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Volume 52, Number 1, Spring 2002

The Texas Ranger Tradition Established: Jack Hays and Walker Creek
by Robert M. Utley
page 2

The Damming of Yellowstone National Park: A Crusade for Irrigation in the Upper Yellowstone River Valley
by Hugh Lovin
page 12

Learning about the Weather: Dryfarming Doctrine and Homestead Failure in Eastern Montana, 1900-1925
by Gary D. Libecap
page 24

Winter in the Rockies: Winter Quarters of the Mountain Men
by Kerry R. Oman
page 34

Saving Montana's Past: The Creation and Evolution of the Montana Historical Society and Montana The Magazine of Western History
by Brian Shovers
page 48

Essays on the West
Bookmen on the Montana Frontier
by Rick Newby
page 60

Montana Episodes
Isabelle Randall and the "Natives"
by Phyllis Smith
page 66

The Montana Traveler
A Hospitable History: Grant Kohrs Ranch National Historic Site
by Lyndel Meikle
page 72
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Historical Reflections
The Haunting of Butte's Quartz Street Fire Station
page 76

Montana Reviews
page 70

LaDow, The Medicine Line
reviewed by Jim Mochoruk

Schwantes, Long Day's Journey
reviewed by Jon Axline

Clayton, Hoy, and Underwood, Vaqueros, Cowboys, and Buckaroos
reviewed by Richard W. Slatta

Hagan, "Exactly in the Right Place" and Hoig, Fort Reno and the Indian Territory Frontier
reviewed by Susan Badger Doyle

Robertson, Rotting Face
reviewed by Clyde Ellis

Flores, Horizontal Yellow and Flores, The Natural West
reviewed by Stephen C. Sturgeon

Searl, Montana Disasters and Strohmaier, The Seasons of Fire
reviewed by Gordon Morris Bakken

Zanjani, Sarah Winnemucca
reviewed by Martha C. Knack

Boye, Holding Stone Hands
reviewed by R. Eli Paul

Jacoby, Crimes against Nature
reviewed by James Pritchard

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Volume 52, Number 1, Spring 2002

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