Bison Books

11/03/2025

"The memoir is well composed and flows through a chronicle of the Cody's years together . . .
This volume is highly recommended," writes Dr. Patricia Ann Owens for History Nebraska.

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10/31/2025

CAST OUT OF EDEN explores John Muir’s role in the dispossession of Native Americans from U.S. wild lands and points a way toward reconciliation.

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10/29/2025

B.J. Hollars and his son set out on a 2,500-mile road trip retracing the Oregon Trail. Their mission: to rediscover America, and Americans, along the way. 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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10/29/2025

"Each story in this complex novel is a mindfully wrought world of the human condition," writes Marc Beaudin of WHERE BLACKBIRDS FLY by Shann Ray for Big Sky Journal. https://bit.ly/4htcVqA

10/27/2025

"Lamont crafts an eminently readable, enjoyably dramatic, and deeply informative tale not only of Bower’s life, but of the culture, history, and creative developments of her times," writes Marc Beaudin of THE BOWER ATMOSPHERE by Victoria Lamont for Big Sky Journal.

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10/27/2025

Mike Stark’s STARLINGS is a first-of-its-kind history of starlings in America, a love-hate story at the intersection of human folly, ornithology, and one bird’s will to endure.

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10/27/2025

“We all have a capacity for great failure and we also all have a capacity for great repair and restoration,” says Shann Ray, author of WHERE BLACKBIRDS FLY, in an interview with The Spokesman-Review.

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10/24/2025

LIVING WEST AS FEMINISTS 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 capitalist culture.

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10/24/2025

"STARLINGS is both highly readable and deeply entertaining, tracing how starlings went from a solution to a problem. Stark’s book dips and weaves like a starling murmuration from theme to theme," writes Catherine McNeur in H-Net Reviews. https://bit.ly/4oe8L8g

10/23/2025

Happy first Book Birthday to TWISTING IN AIR (Bison Books, 2024) by Carol Bradley!

TWISTING IN AIR brings to life the era when an extraordinary group of horses learned to fall on cue to make Western movies seem more realistic. https://wp.me/p4J9AE-hXB

Book Birthdays celebrate one year of a book’s life in social media posts, reviews, and more. This month we’re saying Happy First Book Birthday to Twisting in Air: The Sensational Rise of a Hollywoo…

10/22/2025

Although William and Louisa’s real-life marriage was marred by some high-profile scandals, MEMORIES OF BUFFALO BILL offers an idealized account of William F. Cody's life from the perspective of his wife, Louisa.

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10/22/2025

"For me, stories must always be community experiences, because the isolated individual feels just immensely false, even if that might seem easier to write," shares sid sibo, author of THE SCENT OF DISTANT FAMILY, in an interview with Foreword Reviews.

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Executive Editor Matt Sutherland Interviews sid sibo, Author of The Scent of Distant Family / Pockets of the northwestern United States have long experienced infiltrations of wealthy city folk seeking solitude, unpressured trout rivers, mountain...