A hard won life
Subtitle: a boy on his own on the Montana frontier
By: H. Norman Hyatt
Publisher: Farcountry Press; Farcounty Press
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Helena, Montana
Language: eng
Number of pages: 563
ISBN-13: 9781591521280; 9781591521297
Subjects: Childhood and youth; Pioneers; Biography; Frontier and pioneer life; Social life and customs; History
Notes: The outline of this book is based on the memoirs of Fred Van Blaricom.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 546-555) and index.
Table of contents: title: Flight; title: 1872 to 1882; title: April 1882 : Waterville to Glendive; title: Glendive : April to August 1882; title: Disaster; title: Chaff in the wind; title: Rescue; title: Levi; title: Glendive : October 1882 to June 1883; title: The summer of 1883 : Glendive to Crain Creek; title: 1883 : Uncle Jimmy Crain; title: 1883 : from Jimmy Crain's to Johnny O'Brien's; title: 1883 : from Johnny O'Brien's to Fort Buford; title: Alice; title: The murder of Clayton Willicombe; title: 1884 : I spend the summer with the Slawsons; title: George McCone and the Thirteenmile Hidatsa; title: 1884 : the Army payroll murder and the stranglers; title: 1884 : I winter with John and Lottie Lacomb; title: 1885 : Mickey Farrell's Saloon up in smoke; title: Riding with Teddy Roosevelt; title: George Grant and Emmet Dunlap; title: Joe Culbertson; title: 1885 : Charlie Burns, Charlie Russell, and Irish Mike; title: George McCone and Glendive Smith; title: 1885 : Owen and Philena Lovering and Juan Vaca; title: Owen Lovering loses his arm; title: Jimmy Aglew accidentally kills himself; title: The sad demise of Fanny Smith; title: Smith, Stierle, Obergfell, and Cushing; title: 1885 : I help capture a horse thief; title: Aleck Ayotte and Vic Smith; title: August 1885 : I ride to Dakota Territory; title: Mr. and Mrs. Alf White; title: Mrs. White becomes a cowboy; title: Roosevelt captures Finnigan; title: I get a long "break" in Glendive; title: Spring 1886 : abandoned at Trash Creek; title: July 1886 : I leave the Whites; title: Another night in Medora; title: Glendive : no rabid dogs, no guns, no hogs; title: The Harpsters' winter camp; title: 1886 to 1887 : the killer winter strikes; title: 1887 : spring roundup with the HS; title: With Warren Sirrine to Dickinson; title: I work for the Biseigel brothers; title: May 21, 1887 : our long journey west; title: 1887 : locating in the Bitterroot; title: The Bitterroot Salish; title: 1891 to 1899 : shovels, ratchets, and a girl; title: 1900 : the hanging of Joe Hurst; title: Montana politics : tough and crooked; title: 1901 : I run for office; title: 1902 : a hell of a fall; title: January 1, 1904 : wedding bells; title: 1904 to 1908 : Victor : we settle in; title: 1908 to 1927 : our farm sinks; our family grows; title: Teddy dies; and we move to town; title: Billy the Kid : alive and well in Glendive; title: Hamilton; title: Twilight; title: Epilogue; title: Appendix 1: The first of this, the first of that : a cautionary tale; title: Appendix 2: Levi and the Civil War; title: Appendix 3: Steamboats on the Yellowstone; title: Appendix 4: The first settlement in Dawson County; title: Appendix 5: Frank Muzzy and other early Woodhawks; title: Appendix 6: The Thirteenmile Hidatsa; title: Appendix 7: Typhoid fever and the Glendive water system; title: Appendix 8: Charlie Russell in the lower Yellowstone country; title: Appendix 9: Guns, hogs, cows, and dogs; title: Appendix 10: The winter of 1886-1887.