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12/06/2024

JOURNEY TO FREEDOM by Gail Shaffer Blankenau provides the first detailed history of Black enslavement in Nebraska Territory and the escape of two enslaved Black women—Celia and Eliza Grayson—from Nebraska City in 1858, which prompted nationwide debates about whether slavery could exist in the West and whether popular sovereignty truly worked.

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12/04/2024

Set against the farm crisis of the 1980s, MARY'S PLACE explores Barrett family's lives as they face the multiple calamities imposed by overproduction, debt, falling commodity prices, bank restructuring, and family dysfunction.

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11/29/2024

Winner of the National Outdoor Book Award in Outdoor Literature, ALMOST SOMEWHERE by Suzanne Roberts, is a month-long backcountry trip on the John Muir Trail that's part memoir, part nature writing, and part travelogue.

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11/25/2024

In this biography, Gary C. Anderson profiles Sitting Bull, a military and spiritual leader of the Lakota people who remained a staunch defender of his nation and way of life until his untimely death.

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11/22/2024

"FIELD GUIDE TO A HYBRID LANDSCAPE truly is a work of art. If you have any interest in the Great Plains region, you will want to spend some time exploring this book," writes Nathan Eidem, for Nebraska State Historical Society's Nebraska History Magazine.

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11/20/2024

From the Desk of Leslie Patten: Searching for 'One-Eye'

, Leslie Patten describes the memorable end of her four-year study of mountain lions, when the most discernable cat of her research, One-Eye, goes missing.

Leslie Patten has worked as a horticulturist, habitat specialist, and landscape designer. After moving to Wyoming, she has volunteered at the Buffalo Bill Museum of the West—preparing bird and…

11/18/2024

Alan E. Grey weaves a historically accurate biography full of colorful stories gleaned from careful research, telling a fascinating tale and offering the reader a thorough history of Chief Joseph and the Nez Perce war.

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11/15/2024

Gail Shaffer Blankenau's JOURNEY TO FREEDOM "is eminently readable, but also thoroughly researched. It can be appreciated by general-interest readers who want to know more about early-day Nebraska and Underground Railroad history," writes the Nebraska History Magazine (Nebraska State Historical Society).

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11/12/2024

This is the life story of Katie Gale, a bold and courageous Native American woman in the Puget Sound community of Oyster Bay in Washington during the late nineteenth century.

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11/11/2024

"A high-quality visual representation of the capitol's artwork," writes David L. Bristow for the Nebraska History Magazine (Nebraska State Historical Society).

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11/07/2024

Some photos from Sid Sibo's author event in Helena at Montana Book Company. Thanks to all who showed up!

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11/05/2024

THE SOUL OF THE INDIAN is Charles A. Eastman’s exploration and documentation of religion as he experienced it during the late 19th century.

A Dakota physician and writer who sought to bring understanding between Native and non-Native Americans, Eastman (1858–1939) became one of the best-known Native Americans of his time and a significant intellectual figure whose clarity of vision endures today.

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11/05/2024

Tomorrow, THE NEBRASKA SANDHILLS contributors Kim Hachiya, Sarah Sortum, Ted LaGrange, and Sheri Fitz will discuss the Sandhills' unique ecosystem and history.

The talk will be held in the UNL Center for Great Plains Studies from 5:30-6:30 pm CT.
THE NEBRASKA SANDHILLS was published with support from the Nebraska Institute of Agriculture and Natural Resources.

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10/30/2024

THE DREAMCATCHER IN THE WRY, Tiffany Midge's hilarious and biting collection of essays written during the COVID-19 pandemic, brims with satiric insight from a Native American perspective.

Turning over the colonizer’s society and culture for some good old Native American roasting, Midge informs as she entertains, gleaning wisdom from the incongruities of daily life with a much-needed dose of Indigenous common sense.

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10/29/2024

"Rooted in the intimate experiences of Sonja Trom Eayrs’s farming family, DODGE COUNTY, INC. is a powerful manifesto against the excesses of factory farming," writes Foreword Reviews.

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Dodge County, Inc.: The devastation wrought upon US farming communities is tracked in Sonja Trom Eayrs’s courageous book "Dodge County, Inc.", in which the family farm that Eayrs grew up on becomes a microcosmic example of the ills afflicting thousands of rural...

10/28/2024

Robin Foster's 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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10/25/2024

FIELD GUIDE TO A HYBRID LANDSCAPE collects Dana Fritz’s photographs of Nebraska’s hand-planted forest, making visible the forces of sand, wind, water, planting, thinning, sowing, and burning that shape this unique landscape.

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10/24/2024

The stories in HUSH OF THE LAND by Smoke Elser and Eva-Maria Maggi "will warm your heart, make you think and remind you of every first step you took on a good trail," writes Roundup Magazine.

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