Montana; The Magazine of Western History back issues from October 1999:
Golden dreams: Colorado, California, and the reimagining of America
Oct 01, 1999; ... ON THE EVE OF THE CIVIL WAR, America had a hole right in the middle of it. Not an actual pit, of course; no one riding west from Kansas City would have tripped and fallen into an abyss. The hole was in America as it existed in millions of minds. People in the eastern and far western United ...
Disorder, crime, and punishment in the California Gold Rush
Oct 01, 1999; ... When James Marshall discovered gold at Sutter's mill on January 24, 1848, California was a Mexican province under Occupation by the United States Army. American military officers by and large permitted the existing local authorities-- the alcaldes-to remain in office. Alcaldes exercised broad ...
'When a person gits to California it is hard to say or tell when he gets away'
Oct 01, 1999; ... CALIFORNIA GOLD RUSH WAS THE GREAT NINETEENTH-CENTURY AMERICAN ADVENTURE. Emerging in a direct line from the triumphant war with Mexico for a continental empire and shielded still from the Armageddon of the Civil War, the news of gold in California set in motion a series of extraordinary ...
No need to rush
Oct 01, 1999; ... The Chinese, Placer Mining, and the Western Environment Few places in nineteenth-century America gathered more ethnic groups than did the western mining frontier. In the twenty-six years from James W. Marshall's discovery of gold at Sutter's mill in California in 1848 to General George ...
The legacy of the Gold Rush
Oct 01, 1999; ... NO ONE AT THE TIME OF THE CALIFORNIA GOLD RUSH COULD HAVE ANTICIPATED WHAT THE NATIONAL OR INTERNATIONAL CONSEQUENCES OF THIS GOLD STRIKE WOULD BE, NOR COULD THEY HAVE IMAGINED WHAT THE ECONOMIC, DEMOGRAPHIC, AND SOCIAL OUTCOME OF LARGE-SCALE MINING OF GOLD AND MANY OTHER KINDS OF ORE IN THE ...
More than the glory: Preserving the Gold Rush and its outcome at Virginia City
Oct 01, 1999; ... Veteran prospector James H. Morley followed the lure of gold to Montana in 1862, working placer claims at the rich strikes of Grasshopper, Alder Gulch, and Last Chance. When the last of these stampedes had ended, Morley vividly recalled the excitement. "Truth and the marvelous go hand ...
Days Of Gold: The California Gold Rush and the American Nation
Oct 01, 1999; ... DAYS OF GOLD The California Gold Rush and the American Nation Malcolm J. Rohrbough University of California Press, Berkeley, 1997. Illus- I trations, maps, notes, bibliography, index. xv + 353 pp. $29.95. Along with the gold-panning contests, (so-called) ...
A Chinaman's Chance: The Chinese on the Rocky Mountain Mining Frontier
Oct 01, 1999; ... A CHINAMAN'S CHANCE The Chinese on the Rocky Mountain Mining Frontier Liping Zhu University Press of Colorado, Niwot, 1997. Illustrations, maps, tables, notes, bibliography, index. xi + 231 pp. $27.50. Liping Zhu takes conventional understanding of Chinese immigrants ...
A Mine Of Her Own: Women Prospectors in the American West, 1850-1950
Oct 01, 1999; ... A MINE OF HER OWN Women Prospectors in the American West, 1850-1950 Sally Zanjani University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, 1997. Illustrations, maps, notes, bibliography, index. xii + 375 pp. $32.50. Sally Zanjani's A Mine of Her Own chronicles the lives of ...
Building And Breaking Families In The American West
Oct 01, 1999; ... BUILDING AND BREAKING FAMILIES IN THE AMERICAN WEST Glenda Riley University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque, 1996. Illustrations, tables, notes, index. xi + 204 pp. $35.00 cloth, $17.95 paper. Books by Glenda Riley by now own their own shelf in any serious collection ...
Barry Goldwater: Native Arizonan
Oct 01, 1999; ... BARRY GOLDWATER Native Arizonan Peter Iverson University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, 1997. Illustrations, maps, table, bibliography, index. xix + 267 pp. $27.95 cloth, $14.95 paper. As I observed the recent burial with full military honors of former United ...
Landscapes Of Promise: The Oregon Story, 1800-1940
Oct 01, 1999; ... University of Washington Press, Seattle, 1997. Illustrations, maps, tables, notes, bibliography, index. xvii + 392 pp. $29.95. To understand the history of Oregon or, for that matter, any part of the American West, we now study the interaction between human activity and the environment ....
Shavetails And Bell Sharps: The History of the U.S. Army Mule
Oct 01, 1999; ... SHAVETAILS AND BELL SHARPS The History of the U.S. Army Mule Emmett M. Essin University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, 1997. Illustrations., appendix, notes, bibliography, index. xvii + 245 pp. $37.50. As Emmett M. Essin shows, the United States Army has depended ...
Black Valor: Buffalo Soldiers and the Medal of Honor, 1870-1898
Oct 01, 1999; ... BLACK VALOR Buffalo Soldiers and the Medal of Honor, 1870-1898 Frank N. Schubert Scholarly Resources, Inc., Wilmington, Delaware, 1997. Illustrations, maps, notes, bibliography, index. xi + 231 pp. $22.95. Black Americans fought in every war in which this ...
Thomas Jefferson And The Changing West
Oct 01, 1999; ... THOMAS JEFFERSON AND THE CHANGING WEST James P. Ronda, Editor University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque, and Missouri Historical Society Press, St. Louis, 1997. Maps, notes, index. xx + 204 pp. $29.95 cloth, $16.95 paper. James Ronda has brought together nine papers ...
The Montana roundup of books
Oct 01, 1999; ... The sesquicentennial of the California gold rush, as might be expected, has spawned a cottage industry of related and want- to-be-related books to commemorate one of American history's most remarkable events. Some of the works are based on major museum exhibitions; others, on the hope of ...
Bannack State Park: A gate in time
Oct 01, 1999; ... Yon can find Bannack State Park forty minutes southwest of Dillon, Montana. Exit 59 off Interstate 15 funnels you onto Highway 278 and into a high, scenic drive. A signed, paved county road takes you south directly into the park, although you enter on a gravel road, left that way intentionally ...
Historical reflections: Photos from Montana's past
Oct 01, 1999; ... When Forrest L. Campbell stopped along State Highway 287 just north of Laurin in south-central Montana to snap the above picture, he was undoubtedly aware of the building's storied past. A World War I veteran from Anaconda, Campbell was discharged from active duty in June 1919 and soon after ...
Letters to the editor
Oct 01, 1999; ... It was indeed a treat to find so much of beauty and interest in the summer edition of the magazine. The photographs of Yellowstone are interesting, but the highlight for me is the article about Mr. DeCamp. He was a quiet man and he let his pictures stand on their own merit ....
Gleanings from H-West
Oct 01, 1999; ... The purpose of "Gleanings from H-West" is to inform our readers of pertinent and interesting discussions between scholars, researchers, teachers, writers, and anyone else interested in the history of the northern American West who are exchanging ideas and information over the internet. H-West is ...