Montanas State Capitol

Author : Kirby Lambert
Publisher : Montana Historical Society
ISBN 13 : 9780917298837
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Montana's State Capitol written by Kirby Lambert and published by Montana Historical Society. This book was released on 2002 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In honor of the Capitol's centennial, the building's history is described back to its construction 100 years ago. Lavishly illustrated, the volume provides a long overdue tribute to this crown jewel of Montana architecture. 27 photos. 45 illustrations.

Author : Jessica Solberg
Publisher : Farcountry Press
ISBN 13 : 1560374195
Total Pages : 43 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book First Dog written by Jessica Solberg and published by Farcountry Press. This book was released on 2007-08 with total page 43 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Let Jag tell you his story about how the last pup in his litter became the First Dog of Montana.

Author : Ted Rechlin
Publisher : Farcountry Press
ISBN 13 : 1560377100
Total Pages : 35 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Montana Coloring Book written by Ted Rechlin and published by Farcountry Press. This book was released on 2017-09-05 with total page 35 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Welcome to the Montana Coloring Book! With thirty-two scenes to enjoy, you can now color Montana in style. Featuring the art of Ted Rechlin, (Bears, Jurassic, Dinosaurs Live!), Montana Coloring Book features the Big Sky's most iconic settings. Lend your creative magic to favorite spots such as the Paradise Valley, Lewis and Clark Caverns, Glacier and Yellowstone National Parks, and many more classic landmarks. This well researched and beautifully drawn activity book is good for colorists of all ages, and features the scenic mountains, prairies, wildlife and locales that make Montana such a unique and beloved destination.

Author : Montana. Legislature. Senate
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Senate Journal of the ... Legislature of the State of Montana written by Montana. Legislature. Senate and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Ellen Baumler
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 149622695X
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Life of the Afterlife in the Big Sky State written by Ellen Baumler and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2021-06 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Life of the Afterlife in the Big Sky State is a groundbreaking history of death in Montana. It offers a unique, reflective, and sensitive perspective on the evolution of customs and burial grounds. Beginning with Montana’s first known burial site, Ellen Baumler considers the archaeological records of early interments in rock ledges, under cairns, in trees, and on open-air scaffolds. Contact with Europeans at trading posts and missions brought new burial practices. Later, crude “boot hills” and pioneer graveyards evolved into orderly cemeteries. Planned cemeteries became the hallmark of civilization and the measure of an educated community. Baumler explores this history, yet untold about Montana. She traces the pathway from primitive beginnings to park-like, architecturally planned burial grounds where people could recreate, educate their children, and honor the dead. The Life of the Afterlife in the Big Sky State is not a comprehensive listing of the many hundreds of cemeteries across Montana. Rather it discusses cultural identity evidenced through burial practices, changing methods of interments and why those came about, and the evolution of cemeteries as the “last great necessity” in organized communities. Through examples and anecdotes, the book examines how we remember those who have passed on.

Author : Montana
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 42 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Laws, Resolutions, and Memorials of the State of Montana written by Montana and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes extraordinary sessions.

Author : Susan W. Thrane
Publisher : Erin, Ont. : Boston Mills Press
ISBN 13 : 9781550464573
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book State Houses written by Susan W. Thrane and published by Erin, Ont. : Boston Mills Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A magnificent celebration of America's state capitol buildings. These glorious buildings are, in the author's words, "the homes of history," where laws are passed, where democracy is enacted, where history is written. Though each state capitol bears some similarity to the other forty-nine, each in its architecture and design reflects uniquely the pride of its state, both culturally and historically. For this unprecedented project, photographer Tom Patterson traveled to each of America's fifty state capitals to capture the architectural beauty and dignity of its capitol building in glorious large-format color images. Writer Susan W. Thrane reveals fascinating details about each capitol building's beginnings: the events surrounding construction background on its architects and builders dimensions and costs primary features and main rooms unique furnishings and works of art. The book also discusses important moments in the history of each building and the state itself, including: the origin of the state's name its capital city when the state was admitted to the Union, and the number of members in its legislative bodies.

Author : Michael M. Miller
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 0806167963
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book XIT written by Michael M. Miller and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2020-10-22 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Texas state constitution of 1876 set aside three million acres of public land in the Texas Panhandle in exchange for construction of the state’s monumental red-granite capitol in Austin. That land became the XIT Ranch, briefly one of the most productive cattle operations in the West. The story behind the legendary XIT Ranch, told in full in this book, is a tale of Gilded Age business and politics at the very foundation of the American cattle industry. The capitol construction project, along with the acres that would become XIT, went to an Illinois syndicate led by men influential in politics and business. Unable to sell the land, the Illinois group, backed by British capital, turned to cattle ranching to satisfy investors. In tracing their efforts, which expanded to include a satellite ranch in Montana, historian Michael M. Miller demythologizes the cattle business that flourished in the late-nineteenth-century American West, paralleling the United States’ first industrial revolution. The XIT Ranch came into being and succeeded, Miller shows, only because of the work of accountants, lawyers, and managers, overseen by officers and a board of seasoned international capitalists. In turn, the ranch created wealth for some and promoted the expansion of railroads, new towns, farms, and jobs. Though it existed only from 1885 to 1912, from Texas to Montana the operation left a deep imprint on community culture and historical memory. Describing the Texas capitol project in its full scope and gritty detail, XIT cuts through the popular portrayal of great western ranches to reveal a more nuanced and far-reaching reality in the business and politics of the beef industry at the close of America’s Gilded Age.

Author : Ellen Baumler and Jon Axline
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1467144010
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hidden History of Helena, Montana written by Ellen Baumler and Jon Axline and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2019 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Distinguished by statesmen and magnates, Helena's history is colored with many other compelling characters and episodes nearly lost to time. Before achieving eminence in Deadwood, Sheriff Seth Bullock oversaw Montana Territory's first two legal hangings. The Seven Mile House was an oasis of vice for the parched, weary travelers entering the valley on the Benton Road, despite a tumultuous succession of ownership. The heritage of the Sieban Ranch and the saga of "King Kong" Clayton, "the Joe Louis of the Mat," faded from public memory. From unraveling the myths of Chinatown to detailing the lives of red-light businesswomen and the Canyon Ferry flying saucer hoax, revered local historians Ellen Baumler and Jon Axline team up to preserve a compendium of Helena's yesteryear.

Author : Marc C. Johnson
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 0806163771
Total Pages : 505 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Political Hell-Raiser written by Marc C. Johnson and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2019-03-21 with total page 505 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Burton K. Wheeler (1882-1975) may have been the most powerful politician Montana ever produced, and he was one of the most influential—and controversial—members of the United States Senate during three of the most eventful decades in American history. A New Deal Democrat and lifelong opponent of concentrated power—whether economic, military, or executive—he consistently acted with a righteous personal and political independence that has all but disappeared from the public sphere. Political Hell-Raiser is the first book to tell the full story of Wheeler, a genuine maverick whose successes and failures were woven into the political fabric of twentieth-century America. Wheeler came of political age amid antiwar and labor unrest in Butte, Montana, during World War I. As a crusading United States attorney, he battled Montana’s powerful economic interests, championed farmers and miners, and won election to the U.S. Senate in 1922. There he made his name as one of the “Montana scandalmongers,” uncovering corruption in the Harding and Coolidge administrations. Drawing on extensive research and new archival sources, Marc C. Johnson follows Wheeler from his early backing of Franklin D. Roosevelt and ardent support of the New Deal to his forceful opposition to Roosevelt’s plan to expand the Supreme Court and, in a move widely viewed as political suicide, his emergence as the most prominent spokesman against U.S. involvement in World War II right up to three days before Pearl Harbor. Johnson provides the most thorough telling of Wheeler’s entire career, including all its accomplishments and contradictions, as well as the political storms that the senator both encouraged and endured. The book convincingly establishes the place and importance of this principled hell-raiser in American political history.