Unp Bison Books: 128 books
The Breaking of Northwall
The Pelbar Cycle, Book One
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2014
One thousand years after a devastating and chaotic series of nuclear exchanges, all that is left of the United States of America are scattered, warring tribes and small city-states. One of the latter is Pelbar—proud, civilized, and intolerant of change and new ideas. Rebels and troublemakers are...
Frontier Regulars
The United States Army and the Indian, 1866-1891
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
In Frontier Regulars Robert M. Utley combines scholarship and drama to produce an impressive history of the final, massive drive by the Regular Army to subdue and control the American Indians and open the West during the twenty-five years following the Civil War.
Here are incisive accounts...
River City Empire
Tom Dennison's Omaha
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
More than any other political boss of the early twentieth century, Thomas Dennison, “the Rogue who ruled Omaha,” was a master of the devious. Unlike his contemporaries outside the Midwest, he took no political office and was never convicted of a crime during his thirty-year reign. He was a man...
by James P. Ronda
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
"Particularly valuable for Ronda's inclusion of pertinent background information about the various tribes and for his ethnological analysis. An appendix also places the Sacagawea myth in its proper perspective. Gracefully written, the book bridges the gap between academic and general audiences."—Choice
A Payroll to Meet
A Story of Greed, Corruption, and Football at SMU
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
Southern Methodist University in Dallas is one of numerous prestigious universities in Texas. The school’s football team was the pride of the university and the city. Before the late 1970s, however, the relatively small school had trouble recruiting and struggled to keep up with the big-time football...
The Solace of Stones
Finding a Way through Wilderness
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
Everything changes when Julie Riddle’s parents stumble across the wilderness survival guide How to Live in the Woods on Pennies a Day. In 1977, when Riddle is seven years old, she and her family—fed up with the challenges of city life—move to the foot of the Cabinet Mountains Wilderness in northwestern...
The Buffalo Hunters
The Story of the Hide Men, Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2013
In 1867 conservative estimates put the number of buffaloes in the trans-Missouri region at fifteen million. By the end of the 1880s, that figure had dwindled to a few hundred. The destruction of the great herds is the theme of The Buffalo Hunters. Mari Sandoz’s vast canvas is charged with color...
I Fought With Custer
The Story of Sergeant Windolph, Last Survivor of the Battle of the Little Big Horn
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2013
Sergeant Charles Windolph was the last white survivor of the Battle of the Little Big Horn when he described it nearly seventy years later. A six-year veteran of the Seventh Cavalry, Windolph fought in Benteen’s troop on that fatal Sunday and recalls in vivid detail the battle that wiped out Custer’s...
Joe Meek
The Merry Mountain Man, A Biography
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2013
"A tall man, with long black hair, smooth face, dark eyes (inclining to turn his head a little to one side, as much as to say, 'I can tell you about it'), a harum-scarum, don't-care sort of man, full of life and fun. That's how a contemporary described Joe Meek."
Born in Virginia,...
by Dale L. Morgan
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2013
In 1822, before Jedediah Smith entered the West, it was largely an unknown land, “a wilderness,” he wrote, “of two thousand miles diameter.” During his nine years as a trapper for Ashley and Henry and later for the Rocky Mountain Fur Company, “the mild and Christian young man” blazed the...
Custer
The Life of General George Armstrong Custer
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2013
"The best book yet written about Custer and the full significance of his career. . . . Deserves a medal of honor for extraordinary service in the great cause of making history live."—Chicago Tribune
by Ernie Pyle
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
Europe was in the throes of World War II, and when America joined the fighting, Ernie Pyle went along. Long before television beamed daily images of combat into our living rooms, Pyle’s on-the-spot reporting gave the American public a firsthand view of what war was like for the boys on the front....
by John Myers Myers
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2013
"The majority of the stories of the Alamo fight have been partly legendary, partly hearsay and at best fragmentary. It has been left to John Myers Myers to present an exhaustively researched book which reveals the chronicle of the siege of the Alamo in an entirely different light. . . . Myers'...
by Helen Addison Howard
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2017
In Saga of Chief Joseph, Helen Addison Howard has written the definitive biography of the great Nez Perce chief, a diplomat among warriors. In times of war and peace, Chief Joseph exhibited gifts of the first rank as a leader for peace and tribal liberty. Following his people’s internment in Indian...