Arthur Johnson Memorial Library

Spence, Clark C.

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.

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Montana --History

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