Here, collected in one volume, are thirty-five vignettes of Montana and Wyoming history.
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This book delves into the 1979 Idaho firefighting plane crash and other wildland disasters, offering insights from Robert W. Sisk's research and firsthand experiences.
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The fascinating history of flume logging that shaped the Copper City
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The underground history of horse thievery and cowboys in the Wild West
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In Dwight Guynn's long career in wildlife management he has worked with Texas ranchers, as an operations strategist for Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks, and as a trainer and consultant for the Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies' Management Assistant Team.
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Learn about the ecology and history of the Absaroka-Beartooth & Crazy mountains of Montana and how got their names!
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In this innovative examination, Dr. Larry Len Peterson explores the origins, development, and consequences of hatred and racism from the time modern humans left Africa 100,000 years ago to the forced placement of Indian children on off-reservation schools far from home in the late 1800s.
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IRVIN ATCHISON lived a hard life as a young man growing up around Sidney, Montana, in the difficult times of the 1920s and 1930s. He had a way with horses and a hardscrabble life. When he joined the US Army, he had no idea that his skill would take him to the mountains of Hawaii to train mules in preparation for the coming War.
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In Search of the Mount Cleveland Five is a true story about the coming-of-age of the author that races through twenty-two years of climbing endeavors with colorful Montana climbers and their close calls, antics, and tears.
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Animal rescuer and author, Debi Pace, has referred to her home as the “Kennel of Last Resort.”
Wherever Pace has lived, she has volunteered at the local shelter or humane society, and for the last fifteen years she has taken in the hardest cases and worked hands-on to rehabilitate and rehome animals―and kept a running cast of characters in her life from collies to kittens to a cockabeagador. These stories celebrate the countless dogs, cats, birds, rabbits, and other creatures who have made their homes with her and that she has restored to health, rehomed with new families, or helped over the “rainbow bridge.”
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An abandoned baby kitten found whimpering in a countryside ditch in a perilous state, Tiramisù was a special gift to his adoptive family. He never took a break from generously pouring out his affection and love. His was a lesson in what a blessing it is to give with no strings attached Love prevailed in spite of the many moments of having to say, “Tiramisù, what are you up to now? You are a little rascal.”
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If you’re ready to live as a diehard fly fisherman in the land of the midnight sun, you’d better be prepared to weather several long months of midnight. Set against the backdrop of a life spent in the latitudes of the Far North, follow the author as he casts about in search of arctic grayling, rainbow trout, and the ultimate truths in life.
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Samurai sword guards, or tsuba, reflect the rich history and artistic culture of the Japanese people, the warriors who wielded them as part of their weaponry, and the achievement of the craftsmen who made them. This volume comprises the extraordinary tsuba collection of Gary Montgomery, who studied, documented, and curated his finds over half a century. Richly colored photographs of the tsuba; notes on origins, makers, and provenance; and detailed references make this book a must-have for collectors looking to improve their knowledge.
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Swede's adventures include a summer on a fire lookout, deployment as a Marine to Korea, smokejumping, fire suppression, timber forester, aviation management, hunting assisting Montana Game Wardens, ski patrol, an ambulance EMT, and back country rescue.
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The true story of a Slovenian peasant boy who becomes a concert bassoonist and must flee Paris when the First World War begins a Viennese kitchen maid who receives money from a mysterious benefactor and off she goes to America, a scrappy gold prospector who faces off against one of the most powerful men in the state, and a girl who grows up in a Wild West saloon…
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Women Elders Speak is the latest book project from third generation Montanan and Bozeman octogenarian Jo Anne Salisbury Troxel. This now retired English teacher was known by her students to enjoy challenging them to think in new ways. A teacher to her core, her peppery spirit is like a flare in the night sky, an invitation to add beauty, to connect, and offer the light of hope to these dark and difficult days.
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The West has a storytelling history, and everyone has a story. This is artist Theodore Waddell’s—an illustrated mosey through the landscape, livestock, and colorful characters that made up his life as a cattleman in a remote part of Central Montana.
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In vignettes both touching and tragic, Waiting for the Revolution relates a deeply personal story of love and loss set against the backdrop of the rise and fall of the Communist Party in eastern Montana.
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Between 1910 and 1922, seventeen Montana communities built libraries with money given to them by the era's richest man, Andrew Carnegie.
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In mid-November 1900 a herd of sheep crossed a plowed furrow “deadline” which had separated the public ranges for cattle and sheep herds for many years.
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