Hell With the Lid Off: Butte, Montana
A Memoir of theWildest Town in the Westby 1890s' police reporter Horace Herbert SmithHorace Herbert Smith take you to Butte, Montana, in its copper-mining heyday to experience that brawling, big-hearted time. In a series of vivid snapshots Smith, a Butte newspaperman, describes the 1890s when, as he writes, life there was fast and fun. Smith died before he could publish his absorbing and entertaining memoir detailing daytime gun battles and a sermonizing standoff, the high life and labor strife, scoundrels and bullwhackers and still-breathing corpses, with a cast of real-life characters so colorful as to make fiction writers despair. Fortunat…
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Weitere Autoren: Lambrecht, William (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-1-73488-664-1
- EAN: 9781734886641
- Produktnummer: 37945568
- Verlag: Lightning Source Inc
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
- Seitenangabe: 238 S.
- Masse: H22.9 cm x B15.2 cm x D1.4 cm 393 g
- Gewicht: 393
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Horace Herbert Bert Smith was an 1890s police reporter in Butte, Montana, the setting for a manuscript published posthumously that he titled Hell With the Lid Off. He went on to a writing career and publishing achievements in New York. Smith, born in Ontario, Canada in 1868, died in Fredericksburg, Virginia in 1936.
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