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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...

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...

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...

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

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...

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 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: 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...

Author: Andr?? BretonPublisher: Bison BooksPublication Date: Oct 01, 1988Number of Pages: 131 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 0803260725ISBN-13: 9780803260726

Fortified with Yankee ingenuity and western can-do energy, the Moody family, transplanted from New England, builds a new life on a Colorado ranch early in the twentieth century. Father has died and...

Author: Joel W. HelmerPublisher: BISON BOOKSPublication Date: Oct 01, 2020Number of Pages: 360 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1496212819ISBN-13: 9781496212818

David H. Wilson Jr. recounts an epic story of the Northern Paiutes' resistance and adaptation as they faced settler colonization and governmental misappropriation of their land in Oregon Country from...

Rez Metal: Inside the Navajo Nation Heavy Metal SceneAuthor: Ashkan Soltani StonePublisher: BISON BOOKSPublication Date: Oct 01, 2020Number of Pages: 108 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding:...

In Saga of Chief Joseph, Helen Addison Howard has written the definitive biography of the great Nez Perce chief, a diplomat among warriors. In times of war and peace, Chief Joseph exhibited gifts of...

Sylvia Beach was intimately acquainted with the expatriate and visiting writers of the Lost Generation, a label that she never accepted. Like moths of great promise, they were drawn to her...

In this biography Gary C. Anderson profiles Sitting Bull, a military and spiritual leader of the Lakota people who remained a staunch defender of his nation and way of life until his untimely death...

The great Native American warriors and their resistance to the U.S. government in the war against the Plains Indians is a well-known chapter in the story of the American West. In the aftermath of the...