Created: Monday, March 1, 2021
Vol. 71, No. 1
Selections from A History of Montana in 101 Objects: Artifacts & Essays from the Montana Historical Societywith an introduction by Kirby Lambert
“This wealth of woodland in the desert”
Parks, Trees, and the Early Development of Great Falls, Montana, 1883–1916
by Troy A. Hallsell
Fort Peck’s Finest
The 163rd Infantry’s Assiniboine and Sioux Soldiers in World War II
by Elise Boxer
From the Society
Our Past, Present, and Future
by Molly Kruckenberg
Created: Tuesday, December 1, 2020
Vol. 70, No. 4
Letter from the Editorby Diana L. Di Stefano
First Citizen of Montana
The Business and Civic Legacy of Anton Holter
by John C. (Chris) Boe
“The days of traveling pill peddlers are done”
The Establishment of Montana’s Board of Medical Examiners
by Todd L. Savitt
“Here she comes wearin’ them britches!”
Saddles, Riding Skirts, and Social Reform in the Turn-of-the-Century Rural West
by Tracey Hanshew
“They do not, therefor, regard the boundary line as separating them”The Ktunaxa Nation and the Enforcement of the U.S.-Canadian Border, 1887
by Patrick Lozar
Montana Book Roundupby Aaron Parrett
Created: Tuesday, September 1, 2020
Vol. 70, No. 3
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
Created: Monday, June 1, 2020
Vol. 70, No. 2
The Lady and the Monster
Popular Perceptions and Treatment of Arctic Grayling and Bull Trout in Twentieth-Century Montana
by Adam R. Hodge
Shakespeare in Frontier and Territorial Montana, 1820–1889by Gretchen E. Minton watch the video
Remembering Yellowstone National Park’s First African American Explorersby Michael Scott Van Wagenen
Paul Bunyan Rivaled
Logging and Clearing Montana’s Hungry Horse Reservoir, 1945–1956
by James A. Grant
Created: Sunday, March 1, 2020
Vol. 70, No. 1
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
Created: Sunday, December 1, 2019
Vol. 69, No. 4
Letter from the Editor
by Diana Di Stefano
Transitions in the Changing WestThe Photographic Legacy of Jessamine Spear Johnson
by Tempe Johnson Javitz
Bell v. ArmstrongIrrigation Conflicts, Water Law, and Scarcity in Montana’s Gallatin Valley, 1860–1909
by Jacob Swisher
The Shopkeeper’s FrontierHow the General Store Transformed Montana Territory, 1850–1885
by Greg Gordon
Land Acquisitions for Fort Peck DamA Square Deal Under the New Deal?
by John Lacey
From the Society
End of the Last Ice Age
by Amanda Streeter Trum
Montana Book Roundupby Aaron Parrett
Created: Sunday, September 1, 2019
Vol. 69, No. 3
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
Created: Saturday, June 1, 2019
“Worry, U.S.A.”
Dude Ranch Advertising Looks East, 1915–1945
by Flannery Burke
Bigger Than Babies
Social Change, Eugenics, and Montana’s “Better Baby” Contests in the Progressive Era
by Casey J. Pallister
Montana’s Norwegian Language Pressby John C. (Chris) Boe
Filling the Sky with Thunderbirds
The Extraordinary Career of Native American Aviator Mary Riddle
by Llyn De Danaan
Commentary
Truth, Facts, and Alternative Histories: Views from the Little Houses
by Elizabeth Jameson
Created: Friday, March 1, 2019
“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
Created: Friday, December 21, 2018
Vol. 68, No. 4
Salutations from Your New Editorby Diana Di Stefano
Holding the Herd
Nelson Story’s 1866 Cattle Drive
by John C. Russell
Migrant Culture Maintenance
The Welsh in Silver Bow County, Montana, 1880–1920
by Robert Llewellyn Tyler
Operations Haylift, Snowbound, and Vittles
Federal Disaster Relief and Strategic Humanitarian Intervention in 1949
by David W. Mills
Billings and Beyond
The Progressive Vision of Mayor Willard Fraser
by Lou Mandler
From the Society
Joe Scheuerle and His Remarkable Indian Gallery
by Jennifer Bottomly-O’looney
Montana Book Roundupby Aaron Parrett
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 watch the video
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 watch the video
An Editor’s Farewell
by Molly Holz
Created: Thursday, March 1, 2018
Vol. 68, No. 1
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 Roundupby Aaron Parrett
Created: Friday, September 8, 2017
Vol. 67, No. 3
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
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
Vol. 66, No. 4
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
Vol. 66, No. 3
“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
Vol. 66, No. 2
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 Ageby Jeremy Zallen
Expanding Digital Access to Historic Montana Newspapersby Tammy Troup
Created: Monday, March 21, 2016
Vol. 66, No. 1
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
Created: Monday, December 21, 2015
Vol. 65, No. 4
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
Created: Monday, September 21, 2015
Vol. 65, No. 3
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
Created: Sunday, June 21, 2015
Vol. 65, No. 2
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 Roundupby Aaron Parrett
Created: Saturday, March 21, 2015
Vol. 65, No. 1
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
Created: Sunday, December 21, 2014
Vol. 63, No. 4
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
Created: Sunday, September 21, 2014
Vol. 64, No. 3
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
Created: Saturday, June 21, 2014
Vol. 64, No. 2
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
Created: Friday, March 21, 2014
Vol. 64, No. 1
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
Created: Saturday, December 21, 2013
Vol. 63, No. 4
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 Roundupby Aaron Parrett
Created: Saturday, September 21, 2013
Vol. 63, No. 3
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
Created: Friday, June 21, 2013
Vol. 63, No. 2
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 Parkby 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
Created: Thursday, March 21, 2013
Vol. 63, No. 1
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
Created: Friday, December 21, 2012
Vol. 62, No. 4
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 Roundupby Aaron Parrett
Created: Friday, September 21, 2012
Vol. 62, No. 3
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
Created: Thursday, June 21, 2012
Vol. 62, No. 2
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
Created: Wednesday, March 21, 2012
Vol. 62, No. 1
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
Created: Wednesday, December 21, 2011
Vol. 61, No. 4
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
Created: Wednesday, September 21, 2011
Vol. 61, No. 3
‘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
Created: Tuesday, June 21, 2011
Vol. 61, No. 2
Changing LivesBaptist Women, Benevolence, and Community on the Crow Reservation, 1904–60
by Becky Matthews
Steamboats, Woodhawks, and War on the Upper Missouri Riverby 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 Artby Susan R. Near
Created: Monday, March 21, 2011
Vol. 61, No. 1
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
Created: Tuesday, December 21, 2010
Vol. 60, No. 4
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
Created: Tuesday, September 21, 2010
Vol. 60, No. 3
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
Created: Monday, June 21, 2010
Vol. 60, No. 2
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 Parkby Hipólito Rafael Chacón
Created: Sunday, March 21, 2010
Vol. 60, No. 1
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
Created: Monday, December 21, 2009
Vol. 59, No. 4
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 Productionby Amanda Graham
Created: Monday, September 21, 2009
Vol. 59, No. 3
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
Created: Sunday, June 21, 2009
Vol. 59, No. 2
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
Created: Saturday, March 21, 2009
Vol. 59, No. 1
‘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
Created: Sunday, December 21, 2008
Vol. 58, No. 4
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
Created: Sunday, September 21, 2008
Vol. 58, No. 3
‘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
Created: Saturday, June 21, 2008
Vol. 58, No. 2
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
Created: Friday, March 21, 2008
Vol. 58, No. 1
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
Created: Friday, December 21, 2007
Vol. 57, No. 4
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
Created: Friday, September 21, 2007
Vol. 57, No. 3
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
Created: Thursday, June 21, 2007
Vol. 57, No. 2
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 Parkby 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
Created: Wednesday, March 21, 2007
Vol. 57, No. 1
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
Created: Thursday, December 21, 2006
Vol. 56, No. 4
Entering Butteby 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 Butteby Wim Wenders
The Butte-Anaconda National Historic Landmarkby 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 Rockiesby Kris King
Created: Thursday, September 21, 2006
Vol. 56, No. 3
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
Created: Wednesday, June 21, 2006
Vol. 56, No. 2
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
Created: Tuesday, March 21, 2006
Vol. 56, No. 1
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
Created: Wednesday, December 21, 2005
Vol. 55, No. 4
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
Created: Wednesday, September 21, 2005
Vol. 55, No. 3
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
Created: Tuesday, June 21, 2005
Vol. 55, No. 2
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 Paralysisby Volney Steele
The 320 Ranchby Connie Staudohar
Community Preservation in Montanaby Rolene R. Schliesman
Created: Monday, March 21, 2005
Vol. 55, No. 1
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
Created: Tuesday, December 21, 2004
Vol. 54, No. 4
‘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, Coloradoby 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 Reconnaissanceby Michael J. Ober
Federal Historic Rehabilitation Income Tax Credit Programby Pete Brown
New Deal Oasis on the High Plainsby Fredric L. Quivik
Created: Tuesday, September 21, 2004
Vol. 54, No. 3
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
Created: Monday, June 21, 2004
Vol. 54, No. 2
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 Researchby Charlene Porsild
Remembering Butte’s Chinatownby Carrie Schneider
Created: Sunday, March 21, 2004
Vol. 54, No. 1
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
Created: Sunday, December 21, 2003
Vol. 53, No. 4
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 Montanaby Molly Kruckenberg
Lolo Hot Springsby Charlene Porsild
Created: Sunday, September 21, 2003
Vol. 53, No. 3
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
Created: Saturday, June 21, 2003
Vol. 53, No. 2
The Education of a Muckraker
The Journalism of Christopher Powell Connolly
by Dennis Swibold
The Bozeman Trail before John Bozeman
A Busy Land
by Robert M. Utley
Montana Fever’
Smallpox and the Montana State Board of Health
by Ellen Leahy
‘The Art of the Possible’
Wallace Stegner and Historical Fiction
interview by Robert Keller, edited by Sarah Fox
Historical Commentary
The Unnatural History of the Lewis and Clark Bicentennial
by Mark Spence
From the Society
An Extraordinary Record of an Ordinary Life
by Jodie Foley
The Montana Traveler
Lewis and Clark National Historic Landmarks in Montana
by Ellen Baumler
Created: Friday, March 21, 2003
Vol. 53, No. 1
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
Created: Saturday, December 21, 2002
Vol. 52, No. 4
Disputing the Medicine Line
The Plains Cree and the Canadian-American Border, 1876–1885
by Michel Hogue
Wrestling with Horace Albright, Part II
Edmund Rogers, Visitors, and Bears in Yellowstone National Park
by Alice K. Wondrak
The Forgotten Yellowstone Surveying Expedition of 1871
W. Milnor Roberts and the Northern Pacific Railroad in Montana
by M. John Lubetkin
‘We Didn’t Care for It’
The Salish and Kootenai Battle against Termination Policy, 1946–1954
by Jaakko Puisto
‘Rabbit Child—A Crazy Dog of the Crows’
A Crow Narrative
ed. by Phenocia Bauerle
Montana Episodes
Terror Floated over Montana
by Larry Tanglen
From the Society
Brand Books
by Charlene Porsild and Molly Miller
The Montana Traveler
Dearborn River High Bridge
by Jon Axline
Created: Saturday, September 21, 2002
Vol. 52, No. 3
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
Created: Friday, June 21, 2002
Vol. 52, No. 2
Frontier Fly-Fishing in the New Westby Paul Schullery
Fishing the Hatch
New West Romanticism and Fly-Fishing in the High Country
by Ken Owens
‘A Millionaire Couldn’t Buy a Piece of Water as Good’
George Grant and the Conservation of the Big Hole River Watershed
by Pat Munday
Trout Shangri-La
Remaking the Fishing in Yellowstone National Park
by John Byorth
Montana Episodes
Pacific Memories
by Carle F. O’Neil
Montana Episodes
While Custer Was Making His Last Stand
by Ken Owens
The Montana Traveler
The Montana State Capitol
by Kirby Lambert
The Natural West
Blight in the Waters
by Tom Palmer
Created: Thursday, March 21, 2002
Vol. 52, No. 1
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
Created: Friday, December 21, 2001
Vol. 51, No. 4
World Champions
The 1904 Girls’ Basketball Team from Fort Shaw Indian Boarding School
by Linda Peavy and Ursula Smith
“The Greatest Hazard of All Is the ‘Human Element’”
Manning the Machines of the World’s Greatest Wheat Farm
by Douglas M. Edwards
The Goldfish Died
Great Falls, Fort Benton, and the Great Flood of 1908
by Gordon Morris Bakken and J. Elwood Bakken
Nelson A. Miles, Crazy Horse, and the Battle of Wolf Mountainsby Jeffrey V. Pearson
Essays on the West
Western Art Don’t Get No Respect
by Brian W. Dippie
The Road to Reappearance
by Peter Iverson
Still High, Wide, and Handsome
by Hal Rothman
Looking Ahead
An Opportunity for Partnership
The Montana Traveler
Pictograph Cave State Park
by Ann Kooistra-Manning
Created: Friday, September 21, 2001
Vol. 51, No. 3
‘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
Created: Thursday, June 21, 2001
Vol. 51, No. 2
‘Flying Buffaloes’
Artists and the Buffalo Hunt
by Brian W. Dippie
‘A Beautiful Spirit’
Origins of the Archie Bray Foundation for the Ceramic Arts
by Rick Newby and Chere Jiusto
Old Photographs
Sometimes You Just Can’t Believe Your Eyes
by Bill Holm
Maynard Dixon and a Changing West, 1917–1935by Donald J. Hagerty
Julius Seyler
Painting the Blackfeet, Painting Glacier Park, 1913–1914
by William E. Farr
The Montana Traveler
Seeing Bob Scriver’s Artwork
by Kirby Lambert
Historical Reflections
Photos from Montana’s Montana’s Past
by Ellen Baumler
Created: Wednesday, March 21, 2001
Vol. 51, No. 1
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
Created: Thursday, December 21, 2000
Vol. 50, No. 4
A Journey to the Heart of Darkness
John W. Wright and the War against the Sioux, 1863–1865
by Kim Allen Scott and Ken Kempcke
The Army at the Clearwater
Tactical Victory and Strategic Defeat in the Nez Perce War
by Jerome A. Greene
Photojournalism, 1877
John H. Fouchm, Fort Keogh’s First Post Photographer
by James S. Brust
Private John F. Donohue’s Reflections on the Little Bighornby Lewis O. Saum
Medals for Custer’s Menby Larry Sklenar
MemorialsAubrey L. Haines (1914–2000) and Don G. Rickey, Jr. (1925–2000)
The Montana Traveler
Snowden Bridge
by Jon Axline
Created: Thursday, September 21, 2000
Vol. 50, No. 3
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
Created: Wednesday, June 21, 2000
Vol. 50, No. 1
Illness at Three Forks
Captain William Clark and the First Recorded Case of Colorado Tick Fever
by Ronald V. Loge
Beyond the Melting Pot and Multiculturalism
Cultural Politics in Southern Appalachia and Hispanic New Mexico
by Mark Banker
Rocky Flats
Expect a Fire, But Produce
by Len Ackland
The Footrace
From the Frontier Adventures of Walter Cooper
by Larry Len Peterson
Essays on the West
When Camels Came Back to Montana
by Ellen Baumler
Historical Reflections
Photos from Montana’s Past
by the editor
The Montana Traveler
Life on the Upper Missouri: The Art of Karl Bodmer
Created: Wednesday, June 21, 2000
Vol. 50, No. 1
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
Created: Tuesday, December 21, 1999
Vol. 49, No. 4
The Steamboat and Stagecoach Era in Montana and the Northern Westby Carlos A. Schwantes
A Voyage to Montana, Part I
Serena Washburn’s Account of Her Trip up the Missouri River in 1869
by Aubrey L. Haines
The Crow Indians and the Bozeman Trailby Frank Rzeczkowski
Something of a Nuisance Value
The Montana, Wyoming & Southern Railroad, 1905–1953
by Jon Axline
Historical CommentaryThe ‘Wild’ Old West—A Different View
by Stewart L. Udall
Essays on the West
Crazy Horse—Will We Ever Know You?
by Robert M. Utley
Historical ReflectionsPhotos from Montana’s Past (Airplanes, 1910s–1920s)
by the editor
The Montana TravelerMullan’s Point of Rocks: Preserving Transportation History
by Jon Axline
Created: Tuesday, September 21, 1999
Vol. 49, No. 3
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
Created: Monday, June 21, 1999
Vol. 49, No. 2
‘Everyone Can Understand a Picture’
Photographers and the Promotion of Early Yellowstone
by Lee H. Whittlesey
Thomas J. Hine
One of Yellowstone’s Earliest Photographers
by James S. Brust and Lee H. Whittlesey
Joshua Crissman
Yellowstone’s Forgotten Photographer
by Steven B. Jackson
Through the Artist’s Eye
The Paintings and Photographs of R. E. DeCamp
by Kirby Lambert
The 1859 Lander Expedition Revisited
‘Worthy Relics’ Tell New Tales of a Wind River Wagon Road
by Alan Fraser Houston and Jourdan Moore Houston
Historical ReflectionsPhotos from Montana’s Past (Yellowstone’s Buffalo Ranch)
The Montana Traveler
Ulm Pishkun: World of the Early Plains Bison
by Krys Holmes
Created: Sunday, March 21, 1999
Vol. 49, No. 1
‘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
Created: Monday, December 21, 1998
Vol. 48, No. 4
‘Powder Aplenty for Native and Guest Alike’
Steamboat Springs, Corporate Control, and the Changing Meaning of Home
by Hal K. Rothman
‘A Paper of, by, and for the People’
The Producer’s News, and the Farmers’ Movement in Northeastern Montana, 1918–1937
by Verlaine Stoner McDonald
A ‘Mail-Order Marriage’
The Norman Maclean—Robert Utley Correspondence
by O. Alan Weltzien
Historical Commentary
The Senate of Mike Mansfield
by Donald A. Ritchie
Montana Episodes
The Great Falls Home Front during World War II
by William J. Furdell
Historical Reflections
Photos from Montana’s Past (Butte warehouse fire, 1895)
by the editor
Montana Book RoundupCharles E. Rankin
Created: Monday, September 21, 1998
Vol. 48, No. 3
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
Created: Sunday, June 21, 1998
Vol. 48, No. 2
Called Out People
The Cheyennes and the Central Plains
by Elliott West
Montana’s Refining Industry, Part II, 1942–1996by Joseph M. Ashley
Elk Head and White Bear
Warrior Artists in the Early Reservation Period
by Allen Chronister
Harry Walker
Fort Benton Bandmaster, 1881–1882
by H. Bruce Lobaugh
The Uniqueness of Crow Art
A Glimpse into the History of an Embattled People
by Michael H. Logan and Douglas A. Schmittou
Essays on the West
The Journals of Lewis and Clark: Almost Home
by Gary E. Moulton
Created: Saturday, March 21, 1998
Vol. 48, No. 1
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
Created: Sunday, December 21, 1997
Vol. 47, No. 4
Angus McDonald
A Scottish Highlander among Indian Peoples
by James Hunter
First across the Continent, Part II
Alexander Mackenzie’s Trek to the Pacific
by Barry Gough
Beautiful Deceiver
The Absolutely Divine Lola Montez
by Janet R. Fireman
“Food, Rest, & Happyness,” Part I
Limitations and Possibilities in the Early Treatment of Tuberculosis in Montana
by Connie Staudohar
Historical Commentary
Butte: Cultural Treasure in a Mining Town
by Patrick Malone
Montana Episodes
Confessions of a Telephone Girl
by Dorothy M. Johnson
Created: Sunday, September 21, 1997
Vol. 47, No. 3
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
Created: Saturday, June 21, 1997
Vol. 47, No. 2
“Baited by a ‘Color’ of Gold to a Mountain of Granite,” Part I
Connecticut Capital at Work in the Montana Goldfields, 1865–1868
by Jeffrey J. Safford
Red Cloud, Part II
The Reservation Years
by Robert W. Larson
Passengers, Profits, and Prestige
The Glacier Park Hotel Company, 1914–1929
by Christiane Diehl-Taylor
Fire on the Mountain
Tragic Death and Memorialization of the Storm King Fourteen
by Andrew Gulliford
An Indian Memorial for the Little Bighornby Charles E. Rankin
Historical Commentary
What Ever Happened to the Anaconda Company?
by Eugene C. Tidball
Essays on the West
Reflections on a Reputation: The Remington Rainsonné
by Brian W. Dippie
Created: Friday, March 21, 1997
Vol. 47, No. 1
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
Created: Saturday, December 21, 1996
Vol. 46, No. 4
From Esteban to Rodney King
Five Centuries of African American History in the West
by Quintard Taylor
Driven from Point to Point
Fact and Legend of the Bear River Riot
by D. Claudia Thompson
Reaping the Wind
The Jacobs Brothers, Montana’s Pioneer ‘Windsmiths’
by Robert W. Righter
‘. . . And All That Jazz’
Changing Manners and Morals in Butter after World War I
by Mary Murphy
Historical Commentary
Custer’s Last Stand: Protecting an Endangered Species
by Gregory F. Michno
Created: Saturday, September 21, 1996
Vol. 46, No. 3
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
Created: Friday, June 21, 1996
Vol. 46, No. 2
The Curse of the Buffalo Skull
Seventy Years on the Trail of a Charles M. Russell Biography
by John Taliaferro
Frederic Remington, The Painter
A Historiographical Sketch
by Peter H. Hassrick
Selling the Myth
Western Images in Advertising
by Elliott West
Burying the Hatchet
The Semi-Centennial of the Battle of the Little Bighorn
by Douglas C. McChristian
Historical Commentary
Creating a ‘New’ West: Big Money Returns to the Hinterland
by William G. Robbins
Essays on the West
The Way West, A Review
by Philip J. Deloria
Created: Thursday, March 21, 1996
Vol. 46, No. 1
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
Created: Thursday, December 21, 1995
Vol. 45, No. 4
The Golden Horse on the Silver Screenby Lillian Turner
Calamity Jane’s Diary and Letters
Story of a Fraud
by James D. McLaird
‘A Chinaman’s Chance’ on the Rocky Mountain Frontierby Liping Zhu
‘Immence Mountains to the West’
Lewis and Clark Breach the Bitterroots
by Stephen E. Ambrose
Historical Commentary
History by Unreliable Narrators: Sitting Bull’s Circus Horse
by William E. Lemons
Created: Thursday, June 1, 1995
Vol. 45, No. 3
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
Created: Wednesday, March 1, 1995
Vol. 45, No. 2
D’Arcy McNickle
Native American Author, Montana Native Son
by Dorothy R. Parker
The Northern Cheyennes and the Fight for Cultural Sovereignty
The Notes of Father Aloysius Van Der Velden, S.J.
by Suzanne H. Schrems
Licit Amusements of Enlisted Men in the Post–Civil War Armyby William A. Dobak
Historical Commentary
Norman Maclean and Laird Robinson: A Tale of Two Research Partners
by O. Alan Weltzien
Essays on the West
Charles M. Russell and ‘Piano Jim’
by John Taliaferro
Essays on the West
A Trip through Western Time and Western Space
by David M. Emmons
Created: Sunday, January 1, 1995
Vol. 45, No. 1
‘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
Created: Thursday, September 1, 1994
Vol. 44, No. 4
A Moment in Time
The West—September 1806
by James P. Ronda
Killing Custer
An Excerpt
by James Welch
Bringing Montana Out of the Mud
The Early Years of John Morrison, Sr.
by Theodore E. Lang
Government Patronage
Catlin, Stanley, and Eastman
by Brian W. Dippie
Pen Sketches of Promise
The Western Drawings of Merritt Dana Houghton
by Michael A. Amundson
Historical Commentary
The Price of ‘Freedom’—Montana in the Late and Post-Anaconda Era
by David M. Emmons
Essays on the West
Charles M. Russell, Word Painter—Letters 1887–1926
by John Taliaferro
Created: Tuesday, June 21, 1994
Vol. 44, No. 3
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
Created: Monday, March 21, 1994
Vol. 44, No. 2
John H. Fouch
First Post Photographer at Fort Keogh
by James S. Brust
Battle of the Big Hole, Part 2by Bruce Hampton
Army Muleby Emmett M. Essin
General Sherman’s March through Montanaby Eugene C. Tidball
Historical Commentary
The Montana University System—The First Half Century
by Michael P. Malone
Higher Education in Montana, 1950–1993
by George M. Dennison
Essays on the West
Resisting Silence—William Kittredge’s Hole in the Sky
by Mary Clearman Blew
Created: Saturday, January 1, 1994
Vol. 44, No. 1
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
Created: Wednesday, September 1, 1993
Vol. 43, No. 4
Troubled Bundles, Troubled Blackfeet
The Travail of Cultural and Religious Renewal
by William E. Farr
The Life and Western Art of E. E. Heikkaby Vivian A. Paladin
A Scout’s Perceptions of Indians at the Battle of Beecher Island
An Essay on Ethnocentrism
by John H. Monnett
Sea Serpents of the Pacific Northwestby Paul H. LeBlond
Essays on the West: Tribute to Wallace Stegner
A Brief Reminescence: Father, Teacher, Collaborator
by Page Stegner
Where the Old West Met the New, Wallace Stegner: 1909–1993
by Jackson J. Benson
Stegner, Story-Telling, and Western Identity
by Elliott West
Precedents to Wisdom
by Patricia Nelson Limerick
Stegner, the West, and the Environment
by Dan Flores
Thoughts on Wallace Stegner
by Ivan Doig
The Good Rain: Stegner and the Wild
by William Kittredge
Wallace Stegner as Western Humorist
by Richard W. Etulain
Created: Monday, June 21, 1993
Vol. 43, No. 3
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
Created: Sunday, March 21, 1993
Vol. 43, No. 2
Manipulating Nature’s Paradise
National Park Management under Stephen T. Mather, 1916–1929
by Richard West Sellars
Journey to Wyoming
An Excerpt from Ethel Waxham’s Journals and Letters
ed. by Barbara Love and Frances Love Froidevaux
‘The Pilgrimage of a Funny Man’
Bob Burdette’s Northwestern Tour of 1888
by Lewis O. Saum
Landscapes of Opportunity
Phases of Railroad Promotion of the Pacific Northwest
by Carlos A. Schwantes
Railroading on the Great Divide
Images of the Milwaukee Road’s Western Main Line
by Dale Martin
Historical Commentary
The Urban West and the Twenty-First Century
by Carl Abbott
Essays on the West
Tragedy and Beyond: Norman Maclean’s Young Men and Fire, A Review
by Harold P. Simonson
The New Western History Goes to Town, Or Don’t Forget That Your Urban Hamburger Was Once a Rural Cow
by Howard Rabinowitz
Created: Friday, January 1, 1993
Vol. 43, No. 1
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
Created: Tuesday, September 1, 1992
Vol. 42, No. 4
Montana’s Entrepreneurial Spirit at Workby Michael P. Malone
A Settlement on the Plains
Paris Gibson and the Building of Great Falls
by Richard B. Roeder
The Deconstruction of a Capitalist Patriarch
The Life and Times of Samuel T. Hauser
by William G. Robbins
‘A Little Bit Better’
William Andrews Clark and Welfare Work in Arizona
by Jeanette Rodda
Origins of the Great Sioux War
The Brown-Anderson Controversy Revisited
by Robert M. Utley
Historical Commentary
American Indians and Outsiders: A Crucial Dialogue of the Columbian Quincenterary
by Margaret Connell Szasz
Essays on the West
Custer and Crazy Horse Ride Again . . . and Again, and Again: Filmmaking and History at the Little Bighorn
by Paul Stekler
TV Looks at Indians and American History
A Review Essay
by Roger L. Nichols
Created: Monday, June 1, 1992
Vol. 42, No. 3
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
Created: Sunday, March 1, 1992
Vol. 42, No. 2
European Images of America
The West in Historical Perspective
by Gerald D. Nash
The American West in the European Imaginationby Julian Crandall Hollick
Annie Oakley
The Magical Year in London
by Shirl Kasper
‘Hang Me If You Will’
Violence in the Last Western Mining Boomtown
by Sally Zanjani
Sunday at the Little Big Horn with Georgeby Eric von Schmidt
Historical Commentary
Triumph al Narratives and the Northern West
by William G. Robbins
Essays on the West
The Wagon Box Fight
by Jerry Keenan
Native American Literature Comes of Ageby Walter C. Fleming
Created: Wednesday, January 1, 1992
Vol. 42, No. 1
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
Created: Saturday, September 21, 1991
Vol. 41, No. 4
In the Shadow of Jefferson
Explorers and the Great West
by Martin Ridge
‘A Knowledge of Distant Parts’
The Shaping of the Lewis and Clark Expedition
by James P. Ronda
Travels in a Subjective West
The Letters of Edwin James and Major Stephen Long’s Scientific Expedition of 1819–1820
by Carlo Rotella
The Edwin James Letter Book at Yaleby George Miles
Marvelous Figures, Astonished Travelers
The Montana Expedition of Maximilian, Prince of Wied
by Joseph C. Porter
Journeys to the Land of Gold
Emigrants on the Bozeman Trail, 1863–1866
by Susan Badger Doyle
Historical Commentary
Spanish Exploration in the Western Borderlands
by John L. Kessell
Review Essay
The West in Exploration, Empire, and Art
by Joseph C. Porter
Created: Friday, June 21, 1991
Vol. 41, No. 3
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
Created: Thursday, March 21, 1991
Vol. 41, No. 2
Narcissa Whitman
The Significance of a Missionary’s Life
by Julie Roy Jeffrey
‘I Really Had Something Like the Blues’
Letters from Jessie Benton Frémont to Elizabeth Blair Lee, 1847–1883
by Pamela Herr and Mary Lee Spence
Not a Love Story
Bordeaux v. Bordeaux
by Paula Petrik
Women’s Matters
Birth Control, Prenatal Care, and Childbirth in Rural Montana, 1910–1940
by Mary Melcher
Historical Commentary
The Contributions and Challenges of Western Women’s History’
Four essays by Sarah Deutsch, Virginia Scharff, Glenda Riley, and John Mack Faragher
Montana Episodes
Graduation Party—1929
by Jo Measure
Created: Tuesday, January 1, 1991
Vol. 41, No. 1
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
Created: Friday, September 21, 1990
Vol. 40, No. 4
Art and Architecture of the Westby Richard W. Etulain
Montana’s Monuments
History in the Making
by Carroll Van West
Sheet Iron Elegance
Mail Order Architecture in Montana
by Arthur A. Hart
The North and Snow
Joseph Henry Sharp in Montana
by Sarah Boehme
Crow Beadwork
The Resilience of Cultural Values
by Barbara Loeb
Historical Commentary
Back to the Future of the Great Plains
by Frederick C. Luebke
Montana Episodes
History, Family, and Legacy on Montana’s High Line
by Mary Sheehy Moe
Montana Book Roundupby Charles E. Rankin
Created: Thursday, June 21, 1990
Vol. 40, No. 3
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
Created: Wednesday, March 21, 1990
Vol. 40, No. 2
Monarch of All These Mighty Wonders
Tourists and Yellowstone’s Excelsior Geyser, 1881–1890
by Lee Whittlesey
Fire in the Hole
Slovenians, Croatians, and Coal Mining on the Musselshell
by Anna Zellick
‘Greetings from this Coalvillage’
Finnish Immigrants of Red Lodge
by Erika Kuhlman
From the Land of Oz
L. Frank Baum’s Satirical View of South Dakota’s First Year of Statehood
by Nancy Tystad Koupal
Public History and the Native American
Issues in the American West
by Albert L. Hurtado
Montana Episodes
Number, Please . . .
by Ethlyn F. Ross
Historical Commentary
The Looseness of Zion: The Lighter Side of Mormon History
by Leonard J. Arrington
Movie Review
McMurtry and Graham, Montana
by Paul Monaco
Montana Book Roundupby Charles E. Rankin
Created: Monday, January 1, 1990
Vol. 40, No. 1
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
Created: Thursday, September 21, 1989
Vol. 39, No. 4
Social Myth and Social Realityby David M. Emmons
Chinook, Montana, and the Myth of Progressive Adaptationby Mary Beth LaDow
Kinship and Opportunity
Nova Scotians on the Wyoming Frontier
by Charles E. Rankin
Windmills in Montana
Dutch Settlement in the Gallatin Valley
by Rob Kroes
Messenger of the New Age
Station KGIR in Butte, Montana
by Mary Murphy
Montana Episodes
Diary of a Night Nurse, Butte, Montana, 1909
by Beatrice Murphy
Historical Commentary
Landscape, Memory, and the Western Past
by Barbara Allen
Review Essay
Man Bites Dog in Yellowstone: The Fire Books of 1989
by Alfred Runte
Montana Book Roundupby Charles E. Rankin
Created: Wednesday, June 21, 1989
Vol. 39, No. 3
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
Created: Tuesday, March 21, 1989
Vol. 39, No. 2
The Seventh Iowa Cavalry and the Plains Indian Wars, 1861–1866by David P. Robrock
Centennial Biographies
‘We’re not isolated now!’ Anna Boe Dalh and the REA
by David Long
Thomas H. Carter—Spokesman for Western Development
by Richard B. Roeder
Nannie Alderson’s Frontier—and Ours
by William Bevis
Jeannette Rankin and the Women’s Peace Unionby Harriet Hyman Alonso
Irish-American Nationalism in Butte, 1900–1916by Catherine Dowling
Montana Episodes
Looking Back on the Sun Road
by Gordon LaVerne Harrison
Montana Book Roundupby Charles E. Rankin
Created: Sunday, January 1, 1989
Vol. 39, No. 1
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
Created: Wednesday, September 21, 1988
Vol. 38, No. 4
“At the end of the cracked whip”
The Northern West, 1880–1920
by William G. Robbins
Commonwealth or Colony
Montana Railroads in the First Decade of Statehood
by W. Thomas White
Electrical Power, Copper, and John D. Ryanby Carrie Johnson
Images of the Wageworkers’ Frontierby Carlos A. Schwantes
Women’s Economic Role in Montana Agriculture
“You Had to Make Every Minute Count
by Laurie K. Mercier
Montana Episodes
Thrashing in Montana at the Turn of the Century
by T. Eugene Barrows
Historical Landscapes
Early steel Transmission Towers and Energy for Montana’s Copper Industry
by Frederic L. Quivik
Historical Commentary
Colonialism: The Perpetual Pendulum
by Gene M. Gressley
Montana Book Roundupby Charles E. Rankin
Created: Tuesday, June 21, 1988
Vol. 38, No. 3
“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
Created: Monday, March 21, 1988
Vol. 38, No. 2
“There Is Something Wrong Down Here”
The Smith Mine Disaster, Bearcreek, Montana, 1943
by Paul Anderson
American Daughters
Black Women in the West
by Glenda Riley
“The Best Attractions at Popular Prices
Early Theatre in Butte
by William R. Kershner
“The Stack Dominated Our Lives”
Metals Manufacturing in Four Montana Communities
by Laurie K. Mercier
Rivals for California
The Great Northern and the Southern Pacific, 1905–1931
by Don L. Hofsommer
Montana Episodes
Herding Sheep in the Judith Basin at the Turn of the Century
by Henry T. and John A. Murray
Historical Commentary
Shots in the Dark: Television and the Western Myth
by Elliott West
Montana Landscape
The Arch in Helena’s Nineteenth Century Architecture
by Carroll Van West
Review Essay
A New Perspective on the West? A Review of The Legacy of Conquest
by Vernon Carstensen
Montana Book Roundupby Charles E. Rankin
Created: Friday, January 1, 1988
Vol. 38, No. 1
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
Created: Monday, September 21, 1987
Vol. 37, No. 4
The Prizes of Statehoodby Kenneth N. Owens
Insurrection, Agitation, and Riots
The Police Power and Washington Statehood
by Kent D. Richards
“God Helps Those Who Help Themselves”
The Farmers Alliance and Dakota Statehood
by Larry Remele
Spoils of Statehood
Montana Communities in Conflict, 1888–1894
by William L. Lang
“The Right Kind of Nail”
Reactions to J. K. Toole’s Montana Statehood Speech
by Dave Walter
Idaho’s Season of Political Distress
An Unusual Path to Statehood
by Merle Wells
Montana Episodes
Helena’s Social Supremacy: Political Sarcasm and the Capital Fight
by Rick Newby
Historical Landscapes
A Landscape of Statehood: The Montana State Capitol
by Carroll Van West
Historical Commentary
Statehood Centennials: What Shall We Celebrate?
by Judith Austin
Montana Book Roundupby Charles E. Rankin
Created: Sunday, June 21, 1987
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
Created: Saturday, March 21, 1987
Vol. 37, No. 2
Testimonyby David Long
In and Out of Tule Lake Segregation Center
Japanese Internment in the West, 1942–1945
by Rosalie H. Wax
The Perils of Working in the Butte Underground
Industrial Fatalities in the Copper Mines, 1880–1920
by Brian Shovers
Selling Land on the Montana Plains, 1905–1915
Northern Pacific Railway’s Land-Grant Sales Policies
by Ross R. Cotroneo
Montanans and “the Most Peculiar Disease
The Influenza Epidemic and Public Health, 1918–1919
by Pierce C. Mullen and Michael L. Nelson
Montana EpisodesA “Fluey” Diary, 1918
Montana Commentary
Buffalo and Bacteria
by Kenneth N. Owens and Sally L. Owens
Montana Book Roundupby Charles E. Rankin
Created: Thursday, January 1, 1987
Vol. 37, No. 1
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
Created: Sunday, September 21, 1986
Vol. 36, No. 4
The Rise and Fall of Socialism in a Company Town
Anaconda, Montana, 1902–1905
by Jerry Calvert
“Mr. Montana” Revised
Another Look at Granville Stuart
by William Kittredge and Steven M. Krauzer
Politics and the Crow Indian Land Cessions, 1851–1904by Burton M. Smith
Sword Bearer and the “Crow Outbreak” of 1887by Colin G. Calloway
Promise in the West
The Letters of Isaac Schultz, 1884–1887
ed. by H. Duane Hampton
Montana Episodes
Rounding up “Canners” for the “Corned Beef and Cabbage”
by Robert W. “Ike” Eigell
Historical Landscapes
The Milwaukee Road Corridor
by Carroll Van West
Historical Commentary
A Dream of Water
by Donald Worster
Montana Book Roundupby Charles E. Rankin
Created: Saturday, June 21, 1986
Vol. 36, No. 3
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
Created: Friday, March 21, 1986
Vol. 36, No. 2
The Story of Mrs. Picotte-Gilpin, a Sioux Heroine
Eagle Woman Learns about White Ways and Racial Conflict, 1820–1868
by John S. Gray
“Roughing It Up the Yellowstone to Wonderland
An Account of a Trip through the Yellowstone Valley in 1878
by Colgate Hoyt, ed. by Carroll Van West
The Livery Stable in the American Westby Clark C. Spence
“The Glorious Orb of Day Has Rose”
A Diary of the Smoky Hill Route to Pike’s Peak, 1858
by Wilbur Fiske Parker, ed. by Norman Lavers
Handball’s Sagebrush Champs
The Growth of Handball in Montana
by Marcia Melton
Montana Episodes
Surveying in Yellowstone National Park, 1882
by Samuel P. Panton
Historical Landscapes
Solid, Safe, and Secure: Country Banks in Montana
Historical Commentary
On Digging Up Custer Battlefield
by Robert M. Utley
Montana Book Roundupby Charles E. Rankin
Created: Wednesday, January 1, 1986
Vol. 36, No. 1
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 Stephenie 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
Created: Saturday, September 21, 1985
Vol. 35, No. 4
The Native Americans’ Yellowstoneby C. Adrian Heidenreich
War Houses in the Sioux Country
The Military Occupation of the Lower Yellowstone
by Robert M. Utley
Steamboats on the Yellowstoneby William E. Lass
Coulson and the Clark’s Fork Bottom
The Economic Structure of a Pre-Railroad Community, 1874–1881
by Carroll Van West
Main Streets of the Yellowstone Valley
Town-Building along the Northern Pacific in Montana
by John C. Hudson
Forsyth’s Booster, Walter B. Dean, Jr.by Delores Morrow
Montana Episodes
Memories of Sidney, Montana, and the Lower Yellowstone Valley, 1919–1939
by Laurie K. Mercier
Historical Landscapes
Livingston: Railroad Town on the Yellowstone
Historical Commentary
Saving the Yellowstone
by William L. Lang
A Review Essay
The Great Father, A New History of Federal Indian Policy
by Lawrence C. Kelly
Created: Friday, June 21, 1985
Vol. 35, No. 3
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
Created: Thursday, March 21, 1985
Vol. 35, No. 2
Women in Waiting in the Westward Movement
Pamelia Dillin Fergus and Emma Stratton Christie
by Linda Peavy and Ursula Smith
Hydraulics in the American West
The Development and Diffusion of a Mining Technique
by Randall E. Rohe
“An Eldorado of Ease and Elegance”
Taking the Waters at White Sulphur Springs, 1866–1904
by Marilyn McMillan
Real and Fancied Claims
Joseph Richard “Skookum Joe” Anderson, Miner in Central Montana, 1880–1897
by George D. Mueller
Montana Episodes
Across Montana on the Northern Pacific in 1883
by Paul LIndrau, ed. and trans. by Frederic Trautmann
Historical Landscapes
Historic Landscapes and the Western Identity
Historical Commentary
The Close of the Copper Century
by Michael P. Malone
A Review Essay
English Creek and Western Historical Fiction
by William Bevis
Created: Tuesday, January 1, 1985
Vol. 35, No. 1
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
Created: Friday, September 21, 1984
Vol. 34, No. 4
“We Are Going to Have a Big Sioux War”
Colonel David S. Stanley’s Yellowstone Expedition, 1872
by Francis B. Robertson
Letters from the Lone Cowboy
A Sampling of Will James’s Letters to Maxwell Perkins
by William Gardner Bell
Peter Paul Prando, S.J., “Apostle of the Crows”by Michael E. Engh, S.J.
Father Peter Paul Prando’s Crow Reservation Photographs, 1894–1895by Michael E. Engh, S.J.
Father Jeremiah J. Callaghan
Butte’s First Irish Priest, 1898–1906
by Jeanette Prodgers
M. L. Wilson and the Origins of Federal Farm Policy in the Great Plains, 1909–1914by Harry C. McDean
Montana Episodes
M. L. Wilson: A Man to Remember
by Mont H. Saunderson
Notes on New Booksby Michael P. Malone
Created: Thursday, June 21, 1984
Vol. 34, No. 3
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
Created: Wednesday, March 21, 1984
Vol. 34, No. 2
The Struggle for the Piegan TradeThe Saskatchewan Versus the Missouri
by David Smyth
“A Mustard See in Montana
Recollections of the First Indian Mission in Montana
by Sister Saint Angela Louis Abair, ed. Orlan J. Svingen
Plain to Fancy
The Lake Hotel, 1889–1929
by Barbara H. Dittl and Joanne Mallmann
Ernest Thompson Seton in Yellowstone Countryby H. Allen Anderson
Montana Episodes
Sergeant Molchert’s Perils: Soldiering in Montana, 1870–1880
by Jon G. James
Created: Sunday, January 1, 1984
Vol. 34, No. 1
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
Created: Wednesday, September 21, 1983
Vol. 33, No. 4
Midas of the West
The Incredible Career of William Andrews Clark
by Michael P. Malone
Jessie Donaldson Schultz and Blackfeet Craftsby Anne Banks
Montana’s Self-Confessed Elite
The Progressive Men of Montana
by Carrol Van West
Jackson Sundown: Nez Perce Horsemanby Rowena L. and Gordon D. Alcorn
“Alone on that Prairie . . .”
The Homestead Narrative of Nellie Rogney
by Dorothy Kimball, contributor
Montana Episodes
From Horse to Machine
by Jeffrey J. Safford, ed.
Notes on New Booksby Michael P. Malone
Created: Tuesday, June 21, 1983
Vol. 33, No. 3
“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
Created: Monday, March 21, 1983
Vol. 33, No. 2
Peyotism in Montanaby Omer C. Stewart
Western Saddlemakers, 1865–1920by Oliver Knight
The Western Federation of Miners in Two Copper Camps
The Impact of the Michigan Copper Miners’ Strike on Butte’s Local No. 1
by Arthur W. Thurner
Police Reform in Montana,1890–1918by Robert A. Harvie and Larry V. Bishop
Montana Episodes
Skirmish at Goose Creek: Edmond R. P. Shurly’s Bozeman Trail Reminiscence
by Brian Cockhill, ed.
Created: Saturday, January 1, 1983
Vol. 33, No. 1
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.
Created: Tuesday, September 21, 1982
Vol. 32, No. 4
After the Gold Rush
Chinese Mining in the Far West, 1850–1890
by Randall E. Rohe
A. C. Haddon Joins Edward S. Curtis
An English Anthropologist among the Blackfeet, 1909
by Mick Gidley, ed.
A Surgeon at the Little Big Horn
The Letters of Dr. Holmes O. Paulding
by Thomas R. Buecker, ed.
Tough Taft
Boom Town
by Virginia Weisel Johnson
Germans in Montana Gold Camps
Two Views
by William E. Farr
Montana Episodes
Country Kids in Chicago: Montana’s First Delegation to the National 4-H Club Congress, 1925
by Marie MacDonald
Created: Monday, June 21, 1982
Vol. 32, No. 3
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
Created: Sunday, March 21, 1982
Vol. 32, No. 2
Stanley Huntley Interviews Sitting Bull
Event, Pseudo-Event or Fabrication?
by Lewis O. Saum
Montana’s Silver Mining Era
Great Boom and Great Bust
by Robert A. Chadwick
Phil Sheridan’s Pyrrhic Victory
The Piegan Massacre, Army Politics, and the Transfer Debate
by Paul A. Hutton
Fannie Sperry Steele
Montana’s Champion Bronc Rider
by Liz Stiffler and Tona Blake
Lorena Hickok to Harry Hopkins, 1933
A Woman Reporter Views Prairie Towns
by Maurine Hoffman Beasley
Montana Episodes
A Maine Man in the West—Letters of Stephen C. Barron, 1867–1874
by Robert W. Lovett
Created: Friday, January 1, 1982
Vol. 32, No. 1
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
Created: Monday, September 21, 1981
Vol. 31, No. 4
Buffalo Hunting in Montana in 1886
The Diary of W. Harvey Brown
by John M. Peterson, ed.
Reservation Self-Sufficiency
Stock Raising Versus Farming on the Northern Cheyenne Indian Reservation, 1900–1914
by Orlan J. Svingen
Solving Custer Photo PuzzlesSome New Dates and Identifications
by Neil Mangum
The Lewis and Clark Caverns
Politics and the Establishment of Montana’s First State Park
by Kenneth W. Karsmizki
Montana Episodes
Wheelmen in Yellowstone, 1905
by Susan Leaphart
K. Ross Toole
A Memorial
by Robert G. Athearn, Paul F. Sharp, John C. Ewers, Merrill G. Burlingame, Vivian A. Paladin, Harry W. Fritz
Created: Sunday, June 21, 1981
Vol. 31, No. 3
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
Created: Saturday, March 21, 1981
Vol. 31, No. 2
“To Arouse Interest in the Outdoors”
The Literary Career of Enos Mills
by Carl Abbott
Scarlet West
The Oldest Profession in the Trans-Mississippi Westby Elliott West
Capitalists with Rooms
Prostitution in Helena, Montana, 1865–1900
by Paula Petrik
Wheat for the Soviet MassesM. L. Wilson and the Montana Connection
by Thomas R. Wessel
The Crow Indian Delegation to Washington, D.C., in 1880
by C. Adrian Heidenreich
Montana Episodes
Homestead Fun
by Ruth Cameron
Created: Thursday, January 1, 1981
Vol. 31, No. 1
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
Created: Sunday, September 21, 1980
Vol. 30, No. 4
John Ringo
The Story of a Western Myth
by Jack Burrows
Terminus Town
The Founding of Dillon, 1880
by Stanley R. Davison and Rex C. Myers
Strike and RetreatIntertribal Warfare and the Powder River War, 1865–1868
by Anthony McGinnis
Marshall’s Hotel in the National Parkby Lee H. Whittlesey
Montana EpisodesTracking Con Murphy
by Jacob Mathews Powers
Created: Saturday, June 21, 1980
Vol. 30, No. 3
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
Created: Friday, March 21, 1980
Vol. 30, No. 2
Vigorous Attempts to Prosecute
Pinkerton Men on Montana’s Range, 1914by Joan Bishop
Law, Order, & Reform in the Gallatin, 1893–1918by Larry V. Bishop and Robert A. Harvie
Montana Collage
Our History through Photographs, A Portfolio
by the editors
“Peace Is a Woman’s Job . . .”
Jeannette Rankin and American Foreign Policy: Her Lifework as a Pacifist
by Joan Hoff Wilson
William Henry Hunt
The Montana Years
by William Hunt Conrad
Montana Episodes
180 Degree Turn
by C. Reg Krause
Created: Tuesday, January 1, 1980
Vol. 30, No. 1
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
Created: Friday, September 21, 1979
Vol. 29, No. 4
Boycott
The Pullman Strike in Montana
by W. Thomas White
The Trans-Mississippi Exposition and the Flathead Delegationby Robert Bigart and Clarence Woodcock
The Rinehart Photographs
A Portfolio
by Earl Clark
Wells Fargo Stagecoaching in Montana
Final Months
by W. Turrentine Jackson
Montana Episodes
Stage on the High Line
by Earl Sandvig
Created: Thursday, June 21, 1979
Vol. 29, No. 3
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
Created: Wednesday, March 21, 1979
Vol. 29, No. 2
W. H. D. Koerner & Emerson Hough
A Western Collaboration
by Dorys Crow Grover
Sollid Wants to See You
George Sollid, Homestead Locator
by William E. Farr
When Lowry Took Russell and Me to Eatby Belknap “Ballie” Buck
introduction by Brian W. Dippie
How the Buffalo Lost His Crown
by John W. Beaconillustrated by Charles M. Russell
Wells Fargo Stagecoaching in Montana
Trials and Triumphs
by W. Turrentine Jackson
Brick Stronghold of the Border
Fort Assinniboine, 1879–1911
by Nicholas P. Hardeman
Montana Episodes
Shipping Time
by Jeffrey J. Safford
Created: Monday, January 1, 1979
Vol. 29. No. 1
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
Created: Thursday, September 21, 1978
Vol. 28, No. 4
Survival on the High Plains, 1929–1934by Charles Vindex
Colonel Custer’s Copperhead
The “Mysterious” Mark Kellogg
by Lewis O. Saum
Henry M. Stanley’s Frontier Apprenticeshipby Thomas D. Isern
Montana’s Righteous Hangmen
A Reconsideration
by Merrill G. Burlingame
1870—To the Hangman’s Tree
Helena’s Last Vigilante Execution
by Lee Silliman
Created: Wednesday, June 21, 1978
Vol. 28, No. 3
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
Created: Tuesday, March 21, 1978
Vol. 28, No. 2
Itinerant Frontier Photographers and Images Lost, Strayed, or Stolenby John S. Gray
“The Very Atmospphere Is Charged with Unbelief . . .”
Presbyterians and Higher Education in Montana
by Norman J. Bender
Cornelius Hedges
Frontier Educator
by George Lubick
Miss Jacoby
19th Century Educator, 20th Century Guardian of Excellence
by Alice Cowan Coleman
Lutey Brothers Marketeria
America’s First Self-Serve Grocers
by Kent Lutey
Created: Sunday, January 1, 1978
Vol. 28, No. 1
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
Created: Wednesday, September 21, 1977
Vol. 27, No. 4
A Century Ago
The Nez Perce and the Tortuous Pursuit
by Stanley R. Davison
The Settlers and the Nez Perceby Rex C. Myers
“We have Joseph and all his people . . .”A Soldier Writes Home About the Battle
A Document
Saloon Entrepreneurs of Russell’s Art and the Pilgrimage of One Collectionby Paul T. DeVore
Mary MacLane
A Feminist Opinion
by Carolyn J. Mattern
Member of the Crew
Reminiscences of a Teen-Ager on a Threshing Rig
by Orland E. Esval
Horsepower
“I Don’t Have a Work Horse on the Place”
by Donald R. Bosley
Created: Tuesday, June 21, 1977
Vol. 27, No. 3
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
Created: Monday, March 21, 1977
Vol. 27, No. 2
David Dawson Mitchell
Virginian on the Wild Missouri
by Paul E. Verdon
Timber to Newport on the Pend Oreille River in Idahoby Louis Musso III
An Inning for Sin
Chicago Joe and Her Hurdy-Gurdy Girls
by Rex C. Myers
Camp Baker/Fort Logan
Microcosm of the /Frontier Military Experience
by Raymond A. Mentzer, Jr.
Asian Adventures of a Cowboy from Montana—Red Bartonby Ralph Miracle
Care and Feeding of the Model Tby Tony Dalich
Created: Saturday, January 1, 1977
Vol. 27, No. 1
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
Created: Tuesday, September 21, 1976
Vol. 26, No. 4
The Golden Spell of Harvestby Charles Vindex
Sadie and the Missing Custer Battle Papersby Carl L. Pearton
The Last Summer at Lake McDonaldby Curtis W. Buchholtz
The Montana Club
Symbol of Elegance
by Rex C. Myers
The Scattered Morrisitesby C. LeRoy Anderson
Created: Monday, June 21, 1976
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
Created: Sunday, March 21, 1976
Vol. 26, No. 3
Albert Bierstadt
Painter of America’s Western Vision
by Phillip Drennon Thomas
Montana Editors and the Custer Battleby Rex C. Myers
When the Preacher Kept a Cowby Dorothy M. Johnson
A Tale of Two Towns
Gilman and Augusta
by Jeffrey L. Cuniff
“He Was Ferocious, That Pike!”
A Fighting Man and a Town to Match
by Lee Silliman
Created: Thursday, January 1, 1976
Vol. 26, No. 1
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
Created: Monday, September 1, 1975
Vol. 25, No. 4
Peter Peterson Tofft
Painter in the Wilderness
by Robert Bigart and Clarence Woodcock
Wheat in Montana
Determined Adaptation
by Ralph E. Ward
Coburg
A Montana Town That Is No More
by Donald R. Bosley
1876 on the Reservations
The Indian “Question”
by Michael P. Malone and Richard B. Roeder
Celebrating the Centennialby Michael P. Malone and Richard B. Roeder
Tales Told by a New Dealer—General Hugh S. Johnsonby John Kennedy Ohl
Created: Sunday, June 1, 1975
Vol. 25, No. 3
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
Created: Saturday, March 1, 1975
Vol. 25, No. 2
Gutzon Borglum
Mercurial Master of Colossal Art
by Gilbert C. Fite
The Centennial Year in Montana
In the Gulches—Mining in Field and Pasture—Agriculture
by Michael P. Malone and Richard B. Roeder
William Illingworth
Stereoscopic Eye on the Frontier West
by Jeffrey P. Grosscup
William Clark
A Reappraisal
by Jerome O. Steffen
I Remember Old Yogo and the Weatherwaxby Kenneth W. Hay
Created: Wednesday, January 1, 1975
Vol. 25, No. 1
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
Created: Sunday, September 1, 1974
Vol. 24, No. 4
The Redcoat Detachment at Writing-on-Stone in Albertaby Hugh A. Dempsey
Lost on Cold Creek
Modern Explorers Track the Nez Perce
by Daniel Goodenough, Jr.
The Cheyenne “Outbreak” of 1897by Lonnie E. Underhill and Daniel F. Littlefield, Jr.
The Mormons and the Morrisite Warby C. LeRoy Anderson and Larry J. Halford
Brigham Young’s Deseret Alphabetby Elizabeth Cottam Walker
Fun in the Great Outdoors—Or Was It?by Dorothy M. Johnson
Vigilante Numbers
A Re-Examination
by Rex C. Myers
Created: Saturday, June 1, 1974
Vol. 24, No. 3
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
Created: Friday, March 1, 1974
Vol. 24, No. 2
The Carroll Trail
Utopian Enterprise
by Lee Silliman
A Monument to Custerby Minnie Dubbs Millbrook
Rocky Mountain Husbandman
Embattled Voice of the Montana Farmer
by Frank Grant
Small Town World Before Radioby Dorothy M. Johnson
Kendall, Montana
Twentieth Century Ghost Town
by John Foster, in collaboration with Glenn C. Morton
Created: Tuesday, January 1, 1974
Vol. 24, No. 1
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
Created: Saturday, September 1, 1973
Vol. 23, No. 4
Probing the Riddle of the Bird Womanby Irving W. Anderson
Coal
Montana’s Prosaic Treasure
by Robert A. Chadwick
Ships North to Alaska’s Coastby Neil M. Clark
Rufus Zogbaum and the Frontier Westby Judith MacBain Alter
“Number Please”
Confessions of a Teenage “Central”
by Dorothy M. Johnson
From Montana
Most Sincerely
by John L. Marsh
Created: Friday, June 1, 1973
Vol. 23, No. 3
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
Created: Thursday, March 1, 1973
Vol. 23, No. 2
Chip of the Flying U
The Author Was a Lady
by Stanley R. Davison
B. K. Wheeler and Jim Murray
Senators in Conflict
by Donald E. Spritzer
The Boy General and How He Grew
George Custer after Appomattox
by Minnie Dubbs Millbrook
Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever
The Sickness and the Triumph
by Philip A. Kalisch
Dr. Montezuma Apache
Warrior in Two Worlds
by Neil M. Clark
Created: Monday, January 1, 1973
Vol. 23, No. 1
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
Created: Friday, September 1, 1972
Vol. 22, No. 4
Brother Van’s Call to Frontier Montana
“To Preach, Sing, and Encourage People to Be Good”
by Myron J. Fogde
Over Barren Plains and Rock-Bound Mountains
“Being the Journal of a Tour by the Overland Route . . .”
by Adam M. Brown, edited by David M. Kiefer
The Hayfield Fight
A Reappraisal of a Neglected Action
by Jerome A. Greene
Old Fort Kearny—1846–1848
Symbol of a Changing Frontier
by Milton E. Holtz
Chief Joseph and the “Lyin’ Jack” Syndromeby Mark H. Brown
Western Literature and Its Myth
A Rejoinder
by William W. Savage, Jr.
Created: Thursday, June 1, 1972
Vol. 22, No. 3
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
Created: Wednesday, March 1, 1972
Vol. 22, No. 2
Lutheran Zealots among the Crowby Oswald F. Wagner
The Custer Battle and the Critique of an Adventureedited by Harold D. Langley
Trolleys of the Treasure Stateby Rex C. Myers
Shakespearean “Culture” in Montana, 1902by Elizabeth Greenfield
Western Literature and the Myth-Makersby Carol Anne French
Created: Saturday, January 1, 1972
Vol. 22, No. 1
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
Created: Wednesday, September 1, 1971
Vol. 21, No. 4
Lewis and Clark
Westering Physicians
by Drake W. Will
The Wobblies and Montana’s Garden Cityby George A. Venn
Butte
A Troubled Labor Paradise
by Theodore Wiprud
Joe Scheuerle
Modest Man with Friendly Palette
by Thorton I. and Margo Boileau
Faith to Move Mountains
by Richard H. Dillon
Aunt Tish
Beloved Gourmet of the Bitter Root
by Glenn Chaffin
Pat Garrett
Another Look at a Western Gunman
by Leon C. Metz
I Remember Helena and How To Spell “Uncle”by Gerald T. Perry
Created: Tuesday, June 1, 1971
Vol. 21, No. 3
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