The Montana Stories of Frank B. Linderman

by Linderman, Frank Bird

• ISBN13: 9780803279704
• ISBN10: 0803279701
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1997-12-01
• Publisher: Univ of Nebraska Pr

Summary

Frank B. Linderman knew the frontier types who appear in these robust stories and sketches. A trapper in Montana during his youth, he stayed on as a publisher, politician, and businessman, beginning to write in middle age.The Montana Stories of Frank B. Linderman, originally published in 1920, still crackles with the freshness of arctic wind, the pungency of aged whiskey, the impact of a whip. "In the Name of Friendship" sets up a deadly bluff with ironic results. "Was Chet Smalley Honest?" shows a good deed in danger of punishment. "Jake Hoover's Pig" describes a hungry man's sentimental attachment to a fat porker. "Cranks" is a frontier precursor of the Odd Couple. "What Followed a Sermon" testifies to the sobering effect of preaching in a saloon. These and other stories are filled with rustlers and hustlers, Mounties and tenderfeet, Crows and Blackfeet, mountain men, prospectors, bartenders, lawyers, townspeople, and assorted dogs, cats, and horses.

Table of Contents

IN THE NAME OF FRIENDSHIP	3	(9)
WAS CHET SMALLEY HONEST?	12	(12)
THE MEDICINE KEG	24	(14)
THE THROW-AWAY DANCE	38	(12)
JAKE HOOVER'S PIG	50	(8)
A GUN TRADE	58	(8)
THE WHISKEY PEDDLER	66	(8)
THE POST-OFFICE AT WOLFTAIL	74	(7)
JEW JAKE'S MONTE	81	(9)
AT THE BAR	90	(13)
PAP'S PINTO	103	(12)
THE BULLET'S PROOF	115	(6)
THE INDIAN'S GOD	121	(6)
BRAVERY	127	(8)
WHAT FOLLOWED A SERMON	135	(42)
CRANKS	177	(18)
THE FLYING DUTCHMAN	195