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  • Hidden History of Helena, Montana

    de Ellen Baumler, Jon Axline ...
    Series series Hidden History
    Distinguished by statesmen and magnates, Helena's history is colored with many other compelling characters and episodes nearly lost to time. Before achieving eminence in Deadwood, Sheriff Seth Bullock oversaw Montana Territory's first two legal hangings. The Seven Mile House was an oasis of vice for the parched, weary travelers entering the valley on the Benton Road, despite a tumultuous ... Leer más

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  • Detour Montana

    History by the Roadside

    de Jon Axline ...
    Traveling through Time While Montana's roadside historical markers give motorists an introduction to the state's colorful history, there's much more to explore. Priests Pass and Helena's Morelli Bridge were displays of ambition and fortitude. Conversely, the story The Black and White Trail represents the folly of one Doc Siegfriedt. Once thriving and strategically located along rails and roads, ... Leer más

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  • Montana Highway Tales

    Curious Characters, Historic Sites and Peculiar Attractions

    de Jon Axline ...
    Series series History & Guide
    Much of Montana's exciting history is visible from its storied highways. Visit a segment of the historic Bozeman Trail overlooking Virginia City, where vigilantes hanged public nuisance Joseph Alfred Slade just as his wife attempted a horseback rescue. Discover the saga of adultery, attempted murder and eventual triumph that occurred at a single stone building in the Browns Gulch area of Butte. On ... Leer más

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  • The Beartooth Highway: A History of America's Most Beautiful Drive

    de Jon Axline ...
    Series series Transportation
    Traversing the spectacular Beartooth Highway in Montana and Wyoming is an unforgettable experience. The unspoiled mountain scenery along the highway inspired famed news correspondent Charles Kuralt to label it "America's most beautiful drive," yet the story behind this engineering marvel is largely unknown. It is an epic account of man versus nature to construct a road through unforgiving ... Leer más

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  • Taming Big Sky Country

    The History of Montana Transportation from Trails to Interstates

    de Jon Axline ...
    Series series Transportation
    Drives this breathtaking did not come easy. Cruising down Montana's scenic highways, it's easy to forget that traveling from here to there once was a genuine adventure. The state's major routes evolved from ancient Native American trails into four-lane expressways in a little over a century. That story is one of difficult, groundbreaking and sometimes poor engineering decisions, as well as a ... Leer más

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  • Montana’s Historical Highway Markers

    de Jon Axline ...
    For more than seventy years Montanans and tourists have pulled over to enjoy reading the state’s roadside historical and geological markers. The brainchild of gifted storyteller Bob Fletcher, the original signs told colorful stories of Montana's Indians and pioneers; the signs have since been expanded to include the state's geological wonders, dinosaurs, and the adventures of Lewis and Clark.This ... Leer más

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  • Conveniences Sorely Needed

    Montana’s Historic Highway Bridges, 1860–1956

    de Jon Axline ...
    Old bridges do more than just span rivers. They provide important connections between the people who built them and those who came after. Many of these historic structures reflect the promotional spirit that fueled Montana’s growth. For the state’s earliest communities, a good bridge could mean the difference between prosperity and oblivion.Bridges speak to the time in which they were built. They ... Leer más

    $9.99 USD

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  • Ghost Towns of the Mountain West

    Your Guide to the Hidden History and Old West Haunts of Colorado, Wyoming, Idaho, Montana, Utah, and Nevada

    de Philip Varney ...
    The Rocky Mountain and Great Basin states are the heart of ghost-town country. Once-bustling pioneer outposts, mining camps, lumber towns, and railroad villages stand today as reminders of the glory days of gold rushes, industrial progress, and that pioneering spirit of the Old West. This book guides readers to the fascinating and scenic ghost towns of Colorado, Wyoming, Idaho, Montana, Utah, and ... Leer más

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  • Building the Columbia River Highway

    They Said It Couldn't Be Done

    de Peg Willis ...
    The story behind the construction of the Oregon scenic highway and the men who made it happen.When nine-hundred-foot ice age floods carved the Columbia River Gorge through the Cascade Mountains to the sea, little space was left for man to form a highway of his own. It took an artist-poet-engineer extraordinaire to conquer this reluctant piece of real estate and produce the nation's first scenic ... Leer más

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  • Railroads Across North America: An Illustrated History

    An Illustrated History

    de Claude Wiatrowski ...
    From the first steam-powered locomotives of the early nineteenth century to the high-speed commuter trains of today, the American railroad has been a great engine powering the nations growth and industry. This book celebrates the glory and grandeur of that legacy with a lavish tour of the history of the American railroad and the culture surrounding it. Generously illustrated with vintage ... Leer más

    $20.99 USD

  • Ghost Towns of the West

    de Philip Varney, Jim Hinckley ...
    Ghosts Towns of the West is filled with photographs, maps, history, and detailed directions to find the best ghost towns to linger in the wake of the Old West.Ghost Towns of the West blazes a trail through the dusty crossroads and mossy cemeteries of the American West, including one-time boomtowns in Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Utah, Washington, and ... Leer más

    $17.99 USD

  • After Promontory

    One Hundred and Fifty Years of Transcontinental Railroading

    de Drake Hokanson, Don L. Hofsommer, Maury Klein, Keith L. Bryant ...
    "Some of the most accomplished scholars of railroad history…tell the story of these enterprises which totally re-shaped the western landscape."— The Michigan RailfanAfter Promontory profiles the history and heritage behind the completion of the first transcontinental railroad in the United States. Starting with the original Union Pacific—Central Pacific lines that met at Promontory Summit, Utah, ... Leer más

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