The Rankins Of Montana

Author : Katherine H. Adams
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476685304
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Rankins of Montana written by Katherine H. Adams and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2021-07-19 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the story of the Rankins, a family that embodied the risk and ambition that transformed America. John Rankin arrived in the West chasing the adventure of gold mining but soon turned to ranching and building in the new town of Missoula. There he met Olive Pickering, who had left New Hampshire in 1878 to become a teacher and seek a husband on the American frontier. John and Olive's children continued to demonstrate their parent's ambition and nerve. Their son became one of the biggest landowners in the country, one of the first personal injury lawyers, and a crusader against railroads and mining. Jeannette became the first woman in a national legislature, voted against two world wars and led marches protesting the Vietnam War. As a dean, Harriet helped develop the modern co-educational university. Edna traveled the world advocating for birth control. The Rankins faced both national adulation and condemnation for the choices they made. Their family story concerns independence and education, activism, the boundaries created by gender, religious choices, and the changing meaning of the West.

Author : Norma Smith
Publisher : Montana Historical Society
ISBN 13 : 9780917298790
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Jeannette Rankin, America's Conscience written by Norma Smith and published by Montana Historical Society. This book was released on 2002 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Social worker, suffragist, first woman elected to the United States Congress, and a lifelong peace activist, Jeannette Rankin is often remembered as the woman who voted "No" to United States involvement in both world wars. Rankin's determined voice for change shines in this biography, written by her friend, Norma Smith.

Author : James J. Lopach
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781607324652
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Jeannette Rankin written by James J. Lopach and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jeannette Rankin, the first woman elected to Congress, stands tall among American icons. The representative from Montana won her seat at a time when women didn't have the right to vote in most states. Her firm stances inspired both admiration and fury across party lines, and she gained nearly canonical status among feminists and pacifists. In Jeannette Rankin: A Political Woman, James Lopach and Jean Luckowski demythologize Rankin, showing her to be a talented, driven, and deeply divided woman.

Author : Volney Steele
Publisher : Champions Pub
ISBN 13 : 9781888550108
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wellington Rankin written by Volney Steele and published by Champions Pub. This book was released on 2002 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wellington Rankin was argueably one of the most powerful Montana figures in the first half of the 20th century. Without him, it might be argued that the name of Jeannette Rankin, his older sister, might not be known to us today. He was instrumental in both her elections to congress. At one time he was the largest landowner in the United States with over one million acres under his ownership, though his stewardship of the many ranches he owned was often contraversial. A brilliant, flamboyant attorney, Rankin was a champion of the underdog. Had he lived in the later part of the century, he would have been a nationally known attorney in the pattern of F. Lee Bailey and Gerry Spence. Though serving as the Montana State Attorney General, the U.S. Attorney for the state of Montana, and for years the powerful head of the Montana Republican Party, he was unable to get elected to the office he coveted most, the U.S. Senate.Dave Walter, Research Historian for the Montana Historical Society states in his forward to the book, "To say that Wellington Rankin presents an enigman is to belabor the obvious. Possessing perhaps Montana's most adept political mind?ever?them man failed to be elected time and time again. Awash in property and wealth, he reached his peak as a courtroom attorney who defended the downtrodden. A horseman of real repute, he proved unable or unwilling to sustain a quality ranching operation.""Is there a home-grown Montanan who alive who does not have a 'Wellington Rankin story'? This volume sorts through the stories, sifts fact from fiction, and launches the unraveling of a persistent enigma."Because Rankin kept few records, little has been written of him. Volney Steele spent more than ten years researching through what little information was available and interviewing family and friends. He has done an outstanding job of piecing together the life of this remarkable figure in Montana history.

Author : Kevin S. Giles
Publisher : Booklocker.com
ISBN 13 : 9781634917063
Total Pages : 478 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book 1 WOMAN AGAINST WAR written by Kevin S. Giles and published by Booklocker.com. This book was released on 2016-09-20 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: She was the lonely dissenter, committed to pacifism no matter the consequences. Jeannette Rankin, the first woman elected to Congress, crusaded for peace her entire life. The Montanan was an icon of political extremes, applauded as a beacon of hope by many people and vilified as a traitor by others.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book COMMITTEE ON WOMAN SUFFRAGE written by and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Katherine H. Adams
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476643806
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Rankins of Montana written by Katherine H. Adams and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2021-07-27 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the story of the Rankins, a family that embodied the risk and ambition that transformed America. John Rankin arrived in the West chasing the adventure of gold mining but soon turned to ranching and building in the new town of Missoula. There he met Olive Pickering, who had left New Hampshire in 1878 to become a teacher and seek a husband on the American frontier. John and Olive's children continued to demonstrate their parent's ambition and nerve. Their son became one of the biggest landowners in the country, one of the first personal injury lawyers, and a crusader against railroads and mining. Jeannette became the first woman in a national legislature, voted against two world wars and led marches protesting the Vietnam War. As a dean, Harriet helped develop the modern co-educational university. Edna traveled the world advocating for birth control. The Rankins faced both national adulation and condemnation for the choices they made. Their family story concerns independence and education, activism, the boundaries created by gender, religious choices, and the changing meaning of the West.

Author : Mary Barmeyer O'Brien
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1493017292
Total Pages : 80 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Jeannette Rankin written by Mary Barmeyer O'Brien and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2015-10-03 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first woman ever elected to the U.S. Congress, Jeannette Rankin represented Montana for two terms in the U.S. House of Representatives. A leading advocate for both woman suffrage and world peace, she was instrumental in securing the right or Montana women to vote, five years before the right was granted nationally. As the sole female member of the U.S. Congress in 1919, Jeanette was the only woman to vote for national suffrage. This biography reveals Jeannette Rankin's life and personal story, exposing her many courageous and remarkable accomplishments.

Author : Charles E. Rankin
Publisher : Montana Historical Society
ISBN 13 : 9780917298424
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.2X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Legacy written by Charles E. Rankin and published by Montana Historical Society. This book was released on 1996 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Proceedings of the Little Bighorn Legacy Symposium, held in Billings, Montana, August3-6, 1994.

Author : Kevin S. Giles
Publisher : Booklocker.com
ISBN 13 : 9781634907101
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Summer of the Black Chevy written by Kevin S. Giles and published by Booklocker.com. This book was released on 2015-09-01 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Paul Morrison launches his first teenage summer at a school dance, longing for girls and the smack of baseballs. His innocence ends quickly that night when a roaring black Chevy chases him into the dark, but it's the mysterious stranger driving it who scares him more. It's 1965 in Deer Lodge, Montana, far from the busy faraway world that Paul and his girlfriend Marcy read about in books...