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The Last Best Place is an unofficial nickname for the U.S. state of Montana.The phrase's origin is disputed. The first known use is in Douglas Chadwick's book A Beast the Color of Winter, while William Kittredge is credited with popularizing it as the title of his book The Last Best Place: A Montana Anthology.
The book is a thick collection of short fiction, poetry, and historic narratives, covering the full spectrum of Montana's geography and history. The depth and scope of the book made it a model for later regional anthologies, such as the voluminous 1988 imitation, The Last Best Place: A Montana Anthology.
It was named one of Time magazine's five best books of 1986 and was a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction. [8] Ford followed up that success with Rock Springs (1987), [12] a story collection —set mostly in Montana —that includes what remain some of his most anthologized short stories. [13]
A brief History of Butte, Montana-The World's Greatest Mining Camp (PDF). Chicago: The Henry O. Shepard Co. Gloege, Marvin E. Survival or gradual extinction: the small town in the Great Plains of eastern Montana (Meadowlark Publishing Services, 2007) Johnson, Dorothy M. (1971). The Bloody Bozeman-The Perilous Trail to Montana's Gold. New York ...
K. Ross Toole. Kenneth Ross Toole (August 8, 1920 – August 13, 1981) was an American historian, author, and educator who specialized in the history of Montana.Perhaps the best-known and most influential of the state's twentieth-century historians, Toole served as director of the state's historical society, authored several noted volumes of state history and social commentary, and was a ...
Bad Land: An American Romance is a travelogue of Jonathan Raban's research, over a two-year period, into the settlement of southeastern Montana in the early 20th century. The focus of the book is one of the least-populated areas of the United States – the badland area between Marmarth, North Dakota, and Terry, Montana, along the route of the Milwaukee Road railroad and the goings on of ...
This category is for books about the U.S. state of Montana. Subcategories. This category has only the following subcategory. N. Novels set in Montana (45 P)
Blackfeet Man: Stories of the Famous Montana Indian Story Writer and an Original Map and Guide to the Beautiful Region He Loved (Montana Heritage Series). Helena, MT: Montana Historical Society. (published posthumously) Schultz, James Willard (1962). Blackfeet and Buffalo: Memories of My Life among the Indians. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press.
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