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The Battle for Butte
Mining and Politics on the Northern Frontier, 1864–1906
First published in 1981, The Battle for Butte has remained the best treatment of the influence of copper in the political history of Montana. "Fine history: rich in detail, full of finely drawn people, masterfully...
ISBN: 9780295986074
more detailsConfederacy of Ambition
William Winlock Miller and the Making of Washington Territory
The promise of opportunity drew twenty-seven-year-old Illinois schoolteacher William Winlock Miller west to the future Washington Territory in 1850. Like so many other Oregon Trail emigrants Miller arrived cash-poor and ambitious, but unlike most he...
ISBN: 9780295993850
more detailsGreat River of the West
Essays on the Columbia River
In the Pacific Northwest, the river of dominance is the Columbia, and in ways both profound and mundane its history is the history of the region. In Great River of the West historians and anthropologists...
ISBN: 9780295977775
more detailsMontana
A History of Two Centuries
ISBN: 9780295971292
more detailsTwo Centuries of Lewis and Clark
Reflections on the Voyage of Discovery
The landscape encountered by the Corps of Discovery during their multi-year, cross- country trek to the Pacific was dramatically different from the one that greeted visitors attending Portland’s Lewis and Clark Centennial Exposition in 1905...
ISBN: 9780875952888
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