Glendive - Hardcover

Booker Jr, Dr R Michael

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1531699227 ISBN 13: 9781531699222

Publisher: Arcadia Publishing Library Editions, 2016

Synopsis

Glendive was founded in the early 1880s, and its growth was promoted and sustained by the Northern Pacific Railroad. Legend holds that Sir George Gore, on a hunting expedition with famed mountain man Jim Bridger, named a creek in the area Glendale Creek after a similar one in his native County Donegal, Ireland. Over the years, the word Glendale somehow transformed into Glendive. Prior to the arrival of European Americans, indigenous peoples, including the Crow and the Lakota Sioux, called the area home. The arrival of the Northern Pacific in 1881, along with the passage of the Enlarged Homestead Act in 1909, lured people from America and abroad to this isolated region to pursue their version of the American dream."

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About the Author

Local historian and professor of history Dr. R. Michael Booker Jr. offers a visual account of the origins of this remote Montana town through photographs from the Frontier Gateway Museum, Glendive Ranger-Review, and other private collections. Booker delves into the history of this rugged town set in the surreal landscape of the Lower Yellowstone River Valley and Makoshika Badlands, thoroughly chronicling the stages of Glendive s development through the first half of the 20th century.

Edition details

• Publisher: Arcadia Publishing Library Editions
• Publication date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1531699227
• ISBN 13: 9781531699222
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 130