Montana 1889: Indians, Cowboys, and Miners in the Year of Statehood

by Ken Egan

When Montana became the 41st state in 1889, an old pinoeer lamented, “Now she's gone to hell,” but most Montanans embraced statehood as the inevitable culmination of one of the most rapid and dramatic transformations in United States history.



Only twenty-five years after becoming a territory, Montana was profoundly the buffalo slaughtered and gone, the Indian wars fought and ended, the tribal nations confined to reservations, cattle and sheep raised by the tens of thousands, Butte exploded into a rich, wide-open town, and railroads built to link the once remote land with the world.



Montana 1889 tells the many stories of this overwhelming transformation by entering into the lives, emotions, and decisions of diverse peoples cooperating and competing on this contested ground. As in Ken Egan’s highly acclaimed

Genres: History

288 pages, Paperback

Published September 19, 2017

Reviews

[Drpsychorat · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is a very well written book about some of the great personalities inhabiting Montana as it became a state. Very much caught up in the robber baron mentality and manifest destiny, the people were also dreamers, doers, equality seekers, survivors and searchers for the peace & tranquility of nature. Read it and enjoy this balanced story of our 41st state!