Native Americans

Books are listed below in Alphabetic order

$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 he Ancient Ones of 800 years ago. (Cover Notes)
	Photographs by Van Brinkerhoff Text by A. Dudley Gardner

$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

$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

$3.95 Paperbound 16 pages	North American Indian Girl and Boy Paper Dolls	This contains a boy and a girl doll, and 31 different full-color outfits accurately recreating the native dress of 19 tribes that span a vast area of the North American Continent. Ages 8-14.
	Kathy Allert

$29.95 Hardbound 320 pages	People of the Wind River The Eastern Shoshones 1825-1900	The first book length history of the Eastern Shoshones, tells the tribe's story through eight tumultuous decades -- from 1825, when they reached mutual accommodations with the first permanent white settlers in Wind River county, to 1900, when the death of Chief Washakie marked the final break with their traditional lives as nineteenth century Plains Indians.
	Henry E. Stamm, IV

$12.95 Paperbound 279 pages	Ponder The Path	Book One of the authors’ Talking History Series, this book “…is a stirring narrative of the westward expansion of the United States between 1808 and 1830, “ (from Foreword).
	Gary Wiles and Delores Brown

$18.00 Softcover 416 pages	Roadside History of Wyoming	To know Wyoming is to experience its physical presence, and there's no better way to to that than by driving its roads and learning its history. Well-researched, well-told stories are set against the dramatic backdrop of the land itself to reveal how Wyoming's natural environment affected human activity through time.
	Candy Moulton

$17.95 Paperbound 214 pages	Sacajawea	Few personalities in American history have been more idealized -- or more controversial -- than Sacajawea, the young Shoshoni Indian woman who accompanied Lewis and Clark on their epic journey across the continent. Sacajawea's path is retraced from the Mandan Indian village to the Pacific Ocean and back.
	Harold P. Howard

$4.99 Paperbound 192 pages	Sacagawea: American Pathfinder	Easy to read novel for children eight and up of one of America's famous children. The story begins when Sacagawea is only a child and continues on as she leads Lewis and Clark on their Discovery expedition.
	Flora Warren Seymour

$10.00 Paperbound 124 pages	Sacagawea's Son: The Life of Jean Baptiste Charbonneau	The exciting, surprising, and sometimes poignant story of a boy born to adventure. At the age of two months, Baptiste experienced the first of his many exploits when his parents took time along on Lewis and Clark's Corps of Discovery expedition. Educated in St. Louis he went on to live in a royal palace in Europe before he returned to the United States to become a mountain man, scout and gold prospector.
	Marion Tinling

$12.00 Paperbound 337 pages	WASHAKIE Chief of the Shoshones	Washakie was chief of the eastern band of the Shoshone Indians for almost sixty years, until his death in 1900. a strong leader of his own people, he was the wisdom of befriending the whites. Washakie is seen signing historic treaties, aiding overland emigrants in the 1850s, and finally assisting whites in fighting the Sioux.
	Grace Raymond Hebard

$24.95 Softcover 254 pages	Wind River Adventures: My Life in Frontier Wyoming	In this never-before-published historic memoir Ed Farlow recalls a life like no other - starting with his arrival as a teenager in Wyoming in the 1870's and continuing until 1931 when he was adopted into the Arapaho Nation. He recounts versions of famous events - the Custer Battle, a buffalo hunt with Indians, the Wilcox train robbery, the Battle of Crowheart Butte. And he recalls famous people - Sacajawea, the Hole-in-the-Wall gang, Chief Washakie, Joan Crawford, Cattle Kate and more.
	Edward J. Farlow

$14.00 Softbound 285 pages	What You See In Clear Water Indians, Whites, and a Battle Over Water in the American West	For nearly a century, the Indians on the Wind River Reservation in Wyoming have been battling their white farmer neighbors over the rights to the Wind River. This book tells the story of this epic struggle, shedding light on the ongoing conflict over water rights in the American West, one of the most divisive and essential issues in America today.
	Geoffrey O'Gara

$16.95 Softcover 323 pages	Women's Voices from the Western Frontier	Butruille has done much more than gather the words of different western women who confronted an awesome landscape when it was called a frontier. She engages those voices with her own, she matches their lives with our. This book is radiant with songs and words and lives. White women, Indian women, black women, Asian women, all roads come together.
	Susan G. Butruille

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