Bison Books

Author: Tracy DaughertyPublisher: Bison BooksPublication Date: Apr 01, 2022Number of Pages: 158 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1496229746ISBN-13: 9781496229748

Author: Mark TwainPublisher: BISON BOOKSPublication Date: Dec 01, 2020Number of Pages: 224 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1496223748ISBN-13: 9781496223746

In a remote kingdom hidden in the Himalayas, there is a trail said to be the toughest trek in the world?twenty-four days, 216 miles, eleven mountain passes, and enough ghost stories to scare an...

Black Robes Enter Coyote's World brings to life the complicated history of Jesuit missionaries among Montana's Native peoples--a saga of encounter, accommodation, and resistance during the...

Bury My Heart at Chuck E. Cheese's is a powerful and compelling collection of Tiffany Midge's musings on life, politics, and identity as a Native woman in America. Artfully blending sly humor, social...

Rebecca Valette's Clitso Dedman, Navajo Carver is the first biography of artist Clitso Dedman (1876-1953), one of the most important but overlooked Din? (Navajo) artists of his generation. Dedman was...

Author: Kenneth L. HolmesPublisher: BISON BOOKSPublication Date: Sep 01, 1995Number of Pages: 280 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 0803272774ISBN-13: 9780803272774

Featuring hundreds of photos of the art on display in Nebraska's capitol building, Creative Genius reveals the meaning behind the artwork, the inspiration of the artists, and the history of the...

Downwind is an unflinching tale of the atomic West that reveals the intentional disregard for the inhabitants and the environment in nuclear testing by the federal government and in uranium...

The journey of one young man on a path of youthful rebellion that leads first to a short jail sentence for drug possession and eventually to another jail sentence for street activism in the protests...

Author: Charles M. BusseyPublisher: BISON BOOKSPublication Date: Feb 01, 2002Number of Pages: 272 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 0803262019ISBN-13: 9780803262010

Author: Sidney ThompsonPublisher: BISON BOOKSPublication Date: Mar 01, 2020Number of Pages: 240 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1496218752ISBN-13: 9781496218759

2024 Colorado Book Award History Finalist 2024 Will Rogers Medallion Silver Winner in Western Biographies/Memoirs Galloping Gourmet explores an unfamiliar side of a familiar character in American...

The Great Plains is a well-known and well-studied hybrid zone for many animals, most notably birds. In Great Plains Birds Larkin Powell explores the history, geography, and geology of the plains and...

Great Plains Literature is an exploration of influential literature of the Plains region in both the United States and Canada. It reflects the destruction of the culture of the first people who lived...

Leslie Patten had seen grizzly bears, wolves, coyotes, deer, elk, and many other species in her years living next to Yellowstone National Park. Yet, like most visitors, she had never seen a mountain...

B.J. Hollars and his son strike out on a 2,500-mile road trip to retrace the Oregon Trail. Their mission: to rediscover America--and Americans--along the way.Author: B. J. HollarsPublisher: BISON...

A project of the Center for Great Plains Studies, University of Nebraska.Author: Dan O'BrienPublisher: Bison BooksPublication Date: Sep 01, 2017Number of Pages: 144 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding:...

Great Plains Forts introduces readers to the fortifications that have impacted the lives of Indigenous peoples, fur trappers and traders, travelers, and military personnel on the Great Plains and...

Great Plains Geology concisely guides readers through the geological development of the Great Plains region. It describes the distinct features of fifty-seven geologic sites, including fascinating...

David J. WishartÆs Great Plains Indians covers thirteen thousand years of fascinating, dynamic, and often tragic history. From a hunting and gathering lifestyle to first contact with Europeans to...

A Project of the Center for Great Plains Studies, University of Nebraska.Author: Peter J. LongoPublisher: Bison BooksPublication Date: Sep 01, 2018Number of Pages: 152 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding:...

A Project of the Center for Great Plains Studies, University of Nebraska.Author: Kenneth F. DeweyPublisher: Bison BooksPublication Date: May 01, 2019Number of Pages: 200 pagesLanguage:...

Set in 1884, Hell on the Border tells the story of Deputy U.S. Marshal Bass Reeves at the peak of his historic career. Famous for being a crack shot as well as for his nonviolent tendencies, Reeves...

History of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe RailwayAuthor: Keith L. Bryant Jr., Fred W. FraileyPublisher: Bison BooksPublication Date: Jun 01, 2024Number of Pages: NA pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding:...

Horse of a Different Color ends the "roving days" of young Ralph Moody. His saga began on a Colorado ranch in Little Britches and continued at points east and west in Man of the Family, The Fields of...

In 1973 the small southwest Nebraska railroad town of McCook became the unlikely scene of a grisly murder. More than forty years later, author James W. Hewitt returns to the scene and unearths new...

John Colter was a crack hunter with the Lewis and Clark expedition before striking out on his own as a mountain man and fur trader. A solitary journey in the winter of 1807-8 took him into...

A gravestone, a mention in local archives, stories still handed down around Oyster Bay: the outline of a woman begins to emerge and with her the world she inhabited, so rich in tradition and shaken...

Ralph Moody was eight years old in 1906 when his family moved from New Hampshire to a Colorado ranch. Through his eyes we experience the pleasures and perils of ranching there early in the twentieth...