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by Kelly Hartman (Author)
Quiet fields broken by gunfire, the splash of a body dropping into the Madison River, cries for help cut off into silence and the grim last words spoken on the gallows all color the bloody history of Gallatin County. Cut-and-dried murder charges, unsolved cases and questionable accusations all paint the picture of law enforcement in and around early Bozeman. From the gruesome to the mysterious, sordid accounts of robbery, crimes of passion and fatal self-defense fill the annals of the historic county jail. Gallatin History Museum curator Kelly Suzanne Hartman chronicles each tale, allowing the reader to follow along the path of the investigations and the pursuit for justice.
Author Biography
Kelly Hartman was raised in Silver Gate, Montana, having attended K-8 grade at the one-room schoolhouse in Cooke City. She was the first director of the Cooke City Montana Museum, from 2014 to 2016. In the summer of 2016, she began work as the curator of the Gallatin History Museum in Bozeman, Montana. She is the author of A Brief History of Cooke City (2019), Murder along the Yellowstone Trail (2020) and the forthcoming Wicked Bozeman (2022), all published by The History Press
