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In the fifty years since its inception in 1961, the Bison Books imprint at the University of Nebraska Press has published some of the best historical, literary, and original western literature. The Golden West celebrates that continuing mission, bringing together some of the most beloved and iconic stories of the American West.

The Golden West

Preface: A Celebration of Bison Books

Introduction: The West and America: The National Significance of Regional Writing

David Wrobel O Pioneers!

Willa Cather

Plains Song: For Female Voices

Wright Morris

Waterlily

Ella Cara Deloria

My People the Sioux

Luther Standing Bear

Little Britches: Father and I Were Ranchers

Ralph Moody

Shane

Jack Schaefer

One Man's West

David Lavender

Black Elk Lives: Conversations with the Black Elk Family

Esther Black Elk DeSersa, Olivia Black Elk Pourier, Aaron DeSersa Jr., and Clifton DeSersa

A Cycle of the West: The Song of the Indian Wars

John G. Neihardt

Crazy Horse: The Strange Man of the Oglalas

Mari Sandoz

Nebraska Folklore

Louise Pound

A Lantern in Her Hand

Bess Streeter Aldrich

Winter Wheat

Mildred Walker

Yonnondio: From the Thirties

Tillie Olsen

Letters of a Woman Homesteader

Elinore Pruitt Stewart

Covered Wagon Women: Diaries and Letters from the Western Trails

Kenneth L. Holmes

The Lewis and Clark Journals: An American Epic of Discovery

Meriwether Lewis and William Clark

The Gathering of Zion: The Story of the Mormon Trail

Wallace Stegner Source Acknowledgments

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