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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of the Battle of Little Big Horn June 25, 1876, as drawn from the most recent archaeological evidence, and historical documents, including accounts by Indian participants.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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