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Volume 49, Number 1, Spring 1999

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Table of Contents

'This I Know from the Old People': Yakama Indian Treaty Rights as Oral Tradition
The challenge of preserving essential meaning
by Andrew H. Fisher
page 2

Hoboes Across The Border: A Comparison of Itinerant Cross-border Laborers between Montana and Western Canada
Romantic image, harsh reality
by Evelyne Stitt Pickett
page 18

'Hope It Turns Warm So Things Will Grow': Dwight and Hazel Howard and the Development of Montana Seed Corn
Growing the family business
by Stan Howard
page 32

The Crazy Mule Maps: A Northern Cheyenne's View of Montana and Western Dakota in 1878
Pictographic narrative--when the story is in the map
by Linea Sundstrom and Glen Fredlund
page 46

Montana Episodes
The Willson Brothers Come to Montana

by Kim Allen Scott
page 58

Montana Reviews
page 71
Utley, A Life Wild and Perilous
reviewed by R. David Edmunds

Meikle, ed., Very Close to Trouble
reviewed by Carol A. O'Connor

Lynde, The Bodacious Kid
reviewed by F. Lee Graves

Afton, Halaas, Masich, and Ellis, Cheyenne Dog Soldiers
reviewed by John D. McDermott

Heard, Handbook of the American Frontier
reviewed by Laurence M. Hauptman

Pommersheim, Braid of Feathers
reviewed by Dixie Haggard

Ricketts, The Mormon Battalion
reviewed by Brigham D. Madsen

Hardin, Texian Iliad
reviewed by Thomas W. Cutrer

Aadland, Women and Warrious of the Plains
reviewed by Gerald Davidson

Carlson, Joe LeFors
reviewed by Larry D. Ball

DeArment, Alias Frank Canton
reviewed by Joseph G. Rosa

Purdy, ed., The Legacy of D'Arcy McNickle
reviewed by Brian C. Hosmer

Righter, Wind Energy in America
reviewed by David G. McComb

Georgi-Findlay, The Frontiers of Women's Writing
reviewed by Dee Garceau

Rikoon, ed., Rachel Calof's Story
reviewed by Kathleen Ely

Ficken, Rufus Woods, the Columbia River, & the Building of Modern Washington
reviewed by Richard S. Kirkendall

The Montana Roundup of Books
Letters to the Editor
page 89

Historical Reflections
Montana Highway Patrol
page 91

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