Wolf Willow: A History, a Story, and a Memory of the Last Plains Frontier (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics)9 reviews Wallace Stegner Penguin Classics, 2000 Vividly told account of the Canadian frontier + Almost shockingly good + wistful retrospective + Growing up on the northern plains.             Contrabando: Confessions of a Drug-Smuggling Texas Cowboy8 reviews Don Henry Ford Jr. Harper Paperbacks, 2006 This is a true account + A Fascinating Read + Excellent Read! + outstanding and informative.             The Woman Who Watches Over the World: A Native Memoir16 reviews Linda Hogan W. W. Norton & Company, 2002 History, Healing and Survival + They did not teach this is high school + Very theraputic + Book Review             Desert Solitaire121 reviews Edward Abbey Ballantine Books, 1985 Not just desert love + I now understand why this is considered a "Nature Classic". + Must reading + Fantastic Book + A classic...             The Solace of Open Spaces22 reviews Gretel Ehrlich Penguin (Non-Classics), 1986 A chiseled paean to the high plains of Wyoming + Drifter's Escape + Surprises Outsiders (Easterners, city types) are generally disoriented by Wyoming upon first encountering it. 99% of them probably equate the place with the far side of the moon and hope they never have to return. Ehrlich is one of the remaining 1% who came to Wyoming from "outside" and fell in love with it ...             The Last Cheater's Waltz: Beauty and Violence in the Desert Southwest8 reviews Ellen Meloy University of Arizona Press, 2000 Irony, humor and compassion + A quirky naturalist revisits the splitting of the atom + Untitled + Buy this amazing Book!             The Stars, the Snow, the Fire: Twenty-Five Years in the Alaska Wilderness8 reviews John A. Haines Graywolf Press, 2000 Essays by a poet homesteading in the Alaskan wilderness. . . + exquisite language + This book is prose at its best! + As poetic as essays can get.             Some Horses: Essays14 reviews Thomas Mcguane Vintage, 2000 From the Library of Literary Oddities + The next best thing to actually riding a cutting horse + Not just for horse lovers + What a pleasure... + Worthy choice for horse owners             This House of Sky: Landscapes of a Western Mind28 reviews Ivan Doig Harvest Books, 1980 Great American literature + A wonderful memoir of growing up in Montana + An Incredible Classic Masterpiece + heavyreader + Beautiful             Sketches from the Ranch: A Montana Memoir6 reviews Dan Aadland The Lyons Press, 2004 The year's round of seasons on a Montana ranch + An engaging compilation of the thoughtful writings + A moving memoir + An intimate and engaging view into ranching life + Another excellent book on western life by Dan Aadland.             Losing Matt Shepard17 reviews Beth Loffreda Columbia University Press, 2001 Reclaiming Laramie + Still relevant almost ten years later + A lot of things found... + Author Missed Matthew Shepard             The Big Sky Reader: A Treasury of the Best Writing from Big Sky Journal2 reviews Thomas Dunne Books, 1998 Incredible!! + Selections from a literary Field and Stream The best collection of writing about the West I have ever read!             The Backbone of the World: A Portrait of the Vanishing West Along the Continental Divide15 reviews Frank Clifford Broadway, 2003 The dark side: insightful and honest + Never Seen the Spring Hit the Great Divide... + Grandiose title becomes worthwhile read... + I wonder what Edward Abbey would think.... + This is a goodun             Of Chiles, Cacti, and Fighting Cocks: Notes On The American West3 reviews Frederick W. Turner Fulcrum Publishing, 2004 A traveler in the American Southwest + Five stars just for spelling "chiles" right + Reprint is well-done! As of this writing, this well written collection of essays seems to be out of print, and it shouldn't be. Turner has a sharp eye for detail and an ability to craft personal experience and an encyclopedic scale of information into engaging reading on subjects as varied as saguaro cactuses, chili con ...             Indian Creek Chronicles: A Winter Alone in the Wilderness38 reviews Pete Fromm St. Martin's Griffin, 1994 Indian Creek Chronicles + Indian Creek Chronicles + I hope you like snow + Enjoyable reading... + A great adventure painted vividly & honestly...........             Where Rivers Change Direction42 reviews Mark Spragg Riverhead Trade, 2000 more than five stars + Loneliness and Abandonment + So Well Drawn + Horses' Hearts + Good writing but I don't "get" where the author's coming from             The Best of the West: Anthology of Classic Writing From the American West, An4 reviews Tony Hillerman Harper Paperbacks, 1992 First-hand tales of the Wild Wild West! + A Great Read + A bedside Western reader. . . + A great way to read history!             Lasso the Wind: Away to the New West13 reviews Timothy Egan, Timothy P. Egan Vintage, 1999 A journalist's view of the West, both jaundiced and hopeful + "Embracing the possible" in the West + A new natural history + Egan gets to the point.             Breaking Clean53 reviews Judy Blunt Knopf, 2002 Educational, insightful, entertaining + Gripping and compelling + Breaking Clean + Great Read + What a great read.             Broken Country: Mountains and Memory2 reviews C. L. Rawlins Henry Holt & Co, 1996 Chief cook and horse wrangler: a summer memoir If spending two summer months in the western mountains of Wyoming herding sheep sounds like your idea of fun, think again. C. L. Rawlins' day-by-day reminiscences based on a journal he kept in 1973 as cook and horse wrangler for a sheepherder makes no bones about it -- the scenery may be ...