A Memoir of the Wildest Town in the West by 1890s\' police reporter Horace Herbert Smith Horace Herbert Smith take you to Butte, Montana, in its copper-mining heyday to experience that brawling, big-hearted time. -Gwen Florio Journalist, author of the Lola Wicks crime series and other books.
It\'s a rare treat.
Fortunately for the reader, Smith\'s manuscript is finally seeing print.
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.
In a series of vivid snapshots Smith, a Butte newspaperman, describes the 1890s when, as he writes, life there was fast and fun.
A Memoir of the Wildest Town in the West by 1890s\' police reporter Horace Herbert Smith Horace Herbert Smith take you to Butte, Montana, in its copper-mining heyday to experience that brawling, big-hearted time
