Montana Memories : The Life of Emma Magee in the Rocky Mountain West, 1866-1950 Paperback / softback
by Ida S. Patterson
Paperback / softback
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Published by the Salish Kootenai College Press Montana Memories is the life story of a mixed-blood Indian woman in western Montana and southern Alberta during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Born in 1866 to a white trader and a Shoshone and Salish Indian mother, Emma Magee saw Montana change from Indian Country to a part of industrial America.
When she was born, mixed-blood Indians were socially part of the white community in Montana.
By the time she died in 1950, however, mixed-bloods were considered Indians.
In the memoirs of her long and dramatic life, Magee recounts many interesting aspects of early Montana:-Her father’s experiences as a free trader in the Rocky Mountains. -Her mother’s tales of her Shoshone ancestors. -Her memories of her life as a mixed-blood child in the Missoula Valley during the nineteenth century. -Her father’s and other relatives’ role in the Nez Perce War of 1877. -Her travels with her first husband through the Upper Flathead Country and the Thompson Falls area of Montana and High River, Alberta. -Her move with her second husband to the Flathead Indian Reservation and her impressions of the impact of allotment and the new irrigation system on the reservation community. -Her daughter’s life in the boarding school at St. Ignatius Mission in the early twentieth century.
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:144 pages, 6 photographs, index
- Publisher:Salish Kootenai College
- Publication Date:01/01/2012
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- ISBN:9781934594087
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:144 pages, 6 photographs, index
- Publisher:Salish Kootenai College
- Publication Date:01/01/2012
- Category:
- ISBN:9781934594087
