Names on the Face of Montana: The Story of Montana's Place Names

By Roberta Carkeek Cheney

Book Overview

Montana's place names are alive with a kind of poetry, rich in human and historical associations. In this book you can follow the prospectors to Gold Creek or Granite, honor government officials with Jefferson and Meagher, smile with the old timers at Ubet, and ride the prairie with cattlemen turning brands into Two Dot and Seventynine.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0878421505
• ISBN13: 9780878421503
• Release Date: June 1983
• Publisher: Mountain Press Publishing Company
• Length: 346 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.4" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

Every Montana city and town!

If you or your family have ever lived in Montana, this is a wonderful reference book. Have you ever wondered how some particular Montana town got its name? That's what Cheney's book will tell you. Every Montana city or town that ever had a postoffice is listed, and so are some that didn't. Many of these towns are completely gone-- only the names and a few fading family memories remain. In other cases, a single sturdy brick building sits in a field. And of course, the biggest towns in Montana, like Billings, Missoula, Great Falls and Butte, are listed too.Unless you're the sort of person who reads dictionaries for fun, you won't want to read this all the way through. You might, however, want to dip into it over and over again. And you might want to make sure that your local library owns a copy, so you and others can do just that.