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  • Ehrlich, Gretel
    A MATCH TO THE HEART: One Woman's Story of Being Struck by Lightning

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Pantheon, 1994. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - INSCRIBED by the author on the title page (for Leann) and dated in 1995. One August afternoon, Ehrlich was walking with her dogs on her ranch - and was struck by lightning. Her remarkable survival is told in this fascinating extended essay on the effects of lightening on the human body - and on the nature of the heart. ISBN: 0-679-425500.

    Condition: Very good+ in a like dustjacket.

    Book ID: 12493
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  • Ehrlich, Gretel
    A MATCH TO THE HEART: One Woman's Story of Being Struck by Lightning

    Edition: First UK printing.

    London: Fourth Estate Ltd., 1995. dj. Hardcover first edition - One August afternoon, Ehrlich was walking with her dogs on her ranch - and was struck by lightning. Her remarkable survival is told in this fascinating extended essay on the effects of lightening on the human body - and on the nature of the heart.

    Condition: Very near fine in like dustjacket.

    Book ID: 10635
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  • WILDWING. by Erickson, Phoebe.
    Erickson, Phoebe.
    WILDWING.

    Edition: Hardcover.

    New York: Harper & Row, (1959). SIGNED hardcover - Set in Wyoming, where a young Arapaho boy witnesses a plane roundup of wild horses, and helps the herd to escape the canyon they had been driven into, but then finds a newborn colt lying on the ground next to its dead mother, and he determines to save it. Written and illustrated by Phoebe Erickson. SIGNED on the front endpaper. 180 pp.

    Condition: Near fine in illustrated boards in a sturdy Harper Crest library binding, no dust jacket.

    Book ID: 87474
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  • SKUNK RANCH TO HOLLYWOOD: The West of Author Hal Evarts. by Evarts Jr., Hal.
    Evarts Jr., Hal.
    SKUNK RANCH TO HOLLYWOOD: The West of Author Hal Evarts.

    Edition: First printing.

    Santa Barbara: Capra Press, (1989) dj. Hardcover first edition - In 1915 during the long Wyoming winters on Skunk Ranch near Cody, Evarts began writing tales of adventure, which his sister sent off to New York secretly. Just as his ranch went bankrupt, he launched a new career as a best seller writer. Three of his novels were made into films - and one of them launched the career of John Wayne. Written with affection by his son this is "a colorful history told with the broad humor and a knack for sniffing out the comic and extraordinary details of Evarts' extraordinary life." Photographs, eulogy, bibliography, and list of books by Hal G. Evarts. 260 pp. ISBN: 0-884962970..

    Condition: Fine in a very near fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 55707
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  • TUMBLEWORDS: Writers Reading the West. by Fox, William L., editor.
    Fox, William L., editor.
    TUMBLEWORDS: Writers Reading the West.

    Edition: First printing, a trade paperback original.

    Reno, NV: University of Nevada Press, (1995). First edition - Collects works by 72 western writers - featuring poets, novelists, short-story writers and essayists from Arizona, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah and Wyoming (the selections are arranged by state) Among the authors are Kim Barnes, William Johnson, Lorna Dee Cervantes, Jonathan Penner, Dennis Hickman and many others, Foreword by Donald Meyer and an introduction by the editor, William L. Fox. Map, notes on contributors, index of authors and titles. A title in the Western Literature Series.xxv, 377 pp.. Review copy with publisher's material laid in. ISBN: 0-874172713.

    Condition: Very near fine in illustrated wrappers.

    Book ID: 67213
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  • THE LEGEND OF COLTON H. BRYANT. by Fuller, Alexandra.
    Fuller, Alexandra.
    THE LEGEND OF COLTON H. BRYANT.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Penguin, (2008) dj. Hardcover first edition - The story of a young man who grew up in Wyoming, a cowboy at heart, who worked - and died - on an oil rig there - a life which dramatizes the greed and carelessness behind this latest oil rush. 202 pp. ISBN: 978-1-594201837.

    Condition: Fine in a near fine jacket(tiny tear on back cover of dj).

    Book ID: 54520
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  • BOLETO. by Hagy, Alyson.
    Hagy, Alyson.
    BOLETO.

    Edition: First printing.

    Minneapolis: Graywolf Press, (2012) dj. Hardcover first edition - A young Wyoming horse trainer determined to make something of himself sees his chance with a beautiful quarter horse, a young filly named Boleto. 252 pp. ISBN: 978-1555976125.

    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 68007
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  • Henderson, William Haywood.
    NATIVE.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Dutton, (1993.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's very highly praised first novel, a story of the ranchhands and drifters of the contemporary West, set in Wyoming's remote Wind River Valley. Cover praise from Gilbert Sorrentino, Margaret Erhart and Edmund While (who called Henderson the 'best young writer I know about in America right now.') 250 pp. ISBN: 0-525-935746.

    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (appears unread.)

    Book ID: 32606
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  • THE REST OF THE EARTH. by Henderson, William Haywood.
    Henderson, William Haywood.
    THE REST OF THE EARTH.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Dutton, (1997.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's second novel, set in Wyoming's remote and forbidding Wind River Valley in the years after the Civil War. 278 pp. ISBN: 0-525-939814.

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

    Book ID: 32605
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  • LIVE WIRE: A What Doesn't Kill You World Romantic Mystery. by Hutchins, Pamela Fagan.
    Hutchins, Pamela Fagan.
    LIVE WIRE: A What Doesn't Kill You World Romantic Mystery.

    Edition: Trade paperback original.

    Houston, TX:' Skipjack Publishing, (2019). "Washed-up alt-country-rocker-turned-junker Maggie Killian is pulled to Wyoming by an irresistible force . . . former bull rider Hank Sibley, the man who broke her heart fifteen years before." The first book in a trilogy featuring sharp-tongued protagonist Maggie Killian from the addictive 'What Doesnt Kill You' romantic mystery series. 260 pp. ISBN: 978-1939889966.

    Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers (a new copy)

    Book ID: 77594
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  • THE WESTERN STAR: A Longmire Mystery by Johnson, Craig.
    Johnson, Craig.
    THE WESTERN STAR: A Longmire Mystery

    Edition: 3rd printing.

    New York: Viking, (2017) dj. SIGNED hardcover - The thirteenth novel in the Longmire series, basis for the Netflix series Longmire. The title refers to a Wyoming Sheriff's Association junket held on the excursion train known as the Western Star, which ran the length of Wyoming from Cheyenne to Evanston and back, which Walt attended as a new deputy, fresh from Vietnam. SIGNED on the title page. 295 pp. ISBN: 978-0525426950.

    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 87315
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  • OVER THE EDGE. by Kaplan, Marc Paul.
    Kaplan, Marc Paul.
    OVER THE EDGE.

    Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )

    Walnut Creek, CA: Komenar Publishing, (2006). First edition - The author's first suspense novel, set in 1969 in a Jackson Hole, Wyoming, then a burgeoning ski resort, the story of two dangerous men on a collision course. 317 pp.

    Condition: Very near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers. Promotional postcard laid in.

    Book ID: 63320
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  • ADVOCATES AND ADVERSARIES: The Early Life and Times of Robert B. Rose. by [Lakeside Classic] Rose, Robert B. ; edited by Gene M. Gressley.
    [Lakeside Classic] Rose, Robert B. ; edited by Gene M. Gressley.
    ADVOCATES AND ADVERSARIES: The Early Life and Times of Robert B. Rose.

    Edition: First printing.

    Chicago: The Lakeside Press / R. R. Donnelley & Sons, Co. 1977. Hardcover first edition - Lakeside Classic #75. Previously unpublished account of Robert Rose, who came to the frontier state of Wyoming as a young man in 1914. Edited and with an historical introduction by Gene M. Gressley.. Publisher's preface. Illustrated with a frontispiece, double page map and photographs. Index. List of Lakeside Classics titles. lix, 328 pp.

    Condition: Very near fine in dark blue cloth with gilt lettering, top edge gilt.

    Book ID: 52061
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  • PEEPING TOM POEMS. by Levendosky, Charles (1936 -2004)
    Levendosky, Charles (1936 -2004)
    PEEPING TOM POEMS.

    Edition: First printing.

    Livingston, Montana: Clark City Press, (2003) dj. Hardcover first edition - The last book by this poet, journalist, educator and first amendment rights advocate, who was born in New York, but moved to Wyoming in 1972 and remained there for the rest of his life; in 1988 he was named Wyoming's poet laureate. The raven - or peeping Tom - is the alter ego who is a witness to all that we do. Recipient of the Edward Stanley Award for Poetry. Illustrated throughout with raven sketches by Russell Chatham, who also designed this book and provided the dust jacket art. 85 pp. ISBN: 0-94443908X.

    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 84418
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  • THE BLUEJAY SHAMAN. by McClendon, Lise.
    McClendon, Lise.
    THE BLUEJAY SHAMAN.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Walker, (1994.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Author's first novel: Alix Thorssen, Wyoming art dealer and on-call expert witness for the FBI and other agencies, becomes involved in the mystery of a missing artifact when her brother-in-law is accused of a murder on a Montana Indian reservation. INSCRIBED on the title page. 235 pp. ISBN: 0-8027-31791.

    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 77114
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  • McPhee, John.
    RISING FROM THE PLAINS.

    Edition: Trade paperback.

    New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1986. A fascinating look at the geology of the Rocky Mountains, and at the history with which these mountains are infused. His third book on geology and geologists, a series under the overall title of 'Annals of the Former World.' 214 pp. ISBN: 0-374-520658.

    Condition: Fine.

    Book ID: 34708
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  • IN THE SNOW FOREST: Three Novellas. by Parvin, Roy.
    Parvin, Roy.
    IN THE SNOW FOREST: Three Novellas.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Norton, 2000. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's second book, and the first to be published in hardcover. Each of these novellas are set in the West - in the Trinity Mountains of California, Montana or Wyoming - in the late fall with the threat of snow - and each is, in the words of Antonya Nelson , 'its own sweet masterpiece.' A brief but powerful book. SIGNED on the title page. 194 pp. ISBN: 0-393-049779.

    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 26477
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  • BIRD CLOUD: A MEMOIR. by Proulx. Annie.
    Proulx. Annie.
    BIRD CLOUD: A MEMOIR.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Scribner, (2011) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Her first work of nonfiction in many years - a tribute to the land she loves. "Bird Cloud" is the name Proulx gave to 640 acres of Wyoming wetlands and prairie and four-hundred-foot cliffs plunging down to the North Platte River. SIGNED on the title page. 234 pp. ISBN: 978-0743288804.

    Condition: Very nea fine in like dust jacket (small sticker on front endpaper)

    Book ID: 86583
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  • CLOSE RANGE: Wyoming Stories [includes Brokeback Mountain.] by Proulx, Annie.
    Proulx, Annie.
    CLOSE RANGE: Wyoming Stories [includes Brokeback Mountain.]

    Edition: Trade paperback.

    New York: Scribner, (2000). Her second collection of short stories.. Powerful stories of lonlinesss, violence, and the wrong kind of love in an attractively produced book. Include 'Brokeback Mountain" which was the basis of the award-winning film of the same name. 285 pp. ISBN: 0-684-852225.

    Condition: Near fine.

    Book ID: 57081
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  • SKIPPED PARTS. by Sandlin, Tim
    Sandlin, Tim
    SKIPPED PARTS.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Henry Holt, (1991.) dj. Hardcover first edition - His third novel and the first in his GroVont trilogy - a look at sex, teenagers and life in 1960's small town Wyoming. 338 pp. ISBN: 0-8050-1086-6.

    Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.

    Book ID: 46964
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  • Seelye, John.
    THE KID.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Viking, 1972. dj. Hardcover first edition - Western novel set in Wyoming in the 1880's - the kid comes into town accompanied by a colossal African mute. Review copy with publisher's slip laid. Also slip with 'compliments of author' laid in. ISBN: 0-670-412988.

    Condition: Fine in very near fine dust jacket (slight fading to spine of dj.)

    Book ID: 24319
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  • THE RAMBLER CLUB'S AEROPLANE (Rambler Club #7) by Sheppard, W.Crispin.
    Sheppard, W.Crispin.
    THE RAMBLER CLUB'S AEROPLANE (Rambler Club #7)

    Edition: First edition.

    Philadelphia: Penn Publishing Company, 1912. Hardcover first edition - One of three titles in this series published in 1912. The five boys who make up the club, along with two other friends, return to Border City and the Circle T Ranch in Wyoming, to find the town booming, and a New York financier carrying on experiments with a dirigible balloon. Illustrated with a glossy frontispiece and three inserted plates by the author. Tissue guard at frontispiece. Lists thru the 1912 titles at the rear, with 2 from 1913 shown as "in preparation." 320 pp.

    Condition: Very good in tan illustrated cloth with gilt lettering on the spine (some rubbing to the spine, rear hinge cracked)

    Book ID: 65344
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  • THE WAY TO THE WEST: Essays on the Central Plains. by West, Elliott.
    West, Elliott.
    THE WAY TO THE WEST: Essays on the Central Plains.

    Edition: First printing.

    Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, (1995) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A history of the great migration of Cheyenne Indians and Anglo pioneers onto the arid Central Plains of Kansas, Nebraska and parts of Colorado and Wyoming. SIGNED on the title page A title in the Calvin P. Horn Lectures in Western History and Culture series. Illustrated with many photographs, maps , extensive notes, bibliography, index. x, 244 pp. ISBN: 0-8263-16522.

    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 67944
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  • DOWN THE TRAIL WITH THE BUFFALO HERDS: Western Miscellanea. by Witherup, Mary E. and others.
    Witherup, Mary E. and others.
    DOWN THE TRAIL WITH THE BUFFALO HERDS: Western Miscellanea.

    Edition: First printing.

    Philadelphia: Dorrance & Co. (1972.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Poems by the author (who was born in Wyoming, the daughter of parents who came West by wagon train, and lived in Montana when this was published) and by others in her family - most on Western themes - 228 pp. ISBN: :0-8059-1708X.

    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 54370
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