Synopses & Reviews
A rich and varied tapestry, Montana Legacy looks at the people, cultures, places, and events that shaped present-day Montana from Plentywood to Butte, Great Falls to Virginia City, and Billings to Browning. Designed to make you think about Montana history in a new way, this anthology features sixteen essays chosen for their relevance, readability, and scholarship.
Topics in Montana's environmental history-including Glacier National Park and the Berkeley Pit (part of the largest Superfund cleanup site in the United States)-are discussed, as are Indians' experiences in the state, from the fur trade through twentieth-century. Montana's ethnic minorities, including Chinese miners and Mexican American sugar beet workers, make their appearance, as do women of all sorts, from farm wives to Butte bootleggers. So, too, do more traditional historical figures, including the Copper Kings and Custer.
The volume's editors-Montana historians at Montana State University, Bozeman, The University of Montana, Missoula, and Carroll College, Helena-carefully selected topics that range across two centuries-from the fur trade to power deregulation-and expose Montana's cultural and geographical diversity. Join them in this exploration of Montana's past and gain a better understanding Montana's future.
Synopsis
A rich and varied tapestry, Montana Legacy looks at the people, cultures, places, and events that shaped present-day Montana from Plentywood to Butte, Great Falls to Virginia City, and Billings to Browning. Designed to make you think about Montana history in a new way, this anthology features sixteen essays chosen for their relevance, readability, and scholarship. The volume's editors carefully selected topics that range across two centuries from the fur trade to power deregulation - and expose Montana's cultural and geographical diversity. Join them in this exploration of Montana's past and gain a better understanding of Montana's future. (6 x 9, 392 pages, b&w photos)
Synopsis
A rich and varied tapestry, this book looks at the people, cultures, places, and events that shaped present-day Montana from Plentywood to Butte, Great Falls to Virginia City, and Billings to Browning.
About the Author
Harry W. Fritz is a historian at The University of Montana, Missoula.
Mary Murphy is a historian at Montana State University, Bozeman.
Robert R. Swartout is a historian at Carroll College, Helena.
Table of Contents
Preface
1. Joseph Porter, "Marvelous Figures, Astonished Travelers: The Montana Expedition of Maximilian, Prince of Wied," MMWH (Autumn 1991), pp. 36-54.
2. Colin G. Calloway, "Army Allies or Tribal Survival? The 'Other Indians' in the 1876 Campaign," Legacy: New Perspectives on the Battle of the Little Bighorn (Helena, 1996): 63-82
3. Robert R. Swartout, Jr., "From Kwangtung to the Big Sky: The Chinese Experience in Frontier Montana," Montana Heritage (Helena, 1992)
4. Dave Walter, "Hogan's Army," Campfire Tales
5. David Emmons, "The Orange and the Green in Montana: A Reconsideration of the Clark-Daly Feud," Montana Heritage (Helena, 1992)
6. Mark David Spence, "Crown of the Continent, Backbone of the World: The American Wilderness Ideal and Blackfeet Exclusion from Glacier National Park," Environmental History, 1 (July 1996): 29-49
7. Mary Melcher, "Women's Matters: Birth Control, Prenatal Care, and Childbirth in Rural Montana, 1910-1940," MMWH (Spring 1991): 47-56
8. Verlaine Stoner McDonald "A Paper of, by and for the People': The Producer's News," MMWH (Winter 1998):
9. Mary Murphy, "Bootlegging Mothers and Drinking Daughters: Gender and Prohibition in Butte, Montana." American Quarterly 46 (June 1994): 174-94.
10. Laurie Mercier, "Creating a New Community in the North," Stories from an Open Country: Essays on the Yellowstone River Valley. Ed., William Lang (Billings, MT: Western Heritage Press, 1995):
11. William J. Furdell, "The Great Falls Home Front During World War II," MMWH (Winter 1998)
12. Keith Edgerton, "A Tough Place to Live: The 1959 State Prison Riot" MMWH (winter 1992)
13. Orlan J. Svingen, "Jim Crow, Indian Style," American Indian Quarterly (Fall 1987): 275-286
14. William Farr, "Troubled Bundles, Troubled Blackfeet The Travail of Cultural and Religious Renewal" (autumn 1993):
15. Edwin Dobb, "Pennies from Hell: In Montana, the Bill for America's Copper 0Comes Due." Harper's (October 1996)
16. Harry W. Fritz, "The Origins of Twenty-first-Century Montana," (new piece)
bibliographic essay
index