“Who Was Sacagawea?”  TIME magazine: Lewis and Clark Bicentennial.  Posted June 30, 2002

            at  http://www.time.com/time/2002/lewis_clark/lsacagawea.html 

 

 

Grand Staircase-Escalante, The Story Behind The Scenery.  Las Vegas, NV: KC Publications, Inc, 2005.

            Nonfiction - Travel

 

 

Seeing The Elephant, Voices from the Oregon Trail.  Lubbock, TX:  Texas Tech University Press, 2004.

            Includes student/teacher workbook in free download from www.ttup.ttu.edu

            Nonfiction - History

           

            SPUR award finalist for Western literature

            History Book of the Year award finalist - ForeWord Magazine

 

 

They Call Me Sacagawea.  Guilford, CT and Helena, MT: Globe-Pequot Press, 2003.

            Children’s Nonfiction – History

           

            James Madison award nominee

            Endorsed by Sacagawea family descendants

 

 

Sacagawea Speaks, Beyond the Shining Mountains with Lewis & Clark.  Guilford, CT and Helena, MT: Globe-Pequot Press, under Two Dot imprint, 2001.

            Nonfiction - History

 

            History Book of the Year award – ForeWord Magazine

            Benjamin Franklin Award finalist – History/Politics

            Endorsed by Sacagawea family descendants

            Endorsed by Lewis & Clark Expedition member descendants

 

 

Woven on the Wind .   (Contributor, pp 17-19)   Hasselstrom, Collier, & Curtis, ed.,  Boston, MA and New York, NY: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2001.

Nonfiction – Women Write About Friendship in the Sagebrush West

           

 

Oregon Trail Center, The Story Behind The Scenery.  Las Vegas, NV: KC Publications, Inc., 1995.

            Nonfiction – Travel

 

 

Fanny!  A Pioneer Saga.  Baker City, OR: Novak’s Studio, 1994.

            Nonfiction – Historical Interpretation.

 

 

Scholarly Papers:

 

“Creating An Interpretive Center – Case Study”  (co-author).  Presented: Washington, DC, 1993.

            National conference: National Association for Interpretation. 

 

“First Person Interpretation for Specific Needs Audiences”.  Presented:  Washington, DC, 1994.

            National Conference on Accessibility.

 

“Sacagawea on the Trail with Lewis & Clark”.  Presented: Pendleton, OR, 1999.

            Living History conference:  National Association for Interpretation.

 

“Petticoats on the Bozeman Trail: The Female Emigrant Experience”.  Presented:  Bozeman, MT, 1999.

            National symposium: Bozeman Trail Heritage Association, Oregon-California Trails

            Association.

 

Site-Specific Historical Interpretation Scripts

 

Jacob Lake, AZ.  U.S. Forest Service.  Forest Ranger, Dixie National Forest, north rim of Grand Canyon; forest ranger’s wife.  Circa 1900-1910.

 

Yaquina Head Lighthouse, OR.   Bureau of Land Management.  Lighthouse Keeper, lighthouse keeper’s wife.  Circa  1870-1880.

 

Falk  redwood logging/ghost town, CA.  Bureau of Land Management.  Three female scripts: timber camp cook; teenaged girl wanting a life on the “outside”; last living resident of Falk.  Spanning 1880-1930.

 

National Training Center, AZ.  Bureau of Land Management.  “Bloomers to Briefcases – Women and Public Land Policy” Five scripts spanning 1812 to present day: from wilderness settler’s wife to modern agency manager.

 

Salmon River, Frank Church Wilderness, ID.  Salmon River Rafting Co.     Frances Zaunmiller, homesteader on the Salmon River. Circa 1960’s-1970’s.

 

Issue-Specific Historical Interpretation Scripts

 

“Ora Lee and the Lewis & Clark Centennial” (setting, 1905)

            History. Women’s suffrage.

 

“Sacagawea Speaks” (setting, 1805)

            History. Lewis & Clark expedition from the tribal viewpoint.

                        Featured by Scholastic, Inc., in its on-line encyclopedia, The New Book of Knowledge.

 

“Maybelle Montana and the Vanishing West” (setting: 1880’s-1930’s)

            History. Conservation.  The American West in myth and reality.

 

“Fanny and the Oregon Trail” (circa 1850 – 1860)

            History. The female emigrant experience and its effect on creation of the modern West.