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The Medicine Line: Life and Death on a North American Borderland
The Medicine Line Life and Death on a North American Borderland Author:Beth Ladow Along the borders between Canada and Montana lies one hundred miles of the most desolate terrain in America, the point where three nations were fated to come together in a contest for land, wealth, and ultimately survival. In this complex history of the borderland, known as "the medicine line" to the Indians who live there, we come across the l... more »ikes of Sitting Bull, Lewis and Clark, railroad magnate Jim T. Hill, and border refugee Chief Joseph. Relying on letters, diaries, and autobiographies of these great pioneers, LaDow has written an immensely rich history of a place and an insightful meditation on the subject of national identity.« less