Wyoming

Books are listed below in Alphabetic order

$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 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

$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 Wyoming Voices for Wilderness	In this collection of esseys 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

$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

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

$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

$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

$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

$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

$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 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

$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

$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 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

$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

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 territorial Wyoming up to the conflicts and coming of age in the twentieth century, Wyoming's past comes to life in these pages.
	Craig Sodaro and Randy Adams

$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

$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

$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

$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

$14.95 Paperbound 262 pages	History From The Highways: Wyoming	“Tales of Wyoming’s past are laid out along the state’s principal roadways and illustrate all the major eras in the Cowboy State’s history….” (Cover notes).
	Thomas Schmidt and Winfred Blevins

$9.95 Paperbound 125 pages	Hog Ranches Of Wyoming: Liquor, Lust And Lies Under Sagebrush Skies	A history of the settlements, which sprang up near western army posts. “Hog ranches” offered the amusements of alcohol, prostitutes and games of chance to soldiers.
	Larry K. Brown

$10.95 Paperbound 144 pages	I Didn't Know That About Wyoming	More than 200 questions with answers on subjects such as Indian legends, movies filmed in Wyoming, why some places have such interesting names, and famous Wyomingites.
	Lavinia Dobler

$19.95 Paperbound 173 pages	I See by Your Outfit: Historic Cowboy Gear of the Northern Plains	No Hollywood flim-flam or arty Photographic re-creation here. Historic photographs show what actual working cowboys of the Northern Plains wore and what equipment they used.
	Tom Lindmier & Steve Mount

$12.00 Paperbound 339 pages	I, Tom Horn	The fictional autobiography of Tom Horn that answers decisively the question - did Tom Horn kill fourteen-year-old Willie Nickell, or was he framed?.
	Will Henry

$19.95 Paperbound 349 pages	In Tar and Paint and Stone The Inscriptions at Independence Rock and Devil's Gate	The definitive history and index of inscriptions found on Independence Rock -- The Oregon Trail's "Great Register of the Desert."
	Levida Hileman

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

$15.95 Paperbound 333 pages	Jim Bridger: Mountain Man	A biography of Jim Bridger. He was one of the greatest explorers and pathfinders in American history. He was a legend in his own time as well as ours. He remains one of the most important scouts and guides in the history of the West. (cover notes)
	Stanley Vestal

$16.95 Paperbound 336 pages	Joe Meek: The Merry Mountain Man	Born in Virginia, Joe Meek became a trapper, Indian fighter, pioneer, peace officer, and lover of practical jokes. He was a boon companion to Kit Carson and Jim Bridger, and just as important in frontier history.
	Stanley Vestal

$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

$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

$34.5 Hardcover 180 pages	The Lincoln Highway Wyoming	Presents a narrative history of the highway in the state, including a driving guide, followed by a dossier of maps. The U.S. Geological Survey's 7.5 minutes quadrangles are used a a base, with the routes of the several variations of the Lincoln Highway overlaid as dark gray bands. Chapters take you county by county through Wyoming with pictures to illustrate many land marks.
	Gregory M. Franzwa

$7.95	Mammals of the South, Central and Northern Rocky Mountains	This guide includes all of the larger mammals who make their home in the southern, central or northern Rocky Mountains. In addition, the most commonly seen representatives of the smaller species are included. Description includes body, head and tail size. Also specific food, habitat and security requirements are discussed.

$11.95 Paperbound 221 pages	More than Meets the Eye: Wyoming Along Interstate 80	Interstate 80 through Wyoming is brimming with sights, history and fascinating folks. You'll find them all in these pages.
	Mary Ann Trevathan

$19.95 Paperbound 419 pages	The Oregon Trail Revisited	The emigrants who pioneered the Oregon Trail and settled the West Coast have become American heroes and a source of inspiration today. Included in this book are detailed instructions to precise locations along the trail, which may be reached in a family car.
	Gregory M. Franzwa

$7.95 Paperbound 64 pages	Oregon Trail: Voyage of Discovery	A full color pictorial of scenes along the Oregon Trail.
	Dan Murphy

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

$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

$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

$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

$8.95 Paperbound 64 pages	Pony Express: The Story Behind the Scenery	Follow the Pony Express trail from St. Joseph Missouri to San Francisco, California. Beautiful photographs of the Pony Express story in this full-color 9x12" book are accompanied by stories and descriptions.
	Anthony Godfrey & Roy Webb

$0.25	Postcards	Assorted souvenir picture postcards to keep or mail.

$14.95 Softcover 128 pages	Pushed Off the Mountain Sold Down the River Wyoming's Search for It's Soul	Pushed Off the Mountain asks the question few want to discuss: How long with Wyoming champion a mythology that leads to chronic rootlessness and an inability to influence its future: Samuel Western, a longtime correspondent for The Economist of London, feels that a solution to Wyoming's economic woes has little to do with money but instead rethinking the rendition of its "way-of-life" myths.
	Samuel Western

$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

$13.00 Paperbound 214 pages	Rising from the Plains	This is the story of an isolated ranch in the center of Wyoming, soon after the turn of the century, and of the geologist who grew up there, at home with the composition of the high country in the way that someone growing up in a coastal harbor would be at home with the vagaries of the sea.
	John McPhee

$35.00 Hardbound 673 pages	A River Running West The Life of John Wesley Powell	John Wesley Powell embodied the energy, optimism, and westward impulse of America in his time. This important new biography captures this spirit, providing a magisterial life of this great American explorer and an unforgettable chapter in the sage of the American West. (Jacket Cover)
	Donald Worster

$18.00 Paperbound 265 pages	Roadside Geology of Wyoming	Here are Wyoming's rocks and landscapes in all their richness and variety. Here is the story of how it came to be.
	David R. Lageson and Darwin R. Spearing

$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

$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

$12.95 Paperbound 152 pages	Rockhounding in Wyoming	The 75 sites described in this guide will take you across the red desert to the high mountain majesty of the Big Horns and Wind Rivers as well as the geologic wonders of Yellowstone National Park.
	Kenneth Lee Graham

$12.95 Paperbound 314 pages	The Romantic and Notorious History of Brown's Park	Brown's Park, on the Green River, lies partly in Utah and Colorado. It is astride the old Outlaw Trail, which ran from old Mexico and Arizona, through Wyoming, Montana, and into Alberta. Many outlaws passed through Brown's Park, including Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid.
	Diana Allen Kouris

$77.95 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

$12.00 Paperbound 211 pages	Saddles & Spurs: The Pony Express Saga	The story of the Pony Express is one of the most invigorating and satisfying episodes in American History. Projected against an account of the historical background is the narrative of the Pony Express's organization and the laying out of its route.
	Raymond W. Settle and Mary Lund Settle

$14.00 Softcover 211 pages	Sagebrush Country A Wildflower Sanctuary	Through color photographs and non-technical descriptions this field guide explores the elegance of the sagebrush steppe as expressed in the colorful spring and fall flowers and, more subtly, in the wondrous adaptations that enable plants to withstand the extremes so typical of this harsh environment.
	Ronald J. Taylor

$20.00 Softcover 194 pages	Saving Yellowstone The President Arthur Expedition of 1883	For most of August 1883 a military expedition headed by President Chester A. Arthur and guided by Lt. Gen. Philip Sheridan crossed 500 miles of lightly settled Wyoming Territory. The goal was to reach Yellowstone National Park and tour it before returning to civilization. A primary objective of the expedition was to raise the awareness of U.S. Citizens to the attractions along the route, and the need for preservation of the park..
	Robert E. Hartley

$32.50 Hardbound 235 pages	A Saw, Pocket Instruments, and Two Ounces of Whiskey: Frontier Military Medicine in the Great Basin	This careful description of the medical officers and contract physicians, their army posts, their medical practice and their patients' problems is local history at its best.