Montana, High, Wide, and HandsomeIn these pages you will come to fall in love with a ruggedly diverse and strikingly beautiful state, a land that takes hold and won?t let go. Montana: High, Wide, and Handsome is widely recognized as a classic history and delightful ode to the idiosyncratic personalities, restless landscape, unforgettable peoples, and lively history of the Treasure State. William Kittredge provides a new introduction for this edition. |
Contents
Montana is Remote | 1 |
Prairie | 8 |
II Fifteen Salads | 15 |
III Dry Bleached Prairie Bones | 21 |
and Prophet | 30 |
Prospector | 38 |
The Scales Were Crooked | 48 |
They Had To Grow Up | 58 |
Plow | 167 |
XVII Hurry Honyocker | 178 |
XVIII They Bought Satin Pajamas | 189 |
Panic | 197 |
XX The Role of the Federal Reserve | 210 |
XXI Sign on the Door | 225 |
XXII Man on Horseback | 236 |
XXIII A Russian Jew Names Levine | 244 |
VIII TrialatArms | 66 |
IX Standard Oil Coffins | 73 |
X Boisterous Butte | 85 |
Puncher | 102 |
XII Seven Good Indians | 114 |
XIII Nine Holes In Rattlesnake Jake | 121 |
XIV How to Get Rich on the Plains | 138 |
XV Kissineyoowayo | 148 |
and at Long Last Planning | 251 |
XXV Soil Blowing is a Disease | 275 |
XXVI Theres Food on the Table | 287 |
XXVII The Old North Trail | 315 |
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Map by Irvin Shope | |
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