Unp Bison Original: 28 books

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The Year 3000

A Dream

by Paolo Mantegazza
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2010

First published in 1897, The Year 3000 is the most daring and original work of fiction by the prominent Italian anthropologist Paolo Mantegazza. A futuristic utopian novel, the book follows two young lovers who, as they travel from Rome to the capital of the United Planetary States to celebrate their...
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Scoreboard, Baby

A Story of College Football, Crime, and Complicity

by Ken Armstrong, Nick Perry
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”...
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The Horse Lover

A Cowboy's Quest to Save the Wild Mustangs

by H. Alan Day, Lynn Wiese Sneyd
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...
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by Liz Stephens
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...
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Black Officer in a Buffalo Soldier Regiment

The Military Career of Charles Young

by Brian G. Shellum
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...
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Wyoming Folklore

Reminiscences, Folktales, Beliefs, Customs, and Folk Speech

by Federal Writers' Project
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...
Cover of Fifty Years a Country Doctor
by Hull Cook
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...
Cover of Swords from the Desert
by Harold Lamb
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:...
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by Harold Lamb
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...
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by Lisa Knopp
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...
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Michael and the Whiz Kids

A Story of Basketball, Race, and Suburbia in the 1960s

by John Christgau
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...
Cover of Breaking into the Backcountry
by Steve Edwards
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...
Cover of Two Hawk Dreams
by Lawrence L. Loendorf, Nancy Medaris Stone
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...
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Mountains of Light

Seasons of Reflection in Yosemite

by R. Mark Liebenow
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012

The environment may surround us, but when that environment is a natural wonder like Yosemite National Park, it also reaches what’s inside us. For Mark Liebenow, Yosemite did just that, and did so when he needed it most. In Mountains of Light, winner of the River Teeth Literary Nonfiction Prize,...
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