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Informationen zum Autor William Wyckoff is professor of geography at Montana State University, Bozeman. Klappentext In On the Road Again , William Wyckoff explores Montana's changing physical and cultural landscape by pairing photographs taken by state highway engineers in the 1920s and 1930s with photographs taken at the same sites today. The older photographs, preserved in the archives of the Montana Historical Society, were intended to document the expenditure of federal highway funds. Because it is nearly impossible to photograph a road without also photographing the landscape through which that road passes, these images contain a wealth of information about the state's environment during the early decades of the twentieth century. To highlight landscape changes -- and continuities -- over more than eighty years, Wyckoff chose fifty-eight documented locations and traveled to each to photograph the exact same view. The pairs of old and new photos and accompanying interpretive essays presented here tell a vivid story of physical, cultural, and economic change. Wyckoff has grouped his selections to cover a fairly even mix of views from the eastern and western parts of the state, including a wide assortment of land use settings and rural and urban landscapes. The photo pairs are organized in thirteen "visual themes," such as forested areas, open spaces, and sacred spaces, which parallel landscape change across the entire American West. A close, thoughtful look at these photographs reveals how crops, fences, trees, and houses shape the everyday landscape, both in the first quarter of the twentieth century and in the present. The photographs offer an intimate view into Montana, into how Montana has changed in the past eighty years and how it may continue to change in the twenty-first century. This is a book that will captivate readers who have, or hope to have, a tie to the Montana countryside, whether as resident or visitor. Regional and agricultural historians, geographers and geologists, and rural and urban planners will all find it fascinating. Zusammenfassung Explores Montana's changing physical and cultural landscape. This book features photographs that offer an intimate view into Montana, into how Montana has changed and how it may continue to change in the twenty-first century. It is suitable for regional and agricultural historians, geographers and geologists, and rural and urban planners. Inhaltsverzeichnis Foreword: Revisited Roads to the Past by William Cronon Preface and Acknowledgments Journey Into Montana -- On the Road Again --Montana Settlement --Regional Landscape Elements --Four Stories on the Landscape Along Montana Highways Boundaries 1. Forty-ninth Parallel 2. Into the Mountains 3. Continental Divide 4. Leaving Red Lodge Rivers 5. Missouri River 6. Marias River Crossing 7. The Sound of Mountain Water 8. Stevensville Bridge Railroads 9. Depot 10. Pacific Junction 11. T-Town 12. Landscape in Motion Passageways 13. Approaching the Hellgate 14. Yankee Jim Canyon 15. Names on the Land 16. U.S. Highway 17. Billboard Forested Lands 18. Pinus ponderosa 19. Tree Invasion 20. Islands of Moisture 21. Quartz Ranger Station Open Spaces 22. Road to Ekalaka 23. The Jesse Place 24. Along the Yellowstone 25. Hilltop View Sacred Places 26. Descent to Mission Valley 27. This House of Sky 28. A Prairie House 29. Deerfield Colony 30. Blue House at Trestle Ranch Landmarks 31. Krug Mansion 32. Graves Hotel
