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Books...new selections
Ladder of Rivers - the story of I.P. Olive
by Harry E. Chrisman
$21.95 plus $1.54 tax and $3.50 shipping
We Pointed Them North
by E.C. Abbott & Helenea Huntingon Smith $13.95
The story of a wild and happy cowboy who knew 'em all: the high rollers, the Cheyenne and Sioux, the Olives, the cussin' and the
cattle. Born in England, lived in Nebraska, he traveled the cattle drives in the great days of the 1870s and 1880s.
The Cattlemen
by Mari Sandoz $17.95
The cowboy is not the romanticized version, but the telling of the history of cattle, settlement, and industry as experienced by noted author, Mari Sandoz. The
story encompases the vast changes of early times to what defines the prairie today.
To Bucktail and Back...A Million
Miles of Memories
by Tom Allan $19.95
A humorous and heartfelt look at Tom Allan's 61-year journalism career. It is a behind the scenes account of his days touring up to
50,000 miles a year across the width and breadth of Nebraska in his Omaha World Herald fleet vehicle #18. Experiencing his stories of Husker lore, inspirational human interest and Nebraska
treasures.
On the Trail of the Pony Express
by Jerry Ellis $17.95
Cather's Kitchens, Foodways in
Literature and Life
by Roger and Linda Welsch $14.95
Bicentennial Edition: Lewis and Clark
Among the Indians
by James Ronda $17.95
Buffalo Dust
by Richard Zwick
A Nebraska farm boy from the prairie hills of the Buffalo, Nebraska community, Zwick's snippets of conversations he overheard as a child and other growing-up memories
compiled in verse and photo. Paperback $12.50
Once Upon a Town
by Bob Greene
A poignant and heartwarming eyewitness history of the unique North Platte Canteen - the people from the Canteen, the people who came to help run it, and the people who ran
inside to savor the kindness & companionship on their way to war. Hardback $24.95
When I was a Young Man
by Bob Kerrey
This author's memoir is the story of his journey from America's heartland to a fateful coming-of-age in the cauldron of the Vietnam War. Hardback $26.00
The Lay of the Land: A View From the
Prairie
by Brent Olsen
Heartwarming and funny. A farmer's view of life in the rural Midwest. A view of family, friends and about what really matters in life. You'll laugh and
cry and want more. 172 pages. $11.95
Ham, Eggs and Corn Cake
by Erastus F. Beadle
Three years after the Kansas-Nebraska Act, Beadle left his home in New York state and set out for the territories. His diary is as entertaing as it is informative. A
living, intimate chapter of American history. $12.95
Wigwam Evenings
by Charles Eastman
A mixed-blood Sioux, Eastman was a physician at the Pine Ridge Agency during the Wounded Knee Massacre. He retells Sioux folk tales in this work. 253 pages $12.95
Holding Stone Hands
by Alan Boyle
The author travels and traces the 1878 exodus of the Cheyenne from the Oklahoma reservation to the attempt to return to their Montana homeland. He is accompanied by today's
descendants of the surviving Cheyenne. 347 pages $16.00
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