Speaking Ill of the Dead: Jerks in Montana History
A delightfully wicked look at the badly behaved characters who shaped the history of Montana through
their deeds and misdeeds.
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Speaking Ill of the Dead: Jerks in Montana History
A delightfully wicked look at the badly behaved characters who shaped the history of Montana through
their deeds and misdeeds.
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Speaking Ill of the Dead: Jerks in Montana History

Speaking Ill of the Dead: Jerks in Montana History

by Jodie Foley, Jon Axline
Speaking Ill of the Dead: Jerks in Montana History

Speaking Ill of the Dead: Jerks in Montana History

by Jodie Foley, Jon Axline

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Overview

A delightfully wicked look at the badly behaved characters who shaped the history of Montana through
their deeds and misdeeds.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780762772490
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Publication date: 09/01/2011
Series: Speaking Ill of the Dead: Jerks in Histo
Edition description: Second Edition
Pages: 416
Product dimensions: 5.90(w) x 9.02(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

Authors Dave Walter, Jon Axlin,e Salina Davis, Jodie Foely, Lyndel Meikle, Anne Sturdevant, Ellen Baumler, Jodie Foley, Kristin L. Gallas, and Angie Gifford all contributed to this volume of Montana history.

Table of Contents

David

1211 Chapt

Legislative Lunacy: A Sampling of Montana's Looney Laws and Legislative High Jinks,

Lyndel Meikle 3211 Chapter 4 John X. Beidler: Vigilante, Executioner, and Pint-Size Bully,

Jon Axline 4111 Chapter 5 Readin', Writin', and Ramifications, 1868-1931 Lyndel Meikle 4811 Chapter 6 In League

Jon Axline 5711 Chapter 7 No Pap

Lyndel Meikle 6811

Chapter 8 Calamity Jane: The Wild Cat's Kitten? 1870s Jon Axline 8411 Chapter 9 Simon Pepin: R

Dave Walter 9811 Chapter 10 The Secrets and Lies of

Ellen Baumler 10911 Chapter 11 Missoula's Murder

Jodie Foley 12211 Chapter 12 Montana's

Lyn

13911 Chapter 13 Too Many Cooks: The Carlin Hunting Party Lost in the Lochsa, 189

Dave Walter 15111 Chapter 14 Haymarket Square: Anatomy of a Lynching, 1901 Angie Gifford Dave Walter 16711 Chapt

Ike Gravelle: Montana's First Unabomber, 1903 Salina Davis 18511 Chapter 16 To the Last

Lyndel Meikle 20

Chapter 17 Montana Wastewater Woes: Going with the Flow, 1900s-1950 Lynde

22311 Chapter 18 Wine, Women, and Whiz Wagons: The Life and Crimes of Vera Prosser, 1909 Jodie Foley 23211 C

"You'd Better Be Careful, or I'll Send You to See Ed Morrissey!": A Case Study of

Jon Axline 24511 Chapter 20 Felony and the Fair

Jodie Foley 26111 Chapter 21 The Life and Peculiar Death of "Long George" Francis

Dave Walter 27611 Chapter 22 Patriots Gone Berserk: The Montana Council of Defense, 1917-1918 Dave Walter 28611 Chapter

Poison Pen: Will Campbell, Helena's Notorious Newspaper Editor, 1917-1921 Jon Axline 30

Chapter 24 White Hoods under the Big Sky: Montanans Embrace the Ku Klux Klan, 1920s Ann Stu

31111 Chapter 25 These Are the Days of Our Lives: The Reverend Leonard Christler and His Nine C

Jon Axline 32811 Chapter 26 "Keystone Cops" in Big Sky Country: The Harrison State Bank

Dave Walter 34811 Chapter 27 The Naked Truth about Jacob Thorkelson: Seaman, Physician, Congressman, Nazi Sym

Jon Axline 36601 Index 38301 More Than Petticoats: Remarkable Montana Women excerpt 3

About the Authors 400

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