One Night In A Bad Inn is the fascinating true story of two colorful immigrant families who lived through extraordinary times. Rich in history and character, this remarkable saga follows a notorious matriarch, two daring fugitives, a heroic Irish doughboy, and a beautiful, inspiring lady across the parched plains of eastern Montana to a raucous mining town to the bloody battlefields of the First World War. It is a great read through which the reader learns some intriguing history through the lives of some very intriguing people.

One Night In A Bad Inn: A True Story

History

Christy Leskovar

Americas

Pictorial Histories Publishing Co. Inc.

Pictorial Histories

Imagine while at a quiet family gathering, your aunt happens to mention a fire and a dead body and that your great-grandmother was arrested for murdering your great-grandfather. After you pick your jaw up off the floor, what do you do? Of course, you abandon your successful engineering career and go traipsing across the globe to find out what happened and write a book about it. That is what Christy Leskovar did. Her first book, ONE NIGHT IN A BAD INN, a High Plains Book Award finalist, tells the true story of what she found out. FINDING THE BAD INN: DISCOVERING MY FAMILY'S HIDDEN PAST is the detective hunt behind how she discovered who started the fire, how the body ended up in the house, why her grandmother was sent to an orphanage when she wasn t an orphan, what really happened when her grandfather saved that man in the war, and so much more. Armed with many questions and only a handful of clues, she set off on a quest to solve the mysteries, a quest that took her across the globe to her family s ancestral homes in Wales and Ireland, to the coal mines of Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, to a desolate Montana homestead near Forsyth, to the historic copper mines of Butte, to First World War battlefields in France and Belgium. And after amassing a treasure trove of intriguing stories, we learn how she managed to knit those stories into a compelling book. FINDING THE BAD INN and ONE NIGHT IN A BAD INN are two pieces of a remarkable true story. Begin with either one.

Finding the Bad Inn: Discovering My Family's Hidden Past

Biographies & Memoirs

Historical

A Slovenian peasant boy leaves the family farm in Austria and goes off to the big city to study music. In 1914, he is performing with the opera in Paris. Overnight, his world is shattered. The First World War begins. This makes him an enemy of the state. His name was Tony Leskovar. 
A generation earlier, we have the baron and the maid and a baby. The child is sent to Vienna to work as a kitchen maid. She receives money from a mysterious benefactor, and off she goes to America not speaking a word of English. Her name was Karolina Stangel. 
Joe Lozar follows her west to a fledgling smelter town. He builds a saloon. He builds a business. All is on the upswing until he is afflicted with gold fever and faces off against one of the most powerful men in the state. 
Annie grows up in that Wild West saloon surrounded by rough and ready smeltermen, steeped in the ways of the Old Country. She becomes a formidable woman, not one to be trifled with. 
They are the author s grandparents and great-grandparents. 
East of the East Side tells their remarkable true story. The contrasts are fascinating as the tide of history sweeps these courageous, up-from-the-bootstraps immigrants and their offspring from peasant farms in the Slovenian region of Austria, to the sophistication of Imperial Vienna and the glittering world of the Paris opera, to New World ruggedness the untamed American West, the land of boom and bust Helena and East Helena, Montana, the notorious copper metropolis of Butte high in the Rockies, the Slavic enclave of East Butte, the Flathead Indian Reservation, and the fertile desert of eastern Washington. Two world wars shake the foundations of their lives as they chase the American dream with bumps and potholes and twists and surprising turns along the way.

East of the East Side

Sweetgrass Books

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