See It from Here by Roger L. Welsch 9780803298088
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $18.07Roger Welsch did what many Americans only dream of doing. While still in his professional prime, the folklorist and humorist quit a tenured professorship and headed toward the hinterland. Resettled... -
Standing in the Light: A Lakota Way of Seeing by Severt Young Bear 9780803299122
RRP: $18.05Booksplease Price: $16.23For most of his adult life Severt Young Bear stood in the light-in the center ring at powwows and other gatherings of Lakota people. As founder and, for many years, lead singer of the Porcupine...