Poetry
Sketches Begun in My Studio on a Sunday Afternoon and Completed the Following Day Near the Noon Hour on the Lower Slopes of the Rocky Mountains (Berkeley, CA: Editions Koch, 2008)
The Suburb of Long Suffering: Poetry & Prose (Helena: Bedrock Editions, 2002)
Old Friends Walking in the Mountains, with twelve etchings by Doug Turman (Helena: Bedrock Editions, 1994)
The Man in the Green Loden Overcoat, an artist’s book in collaboration with visual artist Jack Jasper (Helena: Second Story Verlag, 1983)
A Radiant Map of the World (Missoula, MT: Montana Arts Council/ Arrow Graphics, 1981). Recipient, Montana Arts Council First Book Award, 1981; judges: William Pitt Root and A. B. Guthrie, Jr.
Literature
Editor (and with an introduction by), On the Chinese Wall: New & Selected Poems, 1966-2018 by Roger Dunsmore, (Helena: Drumlummon Institute, 2018)
Co-editor (with Alexandra Swaney), Notes for a Novel: The Selected Poems of Frieda Fligelman (Helena: Drumlummon Institute, 2008)
Co-editor (with Lee Rostad) Food of Gods and Starvelings: The Selected Poems of Grace Stone Coates (Helena: Drumlummon Institute, 2007)
Member, editorial board, Poems Across the Big Sky, edited by Lowell Jaeger (Kalispell, MT: Many Voices Press, 2007)
Editor, The New Montana Story: An Anthology (Helena: Riverbend Publishing, 2003)
Member, editorial board (with Alexandra Swaney, Elaine Peterson, and Megan Hiller), An Ornery Bunch: Tales and Anecdotes Collected by the W.P.A. Montana Writers’ Project (Helena: TwoDot Books, 1999)
Co-editor (with Suzanne Hunger), Writing Montana: Literature under the Big Sky (Helena: Montana Center for the Book, 1996)
Western Studies
A Regionalism That Travels: Writings on (Mostly) Montana Arts, 1975-2022, foreword by Melissa Kwasny, contribution by Chere Jiusto (Helena: Drumlummon Institute, 2024)
Editor, The Whole Country was . . . “One Robe”: The Little Shell Tribe’s America by Nicholas C. P. Vrooman (Great Falls/Helena, MT: Little Shell Tribe of Chippewa Indians of Montana/Drumlummon Institute, 2013)
Editor in chief (Patty Dean, guest editor), Coming Home: A Special Issue [of Drumlummon Views] Devoted to the Historic Built Environment of Butte & Anaconda, Montana (Helena: Drumlummon Institute/Montana Preservation Alliance, 2009); online version: https://drumlummoninstitute.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/DV_vol3-no1_final.pdf; print version available at https://drumlummoninstitute.org
Editor in chief, Drumlummon Views, Vol. 2, No. 1 [Fall 2008] (Helena: Drumlummon Institute, 2008); online version: https://drumlummoninstitute.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/DV_vol2-no1.pdf; print version available through http://www.blurb.com/bookstore/detail/480972
Editor in chief, Drumlummon Views, Vol. 1, No. 3 [Fall/Winter 2006-2007 (Helena: Drumlummon Institute, 2007); online only: https://drumlummoninstitute.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/DV_vol1-no3.pdf
Editor in chief, Drumlummon Views, Vol. 1, Nos. 1-2 [Spring/Summer 2006] (Helena: Drumlummon Institute, 2007); online only: https://drumlummoninstitute.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/DV_Spring-Summer06.pdf
Editor, The Rocky Mountain Region, The Greenwood Encyclopedia of American Regional Cultures (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2004)
Editor, A Most Desperate Situation: Frontier Adventures of a Young Scout, 1858-1864, by Walter Cooper, illustrated by Charles M. Russell (Helena: TwoDot Books/Falcon Publishing, Inc., 2000)
Editor, On Flatwillow Creek: The Story of Montana’s N Bar Ranch by Linda Grosskopf (Los Alamos, NM: Exceptional Books, Ltd., 1991)
Visual Arts
Co-author (with Lena Vigna, Jo Lauria, Leslie Umberger, Beth Lipman, and Carmen Devine), Provocative Clay (Sheboygan, WI: John Michael Kohler Arts Center, 2010 [digital version]/2022 (print version])
Principal author (with contributions by the Hon. Pat Williams, Robyn Peterson, Bob Durden, Donna Forbes, Mark Browning, Gordon McConnell, Paul Zarzyski, Scott McMillion, Patrick Zentz, William Hjortsberg, Greg Keeler, and Brian Petersen), Theodore Waddell—My Montana: Paintings Sculpture, 1959-2016 (Helena: Drumlummon Institute, 2017). Recipient, High Plains Book Award, Art/Photography, 2018.
Co-author (with Marci Rae McDade), West of True: Jane Waggoner Deschner & Gordon McConnell (Fallon, NV: Churchill Arts Council, 2014)
Co-editor (with Dr. Herbert Swick), The Art of the State: 120 Artworks for 120 Years by Brandon Reintjes (Missoula: Montana Museum of Art & Culture/University of Montana Press, 2013).
Co-author (with James Todd and Yvonne Seng), Jazz Icons: Wood Engravings, Woodcuts & Paintings by James Gilbert Todd, Jr. (Helena, MT: Holter Museum of Art, 2012)
Co-author (with Dore Ashton and Timothy Anglin Burgard), Matter + Spirit: Stephen De Staebler (San Francisco: Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco/University of California Press, 2012)
Co-author (with Hipólito Rafael Chacón and Stephen Glueckert), Persistence in Clay: Contemporary Ceramics in Montana (Missoula, MT: Missoula Art Museum, 2011)
Editor, In Poetic Silence: The Floral Paintings of Joseph Henry Sharp by Thomas Minckler (Tucson, AZ: Settlers West Gallery, 2010)
Co-author (with Peter Held and John Natsoulas), Humor, Irony and Wit: Ceramic Funk from the Sixties and Beyond (Tempe, AZ: Arizona State University Art Museum, Ceramics Research Center, 2004)
Co-author (with Andrea Pappas; Ben Mitchell, Editor), The Most Difficult Journey: The Poindexter Collections of American Modernist Painting (Billings, MT: Yellowstone Art Museum, 2002)
Co-author (with Chere Jiusto, Janet Koplos, Patricia Failing, and Peter Held), A Ceramic Continuum: Fifty Years of the Archie Bray Influence (Helena, MT, and Seattle, WA: Holter Museum of Art/University of Washington Press, 2001)
Small-Scale Exhibition Catalogs
Sandra Dal Poggetto: Immersive Landscapes (Bozeman, MT: Echo Arts, 2022).
Joseph Baráz: Paintings & Sculpture, 1990-2011 [www.blurb.com/bookstore/detail/2430411] (Helena: Zadig, LLC, in association with JFG Temporary, 2011)
Co-author (with Brandon Reintjes), Barry Hood: Flow (Helena: Holter Museum of Art, 2010)
Co-author (with Glen R. Brown), Robert Harrison: The Architecture of Space (Helena: Drumlummon Institute/Holter Museum of Art, 2009)
Stephen De Staebler (Chicago: Zolla/Lieberman Gallery, 2008)
Long Lines of Dancing Letters: The Japanese Drawings of Patricia Forsberg [www.blurb.com/bookstore/detail/313138] (Helena: Drumlummon Institute, 2008)
Richard Notkin (Davis, CA: John Natsoulas Press, 2008)
Dale Livezey: Paintings (Reno, NV: Stremmel Gallery, 2007)
Stephen Braun: Cause & Effect (Davis, CA: John Natsoulas Press, 2007)
Co-author (with Dana Plautz), The New Utilitarian: Examining Our Place on the Motherboard of Ceramics, National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts (NCECA) Invitational Exhibition (Portland, OR: NCECA, 2006)
New Works: Lawson Oyekan: Solstice Lip Series, Minneapolis (Minneapolis, MN: Northern Clay Center, 2006)
Rudy Autio: The Infinite Figure (Helena: Holter Museum of Art, 2006)
Perforation: Tony Marsh, Jeffrey Mongrain, Mary Roehm, Marit Tingleff, Xavier Toubes (Minneapolis, MN: Northern Clay Center, 2005)
Ceramic Excellence: Fellowships at the Archie Bray Foundation, 2002-2003 (Helena: Archie Bray Foundation for the Ceramic Arts, 2003)
Intimate Terrain: The Paintings of Michael Haykin (Helena: Holter Museum of Art, 2003)
Robert Harrison: Celestial Alignments (Spokane, WA: Jundt Art Museum, Gonzaga University, 2001)
Open Country: The Landscapes of Dale Livezey (Helena: Holter Museum of Art, 2001)
Richard Swanson: Material Witness, Sculpture 1994-1998 (Cheyenne, WY: Fine Arts Gallery, Laramie County Community College, 1999)
Editor, Telling Compelling Tales: Narration in Contemporary Glass, by Peter Held & Dick Weiss (Helena: Holter Museum of Art, 1998)
Robert Harrison: Architecture without Walls (Underdale, Australia: University of South Australia Art Museum , September 1992)
Natural History
Editor, Crown of the Continent: The Last Great Wilderness of the Rocky Mountains, by Ralph Waldt (Helena: Montana Nature Conservancy/Riverbend Publishing, 2004)
Travel
Co-author (with Liz Gans) Walking San Francisco (Helena, MT: Falcon Publishing, Inc., 1999)
Great Escapes: Montana State Parks (Helena: Falcon Press, 1988)