'[This] may be the finest state history ever written. . . . Required reading for anyone with pret...

Tom Quirk is a professor of English at the University of Missouri-Columbia and the author of Berg...

In 'La funcion delta' (1981), the second novel of the best-selling Spanish author Rosa Montero, t...

Originally published: Mechanicsburg, Pa.: Stackpole Books, c2003.

On a cold, rainy dawn in late November 1872, Lieutenant Frazier Boutelle and a Modoc Indian nickn...

Around the Bend

Told from the unique perspective of a woman, mother, environmentalist, cowboy, and rancher, this ...

From the water crisis in Flint, Michigan, to declining water levels in the Colorado River, water ...

B.J. Hollars and his daughter, Ellie, set out to explore Montana's legendary Dinosaur Trail, lear...

Bohemians West is a revelatory biography of an early twentieth century radical romance between Ch...

Guns, Furs, and Gold offers a new and riveting narrative of the American West by exploring the in...

Where Blackbirds Fly offers a journey into the human heart through fierce narratives of intimacy ...

The story of a Nebraska-born writer that provides a unique view on how a woman with a strong voic...

Phoebe Apperson Hearst tells the story of Hearst’s world and examines the opportunities and chall...

Fish Cars and Fish Culture

Ruin and Restoration in Trump's New America

More Than Flower Power

The Power of Scenery

Bloodlines

Kicking the Loose Stones Home

Every Sky at Home

As the United States and the Soviet Union went from exploring space to living in it, a space stat...

After practicing law for four years, then selling his practice for ¿fear of becoming rich,¿ Helge...

Frederick Manfred (1912¿94) grew up on a farm in Iowa with six brothers, attended Calvin College ...

Best known for catching wolves alive with his bare hands, John R. Abernathy (1876-1941) was born ...

Soon after the assassination of President Lincoln in April 1865, newspaper editor Josiah Gilbert ...

Introducing the Happy Family, Chip is the typical woman-shy cowboy, but he is also a gifted artis...

Bad Company begins with Joaquin Murieta, whose myth started in the early 1850s and who remains Ca...

The overland trails in the 1860s witnessed the creation of stage stations to facilitate overland ...

A young man in modern America is terrorized by visions of an earlier, primitive life. Across the ...

In June 1846 Susan Shelby Magoffin, eighteen years old and a bride of less than eight months, set...

A collection of country whoppers from the frontier of Nebraska, Oklahoma and Iowa. This book pres...

'It will make excellent supplementary reading for students of the American West, complementing th...

The Ojibway Indians were first encountered by the French early in the seventeenth century along t...

Robert Silverberg is the author of numerous books, including At Winter¿s End and The Queen of Spr...

'Dr. Eiseley describes with zest and admiration the giant steps that have led man, in a scant thr...

'Trails of Yesterday,' first published in 1921, is ranked with the best firsthand accounts of ran...

Defeat and death at the Little Bighorn gave General George Custer and his Seventh Cavalry a kind ...

Ben K. Green takes us back to the deep Southwest and the never-a-dull-moment years he spent as a ...

She begins, in the morning, by casing her joints: Can her ankles take the stairs? Will her finger...

In the 'quietest magnificent book IUve ever read' (Jim Harrison, author of 'Legends of the Fall')...

Watson Parker is professor emeritus of history at the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh and the aut...

The perspective of 15 years, painstaking research, thousands of interviews, extensive analysis an...

In this lively and sometimes poignant collection of essays and autobiographies, nearly fifty Alas...

One hundred and eighty years after Lewis and Clark's 'Voyage of Discovery' (1804-1806), Dayton Du...

Compelling 'as told to' autobiography of a young Algerian woman married to the leader of an Islam...

Riding straight out of the pages of Western history, W. J. L. Sullivan arrives, hat firmly plante...

'The Hunting of the Buffalo,' originally published in 1929, tells all about the marvelous and use...