"Proverbial outlaws or badmen in
Montana, such as Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, were swiftly passing
into history the turn of the century, but there remained one more chapter
to complete the story. In Montana's Last Desperado, Don Weibert closes
the era with moving, descriptive language." -- John Willard
John Willard, a native Montanan, has a life-long journalistic background
and is the author of Adventure Trails in Montana CMR Book, a C.M. Russell
biography, and four other western and historical books.
With the dawning of the century, Western Montana had traded its mantle
of a raw frontier for at least an exterior sheen of culture and civilization.
Eastern Montana, however , lagged behind, and Montana's Last Desperado
provides the stage and characters for the transition.
Although the story is based on an intimate touch with the past in this
country of wide-open grassy plains, badlands, and pine-covered ridges,
it carries the grim message that lawlessness would be viewed in a new
light, not always fully accepted by those involved.
For decades the mystery of how Joe Reagin lived and died has circulated
throughout Eastern Montana. The intriguing element, which has kept the
story alive for years, was that few knew the real story. Those who did
were unwilling to share their knowledge for fear of self-incrimination
by the fast-moving events which left a deputy dead at the gunman's feet.
Sixty-six years in
Custers Shadow; Four
Days with Custer; Custer Cases and Cartridges;
Buckskin Buffalo Robes and Blackpowder;
Montana's Last Desperado; and The
1874 Invasion of Montana
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