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Volume 47, Number 4, Winter 1997

Angus McDonald: A Scottish Highlander among Indian Peoples
Across the Atlantic to Montana's Mission Valley
by James Hunter
page 2

First across the Continent, Part II: Alexander Mackenzie's Trek to the Pacific
Discovery on behalf of commerce
by Barry Gough
page 18

Beautiful Deceiver: The Absolutely Divine Lola Montez
The brief life of a perfect sensation
by Janet R. Fireman
page 30

"Food, Rest, & Happyness," Part I: Limitations and Possibilities in the Early Treatment of Tuberculosis in Montana
The state battles a killer disease
by Connie Staudohar
page 48

Historical Commentary
Butte: Cultural Treasure in a Mining Town
by Patrick Malone
page 58

Montana Episodes
Confessions of a Telephone Girl
by Dorothy Johnson
page 68

Montana Reviews
page 76

Taliaferro, Charles M. Russell
reviewed by David Dary

Liberty and Head, Working Cowboy
reviewed by Don Reeves

Carriker, Father Peter John De Smet
reviewed by Barton H. Barbour

Hafen, ed., French Fur Traders and Voyageurs in the American West
reviewed by Will Bagley

Clark, River of the West
reviewed by Robert H. Keller

Wyckoff and Dilsaver, eds., The Mountainous West
reviewed by Marshall E. Bowen

Adams, Education for Extinction
reviewed by John W. Heaton

Fradkin, The Seven States of California
reviewed by Andrew Rolle

Voget, They Call Me Agnes
reviewed by Ann Schultis

Miller, Calloway, and Sattler, comps., Hoxie, ed., Writings in Indian History, 1985-1990
reviewed by William D. Welge

Letters to the Editor
page 88

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