Montana Historical Society Press: 22 books
Autobiography of Red Cloud
War Leader of the Oglalas
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2014
Red Cloud—the only Native American leader ever to win a war against the United States Army. In the 1860s he destroyed Captain William J. Fetterman’s command, closed the Bozeman Trail, and forced the United States to a peace conference. A brilliant military strategist, Red Cloud honed his skills...
Nez Perce Summer, 1877
The U.S. Army and the Nee-Me-Poo Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2014
Nez Perce Summer, 1877 tells the story of a people's epic struggle to survive spiritually, culturally, and physically in the face of unrelenting military force. Written by one of the foremost experts in frontier military history and reviewed by members of the Nez Perce tribe, this definitive treatment...
Searching for Yellowstone
Ecology and Wonder in the Last Wilderness
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2014
In 1997 Yellowstone celebrated its 125th anniversary as a national park, the keystone in the federal system of reserved and protected places. The celebration was somewhat marred by debates over wolf reintroduction, road improvement, resort building, and "bioprospecting," the search for economically...
Traveler's Guide to the Great Sioux War
The Battlefields, Forts, and Related Sites of America's Greatest Indian War
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2014
“The Great Sioux War was the most famous Indian war in American history but most of its sites have been known to only a few students of the conflict—until now! This invaluable guide, by one of the leading historians of the military frontier, is essential reading for anyone interested in this epic...
People Before the Park
The Kootenai and Blackfeet Before Glacier National Park
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2015
Step out of a world governed by clocks and calendars and into the world of the Kootenai and Blackfeet peoples, whose traditional territories included the area that is now Glacier National Park. In this book, the Kootenai and Blackfeet tribes share their traditions—stories and legends, foodways and...
Cowboy Trout
Western Fly Fishing As If It Matters
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2014
In Cowboy Trout, historian-angler Paul Schullery chronicles many great moments in western fly fishing, from pioneer anglers casting the first flies on wilderness streams to the unexpected modern emergence of fly fishing as a political, commercial, and even spiritual presence in the lives of many westerners....
by Allan James Mathews
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2014
Situated west of the Continental Divide, the town of Missoula started in 1860 as a trading post called Hellgate that supplied miners with flour, trade goods, and, later, lumber. Its designation as county seat in 1860 and the arrival of two railroads (the Northern Pacific in 1883 and the Milwaukee...
Frontier Soldier
An Enlisted Man's Journal of the Sioux and Nez Perce Campaigns, 1877
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2014
"Not many enlisted men recorded their adventures in Indian
warfare. Still fewer actually kept a journal to lend immediacy to
their observations. Frontier Soldier is such a journal, by a literate
private who left his story of plains warfare in a chronicle rich in
detail. It is the richer for the...
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