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	Across the Wide Missouri • Bernard DeVoto • HISTORY • A volume in Devoto's monumental history of the West, this engrossing book brings to life the era of fur traders and mountain men for the general reader. (PNW37, $17.95)
	The Amazing Death of Calf Shirt and Other Blackfoot Stories, Three Hundred Years of Blackfoot History • Hugh A. Dempsey • HISTORY • A wonderful collection of stories, illuminating the history of the Blackfoot people of the prairies of southern Alberta and northern Montana. (USW104, $16.95)
	American Railroads • John F. Stover • HISTORY • The rise, sad decline, and recent recovery of railroads in the United States. (USW53, $17.00)
	Animal Tracks, Peterson Field Guide • Olaus Murie • FIELD GUIDE • The classic guide to tracks of North American mammals. (FG22, $19.95)
	Archaeology, History, and Custer's Last Battle: The Little Big Horn Reexamined • Richard Allan Fox, Jr. • HISTORY • A revisionist history of the Battle of Little Big Horn. (RKY62, $19.95)
	A Beast the Color of Winter • Douglas Chadwick • NATURAL HISTORY • A lively portrait of the mountain goat, its ecology, behavior and environment. (RKY28, $18.95)
	The Best of the West, An Anthology of Classic Writing from the American West • Tony Hillerman • ANTHOLOGY • A campfire collection of unforgettable portraits of the West, this anthology takes in travelers, homesteaders, Navajos, government officials, pioneers and authors as diverse as Meriwether Lewis, John Steinbeck and Edward Abbey. (USW87, $18.00)
	Beyond the Hundredth Meridian, John Wesley Powell and the Second Opening of the West • Wallace Stegner • EXPLORATION • The classic, Pulitzer Prize-winning biography of explorer John Wesley Powell by the great Wallace Stegner, first published in 1954. It's both an adventure and an insightful look at the politics of development in the American West. (USW78, $16.00)
	The Big Year, A Tale Of Man, Nature, And Fowl Obsession • Mark Obmascik • NATURAL HISTORY • Obmascik, himself an over-the-edge birder, recounts with glee and page-turning detail the race to see the most birds in North America in a year. It's an utterly compelling account of a three-way race (roofing contractor, tycoon, software nerd), likely never again to be equaled. (BRD29, $14.00)
	The Birdwatcher's Companion to North American Birdlife • Christopher W. Leahy • Gordon Morrison • NATURAL HISTORY • A handsome, fully illustrated survey of the birds of North America, organized A to Z, covering birds, bird biology, conservation and birdwatching. (NAM21, $19.95)
	Blackfeet Tales of Glacier National Park • James Willard Schultz • LITERATURE • Blackfoot legends and tales gathered by a man who lived among them. (RKY55, $19.95)
	The Blackfeet, Raiders on the Northwest Plains • John Canfield Ewers • HISTORY • A classic history of the Blackfeet, first published in 1958. It is old-fashioned, authoritatively written, factual and full of detail of daily life. (PNW47, $24.95)
	The Bonehunters' Revenge, Dinosaurs and Fate in the Gilded Age • David Rains Wallace • HISTORY • In this riveting chronicle of a major scientific feud, Wallace details how two rival paleontologists used the "New York Herald" to wage a dirty war on each other's findings, professionalism and personal integrity. (GEN125, $14.00)
	Bozeman and the Gallatin Valley, A History • Phyllis Smith • HISTORY • A vivid, illustrated history with nearly 300 photographs, engravings and maps. (RKY24, $29.95)
	Breaking Clean • Judy Blunt • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR • The story of an independent woman's love of the land and struggle with the traditional mores of Montana. (RKY76, $13.95)
	Cheyenne Memories • John Stands in Timber • Margot Liberty • CULTURAL PORTRAIT • A classic, oral history of the Cheyenne Indians. (USW287, $22.00)
	Collapse, How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed • Jared Diamond • HISTORY • Diamond tackles nothing less than the history and fate of civilization in this compelling book in which he offers case studies, present and past, of societies that work and societies that do not, devoting 100 carefully reasoned pages, for example, to the fate of the Norse settlements in Greenland (climatic change, Inuit) and another big section on Easter Island (deforestation, hubris). (GEN324, $18.00)
	The Compact Guide to the Wildflowers of the Rockies • Dana Bush • FIELD GUIDE • 100 species of wildflowers commonly encountered in the Rocky Mountains. (USW10, $7.95)
	The Company of Wolves • Peter Steinhart • NATURAL HISTORY • A celebration of the wolf, this book presents the ecology of the North American wolf, a call for its reintroduction in the West, and a history of the complex relations with humans. (BST37, $15.95)
	Custer, Cavalier in Buckskin • Robert Utley • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR • A concise biography of General George Armstrong Custer. (RKY64, $29.95)
	Empire Express, Building the First Transcontinental Railroad • David Haward Bain • HISTORY • A magisterial history of the railroad that connected the East to the West -- and radically changed the face of America. It is quite a tale, featuring greed, corruption, disaster and many memorable characters. (USW135, $20.00)
	Encyclopedia of Dinosaurs • Philip J. Currie • Kevin Padian • REFERENCE • This massive volume may be expensive, but it's certainly comprehensive. Compiled by two prominent paleontologists, it's a reference to major dinosaur research up through the end of the 20th century. (SCI29, $148.00)
	Exploring Glacier National Park • Jane Gildart • Bert Gildart • GUIDEBOOK • A naturalist's overview of Glacier National Park, including the region's geologic history, flora, fauna and visitor sites. With color and black-and-white photos and sketch maps. (RKY19, $15.95)
	Falcon Guide, Hiking the Absaroka-Beartooth Wilderness • Bill Schneider • GUIDEBOOK • A practical hiking guide to the Absaroka-Beartooth Wilderness. (RKY08, $17.95)
	Feathered Dragons • Philip J. Currie • SCIENCE • A collection of 15 scholarly articles on the transition from dinosaurs to birds. (SCI87, $49.95)
	The Fetterman Massace • Dee Brown • HISTORY • An account of the defeat of Captain W.J. Fetterman and his 80 men (RKY66, $19.95)
	The First Rangers • C.W. Guthrie • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR • An account of two early forest rangers in Montana. (USA103, $14.95)
	Fishing Yellowstone National Park • Richard Parks • GUIDEBOOK • A comprehensive handbook to fishing throughout the park from Falcon Guides. (RKY34, $14.95)
	Glacier National Park Wildlife, An Introduction to Familiar Species • James Kavanagh • FIELD GUIDE • A handy, fold-up plastic card with color illustrations of commonly encountered birds, mammals, reptiles, amphibians, fish and butterflies. (USW500, $5.95)
	Glacier-Waterton, International Peace Park • Vicky Spring • Tom Kirkendall • GUIDEBOOK • A comprehensive guide for active travelers to Glacier and Waterton Lakes National Parks. It details the best hikes and bike rides, along with other adventure activities, and is full of helpful sketch maps. (RKY33, $16.95)
	Grassland, The History, Biology, Politics and Promise of the American Prairie • Richard Manning • NATURAL HISTORY • An environmental history of the great plains. (USW178, $16.00)
	The Great Divide, A Biography of the Rocky Mountains • Gary Ferguson • NATURAL HISTORY • The exciting adventurers -- trappers, hippies and women's suffragists -- of the Rocky Mountains, past and present, come to life in Ferguson's account of the lands that have always encouraged exploration, inspired dreams and represented American freedom. (RKY84, $16.95)
	Great Plains • Ian Frazier • TRAVEL NARRATIVE • A marvelously digressive, wide-ranging account of 25,000 miles worth of travels criss-crossing throughout the Great Plains, combining first-rate reportage and history. (USW172, $14.00)
	Hear That Lonesome Whistle Blow: Railroads in the West • Dee Brown • HISTORY • A spirited history of the transcontinental railroad and the conquering of the American West. (USW04, $15.00)
	Heart Earth • Ivan Doig • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR • Doig deftly recreates the hardscrabble life in WWII-era Arizona and Montana in this second memoir (a prequel to This House of Sky), drawing on letters by his mother (who died in 1945 when he was six) to her favorite brother. (RKY95, $13.00)
	In the Loyal Mountains • Rick Bass • LITERATURE • Bass captures the landscape and people of the South and the West in spare, stunning prose in this diverse collection of stories. (USW529, $12.00)
	Indian Creek Chronicles, A Winter Alone in the Wilderness • Peter Fromm • TRAVEL NARRATIVE • Fromm's lyrical tale of a winter as a ranger deep in Idaho's Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness displays his sense of the land, self-deprecating humor, and the joys and solace of a winter alone. (USW310, $14.00)
	The Journals of Lewis and Clark • Meriwether Lewis • William Clark • Bernard DeVoto • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR • A classic condensed version of the Lewis and Clark journals, originally published in 1953 and long the standard. (PNW96, $14.95)
	Killing Custer, The Battle of the Little Bighorn and the Fate of the Plains Indians • James Welch • HISTORY • A reconstruction of the battle from the point of view of the Indians. (RKY71, $15.00)
	Kingbird Highway, The Story of a Natural Obsession That Got a Little Out of Hand • Kenn Kaufman • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR • Kaufman's absorbing account of coming-of-age as a Wichita teenager on the road in 1973 with a summer's pay in his pocket and the goal of seeing as many birds as he could in a year. (BRD27, $14.00)
	Lewis and Clark Among the Indians • James P. Ronda • HISTORY • Ronda, a historian at the University of Tulsa, focuses on the various tribes encountered by Lewis and Clark, their ethnography and leaders. Originally published in 1984, this edition celebrates the Lewis and Clark bicentennial. (USW203, $17.95)
	Lewis and Clark and the Image of the American Northwest • John Logan Allen • HISTORY • A Dover reprint of a classic study originally published by the University of Illinois Press in 1975. (USW375, $13.95)
	Lewis and Clark, Partners in Discovery • John E. Bakeless • EXPLORATION • Applying his own original research and the journals of expedition members, Bakeless has put together an authoritative biography of the two explorers. (USW376, $14.95)
	Life in the Cold: an Introduction to Winter Ecology • Peter Marchand • NATURAL HISTORY • An in-depth look at the ecology of surviving the cold. (USW70, $22.95)
	The Locsha Story, Land Ethics in the Bitterroot Mountains • Bud Moore • HISTORY • A history of Montana's Upper Clearwater Country. (RKY78, $20.00)
	Lonesome Dove • Larry McMurtry • LITERATURE • McMurty's beloved Western tells of a pair of former Texas Rangers on a cattle-drive from the Rio Grande to Montana. (USW446, $7.99)
	Making Hay • Verlyn Klinkenborg • CULTURAL PORTRAIT • The author rhapsodizes on agrarian life in the Midwest as he travels from Iowa to Minnesota to Montana. And make no mistake: the title isn't a metaphor or a pun -- it's the main subject of the book. (USA17, $12.95)
	Mammals of North America • Roland W. Kays • Don E. Wilson • FIELD GUIDE • The most comprehensive guide to mammals found north of Mexico. (NAM11, $19.95)
	The March of the Montana Column, A Prelude to the Custer Disaster • James Bradley • Edgar Stewart • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR • The journals of Lieutenant James Bradley, a first-hand account of the Sioux Campaign. (RKY65, $19.95)
	Montana, 1948 • Larry Watson • LITERATURE • (USW519, $14.00)
	Montana: Native Plants and Early Peoples • Jeff Hart • Jacqueline Moore • FIELD GUIDE • A illustrated guide to 60 plants found in Montana. (USW358, $14.95)
	Moon Handbook Montana • W.C. McRae • Judy Jewell • GUIDEBOOK • A comprehensive guide in the popular Moon series, chock full of useful tourist information. It includes a long section on visiting Glacier National Park. (USW458, $19.95)
	Mountains and Plains, The Ecology of Wyoming Landscapes • Dennis H. Knight • NATURAL HISTORY • This book documents the landscape ecology of Wyoming through dozens of photographs, maps, text and line drawings. The author pays particular attention to Yellowstone and Grand Teton national parks. Of interest to both serious students and curious travelers. (USW64, $30.00)
	Native Universe, Voices of Indian America • Clifford E. Trafzer • ANTHOLOGY • This sumptuously illustrated cultural history, written exclusively by Native Americans, is published in celebration of the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian. (USA95, $22.00)
	Never Cry Wolf • Farley Mowat • LITERATURE • FAVORITE • A laugh-out-loud account of wolf research and government folly set on the barren lands of northern Manitoba. Perfect for teens. (BST34, $12.99)
	The New Encyclopedia of the American West • Howard R. Lamar • REFERENCE • A massive -- and entertaining -- reference to the West. (USW416, $85.00)
	The Nez Perce Indians and the Opening of the Northwest • Alvin M. Josephy, Jr. • HISTORY • A riveting, classic history of the Nez Perce from the encounters with Lewis and Clark to the tragic defeat of Chief Joseph in 1877. (PNW88, $21.00)
	The Old North Trail: Life, Legends and Religion of the Blackfeet Indians • Walter McClintock • CULTURAL PORTRAIT • A portrait of Blackfoot culture. (USW411, $19.95)
	Our National Parks • John Muir • Richard F. Fleck • NATURAL HISTORY • A collection of ten essays on the national parks of the west, including Yosemite, Yellowstone, Sequoia and General Grant. Six of the ten chapters are devoted to Yosemite National Park. (USW272, $26.95)
	Out West • Dayton Duncan • EXPLORATION • In this spirited tale of history, exploration and travel, Duncan recounts his adventures in the footsteps of Lewis and Clark (USW374, $24.95)
	Plenty-Coups, Chief of the Crows • Plenty-Coups • Frank B. Linderman • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR • The reflections of Chief Plenty-Coups, leader of the Crow Indians. (RKY63, $18.95)
	Pretty-Shield, Medicine Woman of the Crows • Frank B. Linderman • Alma Snell • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR • A new edition of the oral history of the Crows. (USP17, $14.95)
	Recreational Map of Western Montana • GTR Mapping • This handy road map (1:790,000) shows Missoula, Butte, Bozeman, Big Sky and the route between Yellowstone and Glacier. (RKY86, $3.95)
	Remember D-Day, Both Sides Tell Their Stories • Ronald J. Drez • David Eisenhower • HISTORY • YOUNG ADULTS • An engaging and well-constructed history of the D-Day invasion for readers in grades 5 to 8, complete with anecdotes from soldiers, black-and-white photographs and plenty of historical information. (USA96, $17.95)
	Return to Wild America, A Yearlong Search for the Continent's Natural Soul • Scott Weidensaul • NATURAL HISTORY • An eye-opening trek in the footsteps of conservation pioneers Roger Tory Peterson and James Fisher, whose 1953 journey across America resulted in the classic Wild America. (USA123, $15.00)
	Rising from the Plains • John McPhee • NATURAL HISTORY • McPhee's elegant and accessible essays show the geology the Rockies though his travels with U.S. Geological Survey scientist David Love. (USW18, $15.00)
	Rockhounding Montana • Robert Feldman • GUIDEBOOK • An aficionado's introduction to the geology of the state and its many minerals. (USW58, $12.95)
	The Rockies, A Natural History • Richard Cannings • NATURAL HISTORY • An engaging, illustrated guide to the geology, history, habitats, wildlife and climate of the Rockies, geared for naturalist-travelers. (RKY82, $29.95)
	Rocky Mountain Wildflowers • John J. Craighead • FIELD GUIDE • A Peterson guide to 590 species of wildflowers, with both line drawings and a section of color photographs. Focusing on family and genus, the book includes the most conspicuous and commonly encountered flowers. (USW41, $21.00)
	Roughing It • Mark Twain • LITERATURE • Mark Twain's fictional account of the 1860's American West, delightful as ever. (USW16, $16.95)
	Sacajawea • Harold P. Howard • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR • The Lewis and Clark Expedition as told through the story of Sacajawea, their young Shoshoni guide. (USW405, $19.95)
	The Sibley Field Guide to Birds of Western North America • David Sibley • FIELD GUIDE • A compact, geographically-specific version of the Sibley Guide with all-new range maps, the same glorious illustrations and expanded, extremely valuable descriptions of each bird. (USW418, $19.95)
	Smithsonian Handbooks Birds of North America, Western Region • Fred J. Alsop, III • FIELD GUIDE • A guide to birds found west of the Mississippi with a page devoted to each of 700 species. (USW415, $25.00)
	The Solace of Open Spaces • Gretel Ehrlich • CULTURAL PORTRAIT • A loosely organized travelogue and meditation on the high plains of Wyoming. While Ehrlich writes of ranchers, cowboys and weather, the real star of this lyrical celebration of Wyoming is the landscape itself. (USW67, $14.00)
	Stars Over Montana • Warren Hanna • EXPLORATION • COMING IN JANUARY • The classic history of Glacier National Park, published in celebration of the 2010 centennial. (USW560, $16.95)
	Stolen Continents, 500 Years of Conquest and Resistance in the Americas • Ronald Wright • HISTORY • A powerful history of imperialism and resistance in the Americas, with a focus on the Aztec, Maya, Inca, Cherokee and Iroquois. Wright draws on an impressive range of archival material in reconstructing this classic account. (NAM20, $17.00)
	The Surrounded • D'Arcy McNickle • LITERATURE • A novel of life on Montana's Flathead Reservation. (RKY56, $19.95)
	A Thief of Time • Tony Hillerman • MYSTERY • A mystery of stolen artifacts from an ancient Anasazi burial site set against a detailed depiction of Southwestern culture. (USW46, $7.99)
	This Land, A Guide to Central National Forests • Robert H. Mohlenbrock • Mike Dombeck • GUIDEBOOK • (USM100, $25.95)
	Those Tremendous Mountains, The Story of the Lewis and Clark Expedition • David Freeman Hawke • EXPLORATION • Hawke describes the epic journey to explore the area of the Louisiana Purchase. He casts light, in particular, on the scientific achievements of the men, using their own journal excerpts. (USW373, $13.95)
	To See Every Bird On Earth: A Father, A Son, And A Lifelong Obsession • Dan Koeppel • NATURAL HISTORY • In this enormously appealing memoir of a life devoted to birds. Koeppel chronicles his father's growing obsession and accomplishment as an elite birdwatcher, one of a handful of people who have tallied 7,000 species. (BRD28, $14.00)
	Trains of Discovery, Western Railroads and the National Parks/Collector's Guide • Alfred Runte • HISTORY • An illustrated tribute to American railroads and national parks, featuring period advertisements, posters and memorabilia of Glacier, Grand Canyon and Denali National Parks. (USW56, $19.95)
	Traveler's Guide to the Great Sioux War • Paul L. Hedren • GUIDEBOOK • An illustrated guide to sites associated with the Great Sioux War. (RKY67, $10.95)
	Two Leggings, The Making of a Crow Warrior • Peter Nabokov • William Wildschut • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR • A detailed portrait of the Plains Indians in the second half of the 19th-century. (USP18, $16.95)
	Undaunted Courage (Audio Cassette) • Stephen Ambrose • HISTORY • An audio version of Ambrose's engaging tale of the Lewis & Clark expedition. (USW347, $25.00)
	Undaunted Courage, Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson and the Opening of the American West • Stephen Ambrose • EXPLORATION • A fast-paced, marvelously detailed account of the exploration of the American West. (USW03, $30.00)
	The Verb to Bird, Sightings of an Avid Birder • Peter Cashwell • NATURAL HISTORY • A memoir of the birding life, its pleasures, obsessions and pitfalls. Based in the Carolinas (where he teaches English), Cashwell recounts in these essays the birds he's encountered, the why and wherefores of the birding life and some very entertaining anecdotes. (BRD26, $14.95)
	Wapiti Wilderness, The Life of Olaus & Margaret Murie in Jackson Hole, Wyoming • Margaret Murie • Olaus Murie • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR • Margaret and her biologist husband (who did the illustrations for the book) write of a winter, and especially the elk, at a ranch in Jackson Hole. They alternate chapters, mixing tales of work as a field biologist with stories of life in the region, where they lived for 37 years. (USW68, $24.95)
	The Waters of Yellowstone with Rod and Fly • Howard Back • Craig Mathews • Dan Callaghan • Robert H. Berls • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR • A classic account of fly-fishing in Yellowstone. (RKY36, $24.95)
	The Way to the Western Sea, Lewis and Clark Across the Continent • David Lavender • EXPLORATION • Characterized by its scholarship and sweeping narrative style, this book is a lively history of the expedition. (PNW35, $24.95)
	We Pointed Them North, Recollections of a Cowpuncher • Helena H. Smith • E. C. Abbott • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR • A memoir from the glory days of cattle-driving. (USW364, $19.95)
	Western USA Map • Hildebrand • A detailed map of the Central and Western United States. (USW51, $11.95)
	Winter in the Blood • James Welch • LITERATURE • A powerful novel of a young Native American. (RKY53, $14.00)
	Winter Wheat • Mildred Walker • LITERATURE • A classic novel of family life and love on a 1940s-era farm in Central Montana. (RKY75, $13.95)
	The Wolf, Ecology and Behavior of an Endangered Species • David Mech • NATURAL HISTORY • A classic overview of the ecology of the wolf by David Mech, a well known biologist who has done much of his field work on Ellesmere Island in the Canadian North. (BST35, $19.95)
	Women's Diaries of the Westward Journey • Lillian Schlissel • HISTORY • A fascinating, well researched selection of women's diaries and journals from the Wild West, including vivid accounts of buffalo hunts, Indian raids, childbirth under difficult circumstances, geological wonders and a telling amount of inward trepidation. With black-and-white photographs throughout. (USW395, $14.95)
	Women's Diaries of the Westward Journey • Lillian Schlissel • HISTORY • A fascinating, well researched selection of women's diaries and journals from the Wild West, including vivid accounts of buffalo hunts, Indian raids, childbirth under difficult circumstances, geological wonders and a telling amount of inward trepidation. With black-and-white photographs throughout. (USW395, $14.95)
	The World of the Crow Indians, As Driftwood Lodges • Rodney Frey • CULTURAL PORTRAIT • An introduction to the culture of the Crow Indians. (USP16, $19.95)
	Yellowstone Fishes: Ecology, History and Angling in the Park • John D. Varley • Paul Schullery • NATURAL HISTORY • A natural history of fishes and fishing in Yellowstone. (RKY37, $19.95)
	The Yellowstone Fly-Fishing Guide • Craig Mathews • Clayton Molinero • GUIDEBOOK • A guide to fishing in Yellowstone National Park, written by experienced local anglers and the owners of the Yellowstone Park Company. Covering techniques, equipment and hundreds of sites, it's the perfect tool for planning a fishing trip to the park. (RKY35, $16.95)
	The Yellowstone Story, A History of Our First National Park, Volume 1 • Aubrey L. Haines • HISTORY • The first entry in a two volume history of the park. (USW383, $22.95)
	The Yellowstone Story, A History of Our First National Park, Volume 2 • Aubrey L. Haines • HISTORY • The second entry in a two volume history of the park. (USW384, $24.95)
	The Yellowstone Winter Guide • Jeff Henry • GUIDEBOOK • A practical guide to Yellowstone in winter for snowmobilers. (USW69, $13.95)
	Yellowtail, Crow Medicine Man and Sun Dance Chief, An Autobiography • Thomas Yellowtail • Michael Oren Fitzgerald • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR • An pivotal culural figure and Crow medicine man, born in 1903, tells his story. (RKY72, $16.95)

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