Longfeather Book Design Portfolio and Awards

Here is a sampling of our book designs. Each book featured lists a brief synopsis of its contents and usually has a link to the author's website or Amazon.com listing. If you'd like a closer look, including interior page spreads, please click on the cover image for an expanded view.


Cartographer's Toolkit cover

Cartographer’s Toolkit: Color, Typography, Patterns

by Gretchen N. Peterson

A reference and style guide for cartographers; features color palettes, typography and composition patterns; 170 pages; Peterson GIS.
Author's website

Mission Boy front cover

Mission Boy: A Novel of Spanish Jesuits in Chesapeake Bay

by Gilbert Byron

A historical novel of a Spanish Jesuit mission to Chesapeake Bay.
Publisher's website

The Green Cat front cover

The Green Cat

by Robert Jacobson

A children's book about an audacious green cat.
Book website

Brule: The Sioux People of the Rosebud

by Paul Dyck

Historical documents, artwork, essays and letters; 365 pages; Northland Press.
Author's website

The Deep Well of Time front Cover

The Deep Well of Time: The Transformative Power of Storytelling in the Classroom

by Michael J. Dorer

Engaging classroom manual for storytelling in the Montessori classroom: 394 pages; Parent Child Press.
Publisher Website

John Lemp: The Beer Baron of Idaho front cover

John Lemp: The Beer Baron of Boise

by Herman Wiley Ronnenberg

Biography of the influencial beer baron of Southern Idaho; 382 pages; Heritage Witness Press.
Amazon Listing

Traveling Down the Highway with an Educated Goat front cover

Traveling Down the Highway with an Educated Goat

by Henry Wayne Poore, M.D.

Volume two of Dr. Poore's memoirs; 163 pages; cover and inside illustrations by Robert Jacobson; Goose River Publications.
Author's website

Pond Hockey: Kita Learns to Skate front cover

Pond Hockey: Kita Learns to Skate

by Erik and Robert Jacobson

Our very own children's book; cover and inside illustrations by Robert Jacobson; 40 pages; Dr Puck Publications.
Author's website.

All the Way to Second Street front cover

All the Way to Second Street

by Nancy Casey

Memoir; a diary of survival skills and personal growth; 253 pages; Logwood Stone.
Author's Website

The Traveling Tea Ladies: Death in Dallas

The Traveling Tea Ladies: Death in Dallas

by Melane O'Hara

A cozy mystery series for tea-and-fun fans; the first of five popular books in the Traveling Tea Ladies series; 244 pages; Lyons Legacy Publishing.
Publisher's website

Lessons Remembered front cover

Lessons Remembered: Memoirs of an Audacious Country Doctor

by Henry Wayne Poore, M.D.

Personal memoir of a very colorful country doctor; The author has sold more than 2000 copies. 177 pages; cover illustration by Robert Jacobson; Goose River Publications.
Author's website

The Refuge by Kathryn Woodhill

The Refuge

by Kathryn Woodhill

Western/Romance; 234 pages; Roaring River Press.
Amazon listing

Anarcho Grow front cover

Anarcho Grow: Pura Vida in Costa Rica

by T.A. Sedlak

Adventure/Social Change; 235 pages; TPKF Publishing.
TPKF Publishing
Author's Website

All Our Love, All Your Life front cover

All Our Love, All Our Life

by the Charney Family

Family gift book; cover and inside illustrations by Robert Jacobson; 78 pages.

Breaking Bread in Galilee by Abbie Rosner

Breaking Bread in Galilee: A Culinary Journey into the Promised Land

by Abbie Rosner

Culinary Memoir; Cover image by Tal Gluck; 238 pages; Hilayon Press.
Author's Website
Amazon listing

The Grand Canyon front cover

Grand Canyon: The Story Behind the Scenery

by Merrill D. Beal

State Park Guide; 40 pages; KC Publications.
Publisher's website

Dire Wolf front cover

Dire Wolf, and other fierce and fanciful works by sculptor George Roberts

by George Roberts

Contemporary art and sculpture/artist biography; 140 pages; Longfeather Press/University of Idaho Press.

Scholder/Indians front cover

Scholder/Indians

by Fritz Scholder

Contemporary Native American Art/Artist Biography; 118 pages; Northland Press. Artist's website

Plants of Zion front cover

Plants of Zion National Park: Wildflowers, Trees, Shrubs and Ferns

by Ruth Ashton Nelson and Tom Blaue

Botanical guide; 333 pages; Zion Natural History Association.
Publisher's website

Modern Pueblo Pottery: 1880-1960 front cover

Modern Pueblo Pottery: 1880-1960

by Francis H. Harlow

Pueblo pottery; 110 pages; Northland Press.

Design Awards

Western Heritage art book of the year

Olaf Wieghorst

New Mexico-Arizona Book Awards first place for Spanish Language Book

A Glimpse of the Chihuahuan Desert/Una Vislumbre del Desierto Chihuahuense by Patricia Mihok

Bookbuilders West award of excellence

Lost Wax Bronze Casting by Harry Jackson

Bookbuilders West award of merit

Hang Gliding: the flyingest flying by Don Dedera

Rounce & Coffin Club awards of merit

Al Nestler’s Southwest by Al Nestler

Brule: The Sioux People of the Rosebud by Paul Dyck

John Clymer: An Artist’s Rendezvous With the Frontier West by John Clymer

Color of Horses by Ben Green and Darol Dickinson

George Elbert Burr, 1859—1939 by Louise Combes Seeber

Harmsen’s Western Americana by Dorothy Harmsen and Dick Hilker

James Boren: A Study in Discipline by Dean Fenton Krakel

Joe Beeler Sketchbook by Joe Beeler

Modern Pueblo Pottery: 1880—1960 by Francis Harvey Harlow

The Last Trail Ride Through Downtown Dallas by Ben K. Green

Tom Ryan: A Painter in Four Sixes Country by Dean Fenton Krakel

Without Noise of Arms by Walter Briggs

1877: Plains Indian Sketchbooks of Zo-Tom and Howling Wolf by Zo-Tom and Howling Wolf