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  • Ballantine, Bill.
    HIGH WEST.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Rand McNally & Co, (1969.) dj. Hardcover first edition - From the front flap: "Ballantine, his wife and three of their teen-aged children traveled throughout eight Rocky Mountain states: Wyoming, Colorado, South Dakota, Montana, Idaho, Utah, Arizona and New Mexico. [This book] is an offbeat and highly personal (and a bit impertinent) look at the vacation places and tourist centers within these states, both well known and obscure, and at Americans at large, both tourist and native." Starting at Frontier Days in Cheyenne to the Sioux Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota, from mining towns like Cripple Creek and Leadville in Colorado to visiting artist Georgia O'Keefe in New Mexico, this is a combination of interviews, and…

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    New York: Rand McNally & Co, (1969.) dj. Hardcover first edition - From the front flap: "Ballantine, his wife and three of their teen-aged children traveled throughout eight Rocky Mountain states: Wyoming, Colorado, South Dakota, Montana, Idaho, Utah, Arizona and New Mexico. [This book] is an offbeat and highly personal (and a bit impertinent) look at the vacation places and tourist centers within these states, both well known and obscure, and at Americans at large, both tourist and native." Starting at Frontier Days in Cheyenne to the Sioux Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota, from mining towns like Cripple Creek and Leadville in Colorado to visiting artist Georgia O'Keefe in New Mexico, this is a combination of interviews, and reporting on the West, illustrated with photographs (including one of O'Keefe) by the author. Note at the beginning of the book states that the trip was made in a 'Goldline pickup camper, Model 220, manufactured by Travel Industries, Inc, Oswego, Kansas and mounted on a Ford Motor Co. camper special.' 303 pp.

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    Condition: Fine in near fine dust jacket (chipping to upper edge of dj spine, slight sunning to spine.)

    Book ID: 38961
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  • BLOOD LURE. by Barr, Nevada.
    Barr, Nevada.
    BLOOD LURE.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Putnam, (2001.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Mystery featuring park ranger Anna Pigeon - set in Glacier National Park. SIGNED on the title page. 320 pp. Map endpapers.

    Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 39542
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  • BLOOD LURE. by Barr, Nevada.
    Barr, Nevada.
    BLOOD LURE.

    Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )

    New York: Putnam, (2001.). First edition - Mystery featuring park ranger Anna Pigeon - set in Glacier National Park. SIGNED on the title page/ 320 pp.

    Condition: Very near fine in illustrated wrappers.

    Book ID: 37987
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  • WHERE THE SEA USED TO BE. by Bass, Rick.
    Bass, Rick.
    WHERE THE SEA USED TO BE.

    Edition: First printing.

    Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1998. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Montana based author's first full-length novel, dealing with the conflicts between development and wilderness. SIGNED on the title page. ISBN: 0-395-770157.

    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 60611
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  • THE LIVES OF ROCKS: Stories. by Bass, Rick.
    Bass, Rick.
    THE LIVES OF ROCKS: Stories.

    Edition: First printing.

    Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2006. dj. Hardcover first edition - Ten stories which explore our connection to nature, set in locations ranging from Texas to Montana. 211 pp. ISBN: 0-618-596747.

    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 52234
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  • Bass, Rick.
    WHERE THE SEA USED TO BE.

    Edition: First printing.

    Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1998. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Montana based author's first full-length novel, dealing with the conflicts between development and wilderness. SIGNED on the title page. ISBN: 0-395-770157.

    Condition: Near fine in a like dustjacket (appears to be unread, but some signs of handling.)

    Book ID: 14366
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  • THE HERMIT'S STORY: Stories. by Bass, Rick
    Bass, Rick
    THE HERMIT'S STORY: Stories.

    Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )

    Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2002. First edition - A collection of short stories, some almost magical in their evocation of man and nature, several set in the Yaak Valley of Montana, where Bass lives. 179 pp. Cover by Russell Chatham.

    Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.

    Book ID: 44762
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  • WINTER: Notes from Montana. by Bass, Rick
    Bass, Rick
    WINTER: Notes from Montana.

    Edition: First printing.

    Boston: Houghton Mifflin, (1991) dj. Hardcover first edition - A celebration of winter in a remote valley of 30 inhabitants in Montana - the last valley in Montana to still lack electricity. Illustrated with drawings by Elizabeth Hughes. 162 pp. ISBN: 0-395611504.

    Condition: Very good in very good dust jacket (slight spine slant)

    Book ID: 83770
    Keywords: Essays, montana
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  • WINTER: Notes from Montana. by Bass, Rick
    Bass, Rick
    WINTER: Notes from Montana.

    Edition: First printing, a trade paperback, issued simultaneously with hardcover.

    Boston: Houghton Mifflin, (1991) dj. First edition - A celebration of winter in a remote valley of 30 inhabitants in Montana - the last valley in Montana to still lack electricity. SIGNED on the half title page with the words "All best" and dated in 1994. Illustrated with drawings by Elizabeth Hughes. 162 pp. ISBN: 0-395611504.

    Condition: Fine in glossy white wrappers in a fine dust jacket..

    Book ID: 62806
    Keywords: Essays, montana
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  • Bass, Rick.
    WHERE THE SEA USED TO BE.

    Edition: First printing.

    Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1998. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Montana based author's first full-length novel, dealing with the conflicts between development and wilderness. SIGNED on the title page. ISBN: 0-395-770157.

    Condition: Near fine in a near fine dustjacket (price-clipped dj, a tight and straight copy.)

    Book ID: 34387
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  • Bass, Rick.
    WHERE THE SEA USED TO BE.

    Edition: First printing.

    Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1998. dj. Hardcover first edition - Montana based author's first full-length novel, dealing with the conflicts between development and wilderness. ISBN: 0-395-770157.

    Condition: Near fine in a like dustjacket (appears to be unread, but some signs of handling.)

    Book ID: 32163
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  • VIGILANTES: A Chronicle of the Rise and Fall of the Plummer Gang of Outlaws in and about Virginia City, Montana in the early '60's. by Birney, Hoffman, Illustrated by Hargens, Charles
    Birney, Hoffman, Illustrated by Hargens, Charles
    VIGILANTES: A Chronicle of the Rise and Fall of the Plummer Gang of Outlaws in and about Virginia City, Montana in the early '60's.

    Edition: First printing.

    Philadelphia: The Penn Publishing Company, (1929.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Classic account of one of the most notorious 'outlaw gangs' in the story of the Western frontier - and of the organization - the Montana vigilantes - which brought them down, written in a very readable style, with an emphasis on the personalities of those involved. It is interesting to compare this with the 2004 book by Frederick Allen "A Decent and Orderly Lynching." Illustrated with a frontispiece, 15 photographic plates, a map and drawings by Charles Hargens. 346 pp. Illustrated endpapers.

    Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket - a very attractive copy, straight and tight, with a little light toning to the pages and dustjacket, very minor edgewear to the dj - uncommon in dust jacket and especially so in this condition. Original price of $3.50 still present.

    Book ID: 74943
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  • Blunt, Judy.
    BREAKING CLEAN.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York Alfred A. Knopf, 2002. dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first book, a powerful memoir of growing up on a ranch in Montana, of learning to work cattle all day and then getting dinner on the table - and finally of breaking away from this world to find her own identity as a writer. Winner of the 1997 PEN/Jarrod Award for a work in progress and of the 2001 Whiting Writer's Award, this has blurbs by such writers as James Crumley (who calls it 'a magnificent achievement, a book for the ages.'), William Kittredge, James Welch and others. Kirkus Reviews states 'to shoehorn this into mere category or classification is to insult its power. Profound and profoundly moving.' 303 pp. ISBN: 0-375-401318.

    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 38903
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  • BREAKING CLEAN. by Blunt, Judy.
    Blunt, Judy.
    BREAKING CLEAN.

    Edition: Early printing.

    New York Alfred A. Knopf, 2002. dj. Hardcover - The author's first book, a powerful memoir of growing up on a ranch in Montana, of learning to work cattle all day and then getting dinner on the table - and finally of breaking away from this world to find her own identity as a writer. Winner of the 1997 PEN/Jarrod Award for a work in progress and of the 2001 Whiting Writer's Award, this has blurbs by such writers as James Crumley (who calls it 'a magnificent achievement, a book for the ages.'), William Kittredge, James Welch and others. Kirkus Reviews states 'to shoehorn this into mere category or classification is to insult its power. Profound and profoundly moving.' 303 pp. ISBN: 0-375-401318.

    Condition: Fine in a very near fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 28200
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  • CRUZATTE AND MARIA: A Gabriel DuPre Mystery. by Bowen, Peter.
    Bowen, Peter.
    CRUZATTE AND MARIA: A Gabriel DuPre Mystery.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: St Martin's, (2001.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Mystery featuring Metis rancher and investigator Gabriel du Pre - set along the upper Missouri in remote Montana where a film crew has come to make a film based on the Lewis and Clark expedition - an expedition which du Pre's ancestor, Cruzatte, a voyageur and fiddler, accompanied. SIGNED on the half title page. 264 pp. ISBN: 0-312-262531.

    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 77514
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  • LONESOME LAND. by Bower, B. M. [Bertha Muzzy Sinclair, 1871-1940]
    Bower, B. M. [Bertha Muzzy Sinclair, 1871-1940]
    LONESOME LAND.

    Edition: Reprint.

    New York: Triangle Books, (1944) dj. Hardcover - Novel of a young woman from Down East who arrives in Montana with romantic dreams, only to find herself married to an alcoholic and a weakling, and living in a forlorn shack way out in 'lonesome land.' Bower, a prolific writer, the author of 68 novels, hid the fact that she was a woman behind initials. She lived on a ranch in Montana herself, and understood the people and land about which she was writing. 322 pp.

    Condition: Good only in a good dust jacket (severe toning to the paper as is common with reprints from this era, edgewear to the dj)

    Book ID: 63576
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  • COW-COUNTRY. by Bower, B. M. [Bertha Muzzy Sinclair, 1871-1940]
    Bower, B. M. [Bertha Muzzy Sinclair, 1871-1940]
    COW-COUNTRY.

    Edition: Early reprint.

    New York: Grosset & Dunlap, (c. 1921.). Hardcover - Classic Western fiction - the story of a young man trying to prove himself on the Idaho frontier - by this prolific writer (the author of 68 novels) who hid the fact that she was a woman behind initials. Bower lived on a ranch in Montana herself, and understood the people and land about which she was writing. Frontispiece by Frank Tierney Johnson, 249 pp.

    Condition: Good overall in pale green illustrated boards (gift inscription dated Christmas 1925 on front endpaper.).

    Book ID: 39590
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  • TROUBLE RIDES THE WIND. by Bower, B. M. [Bertha Muzzy Sinclair, 1871-1940]
    Bower, B. M. [Bertha Muzzy Sinclair, 1871-1940]
    TROUBLE RIDES THE WIND.

    Edition: Reprint.

    New York: Triangle Books, (1943) dj. Hardcover - Novel originally published in 1935. featuring Chip Bennett of the Flying U. Bower, a prolific writer, the author of 68 novels, hid the fact that she was a woman behind initials. She lived on a ranch in Montana herself, and understood the people and land about which she was writing. 300 pp.

    Condition: Good in a good dust jacket (some toning to the paper as is common with reprints from this era, edgewear to the dj)

    Book ID: 66751
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  • WHO'S MY ENEMY? Memories of an American Soldier in Vietnam - 1969. by Bowman, Ivan Lynn.
    Bowman, Ivan Lynn.
    WHO'S MY ENEMY? Memories of an American Soldier in Vietnam - 1969.

    Edition: 2nd printing, a trade paperback original.

    Hilger, MT: Bowman's Books, (2006). SIGNED - Memoir in which the author, now in his 60s, remembers fighting in Vietnam against a foe fiercely determined to protect their land, and how he found relief from living with the memories of the horrors of war and the ineptitude of the US government in the Montana wilderness. INSCRIBED on the first page and dated in 2007. Illustrated with photographs. Index. 257 pp. ISBN: 978-0615133829.

    Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.

    Book ID: 88937
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  • PARADISE VALLEY. by Box, C. J.
    Box, C. J.
    PARADISE VALLEY.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: St Martin's Minotaur, (2017) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Novel featuring Cassie Dewell, a deputy sheriff in Grimstad, formerly a small quiet town, then booming as the oil capital of North Dakota, and now facing unemployment and half-finished houses. When a sting goes bad, and several deputies are killed, she is forced to resign her position, but takes on the job of trying to find a missing boy, a friend of her son. SIGNED on the title page. 339 pp. ISBN: 978-1250051042.

    Condition: Fine in a fine dust jacket (as new.)

    Book ID: 77909
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  • BITTERROOT. by Burke, James Lee
    Burke, James Lee
    BITTERROOT.

    Edition: First UK printing.

    London: Orion, (2001) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The 3rd book in the series featuring attorney and former Texas ranger Billy Bob Holland: in this one, he goes to the Montana Big Sky country for some fishing and ends up helping out an old friend. SIGNED on the title page. 334 pp. ISBN: 0-758241548.

    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 80943
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  • THE LOST GET-BACK BOOGIE. by Burke, James Lee.
    Burke, James Lee.
    THE LOST GET-BACK BOOGIE.

    Edition: 1st trade paperback printing.

    New York: Henry Holt, (1987.). Although it is hard to believe now, this novel was rejected by many publishers before Louisana State University took it on. A beautifully written account of a man who finally finds some direction in his life. A country and western singer who served two years in Angola for manslaughter, Iry heads west to the Bitteroot ranch of fellow prisoner Buddy Riordan, but he and the Riordan family are caught up in the conflict around a local pulp mill. 241 pp. ISBN: 9780807113349.

    Condition: Near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.

    Book ID: 57870
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  • BITTERROOT. by Burke, James Lee
    Burke, James Lee
    BITTERROOT.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Simon & Schuster, (2001) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The 3rd book in the series featuring attorney and former Texas ranger Billy Bob Holland: in this one, he goes to the Montana Big Sky country for some fishing and ends up helping out an old friend. SIGNED on the title page. 334 pp. ISBN: 0-7432-04832.

    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 77024
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  • BITTERROOT. by Burke, James Lee
    Burke, James Lee
    BITTERROOT.

    Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )

    New York: Simon & Schuster, (2001). SIGNED first edition - The 3rd book in the series featuring attorney and former Texas ranger Billy Bob Holland: in this one, he goes to the Montana Big Sky country for some fishing and ends up helping out an old friend. SIGNED on the title page. 334 pp.

    Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers. A rather uncommon advance issue, especially so signed.

    Book ID: 81044
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  • BITTERROOT. by Burke, James Lee
    Burke, James Lee
    BITTERROOT.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Simon & Schuster, (2001) dj. Hardcover first edition - The 3rd book in the series featuring attorney and former Texas ranger Billy Bob Holland: in this one, he goes to the Montana Big Sky country for some fishing and ends up helping out an old friend. ISBN: 0-7432-04832.

    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (as new.)

    Book ID: 60674
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  • NINE BELOW ZERO. by Canty, Kevin.
    Canty, Kevin.
    NINE BELOW ZERO.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Doubleday, 1999. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Second novel (third book) by this highly praised young Western writer. Set in Montana. SIGNED on the title page. Dust jacket praise from Harry Crews, Rick Bass and Jim Harrison. 371 pp. ISBN: 0-385-491603.

    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 49051
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  • NINE BELOW ZERO. by Canty, Kevin.
    Canty, Kevin.
    NINE BELOW ZERO.

    Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )

    New York: Doubleday, 1999. SIGNED first edition - Second novel (third book) by this highly praised young Western writer. Set in Montana. SIGNED on the title page. 260 pp.

    Condition: Near fine in wrappers (usual toning to the pages)

    Book ID: 13660
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  • CLINICAL TRIAL. by Christofferson, April.
    Christofferson, April.
    CLINICAL TRIAL.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Tom Doherty Associates, 2000. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A medical thriller set on the Blackfeet Reservation in Montana where a vaccine against the hanta virus is being tested. SIGNED on the title page. 333 pp. ISBN: 0-312868995.

    Condition: Fine in a fine dustjacket (as new, an unread copy.)

    Book ID: 70276
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  • SORREL. by Cleary, Rita.
    Cleary, Rita.
    SORREL.

    Edition: First printing, a trade paperback original.

    Santa Fe, NM: Sunstone Press, (1993). SIGNED first edition - The author's first novel, a story of feuding, greed and violence set in Montana in the 1880s. SIGNED on the first page with the words "Best wishes" and dated in 1994. 234 pp. ISBN: 0-865341915.

    Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.

    Book ID: 88881
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  • BUSTER MIDNIGHT'S CAFE. by Dallas, Sandra.
    Dallas, Sandra.
    BUSTER MIDNIGHT'S CAFE.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Random House, (1990.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first novel (preceded by several non-fiction books on the American West) - "a wise and sassy narrator, mavelous characters, and a plot that blends Hollywood scandal, lifelong friendship, mystery and romance" - the story of the most famous citizens of Butte, Montana: the Hollywood legend Marion Street and the boxing champion Buster Midnight. 277 pp. ISBN: 0-394-576519.

    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 34124
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