Women in the West

Books are listed below in Alphabetic order

$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

$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

$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

$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

$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 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

$16.95 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

$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

$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

$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

$8.95 Paperbound 117 pages	The Great Wyoming Whorehouses	A collection of facts and tales from the written record, and from interviews with the people who experienced whorehouses.
	Tom Lawrence

$5.95 Hardbound 60 pages	Grit and Gumption: A Cowgirl's Guide	Gladiola Montana offers a familiar brand of trademark western wit and universal truth - never failing to hit the funny bone and strike the heart.
	Gladiola Montana

$17.95 Paperbound 394pages	Lady's Choice: Ethel Waxham's Journals & Letters, 1905-1910	"These letters are among the treasures of American History, bringing to life an adventurous, quick-witted woman and the laconic but determined man who wooed and won her."
	Compiled and Edited by Barbara Love & Frances Love Froidevaux

$10.95 Hardcover, plastic binding 120 pages	The Mormon Trail Cookbook: Endeavors, Struggles and Cooking Traditions of the Mormon Pioneers	The Mormon Trail Cookbook will take you on a trip through time beginning with traditional ethnic cooking. These traditional recipes are traced through time and the modern-day versions are also found.
	Morris

$7.95 Paperbound 64 pages	Mormon Trail: Voyage Of Discovery	A full color pictorial of scenes along the Mormon Trail.
	Stanley B. And Violet T. Kimball

$6.95 Hardbound 138 pages	Never Ask a Man the Size of His Spread: A Cowgirl's Guide To Life	Super-funny collection of range sayins' and words of cow-country wisdom for the ladies.
	Gladiola Montana

$14.95 Paperbound 244 pages	Petticoat Prisoners of old Wyoming	This completes Brown's trilogy about the wicked days of early Wyoming with stories of twenty-three women who became guests at the Gray Bar Hotel.
	Larry K. 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

$5.95 Hardbound 60 pages	Romance and Barbed Wire: Cowgirls In Love	Cowboy sweetheart Gladiola Montana shares her down-to earth philosophy on affairs of the cowgirl heart. She says it like it is - and like women wish it were.
	Gladiola Montana

$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

$14.95 Paperbound 255 pages	Wagons Wheels: A Contemporary Journey on the Oregon Trail	Climb aboard Ben Kern's lead wagon and retrace the Oregon Trail with the 150th Anniversary Wagon Train. Experience the trail first-hand through the diaries of modern-day travelers Ben Kern, Candy Moulton, and Earl Leggett, plus gain insight from the historic diaries of pioneer emigrants.
	Candy Moulton & Ben Kern

$10.95 Paperbound 133 pages	Wild Bunch Women	Feisty Females of the Wild West: Explore the lives of the pistol-packing, hell-raising, high-spirited gals who traveled with Butch Cassidy's notorious Wild Bunch Gang. These women not only made the Wild Bunch's feats of derring-do possible, but also forged their own legends in the tumultuous American West.
	Michael Rutter

$24.95 Paperbound 381 pages	Women in Waiting in the Westward Movement	The fascinating portraits of six frontier marriages, paying equal attention to the activities of each spouse. The family histories are told with verve and sensitivity. They provide new insight into the contributions that waiting eastern women made to settling the American West.
	Lindy Peavy and Ursula Smith

Out of Print Unavailable $9.95 Paperbound 104 pages	Women of the Wild Bunch	The Women of the Wild Bunch were beautiful; they were intriguingly bold; and they each loved an outlaw from the Old West. Read the biographies of Fanny Porter, Laura Bullion, Lillie Davis, Annie Rogers and Etta Place.
	Donna B. Ernst

$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

$13.95 Paperbound 366 pages	The Wyoming Lynching of Cattle Kate 1889	The most blatant crime in the history of the West. They lynched Cattle Kate & Jim Averell. This story is so controversial that for over 100 years it was a mistake to even ask what happened that hot July afternoon in 1889 when a gracious young woman and an innocent homesteader were hanged from a pine tree in the Sweetwater Valley.
	George W. Hufsmith

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