{"product_id":"9781934594087","title":"Montana Memories: The Life of Emma Magee in the Rocky Mountain West, 1866-1950","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublished by the Salish Kootenai College Press\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eMontana Memories\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the memoirs of her long and dramatic life, Magee recounts many interesting aspects of early Montana:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e-Her father’s experiences as a free trader in the Rocky Mountains. \u003cbr\u003e-Her mother’s tales of her Shoshone ancestors. \u003cbr\u003e-Her memories of her life as a mixed-blood child in the Missoula Valley during the nineteenth century. \u003cbr\u003e-Her father’s and other relatives’ role in the Nez Perce War of 1877. \u003cbr\u003e-Her travels with her first husband through the Upper Flathead Country and the Thompson Falls area of Montana and High River, Alberta. \u003cbr\u003e-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. \u003cbr\u003e-Her daughter’s life in the boarding school at St. Ignatius Mission in the early twentieth century.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Salish Kootenai College Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47033406324976,"sku":"9781934594087","price":10.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781934594087_p0.jpg?v=1763656684","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781934594087","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}