Montana Watering Holes

Montana Watering Holes
Author: Joan Melcher
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 171
Release: 2009-10-14
Genre: Travel
ISBN: 0762761628

In many small towns across Montana, the local bar is also the only restaurant and is an important part of community life. In larger towns and cities, gems from Montana’s Wild West past are still found. This book celebrates the quirky, unusual, and downright fun and entertaining saloons across the state. Montana Watering Holes features more than fifty of the best spots to stop for a drink (or a burger) scattered across Montana. From big-city spots like the Rhino in Missoula (with its 150 beers on tap) to the famous cheeseburgers at the bar in Pony (pop. 50), community spirit and tradition abound in the nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century buildings that have served as saloons, restaurants, and gathering places throughout the Treasure State. This book describes the best of the best, offering geographic diversity, anecdotes, and sidebars on local characters from the past. It is illustrated with archival and contemporary black-and-white photographs.

Make Mine a Ditch: Beautiful Backbars Under the Big Sky

Make Mine a Ditch: Beautiful Backbars Under the Big Sky
Author: Paul Snyder
Publisher:
Total Pages: 174
Release: 2021-05-04
Genre: Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN: 9781591522812

As a young child, author Paul Snyder became intrigued with his local establishment’s large ornate backbar. This led him to delve further into researching backbars, the backbone of Montana’s historic watering holes, their history, artistic woodwork, and the bars they graced. He felt compelled to capture as much history—and many photographs—as possible of the backbars remaining. These backbars influenced and are part of the development of Montana even before it became a state. They remain a combination of mystery and history in the transformation of Montana into statehood. This book takes a close look at these beautiful, often overlooked, silent witnesses to Montana’s history.

Montana Watering Holes

Montana Watering Holes
Author: Joan Melcher
Publisher: TwoDot
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2009
Genre: Travel
ISBN: 9780762749485

Montana Watering Holes features more than fifty of the best spots to stop for a drink (or a burger) scattered across Montana. A celebration of the quirky, classic, and downright fun bars and saloons across Big Sky Country, from the Yaak to Ekalaka.

Roadside Geology of Montana

Roadside Geology of Montana
Author: Donald W. Hyndman
Publisher: Mountain Press
Total Pages: 480
Release: 2020
Genre: Geology
ISBN: 9780878426966

Now, nearly 50 years after the first book, Mountain Press is releasing this completely revised full-color second edition that, like so many things in Montana, is big. But consider this: no other place in the world has such amazingly diverse and well-exposed rocks with such dramatic stories.

Water Hole Waiting

Water Hole Waiting
Author: Jane Kurtz, & Christopher
Publisher: Harper Collins
Total Pages: 40
Release: 2002-03-26
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0060298502

It's a hot day on the savanna. The sun sizzles, bristles, and bakes. A young monkey wants to drink at the water hole. But wait! Blocking the way are irritable hippos, sharphoofed zebras, a toothy lion, huge elephants, and a lurking crocodile. Will Monkey ever get to taste cool water? Why is waiting so hard?

Home Waters

Home Waters
Author: John N. Maclean
Publisher: HarperCollins
Total Pages: 227
Release: 2021-06-01
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 0062944614

“Beautiful. ... A lyrical companion to his father’s classic, A River Runs through It, chronicling their family’s history and bond with Montana’s Blackfoot River.” —Washington Post A "poetic" and "captivating" (Publishers Weekly) memoir about the power of place to shape generations, Home Waters is John N. Maclean's remarkable chronicle of his family's century-long love affair with Montana's majestic Blackfoot River, the setting for his father's classic novella, A River Runs through It. Maclean returns annually to the simple family cabin that his grandfather built by hand, still in search of the trout of a lifetime. When he hooks it at last, decades of longing promise to be fulfilled, inspiring John, reporter and author, to finally write the story he was born to tell. A book that will resonate with everyone who feels deeply rooted to a landscape, Home Waters is a portrait of a family who claimed a river, from one generation to the next, of how this family came of age in the 20th century and later as they scattered across the country, faced tragedy and success, yet were always drawn back to the waters that bound them together. Here are the true stories behind the beloved characters fictionalized in A River Runs through It, including the Reverend Maclean, the patriarch who introduced the family to fishing; Norman, who balanced a life divided between literature and the tug of the rugged West; and tragic yet luminous Paul (played by Brad Pitt in Robert Redford’s film adaptation), whose mysterious death has haunted the family and led John to investigate his uncle’s murder and reveal new details in these pages. A universal story about nature, family, and the art of fly fishing, Maclean’s memoir beautifully captures the inextricable ways our personal histories are linked to the places we come from—our home waters. Featuring twelve wood engravings by Wesley W. Bates and a map of the Blackfoot River region.

Montana Madams

Montana Madams
Author: Nann Parrett
Publisher: Farcountry Press
Total Pages: 226
Release: 2017-01-13
Genre: History
ISBN: 1560376678

Men flooded to the Montana frontier for gold, furs, rich land, and jobs. Women followed, but their options were more limited. Here are stories of women who made a desperate choice, turning the law of supply and demand to their advantage. Many eked out a meager but independent existience; grit and business acumen brought remarkable wealth and influence—even respectability—to a few. From Alzada to Yaak, these enterprising women shaped Montana communities, in some cases helping to fund social programs and public education.