With our new Virtually Bison Books tours, you can explore Western Literature from your home or on the road. Backcountry Bisons is the newest tour featuring an array of memoirs that bring the reader into the Western environments that the authors explored, hiked, or … Continue reading Backcountry Bisons: Julie Riddle, The Solace of Stones
With our new Virtually Bison Books tours, you can explore Western Literature from your home or on the road. Backcountry Bisons is the newest tour featuring an array of memoirs that bring the reader into the Western environments that the authors explored, hiked, or … Continue reading Backcountry Bisons: Patrick Dobson, Canoeing the Great Plains
The following books will be available this Fall from Bison Books—the herd grows larger! The Last Sovereigns: Sitting Bull and the Resistance of the Free Lakotas by Robert M. Utley The Heart of California: Exploring the San Joaquin Valley by … Continue reading Coming Soon from Bison Books
UNP Staff members are always reading new books, both within our list and outside of what we publish. Here are some of the titles where our noses have been buried. The Resisters by Gish Jen and The Ten Thousand Doors of January by … Continue reading What We’re Reading
Jackson Adams and Anna Weir are publicists at UNP. Today they share their thoughts about a couple upcoming titles they’re particularly excited about as readers. The books in this discussion will be published in June. Jackson Adams: I know it’s easy to feel exhausted by … Continue reading Publicist Picks: Western Americana, a Publishing Icon, and Other June Books
Launched in 1961 as UNP’s first trade imprint, Bison Books reflects the Press’s commitment to general-interest books that appeal to the educated reader. Originally published as inexpensive paperbacks, Bisons (as they became known) quickly caught on. Notable Bison Books authors … Continue reading News from Bison Books
Launched in 1961 as UNP’s first trade imprint, Bison Books reflects the Press’s commitment to general-interest books that appeal to the educated reader. Originally published as inexpensive paperbacks, Bisons (as they became known) quickly caught on, publishing well-known authors from … Continue reading The Bison Classic Editions
Linda M. Waggoner is an independent scholar specializing in Ho-Chunk (Winnebago) history and a Native genealogy and research consultant for tribes and museums. She is the author of Fire Light: The Life of Angel De Cora, Winnebago Artist and Starring … Continue reading From the Desk of Linda M. Waggoner: The Year of the Basket Maker
Marilyn Irvin Holt is an independent historian and writer. She is the author of several books, including Linoleum, Better Babies, and the Modern Farm Woman, 1890–1930 (Nebraska, 2006), The Orphan Trains: Placing Out in America (Nebraska, 1992), and her latest, Nebraska during the New Deal: The … Continue reading From the Desk of Marilyn Irvin Holt: Writers are People Too
The following is an excerpt from Great Plains Birds by Larkin Powell (November 2019), the newest addition of the series, Discover the Great Plains. Chapter 1 The Birds: Symbols of the Great Plains You may consider it an unfortunate fact that … Continue reading Excerpt: Great Plains Birds
