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Looking Back:
A Pictorial History of the Flathead Valley
by Kathryn L. Mckay

Chapter 6
1942-1957

The Coming of Industry

World War Two
Transportation
Agriculture
Hungry Horse Dam
and Anaconda Aluminum Company
Communities, Recreation
Logging


The Ida M. on the Hungry Horse Reservoir as it was being filled for the first time, May 1952. This tug towed booms of logs on the reservoir. The gated trashracks kept debris from entering the penstocks. When the Hungry Horse Dam was completed in 1953, it was the fourth largest and third highest concrete dam in the world.
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This 224-page hardcover volume features more than 320 historic photographs of the Flathead Valley, many of which have never before been published. The accompanying text, by Columbia Falls historian Kathryn L. McKay, outlines Flathead Valley history from the 1880's to the 1950's.
Looking Back is fully indexed and includes an extensive bibliography.