Fifty-Six Counties: A Montana Journey

by Russell Rowland

Overview

Montana has a long and celebrated tradition of artful, reflective nonfiction. From Joseph Kinsey Howard's Montana: High, Wide, and Handsome to K. Ross Toole's Montana: An Uncommon Land, we've been gifted with a series of erudite and sharp-eyed guides to help show us who we are. To this eminent list we can now add Russell Rowland's Fifty-Six Counties: A Montana Journey. A native Montanan and an applauded novelist (In Open Spaces, High and Inside), Rowland spent the better part of a year studying and traveling around his beloved home state, from the mines of Butte to the pine forests of the Northwest, from the stark, wind-scrubbed badlands of the East to the tourist-driven economies of the West. Along the way, he considered our state's essential character, where we came from, and, most of all, what we might be in the process of becoming.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780996156028
Publisher:	Farcountry Press
Publication date:	05/30/2016
Pages:	426
Sales rank:	444,294
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 8.90(h) x 1.20(d)

About the Author

Russell Rowland is the highly-applauded author of three novels set in Montana, including High and Inside, as well as co-editor of an anthology, West of 98: Living and Writing the New American West. He lives in Billings, Montana.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments 1

Introduction 3

Chapter 1 Law and Order 9

Chapter 2 Boom and Bust 34

Chapter 3 Cowboys and Indians 87

Chapter 4 Copper 128

Chapter 5 Trees 155

Chapter 6 Tracks 188

Chapter 7 Plants 246

Chapter 8 Animals 295

Chapter 9 Different Shades of Purple 337

Chapter 10 Fuel 373

Afterword 404

Suggestions for Further Reading 412