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Missoula Manuscripts

Category: Books - Local Interest

Walking Without Footprints; Connie Delaney., pages 200.

Going Native in America...an adventure living in the Rockies by Connie Delaney of Salmon, Idaho.

Follow Connie as she pitches a tipi and gets snowed into a mining claim cabin. Find out how to listen with your elbows, overcome fear of death, track a cougar, and walk through the world leaving no footprints behind. You?ll never see your day-to-day life the same again.

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Roadside Geology of Montana; David Alt, pages 435.

Published by Mountain Press, here in Missoula, the Roadside Geology books are a perfect companion for those long drives through the mountain west. After reading one, you will want to collect the whole series.

The Roadside Geology of Montana explores the geology of Montana from the perspective of your car window. The books point out the names and history of the different geological formations you see on the major byways of the state.

You don't read the book from end to end, you read it road by road. If you are planning a trip through Montana, Idaho, Washington or where ever, you simply read the section about the road you are driving, and the geology will come alive.

Here in Missoula, you will read about ancient lake Missoula trapped behind a great ice dam, and how Lake Missoula would occasionally release its waters in a grand flood that would sweep across the Washington landscape. In Glacier you will read about the ice age, uplifts of mountains, etc..

The Roadside series is fascinating because you aren't just reading dry geologic text. The format of the book allows you to read about the geology that you can see. The format makes your road trip come alive as you learn more about this last best place.

For history buffs, Mountain Press also publishes a roadside history series.

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Montana on Fire: Summer of 2000; Michael Moore, pages 112.

Missoula on Fire! is a coffee table book with hundreds of pictures and stories about the 2000 fire year that darkened the skies of the Bitterroot Valley. In addition to stunning pictures of the the fires, the book looks into the lives of fire fighters and the impact of the disaster on locals, and community. It is a very interesting book for people interested in forest management and the people of the Bitterroot Valley.

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Montana Ghost Dance; John B. Wright, pages 198.

Published in 1998, Montana Ghost Dance is an interesting look at the trends affecting life in Montana. John B. Wright mixes statistical research with local antecdotes and historical information to provide an accurate picture of life in Big Sky country.

The title from the work came from the Ghost Dance performed a century earlier by Lakota war parties as they prepared for the Battle of Wounded Knee in 1890. The Ghost Dance and Ghost Shirts would make the warriors impervious to the white man's bullets.

Mr. Wright fires an onslaught of facts at many of the ghost shirts and myths held about Montana. While offering the hope that by taking the time to truly study our past and present we can help create a Montana with an extremely bright future.

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