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Essential Books These 5 items are available for $67, including
U.S. shipping, a 15% discount (Item no. EXUSW31)
 
Insight Guide to the Rockies  •  Insight Guides
GUIDEBOOK •  1999 •  PAPER  • 320 PAGES
A volume in the award-winning Insight series, this guide is noted for its photography, superb production and informative short essays. It is a thoroughly illustrated, comprehensive guide to the nature, history and culture of the American Rockies. (USW183, $22.95)
  Insight Guide to the Rockies
Young Men & Fire  •  Norman MacLean
HISTORY •  1993 •  PAPER  • 301 PAGES
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. It is an evocative tale of human error, the great power of nature and the spirit of the American West. (USW95, $16.00)
  Young Men & Fire
Rising from the Plains  •  John McPhee
NATURAL HISTORY •  1986 •  PAPER  • 213 PAGES
Few nature writers are as vivid or compelling as John McPhee. A great storyteller and reporter, here he profiles U.S. Geological Survey scientist David Love while simultaneously writing a sophisticated, elegant and accessible description of the geology of Wyoming and, by extension, the northern Rockies. (USW18, $15.00)
  Rising from the Plains
Scats and Tracks of the Rocky Mountains  •  James Halfpenny  •  Todd Telander
FIELD GUIDE •  2001 •  PAPER  • 145 PAGES
An essential pocket guide to tracks, scats and signs of not just the mammals of the region, but also of the reptiles, amphibians and birds. Each of 70 species gets a double-page spread, with line drawings of the animal, scat and track, range map and description. Winner of the 1999 National Outdoor Book Award in the Nature Guidebook Category, it features shaded pencil drawings by Todd Telander. (USW118, $9.95)
  Scats and Tracks of the Rocky Mountains
Western United States and Western Canada Map  •  Michelin Travel Publications
MAP
A map of the Western United States and Southwest Canada stretching from Colorado to the Pacific, and from Arizona to the top of Vancouver Island. At a good scale of 1:2,400,000. (USW232, $6.95)
  Western United States and Western Canada Map



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Lonely Planet Hiking in the Rocky Mountains  •  Lonely Planet   • GUIDEBOOK  •  A hiking guide covering Glacier, Yellowstone, Grand Teton and Rocky Mountain National Parks. It combines a nice overview of the region and an abundance of practical advice. (RKY81, $19.99)
 
 
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Volcanoes in America's National Parks  •  Robert & Barbara Decker   • GUIDEBOOK  •  A geophysicist at Dartmouth and former scientist-at-charge of the Hawaiian Volcano Observatory, Robert Decker writes winningly of the formation, diversity and allure of volcanoes from Yellowstone to Hawaii and Alaska in this compact, illustrated guide featuring 255 color photographs and 28 outstanding maps. (USW514, $24.95)
 
 
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)
 
 
Devil's Bargain, Tourism in the Twentieth-Century American West  •  Hal Rothman   • HISTORY  •  In this scholarly history, Rothman traces the development of tourism in places as diverse as Las Vegas, Santa Fe and Aspen. (USW453, $19.95)
 
 
Nothing Like it in the World, The Men Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad, 1863-1869  •  Stephen Ambrose   • HISTORY  •  Ambrose uses his considerable skill as a writer and his experience as a biographer to capture the energy, spirit and verve required to build the railroad. An admiring, enthusiastic account. (USW224, $17.00)
 
 
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)
 
 
A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains  •  Isabella Bird   • TRAVEL NARRATIVE  •  Isabella Bird was an inspiring -- and intrepid -- Victorian traveler. This book collects her letters home to her sister Henrietta during travels through the Colorado Rockies in 1873, a side-trip she made on the way home from Hawaii. (USW44, $7.95)
 
 
The Magnificent Mountain Women, Adventures in the Colorado Rockies  •  Janet Robertson   • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR  •  A collection of biographical stories based on the adventures of Colorado's pioneering explorers, sportswomen, lady botanists and modern climbers, quite a colorful group. (USW199, $15.95)
 
 
Angle of Repose  •  Wallace Stegner   • LITERATURE  •  A Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of one man's search for his grandparents' story. It beautifully weaves the history of the American West and a glimpse of their life in California, Colorado and Idaho. (USW301, $16.00)
 
 
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)
 
 
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)
 
 
A Naturalist's Years in the Rocky Mountains  •  Howard Ensign Evans   • NATURAL HISTORY  •  A slim collection of elegantly written essays on insects, owls, woodrats, crossbills, and marmots and other creatures of the Colorado Rockies. (RKY46, $14.00)
 
 
Beyond the Aspen Grove  •  Ann Zwinger   • NATURAL HISTORY  •  A re-issue of Zwinger's loving, illustrated guide to the Colorado Rockies, and particularly the forest, meadows and wildlife from 7,000 to 9,000 feet. (RKY42, $17.50)
 
 
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, $28.00)
 
 
The Great Divide, The Rocky Mountains in the American Mind  •  Gary Ferguson   • NATURAL HISTORY  •  A storyteller by nature, Ferguson spins tales of the vivid personalities attracted to the allure of the Wild West from the original inhabitants to early adventurers, mountain men, artists, entrepreneurs, conservationists and today's recreational visitors. (RKY74, $24.95)
 
 
The Naturalist's Guide to the Southern Rockies: Colorado, Southern Wyoming, and Northern New Mexico  •  Audrey Delella Benedict   • NATURAL HISTORY  •  A comprehensive authoritative guide to the geography and geology of the region, its plants, animals, climate and weather. (RKY5, $24.95)
 
 
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)
 
 
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 Natural History, Grand Teton to Jasper, A Trailside Reference  •  Daniel Mathews   • FIELD GUIDE  •  A comprehensive field guide featuring 800 line drawings and 480 color photographs. (RKY61, $26.00)
 
 
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)
 
 
Riders of the Purple Sage  •  Zane Grey    •  A best-selling dime novel of the mythic West, a classic hymn to the land and the rough-and-ready Western code of honor among the cowboys and frontiersmen. (USW15, $9.95)
 
 

 
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