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.

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.

Helena, MT: Falcon Publishing, 2000. SIGNED - Using diary entries and journals where possible, this book focuses on the stories of 12 women, some well-known like Lola Montez, others less famous - including Nancy Kelsey, the first white woman to cross theSierras, dentist Nellie Pooler Chapman, photographer Eliza Withington and others. INSCRIBED on the half title page by Chris Enss. Photographs, bibliography , index. 128 pages. ISBN: 1-560448881.

Portland, OR: Oregon Historical Society, (1969). First edition - Collects three accounts of women from early Oregon history - .Frances Fuller Victor and the Temperance League in the title story; Portland attorney Mary Leonard (who was tried and acquited of the murder of her husband) in "The Lady and the Saw: a Portrait of Mary Leonard" and "Jane Barnes, First White Woman in Oregon" - originally published in the Oregon Historical Quarterly in 1957, 1955 and 1930. Illustrated. 53 pp plus a double page map.. ISBN: 0-87595-023x.

Indian Well, CA: McKenna Publishing Group, (2005). SIGNED first edition - Short stories, articles and recipes. Illustrated with photographs. Many of the recipes have both the original version and a more modern version (although some -like for barbecued squirrel - only have the original version.) INSCRIBED on the title page. Photographs. Bibliography. 146 pp. ISBN: 1-932172149.

New York: Greenwich Book Publishers, (1961) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - An account of her years in the West - born in South Dakota, she moved to Nevada where she spent 5 years hunting and trapping and ranching. She became a prominent livestock rancher, but went bankrupt during the Depression of 1935, so she moved to California and then to Alaska where she spent 10 years on the frontier. INSCRIBED on the half title page by the author. Illustrated with photographs. 134 pp.

New York: Dodd, Mead, 1942. SIGNED hardcover first edition - An uncommon account of one family's journey to the Northwest and the panhandle of Idaho. Driven from their Colorado sheep farm after a long struggle with the dust-bowl conditions of the late 1930s, Nelle Davis and her husband migrated, with their two children, to the second growth forests of northern Idaho to begin again as stump ranch farmers. SIGNED on the front endpaper with the word "sincerely." Synopsis from the dust jacket has been pasted onto the first blank page. 245 pp.

Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1996. dj. Hardcover first edition - The story of Ida Hunt Udall based on her memoirs of her early life, her journals, her birthday book and her letters, edited and with additional material by Ellsworth, her granddaughter. When her husband was imprisoned for polygamy, she was forced to go "underground" and her journal is a vivid picture of that and of the hardships of settling Arizona and New Mexico. Illustrated with photographs. 296 pgs including notes, bibliography, index.

Chicago: Childrens Press. (1991.). Hardcover - A title in the Cornerstones of Freedom series. Includes the stories of well-known women pioneers like Narcissa Whitman in Oregon, sharpshooter Annie Oakley and Jessie Benton Freeman in California - and also of less well-known women like Texas rancher Henrietta Chamberlain King, Nebraska homesteader Carrie Roach and Wyoming Justice of the Peace, Esther Morris. Large format,illustrated with many sepia toned vintage photographs. Index. 32 pp. ISBN: 0-516047574.

Mankato, MN: Creative Education, 2006. Hardcover first edition - Written for older children, this is a brief biography and look at the legend of Martha Jane Cannary, who became known as Calamity Jane, including her experiences as a scout for General Custer and her years with Bufffalo Bill. Large format, illustrated throughout with vintage photographs. Reference, index. 48 pp. ISBN: 1583413375.

Mankato, MN: Creative Education, 2006. Hardcover first edition - Written for older children, this is a brief biography and look at the legend of Phoebe Ann Moses, born in Ohio in 1860, who became known as Annie Oakley, a tiny woman who became one of the best sharpshooters of all time. Large format, illustrated throughout with vintage photographs. References, index. 48 pp. ISBN: 1583413340.

New York: The Lyons Press, (1999) dj. Hardcover first edition - A collection of sixteen interlinked essays about growing up a woman on the grasslands of North Dakota. 233 pp. ISBN: 1558218874.

St. Louis, MO: Patrice Press, (1988) dj. Hardcover first edition - An unusual diary of a pioneer woman because it includes both the years in the Midwest before the overland trip to California, the trip itself, and life afterwards. Divided into three parts - The Illinois Years, 1848-53; The Trip to California, 1853; and The California Years, 1853-59 - each preceded by a detailed introduction by the editor. Illustrated throughout. Notes, Bibliography, Index . xv, 486 pp. ISBN: 0-935284532.

Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 1991. dj. Hardcover first edition - A biography of Narcissa Whitman, who was, with her husband, a pioneer missionary to the Cayuse Indians in Oregon Territory. Travelling overland in 1836, she spent the next 11 years in Oregon, at first among the "benighted" Indians, and then among the growing number of white settlers. Dust jacket illustration of "Narcissa Whitman Meets the Horribles" is from a painting by John Clymer. Photographs, sources, index. 235 pp. ISBN: 0-8061-23591.

Reno & Las Vegas, NV: University of Nevada Press, (2012). First edition - An account of Annie Johnston - "Wild Horse Annie" - twenty-seven year fight to save the mustangs from slaughter - and to establish refuges for them, not just in her state of Nevada but across the West. Although it seemed like she had succeeded when Congress passed the Wild Free Horse and Burro Act in 1971, and the Supreme Court upheld it, there have been many setbacks since - both legislative and bureaucratic. Still, without the efforts of this shy Nevada horsewife, there would probably not be any mustangs in the wild at all. Illustrated with photographs. Notes. xiv, 212 pp.

New York: Norton, (1995.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Introductions by the editors and contributions by Terry Tempest Williams, Leslie Marmon Silko, Nancy Mairs, Maxine Hong Kingston, Mary Crow Dog, Judy Blunt, Kathleen Norris, Mary Helen Ponce, Brenda Peterson many others. 393 pp. ISBN: 0-393-037231.

New York: Norton, (1995.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Introductions by the editors and contributions by Terry Tempest Williams, Leslie Marmon Silko, Nancy Mairs, Maxine Hong Kingston, Mary Crow Dog, Judy Blunt, Kathleen Norris, Mary Helen Ponce, Brenda Peterson many others. 393 pp. ISBN: 0-393-037231.

Denver: Big Mountain Press, (1961.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's first book, an account of living with her new husband in a log cabin in the Colorado Rockies during the Depression. SIGNED by author on half title page. Illustrated with photographs. 135 pp.

Santa Barbara: Fithian Press, 1996. First edition - Cover praise from Harry Ashmore ("Laucks sets forth an unfolding view of the hard-scrabble community situated atop the Comstock Lode in Nevada - a far place populated by rough and ready miners lured by glittering prospects that never panned out for her father.. a uniquely revealing perspective on the last days of the waning American frontier") and Wendell Berry ("a little nugget of a book,, it wastes not a word and undervalues nothing.") Photographs, 95 pp. ISBN: 1-564741532.

Philadelphia: Lippincott, (1956.) dj. Hardcover - An entertaining first hand account of life on the frontier in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. "A true story of a young wife and the town she helped to build. . . The very young Mrs. Laune first saw the new town of Woodward, Oklahoma Territory in 1896, three years after her husband had set up a tent beside the strip of sand which was to be the main street." Illustrated by her son, Paul Laune, with line drawings throughout and full color illustrated endpapers. 256 pp.

El Paso, TX Texas Western Press / The University of Texas at El Paso, (1993). First edition - Biography of Irish-born Nellie Cashman (1850-1925) who, after arriving in Boston in the 1860s, soon went West and became a prospector and boarding house proprietor in mining towns ranging from Californian to Nevada to Tombstone, Arizona, . She was the first Caucasian woman to trek British Columbia's rugged Cassiar Mountain region and half a century later was the first woman to fly there in an airplane. Southwestern Studies No. 98. Winner of the Western Writers of America Spur Award Illustrated with vintage photographs throughout,Notes, bibliography. xii, 83 pp. ISBN: 0-87404-1945.

Boulder, CO: University Press of Colorado, (2000.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Historically accurate novel which tells the story of the Gold Rush through the eyes of a reluctant 49er - a woman who accompanied her husband, but whose focus was on the survival of her children and her family, first on the overland journey, then in Sacramento and Nevada CIty. The author won the 1999 Women Writing the West Willa Literary Award. INSCRIBED on the title page Preface by the author. x, 268 pp. ISBN: 0-87081-5660.