Here, collected in one volume, are thirty-five vignettes of Montana and Wyoming history.
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This book delves into the 1979 Idaho firefighting plane crash and other wildland disasters, offering insights from Robert W. Sisk's research and firsthand experiences.
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The fascinating history of flume logging that shaped the Copper City
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The underground history of horse thievery and cowboys in the Wild West
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In this innovative examination, Dr. Larry Len Peterson explores the origins, development, and consequences of hatred and racism from the time modern humans left Africa 100,000 years ago to the forced placement of Indian children on off-reservation schools far from home in the late 1800s.
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IRVIN ATCHISON lived a hard life as a young man growing up around Sidney, Montana, in the difficult times of the 1920s and 1930s. He had a way with horses and a hardscrabble life. When he joined the US Army, he had no idea that his skill would take him to the mountains of Hawaii to train mules in preparation for the coming War.
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In Search of the Mount Cleveland Five is a true story about the coming-of-age of the author that races through twenty-two years of climbing endeavors with colorful Montana climbers and their close calls, antics, and tears.
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Swede's adventures include a summer on a fire lookout, deployment as a Marine to Korea, smokejumping, fire suppression, timber forester, aviation management, hunting assisting Montana Game Wardens, ski patrol, an ambulance EMT, and back country rescue.
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The true story of a Slovenian peasant boy who becomes a concert bassoonist and must flee Paris when the First World War begins a Viennese kitchen maid who receives money from a mysterious benefactor and off she goes to America, a scrappy gold prospector who faces off against one of the most powerful men in the state, and a girl who grows up in a Wild West saloon…
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Women Elders Speak is the latest book project from third generation Montanan and Bozeman octogenarian Jo Anne Salisbury Troxel. This now retired English teacher was known by her students to enjoy challenging them to think in new ways. A teacher to her core, her peppery spirit is like a flare in the night sky, an invitation to add beauty, to connect, and offer the light of hope to these dark and difficult days.
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Between 1910 and 1922, seventeen Montana communities built libraries with money given to them by the era's richest man, Andrew Carnegie.
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In mid-November 1900 a herd of sheep crossed a plowed furrow “deadline” which had separated the public ranges for cattle and sheep herds for many years.
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Haffey pays tribute to Anaconda via 78 historic black-and-white photographs, personal observations, and dozens of interviews, painting a vivid and thorough portrait of the city on the edge of the Anaconda-Pintler Wilderness.
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L.A. Huffman, celebrated photographer of the Montana frontier, was known for producing photographs using a variety of formats over his 52-year career.
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In 1891, the Northern Pacific Railway began erecting a grand hotel overlooking magnificent Yellowstone Lake to welcome visitors to the magical western park.
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he stories in this anthology originally appeared in different publications, such as Field and Stream Magazine, and feature legendary Americans as well as some lesser-known figures in history, giving readers a unique first-hand glimpse into the past
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This is the story of many of the long-forgotten first settlers of old Dawson County and how they met the challenges of a country that was then primitive and remote at its best and deadly at its worst.
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