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MONTANA’SMONTANA’SENDURING FRONTIERENDURING FRONTIER\n\nEXPLORING AN UNTAMED LEGACY  \nJOHN CLAYTON  \nLondon  \nHistory  \nPRESS  \nPublished by The History PressCharlcston,SC 29403www.historypress.nct  \nCopyright ◎2013 by John ClaytonAll rights reserved  \nFront cozer;top:Four men in\"dude\"cowboy attire stand in front of a bar in downtownBillings,Montana,in 1939.The disparities—\"frontier\"outfits in front of a ncon sign,andsilk “cowboy”clothing now more ornamental than functional—illustrate the continuinginfluence of the fronticr in twentieth-century Montana history.Librazy of Congress LC-USF33-003092-M3.Bottom:A vicw castward down the Swift Current Vallcy,a former mining districtnow mostly rescrved in Glacier National Park.Kani Clayton photo  \nBack cover:Haydie Yates bridged dude and cattle ranching cultures,then wrote a captivating butnow-forgotten memoir.Photo coutesy Angus lates.Background:Grasslands around the old miningtown of Bearcreck.Kani Clayton photo.  \nFirst published 2013  \nManufactured in the United States  \nISBN 978.1.62619.016.0  \nLibrary of Congress CIP data applied for.  \n.Notice:The information in this book is true and complete to the best of our knowledge.It ioffered without guarantee on the part of the author or The History Press.The author andThe History Press disclaim all liability in connection with the usc of this book.  \nAllrights rescrved.No part of this book may bc reproduced or transmitted in any formwhatsocver without prior written pcrmission from the publisher except in the casc of briefquotations embodicd in critical articles and revicws  \nto Kari  \nCoNTENTS  \nAuthor's Note7  \nI.PLACES AND PEOPLEIn the Bighorn Canyon13The Best Kind of Cowboy Hero20Montana's Carnegie Libraries24  \nII.OUTLAWSAn Urban Army35Fame and Bandits42The Trials of John L.Smith48  \nIII.EcONOMIES  \nCamp Senia and Montana's Dude Ranching Heritage55Origins of the Beartooth Highway62Hope and Bacon70  \nIV.CoMMUNITIES  \nMossmain:Montana's Near-Metropolis on the Plains77Community,Enriched by Formula84In the Garden of Eden90The Teenaged West97  \nCoNTENTS  \nV.FRONTIERS  \nWister's versus Turner's Frontier103Disney's New Western Frontier106What We Do on Today's Frontier109VI.THE NEW WESTAll-Harley Cowboys115The \"New West\"Is an Old Concept118Ten Years and Counting on a Meaningless Phrase121A Permanent State of Not-Quite-Decay125Vacation to the 1830s131Clarence Mulford's Odd WesternJourney136A Regular He-Man Horse139The Mountain Man Who Outshone His Legends145Resurrecting Haydie Yates150At the Little Bighorn157The Native Home of Governors on Horseback165Acknowledgements171Index173About the Author176  \nVII.AUTHENTICITY  \nVIII.HEROES  \nAUTHOR's NoTE  \nWhen it comes to the history of Montana and the American West,Isay enough with the Indian fights,vigilantes,and cattle drives.WhatI find compelling is when places start actually filling up with people,suchthat those activities necessarily fade.In this phase,like a teenager comingto grips with what kind of person he or she is going to be,the region startsdeveloping a personality—one that shapes its future.  \nAs Montana's frontier faded,Montanans started building communities.Ofcourse,there had always been communities in the vaguer sense of the word:links among groups of Native Americans,trappers,soldiers,prospectors,orfar-flung ranchers.But physical communities—towns and cities each with aneconomic and social and architectural structure—could arise only when therewere enough people to both need and create them.So what did that processlook like in Montana?What dreams did the state's natural splendor inspire?How often did those dreams succeed,how often were they further elevatedinto myth,and how often did they collide with hardscrabble reality to hone thecharacter of everyone involved?That's what I'm always writing about.  \nMontana didn’t run out of frontier all at once.Along the 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Places and People\n## Montana's Carnegie Libraries\n## The Best Kind of Cowboy Hero\n# II. Outlaws\n## An Urban Army\n## Fame and Bandits\n# III. Economies\n## Camp Senia and Montana's Dude Ranching Heritage\n## Origins of the Beartooth Highway\n# IV. Communities\n## Mossmain: Montana's Near-Metropolis on the Plains\n## The Teenaged West\n# V. Frontiers\n## Wister's versus Turner's Frontier\n## Disney's New Western Frontier\n# VI. The New West\n## All-Harley Cowboys\n## Ten Years and Counting on a Meaningless Phrase\n# VII. Authenticity\n# VIII. 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