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Book SynopsisExplores Montana's changing physical and cultural landscape. This book features photographs that offer an intimate view into Montana, into how Montana has changed and how it may continue to change in the twenty-first century. It is suitable for regional and agricultural historians, geographers and geologists, and rural and urban planners.
Trade Review"Wyckoff presents a fascinating portrait of change in Montana's rural and urban landscape."
* The Public Historian *
"No one has used repeat photography more richly—as a basis for discussing change broadly in the natural and human landscape—than cultural/historical geographers. And arguably no geographer has succeeded as well as William Wyckoff."
* Journal of Cultural Geography *
"Rarely can a little book say a lot, but such is the case with geographer William Wyckoff's study of the Montana landscape through historical and contemporary photographs. The result of Wyckoff's careful work is an insightful, enjoyable book. It is of great value to historical geographers, students of landscape, and historic preservationists."
* Oregon Historical Quarterly *
Table of ContentsForeword: Revisited Roads to the Past by William Cronon
Preface and Acknowledgments
Journey Into Montana
--On the Road Again
--Montana Settlement
--Regional Landscape Elements
--Four Stories on the Landscape
Along Montana Highways
Boundaries
1. Forty-ninth Parallel
2. Into the Mountains
3. Continental Divide
4. Leaving Red Lodge
Rivers
5. Missouri River
6. Marias River Crossing
7. The Sound of Mountain Water
8. Stevensville Bridge
Railroads
9. Depot
10. Pacific Junction
11. T-Town
12. Landscape in Motion
Passageways
13. Approaching the Hellgate
14. Yankee Jim Canyon
15. Names on the Land
16. U.S. Highway
17. Billboard
Forested Lands
18. Pinus ponderosa
19. Tree Invasion
20. Islands of Moisture
21. Quartz Ranger Station
Open Spaces
22. Road to Ekalaka
23. The Jesse Place
24. Along the Yellowstone
25. Hilltop View
Sacred Places
26. Descent to Mission Valley
27. This House of Sky
28. A Prairie House
29. Deerfield Colony
30. Blue House at Trestle Ranch
Landmarks
31. Krug Mansion
32. Graves Hotel
33. Pompeys Pillar
34. Water Tower
Rural Legacy
35. Settlement at Sun River
36. Rural School
37. West of Dixon
38. Farmstead South of Choteau
Main Streets
39. Main Street in Roundup
40. Life on Merrill Avenue
41. Small-Town Landscape
42. Bypassed Town
43. Wibaux Flood
44. Coal Town
Urban Life
45. Butte
46. Landscapes of Labor
47. Zone in Transition
48. Polytechnic Drive
Suburbs
49. Judith Place Addition
50. Suburbarn Manhattan
51. Gallatin Valley
52. South of Missoula
Old West, New West
53. Sun Ranch
54. New Deal Bridge
55. Flathead Reservation
56. Polson Bridge
57. Bitterroot Valley
58. Road to Paradise
Destinations
Landscape in Place
Landscape in Time
Montana Journey
On the Road Again
Bibliographic Essay
Illustration Credits
Index
