Barbara Fifer

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." Coverage reachers from the 19th century to the 21st.

Reproduces a selection of wanted posters and related documents from the collection at the Historical Museum at Fort Missoula, Montana, advertising the crimes of murderers, thieves, cheats, and other lawbreakers of the early 1900s.

This book puts you right with the Corps of Discovery, and helps show what the trip was like for the men, one woman, and the baby who made up the Lewis and Clark Expeditoin of 1803-1806.

Montana's era of "Indian Wars" consisted of nearly a century of skirmishes, battles, and large-scale wars between the U.S. military and native nations. These nations included Blackfeet, Sioux, Northern Cheyennes, Arapahos, Gros Ventres, and Nez Perces-- and the army's Crow and Shoshone allies. The battlegrounds in this book remain today, a testament to the clash of cultures that defined the region in the 19th century.