The Montana Book of Days: The Short Course in Montana History. This item is unavailable.The Montana Book of Days: The Short Course in Montana History

Many Montana stories have been elevated to the status of myths, black hats vs. white hats, good vs. evil, reluctant male heroes asseting themselves against all odds, etc. They make good movies and comic books, perhaps, but THE MONTANA BOOK OF DAYS reexamines these stories of vigilantes and cavalrymen, Copper Kinds and cowboys, buffalo exterminators old and new. There is one story for every day of the year, in most cases a Montana history story that occurred on that day. THE MONTANA BOOK OF DAYS tells the unexpected twists and turns of the old stories. It tells stories people have not heard, of Montanans we have overlooked.

Jeffrey J. Smith has written hundreds of articles for magazines such as Smithsonian, Outside, Orion Nature Quarterly, and his book, K. Ross Toole's Montana, won a book-of-the-year award from the Montana Institute of the Arts. He is the former historic preservation officer for the Town of Virginia City and runs a small publishing company called Historic Montana Publishing from his home in Missoula.