Contents

      Invitation to the Reader

  1  An Introduction

  2  Exploration and Fur Hunters

  3  The Mineral Frontier

  4  The Range Cattle Industry

  5  Control of the Indians

  6  Territorial Politics and Government

  7  The War of the Copper Kings

  8  Progressivism versus The Company

  9  The Homesteader Boom

10  The Lean Thirties

11  World War II and After: the Political World

12  Post-War Economic Bases

13  The Most Western Part of the West

      Suggestions for Further Reading

      Index

      Copyright

Illustrations

      A Photographer’s Essay by Bob Peterson

      Original Maps by Harold Faye

          Montana, Contemporary Map Keyed to Text

          Twentieth-Century Montana