Humanities Montana Executive Director Ken Egan examines the newly created Montana Territory as a battleground of national aspirations: Native American tribes, Union true believers, and Confederate sympathizers. Egan reveals these clashing national visions—which, as a result of the gold rush, were brought into collision by a rapid influx of emigrants from all parts of the United States—by focusing on paired historical figures: Gad E. Upson and Bull Lodge; Sidney Edgerton and Mary Ronan; Pretty-shield and Crazy Horse; Sitting Bull and Alfred Sully; and Pamelia and James Fergus.
