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Books & Periodicals

Butte & Anaconda

• Astle, John. Only In Butte: Stories Off the Hill: Holt Publishing, 2004
• Calvert, Jerry. The Gibraltar: Socialism and Labor in Butte, Montana 1895-1920: Montana Historical Society Press, 1998.
• DeHaas, John N., Jr. Historic Uptown Butte: An architectural and historic analysis: privately published, 1977.
• Dobb, Edwin, "Pennies from Hell: In Montana the Bill for America's Copper Comes Due," Harper's, October 1996.
• Emmons, David. The Butte Irish: U. of Illinois Press, 1990.
• Gibson, R.I., and Scheidecker, I. Historic Stained Glass in selected houses of worship, Butte, Montana: Butte CPR, 2006.
• Glasscock, C.B. The War of the Copper Kings: Riverbend Publishing, 1935 (2002).
• Kearney, Pat. Butte Voices: Mining, Neighborhoods, People: Skyhigh Communications, 2003.
• MacMillan, Donald. Smoke Wars: Anaconda Copper, Montana Air Pollution, and the Courts, 1890-1920: Montana Historical Society Press, 2000.

  M&M - built as a saloon in 1890, doors never locked for 113 years.

• Malone, Michael. The Battle for Butte: Mining and Politics on the Northern Frontier, 1864-1906: U. of Washington Press, 1981.
• MacLane, Mary. The Story of Mary MacLane: 1902 (new edition exists).
• Mercier, Laurie. Anaconda: Labor, Community, and Culture in Montana's Smelter City.
• Montana, The Magazine of Western History, Special Editions on Butte: Vol. 48, No. 3, Autumn 1998; Vol. 56, No. 4, Winter 2006 (full text available at JSTOR).
• Murphy, Mary. Mining Cultures: Men, Women, and Leisure in Butte, 1914-41. Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1997.
• Mutschler, Charles, Wired for Success: The Butte, Anaconda & Pacific Railway, 1892-1985, Washington State Univ. Press, 2002.
• National Park Service, Derek Strahn, principal author, Butte-Anaconda NHL Registration: 774K PDF, 174-page narrative and references
• Punke, Michael. Fire and Brimstone: The North Butte Mining Disaster of 1917: Hyperion, 2006.
• Shovers, Brian, et al. Butte & Anaconda Revisited: Montana Bureau of Mines & Geology Special Pub. 99, 1991.
• Brian Shovers, "The Natural West: The Old Works Golf Course, Anaconda, Montana," Montana, The Magazine of Western History, Vol. 54, No. 3, Autumn 2004 (the cultural landscape, describing turning the ruins of a world class copper smelter into a world class golf course designed by Jack Nicklaus)
• The Speculator: A Journal of Butte and Southwest Montana History, Butte Historical Society, Brian Shovers, ed., 4 vol. (1984-1985).
• Swibold, Dennis L., Copper Chorus: Montana Historical Society Press, 2006.
• Writers Project of Montana. Copper Camp: The Lusty Story of Butte, Montana, the Richest Hill on Earth: Riverbend Publishing, 1943 (2002).

Montana in general

• Burlingame, Merrill G. The Influence of the Military in the Building of Montana. Seattle, WA: American Historical Association, 1938.
• ______. John M. Bozeman, Montana Trailmaker. Bozeman, MT: Gallatin County Tribune, 1971. (Lincoln, NE: (n.p.), 1941).
• ______. The military-Indian Frontier in Montana: 1860-1890. Ph.D diss. State University of Iowa, 1936.
• ______. The Montana Cooperative Extension Service: A History, 1893-1974. Bozeman, MT: Montana State University, 1984.
• ______. The Montana Frontier. Helena, MT: State Publishing Company, 1942.
• Burlingame, Merrill G., and K. Ross Toole. A History of Montana. New York: Lewis Historical Pub. Co., 1957.
• Fritz, Harry W. Montana Legacy: Essays on History, People, and Place. Helena, MT: Montana Historical Society Press, 2002.
• Good, Albert H. Park and Recreation Structures. New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 1999, (U.S. Dept. of the Interior, 1938).
• Heath, Kingston. "Striving for Permanence on the Western Frontier: Vernacular Architecture as Cultural Informant on the Western Frontier." PhD dissertation. Brown University, 1985.
• Heath, Kingston Wm. "False-Front Architecture on Montana's Urban Frontier." Perspectives in Vernacular Architecture, III, edited by Thomas Carter and Bernard L. Herman, Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1989. pp. 199-213.
• Houston, E. Lina. Early History of Gallatin County Montana. Bozeman, MT: Bozeman Chronicle Print, 1933.
• Hoy, Wm. S. Railroad Stations in the Gallatin Area, Montana. Montgomery Village, MD: Keystone Press, 1998.
• Johnson, Dorothy M. The Bloody Bozeman: The Perilous Trail to Montana's Gold. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1971.
• Jordan, Terry G. Jon Kilpinen, and Charles Gritzner. The Mountain West: Interpreting the Folk Landscape. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins, 1997.
• Leeson, Michael A. History of Montana 1739-1885. Chicago: Warner, Beers & Co., 1885.

  Old barn, and residential grain silo, Laurin (SE Tour).

• Malone, Michael, Richard Roeder, and William Lang. Montana: A History of Two Centuries. Revised ed. Seattle: University of Washington, 1991.
• Murphy, Mary. Hope in Hard Times: New Deal Photographs of Montana, 1936-1942. Helena: Montana Historical Society Press, 2003.
• _______. "Picture/Story: Representing Gender in Montana Farm Security Administration Photographs." Frontiers 22, no.3 (2001): 93-115.
• Parry, Ellis Roberts. Montana Dateline. Guilford, Connecticut: The Globe Pequot Press, 2001.
• Taylor, Robert L. Map of Montana Showing Military Sites. Bozeman, MT: Montana State University, 1975.
• ______. Map of Montana Showing Trading Posts. Bozeman, MT: Montana State University, 1975.
• Toole, K. Ross. Montana: An Uncommon Land. Norman, OK: Univ. of Oklahoma Press, 1959.
• Wyckoff, William, and Lary Dilsaver, eds. The Mountainous West: Explorations in Historical Geography. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1995.

Rural Montana

• Francaviglia, Richard V. "Western American Barns: Architectural Form and Climatic Considerations." Association of Pacific Coast Geographers Yearbook 34 (1972): 153-160.
• Fulton, Dan. "Rangeland and tenure: A study in failure." Montana Stockgrower 55, no. 6 (June, 1984): 68-72.
• Heath, Kingston Wm. "False-Front Architecture on Montana's Urban Frontier." Perspectives in Vernacular Architecture, III, edited by Thomas Carter and Bernard L. Herman, Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1989. pp. 199-213.
• Kroes, Rob. The Persistence of Ethnicity: Dutch Calvinist Pioneers in Amsterdam, Montana. Chicago: Univ. of Illinois Press, 1992.
• Wyckoff, William, and K. Hansen. "Settlement, Livestock Grazing, and Environmental Change in Southwest Montana, 1860-1990." Environmental History Review 15 (1991): 45-71.

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