Very Close to Trouble: The Johnny Grant Memoir

Very Close to Trouble: The Johnny Grant Memoir
ISBN-10
0874221404
ISBN-13
9780874221404
Pages
223
Language
English
Published
1996
Publisher
Washington State University Press
Author
Johnny Grant

Description

Grant was 76 when he dictated his memoirs to Clothild Bruneau Grant, the last in his fairly long line of wives. Meikle has ably edited the manuscript down to focus on his life in the 1850s and '60s, when Grant galloped across the western Montana frontier, making a name for himself as an early pioneer and trader. Grant's eyewitness accounts of frontier life, from a stage overturning to the hanging of highwaymen, the Mormon rising of 1857 and the discovery of gold, give readers an absorbing glimpse into his rough-and-ready times. --Copyright 1996 Cahners Business Information, Inc.