Montana Parallels and Perpendiculars

By Charles G. Hammond

Fishtail was the name of the tiny town where the Boys decided to pitch their homestead shack; they were three high school buddies from Winchester, Kentucky. In 1911, the Boys had stepped off an iron horse in Billings; one hundred years later, author Charles G. Hammond boarded an aluminum bird in Billings for his first trip overseas. Hammond compares and contrasts his and his grandfathers lives in this tale of new adventures.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Abbott Press
• Release date: Mar 6, 2014
• ISBN: 9781458211484

Charles G. Hammond

Charles Grant “Chuck” Hammond was born in 1948 in south central Montana; he received a BS in chemical engineering in 1970 and a JD in 1980. Hammond worked for twenty-five years in the Saudi Arabian oilfields and is now retired on twenty-five acres near Tucson with his wife, their four dogs, two cats, two horses, and two burros.

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ISBN: 978-1-4582-1148-4 (e)

Abbott Press rev. date: 02/13/2014

TABLE OF CONTENTS

1.   Introduction

2.   Westerly Dreaming

3.   Iron Horse/Aluminum Bird

4.   Eagerly Emigrating

5.   Bustling Billings

6.   Finding Fishtail

7.   Sources

INTRODUCTION

T HIS IS A STORY OF four young Montanans: My late Grandfather, SG, The Boys, and me. Winchester lies in the Bluegrass Country, east of Lexington, and just north of Paris. We led strikingly different lives, of course. But there were also similarities. So I’ve accordingly titled my account as the parallels and perpendiculars of our lives. That is because Masons study geometry as a way of building character.

WESTERLY DREAMING

M Y LATE GRANDFATHER, SG, AND his two high school buddies, The Boys, did many of the same things that my friends and I did on long, warm spring afternoon high school study