Montana: A History of
Two Centuries by Michael P. Malone, Richard B. Roeder, and
William L. Lang
Montana: High Wide, and Handsome,
Joseph Kinsey Howard
Montana Legacy: Essays on History, People,
and Place, by Harry Fritz, Mary Murphy, and Robert Swartout
Montana: An Uncommon Land, by Kenneth
Ross Toole
Montana: Land of Contrast
by Harry W. Fritz and William E. Farr
Montana: Stories of the Land
by Krys Holmes (school text, appearing August, 2008; for more
information,
http://mhs.mt.gov/education/textbook/historytextbook.asp)
Montana Mosaic:
20th-Century People and Events (DVD), at
http://mhs.mt.gov/education/MontanaMosaic/MontanaMosaic.asp;
particularly chapter 2, "Homesteading," at
http://www.opi.mt.gov/Streamer/MHS/HomeSteading_REF.mov.
The History of the Assiniboine and
Sioux Tribes of the Fort Peck Indian Reservation, Montana, 1800-2000,
by David Miller et. al (co-published by Fort Peck Community College
and MHS Press, 2008).
Civil Liberties in
World War I Montana
Darkest
Before Dawn: Sedition and Free Speech in the American West by Clem West
Museum Resources
Most Montana museums
contain exhibits, artifacts and stories of the state's homesteading
era. The Montana Historical Society's traveling footlocker, "Inside and Outside the Home: Homesteading in Montana 1900-1920,"
focuses on the thousands of people who came to
Montana's plains in the early 20th century in hope of make a living
through dry-land farming. The curriculum guide can be found at
http://mhs.mt.gov/education/footlocker/default.asp.
Of interest also is the exhibit
"Unintended Consequences: 1918 - The Flu and World War I,"
now at the Historical Museum at Fort
Missoula.
“According
to historical documents the “Spanish Influenza” epidemic of 1918 was
the most virulent flu epidemic in history. It killed more than 5,000
in Montana, more than 650,000 in the United States, and an
incredible twenty to fifty million died worldwide. At the same time
the flu was taking its toll, America was still engaged in World War
I. These two catastrophic events impacted the lives of many with
devastating consequences. Not only did the flu claim many civilian
lives but the military was hit hard also. Some speculated they might
be victims of biological warfare because Germany had already
introduced chemical warfare in Europe. This was a time of turbulence
and suspicion, and none more so than in Montana."
http://www.fortmissoulamuseum.org/whatsnew.php
Related
Articles from
Montana The Magazine of Western History
"Montanans and “The Most
Peculiar Disease”: The Influenza Epidemic and Public Health, 1918-1919,”
by Pierce C. Mullen and Michael L. Nelson.
“Patriots on the Rampage: Mob Action in Lewistown, 1917-1918,”
by Anna Zellick.
Autumn 1977 “Member of the Crew: Reminiscences of a Teenager on a
Threshing Rig” by Orland E. Esval, pages 64-71. “Horsepower: ‘I Don’t
Have a Work Horse on the Place’” by Orland E. Esval, pages 72-79.
Spring 1981 “Wheat for the Soviet Masses: M. L. Wilson and the Montana
Connection” by Thomas R. Wessel, pages 42-53.
Autumn 1981 “Reservation Self-Sufficiency: Stock Raising Versus Farming
on the Northern Cheyenne Indian Reservation, 1900-1914” by Orland J.
Swingen, pages 14-23.
Summer 1982 “Western Women: Beginning to Come into Focus” by Sue Armitage,
pages 2-9.
Autumn 1984 “M. L. Wilson and the Origins of Federal Farm Policy in the
Great Plains, 1909-1914” by Harry C. McDean, pages 50-59.
Winter 1987
“The Shared Memory of Montana’s Pioneers,” Clyde A. Milner II.
“The Letters of Barbara Alice Slater: Homesteading on Canadian Prairies,
1909-1918” edited by Jean E. Dryden and Sandra L. Myres. “Neighbors
Helping Neighbors: Threshing in the Judith Basin,” by Henry T. Murray
with John A. Murray.
Spring 1997 “‘A Hell of a Time
All the Time:’ Farmers, Ranchers, and the
Roaring Fork Valley During the ‘Quiet Years’” by Annie Gilbert Coleman,
pages 32-45.
Autumn 2001 “‘Well I Have Lived in Montana Almost a Week and Like it
Fine:’ Letters From the Davis Homestead, 1910–1926” by Seena B. Kohl,
pages 32-45.
Winter 2001 “‘The Greatest Hazard of
All is the ‘Human Element:’ Manning
the Machines of the World’s Greatest Wheat Farm” by Douglas M. Edwards,
pages 26-37.
Spring 2002 “Learning about the Weather: Dryfarming Doctrine and
Homestead Failure in Eastern Montana, 1900-1925” by Gary D. Libecap,
pages 24-33.
Autumn 2002 “Life on the Margin: The Evolution of the Waning West” by
William Wyckoff, pages 30-43.
Spring 2005 “Diversion, Ditches, and District Courts: Montana’s Struggle
to Allocate Water” by Brian Shovers, pages 2-15.
Spring 2007 “Gwendolen Haste: Giving Voice to the Homesteaders” by Sue
Hart, pages 3-13.
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