On the Road Again

by Wyckoff, William

• ISBN13: 9780295986128
• ISBN10: 0295986123
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-04-30
• Publisher: Univ of Washington Pr

Author Biography

William Wyckoff is professor of geography at Montana State University, Bozeman.

Table of Contents

Foreword: Revisited Roads to the Past	ix
William Cronon
Preface and Acknowledgments	xiii
JOURNEY INTO MONTANA	3	(26)
On the Road Again	5	(7)
Montana Settlement	12	(2)
Regional Landscape Elements	14	(7)
Four Stories on the Landscape	21	(8)
ALONG MONTANA HIGHWAYS	29	(117)
BOUNDARIES
Forty-ninth Parallel	31	(2)
Into the Mountains	33	(2)
Continental Divide	35	(2)
Leaving Red Lodge	37	(2)
RIVERS
Missouri River	39	(2)
Marias River Crossing	41	(2)
The Sound of Mountain Water	43	(2)
Stevensville Bridge	45	(2)
RAILROADS
Depot	47	(2)
Pacific Junction	49	(2)
T-Town	51	(2)
Landscape in Motion	53	(2)
PASSAGEWAYS
Approaching the Hellgate	55	(2)
Yankee Jim Canyon	57	(2)
Names on the Land	59	(2)
U.S. Highway 12	61	(2)
Billboard	63	(2)
FORESTED LANDS
Pinus ponderosa	65	(2)
Tree Invasion	67	(2)
Islands of Moisture	69	(2)
Quartz Ranger Station	71	(2)
OPEN SPACES
Road to Ekalaka	73	(2)
The Jesse Place	75	(2)
Along the Yellowstone	77	(2)
Hilltop View	79	(2)
SACRED PLACES
Descent to Mission Valley	81	(2)
This House of Sky	83	(2)
A Prairie House	85	(2)
Deerfield Colony	87	(2)
Blue House at Trestle Ranch	89	(2)
LANDMARKS
Krug Mansion	91	(2)
Graves Hotel	93	(2)
Pompeys Pillar	95	(2)
Water Tower	97	(2)
RURAL LEGACY
Settlement at Sun River	99	(2)
Rural School	101	(2)
West of Dixon	103	(2)
Farmstead South of Choteau	105	(2)
MAIN STREETS
Main Street in Roundup	107	(2)
Life on Merrill Avenue	109	(2)
Small-Town Landscape	111	(2)
Bypassed Town	113	(2)
Wibaux Flood	115	(2)
Coal Town	117	(2)
URBAN LIFE
Butte	119	(2)
Landscapes of Labor	121	(2)
Zone in Transition	123	(2)
Polytechnic Drive	125	(2)
SUBURBS
Judith Place Addition	127	(2)
Suburban Manhattan	129	(2)
Gallatin Valley	131	(2)
South of Missoula	133	(2)
OLD WEST, NEW WEST
Sun Ranch	135	(2)
New Deal Bridge	137	(2)
Flathead Reservation	139	(2)
Polson Bridge	141	(2)
Bitterroot Valley	143	(2)
Road to Paradise	145	(1)
DESTINATIONS	146	(15)
Landscape in Place	146	(3)
Landscape in Time	149	(4)
Montana Journey	153	(3)
On the Road Again	156	(5)
Bibliographic Essay	161	(10)
Illustration Credits	171	(4)
Index	175