Bentrock, Montana.
Montana 1948 is a novel set in Mercer County, Montana. Located in the Northeast corner of Montana is Mercer County, with Bentrock only just locating near the border region. Mercer County was used for both farming and ranching; however neither of the farms nor ranches were large or successful. The Fort Warren Indian Reservation is sited on the western edge of the county, a rural area existing of only rock and sand and being the least fertile land in the region.
The land in Northeast Montana is hard country, a large plain of dry land with a climate consisting of everlasting wind, brutal thunderstorms’, exhausting heat, blizzards and a temperature that had once dropped from 106 degrees to 40. The only trees known to have grown are the ones that have been planted, which shows that the farms would not have been that successful.
There are less than 2,000 people in the town of Bentrock; with plains, gullies and rocky hills that cover the land, located on the Knife River. The town was not huge, and by riding or walking for a few minutes you could be out of the town.
The novel was set when the ‘cowboy’ era was coming to an end. Bentrock consisted of a community of whites, amongst American Indians. The white people in the community were very discriminating and racist towards the Indians, isolating them from the town and continuously being disrespectful.
The novel is set in the years following World War II, people were returning from the war wanting to get away and live peacefully on a farm with their families.
The land in Northeast Montana is hard country, a large plain of dry land with a climate consisting of everlasting wind, brutal thunderstorms’, exhausting heat, blizzards and a temperature that had once dropped from 106 degrees to 40. The only trees known to have grown are the ones that have been planted, which shows that the farms would not have been that successful.
There are less than 2,000 people in the town of Bentrock; with plains, gullies and rocky hills that cover the land, located on the Knife River. The town was not huge, and by riding or walking for a few minutes you could be out of the town.
The novel was set when the ‘cowboy’ era was coming to an end. Bentrock consisted of a community of whites, amongst American Indians. The white people in the community were very discriminating and racist towards the Indians, isolating them from the town and continuously being disrespectful.
The novel is set in the years following World War II, people were returning from the war wanting to get away and live peacefully on a farm with their families.