Montana Legacy Essays On History, People, And Place,9780917298905

Montana Legacy Essays On History, People, And Place

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ISBN13: 9780917298905
ISBN10: 091729890X
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2002-09-01
Publisher(s): Montana Historical Society Press
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Summary

A rich and varied tapestry,Montana Legacylooks 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 readers think about Montana history in a new way, this anthology features 16 essays chosen for their relevance, readability, and scholarship. The volume's editors--all well-known Montana historians--carefully selected topics, from the fur trade to power deregulation, that range across two centuries and expose Montana's cultural and geographical diversity.

Author Biography

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

Maps and Illustrations
vii
Preface ix
Marvelous Figures, Astonished Travelers: The Montana Expedition of Maximilian, Prince of Wied
1(26)
Joseph C. Porter
Army Allies or Tribal Survival?: The ``Other Indians'' in the 1876 Campaign
27(18)
Colin G. Calloway
From Kwangtung to the Big Sky: The Chinese Experience in Frontier Montana
45(20)
Robert R. Swartout, Jr.
Hogan's Army: ``A Petition with Boots On''
65(14)
Dave Walter
The Orange and the Green in Montana: A Reconsideration of the Clark-Daly Feud
79(24)
David Emmons
Crown of the Continent, Backbone the World: The American Wilderness Ideal and Blackfeet Exclusion from Glacier National Park
103(29)
Mark David Spence
``Women's Matters'': Birth Control, Prenatal Care, and Childbirth in Rural Montana, 1918-1937
132(20)
Mary Melcher
``A Paper of, by and for the People'': The Producers News and the Farmers' Movement in Northeastern Montana, 1918-1937
152(25)
Verlaine Stoner McDonald
Bootlegging Mothers and Drinking Daughters: Gender and Prohibition in Butte, Montana
177(24)
Mary Murphy
The Great Falls Home Front during World War II
201(20)
William J. Furdell
Creating a New Community in the North: Mexican Americans of the Yellowstone Valley
221(25)
Laurie Mercier
``A Tough Place to Live'': The 1959 Montana State Prison Riot
246(20)
Keith Edgertion
Jim Crow, Indian Style
266(16)
Orlan J. Svingen
Troubled Bundles, Troubled Blackfeet: The Travail of Cultural and Religious Renewal
282(28)
William E. Farr
Pennies from Hell: In Montana, the Bill for America's Copper Comes Due
310(31)
Edwin Dobb
Montana in the Twenty-first Century
341(18)
Harry W. Fritz
Bibliographic Essay 359(6)
Credits 365(2)
Index 367

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