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Young Men and Fire by Norman Maclean Publisher Comments On August 5, 1949, a crew of fifteen of the United States Forest Service's elite airborne firefighters, the Smokejumpers, stepped into the sky above a remote forest fire in the Montana wilderness. Two hours after their jump, all but three of these men... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper 
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The Mountain and the Fathers: Growing Up on the Big Dry by Joe Wilkins Synopsis The Mountain and The Fathers explores the life of boys and men in the unforgiving, harsh world north of the Bull Mountains of eastern Montana in a drought afflicted area called the Big Dry, a land that chews up old and young alike. Joe Wilkins was born... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price: $16.50 Used - Hardcover
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Tough Trip Through Paradise 1878-1879 by Andrew Garcia Publisher Comments Distributed by the University of Nebraska Press for the University of Idaho Press This book grew out of a manuscript left by Andrew Garcia on his death in 1942. Ben Stein acquired the manuscript and edited it to tell Garcia's story of the 1877 war... (read more) List Price $9.95 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Very Close to Trouble: The Johnny Grant Memoir by Lyndel Meikle Publisher Comments Trader, stockman, and raconteur, Johnny Grant (1831-1907) lived "very close to trouble" on the wide open Montana-Idaho frontier of the mid-nineteenth century. Grant is memorialized today by the Grant-Kohrs Ranch National Historic Site at Deer Lodge... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Scottish Highlanders, Indian Peoples: Thirty Generations of a Montana Family by James Hunter Publisher Comments Members of Montana's McDonald family trace their roots to the chiefs of the Nez Perce tribe and to the chiefs of Scotland's most formidable clan. On two continents, first as Highlanders, and then as Indians, the family suffered massacre and dispossession.... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price: $12.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Spirit Tailings: Ghost Tales from Virginia City, Butte and Helena by Ellen Baumler Publisher Comments Floorboards creaking. Inanimate objects flying off walls. Fleeting glimpses of ghostly figures moving in solemn grace through the halls and walls of our homes and offices. We all recognize these telltale signs of haunted places, and in this delightful... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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All But the Waltz: A Memoir of Five Generations in the Life of a Montana Family by Mary Clearman Blew Publisher Comments In language reminiscent of the wild beauty of Big Sky Country, Mary Clearman Blew gives us a glimpse into the lives of her family as she traces their connection to Montanas natural and human landscape. Beginning with her great-grandparents arrival in... (read more) List Price $18.75 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Glacier: A Natural History Guide (Falcon Guide) by David Rockwell Publisher Comments A jewel in the national park system, Glacier National Park encompasses one of the richest and most diverse natural regions in North America. The vast watersheds of the Pacific Ocean, Atlantic Ocean, and Hudson Bay converge here, creating a dramatic... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Story of Mary Maclane by Mary Maclane Publisher Comments Years ahead of her time, this book flew out of bookstores when it was first published in 1902. A personal history of a Montana teenager that shocked the world and influenced generations of American writers.... (read more) List Price $12.75 Your price: $8.50 Used - Trade Paper
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This Is Not the Ivy League (American Lives) by Mary Clearman Blew Publisher Comments Mary Clearman Blews education began at home, on a remote cattle ranch in Montana. She graduated to a one-room rural school, then escaped, via scholarship, to the University of Montana, where, still in her teens, she met and married her first husband... (read more) Your price: $24.95 New - Hardcover
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As I Remember: Stories of Eastern Montana's Pioneers, Volume LL by Gladys Kauffman Publisher Comments More stories of Montana's pioneers from the days of the first pioneers.... (read more) List Price $14.50 Your price: $11.50 Sale - Trade Paper
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My Montana: A History and Memoir, 1930-1950 by Jewel Lansing Publisher Comments Those of us growing up in the 1930-1950 era will appreciate Jewel Beck Lansing's experiences as related in My Montana: A History and Memoir, 1930-1950. You needn't have grown up in rural Montana to appreciate them either - many western and mid-west farms... (read more) List Price $22.95 Your price: $11.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Honyocker Dreams: Montana Memories by David Mogen Publisher Comments Whether they were actually Hungarian or Bohemian, “Hunkies” or “Bohunks,” or even from Eastern Europe at all, to the old ranchers of the Great Plains, the farmers and settlers who moved in and fenced off the open land were no... (read more) List Price $21.95 Your price: $15.50 Used - Hardcover
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More from the Quarries of Last Chance Gulch #03: More from the Quarries of Last Chance Gulch by Farcountry Press Publisher Comments Illustrated collections of a popular newspaper column on people, events, and places in and around Helena reveal Montana history from the 1860s to the 1950s. Each softbound 6"x9" volume includes black-and-white historical photographs.... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Moon Handbooks Montana (Moon Handbooks Montana) by W C Mcrae Publisher Comments - New format that highlights suggested travel strategies for varying trip lengths and travel needs, as well as lists of mustsee sights - Authoritative guidebooks to the United States, Canada, Mexico, Central and South America, and Asia and the Pacific... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Mass Market
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Under the Chinook Arch: Tales of a Montana Veterinarian by R W Gustafson Publisher Comments A hot-selling collection of humorous, real-life stories about Montana, from the perspective of a rural veterinarian and rancher.... (read more) List Price $9.95 Your price: $3.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Cowboy Way: Seasons of a Montana Ranch by David McCumber Publisher Comments In February of his forty-fourth year, journalist David McCumber signed on as a hand on rancher Bill Galt's expansive Birch Creek spread in Montana. The Cowboy Way is an enthralling and intensely personal account of his year spent in open country—a book... (read more) Your price: $10.99 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Bad land :an American romance by Jonathan Raban Publisher Comments Seduced by the government's offer of 320 acres per homesteader, Americans and Europeans rushed to Montana and the Dakotas to fulfill their own American dream in the first decade of this century. Raban's stunning evocation of the harrowing, desperate... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $8.95 Used - Hardcover
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Doc: Then & Now With a Montana Physician by R Losee Publisher Comments "LIVELY, EARTHY, AND REFRESHINGLY CANDID . . . Losee is the family doctor you wish you had in your community." --Library Journal In 1949, Ron Losee, a young Yale Medical School graduate, headed west with his wife and small daughter to begin the practice... (read more) List Price $5.99 Your price: $2.95 Used - Mass Market
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Montana Impressions (Impressions) by John Reddy Synopsis Spread after spread of this surprisingly affordable tribute to Montana invites readers to explore the bounty of the state, whether starkly beautiful eastern prairies, pristine Blue Ribbon streams, or storied ghost towns. Readers experience the state in... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price: $10.50 Sale - Trade Paper
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