Bison Books

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.

01/14/2025

"These stories are an invitation to join the celebration, to experience the place, to become a reflective and appreciative part of the story of these lands," writes Charles Hayes for the International Journal of Wilderness.

Hush of the Land tells the captivating story of Arnold "Smoke" Elser’s early days as a packer in the Bob Marshall Wilderness and Bitterroot Mountains.

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01/13/2025

"Sonja Trom Eayrs, Author deftly weaves the big picture trends that have...caused us to lose 70% of this country's hog farmers since 1970 with her own story," writes Brian DeVore for the Land Stewardship Project.

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01/10/2025

"THE BOY WHO PROMISED ME HORSES is a testament to the power of friendship and the ability of a chance encounter to change a life forever," writes Marc Beaudin for Big Sky Journal.

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01/07/2025

Sid Sibo joins the Animal Rescue Podcast to discuss to discuss THE SCENT OF DISTANT FAMILY. Listen here: https://bit.ly/4aaKl9N

Set against the backdrop of a remote location in the throes of rapid development, THE SCENT OF DISTANT FAMILY is a contemporary novel that expands, even across geologic time, our sense of who we choose to consider family.

Podcast Episode · The Animal Rescue Podcast: what you always wanted to know but didn’t know who to ask · 12/02/2024 · 26m

01/06/2025

Excerpt: BLACK ROBES ENTER COYOTE'S WORLD by Sally Thompson

Thompson brings readers into the heart of the Salish homeland through the words of missionaries and through the lives and stories of the Salish people in the nineteenth century.

Sally Thompson is an anthropologist and cultural heritage consultant. She formerly served as founder and director of the Regional Learning Project and as Native American Graves Protection and Repat…

01/03/2025

"Like many who take on outdoor challenges, Andrea Lani Author is searching for something and hoping to learn something about herself. . . . UPHILL BOTH WAUYS [is] a richly told tale about the Colorado Trail and Colorado," writes Deb Accord for Rocky Mountain Reader.

Welcome to Rocky Mountain Reader! We’re here because we value books and authors and the freedom to exchange ideas and explore new worlds through reading. We’re here to highlight the vast and varied landscape of literary arts in our home state of Colorado.

01/01/2025

"The story of who pays the real price for our tasty breakfast sausage and picnic pork ribs is told by Sonja Trom Eayrs, Author in DODGE COUNTY, INC.," writes Matt L. Barron for Barn Raiser.

Sonja Trom Eayrs tells the story of who pays the real price for the corporate takeover of rural America in a memoir about her family’s farm.

12/27/2024

Sonja Trom Eayrs, Author of DODGE COUNTY, INCORPORATED speaks with Star Tribune agriculture reporter Christopher Vondracek about the dangers of corporate factory farming.

When corporate farms swallow up family farms, it's community and compassion that are lost, says attorney/farmer Sonja Trom Eayrs in her new book "Dodge County, Incorporated."

12/27/2024

In BLACK ROBES ENTER COYOTE'S WORLD, Sally Thompson brings readers into the heart of the Salish homeland, not only through the words of missionaries and other European observers, but through the lives, stories, and worldview of the Salish people

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12/25/2024

In THE BOY WHO PROMISED ME HORSES, teacher David Joseph Charpentier details the joys, dangers, and complexities of life on the Northern Cheyenne Reservation in this thoughtful tribute to one of his students.

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12/20/2024

BLACK ELK SPEAKS is the story of the Oglala Lakota visionary and healer Nicholas Black Elk (1863–1950) and his people during momentous twilight years of the nineteenth century as written by John G. Neihardt.

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12/18/2024

Robert Aquinas McNally's book, 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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12/13/2024

Tiffany Midge’s hilarious and biting collection THE DREAMCATCHER IN THE WRY entertains while it informs, gleaning wisdom from the incongruities of everyday life and turning over the colonizer’s society and culture for some good old Native American roasting.

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12/11/2024

THINK OF HORSES by Mary Clearman Blew is about a romance novelist returning to Montana and her family’s homestead to restart a life among neighbors who like to fire automatic weapons, a son who hates her, and his father who may hate her even more.

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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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