Title: Still speaking ill of the dead : more jerks in Montana history /
Authors: Axline, Jon.; Foley, Jodie, 1964-
Publisher: TwoDot
Year: 2005
Subjects: Rogues and vagabonds Montana Biography Anecdotes.; Criminals Montana Biography Anecdotes.; Montana History Anecdotes.; Montana Biography Anecdotes.
Contents: Foil for the good guys: Toussaint Charbonneau -- Simon Pepin: reprehensible "Father of Havre" -- Haymarket Square: anatomy of a lynching -- Life and peculiar death of "Long George" Francis -- Patriots gone berserk: The Montana Council of Defense, 1917-1918 -- In league with the Devil: Boone Helm and "Liver-Eatin' Johnstone -- Poison pen: Will Campbell, Helena's notorious newspaper editor -- John X. Beidler: vigilante, executioner, and pint-size bully -- Secrets and lies of Mary Anne Eckert -- Wine, women, and whiz wagons: the life and crimes of Vera Prosser -- Felony and the fairer sex: violence and perception in the cases of Edith Colby and Bessie Smith -- Sell America first: homesteading era promotions -- Legislative lunacy: a sampling of Montana's looney laws and legislative high jinks