Bison Books

03/06/2025

GRIT AND GHOSTS tells the stories of eight women from the American West who speak to a shared human experience of struggle and the grit required to move through it.

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03/05/2025

Has there ever been a more hated bird than the European starling? Let loose in New York City's Central Park by a misguided aristocrat, the starlings were supposed to help curb insect outbreaks and add to the tuneful choir of other songbirds. Rather than staying put, the dark and speckled starlings marched across the continent like a conquering army.

Mike Stark's STARLINGS is an oddball, love-hate story at the intersection of human folly, ornithology, and one bird's tenacious will to endure.

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03/04/2025

In JOURNEY TO FREEDOM, Gail Shaffer Blankenau "provides a framework to bring these previously untold stories back into relief and to restore them to a place of historical importance" writes the Journal of Southern History.

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02/28/2025

"THE DAKOTA WAY OF LIFE, like much of Ella Deloria’s work, will be a cornerstone of the ever-evolving literary canon of Oceti Sakowin scholarship and the dynamic legacy of the Deloria family," writes Western Historical Quarterly.

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02/25/2025

"Readers interested in the details and the larger canvas of Nebraska history, and in the history of small cities in the Midwest, will enjoy and value [PORTRAIT OF A CITY]," writes the Indiana Magazine of History.

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Once just a scattering of houses on the open prairie, by the late nineteenth century the city of Lincoln, Nebraska, had evolved into a modern metropolis. The...

02/24/2025

Sonja Trom Eayrs, Author of DODGE COUNTY, INCORPORATED, was featured in an atricle from Vox, exploring how Big Meat silences its critics in agricultural country.

How Big Meat silences its critics.

02/18/2025

GALLOPING GOURMET by Steve Friesen was featured in "Eating Wyoming: Buffalo Bill Was The World’s Original Galloping Gourmet," from Cowboy State Daily.

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“The Galloping Gourmet” on PBS had nothing on Buffalo Bill Cody, who was the original foodie of the West. He brought Mexican food to New York, popcorn to…

02/17/2025

Smoke Elser and Eva-Maria Maggi's HUSH OF THE LAND "is a heartwarming collection, a tribute to both the landscape and those who traveled with Elser," writes Maggie Doherty for the Flathead Beacon.

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In 1955 a young man, fresh out of high school, left his home in Ohio and travelled west to Missoula with a tenuous dream of working in the mountains. With little money to his name and no experience riding horses or packing mules Arnold “Smoke” Elser would quickly learn the ropes of forestry and ...

02/14/2025

In "Appreciating the hardship of homesteaders," Beulah Beacon interviews author Richard Edwards and explores how his book pays tribute to Great Plains homesteaders.

Richard Edwards may not have known his paternal and maternal grandparents as well as he wanted, but, after years of study and research, he certainly knows the kind of lives they lived as Great Plains homesteaders. Edwards, a native of Stanley, but now enjoying retirement in Denver, Colo., recently p...

02/12/2025

FORTS OF THE NORTHERN PLAINS by Jeff Barnes "is a sturdy, beautifully illustrated book, including maps and bibliography, that will be indispensable to anyone with an interest in the military history of the Northern Plains."—Journal of America's Military Past.

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As the first official symbols of U.S. government presence on the western frontier, the forts of the northern plains were both centers of commerce and sources...

02/07/2025

"Jeff Barnes has produced a comprehensive history guide," writes Nebraska History of FORTS OF THE NORTHERN PLAINS. "This is the premier book of its kind published to date."

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As the first official symbols of U.S. government presence on the western frontier, the forts of the northern plains were both centers of commerce and sources...

02/05/2025

Philip Burnham's "command of language (including some Lakota words) and ability to create a mood helps move the reader along. I highly recommend this book," writes Sandy Wounded Arrow for Nebraska History.

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In The Education of Clarence Three Stars Philip Burnham tells the life story of the remarkable Packs the Dog, a member of the Minneconjou Lakotas who was bor...

01/29/2025

"When my feet sunk deep into the wet ground far away from the hills where I was born, I knew my husband and I had found the right spot. Our horses had steadily climbed the steep mountain trail for 12 miles, weaving through sheer cliffs. Here, on top of the pass, the rock gently leveled out on a marshy 40-acre meadow — the perfect campsite at 6,700 feet." - Eva-Maria Maggi

In this article, Eva-Maria Maggi brings readers behind the scenes of HUSH OF THE LAND in Big Sky Journal.

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When my feet sunk deep into the wet ground far away from the hills where I was born, I knew my husband and I had found the right spot. Our horses had steadily climbed the steep mountain trail for 12 miles, weaving through sheer cliffs....

01/28/2025

Steele County Times features Sonja Trom Eayrs, Author and her book DODGE COUNTY, INCORPORATED, which explores the destruction of rural farming communities by Big Ag.

While Sonja Tr

01/27/2025

"A couple of weeks ago I described to Jon a DIY (Do It Yourself) workout that consists of bending down and flipping a big tire over. I’d been watching demos on TikTok, a social media platform aptly named for the reminder that one is wasting time—tick-tock, tick-tock—watching repetitive videos on social media."--Tiffany Midge, THE DREAMCATCHER IN THE WRY.

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Tiffany Midge is a citizen of the Standing Rock Sioux Nation and was raised by wolves in the Pacific Northwest. She is a columnist for High Country News and formerly Indian Country Today. Her work …

01/24/2025

sid sibo joined The Maine Review to discuss themes of "beinghood" in THE SCENT OF DISTANT FAMILY, sibo's writing process, and more.

  sid sibo recently sat down with our Associate Managing Editor, R.S. Saha, to talk about animals, the connectedness of characters and environment, and how a shift to a more environmental worldview impacts their work. sid’s debut novel The Scent of a Distant Family, published by the University of...

01/20/2025

Diane J. Purvis's THEY CAME BUT COULD NOT CONQUER "contributes a synthesis of existing interdisciplinary scholarship on Alaska and Alaskan history in service of a better understanding of environmental conflicts Alaskan Natives have faced," writes H-Environment.

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01/17/2025

"With biting humor, lightness, and discernment, Midge scrutinizes topics as serious as COVID-19 and cultural appropriation and as ordinary as office supplies and beets," writes Dana Isokawa of DREAMCATCHER IN THE WRY.

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The author of The Dreamcatcher in the Wry spotlights journals and platforms that have published her work and appreciate her wry sense of humor, including the Belladonna and Hunger Mountain.