Montana Memories: The Life of Emma Magee in the Rocky Mountain West, 1866-1950

ISBN-13: 9781934594087 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 144 str.

Ida S. Patterson; Grace Patterson McComas

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Published by the Salish Kootenai College PressMontana 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."