I found an older book that I thought was pretty interesting. It is called 'JORDAN'.
From the back cover:
There is no fiction within these pages. When Arthur Jordan wrote out the story of his life, accuracy was uppermost in his mind. Yet many chapters of his book read like wild-west stories. In remote central Montana and northeastern Wyoming colorful pioneers blazed the old west as its history faded into a new land, first of cattlemen then of homesteading settlers. Here gunmen congregated, brought in by ranchers to root out both wolves and rustlers. Vigilantes, like the Stranglers, shot and hanged the outlaws, and innocents as well.
Arthur J. Jordan was born in England in 1873. At age 14 he was a stowaway bound for America, and soon afterward a bullwhacker out of Deadwood, working into the Powder River country and north to Montana. This is his story.
(About 40 years ago, I worked on a road construction crew out of Jordan Montana. I don't know what its like today, but there was other places I'd rather have been at that time!)
Also for you Montanans (also anyone else) I read an interesting story where the setting takes place in Montana.
Called 'Blind your ponies'. Mostly fiction but still interesting and light reading. It had more twists and turns than an Egyptian belly dancer!
Lets hear about what everyone else has been reading.
From the back cover:
There is no fiction within these pages. When Arthur Jordan wrote out the story of his life, accuracy was uppermost in his mind. Yet many chapters of his book read like wild-west stories. In remote central Montana and northeastern Wyoming colorful pioneers blazed the old west as its history faded into a new land, first of cattlemen then of homesteading settlers. Here gunmen congregated, brought in by ranchers to root out both wolves and rustlers. Vigilantes, like the Stranglers, shot and hanged the outlaws, and innocents as well.
Arthur J. Jordan was born in England in 1873. At age 14 he was a stowaway bound for America, and soon afterward a bullwhacker out of Deadwood, working into the Powder River country and north to Montana. This is his story.
(About 40 years ago, I worked on a road construction crew out of Jordan Montana. I don't know what its like today, but there was other places I'd rather have been at that time!)
Also for you Montanans (also anyone else) I read an interesting story where the setting takes place in Montana.
Called 'Blind your ponies'. Mostly fiction but still interesting and light reading. It had more twists and turns than an Egyptian belly dancer!
Lets hear about what everyone else has been reading.
