Very Close to Trouble: The Johnny Grant Memoir

by Johnny Grant

Book Overview

Trader, wrangler, and raconteur, Johnny Grant (1831-1907) lived "very close to trouble" on the wide open Montana/Idaho frontier of the mid-nineteenth century. A key pioneer of western Montana, Grant is memorialized today by the Grant-Kohrs Ranch National Historic Site, operated by the National Park Service at Deer Lodge, Montana.

The son of a Hudson's Bay Company official, he was a young man caught in the cross-currents of Indian, Canadian,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0874221390
• ISBN13: 9780874221398
• Release Date: December 1996
• Publisher: Washington State University Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.92 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.0"