Spooky Montana: Tales Of Hauntings, Strange Happenings, And Other Local Lore [Paperback]

Pull up a chair or gather round the campfire and get ready for twenty-seven creepy tales of ghostly hauntings, eerie happenings, and other strange occurrences in Montana.General Custer and the spirits of Native Americans still roam the battlefield at the Little Bighorn. Every night at six, a ghost carrying a candle walks through a hallway in Red Lodge, Montana. And hikers along the Yellowstone River may meet the ghost of Calamity Jane. All this and much more!S. E. Schlosser has been telling stories since she was a child, when games of lets pretend quickly built themselves into full-length stories. She created and maintains the Web site AmericanFolklore.net, where she shares a wealth of stories from all 50 states, some dating back to the origins of America. She lives near the Hudson River in New York State. Paul Hoffman illustrates books of many genreschildrens titles, textbooks, short story collections, natural history volumes, and cookbooks. For the Spooky series, he employs a scratchboard technique and an active imagination. He lives in Massachusetts.Pull up a chair or gather round the campfire and get ready for twenty-seven creepy tales of ghostly hauntings, eerie happenings, and other strange occurrences in Montana. From the spirits of General Custer and the Native Americans who still roam the battlefield at the Little Bighorn, to the candle-carrying ghost that walks a hallway in Red Lodge every night at seven, the stories in this entertaining and compelling collection will have you looking over your shoulder again and again. Montana folklore traditions are kept alive in these expert retellings by master storyteller S. E. Schlosser and through artist Paul Hoffmans evocative illustrations. Youll meet ghosts and monsters, hear things that go bump in the night, and feel an icy wind on the back of your neck on a warm summer evening. Whether read around the campfire on a dark and dreary night or from the backseat of the family van on the way to Grandmas, thilc"