it encompasses the hikes that every avid hiker must do before or during death.

This book is likely to be the best you can get if you want to know a significant part of the history of the UP in general and about Cheyenne specifically. VERY highly recommended!

Jack Creek Cowboy is an American classic. It is sure to please all ages with the most vivid pictures available in a childrens book. I am Corey the twelve year old in the book. I am now twenty and still have people sit stunned by the beauty of the ranch and the way the book is written. I truely feel that this is a book that all people should buy their kids as it appreciates the life we all lead and the hard work and bonding of a family.

Sincerely, Corey Whitlock 10-30-98

Very useful book, details lots of runs in Jackson Hole that are not on the piste map. Explains difficulty of each run very well. Small enough to carry with you in a ski jacket pocket.

This is a thorough and comprehensive chronological history of the Overland Trail and Union Pacific Railroad from the Laramie area westward past Rawlins, Wyoming. Kinnaman first gives us a brief introduction of the land area, along with the Indians, trappers and explorers who frequented the region up through the 1840's and 1850's. Citing from more diaries, journals, letters, official government documents, books, etc. he then carefully guides us through the establishments of the Overland Stage Stations and life on the Overland Trail itself with its many hardships during the early 1860's. With Fort Halleck as a pivotal point, we then see how the military influenced the region, still with Indian depredations occuring and the perils of existing in those days. The chapters on the railroad making its way through this area are captivating. Again, many Indian hostilities and other occurences too numerous to mention. It is a fascinating read, I had no idea so many events occured in this region. I must disagree though with what I believe is an historical inaccuracy. On page 19 Kinnaman states that when Ashley left the Rawlins area he went north to the Sweetwater River in 1825. According to Dale Morgan's scholarly work, "The West of William Ashley" which is based on Ashley's own diaries, from Bridger's Pass Ashley went west, then just a little north to the Dry Sandy which is a tributary of the Big Sandy, which drains into the Green River. So, he did not go to the Sweetwater. Ashley did go along the Sweetwater River the following year, 1826.

Sensitive, beautiful portrail of real life in Wyoming--- the beauty and sometimes even the harshness. "Settling for more" is settling for the best... I loved it. Senator Alan K. Simpson

Bean's Harry Starbranch is as funny as Harlan Coben, as slick as Robert Crais, and as colorful as James Lee Burke! What a pleasant suprise! Great Wyoming color fills the sky as Harry goes beyond the call of duty to protect Victory. A "two-thumbs up mystery which will keep you reading through the nicest first class compartment of any airline! If mystery is your genre, this is a must read

John D. Nesbitt is one amazing writer! His protagonist Owen Felver is an honest man, kind and thoughtful.The story unfolds with grace and ease. I haven't read to many books like this, where I would forget I was reading at times. Very vivid, with a clarity that is hard to believe. If you only read one western this year, this is it. Outstanding!

Dane Coolidge's writing was masterful in it's depiction of the Old West. This is no stale cliche riddled story about gunslingers or a land war that takes place in the literary equivelent of one of those generic false-fronts and soundstage towns in bad B-Western films. Coolidge's writing brings the Wyoming of this period to life in all of it's detail, big and small, the beauty and the grit and grime.

Othniel Charles Marsh died in the last year of the nineteenth century. The names coined by Marsh for his dinosaur discoveries are better known than his own: Brontosaurus, Apatosaurus, Stegosaurus, and Triceratops, to name just a few. Before death intervened, Marsh had planned a series of richly illustrated monographs. The illustrations were prepared, but the monographs on the Sauropoda and Stegosauria were never written.

In 1966, the beautiful but all-but-forgotten illustrations were unveiled by John Ostrom and John McIntosh in the book Marsh's Dinosaurs. Now this wonderful book is again available, with a new introduction by Peter Dodson, and an updated history including the exploration and research that have taken place during the thirty-plus years since the book was originally published.

Marsh's Dinosaurs is not your garden variety dinosaur book. There are no color plates or discussions of the latest controversies. This book focuses on the fossilized bones of dinosaurs that lived near the end of the Jurassic period in North America, and which were discovered in spectacular abundance at a place called Como Bluff, which paleontologist Robert Bakker calls "the Real Jurassic Park."

If you want to see what Stegosaurus plates look like, or the vertebrae of Apatosaurus, the bones are here, with detail that few photographs can capture. Here, too, is the large camarasaurid cranium that Marsh selected as the skull for Brontosaurus. Except for trace fossils such as trackways and a few skin impressions, our notions of what the dinosaurs looked like and how they lived are built on bones, and the bones are here to behold. For anyone whose interest in dinosaurs has gone beyond the popular summary, and who wants to go further than plaster and resin restorations in museum displays, this book is for you.

The illustrations are preceded by a history of the discovery and working of this paleontological gold mine. This section of the book includes watercolors by Arthur Lakes, whose sketches, diaries, and correspondence with Professor Marsh provide an eyewitness account of the thrill of discovery at Como Bluff, as well as the hardships involved, and the inevitable conflicts of the colorful personalities.

For those with an interest in art, the charming watercolors of Lakes provide an interesting counterpoint to the magnificent lithographs. Here we have the human history of discovering dinosaurs, over one hundred years ago, and the history of the dinosaurs themselves, over one hundred million years ago.

I heartily recommend this book to the dinosaur enthusiast. But for those of us with a passion for the denizens of the Jurassic Morrison Formation, this book is a necessity!