Bison Books

01/13/2026

In VIRGINIA FAULKNER, Brad Bigelow tells Faulkner's story—one that's lively, irreverent, and rich in its commitment to literature of lasting importance.

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01/12/2026

GUNS, FURS, AND GOLD by Larry E. Morris offers a riveting narrative of the American West by exploring the interactions of the Arikaras, Crows, Cheyennes, and Arapahos with each other and with Euro-American traders, explorers, and settlers from 1804 to 1864.

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01/09/2026

"In a time when the LGBTQ+ community is often under attack in our country, this book is an important reminder that this community isn’t new—they’ve always been a part of our shared story," writes Marc Beaudin of FRONTIER COMRADES.

Matt Pavelich has done something wondrous in The Harrows: A Novel of the American Century (Bar R Books, $24.95). This five-generation story of the Harrow family rolls off the pages with such liquid grace and poetic clarity that one feels a new Montana classic has...

01/07/2026

Mike Stark's STARLINGS was one of the Washington Independent Review of Books's Favorite Books of 2025! https://bit.ly/3N0n5nD

12/24/2025

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.

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12/19/2025

“If we want a future, we’ve got to fight for it,” says B.J. Hollars, author of DINOSAUR DREAMS, in an interview with Yahoo News. Read the full feature: https://yhoo.it/499oHUt

12/18/2025

"STARLINGS is an important work for the present day," writes Samuel Schurkamp of STARLINGS by Mike Stark for Ornithological Applications (American Ornithological Society). https://bit.ly/4aisdNs

12/17/2025

LIVING WEST AS FEMINISTS by Krista Comer moves from travelogue to interviews to critical meditations. It asks who one’s people are, to whom one feels accountable, and how we might make peace with the itinerant, often displaced lives of late-stage capitalist culture.

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12/17/2025

"I hoped to build a book that would give love to the novella, through five novellas encased in something that could be read as intimately as a novel."—Shann Ray

On the blog, Charles Finn, author of WILD DELICATE SECONDS, interviews Shann Ray about his new book WHERE BLACKBIRDS FLY.

Shann Ray’s novel Where Blackbirds Fly (Bison Books, 2025) is a braided set of five novellas, each a tenderly told and brutally honest investigation into the nature of relationships and what it mea…

12/16/2025

"This novel frankly takes stock of the challenges of the world in which we live—relational, social, economic—it conveys hope through human connection," writes Montana Arts Council about Shann Ray's novel WHERE BLACKBIRDS FLY.

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12/10/2025

THE CASE OF ROSE BIRD by Kathleen A. Cairns provides a fascinating look at this important and complex woman and the political and cultural climate of California in the 1970s and 1980s. Seeking to uncover the identities and motivations of Bird’s vehement critics, Kathleen A. Cairns traces Bird’s meteoric rise and cataclysmic fall.

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12/10/2025

Join Tom Chorneau tonight at Francie & Finch Bookshop for a discussion about his new book MRS. COOK AND THE KLAN.

Join us on December 10th at 5:30 as we give a warm welcome to Tom Chorneau! He will be discussing his book Mrs. Cook and the Klan. “Booze, law, politics, […]