No Hollywood flim-flam or arty photographic re-creation here. Lindmier and Mount demonstrate through the use of historic photographs what actual working cowboys of the Northern Plains wore and what equipment they used from the 1870s until 1928. …
Author Bill Betenson grew up hearing family stories around the campfire about his famous uncle Robert LeRoy Parker, better known as the outlaw Butch Cassidy. Betenson has spent decades asking questions about the life and exploits of Butch Cassidy. H…
In an indispensable book for genealogists and trail buffs, Levida Hileman presents a comprehensive history of Independence Rock, plus an alphabetical listing of over 2,000 names she and other surveyors have found inscribed on the Rock "in tar and pa…
or so long, the sheepwagon was such a common sight on the western landscape that it has been overlooked as an important part of the region's culture. Other than a few articles about the quaint sheepwagon or the lonely life of the rapidly disappearin…
Nature writer, poet, and longtime leader in land stewardship, Linda M. Hasselstrom examines several generations of family diaries searching for an understanding of her ancestors and for direction in planning for the future of the plains ranch which…
Women have always followed the troops, but military laundresses were the first to be carried on the rolls of the U.S. Army. They traveled and lived alongside the soldiers during two of the most important conflicts in United States history: the Civil…
Early Cheyenne, Wyoming, was jam-packed with fascinating people, both famous and infamous. Lori Van Pelt has written 24 biographies ranging from water law pioneer Elwood Mead, whose name graces one of the nation's most spectacular reservoirs, to cha…
Lots of people wish they were related to a famous person. Bill Betenson is Butch Cassidy is his great-uncle. Bill's interest in Butch Cassidy was sparked when he was four years old and attended a private screening of the Paul Newman/Robert Redford m…
Author Fern Nelson moved to Jackson, Wyoming, before she was a year old. She participated in much of the history of Jackson's Hole and was acquainted with the early settlers. She had the presence of mind to interview Jackson's Hole old-timers during…
"On this range we called home, old-time cowboys worked cattle on snaky broncs, and the stories and signs left behind by Native Americans and outlaws were still fresh. Without telephones or electricity, we depended one each other and read at night by…
High Plains Book Award Finalist Colorado Book Award Finalist Winner of the prestigious 2020 Spur Award in Biography Author Diana Allen Kouris, a native of Brown's Park, utilized her personal and family connections, along with years of research, to m…
Married into It is a collection of poems about Wyoming ranch life. Author, Patricia Frolander, writes a series of poems about the harshness of ranch life, the joy of finally being accepted and the beauty of Wyoming. These poems are about life, love…
Julia Brown Tobias gives us a giftthe realistic story of growing up on the prairie with her unforgettable family and neighbors who seem to have just arrived from central casting. There is Mama whose strongest epithet was "Thunder and Mud"…
In 1914, Linda and Mac McKinstry left their secure jobs in Washington, D.C., married, and moved west to establish a homestead in country both untouched and beautiful, but also inhospitable, dangerous, and forty miles from anywhere. Their hair-…
Bad in the Good Old Days contains stories about some of the most notorious, corrupt and complex criminals, men and women, in Old Wyoming and the West. One thing that makes the stories particularly interesting is that the author received m…
Instead of talking about women's rights, these frontier women grabbed the opportunity to become landowners by homesteading in the still wild west of the early 1900s. Here they tell their stories in their own wordsthrough letters and articles of the…
In the 1940s coal camp of Stansbury, Wyoming, life revolved around the underground mine, community, and family. In many ways, it was the idyllic model town Union Pacific Coal had built it to be. Families had homes with indoor plumbing, children enjo…
Ed Farlow seems to have been present at every important historic event in the West. If he wasn't, he knew someone who was. In this historic memoir Ed Farlow recalls a life like no otherstarting with his arrival as a teenager in Wyoming in…
The lynching of Ellen Watson and Jim Averell by six prominent and politically powerful Wyoming cattlemen rocked the nation in July 1889. Newspapers immediately proclaimed that Ellen Watson (erroneously called Cattle Kate) and Jim Averell…
Candy and Flossie Moulton present the story behind this horse whose likeness is the symbol of Wyoming seen on the state's license plates and as the University of Wyoming logo. The book traces the history of the bucking horse from his youth on the Tw…
The Boys of Company K shows how life was for the common soldier on the dangerous western prairies. The men faced the threat of hostile Indians, disease, and unpredictable Wyoming weather. Follow the boys on their journey from Hillsboro, Dayton, Cinc…
One June morning in 1895, five men made their final goodbyes on a platform in Lawrence, Kansas. The mena politician, a professor, two students, and an interested citizenwere leaving town for the summer. They would live among the grassland…
