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Custer and the Great Controversy: The Origin and Development of a Legend by Robert M. Utley
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.65Custer 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... -
Kill All the Lawyers?: Shakespeare's Legal Appeal by Daniel J. Kornstein
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.56Two-thirds of Shakespeare's plays have trial scenes, and many deal specifically with lawyers, courts, judges, and points of law. Daniel Kornstein, a practicing attorney, looks at the legal issues and... -
A Short Season: Story of a Montana Childhood by Donald M. Morehead
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £9.23A Short Season is Don Morehead's bittersweet story of growing up on a Montana ranch during the 1940s. In 1941 his parents eagerly took up residence on a ten-thousand-acre sheep ranch in northern... -
Brother Bill's Bait Bites Back and Other Tales from the Raton by Ricardo L. Garcia
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.94Much of the literature about northeastern New Mexico depicts range wars, bandits, labor union strife, and Indian depredations. This collection of twelve modern folktales describes events that never... -
The Crab Nebula by Eric Chevillard
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.65The Crab Nebula (La Nebuleuse du crabe) is comprised of fifty-two vivid chapters that provide startling insights into the existence of this nebulous man named Crab: his nightmarish-and none too... -
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... -
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... -
The French Navy and the Seven Years' War by Jonathan R. Dull 9780803260245
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £15.42The Seven Years' War was the world's first global conflict, spanning five continents and the critical sea lanes that connected them. This book is the fullest account ever written of the French navy's... -
The Expedition of the Donner Party and Its Tragic Fate by Eliza P. Donner Houghton 9780803273047
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £16.08George 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... -
The Age of the Ship of the Line: The British and French Navies, 1650-1815 by Jonathan R. Dull 9780803235182
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £12.58For 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 Collected Poems of Weldon Kees by Weldon Kees 9780803278097
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £12.58The Collected Poems of Weldon Kees showcases the dark brilliance and absorbing vision of one of America's most fascinating artistic and literary figures, Weldon Kees (1914-55).About the AuthorDonald... -
The Earp Brothers of Tombstone: The Story of Mrs. Virgil Earp by Frank Waters 9780803258389
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £12.44The Earp Brothers of Tombstone and the famous fight at the O. K. Corral are well known to American history and even better known to American legend. This composite biography of Wyatt, Morgan, Virgil,... -
A Surgeon in Khaki: Through France and Flanders in World War I by Arthur Anderson Martin 9780803234925
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.37Considered by critics to be an accurate portrayal of frontline medical conditions, A Surgeon in Khaki is New Zealand surgeon Arthur Anderson Martin's account of his experiences in 1914, early in... -
The Life and Adventures of Nat Love by Nat Love 9780803279551
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.65Thousands of black cowpunchers drove cattle up the Chisholm Trail after the Civil War, but only Nat Love wrote about his experiences. Born to slaves in Davidson County, Tennessee, the newly freed... -
Lonesome Traveler: The Life of Lee Hays by Doris Willens 9780803297470
Booksplease Price: £12.70During 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... -
Unless the Wind Turns by Mildred Walker 9780803297814
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £10.58John 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... -
The Days Are Gods by Liz Stephens 9780803243545
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £14.91"I called the bishop of the local ward, and he put the date of your move into the church bulletin, and these gentlemen came to help," Brady, the real estate agent, says. Welcome to Wellsville, Utah... -
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... -
Land of the Spotted Eagle by Luther Standing Bear 9780803293335
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.37When Standing Bear returned to the Pine Ridge Sioux Reservation after sixteen years' absence, his dismay at the condition of his people may well have served as a catalyst for the writing of this... -
Macadam Dreams by Gisele Pineau 9780803287730
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.74A cyclone inexorably sweeps Eliette into her past in this novel about the wayward violence of love and nature in Guadeloupe. In Macadam Dreams the celebrated Creole writer Gisele Pineau cunningly... -
Swords from the East by Harold Lamb 9780803219496
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £17.56Their conquest was measured not in miles but in degrees of longitude. They smashed the gates of empires, overthrew kingdoms, diverted rivers, and depopulated entire countries. They were the Mongols... -
World War I: The American Soldier Experience by Jennifer D. Keene 9780803234871
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £15.90World War I explores the daily lives of the men and women who served the United States in the Great War. Relying extensively on letters, diaries, and reminiscences of those Americans who fought or... -
Land of Terror by Edgar Rice Burroughs 9780803262652
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £16.68If you have ever wondered what a civilized man of the twentieth century would do if catapulted into an Old Stone Age where huge cave bears, saber-toothed tigers, monstrous carnivorous dinosaurs,... -
The Girl in the Golden Atom by Ray Cummings 9780803264571
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £12.58A classic work of science fiction, this novel was one of the first to explore the world of the atom. The Girl in the Golden Atom is the story of a young chemist who finds a hidden atomic world within... -
Tales of the Tepee by Edward Everett Dale 9780803266100
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £7.92Tales of the Tepee grew out of Edward Everett Dale's close association with Indian tribes living in Oklahoma. During territorial days young Dale rode, hunted, and visited with the Kiowas, Comanches,... -
Magpie Rising: Sketches from the Great Plains by Merrill Gilfillan 9780803271074
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £10.33The rolling, billowing, delicate landscape of Nebraska's Sandhills; the tombstone of Billy the Kid-stolen so often that it must be caged and shackled-in Fort Sumner, New Mexico; an intercontinental... -
The Apache Indians: In Search of the Missing Tribe by Helge Ingstad 9780803271852
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £12.58Available in English for the first time, The Apache Indians tells the story of the Norwegian explorer Helge Ingstad's sojourn among the Apaches near the White Mountain Reservation in Arizona and his... -
Falling Room by Eli Hastings 9780803273641
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £12.56Coming of age poor in spirit in the America of plenty is an old story that is yet endlessly new, beginning afresh every time a confused teenager tries to make sense of his privileged place in the... -
The Legacy of the Civil War by Robert Penn Warren 9780803298019
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.65In this elegant book, the Pulitzer Prize-winning writer explores the manifold ways in which the Civil War changed the United States forever. He confronts its costs, not only human (six hundred... -
Family Farming: A New Economic Vision, New Edition by Marty Strange 9780803217485
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £14.45Americans 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,... -
The Heart of the Sound: An Alaskan Paradise Found and Nearly Lost by Marybeth Holleman 9780803230354
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.87How does one recover from disaster? That question is at the heart of Marybeth Holleman's lyrical, elegiac response to the repercussions of the Exxon Valdez oil spill, which devastated Alaska's Prince... -
The Overseer's Cabin by Edouard Glissant 9780803234796
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.37With Edouard Glissant's The Fourth Century, the Village Voice observed, "we get the full effect of his overarching project: a literary exorcism of Martinique's scarred psyche and past, a lingering... -
Chuck Hagel: Moving Forward by Charlyne Berens 9780803248304
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £14.91In late August 2004 the Republicans were celebrating the nomination of incumbent George W. Bush for another term as president of the United States. In the midst of the festivities, Chuck Hagel, a... -
The True Life Wild West Memoir of a Bush-Popping Cow Waddy by Charley Hester 9780803273467
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.68A sixteen-year-old runaway from Illinois, Charley Hester (1853-1940) lit out from home in 1869, bound to make a life for himself on the great American frontier. In the winter of his life seven... -
Under the Moons of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs 9780803262089
Booksplease Price: £18.74Ambushed 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 Southpaw by Mark Harris 9780803273375
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £17.16The Southpaw is a story about coming of age in America by way of the baseball diamond. Lefthander Henry Wiggen, six feet three, a hundred ninety-five pounds, and the greatest pitcher going, grows to... -
Green Plans: Blueprint for a Sustainable Earth by Huey D. Johnson 9780803260207
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.56"Green plans" are the most effective strategies yet developed for moving from industrial environmental deterioration to postindustrial sustainability. In this definitive overview of green plans... -
Handcarts to Zion: The Story of a Unique Western Migration, 1856-1860 by LeRoy R. Hafen 9780803272552
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £12.58It is unparalleled in history, the procession of Latter-Day Saints pushing handcarts from Iowa City and Florence (Omaha) to their promised Zion by the Great Salt Lake. Many of the three thousand... -
The Round and Other Cold Hard Facts by J. M. G. Le Clezio 9780803280076
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.37Set largely in locations near the French Riviera, these eleven short stories depict the harsh realities of life for the less-privileged inhabitants of this very privileged region. Distinguished... -
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Alex Posey: Creek Poet, Journalist, and Humorist by Daniel F. Littlefield 9780803279681 [USED COPY]
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £1.50Most of Alexander Posey's short and remarkable life was devoted to literary pursuits. Through a widely circulated satirical column published under the pseudonym Fus Fixico, he did much to document...