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Ellen Carney's West

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      Award-winning author Ellen Carney, born and reared in a small Idaho town, has visited nearly all the states in the U.S. and lived in most of those in the West.  She received a bachelor’s degree from the University of Arizona, and a master’s from the University of Utah.  A revered newspaper columnist and author, her 14 books, mostly historical, reflect her deep love of the West. Ellen’s books have won state and national awards. Carney has sold nearly 12,000 copies of Ellis Kackley: Best Damn Doctor in the West.


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 $22.50 
Ellis Kackley: Best Damn Doctor in the West
(Biographical novel set in the late 1880's and turn of the 20th century) 348 pages 
"A compelling portrait of a courageous physician who became what all of us in the healing arts should be." –Jeffrey S. Job, MD
Paperback 978-0-9673432-3-5
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$20.00
Stepping Stones to the City Beautiful
(Historical novel set in the 1880's) 330 pages
The Harris's clandestinely leave the East in search of a new life out West, facing challenges that test their family's soul.
Paperback 978-0996185097


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$22.50 
Mother George: The Midwife Who Shocked Grays Lake 
A page-turning historical novel based by guest author Lee Cantwell on the life of a beloved black midwife who delivered many children both black and white in southeastern Idaho during and after the gold rush on Caribou Mountain in that state. When Mother George died and they were dressing her for burial, they found out she was a man. 358 pages
                        "I could not put this book down." ––Author Ellen Carney
Paperback  978-1-6092101-0-6  

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$20.00
Evan Kackley: Carrying on the Tradition                                                 
(Biography set in the early to mid 20th century) 275 pages
This continuation of the father's book Ellis Kackley could very well be called "Evan Kackley: That Son-of-the-Best Damn Doctor in the West."
Paperback 978-1-6092109-0-8  
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$15.00
Mavericks in Calico (Volume 1): They Rewrote Woman's Role
(Non-fiction set in the late 19th and early 20th centuries) 189 pages
Stories of 15 daring women of spunk who defied tradition as they set their feet along paths where women were not to tread.
Paperback 978-0-9636479-4-8    
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$15.00
Mavericks in Calico (Volume 2): Powerful Mormon Women           
(Non-fiction set in the late 19th and early 20th centuries) 193 pages
Stories of 10 women living with the fear of murder, rape, and plunder while expanding women's roles in a gender-prejudiced world. 
Paperback 978-0-9636479-5-5 
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River of Beaver Stream of Gold                                                                 
(Historical novel) 156 pages 
Did trapper and explorer Jules DeFoe come west in 1789, fifteen years before Lewis and Clark, and find Spaniards mining gold in Idaho as a thirteen page alleged diary excerpt records? He might have!  
Paperback 978-0-9636479-1-7   

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Historic Soda Springs: Oasis on the Oregon Trail                        
(Non-Fiction) 393 pages
Read about this unusual area where many historical events occurred.
Paperback 978-09636479-3-1 
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 $20.00
The Mountain Carriboo and Other Gold Camps in Idaho                      
(Non-fiction set in 1870's. Co-authored with Elaine S. Johnson) 238 pages
A gold strike at Carriboo Mountain brought mining to Southeast Idaho. One of Idaho's Centennial books.

Paperback​ 978-0-9961850-8-0   
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$15.00
Edie
(A great love story and biography set in the 20th century) 268 pages
A remarkable woman and her husband learn to deal with severe adversity and set an inspirational example for others.
Paperback 978-0-9636479-6-2  
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$20.00
John Gray: Most Spirited of Mountain Men
(Biography) 226 pages
The story of the Scotch-Iroquois fur trapper credited with discovery of Grays Lake Valley, Gray's Lake Marsh, Gray's River. He trapped in the Snake River area. Brigades with American fur companies. 
Paperback 978-0-9793445-5-8 

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$15.00
Prepared, not Scared
(Non-fiction) 202 pages
Gives tips on making your family plan and 72 hour kit. Lists basic emergencies one might have to deal with. Includes check lists of what to do before, during,  and after each one. Illustrated by award-winning author-illustrator Martha Sears West.

Paperback 978-0-9793445-4-1
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Way Out in Gray's Lake
(Autobiography of Ellen Carney, set in the 20th century) 71 pages
Antidotes, old stories and sketches from a last outpost in rural living. Electrical lines and paved roads didn't reach until the 1950's.
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The Oregon Trail: Ruts Rogues and Reminiscences
(Non-fiction) 
Take a look at not only experiences of white male emigrants, mountain men & early explorers, but also at experiences of women, blacks, the various Indian tribes emigrants would meet along the Oregon Trail, bad men & fast buck artists. 

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$20.00
A Biography of Flora Whittemore
A biography of Caribou County, Idaho's oldest living citizen.

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