Twentieth-Century Montana A State of Extremes

Norman, Oklahoma: Universtity of Oklahoma Press, 1973. Second Printing . Hard Back. Very Good/No Dust Jacket. 5 1/2" x 8. 307 pages indexed. Light blue boards with black and silver spine lettering. Owner's name on front endpaper. No other marks, stamps or underlining on this clean book with white pages. Historic black and white photographs and maps. Ross Toole's lucid and controverial interpretation of the salient trends of the past seventy years gives heavy emphasis to the period from 1900 to the 1093's and again to 1960's and 1970's. Table of Contents in 12 Chapters: The Setting, It is Still Not Too Late Go West, The Boom and the Bust, The Great Shutdown, Bibraltar Laid Low, Panic: The Early War Years, The Inquisition, The University and the Company, The Progressives Make Their Move, The End of Progressivism 1920-1924, The Great Gray Blanket The Captive Press, and It is a Long Haul. Plus Introduction and Additional Reading.