The Church on the changing frontier

by Helen Olive Belknap

CONTENTS

CHAPTER		PAGE
[I]	The Range Country	[19]
[II]	Economic and Social Tendencies	[40]
[III]	What of the Church?	[56]
[IV]	The Church Dollar	[71]
[V]	To Measure Church Effectiveness	[77]
[VI]	The Preachers’ Goings and Comings	[90]
[VII]	Negro and Indian Work	[96]
[VIII]	Non-Protestant Work	[98]
[IX]	Seeing It Whole	[102]
	Appendices
[I]	Methodology and Definitions	[121]
[II]	Tables	[125]

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ILLUSTRATIONS, MAPS AND CHARTS

ILLUSTRATIONS
Big Hole River, Montana		[Frontispiece]
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The Town Lock-up		[23]
Loneliness in Union County		[25]
After Some Years		[25]
Two Community Centers		[27]
A Spanish-American Type and a Typical Adobe House in New Mexico		[31]
Where Main Street Might Have Run		[33]
A Wyoming Ranch		[35]
A Montana Mining Camp		[36]
When Oil is Found		[37]
A Farm Bureau Demonstration		[41]
A Home Demonstration Agent		[42]
A Truck Farm in Hughes County		[44]
Fruits of the Earth		[45]
Up-to-date Reaping on the Plains		[47]
Wisdom is Justified		[49]
Camping in Sheridan County		[51]
A Frontier Celebration		[53]
A Voice in the Wilderness		[57]
No Room for Both		[58]
Episcopal Church and Parish House		[64]
A Neglected Outpost of Christianity		[75]
Not a Store but a Church		[78]
A Case of Coöperation		[80]
Happy Little Picnickers		[85]
A Good Time Was Had By All		[85]
Program of a Community Rally		[88]
A Parsonage But No Church		[94]
An Oasis in the Desert		[98]
Watering Her Garden		[103]
A Community Rendezvous		[104]
“Mary, Call the Cattle Home!”		[106]
Waiting at the Church		[107]
Hitting the Trail		[108]
The Family Mansion		[110]
A Real Community House		[114]
A Church that Serves the Community		[115]
MAPS
Montana and Wyoming		[20]
South Dakota and New Mexico		[22]
Church and Community Map of Hughes County, South Dakota		[54-55]
Community Map of Sheridan County, Wyoming		[59]
Map Showing Churches and Parish Boundaries Of Sheridan County		[59]
Church and Community Map of Beaverhead County		[60]
Map Showing Churches and Parish Boundaries of Union County, New Mexico		[61]
Community Map of Union County, New Mexico		[62]
Roman Catholic Churches and Parishes, Union County, New Mexico		[99]
CHARTS
I	Analysis of Protestant Church Members	[66]
II	Churches Gaining in Membership	[67]
III	Active Church Membership	[69]
IV	Churches with Less than 50 Members	[69]
V	Relation of Size of Church Membership to Gain	[70]
VI	The Church Dollar	[72]
VII	Frequency of Church Services	[79]
VIII	Number of Pastors During Past Ten Years	[91]
IX	Residence of the Ministers	[93]

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