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$14.00 Paperbound 253 pages	111 Days to Zion: The Day-by-Day Trek of the Mormon Pioneers	Daily account of the trip of the first company of Mormon pioneers.
	Hal Knight and Dr. Stanley B. Kimball

$7.00	2008 Wyoming Historical Calendar	From territorial days to the present, women have played an essential role in shaping Wyoming's social, economic, and political life. Historical pictures show how Wyoming's women leave their indelible stamp on the Equality State.
	Wyoming State Historical Society and the American Heritage Center

Out of Print Unavailable $18.95 Paperbound 187 pages	8,000 miles of Dirt A Back Road Travel Guide to Wyoming	This back road travel guide describes 140 of Wyoming's scenic country byways. Contains 120 photographs and 140 maps detailing each individual trip. This guide describes special features and land marks.
	Dan Lewis

$13.00 Paperbound 218 pages	Adventures Of A Woman Homesteader: The Life And Letters of Elinore Pruit Stewart	Biography of author of Letters Of A Woman Homesteader and Letters On An Elk Hunt. E.P. Stewart homesteaded in southern Sweetwater County in 1909.
	Susanne K. George

$14.95 Paperback 220 pages	Ahead of Their Time	In this book we learn of the hopes, dreams obstacles and victories of the unsung heroes who founded the Wyoming tradition of conserving and cherishing our unique wilderness heritage. These stories straight from the mouths of ranchers, outfitters, Native Americans and others tell how they saved or lost the wildest parts of Wyoming.
	edited by Broughton Coburn and Leila Bruno

$5.95 Softcover 4 pages	Alpine Flowers Stickers	Flower lovers and nature enthusiasts will be delighted with this charming sticker collection. Selected from a rare 19th-centure botanical portfolio, 50 full-color illustrations depict a wide variety of alpine flowers in beautiful accurate detail.
	Maggie Kate

$19.95 Paperback 335 pages	Amateur Geologist Tools and Activities for Exploring Our Planet	This book introduces the geologist's core concepts, tools, and techniques and requires no prior training in geology. Beginners will learn to identify landforms, minerals, rocks, and fossils and experience, first hand, all the excitement of geological discovery. More experienced "rockhounds" will find a wealth of useful information as well.
	Alan M. Cvancara

$12.95 Paperbound 90 pages	Amidst the Gold Dust - Women Who Forged the West	Amidst the God Dust is a collection of individual biographies about five women who, at first glance, seem vastly different, yet despite outward differences, have much to teach us about hardships, courage and perseverance. (Cover notes)
	Julie Danneberg

$3.50 Paperbound 46 pages	American Wild Flowers Coloring Book	Displaying the beauty and variety of America's most popular wild flowers, naming and locating each of the species, this most unusual book is intended for coloring. Redrawn from the original Smithsonian Rickett plates each of the 46 renderings is ready to be colored.
	Paul E. Kennedy

$5.99 Paperbound 192 pages	Annie Oakley: Young Markswoman	The story of Annie Oakley from the time she was a young girl, how she earned her first gun and the places her talent for sharp shooting and riding took her. One of the most popular series ever published for young Americans. These lively, inspiring fictionalized biographies are easily read by children of eight years and up.
	Ellen Wilson

Street Scene - Green River Wyoming 1908 Green River Wyoming 1913 Butch Cassidy's Wild Bunch Green	Red Buttes - Green River Wyoming 1913 North Front Street - Rock Springs Wyoming 1918 Street Scene - Green River Wyoming 1927	Covey Little America - Wyoming 1920 Castle Rock - Green River Wyoming 1920 Western Cafe - Rock Springs Wyoming 1937	Reproduction Antique Post Cards $2.00
			Since the turn of the 20th Century Postcards have said "Wish you were her" in a thousand Ways. Now they represent an Historical Journey through Times gone Bye

$29.95 Softbound 367 pages	The Arapahoes, Our People	"[This] history of the Arapaho represents the standard against which all future accounts will be gauged...Moreover, the clarity with which the author presents the events from A.D. 1800 to 1869 makes this book a valuable contribution to the historical annals of the Plains..." - Plains Anthropologist
	Virginia Cole Trenholm

$19.95 Paperbound 80 pages	Architecture of the Ancient Ones	Val Brinkerhoff takes us on a quiet walk in this area where others once dwelled. It is a visually stunning account of the ruins left behind, through which much has been learned about the Ancient Ones of 800 years ago.
	Photographs by Van Brinkerhoff Text by A. Dudley Gardner

$16.95 Paperbound 226 pages	Arrowheads & Stone Artifacts	This practical, down-to-earth guide for surface collectors of arrowheads and stone artifacts is designed especially for amateur archaeologists and people intersected in learning how to study and collect artifacts safely and responsibly.
	C. G. Yeager

Out of Print Unavailable Hardbound 387 pages	Arrowheads: 50 Years of Collecting 1925-1975	A privately published work cataloging the collecting efforts of a local enthusiast.
	Albert Dolenc

$17.95 Hardbound 36 pages	B is for Buckaroo	B is for the Buckaroo, who's a cowboy through and through. These broncobusters you'll often see riding on horseback, yelling "Whoopee!" Cowpokes and buckaroos of all ages will enjoy this A-Z romp through the facts, feats, and folks of the cowboy way of life.
	Louise Doak Whitney & Gleaves Whitney

$14.95 Paperbound 195 pages	The Banditti of the Plains or The Cattlemen's Invasion of Wyoming in 1892	The war took place in 1892, when Wyoming's cattle kings, faced with the loss of their ranges to homesteaders, decided to eliminate the small farmers and ranchers. Fifty-two cattlemen and hired gunmen from Texas and Idaho proceeded on their infamous invasion of Johnson county. The tables were turned when the homesteaders rallied behind the sheriff and besieged the cattlemen.
	A. S. Mercer

$12.95 Paperbound 227 pages	The Bassett Women	"The Bassett home gave refuge to a veritable who's who of western outlaws, among them Butch Cassidy, the Sundance Kid and many lesser rustlers....What makes the book so delectable are the lovingly detailed scandals involving Brown's Park pioneers." True West
	Grace McClure

$14.95 Paperbound 80 pages	Beautiful America's Wyoming	Mention the name of this vast western state and what image springs to mind? Wyoming is indeed a region ruled by a close relationship to the landscape. Enjoy 50 full color pictures of the Wyoming landscape.
	Charlotte Dixon

$14.95 Paperbound 334 pages	Behold the Shining Mountains	Book two of the authors’ Talking History Series. “…combines the true tales of many epic people, weaving them into a grand tapestry of the times without losing sight of the main characters….despite its historical precision, Behold the Shining Mountains is a three hanky book with a dozen belly laughs,” (from Introduction). 1830-1836 era.
	Gary Wiles & Delores Brown

$16.00 Paperbound 438 pages	Beyond the Hundredth Meridian John Wesley Powell and the second opening of the west	The successes and frustrations of John Wesley Powell, who explored the Colorado River, the Grand Canyon, and the homeland of Indian tribes of the American Southwest. A prophet without honor who had a profound understanding of the American West. Powell warned long ago of the dangers economic exploitation would pose to the West. Only now, we may recognize just how accurate a prophet he was.
	Wallace Stegner

$14.95 Hardbound 192 pages	Big Wonderful Notes from Wyoming	In this unconventional memoir, Kevin Holdsworth vividly portrays life in remote, unpredictable country and ruminates on the guts - or foolishness- it takes to put down roots and raise a family in a merciless environment.
	Kevin Holdsworth

$9.95 Paperbound 160 pages	Black Gold Patterns in the Development of Wyoming's Oil Industry	A collection of short stories which illustrate some of the major problems and issues faced by those who developed Wyoming's oil industry from 1890 to the 1850's.
	Mike Mackey

$39.95 Hardcover 493 pages	Blood of the Prophets Brigham Young and the Massacre at Mountain Meadows	The massacre at Mountain Meadows on September 11, 1857, was the single most violent act to occur on the overland trails, yet it has been all bur forgotten. Will Bagleys' "Blood of the Prophets" is the most extensive investigation of the events surrounding the mass killings since Juanita Brooks published her groundbreaking study.
	Will Bagley

$16.95 Paperbound 301 pages	Bold Spirit Helga Estby's Forgotten Walk Across Victorian America	Follow Helga Estby not only across the physical landscape of 1896 America -- its mountains, plains deserts, reservations, cities, and towns -- but across the country's social, political, economic, and cultural landscape as well. It's a fascinating journey.
	Linda Lawrence Hunt

$28.00 Hardbound 245 pages	Booms And Busts On Bitter Creek: A History Of Rock Springs, Wyoming	This edition adds the subsidence story, when much of Rock Springs seemed destined to sink into the abandoned coalmines under the city, and tells of the rise of the fabulous trona industry.
	Robert B. Rhode

$13.95 Paperbound 231 pages	The Bridger Pass Overland Trail 1862-1869 Through Colorado and Wyoming and Cross Roads at the Rawlins-Baggs Stage Road in Wyoming	Collection of photos, interviews and historical research about the Overland Trail and the areas it covers.
	Louise Bruning Erb, Ann Bruning Brown, Gilberta Bruning Hughes

$19.95 Softbound 362 pages	Butch Cassidy: A Biography	Separating mythology from actual events in the life of Butch Cassidy has been made extremely difficult by the many stories told about him by family members, acquaintances, and writers after his presumed death in a Bolivian village. In an exhaustive search of reminiscences, newspapers, and books, Richard Patterson has written the definitive biography of the outlaw whose legend is rivaled only by that of Billy the Kid.
	Richard Patterson

$17.95 Hardbound 36 pages	C is for Cowboy A Wyoming Alphabet	Catch a glimpse of all the wonders, history, and landscapes Wyoming has to offer. From Devils Tower and grizzly bears to Father Kelly and Yellowstone National Park, Susan Guy's dramatic, true-to-life artwork provides a stunning backdrop to the printed words.
	Eugene Gagliano

$8.95 Paperbound 64 pages	California Trail: The Story Behind the Scenery	California! To Americans living east of the Missouri River, this romantic name meant the opportunity for fresh beginnings and a renewed life -- perhaps even instant riches. Follow the trail with beautiful photos and stories from Independence, Missouri to the various stopping places in California in this full color, 9x12" book.
	Charles H. Dodd

$14.95	Campfire Companion Harmonica	The campfire Companion Program puts you on the trail to learning campfire songs on the harmonica in minutes. Includes harmonica, carrying case and DVD follow-along lessons.

$14.95 Softcover 162 pages	The Cherokee Trail Bent's Old Fort to Fort Bridger	Cherokee Indian gold seekers 150 years ago pioneered what was then-and now- Colorado's busiest highway. Travelers have long thronged this road along the eastern base of the rocky Mountains. Starting at Bent's Fork on the Arkansas River, then west to Pueblo then north to Fort Bridger in Wyoming. Includes maps, pictures and journal entries of those who traveled the Cherokee Trail.
	Lee Whiteley

$29.95 Paperbound 418 pages	Cherokee Trail Diaries Volume I - 1849 Volume II - 1850	This definitive work of the Cherokee Trails includes the trails' location, including campsites and the emigrants that pioneered them.
	Patricia K.A. Fletcher, Dr. Jack Earl Fletcher, Lee Whiteley

$29.95 Paperbound 445 pages	Cherokee Trail Diaries Volume III - 1851-1900	Includes maps, journal entries and corrections to Vol. I and II. Covers emigrants, goldseekers, cattle drives and outlaws who used the trails.
	Dr. Jack E. Fletcher, Patricia K.A. Fletcher

$39.50 Hardbound 326 pages	Children's Voices from the Trail	This book examines the white child's perspective on the Platte River road's Oregon, California, and Mormon trails between 1841 and the 1869 completion of the transcontinental railroad.
	Rosemary Gudmundson Palmer

$7.95 Softcover 75 pages	Chuck Wagon Cook Book	No chuck wagon feed is complete without its basic ingredients of beans, beef, hot biscuits, apple pie and lots of coffee. Included are original recipes for boiled apple dumplings, lima beans baked with steak and general, everyday useful tips, all from the renowned Western cook, Hi Pockets. Also included are recipes showing you how to create actual hand lotion and soaps like those used in the rugged west; wines, tea, punch, even candy and ice cream are included.
	Beth McElfresh

$3.95 Softcover 32 pages	Color the Wild Rockies	From bobcats and bears to raccoons and rabbits, young locals and visitors alike will enjoy coloring the animals, birds, and butterflies of the Rocky Mountains. Brief descriptions of appearance, habitat and activities will enhance their observations and discoveries of the great outdoors.
	Pruett Publishing

$14.95 Paperbound 280 pages	Covered Wagon Women Volume 1 Diaries & Letters from the Western Trails, 1840-1849	$14.95 Paperbound 302 pages	Covered Wagon Women Volume 2 Diaries & Letters from the Western Trails, 1850
	Edited and compiled by Kenneth L. Holmes		Edited and compiled by Kenneth L. Holmes

$15.95 Paperbound 291 pages	Covered Wagon Women Volume 3 Diaries & Letters from the Western Trails, 1851	$15.95 Paperbound 303 pages	Covered Wagon Women Volume 4 Diaries & Letters from the Western Trails, 1852 The California Trail
	Edited and compiled by Kenneth L. Holmes		Edited and compiled by Kenneth L. Holmes

$15.95 Paperbound 320 pages	Covered Wagon Women Volume 5 Diaries & Letters from the Western Trails, 1852 The Oregon Trail	$14.95 Paperbound 302 pages	Covered Wagon Women Volume 6 Diaries & Letters from the Western Trails, 1853-1854
	Edited and compiled by Kenneth L. Holmes		Edited and compiled by Kenneth L. Holmes

Set of volumes 1-6 "Covered Wagon Women" Series $75.00

$7.95 Paperbound 125 pages	Cowboy Cartoon Cookbook A Chuckwagon Load of Rib-ticklin' roundup Recipes	Zesty western recipes, cowboy cartoons and anecdotes. Cowboy artist Jim Willoughby and his wife, Sue, have combined their talents to produce these tantalizing selections. Saddle up the stove, 'cause you'll be riding the range to night! Yee-hah!
	Jim & Sue Willoughby

$17.95 Paperbound 285 pages	Coyotes and Canaries: Characters Who Made the West Wild...and Wonderful	In this enlightening volume, Wyoming historian and storyteller Larry Brown gives us the low-down on numerous residents of the "Equality State," from famed saddle maker, Frank Meanea, to the notorious Tom Horn, to Wyoming's first black legislator, William Jefferson Hardin. An absolute must for any interested in Wyoming history.
	Larry K. Brown

$14.00 Paperbound 303 pages	Crazy Woman Creek	Women living west of the Mississippi write of the ways they shape and sustain their communities. Whether these groups are organized, imposed, or spontaneous, this collection shows that where women gather, anything is possible. Women recall harmony found at a drugstore, at a powwow, in a sewing circle. Lively, heartfelt, urgent, enduring, Crazy Woman Creek celebrates community.
	edited by Linda M. Hasselstrom, Gaydell Collier, and Nancy Curtis

$4.95 Paperbound 2 pages	Cretaceous Dinosaurs Sticker Picture	A primeval landscape complete with rocks, vegetation and a river framed by hilly terrain is the perfect backdrop for 33 full-color reusable stickers. 9 1/4 x 12 1/4".
	Jan Sovak

$26.95 Hardcover 307pages	Devil's Gate Owning the Land, Owning the Story	Tom Rea goes to the heart of a seemingly empty place and finds a landscape teeming with life and death and many histories. With precision and passion, Rea unearths the human struggles long buried in this vast and lonesome country. This is western history at its most compelling.
	Tom Rea

$22.00 Softbound 408 pages	Digging Up Butch & Sundance	What a book? Hard-traveling historians on a quest. Romance! Altitude sickness! The driest desert in the World! Potentially deadly disputes over centuries-old bones! And finally, the answer to a ninety-year-old mystery.
	Anne Meadows

$2.95 Softcover	Dinosaur ABC Coloring Book	Llyn Hunter has dramatically rendered -- in alphabetical order -- 28 prehistoric beasts as they might have appeared in their natural habitats millions of years ago. Included extensive notes containing fascinating background information.
	Llyn Hunter

$4.95 Soft Cover 47 pages	I can read about: Dinosaurs	Explore the world of the dinosaur. Learn about their life styles and what they left behind.
	John Howard

$4.95 Paperbound 33 pages	Dinosaurs Big and Small	Some dinosaurs were BIG. How big? As long as four school busses in a row, as heavy as sixteen elephants. Some dinosaurs were small. How small? Read and find out!
	Kathleen Weidner Zoehfeld

$15.95 Paperbound 117 pages	Donner Party Cookbook A guide to survival on the Hastings Cutoff	Terry Del Bene combines a riveting narrative with his extensive knowledge of 19th century foods. Like peeling an onion, this account strips the story to the hard truths of overland travel as the layers of social and cultural belief and action that resulted in the 1846 tragedy in the Sierra Nevada are uncovered. There is nothing dry about the tale.
	Terry Del Bene, Ph.D.

$6.95 Paperbound 138 pages	Don't Squat With Yer Spurs On!	Another Collection of range witticisms, including the Cowboy Code & other tips for the trail.
	Texas Bix Bender

$13.95 Paperbound 367 pages	Down the Great Unknown John Wesley Powell's 1869 Journey of Discovery and Tragedy through the Grand Canyon	On May 23, 1869, a one-armed Civil War veteran named John Wesley Powell and a ragtag band of nine mountain men embarked on the last great quest in the American West. No one had ever explored the fabled Grand Canyon; to adventurers of that era it was a region almost as mysterious as Atlantis -- and as perilous. The ten men set out down the mighty Colorado River in wooden rowboats. Six survived.
	Edward Dolnick

$14.95 Paperbound 249 pages	Dreamers & Schemers	The profiles of thirty-one personalities in this book offer snap shots of men and women whose behavior helped shape Carbon County. Some were good, law abiding citizens; a few were cold, ruthless outlaws. Journey back in time to an earlier century. Meet Jim Baker, Joe Rankin, Big Nose George, Lillian Heath and more.
	Lori Van Pelt

Out of Print Unavailable $11.90 Paperbound 274 pages	Echoes from the Bluffs: Volume One	Series of historical articles originally published in the Green River Star from 1991 into 1998 about Green River, the county seat of Sweetwater County, Wyoming.
	Green River Historic Preservation Commission

$14.95 Paperbound 340 pages	Echoes from the Bluffs: Volume Two	Series of historical articles originally published in the Green River Star from 1998 into 2003 about Green River, Wyoming. Volume 2 also contains information previously published in the commission's brochure covering mayors since 1891 to the present.
	Green River Historic Preservation Commission

$18.00 Paperbound 797 pages	Empire Express Building the First Transcontinental Railroad	Beginning in 1842 with a visionary's dream to span the continent with twin bands of iron, Empire Express captures three dramatic decades in which the United States effectively doubled in size fought three wars, and began to discover a new national identity. Nominated for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize in History
	David Haward Bain

$11.00 Paperbound 77 pages	Esther Morris: First Woman Justice of the Peace	In 1969 Wyoming was the newest territory in the United States. It quickly became the first government in the world to grant women the right to vote and to hold public office. The following year, in February of 1870, Esther Morris became the first woman in the nation to hold judicial position.
	Lavinia Dobler

$10.95 Paperbound 397 pages	The Exploration Of The Colorado River And Its Canyons	On May 24, 1869, ten men in four boats pushed off at Green River, Wyoming. On August 30, six men in two boats down to their last ten pounds of moldy flour, fifteen pounds of dried and re-dried and re-dried apples and a few pounds of coffee, came out into open country at the mouth of the Virgin River - blackened, bearded, emaciated, in rags - and saw three Mormons and an Indian seining for fish in the shallows. This is a griping tale of the first trip down the Colorado River.
	John Wesley Powell

$8.95 Paperbound 48 pages	Fire A Force of Nature	Fire has been mankind's companion and foe since the dawn of time. It's a fundamental element of the planet, like air, shaping the patterns of life. Our opinion of fire has changed often, but fire itself is the same. The real challenge of fire is to understand it and the earth we life on. Beautiful full color photographs help tell the story of fire.
	Jack deGolia

$7.95 Paperbound 64 pages	Following Lewis and Clark's Track The Story of the Corps of Discovery	This activity book is focused around the purchase of the Louisiana Territory and the Experiences of the Corps of Discovery. The wide variety of exercises include: time lines, charts and graphs, map reading, word searches, puzzles and other activities that should appeal to young and old alike.
	William E. Hill

$6.99 Paperback 160 pages	Fossils	This "DK Pockets" book is systematically organized for easy access to information and contains diagrams, charts, maps, glossary, and index.
	Douglas Plamer

$4.99 Paperback 32 pages	Fossils Tell of Long Ago'	What is a fossil? A fossil is anything that has been preserved, one way or another that tells about life on Earth. But you can make a fossil, too -- something to be discovered a million years from now-- and this book will tell you how.
	Aliki

Out of Print Unavailable
$17.95
Paperbound
262 pages

Frontier Spirit:
The Story of Wyoming

From prehistory through the Indian wars,
from the wild years of te