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10/09/2025

"[THE EDUCATION OF CLARENCE THREE STARS] offers a raw and valuable perspective—one that explores the lives of the Lakota as individuals and as people navigating a profound cultural change," writes Rani-Henrik Andersson for the American Historical Review. https://bit.ly/4mPCDGO

10/08/2025

In UNDER PRAIRIE SKIES, C. Thomas Shay asks and answers the question, What role did plants play in the lives of early inhabitants of the northern Great Plains?

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10/08/2025

"We can't live our lives fearing worst-case scenarios. All we can do is live our lives. Overhead, billion-year-old stars shine upon us. As they did for the dinosaurs too," writes B.J. Hollars in DINOSAUR DREAMS.

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https://volumeone.org/articles/2025/09/17/370736-dino-might-bj-hollars-ponders-humanitys-survival-road-trip-in-dinosaur-dreams-book

10/07/2025

"Roger's book is first-rate in its scholarship, tone, and balance," writes William P. MacKinnon for Kansas History: A Journal of the Central Plains of BUFFALO BILL AND THE MORMONS.

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Winner of the 2025 Wyoming Historical Society Publication AwardIn this never-before-told history of Buffalo Bill and the Mormons, Brent M. Rogers presents th...

10/06/2025

Iron and Mary Barrett’s farming family is rural royalty, their success symbolized by a magnificent three-story house, Mary’s Place. But when bank examiners apply new ratings for agricultural loans, the family’s beliefs are sent reeling

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10/03/2025

"In JOURNEY TO FREEDOM, Gail Shaffer Blankenau skillfully reconstructs the histories of two enslaved women...[telling] their forgotten story, adding both to our knowledge of their lives and to the history of Nebraska," writes Jeff Bremer in Kansas History: A Journal of the Central Plains.

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10/03/2025

"In DINOSAUR DREAMS, Hollars hasn’t just recapped his delightful road trip with his sweet daughter Ellie, he’s penned an enduring love letter that resonates through the mysteries of deep time and a world just as mysterious, beautiful, and challenged today," writes Simmons Buntin for Terrain.org. https://shorturl.at/yq8Lk

10/02/2025

From the Desk of B.J. Hollars: When Life Gives You a Climate Crisis, Write About Dinosaurs

In DINOSAUR DREAMS, B.J. Hollars and his daughter, Ellie, set out to explore Montana’s legendary Dinosaur Trail, learning along the way what the creatures who best understand extinction might teach us about our own survival amid climate change.

B.J. Hollars is a professor of English at the University of Wisconsin–Eau Claire. He is the author or editor of more than fifteen books, including Go West, Young Man: A Father and Son Red…

10/01/2025

Save 50% on any of our Bison Books titles throughout October with code 6BB25!

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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 th…

10/01/2025

DINOSAUR DREAMS is going on the road this week; Join BJ Hollars along the stops of his Western Book Tour!

In DINOSAUR DREAMS B.J. Hollars recounts his and his daughter's exploration of Montana’s legendary Dinosaur Trail.

09/29/2025

"GREAT PLAINS HOMESTEADERS tells a very engaging story of 'wives, husbands, children, and other relatives' working as teams to build new lives . . . [and] presents a narrative of nineteenth-century wealth-building strategies," writes Kurt E. Kinbacher for Kansas History: A Journal of the Central Plains.

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09/27/2025

Join sid sibo, author of THE SCENT OF DISTANT FAMILY today at the Jackson Hole Book Festival!

Set against the backdrop of a remote location in the throes of rapid development, THE SCENT OF DISTANT FAMILY is a contemporary novel that expands, even across geologic time, our sense of who we choose to consider family.

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