The Best Montana Books for Kids

A twenty-page bedtime lap around the state—mountains, a lake, a rodeo arena—with the lights going out one place at a time.

Born enslaved, Mary Fields won a U.S. mail contract in her sixties and drove the Cascade route through Montana winters without missing a delivery.

Swamp Angel outgrows Tennessee, moves to Montana because it is the only state big enough to hold her, and tames a dust storm into a horse.

Wolves are gone from Yellowstone for seventy years. In 1995 they come back, and the whole valley begins rearranging itself.

A Montana alphabet with a rhyme on top of each letter and a paragraph of real state facts underneath it.

Dink, Josh, and Ruth Rose spend a week on a Montana dude ranch, where a gold nugget goes missing from a ranch hand's collection.

A short photo tour of Glacier National Park: the ice, the Going-to-the-Sun Road, mountain goats, and how the park came to exist.

A family walks Yellowstone and identifies every animal by what it left behind: tracks on one page, droppings on the next.

Jeannette Rankin grows up on a ranch outside Missoula, helps win Montana women the vote in 1914, and in 1916 becomes the first woman elected to Congress.

Two grizzly attacks in Glacier National Park on one August night in 1967, seen from inside the park by an eleven-year-old.

A Montana falconer's daughter is driving a rescued falcon back to its former owner when the car leaves the road, and she has to walk out with an injured boy and a bird.

A Florida kid flies to Montana to meet the father he has never met and finds him tracking poachers with a drone.

In 1918 a sixteen-year-old orphan leaves Iowa for eastern Montana to prove up her uncle's homestead claim: 480 rods of fence and 40 acres broken, inside a year.