Montana Historical Society Press: 22 books
Beyond Schoolmarms and Madams
Montana Women's Stories
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2017
Ruth Garfield was a ranching wife. Her husband had just been elected to a second term as sheriff of newly created Golden Valley County in 1920 when he was fatally shot. Mrs. Garfield set aside her grief to assist the community and serve out her husband’s term. She was Montana’s first female sheriff.
Stories...
by Francis M. Thompson, Kenneth N. Owens
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2013
Frank Thompson’s lively memoir details his experiences in the upper Missouri country at the beginning of the Montana gold rush. A young man at the outset of the Civil War, Thompson supported the Union cause but realized that military life was not for him. Turning to the frontier, he headed west...
Beyond Spirit Tailings
Montana's Mysteries, Ghosts, and Haunted Places
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2013
Montana is alive with things that go bump in the Big Sky night. A World War II serviceman who lingers in a Billings business, a dearly departed priest who still hitchhikes around Helena, and a Hamilton socialite who adorns her mansion with the scent of roses--these are a few of the creepy tales from...
Conveniences Sorely Needed
Montana’s Historic Highway Bridges, 1860–1956
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2013
Old bridges do more than just span rivers. They provide important connections between the people who built them and those who came after. Many of these historic structures reflect the promotional spirit that fueled Montana’s growth. For the state’s earliest communities, a good bridge could mean...
Montana Moments
History on the Go
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2014
Forget dreary dates and boring facts. Montana Moments distills the most funny, bizarre, and interesting stories from Montana’s history into pure entertainment. Meet the colorful cast of the famous and not-so-famous desperadoes, vigilantes, madams, and darned good men and women (and a few critters)...
by Jon Axline
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2014
For more than seventy years Montanans and tourists have pulled over to enjoy reading the state’s roadside historical and geological markers. The brainchild of gifted storyteller Bob Fletcher, the original signs told colorful stories of Montana's Indians and pioneers; the signs have since been expanded...
by Ellen Baumler
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2012
Forget dreary dates and boring facts. More Montana Moments serves up a fresh batch of the most funny, bizarre, and interesting stories from Montana’s history. Meet the colorful cast of the famous and not-so-famous desperadoes, vigilantes, madams, and darned good men and women (and a few critters)...
Hope in Hard Times
New Deal Photographs of Montana, 1936–1942
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2013
Arthur Rothstein, Russell Lee, John Vachon, and Marion Post Wolcott became some of the United States’ best-known photographers through their pictures of Depression-era America. Taken between 1936 and 1942, their pictures of Montana captured the dignity of its people as they struggled to scratch...
Spirit Tailings
Ghost Tales from Virginia City, Butte, and Helena
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2013
Floorboards creaking. Inanimate objects flying off walls. Fleeting glimpses of ghostly figures moving in solemn grace through the halls and walls of our homes and offices. We all recognize these telltale signs of haunted places, and in this delightful collection of stories from Montana's legendary...
Mining Childhood
Growing Up in Butte, Montana, 1900-1960
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2013
Mining Childhood offers a child’s-eye view of Butte, Montana, from 1900 to 1960. These years mark the rise and decline of Butte’s fame as the “Richest Hill on Earth,” when the veins of copper coursing deep beneath the city’s surface created thousands of jobs for miners and untold wealth...
by Marilyn Grant
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2013
The gold-rush era town of Virginia City was once Montana's territorial capital and the center of trade for Alder Gulch, home to the richest placer mines in the world. But Virginia City became a town almost frozen in time once gold deposits played out and Helena became the state capital in 1889. Recently...
The Red Corner
The Rise and Fall of Communism in Northeastern Montana
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2014
The Red Corner chronicles the meteoric rise and decline of Communism on the prairies of northeastern Montana. During the 1920s and early 1930s, Sheridan County boasted a government largely run by Communists, a Communist camp for local youth, and an official newspaper of the Communist Party USA—the...
Girl from the Gulches
The Story of Mary Ronan
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2014
A covered wagon on a dim road, the promise of a long journey, and the wonder of what lay ahead filled the shadowy spaces of Mary Sheehan Ronan’s earliest memories. By the time she was a married woman in her twenties, she was a well-seasoned pioneer, having crossed most of the country and retraced...
Jeannette Rankin
America's Conscience
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2013
Suffragist, social worker, first woman elected to the United States Congress, a lifelong peace activist, and a tireless advocate for political reform, Jeannette Rankin is often remembered as the woman who voted "No." Elected to Congress from Montana on the eve of the United States' entry...
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