Created: Saturday, September 1, 2018
Vol. 68, No. 3
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
Created: Friday, June 1, 2018
Vol. 68, No. 2
Ties, Rails, and Telegraph Wires
How Railroads Shaped Montana and the West
by Dale Martin
“No More War, No More Plague”
The Spanish Influenza Pandemic Toll on Montana
by Todd S. Harwell, Greg S. Holzman, and Steven D. Helgerson
Mid-Century Monolith in Northwestern Montana
The Hungry Horse Dam Project
by Charlene Roise
“Whoa, Blue, Whoa!”
Cowpuncher Teddy Blue Abbott, We Pointed Them North, and Montana’s Open-Range Era
by Vic Reiman
An Editor’s Farewell
by Molly Holz
Created: Thursday, March 1, 2018
Vol. 67, No. 4
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
Created: Friday, December 1, 2017
Vol. 67, No. 4
“Ho for the City of Angels and Sunny Skies”The Union Pacific’s Midwinter Excursions to California
by Nancy Cooper
An “Undesirable Station”U.S. Army Soldiers at Fort Yellowstone and the Creation of the National Park Service Ranger Program
by Thomas C. Rust
Tie Hackers on the Front Range, 1886–1887Building the St. Paul, Minneapolis & Manitoba and the Montana Central Railroads
by John A. Vollertsen
Redefining CitizenshipCurriculum Reform and the Changing Politics of Education in World War I–Era Butte
by Cody Dodge Ewert
Montana Book Roundup
by Aaron Parrett
Created: Friday, September 8, 2017
Vol. 67, No. 3
Cheyenne and Lakota Women at the Battle of the Little Bighornby Leila Monaghan
“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
Created: Friday, July 7, 2017
Vol. 67, No. 2
All-American Indian Days and the Miss Indian America Pageantby Gregory Nickerson watch the video
Operation Skywatch The Montana Ground Observer Corps, 1952–1959
by Jon Axline
The Most Dangerous Man in Montana Corruption, Communism, and Bill Dunne
by Vernon L. Pedersen
Exposing the Work of Albert Peale and Charles Loughrey United States Geological Survey Photography in Montana and Wyoming
by Marcy Flynn
Created: Wednesday, June 21, 2017
Vol. 67, No. 1
“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
Created: Wednesday, December 21, 2016
Western Montana’s Christmas Tree Boom, 1926–1969by Rich Aarstad
From Forest to Market
Work in Montana’s Christmas Tree Industry
by Darris Flanagan
Picturing Indian Health
Dr. Ferdinand Shoemaker’s Traveling Photographs from the Crow Reservation, 1910–1918
by Rebecca S. Wingo
Alberta’s Special Areas
Drought and Adaptation on the Canadian Plains
by William N. Holden
Becoming Herders
Basque Immigration, Labor, and Settlement in Nevada, 1880–1910
by Iker Saitua
Montana Book Roundupby Aaron Parrett
Created: Wednesday, September 21, 2016
“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
Created: Tuesday, June 21, 2016
State of ChangeWomen and the 1972 Montana Constitutional Convention
by Kelly Kirk
“One Page at a Time“Early Printing in Territorial Montana
by Aaron Parrett
“Dead Work,“ Electric Futures, and the Hidden History of the Gilded Age
by Jeremy Zallen
Expanding Digital Access to Historic Montana Newspapers
by Tammy Troup
Created: Monday, March 21, 2016
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
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Created: Monday, December 21, 2015
Cowboys and CapitalistsThe XIT Ranch in Texas and Montana, 1885–1912
by Michael M. Miller watch the video
“Failure to Protect”Legal Interpretations of Rape and Wife Assault in Butte, Montana, 1900–1920
by Natalie F. Scheidler
“There When We Needed Them”Harriette E. Cushman and the Birth of Montana’s Turkey Marketing Cooperatives
by Amy L. McKinney
Yellowstone’s History, Lost and FoundThe Tangled Provenance of the Gustavus Cheyney Doane Papers
by Kim Allen Scott
Where Did I Read That?A Guide to Montana’s Comprehensive Index and Databases
by Christy Eckerle
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Created: Monday, September 21, 2015
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 People
by the Kootenai Culture Committee
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Created: Sunday, June 21, 2015
Going PublicChildbirth, the Board of Health, and Montana Women, 1860–1920
by Jennifer J. Hill
Pack Mules and ParachutesFirefighting Partners at Montana’s Ninemile Remount Depot
by Janet Ore
Forgotten PioneersThe Chinese in Montana
by Ellen Baumler watch the video
Daphne Bugbee JonesA Modernist Architect’s Legacy
by Hipólito Rafael Chacón watch the video
Montana Book Roundup
by Aaron Parrett
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Created: Saturday, March 21, 2015
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 Years
by Bruce Whittenberg
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Created: Sunday, December 21, 2014
Women, Wobblies, and the ‘War of Grays Harbor’Finnish-American Women and the 1912 Grays Harbor Lumber Strike
by Aaron Goings
In the Winner’s CircleHow Montana Thoroughbreds Upset the Nineteenth Century’s Racing Establishment
by Catharine Melin-Moser
John Mix StanleyAn Artist’s View of the 1853 Pacific Railroad Survey and the Far Northwest
by Peter H. Hassrick
Authenticating Chief Joseph’s ShirtRevelations from Comparison of Digitized Photographs
by Jeffrey Baitis and James S. Brust
Becoming Chinese in MontanaThe Chinese Empire Reform Association and National Identity among Montana’s Chinese Communities
by Mark Johnson
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Created: Sunday, September 21, 2014
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 Properties
by Kathryn Ore watch the video
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Created: Saturday, June 21, 2014
Women’s History MattersThe Montana Historical Society’s Suffrage Centennial Project
by Ellen Baumler, Laura K. Ferguson, Jodie Foley, Annie Hanshew, Anya Jabour, Martha Kohl, and Marcella Sherfy Walter watch the videos
Calamity JaneA Life and Legends
by Richard W. Etulain watch the video
Divas, Divorce, and DisclosureHidden Narratives in the Diaries of Evelyn Cameron
by Ann Roberts and Christine Wordsworth
Ewen and Evelyn Cameron Under the Big SkyA Photographic Essay
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Created: Friday, March 21, 2014
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 Montana
by Brian Shovers watch the video
From Havana to MontanaCuban Refugee Children, Operation Pedro Pan, and the Cold War Catholic Church
by Clint Attebery
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Created: Saturday, December 21, 2013
Montana’s Conjurers, Con Men, and Card CheatsWilbur E. Sanders, S. W. Erdnase, and The Expert at the Card Table
by Marty Demarest watch the video
‘Hewing Community Out of Wilderness’Montana’s Korpivaara and Kuhmoniemi Settlements in the Early Twentieth Century
by Dena L. Sanford
Killing Montana’s WolvesStockgrowers, Bounty Bills, and the Uncertain Distinction between Predators and Producers
by Michael Wise
Montana Book Roundup
by Aaron Parrett
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Created: Saturday, September 21, 2013
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
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Created: Friday, June 21, 2013
Montana ModernismContemporary Architecture in the Western State, 1945–1975
by H. Rafael Chacón
Black Hills and BloodshedThe U.S. Army and the Invasion of Lakota Land, 1868–1876
by Catharine R. Franklin
Charlie Russell and Glacier Park
by Elizabeth A. Dear and David Stanley
Lee Metcalf and the Politics of PreservationPart II—Conflict, Compromise, and the Art of Leadership
by Frederick H. Swanson
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Created: Thursday, March 21, 2013
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 Program
by John Boughton
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Created: Friday, December 21, 2012
Franklin D. Roosevelt, Burton K. Wheeler, and the Great Debate A Montana Senator’s Crusade for Non-intervention before World War II
by Marc C. Johnson
Children of the HillSituating Children in Butte’s History
by Janet L. Finn watch the video
Vaccine Production in the Bitterroot Valley during World War IIHow Rocky Mountain Laboratory Protected American Forces from Yellow Fever
by Gary R. Hettrick
Camp CookeMontana Territory’s Forgotten First U.S. Army Post
by Rodger Lawrence Huckabee
And the Bride Wore . . . Montana Weddings, 1900–1960An Exhibit from the Montana Historical Society
by Martha Kohl
Montana Book Roundup
by Aaron Parrett
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Created: Friday, September 21, 2012
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
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Created: Thursday, June 21, 2012
The End of FreedomThe Military Removal of the Blackfeet and Reservation Confinement, 1880
by William E. Farr
Protest, Power, and the PitFighting Open-Pit Mining in Butte, Montana
by Brian Leech
Breaking Racial Barriers ‘Everyone’s Welcome’ at the Ozark Club, Great Falls, Montana’s African American Nightclub
by Ken Robison
Building Permanent and Substantial RoadsPrison Labor on Montana’s Highways, 1910–1925
by Jon Axline
Signs of the TimesThe Montana Historical Society’s National Register Sign Program
by Ellen Baumler
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Created: Wednesday, March 21, 2012
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
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Created: Wednesday, December 21, 2011
The West Loved Oysters Too!A Look at that Time in America When Those Briny Bivalves Were All the Rage, Even beyond the Missouri River
by Paul L. Hedren
Staging the Past in Montana’s Alder GulchRuminations on History, Tourism, and Preservation
by J. Philip Gruen
‘Our Snow Covered Trail’A Montana Freighter Recalls the Hard Winter of 1906–1907
by Joseph M. Hartmann
Ahead of His TimeJoseph Kinsey Howard and the Writing of Strange Empire
by Heather Devine
Cons OnlineA Montana Historical Society Digitization Project
by Caitlan Maxwell and Jodie Foley
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Created: Wednesday, September 21, 2011
‘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
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Created: Tuesday, June 21, 2011
Changing LivesBaptist Women, Benevolence, and Community on the Crow Reservation, 1904–60
by Becky Matthews
Steamboats, Woodhawks, and War on the Upper Missouri River
by Greg Gordon
The Rise and Fall of Social Welfare in a Frontier Mining CommunityVirginia City and Madison County, Montana Territory, 1863–69
by Jeffrey J. Safford
‘Howdy Everyone! Glad to See You’Montana Tourism and its Port of Entry Stations
by Jon Axline
The Western Rendezvous of Art
by Susan R. Near
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Created: Monday, March 21, 2011
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
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Created: Tuesday, December 21, 2010
Mina WestbyeNorwegian Immigrant, North Dakota Homesteader, Studio Photographer, ‘New Woman’
by Lori Ann Lahlum
Marketing the NorthwestThe Northern Pacific Railroad’s Last Spike Excursion
by Jan Taylor
A Devastating Diagnosis of LeprosyThe Story of Orville Willett
by Ellen Baumler
Just a Name on a Grave? Discovering the story of an Unknown Montana Miner
by Don L. Crawford and Melinda Blanchard Crawford
The Lonesome Life in Glacier National ParkKishenehn Ranger Station, 1910–1940
by Mark Hufstetler
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Created: Tuesday, September 21, 2010
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 Mapkeepers
by Brian Shovers
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Created: Monday, June 21, 2010
Conceiving NatureThe Creation of Montana’s Glacier National Park
by Andrew C. Harper
Where the Prairie Ends and the Sky BeginsMaynard Dixon in Montana
by Donald J. Hagerty
Glacier National ParkPeople, a Playground, and a Park
by Jennifer Bottomly-O’looney and Deirdre Shaw
The Miraculous Survival of the Art of Glacier National Park
by Hipólito Rafael Chacón
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Created: Sunday, March 21, 2010
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
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Created: Monday, December 21, 2009
Dying in the WestPart 2—Caregiving in the Home and the Death of Daniel Slayton
by Dawn D. Nickel
‘The Huge Mass Writhed and Screamed like a Live Thing’Revisiting the Failure of Hauser Dam
by Aaron Parrett
Lt. James H. BradleyThe Literary Legacy of Montana’s Frontier Soldier-Historian
by Jon G. James
In the Company of HeroesCharlie Russell and the ‘Temple of Fame’
by Kirby Lambert
Copper Commando and the Anaconda Company’s Wartime Production
by Amanda Graham
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Created: Monday, September 21, 2009
Failed National Parks in the Last Best Place
by 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 Montana
by 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, America
by Brian Shovers
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Created: Sunday, June 21, 2009
Abraham LincolnPolitical Founding Father of the American West
by Richard W. Etulain
To Think Like a StarThe American West, Modern Cosmology, and Big History
by Kevin J. Fernlund
‘My heart now has become changed to softer feelings’A northern Cheyenne Woman and Her Family Remember the Long journey home
by John H. Monnett
‘Baseball was our life’Amateur Baseball in Butte, Montana, 1920–1960
by John Mihelich
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Created: Saturday, March 21, 2009
‘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
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Created: Sunday, December 21, 2008
Tough Trip to PublicationTough Trip through Paradise and the Beautiful Wives of Andrew Garcia
by Diane Smith
Thomas Savage, Forgotten Novelistby O. Alan Weltzien
Learning a Trapper’s and Hunter’s Artby Frank Bird Linderman; introduced by Sarah Waller Hatfield
‘This unfortunate affair’An 1810 Letter from the Three Forks
by Rich Aarstad
The Charles M. Russell Catalogue Raisonnéby B. Byron Price watch the video
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Created: Sunday, September 21, 2008
‘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
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Created: Saturday, June 21, 2008
Bringing Home All the Pretty HorsesThe Horse Trade and the Early American West, 1775–1825
by Dan Flores
The Eleventh Manby Ivan Doig
Justice as an AfterthoughtWomen and the Montana Prison System
by Ellen Baumler
‘Peas That Please’The Gallatin Valley Pea Industry, 1911–1970
by Phyllis Smith
The Mining Law of 1872by Gordon Morris Bakken
Assault on Basaltby Mark Baumler
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Created: Friday, March 21, 2008
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
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Created: Friday, December 21, 2007
Wallace Stegner’s Formative Years in Saskatchewan and Montanaby Philip L. Fradkin
‘A Residual Frontier Town’Wallace Stegner’s Salt Lake City
by Robert C. Steensma
The Fight for Crow WaterPart I: The Early Reservation Years through the Indian New Deal
by Megan Benson
‘Our Genial Photographer’The Life and Times of Henry D. Weenink
by D. Lyle Dechant
Not-So-Buried TreasuresExploring the On-line Resources of the MHS Research Center
by Jodie Foley and Roberta Gebhardt
So You Want to Be Published?by Stan Lynde
A Guide to Self-Publishing Your Bookby the Montana Historical Society Press staff
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Created: Friday, September 21, 2007
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 McGee
by Jennifer Jeffries Thompson
HBO’s DeadwoodNot Your Typical Western
by John Mack Faragher
The St. Ignatius Mission
by Katherine Mitchell
Happy Birthday MHS Press!
from the Society
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Created: Thursday, June 21, 2007
Flying across AmericaThe Airline Passenger Experience and the West
by Daniel L. Rust
One Day on Timbered IslandHow the Rockefellers’ Visits to Yellowstone Led to Grand Teton National Park
by Marian Albright Schenck
Postcard Portraits of Yellowstone National Park
by Susan and Jack Davis
Neither Empty nor UnknownMontana at the Time of Lewis and Clark
by George Oberst
‘I haven’t time to kiss everybody!’Larry Mathews Entertains in Yellowstone, 1887–1904
by Lee H. Whittlesey
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Created: Wednesday, March 21, 2007
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
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Created: Thursday, December 21, 2006
Entering Butte
by Robert R. Swartout Jr.
‘See America the Bountiful’Butte’s Berkeley Pit and the American Culture of Consumption
by Timothy J. LeCain
Another Look at Burke’s ButteThe Great Depression and William Allen Burke’s ‘Greenhorn Miner’
introduced by Matthew Basso
Caring for the DeadThe Development of the Funeral Business in Butte
by Zena Beth McGlashan
1,000,000 Glasses a DayButte’s Beer History on Tap
by Steve Lozar watch the video
Driving Haul Trucks in the Berkeley PitReminiscences of a Gritty Job
by Bill Long
About Butte
by Wim Wenders
The Butte-Anaconda National Historic Landmark
by Martha Kohl
The Natural West—Bioprospecting in the Berkeley PitThe Search for Valuable Natural Products from a Most Unnatural World
by Andrea Stierle
Our Lady of the Rockies
by Kris King
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Created: Thursday, September 21, 2006
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
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Created: Wednesday, June 21, 2006
Anaconda Sheds Its PressThe Story behind the Company’s Decision to Sell Its Newspapers
by Dennis Swibold
An Army Surgeon’s AccountHenry Remson Tilton’s View of the Bear’s Paw Mountains Expedition and the Conclusion of the Nez Perce War
by Jerome A. Greene
‘No Fighting is to be Apprehended’Major Eugene Baker, Sitting Bull, and the Northern Pacific Railroad’s 1872 Western Yellowstone Surveying Expedition
by M. John Lubetkin
William RanneyA Painter’s Requiem to the Mountain Man
by Peter H. Hassrick
Of Professors and PredatorsJohn Ostrom, Deinonychus antirrhopus, and the Nature of Dinosaurs
by Jon Axline
Caroline Lockhart on the Dryhead‘Happily-Ever-Aftering’ on a Montana Cattle Ranch
by John Clayton
Brokeback MountainA Western
by Richard White
Key IngredientsAmerica by Food
We Proceeded OnCreating a Masterpiece for the Montana State Capitol
by Kirby Lambert
Tower RockA Traveler’s Landmark
by Clint Attebery
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Created: Tuesday, March 21, 2006
Mormonism in Montana
by Brian Q. Cannon
Second Views of the Treasure State
by 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 Frontiers
by Robert Wooster
Forest Images by K. D. Swan
by Kirby Lambert
The Montana Heritage Project
by Katherine Mitchell
Forsyth, Montana
by Martha Kohl
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Created: Wednesday, December 21, 2005
What’s the Matter with Texas?The Great Enigma of the Lone Star State in the American West
by Ty Cashion
‘Good night with the Stars and Stripes, Army, Navy, and Mister damned Wilson’Montana’s Central Role in the Repression—and Eventual Recognition—of Free Speech
by Clemens P. Work
In the Shadow of Billy the KidSusan McSween and the Lincoln County War
by Kathleen P. Chamberlain
The Masonic Apron of Meriwether Lewis and the Legacy of Masonry in Montanaby Ellen Baumler
Comet, Montanaby Christine W. Brown
Unexpected Treasures among the Photographs of Ed and Emil Kopacby Delores J. Morrow and Sandra J. Barker
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Created: Wednesday, September 21, 2005
Animal Last StandsEmpathy and Extinction in the American West
by Jon T. Coleman
Women and Hunting in the West
by Mary Zeiss Stange
Hunting Democracy
by 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 Collection
by Rich Aarstad and Jennie Stapp
Pine Butte Swamp Preserve and the Rocky Mountain Front
by W. Clark Whitehorn
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Created: Tuesday, June 21, 2005
Captivity For Yellowstone BisonTheir Doom or Salvation?
by Mary Ann Franke
Tragedy at Red Cloud AgencyThe Surrender, Confinement, and Death of Crazy Horse
by Jeffrey V. Pearson
‘We Belong to the North’The Flights of the Northern Indians from the White River Agencies, 1877–1878
by Kingsley M. Bray
‘Custer’s Last Stand’An Artist’s Perspective
by Thom Ross
Mapping MontanaThe Federal Land Surveys of 1867–1868
by Jeffrey J. Safford
Fear in the Time of Infantile Paralysis
by Volney Steele
The 320 Ranch
by Connie Staudohar
Community Preservation in Montana
by Rolene R. Schliesman
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Created: Monday, March 21, 2005
Diversions, Ditches, and District CourtsMontana’s Struggle to Allocate Water
by Brian Shovers
The Contradictory Legacies of Buffalo Bill Cody’s First Scalp for Custer
by Paul L. Hedren
Elwood Mead, Buffalo Bill Cody, and the Carey Act in Wyoming
by 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 Tell
by Sally Thompson
Reading between the Lines
by Clyde Ellis and Charlene Porsild
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Created: Tuesday, December 21, 2004
‘This Wicked Family’A Biography of the Deschamps Family of Fort Union—Their Feuds, Fights, and Violent Demise
by Robert W. Thomson
The Bearer Has PermissionA Brief History of Research Permitting in Yellowstone National Park
by Alice Wondrak Biel
Old West and New West in Garden Park, Colorado
by Steven M. Schnell, Curtis J. Sorenson, Soren Larsen, Matthew Dunbar, and Erin McGrogan
Laura Bell McDanielQueen of the Colorado City Tenderloin
by Jan MacKell
Icy Reconnaissance
by Michael J. Ober
Federal Historic Rehabilitation Income Tax Credit Program
by Pete Brown
New Deal Oasis on the High Plains
by Fredric L. Quivik
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Created: Tuesday, September 21, 2004
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. Smith
by John Clayton
The Old Works Golf Course, Anaconda, Montana
by Brian Shovers
From Liverpool to Cut Bank
by Jodie Foley
Bearcreek, Montana
by Jon Axline
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Created: Monday, June 21, 2004
KonaCradle of Hawaii’s Paniolo
by Richard W. Slatta, Ku‘ulani Auld, and Maile Melrose
Montana’s Worst Natural DisasterThe 1964 Flood on the Blackfeet Indian Reservation
by Aaron Parrett
‘I Want It Real Bad’The Charles M. Russell–Malcolm Mackay Collaboration
by Brian W. Dippie
Montana’s Last Best ChanceThe Malcolm S. Mackay Collection of Charles M. Russell Art
by Kirby Lambert
A Recipe for New Research
by Charlene Porsild
Remembering Butte’s Chinatown
by Carrie Schneider
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Created: Sunday, March 21, 2004
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 Discovery
by Dayton Duncan
L. A. Huffman
by Gene Allen & Bev Allen
Medicine Lake National Wildlife Refuge
by Amy L. McKinney
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Created: Sunday, December 21, 2003
Going to BuffaloIndian Hunting Migrations Across the Rocky Mountains
Part 1: Making Meat and Taking Robes
by William E. Farr
‘Music, Song, and Laughter’Yellowstone National Park’s Fountain Hotel, 1891–1916
by Lee H. Whittlesey
Letters from World’s EndA Young Couple’s Portrait of Butte, 1936–1941
by Brenda Pentland
‘The Making of a Good Woman’Montana and the National Florence Crittenton Mission
by Ellen Baumler
Documenting Education in Montana
by Molly Kruckenberg
Lolo Hot Springs
by Charlene Porsild
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