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Wyoming rancher Patricia Frolander's previous work Married into It received many prestigious awards, including a Western Heritage Center Wrangler Award and a Women Writing the West WILLA Award. After a period of loss and adjustment, Frolander "embraces a second wind" in these poems of validation and renewal, shown through community, family, nature, and ranch life. Frolander once again is able to capture on paper the essence of Wyoming ranch li...

Before most women even had the right to vote Esther Hobart Morris became the first female justice of the peace in the United States. She held this position in the Wyoming mining town of South Pass City. Author Kathryn Swim Cummings uses letters Esther wrote along with years of research to flesh out Esther s story and provide much needed clarity to her historic contributions.

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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 has been in the family for over a century. Moving through the days of a year, she is never afraid to show the reader the most difficult thing of allthe truth of her life. The portrait that emerges ...

The truth and the myth about the notorious Slade, the most feared man in the Old West.

The truth and the myth about the notorious Jack Slade, the most feared man in the Old West.

W.C. Jameson, an expert on treasure hunting, now turns his attention to Wyoming s lost fortunes. With his gift for storytelling, he relates intriguing legends and historical accounts of lost gold, buried payrolls, and hidden strongboxes. Jameson takes us on an adventure to the four corners of Wyoming to investigatae tehe Snake River Pothold Gold, the Hallelujah Gulch Robbery Loot, the Lost Treasure of Big Nose George, the Lost Cabin Gold Mine,...

W.C. Jameson, an expert on treasure hunting, now turns his attention to Wyoming s lost fortunes. With his gift for storytelling, he relates intriguing legends and historical accounts of lost gold, buried payrolls, and hidden strongboxes. Jameson takes us on an adventure to the four corners of Wyoming to investigatae tehe Snake River Pothold Gold, the Hallelujah Gulch Robbery Loot, the Lost Treasure of Big Nose George, the Lost Cabin Gold Mine,...

During the 1960s Gaydell Collier, husband Roy and their four children moved into a cabin near the community of Harmony, Wyoming. The cabin provided for their basic needs, but lacked indoor plumbing and other modern amenities of the time. The family along with their quirky pets provide a humorous tone to this story of growth, self reliance, and the importance of community and family.

This poetry book provides a revealing glimpse into the life of a female rancher, in Wyoming. It shows the hardships and joys involved into the demanding occupation. The book provides poetic views on family, community and the land itself.

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With eloquent and exact language, Stacy Coyle captures the complexities of a landscape both powerful and forgiving. Here she casts her poet's eye on inhabitants of the American West: moose, horses, elk, coyotes, and humans, on a spring tooth harrow and an Aermotor windmill, on seldom heard from places like Ramona, Kansas, and Albin, Wyoming, on things as hard to see as an American marten and Montana's smallest fish. She writes of the ever-chan...

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, Cincinnati and other Ohio, Kansas and Nebraska towns to Fort Laramie, Fort Halleck, the Powder River, and other frontier locations. Accounts are taken from first-hand sources such as newspaper articles,...

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