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One of the first known novels by a Native American woman, Cogewea (1927) is the story of a half-blood girl caught between the worlds of Anglo ranchers and full-blood reservation Indians; between the craven and false-hearted easterner Alfred Densmore and James LaGrinder, a half-blood cowboy and the best rider on the Flathead; between book learning and the folk wisdom of her full-blood grandmother. The book combines authentic Indian lore with the circumstance and dialogue of a popular romance; in its language, it shows a self-taught writer attempting to come to terms with the rift between formal written style and the comfort-able rhythms and slang of familiar speech.
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Economic history. --- History, Economic --- Economics --- Montana --- Montana. --- Država Montana --- Monekana --- Montana Eyaleti --- Montana-sh --- Montana Territory --- Montanash --- Montano --- MT --- Politeia tēs Montana --- Shtat Montana --- State of Montana --- Statul Montana --- Монтана --- Щат Монтана --- Μοντάνα --- Πολιτεία της Μοντάνα --- Држава Монтана --- モンタナ --- モンタナ州 --- Montanashū --- Montana-shū --- Mont. --- Economic conditions --- Business economics --- Business, Economy and Management --- Social Sciences --- Business Management --- Finance --- Developmental Issues & Socioeconomic Studies --- Montana [state]
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This wide-ranging collection of essays addresses a diverse and expanded vision of Montana literature, offering new readings of both canonical and overlooked texts. Although a handful of Montana writers such as Richard Hugo, A. B. Guthrie Jr., D'Arcy McNickle, and James Welch have received considerable critical attention, sizable gaps remain in the analysis of the state's ever-growing and ever-evolving canon. The twelve essays in All Our Stories Are Here not only build on the exemplary, foundational work of other writers but also open further interpretative and critical conversations.
American literature --- Authors, American --- History and criticism. --- Homes and haunts --- Montana --- In literature. --- Intellectual life. --- American authors --- English literature --- State of Montana --- Монтана --- Щат Монтана --- Shtat Montana --- Μοντάνα --- Πολιτεία της Μοντάνα --- Politeia tēs Montana --- Montano --- Monekana --- Statul Montana --- Држава Монтана --- Država Montana --- Montana Eyaleti --- モンタナ --- モンタナ州 --- Montanashū --- Montana-shū --- Mont. --- MT --- Agrarians (Group of writers) --- Montana Territory
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It is hard to love the high, cold plains of the American West. They are vast and harsh and demanding. And perhaps because they are so hard to love, prairies challenge the imaginative mind and the adventurous heart. The Wide Open reveals how some of the most interesting and accomplished writers and photographers in the country have met that challenge and given the genius of the prairie a vision and a voice. Their stories are as diverse as the tellers, ranging from fiction by Barry Lopez, Richard Ford, and William Kittredge, to the childhood histories of Mary Clearman Blew and Judy Blunt and the
American literature --- Prairies --- Landscapes --- Countryside --- Landscape --- Natural scenery --- Scenery --- Scenic landscapes --- Nature --- Grasslands --- English literature --- Agrarians (Group of writers) --- Montana --- Država Montana --- Monekana --- Mont. --- Montana Eyaleti --- Montana-shū --- Montanashū --- Montano --- MT --- Politeia tēs Montana --- Shtat Montana --- State of Montana --- Statul Montana --- Πολιτεία της Μοντάνα --- Μοντάνα --- Щат Монтана --- Монтана --- Држава Монтана --- モンタナ --- モンタナ州 --- Montana Territory
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Since the days of the wild West, Montanans have struggled to be "tough on crime" with limited resources. During Montana’s early territorial years, "criminal justice" was almost nonexistent: a few towns had inadequate and chronically overcrowded jails; occasional prisoners were sent east to the federal penitentiary in Detroit; and vigilantes summarily dealt with others suspected of crimes. In 1871, the federal government funded a penitentiary in Deer Lodge that was turned over to Montana when it achieved statehood in 1889. In this absorbing book, Keith Edgerton provides a social history of the Montana Penitentiary, with a primary focus on its early, formative years.After statehood, Montana leased its penitentiary to contractors, who utilized cheap inmate labor to turn a profit for themselves and for the state. Warden Frank Conley became a regional political boss and amassed a personal fortune, using inmates for road construction and a variety of public and private projects. Eventually, charges of corruption led to his ouster by Governor Joseph M. Dixon and sparked a trial and heated controversy that resulted in Dixon’s political downfall.After 1921 the prison system came under full control of the state government. Although there were changes at the penitentiary during the rest of the twentieth century--and two full-scale riots in the 1950s--there was also a depressing repetition of corruption, neglect, and underfunding.
Montana State Prison --- History. --- Finance --- Corrupt practices
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Foresters --- Arborists --- Police, Rural --- Koch, Elers, --- United States. --- FS --- Meiguo nong ye bu lin wu ju --- U.S. Forest Service --- USDA Forest Service --- USFS --- Officials and employees --- Foresters. --- Employees. --- Laborers --- Personnel --- Workers --- Persons --- Industrial relations --- Personnel management --- Montana. --- Država Montana --- Monekana --- Mont. --- Montana Eyaleti --- Montana-shū --- Montanashū --- Montano --- MT --- Politeia tēs Montana --- Shtat Montana --- State of Montana --- Statul Montana --- Πολιτεία της Μοντάνα --- Μοντάνα --- Щат Монтана --- Монтана --- Држава Монтана --- モンタナ --- モンタナ州 --- Montana Territory --- Montana-sh --- Montanash
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"Egan's objective, in this survey of Montana's literary history, is to demonstrate the roots of the state's literature in its conflicted history and complex mixture of racial and ethnic traditions and, at the same time, to offer the possibility of thoughtful solutions to the West's daunting social and environmental dilemmas through the insights of some of the state's best writers. From the narratives of early explorers and ranchers, Native Americans, and settler women through the works of such major twentieth-century luminaries as A.B. Guthrie and Ivan Doig, Egan traces the evolution of Montanans' early fantastic dreams of economic, religious, and cultural success into failure and despair, violence and tragedy. Yet, side by side with these tales of woe are tales of endurance and even triumph, evidence of the strength and creative potential of the state's people."--Jacket.
Frontier and pioneer life in literature. --- Authors, American --- American literature --- American authors --- English literature --- Agrarians (Group of writers) --- Homes and haunts --- History and criticism. --- Montana --- Država Montana --- Monekana --- Mont. --- Montana Eyaleti --- Montana-shū --- Montanashū --- Montano --- MT --- Politeia tēs Montana --- Shtat Montana --- State of Montana --- Statul Montana --- Πολιτεία της Μοντάνα --- Μοντάνα --- Щат Монтана --- Монтана --- Држава Монтана --- モンタナ --- モンタナ州 --- Montana Territory --- In literature. --- Intellectual life.
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"Christopher W. Merritt combines and highlights the historical and archaeological records of the Overseas Chinese experience in Montana, beginning with the arrival of Chinese immigrants in 1862 to the repeal of the Chinese Exclusion Act in 1943."--Provided by publisher.
Chinese Americans --- Foreign workers, Chinese --- Railroad construction workers --- Miners --- Chinese --- Ethnology --- Alien labor, Chinese --- Chinese foreign workers --- Railroad workers --- Construction workers --- Mineral industries --- History. --- Economic conditions. --- Social conditions. --- Employees --- Montana --- Država Montana --- Monekana --- Mont. --- Montana Eyaleti --- Montana-shū --- Montanashū --- Montano --- MT --- Politeia tēs Montana --- Shtat Montana --- State of Montana --- Statul Montana --- Πολιτεία της Μοντάνα --- Μοντάνα --- Щат Монтана --- Монтана --- Држава Монтана --- モンタナ --- モンタナ州 --- Montana Territory --- Race relations. --- Antiquities.
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"The Middle Kingdom under the Big Sky seeks to deepen understanding of the Chinese history of the region by recovering their stories in their own words and by understanding the Chinese experiences in Montana through a global lens"--
Chinese --- Social conditions. --- History. --- Montana --- Ethnic relations. --- Race relations.
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