This book shows how gentile love can be. It is a great book that will live with you long after the last page. The characters are wonderful and it shows how they trust their love to take over. He is a perfect man and he turns her from a rough lady into her sensitive side. It has a wonderful ending!! :o)

The western ghost town holds a special mystique for all of us who are fascinated by the history of the American frontier, or who simply love to wander its mountain backroads. As a result, guidebooks to these etherial, abandoned communities abound. It's unfortunate that most such volumes really have little to recommend them, with their quick compilations of boilerplate text and often-reproduced photographs.

"Montana Pay Dirt" is an intriguing and memorable exception to this rule. The book chronicles the histories of Montana's most famous old mining camps with an accuracy and thoroughness found nowhere else, drawing on a combination of extensive archival research and engrossing interviews with old-timers. These fascinating stories are presented in an engaging, evocative style that makes them a joy to read.

Muriel Sibell Wolle researched and visited most of these towns back in the early 1950s, and the book is filled with great first-person stories of her explorations in the backroads of the Montana mountains, driving a large touring sedan and searching for abandoned mines and cabins. A talented artist, Wolle illustrated her books with handsome sketches of ghost town streetscapes -- drawings that alone are worth the price of the volume.

In short, Montana Pay Dirt is certainly among the best of the western "ghost town" books, and it also endures today as a standard history of the Montana mining frontier. Very highly recommended.

My husband bought this book and I only read it because it was all that was available at the time. Once I started it, I couldn't put it down. I am not a hunter but the romance and mystery kept me spell bound. I learned to appreciate and understand why people hunt. I loved the ying and yang of the relationship between Jefferson Kirk, the Montana District attorney and Heidi Singer, the citified journalist.

This is an authentic western that instantly draws you into the book. The conclusion is unpredictable and heartwrenching. A must read!!

I have never read this book. I think you should

A beautiful little book about baseball in the days before money mattered, and life in the rural Northwest. Reading it was like watching Twin Peaks with fewer dead bodies and more baseball.

montana has the best whitewater. this book shows all of it. if you're gonna yak in montana, get this book.

This is a very fine collection of non-digitized, unretouched photos of truly free-roaming wild animals found in Montana. Don uses light in his photography better than almost any other wildlife photographer in print and has the patience to get the memorable shots others miss. If you're from Montana or if you've visited our state and gotten a glimpse of what we have to offer, you will enjoy this book. Anyone who thinks photography is not art has not seen Don's photos. We in Troy, MT are lucky in that every couple of years we have the opportunity to see a slide presentation of his best photos from around the country. In addition to being one of the best wildlife photographers in the business, Don is a genuinely nice person.

When Jolene leaves toward an unknown territory, it makes you realize how strong this woman really is. It makes me want to be just like her. I think the book was wanderful, because I couldn't put it down. Also, check out Embers of the Heart. It is about her sister.

A great preview of "The Bob". Very good, concise information in a very readable format. I especially liked the sections on wildlife and history. Makes you want to go to Montana tomorrow and see the country, even if it is January and you hate snow. I can hardly wait for the summer and a visit to the wild country of "The Bob".