University of Nebraska Press Forlag
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Bring in the Right-Hander!: My Twenty-Two Years in the Major Leagues (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
The tale of Jerry Reuss’s twenty-two year career as a pitcher in the Major Leagues.
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Living the California Dream: African American Leisure Sites During the Jim Crow Era (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Alison Rose Jefferson examines how African Americans pioneered America’s “frontier of leisure” by creating communities and business projects in conjunction with their growing population in Southern California during the nation’s Jim Crow era.
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Curious Unions: Mexican American Workers and Resistance in Oxnard, California, 1898–1961 (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
A social, cultural, and economic history of the Mexican and Mexican American community in agricultural California, focusing on the community of Oxnard.
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Uphill Both Ways: Hiking Toward Happiness on the Colorado Trail (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Andrea Lani explores the complexities of hiking with a family after taking her three reluctant children and grouchy husband on a 489-mile trek from Denver to Durango, determined to reset her life and confront the history of environmental damage.
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Buffalo Soldiers in Alaska: Company L, Twenty-Fourth Infantry (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Brian G. Shellum tells the story of Company L, which served in Skagway, Alaska, and was one of the two companies added to the all-Black Twenty-Fourth U.S. Infantry Regiment after war was declared on Spain in April 1898.
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What Happens: Poems (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
The musically wrought and emotionally candid poems explore the pleasure and pain of family relationships, the complicated joy of being a woman, and the unconventional beauty of the Great Plains.
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Burning the Breeze: Three Generations of Women in the American West (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Burning the Breeze chronicles the lives of three generations of women who defied society’s expectations: Julia Bennett, the first woman to build a Montana guest ranch; and her grandmother and mother, who fled Missouri during the Civil War to prosper in the American West.
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Atlas of Nebraska (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Atlas of Nebraska presents maps and commentary about a variety of physiographic, climatological, demographic, political, social, economic, cultural, and other features of Nebraska.
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Boy Almighty: An Autobiographical Novel (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Boy Almighty is an autobiographical novel that recounts the terrifying two years from 1940 to 1942 that Frederick Manfred spent at the Glen Lake Sanatorium in Minnesota, trying to recover from tuberculosis.
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Birthing the West: Mothers and Midwives in the Rockies and Plains (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Birthing the West shows how mothers and midwives created an informal but dynamic health care system in the Rockies and Plains between 1860 and 1940. Over time, public health entities usurped their power, with lasting impacts for women, families, and American identity.
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A Life with Dogs (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Beloved Nebraska folklorist Roger Welsch explores our passion and love for dogs.
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Go West, Young Man: A Father and Son Rediscover America on the Oregon Trail (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
B.J. Hollars and his young son strike out on a 2,500-mile road trip to retrace the Oregon Trail. Their mission: to rediscover America—and Americans—along the way.
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