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

Elizabeth M. Campbell is the granddaughter of Georg von Trapp. A graduate of Middlebury College, ...

'Oh how I do wish I could have a little help in maintaining my home. I shall dread the cold winte...

When pregnant Rosie Carpe, her fatherless five-year-old son in tow, arrives in Guadeloupe looking...

In Jane Grigson's Vegetable Book American readers, gardeners, and food lovers will find everythin...

This mesmerizing novel is about a sixteen-year-old girl who lives in a rectory and works in a dan...

Francis Parkman, America's greatest narrative historian, immortal for The Oregon Trail (1849), de...

Francis Parkman, America's greatest narrative historian, immortal for The Oregon Trail (1849), de...

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

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

On May 3, 1887, an earthquake struck near the U.S.-Mexico border. Forty-three people died in Bavi...

Striped Reckoning charts the shocking history of exotic big cats in the United States and chronic...

This collection covers eight years of unrest, personal and communal, beginning with stubborn patr...

Joe Wilkins was born and raised on the Big Dry of eastern Montana, and make no mistake--those sag...

Winner of the National Christopher Award

A Decent Excuse for an Indian War

Beyond the flinty glitz of a Hollywood-imagined American West of two-dimensional characters are t...

Cliff Swallow Societies

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 ...

From the totem-pole makers of the Northwest to the hunters of the eastern woodlands, from the hor...

Lieutenant James William Abert (1820-97) of the United States Army Topographical Engineers receiv...

When Vince Mendoza began to write his life story, he turned to his memory of visiting the deathbe...

In its moment of great splendor the novel was held as a mirror of society: MercC) Rodoreda shatte...

'The Sioux Indians came into my life before I had any preconceived notions about them,' writes Ma...

Contemporary Jewish Writing in Hungary features works by twenty-four of Hungary's best writers wh...

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

John W. W.¿Mann is a visiting assistant professor in the Department of History at the University ...

No American president has been closer to the working life of the West than Theodore Roosevelt. Fr...

The Union Pacific and Central Pacific Railroads were officially joined on May 10, 1869 at Promont...

Twenty years after the great battle at Northwall, the disparate warring tribes are moving toward ...

Robert Silverberg is one of the most honored writers in the history of science fiction and the au...

In a literary reversal as deadly serious as it is wickedly satiric, this novel by the acclaimed F...

Originally published: New York: Universe, 2008.

“This is the book on one of the true great men of his era.”-J. H. Jackson, San Francisco Chronicle

When David Innes and Abner Perry set out to search for mineral deposits in Perry's newly invented...

'The American Fur Trade of the Far West' is the premier history of its subject. Its publication i...

Robert R. Dykstra is professor of history and public policy at the State University of New York a...

Ann Fienup-Riordan is an independent scholar who has lived, worked, and taught in Alaska since 19...

2017 Nebraska Book Awards Nonfiction: Reference David J. Wishart’s Great Plains Indians covers th...

The building of a vintage Indian Chief motorcycle is more than the restoration of a bike-it's the...

Beginning in 1907, the anthropologist Robert H. Lowie visited the Crow Indians at their reservati...

Bead on an Anthill is the story of a Lakota girl's experiences growing up in Nebraska and on the ...

Two Leggings was one of the last Crow Warriors. From 1919 to 1923 he told his story of Crow life ...

Francis French is the former director of events for Sally Ride Science, and the current director ...

Before the feuding owners turned to Ed Barrow to be general manager in 1920, the Yankees had neve...