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The bloody Bozeman: the perilous trail to Montana's gold
By Dorothy M Johnson. 1983
The Bozeman Trail, charted in 1863, was the main road that passed through the prime hunting grounds of the Sioux…
Indians to reach the rich gold mines of Montana. Johnson's narrative tracks the perils and adventures of numerous characters who travelled the Bozeman Trail, some finding fortune in gold, some a better way of life in farming, and some meeting death at the hands of Indians, poverty and starvationWicked Prescott (Wicked Ser.)
By Parker Anderson. 2016
Prescott. Tells the stories of some of the swindlers, con men and outlaws that lived in or passed through Arizona's…
first capital from the mid-1800s to the early 1920s. Includes Jenny Shultz, Prescott's first murdered woman, and Joseph Drew, the area's only publicly known member of the Prescott Ku Klux Klan. Some violenceWoman of the cavalcade: an epic true story (Conquering the Wild West - Edith Kohl's Trilogy Ser.)
By Edith Eudora Kohl, Margie Ammons, Margie Walsh, Pbj Inc.. 2017
In this third book of the Conquering the Wild West trilogy, Edith Kohl describes her dramatic, true-life experiences in helping…
to settle the American West. Her adventures take her into the Judith Basin of Montana during the early 1900s where she started her fourth newspaper and fought the big grain trusts which were robbing the farmers of profits. Edith fought for the farmers with the help of several U.S. senators and became involved with the American Society of Equity, now known as The Farm BureauA Great Basin mosaic: the cultures of rural Nevada (Shepperson Series in Nevada History Ser.)
By James W. Hulse. 2017
A chronicle of the smaller towns and byways of Nevada. This mosaic represents "the other Nevada," beyond Las Vegas, Reno,…
and Carson City. Much of the terrain of rural Nevada has not changed at all, while others have adapted to technological revolutions of recent times. Hulse states that there is no single "other" Nevada but several subcultures with distinct featuresIn this collection of short, comic rants, the author explores various aspects of life in the remote, high-desert of Nevada's…
Great Basin. Adventure, humor, and irreverence abound along with some environmental perspective from an ecocritic. 2017Survival arts of the primitive Paiutes
By Margaret M. Wheat. 1967
Gained from her 20 years of painstaking work with the Paiutes, this book describes how they survived the harsh Nevada…
climate. Recounting the Paiutes' methods for basket weaving, hunting, fishing, and working with rabbit skins, it serves as a vital reference on early Paiute culture. They are an old, proud and a reserved race, and acceptance of outsiders is not freely given. 1967Colorado 14er disasters: 2nd Edition
By Mark Scott-Nash. 2016
Summiting Colorado 14ers--14,000-foot peaks--is a popular activity, but the potential of a mountaineering accident casts a dark shadow on what…
is otherwise a positive experience for hikers and mountaineers. This book explores the disturbingly easy ways that hikers become stranded, severely injured, or killed on the 14ers. The author describes mountaineering accidents and the subsequent rescue attempts, and gives mountaineers helpful information for avoiding such disasters. 2016A quick history of Grand Lake: including Rocky Mountain National Park and the Grand Lake Lodge
By Michael M. Geary. 1999
Located at an elevation of 8,369 feet, Grand Lake is Colorado's largest natural body of water and has been attracting…
people to its shores for thousands of years. This account focuses on the people and events that have influenced the human history of Grand Lake and its immediate vicinity. 199952 rivers: a woman's fly-fishing journey
By Shelley Walchak. 2014
The author, a librarian by profession, gave up her job to fly fish a river a week for a year.…
She outfitted a camper, purchased camera equipment and a computer, and hit the road--7 Rocky Mountain States and 52 riversOut where the west begins: Volume 2, Creating and civilizing the American West
By Philip Anschutz, Philip F. Anschutz. 2017
This second volume in the Out Where the West Begins series profiles more than one hundred influential men and women--political…
and military leaders, religious thinkers, civil rights proponents, suffragettes, African American pioneers, writers and artists, explorers and surveyors, architects, inventors, innovators, medical professionals, and conservationists--who together wove the story of early western frontier AmericaRolling with the press: a publisher's journey
By Suzanne Barrett, Edward Lehman. 2016
Edward Lehman's work life began as a paperboy and culminated as owner/publisher of five Colorado newspapers. His professional life also…
included years as a police reporter, Deputy District Attorney for Denver, private trial attorney, and a Colorado State Legislator. In this memoir Lehman documents his personal story and newspaper career, spanning much of the twentieth and into the twenty-first centuries and reflection sweeping changes in society, reporting, technology, communication, and business managementBrothels, bordellos & bad girls: prostitution in Colorado, 1860-1930
By Jan MacKell. 2004
In pioneer Colorado, mining was the principal occupation, and men outnumbered women more than twenty to one. As a result,…
prostitution thrived. The author provides a detailed overview of the business between 1860 and 1930, focusing her research on the mining towns of Cripple Creek, Salida, Colorado City and similar boomtown communities. She documents the movements of the women over the course of their careers, uncovering work histories, medical problems and numerous relocations from town to town. She traces many to their graves, through years filled with abuse, disease, narcotics, and violenceSeasons on a ranch
By Cynthia Vannoy-Rhoades. 1986
Going over east: reflections of a woman rancher
By Linda M Hasselstrom. 2001
Gate by gate, Linda Hasselstrom guides readers through the physical and emotional landscape of going over east to summer pasture.…
With each stop, she makes a nostalgic foray into the past, discusses the routine demands of her family's cow-calf operation, pays loving tribute to a favorite old horse, celebrates the wildlife and silent dignity of deserted homesteads, or hurls a diatribe at the forces threatening the future of the land and of her small South Dakota ranch. And finally, in her new epilogue, she offers readers a look at the distance she and the land have traveled since this book was first published in 1987Chief Gall: Sioux war chief
By Jane Shumate. 1995
Chief Gall played a vital role in one of the most brutal conflicts to beset the American West. Strong, proud,…
and eloquent, this Sioux patriot led his people into Native America's last stand: the ferocious battle for control of the western plains. For grades 4-7Rough beauty: forty seasons of mountain living
By Karen Auvinen. 2018
Memoir by the award-winning poet Karen Auvinen describes how she flees to a primitive cabin in the Rockies to live…
in solitude as a writer and to embrace all the beauty and brutality nature has to offer. When a fire incinerates every word she has ever written and all of her possessions--except for her beloved dog Elvis, her truck, and a few singed artifacts--Auvinen embarks on a journey to reconcile her desire to be alone with her need for community. Some descriptions of sex and strong languageAn owl on every post
By Sanora Babb. 2012
The author was seven when her parents began to homestead an isolated 320-acre farm on the Eastern Plains of Colorado.…
She experienced pioneer life in a one-room dugout, eye-level with the land where her family fought for their lives against drought, crop-failure, starvation, and almost unfathomless loneliness. A true story of a prairie childhood that reveals the courage, pride, determination, and love that allowed her family to prevail over total despair. Some strong languageAnn Bassett: Colorado's cattle queen
By Linda Wommack. 2017
Biography of Anna Marie Bassett (1878-1956), the first white child born in the notorious outlaw region of Colorado known as…
Brown's Park. She knew outlaws such as Butch Cassidy, the Sundance Kid, and Elza Lay. This account of "Colorado's Cattle Queen" is told largely in her own words and supported by friends and enemies alikeMy ranch, too: A Wyoming Memoir
By Mary Budd Flitner. 2018
In this memoir of life in the Wyoming high country, Flitner offers an authentic glimpse into the daily realities of…
ranch life. Some of Flitner's recollections are humorous and lighthearted. Others take a darker turn. The ranch is not Filtner's alone to run, as she is quick to acknowledge. Everybody pitches in, but when Mary takes the responsibility of gathering a herd of cattle or makes solo rounds at the crack of dawn to check on the livestock, there is no doubt that this is indeed her ranch, too. 2018. Some strong languageTen miles from Aspen: life at the Lodge in the 60s and 70s
By Joanne Brand. 2018
The true story of the author's experience on a guest ranch high in the Rocky Mountains during the 1960s and…
'70s. With a self-proclaimed appreciation and love for the Rocky Mountains, Brand exposes the other side of the world-renowned ski resort of Aspen, Colorado -- not all glitz and glamour, but the year-round struggles of rustic mountain living against the backdrop of an exploding new culture sweeping the country. 2010. Adult