FLOATING ON THE MISSOURI:
100 Years After Lewis & Clark

By James Willard Schultz

An entertaining travelogue of the 1901 float trip on the Missouri River along part of the same route of Lewis & Clark along with a collection of frontier stories, memories, and Indian legends.

COPPER CAMP: The Lusty Story of Butte, Montana

By Writer’s Project

The classic Montana book by the Writer’s Project tells it all! From the miners to the kids to the girls of the line, Copper Camp is the people's story of the Richest Hill on Earth during its wild and wide-open heydey.

THE WAR OF THE COPPER KINGS

By C.B. Glasscock

The jaw-dropping "real" story of the legendary corruption and bribery in Butte, Montana during the rich copper mining era.

GRACE STONE COATES: Her Life in Letters

By Lee Rostad

Grace Stone Coates is the extraordinary story of a demure Montana housewife and writer (Black Cherries) and her personal correspondence with William Saroyan (The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze), as well as Montana literary lion, H.G. Merriam, Frank Bird Linderman, James Rankin, and many others. It is a very engaging adventure that reveals the brilliant, passionate woman that is Montana writer Grace Stone Coates.

TENTING TO-NIGHT

By Mary Roberts Rinehart

Tag along with Mary Roberts Rinehart on her adventurous camping trips through Glacier and North Cascades national parks in 1916! Mary made the trip with her husband and three sons (Big Boy, Middle Boy, and Little Boy) and a contingent of colorful wranglers, cooks, and guides. Join her for float trips and horsepack trips. Her story-telling talent makes this book good reading.

WHEN THE MEADOWLARK SINGS

By Nedra Sterry

Born in 1918 in Fort Benton, Montana, Nedra Sterry has crafted a remarkable memoir of life on the Montana prairies and a childhood defined in equal measure by poverty and grace, hard work and family ties. Sterry's memoir traces her family through the homesteading boom, the Great Depression, World War II, and more.

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