Passed down through generations, these stories illustrate the subtle presence of the past in the everyday lives of modern Montanans.

This wonderful collection--based on oral testimony, diaries, journals, and newspaper accounts--presents an eerie history of the state's legendary mining towns.

An account of one woman's life in the West during the second half of the nineteenth century from growing up on the Montana mining frontier to her ascent to youn

Baumler and Cooper collaborate to tell the human story of Montana's first federal penal facility.

Helena was born of the gold rush, nurtured by the wealth of its financiers and raised on its political struggles. The lawless gold camp and its vigilante hangin