Unp Bison Books: 128 books
Speaking to the Rose
Writings, 1912-1932
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016
The Swiss writer of whom Hermann Hesse famously declared, “If he had a hundred thousand readers, the world would be a better place,” Robert Walser (1878–1956) is only now finding an audience among English-speaking readers commensurate with his merits—if not with his self-image. After a wandering,...
The Kid and Me
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2018
In The Kid and Me Frederick Turner deftly re-creates the Lincoln County War in what was then New Mexico Territory. The 1878 war pitted an established faction led by James Dolan against new arrivals in the county led by John Tunstall and Alexander McSween. When Tunstall and McSween opened a dry-goods...
by Mary F. Ehrlander
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2017
2018 Alaskana Award from the Alaska Library Association
2018 Alaska Historical Society James H. Drucker Alaska Historian of the Year Award
Walter Harper, Alaska Native Son illuminates the life of the remarkable Irish-Athabascan man who was the first person to summit Mount Denali, North America’s...
The Modoc War
A Story of Genocide at the Dawn of America's Gilded Age
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
On a cold, rainy dawn in late November 1872, Lieutenant Frazier Boutelle and a Modoc Indian nicknamed Scarface Charley leveled firearms at each other. Their duel triggered a war that capped a decades-long genocidal attack that was emblematic of the United States’ conquest of Native America’s...
by John Myers Myers
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2013
"In the figure of the old-time gamblin’ man and cold killer, John Myers has found a subject perfectly suited to his talents and his methods. . . . The result is a solid though lively biography. . . . As for the general reader, interested in the old West, he’ll eat this up and beg for more."—San Francisco Chronicle
A Regiment of Slaves
The 4th United States Colored Infantry, 1863-1866
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2015
The 4th United States Colored Troops (USCT) regiment saw considerable action in the eastern theater of operations from late 1863 to mid-1865. The regiment—drawn largely from freedmen and liberated slaves in the Middle Atlantic and New England states—served in Maj. Gen. Benjamin F. Butler’s Army...
Walter Johnson
Baseball's Big Train
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
“This lavishly illustrated narrative of Walter Johnson’s life is the definitive work on the subject and is likely to remain so.”—Oldtyme Baseball News. “Henry Thomas’s biography of Walter Johnson is carefully researched, thoroughly documented, and, best of all, a pleasure to read.”—Spitball.
Song of Dewey Beard
Last Survivor of the Little Bighorn
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
The resistance of great Native American warriors 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 great resistance, as the Indian nations recovered from war, many figures loomed heroic, yet their stories...
Bible in Pocket, Gun in Hand
The Story of Frontier Religion
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
"'The Story of Frontier Religion' could have been told in a great many ways, many of them dull. Here, however, interpretative matter has been kept to a minimum and source material selected with an unerring sense of humor. . . . There are chapters on the styles of preaching and of praying, the...
by Arthur E. Hertzler
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2013
"The Horse and Buggy Doctor follows no conventional lines. In larger part it is a book rich in anecdotes, a lively and somewhat rough-and-ready depiction of the country physician's experiences in general and Dr. Hertzler's in particular. In part it is descriptive of medical methods of the period."—New York Times
Those of the Gray Wind
The Sandhill Cranes, New Edition
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017
With Paul A. Johnsgard, we follow the migration of the sandhill cranes from the American Southwest to their Alaskan breeding grounds and back again, an annual pattern that has persisted over millions of years. By selecting four historic time frames of the migration between 1860 and 1980, Johnsgard...
Canoeing the Great Plains
A Missouri River Summer
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2015
Tired of an unfulfilling life in Kansas City, Missouri, Patrick Dobson left his job and set off on foot across the Great Plains. After two and a half months, 1,450 miles, and numerous encounters with the people of the heartland, Dobson arrived in Helena, Montana. He then set a canoe on the Missouri...
Fitz Lee
A Military Biography of Major General Fitzhugh Lee, C.S.A.
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2015
As the grandson of Henry “Light-Horse Harry” Lee and the nephew of Robert E. Lee, Fitzhugh Lee—nicknamed “Fitz”—was born into one of Virginia’s most distinguished families.
Upon graduation from West Point, Fitz Lee served in the U.S. Army until the outbreak of the Civil...
by Ladette Randolph
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2013
After her life as she knows it ends in heartbreak, Mary Rasmussen, a strong-willed and independent young ranch woman living in the Sandhills of western Nebraska, suddenly feels that everything she has believed in—God, her instincts, the land itself—has failed her. She abandons her cultural and...