Award-Winning Books

A graphic novel about Norman Mineta and Alan Simpson, who met as Boy Scouts at the Heart Mountain camp in 1943 and went on to serve in Congress and in presidential cabinets. Illustrated by Marie Okuma Johnston.

Miller’s memoir of growing up on his family’s Wyoming ranch: ice storms and droughts, adventures and misadventures, and the lessons the work taught him as a boy and a young man.

A history of the Heart Mountain Relocation Center in northwest Wyoming, one of ten camps built in 1942 to hold Japanese Americans forced from the West Coast. Put up in sixty days, it briefly became the third-largest city in the state, and the book follows it from construction to the departure of its last residents in November 1945.

Rogers follows the long and shifting relationship between William F. “Buffalo Bill” Cody and the Latter-day Saints, from Cody’s early years in the West to the turn of the century, when he recruited Mormon settlers to build the irrigation works and farms around his namesake town of Cody, Wyoming.

Three homesteaders, a cowboy called Slim and his neighbours Mr. and Mrs. Church, took up ranches along Porcupine Creek in western Weston County. Their arrival led to their deaths, and to the most infamous murders the county has recorded.