FULL REVIEW: by Lindsay Hansen Park Electrifying storytelling meets historical reckoning in a tale of frontier faith, family, and fatal consequence… In No Forgiveness: Family, Polygamy, Murder, and Justice among Idaho’s Pioneering Mormons, Daniel H. Neal delivers a riveting, meticulously researched narrative that plunges readers into the spiritual, emotional, and […]
Gerald Shippen, author of The Indians Pony, has been commissioned to sculpt a memorial to the Sand Creek Massacre where military forces attacked the Cheyenne and Arapaho tribal reservation killing hundreds. Shippen is a world-renown sculptor whose book provides a visual explanation of his sculpture process. We recommend it to […]
We never sit still for long, do we? Another great book is in progress. Tentatively titled “Murder on a Still Morning,” Dan Neal’s book traces his family of Mormon pioneers from Missouri to Utah, and onward to their homestead in Idaho. His family endures a murder over water rights, the […]
The Bat House: A Montana Memoir by Michael Riley is at the printer as I write this. Mike’s affectionate memoir recounts his struggle, both real and metaphorical, while restoring a farmhouse along the Yellowstone River in Rosebud County, Montana. Reviewer, Teresa Jordan, describes the book better than either Mike or […]
Founded in 1887, Hyattville, Wyoming, was an important crossroads for commerce. Today, it is a sleepy hamlet off the beaten track. Hyattville received a nice story in Wyoming’s only statewide online news source, The Cowboy State Daily. Read the article HERE. In 2008, WordsWorth helped the Hyattville History Committee publish […]
Two exciting book discussions with Rodger McDaniel on Dying for Joe McCarthy’s Sins: the Suicide of Wyoming Senator Lester Hunt. Written by Rodger McDaniel, a former Wyoming state legislator, Dying for Joe McCarthy’s Sins is the story of the life and tragic end of US Senator Lester C. Hunt who […]
Announcing the 2024 publication of Heart Mountain Chronicles: The History of a Japanese Relocation Center by Bernard Murphy and James Murphy Heart Mountain Chronicles is a meticulously researched history of one of the ten prison camps built by the Government in the summer of 1942 to incarcerate persons of Japanese […]
The Wyoming Historical Society has awarded former Wyoming governor and author David Freudenthal second place in the 2023 Publications: Non-Fiction Book Category for Wyoming: The Paradox of Plenty. Freudenthal said, “I am surprised and honored by the recognition. I enjoyed the research for the book but the process of completing […]
February 22, 2023 By Rebecca Hein. Wyoming: The Paradox of Plenty: The Allure and Risk of a Mineral Economy, by David Freudenthal. WordsWorth Publishing, Cody, Wyo., 2022, 237 pages. $20.00 paperback. The author’s blunt, tell-it-like-it-is style permeates this engaging history of Wyoming’s mineral economy and its associated politics. Drawing on […]
with WPR reporter Hugh Cook Feb. 27, 2023. Former Democratic governor Dave Freudenthal has written a book that analyzes Wyoming’s economy, its tax structure, and its dependence on mineral extraction and the fossil fuel industry as a major economic driver. “Wyoming: The Paradox of Plenty” was written in response to […]