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Edited by Rick Newby, Alexandra Swaney, Elaine Peterson, and Megan Hiller Published by TwoDot Books, Helena, MT, and Guilford, CT 224 pp.; all photos from WPA collection, Renne Library, Montana State University-Bozeman; 6" x 9" Paper, ISBN 1-56044-842-3, $14.95 To order, click here (bedrockbooks.com) Read about beer rustling in Butte, horses so fast they can outrun a storm, winters so cold they'll freeze your shadow to the ground. Some of Montana's first pioneers recorded these outrageous and often hilarious tales covering everything from a poker-playing magpie to the accepted cure for a greedy hunter. An Ornery Bunch presents tales and anecdotes compiled from the immense archives of the Montana Writers' Project, finally putting the best of the Montana WPA folklore collection in print. Every westerner with a sense of humor and heritage—and folklorists everywhere—must add this book to their collections. |
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An
Ornery Bunch: Tales and Anecdotes Collected by the W.P.A. Montana Writers’
Project (1999)