Montana Legacy Essays On History, People, And

A rich and varied tapestry,Montana Legacylooks at the people, cultures, places, and events that shaped present-day Montana from Plentywood to Butte, Great Falls to Virginia City, and Billings to Browning. Designed to make readers think about Montana history in a new way, this anthology features 16 essays chosen for their relevance, readability, and scholarship. The volume's editors--all well-known Montana historians--carefully selected topics, from the fur trade to power deregulation, that range across two centuries and expose Montana's cultural and geographical diversity.

Harry W. Fritz is a historian at The University of Montana, Missoula.

Mary Murphy is a historian at Montana State University, Bozeman.

Robert R. Swartout is a historian at Carroll College, Helena.

Maps and Illustrations

vii

Preface

ix

Marvelous Figures, Astonished Travelers: The Montana Expedition of Maximilian, Prince of Wied

1

(26)

Joseph C. Porter

Army Allies or Tribal Survival?: The ``Other Indians'' in the 1876 Campaign

27

(18)

Colin G. Calloway

From Kwangtung to the Big Sky: The Chinese Experience in Frontier Montana

45

(20)

Robert R. Swartout, Jr.

Hogan's Army: ``A Petition with Boots On''

65

(14)

Dave Walter

The Orange and the Green in Montana: A Reconsideration of the Clark-Daly Feud

79

(24)

David Emmons

Crown of the Continent, Backbone the World: The American Wilderness Ideal and Blackfeet Exclusion from Glacier National Park

103

(29)

Mark David Spence

``Women's Matters'': Birth Control, Prenatal Care, and Childbirth in Rural Montana, 1918-1937

132

(20)

Mary Melcher

``A Paper of, by and for the People'': The Producers News and the Farmers' Movement in Northeastern Montana, 1918-1937

152

(25)

Verlaine Stoner McDonald

Bootlegging Mothers and Drinking Daughters: Gender and Prohibition in Butte, Montana

177

(24)

Mary Murphy

The Great Falls Home Front during World War II

201

(20)

William J. Furdell

Creating a New Community in the North: Mexican Americans of the Yellowstone Valley

221

(25)

Laurie Mercier

``A Tough Place to Live'': The 1959 Montana State Prison Riot

246

(20)

Keith Edgertion

Jim Crow, Indian Style

266

(16)

Orlan J. Svingen

Troubled Bundles, Troubled Blackfeet: The Travail of Cultural and Religious Renewal

282

(28)

William E. Farr

Pennies from Hell: In Montana, the Bill for America's Copper Comes Due

310

(31)

Edwin Dobb

Montana in the Twenty-first Century

341

(18)

Harry W. Fritz

Bibliographic Essay

359

(6)

Credits

365

(2)

Index

367

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Montana Legacy Essays On History, People, And Place

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