Splendid on a Large Scale:

The Writings of Hans Peter Gyllembourg Koch, Montana Territory, 1869-1874

Known as Peter, the young man quickly grew “enthusiastic on the subject of Montana, her beauties and resources,” and his writings oﬀer a wonderfully articulate account of his ﬁrst years in a new country—as an unlikely frontiersman, often reluctant businessman...

A Ride to the Infernal Regions:

Yellowstone's First Tourists

A little-known and previously unavailable account of the first tourist party to Yellowstone. Travel along as they explore the area in 1871.

Floating on the Missouri:

100 Years After Lewis & Clark

An entertaining travelogue of the 1901 float trip on the Missouri River along part of the same route of Lewis & Clark along with a collection of frontier stories, memories, and Indian legends.

Copper Camp: The Lusty Story of Butte, Montana

The classic Montana book by the Writer’s Project 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.

The War of the Copper Kings

The jaw-dropping "real" story of the legendary corruption and bribery in Butte, Montana during the rich copper mining era.

Grace Stone Coates: Her Life in Letters

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

When the Meadowlark Sings

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 more.