Montana History

Catalog description

(AM) Offered autumn. This course surveys Montana history from the time of first human inhabitants (13,500 years ago) to the present. Lectures provide an outline of Montana history, focusing on major social, political, and economic developments. Course readings provide interesting and revealing accounts of Native American cultures and contacts between Montana Indians and non-Indians, metals mining and industrial development, homesteading and rural life, and the state's environment and landscape.