Title: Very close to trouble : the Johnny Grant memoir /
Authors: Grant, Johnny.; Meikle, Lyndel, 1946-
Publisher: Washington State University Press,
Year: 1996
Subjects: Grant, Johnny.; Grant, Johnny,; Frontier and pioneer life Montana; Frontier and pioneer life Idaho; Pioneers Montana Deer Lodge Biography.; Deer Lodge (Mont.) Biography.; Montana History.; Idaho History.
Abstract: Grant was 76 when he dictated his memoirs to Clothild Bruneau Grant, the last in his fairly long line of wives. Meikle has ably edited the manuscript down to focus on his life in the 1850s and '60s, when Grant galloped across the western Montana frontier, making a name for himself as an early pioneer and trader. Grant's eyewitness accounts of frontier life, from a stage overturning to the hanging of highwaymen, the Mormon rising of 1857 and the discovery of gold, give readers an absorbing glimpse into his rough-and-ready times. --Copyright 1996 Cahners Business Information, Inc.
Contents: Very Close to Trouble -- The Johnny Grant Memoir, 1847-1867 -- Appendix A. Fred Burr Letter -- Appendix B. My First Trip to Montana [1886] -- Appendix C. Camping on the Old Trail.