All High Plains Press Publications!
Listed Alphabetically. Click on the picture of the book to view more details.
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Bad in the
Good Old Days trade paper $15.95 Colorful and accurate accounts of twelve of the most complex, corrupt, and notorious men and women in the Old West. |
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Beasts in
Snow:
Poetry of the American West By Jane Elkington Wohl trade paper, full color jacket, $12.95 Order
Now! Snowflakes on a horse's back or a crushed robin egg on the sidewalk-this poet knows the beauty of detail. Winner: Willa Award. |
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Best Things About Dolls trade paper $4.95 Order Now! This children's book, with pen-and ink illustrations, shows dolls from the Medora, ND, museum. |
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Bitter Creek Junction: Poetry
of the American West trade paper, full color jacket, $12.95 Order
Now! Hasselstrom's poetry contains the rhythms of the authentic west. Winner: Wrangler Award. |
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Boswell: hardcover $15.00 Nathaniel Boswell's career as a frontier peace officer, his courage, daring, and quests made him an important figure in the days of America's last frontier. |
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Capital Characters of
Old Cheyenne: trade paper $15.95 Twenty-four biographies of early Cheyenne history makers. A must for anyone interested Wyoming history. |
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Circle of Light trade paper, full color jacket, $9.95 Order Now! Levendosky's tenth collection of poetry illuminates our world. By Wyoming's second poet laureate. |
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Close at Hand: trade paper, full color jacket, $12.95 Order Now! Sanelli's poetry gives us fresh perspectives on the familiar. |
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Cloud Seeding: trade paper, full color jacket, $12.95 Order Now! Cloud seeding captures the complexities of a western landscape both powerful and forgiving. Winner: Wrangler Award. |
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Cowpuncher Poetry: chapbook $3.95 Order Now! Cowboy characters, modern and historic, tell Old West tales. 16 poems by 16 poets.
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Coyotes and Canaries: trade paper $17.95 Includes chapters on 48 of Wyoming's most interesting historic episodes and figures.
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Devils Tower: trade paper $9.95 A comprehensive history of the first national monument. |
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Drybone: trade paper $15.95 Fetterman was an important frontier military post during the Indian Wars, too tough to die, at least for a while. |
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Echoes from the West trade paper $14.95 McGough speaks to the reader in the language and experience of an old cowhand. |
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Glass-Eyed Paint in the Rain: trade paper, full color jacket, $10.95 Order Now! Buyers's poetry contains a connection to ranch country and nature which grew from her homestead livestyle. |
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The Grand Encampment: trade paper $19.95 Order Now! A history of Wyoming's Grand Encampment Valley, with many never-before-published panoramic camera photos from the mining era. |
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Hog Ranches of Wyoming: trade paper $9.95 History of Wyoming's frontier bawdy houses, brimming with gunplay, gambling, murder, outlaws, and romance. |
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I See By Your Outfit: trade paper $19.95 Order Now! The definitive book on what cowboys really wore and the equipment they used, documented with 120 historic photographs. |
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In Place: trade paper $10.95 Short accounts of the relationship between land and people in the West. |
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In Tar and Paint and Stone: trade paper $19.95 Indispensable for genealogists and trail buffs. |
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LandMarked: trade paper $12.95 Award winning fiction from the Saturday Evening Post era when short stories were in their heyday. |
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The Last Eleven Days of
Earl Durand trade paper $15.95 In 1939, a young Wyoming desperado blazed onto front pages nationwide. As a result of his crime spree seven men died, including the desperado himself. |
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Learn to Love the Haze trade paper $9.95 Poetry full of sage and chamisa by Wyoming poet laureate. |
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The Legend of Billy Jenks and
Other Wyoming Stories trade paper $15.95 |
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More Than Meets the Eye: trade paper $11.95 Makes traveling across southern Wyoming fun! |
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Naming the Winds: trade paper $13.95 A memoir of growing up forged by the Wyoming winds. Willa Award finalist. |
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![No Roof But Sky: Poetry of the American West By Jane Candia Coleman. [Her poems] are spare and lean and sinewy. A reader favorite and Wrangler winner!](images/books/noroof.jpg) |
No Roof But Sky: trade paper $12.95 "[Her poems] are spare and lean and sinewy." A reader favorite and Wrangler winner! |
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Petticoat Prisoners of Old Wyoming trade paper $14.95 These 23 women, posing frills, lace, and their best bonnets, served time at the state penitentiary. |
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Pulling Leather: trade paper $14.95 Recognized as a classic account of early cowboy days by a man who lived it. |
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The Red Drum: trade paper, full color jacket, $9.95 Order Now! Coleman is a storyteller and historian in poetry. Winner: Wrangler Award. |
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Riding the Edge of an Era: Growing Up Cowboy on the Outlaw Trail trade paper $17.95 In this elegant true story of the joys and tragedies of ranch and family life, Kouris brings a vanishing era vigorously to life. | ||||
Sheepwagon: trade paper $19.95 Order Now! The only history of the sheepwagon, with many photographs. |
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Shot Down! trade paper $13.95 Read about Casper's wild, sometimes lurid, frontier days: dance hall queens, murders, a lynching, crimes of passion and barroom brawls. |
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Slade! trade paper $15.95 History of the Overland Stage superintendent Jack Slade who cut off a man's ears and carried them around in his pocket as a charm. |
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Small Talk Trade paper: $15.00 Sanelli’s poems capture conversations full of complexity, humor, fear, and life, revealing the innermost connection between people. |  |
Staking Her Claim: Women Homesteading
the West trade paper $19.95 Single women homesteading in the still wild west of the early 1900s tell their stories in their own words—of adventure, independence, failure, success, and freedom. |
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Steamboat: trade paper $12.95 The story of the horse which became the symbol of Wyoming and the men who climbed on his back. |  |
This Was Jackson's Hole: trade paper $15.95 Nelson's stories of the incidents and individuals of Jackson's Hole as it once was, sure to inform and entertain you. |
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Thunder & Mud: trade paper $11.95 A gentle, homespun account of turn-of-the-century farm life. |  |
Tom Horn: trade paper $19.95 Did Tom Horn commit the murder of 14-year-old Willie Nickell for which he was hanged? |
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A Triceratops Hunt in Pioneer
Wyoming: trade paper $15.95 Accounts of the colorful bone hunters who traveled to eastern Wyoming to find dinosaur fossils. |  |
Wagon Wheels: trade paper $14.95 Climb aboard Ben Kern's lead wagon and retrace the Oregon Trail with the 150th Anniversary Wagon Train. |
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The White Dove:A
Celebration of Father Kino trade paper $12.95 Coleman brings early-day southwest explorer, missionary, and visionary Father Kino to life. |  |
Wind River Adventures: trade paper $14.95 Farlow recalls his life near the Wind River Reservation and his work as a theatrical agent for the tribes, a rodeo promoter, and cowboy. |
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The Wyoming Lynching of Cattle
Kate trade paper $13.95 Hufsmith reveals the known evidence and raises new questions about the lynching of Ellen Watson and Jim Averell by six prominent Wyoming cattlemen. |  |
Wyoming Promises: chapbook $3.95 Order Now! 16 poets write of women on the women pioneers. |
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Wyoming's Territorial Sheriffs trade paper $14.95 Gorzalka chronicles the life of each of the fifty-five sheriffs in Wyoming's territorial days-their successes, failures, and motivation. Photos of most sheriffs. |  |
You are Respectfully Invited to
Attend My Execution: trade paper $11.95 Read of the crimes, investigations, capture, legal maneuvers, trials and deaths of the seven men legally hanged in Wyoming Territory. |
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