Unp Bison Books: 128 books
by Gary E. Moulton
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2018
In May 1804, Meriwether Lewis, William Clark, and their Corps of Discovery set out on a journey of a lifetime to explore and interpret the American West. The Lewis and Clark Expedition Day by Day follows this exploration with a daily narrative of their journey, from its starting point in Illinois...
The Ends of the Circle
The Pelbar Cycle, Book Two
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
One thousand years after “the time of fire,” a gentle craftsman and flute player forsakes both his true love and birthright to seek the fabled Shining Sea. Stel, born of proud but rigid Pelbar culture, embarks on an epic quest across an America dramatically changed by a long-ago nuclear war. Following...
The Dome in the Forest
The Pelbar Cycle, Book Three
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2013
More than one thousand years in the future, the conservative borders of Pelbar society continue to crumble as the people of Pelbar conduct trade, form friendships, and intermarry with members of the tribes now settled peacefully around the citadel of Northwall. Not all agree with the changes, however,...
The Fall of the Shell
The Pelbar Cycle, Book Four
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
Eleven hundred years after the apocalyptic destruction of the United States of America, peace between the remaining warring tribes has finally been achieved. Despite this peace, the Pelbar stronghold Threerivers retains its secretive and reclusive ways, keeping its distance from the other remaining...
The Song of the Axe
The Pelbar Cycle, Book Six
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2013
Twenty years after the great battle at Northwall, the disparate warring tribes are moving toward a peaceful unity for the first time since before the Time of the Fire. With the comfort of peace, the running bands of nomadic Shumai Axemen are settling down and forgoing their traditional ways. So Tor,...
The Sword of Forbearance
The Pelbar Cycle, Book Seven
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2013
After eleven hundred years of struggle, the warring tribes that survived the apocalyptic destruction of the United States have finally united, forming the peaceful Heart River Federation. But three eastern cities remain outside the federation. Led by Innanigani forces, these last rogue tribes seek...
by Ralph Moody
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2013
The fatherless Moody family moved from Colorado to Medford, Massachusetts, in 1912, when Ralph was entering his teens. "I tried as hard as I could to be a city boy, but I didn't have very good luck," he says at the beginning of The Fields of Home. "Just little things that would have...
by Kit Carson
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2013
"Notice is hereby given to all persons, that Christopher Carson, a boy about 16 years old, small of his age, but thick-set; light hair, ran away from the subscriber, living in Franklin, Howard County, Missouri, to whom he had been bound to learn the saddler's trade. . . . One cent reward will...
Vanished in Hiawatha
The Story of the Canton Asylum for Insane Indians
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016
Begun as a pork-barrel project by the federal government in the early 1900s, the Canton Asylum for Insane Indians quickly became a dumping ground for inconvenient Indians. The federal institution in Canton, South Dakota, deprived many Native patients of their freedom without genuine cause, often...
The Turtle's Beating Heart
One Family's Story of Lenape Survival
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2017
“Grandchildren meet their grandparents at the end,” Denise Low says, “as tragic figures. We remember their decline and deaths. . . . The story we see as grandchildren is like a garden covered by snow, just outlines visible.”
Low brings to light deeply held secrets of Native ancestry...
This River Beneath the Sky
A Year on the Platte
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2016
Each spring, formations of sandhill cranes crisscross the skies along Nebraska’s Platte River in one of the last great migratory spectacles on the North American continent. From across the globe, tens of thousands of visitors gather to witness a land transformed, “wild with birds.” But the central...
by James H. Howard
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2014
The Canadian Sioux are descendants of Santees, Yanktonais, and Tetons from the United States who sought refuge in Canada during the 1860s and 1870s. Living today on eight reserves in Manitoba and Saskatchewan, they are the least studied of all the Sioux groups. This book, originally published in 1984,...
Prairie Forge
The Extraordinary Story of the Nebraska Scrap Metal Drive of World War II
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
In the wake of Pearl Harbor, President Roosevelt called for the largest arms buildup in our nation's history. A shortage of steel, however, quickly slowed the program’s momentum, and arms production fell dangerously behind schedule. The country needed scrap metal. Henry Doorly, publisher of the...
Vanished Arizona
Recollections of the Army Life of a New England Woman, Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2015
When Martha Summerhayes (1844–1926) came as a bride to Fort Russell in Wyoming Territory in 1874, she “saw not much in those first few days besides bright buttons, blue uniforms, and shining swords,” but soon enough the hard facts of army life began to intrude. Remonstrating with her husband,...