Mountain Medicine Author:A.B. Guthrie, Jr. A.B.Guthrie, Jr. writes: "Many of the stories were suggested by remembered fragments of my boyhood, by bits of conversation with old-timers and by the reminiscences over a glass or two or three, or by things I read and believed because they were so close to what I had known and heard..." — Guthrie remembered and listened and read well, for these... more » stories, which cover a span of time from the beginning of the nineteenth century to the middle of the twentieth, offer an almost photographic record of the American West.
Several of the stories are set in Moon Dance, Montana, a mythical Western town that could have existed, and at least one story is based wholly on a factual incident in frontier history.
All of them will keep your hand eagerly turning these pages.« less