Our Books
We publish a number of our own books and periodicals to help keep the stories of Wyoming alive. Everything still in print is sold through our own store. Feel free to inquire about any titles that are listed as Out of Stock and we'd be happy to provide any additional information that we have.
NewThe Heartbeat of Mother Earth: Pow-Wow Dancers of the Wind River
Published July 2026
A collaboration between the photographer Jeb Schenck and the dancer and educator George Abeyta, made on and around Wyoming’s Wind River Reservation. Photographs taken during live celebrations run alongside oral histories told by the dancers themselves.
It moves through the dances one at a time, from the Jingle Dress to the Men’s Traditional, and is offered as an invitation: a bridge between generations, and between the reservation and its non-native neighbours.
Rails to Trails Along the Sweetwater: Rawlins to Ft. Washakie Stage and Freight Line 1878–1906
Published September 2025
From 1878 to 1906 a 124-mile stage and freight line ran from Rawlins to Fort Washakie, carrying mail, supplies and passengers, with stations at Belle Springs, Lost Soldier and Crooks Gap along the way.
Randy Tucker works from historic newspapers, rare photographs and his own research to follow the freighters, settlers, Native families and travellers who kept the line running, and the arrival of the Chicago and North Western Railroad in 1906 that ended it.
Locating the Iron Trail
Published January 2015
Originally published in 1925 by the Christopher Publishing House and reprinted in 2015 by the Society.
The reprint has sold through. Copies turn up in Wyoming libraries and secondhand.
Out of print
Murder on the Plains: The Killing of “Diamond L Slim” Clifton
2025 · 2nd Place, Non-Fiction
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.
Wyoming History in Art
The Society and its fundraising arm, the Wyoming Historical Foundation, have published a full color book featuring thirty paintings of important people and events in Wyoming history done by the late artist Dave Paulley, each with a full original narrative by Dr. Jeremy Johnston, author and historian.
The original paintings were created in celebration of Wyoming’s Centennial, and are held by the American Heritage Center. A limited number of these books have been printed.