Montana's Historical Highway Markers

Montana's Historical Highway Markers
Author: Glenda Clay Bradshaw
Publisher: Montana Historical Society
Total Pages: 228
Release: 2008
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780975919644

Remarkable stories from Montana's historical highway markers combine with easy-to-follow maps, historical photos and sketches, and geological information to illuminate the paths of Montana's past and present. This guidebook alerts travelers about places that merit a stop and allows them to read about the site at their leisure. But even if time is short, travelers can refer to descriptions and historical photographs to learn about Montana's past as they journey across the state.

Roadside History of Montana

Roadside History of Montana
Author: Donald E. Spritzer
Publisher: Roadside History (Paperback)
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1999
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780878423958

The Roadside History series charts a course to the present through carefully selected and thoroughly researched stories relating what we see today with what happened before. Through vivid anecdotes, old photographs, and maps, the Roadside History guides provide entertaining insight into the states they describe.Each state is divided into geographical and historical regions, and each region is described in the context of highways that pass through it. This road log approach helps place modern travelers in the past.Roadside History of Montana goes well beyond cowboy stories to tell of some of Montana's most fascinating people, from the copper kings of Butte to the Freemen of Garfield County.

Lies Across America

Lies Across America
Author: James W. Loewen
Publisher: The New Press
Total Pages: 482
Release: 2019-09-24
Genre: History
ISBN: 1620974932

A fully updated and revised edition of the book USA Today called "jim-dandy pop history," by the bestselling, American Book Award–winning author "The most definitive and expansive work on the Lost Cause and the movement to whitewash history." —Mitch Landrieu, former mayor of New Orleans From the author of the national bestseller Lies My Teacher Told Me, a completely updated—and more timely than ever—version of the myth-busting history book that focuses on the inaccuracies, myths, and lies on monuments, statues, national landmarks, and historical sites all across America. In Lies Across America, James W. Loewen continues his mission, begun in the award-winning Lies My Teacher Told Me, of overturning the myths and misinformation that too often pass for American history. This is a one-of-a-kind examination of historic sites all over the country where history is literally written on the landscape, including historical markers, monuments, historic houses, forts, and ships. New changes and updates include: • a town in Louisiana that was the site of a major but now-forgotten enslaved persons' uprising • a totally revised tour of the memory and intentional forgetting of slavery and the Civil War in Richmond, Virginia • the hideout of a gang in Delaware that made money by kidnapping free blacks and selling them into slavery Entertaining and enlightening, Lies Across America also has a serious role to play in contemporary debates about white supremacy and Confederate memorials.

Montana Highway Tales: Curious Characters, Historic Sites and Peculiar Attractions

Montana Highway Tales: Curious Characters, Historic Sites and Peculiar Attractions
Author: Jon Axline
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Total Pages: 176
Release: 2021
Genre: History
ISBN: 1467146579

Much of Montana's exciting history is visible from its storied highways. Visit a segment of the historic Bozeman Trail overlooking Virginia City, where vigilantes hanged public nuisance Joseph Alfred Slade just as his wife attempted a horseback rescue. Discover the saga of adultery, attempted murder and eventual triumph that occurred at a single stone building in the Browns Gulch area of Butte. On Highway 308 east of Red Lodge, learn more about the tragic 1943 Smith Mine disaster, where a methane explosion trapped and killed seventy-three miners. The catastrophe triggered investigations at the state and national level that resulted in improvements in mine safety. With more than two dozen stories, historian Jon Axline provides a front-seat view of the Treasure State's thrilling past, forgotten characters and overlooked oddities found by the wayside.

Montana Place Names from Alzada to Zortman

Montana Place Names from Alzada to Zortman
Author: Rich Aarstad
Publisher: Montana Historical Society
Total Pages: 382
Release: 2009
Genre: History
ISBN: 097591961X

Among Montana’s most enduring legacies are the names assigned to its geographic features and places found on the state map. As long as humans have inhabited Montana they have named places. While the past two centuries have changed the way people live in Montana, the names given to some rivers, mountain ranges, cities, and towns have persisted, while others have changed with time. Naming Montana explores the origins of more than 1,000 Montana place names, drawing upon the knowledge of Montana Historical Society historians and the expertise of local historians from across the state. This new publication includes both geographic features, selected historic sites listed on the National Register of Historic Places, historic photographs, and maps. The authors’ extensive research illuminates the stories behind the names of places that we call home.

Conveniences Sorely Needed

Conveniences Sorely Needed
Author: Jon Axline
Publisher: Montana Historical Society
Total Pages: 196
Release: 2005
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780972152266

Although fast-disappearing, Montana's historic bridges are an integral and often overlooked part of Montana's landscape. This book tells the stories of those bridges and how they shaped the development of the Treasure State from the early horse-and-buggy days to the car culture of the post-World War II era.