The Medicine Line: Life and Death on the North American Borderland, is a complex and oftentimes dramatic mix of narrative storytelling and history in which ironies are explored, patterns of deed and response are uncovered, examined and evaluated...Beth Ladow is a compelling stylist who writes with warmth and insight, and she has given us a smart book, which will help us understand one another, and a good read. We need more books like this one. -- William Kittredge, Author of THE NATURE OF GENOROSITY(knopf,2000)

Along the border between Canada and Montana lies 100 miles of some of the most desolate terrain in America, the point where three nations were fated to come together in a contest for land, wealth and ultimately survival. In this evocative portrait, Beth LaDow recreates their experience on the harsh frontier, capturing the complex history of the borderland known as the medicine line to the Indians who lived there.