Books from Montana Historical Society
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A Tenderfoot in Montana: Reminiscences of the Gold Rush, the Vigilantes, and the Birth of Montana Territory
By Francis McGee Thompsoncareer is well described in Alice E. Smith , James Duane Doty , Frontier Promoter ( Madison : State Historical Society of Wisconsin , 1954 ) . 12. For the amazing career of Meagher see Robert G. Athearn , Thomas Francis Meagher : An ...
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Nez Perce Summer, 1877: The U.S. Army and the Nee-Me-Poo Crisis
By Jerome A. GreeneSee also John Turner , North - West Mounted Police , 1 : 340-41 . 71. Quoted in McWhorter , Hear Me , 513 . 72. McWhorter , Hear Me , 514. The Oglala Black Elk recounted his meeting with a party of Nez Perce refugees from Bear's Paw .
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Conveniences Sorely Needed: Montana's Historic Highway Bridges, 1860-1956
By Jon AxlineGoff , John V. Miles City , Montana , An Architectural History . Miles City , Mont .: Star Printing Co. , 1987 Golden Jubilee ... Jacobs , David , and Anthony E. Neville . Bridges , Canals and Tunnels : The Engineering Conquest of ...
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Hand Raised: The Barns of Montana
By Chere Jiusto, Christine W. Brown, Tom Ferrisfirst years of farming for Fred and Christine Pearson near Big Sandy were dry and the work difficult and slow. The tough, compacted sod had to be broken by a one-bottom plow on which the driver rode. Once planted, the crops were slow to ...
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The History of the Assiniboine and Sioux Tribes of the Fort Peck Indian Reservation, Montana, 1800-2000
By David Reed Miller58 Wright to Smith, June 26, 1873, frames 252-54; Wright to Smith, April 15, 1873, frames 548-49; Acting Secretary of ... 64 O.A. Pearson, Acting Chief Clerk, Department of Interior, to Smith, August 28, 1873, NARA, RG 75, M234, LRCIA, ...
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Cowboy Trout: Western Fly Fishing as If It Matters
By Paul SchulleryThe essays in this book detail Paul Schullery's thoughtful philosophical understanding of the western fly fisher: where we came from, what we care about, and what our prospects are.
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Wheel Boats on the Missouri: The Journals and Documents of the Atkinson-O'Fallon Expedition, 1824-26
By Henry Atkinson, Stephen Watts KearnyIn 1964 a portion of the Atkinson journal was published in Dale L. Morgan's scholarly work on William Ashley . Morgan included the entries in Atkinson's journal from August 14 through September 19 , 1825. It was during this time that ...
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Montana's State Capitol: The People's House
By Kirby Lambert, Patricia Mullan Burnham, Susan R. NearThe granite - faced wings , which were completed in 1912 , were constructed and furnished at a cost of $ 650,000 . if 21 construction company for repeated delays , Gagnon details. compromise that featured neither of the two disputed ...
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Montana Place Names from Alzada to Zortman
By Rich Aarstad, Ellen Arguimbau, Ellen BaumlerGibson demonstrated great vision when he created broad avenues and set aside large parcels of land for future city parks. ... The Charles M. Russell House and Studio and the Great Falls Portage are NHLs.
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Copper Chorus: Mining, Politics, and the Montana Press, 1889-1959
By Dennis L. SwiboldChedey , W.W. Clark , WA Durstow , J. M. Eaglebern , M. T. Ecclestos , c , I. Fell , Charles S. Fisk , 8.1 . Flek , R. E Hisk , D , W. , Foulds , J. R. Cordon . Samt Oeger . 1.3 . Mess . Y Maich , n . w .. Homes 0.1 .
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Frontier Soldier: An Enlisted Man's Journal of the Sioux and Nez Perce Campaigns, 1877
By William Frederick ZimmerThe Crows in 1877 were by and large friendly to whites , and many of the Crow men had served as scouts for the various army commands operating in the region in 1876–77 . For their history , see Frederick E. Hoxie , Parading through ...
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Spirit Tailings: Ghost Tales of Virginia City, Butte, and Helena
By Ellen Baumler“ Oh , I'm sorry if I startled you . I was just looking around . I grew up in this house , and I was just curious to see how the years had treated it . ” The old gentleman seemed harmless enough . " Would you like to come in and see for ...
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Montana: Stories of the Land
By Krys Holmes, Susan C. DaileyStories of the Land Krys Holmes, Susan C. Dailey, David Walter. FIGURE 15.9: Carbon County sheriff George Boggs ... Burton K. Wheeler, who was then the U.S. attorney for Montana, called Duncan “the best mayor Butte has ever had, as.
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Montana's Historical Highway Markers
By Glenda Clay Bradshaw... 188 Redwater River , 167 , 168 Reed , Alonzo , 119 Reno , Marcus , 176 , 184 , 188 Reynolds , Joseph , 196 Richey , 172 Richey , Clyde , 172 Riel , Louis , 116 Riel Rebellion , 74 Rimrock , 137 River Crow , 86,95 River of the Road ...
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Searching for Yellowstone: Ecology and Wonder in the Last Wilderness
By Paul Schullery" This marvelously detailed book skillfully and objectively traces the park's social and ecological history from Pleistocene times to the present.
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Girl from the Gulches: The Story of Mary Ronan
By Mary Ronan, Margaret RonanThe Kootenai Trail , according to David Thompson's early maps , started where the Thompson River flows into the Clark Fork River , followed it downstream to its merging with the Kootenai River , then went along that river into Canada .
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Jeannette Rankin, America's Conscience
By Norma Smith... 215 ; influence on Simms , Ruth Hannah McCorJR's political career , 102-4 ; mick , 177–78 , 180 on JR's pacifism , 107 , 111- Simpson , Colin , 223 12 ; political ambitions , 150 , Sinclair , Upton , 173 158 , 192-93 ; primary elec- ...
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Hope in Hard Times: New Deal Photographs of Montana, 1936-1942
By Mary MurphyHope in Hard Times, features over 140 Farm Security Administration photographs to illustrate the story of the Great Depression in Montana and the experiences of the photographers who documented it.
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Copper Chorus: Mining, Politics, and the Montana Press, 1889-1959
By Dennis L. SwiboldHis father , he claimed , had known the Irish patriot and Montana territorial governor Thomas Francis Meagher in the old country , and O'Farrell himself claimed acquaintance with Charles Parnell , Michael Davitt , and other heroes of ...
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The Contennial West: Essays on the Northern Tier States
By Lee H. WhittleseyThe Contennial West: Essays on the Northern Tier States