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1	Tracks more books like this by Louise Erdrich add to wishlist Erdrich writes about a collection of diverse Native American women in these interrelated tales that begin in the early 20th century. Fleur is a Chippewa trying to raise her difficult daughter, while she struggles to maintain her identity and keep alive her people's traditions in a white world that is increasingly alien. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
2	Black Elk Speaks: Being the Life Story of a Holy Man of the Oglala Sioux more books like this by John Gneisenau Neihardt add to wishlist This is the autobiography of Black Elk, a Lakota Indian fighting for freedom at the end of the 19th century, as told to author John G. Neihardt. While his tale glows with eyewitness accounts of historic events and Lakota Sioux customs, the heart of the book is Black Elk's soulful visions of a better future for his people and, by extension, for all ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.98! \| first editions \| SVS
3	My Ántonia more books like this by Willa Cather add to wishlist This novel about the friendship between two Nebraska children, Jim Burden and Antonia Shimerda is considered Cather's masterpiece. The fortunes of the two families are opposed: the Burdens thrive while the Shimerdas decline, a downfall that culminates in the suicide of Antonia's father, which forces the girl to work in the fields and then as a ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
4	Time to Hunt more books like this by Stephen Hunter add to wishlist Vietnam veteran Bob Lee Swagger, known as "Bob the Nailer" for his sharpshooting skills, can't forget the day when his young partner was struck down by a bullet he always thought was meant for him. Even after moving to Idaho and raising a family with the young boy's widow, Bob can't help but look over his shoulder. When an old enemy finally ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.64! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
5	Twister on Tuesday more books like this by Mary Pope Osborne, Salvatore Murdocca (Illustrator) add to wishlist In this episode of the Magic Tree House series, Jack and Annie travel back in time to the American pioneer period. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
6	Crazy Horse and Custer: The Parallel Lives of Two American Warriors more books like this by Professor Stephen E Ambrose add to wishlist A biographical study of the U.S. Cavalry general and the Sioux chief who met in battle at Little Bighorn, Montana, on June 25, 1876. Stephen Ambrose is the author of many highly acclaimed works of history, among them "D-Day, June 6, 1944" and "Undaunted Courage: Meriweather Lewis, Thomas Jefferson, and the Opening of the American West". see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.49! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
7	Lakota Woman Tie in more books like this by Mary Crow Dog, Mary Brave Bird, Mary Crow Dog add to wishlist In this autobiography, Mary Crow Dog, a Lakota Sioux, tells of her youth, when her heritage was discouraged by her mother, and of her later education into Indian ways under the tutelage of Leonard Crow Dog, a Sioux medicine man. Active in the Indian civil rights movement, Mary Crow Dog was at the Wounded Knee incident, and her autobiography ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.00! \| first editions \| SVS
8	Dakota: A Spiritual Geography more books like this by Kathleen Norris add to wishlist Norris writes about the dynamics of small-town life in this tribute to the Great Plains and their power to inform the human spirit. Filled with descriptions of a harsh and desolate, yet sublime landscape, "Dakota" weaves together the lives of farmers, townsfolk, Native Americans, and a community of Benedictine monks. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
9	Lonesome Dove more books like this by Larry McMurtry add to wishlist Two former Texas Rangers, Woodrow Call and Augustus McCrae, drive cattle from Texas to Montana with a crew of oddballs, misfits, and true heroes. With its roots firmly sunk in classic trail-drive lore, this novel nevertheless transcends the Western genre. Commenting on the book's phenomenal success, McMurtry said, "LONESOME DOVE was a critical ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
10	The Children's Blizzard more books like this by David Laskin add to wishlist Drawing on family interviews and memoirs, as well as hundreds of contemporary accounts, here is a meticulous account of the blizzard of January 12, 1888, which killed some 500 settlers in Nebraska, the Dakotas, and Minnesota--many of them children lost on their way home from school. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.00! \| first editions \| SVS
11 view cover	Little House on the Prairie more books like this by Laura Ingalls Wilder add to wishlist The Ingalls family moves from Wisconsin to Kansas, where they build a log cabin and start up a small farm. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
12 view cover	English Creek more books like this by Ivan Doig add to wishlist This first novel of Doig's three-part saga of life in Montana's Two Medicine country is about the important summer of 1939 in the life of 14-year-old Jick McCaskill. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $9.59! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
13 view cover	They Shoot Canoes, Don't They? more books like this by Patrick F McManus add to wishlist McManus celebrates the hidden pleasures, unappreciated lore, and opportunities for disaster to be found in such outdoor recreations as camping, hunting, and fishing. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.58! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
14 view cover	In Cold Blood more books like this by Truman Capote add to wishlist Truman Capote's masterpiece, IN COLD BLOOD, a sterling early example of the New Journalism, was part of an evolving genre that filtered events both big and small through the writer's own experiences and feelings. IN COLD BLOOD is the intensely researched story of the Clutter family of Holcomb, Kansas, and the two men who brutally murdered them on ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $10.94! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
15 view cover	Way to Rainy Mountain more books like this by Natachee Scott Momaday add to wishlist A compilation of stories, vignettes, and poems that describe the author's spiritual and intellectual voyage as he retraces a 300-year journey made by his ancestors from Montana to New Mexico. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.50! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
16 view cover	Desert Solitaire more books like this by Abbey add to wishlist "A passionately felt, deeply poetic book. It has philosophy. It has humor. It has its share of nerve-tingling adventures...set down in a lean, racing prose, in a close-knit style of power and beauty." THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOKREVIEW Edward Abbey lived for three seasons in the desert at Moab, Utah, and what he discovered about the land before him, ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.39! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
17 view cover	Journal of a Trapper more books like this by Osborne Russell, Aubrey L Haines (Editor) add to wishlist 'Reader, if you are in search of a Classical and Scientific tourist, please to lay this 'volume' down, and pass on, for this simply informs you what a Trapper has seen and experienced. But if you wish to peruse a Hunter's rambles among the wild regions of the Rocky Mountains, please to read this and forgive the authors foibles and imperfections, ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.17! \| first editions \| SVS
18 view cover	Basin and range more books like this by John McPhee add to wishlist The first of John McPhee's works in his series on geology and geologists, "Basin and Range" is a book of journeys through ancient terrains, always in juxtaposition with travels in the modern world--a history of vanished landscapes, enhanced by the histories of people who bring them to light. The title refers to the physiographic province of the ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.60! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
19 view cover	Buffalo Valley more books like this by Debbie Macomber add to wishlist Vaughn Kyle, an employee of the Wal-Mart-like company Value-X, arrives in quaint little Buffalo Valley intending to find an appropriate site for a new superstore. As he becomes acquainted with the town--and especially with local pharmacist's assistant Carrie Hendrickson--Vaughn becomes conflicted. A new Value-X would threaten Buffalo Valley's ... see all copies from $6.70! new only from $28.99! \| first editions
20 view cover	A Quiet Strength more books like this by Janette Oke add to wishlist Countless fans of Christian fiction like you were thrilled when Janette Oke released her new series, A PRAIRIE LEGACY. Readers have been rewarded with a touching exploration of the feelings and thoughts of young Virginia Simpson as she grows to be a woman. With A Quiet Strength, bestselling author Janette Oke continues Virginia's tale with a ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.49! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
21 view cover	O Pioneers more books like this by Willa Cather add to wishlist Willa Cather's O PIONEERS!, first published in 1913, tells the story of Alexandra Bergson, the daughter of a Swedish pioneering family, who successfully takes over the management of the family farm upon her father's death. The story encompasses Alexandra's difficult relationships with her brothers, Oscar and Lou, her love for a neighbor, Carl ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
22 view cover	Rubber Legs and White Tail-Hairs more books like this by Patrick F McManus add to wishlist America's favorite outdoor humorist is back with an outrageously fresh collection of stories. He introduces a variety of friends old and new, and takes readers to many exotic locales outdoors and indoors. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.44! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
23 view cover	True Confessions more books like this by Rachel Gibson add to wishlist L.A.-based tabloid reporter Hope Spencer arrives in Gospel, Idaho, hoping for inspiration, but discovers truth is stranger than fiction--even tabloid fiction--in the small town. Then there is local sheriff Dylan Taber. He's no made-up character from one of her stories--Dylan is all too real, and soon Hope faces the awful truth she's been without a ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.00! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
24 view cover	Giants in the earth : a saga of the prairie more books like this by Ole Edvart Rolvaag add to wishlist The classic story of a Norwegian pioneer family's struggles with the land and the elements of the Dakota Territory as they try to make a new life in America. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.50! \| first editions \| SVS
25 view cover	The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl more books like this by Timothy Egan add to wishlist Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author Timothy Egan follows a half-dozen families and their communities through the dust storms that terrorized America's High Plains during the Depression, going from sod huts to new framed houses to basements with the windows sealed by damp sheets in a futile effort to keep the dust out. see all copies from $4.27! new only from $7.50! \| first editions \| SVS

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