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Volume 50, Number 3, Autumn 2000

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Table of Contents

Joe de Yong and Hollywood: Charlie Russell's Protege on the Celluloid Frontier
Dan Gagliasso
page 2

George Bird Grinnell and the 'Vanishing' Plains Indians
Sherry L. Smith
page 18

A Life in the Oil Patch: Kenneth F. Cox in Glendive, Montana, 1953-1954
Stephen F. Cox
page 32

Unlikely Harvesters: German Prisoners of War as Agricultural Workers in the Northwest
Tomas Jaehn
page 46

Historical Commentary
Davy Crockett and the Alamo: Thoughts on Truth, Fiction, and Smelling a Rat
Stephen Harrigan
page 58

Essay on the West
What's in a Name?:
Christening Early Madison County, Montana, Quartz Lodes
Jeffrey J. Safford
page 66
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The Montana Traveler
Old Montana PrisonA Place to Visit
Molly Holz
page 70

Historical Reflections
When a Capital Idea Turned 'Hideous'
Ellen Baumler
page 72

Montana Reviews
page 74
Nugent, Into the West
reviewed by Frederick C. Luebke

Limerick, Something in the Soil
reviewed by David J. Weber

Bates, Senator Thomas J. Walsh of Montana
reviewed by Harry W. Fritz

Davis, Duke
reviewed by Dan Gagliasso

Everhart, Take Down Flag and Feed Horses and Meagher and Houston, Yellowstone and the Biology of Time
reviewed by Robert L. Spude

Hyde, Copper for America
reviewed by Brian Shovers

Phillips, Indians and Indian Agents
reviewed by Joel R. Hyer

Trennert, White Man's Medicine
reviewed by Clyde Ellis

McKanna, Jr., Homicide, Race, and Justie in the American West, 1880-1920
reviewed by Gordon Morris Bakken

Faris, Navajo and Photography
reviewed by Peter Iverson

Peavy and Smith, Frontier Children
reviewed by Lillian Schlissel

Davis, Three Roads to the Alamo
reviewed by James E. Crisp

Secrest, ed., Hell's Belles
reviewed by Roger D. McGrath

Lysengen and Rathke, eds., The Centennial Anthology of North Dakota History
reviewed by Harry F. Thompson

Letters to the Editor
page 91

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