Montana, High, Wide, and Handsome

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U of Nebraska Press, Jan 1, 2003 - Travel - 347 pages
In 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
Acknowledgements and Bibliography
330
Index
341
Map by Irvin Shope
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Joseph Kinsey Howard (1906?51) was news editor for the Great Falls Leader and the editor of Montana Margins. A. B. Guthrie Jr.?s books include The Big Sky. William Kittredge is Regents Professor of English and Creative Writing Emeritus at the University of Montana. His books include The Nature of Generosity and The Best Stories of William Kittredge.

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