Speaking Ill of the Dead: Jerks in Montana History - Paperback

by Jodie Foley (Author), Jon Axline (Author)

A delightfully wicked look at the badly behaved characters who shaped the history of Montana through
their deeds and misdeeds.

Back Jacket

Speaking Ill of the Dead: Jerks in Montana History features twenty-seven short profiles of notorious bad guys, perpetrators of mischief, visionary if misunderstood thinkers, and other colorful antiheroes from the history of the Treasure State. It reveals the dark side of some well-known and even revered characters from Montana's past--both part-time Jerks and others who were Jerks through and through. They include: Touissant Charbonneau, erstwhile husband of Sacagawea and foolish counterpart to her efforts for the Lewis and Clark ExpeditionSir St. George Gore, who left a trail of destruction in his wake during a nineteenth-century hunting expeditionNotorious cannibals Boone Helm and "Liver-Eatin' Johnston," who took survival to the extreme and lived by their own rules

Author Biography

Authors Dave Walter, Jon Axlin, e Salina Davis, Jodie Foely, Lyndel Meikle, Anne Sturdevant, Ellen Baumler, Jodie Foley, Kristin L. Gallas, and Angie Gifford all contributed to this volume of Montana history.