STONEYDALE PRESS has been a Stevensville-based publisher of books on the outdoors, regional and Montana history and nature themes since 1978 and among its many titles the firm takes special pride in its classic book telling the story, in great detail and with an awesome collection of historic photographs and illustrations, of

Montana’s oldest permanent settlement – Stevensville. Titled “First Roots: The Story of Stevensville, Montana’s Oldest Community”. The book was written by the famed Discovery Writers of Stevensville (Jeanne O’Neill, Patricia Hastings, Jean Clary and Riga Winthrop), whose books on the Lewis & Clark Expedition’s journeys across Montana won them national recognition, and best-seller status – “Lewis & Clark In The Bitterroot,” Lewis & Clark On The Upper Missouri” and “We Called This Place Travellers Rest” – and earned the group their hometown community’s “Ambassadors of the Year Award” in 2003. Stoneydale Press itself was honored as Stevensville’s “Business of the Year” in 2008 and Publisher Dale Burk was named the community’s “Citizen of the Year” in 2004. Our roots are in Stevensville, too!

Stoneydale Press has been a nationally-prominent publisher of outdoor books with an emphasis on big game hunting – elk, mule deer, whitetail deer, bighorn sheep, chukar – for three and a half decades, having published a number of nationally-known authors.

These include Dwight Schuh (“Bugling For Elk” and “Hunting Open Country Mule Deer”); Mike Lapinski (“Radical Elk Hunting Strategies”, “High Pressure Elk Hunting” and “Solving Elk Hunting Problems” and his wonderful full-color book “Elk Mystique”); plus the legendary Howard Copenhaver (with his classic, all-time best seller “They Left Their Tracks”, “More Tracks”, “Copenhaver Country” and “Mule Tracks: The Last of The Story”), Bud Cheff with “Indian Trails and Grizzly Tales” and “The Woodsman and His Hatchet”); Duane Bernard with “The Trail of a Sportsman” and Dale Burk with his best-selling “Montana Hunting Guide”.

Over the past two decades, Stoneydale expanded its repertoire to include books of reminisces and history of Montana and the Northern Rockies region. Among its major titles in this category are a stirring novel about the famed frontiersman John Colter, titled “Colter’s Run” by Stephen T. Gough. “Montana Ghost Towns and Gold Camps” by William Whitfield; “Montana’s Bitterroot Valley” by Russ Lawrence; “Dale Burk’s Montana” by Dale A. Burk, a book of color photographs and commentary; and “Mules and Mountains” by Margie Hahn.

The firm also offers a number of books by independent authors, including Washington author W. Mitchell Rohlffs, Ph.d., with his classic hunting memoir, “From Cottontails to Kudu” and historian Darris Flanagan of Eureka, Montana, with three significant Montana history books, “Indian Trails of the Northern Rockies” and “Skid Trails: Glory Days of    Montana Logging” and “The Montana Christmas Tree Story”.

A full listing of books available from Stoneydale Press can be seen on company's website:

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