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Nathaniel Kimball Boswell added his own footnote to the colorful history of the country where he lived for 60 years. He was as fearless a lawman as the West ever saw. The days of wagon trains fearing Indian attacks, outlaw trails, lawless railroad towns, and range fights -- Boz lived through them all.The life story of Boswell is as exciting as any Western adventure movie. His courage, his daring, his conquests made him an important figure in t...

Horn was a death sentence to rustlers and the devil incarnate to homesteaders in late nineteenth-century Wyoming. The most notorious of the range detectives and the pre-eminent name in Wyoming history, he operated unchecked until he was arrested for the 1901 murder of the fourteen-year-old son of a sheep-ranching settler. The murder and questionable nature of Horn's conviction still ignite firestorms of controversy among historians and Wyoming...

Georgia O'Keeffe Said it and she took time to look closely at things, seeing and painting close-ups like no one else. Mary Lou Sanelli writes like O'Keeffe painted -- close to the heart of things, close at hand.In this collection of poetry Sanelli writes about friendships, about journeys, and about moving on.Sanelli has earned a solid reputation in the poetry community through a steady commitment to the writing and study of poetry and through ...

This is the Only comprehensive history of the awesome rock tower and the people who have been drawn to it. Sitting Bull, Custer, photographer/artist team Jackson and Moran, climbers, adventures, eccentrics -- they're all here!Chapters include Indian accounts of the landmark's origin, geology, historic exploration, classic climbs, and media events.

This Illustrated children's picture book tells the very best things about some very special dolls on display in a museum in Medora, North Dakota.A lively verse by Joan Hecht runs through the book, highlighting the detailed pen-and-ink drawings of antique dolls by Colorado artist Muriel Hecht.

Sheepwagon": A Home on wheels with an intriguing history, designed to house a sheepherder as he follows his flocks across the grasslands and mountains. A marvel of practicality and efficiency. But on a rare occasion, as I zoom down a highway, I spot the white top of a sheepwagon -- a lonely sentinel on the endless horizon -- and it fills my imagination.This photo-intensive book gives the history of the sheepwagon and the surrounding sheep busi...

Jane Candia Coleman's first book of poetry, No Roof But Sky, was received with enthusiasm by critics and readers alike.The Red Drum, winner of a 1994 Western Heritage Award from the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum, expands on that rich tradition. Here are poems that are eloquent, earthy, and exact in their insight into the unsentimental reality of the American West.

Roundups, Trail drives, a lynching, mail-order romances, black-smithing, Indians, the blizzard of 1885-86, bunkhouse humor, Calamity Jane, cattle barons -- Reuben Mullins experienced the West as it will never be again. This first-hand account, told by a man who lived the life, has become a respected range classic.

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...

Growing up on the edge of Laramie, Caroline Marwitz felt lost among the housing tracts that were swallowing up the prairie she loved. But she found her compass in a woman her grandmother's age who taught her about courage and curiosity. Through this friendship, forged on the Wyoming winds, she looks closely at where she lives, its natural and human history, and earns the right to call it home.

Jane Coleman absorbed the American West -- the startlingly rich, resonant world of Belle Starr, Geronimo, Chicken Jo, Archie and Edith, Sacajawea, the Jesus wagon, mountains, trails, plains, and mesas -- and distilled it into the fine, vibrant poetry of No Roof But Sky. Coleman is a storyteller, a historian, and a poet.

You Think There's nothing there? Think again. Interstate 80 through Wyoming is brimming with sights, history, and fascinating folks.More than Meets the Eye lists places to visit and sights to see, but the bulk of the book is interviews. Trevathan says "people are what give a place life. This book is mainly about Wyoming people who live and work along Interstate 80: miners, ranchers, artists, activists, a race track owner, a geologist, a servic...

Robert Roripaugh was Appointed by Governor Jim Geringer as Poet Laureate of Wyoming in 1995, capping Roripaugh's distinguished career as a poet and educator. Today, he continues to enjoy traveling the region promoting literature as poet laureate. High Plains Press is pleased to issue a reprint-edition of Learn to Love the Haze.

What is this Mysterious link between the land and the people of the American West? Barbara Allen Bogart traveled the West searching for the stories people tell about the places in which they live. She interviewed grizzled old-timers and wide-eyed newcomers.In Place records the stories she found, written in the voices of the storytellers themselves. Sit down with them and hear tales of the West -- first-hand accounts of blizzards and bears, ari...

Larry Brown has Gathered the stories of Wyoming's hog ranches, from Mother Featherlegs' place to the Nine Mile Ranch to the Hog Ranch at Fetterman. These colorful sties were brimming with sin, gunplay, gambling, murder, outlaws, and romance. There, a customer might while away his free time with a shot of rye, a game of faro, and a roll in the crib with a "soiled angel" made passably attractive by loneliness and miles of sage.

Edward Mark McGough continues his story of life in the most isolated Rocky Mountain high country and of the unforgettable people and animals who joined him there. Meet Harry, the jerkline freighter, soar with Aquila, the young eagle, romp with Speck, the border collie, and get to know Spider, the horse whose relationship with McGough is "part kinship, part mystery." Become friends with moose on the loose, bears in pairs, canines and porcupines...