Recently added articles from Montana; The Magazine of Western History:
Bringing Home All the Pretty Horses: THE HORSE TRADE AND THE EARLY AMERICAN WEST, 1775-1825
Jul 01, 2008; ... IN THE SUMMER OF 1834, just two years after having visited and painted the tribes of the Missouri River and northern plains country, western artist George Catlin got his first opportunity to observe and paint that counterpoint world, hundreds of miles to the south, on the plains of what is now ...
The Eleventh Man
Jul 01, 2008; ... Written by a master of Montana fiction, the episode that follows, the first chapter of Ivan Doig's new book, The Eleventh Man, captures the look and feel of Montana during World War II. Though it is a work of fiction, the story's illustrations and captions help explain the historical reality of ...
'Peas That Please'
Jul 01, 2008; ... THE GALLATIN VALLEY PEA INDUSTRY, 1911-1970 In 1911, the fields in New York, Michigan, and Wisconsin that produced the nation's seed peas lay in ruins, infected with aphids and blight. Early that year, the Jerome B. Rice Company of Detroit, Michigan, sent William Davis west to explore ...
Assault on Basalt
Jul 01, 2008; ... The Cashman Quarry Site With twenty-five thousand archaeological sites recorded in Montana, one would think that we had seen it all. But if archaeology teaches us one thing, it is that the ancient past is filled with surprises and that there is still much to be learned. We were reminded ...
The Mining Law of 1872
Jul 01, 2008; ... Debate over the repeal of the Mining Law of 1872 has been raging in the West now for almost two decades and once again reached the halls of Congress in 2007-8. As lawmakers on Capitol Hill consider revisions of the century-old law by which mining companies have been extracting valuable mineral ...