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                    <title>A Guide to Historic Glendive</title>
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                    <description>Rooted in the railroad and ranching industries, Glendive, Montana, lies in the lower Yellowstone Valley about thirty miles from the North Dakota border. First and foremost a railroad town, Glendive's development and architecture reflect its Northern Pacific heritage and the spirit of its residents. Discover the history of "Gate City" of the Yellowstone Valley in this lively guide to Glendive's historic buildings.</description>
                    <pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2026 00:00:00 MDT</pubDate>
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                    <title>A Guide to Historic Hamilton</title>
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                    <description>Founded in 1890 against the backdrop of the lush Bitterroot Valley, the town of Hamilton emerged with the growth of western Montana's timber, railroad, and agriculture industries. Hamilton owes its early history to copper baron Marcus Daly, whose Anaconda Company sawmill and private Bitter Root Stock Farm dominated the community through the late nineteenth century. The drama of the twentieth-century apple boom and the saga of the battle to find a cure for Rocky Mountain tick fever enrich the town's more recent past. Offering detailed architectural and historical insights on the buildings and historic sites of both Hamilton and the surrounding Bitterroot Valley, this informative guide will entice readers to explore "the jewel of the Bitterroot."</description>
                    <pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2026 00:00:00 MDT</pubDate>
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                    <title>A Guide to Historic Kalispell</title>
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                    <description>Founded in 1891 as a railroad town for the transcontinental Great Northern Railway, Kalispell, Montana, faced bitter disappointment when the railroad relocated its route to the north in 1904. Most towns suffering similar fates fell into decline, but not Kalispell. Designated the Flathead County seat in 1894, Kalispell—named for the region's Q’lispé tribe—retained its status as regional center of trade and grew to become a gateway to Glacier National Park. Discover the fascinating history and architecture of this leading town of northwest Montana.</description>
                    <pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2026 00:00:00 MDT</pubDate>
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                    <title>A Guide to Historic Lewistown</title>
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                    <description>In the geographic center of Montana sits Lewistown, the seat of Fergus County. Founded in the 1870s by Métis traders, Lewistown grew rapidly during the homesteading boom. Its population tripled between 1900 and 1910, then doubled again by 1920, as this advantageously located rail stop and commercial center expanded to become the thriving hub of central Montana. The architectural heritage of Lewistown awaits your discovery.</description>
                    <pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2026 00:00:00 MDT</pubDate>
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                    <title>A Guide to Historic Missoula* (ebook)</title>
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Situated west of the Continental Divide, the town of Missoula got its start in 1860 as a trading post called Hellgate, supplying miners with produce, flour, other trade goods, and lumber. Missoula's designation as county seat in 1866 and the arrival of the Northern Pacific in 1883 and the Milwaukee Road in 1909 cemented the town's role as a center of commerce. Its economy diversified further when Missoula became home to the state university—now called University of Montana—in 1895 as well as the U.S. Forest Service's regional district headquarters for the Rocky Mountains in 1908. With a flourishing downtown district and well-preserved historic homes, Missoula's streetscapes today reflect the town's abundant history, thanks, in part, to a successful historic preservation program that has protected much of the community's rich architectural legacy. Explore Missoula's buildings, parks, and historic sites through this guide.</description>
                    <pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2026 00:00:00 MDT</pubDate>
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                    <title>A Guide to Historic Virginia City* (ebook)</title>
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                    <description>The gold-rush town of Virginia City, purchased by the State of Montana to preserve for posterity, makes a fitting first subject for the Montana Mainstreets series. Historic Virginia City was Montana's second territorial capital and the center of trade for Alder Gulch, the site of the richest placer mines in the world during the 1860s. When the gold deposits played out and the state capital moved to Helena in 1889, Virginia City became frozen in time. Today, Virginia City attracts visitors from all over the world, who marvel at its intact frontier architecture and the seeming immediacy of the gold rush era. If walking down Virginia City's streets is like a trip back in time, the road map for that journey is Guide to Historic Virginia City.

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                    <pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2026 00:00:00 MDT</pubDate>
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                    <title>A History of Montana in 101 Objects</title>
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                    <description>Since 1865, the Montana Historical Society has pursued its mission to collect and protect items of significance to Montana’s past for the pleasure and education of residents and visitors. A History of Montana in 101 Objects showcases the remarkable collection of artifacts preserved at the Montana Historical Society. This assemblage of objects and interpretive essays, accompanied by beautiful photographs by MHS photographer Tom Ferris, draws attention to the diversity of experiences—the triumphs and the sorrows, the everyday struggles and joys—that made Montana.

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                    <pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2026 00:00:00 MDT</pubDate>
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                    <title>A History of Montana in 101 Places</title>
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                    <description>A History of Montana in 101 Places outlines how community organizations, everyday folks, and local, state, and federal governments have made and remade the Last Best Place. 101 Places features diverse locations that embody major cultural, economic, and political developments in the history of the state. Indigenous cultural sites share space with battlefields, schools, farms, taverns, and mines as these places come together to tell Montana's story.

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                    <pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2026 00:00:00 MDT</pubDate>
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                    <title>The History of the Assiniboine and Sioux Tribes of the Fort Peck Indian Reservation, Montana, 1600–2012</title>
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                    <description>The first comprehensive history of the Fort Peck Indian Reservation commissioned by the tribes themselves, The History of the Assiniboine and Sioux Tribes of the Fort Peck Indian Reservation, 1600–2012 is an authoritative scholarly exploration of the struggles and triumphs of the Native Americans who were relegated by the federal government to a reservation in northeastern Montana in the late 1880s. Written by five scholars of Native American Studies,including tribal members, the narrative traces Assiniboine and Sioux tribal history from pre-contact with whites through the brutal early reservation period, two world wars, the turbulent 1960s, and into the 21st century. Drawn mostly from primary sources, including federal archives and private materials, this book is a benchmark in the publication of tribal histories with a native point of view. Copublished with Fort Peck Community College.

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                    <title>Hope in Hard Times*</title>
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                    <description>In the 1930s and 1940s, four Farm Security Administration photographers were detailed to Montana to document the effects of the Great Depression on the state. Traveling throughout the state, Arthur Rothstein, Marion Post Wolcott, Russell Lee, and John Vachon captured the many ways the Depression altered Montana's rural and urban communities, changed its agricultural and industrial economies, and affected the work and play of its residents. Rothstein, Wolcott, Lee, and Vachon's photographs are both stunning pieces of art and important historical documents. Today these striking images present an unforgettable portrait of a little-studied period in the history of Montana, documenting both the hardships Montanans experienced and their faith in a brighter future. Selected from the FSA Collection at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C., the photographs in Hope in Hard Times offer viewers an unparalleled look at life in Montana in the years preceding the United States' entry into World War II.

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                    <pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2026 00:00:00 MDT</pubDate>
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                    <title>How Marten Got His Spots and Other Kootenai Indian Stories</title>
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                    <description>Recorded by Kootenai elders and illustrated by Kootenai artists from the Flathead Indian Reservation in western Montana, these Kootenai stories were originally intended to help educate young tribal members about their history and culture. The collection includes "How Marten Got His Spots," in which Marten learns a hard lesson in obedience; "Coyote and Trout," in which Coyote discovers the consequences of greed; "Little Weasel's Dream," in which a child learns the importance of listening to his elders; and "Tepee Making," an illustrated lesson in tepee construction. For centuries, Kootenai children and adults gathered on cold, dark winter nights to share and learn from stories like these. Co-published with Salish Kootenai College Press.

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                    <pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2026 00:00:00 MDT</pubDate>
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                    <title>How the Morning and Evening Stars Came to Be and Other Assiniboine Indian Stories</title>
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                    <description>As part of the Indian Reading Series, a collection of authentic material cooperatively developed by Indian people, How the Morning and Evening Stars Came to Be offers three explanatory and cautionary tales from Montana's Assinboine people. Recorded by Assiniboine storytellers and illustrated by Assiniboine artists from the Fort Peck and Fort Belknap Indian Reservations, these traditional tales have been handed down for generations and were designed to teach youngsters the tribe's history and culture. These lively and engaging stories will appeal to anyone who is interested in exploring the world of the Assiniboines. Co-published with Fort Peck Tribal Library.

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                    <pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2026 00:00:00 MDT</pubDate>
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                    <title>I Do</title>
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                    <description>Weddings make for great—and sometimes startling—stories: the woman who escaped from her bedroom window to run off with a neighboring rancher; the priest who planned to combine an eighth-grade graduation ceremony with a wedding mass; the couple who courted for years by mail before managing to overcome the vast distance that separated them; the wedding guests who played cards while waiting for the bride’s grandparents to arrive on a delayed train; the mail-order bride who jilted the man who sent for her; the couple who married on the main pavilion of the 1905 Flathead County Fair; the couple who exchanged their vows at a Great Falls gun show.

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                    <pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2026 00:00:00 MDT</pubDate>
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                    <title>"I Will Be Meat for My Salish"</title>
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                    <description>The story of the Salish people's relationship to the buffalo—including their role in protecting the species—is preserved in this collection, which includes all extant interviews by the Montana Writers Project with Salish elders from the Flathead Reservation. This well-rounded book offers bison-related cultural legends, discussion of traditional lifeways, and biographies of important figures on the reservation, offering a glimpse into tribal life as it was lived in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and reinforcing the significance of bison to Montana's Salish people. Co-published with Salish Kootenai College Press.

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                    <pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2026 00:00:00 MDT</pubDate>
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                    <title>Jeannette Rankin, America's Conscience*</title>
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                    <description>Suffragist, social worker, lifelong peace activist, and tireless advocate for political reform, Jeannette Rankin is often remembered as the first woman elected to the United States Congress and as the only Congressperson who voted "no" to U.S. involvement in both world wars. Rankin's determined voice shines in this biography, written by her friend, Norma Smith.

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                    <pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2026 00:00:00 MDT</pubDate>
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                    <title>Legacy</title>
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                    <description>In this collection of essays from the 1994 Little Bighorn Legacy Symposium, an outstanding array of scholars discuss the battle's context, historical significance, and cultural impacts from both white and Native American perspectives. Contributors include Richard A. Fox, Jr., Paul Andrew Hutton, Edward T. Linenthal, and Richard S. Slotkin. Essays examine such diverse topics as the environmental context of the northern plains, new archaeological discoveries about the battle, how Custer has been portrayed in art and the movies, and the battle's symbolic legacy.

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                    <pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2026 00:00:00 MDT</pubDate>
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                    <title>Mary Quequesah's Love Story: A Pend d'Oreille Indian Tale</title>
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                    <description>In Mary Quequesah's Love Story, a tale from the buffalo-hunting era of the nineteenth century, a young woman confronts the difficulties of love. After Mary's husband leaves her, a wise old woman dreams of Mary's sorrow and tells her how to win him back.
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                    <pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2026 00:00:00 MDT</pubDate>
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                    <title>Mining Childhood*</title>
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                    <description>Mining Childhood offers a child’s-eye view of Butte, Montana, from 1900 to 1960, the six decades marking Butte’s fame as the “Richest Hill on Earth.” The biographical stories presented here remind us that children were not sheltered from the "adult" world around them; rather, they were shapers of that world. Children were keen observers and active participants in community life, and their accounts of work, play, family, schooling, ethnicity, and neighborhood life offer fresh perspectives on Montana's mining city in all its complexity.</description>
                    <pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2026 00:00:00 MDT</pubDate>
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                    <title>Montana: A Paper Trail</title>
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                    <description>Collector and historian Thomas Minckler spent a half century gathering nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century letters and documents, vintage photographs, rare books, and paintings. He shares these collections in Montana: A Paper Trail.

Minckler’s decades of researching and contextualizing items in his collection uncovered innumerable valuable insights on Montana history. Each artifact’s unique paper trail reveals a journey that contributes to the fascinating story of Montana.</description>
                    <pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2026 00:00:00 MDT</pubDate>
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                    <title>Montana Moments (ebook)*</title>
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                    <description>“The pages of Montana Moments overflow with enjoyable historical vignettes that cover nearly everything important that’s happened in Montana’s history. Newcomers will find an excellent introduction to what makes Montana tick, while Baumler’s careful research and entertaining writing style will delight old-timers.
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                    <pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2026 00:00:00 MDT</pubDate>
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