Bell, Laura
Summary: 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. By turns cattle rancher, forest ranger, outfitter, masseuse, wife and mother, Bell vividly recounts her struggle to find solid earth in which to put down roots.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BELL, LAURA BELFuller, Alexandra
Summary: Colton H. Bryant loves Wyoming and loves life. Mind over matter, he always says--"If you don't mind, it don't matter." And so, like his father and his father's father before him, he gets a dangerous job on the oil rig when he's old enough. He always said he'd die young, anyway.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2008
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 622.3382 FULSummary: Revisits the much-publicized case of Matthew Shepard, the young man tortured and killed in 1998 in Laramie, Wyoming for being gay. Family and friends recount Shepard's life and the circumstances surrounding his murder.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC MATProulx, Annie.
Summary: "Bird Cloud" is the name the author gave to 640 acres of Wyoming wetlands and prairie and four hundred foot cliffs plunging down to the North Platte River. On the day she first visited, a cloud in the shape of a bird hung in the evening sky. She also saw pelicans, bald eagles, golden eagles, great blue herons, ravens, scores of bluebirds, harriers, kestrels, elk, deer and a dozen antelope. She...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2011
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC PROSummary: Two retired, down-on-their luck outlaws pick up their guns one last time to collect a bounty offered by the vengeful prostitutes of the remote Wyoming town of Big Whiskey.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2002
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1 available in Western DVDs, Call number: DVD WESTERN UNFCollier, Gaydell M.
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Publisher / Publication Date: High Plains Press 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 978.795 COLJohnstone, William W.
Summary: "Founded in 1866, the Frontier Overland Company was no ordinary stagecoach operation. Two kindred souls with the same fighting spirit, Tucker Cobb and former Texas Ranger Butch Keeling agreed to launch a business together: a brand-new stagecoach line through the wilds of Wyoming . . . They called it the Frontier Overland Company. And a legend was born. Cobb and Keeling knew it wouldn't be easy....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2024
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: "Yellowstone is no ordinary wilderness, it is the world's first national park, a lost world of vast plains and endless forests defended on all sides by towering mountains, home to America's last great bison herds, the grizzly bear and realm of the wolf ... Join the charismatic cast of Yellowstone's wildlife as they turn to face the extreme challenges of the seasons ... The daily struggles of...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: BBC Worldwide 2009
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD YELKerasote, Ted.
Summary: Describes how the author adopted a dog living on its own in the wild and his decision to install a dog door in his house so that the dog could live both inside and outside, in a study of the human-dog partnership and animal consciousness and behavior.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2007
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 636.7092 KERStewart, Elinore Pruitt
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 1988
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 978.7 STENystrom, Andrew Dean
Summary: "Yellowstone and Grand Teton National Parks offer the ultimate in natural and geothermal wonders. Don't miss the area's backcountry lakes, panoramic summits, glacier-carved canyons, steaming geyser basins, and vast meadows teeming with wildlife. This is your guide to 46 of the parks' must-do hiking trips featuring everything from Old Faithful to Jackson Hole."--Back cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wilderness Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 917.87 NYSJones, Lisa
Summary: "Broken" entwines the story of writer Lisa Jones with that of quadriplegic healer Stanford Addison, a Northern Arapaho on the Wind River Indian Reservation, while also exploring powerful spirits, material poverty, spiritual wealth, friendship, violence, confusion, death, and above all else,"a love that comes before and after and above and below romantic love."
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 JONES, LISA JONKane, Brian M.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Flesk Publications 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 702 BAMA KANKerasote, Ted.
Summary: Describes how the author adopted a dog living on its own in the wild and his decision to install a dog door in his house so that the dog could live both inside and outside, in a study of the human-dog partnership and animal consciousness and behavior.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Tantor Audio 2007
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 636.7092 KERPearson, Bradford
Summary: A painstakingly researched account details the tragic and triumphant story of the Eagles, a high school football team from Cody, Wyoming's World War II Japanese-American incarceration camp.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.53 PEACopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.53 PEAStockton, Shreve.
Summary: "When photographer-writer Shreve Stockton decided to move back to New York from San Francisco, she decided to make the trip on her Vespa. When she reached Wyoming, captivated by the Bighorn Mountains and the wide-open spaces, she found herself a log cabin in Ten Sleep--population 300. Shreve took to the rules of the land, where time is of a different essence, nature is both livelihood and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 636.977 STOTieck, Sarah
Summary: Presents basic information about Wyoming, including important cities, fun facts, and places of interest.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Big Buddy Books, an imprint of Abdo Publishing 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 978.7 TIEWhite, Linda Arms.
Summary: In 1869, a woman whose "can-do" attitude had shaped her life was instrumental in making Wyoming the first state to allow women to vote, then became the first woman to hold public office in the United States.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus Giroux 2005
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J America WhiteCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Stacks, Call number: JB MOR WHISummary: A richly textured and visually stunning film, follows Buck Brannaman from his abusive childhood to his phenomenally successful approach to horses. A real-life 'horse-whisperer', he eschews the violence of his upbringing and teaches people to communicate with their horses through leadership and sensitivity, not punishment. Buck possesses near magical abilities as he dramatically transforms...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: IFC Films 2011
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD BUCCopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC BUCFishbein, Seymour L.
Summary: The author delves into all the wonders of Yellowstone country.
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Publisher / Publication Date: National Geographic Society 1989
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 917.8752 FISShepard, Judy.
Summary: The mother of Matthew Shepard shares her story about her son's death and the choice she made to become an international gay rights activist. Today, the name Matthew Shepard is synonymous with gay rights, but before his grisly murder in 1998, Matthew was simply her son. It not only captures the historical significance and civil rights issues, but it also chronicles one ordinary woman's struggle...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hudson Street Press 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.1523 SHETurner, Jack
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 508.7875 TURWallace, Audra
Summary: Wyoming is known for its cowboy culture and wide-open plains. It’s a place where animals roam free and the frontier spirit lives on. Readers will explore this Western state’s remarkable sights and meet its people as they learn about Wyoming history, culture, and more.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Children's Press, an imprint of Scholastic Inc. 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 978.7 WALJohnstone, William W.
Summary: Heart of the Mountain man - Smoke Jenson and Big Jim Slaughter go head to head in a fiery clash of courage, fury and guns.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kensington Publishing Corp. 0000