Pronghorn Press

Author Ellen Osborn gives us a unique history of El Dorado County, California, beginning with the early days of the gold rush and the first conflicts with the Native American tribes of the region...

Author: Aaron WickelPublisher: Pronghorn PressPublication Date: Sep 25, 2021Number of Pages: 334 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1941052576ISBN-13: 9781941052570

Frequently Forgetting Fun we Fail to Find Favorable Fortune in Each Event, Easily Eliminating Ecstacy. This Tome Tries To Tactfully Testify To the Necessity of Neatly Nurturing Novel Natural...

Peopled with unforgettable characters, Beloved is a feast of a novel that sweeps the reader away to the opulent world of eighteenth century France where Christina DiClementi, daughter of an Italian...

After 14 years living in Alaska, the author presents us with a cache of 15 intriguing stories from the solitude of America's northernmost state. The fictional characters that people this book each...

Author: Jamie Lisa ForbesPublisher: Pronghorn PressPublication Date: May 22, 2020Number of Pages: 292 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1941052371ISBN-13: 9781941052372

A narrative history of the settlement of the Hoback Basin in western Wyoming, and peppered with historic photographs, Jensen's book is filled with fascinating and unusual characters whose life...

HOME RANGE offers a view northwestern Wyoming as seen through the eyes of an artist who describes for us the smells, colors and textures of landscape. The distances between towns in the region are...

John A. Thompson was born Norway in 1827. His family emigrated to the U.S. just ten years later and by 1851 John was a young man, ready to try his luck in the gold fields of California. While he...

In 1996 retired champion bull rider Abe Morris was settled in his community, career and ready to meet someone with whom he could share his life. That's what he prayed for. And then he met Lorena. He...

This is the story of the Wyoming Tie Hacks who hand cut railroad ties in the first half of the 20th century, sending them down from the mountains via flume and river to supply more than ten million...

Reading the history of California and the gold rush, one continually encounters historic discrepancies and contradictions, especially about the character and ability of Peter Lassen, a prominent...

Winner of the Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers Contest, Mariano's Crossing will transport readers to the early days of settlement in the Colorado Rockies. Mariano Medina, former mountain man and friend...

Author: David M. JessupPublisher: Pronghorn PressPublication Date: Jul 04, 2020Number of Pages: 256 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1941052401ISBN-13: 9781941052402

This prequel to the award winning novel MARIANO'S CROSSING tells the story of the earlier life of Mariano Medina as he discovers the source of the overwhelming fear of conflict that has plagued him...

Wyoming's Chief Game Warden, Jay Lawson, has chronicled the life histories of some of the most colorful outdoor men and women of early 20th Century Wyoming, including trappers, cowboys, forest...

If you've ever watched a bull rider desperately hang on to the back of a bull till the buzzer sounds or shaken your head in amazement as a cowboy picks himself off the ground after being tossed...

A collection of recipes from an experienced camp cook, perfected over years of providing delicious meals for travelers and hunters. Though the recipes are for food cooked in cast iron over hot coals...

Having lost his wife, Isaac Roop left his children with friends and family in Ohio and followed his brother Josiah west to California via ship and the arduous crossing of the Isthmus of Panama. By...

The Hole in the Wall country of Wyoming's Bighorn Mountains is well known to history buffs steeped in Butch Cassidy lore, but for millennia it's been a crossroads for all kinds of people. The name...

Thirty years of browbeating from rancher Bud Smalls has penned his wife, Leah, into emotional isolation. Now Bud is gone and Leah owns the ranch, but there is no help forthcoming from Bud's brothers...

This is the history of the Two Dot, at one time recognized by many as the largest ranch in the world. So begins the story of a unique part of the vast landscape of the state of Wyoming, a privately...

In the '50s the Army Corps of Engineers built a dam in North Dakota, creating the third largest man-made lake in the country. There were casualties as towns disappeared under rising waters, forcing...