Catalog Search Results
Author
Pub. Date
2010
Description
Our neighbors warned against our getting involved with bison. So intense was their concern that a delegation came by to visit about it. Earnestly, they explained that they worried that, even if after five years we seemed to have gotten pretty good at the rudiments of managing a ranch, we were getting in over our heads with this buffalo idea. Our first calf was born on Mother's Day of 1996. We had been on our place for eight years, and in spite...
Author
Pub. Date
©2002
Description
"Lost for half a century and never before published, When Montana and I Were Young is the rarest of finds, a remarkable primary account of a child's life in the early part of the twentieth century. Margaret Bell (1888-1982) was a rancher and horse breaker whose memoir tells the story of a frontier childhood on the high plains of Montana and Canada. Hers was not a typical childhood. Like Mari Sandoz in Old Jules, Bell introduces us to a new villain...
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Description
In its day, the famed Kempton Ranch of eastern Montana was one of the largest horse and cattle operations in Montana, selling mounts to armies and polo-playing royalty alike. The Kemptons themselves were a storybook family descended from Mayflower pilgrims, Sioux Indians, and a signer of the Declaration of Independence. Their own exploits make for a larger-than-life Western epic. Meet Joseph Kempton, a whaling ship captain who becomes an early Colorado...
Author
Pub. Date
[2009]
Description
Granville Stuart (1834-1918) is a quintessential Western figure, a man whose adventures rival those of Wyatt Earp, Buffalo Bill, or Sitting Bull, and who embodied many of the contradictions of America's westward expansion. Stuart collected guns, herded cattle, mined for gold, and killed men he thought outlaws. But he also taught himself Shoshone, French, and Spanish, denounced formal religion, married a Shoshone woman, and eventually became a United...
.png)