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B3051 - 900 Miles from Nowhere - $29.95

Artist: Steven R. Kinsella
Description: Hardcover, 194 pages
Details: It was on the vast American prairie that people from around the world seized the opportunity for personal and economic freedom promised by free land. Putting hand to plow, these hardy settlers left an indelible thumbprint on American history and on the country’s character.

900 Miles from Nowhere: Voices from the Homestead Frontier is the heartfelt chronicle of the daily lives and personal struggles of Great Plains homesteaders, told in their own voices through many never-before-published letters, diaries, and photographs.
Dimensions: 10 1/4 in. x 8 in.




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B3021 - A Daughter of the Middle Border - $11.95

Artist: Hamlin Garland
Description: Softcover book, 405 pages
Details: Pulitizer Prize winning book about the lives of the women who settled their families in Dakota Territory
Dimensions: 5 1/4 in. x 8 1/4 in.




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B3065 - A Practical Guide to Prairie Reconstruction - $14.00

Artist: Carl Kurtz
Description: Soft cover book with 57 pages with many beautiful color photos throughout.
Details: This guide provides a formula for success for all but the most extreme conditions; it outlines procedures and problems involved in reconstructing tallgrass prairies in large fields as well as backyards. This is a wonderful book for anyone interested in preserving the prairie plants or just wanting to learn more about them.
Dimensions: 7 3/16 in X 10 3/16 in




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B3050 - A Prairie Kitchen - $14.95

Artist: Rae Katherine Eighmey
Description: Softcover, 178 pages
Details: Subtitled 'Recipes, Poems and Colorful Stories from the Prairie Farmer Magazine, 1841-1900' these gems have been adapted for modern cooking methods.
Dimensions: 10 in. x 7 in.




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B3030 - A Prairie Prayer - $11.95

Artist: Bruce Roseland
Description: Soft cover, 84 pages
Details: Roseland's second book of poetry contains poems rooted in the authors understanding of the prairies, its people, the land and the changes that it is undergoing. Given with honesty and directness, readers will appreciate these celebrations of the prairie. Illistrated by Marie Louise Tesch.
Dimensions: 8 1/2 in x 5 1/2 in




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B3024 - A Son of the Middle Border - $19.95

Artist: Hamlin Garland
Description: softcover, 363 pages
Details: This classic of American realism tells the true coming-of-age odyssey of a farm boy who—influenced by the rawness of a homesteaders’ life on prairie—would become a preeminent American writer of the early twentieth century. This definitive book placed Garland among such regionalist writers as Willa Cather, Sherwood Anderson, and Theodore Dreiser.
Dimensions: 5 1/2 in. x 8 1/2 in.




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B3045 - A South Dakota Guide - $24.95

Artist: Compiled by the Federal Writers Project
Description: Softcover, 446 pages
Details: A reprint from the classic WPA American Guide series. This edition features an introduction from the former director of the South Dakota Writer’s Project and a 1938 replica fold-out map.
Dimensions: 9 in. x 6 in.




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B3060 - Baum's Road to Oz; The Dakota Years - $20.00

Artist: Edited by Nancy Tystad Koupal
Description: Hard cover book with 182 pages and many photographs and illustrations.
Details: Baum's Road to Oz explores a little-known but influential period in the life of children's author L. Frank Baum, author of "The Wizard of Oz". In 1889 Baum lived in the Aberdeen, South Dakota in which he drew material from a rich lode of experiences for his stories.
Dimensions: 6 1/4 in X 9 1/4 in




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B3059 - Becoming Human - $19.95

Artist: Michael McEwen Randall
Description: Soft cover, 232 pages
Details: More than fifty essays and profiles of people and experiences uniquely link contemporary life to history, philosophy and faith.
Dimensions: 6 in. x 9 in.




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B3039 - Buffalo Bird Woman's Garden - $11.95

Artist: Gilbert Wilson
Description: Softcover, 129 pages
Details: A classic account of Hidatsa American Indian gardening techniques from the memories of Buffalo Bird Woman, born about 1839.
Dimensions: 9 in. x 6 in.




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B3052 - Calamity Jane of the Western Trails - $5.95

Artist: J. Leonard Jennewein
Description: Soft cover book, 48 pages with black & white photographs.
Details: Among the best biographies of that controversial frontier woman and one of the West's most interesting characters, Calamity Jane.
Dimensions: 9 in. x 6 in.




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B3026 - Calamity Jane: The Woman and the Legend - $29.95

Artist: James McLaird
Description: Hardcover, 378 pages
Details: Over 25 years of research for an in-depth study of the notorious western legend along with 16 photographs.
Dimensions: 10 1/4 in. x 7 1/4 in.




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B3055 - Cowboy Life: The Letters of George Philip - $25.95

Artist: George Philip, edited by Cathie Draine
Description: Hardcover book, 368 pages.
Details: In these candid letters, Philip's emphasizes the simple pleasures and hard work of cowboy life. He provides fascinating insights into the development of the West and of South Dakota.
Dimensions: 9 1/2 in. x 6 in.x




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B3008 - Dakota Cowboy; My Life in the Old Days - $16.95

Artist: Ike Blasingame
Description: Softcover, 317 pages, includes fold-out map
Details: Here is one of the most gripping Western tales you will read! Written with warm, human flavor and illustrated by the sketches of John Mariani, Dakota Cowboy tells of the author's life as a Matador ranch cowboy.
Dimensions: 8 in. x 5 1/4 in.




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B3056 - Dakota Flora - $29.95

Artist: David Ode
Description: Softcover book, 259 pages.
Details: Experience the seasons on the prairie through a blend of history, folklore, science and poetry in exploring the flora of the region. A visually stunning book that is perfect for both home and field.
Dimensions: 10 3/4 in. x 7 in.




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B3020 - Dakota Homesteader - $15.00

Artist: Lora Crouch
Description: Hardcover book, 61 pages, numbered edition to 1000
Details: The life of author Hamlin Garland and his time living in Dakota Territory.
Dimensions: 5 1/4 in x 7 3/4 in




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B3046 - Dakota Territory: 1861 - 1888 - $25.00

Artist: Howard Roberts Lamar
Description: Hard cover, 302 pages
Details: A history of the powerful politicians who carved a government out of the Dakotas and turned it into two states.
Dimensions: 5 1/2 in. x 8 1/2 in.




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B3049 - Depression: Minnesota in the Thirties - $7.50

Artist: D. Jerome Tweton
Description: Soft cover, 89 pages
Details: Experience the desperation and lawlessness of an era through photographs and history.
Dimensions: 11 in. x 8 1/2 in.




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B3061 - Forgotten Lives - $17.95

Artist: Betti Vanepps-Taylor
Description: Soft cover book with 287 pages and many historical photographs.
Details: Throughout South Dakota's history, African Americans have been vastly outnumbered by their white and American Indian neighbors. These stories and photographs bring to life a small but vital minority. Included are the lives of York, who accompanied Lewis and Clark, Oscar Micheaux, acclaimed filmmaker and many less-famous laborers, soldiers, seamstresses and others who helped make South Dakota a great state.
Dimensions: 5 3/4 in X 9 1/4 in




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B3027 - Fort Randall on the Missouri, 1856 - 1892 - $17.95

Artist: Jerome A. Greene
Description: Soft cover book, 256 pages including 29 pages of illustrations.
Details: The history of Fort Randall, Buffalo Soldiers, and Sitting Bull are all vividly depicted in this detailed account of the establishment of Fort Randall near the present-day towns of Lake Andes and Wager, SD.
Dimensions: 6 in x 9 1/2 in




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B3048 - From the Banat to North Dakota - $19.95

Artist: David Dreyer and Josette S. Hatter
Description: Soft cover, 231 pages
Details: A collection of personal histories written by and about the North Dakota Banaters. Archival data combined with their individual stories weave a poignant tale about ordinary people relying on their personal courage, community and cultural heritage, to succeed in North Dakota.
Dimensions: 6 in. x 9 in.




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B3019 - Frontier Children - $19.95

Artist: Linda Peavy & Ursula Smith
Description: Softcover, book, 164 pages
Details: Enriched by more than 200 vintage photographs, this book is a rich visual and literary montage of the faces and scenes of childhood in the nineteenth-century American West.
Dimensions: 10 3/4 in. x 8 1/4 in.




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B3017 - Gold Gals Guns Guts - $24.95

Artist: Bob Lee, Editor
Description: Softcover, 259 pages
Details: A detailed account of the rich history of the Black Hills, and the settlements of Deadwood, Lead and Spearfish in South Dakota, from the gold rush of 1876 to it's Centennial Celebration in 1976.
Dimensions: 10 in. x 8 1/2 in.




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B3007 - Gutzon Borglum; His Life and Work - $15.99

Artist: Robin Borglum Carter
Description: Softcover, 95 pages
Details: This remarkable account of the artist who carved the Shrine of Democracy, "Mount Rushmore" examines his work as a sculptor and his passion to complete Mount Rushmore amid funding issues.
Dimensions: 11 in. x 8 1/2 in.




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B3044 - Hidden Heritage: The Story of Paul LaRoche - $19.99

Artist: Barbara Marshak
Description: Softcover, 236 pages
Details: The riveting biography of an amazing Lakota musician who only discovered his Native American origin as an adult. Paul LaRoche has founded an entire identity and successful career as a musician partly as a result of finding and embracing his Lakota roots.
Dimensions: 6 in. x 9 in.




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B3003 - Hometown S.D. - $24.95

Artist: Greg Latza
Description: Soft cover book, 156 pages, autographed
Details: Photgraphy and stories of the small towns and people of South Dakota
Dimensions: 11 in. x 8 1/2 in.




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B3036 - How Indians Use Wild Plants - $7.95

Artist: Frances Densmore
Description: Softcover, 397 pages
Details: An extensive look at how nearly 200 plants were used by the Chippewas of Minnesota and Wisconsin, with an emphasis on wild plants and lesser-known uses.
Dimensions: 6 in. x 9 1/4 in.




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B3035 - Indian Sign Language - $4.95

Artist: William Tomkins
Description: Softcover, 108 pages
Details: Learn over 525 signs developed by the Sioux, Blackfoot, Cheyenne, Arapahoe and other tribes! Written instructions and diagrams show you how to make the words and construct sentences. Book also contains 290 pictographs of the Sioux and Ojibway tribes.
Dimensions: 6 in. x 9 in.




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B3033 - Indian Wars - $16.00

Artist: Robert Utley & Wilcomb Washburn
Description: Softcover, 317 pages
Details: This book recounts the violent conflicts between Native Americans and white settlers that lasted more than three hundred years, the effects of which still resonate today.
Dimensions: 5 1/2 in. x 8 1/4 in.




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B3013 - Land of the Burnt Thigh - $17.95

Artist: Edith Eudora Kohl, edited by Glenda Riley
Description: Soft cover book, 296 pages
Details: This tale of two sisters courageously homesteading on the prairie in 1907 provides a lively portrait of frontier life.
Dimensions: 8 1/2 in. x 5 1/2 in.




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B3065 - Leaning into the Window - $16.95

Artist: Various women of the West
Description: Soft cover, 336 Pages. Edited by Linda Hasselstrom, Gaydell Collier, & Nancy Curtis.
Details: In the true stories, essays, and poems of Leaning into the Wind we meet the real women of the High Plains today. Included are reflections on cowboys, tractor-driving lessons, outhouses, ranch marriages, and family legacies.
Dimensions: 9 in x 6 in




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B3038 - Making Native American Hunting and Survival Tools - $24.95

Artist: Monte Burch
Description: hardcover, 264 pages
Details: A comprehensive guide to making your own Native American tools and weapons. Fully illustrated with photographs and line illustrations. Perfect book for the survivalist, historian, student, or Native American enthusiast.
Dimensions: 6 1/4 in. x 9 1/4 in.




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B3018 - Memories of a Bootlegger's Daughter - $14.95

Artist: Leona V Pietz
Description: Soft cover, 61 pages
Details: The author relates the story of one bootlegger's activities in Hutchinson County, South Dakota during the days of prohibition. That bootlegger was her father and this collection of stories detail his creative ways of hiding his still, altercations with the "revenuers" and how his small business expanded to as far away as Chicago.
Dimensions: 8 1/2 in x 5 1/2 in




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B3015 - Mitchell's Corn Palace - $19.00

Artist: Jan Cerney
Description: Soft cover book, 128 pages, autographed
Details: Photographic history of the worlds only "Corn Palace", first built in 1892
Dimensions: 9 1/4 in. x 6 1/2 in.




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B3058 - Pioneer Women - $21.95

Artist: Linda Peavy & Ursula Smith
Description: Soft cover, 144 pages
Details: Through photographs and their own words, this book provides a rare look at frontier life through the eyes of the women who settled the American West.
Dimensions: 8 1/2 in. x 11 in.




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B3066 - Places on the Prairie - $29.95

Artist: Written by Rod Evans
Description: Hard cover, 237 pages.
Details: With pictures on every page, this book takes you on a journey through the past to experience the hope, struggle, victory and sometimes defeat of Midwestern communitites, large and small, as they fought to survive difficult times during the late 1800s and early 1900s.
Dimensions: 11 in X 9 in




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B3028 - Poems for the Common Man Volume 2 - $21.95

Artist: M J McMillan
Description: Hard cover book, 82 pages, autographed
Details: In this second volume of poems by South Dakota poet he continues his quest to bring poetry to the ordinary man or woman. Written to be easily understood by anyone, Mike's poems are both relevant and meaningful; words to make you laugh and cry and think and feel.
Dimensions: 9 1/4 in x 6 1/2 in




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B3004 - Poetic Stories for Harvey Dunn's Prairie Women - $10.00

Artist: Denton E Morris & Darl Bielfeldt
Description: Softcover, 30 pages with full color images
Details: A beautifully created book that accompanies the paintings of artist, Harvey Dunn's strong prairie women with poetry and stories. Experience the joys and the hardships these hardy women endured through the vibrant paintings, narratives and poems.
Dimensions: 11 in. x 8 1/2 in.




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B3034 - Powwow - $19.95

Artist: Clyde Ellis, Luke Lassiter & Gary Dunham
Description: Softcover, 309 pages
Details: An exploration of the origin, history, significance and enduring power of the powwow.
Dimensions: 6 in. x 9 in.




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B3053 - Sioux Warriors of the Plains - $14.95

Artist: Written by Michael G. Johnson
Description: Hard cover, 158 pages.
Details: This book outlines the history, social strusture, religion and material culture of the Santee, Yankton and Teton Sioux; rare early photographs include portraits of many of the great war chiefs and warriors of the Plains Indian Wars, recording the dazzling detail of Sioux traditional costume
Dimensions: 10.25 in x 10.25 in




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B3005 - Skyscrapers of the Prairie - $21.00

Artist: Russell L Stubbles
Description: Soft cover book, 131 pages, autographed
Details: A photo history of South Dakota's wooden grain elevators
Dimensions: 11 in. x 8 1/2 in.




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B3029 - Soft Fur and Iron Men - $19.95

Artist: Professor Aaron Woodard
Description: Softcover, 272 pages
Details: This fascinating study examines the dangers that confronted the American fur trading business and the key role played by Native Americans as fur trade became big business.
Dimensions: 8 1/2 in x 5 1/2 in




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B3057 - South Dakota Farmscapes - $14.95

Artist: John Front
Description: Hardcover book, 79 pages.
Details: The impressive color photographs of South Dakota farmer John Front are joined with quotations about the land by contemporary writers and others who experienced the early days of our state.
Dimensions: 9 3/8 in. x 7 1/4 in.




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B3006 - South Dakota Governors Residence Cookbook - $15.00

Description: Hardcover, spiral bound book, 312 pages
Details: Over 600 recipes which include the favorite soups, breads, apetizers, desserts, and meals of 31 of South Dakota's First Families. The book includes historic photos of all former Governors residences and interesting tidbits about South Dakota's first ladies and families.
Dimensions: 8 3/4 in. x 6 1/2 in.




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B3012 - South Dakota Spirit - $26.95

Artist: Greg Latza
Description: Hardcover book, 144 pages, autographed
Details: An exquisite book of photography highlighting the hidden beauty in South Dakota scenes that are off the beaten path.
Dimensions: 11 1/2 in. x 9 in.




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B3054 - Sturgis: The Story of the Rally - $24.95

Artist: Carl Edeburn
Description: Softcover book, 330 pages
Details: This first-ever definitive exploration of the rally's history explores the annual event from its earliest days. Includes photographs.
Dimensions: 10 in. x 7 in.




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B3022 - Sun and Saddle Leather - $10.00

Artist: Badger Clark
Description: Hardcover book, 190 pages
Details: Centennial edition of poems by South Dakota Poet Laurite Badger Clark. Dedicated to Leland D. Case, co-founder of Westerners.
Dimensions: 5 1/4 in x 8 1/4 in




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B3010 - The American Indian Parfleche - $25.00

Artist: Written by Gaylord Torrence
Description: Hard cover, 260 pages.
Details: Detailing the unique symbolism and utilization of the Western North American Indian parfleche, a diverse yet virtually unknown abstract art form, this study conceptualizes the historical and personal expression of nomadic culture.
Dimensions: 9.5 in x 12.25 in




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B3025 - The Children's Blizzard - $13.95

Artist: David Laskin
Description: Soft cover, 323 pages
Details: The gripping story of an epic prairie snowstorm that killed hundreds of newly arrived settlers and cast a shadow on the promise of the American frontier.
Dimensions: 8 in. x 7 1/4 in.




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B3009 - The Dakota Way of Life - $19.95

Artist: Ella Cara Deloria
Description: Softcover book, 168 pages
Details: The author has detailed with careful attention the intimacies of the Dakota Oyate, the People, including the traditions and customs of everyday life, kinship, death and burial.
Dimensions: 10 in. x 8 in.




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B3032 - The Journey of Crazy Horse - $15.00

Artist: Joseph M. Marshall III
Description: Softcover, 310 pages
Details: Historian Joseph Marshall brings a Lakota perspective to this biography of Crazy Horse, a biography that seeks to show him as a "Lakota person shaped by his environment, the times he lived in, and the culture that nurtured him.
Dimensions: 5 in. x 7 3/4 in.




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B3064 - The Jumping-Off Place - $15.95

Artist: Marian Hurd McNeely
Description: Soft cover book with 321 pages and several illustrations.
Details: Four orphaned young homesteaders strive to succeed on a quarter section in Tripp County, SD at the beginning of the 1900's. Short of money and fearful for their lives, they learn that the prairie is not as lonely as it looks and that they are stronger than they thought.
Dimensions: 5 in X 7 3/8 in




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B3031 - The Last Buffalo - $11.95

Artist: Bruce Roseland
Description: Softcover book, 101 pages, illustrated
Details: Poetry that tells the tale and sings the dirge of the passing of a way of life on the windswept Great Plains.
Dimensions: 8 1/2 in. x 5 1/2 in.




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B3023 - The Man from the Hills - $14.95

Artist: Jarvis Harriman
Description: Hardcover book, 271 pages
Details: A biography of Leland D. Case from the Black Hills of South Dakota to his work at the "Rotarian" magazine.
Dimensions: 5 3/4 in x 8 3/4 in




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B3002 - The Missouri - $24.95

Artist: Greg Latza & Kevin Woster
Description: Soft cover book, 175 pages, autographed
Details: The Missouri follows the legendary waterway on its journey through South Dakota. From the barren prairies north of Mobridge to the quiet farmland bordering Sioux City, the book’s 118 color photographs document the raw beauty of the river and its surrounding terrain. The book also details tribal culture, conservation practices and the fascinating personalities found along its shores.
Dimensions: 8 1/2 in. x 11 in.




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B3047 - The Pearson Girls - $16.95

Artist: Kathy L. Plotkin
Description: Soft cover, 260 pages
Details: "Little Women" meets "Little House on the Prairie" with five sisters growing up against a backdrop of homesteading hardships.
Dimensions: 5 1/2 in. x 8 1/2 in.




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B3037 - The Prairie People: Forgotten Anabaptists - $29.95

Artist: Rod Fanzen
Description: Soft cover, 326 pages with index and photographs.
Details: Emigrating from the Ukraine in the late nineteenth centurary and settling on the Dakota plains, the Prairieleut Hutterians are little known American Christian community. While naintaining social and theological traditions, they have choosen to live non-communal lives. This book is a fascinating look into the lives of these extraordinary people.
Dimensions: 6 in wide by 9 1/4 in tall




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B3040 - Through Dakota Eyes - $15.95

Artist: edited by Gary Anderson & Alan Woolworth
Description: Softcover, 316 pages
Details: A collection of thirty-six narratives that presents the Dakota Indians' experiences during the Minnesota Indian War of 1862.
Dimensions: 6 in. x 9 in.




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B3042 - Walking in the Sacred Manner - $14.95

Artist: Mark St. Pierre & Tilda Long Soldier
Description: Softcover, 239 pages
Details: An exploration of the myths and culture of the Plains Indians, for whom the everyday and the spiritual are intertwined and women play a strong and important role in the spiritual and religious life of the community.
Dimensions: 6 in. x 9 in.




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B3063 - Wild Bill Hickok & Calamity Jane - $12.95

Artist: James D. McLaird
Description: Soft cover book with 174 pages and many black & white photographs.
Details: Although Wild Bill and Calamity Jane spent only a few weeks in Deadwood, SD at the same time, their fame and fate have become intertwined into legend. Their brief friendship and burial next to each other simply added to their legendary status of Wild West pop culture and mythology.
Dimensions: 4 3/4 in X 8 in




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B3043 - Women and Warriors of the Plains - $18.00

Artist: written by Dan Aadland
Description: Soft cover, 176 pages. The Pioneer Photography of Julia E. Tuell.
Details: Offers an account of the life of Julia Tuell, whose sensitive and important photographs of the Plains Indians, taken in the beginning years of the 20th century, reflect both sacred religious ceremonies and the daily grind of survival. The author places Tuell's photographs in historical and cultural context, providing insight into traditional cultures. Abundantly illustrated to showcase Tuell's work, primarily in b&w.
Dimensions: 7.5 in x 9.25 in




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B3041 - Women of the Northern Plains - $32.95

Artist: Barbara Handy-Marchello
Description: hardcover, 205 pages
Details: This book presents stories of the roles of women as the unsung heroes of North Dakota's settlement era from 1870 to 1930.
Dimensions: 6 1/4 in. x 9 1/4 in.




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