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Author: Ellen Baumler
Publisher: Montana Historical Society
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 222
ISBN-13: 0975919687
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Montana Moments offers historical vignettes on topics ranging from axolotls, archaeology, and epitaphs to tourism and time zones"--Provided by publisher.
Author: Chuck Haney
Publisher: Farcountry Press
Published: 2018-04-24
Total Pages: 120
ISBN-13: 1560377038
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNationally acclaimed photographer Chuck Haney (Portrait of San Francisco, Badlands Impressions) proudly presents his view of Montana in this beautiful, large-format collection from Farcountry Press. Montana Moments, Chuck's fourth photography book featuring his home state of Montana, offers a seemingly endless supply of flowing rivers, tranquil lakes, rugged mountain peaks, and rolling prairie. From key natural landmarks to idyllic western towns, Montana Moments serves as a fantastic photographic representation of the best hits of Big Sky Country.
Each of the 148 full-color Montana photographs is accompanied by educational and informative captions from the photographer. The perfect gift to memorialize a family vacation or show off your favorite state, Montana Moments is a perfect Big Sky celebration.
Author: Lori Soderlind
Publisher: Terrace Books
Published: 2006-04-20
Total Pages: 281
ISBN-13: 0299217531
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLori, the heroine of this rousing narrative, is attempting to flee the hectic East Coast for a better life in the West. She is a child of the Seventies who feels misled by the rebellious "boomer" generation and disappointed with life in 1980s New Jersey. Spurred by the tale of her pioneering grandparents, who immigrated to Montana, and following her friend Madeleine, who has all the answers, Lori quits her job, loosens her ties, and sets off into a wild frontier. Lori's story is one of love for people and for places that are more mythic than real. Her pursuit is as painfully familiar as it is impossible: she seeks meaning in life while working dead-end jobs, falls in love with uninterested partners, and plans a future that seems doomed from the start. Somehow, though, she persists and ultimately finds her place as a twenty-first-century pioneer.
Author: Mary Ronan
Publisher: Montana Historical Society
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 268
ISBN-13: 9780917298974
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn account of one woman's life in the West during the second half of the nineteenth century from growing up on the Montana mining frontier to her ascent to young womanhood on a farm in southern California.
Author: Butch Larcombe
Publisher: Farcountry Press
Published: 2021-10-05
Total Pages:
ISBN-13: 9781560377764
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn Montana Disasters, fourth-generation Montanan and long-time journalist Butch Larcombe chronicles not just the explosions, fires, floods, earthquakes, avalanches, train wrecks, airplane crashes, and other major tragedies spanning more than a century. Through careful, detailed research, in-person interviews, and more than 100 historical photographs, Larcombe brings to life the true stories--at turns gut-wrenching and heroic--of the victims, survivors, and rescuers.
Author: Dayton Duncan
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Published: 2004-01-01
Total Pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780803217249
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe author recalls his experiences and observations from his four trips along the route followed by the Corps of Discovery, revealing his own reflections--in the form of essays--on the meaning of their momentous journey across the American wilderness.
Author: Ellen Baumler and Jon Axline
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Published: 2019
Total Pages: 128
ISBN-13: 1467144010
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDistinguished by statesmen and magnates, Helena's history is colored with many other compelling characters and episodes nearly lost to time. Before achieving eminence in Deadwood, Sheriff Seth Bullock oversaw Montana Territory's first two legal hangings. The Seven Mile House was an oasis of vice for the parched, weary travelers entering the valley on the Benton Road, despite a tumultuous succession of ownership. The heritage of the Sieban Ranch and the saga of "King Kong" Clayton, "the Joe Louis of the Mat," faded from public memory. From unraveling the myths of Chinatown to detailing the lives of red-light businesswomen and the Canyon Ferry flying saucer hoax, revered local historians Ellen Baumler and Jon Axline team up to preserve a compendium of Helena's yesteryear.
Author: Ellen Baumler
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Published: 2021-06
Total Pages: 248
ISBN-13: 1496226933
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Life of the Afterlife in the Big Sky State is a groundbreaking history of death in Montana. It offers a unique, reflective, and sensitive perspective on the evolution of customs and burial grounds. Beginning with Montana's first known burial site, Ellen Baumler considers the archaeological records of early interments in rock ledges, under cairns, in trees, and on open-air scaffolds. Contact with Europeans at trading posts and missions brought new burial practices. Later, crude "boot hills" and pioneer graveyards evolved into orderly cemeteries. Planned cemeteries became the hallmark of civilization and the measure of an educated community. Baumler explores this history, yet untold about Montana. She traces the pathway from primitive beginnings to park-like, architecturally planned burial grounds where people could recreate, educate their children, and honor the dead. The Life of the Afterlife in the Big Sky State is not a comprehensive listing of the many hundreds of cemeteries across Montana. Rather it discusses cultural identity evidenced through burial practices, changing methods of interments and why those came about, and the evolution of cemeteries as the "last great necessity" in organized communities. Through examples and anecdotes, the book examines how we remember those who have passed on.
