WordsWorth is an independent publishing company founded in 2005.
Located in Cody, Wyoming, we publish non-fiction books rooted in the American West.

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By J.S. Blackwell
• $20.00 paperback

• 186 pages, 6×9 in

• Published November 2025

• ISBN: 978-1-7334897-9-9

 Subject: Fiction: Romance/Multicultural & Interracial, Indigenous History, Montana
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Welcome To Wyoming

By Christina Wray
$17.95 paperback
•128 pages, 5.5×8.5 in.
Published November 2025
ISBN 978-1-7334897-8-2
Subject: Personal Memoirs, Western Essays, Wyoming.
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No Forgiveness: family, polygamy, murder, and justice among Idaho’s pioneering Mormons

By Daniel H Neal
• $24.00 paperback

• 213 pages, 6×9 in

• Published June 2025

• ISBN: 978-1-7334897-7-5

• LCCN 2025909041
• Subject: Western History, Idaho History, Utah History, Mormons, Pioneers
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The Bat House: A Montana Memoir

By Michael B. Riley
2025 Western Horizon Award Winner
• $20.00 paperback

• 282 pages, 5.5×8.5 in

• Published December 2024

• ISBN: 978-1-7334897-6-8

• Subject: Personal Memoirs, Western Essays, Wyoming, Montana
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Eye to the Holy: The Story of One Congregation’s Mission and Art

by Douglas Goodwin
• $22.00 paperback
• 78 pages, 10″ x 8″ inches
• 63 photographs
• published December 2024
• ISBN 978-1-7334897-5-1
• Subject: Wyoming History, Spirituality
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Challenging the Canyon: a Family Man Builds a Dam

by Beryl Gail Churchill
• $24.95 paperback
• 110 pages, 11″ x 8.5″ inches
•131 b&w photographs and maps
•published May 2024
•ISBN: 978-1-7334897-4-4
• Subject: US and Wyoming History, Engineering, Biography
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HEART MOUNTAIN CHRONICLES: The History of a Japanese Relocation Center

By Bernard and James Murphy
Winner of the 2025 Wyoming Historical Society Award for a Reference Work
• $36.00 paperback

• 678 pages, 6.125″ x 9.25″ in
• 219 B&W images

• Published April 2024

• ISBN: 978-1-7334897-2-0

• Subject: Western History, Wyoming, World War II Japanese Internment Camps, Personal Memoirs.
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Craven Creek: A Collection of Essays

By Walt Gasson
• $20.00 paperback

• 110 pages, 6×9 in
• 13 B&W images

• Published January 2024

• ISBN: 978-1-7334897-3-7

• Subject: Personal Memoirs, Western Essays, Wyoming
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Profiles in Courage: Standing Against the Wyoming Wind.

Rodger McDaniel. $24.00 paperback 372 pages, 6″ x 9″ 18 black & white images Published December 2022 ISBN 978-1-7334897-1-3 Library of Congress Control Number: 2022923096

Subject: Wyoming and U.S. history, civil rights

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Wyoming: The Paradox of Plenty

by former Wyoming governor, David Freudenthal.
2023 Winner of Wyoming Historical Society’s Non-fiction award.
$20.00 paperback 266 pages, 6″ x 9″ 12 black & white images Published December 2022 ISBN: 978-1-7334897-0-6 Library of Congress Control Number: 2022921565 Subject: Wyoming and U.S. history, politics, economics
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The Indian’s Pony: From Bones To Bronze

Gerald Anthony Shippen. Foreword by Peter S. Hassrick 76 pages, 9″ x 9″, 90 full color images. $24.99 paperback ISBN: 978-0-9896405-8-9
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Howard Zinn and Lois Mottonen Fistfight in the Equality State

Rodger McDaniel
with Lois Mottonen
$15 paperback
172 pages, 5.5×8.5″
ISBN 9780989640572
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Dying for Joe McCarthy’s Sins: The Suicide of Wyoming Senator Lester Hunt

Rodger McDaniel
$15 paperback, 364 pages, 13 photographs
b&w 9×6″
ISBN-13: 978-098302759
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On Sacred Ground: A Religious and Spiritual History of Wyoming

Warren Murphy
$14.95 paperback, 198 pages, 22 illustrations. b&w 6×9″
ISBN-13: 978-0983027515
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Victor Alexander and the Saddle: Art, Craft and Business

Paul Fees
$20.00 paperback, 108 pages, 6×9″
ISBN-13: 978-0983027539
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Better Known as Boxcar Murphy

Hunter Patrick
$10.00 paperback, 44 pages, 6×9″
ISBN-13:978-0-9830275-6-0
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Places and Fables

Ron Hitchcock
$20 paperback 148 pages, 6×9″ Published 2016 ISBN13: 978-0989640558 Subject: Poetry, Environment, Nature
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Natures Cadence: Paintings by Clyde Aspevig

Robyn G. Peterson
$25 paperback
66 pages, 8×10″
Illustrations: 37 color plates
ISBN978-0-9668494-6-2
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Emil Carlsen’s Quiet Harmonies

William H. Gerdts, William Eric Indursky, and Robyn G. Peterson
$25 paperback
80 pages, 8×10″
Illustrations: 39 color plates
ISBN978-0-9668494-5-5
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The Best of Proctor’s West

Peter H. Hassrick
$25 Paperback, 8×10″, 110 Color and B&W Illus.
112 Pages
ISBN 978-0-931618-71-0
distributed by University of Oklahoma Press

Drawn To Yellowstone: Artists in America’s First National Park

Peter H. Hassrick
$25 Paperback, 8×10″, 105 Color and B&W Illus.
160 Pages
ISBN 978-0-931618-71-0
distributed by University of Oklahoma Press

Bacon, Beans, Tobacco ‘n’ Whiskey

Lynn Edwards
$18.95 paperback

184 pages, 7×10 in

ISBN 978-0-9652942-2-5

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The Sagebrush Gospel: Searching for answers to contemporary questions in the retelling of the parables and other Bible stories.

Rev. Rodger McDaniel
$9.95 paperback, 144 pages, 5.25×8″
ISBN13: 9-780983-027553
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The Lady Doc

Caroline Lockhart
$19.95 paperback, 340 pages, 5×7.5″
ISBN: 0-9652942-8-5
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Lilian’s Last Dance


by Christene Meyers and William Jones
$14.99 paperback, 336 pages, 6×9′
ISBN13: 978-0989640534
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Wilderness Heritage: The Borner-Hale Connection

Beryl Churchill
$12.99 paperback. 78 pages. Color 8.5×8.5″
ISBN 978-0-9830275-2-2
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The Burgess Long Range Repeating Rifle Model 1878

Dale A. Olson
$9.95 paperback. 172 pages 6×9″
ISBN 978-0-9771286-6-2
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Journeys To Jerusalem: Troubling Times in a Holy Land

By Daphne Grimes
$16.99 paperback. 396 pages. 8.25×11″
ISBN 978-0-9771286-9-3
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Garland: The History of the Gate City as Told by the Residents

By Christy Fleming
$9.95 paperback, 136 pages, 7.5×9.25″
ISBN 9780977128648
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Paintrock Tales and Bonanza Trails

Oral and Written Accounts From the Hyattville/Bonanza Area
by The Hyattville History Committee
$45.00 hardcover.
440 pages, 7×10″
ISBN 9780977128631
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