Stories from Montana's enduring frontier
Subtitle: exploring an untamed legacy
By: John Clayton
Publisher: The History Press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Charleston, SC
Language: eng
Number of pages: 175
ISBN-13: 9781626190160
Subjects: Anecdotes; History; Frontier and pioneer life; Social life and customs; Biography; Local History
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: I. PLACES AND PEOPLE; title: In the Bighorn Canyon; title: The Best Kind of Cowboy Hero; title: Montana's Carnegie Libraries; title: II. OUTLAWS; title: An Urban Army; title: Fame and Bandits; title: The Trials of John L. Smith; title: III. ECONOMIES; title: Camp Senia and Montana's Dude Ranching Heritage; title: Origins of the Beartooth Highway; title: Hope and Bacon; title: IV. COMMUNITIES; title: Mossmain, Montana's Near-metropolis on the Plains; title: Community, Enriched by Formula; title: In the Garden of Eden; title: The Teenaged West; title: V. FRONTIERS; title: Wister's vs. Turner's Frontier; title: Disney's New Western Frontier; title: What We Do on Today's Frontier; title: VI. THE NEW WEST; title: All-Harley Cowboys; title: The "New West" is an Old Concept; title: Ten Years and Counting on a Meaningless Phrase; title: VII. AUTHENTICITY; title: A Permanent State of Not-quite-decay; title: Vacation to the 1830s; title: Clarence Mulford's Odd Western Journey; title: A Regular He-man Horse; title: VIII. HEROES; title: The Mountain Man Who Outshone His Legends; title: Three Cheers for Haydie Yates    At the Little Bighorn; title: The Native Home of Governors on Horseback.