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Montana: An Uncommon Land
Contributor(s): Toole, K. Ross (Author)

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ISBN: 0806118903     ISBN-13: 9780806118901
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
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Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: May 1959
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BISAC Categories:
- History | United States - State & Local - General
Dewey: 978.6
LCCN: 59007489
Physical Information: 1" H x 5.5" W x 8.3" L (0.85 lbs) 288 pages
Themes:
- Cultural Region - Pacific Northwest
- Geographic Orientation - Montana
- Cultural Region - Plains
- Cultural Region - Western U.S.
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Publisher Description:

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.


Contributor Bio(s): Toole, K. Ross: -

K. Ross Toole is the editor with Merrill G. Burlingame of History of Montana and with J. W. Smurr of Essays on the History of Montana and the Northwest. A native of Montana, he has received degrees from the universities of Montana and California, from the latter of which he received his Ph. D. He is director of the Museum of the City of New York.


 
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