Investigating Negligence in Indian AffairsCharles C. C. Painter, the Indian Rights Association, and the Blackfeet Famine of 1883–1885
by Valerie Sherer Mathes

Mike Mansfield, Burton K. Wheeler, and the Montana Senate Campaign of 1946by Marc C. Johnson

“What is a country without horses?” Robert Yellowtail and Horse Herd Restoration on the Crow Reservation, 1934–1944
by Kerri Keller Clement, Winner, 2020 Emerging Scholars Contest

On the Wing The Success of Montana’s Warm Springs Game Bird Farm, 1929–1983
by Cole Wandler

CommentaryWarrior Spirit: Honoring the Legacy of American Indians’ U.S. Military Service
by Herman Viola, Cheryl Hughes, and Laura Ferguson

Abundance, Slaughter, and Resilience of the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem’s Mammal Population A View of the Historical Record, 1871–1885
by Lee H. Whittlesey

A Japanese Picture Bride in Montana The Story of Aya Hori Masuoka (1882–1972)
by Kathryn Tolbert

Fort Keogh’s Commissary A Global Market on the Great Plains from 1876 to 1900
by Ryan W. Booth

The Missing Cemetery of Taft, Montana, the “Wickedest City in America”by Kathleen Woodford

In MemoriamPeter H. Hassrick

Celebrating the “Real Americans” The Indian Paintings of Joseph Henry Sharp
by Dr. Peter H. Hassrick

“Escaped Up Certain Trees”Fugitive Hank Buckner and the Fight for Law and Order in Idaho and Montana Territories, 1864–1866
by Ronald H. Limbaugh

“The Biggest Public Health Experiment Ever”The Polio Pioneers and Montana’s Contribution to the Elimination of Polio in the United States
by Todd S. Harwell, MPH; Stacey L. Anderson, MPH; Greg S. Holzman, MD, MPH; and Steven D. Helgerson, MD, MPH

CommentaryCoyotes on the Road: The 2017 Westminster Expedition
by Jeff Nichols and Brent Olson

From the SocietyThe Montana Brewery Oral History Project
by Anneliese Warhank

“If you had fought bravely I would have sung for you” The Changing Roles of Cheyenne Women during Nineteenth Century Plains Warfare
by David Beyreis

Roosevelt’s “Company” Man The Political Career of J. Bruce Kremer
by Thomas Spencer

Crossing the Divide from Citizen to Voter Tribal Suffrage in Montana, 1880–2016
by Richmond Clow

The Fight Against the “Huns’ Ally” in Missoula, Montana, 1918–1919by Ellen Leahy

Commentary Letters from Louis L’Amour: What I Learned about the Western Narrative
by Michael T. Marsden

My Journey with the Lost Memoir of James Howard Lowell: An Antietam Veteran in Montana
by Katharine Seaton Squires

Every Word Belongs by Bill Wyckoff

The Ivan Doig Symposium at Montana State Universityby Susan Kollin

Ivan Clark Doig and His Literary Works, 1939–2015by Jodi Rasker and Jan Zauha

Creating “An In-Between Thing”The United States Forest Service and Ivan Doig’s Two Medicine Country
by Matt Fockler

Writer as Labor HistorianThe Changing World of Work in Ivan Doig’s Montana Books
by Nancy Cook

Home Ground and KinIvan Doig’s Montana
by Jill (Ramaker) Mackin

Born to Be PublishedIvan Doig and Taylor Gordon
by Laura Ferguson

On Writing and WritersA Conversation between Carol Doig and Lois Welch
edited and with an introduction by Mary Murphy

Savvying the RhythmsEditing Ivan
by Rebecca Saletan

The Ivan Doig Archive at Montana State Universityby Hannah McKelvey, Jan Zauha, and Jason Clark

Art, Agency, and ConservationA Fresh Look at Albert Bierstadt’s Vision of the West
by Peter H. Hassrick

John Owen’s Worst TripA Journey across the Columbia Plateau, 1858
by Sally Thompson

The Piikuni and the U.S. Army’s Piegan ExpeditionCompeting Narratives of the 1870 Massacre on the Marias River
by Rodger C. Henderson

“Enriched by the Vitalized Pictures”The Moving Image Archives at the Montana Historical Society
by Kelly Burton

Cheyenne and Lakota Women at the Battle of the Little Bighornby Leila Monaghan watch the video

“Please Send Me Some Medecine”Dr. Charles A. McNulty’s Medical Practice in Madison County, Montana
by Todd L. Savitt

Buffalo Soldiers in Big Sky Country, 1888–1898by John P. Langellier

A Copper King’s Mysterious MarriageThe Peculiar Pairing of William A. Clark and Anna LaChapelle
by Keith Edgerton

The Great WarFrom the Vaults of the Montana Historical Society
by Martha Kohl

“We Had to Start Treating Them as Human Beings” Dr. Philip Pallister, Clinical Genetics, and the Montana State Training School, 1940s–1970s
by Linda Sargent Wood

More than Mourning Dove Christine Quintasket: Activist, Leader, Public Intellectual
by Laurie Arnold

Working on the Railroad A Memoir by Immigrant Laborer Poet Antonio Andreoni
by Maria Bendinelli Predelli

“Realizing the Chance of Your Life”A Wisconsin Doctor Moves to Missoula, 1905
by Todd L. Savitt

Nurse, Mother, MidwifeSusie Walking Bear Yellowtail and the Struggle for Crow Women’s Reproductive Autonomy
by Brianna Theobald

After the West Was WonHow African American Buffalo Soldiers Invigorated the Helena Community in Early Twentieth-Century Montana
by Anthony Wood

Fraud at Fort ParkerHow Corruption and Contracting Built Early Bozeman
by Crystal Alegria and Marsha Fulton

“I was smitten with the West”The Montana Historical Society celebrates Brian W. Dippie
by Charles E. Rankin

Creating “Staunch Hearted, Bright-Eyed Sportswomen”The Montana Legacy of Ina E. Gittings
by Pamela Stewart

A Cross in the WildernessSt. Mary’s Mission Celebrates 175 Years
by Ellen Baumler

Rocky Mountain RadicalsCopper King James A. Murray, Senator James E. Murray, and Seventy-Eight Years of Montana Politics, 1883–1961
by Bill Farley

Manufactured Housing in Twentieth-Century Montanaby Zoe Ann Stoltz watch the video

Remove the Dam, Restore the RiverHow Public Participation Redefined Superfund Law at Milltown, Montana
by David Brooks

Surviving MontanaWomen’s Memories of Work and Family Life, 1900–1960
by Laurie Mercier

The Traditional Worldview of the Kootenai Peopleby the Kootenai Culture Committee

When Jeannette Said “No”Montana Women’s Response to World War I
by Mary Murphy

“Upward Ho! Or, The Way of The Better Life”The Circuit Chautauqua Movement in Montana
by Nancy Cooper

Bob & CharlieA Montana Pair to Draw To
by Kirby Lambert and Jennifer Bottomly-O’looney

Firefighters in the Sky75 Years and Still Smokejumping over Montana
by Lincoln Bramwell

The Montana Historical Society Celebrates 150 Yearsby Bruce Whittenberg

In Search of the SublimeFinding Transcendence in the Mountain West, 1880–1920
by Diana L. Di Stefano

Rudyard KiplingAt Large in the West
by Landon Y. Jones

‘We Are Learning to Do These Things Better’A Women’s History of Helena’s First Neighborhood
by Ellen Baumler

‘Come Join the K.K.K. in the Old Town Tonight’The Ku Klux Klan in Harlowton, Montana, during the 1920s
by Christine K. Erickson

Protecting Montana’s Historic Propertiesby Kathryn Ore watch the video

Wheeling through YellowstoneA History of Early Bicycling in America’s First National Park
by Wes Hardin

‘The Courage to Act by a Higher and Humaner Principle’Lewis J. Duncan and the Socialist Movement in Butte, Montana, 1900–1914
by John Hajduk

Forrest Anderson, the 1972 Constitution, and the Reshaping of Montanaby Brian Shovers watch the video

From Havana to MontanaCuban Refugee Children, Operation Pedro Pan, and the Cold War Catholic Church
by Clint Attebery

Blood MoneyThe Montana Bankers Association and the Bozeman Bank Robbery of 1932
by Kim Allen Scott

The Bones Brothers Ranchby Joan L. Brownell

From Party Lines and Barbed WireA History of Telephones in Montana
by Ellen Arguimbau

A Massive UndertakingConstructing Montana’s Interstate Highways, 1956–1988
by Jon Axline

Luck and DetailsPhotographing the Work of Charles M. Russell
by Tom Ferris watch the video

Lee Metcalf and the Politics of PreservationPart I—A Positive Program of Development
by Frederick H. Swanson

On TrialThe Washington R*dskins’ Wily Mascot—Coach William “Lone Star” Dietz
by Linda M. Waggoner

The Case for a Custer Battalion SurvivorPrivate Gustave Korn’s Story
by Albert Winkler

A “Temple of Pleasure”Missoula’s Wilma Theatre
by Elizabeth “Libi” Sundermann

Montana’s National Register Programby John Boughton

This Was J.C.PenneyA Century of James Penney’s Main Street Department Stores in the Rocky Mountain West
by David Delbert Kruger watch the video

The Travails of Flathead Indian Agent Charles S. Medary, 1875–1877by Robert Bigart

The Art of StorytellingPlains Indian Perspectives
by Jennifer Bottomley-O’looney

Louis W. Hill, the Great Northern Railway, and the Origins of Automobile Tourism in the Northern Plainsby Alan R. Havig

The Serendipitous Preservation of Butte’s Mai Wah Noodle Parlor and the Wah Chong Tai Companyby Hal Waldrup

Jerry O’ConnellMontana’s Communist Congressman
by Vernon L. Pedersen

Beyond the ‘Mongolian Muddle’Reconsidering Virginia City, Montana’s China War of 1881
by Laura J. Arata

E. B. White’s Montana and The Trumpet of the Swanby Marcia Melton

The Politics of PerformanceMontana’s Landless Indians and Beveridge’s Montana Wildest West Show
by Elizabeth Sperry

Innovations in EducationThe Montana Historical Society’s Reach Extends Nationally and Internationally
by Mark Johnson watch the video

‘Indians shall do things in common’Oglala Lakota Identity and Cattle-Raising on the Pine Ridge Reservation
by Jeffrey D. Means

Ernest Hemingway’s Westby Lou Mandler

Montana’s BarnsA Vanishing History
by Chere Jiusto and Christine W. Brown; photographs by Tom Ferris

From Canning to ContraceptivesCooperative Extension Service Home Demonstration Clubs and Rural Montana Women in the Post–World War II Era
by Amy L. McKinney

The Restoration of a Legendary Painting by C. M. Russellby Erica ESH Henry

Helen P. Clarke in ‘the Age of Tribes’Montana’s Changing Racial Landscape, 1870–1920
by Andrew R. Graybill watch the video

Axis Nation ‘Detainees’ and Japanese Enemy Aliens in the West during World War IIby Carol Van Valkenburg

‘Not an imaginary picture altogether, but parts’The Artistic Legacy of Buffalo Bill Cody
by Robert E. Bonner

‘With no companion but her horse’The Rocky Mountain Husbandman’s Traveling Correspondents Anna Kline and Carolyn A. Murphy, 1889–1904
by Frank R. Grant

Montana Book Roundupby Aaron Parrett

The Nez Perce and Their TrialsRethinking America’s Indian Wars
by Elliott West

Guy M. Brandborg and the Bitterroot ControversyA Conservationist’s Legacy in the Northern Rockies
by Frederick H. Swanson

HungerA Memoir of Growing Up in Northeastern Montana
by Ruth McLaughlin; introduced by Dee Garceau

When the Mountains RoaredThe 1910 Northern Rockies Fires
by Lincoln Bramwell

The Mapkeepersby Brian Shovers

The N Bar N RanchA Legend of the Open-Range Cattle Industry, 1885–99
by Lee I. Niedringhaus

‘Charlot loves his people’The Defeat of Bitterroot Salish Aspirations for an Independent Bitterroot Valley Community
by Robert Bigart

Following the Old North Trail to BerlinWalter McClintock and the Grand Opera Poia
by Steven L. Grafe

Romancing MontanaFrances Parker, Western Writer
by Mary L. Helland

From Bits of Paper to Bytes of DataThe Newspaper Collection at the Montana Historical Society
by Molly Kruckenberg

Failed National Parks in the Last Best Placeby Lary M. Dilsaver and William Wyckoff

Dying in the WestPart 1—Hospitals and Health Care in Montana and Alberta, 1880–1950
by Dawn Nickel

Cromwell DixonThe World’s Youngest Aviator
by Del Phillips

Celebrating a Century of County Building in Montanaby Jeff Malcomson watch the video

Are We There Yet?Some Thoughts on the Current State of Western Women’s History
by Sue Armitage

Montana Film Roundup: Butte, Americaby Brian Shovers

‘These Men Play Real Polo’An Elite Sport in the ‘Cowboy State,’ 1890–1930
by Michael A. Amundson

Montana Deaconess School to IntermountainA Centennial of Restoring Hope for Children, 1909–2009
by Ellen Baumler

Plying the Waters in America’s Little SwitzerlandEarly-Twentieth-Century Lake Tourism in Glacier National Park
by Calvin H. Mires

From Coal Mine to CourtsideBasketball in Bearcreek, Montana
by Liza J. Nicholas

Montana: Stories of the LandA New Approach to Teaching Montana History
by Martha Kohl

‘More Real than the Indians Themselves’The Early Years of the Indian Lore Movement in the United States
by Clyde Ellis

Montana Quilts and QuiltmakersA History of Work and Beauty
by Mary Murphy

Montana Quilts and QuiltmakersFrom Sunburst to Nine-Patch—Treasures of the Nineteenth Century
by Annie Hanshew

A Call to OrderLaw, Violence, and the Development of Montana’s Early Stockmen’s Organizations
by T. A. Clay

Sitting ProudThe Indian Portraits of Joseph Scheuerle
by Jennifer Bottomly-O’looney

‘Big Love’Unnatural Families and the Suburban West
by Maria E. Montoya

The Fight for Crow WaterPart II: Damming the Bighorn
by Megan Benson

The World in the West, the West in the WorldFriedrich Gerstäcker, Richard Francis Burton, and Isabella Bird on the Nineteenth-Century Frontier
by David Wrobel

The Seminal Years of the Montana Legislative Council, 1957–1965by Eugene C. Tidball

Living ArtifactsThe Ancient Ponderosa Pines of the West
by Stephen F. Arno, Lars Östlund, and Robert E. Keane

How It WorkedThe Stamp Mill
by Duane A. Smith

Charlie Russell and the Mysterious Photographsby Ken Robison

Restoring History at the Original Governor’s Mansionby Susan R. Near

Montana Book Roundupby Sue Hart

Abortion in the Old WestThe Trials of Dr. Edwin S. Kellogg of Helena, Montana
by Todd L. Savitt

George ‘Montana’ OiyeThe Journey of a Japanese American from the Big Sky to the Battlefields of Europe
by Casey J. Pallister

Babe in the WoodsF. Scott Fitzgerald’s Unlikely Summer in Montana
by Landon Y. Jones

The Railroad Photography of Warren McGeeby Jennifer Jeffries Thompson

HBO’s DeadwoodNot Your Typical Western
by John Mack Faragher

The St. Ignatius Missionby Katherine Mitchell

Happy Birthday MHS Press!from the Society

Gwendolen HasteGiving Voice to the Homesteaders
by Sue Hart

When Does a Cactus Become an Angry Buffalo?Traditional Games of the Lakotas
by Raymond A. Bucko, S.J.

The Tragic Montana Career of Dr. D. E. Salmonby Fredric L. Quivik

The Nez Perces in Yellowstone in 1877A Comparison of Attempts to Deduce Their Route
by Lee Whittlesey

Montana Architecture—More than a Mile from City CenterHelena’s Northern Pacific Railroad District and Sixth Ward
by Kate Hampton

Identifying African American Resources Projectby Scott Meredith

Montana Book Roundupby Bud Bynack

Frontiersman for the TsarTimofei Tarakanov and the Expansion of Russian America
by Kenneth N. Owens

Love, Valor, and EnduranceWorld War II War Brides Making a Home in Montana
by Seena B. Kohl

The Story from Indian CountryWhat We Learned from the Lewis and Clark Bicentennial
by Frederick E. Hoxie

Remembering Dave Walter

Teaching Twentieth-Century Montana Historyby Linda Wruck

Montana Book Roundupby Sue Hart

Mormonism in Montanaby Brian Q. Cannon

Second Views of the Treasure Stateby William Wyckoff

Monopolizing The Virginian (or, Railroading Wister)by Melody Graulich

Brigadier General George Crook’s ‘Horse Meat March’ and the Fight at Slim ButtesA Letter by Walter Scribner Schuyler
by Charles M. Robinson III

Fort Davis and the Antebellum Military Frontiersby Robert Wooster

Forest Images by K. D. Swanby Kirby Lambert

The Montana Heritage Projectby Katherine Mitchell

Forsyth, Montanaby Martha Kohl

Animal Last StandsEmpathy and Extinction in the American West
by Jon T. Coleman

Women and Hunting in the Westby Mary Zeiss Stange

Hunting Democracyby Daniel Justin Herman

‘The Great Source of Amusement’Hunting in the Frontier Army
by James E. Potter

The Legendary Earl DurandWyoming’s ‘Tarzan of the Tetons’
by Lillian Turner

‘Something Wicked This Way Comes’by Gordon Morris Bakken and Elwood Bakken

Travel and Exploration Narratives in the Montana Historical Society Collectionby Rich Aarstad and Jennie Stapp

Pine Butte Swamp Preserve and the Rocky Mountain Frontby W. Clark Whitehorn

Diversions, Ditches, and District CourtsMontana’s Struggle to Allocate Water
by Brian Shovers

The Contradictory Legacies of Buffalo Bill Cody’s First Scalp for Custerby Paul L. Hedren

Elwood Mead, Buffalo Bill Cody, and the Carey Act in Wyomingby Robert E. Bonner

Kayaking Playground or Nature Preserve?Whitewater Boating Conflicts in Yellowstone National Park
by Michael J. Yochim

Historical Maps of Montana and the Stories They Tellby Sally Thompson

Reading between the Linesby Clyde Ellis and Charlene Porsild

Empty SaddlesDesertion from the Dashing U.S. Cavalry
by Judy Daubenmier

Fire and AshesThe Last Survivor of the Mann Gulch Fire
by John N. Maclean

A Rashomon NightMontana Vigilantes and the Subjective Question of Guilt
by Frederick Allen

‘Give Me Eighty Men’Shattering the Myth of the Fetterman Massacre
by Shannon Smith Calitri

The Trials of John L. Smithby John Clayton

The Old Works Golf Course, Anaconda, Montanaby Brian Shovers

From Liverpool to Cut Bankby Jodie Foley

Bearcreek, Montanaby Jon Axline

Falling in Love with MontanaJohn Vachon’s Photographic Sojourn
by Mary Murphy

‘Enigma Woman’ Nellie MadisonFemme Fatales and Noir Fiction
by Kathleen Cairns

Going to BuffaloIndian Hunting Migrations Across the Rocky Mountains Part 2: Civilian Permits, Army Escorts
by William E. Farr

‘Performers Prove Beauty & Rodeo Can Be Mixed’The Return of the Cowgirl Queen
by Renee M. Laegreid

‘The Fellow Who Can Talk the Loudest and Has the Best Shotgun Gets the Water’Water Regulation and the Montana State Engineer’s Office, 1889–1964
by James E. Sherow

Days of Discoveryby Dayton Duncan

L. A. Huffmanby Gene Allen & Bev Allen

Medicine Lake National Wildlife Refugeby Amy L. McKinney

Snow Machines in the Gardens The History of Snowmobiles in Glacier and Yellowstone National Parks
by Michael J. Yochim

Two Roads Diverged A Look Back at the Montana Study
by Carla Homstad

Mormon Missionaries, the Utah War, and the 1858 Bannock Raid on Fort Limhiby David Bigler

Made in Montana Montana’s Post Office Murals
by Elizabeth Mentzer

Sculptor Alexander Phimister Proctor in Montanaby Peter H. Hassrick

From the Society Treasure State Treasurers Survey
by Kirby Lambert

The Montana Traveler The National Bison Range
by W. Clark Whitehorn

Yellowstone’s Creation Myth Can We Live with Our Own Legends?
by Paul Schullery and Lee Whittlesey

Beauty and the Beet The Dam Battles of Yellowstone National Park
by Michael J. Yochim

Sisters’ Hospital The Sisters of Providence and St. Patrick Hospital, Missoula, Montana, 1873–1890
by Todd L. Savitt and Janice Willms

‘Kluxer Blues’ The Klan Confronts Catholics in Butte, Montana, 1923–1929
by Christine K. Erickson

Montana Episodes From Treasure State to Big Sky
by Brian Shovers

From the Society Montana’s Heritage Barns Project
by Kate Hampton

The Montana Traveler Madison River Canyon Earthquake Area
by Molly K. Holz

Wrestling with Horace Albright, Part I Edmund Rogers, Visitors, and Bears in Yellowstone National Park
by Alice K. Wondrak

‘Nothing Up Here But Foreigners and Coal Slack World War I and the Tranformation of Red Lodge
by Bonnie Christensen

Life on the Margin The Evolution of the Waning West
by William Wyckoff

‘First to Respond to Their Country’s Call’ The First Montana Infantry and the Spanish-American War and Philippine Insurrection, 1898–1899
by Richard K. Hines

Memorial Vivian Paladin
by Charles E. Rankin, Martha Kohl, William L. Lang, Robert F. Morgan, Ellen Baumler, Jean Baucus

Montana Episodes Brass Bands and Copper Kings
by David Reynolds

The Natural West The Astonishing Origins of Wallace Stegner’s Environmental Genius
by Beth LaDow

Essays on the West The Best Books about Montana, Twenty-First-Century Edition
by Harry W. Fritz

The Montana Traveler The Charles M. Bair Family Museum
by Ann Kooistra-Manning

The Texas Ranger Tradition Established Jack Hays and Walker Creek
by Robert M. Utley

The Damming of Yellowstone National Park A Crusade for Irrigation in the Upper Yellowstone Valley
by Hugh Lovin

Learning about the Weather Dryfarming Doctrine and Homestead Failure in Eastern Montana, 1900–1925
by Gary D. Libecap

Winter in the Rockies Winter Quarters of the Mountain Men
by Kerry R. Oman

Saving Montana’s Past The Creation and Evolution of the Montana Historical Society and Montana The Magazine of Western History
by Brian Shovers

Essays on the West Bookmen on the Montana Frontier
by Rick Newby

Montana Episodes Isabelle Randall and the “Natives”
by Phyllis Smith

The Montana Traveler A Hospitable History, Grant Kohrs Ranch National Historic Site
by Lyndel Meikle

Historical Reflections The Haunting of Butte’s Quartz Street Fire Station
by Ellen Baumler

‘When Montana and I Were Young’ Margaret Bell’s Memoir of a Northern Montana Childhood
by Mary Clearman Blew

American Pathwaysby Elliott West

‘Well I Have Lived in Montana Almost a Week and Like It Fine’ Letters from the Davis Homestead, 1910–1926
by Seena B. Kohl

Creating a Mythic Past Spanish-Style Architecture in Montana
by Hipόlito Rafael Chacόn

Looking Backby Vivian A. Paladin, William L. Lang, and Charles E. Rankin

The Montana Traveler Crossing a Landscape of Sorrow: The Nez Perce (Nee-Me-Poo) National Historic Trail
by Dan Gard

Montana Vigilantes and the Origins of 3-7-77by Frederick Allen

‘A Very Exclusive Party’ A Firsthand Account of Building the Union Pacific Railroad
by Ernest Haycox, Jr.

Evolution of an Environmentalist Senator Frank Church and the Hells Canyon Controversy
by Sara E. Dant Ewert

Scots in the North American Westby Ferenc Morton Szasz

Looking Back Happy Birthday Montana!
by K. Ross Toole

Historical Reflections Rapid, Reliable Riding on Montana’s Street Railways
by Ellen Baumler

The Montana Traveler Wild Horse Island
by Diane Tipton

Joe De Yong and Hollywood Charlie Russell’s Protégé on the Celluloid Frontier
by Dan Gagliasso

George Bird Grinnell and the ‘Vanishing’ Plains Indiansby Sherry L. Smith

A Life in the Oil Patch Kenneth F. Cox in Glendive, Montana, 1953–1954
by Stephen F. Cox

Unlikely Harvesters German Prisoners of War as Agricultural Workers in the Northwest
by Tomas Jaehn

Historical Commentary Davy Crockett and the Alamo: Thoughts on Truth, Fiction, and Smelling a Rat
by Stephen Harrigan

Essay on the West ‘What’s in a Name?’: Christening Early Madison County, Montana, Quartz Lodges
by Jeffrey J. Safford

The Montana Traveler Old Montana Prison—A Place to Visit
by Molly Holz

Historical Reflections When a Capital Idea Turned ‘Hideous’
by Ellen Baumler

A Very Different Story Exploring the Southwest from Monticello with the Freeman and Custis Exedition of 1806
by Dan Flores

A Voyage to Montana, Part II Serena Washburn’s Account of Her Trip up the Missouri River in 1869
by Aubrey L. Haines

Mules, Mines, and Millions Frank Smith and Calico Borax
by Douglas Steeples

The Columbia River’s Fate in the Twentieth Centuryby William L. Lang

Memorial Mike Malone—A Man to Remember
by Charles E. Rankin, Pierce C. Mullen, William L. Lang, Vivian A. Paladin, Richard W. Etulain

Historical Reflections Photos from Montana’s Past (Yogo sapphires)
by the editor

The Montana Traveler Chief Plenty Coups State Park
by Molly Holz

Golden Dreams Colorado, California, and the Reimagining of America
by Elliott West

Disorder, Crime, and Punishment in the California Gold Rushby Martin Ridge

‘When a Person Gits to California It Is Hard to Say or Tell When He Gets Away’ Why the Forty-Niners Were Reluctant to Come Home the Families They Loved
by Malcolm J. Rohrbough

No Need to Rush The Chinese, Placer Mining, and the Western Environment
by Liping Zhu

The Legacy of the Gold Rush An Afterword
by Martin Ridge

Essays on the West More than the Glory: Preserving the Gold Rush and Its Outcome at Virginia City
by Ellen Baumler

The Montana Traveler Bannack State Park: A Gate in Time
by Marcella Sherfy

Historical Reflections Photos from Montana’s Past (Robbers’ Roost)
by the editor

Montana Book Roundup by Charles E. Rankin

‘This I Know from the Old People’ Yakima Indian Treaty Rights
by Andrew H. Fisher

Hoboes across the Border A Comparison of Itinerant Cross-Border Laborers between Montana and Western Canada
by Evelyne Stitt Pickett

‘Hope It Turns Warm So Things Will Grow’ Dwight and Hazel Howard and the Development of Montana Seed Corn
by Stan Howard

The Crazy Mule Maps A Northern Cheyenne’s View of Montana and Western Dakota in 1878
by Linea Sundstrom and Glen Fredlund

Montana Episodes The Willson Brothers Come to Montana
by Kim Allen Scott

Historical Reflections Photos from Montana’s Past (Montana Highway Patrol)
by the editor

Montana Book Roundup by Martha Kohl

Butte Resilient City with an Unforgettable Past
by Mary Murphy

Devil’s Perch Prostitution from Suite to Cellar in Butte, Montana
by Ellen Baumler

Intimate Strangers The Interlocking Histories of Butte, Montana, and Chuquicamata, Chile
by Janet L. Finn

Remaking the Wide-Open Town Butte at the End of the Twentieth Century
by Brian Shovers

Montana Episodes The Butte Walkathon, 1931
by Fred and Mary Kay Voget

Historical Commentary A Reexamination of the Granite Mountain–Speculator Fire
by James D. Harrington

Essays on the West Where Have All the Heroes Gone?A Review of J. Anthony Luka’s Big Trouble
by David M. Emmons

Frontierland as Tomorrowland Walt Disney and the Architectural Packaging of the Mythic West
by Michael Steiner

Montana’s Refining Industry, Part I 1920–1941
by Joseph M. Ashley

“Food, Rest, and Happyness,” Part II Limitations and Possibilities in the Early Treatment of Tuberculosis in Montana
by Connie Staudohar

Essays on the West Lewis and Clark and the American Century: A Review of Ken Burn’s PBS Series on the Corps of Discovery
by William L. Lang

Essays on the West Northern Perspectives on the American West
by John R. Wunder

First across the Continent, Part I Alexander Mackenzie’s Trek to the Pacific
by Barry Gough

Yellowstone Ecological Holocaustby Paul Schullery

“Baited by a ‘Color’ of Gold to a Mountain of Granite,” Part II Connecticut Capital at Work in the Montana Goldfields, 1865–1868
by Jeffrey J. Safford

Odyssey of a Union Communism and the Rise of the Northwest Metal Workers, 1960–1972
by Katherine G. Aiken

Montana Episodes “If It Don’t End in Bloodshed”: The Montana State Baseball League, 1900
by James A. Scott

In Commemoration John C. Ewers, 1909–1997
by Charles E. Rankin, Vivian A. Paladin, William R. Swagerty, Hugh Dempsey, Raymond J. DeMallie

Punishing the Elephant Malfeasance and Organized Criminality on the Overland Trail
by John Phillip Reid

Red Cloud, Part I The Warrior Years
by Robert W. Larson

‘A Hell of a Time All the Time’ Farmers, Ranchers, and the Roaring Fork Valley during the ‘Quiet Years’
by Annie Gilbert Coleman

Radio in the HinterlandsKGCX 1925–1993 KGCX: ‘The Voice of Cow Creek’
by Bill Knowles

KGCX: ‘Not a Pretentious Operation’
by Clair and Keith Krebsbach

Essays on the WestSometimes the Magic Works by Clyde A. Milner II
‘Never Take No Cutoffs’ The Filmmakers Saga by Dayton Duncan

Reflections on the Pony Expressby Martin Ridge

Chinese River Mining in the Westby Randall Rohe

‘Joe Hill Ain’t Never Died’ Wallace Stegner’s Act of Literary Imagination
by Robert H. Keller

‘What Valor Is’ Artists and the Mythic Moment
by Brian W. Dippie

Historical Commentary The Medicine Line and the Thin Red Line
by Frits Pannekoek

Montana Episodes Pearl Danniel: Homesteader in Big Dry Country
by Ellie Arguimbau

Shark of the Plains Early Western Encounters with Wolves
by Bruce Hampton

‘A Fight to the Finish’ The Extermination of the Gray Wolf in Wyoming, 1890–1930
by Peter M. Zmyj

The First National Park Interpreter C. L. Henderson in Yellowstone, 1882–1902
by Lee H. Whittlesey

The Lure of the Parksby Kirby Lambert

‘Roughing It Up the Yellowstone to Wonderland’ The Nelson Miles/Colgate Hoyt Party in Yellowstone National Park, September 1878
by James S. Brust and Lee H. Whittlesey

Essays on the West Perilous Passage: A Narrative of the Montana Gold Rush, 1862–1863
by Edwin Ruthven Purple, ed. by Kenneth N. Owens

In Commemoration Richard B. Roeder, 1930–1995
by Charles E. Rankin, Brian Cockhill, Michael P. Malone, Harry W. Fritz, Eugene C.Tidball, and Pierce C. Mullen

Showdown at the Hollywood Corral Wyatt Earp and the Movies
by Paul Andrew Hutton

Annie Oakley Creating the Cowgirl
by Glenda Riley

Paradise among the Monuments John Ford’s Vision of the American West
by Ronald L. Davis

Historical Commentary Stories: A Narrative History of the West
by Elliott West

‘Always Bet on the Butcher’ Warren Nelson and Illegal Gambling in Montana in the 1920s and 1930s
by R. T. King

When Indians Became Cowboysby Peter Iverson

Battle for Dinosaur Echo Park Dam and the Birth of the Modern Wilderness Movement
by Mark W. T. Harvey

Historical Commentary The Rocky Mountain West: Fragile Space, Diverse Place
by Dan Flores

Essays on the West Writing One Sweet Quarrel, Telling the Accurate Lie
by Deirdre McNamer

In Commemoration Merrill G. Burlingame, 1901–1994
by Pierce C. Mullen, Brian Cockhill, Vivian A. Paladin, and Michael P. Malone

Recovering Red Cloud’s Autobiographyby R. Eli Paul

A Woman’s Life in the Teton Country Geraldine L. Lucas
by Sherry Smith

‘We All Intermingled’ The Childhood Memories of South Slavic Immigrants in Red Lodge and Bearcreek, Montana, 1904–1943
by Anna Zellick

No Fleet Angleby Jack Havard

Historical Commentary Grandad’s Guilt
by Elmer Kelton

Essays on the West The Fetterman Hospital Association
by Phil Roberts

Battle of the Big Hole, Part 1by Bruce Hampton

Enlightened Selfishness Great Falls and the Sun River Project
by Judith Fabry

‘We Are Women Irish’ Gender, Class, Religious, and Ethnic Identity in Anaconda, Montana
by Laurie K. Mercier

‘I Was a Stranger and Ye Took Me In’by Clark C. Spence

Ethelby Jack Havard

Historical Commentary Frontier, Region, and Border: Cultural Currents in the Recent Southwest
by Richard W. Etulain

Montana Episode Winter at Cut Bank Ranger Station
by John Fraley

Charlie’s Hidden Agenda Realism and Nostalgia in C. M. Russell’s Stories about Indians
by Raphael Cristy

From Hill 57 to Capitol Hill: ‘Making Sparks Fly’ Sister Providencia Tolan’s Drive on Behalf of Montana’s Off-Reservation Indians, 1950–1970
by Joan Bishop

Custer’s Luck Runs Outby Shirley A. Leckie

Crazy Horse, Custer, and the Sweep to the Northby Gregory F. Michno

Traders to Trappers, Part II Andrew Henry and the Rocky Mountain Fur Trade
by Linda Harper White and Fred R. Gowans

Montana Episodes Phil Weinard Remembers Early Helena, 1880
ed. by K. F. Weinard

Historical Commentary Coming of Age in Montana: The Legacy of A. B. Guthrie, Jr.
by Fred Erisman

Essays on the West Professor Maclean and General Custer
by Robert M. Utley

Beyond the Beaver Fur and the American West by James P. Ronda

Certainty of Vengeance The Hudson’s Bay Company and Retaliation in Kind against Indian Offenders in New Caledonia
by John Phillip Reid

A View from the Bottom Up The Work Force of the American Fur Company on the Upper Missouri in the 1830s
by William R. Swagerty

Lou Devon’s Narrative A Tale of the Mandan’s Lost Years
by Will Bagley

Fort Uintah and the Reed Trading Postby John D. Barton

Traders to Trappers Andrew Henry and the Rocky Mountain Fur Trade
by Linda Harper White and Fred R. Gowans

Essays on the West Exploration and Commerce along the Pacific Northwest Coast
by James P. Ronda

A River Runs Through It, A Review
by Ivan Doig

Clint Eastwood’s Unforgiven—The Western Is Back
by John Mack Faragher

Where Is the American West? Report on a Survey
by Walter Nugent

Western Art Museums A Question of Style or Content
by Peter H. Hassrick

Photographic Allegories and Indian Destinyby Brian W. Dippie

Western Montana Rock Art Images of Forgotten Dreams
by James D. Keyser

Historical Commentary What You See Is Not Necessarily What You Get
by William H. Truettner and Alexander Nemerov

Visitors Respond: Selections from ‘The West as America’ Comment Books
by Andrew Gulliford

Essays on the West Discovered Lands, Invented Pasts
by Ron Tyler

Desire and Pursuit of the Whole The Politics of Storytelling
by William Kittredge

The Mormon-Carson Emigrant Trail in Western Historyby Kenneth N. Owens

Saving Souls on the Frontier A Chaplain’s Labor
by William Seraile

Rural Radicalism on the Northern Plains, 1912–1950by William C. Pratt

‘A Tough Place to Live’ The 1959 Montana State Prison Riot
by Keith Edgerton

Essays on the West Whose Shrine Is It? The Ideological Struggle for Custer Battlefield
by Robert M. Utley

In Search of Custer Battlefield
by Douglas C. McChristian

Historical Commentary The Origins of Twenty-First Century Montana
by Harry W. Fritz

The View from Wisdom Region and Identity in the Minds of Four Westerners
by Clyde A. Milner II

The Beginning of the End Miles versus Sitting Bull at Cedar Creek
by Jerome A. Greene

Was There Arsenic in the Air? Anaconda versus the Farmers of Deer Lodge Valley
by Gordon Morris Bakken

Evelyn Cameron Pioneer Photographer and Diarist
by Donna M. Lucey

The Peace Policy at Wind River The James Irwin Years, 1871–1877
by Henry E. Stamm IV

Historical Commentary The Western Intellectual: Josiah Royce
by Robert V. Hine

Review Essays Montana Literature and Western Identity
by Elliott West

The Life of an Idea The Significance of Frederick Jackson Turner’s Frontier Thesis
by Martin Ridge

‘three cool, determined men’ The Sioux War Heroism of Privates Evans, Stewart, and Bell
by Paul L. Hedren

‘Correct in Every Detail’ General Custer in Hollywood
by Paul Andrew Hutton

Minerva Allen Educator, Linguist, Poet
by John Terreo

Historical Commentary The West as Utopia and Myth
by Gerald D. Nash

Review Essay Of Bullets, Blunders, and Custer Buffs
by Brian W. Dippie

A Conversation with Wallace Stegnerinterview by Richard W. Etulain

Yellowstone Kelly From New York to Paradise
by Jerry Keenan

Walla Walla Gateway to the Pacific Northwest Interior
by G. Thomas Edwards

Civil Disorder and the Military in Rock Springs, Wyoming The Army’s Role in the 1885 Chinese Massacre
by Clayton D. Laurie

Historical Commentary Western History, Why the Past May Be Changing
four essays by Patricia Nelson Limerick, Michael P. Malone, Gerald Thompson, and Elliott West

Montana Episodes Montanans at Work: Businesswomen in Agricultural Communities
by Laurie K. Mercier

Montana Book Roundupby Charles E. Rankin

Robes, Rum, and Rifles Indian Middlemen in the Northern Plains Fur Trade
by Thomas F. Schilz

Where Did the Nez Perces Go in Yellowstone in 1877?by William L. Lang

Motivations of Indian Children at Missionary and U.S. Government Schools, 1860–1918 A Study through Published Reminiscences
by Michael C. Coleman

‘That Is My Road’ The Life and Times of a Crow Berdache
by Will Roscoe

Indian Perspectives of the Bozeman Trail, 1864–1868by Susan Badger Doyle

Montana Episodes A Trooper with Custer: Augustus DeVoto’s Account of the Little Big Horn
ed. by Dale Schoenberger

Historical Commentary The West and the Military-Industrial Complex
by Gerald D. Nash

A Tribute to William L. Langby Vivian A. Paladin, Richard Maxwell Brown, Dave Walter, Elliott West, Laurie K. Mercier, and Michael P. Malone

Montana Book Roundupby Charles E. Rankin

Tracking C. M. Russell in Canada, 1888–1889by Hugh A. Dempsey

Hobo Heresy Three Women on an Unconventional Tour of the American West in 1922
by Kathryn Stephen Wright

Centennial Biographies Charles A. Broadwater and the Main Chance in Montana
by William L. Lang

Robert Yellowtail, The New Warrior
by Constance J. Poten

Listening to the Native Voice American Indian Schooling in the Twentieth Century
by Margaret Connell Szasz

Missing in Glacier The Disappearance of the Whitehead Brothers in 1924
by Jerome S. DeSanto

Montana Episodes Montanans at Work: Camp Cooks in Montana
by Laurie K. Mercier

Historical Commentary Letting Wild Fire Loose: the Fires of ‘88
by Stephen J. Pyne

Review Essay Words to Drive By
by William L. Lang

Montana Book Roundupby Charles E. Rankin

A Lady’s Trip to Yellowstone in 1883 “Earth Could Not Furnish Another Such Site”
by Margaret Andrews Cruikshank, ed. by Lee H. Whittlesey

U.S. Army Surgeons and the Big Horn–Yellowstone Expedition of 1876by Mary C. Gillett

Centennial Biographies The Two Frontiers of Mary Ronan
by Annick Smith

Simon Pepin, A Quiet Capitalist
by Dave Walter

Dan Whetstone, Sage of Cutbank
by Vivian A. Paladin

Helen Hunt Jackson and the Ponca Controversyby Valerie Sherer Mathes

Montana Episodes My Years as Montana’s First Woman State Senator
by Ellenore M. Bridenstine

Historical Commentary “On the Move Again”: Hardrock Mining in the West
by Duane A. Smith

Review Essay Transition and Culmination: The Far West and the Great Plains in Transition, by Rodman Paul
by Clyde A. Milner II

Montana Book Roundupby Charles E. Rankin

“Astonishing the Natives” Bringing the Wild West to Los Angeles
by Lewis O. Saum

Dude Ranching in the Rockiesby Lawrence R. Borne

On Reading Lewis and Clark The Last Twenty Years
by Gary E. Moulton

“I have been improving right along” Continuity and Changes in the Art of Charles M. Russell
by Brian W. Dippie

Electing Montana’s Territorial Delegates The Beginnings of a Political System
by Richard B. Roeder

Remembering Donald Jacksonby Robert E. Lange, Mary Lee Spence, James P. Ronda, and Robert A. Saindon

Montana Episodes Visits with Charles M. Russell
by Lew L. Callaway

Historical Commentary The National Parks in Idealism and Reality
by Alfred Runte

Review Essay Discredited Memoirs Resurrected: Riding the High Country, by Patrick T. Tucker
by Raphael Cristy

Montana Book Roundupby Charles E. Rankin

Child’s Play Tradition and Adaptation on the Frontier
by Elliott West

Phil Sheridan’s Frontierby Paul Andrew Hutton

The Winter of 1886–1887 The Last of Those 5,000?
by Leland E. Stuart

From Kwangtung to the Big Sky The Chinese Experience in Frontier Montana
by Robert R. Swartout, Jr.

Death of a Small Business The Missoula Brewing Company
by John Andrew Kutzman

Montana Episodes “I never give up in despair”: The Letters of S. L. McIlhenny, 1878–1885
ed. by Herbert D. Hollinger

Historical Commentary Knowing the Land, Leaving the Land: Navajos, Hopis, and Relocation in the American West
by Peter Iverson

Review Essay Art of the American West: The West of the Imagination
by Peter Hassrick

Montana Book Roundupby Charles E. Rankin

Who Was Billy Kid?by Robert M. Utley

Frank Lloyd Wright’s Architectural Projects in the Bitterroot Valley, Montana, 1909–1910
by Donald Leslie Johnson

The Golden Special Campaign Train Republican Women Campaign for Charles Evans Hughes for President in 1916
by J. Leonard Bates and Vanette M. Schwartz

Charlie Russell’s Indiansby John C. Ewers

Teaching School on the Western Frontier An Acceptable Occupation for Nineteenth Century Women
by Suzanne H. Schrems

Frederic G. Renner, 1897–1987by Vivian A. Paladin

Montana Episodes Wolf Hunt Summer in Northeastern Montana, 1911
by Allan H. Toole

Historical Landscapes The Soo Line Corridor in Northeastern Montana
by Carrol Van West

Historical Commentary “Meet Anyone Face to Face” and Keep the Bullet in Front
by Richard Maxwell Brown

Review Essay The Secret Life of Those Times
by William Kittredge

Montana Book Roundupby Charles E. Rankin

The Shared Memory of Montana’s Pioneersby Clyde A. Milner II

The Letters of Barbara Alice Slater Homesteading on Canadian Prairies, 1909–1918
ed. by Jean E. Dryden and Sandra L. Myres

Boycott in Butte Organized Labor and the Chinese Community, 1896–1897
by Stacy A. Flaherty

W. A. Clark and the Las Vegas Connection The “Midas of the West” and the Development of Southern Nevada
by James W. Hulse

Montana Episodes Neighbors Helping Neighbors: Threshing in the Judith Basin
by Henry T. Murray with John A. Murray

Historical Landscapes Marcus Daly and Montana: One Man’s Imprint on the Landscape
by Carroll Van West

Historical Commentary The Tarnished Dream: The Turbulent World of the Forest Products Industry in the Northwest
by William G. Robbins

Review Essay Simple Stories of a Complicated People, or Complicated Stories for a Simple People?
by Richard White

Montana Book Roundupby Charles E. Rankin

The Story of Mrs. Picotte-Galpin, a Sioux Heroine Eagle Woman Becomes a Trader and Counsels for Peace, 1868–1888
by John S. Gray

Astoria and the Birth of Empireby James P. Ronda

Robert Meldrum and the Crow Peltry Tradeby Keith Algier

Conflict and Crisis in University Politics The Firing of President E. B. Craighead, 1915
by Jules A. Karlin

A Puritan at Alder Gulch and the Great Salt Lake Rev. Jonathan Blanchard’s Letters from the West, 1864
by Robert H. Keller Jr.

Montana Episodes Celebrating the Fourth of July in Fort Benton, 1910
by T. Eugene Barrows

Historical Commentary “Promised Land” or Armageddon? History, Survivalists, and the Aryan Nations in the Pacific Northwest
by Eckard Toy

Montana Book Roundupby Charles E. Rankin

New to the Countryby William Kittredge

A Friendship in Adversity Burton K. Wheeler and Hiram W. Johnson
by Robert E. Burke

Montana Women’s Clubs at the Turn of the Centuryby Stephanie Ambrose Tubbs

The Last Round-up Theodore Roosevelt Confronts the Nonpartisan League, October 1918
by James F. Vivian

Western Author Caroline Lockhart and Her Perspectives on Wyomingby Necah Stewart Furman

Montana Episodes Freighting in the Judith Basin, 1891–1902
by Henry T. Murray and John A. Murray

Historical LandscapesThe Bighorn Canyon

Historical Commentary The 1980s Farm Crisis
by Gilbert C. Fite

Montana Book Roundupby Charles E. Rankin

Strange Bedfellows Prostitution, Politicians, and Moral Reform in Helena, Montana, 1885–1887
by Paula Petrik

Game of Freeze-Out Marguerite Greenfield and Her Battle with the Great Northern Railway, 1920–1929
by Joan Bishop

The Missing Journals of Meriwether Lewisby Gary E. Moulton

I. G. Baker and Company in Calgary, 1875–1884by Henry C. Klassen

From Vermont to Whoop-Up Country Some Letters of D. W. Davis, 1867–1878
by Lewis O. Saum

Montana Episodes “I am lonely here all alone . . .”: The Letters of Hugh S. Lewis in Montana Territory, 1886–1887
comp. by Mary Templeton Haight, ed. by Rick Newby

Historical Landscapes Rural Schoolhouses in Montana

You Can’t Not Go Home Againby Ivan Doig

Thomas Francis Meagher’s Bar Billby Elliott West

A Forgotten Passage to Puget Sound The Fort Steilacoom–Walla Walla Road
by Richard Perko

Drilling at Kintla Lake Montana’s First Oil Well, 1901
by Jerome DeSanto

The Diary of Albert “Death-on-the-Trail” Reynolds, Glacier National Park, 1912–1913by C. W. Buchholtz

Montana Episodes Controlling Mormon Crickets in Montana, 1936–1941
by Ely M. Swisher

Charles M. Russell and Modern Timesby Richard B. Roeder

Charlie Russell’s Friendsby Vivian A. Paladin

Jake Hoover Russell’s First Friend in Montana
by Earl L. Jensen

Charlie and the Ladies in His Lifeby Ginger K. Renner

Charlie Russell Meets California’by Brian W. Dippie

Montana Episodes Charlie Russell and Great Falls
Russell Letters

Myths, History, and the Precarious Margin of Fictionby Mary Clearman Blew

Training Sled Dogs at Camp Rimini, 1942–1944by Karen Fischer

Frontierwomen’s Changing Views of Indians in the Trans-Mississippi Westby Glenda Riley

Children in Montanaby Patricia Dean

Confrontation in Montana Dr. Frederick A. Cook and the Mount McKinley Controversy
by William R. Hunt

Survey Party on the Blackfeet Indian Reservation, 1907by Fred E. Buck

A Tribute to Robert G. Athearnby Elliott West, Vivian A. Paladin, Michael P. Malone, H. Duane Hampton, David Emmons

“Not Without Labor and Expense” The Villard–Northern Pacific Last Spike Excursion, 1883
by Edward W. Nolan

The Great Railroad Celebration A Narrative by Francis Jackson Garrison
by Katharine Villard Seckinger, ed.

A Portfolio of F. Jay Haynes Railroad Photographsby Edward W. Nolan and John C. Smart

I Worked for the Railroad Oral Histories of Montana Railroaders, 1910–1950
by Laurie Mercier

Paris Gibson, James J. Hill & the “New Minneapolis” The Great Falls Water Power and Townsite Company, 1882–1908
by W. Thomas White

Montana Episodes Building the Northern Pacific in 1881
by Walter A. Cameron

In Yellowstone Park, 1886–1889 George Tutherly’s Reminiscences
by Lee H. Whittlesey, ed.

“At the Greatest Personal Peril to the Photographer” The Schwatka-Haynes Winter Expedition in Yellowstone, 1887
by William L. Lang

An Infantry Company in the Sioux Campaign, 1876by Paul Hedren

“We Done the Chores and Set by the Fire” Cold Winter in the Bitterroot
by Stanley R. Davison, ed.

Montana Episodes Ice Harvesting on Lakeside Ranch
by Michael P. Malone, ed.

Western Women Beginning to Come into Focus
by Sue Armitage

Hell Came with Horses Plains Indian Women in the Equestrian Era
by Margot Liberty

Mary Richardson Walker The Shattered Dreams of a Missionary Woman
by Patricia V. Horner

Well and Strong and Fearless Etta Anderson in Washington Territory
by Margaret Anderson Uhler, ed.

To the Dear Ones at Home Elizabeth Fisk’s Missouri River Trip, 1867
by Rex C. Myers, ed.

Mothers and Daughters of Eldorado The Fisk Family of Helena, M.T., 1867–1902
by Paula Petrik

Crossing the Gender Line Ella L. Knowles, Montana’s First Woman Lawyer
by Richard B. Roeder

Female Photographers on the Frontier Montana’s Lady Photographic Artists, 1866–1900
by Delores J. Morrow

Montana Episodes Frieda and Belle Fligelman: A Frontier-City Girlhood in the 1890s
by Susan Leaphart

Bitterroot Enigma Howard Taylor Ricketts and the Early Struggle against Spotted Fever
by Pierce C. Mullen

Uncle Jeff Mysterious Character of the North Fork
by Jerome S. DeSanto

Senator James E. Murray A Voice of the People in Foreign Affairs
by William B. Evans

W. T. Cheney Photographs of Lima and the Oregon Short Line
by Bonnie Cheney Merrell

Montana Episodes The 1855 Blackfeet Treaty Council, A Memoir by Henry a Kennerly
by David A. Walter, ed.

The Best Books about Montana A Reader’s Guide to the Treasure Stateby Harry W. Fritz

Henry B. BlackwellWoman Suffrage’s Gray-Bearded Champion Comes to Montana, 1889
by Leslie Wheeler

Granville Stuart of the DHS Ranch, 1879–1887by William S. Reese

“To Struggle against an Adverse Fate” Granville Stuart, Cowman
by David Remley

“Scenes in the Indian Country” A Portfolio of Alexander Gardner’s Stereographic Views of the 1868 Fort Laramie Treaty Councils
by Raymond J. DeMallie

Montana Episodes Mining in Butte 40 Years Ago
by Clarence Adami Wendel

Catherine Etchart A Montana Love Story
by Monique Ursa

Making the World Unsafe for Democracy Vigilantes, Grangers, and the Walla Walla “Outrage” of June 1918
by Carlos A. Schwantes

Patriots on the Rampage Mob Action in Lewistown, 1917–1918
by Anna Zellick

Montana’s Political Culture A Century of Evolution
by Michael P. Malone and Dianne G. Dougherty

Montana Episodes Dead Man’s Flat
by Robert Printz

Fanny Cory CooneyMontana Mother and Artist
by Bob Cooney and Sayre Conney Dodgson

Law and Chinese in Frontier Montanaby John R. Wunder

“Up This Great River” Daniel Weston’s Missouri Steamboat Diary
by Lee Silliman

“Old Reliable” The Steamboat Benton on the Upper Missouri
by John G. Lepley

Montana Episodes Conversations with Boo
by Vivian A. Paladin

Joseph Kinsey Howard and His Vision of the Westby Richard B. Roeder

The Legendary Joe Cosleyby Jerry DeSanto

“Peace Is a Woman’s Job . . .” Jeannette Rankin and American Foreign Policy: The Origins of Her Pacifism
by Joan Hoff Wilson

Edwin M. Ellis Montana’s Bicycling Minister
by Nina Ellis Dosker

Montana Episodes Heavers, Hashers, Skinners & Dudes: Yellowstone 1915
by Yellowstone Chip Samuell

The Return of the Mandan Chiefby William E. Foley and Charles David Rice

Pelts, Provisions, & Perceptions The Hudson’s Bay Company and Mandan Indian Trade, 1975–1812
by John A. Alwin

Montana’s Birdmen of World War Iby Dennis Gordon

The Governor Hunts Another Judge Benjamin Potts and the Ouster of John Murphy
by Clark C. Spence

Ralph E. DeCamp Artist as Photographer
by the editors

Wells Fargo Stagecoaching in Montana The Overland Mail Contract for 1868
by W. Turrentine Jackson

Montana Episodes He Didn’t Know It Couldn’t Be Done
by Robert Travis Pound

Henry Sieben Pioneer Montana Stockman
by Dick Pace

Montana Memories A Memoir by Rev. James Hovey Spencer, D.D.
by Spencer Wilson

Another White Hope Bites the Dust The Jack Johnson–Jim Flynn Heavyweight Fight in 1912
by Raymond Wilson

Wells Fargo Stagecoaching in Montana Into a New Territoryby W. Turrentine Jackson

Amerlia’s Palace Brigham Young’s Grandest Residence
by Joseph Heinerman

A Partnership in Conservation Theodore Roosevelt and Yellowstone
by Paul Schullery

We Do Not Know What the Government Intends to Do . . . Lt. Palmer Writes from the Bozeman Trail, 1867–68
by Jerome A. Greene

The Shame of Little Wolfby Gary L. Roberts

In Search of Little Wolf . . . A Tangled Photographic Record
commentary by Gary L. Roberts

A Season of Trial Helena’s Entrepreneurs Nurture a City
by Joan Bishop

Frontier Brethren The Hutterite Experience in the American West
by Dorothy Schwieder

A Mountain Charade The Sheepeater Campaign of 1879
by Joan Corbett Quinn

James Hervey Simpson in the Great Basin A Topographical Discovery of a Shorter Route to California, 1859
by Barbara Beeton

The Men from Bribir The Croatian Stonemasons of Lewistown, Montana
by Anna Zellick

Hum-Pa-Zee Major C. B. Lohmiller, Imposing Man at Fort Peck Agency
by Ben H. Johnson

Burton K. Wheeler and the Montana Connectionby Richard T. Ruetten

Mary MacLane Montana’s Shocking “Litr’y Lady”
by Leslie A. Wheeler

Taming the Missouri and Treating the Depression Fort Peck Dam
by Bob Saindon and Bunky Sullivan

The Camera Eye of Sumner Matteson and the People Who Fooled Them Allby George P. Horse Capture

In Pursuit of a New County The Creation of Phillips County—1915
by J. Russell (Rusty) Larcombe and E. E. (Boo) MacGilvra

Five Strings to His Bow The Remarkable Career of William (Lone Star) Dietz
by John C. Ewer

Eli Washington John Lindesmith Fort Keogh’s Chaplain in Buckskin
by Louis L. Pfaller

Ned Casey and His Cheyenne Scouts A Noble Experiment in an Atmosphere of Tension
by Katherine M. Weist

Gertrude Atherton Montana and the Lady Novelist
by Leslie A. Wheeler

Andersonville A Civil War Legacy of Hatred in Montana
by Spencer Wilson

Vol. 26, No. 3

The River Which Scolds at All Others An Obstinate Blunder in Nomenclature
by Bob Saindon

Our Dog Scannon Partner in Discovery
by Ernest S. Osgood

The Bird Woman Purposeful Member of the Corps or Casual “Tag-Along”?
by E. G. Chuinard

The CCC Experience in Glacier National Parkby Michael J. Ober

“Buffalo Jones” and the Bison Herd in Yellowstone Another Look
by Paul Schullery

The Final Curtin Call Chautauqua in Montana
by LeRoy Stahl

The Foreignersby Dorothy M. Johnson

First Track in the Big Hornsby Robert A. Murray

Hard on the Heels of Lewis and Clarkby Frank H. Dickson

Sketch of a Life—Charles Schafftedited by Vivian A. Paladin

From Buffalo to Beef Assimilation on Fort Belknap Reservation
by Edward E. Barry, Jr.

School Days, School Days, Good Old Rubber Hose Daysby Dorothy M. Johnson

Jim Butler Nevada’s Improbable Tycoon
by Myrtle T. Myles

Silas S. Soule Partizan of the Frontier
by Stan Hoig

The Ghastly Harvest Montana’s Buffalo Bone Trade
by LeRoy Barnett

The American Bison His Annihilation and Preservation
by James A. Dolph and C. Ivar Dolph

Essay in Photographs The Artistic Vision of Myrta Wright Stevens
by the editors

Carefree Youth and Dudes in Glacier National Parkby Dorothy M. Johnson

Yellowstone’s Madison Museum In Celebration of an American Idea
by Donald C. Stewart

The Fiery Ordeal of Cornelius Hedgesby Ernest S. Osgood

1876 in Montana Anxiety and Anticipation
by Michael P. Malone and Richard B. Roeder

High Bull’s Victory Rosterby Peter J. Powell

Montana School Teacherby Mary Hyland Currier

William Gilpin and the Cosmopolitan Roadby J. Christopher Schnell

The Santee Sioux and the Lake Shetek Settlers Capture and Rescue
by John S. Gray

Some Lawmen I Have Knownby Dorothy M. Johnson

Women’s Role in the American Westan essay by T. A. Larson

“Love from All to All” The Governor’s Lady Writes Home to Ohio
by James L. Thane, Jr.

Evy Alexander The Colonel’s Lady at McDowell in Arizona
by Sandra L. Myres

Women in the West A Pictorial View
compiled by the editors

Lillian’s Montana Sceneby Joyce H. Litz

Mother Was Shockedby Belle Fligelman Winestine

The Safe and Easy Way to Adventureby Dorothy M. Johnson

Beggars to Washington Montana’s Territorial Delegates
by Clark C. Spence

Condition of the Tribes, 1865 The Report of General McCook
by Gary L. Roberts

A Short Moral Essay Or, How Kids Made Money in a Frontier Town
by Dorothy M. Johnson

Pastor on the Prairie The Letters of Rev. Scriver Thorpe
edited by Avis R. Anderson

The Custer Battle on Canvas Reflections and Afterthoughts
by Brian W. Dippie

The Great Bear Creek Sheep Raid The Quiet Slaughter
by Lyman Brewster

The Gallatin Canyon and the Tides of Historyby Michael P. Malone

The Baron C. C. O’Keefe The Legend and the Legacy
by Edith Toole Oberley

Glacier’s Skyland Camps A Culver Colonel’s Abortive Dream
by Michael J. Ober

Last of the Rough Riders Now There Is Only One
by Dale L. Walker

Brush, Palette and the Battle of the Little Big Hornby Harrison Lane

Bold But Wasting Race Stereotypes and American Indian Policy
by Brian W. Dippie

Hon. Albert B. Fall of New Mexico Frontier’s Fallen Star of Teapot Dome
by Earl F. Woodward

Montana Women and the Battle for the Ballot Woman Suffrage in the Treasure State
by T. A. Larson

The Road Agent and the Doctor Two Divergent Men Named Henry Plummer
by Charles M. Guthrie

B. D. Phillips in Montana A Reminiscence and a Record
by Walter W. Phillips

The Spirit Wind in Floyd Knoble’s Barn A Winter Experience in Northern Montana
by Mary Knoble Young

Yellowstone: The First Century
PART I: An Idea and Its Exploration

The Meaning of Yellowstone A Commentary
by Joe B. Frantz

The Quest of Warren Gillette Based on the Original Diary
edited by Brian Cockhill

Lost in the Wilderness Truman Everts’ 37 Days of Terror
by Aubrey L. Haines

William Henry Jackson First Camera on the Yellowstone
by Lewis W. Selmeier

Trials of a Trailblazer P. W. Norris and Yellowstone
by John S. Gray

PART II: Protection and Enjoyment

The United States Army and the National Parksby H. Duane Hampton

Memories of the Great and Near-Great in Yellowstoneby Horace Marden Albright

Yellowstone Park by Camp The Shaw & Powell Camping Company
photo essay by Vivian A. Paladin and S. Rose Shaw

Memories of a Four-Horse Stage Driver in Yellowstone Parkby Earl B. Osborn

The Joseph Mythby Mark H. Brown

Lone Wolf Returns to that Long-Ago Timeby Paul Dyck

The Blackfeet and the Divine “Establishment”by Howard L. Harrod

The Custer Battle and Widow’s Weedsby Edgar I. Stewart

Julius Basinski Jewish Merchant in Montana
by Robert E. Levinson

W. W. Alderson An Editor Who Told It Like It Was
by Dick Pace

Lewis and Clark on the Upper Missouri Decision at the Marias
by John L. Allen

Granville Stuart in Latin America A Montana Pioneer’s Diplomatic Career
by Victor C. Dahl

Bugler! No Pay Call Today! The Year the Army Went Payless
by Henry P. Walker

Winold Reiss His Portraits and Protégés
by John C. Ewers

“Kid” Foss and the Birth of Montana Rodeo by Marie MacDonald

Some Reflections on General Custer by Edgar I. Stewart

Fred Miller “Boxpotapesh” of the Crows
by Jean I. Castles

Montana Politics and the New Dealby Michael P. Malone

The Patience of Frank Kirkaldieby Dorothy M. Johnson

The Vanished Miwoks of Californiaby Jack Burrows

CMR The Cowboy on Canvas
by Lee Silliman

The Hard Winter of 1886–1887by Barbara Fifer Rackley

Bucky O’Neill and the Rough Ridersby Dale L. Walker

Winter Ice Harvest in the Bitterrootby Glenn Chaffin