The Broidered Garment: The Love Story of Mona Martinsen and John
G. Neihardt, by Hilda Martinsen
Neihardt.
$29.95/$27.65 members (cloth)
A richly detailed story of how the sculptor
and the poet fell in love, married, and of their life together.
Encyclopedia of the Great Plains Indians, edited by David J. Wishart.
$24.95/$22.45 members (paper)
Focusing on the peoples, places, and events
that have shaped the lives of the Great Plains Indians. Includes
wars, treaties, and traditions, as well as contemporary topics.
Voices of the American West, Volume 1: The Indian Interviews
of Eli S. Ricker, 1903-1919,
by Eli S. Ricker, edited and with an introduction by Richard
E. Jensen.
$55/$49.50 members (cloth)
Indian eyewitnesses to the death of Crazy
Horse, the Battle of the Little Bighorn, and the Wounded Knee
Massacre tell their stories of these and many related episodes
in interviews recorded by a Chadron, Nebraska, judge and newspaperman.
The Ricker interviews are preserved in the Nebraska State Historical
Society Archives.
Voices of the American West, Volume 2: The Settler and Soldier
Interviews of Eli S. Ricker, 1903-1919,
by Eli S. Ricker, edited by Richard E. Jensen.
$55/$49.50 members (cloth)
White participants in the occupation and
settlement of the American West offer commentary on various topics,
including warfare, government Indian policy, reservation life,
and cattle drives as recorded by Ricker in the early twentieth
century.
Indian War Veterans: Memories of Army Life and Campaigns in the
West, 1864-1898, by Jerome
A. Greene.
$45/$40.50 members (cloth)
A collection of reminiscences about the
frontier army in the West, drawn from various published sources.
It includes recollections of the Battle of the Little Bighorn,
the Fetterman fight, the Yellowstone Expedition, and more.
The Last Prairie: A Sandhills Journal,
by Stephen R. Jones.
$15.95/$14.35 members (paper)
A historical canvas of dancing prairie
chickens, courting fireflies, and migratory sandhill cranes,
along with vivid accounts of homesteading, range wars, and storms,
provides a rare perspective.
Nebraska 1875: Its Advantages, Resources,
and Drawbacks, by Edwin A.
Curley, introduction by Richard Edwards.
$27.95/$25.15 members (paper)
A London journalist evaluates Nebraska
for potential immigrants and provides a fascinating snapshot
of the climate, the land, and each county at a time when settlement
opportunities were at their peak.
One House: The Unicameral's Progressive Vision for Nebraska, by Charlyne Berens.
$25.95/$23.35 members (paper)
A look at Senator George W. Norris's arguments
for a unicameral legislature and how Nebraska's unicameral, unique
in American democracy, has performed since its inception in 1937.
Slipping Backward: A History of the Nebraska Supreme Court, by James W. Hewitt.
$45/$40.50 members (cloth)
The first history of the Nebraska Supreme
Court, as well as the first book-length study of a Great Plains
supreme court. Autographed copies available.
Iktomi and the Ducks & Other Sioux Stories, retold by Zitkala-Sa, foreword by Agnes M. Picotte
and introduction by P. Jane Hafen.
$11.95/$10.75 members (paper)
A collection of Native stories, as told
for generations.
American Indians in U.S. History, by
Roger L. Nichols.
$17.95/$16.15 members (paper)
A brief survey for students and general
readers that charts the histories of tribes throughout the United
States.
An Unspeakable Sadness: The Dispossession of the Nebraska Indians, by David J. Wishart.
$23.95/$21.55 members (paper)
The dispossession of Indians, their loss
of lands and traditional lifestyles during the nineteenth century
in what is now Nebraska.
Autobiography
of Red Cloud: War Leader of the Oglalas, edited by R. Eli Paul.
$15.95/ $14.36 members (paper)
As Red Cloud told his story to a white
friend in the 1890s, this manuscript brings us closer than ever
before to understanding the life of the Lakota's greatest war
leader until the rise of Crazy Horse.
Becoming Brave: The Path to Native American Manhood, compiled by Laine Thom.
$18.95/$17.05 members (paper)
Photographic collection of objects that
were part of daily life for Native American men.
Blue Water Creek and the First Sioux
War, 1854-1856, by R. Eli Paul.
$34.95/$31.45 members (cloth)
A study of the significance in Lakota and
U.S. History of the army's punitive campaign and defeat of the
Brulés at Blue Water Creek in 1855.
Building for the Ages: Omaha's Architectural Landmarks, by Kristine Gerber and Jeffrey S. Spencer.
$39.95/$35.95 members (cloth)
Focuses on notable historic structures
in Omaha, as well as some of the most significant buildings the
city has lost.
The Cellars of Time: Paleontology and Archeology in Nebraska
$12.95/ $11.65 members (paper)
now $5.00
Many full-color photos, maps, and other illustrations.
Crazy Horse: A Lakota Life, by Kingsley M. Bray.
$34.95/$31.45 members (cloth)
This new biography of the famed Lakota
leader is based on a broad range of archival sources (many from
the Nebraska State Historical Society), and interviews with his
contemporaries and modern Lakotas. It reveals the modest, reflective
man that lay beneath his reputation as a war leader and offers
a fuller understanding of Crazy Horse's place in American Indian
and U. S. history.
The 1862 Plot to Kidnap Jefferson Davis, by Victor Vifquain, edited by Jeffrey H. Smith
and Phillip Thomas Tucker.
$22/$19.80 members (paper)
Victor Vifquain's memoir, held for nearly
a century in the Nebraska State Historical Society Archives.
Encyclopedia of the Great Plains, edited by David J. Wishart.
$75/$67.50 members (cloth)
Organized thematically and alphabetically
with 1,316 entries of varying length contributed by approximately
one thousand scholars.
Fighting Liberal, The Autobiography of George W. Norris, foreword by Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.,
$14.95/ $13.45 members (paper)
The story of Nebraska Senator George W. Norris.
From Fort Laramie to Wounded Knee: In the West
That Was,
by Charles W. Allen, edited by Richard E. Jensen
$22.00/ $19.80 members (paper)
The varied and colorful career of Charles Wesley Allen (1851-1942)
took him throughout the northern Plains during an exceptionally
turbulent era in its history.
The Frontier Army in the Settlement of the West, by Michael L. Tate
$34.95/ $31.45 members (cloth)
Tate focuses on the army's role in conducting explorations, compiling
scientific and artistic records, building roads, aiding overland
travelers, and improving river transportation.
The Fur Trade of the American West, 1807-1840, by David J. Wishart.
$21.95/$19.75 members (paper)
A geographical synthesis focusing on interrelationships
between the biological, physical, and cultural environments of
the fur trade.
Ghost Railroads of Nebraska - A Pictorial, by Michael M. Bartels and James J. Reisdorff
$24.95/ $22.45 members (paper)
With photos, text, and maps this book guides the reader to abandoned
rail lines.
A Good Walk Around the Boundary: Archeological Inventory of the
Dyck and Other Properties Adjacent to the Little Bighorn Battlefield
National Monument, by Douglas D. Scott and Peter Bleed.
$10/$9 members (paper), reprinted 2006
The Great Platte River Road, by Merrill J. Mattes
Out of Print
The basic primer of the overland trails from the Missouri River
to Fort Laramie during the 1840s to the 1860s.
Ham, Eggs, & Corn Cake: A Nebraska
Territory Diary, Erastus F. Beadle,
introduction by Ronald C. Naugle.
$12.95/$11.65 members (paper)
In 1857 Erastus F. Beadle of New York came
west to see about some land. His diary records his impressions
of that time.
Happy
as a Big Sunflower: Adventures in the West, 1876-1880, by Rolf Johnson, edited by Richard E. Jensen
$15/ $13.50 members (paper)
Rolf Johnson's diaries of settlement in
Phelps County and travels in the West offer an entertaining account
of Nebraska pioneer life.
History of Nebraska (3rd ed., 1997), by James C. Olson and Ronald C.
Naugle
$20/ $18 members (paper)
Long the standard Nebraska history for the general reader. The
book traces Nebraska development from the prehistoric past through
the 1990s. Topics include the Native American experience, circumstances
and accomplishments of the state's women and minorities, as well
as an analysis of the state's dramatic changes in the last thirty
years.
Lynchings, Legends, & Lawlessness: The Story of Historical
Sidney, Nebraska, by Loren Avey.
$45/$40.50 members (cloth)
Not your normal history text, this book
is a "one-of-a-kind," detailed history centering on
the mysteries and legends of people buried at Sidney's "Boot
Hill" Cemetery.
Marching with the First Nebraska: A Civil War Diary, by August Scherneckau,
edited by James E. Potter and Edith Robbins, translated by Edith
Robbins.
$34.95/$31.45 members (cloth)
The most important first-person account
by a Nebraska soldier that has yet come to light, offering the
insights of a German immigrant who served with the First Nebraska
regiment from 1862 to 1865 in Missouri, Arkansas, and Nebraska's
Platte River Valley.
Mystic Horse, by Paul Goble.
$16.99/$15.29 members (cloth)
A children's book based on an old Pawnee
story.
The Nature of Nebraska: Ecology and Biodiversity, by Paul A. Johnsgard
$17.95/ $16.15 members (paper)
Historical geology, biology, botany, and ecology
Nebraska: An Illustrated History,
by Frederick C. Luebke
$50/ $45 members (cloth)
$24.95/ $22.45 members (paper)
Brief essays and photographs telling Nebraska's fascinating history.
Nebraska Courthouses: Contention, Compromise, and Community, by Oliver B. Pollak
$19.99/ $17.99 members (paper)
Photographs, descriptions, and reviews of the political and architectural
evolution of Nebraska's courthouses.
Nebraska Folklore, by Louise Pound, introduction by Roger Welsch.
$14.95/$13.45 members (paper), new edition, 2006
Louise Pound was educated and spent fifty
years teaching at the University of Nebraska in Lincoln, where
she was regarded as one of the university's ranking scholars.
The book presents an interesting look at traditions from Nebraska's
past.
Nebraska Impressions, photography by Steve Mulligan and Cheryl R. Richter.
$9.95/$8.95 members (paper)
Showcases the natural history and culture
of Nebraska, with photographs of the tallgrass prairie, rivers,
historic sites, and cultural events.
The
Nebraska Indian Wars Reader, 1865-1877, edited by R. Eli Paul
$19.95/ $17.95 members (paper)
An anthology of eyewitness accounts, this
book provides the first comprehensive look at the Indian wars
in this state.
Nebraska Quilts and Quiltmakers,
edited by Patricia Cox Crews and Ronald C. Naugle
$35/ $31.50 members (paper)
Nebraska: Simply Beautiful, photography and text by Mike Whye.
$29.95/$26.95 members (cloth)
A collection of scenic photographs.
Neligh Mill Museum: A Self Guided Tour,
by Kent E. Martin
$3.00/ $2.70 members (paper)
The only 19th century flour mill in the state with all of its
original equipment intact.
No One Ever Asked Me: The World War II Memoirs of an Omaha Indian
Soldier, by
Hollis D. Stabler, edited by Victoria Smith.
$24.95/$22.45 members (cloth)
Stabler's story of life as a soldier, going
to war, and returing to the American plains.
Perkey's Nebraska Place Names (4th ed., 2003),
by Elton A. Perkey
$13.95/ $12.56 members (paper)
Features towns, post offices, and "ghost towns" of
Nebraska, organized by county.
Rainmakers: A Photographic Story of Center Pivots, by the Groundwater
Foundation, foreword by Congressman Tom Osborne.
$34.95/$31.45 members (cloth)
Features instructive and beautiful photographs
that provide an understanding and appreciation of the history
and complexity of center pivot irrigation.
Red Cloud: Photographs of a Lakota Chief, by Frank H. Goodyear III.
$35/$31.50 members (cloth)
Photographs trace the career of the famous
Lakota leader, with historical and biographical commentary.
The Regulars: The American Army, 1898-1941, by Edward M. Coffman.
$35/$31.50 members (cloth)
A look at garrison life, race relations,
education, and training as America's frontier army was transformed
into a modern global force.
Sharpie: The Life Story of Evelyn Sharp, Nebraska's Aviatrix, by Diane Ruth Armour Bartels
$14.95/ $13.45 members (paper)
Biography of the young aviatrix, who died ferrying fighter planes
for the military during World War II.
Solomon D. Butcher: Photographing the American
Dream,
by John E. Carter
$25.00/ $22.50 members (cloth)
Nebraska's sod house photographer captured Great Plains settlers
and their lives.
Washita: The U.S. Army and the Southern Cheyennes, 1867-1869, by Jerome A. Greene.
$29.95/$26.95 members (cloth)
Both Indian and U.S. Army sources are used
to examine George Armstrong Custer's victorious attack on Black
Kettle's village and its implications.
Wheel
Boats on the Missouri: The Journals and Documents of the
Atkinson-O'Fallon Expedition, 1824-26, edited and with an introduction by Richard E.
Jensen and James S. Hutchins
$39.95/ $35.95 members (cloth)
The journals cover navigation problems, Indian cultures, and
army life during this important journey to council with the Indians
along the Upper Missouri River.
Wildflowers, Grasses, & Other Plants of the Northern Plains
and Black Hills, by Theodore Van
Bruggen.
$6.95/$6.25 members (paper)
Grasses and flowers of this region are
identified with photographs and descriptions.
