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The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl by Timothy Egan Publisher Comments At the end of World War II, nearly three million Jews were trapped inside the Soviet Union. They lived a paradoxunwanted by a repressive Stalinist state, yet forbidden to leave. When They Come for Us, Well Be Gone is the astonishing and inspiring story... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper 
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The Children's Blizzard (P.S.) by David Laskin Publisher Comments Thousands of impoverished Northern European immigrants were promised that the prairie offered "land, freedom, and hope." The disastrous blizzard of 1888 revealed that their free homestead was not a paradise but a hard, unforgiving place governed by... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $4.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Legend of Colton H. Bryant by Alexandra Fuller Publisher Comments A heartrending story of the human spirit from the author of the bestselling Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight Alexandra Fuller returns with the unforgettable true story of Colton H. Bryant, a soulful boy with a mustang-taming heart who comes of age in... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Dust Bowl Through the Lens: How Photography Revealed and Helped Remedy a National Disaster by Martin W Sandler Publisher Comments The Dust Bowl was a time of hardship and disaster. The worst ecological disaster in our nations history turned more than 100 million acres of fertile land almost completely to dust. Hundreds of thousands of people were forced to seek new homes and... (read more) List Price $23.50 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Dust Bowl-25 Anniversary Edition ((Rev)04 Edition) by Donald Worster Publisher Comments Twenty-five years after his book helped to define the new field of environmental history, Worster links the Dust Bowl to current political, economic, and ecological issues. 66 halftones & maps.... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price: $10.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Land of the Burnt Thigh (Borealis Books) by Edith Eudora Kohl Publisher Comments A fascinating memoir of homesteading in South Dakota in the early twentieth century.... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Local Wonders: Seasons in the Bohemian Alps (American Lives) by Ted Kooser Publisher Comments Ted Kooser describes with exquisite detail and humor the place he calls home in the rolling hills of southeastern Nebraska — an area known as the Bohemian Alps. Nothing is too big or too small for his attention. Memories of his grandmother's cooking... (read more) List Price $11.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Atlas of the Great Plains by Stephen J Lavin Publisher Comments 2011 Booklist Editor's Choice, reference category The Great Plains, stretching northward from Texas into Canada, is a region that has been understudied and overlooked. The Atlas of the Great Plains, however, brings a new focus to North Americas... (read more) List Price $39.95 Your price: $25.00 Used - Hardcover
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Great Plains by Ian Frazier Publisher Comments National Bestseller With his unique blend of intrepidity, tongue-in-cheek humor, and wide-eyed wonder, Ian Frazier takes us on a journey of more than 25,000 miles up and down and across the vast and myth-inspiring Great Plains. A travelogue, a work of... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Unfinished Bombing: Oklahoma City in American Memory by Edward T Linenthal Publisher Comments On April 19, 1995 the bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City shook the nation, destroying our complacent sense of safety and sending a community into a tailspin of shock, grief, and bewilderment. Almost as difficult as the... (read more) List Price $34.99 Your price: $4.75 Used - Trade Paper
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The Cloister Walk by Kathleen Norris Publisher Comments A New York Times bestseller for 23 weeks A New York Times Notable Book of the Year "A strange and beautiful book...Part memoir, part meditation, it is a remarkable piece of writing." -The Boston Globe "The Cloister Walk is a new opportunity to discover a... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $3.50 Used - Trade Paper
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A Marvelous Hundred Square Miles: Black Hills Tourism, 1880-1941 by Suzanne B Julin Synopsis cloth cover with dustjacket, illustrated, maps, bibliography... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price: $8.95 Used - Hardcover
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Oklahoma: A History by W. David Baird Publisher Comments The product of two of Oklahoma’s foremost authorities on the history of the 46th state, Oklahoma: A History is the first comprehensive narrative to bring the story of the Sooner State to the threshold of its centennial. From the tectonic formation... (read more) Your price: $19.95 New - Trade Paper
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Hope's Last Home by Tony Rees Publisher Comments South of Lethbridge, Alberta, Highway 62 climbs from the floor of an ancient glacial lake to the crest of a low ridge, crosses a continental divide and drops to meet the Milk River arching up from Montana.The austere, dry land within this great three... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $8.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Seldom Seen: A Journey into the Great Plains by Patrick Dobson Publisher Comments In May 1995, with nothing but a backpack and a vague sense of disquiet, Patrick Dobson left his home and a steady if deadening job in Kansas City, Missouri. Over the next two and a half months he made his way to Helena, Montana, letting chance encounters... (read more) List Price $23.96 Your price: $21.26 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Deadwood: The Golden Years by Watson Parker Publisher Comments Deadwood, South Dakota, has been a source of American legend for over one hundred years. European exploration, Indian wars, gold booms and busts, presidential visits, frontier shootouts, and the natural beauty of the surrounding Black Hills have all... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Water Runs Downhill: A Journey Through a Time Gone by by Arne Waldstein Synopsis The country road meets memory lane in this light-hearted look back at the family farm. Based on the author's memoirs, this book celebrates the rural life and the positive experiences that come with it. The Great Depression, WWII, entering politics, and... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $2.98 Used - Trade Paper
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Great Plains by Ian Frazier Publisher Comments Reportage from the vast and myth-inspiring empty plains.... (read more) Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Portable Prairie: Confessions of an Unsettled Midwesterner by M. J. Andersen Publisher Comments A personal meditation on the concept of home as experienced by a midwesterner recounts the author's childhood in South Dakota as the daughter of a hard-working newspaper family, her indoctrination into the order of Job's Daughters, her 1970s Princeton... (read more) Your price: $9.99 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Happy as a Big Sunflower: Adventures in the West, 1875-1880 by Rolf Johnson Publisher Comments He found employment with a wagon freighter headed for the Black Hills, where he saw Calamity Jane in action. Rolf's education continued until the diaries end in Cubero, New Mexico, in 1880. He returned to Phelps County in 1882 and remained there for most... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $4.50 Used - Trade Paper
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