Montana; The Magazine of Western History back issues from July 2006:
ANACONDA SHEDS ITS PRESS
Jul 01, 2006; ... The Story behind the Company's Decision to Sell Its Newspapers IN SEPTEMBER 1958, an emissary of the Anaconda Company approached Great Falls Tribune publisher Alex Warden with the opportunity of a lifetime: the chance to own all of Montana's major daily newspapers. The moment was both ...
An Army Surgeon's Account
Jul 01, 2006; ... Henry Remson Tilton's View of the Bear's Paw Mountains Expedition and the Conclusion of the Nez Perce War IN 1877, the U.S. Army engaged in a three-and-a-half month campaign to locate and defeat the nontreaty Nez Perces after violence against white settlers that June. The army pursued ...
'No Fighting Is To Be Apprehended'
Jul 01, 2006; ... MAJOR EUGENE BAKER, SITTING BULL, & THE NORTHERN PACIFIC RAILROAD'S 1872 Western Yellowstone Surveying Expedition AS 1872 DAWNED, THE NORTHERN PACIFIC RAILROAD'S most pressing goal for the year was the completion of the survey of its transcontinental route. Although the previous ...
William Ranney
Jul 01, 2006; ... A PAINTER'S REQUIEM TO THE MOUNTAIN MAN Ask art lovers to name great painters of the western scene and most will mention Charles M. Russell and Frederic Remington; some may venture on to Thomas Moran and Alfred Jacob Miller. Few, however, will mention William T. Ranney, a ...
Of Professors and Predators: John Ostrom, Deinonychus antirrhopus, and the Nature of Dinosaurs
Jul 01, 2006; ... Fossil-rich geological formations have made Montana internationally famous among paleontologists in search of new dinosaur species. While new finds each year bring international attention to the state, it was a discovery made over forty years ago on a wind-swept hill near Bridger, Montana, that ...
Caroline Lockhart on the Dryhead: 'Happily-Ever-Aftering' on a Montana Cattle Ranch
Jul 01, 2006; ... When authors of early Westerns portrayed characters living happily ever after, they typically showed them moving to a cattle ranch. In real life, the authors themselves seldom embarked on such quests. After publishing The Virginian in 1902, Owen Wister bought property in Wyoming, but he never ...
Brokeback Mountain: A Western
Jul 01, 2006; ... Whatever else it might be, Brokeback Mountain is conventionally, even reverentially, a Western. In it, director Ang Lee delivers Western clichés by the bucketful. The heroes, Ennis Del Mar and Jack Twist, are young and laconic. Beans have not played so large a role in a film since Blazing ...
Key Ingredients: America by Food
Jul 01, 2006; ... From pickled beaver's tail, huckleberry pie. and lefse to pork cake and pasties. Montana has rich and varied culinary traditions. These traditions and others from across the nation are the focus of Key Ingredients: America by Food, a traveling exhibit that showcases American food history from ...
We Proceeded On: Creating a Masterpiece for the Montana State Capitol
Jul 01, 2006; ... Thousands of visitors tour Montana's capitol every year, admiring the building's stately architecture and the works of art that grace its grandest spaces. Next fall, for the first time since 1912, visitors will find a magnificent new mural-a bronze relief titled We Proceeded On-adorning one of ...
DOMESTICATING THE WEST: The Re-creation of the Nineteenth-Century American Middle Class
Jul 01, 2006; ... DOMESTICATING THE WEST The Re-creation of the Nineteenth-Century American Middle Class Brenda K. Jackson University of Nebraska Press. Lincoln. 2005. Illustrations, map. notes, bibliography, index, xvi + 181 pp. $50.00 cloth. Domesticating the West explores the complex and illustrative ...
Tower Rock: A Traveler's Landmark
Jul 01, 2006; ... More than two hundred years after the Lewis and Clark Expedition followed the Missouri River from the Great Falls to the narrow rockflanked canyon some forty miles upstream, the geography of the area remains largely unchanged. Glancing around at the looming rocks at the mouth of the canyon, one ...
CHARLIE SIRINGO'S WEST: An Interpretive Biography
Jul 01, 2006; ... CHARLIE SIRINGO'S WEST An Interpretive Biography Howard R. Ltiniar University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque, 2005. Illustrations, maps, notes, bibliography, index, xiii + 370 pp. $29.95 cloth. Yale's Howard Lamar ranks among the most distinguished historians of the American West. Some ...
CUSTER AND ME: A Historian's Memoir
Jul 01, 2006; ... CUSTER AND ME A Historian's Memoir Robert M. Utley University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, 2004. Illustrations, index, xii + 253 pp. $37.95 cloth. Robert Utley is the most distinguished and accomplished western military historian of the last century. He has been a formative force in the ...
SEEING YELLOWSTONE IN 1871: Earliest Descriptions and Images from the Field
Jul 01, 2006; ... SEEING YELLOWSTONE IN 1871 Earliest Descriptions and Imajffs from the Field Marlene Deahl Merrill, Editor University of Nebraska Press. Lincoln. 2005. Illustrations, map. notes, xiv + 85 pp. $19.95 paper. Seeing Yellowstone in 1871 is a fine and fun offshoot of Marient; Deahl Merrill's ...
THE BOWIE KNIFE: Unsheathing an American Legend
Jul 01, 2006; ... THE BOWIE KNIFE Unsheathing an American Legend Norman Flayderman Andrew Mowhray Inc.. Lincoln, Rhode Island. 2004. Illustrations, bibliography, index. 512 pp. $79.95 cloth. This lavishly illustrated reference work on an American icon, the Bowie knife, contains hundreds of pages of text ...
"INDIAN" STEREOTYPES IN TV SCIENCE FICTION: First Nations' Voices Speak Out
Jul 01, 2006; ... "INDIAN" STEREOTYPES IN TV SCIENCE FICTION First Nations" Voices Speak Out Sierra S. Adare University of Texas Press, Austin, 2005. Appendixes, notes, bibliography. index, xviii + 142 pp. $45.00 cloth, $19-95 paper. Few scholars would argue with the notion that popular culture has ...
CASH, COLOR, AND COLONIALISM: The Politics of Tribal Acknowledgment
Jul 01, 2006; ... CASH, COLOR, AND COLONIALISM The Politics of Tribal Acknowledgment Renée Ann Cramer University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, 2005. Tables, notes, bibliography, index, xvii + 234 pp. $24.95 cloth. Renée Ann Cramer's work joins a small body of literature that seeks to unravel the complexities ...
SOLDIERS AND SLED DOGS: A History of Military Dog Mushing
Jul 01, 2006; ... SOLDIERS AND SLED DOGS A History of Military DOJJ; Mushing Charles L. Dean University of Nebraska Press. Lincoln, 2005. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index, xv + 129 pp. $24.95 cloth. The past decade has seen a number of histories about World War II. A great many, including works ...
HIDDEN TREASURES OF THE AMERICAN WEST: Muriel H. Wright, Angie Debo, and Alice Marriott
Jul 01, 2006; ... HIDDEN TREASURES OF THE AMERICAN WEST Muriel H. Wright, Angie Debo, and Alice Marriott Patricia Loitghlin University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque, 2005. Illustrations, map, notes, bibliography, index, xxi + 2.34 PP- $32.50 cloth. For several decades now, historians have heen ...
FREEDOM COLONIES: Independent Black Texans in the Time of Jim Crow
Jul 01, 2006; ... FREEDOM COLONIES Independent Black Texans in the Time of Jim Grow Thud Sitton and James H. Conrad University of Texas Press, Austin. 2005. Appendix, notes, bibliography, index. 248 pp. $50.00 cloth, $19.95 paper. Many survey courses in American history point out that following the ...
ART OF THE WARRIORS: Rock Art of the American Plains
Jul 01, 2006; ... ART OF THE WARRIORS Rock Art of the American Plains James D. Keyser University of Utah Press, Salt Lake City. 2004. Illustrations, maps, notes, bibliography. 128 pp. $45.00 cloth. With Art of the Warriors, James D. Keyser and the University of Utah Press have created a richly ...
FORT BOWIE, ARIZONA: Combat Post of the Southwest, 1858-1894
Jul 01, 2006; ... FORT BOWIE, ARIZONA Combat Post of the Southwest, 1858-1894 Douglas C. McChristian University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, 2005. Illustrations, maps, appendixes, notes, bibliography, index. x + 357 pp. $32.95 cloth. Retired National Park Service historian Douglas C. McChristian has written ...
ARMY ARCHITECTURE IN THE WEST: Forts Laramie, Bridger, and D. A. Russell, 1849-1912
Jul 01, 2006; ... ARMY ARCHITECTURE IN THE WEST Forts Laranue, Bndger. mid D. A. Russell. 1840-1912 Alison K. Hoagland University of Oklahoma Press. Norman. 2004. Illustrations, map. notes, bibliography, index, xiii + 288 pp. $49.95 cloth. Popular culture has always depicted the early forts of the West as ...
BLUE WATER CREEK AND THE FIRST SIOUX WAR, 1854-1856
Jul 01, 2006; ... BLUE WATER CREEK AND THE FIRST SIOUX WAR, 1854-1856 R. Eli Paul University of Oklahoma Press, Norman. 20114. Illustrations, maps, appendix, notes, bibliography, xn + 260 pp. $34.95 cloth. When Second Lieutenant John Grattan tried to arrest the killer of a lame emigrant cow. he was ...
PADRES: The National Chicano Priest Movement
Jul 01, 2006; ... PADRES The National Chicano Priest Movement Richard Edward Martinez University of Texas Press, Austin, 2005. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. 10.7 pp. $10.95 paper. The United States saw turbulent times in the late sixties and early seventies as ethnic and cultural minorities ...
A ROOM FOR THE SUMMER: Adventure, Misadventure, and Seduction in the Mines of the Coeur d'Alene
Jul 01, 2006; ... A ROOM FOR THE SUMMER Adventure, Misadventure, and Seduction in the Mines of the Coeur d'Alene Fritz Wolf University of Oklahoma Press. Norman, 2005. Notes, xix + 264 pp. $29.95 cloth. Fritz Wolff in his memoir of the summers he spent working in the mines of Kellogg. Idaho, during the ...
LIVESTOCK HOTELS: America's Historic Stockyards
Jul 01, 2006; ... LIVESTOCK HOTELS America's Historic Stockyards J'Nell L.Pate Texas Christian University Press. Fort Worth, 2005. Illustrations, map. tables, notes, bibliography, index. 225 pp. $24.95 cloth. Between the Civil War and World War II, stockyards served as the main collection point for the ...
THE CONQUEST OF TEXAS: Ethnic Cleansing in the Promised Land, 1820-1875
Jul 01, 2006; ... THE CONQUEST OF TEXAS Ethnic Cleansing in the Promised Land. 1820-1875 Gary Clayton Anderson University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, 2005. x + 494 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, bibliography, index, $29.95 cloth. Gary Clayton Anderson, the eminent University of Oklahoma historian, rarely ...