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# Healy's West: The Life and Times of John J. Healy Paperback – August 1, 2014

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- **What is this?** Healy's West: The Life and Times of John J. Healy Paperback – August 1, 2014 by gordon e. tolton
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## Customer Reviews

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    Excellent biography of an almost forgotten Montana pioneer.
  

*by R***Y on Reviewed in the United States on February 27, 2015*

John J. Healy was an influential figure in early Montana history. He was seen as a scoundrel by some, a legend by others. He was active in the whiskey trade at the notorious Fort Whoop-Up and elsewhere, served a term as sheriff of Choteau County, Montana, and later made it big in Alaska."Healy’s West. The Life and Times of John J. Healy"  is a very thorough and well-written chronicle of this man and the times he lived in. Much on early gold prospecting in Oregon and Idaho, Ft. Benton, Fort Whoop-Up and the Klondike gold rush in Alaska. I heartily recommends this book.

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    Good history
  

*by S***N on Reviewed in the United States on November 9, 2017*

This was very interesting and well written!!

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    PRODIGIOUS RESEARCH, BUT A HEAVY-GOING READ.
  

*by R***H on Reviewed in the United States on December 21, 2019*

19th century newspaper reporter Tappan Adney realized John J Healy had been--and still was--a fascinating character. More than that, the old man represented, in large measure, what it once meant to be a "frontiersman" as far back as the late 1850s. Adney wrote the man's biography--but never published it. Over a century later, one has finally been published."Healy's West," by self-confessed Canadian amateur historian, Gordon Tolton, is likely a more carefully--exhaustively!--researched than Adney's early attempt, but likely doesn't read as well, if Adney's gold-rush classic, "The Klondike Stampede" is anything to go by.Tolton's challenge is huge: Healy packed many lifetimes' worth of wilderness experiences into his own 50 years west of the Mississippi as he fought, starved, schemed and somehow survived brutal hardships of a dozen wild-west locations, swapping liquor for furs, tracking rustlers as a lawman, writing the news in his own newspaper, operating an Alaska trading post and becoming a founding partner of a gold-rush  paddlewheel enterprise on the Yukon River.The book, in many places, is little more than long series of facts. What's sadly missing is satisfying story-telling. It's a great historical resource--and one that was badly needed. However, I kept hoping it might also be something it isn't: a great adventure story.

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