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Montana has
a colorful history, and a wealth of books are available
for those who are interested in discovering it.
Of all the
books that explore the history of Montana, perhaps the
best and a definite must for anyone considering moving
to the Treasure State is Montana
: High, Wide, and Handsome, by Joseph Kinsey
Howard. This wonderful book provides a unique perspective
on Montana in an extremely enjoyable format.
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Big
Sky Fishing Comments
This is an
extremely informative and enjoyable book to read about
the colorful
history in Montana. The best
book about Montana history in my own opinion. Has recently
been re-released.
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Description
Jarrett is sixteen-old enough to reject the railroad
job his father wants him to take, old enough to court
Lizbeth Whitcomb, old enough to join the fight against
the forest fires that are destroying Idaho and Montana.
But the fires are worse than anyone dreamed, and soon
the flames have has come between Jarrett and everything
he holds dear, between Jarrett and Lizbeth, and thrown
him into the company of a young black private named
Seth, whose own plans to desert the army have been cut
short by the disaster. A about the biggest wildfire
of the century-the big blow-up of 1910-The Big Burn
is a portrait of a time, a place, and an event that
changed the way we fight wildfires, altered the landscape
of Idaho and Montana, and transformed forever the lives
of the people at the front lines. Courtesy of Amazon.com
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Book
Description
A collection of vignettes about people and the work they
did in the US Forest Service in the 1940s. The locale
is the Bitterroot Mountains of Montana and Idaho. It brings
back to life some of the salty old characters and the
high school students who were the replacements for the
CCC boys, then off to war. Courtesy of amazon.com |
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reviews or additional information available. Covers a
unique aspect of Montana as Montana has quite a few ghost
towns. A neat Montana history book. |
Book
Description
As wildfires blazed throughout the western United States
in the summer of 2000, news organizations from across
the country sought the insights of fire expert Stephen
J. Pyne. Among the things he told them about were the
many parallels between the fires of 2000 and the Great
Fires that raged nearly a century ago. Here Pyne tells
the whole story of the catastrophic fires of 1910 and
the indelible legacy they left behind. The Great Fires
scorched millions of acres across Washington, Oregon,
Idaho, and Montana; they destroyed mining camps and whole
towns; their smoke darkened skies in New England; their
soot fell on the ice of Greenland. Unlike fires before
them, they received a massive and innovative response
from the fledgling U.S. Forest Service. Drawing upon fresh
archival material, Pyne chronicles that heroic and costly
response, focusing on a two-day crisis, the Big Blowup
of August 20-21, when the fires tripled in size and officially
claimed the lives of seventy-eight firefighters.
Year
of the Fires also tells the larger story of how American
bureaucracies, railroads, political scandals, pioneering,
ideas about nature, and reformist zeal collided with
wind, drought, and wood to create the cataclysmic events
of 1910, and how these events continue to shape the
way Americans relate and react to wildfire. One of the
great tales of Americans and their land, this history
is an ideal read for fans of western history and of
Young Men and Fire, Fire on the Mountain, and Jumping
Fire. Courtesy of amazon.com
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book has received positive reviews by Amazon.com readers.
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1949, a crew of U.S. Forest Service Smokejumpers parachuted
into a Montana forest fire. In less than an hour, all
but three were dead or mortally burned. Haunted by these
deaths for 40 years, Maclean reconstructs the pieces print.
This book has received extensive positive reviews. Courtesy
of Amazon.com |
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book has received extensive positive reviews by Amazon.com
customers. No book description available. |
Book
Description
Homesteading is a first-person recollection of a pioneer
family's attempt to carve a prosperous new life out of
the harsh, "inexorable" land around Ismay, Montana,
in the early years of this century. Told in a clear, straightforward
style, this unsentimental narrative chronicles the backbreaking
labors and simple pleasures of pioneer folk scratching
out a living in a pitiless and uncooperative terrain.
From such workaday details of life as the construction
of a house, trapping and hunting, and courtships and funerals,
to the encroaching signs of the outside world--county
extension agents, the sinking of the Titanic, and the
Great War--Homesteading is a rich and unflinching view
of days past in the American West. Never thinking of publication,
Percy Wollaston wrote his memoir in the 1970s for his
grandchildren and handed the pages to his son, saying,
"nothing much, probably not worth the trouble of
reading." On the contrary, as Jonathan Raban discovered;
the manuscript was one of the chief sources of his bestselling,
award-winning Bad Land. Raban's eloquent Foreword puts
Wollaston's narrative in historical and cultural perspective.
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book has received many excellent customer comments on
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