Travel Reference
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Murray, Robert A. The Bozeman Trail: Highway of History. Boulder, CO: Pruett Publish-
ing, 1988. A short but meaty volume on the bloodiest settler route of them all.
Russell, Don. The Lives and Legends of Buffalo Bill. Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma
Press, 1979. When it comes to biographies of the legendary figure, this is the bible.
Trenholm, Virginia Cole. The Arapahoes, Our People. Norman, OK: University of Ok-
lahoma Press, 1986. First published in 1970, this compelling history of the Arapaho tribe
follows their ways of life from prehistoric Minnesota and Canada through the 20th cen-
tury in Montana, Wyoming, and Oklahoma.
Urbanek, Mae Bobb. Wyoming Place Names. Missoula, MT: Mountain Press Publishing,
1988. The best guide for those who want to know the stories behind names like Bessemer
Bend and Tensleep Canyon.
Literature
Ehrlich, Gretel. A Match to the Heart: One Woman's Story of Being Struck by Lightning.
New York: Penguin, 1995. Another masterpiece from Ehrlich, this one a memoir about
her near death and subsequent reawakening.
Ehrlich, Gretel. The Solace of Open Spaces. New York: Viking Penguin, 1985. Arriving in
Wyoming to work on a PBS film in 1976, Gretel Ehrlich could barely extricate herself
from the independent and hard-won life she created for herself there. This collection of
essays is one of the best ever written about Wyoming's landscape, people, and culture.
Proulx, E. Annie. Close Range: Wyoming Stories. New York: Scribner, 2000. Pulitzer Prize-
winning Proulx is among the state's best-known writers, and for good reason. The tales
are dark and the landscape unforgiving, but the characters in this collection are sublime.
Spragg, Mark: Where Rivers Change Direction. New York: Riverhead Books, 2000. A pro-
foundly compelling memoir by one of Wyoming's most beloved contemporary authors.
Twain, Mark. Roughing It. Mineola, NY: Dover, 2013. Published originally in 1872, this
nearly 900-page work is an account of Twain's six years in the wild, woolly West.
Wister, Owen. The Virginian. Mineola, NY: Dover, 2006. This classic 1902 novel put
Wyoming on the map.
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