Westwinds Press imprint: 72 books
Tough Men in Hard Places
A Photographic Collection
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2014
The mines in southwestern Colorado were in trouble and needed cheap, reliable electric power to keep running. This is the story of innovative solutions to solve the problem using alternating current electricity and the incredible effort, tenacity, and toughness of the men who overcame formidable obstacles...
by M. John Fayhee
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2014
There is no luckier dog than one that is frolicking in the Colorado High Country. Whether skiing, snowshoeing, hiking, mountain biking, on the river, or on a lofty summit, dogs in the Colorado mountains are the happiest creatures on the planet. Colorado Mountain Dogs captures the joy and rapture of...
Grizzlies On My Mind
Essays of Adventure, Love, and Heartache from Yellowstone Country
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
What is it about Yellowstone National Park that draws millions of visitors from all over the world? If you've visited Yellowstone, you should already know the answer. If you've never visited—or you have, but still don't know the answer—Michael Leach explains it to you in his book of essays, "Grizzlies...
Wind on the Waves
Stories from the Oregon Coast
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
Wind on the Waves is a collection of fifty-two stories that embody the beauty, mystery, and allure of Oregon’s magnificent coast. Written by award-winning author and poet Kim Stafford, these wonderfully written vignettes celebrate the people, towns, wildlife, culture, and natural beauty of one of...
Be Audacious
Inspiring Your Legacy and Living a Life That Matters
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
Advertising: Ingram e-comm, Ingram Advance Health and Wellness issue
Awards: Submitted for PNBA, IndieFab, Hoffer Award, etc.
Blurbs: Targeted blurbs from sports celebrities.
Events: Author signings and presentations across the US, Skype how-tos and webinars.
Materials: Be Audacious bracelets, event...
In the Presence of Buffalo
Working to Stop the Yellowstone Slaughter
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2013
Very few of the 2.5 million people who visit Yellowstone National Park and who are awed by America's only continuously wild and genetically pure bison herd, are aware that over the past decade, state and federal agencies have engaged in the wanton slaughter of 3,500 of these magnificent animals, solely...
by Steven J. Meyers
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2016
As Steven Meyers writes, an odyssey need not involve a long journey, simply a profound one. First drawn to Lime Creek for its fly fishing, this stream serves as Meyers’s muse in seven transcendent essays that explore journeys in the discovery of self, of home, and what it means to be human. The...
Notes from the San Juans
Thoughts about Fly Fishing and Home
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2013
This book, more than anything else, is a book about place. Centered on the San Juan Mountains of southwest Colorado, a range of jagged peaks inhabited by the sometimes equally jagged people of small mountain towns, it is a book about the search for a place to call home, after other homes have been...
by Henry David Thoreau
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2014
Posthumously published in 1864, The Maine Woods depicts Henry David Thoreau’s experiences in the forests of Maine, and expands on the author’s transcendental theories on the relation of humanity to Nature. On Mount Katahdin, he faces a primal, untamed Nature. Katahdin is a place “not even scarred...
The Practical Fly Fisher
Lessons Learned from a Lifetime of Fly Fishing
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2014
Sprinkled in between the fly dressings and tying lessons are hundreds of illustrations drawn by longtime fishing guide Doug Stewart as well as personal stories and anecdotes. These are interesting and informative—each one containing an element of knowledge or instruction that will add to your fishing...
Oregon Festivals
A Guide to Fun, Friends, Food & Frivolity
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2019
This author is well-connected in Oregon and has a large following because of his association with popular fishing publications.
Perennial, year-long opportunities for promotions and events across the state at gift stores and retailers.
Perfect offering for Oregon gift, chain, book, and travel stores.
by Al Marlowe, Karen Christopherson
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2014
The Flat Tops Wilderness Area is unique, a high plateau at 11,000 feet. Its nearly flat surface is covered with woodlands and alpine meadows, pockmarked with hundreds of lakes and drained by mountain streams. The wilderness is accessed by a network of trails for hikers and horseback riders alike....
Hikes Around Fort Collins
A Trail Guide to Urban Hikes, Poudre Canyon, North Park, and Loveland
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2012
Northern Colorado offers an exhilarating blend of recreational activities and beauty from alpine meadows and wild canyons to peaceful forests. There is plenty of room to roam among the thousands of acres of parks and natural areas in Fort Collins, Poudre Canyon, and North Park. Hikes Around Fort Collins...
by Mark D. Williams, Amy Becker Williams
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2018
New Mexico is enjoying record tourism numbers - 33 million visitors a year - primarily from TX, CA, NM, CO, IL, NY, FL, AZ. (Also from Canada, Germany and the U.K.)
Tourists flock New Mexico for outdoor and cultural tourism.
Popular TV shows like Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul are contributing to...