These tales from Montana's yesteryears all are true stories, told with a touch of attitude but meticulously researched.  Dave Walter has entertained and educated Montanans for years with his takes on some of the bests and worsts in their state's past.  Chuckle or rage along with him over:

The shocking scandal of a young "footpad" who turns out to be a woman when "he" is jailed in 1891

Keystone Kops on the loose, chasing the last train robbers Montana saw

Civil liberties thrown out the window during World War I

How an 1880's daredevil body-floated the Missouri River to St. Louis wearing a rubber suit and pulling a tiny boat with his camping supplies

Small towns' excitement in the early 20th century when Chautauqua came to town

Future president James Garfield's "dirty trick" that moved the Salish people from their homeland

Four men who set out in 1912 to ride horseback to every state capital in the U.S.

...and nine more tales about how dangerous homestead life was for mothers and children, murder as part of Butte labor troubles, dirty tricks when Anaconda fought Helena for state capital, the elected Communists in Plentywood, George Cowan's ordeal-lost and starving-in Yellowstone National Park, how the Ceded Strip was taken from the Blackfeet for Glacier National Park, Jeannette Rankin's sole vote against World War II and its effects, the life and legend of albino bison "Big Medicine."