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Volume 48, Number 1, Spring 1998

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Table of Contents

Frontierland as Tomorrowland: Walt Disney and the Archtectural Packaging of the Mythic West
The power of the frontier as an ongoing story
by Michael Steiner
page 2

Montana's Refining Industry, Part I: 1920-1941
Eighty years of competition and consolidation
by Joseph M. Ashley
page 18

"Food, Rest, & Happyness", Part II: Limitations and Possibilities in the Early Treatment of Tuberculosis in Montana
To defeat a killer disease
by Connie Staudohar
page 44

Essays on the West
Lewis and Clark and the American Century: A Review of Ken Burns's PBS Series on the Corps of Discovery
by William L. Lang
page 56

Northern Perspectives on the American West
by John R. Wunder
page 62

Montana Reviews
page 70
Russell, Trails Plowed Under
reviewed by John Taliaferro

Rankin, ed., Wallace Stegner
reviewed by Charles S. Peterson

Newby and Hunger, eds., Writing Montana
reviewed by O. Alan Welzien

Schwantes, The Pacific Northwest
reviewed by David H. Stratton

Barnard, Custer's First Sergeant John Ryan
reviewed by Thomas R. Buecker

Scamehorn, Albert Eugene Reynolds
reviewed by Richard D. Loosbrock

Vance, The North American Railroad
reviewed by Henry B. Crawford

Varley, Lola Montez
reviewed by Janey R. Fireman

Foote, A History of Calamity Jane
reviewed by James McLaird

Klein and Ackerman, eds., Women and Power in Native North America
reviewed by Margaret Connell-Szasz

Danysk, Hired Hands
reviewed by Evelyne Stitt Pickett

Solomon and Bowen, A Gentile Account of Life in Utah's Dixie, 1872-73
reviewed by Jessie L. Embry

Schullery, Yellowstone's Ski Pioneers
reviewed by Annie Gilbert Coleman

Letters to the Editor
page 84

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