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Buffalo Coat (Paperback)
Carol Ryrie Brink
Originally published in 1944, the author's first adult novel tells the story of three doctors who came to Opportunity (Moscow), Idaho, in the 1890s, drawn by the town’s promise. All attained their private objectives and financial success, symbolized by owning a great buffalo coat to wear through the bitter winters, yet each of their lives ended in tragedy.
6" x 9" • 421 pages (1993)
Novels/Western Literature/Palouse/Idaho
Price :
US$19.95
Edna and John (Paperback)
A Romance of Idaho Flat
Abigail Scott Duniway
Edited by Debra Shein
Oregon’s Abigail Scott Duniway was a Northwest luminary in the fight for women’s rights in the late 19th century. This story of a couple who move to Idaho during the 1860s gold mining frenzy underscores women’s struggles in an era when social and legal codes mainly empowered men.
Photographs • map • notes • bibliography • 6" x 9" • 244 pages (2000)
Novels/Western Literature/Idaho/Women's Studies
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US$14.95
Snow in the River (Paperback)
Carol Ryrie Brink
This work, originally published in 1964, was Brink’s best-selling adult novel. It brings to life an America of unbounded promise by telling the story of three Scottish brothers who settled in eastern Washington and northern Idaho in the early 1900s.
6" x 9" • 308 pages (1993)
Novels/Western Literature/Idaho/Palouse
Price :
US$19.95
Snowbound (Hardbound)
Ladd Hamilton
Snowbound
is the scandalous, true tale of the 1893 Carlin hunting party, whose adventure of a lifetime became an unthinkable tragedy.
Illustrations • photographs • bibliography • maps • 6" x 9" • 248 pages (1997)
Pioneers/Adventurers/Best Sellers/Montana/Novels/Western Literature/Northwest History
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US$25.00
Strangers in the Forest (Paperback)
Carol Ryrie Brink
Originally published in 1959, it was included in the Reader’s Digest Condensed Books series. Set in the white pine timberland of the Idaho panhandle in 1908, the story explores the efforts of the early U.S. Forest Service to instill a sense of conservation in the land—a new concept affecting Idaho’s seemingly inexhaustible forests.
6" x 9" • 314 pages (1993)
Novels/Western Literature/Palouse/Idaho
Price :
US$19.95
The Oil Prince (Paperback)
Karl Friedrich May
Translated by Herbert Windolf
Illustrated by Caryn Lawton
Set in late-1860s Arizona, this action-packed "travel" tale once again features Old Shatterhand and his Apache blood brother Winnetou, along with ruthless bandits, Indians on the warpath, a naďve band of German immigrants, and a perilous crook (the "Oil Prince"), who attempts to con a fortune from a gullible banker.
Illustrations • maps • 5 1/2" x 8 1/4" • 368 pages 2003
Novels/Western Literature/Karl May Translations
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US$18.95
This Bloody Deed (Paperback)
The Magruder Incident
Ladd Hamilton
Ladd Hamilton’s vivid storytelling brings to life the infamous murder of Lewiston merchant Lloyd Magruder in the Bitterroot Mountains during the 1860s Idaho-Montana gold rush.
Photographs • maps • notes • bibliography • 6" x 9" • 280 pages (1994)
Pioneers/Adventurers/Best Sellers/Montana/Novels/Western Literature/Northwest History
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US$19.95
Winnetou (Paperback)
Karl Friedrich May
Translated and abridged by David Koblick
More copies of this German tale of the American West have been printed than any other novel in German publishing history. This lively English translation of the daring adventures of Old Shatterhand and the Apache Chief Winnetou puts the best-known work by Karl May (1842–1912) into the hands of an American audience for the first time in paperback.
5 1/2" x 8 1/4" • 256 pages (1999)
Best Sellers/Novels/Western Literature/Karl May English Translations
Price :
US$16.95
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