How It Looks Going Back

In 1949, taking a break from San Diego’s post–World War II bustle, the Knowles family went camping in Canada. Heading home through northwest Montana’s Yaak River country, they found a two-bedroom, story-and-half log cabin on a small lake.

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.

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.

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.

Give me Mountains for my Horses

Tom Reed has a real affinity for horses and wilderness, and it shows on every page in his true tales about trail riding, horse packing, and great mountain horses. Even if you have never saddled up, you will be drawn into these heart-tugging stories of special horses, their remarkable abilities, and the inescapable bonds that develop between horses and humans.

The Story of Mary MacLane

The sensational book that turned a Montana teenager into a worldwide celebrity. A breathtaking tour de force about life, love, and longing.