Byron Wolfe wasn't the kind of artist who painted the West simply because it sold in the galleries. He painted the West because he loved the drama and color of that chapter of our country's history. His paintings usually relate to some actual event or specific location. Each work is the result of significant research, which becomes a detailed account of an event that took place along some dusty trail or in some forgotten cow town. His work and his unique personality contributed greatly to the western art scene. 
The paintings presented in this collection corral the spectrum of Western Americana, from Indian life and lore to the brashness of early day outlaws; from cowboys and the open plain to sod busters and the advent of barbed wire.

The Sketchbook of Byron B. Wolfe

Arts & Photography

Wolfe, Byron B.

Painting

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When Roderick Turnbull began writing his "Maple Hill Stories," for The Kansas City Star, he thought he'd have enough material for three or four feature stories, but no more. 
 But Turnbull underestimated the wealth of memories he had stored away in his boyhood days in the country town of Maple Hill, Kansas. With a rare memory for the uncanny and telling little details that pull living scenes out of the past, Turnbull created a particularly appealing bit of nostalgic writing that led to scores of stories appearing the the newspaper. 
This is a book with special meaning for those who have shared similar experiences in small towns everywhere. But it's also of significance to a younger generation that remembers nothing before the hard-surface highways. For anyone, it's a means of visiting Home Town, USA, as it existed near the end of one of the most secure eras in American history. With artist Joseph Bohler capturing on canvas, what Turnbull so vividly depicts in words, MORE MAPLE HILL STORIES becomes an old friend of days gone by.

History

Turnbull, Roderick

Americas

This unusual novel is an absorbing tale of the era of Gold in the West - when prospectors found precious metals and their discoveries drew other men westward in the hope of riches and adventure. In episodic form, the author tells the story of a gold mine, the Molly Pitcher, of the men who worked her, and of the women who sustained them. Some of Young's sketches are etched in acid, some are as warmly human as remembered kisses, and each and every one has the fidelity to the life they revolve around - the life of the mine - of the sound of hammer hitting drilling steel.

The Mining Men

Literature & Fiction

Young, Otis E.

Genre Fiction

Featuring the late Bob Scriver's award-winning Rodeo Series of sculpture, AN HONEST TRY, now in its second printing, is evidence of the creative genius that has thrust the Browning, Montana artist into an elite class of master sculptors. Splendidly photographed by renowned photographer Asger Mikklesen, and reproduced in color and sepia tone, the Rodeo Series reflects all the action and nobility of the Western drama called rodeo. To turn the pages of this volume is akin to a whiff of sagebrush and a top seat on the corral fence which sparked an emotional upheaval in Scriver: "I came to see that these rodeo cowboys were real Americans - the last in the tradition of the Old West. They pay their own way - win, lose or draw - asking only for an even break. All they want is 'An Honest Try'."

An Honest Try

Scriver, Bob

Sculpture

Farmland, USA

Hamil, James R.

History of Polled Herefords-America's First Beef Breed

Birth of a Breed:The History of Polled Herefords-America's First Beef Breed (1st Edition)

Engineering & Transportation

Sweet, Orville K.

Engineering

Recounts a year spent observing the elk herds in the Teton mountain country of northwestern Wyoming and discusses the problems currently being encountered in efforts to sustain and perpetuate the herds

Season of the Elk

Krakel, Dean

Photography & Video

RARE INCLUDED: The sterling Arts Council presents pamphlet for this book and EVEN RARER a Self designed Business Card Watercolors by J.R. Hamil Interpreting the American Scene. Sold by Godis333.

Colorado Without Mountains: A High Plains Memoir

Hamil, Harold

His horse gear, a bedroll and a warbag containing a change or two of clothes - these worldly goods were about all the old-time ranch hand could call his own. They were prized possessions, though, and together were usually referred to as "my forty year' gatherins." 
 The stories in this book are Spike Van Cleve's forty years' gatherins - cherished memories of rugged, honest living in the clean air and mountainous rangeland near Big Timber, Montana. 
 Spike was born, raised and lived until he died in this land he called "the prettiest country God ever made . . .heaven can't be any better than this." There, he and his family-like his Dad and Granddad before him-ran the Van Cleve ranch, now a 20,000 acre expanse under the Crazy Mountains in south central Montana. 
 Spike Van Cleve was a natural born storyteller who was educated at Harvard but received his "learning" on the Montana range riding his horses and doing an honest day's work. In this collection of true stories about the land, the people, the horses and the good old times, Spike shifts like the wind, as in his touching story of "Cody and Terry," when the fatal crack of Spike's rifle signals the merciful end to a close partnership between a tearful cowboy and his favorite work horses. This sensitive, poetic story earned Spike Van Cleve a Western Heritage Award from the National Cowboy Hall of Fame.

Forty Years' Gatherin's

Van Cleve, Spike

Tallgrass Prairie: The Inland Sea

Duncan, Patricia D.

Science & Math

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