No Forgiveness: Family, Polygamy, Murder, and Justice among Idaho’s pioneering Mormons

By Daniel H. Neal
A rich historical tale of the author’s ancestors’ conversion to Mormonism and their settling in southeastern Idaho, This compelling story of Neal’s grandfather’s murder in 1911 by a fellow Mormon details how the tragedy impacted both families.
Subject: Western History, Idaho History, Utah History, Mormons, Pioneers

Welcome To Wyoming

By Christina Wray
When Tina comes to Wapiti, Wyoming in 1959 she enters an entirely new and uncertain world. With an honesty that matches Wyoming’s stark beauty, Wray shares stories of love, regret, betrayal, and the complexities of family and friendship
Subject: Personal Memoirs, Western Essays, Wyoming.

The Birney Day School

By Philip Hall
A meaningful contribution to the story of our indigenous people and their current dilemmas. It is also an entertaining love story.
Subject: Fiction: Romance/Multicultural & Interracial, Indigenous History, Montana

The Bat House: A Montana Memoir

By Michael B. Riley
2025 Western Horizon Award Winner.
When Riley bought a 1917 farmhouse on the Yellowstone River fifteen miles from where he grew up, he had no idea what he was getting into.

Subject: Personal Memoirs, Western Essays, Wyoming, Montana

 

 

Craven Creek

By Walt Gasson
Along a little creek near the tiny community of Opal, Wyoming was the Gasson family sheep ranch. Neither the creek nor the ranch was much of a going concern. But from this place grew the rich stories of the men and women who pioneered the West. Walt Gasson continues the tradition of storytelling in this collection of essays about life in the Green River country.
Subject: Personal Memoirs, Western Essays, Wyoming

Profiles in Courage: Standing Against the Wyoming Wind

By Rodger McDaniel
Thirteen stories of courage experienced by people under political pressure in Wyoming. There has never been another time in the state’s history when the winds blew stronger and there has never been a time when recognizing political courage was more important.
Subject: Wyoming and U.S. history, civil rights

 

 

Dying for Joe McCarthy’s Sins: The Suicide of Wyoming Senator Lester Hunt

Rodger McDaniel
The story of America during the virulent years of the early Cold War, of McCarthyism, and the way the suicide of a Wyoming senator helped to bring the curtain down on Joe McCarthy.

Subject: History, Wyoming, Politics 

 

Wyoming: The Paradox of Plenty

By former Wyoming governor, David Freudenthal.
2023 Winner of Wyoming Historical Society’s Non-fiction award.

An examination of the political history of Wyoming with an emphasis on the period between 1966 and 1986. During these 20 years, underlying historical trends were accelerated by American energy, economic, and environmental policies that define much of Wyoming’s economic predicament today.

Subject: Wyoming and U.S. history, politics, economics

Howard Zinn & Lois Mottonen Fistfight in the Equality State

By Rodger McDaniel
with Lois Mottonen

An honest history of how Wyoming’s women, racial, ethnic, and religious differences are treated. It exposes the truth about the cultural wars that undermine the myth that Wyoming is the Equality State in the context of the experiences of the Mottonen family who lived in Wyoming from the beginning.

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

 

 

Eye to the Holy: The story of one congregation’s mission and art

by Douglas Goodwin
The art and history of the First Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) in Sheridan, Wyoming.

Subject: Wyoming History, Spirituality

Challenging the Canyon: A Family Man Builds A Dam

by Beryl Gail Churchill
A captivating account drawn from the on-the-job letters penned by D.W. Cole, the chief engineer overseeing the construction of the Shoshone Dam (now named the Buffalo Bill Dam) near Cody, Wyoming between 1904 and 1910. These letters offer a glimpse into Cole’s daily challenges and triumphs as he worked on this monumental project.
Subject: US and Wyoming History, Engineering, Biography

 

 

The Indian’s Pony: From Bones to Bronze

Gerald Anthony Shippen
Foreword by Peter S. Hassrick.
2021 High Plains Book Award finalist in the category of Art and Photography.

The sculptor invites us on two parallel journeys of discovery: the metamorphosis of a sculpture from clay to bronze, and the evolution of the horse into the magnificent mount of the nomadic Plains tribes. Step by step, through text and beautiful photographs, Shippen provides a visual explanation of the sculpture process.

 

 

 

Paintrock Tales and Bonanza Trails

Compiled by the Hyattville History Committee from oral and written histories of Hyattville and Bonanza folks.

It was 1866 when Samuel W. Hyatt moved to a scattered settlement at the confluence of Paint Rock Creek and Medicine Lodge Creek. But what he and other early settlers of what is now Hyattville didn’t know was that people had been living in that same area for the last 10,000 years. For the ranchers and others who now make Hyattville home, it’s easy to see why.
Subject: Wyoming history

The Burgess Long Range Repeating Rifle Model 1878

Dale A. Olson

The history of Andrew Burgess, Eli Whitney and its manufacture at the Whitneyville Armory. Included is a compilation of serial numbers and configurations of the Burgess, Whitney Kennedy and the 1886 Whitney Scharf.
Subject: History, Firearms

Victor Alexander and the Saddle: Art, Craft and Business

Paul Fees
Victor Alexander was a top hand on roundups in Wyoming and Montana and in the rodeo arena nationwide. Along the way he became a master of the craft and the art of the saddle. This is the story of how he helped transform the business of saddlemaking in the twentieth century.
Subject: History, Saddlemaking