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Girl with Skirt of Stars
by Jennifer Kitchell
Lilli Chischilly's world is one in which she is continually seeking the spiritual balance at the heart of her culture; she stands with one foot firmly planted in the world of the Dine'é, her Navajo People, and the other in the white world of the Bilagáana, where her legal skills and deep understanding of both cultures have put her in the political spotlight.
But to Lilli everything seems to be about agendas and everyone appears to want something from her. Her boss at the Navajo Nation's Historic Preservation Department sends her down the river, literally, with the front running candidate for the presidency of the United States, a man with a less than surprising agenda of his own.
And what sort of agenda does Jerome Bah have? Lilli's childhood best friend has recently returned to the reservation and is trying to tell her something through his haunting aerial photographs. Even the most ancient and revered Navajo healer wants something from Lilli, but just what that something might be is not yet clear.
Darker forces are at work here as well. A murdered Navajo grandfather, symbolically marked, is found in the strange landscape of the hoodoos, and someone is determined that a Mormon man named Lee will never be the American president. It is up to Lilli to find her way to the center of this labyrinth as the mighty Colorado carries a raft full of people toward the unknown and the unexpected.
This stunning debut novel will carry the reader on a heart-pounding journey through Navajo mysticism, political manipulation and the workings of a twisted mind obsessed with an historical event that could reach out from the past to change the future.
344 Pages ISBN# 978-1-932636-56-7
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Justin
A Father’s Fight for His Son
by Abe Morris
In 1996 retired champion bull rider Abe Morris was settled in his community, career and ready to meet someone with whom he could share his life. That’s what he prayed for. And then he met Lorena. He was immediately smitten and their long distance courtship soon led to marriage, a move and a son. But this match was not made in Heaven and as his marriage crumbled, Abe found himself at the mercy of a court system that seemed unwilling or unable to give a father a fair hearing.
This is the ongoing story of more than ten years of his struggle against a system and its advocates who seem far more interested in processing than facts. Decisions based on false information, court orders defied and unenforced, and consequences that only seem to flow in one direction as attorneys don't follow through plague Morris’s legal struggles. While some of his story may seem too bizarre to be true, he and his son have lived and continue to live it. And he shares it here in a effort to shed some light on the perspective of the other side in these cases, and to beg both advocates and courts to slow down and take a closer look at what is brought before them. Abe hopes his story will encourage other struggling fathers not to give up.
Abe Morris is a highly acclaimed motivational speaker whose first book, My Cowboy Hat Still Fits, documents his rodeo career and has garnered him fans across the country.
To learn more abut Abe and Justin, visit his website at www.abemorris.com.
296 Pages
ISBN# 978-1-932636-54-3 Paper $19.95
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Prayers From the Manger
A Celebration of Those Who Were There
by Annette Chaudet
Illustrated by Paige Money
This delightful little book offers a new telling of the Christmas story as the author imagines for us the reactions of those who were present at Jesusí birth. Eleven animals, along with the overwhelmed innkeeper, offer prayers expressing their thoughts on that special night and the arrival of Godís gift of Light to a waiting world. Beautifully illuminated by the watercolor illustrations of artist Paige Money, Prayers from the Manger is sure to become a new Christmas classic.
28 Pages ISBN# 978-1-932636-57-4
8.5"x8.5"
Illustrated in Full Color
$16.95
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Home Range
Essays on the Land
by Annette Chaudet
Home Range offers a view northwestern Wyoming as seen through the eyes of an artist who describes for us the smells, colors and textures of landscape. The distances between towns in the region are considerable, the land itself vast and varied throughout the seasons of the year. Spending countless hours on the highways allows ample time for contemplation and observation and the author shares her thoughts in some rather unusual ways as she sights cattle with mudball anklets, cloud-formed ships sailing the endless sea of the sky, and the staring eyes on the trunks of aspens. She takes a close-up look at the industry of ants in the red dirt of the prairie, deer methodically pawing though snow in search of windfall crabapples and the intimidating presences of bridges when seen from below. The author's views of her personal "Home Range" including color photographs offer readers a different way of looking at their own surroundings even as they marvel at her unique perspective.
Annette Chaudet is the author of two novels, Beyond the World and Montana Spring (written as Richard Magniet), a collection of not-short stories, Endings & Beginnings and several books for children including The Nose Book, A Jungle Book and Prayers from the Manger.
132 Pages ISBN# 978-1-932636-53-6
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Two Dot Ranch
A Biography of Place
by Nancy Heyl Ruskowsky
This is the history of the Two Dot, at one time recognized by many as the largest ranch in the world. So begins the story of a unique part of the vast landscape of the state of Wyoming, a privately held piece of paradise that has changed hands and purpose over the years through the efforts of the settlers, homesteaders, managers, employees, and owners who have called it home since the last quarter of the nineteenth century. Before that the native peoples, among them the Bannocks, Crow and Blackfeet from the north and the Shoshone and Arapaho from the south, were sustained for centuries by the land that would one day be known as the Two Dot Ranch.
There is no doubt that the Two Dot has also left its mark on those whose contact has been brief from John Coulter after he and Corps of Discovery had succeeded in reaching the shores of the Pacific, to Chief Joseph, whose attempt to lead his people to safety in Canada took him through what would become Two Dot lands, and to the many cooks, cowboys, hunters, travelers and guests who have experienced Two Dot's grandure. Today travelers can follow the Chief Joseph Highway across a beautiful section of the ranch on their way to Sunlight Basin and on to Yellowstone National Park, sampling just a small taste of what the Two Dot Ranch must be like.
Includes more than 130 historic photographs
400 Pages
ISBN# 978-1-932636-47-5 Trade Paper $22.95
ISBN# 978-1-932636-48-2 Cloth
$37.95
A few copies remain of a larger format hardcover Collectors Edition, hand numbered and limited to 350 copies.
ISBN#978-1-932636-46-8 $80.00
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Following Lewis & Clark
A 4,200 Mile Walk
by Guy Gertsch
“Sedentary recall is okay, I guess, especially if all doings are done and remembering is satisfying.”
But sedentary recall wasn’t satisfying for this author so he decided to experience one of his favorite parts of Western history for himself. Despite the reactions of his friends who insisted he was far too old, at sixty, to begin such a journey, in May of 2004 (200 years to the day and minute) and from Wood River, Illinois at Camp Dubois, Guy Gertsch began following the route that carried the Corps of Discovery all the way to the Pacific Ocean. And though it would take him a year to complete his journey, Gertsch, like Lewis and Clark before him, kept a journal of his adventures in a very different time.
Gertsch’s sense of humor and wry observations make for an entertaining read. The surprises, expectations and disappointments, the interesting folks he meets along the way—they’re all here along with photos and a running commentary on the changes wrought by civilization over the past two centuries. Put up your feet and relax as the author carries you along with him and effortlessly allows you to see the 4,200 mile trek through his eyes.
328 pages ISBN#978-1-932636-50-5
$19.95
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Where Law Ends
by Kevin Emmet Foley
The Montana Vigilantes, celebrated for more than 140 years as heroes of the Old West, are remembered as the courageous men of action who took the law into their own hands to protect honest citizens from a murderous gang of thieves led by Henry Plummer, a devious criminal mastermind masquerading as sheriff.
But what if the legend of the Montana Vigilantes is a lie, conceived and perpetuated by the vigilantes themselves to cover their own heinous crimes?
In his vividly written debut novel, Kevin Emmet Foley transports readers to a forgotten corner of the American frontier at the height of the Civil War. Backdropped by the majestic and foreboding Montana Rockies, the untamed gold mining towns of Bannack and Virginia City are the settings for a deadly clash of wills between the duly elected Sheriff Plummer and the self-appointed vigilantes, bent on dealing out summary justice. Caught in the middle is Noah Coffey, a young newspaperman and Plummer’s best friend, who must find the courage to confront a savage evil.
Where Law Ends grips the reader like a noose. Violence and revenge contend with forgiveness and redemption, sweeping the reader along on an unforgettable ride toward a heart-pounding conclusion.
Where Law Ends is a nice blend of fact and fiction. Foley breathes life into the legends of the West—Richard Croker, author of To Make Men Free and No Greater Courage.
412 Pages ISBN# 978-1-932636-38-3
$21.95
Visit the website at: www.wherelawends.com
See the video trailer!
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Poacher's Moon
by John D. Nesbitt
Well known author John D. Nesbitt, who has delivered more than 18 historic Western novels to eager readers, now turns his hand to a contemporary Western story that sets intriguing characters against a background of the wildlife and wild lands of Wyoming.
Lifelong outdoorsman Wilf Kasmire, trying to find a way to make a living doing something he enjoys, decides that guiding hunters might just fit the bill. While he dislikes the condescending attitude of some of the out-of-staters who hire him, at least he's spending his time in the landscape he loves. When an offer comes from a Colorado man—who has recently bought one of the older ranches in the area—to guide some of his friends, Wilf agrees to take the job. But over the course of the next few days first one thing and then another doesn't seem to add up and even after the hunters leave town,
Wilf finds himself trying to figure out why he seems to be caught in a web of deception and, in the end, murder.
John Nesbitt knows hunting, knows Wyoming, knows the interplay of men in the field, and knows how to tell an authentic, warts-and-all story of the real outdoors. —C.J. Box, author of Open Season,
Out of Range, and other Joe Pickett novels.
The time is ripe for a good contemporary novel with a Western setting. —Loren D. Estleman, author of The Master Executioner, The Undertaker's Wife, and the Amos Walker mysteries.
John Nesbitt's Poacher's Moon is a fresh new voice in the genre.—W. Michael Gear and Kathleen O'Neal Gear, authors of People of the Moon and The First North Americans Series.
276 Pages ISBN#978-1-932636-39-0
Trade Paper
$19.95
Visit the Authors Website at johndnesbitt.com
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The Coffin Blind
by Mark Robbins
Overheard at a sportsman's show:
"What is a coffin blind?"
"Something that hunters hide in when
they hunt. The blinds are very deadly."
"For the ducks or the hunters?"
"Sometimes for both."
Brant Sherman's sharp-shooting skills and predatory instincts have made him one of Boston's most-respected U.S. federal marshals. Following a high-profile prisoner debacle, Brant is assigned to join a task force in Concord, Massachusetts where a secretive group of animal rights terrorists who call themselves the Legion of St. Francis has begun to carry out harrowing acts of retribution. But as he initiates his investigation, the attacks escalate, and the relationship between predator and prey begins to change as Brant starts to question his role in the chain of terrible events.
The Coffin Blind a page-turner filled with engaging characters including two very different women, an aging cold case profiler, and a huge Chesapeake Bay Retriever who work their way through a tightly plotted, memorable thrill ride for any reader willing to take it.
"Mark Robbins' debut starts out with a bang and never lets up. With a terrific New England setting and an insider's perspective, The Coffin Blind combines non-stop outdoor action, horrific violence, smartass humor, some surprisingly touching moments, and an engaging protagonist named Brant Sherman in a pedal-to-the-metal and joyfully non-PC crime novel. I think we'll be seeing more of Mark Robbins and Brant Sherman. At least I hope so..."
—C.J. Box
New York Times bestselling author
of Blue Heaven and Blood Trail
304 Pages ISBN# 978-1-932636-43-7
Trade Paper
$19.95
304 Pages ISBN# 978-1-932636-42-0 Hardcover
$32.95
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A Jungle Book
by Annette Chaudet
The author of THE NOSE BOOK turns her talent for nonsense verse to the animals of Africa for a humorous look at the animals who roam that continent. And they're all here—the lion, cheetah, hyena, elephant, gorilla, wildebeest, zebra, crocodile, impala and more—fifteen familiar denizens of the jungles and savannahs offer their particular views of their lives in the wild. The hippo gives you a piece of her mind should you choose to call her fat, the crocodile rationalizes his role as predator, the zebra explains that no two of them are alike (but they're all well dressed!), and the impala considers beauty a burden while the lion is simply waiting for the lioness to deliver his dinner. The author's humor is sure to delight both children and adults and the full page, brightly colored illustrations only add to the mystique of the featured creatures.
64 Pages ISBN# 978-1-932636-37-6
8.5"x11", Illustrated in Full Color
$16.95
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Yellowstone Rising
by Lynne Bama
In Yellowstone Rising award winning poet and photographer Lynne Bama addresses the legend, landscape and legacy of the world's first National Park. Yellowstone is many things to many people whether through memories of time spent within its pristine and somewhat otherworldly landscapes or through the thousands of images that continue to inspire curiosity, speculation and dreams.
Yellowstone is a unique environment, for centuries a source of mythology and wonder to the native peoples who first came upon its strange and magical features, to the millions of tourists who explore its domain, and to the scientists who continue to probe its mysteries. Through the words of this poet and the lens of her camera Yellowstone's many and varied aspects are woven together into a tale of the past, present and future of a place unlike any other.
140 Pages ISBN# 978-1-932636-37-6
Trade Paper $16.95
Special Edition on Coated Stock, Paperback
144 Pages ISBN# 978-1-932636-40-6
$25.00 Publisher Direct ONLY
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The Nose Book
by Annette Chaudet
Nonsense verse is a delight for children of all ages and The Nose Book is no exception. The author's fanciful illustrations, along with her amusing observations on the subject of the human nose indicate that another memorable humorous poet has joined the ranks of Jack Prelutsky and the beloved Dr. Seuss. This little book is treasure for the reader and the read-to alike as they follow the author's logic that while "a rose, is a rose, is a rose..." a nose is not necessarily just a nose!
52 Pages ISBN# 978-1-932636-37-9
8.5"x8.5", Illustrated in Full Color
$16.95
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Men to Match Our Mountains
by Jay Lawson
Wyoming's Chief Game Warden, Jay Lawson, has chronicled the life histories of some of the most colorful outdoor men and women of early 20th century Wyoming, including trappers, cowboys, forest rangers, hunting guides and early game wardens. Lawson spent years conducting interviews and gathering more than 140 old photographs depicting their fascinating lives spent in country as wild as their spirits.
This is a remarkable collection. Were it not for Lawson's keen interest in Wyoming history and his gift as a storyteller, some of the state's most legendary figures and their stories would be lost forever. By capturing the memories of Wyoming's pioneer outdoors people, Lawson does a tremendous service for our generation, and those who will follow. –Tom Reed, Great Wyoming Bear Stories and Give Me Mountains For My Horses.
Jay Lawson's book has preserved the history of Wyoming's colorful outdoor characters. His career as a Wyoming game warden took him to wild places where he uncovered these delightful stories that he is sharing with us. I recommend Men to Match our Mountains to anyone with an interest in western history and our outdoor heritage – Dave Bragonier, Wild Journey
A brilliant account of the history of people and wildlife in Wyoming, a must read for anyone who values wild critters and unique people. –Len H. Carpenter, Wildlife Management Institute
320 pages ISBN#1-932636-32-3
$21.95
Signed copies and more at WHFW.org.
All proceeds will be donated to the Wildlife
Heritage Foundation of Wyoming to further
the conservation of Wyoming's wildlife.
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Jukeboxes & Jackalopes,
A Wyoming Bar Journey
by Julianne Couch
Jukeboxes & Jackalopes is an apt description of this collection of essays in which the author shares her impressions of some of the unique bars scattered throughout small towns in Wyoming--some so small that the bar may be the only business at a location named and noted on the map but perhaps only claiming two residents. Regardless of size or remoteness of location, these watering holes often serve as community centers and living rooms away from home for those folks who populate the neighboring ranches and energy industry camps and offer a delightful experience for travelers who dare to leave the Interstate in search of a unique experience.
"Combine equal parts of anthropology, memoir and travelogue and you'll have a refreshing draught of Jukeboxes & Jackalopes. Julianne Couch takes readers into friendly resorts where dead animal heads and Miss Makita calendars prevail. Cookie-cutter chains and fern bars have no place in rural Wyoming – and this books celebrates their absence and delights readers who like to loaf off the beaten path and shows why Wyoming is still like no place on earth." Kevin Holdsworth, author of Big Wonderful
"Every thirsty trip across Wyoming's expanses should be accompanied by this lovingly detailed account of the tiny communities, smaller bars and hugely fascinating denizens to be found on the less-traveled paths. Julianne Couch takes you by the hand and introduces you like a neighbor to each community watering hole.Whether an armchair traveler ar and adventurous tourist seeking something besides the tour-bus destinations, readers will discover a vanishing world far outside mainstream experience." Jeffe Kennedy, author of Wyoming Trucks, True Love and the Weather channel
304 pages ISBN# 978-1-932636-34-5
$19.95
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Kemmerer, Wyoming
Digging for Western History
by Dorothy Wright
In Collaboration with
Judy Julian and Martha Bertot
In the southwest corner of Wyoming, the town of Kemmerer embodies a rich history of coal mining and those who came from many different countries to dig the black gold from the earth then stayed to build a town. The mines, the miners and the unions led Kemmerer to prosperity and the establishment of the railroad, health care and other services in what was once a frontier town. In addition to her mining heritage, Kemmerer stakes her claim as the home of J.C. Penney's first Golden Rule store, the harbinger of a retailing empire that would spread throughout the country and remains a major player in the world of American business to this day.
As she did in her previous books about the region, Echoes of Elkol, The Story of a Western Coal Camp and Glencoe, Spelling Out Western Coal Camp History, Dorothy Wright and her collaborators have captured a little known piece of Wyoming's past and preserved it through more than 100 photographs along with oral histories, newspaper accounts and carefully documented information that follows the town of Kemmerer and her people from her birth in the nineteenth century through her history of mining, moonshining and madams, to her present day place as a vital part of Wyoming and the West.
324 pages ISBN# 978-1-932636-33-8
$24.95
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Biography of a Bird Dog
A Labrador Retriever in Wyoming
by Garry Wallace
As you might expect, Biography of a Bird Dog is the story of a man and his dog. But it is more than that, it’s a memoir of not only a puppy’s first year of life but of a middle-aged man’s appraisal of his own life and career in a small town in Wyoming.
As Ebenezer, his bird dog, is nearing the end of his hunting career, the author decides to add a new puppy to the family with the intention of using all he has learned to train her to achieve the full potential of her breed, a process that turns out to be filled with both joy and frustration. When tragedy strikes, he must re-evaluate his own plans along with his dog’s future.
“Garry Wallace breaks a lot of rules with his writing, but by doing so, actually turns a dog’s biography into a warm and gripping story. He anthropormorphizes in Biography of a Bird Dog to be sure, with a style that is clearly whimsical. But underneath the Biography, is also a story of life in the Northern Rockies, for man and beast alike. The story is written in the literary tradition of a Wallace Stegner book." -Jay F. Kirkpatrick, Ph.D., Director of The Science and Conservation Center and author of Into The Wind.
492 pages ISBN#1-932636-31-5 $26.95
For more photos, signed and personalized copies, or a special hardcover edition visit the author’s website at birddogbio.com
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Hard and Noble Lives
A Living Tradition of Cowboys and Ranchers in Wyoming's Hoback Basin
By Paul Jensen
The story of the settlement in western Wyoming's Hoback Basin, told through fascinating tales and unusual characters: ordinary people who did extraordinary things, and who, with courage and determination, shaped history.
"Hard and Noble Lives is a very impressive combination of regional history, personal memoir, and up-to-the-moment sociology. After a career in the upper levels of American politics, Paul Jensen reinvented himself as a professional cowboy, and he has earned the right to tell the story of his part of the West. This book is a valuable addition to the chronicles of America's expansion into the frontier, and the dreams and dramas that made it possible." -James Fallows, National Correspondent for Atlantic Monthly, nationally-acclaimed author
"Local history at its best -- the stories of ordinary people who gave life and color to a small part of the American West. But stories, too, that find counterparts in other areas of the West. A solid, readable history of both local and regional significance." --Robert M. Utley, award-winning author, historian of the American West, and former Chief Historian of the National Park Service
368 pages ISBN#1-932636-28-5 $24.95
For signed copies direct from the author
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Fortune in H.E.L.L.
by H. Jean Bushnell
Successful mystery writers, Matt and Abbie Tartingale, created a popular series of books about a clever secretary named Fortune Cassidy who solved crimes with the help of her boss, the aging patriarch of a prestigious law firm. But when Matt dies of cancer, Abbie's perfect world is destroyed.
Short on funds and grieving, Abbie moves in with her sister and soon accepts a temporary job with a well-respected Denver law firm with the unfortunate acronym of HEL&L. And then a beautiful young associate is murdered and life begins to imitate art as Abbie finds that investigating a death in the real world is much more dangerous than writing about it.
This compelling debut novel introduces an engaging heroine who is bound to become one of the genre's favorite sleuths.
340 pages ISBN# 1-932636-26-9 $19.95
For signed copies direct from the author go to:
JeanBushnell.com |
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A Singular Notion
By Renée Carrier
An outstanding collection of essays in lyrical prose illuminating a lifelong search for meaning and understanding.
Praise for A Singular Notion:
Beneath an old school bell in front of the author's rural Wyoming home, hangs the sign, "LISTEN." In this multi-hued work, Carrier invites us to listen with her as she "seeks balances" while facing the reality of her mother dying. In exquisite prose, she plumbs the depths and music of mind and spirit. As we read these essays, we, too, begin to listen, "anticipating rhythms," of a fullness that transcends known paths and unfolds into an open field of expectancy. These essays express beauty and grace, joy and benediction, and above all, power and wholeness. -Gaydell Collier, co-editor for Leaning Into the Wind and the Windbook series
Like a finely faceted gemstone, A Singular Notion reflects the light of the outer world while at the same time illuminating the complexities of inner thought. Renée Carrier writes elegantly of both the natural and spiritual realms, inviting the reader into Wyoming's remote landscape with skill and grace.
-Page Lambert, In Search of Kinship and River Writing Journeys for Women
An enticing book about an intriguing journey through inner and outer landscapes, both achingly familiar and poignantly strange. -Susun Weed, author of The Wisewoman Herbal Series: Healing Wise, Wisewoman Herbal for the Childbearing Years, Breast Cancer? Breast Health! the Wisewoman Way and New Menopausal Years
196 pages ISBN# 1-932636-27-7 $16.95
For signed copies direct from the author go to:
carrier.renee@gmail.com
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Saddlestring
A History of the HF Bar Ranch
by Tom Ringley
The HF Bar Ranch is one of the oldest dude ranches in the West. Since it was established in 1911 it has been a vacation destination for a huge number of people from many walks of life including captains of industry, movie stars and supreme court justices who have passed their love of the HF Bar down through the generations. Here is the history of the ranch from the very beginning including more than 80 historical photos and drawings by E.W. "Bill" Gollings. Once again Tom RIngley, author of Rodeo Time In Sheridan Wyo, has captured not only the past but has offered us a taste of the future of one the jewels in Wyoming's crown.
"Thoroughly and exhaustingly researched, Saddlestring: A History of the HF Bar Ranch will fascinate historians as well as readers who wish to share in the development of one of Wyoming's greatest institutions. Through world wars, depressions, droughts and personal tragedy, the HF Bar dude ranch has survived to delight and affect thousands of guests through many generations. Tom Ringley captures the story and delivers it beautifully."
- Edgar M. Morsman Jr., author of The Postmistress of Saddlestring,Wyoming
"Escape into the history of one of the West's signature institutions. Saddlestring: A History of the HF Bar Ranch will kindle the spirit of another time and era, yet recall a special ranch that is as vital today as it's ever been. Tom Ringley has done a first rate job in telling a wonderful story of a wonderful place." - Philip C. Long, Director of the Taft Museum of Art
Softcover. ISBN# 1-932636-23-4 $27.95
Hardcover ISBN# 1-932636-24-2 $38.95
Signed copies and a special hardcover Special Edition may be ordered from the author by
email at :tringley@fiberpipe.net
Visit the author's Web site: TomRingley.com |
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Witness to Miracles
Remembering the Cokeville
Elementary School Bombing
Compiled by the Cokeville Miracle Foundation
On May 16, 1986--A time when terrorism was almost unknown on U.S. soil-a man and a woman entered the elementary school in the tiny rural town of Cokeville, Wyoming, with guns and a homemade bomb. They took everyone in the school hostage and demanded a ransom of more than three hundred million dollars. As the afternoon dragged on and the gas fumes from the bomb sickened the 154 people crammed into the small classroom, the teachers and other adults did their best to comfort and distract the children in their charge.
Then, the bomb exploded.
What happened next can only be described as a miracle.
Now, those who were there look back on that disaster turned miracle. Teachers, students, families, emergency personnel and investigators share their recollections of that unforgettable afternoon, many for the first time, and how it has affected their lives. Here the Cokeville Miracle Foundation presents 187 stories of the events that occurred that day. Those who contributed are ready to share their stories, witnessing to the world the miracles they experienced.
"Something was in there and that something changed everything,"-Rich Haskell, Sweetwater County Bomb Technician.
"If you don't believe there was Divine Intervention, then you weren't there that day." -Scott Miller, Lincoln Sheriff's Office.
$25.95 524 pgs ISBN 1-932636-22-6 Softcover
$39.95 524 pgs ISBN 1-932636-21-8 Hardcover
* To directly benefit the Cokeville Miracle Foundation, orders can be placed through: www.cokevillewy.com/cmf |
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Talisman
by Jane M.H. Bigelow
Oh ye imps of sour water, not Tzakende, the city with more gods than rats or Ngarra where even the little children carry knives. Priests or knives, priests or knives...which would it be?
Layla led a free life as a gem thief, her choice of the two careers open to a woman who'd left her husband, but she had broken the cardinal rule of her trade; she'd stolen from a temple. While the huge emerald had netted her a tidy profit it had also attracted the attention of the Goddess of Mirth and her Priestess, both urging her to service. And though Layla appreciated some of the Goddess' gifts-coins for one-she was less pleased with the overlarge and tempermental donkey who appeared in her upstairs room.
What was a woman to do? It was time to make a decision, time to leave dusty Charransar on the edge of the Wastes and strike out into the unknown, hoping to avoid the divine attention of the God she had robbed and the Goddess who seemed to have taken an interest in her.
314 pages ISBN# 1-932636-20-X $19.95
For signed copies direct from the author
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Glencoe
Spelling Out Western Coal Camp History
by Dorothy Wright
in Colllaboration With Norris Tratnik and Frank Scigliano
Glencoe was just one of Wyoming's many small coal camps that was established in the early twentieth century. Some coal camps survived beyond World War II, some lasted a little longer and some flourished and grew into the great coal producing towns of the twenty-first which still supply coal for the nation.
Though Glencoe's history is brief, it is rich in the stories of her hardworking people-the miners and their families, the union, the schools and the mine itself. Though life in that small coal camp was hard, the people pulled together to create a rich sense of community and the times were not devoid of simple entertainment, of fun and of friends.
As they did in Echoes of Elkol, Dorothy Wright and her collaborators have once again pieced together the story of a small coal mining community in southwestern Wyoming and its two even smaller neighbors, Blazon and Star Mine. Gathering information from all quarters-oral histories, historical records, photos from the archives and from family collections and newspaper accounts- and weaving it together into the cloth of a memorable story that has been all but lost until now. Here, in Glencoe, Spelling Out Western Coal Camp History, the past has been made whole and available to anyone who values the story of the people who have contributed to the history of Wyoming and, indeed, the country.
240 Pages Oversize Softcover
ISBN# 1-932636-18-8 $22.95
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Art of the Books
A Complete Guide To A Fundraising Opportunity For libraries & Other Organizations Large & Small
Annette Chaudet
Art of the Books is a project conceived as a fundraiser for Libraries and other organizations across the country and which is predicated on the many events featuring large, artist embellished fiberglass animals that have been displayed throughout the country such as Cows on Parade in Chicago, Where the Buffalo Roam in Casper, Wyoming and Trail of the Painted Ponies in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Scaled down to a more manageable size that will work for smaller organizations as well as large ones, Art of the Books may be the answer to your group's needs.
This is the handbook, a complete outline for taking your own project from conception to completion. It offers variations and scenarios for organizations both large and small and all the details including a project timeline, types of committees and what they do, how to find your Artists and Sponsors, sample budgets, co tract considerations-everything your will need to create a customized project that will provide your organization and your community with an exciting event and also raise the revenue you need.
128 pages ISBN# 1-932636-16-1 $19.95 FREE Shipping
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Moonhorses & the Red Bull
B.J. Buckley & Dawn Senior-Trask
Wyoming Poet, a Montana Poet - Two women who understand the land and the opportunities it offers. Life in the West can be a challenge but the rewards - visual, visceral and spiritual - are hard to describe. B.J. Buckley and Dawn Senior-Trask have woven words into a verbal tapestry that gives the reader a deeply complete and vibrantly luminous measure of what it is to immerse oneself in this life.
Each of these poets reminds us, through her precise and thoughtful work, of the importance of the western place and of its inherent fragility. The empty sky, the open space and the strong individuals, human or animal, fill their spare and beautiful poems.
-Jane Elkington Wohl, Beasts in Snow
These Poets share a keen observation of their respective landscapes-a sort of patient accumulation of deep experience that used to be the purview of shamans, as close to a natural sacrament as you could hope for. Taste and your eyes are opened.
-Gary David, Tierra Zia and A Log of Deadwood
It's been many years since I've seen the love of nature and the nature of love so lovingly intertwined in a music of such natural luminosity. -Jerry McGuire, Director, Creative Writing, University of South Western Louisiana/Lafayette
216 pages ISBN# 1-932636-19-6 $18.95
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Resolutions
Barbara Victoria
Everyone walks a different path but all are fraught with challenges that offer opportunities to learn something new about ourselves and the lives we live. In the space of twelve months Barbara Victoria experienced the death of her beloved mother-in-law, her mother and her long lost but newly found father, thereby launching her on a self-described "crash course" in both the practical and spiritual mechanics of those transitions.
Resolutions offers a touching and uplifting account of those three unique experiences in luminous prose that will touch the reader on the deepest level-that place where we all live, love and eventually die.
Oh, the wisdom we could glean from the parting gifts of those we love if we could only allow ourselves to reach beyond the pain and personal loss. With depth and sensitivity, the author has done just that. I would recommend her work to anyone caring for the terminally ill or for anyone who seeks to understand or appreciate the dying process.
- Linda Housel, M.S.W., M.P.A., A.C.B.F.
Resolutions is a book written with the heart and insight that can only be obtained through sharing the dying process with a loved one. - Douglas E. Morton, M.D., A.B.H.P.M., Fellow A.B.F.M.
176 pgs ISBN# 1-932636-17-X $16.95
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My Cowboy Hat Still Fits
My Life as a Rodeo Star
Abe Morris
If you've ever watched a bull rider desperately hang on to the back of a bull till the buzzer sounds or shaken your head in amazement as a cowboy picks himself off the ground after being tossed around like a rag doll, this book will tell you why they do it.
In his own words, Champion Bull Rider Abe Morris recounts the story of his rodeo career from the beginning as a boy in New Jersey at the Cowtown Rodeo through his time at the University of Wyoming and follows the triumphs and disappointments of competing around the country as one of the very few black rodeo cowboys. This is a story of good friends, tragic losses, prejudicial judges, career threatening injuries and the ever present recalcitrant bulls which never fail to make a lasting impression.
Abe's story is an inside look at the sport of rodeo and the men who pursue it, written by a man who knows what it means to lose but who has also experienced the exhilaration of those championship wins.
Visit the Author's Website at www.abemorris.com
352 pages ISBN# 1-932636-14-5 $22.95
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High Country Veggies
High Altitude Growing and Cooking with Fresh Vegetables
Cheryl Anderson Wright
Once again Master Gardener Cheryl Anderson Wright focuses her considerable knowledge on the problems of growing your favorite vegetables in areas with short growing seasons and unpredictable weather. Wright's practical advice and down to earth recommendations will guide you from seed to table, and includes specific recipes for all the veggies you will want to grow and love to eat!
As she did in her two previous books, (High Country Herbs, and High Country Tomato Handbook) the author takes the mystery out of growing your own food, offers step by step advice on everything from soil and pests to composting and mulching and encourages you with her mouth watering serving suggestions. Both brand new and experienced gardeners will benefit from Wright's perspective.
352 pgs ISBN# 1-932636-15-3 $22.95
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Odyssey in Hell
The Diary of a Bi-Polar Patient In a State Mental Hospital
Wayne A. Wright
Odyssey In Hell is the heartbreaking record of a Bi-Polar patient's stay in a state mental institution that invites the reader into the mind of a man consumed by his illness and desperately seeking-if not a cure-then at least some tools to live with it.
Wright's journal entries track the frightening mood swings of this affliction as he reflects on his his life, the medications he takes and the people he meets at the hospital. He writes about the problems in his past and his dreams of a future, sorely tested when he returns home to find that a family member has betrayed his trust and thrown him into a vortex of events that threaten his fragile new grasp on hope.
This book will help you understand a life at the mercy of an erratic thought process. The author knows what it means to feel normal and think clearly but he is robbed of the ability to depend on his own mind by a disorder that refuses to allow him something we all take for granted.
216 pages ISBN# 1-932636-13-7 $19.95
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Beyond the World
A Novel of 18th Century France
Annette Chaudet
"They that love beyond the world cannot be separated by it."
-William Penn
Peopled with vibrant characters, Beyond the World is a feast of a novel that sweeps the reader away to the opulent world of 18th century France. Four childhood friends from families bound together by business-two of them, Richard Magniet, the youngest son of the Baron of Beauvu and Christina DiClementi plan to spend their lives together until those expectations are shattered by a violent murder which sets them both on an uncharted course of heart rending loss, erotic obsession, and new alliances. From the houses of the nobility and the great abbey of Montmajour to the brothels of a bustling city, from a simple island cottage to the canals of Venice, they struggle to mold their lives around the memory of love that will ultimately reshape itself into something far beyond themselves.
This is storytelling at its very best, a complex and compelling novel that will capture your imagination so strongly that you will find yourself reading the final page with a pang of regret.
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Root of Evil
Sarah de Souza
Meredith is a young American living in Tokyo, working hard to move up in the tightly structured business world as a translator and to overcome her recent breakup with her Japanese boyfriend, Keisuke. A difficult boss who oversees translations at work and an ex who just won't let go aggravate the stress to a point where Meredith's anxieties begin surfacing in dreams of violence directed at Keisuke. But what happens when the dreams are something more? Can Meredith get her life back to normal before tragedy strikes?
A psychological mystery thriller, this stunning first novel will keep you on the edge of your chair, turning pages as fast as you can in order to find out what is driving Meredith to ever more inexplicable and dangerous measures.
348 pgs ISBN#1-932636-10-2 $19.95
Visit the author's Web site: www.sarahdesouza.com
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Beyond Solitude
A Cache of Alaska Tales
Jo Massey
After 14 years living in Alaska, the author presents us with a cache of 15 intriguing stories from the solitude of America,s northernmost state. The fictional characters that people this book each experience a very personal form of solitude and re-evaluate their situations and the challenge of isolation, both physical and emotional. Suspense, human interest, humor, adventure, romance, a touch of the mystical, and above all, the ability of the human spirit to survive and thrive is explored as they confront the solitude of their own psyches " heart, mind, and soul " and reach "beyond the physical to, perhaps, the greatest solitude of all.
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Praise for Beyond Solitude:
"Expertly woven, Beyond Solitude is a compelling collection of short fiction with strong characters and a wonderful sense of place. However, the accumulated resonance of these pieces far transcends the merely regional and speaks to the human condition. A great read! " Bob Cherry, author of Little Rains and other titles from One Eyed Press
312 pgs ISBN#1-932636-09-9 $19.95
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Listening To Stones
Janet S. Meury & Sheila Ruble
The first book in the Women & Words series, Listening to Stones brings together the voices of two significant poets. They share many qualities yet are opposite in other ways. One sleeps with dogs, the other with cats. One is married, one is not. Both are mothers. One lives in town, the other in the country but they share a love for and deep understanding of the natural world. Both have faced loss and looked it right in the eye, seeking understanding through the poet,s method of putting pen to paper. They both live, observe and create in diverse ways but you will find their work weaves and flows between one artist,s eye and the other,s in a remarkable and deeply satisfying pattern, making whole cloth that wraps the reader in the comfort of the familiar and the joy of the unexpected.
264 pgs ISBN#1-932636-10-2 $19.95
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Echoes of Elkol
The Story of a Western Coal Camp
The story of Elkol, Wyoming is history at its best, documenting all aspects of life in a western coal camp through the people who lived there. Life in the camps was often hard, but those stalwart souls rose above the difficulties and managed to come together as a close knit community. This is their story. Here are the facts about the business of coal, the hard labor of mining, the struggles of the workers and the unions, the social arrangements, housing, schools and the place of women in this largely emigrant community. With the added enlightenment of newspaper articles, oral interviews and more than 140 photographs, Elkol,s past comes to life. Though the coal camp way of life is gone, it lives on in the memories of those who lived in or passed through those camps. Elkol was at once unique as a community and representative of all coal camps of the time and this book is a direct link to that past.
232 pgs ISBN#1-932636-07-2 $22.95
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This Storied Land
A Montana Memoir
by Lou Mandler
Set in remote northeastern Montana, this memoir is at once a paean to the beauty and power of the high prairie, an elegy to the family farm, and a love story. The center of Lou Mandler's narrative is the memorable depiction of her parents who, as the family confronts the daily business of survival-facing hail, drought, blizzards, sickness, and financial hardship-observe the customs of a fundamentalist religion in bringing up their nine children. As we follow the children to maturity, we learn the true history of the marriage between Lucy Olson and Philip Wiedeman and of the estrangement between Lucy and her parents. This Storied Land is so universal in its themes and in its portrait of childhood and family dynamics that it might well be all our stories.
"Lou Mandler's story of growing up on a Montana farm is as quiet and honest as they come. She writes to the heart of a family, a community, and a distant way of life once as familiar as open prairie." -Judy Blunt, author of Breaking Clean
268 pgs $19.95 ISBN#1-932636-05-6
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High Country Tomato Handbook
Including How To Grow Ripe Tomatoes
by the Fourth of July!
by Cheryl Anderson Wright
Tomatoes! Everybody loves them! And everybody bemoans the fact that most of what you find in the grocery store has no resemblance whatsoever to those sacred memories of how tomatoes used to taste.
Cheryl Anderson Wright to the rescue! The High Country Tomato Handbook tells you everything you need to know about how to recapture that memory by growing your own! And even those with difficult gardening situations will find the secrets here for having your own ripe homegrown tomatoes by the Fourth of July.
Wright offers everything you need to know about tomatoes from history to varieties, soils, insects and diseases, starting your own plants or buying them, harvesting and saving your seed and it is all followed by a collection of delicious tomato recipes to help you enjoy the fruits of your labor.
Like High Country Herbs, the High Country Tomato Handbook belongs on the shelf of every tomato lover, gardener and cook.
"As the population of the western states inches outward from the cities and upward in elevation, there is no reason to abandon 'flatland' gardening choices, namely tomatoes, especially with the support this book provides."
-Ole Abeam
Bloomsbury Review, March/April 2005
192 pgs 1-932636-07-2 $16.95
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Rodeo Time in Sheridan Wyo
a History of the Sheridan-Wyo-Rodeo
by Tom Ringley
Rodeo is a cornerstone of the Western experience and this book is an invaluable chronicle of one of the veterans of that tradition.. The Sheridan-Wyo-Rodeo's span of the better part of the 20th century and continuation into the 21st is documented here by author and Rodeo Board member Tom Ringley with complete details of its conception, birth and its growth into a nationally respected professional event. This is the rich history of the organizers, the participants and spectators and the community which supports this treasure of the West. With its accompanying appendices of the Champions, Queens, Rodeo Boards and Stock Transactions this book offers the true story of the trials and tribulations, the triumphs and successes of a formidable undertaking which began in 1931 and continues today.
"The Sheridan -Wyo- Rodeo is one of the last truly traditional rodeos. Sheridan, Wyoming is steeped in history and the SWR showcases this exciting and colorful past with the best of Cowboys and Indians. The top contestants of the Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association and the Woman's Professional Rodeo Association always make the SWR a part of their schedule. You can count on seeing some of the highest scores and best times of each year. It is commendable that Tom Ringley took the time to preserve this wonderful story of rodeo in such an engaging way."
- Ike & Roberta Sankey,
Sankey Pro Rodeo
376 pgs ISBN# 1-932636-04-8 $23.95
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Endings & Beginnings
A Collection of Unconventional Tales
by Annette Chaudet
Here the author presents a baker's dozen intriguing stories along with a promise to transport the reader to other places, other times. Here are excerpts from from Mary Magdalene's memoir of her
childhood, the story of an uncompromising man with no friends in the world, central American native ritual, star crossed lovers in eighteenth century France, an aspiring magician, a letter from Sarah to Hagar after she and Isaac have been banished to Paran, ancient ceremony from the British Isles, a grieving Native American mother who has lost her child, a look at future religious belief and a leap even farther ahead in time to other worlds. They are all here to savor and enjoy, stories that will consume your attention and capture your imagination in the way that so few stories do - they will leave you wanting more.
304 pgs ISBN#1-932636-06-4 $ 17.95
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Hard Ground IV: Writing the Rockies
In this fourth volume of the Hard Ground series nineteen talented writers share their visions of what it mean to live in the West today.
While the myth of the West persists in many variations throughout the world, this region of the country is seldom what people who lack a first hand experience believe it to be.
Here, in forty-five works of both poetry and prose, the writers give you a realistic picture of contemporary life in this fabled part of our country.
252 pgs ISBN# 1-932636-03-X $17.95
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Common Sense
by Peter Schuyler
"I am no saint. Nor am I a devil. I am a human being trying to make sense of the world around me. This essay in not a polemic against the United States, although it may read that way at times. It does not deny the amazing and very real successes and achievements of this country. Rather, it speaks to the human condition. The United States of America is the focus because it is the country most familiar to the author. I use the word "we" because I am a product of this world. I am as guilty as any. I am one of us."
"Thank Heavens for this book! It is exactly what we needed at this point in time when the worldwide political situation seems to be taking a turn for the worse. Peter Schuyler has provided a straightforward and articulate guide to reevaluating each of our personal positions on the most important questions of the day. If we can, for a brief time, block out the political rhetoric that bombards us from every direction, the manipulation from special interests that follow us everywhere and take the time to reflect on what is truly "right" we will find ourselves able to know our own minds and consequently make ourselves heard in this world. Common Sense is the key that opens the door to the reassertion of personal intent and the understanding that we, all of us on this planet, share a most elemental trait: humanity."
-Peter Schuyler
Visit the Author's Website
ISBN# 1-932636-02-1 $14.95
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Where the Buffalo Roam
A Benefit for the Nicolaysen Art Museum
& Discovery Center
A complete, full color documentation of the Where the Buffalo Roam project conceived by the Nicolaysen Art Museum which put 30 life size, artist embellished buffalo on the streets of Casper, Wyoming, much to the delight of residents and tourists alike, and which brought the entire town together in a celebration of art and community. Each individual buffalo is featured along with information on the artists and the history of the Nicolaysen Museum.
You may order the book as well as numerous project items including tee shirts, posters featuring all the buffalo and individual postcards of each buffalo direct from the Museum which will maximize their fundraising efforts:
307 235-5247
8"x 8" format, $16.95
ISBN# 0-9714725-9-9
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Now and Forevermore
The Story of Two Hearts Reunited to Write of Love that Continues Beyond the Grave
by Denice Fecketter
"My husband, Raymond, who died 23 years ago, has come back to me..." So begins the author's chronicle of an unexpected encounter with the spirit of her beloved husband. Together they write their story, sharing the experience of love that continues beyond the grave. Now and Forevermore follows their year-long commitment to writing, learning, renewing acquaintance, healing grief and developing a new way of being that includes communicating with loved ones who have passed over. Now and Forevermore is comforting, thought provoking, loving and wise.
"I love the concept that our physical form is temporary and the implication that our spiritual form shines through our destiny. Raymian's perspective is so hopeful in that our deepest and most memorable relationships will not end just because our earthly form inevitably must." Linda Esposito
"Denice allows herself to be an open channel of communication with her deceased husband and takes us with her on a journey of two hearts connecting. The universal questions, answers and down-to-earth discussions Denice and Raymian engage in will captivate and inspire the reader to consider their own connection to spirit." Pamela D. Blair, Ph.D. co-author of I Wasn't Ready to Say Goodbye (Champion Press, Ltd.)
294 pgs. $19.95 ISBN# 1-932636-00-5
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Hard Ground III: Writing the Rockies
A collection of selected works submitted to Pronghorn Press's Annual Hard Ground Writing Contest, this volume reflects a complex range of feelings about the West of today. No longer the land of gunfighters, today's West is still a land where guns claim lives. Wild Indians no longer threaten the lives of settlers but those who today's settlers still affect the lives of the Native Americans in a constantly changing culture. Not only has the Old West of the 1800's faded, the West of the 1900's has disappeared as well and yet the New West still calls to people for many diverse and sometimes incomprehensible reasons.
This is the West of HARD GROUND 2000: The awesome grandure of the natural world, the proliferation of For Sale signs and the taste of a sun warmed cantaloupe, the school shootings, the drug addiction and complexities of relationships all told with an undercurrent of love for these still wide open spaces.In poetry and prose these writers show us what it means to live in the West today.
288 pgs. $19.95 ISBN# 0-9714725-5-6
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Foreign Ground: Travelers' Tales
Another inspiring collection that will transport the reader from their comfortable chair to places both exotic and familiar. An encounter with a mysterious stranger in Mexico, finding yourself in London with no clothes or among sympathetic Brits on 9/11, in a sandstorm in Africa or alone with your mate at a secluded cove along the Italian coast all offer different perspectives on different places, different ways of life. In Foreign Ground, twenty talented writers share their experiences around the globe - from Ireland to Africa, South America to the South Pacific, from India to France, from Italy to Mexico - in 41 pieces of poetry and prose.
224 pgs. $17.95 ISBN# 0-9714725-4-8
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Deep West:
A Literary Tour of Wyoming
In this sampler of contemporary writing from the Deep West, Annie Proulx says that "for more than a decade, Wyoming has been my writing place and sometimes my subject I have an intense interest in rough country and the people it makes, and that interest is satisfied here."
In original essays commissioned by the Wyoming Center for the Book, nineteen writers with roots in the state tell how that "rough country" has influenced their work. Some, such as Wyoming Poet Laureate Robert Roripaugh, agree with Proulx: "A sense of place is essential to both the writing process and the work itself." Others, such as poet Dainis Hazners, tell us that "this place, though it matters to meis in some ways clearly incidental to my concerns/efforts as a writer and human being." Tom Rea writes half jokingly that there will never be a true Wyoming literature until it includes stories about homeless drug-addicted unwed teen mothers in Casper, referring to one of two urban places in this rural state. These writers, in their essays and accompanying excerpts from their poetry and fiction, bring new understanding to the American West.
464 pgs. $22.95 ISBN# 0-9714725-7-2
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High Country Herbs
High Altitude Growing, Gifting
& Cooking with Herbs
by Cheryl Anderson Wright
Long-time Wyoming Gardener Cheryl Anderson Wright shares her expertise in this down to earth reference for the cultivation and preservation of 24 culinary herbs suited to high altitude gardens.
But it is also an exciting collection of simple and practical recipes for Breads, Spreads, Soups, Salads & Dressings, Vegetable Dishes, Meats, Chicken & Fish, and delicious Desserts that encourage variation and experimentation. Recipes for Seasoning mixes to use with your own cooking or to give as gifts are an added bonus along with a host of ideas for gift baskets and mixes sure to let the recipients know how much you care.
HIGH COUNTRY HERBS is destined to become a treasured reference for anyone interested in gardening and cooking no matter what part of the country they call home!
"...Anyone interested in the cultivation and use of culinary herbs at high elevations should have a copy of this definitive reference book on their kitchen shelves."
- John A. Murray
Bloomsbury Review, March/April 2004
360 pgs $22.95 ISBN# 0-9714725-8-0
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Dry Ground:
Writing the Desert Southwest
From the tales of Death Valley to the bright lights of Las Vegas and from the towering saguaros of the Sonoran Desert to the piñon forests of northern New Mexico the Desert Southwest has many faces, many lifestyles. It is a region filled with mystery, a home to numerous Native American Peoples, to descendants of the Conquistadors and Mexican immigrants and thousands of others from this country and from around the world.
The desert gives us space to confront the elements and
ourselves, to focus on the unnoticed and to dream. In this volume 27 writers share their visions in 44 pieces of poetry and prose which open a window on a land that is sometimes harsh, sometimes comforting and always fascinating.
240 pgs $19.95 ISBN# 0-9714725-3-X
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Montana Spring
The Story of One Family's Struggle
to Tame a Wild New Land
Based on a true story, this award winning novel paints a colorful picture of frontier life across the broad canvas of the Big Sky Country of Montana.
This is the story of Clay Brewer beginning when he is just 11years old and his family embarks on their "Great Adventure", heading west from Virginia to carve out a new life in the West. By the age of 17 Clay is a U.S. Marshal and at 19 marries a young Blackfeet woman from the ill-fated band led by Chief Heavy Runner.
Montana Spring is the story of hardship and triumph, of joy and loss, of treacherous neighbors, outlaws and renegades and the ongoing conflict between the Indians and the Army. Here an unforgettable cast of characters comes to life against the rich backdrop of Montana's history as the pristine paradise gives way to the exploitation of her riches by trappers and traders, buffalo hunters and emigrants, miners and stockmen.
340 pgs $21.95 ISBN# 0-9714725-1-3
Hardcover 332 pgs $27.95
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Dense Growth:
Writing the Pacific Northwest
The Northwest Coast is a unique region of the country, one that is filled with contradictions. It encompasses both the mystery of its Native cultures and the progressive spirit of the innovators who have come form all over the world to partake of the many aspects of life on the Pacific Rim.
In 61 pieces, both poetry and prose selected from Pronghorn Press's First Annual Dense Growth Writing Contest you will see this fascinating region through the eyes of 28 different writers.
From the weather to the water, from island life to mountain climbing, from the rain forests to the dry regions east of the mountains these writers will give you a feel for what it means to live in the Pacific Northwest today.
256 pgs $21.95 ISBN# 0-9714725-2-1
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Hard Ground 2001:
Writing the Rockies
A collection of selected works from Pronghorn Press' Annual Hard Ground Writing Contest the volume reflects a complex range of feelings about the West of today.
If you ask the question, "What does the West mean to you?" you are bound to get as many different answers as you have responses. Everyone has their own idea of what "the West" means. Unfortunately, few have anything to do with the West as it is today; as a place to visit, a place to live, a place to dream.
This is the West reflected by the writers of HARD GROUND 2001: The legendary grandeur of the natural world set against the shock of school shootings, the many ways we choose to interact with the wildlife that abounds in this part of the country and with the other souls who find themselves ensnared by a love for this diverse landscape.
In poetry and prose 37 writers show us what it means to live in the West today.
272 pgs. $21.95 ISBN# 0-9714725-0-5
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