Farcountry Incorporated imprint: 23 books
Who Pooped in the Sonoran Desert?
Scat and Tracks for Kids
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2015
Watch where you step! Sometimes the animals in the Sonoran Desert are hard to find, but you can almost always find their poop! Come along with Michael, Emily, and their family as they find poop (scat) and footprints (tracks) and discover which animal made them!An ideal tool for teaching children ages...
Bad Boys of the Black Hills
...and Some Wild Women, Too
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2015
The lively romp details some of the Wild West's most engaging stories, specifically in the Black Hills and Deadwood, home to prostitutes and poets, desperadoes and dancehall girls, fortune tellers and fugitives. Readers will meet a host of rowdies ranging from madams to stagecoach robbers, from tall-tale tellers to killers.
Montana Women Homesteaders
A Field of One's Own
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2013
In Montana Women Homesteaders: A Field of One's Own, Sarah Carter introduces the voices and images of women who filed on 160- or 320-acre homestead plots in Montana. Single, widowed, divorced, or deserted, women varied in ages, educational levels, and ethnic backgrounds, but all "proved up" on their...
Then and Now
Thirty-six Years in the Rockies, 1864-1900
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2012
One of the best first-person accounts of 19th-century frontier life in Montana. First published in 1900, Vaughan's account is a series of letters to his daughter. Contemporary historian Dave Walter adds a new introduction that sets the scene and fills in what readers need to know to appreciate Vaughan's experiences.
Bedside Book of Bad Girls
Outlaw Women of the American West
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2012
Meet Kate Bender, who brutally murdered as many as thirty people in Kansas, including children, and buried them in her family's orchard; Laura Bullion, the only woman to participate in a Wild Bunch train robbery; and Madam Vestal, a one-time Confederate spy who organized the famous Deadwood stagecoach...
Upstairs Girls
Prostitution in the American West
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2012
Prostitutes make up one of the most engaging chapters in the story of the American West. Upstairs Girls opens a window on the lives of these women for hire.Historian Michael Rutter offers a thorough and fascinating history of prostitution in the West, with details on why women turned to this profession...
Confessions of a Camo Queen
Living with an Outdoorsman
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2015
Does your man's interior design sense involve dead animals? Is your fridge stocked with styrofoam cups of earthworms, deer glands in plastic sandwich bags, and whole dead birds? Does he keep a can of elk estrus spray next to his deodorant? Congratulations, you're in love with an outdoorsman! You are...
Unabomber
The Secret Life of Ted Kaczynski
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2014
Author Chris Waits was Ted Kaczynski's friend and neighbor in the Montana mountains for 25 years. ABC News called Waits the "Man who knew him best." That unique knowledge cast Waits as a key figure in the FBI's relentless investigation, a role that provided the author with volumes of Kaczynski's personal...
by Jessica Solberg
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2013
The unbearably cute cubs in Black Bear Babies! romp and play through the pages of this adorable board book by respected wildlife photographer Donald M. Jones. Charming rhymes accompany the beautiful color images of baby bears at play in the wild. A great tool for introducing kids to these remarkable creatures, the book is sure to be a bedtime favorite.
Tasting Kentucky
Favorite Recipes from the Bluegrass State
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2017
Tasting Kentucky: Favorite Recipes from the Bluegrass State showcases Kentucky’s exuberant cuisine, from classic barbecue, Hot Browns, and catfish with beer cheese grits, to innovative fusions of regional and global flavors. Mouth-watering photographs complement 102 recipes both simple and sumptuous...
by Alan Leftridge
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2014
The Best of Yellowstone National Park reveals the best things to see and do in the world's first national park, from the best day hikes and scenic drives to the best places to see wildlife and wildflowers. Former National Park Service ranger Alan Leftridge guides the reader through all the superlatives...
Boudoirs to Brothels
the Intimate World of Wild West Women
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2015
From boudoirs to brothels, historian Michael Rutter takes you into the intimate world of the Wild West's women of the night. Eighteen richly researched biographies reveal the tricks and torments of the trade, with fascinating sidebars on venereal diseases (and dire "cures"), children of prostitutes, a floating brothel, and hog ranches.
Adirondack Outlaws
Bad Boys and Lawless Ladies
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
Local author and historian Niki Kourofsky exposes the North Country’s shadowy past of crime and dark deeds. Her wry, lively storytelling puts readers right in the thick of shootouts, jewel heists, bank robberies, manhunts, and unsolved murders. Spanning eight decades of Adirondack history and ranging...
Wanted!
Wanted Posters of the Old West
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2014
This rare collection of wanted posters from the American West is a historical treasure. The book's nearly 150 original wanted posters, fugitive notices, and Pinkerton Agency circulars are supplemented by fascinated details about the technology of identification, the history of wanted posters, and the...
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