Montana History

 
An Ornery Bunch: Tales and Anecdotes Collected by the WPA Montana Writers Project
by WPA Montana's Writer's Project, Megan Hiller, Rick Newby, Elaine Peterson, Alexandra Swaney
Paperback from Falcon

See also: WPA Guides

Anaconda Montana: Copper Smelting Boom Town on the Western Frontier
by Patrick F. Morris
(Paperback)
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B Is for Big Sky Country: A Montana Alphabet (Discover America State by State. Alphabet Series)
by Sneed B. Collard III, Joanna Yardley
Hardcover from Sleeping Bear Press

Battle for Butte: Mining and Politics on the Northern Frontier, 1864-1906
by Michael P. Malone
Paperback from Montana Historical Society

Bozeman and the Gallatin Valley: A History
by Phyllis Smith
Paperback from Falcon

The Butte Irish: Class and Ethnicity in an American Mining Town, 1875-1925
by David M. Emmons
Listed under Montana Genealogy

Copper Camp: The Lusty Story of Butte, Montana, the Richest Hill on Earth
by Writers Project of Montana
Paperback from Riverbend Publishing

Crow (Tribes of Native America)
by Marla Felkins Ryan, Linda Schmittroth
Listed under Crow Indians

Frontier House
by Simon Shaw, Ursula Smith, Audrey Hall, Linda S. Peavy
Hardcover from Pocket Star

Hellroaring: Fifty Years on The Big Mountain
by Jean Arthur
Paperback from Whitefish Editions

The Hi-Line: Profiles of a Montana Land
by Daniel N. Vichorek
Paperback from Farcountry Pr
1994

Homestead
by Annick Smith
Hardcover from Milkweed Editions

Hope in Hard Times: New Deal Photographs of Montana, 1936-1942
by Mary Murphy
Hardcover from Montana Historical Society

Hutterites of Montana
by Laura Wilson
Hardcover from Yale Univ Pr

I See by Your Outfit : Historic Cowboy Gear of the Northern Plains
by Tom Lindmier, Steven R. Mount
Listed under Cowboy Gear

Libby, Montana: Asbestos and the Deadly Silence of an American Corporation
by Andrea Peacock
Paperback from Johnson Books

Little Big Horn Battlefield, Montana Territory, June 1876
by McElfresh Map Co, Earl B. McElfresh
Listed under George Custer

Montana Century : 100 Years in Pictures and Words
by Michael P. Malone (Editor)
(Hardcover)
 

The Montana Cowboy : Legends of the Big Sky Country by David R. Stoecklein (Photographer), Patrick Dawson (Illustrator), Dave Powell (Illustrator) Hardcover - 276 pages 2 edition Stoecklein Pub; ISBN: 0922029679

Montana's Cowboys: Living the Heritage (Montana Geographic Series, No 20)
by Daniel N. Vichorek
Paperback from Farcountry Pr

Montana Behind the Scenes
by Durrae Johanek, John Johanek
Paperback from Falcon

Mining Cultures: Men, Women, and Leisure in Butte, 1914-41 (Women in American History)
by Mary Murphy
Paperback from Univ of Illinois Pr (Pro Ref)

Montana Legacy: Essays on History, People, and Place
by Harry Fritz, Mary Murphy, Robert Swartout
Paperback from Montana Historical Society

Montana: Land of Contrast
by Harry W. Fritz, William E. Farr
Hardcover from American Historical Press

 

Montana Mainstreets, Volume 6: A Guide to Historic Missoula by Allan Mathews Paperback from Montana Historical Society

Montana Pay Dirt: A Guide to the Mining Camps of the Treasure State
by Muriel Sibell Wolle

Montana Trivia
by Janet Spencer (Compiler)
(Paperback)

Montana Wildlife: A Beginner's Field Guide to the State's Most Remarkable Animals
by Gayle C. Shirley
Paperback from Falcon

Montana's Fur Trade Era
by F. Lee Graves
Paperback from Farcountry Pr

My Life As an Indian
by James Willard Schultz
Listed under Blackfeet Indians

Names on the Face of Montana: The Story of Montana's Place Names
by Roberta Carkeek Cheney
Paperback from Mountain Press Publishing Company
1983

North to Montana!: Jehus, Bullwhackers, and Mule Skinners on the Montana Trail
by Betty M. Madsen, Brigham D. Madsen
Paperback from Utah State University Press

Roadside Geology of Montana (Roadside Geology Series)
by David Alt, Donald W. Hyndman
Listed under Roadside Geology

Red Lodge and the Mythic West: Coal Miners to Cowboys
by Bonnie Christensen
Hardcover from Univ Pr of Kansas

Tough Trip Through Paradise, 1878-1879
by Andrew Garcia
Listed under The American West

They Died With Custer: Soldiers' Bones from the Battle of the Little Bighorn
by Douglas D. Scott, P. Willey, P. Willey
Hardcover from Univ of Oklahoma Pr (Trd)

The University of Montana, Missoula : A Pictorial History
by Stan Cohen, Donald C. Miller
Paperback from Pictorial Histories Publishing Co. Inc.
1980
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The Undying West: A Chronicle of Montana's Camas Prairie
by Carlene Cross
Paperback from Fulcrum Pub

Uncommon Women Unmarked Trails: The Courageous Journey of Catholic Missionary Sisters in Frontier Montana
by Suzanne H., Ph.D. Schrems, Suzanne H. Schrems
Paperback from Horse Creek Publications

The Vigilantes of Montana
by Thomas J. Dimsdale
Paperback from Univ of Oklahoma Pr (Trd)
1977

The Way of the Warrior: Stories of the Crow People
by Henry Old Coyote, Barney Old Coyote, Phenocia Bauerle
Listed under Crow Indians

War of the Copper Kings
by C. B. Glasscock
Book Description The best account of Butte's "Copper Kings" -- Marcus Daly, W.A. Clark, and F. Augustus Heinze -- as they battle for control of "the richest hill on earth." Astonishing stories of greed, power, subterfuge, and money, hundreds of millions of dollars-in the early 1900s. Printed in cooperation the The Montana Historical Society Press. This edition contains the first-ever index as well as new photos and cover!
Publisher: Riverbend Publishing; (September 15, )

Wired for Success: The Butte, Anaconda & Pacific Railway, 1892-1985
by Chas. V. Mutschler, Charles V. Mutschler
Listed under American Railroads

Wounding the West: Montana, Mining, and the Environment
by David M. Stiller

Young Men & Fire
by Norman Maclean
On August 5, 1949, lightning came crashing down in the vast spruce forest above Seeley Lake, Montana, and touched off a roaring blaze. As every Westerner knows, lightning means fire, but the fire that raged through Mann Gulch that day was huge--the sort that occurs only every few decades. A battery of paratrooper-firefighters, many of them fresh veterans of World War II, had been anticipating it, and even looking forward to the chance to fight a great fire. Before the day ended thirteen of those smokejumpers lay dead, their charred remains evidence that something had gone terribly wrong. Norman Maclean gives a thorough account of the incident in language not meant for the squeamish: "Burning to death on a mountainside is dying at least three times ... first, considerably ahead of the fire, you reach the verge of death in your boots and your legs; next, as you fail, you sink back in the region of strange gases and red and blue darts where there is no oxygen and here you die in your lungs; then you sink in prayer into the main fire that consumes." After August 1949, he notes, the Forest Service came to recognize that not all fires need to be fought and that fire benefits most forest ecosystems. Amazon.com
Paperback from University of Chicago Press (Trd)

Many Strange Characters: Montana Frontier Tales
by James Willard Schultz, Eugene Lee Silliman
Hardcover from Univ of Oklahoma Pr (Trd)
1982
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Territorial Politics and Government in Montana, 1864-89
by Clark C. Spence
Textbook Binding from Univ of Illinois Pr (Trd)
1976
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