Books published by University of Nebraska Press

The Columbia and its tributaries are rivers of conflict. Mike Barenti entered the heart of this conflict when he slid a whitewater kayak into the headwaters of central Idaho's Salmon River and started paddling toward the Pacific Ocean. This is a narrative of man and nature, one-on-one, but also of man and nature writ large.

Part of a body of scholarship that seeks to undo Willa Cather's longstanding reputation as a writer who remained aloof from the cultural issues of her day, this collection demonstrates that Cather found the subject of war both unavoidable, because of her position in history, and artistically irresistible.

Like the figures in the ancient oral literature of Native Americans, children who lived through the American Indian boarding school experience became heroes, bravely facing a monster not of their own making. This volume shows how American Indian boarding schools provided both positive and negative influences for Native American children.

Describing the customs, manners, and traditions of the Teton Sioux, this title also offers general comments about the importance of Native cultures and values and the status of Indian people in American society. It is interspersed with personal reminiscences and anecdotes, including chapters on child rearing, social and political organization.

French Canadian workers who paddled canoes, transported goods, and staffed the interior posts of the northern North American fur trade became popularly known as voyageurs. This title reveals the contours of voyageurs' lives, world views, and values.

A tale of how one young man matures through the sometimes violent blessing of social change and finds himself - and a sense of purpose - through the loss of innocence and naivete, the Seattle of his youth, and his father.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, best known as the author of Sherlock Holmes stories, was entirely convinced by a set of photographs showing two young girls from Cottingley in Yorkshire playing with a group of tiny, translucent fairies. This book lays out the story of the photographs, their supposed provenance, and the implications of their existence.