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Titles	Order
The Birchbark House by Louise Erdrich	YA Fiction, 2000
Dead Man Falls by Paula Boyd	Original Paperback, 2001
For California's Gold: A Novel by Jo Ann Levy	Historical Fiction, 2001
The Horned Toad Prince by Jackie Mims Hopkins	Children’s/Young Adult, 2001
One Degree West: Reflections of a Plainsdaughter by Julene Bair	Memoir/Essay, 2001
The Spirit Woman by Margaret Coel	Contemporary Fiction, 2001
Across the Sweet Grass Hills by Gail L. Jenner	Original Paperback, 2002
Blood Sister, I Am to These Fields by Linda Hussa	Poetry, 2002
Cissy Funk by Kim Taylor	Children’s/Young Adult, 2002
Eye of the Blackbird: A Story of Gold in the American West by H. L. Skinner	Nonfiction, 2002
The Good Journey: A Novel by Micaela Gilchrist	Historical Fiction, 2002
She Flies Without Wings: How Horses Touch a Woman's Soul by Mary D. Midkiff	Memoir/Essay, 2002
This House of Women by Paul Scott Malone	Contemporary Fiction, 2002
Breaking Clean by Judy Blunt	Memoir/Essay, 2003
A Circle of Time by Marisa Montes	Children’s/Young Adult, 2003
Enemy Women by Paulette Jiles	Historical Fiction, 2003
Mary Colter: Architect of the Southwest by Arnold Berke	Nonfiction, 2003
Miracles of Sainted Earth (Mary Burritt Christiansen Poetry Series, 1) by Victoria Edwards Tester	Poetry, 2003
Perma Red by Debra Magpie Earling	Contemporary Fiction, 2003
Small Rocks Rising by Susan Lang	Original Paperback, 2003
All Over Creation by Ruth Ozeki	Contemporary Fiction, 2004
Bold Spirit: Helga Estby's Forgotten Walk Across Victorian America by Linda Hunt	Nonfiction, 2004
Deliverance Valley by Glaydys Smith	Original Softcover, 2004
Original Fire: Selected and New Poems by Louise Erdrich	poetry, 2004
Predators, Prey, and Other Kinfolk : Growing Up in Polygamy by Dorothy Allred Solomon	Memoir/Essay, 2004
Rodzina by Karen Cushman	Children’s/Young Adult, 2004
Silver Lies by Ann Parker	Historical Fiction, 2004
I Am Madagascar by Ellen Waterston	Poetry, 2005
Echoes (Berkley Sensation) by Erin Grady	Original Softcover Fiction, 2005
Into the Canyon: Seven Years in Navajo Country by Lucy Moore	Memoir/Essay, 2005
Isabella Greenway: An Enterprising Woman by Kristie Miller	Nonfiction, 2005
Nothing Here But Stones: A Jewish Pioneer Story by Nancy Oswald	Children’s/Young Adult Fiction & Nonfiction, 2005
The Real Minerva by Mary Sharratt	Contemporary Fiction, 2005
Tombstone Travesty by Jane Candia Coleman	Historical Fiction, 2005
Beasts in Snow: Poetry of the American West by Jane Elkington Wohl	Poetry, 2006
A Heart for Any Fate: Westward to Oregon, 1845 by Linda Crew	Children’s/Young Adult Fiction & Nonfiction, 2006
Impertinences: Selected Writings Of Elia Peattie, A Journalist In The Gilded Age by Elia Peattie	Other Nonfiction, 2006
The Lady Rode Bucking Horses: The Story of Fannie Sperry Steele, Woman of the West by Dee Marvine	Memoir/Essay, 2006
New Mercies by Sandra Dallas	Historical Fiction, 2006
Sky Bridge: A Novel by Laura Pritchett	Contemporary Fiction, 2006
Summer of Fire (Yellowstone series) by Linda Jacobs	Original Softcover Fiction, 2006
The Girl from Charnelle: A Novel (P.S.) by K. L. Cook	Contemporary Fiction, 2007
Hallowed Ground by Lori G. Armstrong	Original Softcover Fiction, 2007
Harvey Girl by Sheila Wood Foard	Children’s/Young Adult Fiction & Nonfiction, 2007
Montana Women Writers: A Geography of the Heart by edited by Caroline Patterson	Creative Nonfiction, 2007
The Night Journal by Elizabeth Crook	Historical Fiction, 2007
Revolutionary Heart: The Life of Clarina Nichols And the Pioneering Crusade for Women's Rights by Diane Eickhoff	Scholarly Nonfiction, 2007
To Sing Along the Way: Minnesota Women Poets from Pre-Territorial Days to the Present (Many Minnesotans Series) by Joyce Sutphen	Poetry, 2007
Deadman's Switch by Barbara Seranella	Contemporary Fiction, 2008
Exiled: From Tragedy to Triumph on the Missouri Frontier by Louise A. Jackson	Children’s/Young Adult Fiction & Nonfiction, 2008
Harpsong by Rilla Askew	Historical Fiction, 2008
Laura Ingalls Wilder : a writer's life by Pamela Smith Hill	Scholarly Nonfiction, 2008
Raven Eye (Sun Tracks) by Margo Tamez	Poetry, 2008
What the Thunder Said: A Novella and Stories by Janet Peery	Contemporary Fiction, 2008
What Wildness Is This: Women Write about the Southwest by Susan Wittig Albert	Creative Nonfiction, 2008
Between Desert Seasons by Ellen Waterston	Poetry, 2009
Buffalo Bill's Defunct: A Latouche County Mystery by Sheila Simonson	Original Softcover Fiction, 2009
Charley's Choice: The Life and Times of Charley Parkhurst by Fern J. Hill	Historical Fiction, 2009
Dreams on the Oregon Trail by Barbara Linsley	Children’s/Young Adult Fiction & Nonfiction, 2009
Full Court Quest: The Girls from Fort Shaw Indian School Basketball Champions of the World by Linda Peavy	Scholarly Nonfiction, 2009
The Last Cowgirl: A Novel by Jana Richman	Contemporary Fiction, 2009
Salt In Our Blood: The Memoir of a Fisherman's Wife by Michele Longo Eder	Creative Nonfiction, 2009
Dorothea Lange: A Life Beyond Limits by Linda Gordon	Scholarly Nonfiction, 2010
A Flickering Light by Jane Kirkpatrick	Original Softcover, 2010
Hellie Jondoe by Randall Platt	Children’s/Young Adult Fiction & Nonfiction, 2010
My Name Is Falon: One Woman's Saga from Scotland to the Texas Frontier by Kim Wiese	Historical Fiction, 2010
No Place Like Home: Notes from a Western Life by Linda M. Hasselstrom	Creative Nonfiction, 2010
Wild Sorrow by Sandi Ault	Contemporary Fiction, 2010
Work Is Love Made Visible: Collected Family Photographs and Poetry by Jeanetta Calhoun Mish	Poetry, 2010
Blood Desert: Witnesses, 1820-1880 (Mary Burritt Christiansen Poetry Series) by Renny Golden	Poetry, 2011
Follow the Dream by Heidi M. Thomas	Children’s/Young Adult Fiction & Nonfiction, 2011
A Force for Change: Beatrice Morrow Cannady and the Struggle for Civil Rights in Oregon, 1912-1936 by Kimberley Mangun	Scholarly Nonfiction, 2011
Light on a Distant Hill: A Novel of the Indian West by Bill J. Scott	Original Softcover Fiction, 2011
Take Me Home: A Novel by Brian Leung	Historical Fiction, 2011
To the Woods: Sinking Roots, Living Lightly, and Finding True Home by Evelyn Searle Hess	Creative Nonfiction, 2011
Unbroken by Jamie Lisa Forbes	Contemporary Fiction, 2011
The American Café by Sara Sue Hoklotubbe	Original Softcover Fiction, 2012
The Bride's House by Sandra Dallas	Historical Fiction, 2012
Married into it by Patricia Frolander	Poetry, 2012
Raising Wrecker: A Novel by Summer Wood	Contemporary Fiction, 2012
Recollecting: Lives of Aboriginal Women of the Canadian Northwest and Borderlands (West Unbound: Social and Cultural Studies) by Sarah Carter	Scholarly Nonfiction, 2012
Rightful Place (Voice in the American West) by Amy Hale Auker	Creative Nonfiction, 2012
The Year We Were Famous by Carole Estby Dagg	Children’s/Young Adult Fiction & Nonfiction, 2012
The Bones and the Book by Jane Isenberg	Original Softcover Fiction, 2013
Kissed by a Fox: And Other Stories of Friendship in Nature by Priscilla Stuckey	Creative Nonfiction, 2013
Liberty’s Christmas by Randall Beth Platt	Children’s/Young Adult Fiction & Nonfiction, 2013
Steam Laundry by Nicole Stellon O'Donnell	Poetry, 2013
Theft: A Novel by BK Loren	Contemporary Fiction, 2013
True Sisters by Sandra Dallas	Historical Fiction, 2013
Women in Wonderland: Lives, Legends, and Legacies of Yellowstone National Park by Elizabeth A. Watry	Scholarly Nonfiction, 2013
Bone Horses : a novel by Lesley Poling-Kempes	Contemporary Fiction, 2014
Dollybird by Anne Lazurko	Historical Fiction, 2014
Gaining Daylight: Life on Two Islands (University of Alaska Press - The Alaska Literary Series) by Sara Loewen	Creative Nonfiction, 2014
Junction, Utah by Rebecca Lawton	Original Softcover Fiction, 2014
Losing the Ring in the River (Mary Burritt Christiansen Poetry) by Marge Saiser	Poetry, 2014
Trail Sisters: Freedwomen in Indian Territory, 1850-1890 (Plains Histories) by Linda W. Reese	Scholarly Nonfiction, 2014
Written in Stone by Rosanne Parry	Children’s/Young Adult Fiction & Nonfiction, 2014
Diary of a Citizen Scientist: Chasing Tiger Beetles and Other New Ways of Engaging the World by Sharman Apt Russell	Creative nonfiction, 2015
A Light in the Wilderness: A Novel by Jane Kirkpatrick	Original softcover fiction, 2015
Point of Direction by Rachel Weaver	Contemporary fiction, 2015
A Quilt for Christmas by Sandra Dallas	Historical fiction, 2015
Searching for Silverheels by Jeannie Mobley	Children's/Young adult fiction and nonfiction, 2015
American Ghost: A Family's Haunted Past in the Desert Southwest by Hannah Nordhaus	Creative nonfiction, 2016
The Bookseller by Cynthia Swanson	Historical fiction, 2016
Firebreak: A Mystery (Josie Gray Mysteries) by Tricia Fields	Contemporary fiction, 2016
Ladies of the Canyons: A League of Extraordinary Women and Their Adventures in the American Southwest by Lesley Poling-Kempes	Scholarly nonfiction, 2016
Report to the Department of the Interior: Poems (Mary Burritt Christiansen Poetry Series) by Diane Glancy	Poetry, 2016
Shadow of the Hawk by KS Jones	Children's/Young Adult Fiction & Nonfiction, 2016
Basque Moon: A Nellie Burns and Moonshine Mystery by Julie Weston	Historical Fiction, 2017
Demimonde by Kierstin Bridger	Poetry, 2017
Fast into the Night: A Woman, Her Dogs, and Their Journey North on the Iditarod Trail by Debbie Clarke Moderow	Creative Nonfiction, 2017
Piano Tide: A Novel by Kathleen Dean Moore	Contemporary Fiction, 2017
Soap Suds Row: The Bold Lives of Army Laundresses 1802-1876 by Jennifer J. Lawrence	Scholarly Nonfiction, 2017
Soldier Sister, Fly Home by Nancy Bo Flood	Children’s/Young Adult Fiction & Nonfiction, 2017
Hidden Ones: A Veil Of Memories by Marcia Fine	Original Softcover Fiction, 2018
Peace Weavers: Uniting the Salish Coast Through Cross-Cultural Marriages by Candace Wellman	Scholarly Nonfiction, 2018
Rock • Tree • Bird by Twyla M. Hansen	Poetry, 2018
Stranded: A Story of Frontier Survival by Matthew P. Mayo	Historical Fiction, 2018
Women artists of the Great Basin by Mary Lee Fulkerson	Creative Nonfiction, 2018
Zetty by Debra Whiting Alexander	Contemporary Fiction, 2018
Beyond the Rebel Girl: Women and the Industrial Workers of the World in the Pacific Northwest, 1905-1924 by Heather Mayer	Scholarly Nonfiction, 2019
The Flicker of Old Dreams by Susan Henderson	Contemporary Fiction, 2019
Hardscrabble by Sandra Dallas	Children's Fiction and Nonfiction, 2019
My Ranch, Too: A Wyoming Memoir by Mary Budd Flitner	Creative Nonfiction, 2019
See Also Proof: A Marjorie Trumaine Mystery by Larry D. Sweazy	Original Softcover (Trade or Mass Market), 2019
The Tragically True Adventures of Kit Donovan by Patricia Bailey	Children's/Young Adult Fiction & Nonfiction, 2019
The Which Way Tree by Elizabeth Crook	Historical Fiction, 2019
I Am a Stranger Here Myself by Debra Gwartney	Creative Nonfiction, 2020
Arequipa Sanatorium: Life in California’s Lung Resort for Women by Lynn Downey	Scholarly Nonfiction, 2020
The Glovemaker by Ann Weisgarber	Historical Fiction, 2020
The Lager Queen of Minnesota by J. Ryan Stradal	Contemporary Fiction, 2020
Professor Renoir’s Collection of Oddities, Curiosities, and Delights by Randall Platt	Young Adult Fiction and Nonfiction, 2020
Someplace to Call Home by Sandra Dallas	Children's Fiction & Nonfiction, 2020

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