Bison Books imprint: 156 books
Twilight of the Long-ball Gods
Dispatches from the Disappearing Heart of Baseball
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
A report from the true heart of baseball, this anthology leaves behind the bad boys and big names of the major leagues to take readers to the places where the spirit of America’s game resides. These are a veteran sportswriter’s dispatches from the bush leagues and the sandlot, his tributes to...
Streak
Joe DiMaggio and the Summer of '41
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2013
Streak vividly and poignantly tells the story of "Joltin' Joe" DiMaggio's legendary fifty-six-game hitting streak and the last golden summer of baseball before America was engulfed by the maelstrom of the Second World War. That long-lost summer also witnessed other unforgettable events:...
by Luther Standing Bear
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2013
When Standing Bear returned to the Pine Ridge Sioux Reservation after sixteen years' absence, his dismay at the condition of his people may well have served as a catalyst for the writing of this book, first published in 1933. In addition to describing the customs, manners, and traditions of the Teton...
The Celebrant
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
The first two decades of the twentieth century were a time of promise and innocence in America. Hardworking immigrants could achieve the American dream; heroes were truly heroic. Eric Rolfe Greenberg brilliantly and authentically chronicles the real-life saga of the first national baseball hero, Christy...
The Tropic of Baseball
Baseball in the Dominican Republic
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
In a new afterword Rob Ruck looks at the current state of baseball in the country that has produced Sammy Sosa and many other major league stars.
Field of Schemes
How the Great Stadium Swindle Turns Public Money into Private Profit, Revised and Expanded Edition
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2015
Field of Schemes is a play-by-play account of how the drive for new sports stadiums and arenas drains $2 billion a year from public treasuries for the sake of private profit. While the millionaires who own sports franchises have seen the value of their assets soar under this scheme, taxpayers, urban...
by Frederick Manfred
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
Here is a rich and serious novel of the violent West. Full of the authentic sounds and colors of Wyoming cattle country in the late nineteenth century, it tells the true story of a long-vanished time—the era of the cowhands and the bloody Johnson County range wars.
Riders of Judgment centers...
by Hassoldt Davis
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
Hassoldt Davis (1907–1959) was an adventurer and travel writer whose work Ernest Hemingway once described as “fantastic . . . magnificent.” With his intrepid new wife, filmmaker Ruth Staudinger, Davis sets off on an improbable honeymoon, first to Devil’s Island, and then down an unexplored river...
by Luther Standing Bear
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2013
Luther Standing Bear, a Lakota Sioux born in the 1860s, heard these legends in his youth, when his people were being moved to reservations. In haunting mood and imagery, they celebrate the old nomadic life of the Sioux, when buffalo were plentiful and all nature fed the spirit. The twenty stories...
The Cheyenne Indians, Volume 2
War, Ceremonies, and Religion
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
The Cheyenne Indians: Their History and Their Ways of Life is a classic ethnography, originally published in 1928, that grew out of George Bird Grinnell's long acquaintance with the Cheyennes. In Volume I he wrote about the tribe's early history and migrations, customs, domestic life, social organization,...
by Basil Johnston
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
Rarely accessible to the general public, Ojibway mythology is as rich in meaning, as broad, as deep, and as innately appealing as the mythologies of Greece, Rome, and other Western civilizations. In Ojibway Heritage Basil Johnston introduces his people's ceremonies, rituals, songs, dances, prayers,...
by Frederick Manfred
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
High on a remote butte, a young Sioux waits. Though daring in battle, skillful, and strong, he cannot be a man until his spiritual vision comes. When it appears, he must interpret it correctly to know who he is, and he must deserve it or continue to be called No Name.
No Name has his vision,...
A Cycle of the West
The Song of Three Friends, The Song of Hugh Glass, The Song of Jed Smith, The Song of the Indian Wars, The Song of the Messiah
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2018
A Cycle of the West rewards its readers with a sweeping saga of the American West and John G. Neihardt’s exhilarating vision of frontier history. It is infused with wonder, nostalgia, and a keen appreciation of epic history.
Unquestionably the masterpiece of the poet who has been called the...
Left Handed, Son of Old Man Hat
A Navajo Autobiography
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2018
With a simplicity as disarming as it is frank, Left Handed tells of his birth in the spring of 1868 “when the cottonwood leaves were about the size of [his] thumbnail,” of family chores such as guarding the sheep near the hogan, and of his sexual awakening. As he grows older, his account turns...