Montana Heritage Project
“Life in the Upper Musselshell Valley”
Students at Harlowton High School produced seven book-length histories of the Upper Musselshell Valley as part of the Montana Heritage Project — a program that engaged students as genuine historical researchers, using oral history interviews and primary documents to document community life across generations.
The Harlowton volumes cover ranching, architecture, Hutterite colonies, the railroad era, Indigenous archaeology, and the people who shaped life along the river. Each represents real student fieldwork — interviews conducted, archives combed, families consulted — and together they form one of the most detailed records of the Upper Musselshell available anywhere.
Out of Print
- 1 Images of the Upper Musselshell Valley: Three Ranches 100 Years Old in the Valley
- 2 The Bair Family: A Montana Legacy
- 3 The Hutterian Way: Hutterite Colonies in the Upper Musselshell Valley
- 4 Sites and Sounds of the Upper Musselshell Valley: Railroads and Railroaders, Archaeology and Businesses in the Valley
- 5 Life on the River: Stories from the Upper Musselshell Valley
- 6 People of the Valley and 1910 in the Upper Musselshell Valley
- 7 Bungalows and Barns, Banks and Buildings and People of the Valley, Part II
