Bison Books imprint: 156 books
The Reluctant Pilgrim
A Skeptic's Journey into Native Mysteries
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2015
Forty years ago, while paging through a book sent as an unexpected gift from a friend, Roger Welsch came across a curious reference to stones that were round, “like the sun and moon.” According to Tatonka-ohitka, Brave Buffalo (Sioux), these stones were sacred. “I make my request of the stones...
San Francisco's Queen of Vice
The Strange Career of Abortionist Inez Brown Burns
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2017
San Francisco’s Queen of Vice uncovers the story of one of the most skilled, high-priced, and corrupt abortion entrepreneurs in America. Even as Prohibition was the driving force behind organized crime, abortions became the third-largest illegal enterprise as state and federal statutes combined...
Scoreboard, Baby
A Story of College Football, Crime, and Complicity
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2010
The adjectives associated with the University of Washington’s 2000 football season—mystical, magical, miraculous—changed when Ken Armstrong and Nick Perry’s four-part exposé of the 2000 Huskies hit the newspaper stands: “explosive . . . chilling” (Sports Illustrated), “blistering”...
The Horse Lover
A Cowboy's Quest to Save the Wild Mustangs
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2014
He already owned and managed two ranches and needed a third about as much as he needed a permanent migraine: that’s what Alan Day said every time his friend pestered him about an old ranch in South Dakota. But in short order, he proudly owned 35,000 pristine grassy acres. The opportunity then dropped...
by Liz Stephens
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
“I called the bishop of the local ward, and he put the date of your move into the church bulletin, and these gentlemen came to help,” Brady, the real estate agent, says. Welcome to Wellsville, Utah. Good-bye, L.A.
Liz Stephens has come from Los Angeles to Utah for graduate school, and her...
Black Officer in a Buffalo Soldier Regiment
The Military Career of Charles Young
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2010
An unheralded military hero, Charles Young (1864–1922) was the third black graduate of West Point, the first African American national park superintendent, the first black U.S. military attaché, the first African American officer to command a Regular Army regiment, and the highest-ranking black...
Wyoming Folklore
Reminiscences, Folktales, Beliefs, Customs, and Folk Speech
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2010
In 1935, in the depths of the Great Depression, Franklin Roosevelt issued an executive order creating the Federal Writers’ Project (FWP). Out-of-work teachers, writers, and scholars fanned out across the country to collect and document local lore. This book reveals the remarkable results of the FWP...
by Hull Cook
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2013
In a world of HMOs, insurance companies, and an endless flood of forms, Hull Cook reminds us that there was a time when a visit to the doctor’s office cost three dollars and doctors still made house calls. Cook recounts fifty years of service as a rural doctor in Texas and Nebraska, where a wide...
by Harold Lamb
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2016
Countless authors have swept us into the exotic east, but few based their tales there. In a time when westerners still spoke publicly about “the white man’s burden,” Harold Lamb was crafting action-packed stories featuring Arabs, Mongols, and Hindus as heroic, sympathetic, and believable characters:...
by Harold Lamb
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2010
Vikings, pirates, heroes, rogues, and explorers . . . all have heard the siren call of the sea, and master storyteller Harold Lamb chronicled some of their most daring exploits. This single volume contains all of Lamb’s historical seafaring stories, drawn from rare and fragile pulp magazines. Never...
by Lisa Knopp
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
“We must include Knopp among those whom Barry Lopez calls our ‘local geniuses of the American landscape,’” Fran Shaw remarks in the journal Parabola. And, indeed, in this new book, Lisa Knopp’s singular genius burrows deep into that landscape in showing us what it is to know, feel, and inhabit...
Michael and the Whiz Kids
A Story of Basketball, Race, and Suburbia in the 1960s
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
Imagine a boy, five feet tall and one hundred pounds, who wants to play high school basketball. Now imagine that he was blind until the age of six and that he’s the first black student to attend his suburban school. And there you have Michael Thompson in 1965 in San Bruno, California. He played...
by Steve Edwards
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2010
In 2001 Steve Edwards won a writing contest. The prize was seven months of “unparalleled solitude” as the caretaker of a ninety-two-acre backcountry homestead along the Rogue National Wild and Scenic River in southwestern Oregon. Young, recently divorced, and humbled by the prospect of so much...
by Lawrence L. Loendorf, Nancy Medaris Stone
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
Bighorn sheep graze on the last of the green grass on Gets-Struck-By-Lightning Mountain in the late fall. Two Hawk’s father and older brother, Night Heron, set off through newly fallen snow to hunt with their dogs. Two Hawk is sad to be left behind, but he has heard the bull elk’s mating call...