Wyoming
Folklore: Reminiscences, Folktales, Beliefs, Customs, and Folk Speech (Possible
Futures)
by Federal Writers' Project
In 1935, in the depths of the Great Depression, Franklin Roosevelt
issued an executive order creating the Federal Writers’ Project (FWP).
Out-of-work teachers, writers, and scholars fanned out across the country
to collect and document local lore. This book reveals the remarkable results
of the FWP in Wyoming at a time when it was still possible to interview
Civil War veterans and former slaves, homesteaders and Oregon Trail migrants,
soldiers of the Great War and Native Americans who remembered Little Big
Horn. The work of the FWP in Wyoming, collected and edited here for the
first time, comprises a rich repository of folklore and history and a firsthand
look at the Old West in the process of becoming the new American frontier.
Wyoming Folklore presents the legends, local and oral histories, and pioneer
stories that defined the state in the early twentieth century.
Paperback from Bison Books - ISBN: 0803243022
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Along
the Ramparts of the Tetons: The Saga of Jackson Hole, Wyoming
by Robert B. Betts
(Paperback - November 1978)
An
Ear in His Pocket: The Life of Jack Slade
by Roy P O'Dell, Roy Paul O'Dell, Kenneth C. Jessen
Paperback from J. V. Publications
Black Gold: Patterns in the Development of Wyoming's Oil Industry
by Mike Mackey
Listeed under Oil Industry
Booms
& Busts on Bitter Creek: A History of Rock Springs, Wyoming
by Robert B. Rhode
(Hardcover)
Campfire
Tales of Jackson Hole
by Merlin K. Potts (Editor), Roth Harmon (Illustrator)
(Paperback)
A Canyon Voyage: Narrative of the Second Powell Expedition Down the
Gree-Colorado River from Wyoming, and the Explorations on Land, in the
Years ...
by Frederick S. Dellenbaugh
Listed under John Wesley Powell
Coyotes
and Canaries: Characters Who Made the West Wild and Wonderful!
by Larry K. Brown
Hardcover from High Plains Pr
Discovering Dinosaurs in the Old West: The Field Journals of Arthur
Lakes
by Michael F. Kohl (Editor), et al
Expeditions to Colorado and Wyoming 1877 to 1880
Listed under Paleontology
Dreamers & Schemers : Profiles from Carbon County, Wyoming's
Past
by Lori Van Pelt
Listed under Wyoming Genealogy
Drybone:
A History of Fort Fetterman, Wyoming
by Tom Lindmier
Paperback from High Plains Pr
The
Early Days in Jackson Hole
by Virginia Huidekoper
(Hardcover)
Frontier
Spirit: The Story of Wyoming
by Craig Sodaro, Randy Adams
Paperback from Johnson Books
Finn
Burnett, Frontiersman (Frontier Classics)
by Robert Beebe David, Robert Clark
Paperback from Stackpole Books
Fort
Bridger, Wyoming: Trading Post for Indians, Mountain Men and Westward Migrants
by Hunt Janin
Hardcover from McFarland & Company
Ghosts
on the Range: Eerie True Tales of Wyoming
by Debra D. Munn
Paperback from Pruett Publishing Co.
1991
Heart
Mountain : Life in Wyoming's Concentration Camp
by Mike Mackey
Paperback from Western History Publications
History
of Wyoming
by Taft Alfred Larson, Jack Brodie
Paperback from Univ of Nebraska Pr
1990
The
Hog Ranches of Wyoming: Liquor, Lust, and Lies Under Sagebrush Skies
by Larry K. Brown
(Paperback)
Hot
Springs County (Images of America: Wyoming)
by Alex Service, Dorothy Milek
Paperback from Arcadia
Incident
at Bitter Creek: The Story of the Rock Springs Chinese Massacre
by Craig Storti
(Hardcover - March 1991)
Indians Along the Oregon Trail: The Tribes of Nebraska, Wyoming,
Idaho, Oregon and Washington Identified
by Bert Webber
Listed under Native Americans
Indians
in Yellowstone National Park
by Joel C. Janetski
Paperback: 145 pages ; Dimensions (in inches): 0.47 x
8.94 x 6.06
Publisher: Univ of Utah Pr (Trd); ; Revised edition (June
)
ISBN: 0874807247
Lost
in the Yellowstone: Truman Everts's "Thirty-Seven Days of Peril"
by Truman Everts, Lee H. Whittlesey
Paperback from Univ of Utah Pr (Trd)
Petticoat
Prisoners of Old Wyoming
by Larry K. Brown
Accounts of women prisoners in Wyoming penitentiaries. For young readers.
(Paperback)
A
Ride to the Infernal Regions: Yellowstone's First Tourists
by Calvin C. Clawson
Paperback from Riverbend Publishing
Roadside Geology of Wyoming (Roadside Geology Series)
by Darwin R. Spearing, David R. Lageson
Listed under Roadside Geology
Roadside Geology of the Yellowstone Country (Roadside Geology Series)
by William J. Fritz
Listed under Roadside Geology
Tom Horn: Blood on the Moon: Dark History of the Murderous Cattle
Detective
by Chip Carlson, Larry D. Ball
Listed under Tom Horn
Where
Rivers Change Direction
by Mark Spragg
Growing up in rural Wyoming, Mark Spragg learned early to read the
stars. At 11 he was instructed to quit dreaming, and he went to work for
his father on the land. "I was paid thirty dollars a month, had my own
bed in the bunkhouse, and three large, plain meals each day." The ranch
is a sprawling place where winter brings months of solitude and summer
brings tourists from the real world--city types who want a taste of the
outdoors and stare at the author and his family as if they were members
of some exotic tribe: "Our guests were New Jersey gas station owners, New
York congressmen, Iowa farmers, judges, actors, plumbers, Europeans who
had read of Buffalo Bill and Sitting Bull and came to experience the American
West, the retired, the just beginning." By the age of 14, he and his younger
brother are leading them on camping trips into deep woods. "No one ever
asked why we had no televisions, no daily paper. They came for what my
brother and I took for granted. They came to live the anachronism that
we considered our normal lives."
As Spragg comes to realize the strangeness of his life, he also detects
flaws in his own character--a fear of suffering and mortality that first
shows itself when he rides a sick horse too hard, until the animal hovers
at the brink of death. He knows that if he had faced the possibility of
sickness, if he had been brave, this animal would not have declined so
quickly. Throughout his life, this inability to face death, this terror
of losing the beauty of the world he so passionately witnesses, drives
Spragg to distraction.
Where Rivers Change Direction combines a soaring spirituality with a
visceral, often stomach-churning attention to detail. It's a book that
continually dares the reader to turn away from its pages in an effort to
digest the power of its confused emotions and hauntingly spare images (a
"moon-fried plain," a stillborn child "baked alive in my mother's body").
Like Peter Matthiessen's The Snow Leopard, Mark Spragg's memoir makes you
feel you've been somewhere, you've been out in the depths, and you've come
back changed. --Emily White, Amazon.com
Paperback from Riverhead Books
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The
Wind Is My Witness: A Wyoming Album
by Mark Junge
(Hardcover)
Wind
River Adventures: My Life in Frontier Wyoming
by Edward J. Farlow
Paperback from High Plains Pr
Wyoming
(America the Beautiful. Second Series)
by Deborah Kent
(School & Library Binding)
The
Wyoming Lynching of Cattle Kate, 1889
by George W. Hufsmith
Paperback: 368 pages ; Dimensions (in inches): 1.04 x
8.48 x 5.57
Publisher: High Plains Pr;
ISBN: 0931271169
Wyoming
Pioneer Woman: Pauline Krueger Bayer
by Margaret Canfield Bayer, Otis Carney
(Mass Market Paperback)
Wyoming
Place Names
by Mae Urbanek
Paperback from Mountain Press Publishing Company
1988
Wyoming's Territorial Sheriffs
by Ann Gorzalka
Listed under Western Lawmen
Field guide to the vascular plants of Grand Teton National Park and
Teton County, Wyoming
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Saddlemakers of Sheridan County, Wyoming
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Wyoming's Wind River Range (Wyoming Geographic Series, No 2)
by Joseph Kelsey, Joe Kelsey
(Paperback - October 1988)
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