Images of America: Red Lodge
I am pleased to announce the imminent publication of my latest book, “Red Lodge,” in Arcadia Publishing’s “Images of America” series. The book is a compilation of historic photographs of the small Montana town. I co-authored it with the Carbon County Historical Society, which owns most of the photos.
I selected, arranged, and captioned the photos, using the archives at the historical society museum. It was a wonderful challenge to try to cover the history of a town in a series of 70-word captions. It was also an interesting challenge to use pictures, rather than words, as the primary storytelling medium. I was relatively pleased with the results, but of course each of you will make your individual judgement.
Compared to The Cowboy Girl, this is much more of a niche book. Either you know Red Lodge and will enjoy photos of its history, or you don’t. The story of Caroline Lockhart had interesting implications for the history of the American West as a whole, and I wrote and marketed that book with those implications in mind. The story of Red Lodge is just the story of one town, and so I don’t expect to do much book touring beyond Carbon County.
My author’s-hot-off-the-press copy arrived last week, and I was quite impressed with the quality of the print job. However, the books won’t be widely available until the official publication date, Monday, May 19.
Before that date, Amazon is offering a pre-publication discount. But as I note on this page (which has much more information about the book), I’d like to encourage anyone who can do so to order the book through the Historical Society. This organization collected the photos in the book (and asked me to put them together), and it deserves to profit from them.
A great way to purchase the book and support the historical society is to come to the book’s official release party on Thursday, June 19. There’s more information in the events sidebar on the left.
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