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 ...
Plowed Under: AGRICULTURE AND ENVIRONMENT IN THE PALOUSE
Jul 01, 2008; ... Plowed Under: AGRICULTURE AND ENVIRONMENT IN THE PALOUSE Andrew P. Duffin University of Washington Press, Seattle. 2007. Illustrations, maps, notes, bibliography, index, xv + 240 pages. $35.00 cloth. As debates over the recent farm bill make clear, farm subsidies are controversial, ...
Drifting West: THE CALAMITIES OF JAMES WHITE AND CHARLES BAKER/Damming Grand Canyon: THE 1923 USGS COLORADO RIVER EXPEDITION
Jul 01, 2008; ... Drifting West: THE CALAMITIES OF JAMES WHITE AND CHARLES BAKER Virginia McConnell Simmons University Press of Colorado, Boulder, 2007. Illustrations, maps, appendix, notes, bibliography, index, xxviii + 210 pp. $29.95 cloth. Damming Grand Canyon: THE 1923 USGS COLORADO RIVER EXPEDITION ...
Gender and Generation on the Far Western Frontier
Jul 01, 2008; ... Gender and Generation on the Far Western Frontier Cynthia Culver Prescott University of Arizona Press, Tucson, 2007. Illustrations, maps, tables, notes, bibliography, index, ? + 219 pp. $49.95 cloth. Cynthia Culver Prescott measures changes in gender roles and expectations of westering ...
Ghost Dances and Identity: PROPHETIC RELIGION AND AMERICAN INDIAN ETHNOGENESIS IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY
Jul 01, 2008; ... Ghost Dances and Identity: PROPHETIC RELIGION AND AMERICAN INDIAN ETHNOGENESIS IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY Gregory E. Smoak University of California Press, Berkeley, 2006. Maps, notes, bibliography, index, ix + 289 pp. $60.00 cloth, $24.95 paper. Many scholars conjure up images of ...
The Chouteaus: FIRST FAMILY OF THE FUR TRADE
Jul 01, 2008; ... The Chouteaus: FIRST FAMILY OF THE FUR TRADE Stan Hoig University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque, 2008. Illustrations, maps, appendix, notes, bibliography, index, xi + 337 pp. $29.95 cloth. Although John Adams currently stands in the historical limelight (in no small part due to David ...
Where Custer Fell: PHOTOGRAPHS OF THE LITTLE BIGHORN BATTLEFIELD THEN AND NOW
Jul 01, 2008; ... Where Custer Fell: PHOTOGRAPHS OF THE LITTLE BIGHORN BATTLEFIELD THEN AND NOW James S. Brust, Brian C. Pohanka, and Sandy Barnard University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, 2005. Illustrations, maps, notes, appendix, bibliography, index, xi + 226 pp. $34.95 paper. For several decades, ...
Stricken Field: THE LITTLE BIGHORN SINCE 1876
Jul 01, 2008; ... Stricken Field: THE LITTLE BIGHORN SINCE 1876 Jerome A. Greene University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, 2008. Maps, photographs, appendixes, notes, bibliography, index, xxix + 352 pp. $34-95 cloth. Stricken Field provides an administrative history of Little Bighorn Battlefield National ...
Food of Gods and Starvelings: THE SELECTED POEMS OF GRACE STONE COATES
Jul 01, 2008; ... Food of Gods and Starvelings: THE SELECTED POEMS OF GRACE STONE COATES Grace Stone Coates Lee Rostad and Rick Newby, Editors Drumlumraon Institute, Helena, Montana, 2007. Illustrations. iii + 240 pp. $15.95 paper. Grace Stone Coates, whom poet and editor Rick Newby once called a ...
Yellowstone Denied: THE LIFE OF GUSTAVUS CHEYNEY DOANE
Jul 01, 2008; ... Yellowstone Denied: THE LIFE OF GUSTAVUS CHEYNEY DOANE Kim Alien Scott University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, 2007. Illustrations, maps, notes, bibliography, index, xii + 305 pp. $32.95 cloth. Like many of his fellow officers in the U.S. Army, Gustavus Cheyney Doane realized that service ...
A Pretty Village: DOCUMENTS OF WORSHIP AND CULTURE CHANGE, ST. IGNATIUS MISSION, MONTANA, 1880-1889/Zealous in All Virtues: DOCUMENTS OF WORSHIP AND CULTURE CHANGE, ST. IGNATIUS MISSION, MONTANA, 1890-1894
Jul 01, 2008; ... A Pretty Village DOCUMENTS OF WORSHIP AND CULTURE CHANGE, ST. IGNATIUS MISSION, MONTANA, 1880-1889 Zealous in All Virtues DOCUMENTS OF WORSHIP AND CULTURE CHANGE, ST. IGNATIUS MISSION, MONTANA, 1890-1894 Edited by Robert J. Bigart Salish Kootenai College ...
Letters
Jul 01, 2008; ... The article by Todd L. Savitt, "Abortion in the Old West," which appeared in the Autumn 2007 issue, just came to my attention. As the article reported, there were many forces contributing to making abortion illegal in the second half of the nineteenth century, when before that time the law had ...
CORRECTIONS
Jul 01, 2008; ... Bert W. Kronmiller, pictured on page 10 of "The Fight for Crow Water, Part II," in the Spring 2008 issue, was identified as a Billings attorney. Though he practiced in Billings for a short time at the beginning of his ...
Justice [as an Afterthought]
Jul 01, 2008; ... WOMEN AND THE MONTANA PRISON SYSTEM IN THE SENSATIONAL court case that followed, Bessie claimed self-defense. After all, she weighed less than 100 pounds, and Big Eva carried 190 on her nearly six-foot frame. The prosecuting attorney led the all-male jury to the Richards undertaking ...
The World in the West, The West in the World
Apr 01, 2008; ... Friedrich Gerstäcker, Richard Francis Burton, and Isabella Bird on the Nineteenth-Century Frontier IN THE EARLY twenty-first century, when tens of millions of affluent Americans can travel to virtually anywhere in the world in the space of a day, and can travel anywhere virtually via the ...
The Fight for Crow Water Part II
Apr 01, 2008; ... THE BATTLE for the Bighorn had been ongoing for nearly fifty years when, in February of 1954, the decision that became its turning point was made by Clarence Davis, the solicitor for the Department of the Interior, whose role it was to listen to arguments concerning proposed legislation and ...