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Out of Print Unavailable
Hardbound
387 pages

Arrowheads: 
50 Years of Collecting 1925-197
5
A privately published work cataloging the collecting efforts of a local enthusiast.
Albert Dolenc

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$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

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Out of Print Unavailable

$18.95
Paperbound
187 pages

8,000 miles of
Dirt

A backroad travel guide to Wyoming

The backroad travel guide describing 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

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Out of Print Unavailable

$11.90
Paperbound
274 pages

Echoes from the Bluffs:

Volume One

Series of historical articles about 
Green River, the county seat of 
Sweetwater County, Wyoming.
Green River Historic Preservation Commission

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$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

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$21.00
Softcover
159 pages
 

Ghost Towns of Wyoming Through the pages of this book, the streets of these deserted towns come back to life, while exploring these towns, you will find adventure, great outdoor vistas, wildlife, and, occasionally, the story of lost treasure of the alleged spirit.
Bruce A. Raisch

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$15.95
Paperbound
310 pages

Hidden Wyoming

Where Vacations 
Meet Adventures

Selective recommendations and opinionated reviews lead you to hiking trails through the Tetons, ghost towns in the Big Horn and mineral springs in Yellowstone.   
John Gottberg

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Historic Image Magnets Choose from eight different old time Green River images.  Each measures 3 1/2"x2".
$3.00 each

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$35.00
Hardbound
192 pages

Historical Images of
Sweetwater County
Sweetwater County sits in the heart of the 
"Old West."  The diversity of the nationalities living in the area reflects a past rich in tradition and change.  The pictures presented were 
chosen to show people living in a place 
"where the old west stayed young."
A. Dudley Gardner &
Val Brinkerhoff

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Out of Print Unavailable
Hardbound
193 pages

Incident At Bitter Creek: The Story Of The Rock Springs Chinese Massacre “…the first book-length account of ‘the worst race riot in American history’ is the story of a tragic confrontation between the Union Pacific Railway and Wyoming coal miners over control of the richest coalfields west of the Missouri---and the larger question of whether wealthy businessmen or wage earners and their unions would control the American workplace,” (cover notes).
Craig Storti

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$7.95
Paperbound
64 pages

John Wesley Powell:
Voyage of Discovery
The Story Behind 
the Scenery
The story of Powell's exploration of the Green River from Green River City, Wyoming to the Grand Canyon in Arisona.  
Stunning 9"x12" photos.
Edited by 
Mary L. Van Camp

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$14.95
Softcover
230 pages

Outskirt Episodes In rousing period style, Civil War veteran and frontiersman William G. Tittsworth tells the tales of the raw land of southwestern Wyoming in the late nineteenth century in his memoirs. The frontier characters, thought by many to be based on actual historical characters act out their dramas on the stage of early Sweetwater  County history.
William G. Tittsworth

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$0.25

Postcards Assorted souvenir picture postcards to keep or mail.

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$11.95
Paperbound
205 pages

Rock Springs:

Growing Up in a Wyoming Coal Town
1915-1938

A small, wind-blown coal town in southwestern Wyoming is the setting for this fond memoir of the years between the World Wars.  Author Tom Cullen gives a glimpse of the "tough, dirty and mean" little town of Rock Springs and the joys and sorrows of his childhood there.
Thomas P. Cullen

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$22.59
Paperbound
314 pages

Roamin' Wyomin':

Circlin' Great Divide Basin

Tom Cullen tell tales of the area around the Great Divide Basin and many interesting sites immediately surrounding that awesome, fascinating, wind-blown and sun burnished stretch of high desert.  Where his eyes, ears, nose, hands, and feet have researched catalogued, and accessioned much new material.  

Tom Cullen

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$6.50
Paperbound
39 pages

The Streamliner: Green River in the 1950's

 

The Official Publication of the 
Union Pacific Historical Society -- 
Green River in the 1950's
UP Historical Society

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Out of Print Unavailable

$18.96
Soft Cover
288 pages

Our Valley

Eden Valley, Wyoming

The settling of Eden Valley -- one family's story.
Ora E. Wright and 
Lenora W. Wright

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Thomas Moran:

Cliffs of Green River

Beautiful Thomas Moran print of the cliffs of Green River.  Measures 20"x36".
Print on Canvas 
$84.00
Print on paper
$19.95

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$24.95
Paperbound
522 pages

The Ultimate Wyoming Atlas and Travel Encyclopedia

The essential reference guide to the Cowboy State.  129 detailed maps and mile-by-mile information on all Wyoming State and Federal highways.  Includes information on dining, lodging, campgrounds, hopping, scenic drives, ghost towns, resorts, National Historic Trails informtion and more..  

Ultimate Press

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$4.00

view of

Green River,
Wyoming Territory

Print of early Green River.  

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$16.95
Paperbound
562 pages

Wild Horses: 
A Spirit Unbroken
Wild Horses exist in as diverse and hostile locations as the arid deserts of India and the remote sandbanks of Sable Island off the coast of Nova Scotia.  This book traces their origins and explains how geographic history and crossbreeding have influenced their development and provided the variety of breeds that now exist worldwide.  Excellent photography catches many of the breeds and their habitats in vivid color.
Elwyn Hartley Edwards

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$19.95
Paperbound
72 pages

Wyoming
Atlas & Gazetteer
Detailed Topographic Maps in an 11x15" book.  Includes Back roads, BLM, State Lands and GPS Grids.  Great for Hunters, Campers or every day use. 
DeLorme

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Wyoming Brew
T-Shirt

$19.95

100% cotton T-Shirt with Sweetwater Brewing Co. Logo on front and back.  

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