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	Compass Guide Montana  •   Compass American GUIDEBOOK •  2006 •  PAPER  • 320 PAGES This wonderfully written handbook features outstanding color photographs, good maps and in-depth information on the culture, history and attractions of Montana. It includes literary excerpts by Wallace Stegner and John Steinbeck, and essays on rodeos, the Hutterites and cowboy artist Charlie Russell. With practical travel information for sites such as Yellowstone National Park and Flathead Indian Reservation. (USW57, $21.95)
	Montana, High, Wide, and Handsome  •  Joseph Kinsey Howard  •  William Kittredge  •  Alfred Guthrie CULTURAL PORTRAIT •  2003 •  PAPER  • 347 PAGES A classic history, first published in 1943, this delightful book is a spirited, appreciative testimony to the great prairie, its indigenous peoples, geography, climate, turf battles, economy and environment by an early newspaperman. This new edition includes a preface by William Kittredge. (USW50, $16.95)
	Bad Land, An American Romance  •  Jonathan Raban TRAVEL NARRATIVE •  1997 •  PAPER  • 416 PAGES Raban captures the spirit of rural America--and the optimism of homesteaders on the Montana Prairie -- in this lovely tale weaving history, anecdote and travel. Winner of the National Book Award. (USW408, $15.95)
	The Last Best Place, A Montana Anthology  •  William Kittredge ANTHOLOGY •  2003 •  PAPER  • 1158 PAGES Farmer-turned-writer Kittredge collects historic and contemporary writings on Montana -- a monumental undertaking justified by the diversity of memoirs, stories and history included. The selections range from Native American myths, to pioneer accounts, and contemporary fiction and poetry. Kittredge introduces each chapter and selection. (USW55, $35.00)
	Montana Wyoming Map  •   Map Art Maps 2005 •  MAP A map of Montana and Wyoming, at a scale of 1.38M. It extends as far north as Waterton Lakes National Park in Alberta and includes insets of Yellowstone and Glacier National Parks, Billings and Cheyenne. (USW196, $4.95)

	Glacier/Waterton Lakes National Parks Map  •   Trails Illustrated    •  A detailed topographic map of Glacier and Waterton national Parks (USW96, $11.95)
	Falcon Guide, Hiking Glacier and Waterton Lakes National Parks  •  Erik Molvar   • GUIDEBOOK  •  This guide covers major hikes and trails in both parks, including sketch maps, mile-by-mile descriptions, easy-to-follow maps, elevation charts and descriptions of geographical features and wildlife to be seen en route. (USW102, $15.95)
	Montana Atlas & Gazetteer  •   DeLorme Mapping   • REFERENCE  •  Outstanding color maps of Montana, including Glacier National Park. (USW60, $19.95)
	Scenic Driving Montana  •  Sarah Snyder   • GUIDEBOOK  •  In this invaluable overview, intrepid traveler Sarah Snyder features 25 spectactular drives throughout Montana. With detailed maps, black-and-white photos and eight pages of color photos (USW447, $14.95)
	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)
	Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, An Indian History of the American West  •  Dee Brown   • HISTORY  •  An unsettling history of the violent conquest of the Native Americans of the West, from 1860-1890, as told by members of the tribes themselves. (USW288, $16.00)
	Cowgirls: Women of the American West  •  Teresa Jordan   • CULTURAL PORTRAIT  •  The story of the western woman, past and present, is intimately recounted through the words of the women themselves. (USW13, $19.95)
	Crazy Horse and Custer, The Parallel Lives of Two American Warriors  •  Stephen Ambrose   • HISTORY  •  Renowned historian Stephen Ambrose offers up another chapter in the story of America in this portrait of two powerful men. He parallels the life of Crazy Horse, the great leader of the Oglala Sioux, with that of General George Armstrong Custer, the man he defeated at the battle of Little Bighorn. (USW136, $16.95)
	The Wide Open, Prose, Poetry, and Photographs of the Prairie  •  Susan O'Connor   • CULTURAL PORTRAIT  •  Personal or poetic, journalistic or scientific, the diverse stories and photogaphs collected in this handsome book eloquently attest to the allure, abundance and open spaces of the American West. The stories are as diverse as the tellers, ranging from fiction by Barry Lopez, Richard Ford, and William Kittredge, to the childhood histories of Mary Clearman Blew and Judy Blunt and the nonfiction tales of Jim Harrison, Gretel Ehrlich, and Rick Bass. (USW570, $39.95)
	Tough Trip Through Paradise 1878-1879  •  Andrew Garcia  •  Bennett Stein   • HISTORY  •  An anecdotal, and somewhat folksy, account of Montana at a major turning point. (RKY57, $9.95)
	Wilderness and the American Mind  •  Roderick Nash   • HISTORY  •  A classic essay on changing American attitudes toward wilderness and the environment, including an enlightening discussion on western expansion. With chapters on Henry David Thoreau, John Muir, Aldo Leopold, Alaska and wilderness preservation. (USW97, $18.00)
	Young Men & Fire  •  Norman MacLean   • HISTORY  •  A lyrical and finely wrought story of the famous Mann Gulch, Montana firestorm, which took the lives of 13 of the elite Smokejumpers of the U.S. Forest Service in August 1949. (USW95, $16.00)
	All but the Waltz, A Memoir of Five Generations in the Life of a Montana Family  •  Mary Clearman Blew   • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR  •  In this memoir, Blew writes of life and death on the Montana Plains, from her own youth spent working cattle on the family ranch, back through her family to the fur traders and railroad workers who first moved west. (USW101, $16.95)
	Counting Coup, A True Story of Basketball and Honor on the Little Big Horn  •  Larry Colton   • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR  •  The story of a fledgling basketball star, teenage mother and Crow Indian in Hardin, Montana. (RKY73, $14.95)
	Forty Years a Fur Trader on the Upper Missouri  •  Charles Larpenteur  •  Milo Milton Quaife   • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR  •  An invaluable record of life along the Upper Missouri circa 1850, fascinating and rich in details of daily life on the frontier. (PNW46, $19.95)
	Lewis & Clark, The Journey of the Corps of Discovery  •  Dayton Duncan  •  Ken Burns   • EXPLORATION  •  The handsomely produced companion volume to Ken Burns' PBS documentary film, featuring essays and 150 illustrations, most in full color. (PNW36, $25.00)
	This House of Sky, Landscapes of a Western Mind  •  Ivan Doig   • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR  •  Doig's beautifully told, inspiring story of growing up tough on a ranch in western Montana. It's a powerful tale of place, family bonds and perseverance. A western favorite. (RKY18, $14.00)
	Undaunted Courage, Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson, And The Opening of the American West  •  Stephen Ambrose   • EXPLORATION  •  Ambrose recreates the high adventure and politics of late 18th-century America in this classic history, rich in details of Native American life, geography, flora and fauna. (USW20, $17.00)
	A River Runs Through It, and Other Stories  •  Norman MacLean   • LITERATURE  •  A classic meditation on family, fly-fishing and the Blackfoot River of Montana. Colored with MacLean's haunting descriptions of the landscape, it is a vivid portrait of a minister and his two sons. (USW107, $12.00)
	Clear Water on the Swan, Poems, and Journeys into Open Country: Stories  •  John Holbrook  •  Ron Fischer   • LITERATURE  •  An evocative collection by two local writers. (RKY27, $9.95)
	Fools Crow  •  James Welch   • LITERATURE  •  Set in Montana shortly after the Civil War, this novel tells of Fools Crow, a young Blackfoot Indian on the verge of manhood, and his tribe, known as the Lone Eaters. (USW308, $15.00)
	Rock Springs  •  Richard Ford   • LITERATURE  •  A collection of ten short stories, set mostly in Montana . (RKY41, $13.95)
	The Big Sky  •  Alfred Guthrie  •  Wallace Stegner   • LITERATURE  •  First published in 1947, this classic novel by Pulitzer Prize-winning Guthrie examines mountain man Boone Caudill and his adventures in the American West -- a saga that continues in five more volumes. (USW52, $14.00)
	The Whistling Season  •  Ivan Doig   • LITERATURE • NEW  •  Doig's richly textured novel of the Old West revolves around a rancher, a new housekeeper (can't cook but doesn't bite) and her scholarly, mysterious brother, who takes over as schoolteacher in Marias Coulee, Montana. (RKY94, $14.00)
	Glacier on My Mind  •  Michael Sample   • NATURAL HISTORY  •  Sample captures the unrivaled natural beauty of the unique "Crown of the Continent" region in 140 brilliant color images, from Glacier National Park in Montana to Waterton Lakes National Park in Alberta. (USW100, $32.95)
	Living With Wolves  •  Jim Dutcher   • SCIENCE  •  An illustrated portrait. (BST104, $34.95)
	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, $18.00)
	Roadside Geology, Montana  •  Donald Hyndman   • NATURAL HISTORY  •  The geologic history of Montana as seen through the car window. (USW49, $20.00)
	The Time of the Buffalo  •  Tom McHugh  •  Victoria Hobson   • NATURAL HISTORY  •  A classic survey of the history and ecology of the American buffalo, including evolution, patterns of behavior, folklore, relationships with humans (including Plains cultures), biology and ecology. (BST54, $24.95)
	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)
	National Geographic Field Guide to the Birds of North America  •   National Geographic   • FIELD GUIDE  •  From Alaska to Baja California, this field guide, now in its fifth edition is the one to carry. (FG09, $24.00)

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