Montana & The West – Bickerstaff Booksellers

Wyoming’s Historic Forts

Kim — Thu, 21 Aug 2025 17:58:59 +0000

Photographs and text weave together many strands of Wyoming’s frontier history in this book. The stories of historic forts that exist to this day–along with those forts now living only in history–include Indians, mountain men, the Pony Express, stagecoaches, wagon trains, the frontier army, railroads, and early “autoists.”

Young Men and Fire

Kim — Thu, 21 Aug 2025 17:58:59 +0000

A devastating and lyrical work of nonfiction, Young Men and Fire describes the events of August 5, 1949, when a crew of fifteen of the US Forest Service’s elite airborne firefighters, the Smokejumpers, stepped into the sky above a remote forest fire in the Montana wilderness. Two hours after their jump, all but three of the men were dead or mortally burned. Haunted by these deaths for forty years, Norman Maclean puts together the scattered pieces of the Mann Gulch tragedy in Young Men and Fire, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award.

Wisdom of the Old Coyote and the Little Fox

Kim — Thu, 21 Aug 2025 17:58:58 +0000

Very Close to Trouble

Kim — Thu, 21 Aug 2025 17:58:57 +0000

Grant was 76 when he dictated his memoirs to Clothild Bruneau Grant, the last in his fairly long line of wives. Meikle has ably edited the manuscript down to focus on his life in the 1850s and ’60s, when Grant galloped across the western Montana frontier, making a name for himself as an early pioneer and trader. Grant’s eyewitness accounts of frontier life, from a stage overturning to the hanging of highwaymen, the Mormon rising of 1857 and the discovery of gold, give readers an absorbing glimpse into his rough-and-ready times. –Copyright 1996 Cahners Business Information, Inc.

Wild Berries of the West

Kim — Thu, 21 Aug 2025 17:58:57 +0000

Wild Berries of the West, a color field guide to the more than 150 berries and fruits of the western United State is indispensable for berry lovers, adventurous cooks, amateur botanists, and students of Native American lore. Learn how to find and identify edible berries and try them in creative and mouth-watering dishes such as juniper berry chicken, huckleberry bread pudding, and groundcherry chutney.

Winter Brothers

Kim — Thu, 21 Aug 2025 17:58:57 +0000

The author of This House of Sky provides a magnificent evocation of the Pacific Northwest through the diaries of James Gilchrist Swan, a settler of the region. Doig fuses parts of the Swan diaries with his own journal.

Wired for Success

Kim — Thu, 21 Aug 2025 17:58:57 +0000

This lavishly illustrated story of technology, people, and commerce describes the Butte, Anaconda & Pacific Railway’s hauling of vast amounts of copper ore from Butte Hill, Montana, westward to smelter operations at Anaconda–a distance of twenty-six miles. Charles V. Mutschler puts the saga in context, whether discussing the labor violence of the 1890s, the role of steam during America’s Gilded Age, or the expansion of highway competition since the 1920s.Founded in 1892 and owned by Anaconda Copper, the BA&P led the way in early twentieth century electrified railroading. In 1912, General Electric was contracted to convert the short line’s operations from steam to electric. The BA&P became a proving ground for railroad electrification and the center of attention for electric-power advocates. In particular, the Milwaukee Road–soon to be a leader in main line electrification–took a very keen interest in the BA&P. For the first time in book-length treatment, Wired for Success delineates the BA&P’s essential role in the development of electric railroads in the United States.

Under the Chinook Arch

Kim — Thu, 21 Aug 2025 17:58:56 +0000

A hot-selling collection of humorous, real-life stories about Montana, from the perspective of a rural veterinarian and rancher.

Until They Bring the Streetcars Back

Kim — Thu, 21 Aug 2025 17:58:56 +0000

1949 St. Paul, MN – that hopeful post-war era where streetcars graced the city, drive-ins bloomed, the internet and shopping centers didn’t exist, and people hadn’t yet fled to the suburbs. Upon this fertile urban landscape, Stanley West has set his rich, profoundly touching novel, the gripping story of young Cal Gant, who, despite the shelter of his idyllic life, his rollicking friends, and the mesmerizing girl he loves, stumbles onto and unthinkable lair of violence, terror and murder. When the haunting Gretchen Luttermannn draws him into a strange and secret lie, he finds himself in a heart-stopping struggle with her brutal father, leading Cal to the brink of self-doubt, terror and death itself, where he must find within himself the backbone and daring to stand against the horror. When he refuses to turn away, the heart-shattering choices he makes and the terrifying path he takes will raise hairs on the back of your neck, leave a catch in your throat and bring your heart to its feet, cheering.

Today I Baled Some Hay to Feed the Sheep the Coyotes Eat

Kim — Thu, 21 Aug 2025 17:58:56 +0000