RESOURCES - Montana and Wyoming - page 818

Spritzer, Don. Roadside History of Montana. Missoula, MT: Mountain Press Publishing,
1999. Organized insightfully by natural travel routes, this topic is filled with nice over-
views of towns and regions as well as interesting little anecdotes.
Literature
Bass, Rick. Winter: Notes from Montana. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1991. Written by one
of the region's great nature writers, this lovely book celebrates the quietude of Montana's
longest season.
Blew, Mary Clearman. All But the Waltz. Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press,
2001. Clearman Blew is a strong voice for central Montana in this hauntingly beautiful
collection of essays spanning five generations of her family in the state.
Fromm, Pete. Indian Creek Chronicles: A Winter in the Bitterroot. New York: Picador,
2003. Hired to tend salmon eggs during winter in Montana 40 miles from the nearest
road, this memoir is an exquisite introduction to the icy solitude of a Montana winter.
Guthrie, A. B. Jr. The Big Sky. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1947. This timeless novel about
three frontiersmen gave the state its well-known moniker.
Hugo, Richard. Making Certain It Goes On. New York: W. W. Norton, 1984. A collection
of Hugo's poems, this is an absolute classic.
Kittredge, William, and Annick Smith. The Last Best Place: A Montana Anthology. Helena,
MT: Montana Historical Society Press, 1988. This is the ultimate reader's guide to
Montana literature, with nearly 1,200 pages of literary selections spanning Native Amer-
ican stories and myths to contemporary fiction and poetry with everything in between.
Maclean, Norman. A River Runs Through It. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1976.
The topic that launched a thousand drift boats.
Maclean, Norman. Young Men and Fire. Chicago and London: University of Chicago
Press, 1992. The posthumously published work by the author of A River Runs Through
It, this nonfiction work about the fire that claimed 12 airborne firefighters is considered
a modern tragedy and a magnificent piece of literature.
McMurtry, Larry. Lonesome Dove. New York: Pocket Books, 1985. Another can't-miss
classic about the legendary Texas cattle drives.