Fritz, Harry W.

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University of Montana ScholarWorks at University of Montana Syllabi Course Syllabi Spring 2-1-2017 HSTA 255.01: Montana History Harry W. Fritz The University of Montana Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarworks.umt.edu/syllabi Let us know how access to this document benefits you. Recommended Citation Fritz, Harry W., "HSTA 255.01: Montana History" (2017). Syllabi. 4863. https://scholarworks.umt.edu/syllabi/4863 This Syllabus is brought to you for free and open access by the Course Syllabi at ScholarWorks at University of Montana. It has been accepted for inclusion in Syllabi by an authorized administrator of ScholarWorks at University of Montana. For more information, please contact scholarworks@mso.umt.edu. If America is growing short of anything, it is Montana. ---K. Ross Toole    THE UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA THE DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY  HSTA 255, Spring 2017 H. Fritz, LA 151A MWF 12:00-12:50,  ISB 110 harry.fritz@umontana.edu MONTANA  Course Syllabus  "Montana" began nearly two centuries ago as territory inhabited by Native Americans, somewhere on the Upper Missouri River.  Since then its written history has passed through recognizable stages, from "discovery" through statehood to contemporary developments.  History 255 provides, in roughly chronological order, a basic narrative and topical account of Montana's past two centuries.  The stuff of history, however, is not description but interpretation.  This class has been defined in significant ways by the late UM Professor K. Ross Toole (1920-1981).  In Montana: An Uncommon Land (1959), Toole provided the only sustained interpretation of Montana history yet advanced.  Does that view, which is largely economic, satisfactorily explain what happened?  Montana history is organized as a standard lecture/reading/exam course.  It meets three times per week, on MWF at 12:10 p.m. in the Music Recital Hall.  There will be two midterms, on Monday, March 1 and Wednesday, April 7, and a final on Wednesday, May 12.  Buy these at the U.C. Bookstore:  K. Ross Toole, Montana, An Uncommon Land (1959). Harry W. Fritz, Mary Murphy, and Robert R. Swartout, Jr., eds., Montana Legacy: Essays on History,  People, and Place (2002)    SCHEDULE OF LECTURES, READINGS, AND EXAMINATIONS MONTANA:  THE FIRST CENTURY  READ: Uncommon Land, chs. 1-V11 (pp. 3-166).  Montana Legacy: Essays by Porter, Calloway, Swartout   M Jan 23 Introduction:  Ross Toole's Montana   Jan 25-Feb 6 THE DISCOVERY OF MONTANA  W Jan 25 History of the Expedition under the Command of Captains Lewis and Clark,  F Jan 27 to the sources of the Missouri, thence across the Rocky Mountains and M Jan 30 down the River Columbia to the Pacific Ocean.  Performed during the years W Feb 1 1804-5-6 by Order of the Government of the United States F Feb 3 Mountain Men and the Fur Trade M Feb 6 Native Montanans  Feb 8-24 PIONEER MONTANA  W Feb 8 The Vigilantes of Montana F Feb 10 The Organization of Society M Feb 13 Montana Territorial Politics W Feb 15 “Custer’s Last Stand:” The Battle of the Little Big Horn F Feb 17 Chief Joseph and the Nez Perce retreat M Feb 20 Washington/Lincoln Birthday HOLIDAY W Feb 22 The Cattle Kingdom F Feb 24 Statehood: November 8, 1889  MONDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 2017   MIDTERM EXAMINATION I   PROGRESSIVE MONTANA  READ: Uncommon Land, chs. VIII-XI, (p. 167-242) Montana Legacy, Essays by Walter, Emmons, McDonald, Murphy  RECOMMENDED:  Spence, Melcher  Mar 1-8 THE WARS OF THE COPPER KINGS  W Mar 1 The Battle for Butte:  The Political and  F Mar 3 Economic Struggle for Corporate Control M Mar 6 of Montana and the Rise of Anaconda W Mar 8 Copper, 1880-1906  Mar 10-April 3 PROGRESSIVE PEOPLE  F Mar 10 Populists and Progressives M Mar 13 Progressive Reforms W Mar 15 Homesteaders F Mar 17 The Great War, Dixon, and Depression M-F Mar 20-24 SPRING BREAK M Mar 27 The Dawes Severalty Act, 1887, and Allotment of the Reservations W Mar 29 Burton K. Wheeler and the Indian New Deal F Mar 31 The 1930s: New Deal in Montana M Apr 3 The Age of Reform    WEDNESDAY, APRIL 5, 2017  MIDTERM EXAMINATION II  CONTEMPORARY MONTANA  READ: Uncommon Land, ch. XII Montana Legacy, Essays by Furdell, Edgerton, Svingen, Farr, Dobb RECOMMENDED: Mercier, Fritz  Apr 7-21 ORIGINS OF CONTEMPORARY MONTANA   F Apr 7 PHI ALPHA THETA:  NO CLASS M Apr 10 World War II and Its Aftermath W Apr 12 The Political Revolution: Reapportionment F Apr 14 The Political Revolution: The Constitution of 1972  M Apr 17 The Economic Revolution: Timber and Copper W Apr 19 The Economic Revolution: Agriculture and Energy F Apr 21 The Environmental Revolution  Apr 24-May 5 PRESENT AND FUTURE  M Apr 24 The Collapse of Traditional Montana W Apr 26 The Modern Montana Economy F Apr 28 Fritz Daily: The Berkeley Pit M May 1 The Demographic Explosion W May 3 Deregulation F May 5 Montana in the 21st Century   Final Examination: Wednesday, May 10, 2017, 10:10 - 12:10 p.m. If the fight against environmental degradation can be won anywhere, it can be won in Montana.  --K. Ross Toole 

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