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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-raising, yet charming, account of their struggles to build a homestead and raise a family at the foot of the Tetons provides a glimpse into life in an region so wild and scenic that powerful outside int...

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 champion rodeo cowgirl Prairie Rose Henderson, who died alone on her namesake prairie. Barney Ford, the son of a slave, owned the city's finest hotel. Persimmon Bill was a quick-change artist, a master...

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 champion rodeo cowgirl Prairie Rose Henderson, who died alone on her namesake prairie. Barney Ford, the son of a slave, owned the city's finest hotel. Persimmon Bill was a quick-change artist, a master...

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 words through letters and articles of the time of adventure, indep endence, foolhardiness, failure, and freedom.

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Poems celebrating the legacy of early southwest explorer, Jesuit missionary, horseman, philosopher Father Kino by award-winning author Jane Candia Coleman.

From Almond Station to Yellowstone National Park, Forts, Fights & Frontier Sites offers precise, compact histories of Wyoming frontier sites--many that have crumbled into the landscape and nearly faded from memory plus a few that have thrived. Author Candy Moulton has a gift for cutting through the clutter and getting to the heart of history.

From Almond Station to Yellowstone National Park, Forts, Fights & Frontier Sites offer precise, compact histories of Wyoming frontier sites?many that have crumbled into the landscape and nearly faded from memory plus a few that have thrived. Author Candy Moulton has a gift for cutting through the clutter and getting to the heart of history.

Independence Rock was a special landmark for most of the hundreds of thousands of emigrants who passed its imposing granite mass while traveling on the Oregon, California, and Mormon Trails. They left their names inscribed on the Rock in tar and paint and stone.Levida Hileman has spent countless hours exploring every square inch of Independence Rock's complex surface in search of every remaining record of those who came this way. In this book,...

Badmen on the Wyoming frontier? Many were lynched, but seven were legally hanged. You are respectfully invited to attend the executions.Badmen thrived in Wyoming Territory, but law and legal processes also existed. The frontier was so "civilized" that those men sentenced to hang were allowed to issue formal invitations to their executions.Read of the true stories of the crimes, lawmen, capture, investigations, escapes, trials, and deaths of th...

Ixteen Poets Write of women on the American Frontier during the pioneer days -- ax-toting crusaders and nameless lonely women, wild strawberries and lilacs, hangings and drought.

The Lynching of Cattle Kate (Ellen Watson) and Jim Averell by six prominent cattlemen filled the pages of Wyoming newspapers in 1889.The popular myth of the West was that Watson was a prostitute who galloped across the prairies and bartered sex for calves.For years residents of the Sweetwater Valley knew that these stories were not true. They knew that Ellen Watson's biggest crime was legally claiming a homestead on a piece of ground being use...

The West and Ed Farlow grew up together. Farlow was just sixteen years old in 1876 when, after hearing exciting tales of western adventures, he and a friend hopped a freight train for Laramie.He recounts versions of famous events -- the Custer Battle, a buffalo hunt with Indians, the Wilcox train robbery, the Battle of Crowheart Butte, a wolf roundup. And he recalls famous people -- Sacajawea, the Hole-in-the-Wall gang, Colonel Tim McCoy, Joan...

When Horse-Drawn wagons retraced the Oregon Trail to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the Great Migration, Candy Moulton, as a correspondent for the Casper Star-Tribune, climbed into the lead wagon driven by Ben Kern.Moulton and Kern's Wagon Wheels is a unique book comparing the trail and the trip -- then and now. Read about the journey, the friendships, the landscape, the weather, the animals, and the politics of an overland crossing by w...

Coyotes & Canaries delves into the lives of some of the most intriguing historical figures in Wyoming--indeed in all the West. Author Larry Brown introduces us to such characters as Lou Polk and Dell Burke, soiled doves who not only survived but prospered, Ella "Cattle Kate" Watson who, due to the greed of others, died at the end of a rope, writer Owen Wister, suffragette and historian Grace Raymond Hebard, artist Juan Menchaca, world champion...

Some Authors Try all their lives to achieve a "voice, " Julia Brown Tobias draws you into her childhood with a voice as clear and wise and elegant as any author today.Julia Brown Tobias was born in 1902 in Nebraska. Here she gives us the story of her childhood, growing up on the prairie with her family and neighbors who seem to have just arrived from central casting.There is Mama whose strongest epithet was "Thunder and Mud" which she muttered...

Rugged Men and women dared to brave the weather, mountain soil, and the isolation to settle the magnificent valley under the Tetons. Mavericks, homesteaders, trappers, merchants, cowboys, hunters, dudes, and Easterners -- it was a blend that created a vigorous, exciting community. A community with many stories to tell.There are stories that will make you laugh like the one of Joe Nethercott who came home to find his neighbors had turned his ca...

Historian Larry Brown once again uses his incredible research skills to bring the Old West to life. In this third volume of Brown's territorial crime series, he introduces us to the twenty-three women who served time in Old Wyoming's penitentiary.What did these women, wearing frills, lace, and their best bonnets for their mug shots, do to deserve time behind bars? Anna Bruce baked poison into her father's plum pie, Anna Trout abandoned her gra...

Steamboat, " the Legendary" bucking horse, was never conquered. The spirit of the horse -- fiery, free, and determined -- captured the imagination of people of Wyoming and the West. Steamboat became a symbol.Was Steamboat the horse who "wouldn't be rode?" Which men climbed aboard the horse? Who is the cowboy atop the horse on the famous logo on the Wyoming license tag? How is Steamboat connected to Cheyenne Frontier Days, the notorious range d...

Murders, Crimes of passion, a lynching, barroom brawls -- they exploded with the birth of the new town of Casper, Wyoming.Shot Down! chronicles the capital crimes of Casper from 1890 to 1913. Author Babcock tells of the first murder when a bartender in Louella Polk's dance hall shot Red Jack Tidwell, this only months after Black Dogae Lee cut off Polk's nose. Read about the most famous murder, when Harvey "Kid Curry" Logan killed popular sheri...