ISBN: 1-931832-44-7, $29.95
9 x 11, 168 pages, hardcover w/dust jacket

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A professional naturalist's incredible personal portrait of America's largest and most pristine wilderness in the Lower 48 states: the Northern Continental Divide ecosystem in Montana, Alberta, and British Columbia. The book describes the area's geology, wildlife, plant life, and crucial environmental issues. Includes 100 extraordinary color photos of the area and the wildlife. Endorsed by The Montana Nature Conservancy

Wildflowers of Glacier National Park
And Surrounding Areas
By Shannon Fitzpatrick Kimball& Peter Lesica

ISBN: 1-931832-54-4, $19.95
256 pages, all color photos
6 x 9 paperback

A user-friendly guide featuring over 300 of  Glacier National Park's most common plant and detailed descriptions, as well as notes on habitat and fun facts. It's a perfect plant reference for anyone with an interest in the natural history and splendor that is Glacier National Park. See Press Release or Buy now.

 

Watching Glacier's Wildlife
By Todd Wilkinson and photographs by Michael H. Francis
ISBN 1-931832-22-6
5 1/2 x 8 1/2, paperback, 96 pages
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Experience Glacier's wildlife at its best when with this great take-along guidebook that tells you where, when, and how to see the most wildlife on your trip. Includes color photos, maps, road tours, and hikes. Going to Yellowstone National Park? See Watching Yellowstone & Grand Teton Wildlife in our Yellowstone titles section below. 

 

Blackfeet Tales of Glacier National Park
By James Willard Schultz
Introduction by Darrell Robes Kipp of the Piegan Institute

ISBN: 1-931832-14-5, $19.95, 240 pages Buy now

The great legends of the Blackfeet will leave
you intrigued and wanting more. A Western History Classic.

 

 Wildlife

Buffalo Country
America's National Bison Range
Photography by Donald M. Jones

ISBN: 1-931832-56-0, $13.95
72 pages, color photos
8 3/4 x 8 1/4, paperback

Absolutely gorgeous color photographs by a premier wildlife photographer make this a very special book about the National Bison Range in Montana, and the text (about Bison, Native Americans, and ecology) makes it a must-have book for anyone interested in bison and their incredible history on the continent.
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Great Montana Bear Stories
By Ben Long

ISBN: 1-931832-06-4, $12.95
5 1/2 x 8 1/2, paperback, 192 pages
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Maulings, close calls, and even humorous encounters are all part of this
collection of the best Montana bear stories.

"A must-read for all lovers of wilderness." Missoulian

Great Wyoming Bear Stories
By Tom Reed

ISBN: 1-931832-30-7, $14.95
5 1/2 x 8 1/2, paperback, 224 pages
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The first-ever collection of the best bear tales from all across Wyoming.
Well written by a talented Wyoming author.

 

Montana Pastimes

Unforgettable Days Montana Trout Fishing ISBN 1-931832-17-x Buy now, see Press Release Unforgettable Days Afield Montana Hunting ISBN 1-931832-16-1 Buy now, see Press Release Great end table size! OVER 60 PHOTOS! Just $14.95 each!

Unforgettable Days Montana Trout Fishing and Unforgettable Days Afield Montana Hunting are breath-taking photographic portraits of two of Montana's favorite pastimes. Perfect for gift-giving, reminiscing, day dreaming, and reminding friends and family about treasured days spent in the outdoors.

Yellowstone Titles

Yellowstone Memories
30 Years of Stories and Photos
By Michael H. Francis

ISBN: 1-931832-59-5, $22.95
96 pages, 110 color photos
8 3/4 x 10 1/2 inches, hardcover w/dust jacket

This cover photo is sure to stop people. The bison looks way hip with a wild hairdo" (actually caused by static electricity from rolling in the snow), and that's just one of more than 100 unusual, dramatic, and beautiful images by professional nature photographer Michael H. Francis. Mike has had a 30-year love affair with Yellowstone, his "favorite place on earth," and his one-of-a-kind collection of photos and stories will prove it. Friendly and accessible, this is a unique memory book (at a great price) for anyone who loves the park. Buy now!

 

Incredible Vision
The Wildlands of Greater Yellowstone
By Pete Bengeyfield, Foreword by Paul Schullery

ISBN: 1-931832-25-0, $22.95
10 1/2 x 8 1/2, paperback, 144 pages
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A masterful description of the Greater Yellowstone ecosystem and a rallying cry for its future. Recommended by the Greater Yellowstone Coalition. Highlighted by 93 exquisite color photos.

 

A Ride to the Infernal Regions
Yellowstone's First Tourists
By C.C. Clawson; Edited by Lee Silliman
Foreword by Lee Whittlesey, Yellowstone NP Historian

ISBN: 1-931832-18-8, $19.95
7 x 9 paperback, 136 pages
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A little-known and previously unavailable account of the first tourist party to Yellowstone National Park.

 

Yellowstone Wolves in the Wild
By Dr. James C. Halfpenny
Foreword by Dr. Douglas Smith, Yellowstone Wolf Project Leader

ISBN: 1-931832-26-9, $19.95
10 1/2 x 8 1/2, paperback 104 pages
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A dazzling photographic and scientific portrait of how wolves are changing the very nature of Yellowstone. Highly acclaimed for its accuracy and photography of wild wolves.

 

Watching Yellowstone & Grand Teton Wildlife
By Todd Wilkinson, Photography by Michael Francis

ISBN: 1-931832-27-7, $12.95
5 1/2 x 8 1/2, paperback, 96 pages
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A wonderful take-along guidebook that will help tourists see more wildlife on their visits to Yellowstone and Grand Teton national parks. Identifies the best viewing areas for 45 major species, including wolves and bears. Includes maps, color photos, animal descriptions for car tours and hikers. Also available, Watching Glacier's Wildlife above in our Glacier titles section.

Silence & Solitude: Yellowstone's Winter Wilderness ISBN: 1-931832-00-5, $29.95 Buy now, see Press Release Companion CD, VHS, & DVD available, call toll-free 1-866-787-2363 for details. The Light of Spring: The Seasons of Yellowstone ISBN: 0-9668619-1-4, $35.00 Buy now

Two beautifully photographed books of the splendor of Yellowstone National Park by award-winning photographer Tom Murphy. Murphy spends 125 days a year in the park and takes you into every one of his pictures so you can experience it as if you were standing there as it happened.

Bonnie Cooks!
By Bonnie Hyatt Murphy

ISBN 1-931832-03-X, $9.95
5 1/2 x 8 1/2, comb bound, 160 pages
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Great recipes from Tom Murphy's wife inspired by the participants of  Wilderness Photography Expeditions into Yellowstone National Park. Choose from main dishes to delicious desserts!

 

Montana History

Montana Trivia
By Janet Spencer

ISBN: 1-931832-60-9, $9.95
160 pages,
5 1/2 x 8 1/2 paperback

Q: Where is the only place to find answers to 1,263 questions about Montana?
A: Here!

This book is your personal compedium of the most incredible, unbelievable, wild, weird, arcane, fun, fascinating, and true facts about Montana. Great easy reading. Fun games at the end of every section!
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Blackfeet Indian Stories
By George Bird Grinnell

ISBN: 1-931832-57-9, $10.95
144 pages, 5 1/2 x 8 1/2, paperback

Here are the great stories of the Blackfeet, including the entertaining Na'Pi (Old Man) stories of mischief and trickery; the hero Kut-o-yis', who got rid of the bad things; the secret societies of the Blackfeet; and how the earth was created. Recorded by the famous conservationist and ethnologist, George Bird Grinnell, who became a tribal member in 1885.
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The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
By Dorothy M. Johnson

ISBN: 1-931832-58-7, $12.95
224 pages, 5 1/2 x 8 1/2, paperback

The Western Writer's of America ranked these four stories as the best short stories of the 20th Century, but they have never been collected in one book until now. This edition is destined to earn a place in every western library. Great educational tool, too!
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Copper Camp: The Lusty Story of Butte, Montana
Writers Project of Montana

ISBN: 1-931832-04-8, $19.95
5 1/2 x 8 1/2, paperback, 336 pages
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The classic Montana book that tells it all!
From the miners to the kids to the girls of the line,
Copper Camp is the people's story of the Richest Hill
on Earth during its wild and wide-open heydey.

"A fascinating, raw-boned read! Excellent." Great Falls Tribune

 

Floating on the Missouri
100 Years After Lewis & Clark
By James Willard Schultz
New introduction by Eugene Lee Silliman
Cover painting by Karl Bodmer

ISBN: 1-931832-15-3, $14.95
5 1/2 x 8 1/2, paperback, 152 pages
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An entertaining travelogue of the 1901 float trip on the Missouri River along part of the same route of Lewis & Clark along with a valuable collection of frontier stories, memories, and Indian legends.

 

Land of Nakoda
The Story of the Assiniboine Indians
From the tales of the Old Ones told to First Boy
(James L. Long), with drawings by Fire Bear (William Standing)

ISBN: 1-931832-35-8, $19.95
5 1/2 x 8 1/2, paperback, 240 pages, 84 original illustrations
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A vivid account of the history, legends, customs, crafts, and ceremonies of the Assiniboine Indians written and illustrated by tribal members who interviewed the Old Ones in their native language.

Grace Stone Coates
Her Life in Letters
By Lee Rostad
6 x 9, 336 pages, illustrated
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ISBN: 1-931832-51-X, $19.95 paperback
ISBN: 1-931832-52-8, $26.95 hardcover w/dust jacket

Grace Stone Coates is the extraordinary story of a demure housewife and her personal correspondence with William Saroyan (The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze), as well as Montana literary lion, H.G. Merriam, Native American writer Frank Bird Linderman, Charles M. Russell art historian James Rankin, and many others. It is a very engaging adventure that reveals the brilliant, passionate woman that is Grace Stone Coates.

 

On Sarpy Creek
By Ira S. Nelson Co-published with Bedrock Editions

ISBN: 1-931832-36-6, $14.95
5 1/2 x 8 1/2, paperback, 320 pages
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A novel of love, adultery, murder, race, family, and forgiveness in a tight-knit Montana community after World War I. On Sarpy Creek is a masterpiece in its exploration of human emotions and motivations.

When the Meadowlark Sings
The Story of a Montana Family
By Nedra Sterry

ISBN: 1-931832-39-0, $12.95
5 1/2 x 8 1/2, paperback, 224 pages
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Born in 1918 in Fort Benton, Montana, Nedra Sterry has crafted a remarkable memoir of life on the Montana prairies and a childhood defined in equal measure by poverty and grace, hard work and family ties. Sterry's memoir traces her family through the homesteading boom, the Great Depression, World War II, and the postwar advancements brought by rural electrification. In doing so, she offers remarkable insight and a woman's perspective on family, work, and life in twentieth-century Montana.

Tenting To-Night
By Mary Roberts Rinehart

ISBN: 1-931832-13-7, $19.95
5 1/2 x 8 1/2, paperback, 216 pages
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Tag along with Mary Roberts Rinehart on her adventurous camping trips through Glacier and North Cascades national parks in 1916! A Western History Classic.

The War of the Copper Kings
C.B. Glasscock

ISBN: 1-931832-21-8, $19.95
5 1/2 x 8 1/2, paperback, 320 pages
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The jaw-dropping "real" story of the legendary corruption and bribery in Butte, Montana during the rich copper mining era. A Western History Classic.

 

The Story of Mary MacLane
By Herself

ISBN: 1-931832-19-6, $19.95
5 1/2 x 8 1/2, paperback, 320 pages
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The jaw-dropping "real" story of the legendary corruption and bribery in Butte, Montana during the rich copper mining era. A Western History Classic.

 

Going Hunting?

Rooster! A Tribute to Pheasant Hunting in North America
By Dale C. Spartas

ISBN: 1-931832-32-3, $39.95
9 x 12, hardcover w/dust jacket, 128 pages
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The photographer behind the best-selling Just Labs turns
his stunning photography to another passion: hunting pheasants. 150 incredible photos of pheasants, hunting dogs, and hunting trips with friends and family, along with wonderful writing, Rooster! is a very special, must-have book for the 2.3 million pheasant hunters across the country. Highlighted by special sections on hunting in the top states, including North and South Dakota, Kansas, Nebraska, and Iowa.

 

Rifle in Hand
How Wild America was Saved
By James Posewitz
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ISBN 1-931832-41-2, paperback, $9.95
ISBN 1-931832-45-5, hardcover, $19.95

Rifle in Hand examines the critical role of American hunters, especially Theodore Roosevelt, George Bird Grinnell, D'ing Darling, Aldo Leopold and others, in saving wild lands and wildlife in North America during the 20th century and creating the unique and highly successful American model of wildlife conservation. This is the third volume in Mr. Posewitz's series on American hunting. His first two books, Beyond Fair Chase and Inherit the Hunt, have sold 200,000 copies.

Hunter Education and other special programs may  click here for a print-friendly version of the order form on volume discounts. You may fax your order to (406) 449-0330. For more information please contact Chris Cauble. You may also email your order, but please do not include credit card information.

 

E.L.K. INC. The books no hunter should be without!
The complete guides to hunting elk, deer, and coyote including tactics, equipment, techniques and much more!

The Coyote Hunter ISBN 1-58592-043-6 $14.95	Deer Talk ISBN 1-931832-46-3 $16.95	Elk Tactics ISBN 1-56044-644-X $16.95	Elk Talk ISBN 0-937959-22-7 $16.95	The Elk Hunter ISBN 0-937959-78-2 $16.95

Short in the Saddle And Other Wild Tales of the Outdoors By Don Laubach and Mark Henckel ISBN 1-931832-33-1, $12.95 6 x 9 inches, paperback, 120 pages It's not always the biggest fish or biggest game that you remember about days in the outdoors. It's the funny stuff that happens along the way. Enjoy these great stories illustrated with the cartoons of John Potter.

 

Wildflowers, wildflowers, wildflowers!

THE FLOWER PRESS
Exquisitely detailed, true-color photographs and precise descriptions make these the field guides to use on your next trip.

			A trilogy of wildflower guides for the Northern Rockies and eastern portions of the Pacific Northwest. Available at a great low price of $9.95 each!
Alpine Wildflowers ISBN 1-56044-011-2	Forest Wildflowers ISBN 1-931832-34-X	Prairie Wildflowers ISBN 0-934918-99-9

 
Northwest Penstemons (hardcover)
ISBN 1-56044-572-6 $29.95

For all 
"penste-maniacs." Covers the 80 species native to the Pacific Northwest. Covers Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Montana, British Columbia, and Alberta

 

 

Wayside Wildflowers of the Pacific Northwest
ISBN 1-931832-05-6
$19.95
For Washington, Oregon, Idaho, western Montana, Northwest Wyoming, British Columbia, and western Alberta.

Covers nearly 400 species!

 

 

A Poet and a photographer!

Buglin Bull Press 

Cowboy poetry and beautiful photography at its best! This collection by Montana poet Mike Logan has something for everyone.

 

				Yellowstone Is... (video) 1-56044-553-X Montana Is...(video) 1-56044-355-3 $15.95 each
Montana Is... ISBN 0-937959-82-0 $13.95	Yellowstone Is... ISBN 0-937959-20-0 $13.95	Ranchin Is... ISBN 1-58592-091-6 $13.95

	Bronc to Breakfast 0-937959-53-7 $9.95 (Audio) 1-56044-089-9 $9.95		Men of the Open Range 1-56044-247-6 $9.95 (Audio) 1-56044-343-X $9.95
	Laugh Kills Lonesome 1-56044-056-2 $9.95 (Audio) 1-56044-090-2 $9.95		GREAT FOR THE KIDS! Little Friends 1-56044-139-9 $7.95

 

More Poetry

 

The Suburb of Long Suffering
Poetry and Prose by Rick Newby
Bedrock Editions, exclusively distributed by Riverbend Publishing

ISBN 0-9668216-3-7, $13.95

A highly praised collection of poems and prose by noted Montana poet, editor, and cultural journalist.