History of the West

  • Capital Characters of Old Cheyenne: Dreamers & Schemers Series, No. 2 By Lori Van Pelt.  Twenty-four biographies of early Cheyenne history makers. A must for anyone interested Wyoming history.

    The Boys of Company K: Ohio Cavalry Soldiers in the West During the Civil War

    By Lee M. Cullimore

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  • Camp Douglas: Wyoming’s World War II Prisoner of War Base Camp

    Camp Douglas: Wyoming’s World War II Prisoner of War Base Camp

    By Lee Ann Siebken

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  • Capital Characters of Old Cheyenne: Dreamers & Schemers Series, No. 2 By Lori Van Pelt.  Twenty-four biographies of early Cheyenne history makers. A must for anyone interested Wyoming history.

    Capital Characters of Old Cheyenne: Dreamers & Schemers Series, 2

    By Lori Van Pelt

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  • Coyotes and Canaries: Characters Who Made the West Wild. and Wonderful! By Larry K. Brown.  Includes chapters on 48 of Wyoming's most interesting historic episodes and figures.

    Coyotes and Canaries: Characters Who Made the West Wild… and Wonderful!

    By Larry K. Brown

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  • Devils Tower: Stories in Stone By Mary Alice Gunderson. A comprehensive history of the first national monument.

    Devils Tower: Stories in Stone

    By Mary Alice Gunderson

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  • Drybone: A History  of Fort Fetterman, Wyoming By Tom Lindmier.  Fetterman was an important frontier military post during the Indian Wars, too tough to die, at least for a while.

    Drybone: A History of Fort Fetterman, Wyoming

    By Tom Lindmier

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  • Esther Hobart Morris: The Unembellished Story of the Nation’s First Female Judge.  Provides clarity to her historical contributions.

    Esther Hobart Morris: The Unembellished Story of the Nation’s First Female Judge

    By Kathryn Swim Cummings

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  • Forts, Fights & Frontier Sites: 
Wyoming Historic Locations: Precise, compact histories of frontier sites that made up Wyoming and helped shape Wyoming.

    Forts, Fights & Frontier Sites: Wyoming Historic Locations

    By Candy Moulton

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  • In Tar and Paint and Stone: The Inscriptions at Independence Rock and Devil's Gate By Levida Hileman. Indispensable for genealogists and trail buffs.

    In Tar and Paint and Stone: The Inscriptions at Independence Rock and Devil's Gate

    By Levida Hileman

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  • Letters from Old Friends and Members of the Wyoming Stockgrowers Association: Reminiscences of Pioneer Wyoming Cattle Barons in Their Own Words

    Letters from Old Friends and Members of the Wyoming Stockgrowers Association

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  • Lost Mines & Buried Treasure of Old Wyoming

    Lost Mines & Buried Treasure of Old Wyoming

    by W.C. Jameson

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  • Nighthawk Rising: A Biography of Accused Cattle Rustler Queen Ann Bassett of Brown’s Park

    Nighthawk Rising: A Biography of Accused Cattle Rustler Queen Ann Bassett of Brown’s Park

    Diana Allen Kouris

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  • Reshaw: The Life and Times of John Baptiste Richard Extraordinary Entrepreneur and Scoundrel of the Western Frontier

    Reshaw: The Life and Times of John Baptiste Richard

    By Jefferson Glass

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  • Soap Suds Row: The Bold Lives of Army Laundresses 1802-1876

    Soap Suds Row: The Bold Lives of Army Laundresses 1802-1876

    By Jennifer J. Lawrence

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  • Staking Her Claim: Women Homesteading the West by Marcia Meredith - Single women homesteading in the still wild west of the early 1900s tell their stories in their own wordsп©б╘п╠Б∙≤п©Б∙═п▒Б┬≥Б┴є of adventure, independence, failure, success, and freedom.

    Staking Her Claim: Women Homesteading the West

    By Marcia Meredith Hensley

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  • This Was Jackson's Hole: Incidents & Profiles from the Settlement of Jackson Hole By Fern Nelson.  Nelson's stories of the incidents and individuals of Jackson's Hole as it once was, sure to inform and entertain you.

    This Was Jackson's Hole: Incidents & Profiles from the Settlement of Jackson Hole

    By Fern Nelson

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  • A Triceratops Hunt in Pioneer Wyoming: The Journals of Barnum Brown and J.P. Sams. The University of Kansas Expedition of 1895 Edited by Michael F. Kohl, Larry D. Martin & Paul Brinkman.  Accounts of the colorful bone hunters who traveled to eastern Wyoming to find dinosaur fossils.

    A Triceratops Hunt in Pioneer Wyoming: The Journals of Barnum Brown and J.P. Sams

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  • Wagon Wheels: A Contemporary Journey on the Oregon Trail By Candy Moulton & Ben Kern. Climb aboard Ben Kern's lead wagon and retrace the Oregon Trail with the 150th Anniversary Wagon Train.

    Wagon Wheels: A Contemporary Journey on the Oregon Trail

    By Candy Moulton & Ben Kern

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  • Wilderness Fever: A Family's Adventures Homesteading in Early Jackson Hole, 1914-1924

    Wilderness Fever

    By Linda Preston McKinstry with Harold Cole McKinstry

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