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Crazy Horse and Custer, The Parallel Lives of Two American Warriors
Stephen Ambrose
HISTORY 1996 PAPER 483 PAGES
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. It is a balanced, highly readable account, that serves to shed light on the similarities between these antagonistic men.
(USW136, $16.95)
Archaeology, History, and Custer's Last Battle: The Little Big Horn Reexamined
Richard Allan Fox, Jr.
HISTORY 1993 PAPER 412 PAGES
A remarkably detailed, dramatic reconstruction of the Battle of Little Big Horn June 25, 1876, as drawn from the most recent archaeological evidence, and historical documents, including accounts by Indian participants. Fox effectively demolished the myth of Custer's Last Stand.
(RKY62, $19.95)
Plenty-Coups, Chief of the Crows
Plenty-Coups Frank B. Linderman
BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR 2002 PAPER 194 PAGES
The reflections of Chief Plenty Coups, leader of the Crow Indians. Recorded in the 1930s by Frank B. Linderman when Plenty Coups was an old man, they are an important Native American perspective on the struggles over land claims in the West. Plenty Coup's home in Pryor, Montana is now a state park.
(RKY63, $18.95)
Custer, Cavalier in Buckskin
Robert Utley
BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR 2001 PAPER 176 PAGES
This brief biography of General George Armstrong Custer -- written by the chief historian of the National Park Service -- includes a good selection of archival illustrations and photographs.
(RKY64, $29.95)
Frontier Regulars, The United States Army and the Indian, 1866-1891
Robert Utley
HISTORY 1984 PAPER 462 PAGES
A vivid history of the battles for supremacy and control in the American West between the United States Army and the American Indians.
(USW434, $29.95)
Montana Wyoming Map
Map Art Maps
A map of Montana and Wyoming, at a scale of 1.38 million.
(USW196, $4.95)
Compass Guide Montana
Compass American
GUIDEBOOK
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)
Compass Guide Wyoming
Nathaniel Burt
Don Pitcher
GUIDEBOOK
Handsomely produced, illustrated and informative, this compact guide covers the history, nature and attractions of Wyoming in detail, including a long chapter on Yellowstone.
(USW61, $21.95)
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)
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)
Forty Miles a Day on Beans and Hay
Don Rickey, Jr.
HISTORY
A history of the United States Army's 19th-century conflicts with Native Americans.
(USW435, $19.95)
History of Wyoming
T. A. Larson
HISTORY
Condensed from the author's monumental multi-volume history.
(USW66, $40.00)
Montana, High, Wide, and Handsome
Joseph Kinsey Howard
William Kittredge
Alfred Guthrie
CULTURAL PORTRAIT
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.
(USW50, $16.95)
The Fetterman Massace
Dee Brown
HISTORY
An account of the defeat of Captain W.J. Fetterman and his 80 men
(RKY66, $19.95)
The Fighting Cheyennes
George Bird Grinnell
Stanley Vestal
HISTORY
This is a classic history of the battles fought by the Cheyenne Indians.
(USP15, $24.95)
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 World of the Crow Indians, As Driftwood Lodges
Rodney Frey
CULTURAL PORTRAIT
An introduction to the culture of the Crow Indians.
(USP16, $19.95)
"Boots and Saddles" or, Life in Dakota with General Custer
Elizabeth Bacon Custer
BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
An account of life in the American West with General George Armstrong Custer in the wake of the Civil War, as recalled by wife Elizabeth.
(USP14, $16.95)
Bad Land, An American Romance
Jonathan Raban
TRAVEL NARRATIVE
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
The Last Best Place, A Montana Anthology
William Kittredge
ANTHOLOGY
Farmer-turned-writer Kittredge collects historic and contemporary writings on Montana -- a monumental undertaking justified by the diversity of memoirs, stories and history included.
(USW55, $35.00)
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)
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)
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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