C.J. Box - Paperback: 2001 The first book in the mystery series about Joe Pickett, a Wyoming game warden trying to keep the wilderness and the family he loves safe from danger. All C.J. Box books are autographed by the author. This is the only location where preautographed books can be purchased. 'When a high-powered bullet hits living flesh, it makes a distinctive-pow-WHOP-sound that is unmistakable even at tremendous distance.' And so it begins for Joe Pickett, a Wyoming game warden who, with the shot of a rifle, is thrust into a race to save an endangered species, but to unravel a mystery that threatens the life and the family he loves.

C.J. Box - Paperback: 2002 The second book in the mystery series about Joe Pickett, a Wyoming game warden trying to keep the wilderness and the family he loves safe from danger. All C.J. Box books are autographed by the author. This is the only location where preautographed books can be purchased. Wyoming game warden Joe Pickett heads for the forests of Twelve Sleep County to investigate a massive explosion that may have killed an environmental activist and uncovers evidence of a deadly conspiracy.

C.J. Box - Paperback: 2003 The third book in the mystery series about Joe Pickett, a Wyoming game warden trying to keep the wilderness and the family he loves safe from danger. All C.J. Box books are autographed by the author. This is the only location where preautographed books can be purchased. It's an hour away from darkness, a bitter storm is raging, and Joe Pickett is deep in the forest edging Battle Mountain, shotgun in his left hand, his truck's steering wheel handcuffed to his right- and Lamar Gardiner's arrow-riddled corpse splayed against the tree in front of him. Lamar's murder and the sudden onslaught of the snowstorm warn: Get off the mountain. But Joe knows this episode is far from over. Somewhere in the dense timber, a killer draws his bowstring- with Joe as his prey…

C.J. Box - Paperback: 2004 The fourth book in the mystery series about Joe Pickett, a Wyoming game warden trying to keep the wilderness and the family he loves safe from danger. All C.J. Box books are autographed by the author. This is the only location where preautographed books can be purchased. Local authorities are quick to label a rash of animal mutilations as the work of a grizzly bear, but Joe Pickett suspects that something far more sinister is afoot. And when the bodies of two men are found disfigured in the same way, his worst fears are confirmed: A modern-day Jack the Ripper is on the loose- and the killings have just begun.

C.J. Box - Paperback: 2005 The fifth book in the mystery series about Joe Pickett, a Wyoming game warden trying to keep the wilderness and the family he loves safe from danger. All C.J. Box books are autographed by the author. This is the only location where preautographed books can be purchased. Local authorities are quick to label a rash of animal mutilations as the work of a grizzly bear, but Joe Pickett suspects that something far more sinister is afoot. And when the bodies of two men are found disfigured in the same way, his worst fears are confirmed: A modern-day Jack the Ripper is on the loose- and the killings have just begun.

C.J. Box - Paperback: 2006 The sixth book in the mystery series about Joe Pickett, a Wyoming game warden trying to keep the wilderness and the family he loves safe from danger. All C.J. Box books are autographed by the author. This is the only location where preautographed books can be purchased. Ranch owner and matriarch Opal Scarlett has vanished under suspicious circumstances during a bitter struggle between her sons for control of her million-dollar empire. Joe Pickett is convinced one of them must have done her in, and when he becomes the victim of a series of wicked and increasingly violent pranks, Joe wonders if what's happening has less to do with Opal's disappearance than with the darkest chapters of his own past. Whoever is after him has a vicious debt to collect, and wants Joe to pay…and pay dearly.

C.J. Box - Paperback: 2007 The seventh book in the mystery series about Joe Pickett, a Wyoming game warden trying to keep the wilderness and the family he loves safe from danger. All C.J. Box books are autographed by the author. This is the only location where preautographed books can be purchased. Joe Pickett’s been hired to investigate one of the most cold-blooded mass killings in Wyoming history. Attorney Clay McCann admitted to slaughtering four campers in a backcountry corner or Yellowstone National Park- a “free-fire” zone with no residents or government regulation. In this remote fifty-square-mile stretch a man can literally get away with murder. Now McCann’s a free man, and Pickett’s about to discover his motive- one buried in Yellowstone’s rugged terrain, and as dangerous as the man who wants to keep it hidden.

C.J. Box - Paperback: 2008 The eighth book in the mystery series about Joe Pickett, a Wyoming game warden trying to keep the wilderness and the family he loves safe from danger. All C.J. Box books are autographed by the author. This is the only location where preautographed books can be purchased. It’s elk season in the Rockies - but a different kind of hunter is stalking a different kind of prey. Game wardens have found a man dead at a mountain camp- strung up, gutted, and flayed as if he were the elk he’d been pursuing. A poker chip lies next to his body. As ripples of horror spread through the community, Governor Rulon is forced to end hunting season early. Are the murders the work of a deranged anti-hunting activist or of a lone psychopath with a personal vendetta? Wyoming game warden Joe Pickett is the man to track the murderer before someone declares open season on humans.

C.J. Box - Paperback: 2009 The ninth book in the mystery series about Joe Pickett, a Wyoming game warden trying to keep the wilderness and the family he loves safe from danger. All C.J. Box books are autographed by the author. This is the only location where preautographed books can be purchased. It begins with a phone message: Tell Sherry April called. And suddenly Joe Pickett’s family is shaken to the core. April, Pickett’s foster daughter, was murdered six years ago. His daughter Sherry starts to believe there’s a chance that April is still alive. Joe, however, remains suspicious, especially when he discovers that the calls have been placed from locations where he discovers that the calls have been placed from locations where serious environmental crimes have occurred. And as the caller move closer, unsettling questions are raised. Is this young girl April? Are Joe and his family the victims of a cruel hoax? And can they face the harrowing truth?

C.J. Box - Paperback: 2010 The tenth book in the mystery series about Joe Pickett, a Wyoming game warden trying to keep the wilderness and the family he loves safe from danger. All C.J. Box books are autographed by the author. This is the only location where preautographed books can be purchased. It's Joe Pickett's last week as temporary game warden in the mountain town of Baggs, Wyoming, but his conscience won't let him leave without checking out the strange reports coming from the wilderness: camps looted, tents slashed, elk butchered. Not to mention the Olympic hopeful who'd been training in the region and then just…vanished. What awaits him is like something out of an old campfire tale, except this story is all too real-and all too deadly. Joe thought he was saddling up for his last patrol. If only he'd known how true that might turn out to be....

C.J. Box - Hardback: The eleventh book in the mystery series about Joe Pickett, a Wyoming game warden trying to keep the wilderness and the family he loves safe from danger. All C.J. Box books are autographed by the author. This is the only location where preautographed books can be purchased. Earl Alden is found dead, dangling from a wind turbine, it's his wife, Missy, who is arrested. Unfortunately for Joe Pickett, Missy is his mother-in-law, a woman he dislikes heartily, and now he doesn't know what to do - especially when the early signs point to her being guilty as sin. But then things happen to make Joe wonder: Is Earl's death what it appears to be? Is Missy being set up? He has the county DA and sheriff on one side, his wife on the other, his estranged friend Nate on a lethal mission of his own, and some powerful interests breathing down his neck. Whichever way this goes...it's not going to be good.

C.J. Box - Paperback: 2011 The eleventh book in the mystery series about Joe Pickett, a Wyoming game warden trying to keep the wilderness and the family he loves safe from danger. All C.J. Box books are autographed by the author. This is the only location where preautographed books can be purchased. Earl Alden is found dead, dangling from a wind turbine, it's his wife, Missy, who is arrested. Unfortunately for Joe Pickett, Missy is his mother-in-law, a woman he dislikes heartily, and now he doesn't know what to do - especially when the early signs point to her being guilty as sin. But then things happen to make Joe wonder: Is Earl's death what it appears to be? Is Missy being set up? He has the county DA and sheriff on one side, his wife on the other, his estranged friend Nate on a lethal mission of his own, and some powerful interests breathing down his neck. Whichever way this goes...it's not going to be good.

C.J. Box - Hardback: The twelfth book in the mystery series about Joe Pickett, a Wyoming game warden trying to keep the wilderness and the family he loves safe from danger. All C.J. Box books are autographed by the author. This is the only location where preautographed books can be purchased. He never wanted to tell Joe Pickett about it, but Nate Romanowski always knew trouble was coming out of his past. Now it's here, and it may not only be the battle of his life - but of Joe's. In 1995, Nate was in a secret Special Forces unit abroad when a colleague did something terrible. Now high up in the government, the man is determined to eliminate anyone who knows about it, and Nate knows exactly how he'll do it - by striking at Nate's friends to draw him out. The entire Pickett family will be a target, and the only way to fight back is outside the law. Nate knows he can do it, but he isn't sure about his straight-arrow friend - and all their lives could depend on it.

C.J. Box - Paperback: The twelfth book in the mystery series about Joe Pickett, a Wyoming game warden trying to keep the wilderness and the family he loves safe from danger. All C.J. Box books are autographed by the author. This is the only location where preautographed books can be purchased. He never wanted to tell Joe Pickett about it, but Nate Romanowski always knew trouble was coming out of his past. Now it's here, and it may not only be the battle of his life - but of Joe's. In 1995, Nate was in a secret Special Forces unit abroad when a colleague did something terrible. Now high up in the government, the man is determined to eliminate anyone who knows about it, and Nate knows exactly how he'll do it - by striking at Nate's friends to draw him out. The entire Pickett family will be a target, and the only way to fight back is outside the law. Nate knows he can do it, but he isn't sure about his straight-arrow friend - and all their lives could depend on it.

C.J. Box - Hardback: 2012 The 13th book in the mystery series about Joe Pickett, a Wyoming game warden trying to keep the wilderness and the family he loves safe from danger. All C.J. Box books are autographed by the author. This is the only location where preautographed books can be purchased. Cody Hoyt, while a brilliant cop, is an alcoholic struggling with two months of sobriety when his mentor and AA sponsor Hank Winters is found burned to death in a remote mountain cabin. At first it looks like the suicide of a man who's fallen off the wagon, but Cody knows Hank better than that. Sober for fourteen years, Hank took pride in his hard-won sobriety and never hesitated to drop whatever he was doing to talk Cody off a ledge. When Cody takes a closer look at the scene of his friend's death, it becomes apparent that foul play is at hand. When clues found at the scene link the murderer to an outfitter leading tourists on a multi-day wilderness horseback trip into the remote corners of Yellowstone National Park, a pack trip that includes his son Justin, Cody is desperate stop the killer before the group heads into the wild. In a fatal cat and mouse gave, Cody treks into the wilderness to stop a killer hell bent on ruining the only thing he cares about.

C.J. Box - Paperback: Blue Heaven - All C.J. Box books are autographed by the author. This is the only location where preautographed books can be purchased. A twelve-year-old girl and her younger brother are on the run in the Idaho woods, pursued by four men they have just watch commit murder- four men who know exactly who William and Annie are. And where their mother lives. Retired policemen from Los Angeles, the killers easily persuade the local sheriff to let them lead the search for the missing children. Now there's nowhere left for William and Annie to hide…and no one they can trust. Until they meet Jess Rawlins. Rawlins, an old-school rancher, knows trouble when he sees it. But he is only one against four men who will stop at nothing to silence their witnesses. What these ex-cops do not know is just how far Rawlins will go to protect William and Annie…and see that justice is done.

Paperback: Three Weeks to Say Goodbye - All C.J. Box books are autographed by the author. This is the only location where preautographed books can be purchased. Jack and Melissa McGuane have spent years trying to have a baby. Finally their dream has come true with the adoption of their daughter, Angelina. But nine months after bringing her home, they receive a devastating phone call… Angelina's birth father, a teenager, never signed away his parental rights- and he wants her back. Worse, his father, a powerful Denver judge, will use every trick in the book to make sure it happens. The McGuanes attempt to meet face-to-face with the father and son… but soon it becomes clear that there's something sinister about their motivations- and that love for Angelina is not one of them. A horrifying game of intimidation and double crosses begins that quickly becomes a death spiral where everyone is suspect and no one is safe. Now Jack and Melissa will stop at nothing to protect their child- even though time is running out.

C.J. Box - Full set of Box's Joe Picket series released paperback books. All books are autographed by the author. This is the only location where preautographed books can be purchased.

Amelia Earhart (1897–1937) SALE earned her pilot’s wings in her early twenties and became the best-known female aviator of her time—probably of all time. During her two-decade career as a pilot, she set altitude records, speed records, and transcontinental flight records. She was the first person to solo the Pacific Ocean from Hawaii to California, and to fly an autogiro (the predecessor to today’s helicopter) across the country. Earhart championed the efforts of women in aviation, inspiring women throughout the world to explore careers traditionally held by men. In 1937, Earhart attempted to fly around the world at the Equator. Just days before her fortieth birthday, she vanished in the Pacific, together with navigator Fred Noonan, while en route to tiny Howland Island. The circumstances of Earhart’s disappearance have yet to be unraveled but searches by independent individuals and groups continue, and the new technologies being employed may eventually solve the mystery.

Much has been written about the outlaws of the American West, from Jesse James to Butch Cassidy. But what about the western women who chose to pick up a Colt and take on the law? Author and historian Michael Rutter profiles twenty-one of these pistol-packin’ women. Meet Kate Bender, who brutally murdered as many as thirty people in Kansas, including children, and buried them in her family’s orchard; Laura Bullion, the only woman to participate in a Wild Bunch train robbery; and Madam Vestal, a one-time Confederate spy who organized the famous Deadwood stagecoach robberies. Witness the execution of Elizabeth Potts and Ellen Watson, the first women hanged in Nevada and Wyoming. Drawing on the fact and folklore, Rutter brings these gun-slinging “bad girls” to life- and explores their motives, hopes, and dreams. He dispels many of the myths about these female outlaws, for sometimes truth is stranger than fiction.

How could an ordinary fence shape a nation's history? Before the 1870s, much of the American West was an uninterrupted expanse of plains, where native tribes followed buffalo herds for hundreds of miles and cowboys ran cattle wherever water and grass led them. After the Homestead Act of 1862, settlers pouring into the West to stake their claims found that farming was not easy in cattle country, where the Law of the Open range dictated the needs of the herds- and their owners- came first. Then, seemingly overnight, everything changed. The invention and mass production of barbed wire made it possible for homesteaders to fence off millions of acres, creating a violent clash of cultures. In this engaging history, the struggles of cattlemen, farmers, Indians, inventors, and outlaws are brought to life for history buffs and curious readers alike. Enhanced by historic photos, maps, and a handy chronology, Barbed Wire: The Fence That Changed the West reveals the fascinating account of how a simple twist of wire transformed a country's landscape and ushered in a new way of life.

Brown's Park, on the Green River lies partly in Utah and Colorado. It is astride the Old Outlaw Trail, which ran from Old Mexico and Arizona, through Wyoming, Montana, and into Alberta. Many outlaws passed through Brown's Park, including Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid.

“Buffalo Bill” Cody’s life, in fact and fiction, was shaped like a classical tragedy etched across the western prairies. More dime novels were written about him than any other western character, and he mythologized himself as hero of his Wild West Show. Popular media so twisted the facts of his life that the historic William Cody and his real accomplishments have almost been lost. Like the West itself, the man was a product of the long legacy of romantic thought about the frontier.

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 movie Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid with his great-grandmother, Lula Betenson, who wrote Butch Cassidy, My Brother. For over two decades Betenson has researched and studied the life and times of Butch Cassidy. Betenson utilized privileged family information and memorabilia, traveled to South America to conduct interviews and visit Butch Cassidy's ranch, and spent hours in dusty archives. Betenson offers up new information about this infamous outlaw's life and death.

An insight to America’s own ingenious and indigenous icon. The Cowboy Hat book shows how the cowboy hat has evolved from the early form designs and into the world of fashion.

Precious metal - gold and silver - mining and milling methods of the 19th century frontier west. Profusely illustrated with 94 historic and 78 modern photos, 94 historic and 21 modern cuts and illustrations, 39 tables, and 40 charts. Extensive chapter endnotes and references.

This classic history of early-nineteenth-century fur trappers and traders showcases the devices that enabled path-breaking frontiersmen to open the unmapped American West, including: Canoes and flatboats + Axes and tomahawks + Native American spears and pikes + Beaver and bear traps + Rifles and muskets + Knives + Hand guns + and more. Many of the illustrations included were created by the author’s own work on the artifacts available: Carl P. Russell examined, measured, sketched, and photographed them himself. In some instances, the rare specimens were loaned from private or public museum collections for inclusion in this history. Sprinkled with little known facts and lore that will fascinate everyone with an interest in the American West, this book, the result of thirty-five years of painstaking research, is the definitive guide to the tools of the mountain men.

For centuries, people have come to the Grand Encampment valley to fish, hunt, and enjoy the cool mountain weather. Fur trappers and traders gave the region its name, calling it Camp le Grande. During the 1897 copper mining boom, Camp le Grande became Grand Encampment when a townsite company gave birth to the Grand Encampment Copper District. Mining brought a flood of people to the area and spawned the town of Grand Encampment. The mining boom was an economic bonanza for the region during a 10-year period from 1897 to 1908. The miners were not alone as ranchers had already patented homesteads and were raising cattle and crops prior to the discovery of copper. In this volume, the handy folks who lived and worked in the Grand Encampment area from its earliest development to the present are depicted. These images come from private and public collections. The Images of America series celebrates the history of neighborhoods, towns, and cities across the country. Using archival photographs, each title presents the distinctive stories from the past that shape the character of the community today.

Cowboys! We love the legend. But what did they really look like, wear and what equipment did they use for their work? 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. These cowboys may not look like the ones in the movies, but you can bet your boots they are the real thing.

Even among the mighty mountain men, Jim Bridger was a towering figure. He was one of the greatest explorers and pathfinders in American history. He couldn’t write his name, but at eighteen he had braved the fury of the Missouri, ascending it in a keelboat flotilla commanded by that stalwart Mike Fink. By 1824, when he was only twenty, he had discovered the Great Salt Lake. Later he was to open the Overland Route, which was the path of the Overland Stage, the Pony Express, and the Union Pacific. One of the foremost trappers in the Rocky Mountain Fur Company, he was a legend in his own time as well as ours. He remains one of the most important scouts and guides in the history of the West.

Using her diaries, her memory and her issues of the Grand Encampment Herald, Lora compiled a memoir of family history of her own. The life of a Homesteader’s daughter, Miner’s bride and an amateur to a professional photographer this book will take you into a deep adventure. “In our short span of life we humans can but take our place in the ever-changing tapestry of life, where the babies are being woven in at one extremity as the old folks are being raveled out at the other:” Lora Webb Nichols, 1883-1962

W.C. Jameson, one of the leading experts on treasure hunting in the U.S., now turns his attention to Wyoming’s lost fortunes. With his gift for storytelling, he relates intriguing legends and historical accounts about lost gold, buried payrolls, and hidden strongboxes. Jameson has written more than 60 books on treasure hunting and served as an advisor to Walt Disney Productions on the National Treasure movies starring Nicholas cage. An amateur treasure hunter in Texas testified in court that he found a multi-million dollar lost treasure by using only a copy of one of Jameson’s books and Google Earth for directions. In this book Jameson takes readers on an adventure to the four corners of Wyoming to investigate the Snake River Pothole Gold, the Hallelujah Gulch Robbery Loot, the Lost Treasure of Big Nose George, the Lost Cabin Gold mine, Nate Champion’s Lost Treasure, and eleven other action-packed tales.

The 1848 discovery of gold at Sutter's Mill in northern California set off a mining explosion that greatly hastened the development of the American West. This new book gathers historic photographs of mining in the Old West, from "panning" for gold in the waters of California to deep mining throughout the Western Territories. The photos capture the lives of miners and the tent cities and early towns that grew up around the mines. What is captured is the stuff of which legends were made: the old saloons, wooden sidewalks, and dirt streets. Readers look the old miners in the eye, where the harshness of their lives is etched. They also see the places where they worked: the makeshift mining operations rising on mountainsides just out of town, the deep and dusty shafts, the tools and machinery designed to mine the precious ore. With over 300 vintage images, this is a treasure trove for historians, Old West aficionados, and lovers of old photographs.

The legendary mountain men - the fur traders and trappers who penetrated the Rocky Mountains and explored the far West in the first half of the nineteenth century- formed the vanguard of the American empire and became the heroes of American adventure. This volume brings to the general reader brief biographies of eighteen representative mountain men, selected from among the essays assembled by LeRoy R. Hafen in The Mountain Men and the Fur Trade of the Far West (ten volumes, 1965-72).

This comprehensive treatment of the smelting industry of Colorado, originally published in 1979 and now available in paperback with a new preface by the author, details the people, technologies, and business decisions that have shaped the smelting industry in the Rockies. Although mining holds more of the glamour for those in and interested in the minerals industry, smelting has played a critical role in the industry’s evolution since its introduction into Colorado in the 1860s. At that time, miners desperately needed new technology to recover gold and silver from ores resistant to milling. Beginning as small independent enterprises, progressing to larger integrated firms working in urban centers, and finally following a trend toward mergers, the majority of the industry was absorbed into one large holding company - the American Smelting and Refining Company. Over time, fortunes were won and lost, business success was converted to political success, and advances were made in science and technology. Fell expertly presents the triumphs and troubles of the entrepreneurs who built one of the great industries of the West.

A collection of fourteen historical short stories featuring a variety of characters including miners, rodeo riders, railroad construction workers, young settlers, and others struggling with the conflicts and hazards of the nineteenth-century frontier. These short stories focus on change, and Lori Van pelt takes advantage of the West to provide an apropos setting for examining transformations. Many of the stories depict characters on the edge, emotionally and geographically. Their explorations of new lands and their dreams often don't turn out as imagined. The stories examine how our ancestors' decisions often affect our lives in ways we can't entirely comprehend. Van pelt seamlessly incorporates stories passed down from her family, her husband's family, and from favorite legends of her childhood to shape a collection that blends the themes of the 1880s with the present.

What offenses did these women commit to cause them to be locked away? Some of these petticoat prisoners may have been a threat to society: Eliza “Big Jack” Stewart shot a man in the neck at a dance; Anna Bruce baked poison into her father's plum pie; Minnie Snyder and her husband killed a man in a shootout with neighbors. Many of these women's crimes might draw our sympathy- like that of Stella Gatlin whose kleptomania didn't mix with her work as postmistress or Anna Trout who abandoned her baby grandchild in a train depot or Annie Groves who shot at, but missed, a man who had given her an infectious disease. These twenty-three women, wearing frills, lace, and their best bonnets, became guests at the Gray Bar Hotel.

In 1997 Jon Thiem was hiking in Livermore country near Fort Collins, Colorado. Following one fork of Rabbit Creek, he discovered an abandoned house and literally walked into the lives of John and Ida Elliott and Miss Josephine Lamb. Always curious about earlier inhabitants of this land, and conscious of the changes wrought by modern sprawl on its use and character, Thiem pursued the story of these former ranchers for nearly a decade. What was discovered is that the three had an unconventional living arrangement that endured for over forty years, a relationship that had as much to do with their love of the land as of each other. John Elliott's father moved his growing family from Iowa to Kansas in the 1880s, then to northern Colorado in 1890 when John was twelve. He worked as a ranch hand and eventually became one of the biggest landowners in the area. Ida Meyer ventured west from Nebraska in 1897. A serious amateur photographer, she worked as a waitress and pie lady until she was in her early thirties. She and John finally tied the knot in 1908, and in 1910 he bought a thousand acres on Middle Rabbit Creek.

Whether you are a tourist with a casual interest in old mine sites or a serious mining historian wanting to know more about mining methods, you will find Riches to Rust to be fascinating reading. Eric Twitty’s new book can be used as a field guide for exploring many old mine sites across the west and understanding the processes involved in mining in the nineteenth century in the United States. It includes chapters on mine development and organization as well as details on prospecting, mining, milling and transporting the ore.

In this elegant and illuminating true story, Diana Allen Kouris tells of growing up on the historic Browns Park Livestock Ranch, where in the 1800s Butch Cassidy found sanctuary, and nearly a century later her family hosted Robert Redford as he retraced the Outlaw Trail. In her description of the joys and tragedies of ranch and family life, she captures the human spirit as beautiful, dynamic, and vital as the land. Ironically, it is the uniqueness and beauty of the land that eventually brings change and hastens the end of the lifestyle generations of her family knew. But because she rode on the edge of a vanishing era and brings it vigorously to life, it will remain in her heart--and in ours.

Riding the High Wire is the first comprehensive history of aerial mine tramways in the American West, describing their place in the evolution of mining after 1870. Robert A. Trennert shows how the mid-19th century development of wire rope manufacturing made it possible for American entrepreneurs to begin erecting single-rope tramways in the 1870s and ‘80s. Their inventions were followed by the more substantial double-rope systems imported from Europe. By 1900, aerial tramways were common throughout western mining regions, hauling everything from gold and silver ore to coal and salt and changing the face of industry. Aerial mine tramways proved to have a special fascination; people often rode them for a thrill, sometimes with disastrous results. They were also very temperamental, needed constant attention, and were prone to accidents. The years between 1900 and 1920 saw the operation of some of the West’s most spectacular tramways, but the decline in high-country mining beginning in the 1920s.

Melody Groves, a native New Mexican and former bull rider, examines the sport of rodeo, from a brief history of the ranch-based competition to the rodeos of today and what each event demands. One of the first topics she addresses is the treatment of the animals. As she points out, without the bulls or horses, there wouldn't be a rodeo. For that reason, the stock contactors, chute workers, cowboys, and all the arena workers respect the animals and take precautions against their injuries. Groves writes for the rodeo novice, explaining the workings and workers (stock handlers, veterinarians, clowns, “pick up” men, event judges, etc.) seen in the arena and behind the scenes. She then describes the rodeo events: bull riding, saddle bronc riding, bareback riding, steer wrestling, team roping, tie-down roping, and barrel racing. Interviews with rodeo legends in every event round out the “feel” for this breathtaking sport. Over ninety photos depict what is described in the text to more fully explain the rodeo, with its ropes, reins, and rawhide.

A Wyoming Centennial lasting legacy project by The Joint Centennial Committee of Saratoga and Encampment Wyoming. Family histories of Saratoga and Encampment ancestors written by family members who took time to research out their family histories and compiled them into a book that is a wonderful research tool for genealogy.

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. Author Nancy Weidel understands both the history and the mystique of the sheepwagon. In this book, like no other available, we learn not only the background of the sheepwagon, but also of sheep, sheepmen and women, and herders. Over100 photographs enrich the text, many never before published.

Shortly before Wyoming’s Alan K. Simpson was elected majority whip of the US Senate, he decided to keep a journal. Now the Senator’s longtime chief of staff, Donald Loren Hardy, has drawn extensively on that 19-volume diary and Simpson’s personal papers to write an unvarnished account of a storied life and political career. Full of entertaining tales and moments of historical significance, Shooting from the Lip offers a privileged and revealing backstage view of late-twentieth-century American politics. Hardy’s richly anecdotal account reveals stories of Democratic and Republican alike. Shooting from the Lip portrays a statesman punching sacred cows, challenging the media, and grappling with some of the nation’s most difficult challenges.

Candy and Flossie Moulton present the story behind this horse whose likeness has become 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 Two Bar outfit of the Swan Land and Cattle Company through his rise to the undisputed World Champion Bucking Horse.

Award-winning author and historian Candy Moulton has compiled a definitive settlement history of Wyoming’s Grand Encampment valley. Here is the story of the copper mining era when rich minerals were found daily and men made or lost fortunes overnight. Read of those who made money and left with it, those who stayed too long, and those who had the fortitude to survive long enough to watch their grandchildren grow up in the community. Moulton researched over 20 years and gathered more than 60 historic photographs, many never-before-published panoramic camera photos taken by early journalist Earle Clemens.

In 1927, Owen Wister called "The Pinto Horse" 'the best western story about a horse that I have ever read'. The pinto roamed the Montana range in the late 1880s, surviving wolves and blizzards and earning the respect of the herd but never blending in, always standing out in vulnerable perfection. After years of trusting to human kindness, he falls into the hands of fools. "The Phantom Bull", first published in 1932, is also marked by authenticity and controlled beauty of style. Old Man Ennis, who ranched on the upper Madison in Montana, grudgingly admired the slate-colored Zebu cow, whose wild cunning was passed on to her calf. The calf grows into a monster bull, not personified but endowed with the suggestion of a definite point of view. A phantom glimpsed against the horizon - that is the image he leaves.

Tracing three centuries of Ute Indian history, “The Utes Must Go!” chronicles the policies the policies and incidents that led to the involuntary removal of the Ute Indians from Colorado, New Mexico, and Wyoming. Historian Peter Decker unveils new critical information on figures such as Colorado Governor Frederick Pitkin, General William T. Sherman, Interior Secretary Carl Schurz, famed newspaperman Horace Greely, and Indian Agent Nathan Meeker whose relentless mission to turn Indian hunters into farmers led to the tragedy at Milk Creek in 1879. Decker’s research brings to light the complete drama of a proud Indian people swept away by the nineteenth-century tide of pioneer settlement, racism, and greed.

Two dozen pioneering men and women talk about life out West on the downward slope of the nineteenth century and start of the twentieth. It was still rough and raw. Paul Gray rode the cattle trails of the Staked Plain, where “nobody asked anybody’s name” because “it wasn’t courtesy.” Jake Goss recalls the fuss when chickens raised on Salt Creek in western Colorado were found to have gold in their craws. J. Selby Batt’s father owned a general store in Wells, Nevada, where a lady could buy yards of ribbon and a gallon of whiskey.

Tom Horn, the most notorious of Wyoming's range detectives and a pre-eminent name in Wyoming history, operated unchecked until he was arrested for the murder of Willie Nickell. The murder and questionable nature of Horns’ conviction still ignite firestorms of controversy in Wyoming. Before he was hanged Horn said, I have lived about fifteen ordinary lives. I would like to have had somebody who saw my past and could picture it to the public. It would be the most god damn interesting reading in the country. Now author Chip Carlson provides that reading.

Prostitutes make up one of the most engaging chapters in the story of the American West. Upstairs Girls opens a window on the lives of these women for hire- why they turned to prostitution, who they worked for, and what their lives were like. Author and historian Michael Rutter offers a thorough history of prostitution in the West, with chapters on notorious madams, the hierarchy of prostitution, from parlor girls to streetwalkers, and occupational hazards such as disease and addiction. Rutter also unveils the brutal Chinese sex trade, which was little more than slavery, with women being shipped across the Pacific and bought and sold like material goods. The engaging and carefully researched background history leads up to the often heart-breaking and sometimes humorous profiles of the individual madams and prostitutes, from the famous Calamity Jane to the less-known Rosa May, from ruthless madam Ah Toy to mother of civil rights Mary Ellen Pleasant.

“Always a better way” was WD Farr’s motto. As a Colorado rancher, banker, cattle feeder, and expert in irrigation, Farr (1910–2007) had a unique talent for building consensus and instigating change in an industry known for its conservatism. With his persistent optimism and gregarious personality, Farr’s influence extended from next-door neighbors to U.S. presidents and foreign dignitaries. In this biography, Daniel Tyler chronicles Farr’s singular life and career. At the same time, he tells a broader story of sweeping changes in agricultural production and irrigated agriculture in Colorado and across the West during the twentieth century. WD was a third-generation descendant of western farming pioneers, who specialized in sheep feeding. While learning all he could from his father and grandfather, WD developed a new vision: to make cattle profitable. He sought out experts to help him devise ways to produce beef year-round. When World War II ended, and the troops came home tired of wartime mutton, the beef industry took off. With his new innovations in place, WD was ready.

Explore the lives of the pistol-packing, hell-raising, high-spirited gals who traveled with Butch Cassidy’s notorious Wild Bunch gang. Wild Bunch Women tells the stories of the dynamic women who rode the outlaw trail. Learn about Kid Curry’s confidante Annie Rogers, who charmed both the police force and the local ladies’ club of Nashville, Tennessee- from a jail cell; mystery woman Etta Place, who sailed to South America with Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid; Elizabeth Bassett, headstrong big sister to the Wild Bunch who defied traditional gender roles and built a successful ranch; and Fanny Porter, shrewd but kindhearted madam at the outlaws’ favorite house of sin. These women not only made the Wild Bunch’s feats of derring-do possible, but also forged their own legends in the tumultuous American West.

In 1935, in the depths of the Great Depression, Franklin Roosevelt issued an executive order creating the Federal Writers’ Project (FWP). Out-of-work teachers, writers, and scholars fanned out across the country to collect and document local lore. This book reveals the remarkable results of the FWP in Wyoming at a time when it was still possible to interview Civil War veterans and former slaves, homesteaders and Oregon Trail migrants, soldiers of the Great War and Native Americans who remembered Little Big Horn. The resulting work of the FWP in Wyoming, collected and edited here for the first time, comprises a rich repository of folklore and history and a firsthand look at the Old West in the process of becoming the new American frontier. Wyoming Folklore presents the legends, local and oral histories, and pioneer stories that defined the state in the early twentieth century.

The tale of the 1846-1847 Donner Party whose members were snowbound in the Sierra Nevada Mountains. Anthropologist, Terry Del Bene uncovers the layers of social and cultural belief and action that resulted in the tragedy. To lighten the mood, the author also includes 19th century recipes that the travelers cooked on the trail--before the food ran out.

The Lookout Cookbook is a blend of recipes, history, personal stories and over 100 photographs. Seventy recipes from breakfast to dessert were collected from the people who have staffed and still staff fire lookouts. This book provides a glimpse into what it was like to spend a summer isolated in a lookout. The Lookout Cookbook raises awareness of these historic structures and benefits their preservation.

Catch a glimpse of all the wonders Wyoming has to offer in "C is for Cowboy: A Wyoming Alphabet." This alphabet journey begins "A is for Altitude of mountains that soar, the Grand Tetons rise straight from the floor." Written in a two-tier format with rhyming text for younger readers and detailed expository text for older readers, "C is for Cowboy" showcases the many natural wonders of this expansive state. Susan Guy's dramatic, true-to-life artwork provides a stunning backdrop to the printed words.

Pack your bags for an unforgettable trip! An unexpected mix of vintage illustrations and contemporary photos makes this word book about trains as entertaining to look at as it is to read. With simple information about everything from the transcontinental railroad to the model trains, C Is for Caboose is sure to excite young readers' natural curiosity and fill their heads with details they'll be eager to share.

For more than twenty years Max Evans has been trying to assemble a book of stories by working cowboys--men who were ranch hands with at least five years of paid experience and women who had either been raised on ranches or joined their husbands on a double hire-out for five years or more. With the expert help of Candy Moulton he has succeeded in collecting eighteen stories set in the Working West after 1920 that meet his inflexible requirements: experience plus imagination plus innate writing ability. The stories in this anthology range as wide as the Rockies, from a murder mystery to the tale of a unique horse trainer, to a family's desperate battle against a grass and forest fire to the story of a world famous violinist. But they share a common denominator: biscuits. Almost every story includes hot biscuits as a feature of daily life in the Working West. Biscuits, it turns out, are more important in western life than guns and maybe more than coffee. In the West, people who could make superior biscuits received more respect than the mayor and the police chief combined.

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