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Spring 2017 / Vol. 67 (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
Winter 2016 / Vol. 66 (4)
Western Montana’s Christmas Tree Boom, 1926–1969
by 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 Roundup
by Aaron Parrett
Autumn 2016 / Vol. 66 (3)
“Realizing the Chance of Your Life”
A Wisconsin Doctor Moves to Missoula, 1905
by Todd L. Savitt
Nurse, Mother, Midwife
Susie Walking Bear Yellowtail and the Struggle for Crow Women’s Reproductive Autonomy
by Brianna Theobald
After the West Was Won
How African American Buffalo Soldiers Invigorated the Helena Community in Early Twentieth-Century Montana
by Anthony Wood
Fraud at Fort Parker
How 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
Summer 2016 / Vol. 66 (2)
State of Change: Women and the 1972 Montana Constitutional Convention
by Kelly Kirk
“One Page at a Time“: Early Printing in Territorial Montana
by Aaron Parrett
“Dead Work,“ Electric Futures, and the Hidden History of the Gilded Age
by Jeremy Zallen
Expanding Digital Access to Historic Montana Newspapers
by Tammy Troup
Spring 2016 / Vol. 66 (1)
Creating “Staunch Hearted, Bright-Eyed Sportswomen”: The Montana Legacy of Ina E. Gittings
by Pamela Stewart
A Cross in the Wilderness: St. Mary’s Mission Celebrates 175 Years
by Ellen Baumler
Rocky Mountain Radicals: Copper 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 Montana
by Zoe Ann Stoltz
Winter 2015 / Vol. 65 (4)
Cowboys and Capitalists: The XIT Ranch in Texas and Montana, 1885–1912
by Michael M. Miller
“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 Found: The 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
Autumn 2015 / Vol. 65 (3)
Remove the Dam, Restore the River: How Public Participation Redefined Superfund Law at Milltown, Montana
by David Brooks
Surviving Montana: Women’s Memories of Work and Family Life, 1900–1960
by Laurie Mercier
The Traditional Worldview of the Kootenai People
by the Kootenai Culture Committee
Summer 2015 / Vol. 65 (2)
Going Public: Childbirth, the Board of Health, and Montana Women, 1860–1920
by Jennifer J. Hill
Pack Mules and Parachutes: Firefighting Partners at Montana’s Ninemile Remount Depot
by Janet Ore
Forgotten Pioneers: The Chinese in Montana
by Ellen Baumler
Daphne Bugbee Jones: A Modernist Architect’s Legacy
by Hipólito Rafael Chacón
Montana Book Roundup
by Aaron Parrett
Spring 2015 / Vol. 65 (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 & Charlie: A Montana Pair to Draw To
by Kirby Lambert and Jennifer Bottomly-O’looney
Firefighters in the Sky: 75 Years and Still Smokejumping over Montana
by Lincoln Bramwell
The Montana Historical Society Celebrates 150 Years
by Bruce Whittenberg
Winter 2014 / Vol. 64 (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 Circle: How Montana Thoroughbreds Upset the Nineteenth Century’s Racing Establishment
by Catharine Melin-Moser
John Mix Stanley: An Artist’s View of the 1853 Pacific Railroad Survey and the Far Northwest
by Peter H. Hassrick
Authenticating Chief Joseph’s Shirt: Revelations from Comparison of Digitized Photographs
by Jeffrey Baitis and James S. Brust
Becoming Chinese in Montana: The Chinese Empire Reform Association and National Identity among Montana’s Chinese Communities
by Mark Johnson
Autumn 2014 / Vol. 64 (3)
In Search of the Sublime: Finding Transcendence in the Mountain West, 1880–1920
by Diana L. Di Stefano
Rudyard Kipling: At Large in the West
by Landon Y. Jones
‘We Are Learning to Do These Things Better’: A Women’s History of Helena’s First Neighborhood
by Ellen Baumler
‘Come Join the K.K.K. in the Old Town Tonight’: The Ku Klux Klan in Harlowton, Montana, during the 1920s
by Christine K. Erickson
Protecting Montana’s Historic Properties
by Kathryn Ore watch the video
Summer 2014 / Vol. 64 (2)
Women’s History Matters: The 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
Calamity Jane: A Life and Legends
by Richard W. Etulain watch the video
Divas, Divorce, and Disclosure: Hidden Narratives in the Diaries of Evelyn Cameron
by Ann Roberts and Christine Wordsworth
Ewen and Evelyn Cameron Under the Big Sky
Spring 2014 / Vol. 64 (1)
Wheeling through Yellowstone: A History of Early Bicycling in America’s First National Park
by Wes Hardin
‘The Courage to Act by a Higher and Humaner Principle’: Lewis J. Duncan and the Socialist Movement in Butte, Montana, 1900–1914
by John Hajduk
Forrest Anderson, the 1972 Constitution, and the Reshaping of Montana
by Brian Shovers watch the video
From Havana to Montana: Cuban Refugee Children, Operation Pedro Pan, and the Cold War Catholic Church
by Clint Attebery
Winter 2013 / Vol. 63 (4)
Montana’s Conjurers, Con Men, and Card Cheats: Wilbur 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 Wolves: Stockgrowers, Bounty Bills, and the Uncertain Distinction between Predators and Producers
by Michael Wise
Montana Book Roundup
by Aaron Parrett
Autumn 2013 / Vol. 63 (3)
Blood Money: The Montana Bankers Association and the Bozeman Bank Robbery of 1932
by Kim Allen Scott
The Bones Brothers Ranch
by Joan L. Brownell
From Party Lines and Barbed Wire: A History of Telephones in Montana
by Ellen Arguimbau
A Massive Undertaking: Constructing Montana’s Interstate Highways, 1956–1988
by Jon Axline watch the video
From the Society—Luck and Details: Photographing the Work of Charles M. Russell
by Tom Ferris watch the video
Summer 2013 / Vol. 63 (2)
Montana Modernism: Contemporary Architecture in the Western State, 1945–1975
by H. Rafael Chacón
Black Hills and Bloodshed: The U.S. Army and the Invasion of Lakota Land, 1868–1876
by Catharine R. Franklin
Charlie Russell and Glacier Park
by Elizabeth A. Dear and David Stanley
Lee Metcalf and the Politics of Preservation: Part II—Conflict, Compromise, and the Art of Leadership
by Frederick H. Swanson
Spring 2013 / Vol. 63 (1)
Lee Metcalf and the Politics of Preservation: Part I—A Positive Program of Development
by Frederick H. Swanson
On Trial: The Washington R*dskins’ Wily Mascot—Coach William “Lone Star” Dietz
by Linda M. Waggoner
The Case for a Custer Battalion Survivor: Private Gustave Korn’s Story
by Albert Winkler
A “Temple of Pleasure”: Missoula’s Wilma Theatre
by Elizabeth “Libi” Sundermann
From the Society—Montana’s National Register Program
by John Boughton
Winter 2012 / Vol. 62 (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 Hill: Situating Children in Butte’s History
by Janet L. Finn watch the video
Vaccine Production in the Bitterroot Valley during World War II: How Rocky Mountain Laboratory Protected American Forces from Yellow Fever
by Gary R. Hettrick
Camp Cooke: Montana Territory’s Forgotten First U.S. Army Post
by Rodger Lawrence Huckabee
From the Society—And the Bride Wore . . . Montana Weddings, 1900–1960: An Exhibit from the Montana Historical Society
by Martha Kohl
Montana Book Roundup
by Aaron Parrett
Autumn 2012 / Vol. 62 (3)
This Was J.C.Penney: A 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, 1875–1877
by Robert Bigart
The Art of Storytelling: Plains Indian Perspectives
by Jennifer Bottomley-O’looney
Louis W. Hill, the Great Northern Railway, and the Origins of Automobile Tourism in the Northern Plains
by Alan R. Havig
Montana Episode—The Serendipitous Preservation of Butte’s Mai Wah Noodle Parlor and the Wah Chong Tai Company
by Hal Waldrup
Summer 2012 / Vol. 62 (2)
The End of Freedom: The Military Removal of the Blackfeet and Reservation Confinement, 1880
by William E. Farr
Protest, Power, and the Pit: Fighting 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 Roads: Prison Labor on Montana’s Highways, 1910–1925
by Jon Axline
From the Society—Signs of the Times: The Montana Historical Society’s National Register Sign Program
by Ellen Baumler
Spring 2012 / Vol. 62 (1)
Jerry O’Connell: Montana’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 Swan
by Marcia Melton
The Politics of Performance: Montana’s Landless Indians and Beveridge’s Montana Wildest West Show
by Elizabeth Sperry
From the Society—Innovations in Education: The Montana Historical Society’s Reach Extends Nationally and Internationally
by Mark Johnson watch the video
Winter 2011 / Vol. 61 (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 Gulch: Ruminations 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 Time: Joseph Kinsey Howard and the Writing of Strange Empire
by Heather Devine
From the Society—Cons Online: A Montana Historical Society Digitization Project
by Caitlan Maxwell and Jodie Foley
Autumn 2011 / Vol. 61 (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 West
by Lou Mandler
Montana’s Barns: A Vanishing History
by Chere Jiusto and Christine W. Brown; photographs by Tom Ferris
From Canning to Contraceptives: Cooperative Extension Service Home Demonstration Clubs and Rural Montana Women in the Post–World War II Era
by Amy L. McKinney
From the Society—The Restoration of a Legendary Painting by C. M. Russell
by Erica ESH Henry
Summer 2011 / Vol. 61 (2)
Changing Lives: Baptist Women, Benevolence, and Community on the Crow Reservation, 1904–60
by Becky Matthews
Steamboats, Woodhawks, and War on the Upper Missouri River
by Greg Gordon
The Rise and Fall of Social Welfare in a Frontier Mining Community: Virginia 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
From the Society—The Western Rendezvous of Art
by Susan R. Near
Spring 2011 / Vol. 61 (1)
Helen P. Clarke in ‘the Age of Tribes’: Montana’s Changing Racial Landscape, 1870–1920
by Andrew R. Graybill
Axis Nation ‘Detainees’ and Japanese Enemy Aliens in the West during World War I?I
by 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 Roundup
Winter 2010 / Vol. 60 (4)
Mina Westbye: Norwegian Immigrant, North Dakota Homesteader, Studio Photographer, ‘New Woman’
by Lori Ann Lahlum
Marketing the Northwest: the Northern Pacific Railroad’s Last Spike Excursion
by Jan Taylor
A Devastating Diagnosis of Leprosy: The 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 Park: Kishenehn Ranger Station, 1910–1940
by Mark Hufstetler
Autumn 2010 / Vol. 60 (3)
The Nez Perce and Their Trials: Rethinking America’s Indian Wars
by Elliott West
Guy M. Brandborg and the Bitterroot Controversy: A Conservationist’s Legacy in the Northern Rockies
by Frederick H. Swanson
Hunger: A Memoir of Growing Up in Northeastern Montana
by Ruth McLaughlin; introduced by Dee Garceau
When the Mountains Roared: The 1910 Northern Rockies Fires
by Lincoln Bramwell
From the Society—The Mapkeepers
by Brian Shovers
Summer 2010 / Vol. 60 (2)
Conceiving Nature: The Creation of Montana’s Glacier National Park
by Andrew C. Harper
Where the Prairie Ends and the Sky Begins: Maynard Dixon in Montana
by Donald J. Hagerty
Glacier National Park: People, a Playground, and a Park
by Jennifer Bottomly-O’looney and Deirdre Shaw
The Miraculous Survival of the Art of Glacier National Park
by Hipólito Rafael Chacón
Spring 2010 / Vol. 60 (1)
The N Bar N Ranch: A 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 Berlin: Walter McClintock and the Grand Opera Poia
by Steven L. Grafe
Romancing Montana: Frances Parker, Western Writer
by Mary L. Helland
From the Society—From Bits of Paper to Bytes of Data: The Newspaper Collection at the Montana Historical Society
by Molly Kruckenberg
Winter 2009 / Vol. 59 (4)
Dying in the West: Part 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. Bradley: The Literary Legacy of Montana’s Frontier Soldier-Historian
by Jon G. James
Montana Episode—In the Company of Heroes: Charlie Russell and the ‘Temple of Fame’
by Kirby Lambert
From the Society—Copper Commando and the Anaconda Company’s Wartime Production
by Amanda Graham
Autumn 2009 / Vol. 59 (3)
Failed National Parks in the Last Best Place
by Lary M. Dilsaver and William Wyckoff
Dying in the West: Part 1—Hospitals and Health Care in Montana and Alberta, 1880–1950
by Dawn Nickel
Cromwell Dixon: The World’s Youngest Aviator
by Del Phillips
From the Society—Celebrating a Century of County Building in Montana
by Jeff Malcomson
Historical Commentary—Are We There Yet?: Some Thoughts on the Current State of Western Women’s History
by Sue Armitage
Montana Film Roundup: Butte, America
by Brian Shovers
Summer 2009 / Vol. 59 (2)
Abraham Lincoln: Political Founding Father of the American West
by Richard W. Etulain
To Think Like a Star: The 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
Spring 2009 / Vol. 59 (1)
‘These Men Play Real Polo’: An Elite Sport in the ‘Cowboy State,’ 1890–1930
by Michael A. Amundson
Montana Deaconess School to Intermountain: A Centennial of Restoring Hope for Children, 1909–2009
by Ellen Baumler
Plying the Waters in America’s Little Switzerland: Early-Twentieth-Century Lake Tourism in Glacier National Park
by Calvin H. Mires
Montana Episode—From Coal Mine to Courtside: Basketball in Bearcreek, Montana
by Liza J. Nicholas
From the Society—Montana: Stories of the Land: A New Approach to Teaching Montana History
by Martha Kohl
Winter 2008 / Vol. 58 (4)
Tough Trip to Publication: Tough Trip through Paradise and the Beautiful Wives of Andrew Garcia
by Diane Smith
Thomas Savage, Forgotten Novelist
by O. Alan Weltzien
Learning a Trapper’s and Hunter’s Art
by 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 Raisonné
by B. Byron Price
Autumn 2008 / Vol. 58 (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 Quiltmakers: A History of Work and Beauty
by Mary Murphy
Montana Quilts and Quiltmakers: From Sunburst to Nine-Patch—Treasures of the Nineteenth Century
by Annie Hanshew
A Call to Order: Law, Violence, and the Development of Montana’s Early Stockmen’s Organizations
by T. A. Clay
Sitting Proud: The Indian Portraits of Joseph Scheuerle
by Jennifer Bottomly-O’looney
Historical Commentary—‘Big Love’: Unnatural Families and the Suburban West
by Maria E. Montoya
Summer 2008 / Vol. 58 (2)
Bringing Home All the Pretty Horses: The Horse Trade and the Early American West, 1775–1825
by Dan Flores
The Eleventh Man
by Ivan Doig
Justice as an Afterthought: Women and the Montana Prison System
by Ellen Baumler
‘Peas That Please’: The Gallatin Valley Pea Industry, 1911–1970
by Phyllis Smith
Historical Commentary—The Mining Law of 1872
by Gordon Morris Bakken
From the Society—Assault on Basalt
by Mark Baumler
Spring 2008 / Vol. 58 (1)
The Fight for Crow Water: Part II, Damming the Bighorn
by Megan Benson
The World in the West, the West in the World: Friedrich Gerstäcker, Richard Francis Burton, and Isabella Bird on the Nineteenth-Century Frontier
by David Wrobel
The Seminal Years of the Montana Legislative Council, 1957–1965
by Eugene C. Tidball
Living Artifacts: The Ancient Ponderosa Pines of the West
by Stephen F. Arno, Lars Östlund, and Robert E. Keane
How It Worked: The Stamp Mill
by Duane A. Smith
Historical Reflections—Charlie Russell and the Mysterious Photographs
by Ken Robison
From the Society—Restoring History at the Original Governor’s Mansion
by Susan R. Near
Montana Book Roundup
by Sue Hart
Winter 2007 / Vol. 57 (4)
Wallace Stegner’s Formative Years in Saskatchewan and Montana
by Philip L. Fradkin
‘A Residual Frontier Town’: Wallace Stegner’s Salt Lake City
by Robert C. Steensma
The Fight for Crow Water: Part 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
From the Society—Not-So-Buried Treasures: Exploring 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 Book
Autumn 2007 / Vol. 57 (3)
Abortion in the Old West: The Trials of Dr. Edwin S. Kellogg of Helena, Montana
by Todd L. Savitt
George ‘Montana’ Oiye: The Journey of a Japanese American from the Big Sky to the Battlefields of Europe
by Casey J. Pallister
Babe in the Woods: F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Unlikely Summer in Montan
by Landon Y. Jones
The Railroad Photography of Warren McGee
by Jennifer Jeffries Thompson
Historical Commentary—HBO’s Deadwood: Not Your Typical Western
by John Mack Faragher
Montana Traveler—The St. Ignatius Mission
by Katherine Mitchell
From the Society—Happy Birthday MHS Press!
Summer 2007 / Vol. 57 (2)
Flying across America: The Airline Passenger Experience and the West
by Daniel L. Rust
One Day on Timbered Island: How the Rockefellers’ Visits to Yellowstone Led to Grand Teton National Park
by Marian Albright Schenck
Postcard Portraits of Yellowstone National Park
by Susan and Jack Davis
Neither Empty nor Unknown: Montana 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
Spring 2007 / Vol. 57 (1)
Gwendolen Haste: Giving 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. Salmon
by Fredric L. Quivik
The Nez Perces in Yellowstone in 1877: A Comparison of Attempts to Deduce Their Route
by Lee Whittlesey
Montana Architecture—More than a Mile from City Center: Helena’s Northern Pacific Railroad District and Sixth Ward
by Kate Hampton
From the Society—Identifying African American Resources Project
by Scott Meredith
Montana Book Roundup
Winter 2006 / Vol. 56 (4)
Entering Butte
by Robert R. Swartout Jr.
‘See America the Bountiful’: Butte’s Berkeley Pit and the American Culture of Consumption
by Timothy J. LeCain
Another Look at Burke’s Butte: The Great Depression and William Allen Burke’s ‘Greenhorn Miner’
introduced by Matthew Basso
Caring for the Dead: The Development of the Funeral Business in Butte
by Zena Beth McGlashan
1,000,000 Glasses a Day: Butte’s Beer History on Tap
by Steve Lozar
Montana Episode—Driving Haul Trucks in the Berkeley Pit: Reminiscences of a Gritty Job
by Bill Long
About Butte
by Wim Wenders
From the Society—The Butte-Anaconda National Historic Landmark
by Martha Kohl
The Natural West—Bioprospecting in the Berkeley Pit: The Search for Valuable Natural Products from a Most Unnatural World
by Andrea Stierle
Montana Traveler—Our Lady of the Rockies
by Kris King
Autumn 2006 / Vol. 56 (3)
Frontiersman for the Tsar: Timofei Tarakanov and the Expansion of Russian America
by Kenneth N. Owens
Love, Valor, and Endurance: World War II War Brides Making a Home in Montana
by Seena B. Kohl
The Story from Indian Country: What We Learned from the Lewis and Clark Bicentennial
by Frederick E. Hoxie
Remembering Dave Walter
From the Society—Teaching Twentieth-Century Montana History
by Linda Wruck
Montana Book Roundup
Summer 2006 / Vol. 56 (2)
Anaconda Sheds Its Press: The Story behind the Company’s Decision to Sell Its Newspapers
by Dennis Swibold
An Army Surgeon’s Account: Henry 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 Ranney: A Painter’s Requiem to the Mountain Man
by Peter H. Hassrick
Of Professors and Predators: John 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 Ingredients: America by Food
From the Society—We Proceeded On: Creating a Masterpiece for the Montana State Capitol
by Kirby Lambert
Montana Traveler—Tower Rock: A Traveler’s Landmark
by Clint Attebery
Spring 2006 / Vol. 56 (1)
Mormonism in Montana
by Brian Q. Cannon
Second Views of the Treasure State
by William Wyckoff
Monopolizing The Virginian (or, Railroading Wister)
by Melody Graulich
Brigadier General George Crook’s ‘Horse Meat March’ and the Fight at Slim Buttes: A Letter by Walter Scribner Schuyler
by Charles M. Robinson III
Fort Davis and the Antebellum Military Frontiers
by Robert Wooster
Montana Reflections—Forest Images by K. D. Swan
by Kirby Lambert
From the Society—The Montana Heritage Project
by Katherine Mitchell
Montana Traveler—Forsyth, Montana
by Martha Kohl
Winter 2005 / Vol. 55 (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 Kid: Susan McSween and the Lincoln County War
by Kathleen P. Chamberlain
Montana Episode—The Masonic Apron of Meriwether Lewis and the Legacy of Masonry in Montana
by Ellen Baumler
Montana Traveler—Comet, Montana
by Christine W. Brown
From the Society—Unexpected Treasures among the Photographs of Ed and Emil Kopac
by Delores J. Morrow and Sandra J. Barker
Autumn 2005 / Vol. 55 (3)
Animal Last Stands: Empathy and Extinction in the American West
by Jon T. Coleman
Women and Hunting in the West
by Mary Zeiss Stange
Hunting Democracy
by Daniel Justin Herman
‘The Great Source of Amusement’: Hunting in the Frontier Army
by James E. Potter
The Legendary Earl Durand: Wyoming’s ‘Tarzan of the Tetons’
by Lillian Turner
Historical Commentary—‘Something Wicked This Way Comes’
by Gordon Morris Bakken and Elwood Bakken
From the Society—Travel and Exploration Narratives in the Montana Historical Society Collection
by Rich Aarstad and Jennie Stapp
Montana Traveler—Pine Butte Swamp Preserve and the Rocky Mountain Front
by W. Clark Whitehorn
Summer 2005 / Vol. 55 (2)
Captivity For Yellowstone Bison: Their Doom or Salvation?
by Mary Ann Franke
Tragedy at Red Cloud Agency: The 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 Montana: The Federal Land Surveys of 1867–1868
by Jeffrey J. Safford
Montana Episode—Fear in the Time of Infantile Paralysis
by Volney Steele
Montana Traveler—The 320 Ranch
by Connie Staudohar
From the Society—Community Preservation in Montana
by Rolene R. Schliesman
Spring 2005 / Vol. 55 (1)
Diversions, Ditches, and District Courts: Montana’s Struggle to Allocate Water
by Brian Shovers
The Contradictory Legacies of Buffalo Bill Cody’s First Scalp for Custer
by Paul L. Hedren
Elwood Mead, Buffalo Bill Cody, and the Carey Act in Wyoming
by Robert E. Bonner
Kayaking Playground or Nature Preserve?: Whitewater Boating Conflicts in Yellowstone National Park
by Michael J. Yochim
Montana Traveler—Historical Maps of Montana and the Stories They Tell
by Sally Thompson
From the Society—Reading between the Lines
by Clyde Ellis and Charlene Porsild
Winter 2004 / Vol. 54 (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 Permission: A Brief History of Research Permitting in Yellowstone National Park
by Alice Wondrak Biel
Old West and New West in Garden Park, Colorado
by Steven M. Schnell, Curtis J. Sorenson, Soren Larsen, Matthew Dunbar, and Erin McGrogan
Laura Bell McDaniel: Queen of the Colorado City Tenderloin
by Jan MacKell
Montana Episode—Icy Reconnaissance
by Michael J. Ober
From the Society—Federal Historic Rehabilitation Income Tax Credit Program
by Pete Brown
Montana Traveler—New Deal Oasis on the High Plains
by Fredric L. Quivik
Autumn 2004 / Vol. 54 (3)
Empty Saddles: Desertion from the Dashing U.S. Cavalry
by Judy Daubenmier
Fire and Ashes: The Last Survivor of the Mann Gulch Fire
by John N. Maclean
A Rashomon Night: Montana 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
Montana Episode—The Trials of John L. Smith
by John Clayton
The Natural West—The Old Works Golf Course, Anaconda, Montana
by Brian Shovers
From the Society—From Liverpool to Cut Bank
by Jodie Foley
Montana Traveler—Bearcreek, Montana
by Jon Axline
Summer 2004 / Vol. 54 (2)
Kona: Cradle of Hawai‘i’s Paniolo
by Richard W. Slatta, Ku‘ulani Auld, and Maile Melrose
Montana’s Worst Natural Disaster: The 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 Chance: The Malcolm S. Mackay Collection of Charles M. Russell Art
by Kirby Lambert
From the Society—A Recipe for New Research
by Charlene Porsild
Montana Traveler—Remembering Butte’s Chinatown
by Carrie Schneider
Spring 2004 / Vol. 54 (1)
Falling in Love with Montana: John Vachon’s Photographic Sojourn
by Mary Murphy
‘Enigma Woman’ Nellie Madison: Femme Fatales and Noir Fiction
by Kathleen Cairns
Going to Buffalo: Indian 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
Historical Commentary—Days of Discovery
by Dayton Duncan
From the Society—L. A. Huffman
Gene Allen & Bev Allen
Montana Traveler—Medicine Lake National Wildlife Refuge
by Amy L. McKinney
Winter 2003 / Vol. 53 (4)
Going to Buffalo: Indian 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 End: A Young Couple’s Portrait of Butte, 1936–1941
by Brenda Pentland
‘The Making of a Good Woman’: Montana and the National Florence Crittenton Mission
Ellen Baumler
From the Society—Documenting Education in Montana
by Molly Kruckenberg
The Montana Traveler—Lolo Hot Springs
by Charlene Porsild
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