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Scandal, murder, war, in Montana |
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Wednesday, 05 September 2007 |
One might have thought they were family secrets, but mostly they were pieces of the past no one knew about until engineer-turned-writer Christy Leskovar started looking into her grandparents and great-grandparents’ past.
The results of her research took her across the U.S. and to Europe are found in her nonfiction book One Bad Night in a Bad Inn.
Leskovar will be at the Conrad Public Library on Sept. 11, 7:30 p.m. to speak about her book. A book signing will follow, and books will be available for purchase.
One Bad Night in a Bad Inn is the true story of a notorious Welsh matriarch, two daring fugitives, a heroic Irish doughboy and a beautiful inspiring lady who endure and overcome scandal, war, murder, and mayhem on a desolate eastern Montana homestead, in the raucous mining town of Butte, and on the bloody battlefields of the First World War.
It is a remarkable saga through which the reader learns intriguing history through the lives of very intriguing people.
The story begins on that desolate homestead near Forsyth in 1913.
The house burns to the ground, and the body of a dead man is found in the ruins. The inquest determines he was the man who lived in the house, Arthur Hughes, Leskovar’s great-grandfather.
The autopsy reveals he was dead before the fire. A murder investigation ensues. Stops along the way include a hotel in Miles City, the orphanage in Twin Bridges, New York City’s seedy Bowery, and prison in Deer Lodge. And that’s only Part One and it’s all-true.
Leskovar was born in Butte and grew up in Kennewick, Wash. In 1982 she graduated from Seattle University with degrees in mechanical engineering and French.
She now resides in Las Vegas.
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