Very close to trouble
Subtitle: the Johnny Grant memoir
By: edited with historical annotations by Lyndel Meikle.
Contributors: Meikle, Lyndel, 1946-
Publisher: Washington State University Press
Published: 1996
Place of publication: Pullman
Language: eng
Number of pages: 223
Subjects: Grant, Johnny, 1831-1907; Frontier and pioneer life -- Montana; Frontier and pioneer life -- Idaho; Pioneers -- Montana -- Deer Lodge -- Biography; Deer Lodge (Mont.) -- Biography; Montana -- History; Idaho -- History
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [209]-211) and index.