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Volume 47, Number 3, Autumn 1997

First across the Continent, Part I: Alexander Mackenzie's Trek to the Pacific
Opening the far Canadian West
by Barry Gough
page 2

Yellowstone's Ecological Holocaust: The legacy of market hunting in the park's first decade
by Paul Schullery
page 16

"Baited by a 'Color' of Gold to a Mountain of Granite," Part II: Connecticut Capital at Work in the Montana Goldfields, 1865-1868
Hard work and entangling failure
by Jeffrey J. Safford
page 34

Odyssey of a Union: Communism and the Rise of the Northwest Metal Workers, 1960-1971
The fracturing of labor solidarity in Idaho's Silver Valley
by Katherine G. Aiken
page 46

Montana Episode
"If It Don't End in Bloodshed": The Montana State Baseball League, 1900
by James A. Scott
page 62

In Commemoration
John C. Ewers, 1909-1997
page 72

Montana Reviews
page 79

Boehme, Feest, and Johnston, Seth Eastman and Mary Henderson Eastman, Dahcotah or, Life and Legends of the Sioux Around Fort Snelling
reviewed by John C. Ewers

Ambrose, Undaunted Courage
reviewed by Harry W. Fritz

West, The Way to the West
reviewed by Anne Hyde

Dary, Seeking Pleasure in the Old West
reviewed by Elliott West

Mellinger, Race and Labor in Western Copper
reviewed by Fredric L. Quivik

Mouat, Roaring Days
reviewed by Brian Shovers

Wilson, Outlaw Tales of Montana
reviewed by F. Lee Graves

Taylor, Bloody Valverde
reviewed by Richard Melzer

Etulain and Howard, eds., A Biographical Guide to the Study of Western American Literature
reviewed by Gary Topping

Danbom, Born in the Country
reviewed by Anya Jabour

Lester, The Biographical Directory of Native American Painters
reviewed by Joyce M. Szabo

Johnson, Fire in the Mind
reviewed by Ferenc M. Szasz

Letters to the Editor
page 93

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Volume 47, Number 3, Autumn 1997

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