Table of Contents

(1) Introduction: Montana Barns: A Vanishing History (2) Barn Building Traditions (3) Agricultural Settlement in Montana (4) Barns of the Western Valleys (5) Barns of the Great Divide (6) Barns of the Missouri River Country (7) Barns of the Yellowstone Basin (8) Preserving the Legacy

About the Author

Christine Brown is an architectural historian with over ten years of experience documenting and evaluating rural properties. As outreach and education director at Montana Preservation Alliance, she promotes the preservation of Montana's historic buildings and places. Chere Jiusto has worked in the fields of Montana history and culture for over twenty years, most recently as the director of Montana Preservation Alliance. She is the author of Montana Mainstreets: A Guide to Historic Hamilton (Montana Historical Society Press). Tom Ferris maintains his own studio in Helena, Montana, but since 1995 has also worked as an archival photographer for the Montana Historical Society. Tom's work is in many private collections in the United States and overseas and has been collected by the Ministry of Culture in France and the Shimada Museum in Japan.