Speaking Ill of the Dead
Subtitle: Jerks in Montana History
Edition: First edition
Publisher: TwoDot, an imprint of the Globe Pequot Press
Published: October 1, 2000
Place of publication: Guilford, CT
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9781585920327
Subjects: History: American; United States - State & Local - West; History - General History; Criminals; Biography & Autobiography; History - U.S.; Rogues and vagabonds; Montana; Travel / United States / West / Mountain (AZ, CO, ID, MT, NM, UT, WY); Historical - General; Anecdotes; Biography; History
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Dave Walter; title: The unsaintly Sir St. George Gore : slob hunter extraordinaire / Dave Walter; title: No paper trail : crooked agents on the Crow Reservation, 1874-1878 / Lyndel Meikle; title: Fell deeds : unconscionable timber depredations on Montana public lands / Lyndel Meikle; title: Calamity Jane : the wild cat's kitten? / Jon Axline; title: Montana's 1889 Constitutional Convention : the founding fathers, the floundering fathers / Lyndel Meikle; title: Too many cooks : the Carlin hunting party lost in the Lochsa / Dave Walter; title: Missoula's murderous madam : the life of Mary Gleim / Jodie Foley; title: Ike Gravelle : Montana's first Unabomber / Salina Davis; title: To the last gasp : Deer Lodge Valley Ranchers v. the Anaconda Copper Mining Company / Lyndel Meikle; title: "You'd better be careful or I'll send you to see Ed Morrissey!" : A case study of hooliganism in the Butte Police Department, 1910-1922 / Jon Axline; title: These are the days of our lives : the Reverend Leonard Christler and his nine commandments / Jon Axline; title: White hoods under the big sky : Montanans embrace the Ku Klux Klan / Anne Sturdevant; title: "Keystone cops" in big sky country : the Harrison State Bank Robbery of 1930 / Dave Walter; title: The naked truth about Jacob Thorkelson : seaman, physician, Congressman, Nazi sympathizer / Jon Axline; title: Author biographies