WOMEN IN THE WEST
LOCATION:
3 East Flaming
Gorge Way
Green River,
Wyoming
82935
Just blocks from
I-80 Exits 89 &
91
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Monday
— Saturday
10 am to 6 pm
Closed Sundays
& major holidays
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(307)
872-6435
(307)
352-6715
(307)
872-3234 fax
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Days to Zion: The Day-by-Day Trek of the Mormon Pioneers |
Daily
account of the trip of the first company of Mormon pioneers. |
| Hal Knight and Dr. Stanley B. Kimball |
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Adventures Of A Woman Homesteader: The Life And Letters of Elinore Pruit Stewart |
Biography of author of Letters Of A Woman Homesteader and Letters On An Elk Hunt. E.P. Stewart homesteaded in southern Sweetwater County in 1909. |
| Susanne K. George |
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Amidst
the Gold Dust - Women Who Forged the West |
Amidst
the God Dust is a collection of individual biographies about five women who, at first glance, seem vastly different, yet despite outward differences, have much to teach us about hardships, courage and perseverance. (Cover notes) |
| Julie Danneberg |
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Annie
Oakley:
Young Markswoman |
The
story of Annie Oakley from the time she was a young girl, how she earned her first gun and the places her talent for sharp shooting and riding took her. One of the most popular series ever published for young Americans. These lively, inspiring fictionalized biographies are easily read by children of eight years and up. |
| Ellen Wilson |
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The Bassett Women | "The
Bassett home gave refuge to a veritable who's who of western outlaws,
among them Butch Cassidy, the Sundance Kid and many lesser rustlers....What makes the book so delectable are the lovingly detailed scandals involving Brown's Park pioneers." True West |
| Grace McClure |
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Behold the Shining Mountains | Book two of the authors’ Talking History Series. “…combines the true tales of many epic people, weaving them into a grand tapestry of the times without losing sight of the main characters….despite its historical precision, Behold the Shining Mountains is a three hanky book with a dozen belly laughs,” (from Introduction). 1830-1836 era. |
| Gary Wiles & Delores Brown |
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Bold
Spirit
Helga
Estby's |
Follow Helga Estby not only across the physical landscape of 1896 America -- its mountains, plains deserts, reservations, cities, and towns -- but across the country's social, political, economic, and cultural landscape as well. It's a fascinating journey. |
| Linda Lawrence Hunt |
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Coyotes
and Canaries:
Characters Who Made the West Wild...and Wonderful |
In this enlightening volume, Wyoming historian and storyteller Larry Brown gives us the low-down on numerous residents of the "Equality State," from famed saddle maker, Frank Meanea, to the notorious Tom Horn, to Wyoming's first black legislator, William Jefferson Hardin. An absolute must for any interested in Wyoming history. |
| Larry K. Brown |
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Crazy Woman Creek | Women living west of the Mississippi write of the ways they shape and sustain their communities. Whether these groups are organized, imposed, or spontaneous, this collection shows that where women gather, anything is possible. Women recall harmony found at a drugstore, at a powwow, in a sewing circle. Lively, heartfelt, urgent, enduring, Crazy Woman Creek celebrates community. |
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edited by Linda M. Hasselstrom, Gaydell Collier, and Nancy Curtis |
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Dreamers & Schemers | The profiles of thirty-one personalities in this book offer snap shots of men and women whose behavior helped shape Carbon County. Some were good, law abiding citizens; a few were cold, ruthless outlaws. Journey back in time to an earlier century. Meet Jim Baker, Joe Rankin, Big Nose George, Lillian Heath and more. |
| Lori Van Pelt |
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Eden Valley Voices
A Centennial Celebration of Stories |
In our quest to listen to stories and collect documents, photographs, and oral histories something amazing happened. We began hearing voices, Eden Valley voices. We heard these voices when we were on field trips around the Valley or when we recorded oral history interviews. You will hear those voices speaking from the pages of this book bring Eden Valley's uniquely western story alive. |
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compiled by Sweetwater County Historical Museum |
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Lady's
Choice: Ethel Waxham's Journals & Letters, 1905-1910 |
"These letters are among the treasures of American History, bringing to life an adventurous, quick-witted woman and the laconic but determined man who wooed and won her." |
| Compiled and Edited by Barbara Love
& Frances Love Froidevaux |
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Petticoat
Prisoners of old Wyoming |
This completes Brown's trilogy about the wicked days of early Wyoming with stories of twenty-three women who became guests at the Gray Bar Hotel. |
| Larry K. Brown |
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Riding the Edge of an Era Growing Up Cowboy on the Outlaw Trail |
Diana Allen Kouris is a masterful storyteller
with a wonderful story to tell. This book should be required reading
for all new arrivals in the West, so they might know something about the
folds this land has shaped, about the folks who have long called this land
their home. D.L. Birchfield |
| Diana Allen Kouris |
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Roadside History of Wyoming | To know Wyoming is to experience its physical presence, and there's no better way to to that than by driving its roads and learning its history. Well-researched, well-told stories are set against the dramatic backdrop of the land itself to reveal how Wyoming's natural environment affected human activity through time. |
| Candy Moulton |
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Sacajawea | Few personalities in American history have been more idealized -- or more controversial -- than Sacajawea, the young Shoshoni Indian woman who accompanied Lewis and Clark on their epic journey across the continent. Sacajawea's path is retraced from the Mandan Indian village to the Pacific Ocean and back. |
| Harold P. Howard |
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Sacagawea: American Pathfinder |
Easy to read novel for children eight and up of one of America's famous children. The story begins when Sacagawea is only a child and continues on as she leads Lewis and Clark on their Discovery expedition. |
| Flora Warren Seymour |
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Wagons
Wheels: A Contemporary Journey on the Oregon Trail |
Climb aboard Ben Kern's lead wagon and retrace the Oregon Trail with the 150th Anniversary Wagon Train. Experience the trail first-hand through the diaries of modern-day travelers Ben Kern, Candy Moulton, and Earl Leggett, plus gain insight from the historic diaries of pioneer emigrants. |
| Candy
Moulton & Ben Kern |
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Wild Bunch Women | Feisty Females of the Wild West: Explore the lives of the pistol-packing, hell-raising, high-spirited gals who traveled with Butch Cassidy's notorious Wild Bunch Gang. These women not only made the Wild Bunch's feats of derring-do possible, but also forged their own legends in the tumultuous American West. |
| Michael Rutter |
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Women
in Waiting in the Westward Movement |
The fascinating portraits of six frontier marriages, paying equal attention to the activities of each spouse. The family histories are told with verve and sensitivity. They provide new insight into the contributions that waiting eastern women made to settling the American West. |
| Lindy
Peavy and Ursula Smith |
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Women's
Voices from the Western Frontier |
Butruille has done much more than gather the words of different western women who confronted an awesome landscape when it was called a frontier. She engages those voices with her own, she matches their lives with our. This book is radiant with songs and words and lives. White women, Indian women, black women, Asian women, all roads come together. |
| Susan G. Butruille |
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The
Wyoming Lynching of Cattle Kate 1889 |
The
most blatant crime in the history of the West. They lynched Cattle
Kate & Jim Averell. This story is so controversial that for
over 100 years it was a mistake to even ask what happened that hot July
afternoon in 1889 when a gracious young woman and an innocent homesteader were hanged from a pine tree in the Sweetwater Valley. |
| George W. Hufsmith |
