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| | Montana Center for the Book |
 | | Throughout its early years as a state, Montana’s great city was Butte, where the industrial revolution met the frontier. |
 | | Butte had its share of writers, Dashiell Hammett, passingly, and, more characteristically, Myron Brinig, author of Wide Open Town, and the notorious Mary MacLane, whose 1902 The Story of Mary MacLane shocked the nation. |
 | | By the 1940s, such writers as Mildred Walker, among whose many novels the 1944 Winter Wheat is best known, crusader Joseph Kinsey Howard–whose High, Wide, and Handsome is still Montana’s favorite history–and A. Guthrie, Jr., came into prominence. |
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