This massive book, 528 pages in 8 1/2 by 11-inch format, over 700 photographs, recounts the history of education in Lake County, Montana, from 1910 to the present with meticulous attention to details of coping with education’s beginnings in the area with the Salish, Kootenai and Pend d’Orielle peoples teaching their children to live, then the arrival of the Black Robes in the mid-1800s, and finally in the public schools once the Flathead Reservation was opened to settlement. Dr. Harry W. Fritz, professor emeritus of history at the University of Montana, wrote in his Foreword to the book: “At first glance, a volume entitled ‘Lake County School History’ would appear to be an arid institutional study. Take another glance. This is an exceptional inquiry into an important segment of any community’s past, and an excellent addition to the library of Montana history.’ The volumes are a masterpiece of local lore and memory.”
ISBN 1-931291-80-2 Lake County School History, Volume I – $29.95