Ron Rude | Wild Horses Running
Richard Beller grew up on the Flathead Reservation, the son of independent, sharp-shooting, bronc-busting parents, who captured some of the last wild horses that still roamed the range in the 1930s.
His tale, told here by retired English teacher Ron Rude, speaks to an era and people as rough and untamed as the landscape they once galloped across — a world outlined by the Mission Mountains, the Bison Range, the Flathead River and the Ninemile drainage. “Family secrets and Pa’s nipping and both parents’ wanderlust and all three Bellers’ fascination with horses both wild and domestic filled in the spaces within those outlines,” writes Rude.
Beller has lived “well past his nine lives,” from a premature birth, to encounters with rattlesnakes, crazy horses and marauding bears, to surviving glider drops, artillery barrages and enemy capture during World War II. Rude’s self-described “fictional biographical historical” portrait of Beller is punctuated with black and white photographs from the family’s collection.
The author, who lives in Plains, has also written The Backyard… Read more
John Clayton and Carbon County Historical Society | Red Lodge
From the worst coal-mining disaster in the state’s history to the zigzag construction of the Beartooth Highway, John Clayton tells the history of Red Lodge through photographs, mined from the archives of the Carbon County Historical Society. Red Lodge, from its scenic perch at the foot of the Beartooth Mountains (a photo shows the snaggled outcropping for which the range is purportedly named), has been home to a colorful array of characters. Read more
John S. Fitzpatrick | Sherlock Holmes: The Montana Chronicles
Helena writer John Fitzpatrick claims he found a long-lost manuscript, written by Dr. John H. Watson, that chronicles four adventures the good doctor had with the great detective Sherlock Holmes in the wilds of Montana. Read more
Karen Stevens | Haunted Montana
Looking for ghosts? Karen Stevens has found some and she’s willing to share her knowledge. In Haunted Montana, Stevens explores the Treasure State’s haunted locales. Each site mentioned in the book meets three criteria: the locations are historically important and open to the public, and the ghostly activity is recent. Read more • (1) Comments