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Hustlers and Homesteaders: A History of Montana, Volume Four (Montana History Series Book 4) by [Greg Strandberg]

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Begin the journey to discover how Montana came to be the great state that it is today!

By 1900 Montana was home to 243,329 people. The state had produced 61% of the country’s copper just the year before, which amounted to 23% of the world’s supply.

By 1930 there were 537,606 people in the state. The nation was just beginning to get a taste of the banking crashes and economic depression that Montanans had been feeling since the ‘20s.

The cause of these problems in Montana can be traced to propaganda both the state and railroads put out beginning in 1905. These pamphlets told bald-faced lies to people the world over. Dry farming was advocated, and in an environment that couldn’t support it long-term. When the bust came in 1916 more than 200,000 people left. As a result, Montana was the only state in the union to lose population in the ‘Roaring Twenties.’

You’ll learn all that and more in this exciting fourth volume of Montana history. There’s Montana’s involvement in the Spanish-American War in 1898, the creation of the National Forests and magnificent dams in the state, and the Panic of 1907 that devastated the nation’s and world’s economy. And that’s just one decade in this three-decade book!

Experience this wondrous series that hundreds of readers already have. Discover why Montana is called both the Treasure State and the ‘Last Best Place.” Discover your history today!

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**Excerpt from "The Big Burn" Chapter**

The summer of 1910 was a hot one, and dry. Drought createdconditions that exacerbated the problems of dry fuel littering the forestfloors. Trains passing through sent sparks flying from the coal burning intheir locomotives, and small grass fires started, spreading to the brush andthen all that dead wood. By the middle of August there were anywhere from 1,000to 3,000 fires burning in the three states as well as British Columbia, no onereally knew.

Things got bad on August 20 when the weather took a turnfor the worse. A cold front swept in from the north and with it came gale-forcewinds that turned the myriad small fires into two major furnaces ofdestruction. Smoke drifted to New York and south to Colorado. Ships 500 milesout into the Pacific couldn't see the stars at night, the haze was so thick.

The U.S. Forest Service was just in its fifth year andwholly unprepared for what had been unleashed upon them. They stood back andstared, with neither the manpower nor the tools necessary to fight it. Butfight it they did, and to disastrous effect. The "Lost Crew" of twenty-eightwas overcome by the blaze and died near Avery, Idaho. At least 1,000 peoplefrom the town fled to a tunnel in the mountain after racing over a burningtrestle bridge. A third of Wallace, Idaho, burned to the ground as trains spedto Spokane and Missoula with residents that'd suddenly become refugees.

Edward Pulaski had a crew of forty men west of PlacerCreek when a backfire that'd been started to save Wallace instead turned onthem and they became trapped. Their only option was an abandoned prospect mine,the opening six feet high by five feet wide. It ran for 250 feet into themountain and was their only hope.

Flames nipped at their heels as the men ran, and Pulaskistood by the entrance trying to fight the fire as best he could as itthreatened to follow them right into the tunnel. He and everyone else passedout from lack of oxygen. They came to later that night while the flames werestill burning outside, although at a lesser rate. One brave soul had had enoughand announced he was leaving. Sure that his chances were slim to none, and alsoconfident others would be emboldened to leave with him, Pulaski drew his gunand threatened to shoot anyone who made to leave. No one did, and all but fiveof the men survived the ordeal.