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Essential Books These 5 items are available for $60, including
U.S. shipping, a 15% discount (Item no. EXUSW226)		  
Compass Guide Wyoming  •  Nathaniel Burt  •  Don Pitcher
GUIDEBOOK •  2008 •  PAPER  • 368 PAGES
Handsomely produced, illustrated and informative, this compact Compass American Guide covers the history, nature and attractions of Wyoming in detail, including a long chapter on the Yellowstone. With archival photographs, literary excerpts and much practical travel information. On of the attractive features of the Compass American series is that the books all have locally based single authors, adding authority and personality to the coverage. (USW61, $21.95)		   Compass Guide Wyoming
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
Crazy Horse, A Life  •  Larry McMurtry
BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR •  2006 •  PAPER  • 148 PAGES
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, vividly communicating the conflict between the Plains Indians and white settlers of the old West. A volume in the "Penguin Lives" series. (USW205, $14.00)		   Crazy Horse, A Life
Yellowstone Wildlife  •  Pocket Naturalist
FIELD GUIDE •  2006 •  PLASTIC CARD
This handy plastic card illustrates the birds, mammals, fishes, amphibians and reptiles of Yellowstone. (RKY88, $5.95)		   Yellowstone Wildlife
Recreational Map of Wyoming  •  GTR Mapping
MAP
A colorful topographic map of Wyoming at a scale of 1:800,000, with information on parks, reserves and other points of interest. Two Sides. 24x37 inches. (USW303, $3.95)		   Recreational Map of Wyoming



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Black Hills, South Dakota Southeast Map  •  Trails Illustrated    •  A full-color topographic map of the southeast corner of South Dakota's Black Hills, shown at a scale of 1:24,000 (USP06, $11.95)
 		  
Grand Teton National Park Map  •  Trails Illustrated    •  A detailed topographic map of Grand Teton National Park. (USW34, $11.95)
 		  
Yellowstone National Park Map  •  Trails Illustrated    •  A visitor's overview map of the park at a scale of 1:126,000 with good topographic relief. (USW32, $11.95)
 		  
Compass Guide Yellowstone & Grand Teton National Parks  •  Brian Kevin   • GUIDEBOOK  •  Exquisitely photographed, this sumptuous guide in the newly relaunched series of Compass Guides, featuring local authors, is an excellent overview of the history, culture, nature, activities and attractions of the park. With a 20-page section of practical information. (USW577, $19.99)
 		  
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)
 		  
The Ranger's Guide to Yellowstone, Insider Advice from Ranger Norm  •  Susan Frank   • GUIDEBOOK • FAMILY  •  Meet Ranger Norm, your personal Yellowstone guide to the best hikes, accommodations and recreations. He answers the FAQ for visiting the park in family-friendly cartoons. (SWU243, $16.95)
 		  
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)
 		  
Great White Fathers  •  John Taliaferro   • HISTORY  •  A history of the development, art and legacy of Mount Rushmore. (USP19, $18.95)
 		  
Ken Burns: The West  •  Ken Burns   • HISTORY  •  This nine disc set of the television mini-series explores the expansion the American West and its role in shaping our national identity, particularly during the period from 1800 to 1915. (USW680, $89.99)
 		  
Lewis & Clark, The Journey of the Corps of Discovery  •  Ken Burns   • HISTORY  •  This Ken Burns series is both celebration and analysis of the personalities, accomplishments, hardships and impact of the famous expedition. (PNW227, $24.99)
 		  
National Treasure 2: Book of Secrets  •  Jon Turteltaub   • HISTORY  •  Nicolas Cage reprises his role as Ben Gates, historian and amateur treasure hunter, who sets out to find the missing pages from the diary of Abraham Lincoln's assassin, John Wilkes Booth, in order to clear the name of his great-great-grandfather. The adventure takes him from Paris and England to Mount Rushmore and Washington, D.C., where he must kidnap the President in order to set the record straight. (USE528, $19.99)
 		  
Scenes of Visionary Enchantment, Reflections on Lewis and Clark  •  Dayton Duncan   • HISTORY  •  Duncan writes engagingly about Lewis and Clark in this collection of essays which retrace their journey and inspire the reader to do the same. (USW549, $22.00)
 		  
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)
 		  
The Spirit of Yellowstone  •  Judith L. Meyer  •  Vance Howard   • HISTORY  •  An engaging, scholarly history of Yellowstone and its place in America's imagination, covering the establishment of the park, geography, wildlife, and more. Complemented by color photographs, archival illustrations and maps. (RKY25, $19.95)
 		  
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)
 		  
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)
 		  
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)
 		  
Travels in the Greater Yellowstone  •  Jack Turner   • TRAVEL NARRATIVE  •  Turner celebrates the diversity of the park and its wildlife in a series of 12 lyrical essays. (USW563, $15.95)
 		  
Wapiti Wilderness  •  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)
 		  
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)
 		  
Spectacular Yellowstone and Grand Teton National Parks  •  Charles R. Preston   • NATURAL HISTORY  •  Three hundred color photographs, including panoramic six-page foldout spreads, archival pictures and essays on history and ecology, capture the splendor of these national parks. (USW547, $50.00)
 		  
Windows into the Earth, The Geologic Story of Yellowstone and Grand Teton National Parks  •  Robert B. Smith  •  Lee J. Siegel   • NATURAL HISTORY  •  A geologic history and tour of the northern Rockies, particularly Yellowstone and Grand Teton National Parks. With an outstanding overview of the geologic formation of the region and 50 color photographs. (USW356, $29.95)
 		  
Wolves, A Legend Returns to Yellowstone  •  National Geographic   • NATURAL HISTORY  •  Four years in the making, this amazing National Geographic documentary by Bob Landis invites you to run with the pack for a wolf's-eye view of Yellowstone. (BST136, $24.95)
 		  
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)
 		  
 
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