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Jedediah Smith and the Opening of the West (Bison Book)
Dale L. Morgan
University of Nebraska Press, 1964
A masterpiece on a Western giant
Jedediah Strong Smith is a true American hero, though few people have ever heard of him. After Lewis and Clark, he probably explored and mapped more territory in the West than any other man. In the field of exploration he accomplished a series of "firsts" that is truly ...
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A Description of New Netherland (The Iroquoians and Their World)
Adriaen van der Donck
University of Nebraska Press, 2008
This edition of A Description of New Netherland provides the first complete and accurate English-language translation of an essential first-hand account of the lives and world of Dutch colonists and northeastern Native communities in the seventeenth century. Adriaen van der Donck, a graduate of Leiden University in the 1640s, became the law ...
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Personal Record: A Love Affair with Running
Rachel Toor
University of Nebraska Press, 2008
Not a training guide, but...
... A very good, often funny, fast-paced read. I picked this book up partially because of Rachel's work in Running Times. This book will not give you any insight on how to train better, eat better, or race better. However, all that said, it reads very quickly and gives ...
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Valentines
Ted Kooser
University of Nebraska Press, 2008
Love poetry
"Valentines" is not the typical Valentine's Day sentimental poetry. The poems are 'homespun' and reflect the history of the prairie. Each poem is illustrated by line drawings of Robert Hanna. Mr. Kooser wrote and sent one poem each year on postcards to women friends ...
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The Narrative of Cabeza de Vaca
Alvar Nunez Cabeza De Vaca
University of Nebraska Press, 2003
Better than Fiction
I bought this after reading a little about Cabeza de Vaca in another book (Richard Grant's American Nomads--check it out). It was worth reading if you have an interest in these kinds of things: whether its history, exploration, and discovery that interest you, or ...
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The Middle Five: Indian Schoolboys of the Omaha Tribe
Francis La Flesche
University of Nebraska Press, 1978
A Great, Sweet Story
This is a really simple, short read, but it offers such great insight into the lives of five young Native Americans at a mission school. The stories are sweet, but the meanings are profound. Francis La Flesche offers the reader an opportunity to step into their lives ...
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Osborne Russell's Journal of a Trapper and maps of his travels in the Rocky Mountains
Osborne Russell
University of Nebraska Press, 1965
The life of a Mountain Man
This well-known and highly-regarded account of the life of a fur trapper in the Rocky Mountain West was born as a corrective by its author of an earlier narrative (Pattie's PERSONAL NARRATIVE) that he thought was filled with inaccuracies. Osborne Russell spent eight ...
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The Round and Other Cold Hard Facts
J. M. G. Le Clezio
University of Nebraska Press, 2003
Set largely in locations near the French Riviera, these eleven short stories depict the harsh realities of life for the less-privileged inhabitants of this very privileged region. Distinguished French writer J. M. G. Le Clézio lends his voice to the dispossessed and explores his familiar themes of alienation, immigration, poverty, violence, ...
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Desertion during the Civil War
Ella Lonn
University of Nebraska Press, 1998
Highly recommended
I was prompted to read this book after having read "Cold Mountain" and having someone complain to me about the hero of that book being a deserter. How could someone write a book glorifying desertion! That got me to wondering and led me to Lonn's book. I found it ...
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Black Elk Speaks: Being the Life Story of a Holy Man of the Oglala Sioux
John G. Neihardt
University of Nebraska Press, 1988
A Great Vision
_Over the years I have read this book in the wilderness and in the wasteland. Every time that I have reread it I have come away renewed.
_There are just so many levels on which this account can be appreciated. It is one of the best first-hand accounts of plains ...
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Connie Mack and the Early Years of Baseball
Norman L. Macht
University of Nebraska Press, 2007
A must read for anyone interested in baseball history
After researching Connie Mack for more than 20 years, author Norman Macht definitely knows his subject. Macht masterfully weaves the story of Mack and the early years of baseball in this 675-page biography, which covers the time from Mack's birth in 1862 through 1914. ...
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Wally Yonamine: The Man Who Changed Japane Baseball
Robert K. Fitts
University of Nebraska Press, 2008
An outstanding book
I've been following Japanese baseball for a while now and I'm always eager to read the latest English language books about it. This book is one of the best. It's the first book that I've seen on the subject written by a historian rather than a journalist, so the ...
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Toward the Flame: A Memoir of World War I
Hervey Allen
University of Nebraska Press, 2003
Perhaps the Finest American Memoir of the First World War
Hervey Allen's memoir is certainly one of the finest personal narratives of World War One, and perhaps the best American memoir of that war. In my opinion, it is a neglected classic. The narrative covers his unit's march from the area around Chateau Thierry in July ...
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In the Shadow of the Moon: A Challenging Journey to Tranquility, 1965-1969 (Outward Odyssey: A People's ...
Francis French, Colin Burgess
University of Nebraska Press, 2007
The Best Book I Have Ever Read
There are and have been hundreds if not thousands of books about manned spaceflight over the years but only a select few have really been able to communicate the true story and feeling generated by one of the most fondly remembered era's in American history. A time ...
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Jim Bridger: Mountain Man
Stanley Vestal
University of Nebraska Press, 1970
An endearing llook at an historic character
Bridger is a larger than life character. The author portrays Bridger as a character who was unimpressed with developed society. His treasure was the mountains and the mystery of an undeveoped land and people. His humility and lack of concern for unbelievers of the ...
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