Bison Books Sale

For more than sixty years, Bison Books has helped sustain the intrigue of the West by serving as the living literature of western lands and people. Within the imprint, we preserve the history of the peoples and cultures that have shaped this spectacular land and generated so many stories about it. This month the University of Nebraska Press is happy to offer a 50% DISCOUNT on any of our Bison Books. Just enter coupon code 6BB24 in your shopping cart, then click “Apply.” Offer expires October 31, 2024 and is good for U.S. and Canadian shipments only. Below is a small sample of our most popular and recent Bison Books titles, but this sale applies to the whole herd. Begin shopping our Bison Books today.

The Log of a Cowboy

A Narrative of the Old Trail Days

Out Here on Our Own

An Oral History of an American Boomtown

The Old Iron Road

An Epic of Rails, Roads, and the Urge to Go West

Forts of the Northern Plains

A Guide to Military and Civilian Posts of the Plains Indian Wars

Blood in the Borderlands

Conflict, Kinship, and the Bent Family, 1821–1920

Journey to Freedom

Uncovering the Grayson Sisters' Escape from Nebraska Territory

Twisting in Air

The Sensational Rise of a Hollywood Falling Horse

Fort Phil Kearny

An American Saga

The Gentle Tamers

Women of the Old Wild West

The Forgotten Botanist

Sara Plummer Lemmon's Life of Science and Art

Black Gun, Silver Star

The Life and Legend of Frontier Marshal Bass Reeves

The Great Oklahoma Swindle

Race, Religion, and Lies in America's Weirdest State

Living West as Feminists

Conversations about the Where of Us

The Horse Lover

A Cowboy's Quest to Save the Wild Mustangs

Tales of the Frontier

From Lewis and Clark to the Last Roundup

The Power of Scenery

Frederick Law Olmsted and the Origin of National Parks

Standing Bear's Quest for Freedom

The First Civil Rights Victory for Native Americans

The First Migrants

How Black Homesteaders’ Quest for Land and Freedom Heralded America’s Great Migration

Hospital and Haven

The Life and Work of Grafton and Clara Burke in Northern Alaska

Hush of the Land

A Lifetime in the Bob Marshall Wilderness

Compliments of Hamilton and Sargent

A Story of Mystery and Tragedy on the Gilded Age Frontier

Wallace Stegner's Unsettled Country

Ruin, Realism, and Possibility in the American West

Grit and Ghosts

Following the Trail of Eight Tenacious Women across a Century

Back from the Collapse

American Prairie and the Restoration of Great Plains Wildlife


Galloping Gourmet

Eating and Drinking with Buffalo Bill

No Friday Night Lights

Reservation Football on the Edge of America

Nez Perce Summer, 1877

The U.S. Army and the Nee-Me-Poo Crisis

Blackfoot Lodge Tales

The Story of a Prairie People

Rise Up!

Indigenous Music in North America

Burning the Breeze

Three Generations of Women in the American West

Birthing the West

Mothers and Midwives in the Rockies and Plains

Go West, Young Man

A Father and Son Rediscover America on the Oregon Trail

Covered Wagon Women, Volume 1

Diaries and Letters from the Western Trails, 1840-1849

Oracle of Lost Causes

John Newman Edwards and His Never-Ending Civil War

Nourishing Waters, Comforting Sky

Thirty-Five Years at a Sandhills Oasis

Lamentations

A Novel of Women Walking West

The St. Louis Commune of 1877

Communism in the Heartland

The Bower Atmosphere

A Biography of B. M. Bower

Uphill Both Ways

Hiking toward Happiness on the Colorado Trail

Changing Woman

A Novel of the Camp Grant Massacre

The Turtle's Beating Heart

One Family's Story of Lenape Survival

Boy Almighty

An Autobiographical Novel

Cast Out of Eden

The Untold Story of John Muir, Indigenous Peoples, and the American Wilderness

Without Warning

The Tornado of Udall, Kansas

Little Britches

Father and I Were Ranchers

Black Elk Speaks

The Complete Edition

Gem of the Sierra

Schemes and Splendor in Nineteenth-Century Lake Tahoe

Nature's Mountain Mansion

Wonder, Wrangles, Bloodshed, and Bellyaching from Nineteenth-Century Yosemite

Ghostwalker

Tracking a Mountain Lion's Soul through Science and Story

Skywalks

Robert Gordon’s Untold Story of Hallmark’s Kansas City Disaster

Portrait of a City

Lincoln, Nebraska, at the Turn of the Twentieth Century

Preserving Yellowstone's Natural Conditions

Science and the Perception of Nature

They Came but Could Not Conquer

The Struggle for Environmental Justice in Alaska Native Communities

Almost Somewhere

Twenty-Eight Days on the John Muir Trail

Crazy Horse

The Strange Man of the Oglalas

The Bear Doesn't Know

Life and Wonder in Bear Country

Under Prairie Skies

The Plants and Native Peoples of the Northern Plains

Buffalo Soldiers in Alaska

Company L, Twenty-Fourth Infantry

Buffalo Soldiers in California

Charles Young and the Ninth Cavalry, 1902–1904

Creative Genius

The Art of the Nebraska Capitol

Chasing the Ghost Bear

On the Trail of America’s Lost Super Beast

Watch the Bear

A Half Century with the Brown Bears of Alaska

Black Robes Enter Coyote's World

Chief Charlo and Father De Smet in the Rocky Mountains

The Forsaken and the Dead

The Bass Reeves Trilogy, Book Three

Dodge County, Incorporated

Big Ag and the Undoing of Rural America

Clitso Dedman, Navajo Carver

His Art and His World

The Last Heir

The Triumphs and Tragedies of Two Montana Families

Jim Bridger

Mountain Man

Twenty Miles of Fence

Blueprint of a Cowboy

Northern Paiutes of the Malheur

High Desert Reckoning in Oregon Country

The Women Who Built Omaha

A Bold and Remarkable History