The rape of the Great Plains: Northwestern America, cattle and coal

Toole, K. Ross

Little, Brown, and Co.

Twentieth Century Montana: A State of Extremes

History

Americas

Univ of Oklahoma Pr

Perhaps once in a generation it is possible for a historian to reinterpret the long sweep of an area and a period in our history. K. Ross Toole has chosen Montana for this purpose, and the brilliant success of his achievement must be apparent to all who read these pages. He has consciously avoided a systematic presentation of the history of this "uncommon land," Instead, he has chosen to put the great and many of the smaller but significant episodes of a century and a half into new perspective. The record, in its colorful and romantic aspects, stretches from the days of Lewis and Clark; and in its more recent aspects, from the subjugation of the Indian to the predominance of big mining and timber enterprises. The resulting portrait is sharply drawn by a man who knows not only how to interpret the remote and recent past but how to write with great effect. Montana is best remembered by most Americans as the state in which the Indian played his last dramatic role with the annihilation of General George Armstrong Custer. But it was also the area in which the fur trade had its roots; where the sheepherders and the cattlemen vied with each other for the right to graze the land; where the "honyockers" tried-and often failed to master the land and the seasons; where copper interests have played a powerful role in politics and in the lives of the people; and where, only recently, the oil industry has followed the boom-and-bust cycle so well known in the state. This story of Montana points up particularly the position which is and has been occupied by the state in relation to the nation as a whole.

Montana: An Uncommon Land

University of Oklahoma Press

"Montana and the West : essays in honor of K. Ross Toole". by Myers, Rex C.; Fritz, Harry W., Editor - An uncommon man: K. Ross Toole / H.W. Fritz --Jewish merchants and the commercial emporium of Montana / D.J. Morrow -- The war of the railroad kings: Great Northern-Northern Pacific rivalry in Montana, 1881-1896 / W.T. White -- The Cheyenne question: conflict on the Tongue River Indian Reservation / D.F. Gallacher --Montana's colorful press: from Crazyquilt to Gray Blanket / R.C. Myers --To husband the land: Robert Sutherlin and the irrigation-dry farming controversy / F. Grant -- The tin can tourist's West / R.G. Athern -- One river, one problem: James Murray and the Missouri Valley Authority / D.E. Spritzer --The copper pen: Butte in fiction / R.B. Roeder --A murmuring of voices: historic preservation and the search for Montana's past / G.M. Lubick -- An uncommon hand: writings of K. Ross Toole. Responsibility: edited and with contributions by Rex C. Myers and Harry W. Fritz.

Montana & the West: Essays in Honor of K. Ross Toole

Myers, Rex C.

Fritz, Harry W. (Editors)

Pruett Publishing

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