General Note:
Papers from a conference held in Billings, Mont., in June 1989.
Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
Introduction: A region of regions / William L. Lang -- Persisting reality : the Northern Tier States as "plundered provinces," 1900-1940 / William G. Robbins -- Agrarianism, United States Indian policy, and the Muckleshoot Reservation / Kent D. Richards -- The reservation as place : a South Dakota essay / Frank Pommersheim -- "March of civilization" : Standing Rock and the Sioux Act of 1889 / Carole Barrett -- Persistence and adaptation : the emergence of a legal culture in the Northern Tier Territories, 1853-1890 / John R. Wunder -- The long arm of the law : crime and federal law enforcement in the Northern Tier Territories / Roland L. De Lorme -- The first attempt to organize Dakota Territory / William E. Lass -- Railroads and urbanization in the Northwestern States / John C. Hudson -- Protest movements on the Northern Tier : the Pullman Boycott of 1894 and the 1922 Shopmen's Strike / W. Thomas White -- New Deal economic programs in the Northern Tier States, 1933-1939 / Leonard J. Arrington and Don C. Reading -- Traveling the hope highway : an intellectual history of the West River country of South Dakota / Paula M. Nelson -- Summing up : grounds for identity / Donald Worster.
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