Art Books

East of Yellowstone
Geology of Clarks Fork Valley and the Nearby Beartooth and Absaroka Mountains
by Bob Carson

East of Yellowstone invites the curious into the dramatic geologic beauty of the Clarks Fork Valley just east of the world’s first national park. Guided by geologist and professor Bob Carson, explore one of the most fascinating natural theaters in the world and interpret the fascinating geologic story of the terrain east of Yellowstone National Park, including the nearby Beartooths, Absarokas and Bighorn Basin of Wyoming and Montana. Five road logs steer readers over the Beartooth and Chief Joseph highways and adjoining roads to vistas of rugged mountains and scenic valleys. As the mileposts tick past, the remarkable history behind the enigmatic Heart Mountain detachment, Absaroka volcanics and Pleistocene glaciation unfolds. Full-color maps and an amazing collection of photographs enhance this story of the ages.

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Nonfiction. 184 pages, 11" x 8.5" softcover, road logs, bibliographic references, full color with 138 illustrations including photos and maps

ISBN 978-1-879628-38-0
$25

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Boots 'n' Beans
an art book "full of BEANS"
by Boots Reynolds

A one-of-a-kind collector's item, "Boots 'n' Beans" features more than 50 of Boots Reynolds' humorous Western paintings of the cowboy life. After living as a bronc rider, roper, horse trainer and rodeo clown, Boots rediscovered his youthful talent for drawing and painting in the '70s. He became a featured artist for Leanin' Tree, which has sold millions of greeting cards with his humorous illustrations. This, his first book, combines the best of his paintings with the "stories behind the art," plus vignettes of the 30-plus Westerners who have provided their original bean recipes. Packed with colorful artwork, insightful writing on cowboy lore and tasty recipes, "Boots 'n' Beans" is an art book "full of BEANS."

"This is a book of bean recipes, not a cookbook," proclaims Boots, whose chief tool in the kitchen is a can opener. Luckily, he gets plenty of help from a couple dozen bona fide Western cooks. For this book he recruited favorite bean dishes from a passel of genuine cowboy chuck wagon cooks, governors from half a dozen Western states, fellow cartoonists, the family of country artist Reba McEntire and First Lady Laura Bush – among others.

But there's just as much Boots as beans in this book. One of the premier Western humor artists and a featured Leanin' Tree illustrator for more than 26 years, Boots' consummate talent is in transforming the routine and mundane of cowboy culture into something hilarious. Combining a couple decades of the best Boots Reynolds artwork, along with the often-hilarious stories behind them, "Boots 'n' Beans" is a tip of the ladle to "the food that won the West."

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Nonfiction. 120 pages, 11"x8.5", hardcover with dust jacket, full color
More than 50 illustrations
ISNB 978-1-879628-29-8
$34
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Where the Great River Bends
A natural and human history of the Columbia at Wallula
edited by Robert J. Carson

A remarkable place where geography has defined history, Wallula Gap is that narrowing of the mighty Columbia River halfway between the Rocky Mountains and the Pacific Ocean. In this book, Bob Carson and his colleagues tell a fascinating story – of a striking land where the forces of geology worked on a spectacular scale, of a desert oasis where Native Americans, explorers, fur traders, promoters and entrepreneurs, and modern-day agriculturalists and wind farmers have all made their mark. Through the prism of Wallula, the historic gateway to the Columbia Plateau, readers learn much about the region.

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Nonfiction. 240 pages, 11"x8.5" softcover, 264 illustrations including historic photographs and paintings, index, road log and bibliographic references

ISBN 978-1-879628-32-8
$35
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