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Book Description: Read about beer rustling in Butte, horses so fast they can outrun a storm, winters so cold they'll freeze your shadow to the ground, and the touching first meeting of Brother Van and Kid Curry. Some of Montana's first pioneers recorded these outrageous and often hilarious tales covering everything from a poker-playing magpie to the accepted cure for a greedy hunter. Between 1935 and 1942, the field workers for the Montana Writer's Project of the Works Progress Administration (WPA), conducted oral history interviews and researched folklore for a Montana folklore publication. The United States entered into World War II, and the WPA dissolved before Montana's efforts on folklore could be published. An Ornery Bunch presents tales and anecdotes compiled from immense archives of Montana Writer's Project, finally putting the best of the Montana WPA folklore collection in print. Enjoy pioneer yarns from chapters such as Curious Animals; Tall Tales; Tales of True Westerners; Under the Influence; Prospectors' Play; Mother Nature's Winter Wrath; Unnatural Tales; Pokes, Punchers, Herders, the Range, and Their Critters; Fun with Tenderfoots; and Practices and Remedies. Every Westerner with a sense of humor and heritage, and folklorists everywhere, must add this book to their collections.

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