Our 2026 Book Line Up
This year we are reading the following books, we hope you will enjoy this selection.
All meetings will be held via Zoom at 6pm of the designated date. Please click the link to register for our book club. If you have any questions, please email to info@extremehistoryproject.org.
Happy Reading!!
March 3 – Crazies: the Cattleman, the Wind Prospector and a War Out West, by Amy Gamerman
May 5 – Lonesome Land, by B.M. Bower Register for the Zoom meeting here!
July 7 – Making a Difference: My Fight for Native Rights and Social Justice, by Ada Deer Register for the Zoom meeting here!
September 1 – The Pocket: A Hidden History of Women’s Lives, by Burman and Fennetaux Register for the Zoom meeting here!
November 3 – New Women in the Old West: From Settlers to Suffragists, an Untold American Story, by Winifred Gallagher Register for the Zoom meeting here!
Our 2025 Book Line Up
All book club meetings will be via Zoom at 6pm MST on the designated date, see below. For questions email us at info@extremehistoryproject.org. Hope you can join us!
January 9, 2025 – The Middle Kingdom Under the Big Sky: A History of the Chinese Experience in Montana, Mark Johnson.
April 3, 2025 – Democracy Awakening: Notes on the State of America by Heather Cox Richardson.
June 5, 2025 – Hill Women: Finding Family and a Way Forward in the Appalachian Mountains, by Cassie Chambers.
August 7, 2025 – You Are Not American: Citizenship Stripping from Dred Scott to the Dreamers, by Amanda Frost.
October 2, 2025 – Yellow Bird: Oil, Murder and A Woman’s Search for Justice in Indian Country, by Sierra Crane Murdoch.
December 4, 2025 – The Sewing Girl’s Tale: A Story of Crime and Consequences in Revolutionary America, by John Wood Sweet.
Online Book Club 2024
All that She Carried by Tiya Miles.
All You Have to Do is Call, by Kerri Maher
The Life of the Afterlife, Ellen Baumler
The Woman They Could Not Silence: One Woman, Her Fight for Freedom and the Men Who Tried to Make her Disappear, Kate Moore
American Zion: Cliven Bundy, God & Public Lands in the West, Betsey Gaines Quammen
Plundered Skulls and Stolen Spirits: Inside the Fight to Reclaim Native America’s Culture, Chip Colwell
Online Book Club 2023
West With Giraffes, Lynda Rutledge
Saving Yellowstone: Exploration and Preservation in Reconstruction America, Megan Kate Nelson
Beneath the Bending Skies, Jane Kirkpatrick
Black Montana: Settler Colonialism and the Erosion of the Racial Frontier, 1877-1930, Anthony Wood
The Surrounded, D’Arcy McNickle
The Divorce Colony: How Women Revolutionized Marriage and Found Freedom on the American Frontier, April White
Online Book Club 2022
Theme: Women in the West
Clara’s Journal: The Story of Two Pandemics, by Vickie Oddino
Home Lands: How Women Made the West, by Virginia Scharff and Carolyn Brucken
Poet Warrior: A Memoir, by Joy Harjo
How Much of these Hills is Gold, by C. Pam Zhang
Dreaming with the Ancestors: Black Seminole Women in Texas and Mexico, by Shirley Boteler Mock
Helmi’s Shadow: A Journey of Survival from Russia to East Asia to the American West, by David Horgan
Online Book Club 2021
Theme: Indigenous Activism
The Night Watchman, by Louise Erdrich
Sarah Winnemucca, by Sally Zanjani
As Long as Grass Grows: The Indigenous Fight for Environmental Justice, From Colonization to Standing Rock, by Dina Gilio-Whitaker
Viet Cong at Wounded Knee: The Trail of a Blackfeet Activist, by Woody Kipp
Surviving Wounded Knee: The Lakotas and the Politics of Memory, by David W. Grua
All Our Relations, by Winona LaDuke
Online Book Club 2020
Theme: Montana Memoir
Braiding Sweetgrass, by Robin Wall Kimmerer
Bound Like Grass: A Memoir from the High Plains, by Ruth McLaughlin
Waiting for the Revolution, by Jo Anne Troxel
Murder Along the Yellowstone Trail: The Execution of Seth Danner, by Kelly Hartman
The Woman’s Hour, by Elaine Weiss
Bitterroot: A Salish Memoir of Transracial Adoption, by Susan Devan Harness
PAST BOOK CLUB OFFERINGS
Join us right here September 11 – 17 for our next online Book club! We’ll be reading A Guide to Historic Bozeman, by Jim Jenks for our week-long Tea and Revolution Dialogue Series: Building Community Through Historic Preservation. Pick up the book at Amazon here:
Join the Book club online here: https://extremehistoryproject.org/a-guide-to-historic-bozeman/
Welcome to our online book club! Join us November 3rd through December 4th while we read One Woman, One Vote: Rediscovering the Woman’s Suffrage Movement.
Click on the image below to purchase the book from Amazon.
Below you will find a series of four study guides to help you make the most of your reading. They contain guiding questions to help you reflect and remember the material from the book. The study guides can be downloaded by clicking on the save icon at the top right of each guide. You can also just read the pages here on the website by using the scroll bar on the right of each guide.
Below each guide are links to further reading about specific aspects of the chapters. Here you can learn more about the specific topics that interest you. There are also links to photo files where you can see images of the people, events and media that came together to make this important historical event happen.
Below the links and study guides are questions for discussion which will allow you to reflect on your thoughts and ideas. Feel free to respond to the questions posed, or add your own question or comment.
Encourage your friends and relatives to join in on the reading and discussions. This is a great opportunity to share this important history with those you nurture and guide. We must all remember the sacrifices our mothers and grandmothers made in order that we have the rights that we do. Lets insure the next generation will continue the good work!
Finally, be sure and attend our screening of the PBS Experience Film One Woman, One Vote, followed by a panel discussion of the history, present and future of the women’s movement! December 4th, 6pm, Hager Auditorium, the Museum of the Rockies.
Special thanks to Natalie Scheidler, Sydney Hoffner and Jenica Rodriquez for their help in preparing these study guides!
Links to further study for Chapters 1 – 4
Abigail Adams: The Seed for Women’s Rights
Not for Ourselves Alone. The Story of Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Frederick Douglas’ speech at the Seneca Falls Convention
14th Amendment to the Constitution
15th Amendment to the Constitution
Links to further study for Chapters 5 – 9
Legal Contender: Victoria Woodhall first woman to run for President
Bradwell v. Illinois: Chief Justice Chase’s Dissent and the “Sphere of Women’s Work”
Virginia Minor and Women’s Right to Vote
Right Choice, Wrong Reasons: Wyoming Women Win the Right to Vote
An Experiment in Progressive Legislation: The Granting of Women Suffrage in Utah in 1870.
Abigail Scott Duniway and Idaho Suffrage
Mary Church Terrell Speech: What it Means to be Colored in the Capital of the US
Links to further study for Chapters 10 -14
School Suffrage and the Campaign for Women’s Suffrage in Massachusetts, 1879-1920
Susan B. Anthony: Celebrating “a heroic life”
Anti suffrage Essays by Massachusetts Women
The Use of Rhetoric in Anti Suffrage and Anti Feminist Publications
Harriot Stanton Blatch Biography
Mobilizing Woman-Power by Harriot Stanton Blatch
Women Socialists and Women’s Suffrage Montana News, May 14, 1908
Ida B. Wells Barnett Biography
Ida B. Wells Barnett and her Passion for Justice
Watch the full HBO film Iron Jawed Angels here:
Texas Originals: Minnie Fisher Cunningham
Petition from Minnie Fisher Cunningham
https://www.flickr.com/photos/usnationalarchives/6554338715/player/
Links to further study for Chapters 15 – 19
Carrie Chapman Catt Speech “The Crisis” delivered September 7, 1916, Atlanta Ga.
Texas Originals: Minnie Fisher Cunningham”
War of the Roses: Women’s Suffrage in Tennesee
Join our Discussion! Read through the questions in the comments section below and respond using the “reply” button below each question. Have a comment or question you’d like to post? Add it to the bottom using the comment “reply” box. Thanks for participating!