100 Books About Montana – Harry Fritz Editor -University of Montana – 1981
1. Howard, Joseph Kinsey. Montana: High, Wide, and Handsome
2. Guthrie, A.B., Jr. The Big Sky
3. Toole, K. Ross. Montana: An Uncommon Land
4. Glasscock, Carl B. The War of the Copper Kings. . .
5. Doig, Ivan. This House of Sky: Landscapes of a Western Mind
6. Russell, Charles M. Trails Plowed Under
7. Dimsdale, Thomas J. The Vigilantes of Montana. . .
8. The Journals of Lewis and Clark (3 editions)
9. Malone, Michael P. and Roeder, Richard B. Montana: A History of Two Centuries
10. Stuart, Granville. Forty Years on the Frontier. . .
11. Cushman, Dan. Stay Away, Joe, A Novel
12. Huntley, Chet. The Generous Years: Remembrances of a Frontier Boyhood
13. Brown, Mark Herbert and Felton, W. R. Before the Barbed Wire
14. Howard, Joseph Kinsey. Montana Margins: A State Anthology
15. Garcia, Andrew. Tough Trip Through Paradise, 1878-1879
16. Langford, Nathaniel Pitt. Vigilante Days and Ways
17. Van Cleve, Spike. Forty Years’ Gatherin’s
18. Montana Historical Society. Not in Precious Metals Alone. . .
19. Russell, Charles M. Good Medicine
20. Abbott, F.C. and Smith, Helena Huntington. We Pointed Them North
21. Hutchens, John K. One Man’s Montana: An Informal Portrait of a State
22. Maclean, Norman. A River Runs Through It and Other Stories
23. Brown, Mark Herbert. The Plainsmen of the Yellowstone
24. Hamilton, James M. History of Montana, from Wilderness to Statehood
25. Fletcher, Robert H. Free Grass to Fences: The Montana Cattle Range Story
26. McCracken, Harold. The Charles M, Russell Book. . .
27. Coburn, Walt. Pioneer Cattleman in Montana
28. Johnson, Dorothy M. The Bloody Bozeman
29. Toole, K. Ross. Twentieth Century Montana: A State of Extremes
30. Sharp, Paul Frederick. Whoop-Up Country
31. Brown Mark Herbert and Felton, W.R. The Frontier Years. . .
32. Toole, K. Ross. The Rape of the Great Plains. . .
33. Burlingame, Merrill G. The Montana Frontier
34. Wolle, Muriel Vincent Sibel. Montana Pay Dirt
35. Federal Writers’ Project. Copper Camp. . .
36. Montana Historical Society. Montana, Magazine of Western History
37. Schultz, James Willard. My Life as an Indian
38. Stewart, Edgar I. Custer’s Luck
39. Alderson, Nannie and Smith, Helena Huntington. A Bride Goes West
40. Willard, John. Adventure Trails in Montana
41. Abbott, Newton Carl. Montana in the Making
42. O’Malley, Richard K. Mile High, Mile Deep
43. Guthrie, A.B., Jr. These Thousand Hills
44. Linderman, Frank B. American: The Life Story of a Great Indian, Plenty-coups, Chief of the Crows
45. Burlingame, Merrill and Toole, K. Ross. A History of Montana (3 vols.)
46. Davis, Jean Walton, comp. Shallow Diggin’s . . .
47. Johnson, Dorothy M. The Hanging Tree
48. Cheney, Roberta Carkeek. Names on the Face of Montana. . .
49. Farr, William F. and Toole, K. Ross. Montana: Images of the Past
50. Guthrie, A.B., Jr. The Way West
51. Leeson, Michael A. History of Montana, 1759-1885
52. Malone, Michael P. and Roeder, Richard B., eds. The Montana Past. . .
53. Welch, James. Winter in the Blood
54. Connolly, Christopher Powell. The Devil Learns to Vote. . .
55. James, Don. Butte’s Memory Book
56. Lang, William L. and Myers, Rex C. Montana: Our Land and People
57. Renner, Frederick, ed. Charles M. Russell: Paintings, Drawings. . .
58. Schultz, James Willard. Blackfeet and Buffalo. . .
59. Waldo, Anna Lee. Sacajawea
60. Walker, Mildred. Winter Wheat
61. Adams, Ramon F. and Britzman, Homer E. Charles M. Russell, the Cowboy Artist: A Biography
62. Cushman, Dan. Montana: The Cold Frontier
63. Hakola, John W., ed. Frontier Omnibus
64. Palladino, Lawrence B., S.J. Indian and White in the Northwest. . .
65. Shatraw, Milton. Thrashin’ Time: Memories of a Montana Boyhood
66. Howard, Joseph Kinsey. Strange Empire: A Narrative of the Northwest
67. Call, Hughie. The Golden Fleece
68. Federal Writers’ Project. Montana: A State Guide Book
69. Graham, Colonel William A. The Custer Myth: A Source Book of Custeriana
70. Johnson, Dorothy M. Buffalo Woman
71. Linderman, Frank Bird. Recollections of Charley Russell
72. McGrath, Jean, ed. Butte’s Heritage Cookbook
73. McNelis, Sara. Copper King at War: The Biography of Augustus Heinze
74. De Voto, Bernard. Across the Wide Missouri
75. Johnson, Dorothy M. Indian Country
76. Linderman, Frank Bird. Montana Adventure
77. Murphy, Clyde F. The Glittering Hill
78. Sanders, Helen Fitzgerald. A History of Montana (3 vols.)
79. Stegner, Wallace. Wolf Willow
80. Cole, Philip G. Montana in Miniature. . .
81. Ewers, John C. The Blackfeet: Raiders on the Northwestern Plains
82. Eunson, Dale. Up on the Rim
83. James, Will. Smokv the Cow Horse
84. Marquis, Thomas B. Memoirs of a White Crow Indian (Thomas H. Leforge)
85. Price, Con. Trails I Rode
86. Vaughn, Robert. Then and Now, or, Thirty-Six Years in the Rockies. . .
87. Barsness, Larry. Gold Camp: Alder Gulch and Virginia City
88. Bower, B.M. Chip of the Flying U
89. Bradley, James H. The March of the Montana Column
90. Guthrie, A.B., Jr. Arfive
91. Karlin, Jules A. Joseph Dixon of Montana. . . (two parts)
92. Kennedy, Michael S., ed. Cowboys and Cattlemen: A Roundup
93. Koelbel, Lenora. Missoula, the Way It Was
94. Montana Historical Society. Contributions to the Historical Society of Montana (10 vols.)
95. McClintock, Walter. The Old North Trail
96. On, Danny. Along the Trail: A Photographic Essay of Glacier. . .
97. Sandoz, Mari. The Battle of the Little Bighorn
98. Stone, Arthur L. Following Old Trails
EDITOR’S NOTE: Attached is a copy of the full rank-order list of the 100 best books about Montana. There are only 98 numbered since three editions of The Journals of Lewis and Clark” were among the top 10.
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