Montana a bicentennial history
by Clark C. Spence
- New York W.W. Norton & Company 1978
- 211 p.
Includes Index
Invitation to the reader -- An introduction -- Exploration and fur hunters -- The mineral frontier -- The range cattle industry-- Control of the Indians -- Territorial politics and government -- The war of the copper kings -- Progressive versus the company -- The homesteader boom -- The lean thirties -- World War II and after: The political world -- Post-war economic bases -- The most western part of the west -- Suggestions for further reading -- index
Traces the history and development of Montana and discusses the state and its people today.