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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