Bison Books

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, […]

12/09/2025

"MY GRANDFATHER'S ALTAR is an oral history of the religious practices of the Lakota over five generations . . . Anyone with an interest in religion or Native American history will enjoy this read," writes Kansas History.

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12/08/2025

Excerpt: THE LAST COWS by Kathryn Wilder

Told from the perspective of a mother, environmentalist, cowboy, and rancher, this work of literary nonfiction conveys the joys, challenges, heartbreaks, and qualms of contemporary ranching in the American West.

Kathryn Wilder is a writer and rancher in Dolores and Disappointment Valley, Colorado. She is the winner of a 2025 Western Heritage Award and the author of Desert Chrome: Water, a Woman, and Wild H…

12/04/2025

Robert Aquinas McNally joins the Journeys of Discovery with Tom Wilmer to discuss CAST OUT OF EDEN, his new biography of John Muir.

Author Robert Aquinas McNalley shares tales of John Muir and his racist attitudes in his new book, Cast out of Eden

12/03/2025

2022 Silver Midwest Book Award Winner, GO WEST, YOUNG MAN recounts the author’s effort to teach his son the difficult realities of our nation’s founding while also reaffirming his faith in America today.

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12/02/2025

"Wilder beautifully and fearlessly shares her story with readers," writes Leslie Doran for the The Durango Herald.

Wow! Just Wow. Those words written in The Durango Herald almost 4½ years ago about Kathryn Wilder’s “Desert Chrome,” are still appropriate for this year’s publication of “The Last Cows: On Ranching, W...