Westward Vision

David Lavender

• Paperback | Engels | Bison Book
• "In one very real sense," David Lavender writes, "the story of the Oregon Trail begins with Columbus." This opening suggests the panoramic sweep of hi... Lees meer

Trappers of the Far West

• Paperback | Engels | Bison Book
• In the early 1800s vast fortunes were made in the international fur trade, an enterprise founded upon the effort of a few hundred trappers scattered a... Lees meer

A Guide to the Indian Wars of the West

John D McDermott

• Paperback | Engels | Bison Book
• From 1860 to 1890 the United States military engaged in war after war with the indigenous peoples of the West. Although numerous treaties recognized t... Lees meer

Nebraska Pioneer Cookbook

• Paperback | Engels | Bison Book
• Pemmican and pickled plums, sauerkraut and salmi of quail, Swedish flatbread and Bohemian kolaches and Danish meat roll, dishes familiar and foods exo... Lees meer

Letters from Lee's Army

• Paperback | Engels | Bison Book
• Charles Minor Blackford was a Virginia aristocrat who fought for the Confederacy as much out of obligation to his class and region as for political re... Lees meer

Myth and Literature

• Paperback | Engels | Bison Book | nr. 500
• This collection of thirty-four major essays devoted to the theories, methods, and problems of myth criticism offers a convenient and substantial intro... Lees meer

Memoirs of a White Crow Indian

Thomas H Leforge, Thomas B Marquis

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• Thomas 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 mo... Lees meer

The Summer Game

Roger Angell

• Paperback | Engels | Bison Book
• "Page for page, The Summer Game contains not only the classiest but also the most resourceful baseball writing I have ever read." --New York Times Boo... Lees meer

Your Name Is Hughes Hannibal Shanks

Lela Knox Shanks

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• Your 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... Lees meer

Henry James on Culture

Henry James

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• The eighteen essays in this collection show Henry James (1843-1916) in a new and unexpected light--as a political commentator and social reformer. His... Lees meer

Butch Cassidy

Richard Patterson

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• Provides an account of Cassidy's life. Lees meer

Theory of Fiction

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• Comprised of more than 250 selections from Henry James's stories about writers, his critical and speculative essays, his Notebooks , Prefaces, and let... Lees meer

My Army Life and the Fort Phil Kearney Massacre

Frances C Carrington

• Paperback | Engels | Bison Book
• First published in 1910, Frances C. Carrington's My Army Life and the Fort Phil Kearney Massacre recounted the author's adventures as an army wife on ... Lees meer

Bad Jews

Gerald Shapiro

• Paperback | Engels | Bison Book
• Bad Jews and Other Stories is a nuanced and comic vision of life, love, and spiritual adventurism among the determinedly secular class of contemporary... Lees meer

Aureng-Zebe

John Dryden

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• Aureng-Zebe was John Dryden's last rhymed play and it is frequently considered his best. In this tragedy, produced in 1675, published in 1676, the plo... Lees meer

Second Growth

Wallace Stegner

• Paperback | Engels | Bison Book
• A New England village, untouched by history since the American Revolution, is the unquiet arena containing, but just barely, the aloof natives and the... Lees meer

Gunner with Stonewall

William Thomas Poague

• Paperback | Engels | Bison Book
• A Confederate artillery officer, William Thomas Poague fought in General "Stonewall" Jackson's campaigns in the Shenandoah Valley and at Second Manass... Lees meer

The Sod House

Cass G Barns

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• "No one so well knows the life of pioneer settlements," writes Addison E. Sheldon in the foreword to this book, "as the country doctor, and the countr... Lees meer

Stories of the Far North

• Paperback | Engels | Bison Book
• The Northwestern story emerged full-blown from the pen of Jack London, and his "The League of the Old Men" is a fitting introduction to these rigorous... Lees meer

Horsecatcher, The-Pa

Mari Sandoz

• Paperback | Engels | Bison Book
• Praised for swift action and beauty of language, The Horsecatcher is Mari Sandoz's first novel about the Indians she knew so well. Without ever leavin... Lees meer

Showdown at Little Big Horn

Dee Brown

• Paperback | Engels | Bison Book
• On Sunday afternoon, June 25, 1876, Gen. George Custer and 264 members of the U.S. Seventh Cavalry engaged more than 3,000 warriors of the Lakota Siou... Lees meer

Memories of Summer

Roger Kahn

• Paperback | Engels | Bison Book
• Acclaimed baseball writer Roger Kahn gives us a memoir of his Brooklyn childhood, a recollection of a life in journalism, and a record of personal acq... Lees meer

Swallow Summer

Charles R Brown

• Paperback | Engels | Bison Book
• Each May for fifteen consecutive years, Charles R. Brown has trekked to the Cedar Point Biological Station in western Nebraska to learn more about the... Lees meer

Plenty-Coups

Frank B Linderman

• Paperback | Engels | Bison Book
• "An exciting account by one of the last great chiefs." ― Los Angeles Times In his old age, Plenty-coups (1848-1932), the last hereditary chief of the ... Lees meer