Farcountry Press

11/07/2025

Big news is brewing! ✨
Our quarterly e-newsletter "The Bookmark" hits inboxes Monday, and trust us—you won’t want to miss what’s inside! 👀📚

Be the first to hear our exciting announcement (and all the bookish goodness).
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📚 Farcountry Press is an independent, family-owned, award-winning book publisher based in Helena, Montana!
https://www.farcountrypress.com/

11/05/2025

Just in time for the holidays—meet our cutest new arrival! 🐻🦌🐰

Our “Rocky Mountain Babies & Cuties! Coloring Book” is packed with 64 pages of cuddly bear cubs, fluffy ducklings, spotted fawns, and more—each with fun wildlife facts from across the Rocky Mountains. Perfect for kids, families, and anyone who can’t resist a baby animal (and really, who can?).

Give the gift of creativity, curiosity, and a touch of wild wonder this season! 🎁



📕 “Rocky Mountain Babies & Cuties! Coloring Book”
🎨 Jessica Mazurkiewicz
📚 Available at your local bookstores, museums & gift shops from Farcountry Press, an independent, family-owned, award-winning book publisher based in Helena, Montana!
https://www.farcountrypress.com/details.php?id=1094

11/02/2025

Happy birthday to both Dakotas! 🥳 North and South Dakota officially joined the Union on this day back in 1889—and what better way to celebrate than with some breathtaking photography?

📸 "North Dakota: A Photographic Journey" is out now and ready to take you across the Peace Garden State’s sweeping plains and hidden gems.

🌄 "South Dakota: A Photographic Journey" is coming soon—stay tuned!



📕 "North Dakota: A Photographic Journey"
📷 Chuck Haney
https://www.farcountrypress.com/details.php?id=1064

📕 "South Dakota: A Photographic Journey"
📷 Jason Pfitzer & Darwin A. Mulligan
https://www.farcountrypress.com/details.php?id=1098
📚 Available at your local bookstores, museums & gift shops from Farcountry Press, an independent, family-owned, award-winning book publisher based in Helena, Montana!

11/01/2025

Happy National Author’s Day!
Here’s to the storytellers who capture the spirit of the West with its rugged landscapes, untamed history, and unforgettable people. Thank you for taking readers on adventures right here in our own backyard. 📚



📚 Farcountry Press is an independent, family-owned, award-winning book publisher based in Helena, Montana!
https://www.farcountrypress.com/

10/31/2025

👻 Halloween cuteness incoming! 🎃

Our accounting guru’s grandson is getting into the spirit of reading early—with “Burrowing Owl Cuties!” 🦉

Happy Halloween from our Farcountry family to yours—may your day be full of treats, giggles, and good books! 🍬📖✨



📕 “Burrowing Owl Cuties!”
✒️ Steph Lehmann
📚 Available at your local bookstores, museums & gift shops from Farcountry Press, an independent, family-owned, award-winning book publisher based in Helena, Montana!
https://www.farcountrypress.com/details.php?id=1058

10/28/2025

Big congrats to our multi-talented Farcountry Press rockstar, Steph Lehmann—voted Best Graphic Designer in Montana! 🏆

From bringing the Who Pooped field guides to life 🐾 to illustrating “Jade: Lost in Yellowstone,” Steph’s artistry and creativity make everything she touches pop. Not to mention 28+ years of sharing her love of art with kids and adults alike!

Here’s to Steph, the mastermind behind our books’ stunning visuals. 👏



https://www.farcountrypress.com/search.php?q=steph+lehmann&submit.x=0&submit.y=0&searchby=keyword&menu1=%3Fsearchby%3Dkeyword
📚 Available at your local bookstores, museums & gift shops from Farcountry Press, an independent, family-owned, award-winning book publisher based in Helena, Montana!

10/26/2025

Raise the forklift for John! 🎈
Our warehouse wizard turns another page today. Thanks for the hustle, the accuracy, and the calm during “where’s-that-box?” moments. Have a fantastic birthday! 📦



📚 Farcountry Press is an independent, family-owned, award-winning book publisher based in Helena, Montana!
https://www.farcountrypress.com/

10/25/2025

Happy birthday to the wildly talented Lea Frye—photographer, storyteller, and queen of the perfect wildlife moment! 📸 May your year be full of golden light, patient wildlife, and cameras that never say “low battery.” We’re so glad you’re sharing your wild and wonderful stories with the world! ✨



📕 “Wildlife Through the Lens: Animal Stories from Montana and the Rocky Mountains”
✒️ Lea Frye & Scot Bealer
📷 Lea Frye

📕 “Marmot Babies!”
✒️ Steph Lehmann
📷 Lea Frye

📕 “Most Trout Don’t Read: Lessons from Time on the Water”
✒️ Scot Bealer
📷 Lea Frye
📚 Available at your local bookstores, museums & gift shops from Sweetgrass Books, a division of Farcountry Press, an independent, family-owned, award-winning book publisher based in Helena, Montana!
https://www.farcountrypress.com/search.php?q=lea+frye&submit.x=0&submit.y=0&searchby=keyword&menu1=%3Fsearchby%3Dkeyword

10/23/2025

Big news for poetry lovers! ✨
We’re thrilled to share that Montana Poet Laureate Allen Morris Jones’s award-winning poetry collection “Mumblecusser” is now available through Farcountry Press distribution!
Winner of the High Plains Book Award and an honor book of the Montana Book Awards, “Mumblecusser” captures the humor, heart, and humanity of everyday life.

📖 Honest. Thoughtful. Unforgettable.



📕 “Mumblecusser and other Poems”
✒️ Allen Morris Jones
📚 Available at your local bookstores, museums & gift shops from Bangtail Books, distributed by Farcountry Press, an independent, family-owned, award-winning book publisher based in Helena, Montana!
https://www.farcountrypress.com/details.php?id=1093

10/22/2025

Saddle up, history buffs—this one’s a showstopper! 🎙 Author Chris Enss joins the Writing the West podcast to talk about her new book, “The Sharpshooter and the Showman,” and the legendary duo who brought Wild West magic to audiences around the world. ✨

From May Lillie’s sharpshooting skills to Pawnee Bill’s showmanship, their story is packed with love, grit, and spectacle worthy of the headlines they once made. 🐎🎯

👉 Tune in to hear how this power couple captured hearts from Philadelphia to Oklahoma—and now, yours too!
https://www.buzzsprout.com/2462379/episodes/17736168



📕 “The Sharpshooter and the Showman: May Lillie, Pawnee Bill, and their Wild West Show”
✒️ Chris Enss
📚 Available at your local bookstores, museums & gift shops from Farcountry Press, an independent, family-owned, award-winning book publisher based in Helena, Montana!
https://www.farcountrypress.com/details.php?id=1083

Few stories from the Old West capture both romance and resilience like that of May Lillie and Gordon “Pawnee Bill” Lillie. She was a Quaker girl from Philadelphia who became one of the world’s finest sharpshooters; he was a dreamer who transformed...

10/20/2025

Love nonfiction books? Love free books? 📚

Join our Farcountry Press 5-Star Book Reviewer Program! Choose a qualifying nonfiction book for FREE in exchange for your honest review on 3 popular sites (Amazon, Goodreads, B&N). ✨

It’s a win-win: You get a great read, and you help support our authors and our indie publishing family! ❤️

📖 Start reviewing today: https://bit.ly/beabookreviewer



📚 Farcountry Press is an independent, family-owned, award-winning book publisher based in Helena, Montana!
https://www.farcountrypress.com/

10/17/2025

Meet award-winning authors Scot Bealer & wildlife photographer Lea Frye tomorrow in Virginia City! Snag signed copies of “Wildlife Through the Lens” 🦌 and “Most Trout Don’t Read” 🎣 at Elling Bank Book & Coffee Co.



📕 “Wildlife Through the Lens: Animal Stories from Montana and the Rocky Mountains”
✒️ Lea Frye & Scot Bealer
📷 Lea Frye

📕 “Marmot Babies!”
✒️ Steph Lehmann
📷 Lea Frye

📕 “Most Trout Don’t Read: Lessons from Time on the Water”
✒️ Scot Bealer
📷 Lea Frye
📚 Available at your local bookstores, museums & gift shops from Sweetgrass Books, a division of Farcountry Press, an independent, family-owned, award-winning book publisher based in Helena, Montana!
https://www.farcountrypress.com/search.php?q=lea+frye&submit.x=0&submit.y=0&searchby=keyword&menu1=%3Fsearchby%3Dkeyword