A collection of original short stories created from writings in old newspaper columns including the Choteau Acantha that will entertain and inform both Montana residents and visitors. Learn about the people, climate and landscape along the Rocky Mountain Front from true yarns spun about the region's Native Americans, settlers, heroes and ne're-do-wells, along with hail, floods, fires and grizzly bears.
Tales from Choteau Montana is a collection of original short stories created from writings dating back to the 1880s in old newspapers including the Choteau Acantha that will entertain and inform both Montana residents and visitors alike. Learn about the people, climate and cityscape of Choteau, Montana, from true yarns spun about its memorable events, tragedies, crimes, businesses, government officials, veterans, heroes and villains.
A collection of original short stories created from writings in old newspapers dating back to the 1880s including the Choteau Acantha that will entertain and inform both Montana residents and visitors alike. Learn about the people, climate and landscape from the city of Choteau north to the Blackfeet Reservation and Glacier National Park, from true yarns spun about the region's memorable events, tragedies, crimes, businesses, government officials, veterans, heroes and villains.
Along "The Front" the Great Plains skid to an abrupt halt against the soaring escarpment of the Northern Rockies. Through essays and photography, this book captures the essence of this magnificent and uncommon landscape.
Longtime Bob Marshall Wilderness Outfitter Ron Mills recollects a life spent in Montana's wild country over the past 75 years on Montana's Rocky Mountain Front. This books covers Mills' life from his days spent as a youth growing up on the RMF and its 18 chapters take the reader through his life spent in that wild setting. With often humorous stories about the people he worked with and packed into the Scapegoat and Bob Marshall Wilderness areas, the book also chronicles his years of shoeing and breaking horses, working on cattle ranches in the off season and raising a family and starting a business when money was short.
Withdrawal of the mighty Hudson Bay Company from present-day Alberta and Saskatchewan created a lawless environment with new economic opportunities. A cross-border trading bond arose with growing steamboat mercantile center Fort Benton in Montana Territory. In 1870, Montana traders Johnny Healy and Al Hamilton moved across the Medicine Line and built Fort Whoop-Up. It established the two-hundred-mile Whoop-Up Trail from Fort Benton, through Blackfoot lands, to the Belly River near today's Lethbridge. Over the next decade, the buffalo robe trade flourished with the Blackfoot, as did violence. The turmoil forced the creation of Canada's North West Mounted Police, tasked with closing down the whiskey trade and evicting the Montana traders. Award-winning historian Ken Robison brings to life this dramatic story.
A collection of original short stories created from writings in old newspapers dating back to the 1880s including the Choteau Acantha that will entertain and inform both Montana residents and visitors alike. Learn about the people, climate and landscape from the city of Choteau south to the Dearborn River, from true yarns spun about the region's memorable events, tragedies, crimes, agriculture, government projects and weather.
In Montana Disasters, fourth-generation Montanan and long-time journalist Butch Larcombe chronicles not just the explosions, fires, floods, earthquakes, avalanches, train wrecks, airplane crashes, and other major tragedies spanning more than a century. Through careful, detailed research, in-person interviews, and more than 100 historical photographs, Larcombe brings to life the true stories--at turns gut-wrenching and heroic--of the victims, survivors, and rescuers.
Single mother Samantha Deveaux has only one goal: keep her eight-year-old daughter, Audie, safe and away from her drug-dealing father. "A beautiful journey of growth and love." ~ Google Books Reviewer Samantha Deveaux and her eight-year-old daughter, Audie, move to Choteau so she can take her first teaching job. The small town on the Rocky Mountain Front is only a temporary stop, and she intends to stay a stranger, so nothing can lead her ex, a man just released from prison in Tennessee, to track her down. Jarod Beck is focused is on creating a rodeo training business, for both horses and riders. There is no room for anything or anyone else. The town embraces her and Audie, her daughter’s teachers and classmates providing care and compassion for the girl with Asperger’s. The church community is warm and welcoming, the hub of many rural small towns. Samantha settles in and makes friends, including Jarod. Her dream of a miracle to guide her to a new life is dashed when her ex discovers her whereabouts. Will her newfound community have her back or will she need to run to find a new haven for her daughter? A warm and touching story about learning to trust again. If you enjoy contemporary women’s fiction with strong characters and a dramatic setting, then you’ll love Finding Home. Buy this book, then settle down for a compelling read about life set in contemporary small-town Montana.
Montana history at its wildest and most intriguing. These 15 stories--illustrated with historical photographs--flash with humor, action, indignation, amazement, and admiration for what some Montanans (and visitors) added to the state's story.
