Ghost Towns of Wyoming, the first in a series of ten ghost town books, is a stunning volume featuring a historical and physical biography of 74 sites, with their history dating back to 1812. While many of these towns are a vanishing breed from a bygone era, a sense of history hangs in the air of their empty streets. The only sounds that fill your ears are the wind, creaking boards, and the gravel under your boots.

In 1977, Laura Bell, at loose ends after graduating from college, leaves her family home in Kentucky for a wild and unexpected adventure: herding sheep in Wyoming?s Big Horn Basin. Inexorably drawn to this life of solitude and physical toil, a young woman in a man?s world, she is perhaps the strangest member of this beguiling community of drunks and eccentrics. So begins her unabating search for a place to belong and for the raw materials with which...

A book about how one man's determination to provide for his family became a small-town legacy where people help people, new friend-ships are formed, and where God's light shines every day in the small things...

Packed with information and copiously illustrated, Wyoming's Wealth should appeal to all ages. Here are the Indians, the cowboys, the traders, the trappers--all dealt with in lively but accurate fashion. Young readers and adult history buffs alike will find here fascinating and little-known facts about Wyoming's colorful past.

Jukeboxes & Jackalopes is an apt description of this collection of essays in which the author shares her impressions of some of the unique bars scattered throughout small towns in Wyoming--some so small that the bar may be the only business at a location named and noted on the map but perhaps only claiming two residents. Regardless of size or remoteness of location, these watering holes often serve as community centers and living rooms away from home...

A historical memoir that spans the twentieth century and recapitulates the life of a daughter of Italian immigrants who came to Wyoming to make a new life. From her cabin in the Hoback Basin, Florence Rose Krall Shepard retraces the contours of her long life through the lens of the seasons that call up memories. From the landscape of childhood on a sheep ranch during the Great Depression, through schooling in a one-room school to universities, marriages...