Westward to Promontory: Building the Union Pacific Across the Plains and Mountains

COMBS, Barry B.

Farcountry Pr

Eastern Montana a Portrait of the Land and Its People (Montana Geographic Series)

History

Alwin, John A.

World

Montana Rodeos

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Huck, Chris

Huck, Debbie

Crafts & Hobbies

Montana Mountain Ranges (Montana Geographic Series, Volume 1)

Reese, Richard

Travel

From its beginnings as Bull Hook railroad siding in 1887, Havre, Montana was a tough, wide-open town with plenty of saloons, gambling halls, opium dens, brothels and cheap cribs. With the passage of Prohibition, it was a natural hub for smuggling with the Canadian border nearby. Federal officers declared that the town - backed by some corrupt local officers - was the gateway for a vast stream of alcohol that flowed into Montana, and that it was the headquarters of as bold an organization of bootleggers as could be found in the U.S. During that era of depression, drought and violence, C.W. "Shorty" Young, a successful businessman and philanthropist, stood out as the leader of the organized crime element. His Montana Hotel-known as the 'Honky-Tonk"-catered to all man's carnal desired, gaining notoriety throughout Montana and northern states between Seattle and St. Paul. But the reform clock was moving. The influx of eastern farm families and merchants, joined by a minority of townspeople, demanded that the lawlessness associated with the excesses of drinking, gambling and prostitution be stopped. This new morality, which was sweeping the nation, eventually brought an end to the vice district and the loss of prestige of its leaders. The author lives in Havre and has been researching the history of Northern Montana since 1978 and has written about that history for various Montana publications.

Honky Tonk Town: Havres Bootlegging Days

Wilson, Gary A.

Americas

Comprehensively describes Indians past and present on all seven Montana reservations, plus the Little Shell people. 
From the book: This is a book about more than 50,000 people of Montana, many of whose ancestors called this country their home well before Lewis and Clark reached the mouth of the Yellowstone on the Missouri River. These people are the Indians of the Northern Plains and Columbia Plateau, who now happen to live primarily on the seven Montana reservations. 
It was only 125 years ago that they hunted the buffalo in the Big Sky country. Today, through executive order and treaty, many live on reservations that have semi-sovereign legal status in relationship with the state of Montana and the United States government. 
The subject of this book is not so much "the Indians of Montana," but rather tribes of people native to Montana who like to be thought of as Assiniboine, Sioux, Gros Ventre, Kootenai, Salish, Blackfeet, Cree, Northern Cheyenne, Crow, and Chippawa. George Snell, an Assiniboine tribal leader, put it simply: "The non-Indian has a way of lumping us all together, and I don't like it. Blacks don't like to be lumped with the Spanish, and Irish don't like to be be lumped with the English, so why does everybody have to call us Indian?"

Montana's Indians: Yesterday and Today (Montana Geographic Series)

Bryan, William L

The story of the men and women who first surveyed, cut trails, manned lookouts and packed in on horses to explore Montana's vast forests and parks.

Montanas' Early-Day Rangers

Gildart, Robert C.

Business & Money

Through color photos and text, Cunningham (a fourth-generation Montanan) covers the mountains and wilderness, history, roads, railways, and place names of this state's most important geographical/topological features. No index. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

Montana's Continental Divide

Cunningham, Bill

Islands on the Prairie is the thirteenth addition to the Montana Geographic Series, packed with stunning color photos of Montana's mountains.

Islands on the Prairie (EASTERN MONTANA'S MOUNTAIN RANGES)

Science & Math

Meloy, Mark

Earth Sciences

Washington Mountain Ranges (WASHINGTON GEOGRAPHIC SERIES)

Steelquist, Robert U.

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