Yellowstone & Grand Teton National Parks   |   READING AND TRAVEL GUIDE

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Essential Books These 6 items are available for $123, including
U.S. shipping, a 15% discount (Item no. EXUSW183)		  
Compass Guide Yellowstone & Grand Teton National Parks  •  Brian Kevin
GUIDEBOOK •  2012 •  PAPER  • 320 PAGES
It's the dazzling photographs that draw you into this re-launched, thoroughly compelling overview of the park, its attractions, nature and allure. With hundreds of superb, full-page photographs, dozens of maps and an overview of accommodations and practicalities. (USW577, $19.99)		   Compass Guide Yellowstone & Grand Teton National Parks
Spectacular Yellowstone and Grand Teton National Parks  •  Charles R. Preston
NATURAL HISTORY •  2008 •  HARD COVER  • 132 PAGES
The gorgeous landscapes of Yellowstone and Grand Teton come to life in 300 color photographs, including six-page panoramic spreads. (USW547, $50.00)		   Spectacular Yellowstone and Grand Teton National Parks
Lost in My Own Backyard  •  Tim Cahill
TRAVEL NARRATIVE •  2004 •  HARD COVER  • 160 PAGES
Tim Cahill (who, as advertised, lives at Yellowstone's doorstep) brings his talents closer to home as he mixes tales of walks, hikes and three good backcountry treks with history, lore and gee-whiz wonder in this inspiring entry in the Crown Journeys series. (USW430, $16.95)		   Lost in My Own Backyard
Wapiti Wilderness  •  Margaret Murie  •  Olaus Murie
BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR •  2001 •  PAPER  • 302 PAGES
In this classic book, 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. Olaus and Mardy alternate chapters, mixing tales of work as a field biologist with stories of life in the region, where they lived for 37 years. Olaus Murie, who was born in 1889 in Moorhead, Minnesota, was named the first president of the Wilderness Society in 1945. The Murie ranch is now a conservation center, run in cooperation with Grand Teton National Park. (USW68, $24.95)		   Wapiti Wilderness
Yellowstone National Park Map  •  Trails Illustrated
2011 •  MAP
A hiker's overview map with great topographic detail, at a scale of 1:126,000, published in association with the National Geographic Society. Two Sides. 37x26 inches. (USW32, $11.95)		   Yellowstone National Park Map
Grand Teton National Park Map  •  Trails Illustrated
MAP
A full-color, double-sided topographic map of the park at a scale of 1:78,000 showing contours at 80-feet intervals. Rivers, lakes, mountains, trails, lodges and campgrounds are clearly indicated. Printed on tearproof, water resistant tyvek. Two Sides. 38x26 inches. (USW34, $11.95)		   Grand Teton National Park Map



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Lonely Planet Yellowstone & Grand Teton National Parks  •  Bradley Mayhew  •  Carolyn McCarthy   • GUIDEBOOK  •  With personality and local savvy, Montana residents Bradley Mayhew and Carolyn McCarthy cover the practicalities of where to go and what to do. With more photographs, detailed itineraries, family-friendly options, suggested hikes, two-color maps and a good overview of natural history. (USW438, $19.99)
 		  
Yellowstone, A Visitor's Companion  •  George Wuerthner   • GUIDEBOOK  •  A handbook to the geology, ecology, wildlife and plants of Yellowstone. With photographs, a bird list, and brief field guide with black-and-white drawings. (USW54, $15.95)
 		  
Do (Not) Feed the Bears, The Fitful History of Wildlife and Tourists in Yellowstone  •  Alice Wondrak Biel   • HISTORY  •  Biel goes beyond Yogi and Smokey, showing changing attitudes toward the bears from the 19th-century up to current conservation policy. (SWU465, $15.95)
 		  
The National Parks, America's Best Idea  •  Dayton Duncan  •  Ken Burns   • HISTORY  •  The widescreen edition of Ken Burn's 6-part, 12-hour ode to the national parks, featuring hundreds of interviews, fascinating archival images and dazzling cinematography in High Definition. (USA394, $99.99)
 		  
The West: An Illustrated History  •  Ken Burns  •  Geoffrey C. Ward   • HISTORY  •  The lavish illustrated companion to the PBS series with essays from seven renowned writers and historian. (USW674, $27.99)
 		  
Crazy Horse, A Life  •  Larry McMurtry   • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR  •  The story of Sioux warrior Crazy Horse, written by the Pulitzer prize-winning author of "Lonesome Dove." McMurtry blends history, biography and a dose of good storytelling in this short, thought-provoking biography. A volume in the excellent "Penguin Lives" series. (USW205, $14.00)
 		  
Horatio's Drive, America's First Road Trip  •  Dayton Duncan  •  Ken Burns   • TRAVEL NARRATIVE  •  The companion volume to the PBS film chronicles the nation's first road trip by Horatio Jackson, a 31-year-old Vermont doctor who drove his car from San Francisco to New York on mainly unpaved roads in 1903. (USA439, $24.95)
 		  
Miles from Nowhere  •  Dayton Duncan   • TRAVEL NARRATIVE  •  Touring the American West from the Rio Grande to the Cascades in a GMC Suburban, covering more than 30,000 miles, Duncan paints a vivid, perceptive portrait of frontier life in contemporary America. (USW675, $19.95)
 		  
A Naturalist's Guide to Grand Teton and Yellowstone National Park  •  Frank C. Craighead, Jr.   • NATURAL HISTORY  •  A memoir and classic natural history of the wildlife of Jackson Hole and the Tetons by a celebrated local biologist, organized week-by-week throughout the year. (SWU168, $18.95)
 		  
Decade of the Wolf, Returning the Wild to Yellowstone  •  Douglas Smith  •  Gary Ferguson   • NATURAL HISTORY  •  Biologist Smith (Yellowstone Wolf Recovery Project) and nature writer Ferguson look at the 10 years since the re-introduction of wolves to Yellowstone. (RKY90, $16.95)
 		  
Mountain Time, A Yellowstone Portrait  •  Paul Schullery   • NATURAL HISTORY  •  A former ranger, Schullery writes with depth and grace of the natural history of Yellowstone National Park, its wildlife, rangers, and visitors in this classic collection of essays, originally published in 1984. (USW392, $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, $34.00)
 		  
Of Wolves and Men  •  Barry Lopez   • NATURAL HISTORY  •  This eloquent, powerful book is an outstanding overview of the wolf, as well as a survey of wolf mythology and its relationship to human society. First published in the 1980s, it has been reprinted with a new afterword by the author. (BST31, $20.00)
 		  
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, $16.00)
 		  
Searching For Yellowstone, Ecology and Wonder in the Last Wilderness  •  Paul D. Schullery   • NATURAL HISTORY  •  An engaging social and environmental history of Yellowstone from the Pleistocene to the present focusing on the park since its founding in 1872. Schullery has worked in Yellowstone as a ranger, a historian and the chief of cultural resources. (USW59, $19.95)
 		  
The National Parks, America's Best Idea  •  Ken Burns  •  Dayton Duncan   • NATURAL HISTORY  •  Now in a paper edition, this lavishly illustrated tale by the dynamic PBS duo brings to life the conservationists, politicians, presidents and dreamers who created our national park system. (USA356, $32.50)
 		  
Yellowstone Country, The Enduring Wonder  •  Seymour L. Fishbein   • NATURAL HISTORY  •  An overview of Yellowstone presented in the style of National Geographic, featuring spectacular color photographs, maps and good travel information. (SWU76, $16.00)
 		  
National Audubon Society Field Guide to the Rocky Mountain States  •  Peter Alden   • FIELD GUIDE  •  A compact field guide to 1,000 commonly encountered plants and animals of Colorado, Montana, Wyoming and Idaho. With 1,500 color photographs, 11 maps, and 16 night-sky charts. (USW286, $19.95)
 		  
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)
 		  
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)
 		  
Yellowstone Trees & Wildflowers  •  James Kavanagh   • FIELD GUIDE  •  A handy, laminated fold-up card. (USW501, $5.95)
 		  
Yellowstone Wildlife  •  Pocket Naturalist   • FIELD GUIDE  •  This handy plastic card illustrates the birds, mammals, fishes, amphibians and reptiles of Yellowstone. We also carry Yellowstone Trees & Wildflowers. (Item USW501) (RKY88, $5.95)
 		  
 
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