A Sacred People

Leo K Killsback

• Paperback | Engels | Plains Histories
• (Volume 1 of 2) Killsback, a citizen of the Northern Cheyenne Nation, reconstructs and rekindles an ancient Cheyenne world--ways of living and thinkin... Lees meer

Indigenous Albuquerque

Myla Vicenti Carpio

• Hardcover | Engels | Plains Histories
• Some 30,000 American Indians call Albuquerque, New Mexico, home, and twelve Indigenous nations, mostly Pueblo, live within a fifty-mile radius of it. ... Lees meer

Route 66

Markku Henriksson

• Paperback | Engels | Plains Histories
• When Markku Henriksson was growing up in Finland, the song "(Get Your Kicks on) Route 66" was one of only two he could recognize--in English or Finnis... Lees meer

Oysters, Macaroni, and Beer

Gene Rhea Tucker

• Hardcover | Engels | Plains Histories
• From 1894 to 1934, a span of forty years that saw its parent company go from coal mining to oil drilling, the Texas Pacific Mercantile and Manufacturi... Lees meer

American Outback

Richard Lowitt

• Hardcover | Engels | Plains Histories
• To settle and remain in the American Outback, the unforgiving land of the Oklahoma Panhandle, was an achievement. Prosperity and risk were present in ... Lees meer

Urban Villages and Local Identities

Kurt E Kinbacher

• Hardcover | Engels | Plains Histories
• Urban Villages and Local Identities examines immigration to the Great Plains by surveying the experiences of three divergent ethnic groups--Volga Germ... Lees meer

A Sovereign People

Leo K Killsback

• Paperback | Engels | Plains Histories
• (Volume 2 of 2) Killsback, a citizen of the Northern Cheyenne Nation, reconstructs and rekindles an ancient Cheyenne world--ways of living and thinkin... Lees meer

Where the West Begins

Glen Sample Ely

• Hardcover | Engels | Plains Histories
• Unsure which of its legacies are true and which to embrace, Texas grapples with an identity crisis. One camp insists that the state's roots in slavery... Lees meer

A Witness to History

Janet M Neugebauer

• Hardcover | Engels | Plains Histories
• This is the story of George H. Mahon, a man who went to Congress in 1935, when the House Committee on Appropriations still allocated a small amount of... Lees meer

Ruling Pine Ridge

Akim D Reinhardt

• Hardcover | Engels | Plains Histories
• "Reinhardt furnishes revealing portraits of Gerald One Feather, Dick Wilson, Russell Means; he offers a telling indictment of Pine Ridge's economy. He... Lees meer

As a Farm Woman Thinks

Nellie Witt Spikes

• Paperback | Engels | Plains Histories
• In twenty-five years of syndicated columns in small-town Texas newspapers between 1930 and 1960, Nellie Witt Spikes described her life on the High Pla... Lees meer

"Help Indians Help Themselves"

P Jane Hafen

• Hardcover | Engels | Plains Histories
• Zitkala-Sa, also known as Gertrude Simmons Bonnin, was born on the Yankton Sioux reservation in 1876 and went on to become one of the most influential... Lees meer

Women on the North American Plains

• Paperback | Engels | Plains Histories
• The first comprehensive view of women on the North American Plains, these essays explore the richness, variety, and complexity of their experiences. F... Lees meer

Law at Little Big Horn

Charles E Wright

• Hardcover | Engels | Plains Histories
• In 1876, the United States launched the Great Sioux War without a formal declaration of war by Congress. During the nineteenth century, the rights of ... Lees meer

The Death of Raymond Yellow Thunder

Stew Magnuson

• Paperback | Engels | Plains Histories
• The long-intertwined communities of the Oglala Lakota Pine Ridge Reservation and the bordering towns in Sheridan County, Nebraska, mark their historie... Lees meer

Flood on the Tracks

Todd M Kerstetter

• Paperback | Engels | Plains Histories
• The Elkhorn River originates in north-central Nebraska and empties into the Platte River just west of Omaha. One of the first written records of the E... Lees meer

Rights in the Balance

Mark R Scherer

• Hardcover | Engels | Plains Histories
• On a horrific night in October 1975, Erwin Simants brutally murdered six members of the Henry Kellie family in tiny Sutherland, Nebraska. Massive medi... Lees meer

As a Farm Woman Thinks

Nellie Witt Spikes

• Hardcover | Engels | Plains Histories
• In twenty-five years of syndicated columns in small-town Texas newspapers between 1930 and 1960, Nellie Witt Spikes described her life on the High Pla... Lees meer

The Notorious Dr. Flippin

Jamie Q Tallman

• Hardcover | Engels | Plains Histories
• In 1910 a central Nebraska newspaper, the Aurora Sun, printed an editorial condemning a physician it dubbed "the notorious Dr. Flippin." Dr. Charles F... Lees meer

I Do Not Apologize for the Length of This Letter

• Hardcover | Engels | Plains Histories
• Now it is time for you to read the letters of Mari Sandoz. If it has been a clear summer day and it is near sundown, take this book and a cool drink o... Lees meer

Flood on the Tracks

Todd M Kerstetter

• Hardcover | Engels | Plains Histories
• The Elkhorn River originates in north-central Nebraska and empties into the Platte River just west of Omaha. One of the first written records of the E... Lees meer

From Syria to Seminole

Ed Aryain

• Hardcover | Engels | Plains Histories
• In August of 1897, in the small village of Henna, Syria, eighteen miles from Damascus, Mohammed (Ed) Aryain was born. As far back as he could remember... Lees meer

Where the West Begins

Glen Sample Ely

• Paperback | Engels | Plains Histories
• Unsure which of its legacies are true and which to embrace, Texas grapples with an identity crisis. One camp insists that the state's roots in slavery... Lees meer

Route 66

Markku Henriksson

• Hardcover | Engels | Plains Histories
• When Markku Henriksson was growing up in Finland, the song "(Get Your Kicks on) Route 66" was one of only two he could recognize--in English or Finnis... Lees meer