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How It Looks Going Back


How It Looks Going Back

In 1949, taking a break from San Diego’s post–World War II bustle, the Knowles family went camping in Canada. Heading home through northwest Montana’s Yaak River country, they found a two-bedroom, story-and-half log cabin on a small lake.

There was neither electricity nor plumbing. Access was via dirt road, slow at best and iffy during the long, hard winters. Darwin Knowles saw a peaceful life, and adventurous wife Marilyn agreed. Third-grader daughter, Dee (for Doris), could attend the one-room school, and three-year-old Bob (Barbara) have a safe place to play. Enthusiastic but ignorant of wilderness living, the family moved in that fall—working together to cook and heat with wood, hunt and fish for food, haul water, and wash clothes by hand.

They stayed for six years, during which son Stevie was born. Dee’s reminiscence of her childhood in “the Yaak” presents quirky neighbors, growing girls’ adventures, wildlife huge and tiny, and especially one loving family. As she writes, “It was a cozy, scary, painful, hilarious, dangerous, interesting, and grand time, and the most fun I ever had.”

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WHEN THE MEADOWLARK SINGS


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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GRACE STONE COATES: Her Life in Letters


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.

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$19.95
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FLOATING ON THE MISSOURI:


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.

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$14.95



GIVE ME MOUNTAINS FOR MY HORSES


GIVE ME MOUNTAINS FOR MY HORSES

By Tom Reed

Tom Reed has a real affinity for horses and wilderness, and it shows on every page in his true tales about trail riding, horse packing, and great mountain horses. Even if you have never saddled up, you will be drawn into these heart-tugging stories of special horses, their remarkable abilities, and the inescapable bonds that develop between horses and humans.

“You’ll reach the end of the book wishing there were a few more chapters, a few more recollections, a few more horses. If you’ve ever had the slightest desire to have a horse of your own, this book is a must-read. It evokes feelings all horse lovers have felt, whether they could put words to those emotions or not.”
-Ty Stockton, Wyoming Wildlife

“Every once in a while I come across a book that swallows me whole. Each time as I reluctantly put it down, dragging my eyes from the pages leaves me disoriented as my mind is full of the images that I’ve just read about. Tom Reed’s latest book is one of those rare books that takes readers on a journey with each chapter.” -Cara Eastwood, Wyoming News

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THE STORY OF MARY MACLANE


THE STORY OF MARY MACLANE

By Mary MacLane

The sensational book that turned a Montana teenager into a worldwide celebrity. A breathtaking tour de force about life, love, and longing.

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The 2011 Montana Calendar by Michael Sample

Michael Sample Calendar 2008

A Montana Tradition For More Than 30 Years - 50 beautiful new color photos
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