Author: Francis Moul
Publisher: Bison Books
Keywords: undiscovered, treasures, america’s, guide, grasslands, national
Number of Pages: 153
Published: 2006-10-01
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 0803283202
ISBN-13: 9780803283206

The four million windswept acres of wildflowers and grass in the twenty national grasslands in the United States are scattered across a region extending from the Pacific Ocean to the eastern edge of North Dakota. Although all were once seas of grass teeming with wildlife, they now exhibit striking differences, and range from a small lake recreation area in Texas to the enormous Little Missouri National Grasslands in North Dakota. An essential guide to the American grasslands and the Grasslands National Park of Canada, The National Grasslands presents a history of the region, that traces the

Author: Paul S. Powers
Publisher: Bison Books
Keywords: grub, street, american, years, writer, twenty, pulp
Number of Pages: 276
Published: 2007-05-01
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 0803259840
ISBN-13: 9780803259843

He wrote under at least eight pseudonyms, published hundreds of short stories and novellas in pulp magazines, and lived a life at times as outrageous as his fiction. Pulp Writer tells of Paul S. Powers’s travels from serious literary ambitions to the pages of Wild West Weekly, of his seeking his fortune (or material, at any rate) in the ghost towns and mining camps of Colorado, and of his life in Arizona and California as he reaped the rewards of his wildly successful Wild West Weekly characters such as Sonny Tabor and Kid Wolf. Extending from the Great Depression to the

Author: Kenneth M. Pollack
Publisher: Bison Books
Keywords: war, society, militar, studies, effectiveness, military, arabs
Number of Pages: 717
Published: 2004-09-01
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0803287836
ISBN-13: 9780803287839

Kenneth M. Pollack, formerly a Persian Gulf military analyst at the CIA and Director for Persian Gulf Affairs at the National Security Council, describes and analyzes the military history of the six key Arab states—Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Libya, Saudi Arabia, and Syria—during the post–World War II era. He shows in detail how each Arab military grew and learned from its own experiences in response to the specific objectives set for it and within often constrained political, economic, and social circumstances. This first-ever overview of the modern Arab approach to warfare provides a better und

Author: Pierre Benoit
Publisher: Bison Books
Keywords: imagination, frontiers, bison, atlantis, queen
Number of Pages: 310
Published: 2005-05-01
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 0803269161
ISBN-13: 9780803269163

In 1903 Lieutenant Olivier Ferrières of the French army welcomes Captain de Saint-Avit as the new commandant of his post in Algeria. Shunned by his fellow officers, the captain has been accused of the brutal murder of his friend Lieutenant Morhange, when the two were lost alone in the desert. To Ferrières’s horror, Saint-Avit soon confesses to the crime, unveiling a shocking tale of lost worlds, lust, murder, and the enslavement of desire in a forgotten desert kingdom—Atlantis! Antinea, the queen of Atlantis, seeks to destroy and imprison the men in her net through her beauty and cruelty

Authors:Jules Verne, Frederick Paul Walter, Walter James Mil
Publisher: Bison Books
Keywords: manuscript, bison, frontiers, imagination, original, verne, hunt, first, english, translation, meteor
Number of Pages: 232
Published: 2006-10-01
List price: $15.95
ISBN-10: 0803296347
ISBN-13: 9780803296343

The Meteor Hunt marks the first English translation from Jules Verne’s own text of his delightfully satirical and visionary novel. While other, questionable versions of the novel have appeared—mainly, a significantly altered text by Verne’s son Michel and translations of it—this edition showcases the original work as Verne wrote it. The Meteor Hunt is the story of a meteor of pure gold careening toward the earth and generating competitive greed among amateur astronomers and chaos among nations obsessed with the trajectory of the great golden object. Set primarily in the United States an

Author: Anne Meadows
Publisher: Bison Books
Keywords: second, sundance, butch, digging
Number of Pages: 412
Published: 2003-10-01
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0803282907
ISBN-13: 9780803282902

Lawyer-turned-writer Anne Meadows and her husband, Dan Buck, set out to solve the mystery of what really happened to Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. With the tenacity of Pinkerton agents, the couple tracks the outlaws and the enigmatic Etta Place through South America, where they fled in 1901. Meadows and Buck rove Argentinian pampas, Chilean deserts, and Bolivian sierras; pore over faded newspapers and musty documents; exhume skeletons with the aid of forensic anthropologist Clyde Snow; unearth eyewitness accounts of Butch and Sundance’s final holdup and the Bolivian shootout; and exami

Author: J. Glenn Gray
Publisher: Bison Books
Keywords: battle, men, reflections, warriors
Number of Pages: 242
Published: 1998-10-01
List price: $17.95
ISBN-10: 0803270763
ISBN-13: 9780803270763

J. Glenn Gray entered the army in May 1941, having been drafted on the same day he achieved his doctorate in philosophy from Columbia University. Over a decade after his discharge in 1945, Gray began to reread his war journals and letters in an attempt to find meaning in his wartime experiences. The result is a philosophical meditation on what warfare does to us and why soldiers act as they do.