Jim Murray's rise to great wealth began high in the Rocky Mountains in the small town of Pioneer, Montana. There he hit his first big strike, hired others to work his claims, and earned a reputation as someone who couldn't be bluffed, wouldn't be cheated, and didn't scare at anything.He parlayed his mining wealth into banks, theatres, resorts, waterworks, and commercial properties from Seattle to San Diego. In western business circles, it was believed his ready cash was second only to W. A. Clark. Where Murray shared no peers, however, was in his decidedly radical politics. From the Irish Land League protests of the 1880's through the Easter Rising of 1916, he supported the violent overthrow of Britain's rule in his homeland. Hoping for the Crown's defeat in World War I, Murray's extremism reached its peak when future World War II General Omar Bradley was dispatched to Butte, Montana, to stop Murray's network of Sinn Féiners from impeding the supply of copper to Britain's war machine. Told for the first time, this is the unvarnished story of Murray's rise to great wealth and power, and the flamboyant cast of friends and family who endured his violent mood swings and his eccentric generosities. Farley relates the entirety of Murray's audacious life: ruling over mining camps in Montana, dining with Diamond Jim Brady and Lillian Russell in New York, showering the Monterey art colony with philanthropy, and propelling a loyal nephew, future US Senator, James E. Murray, to the top of a radical Irish-American organization with 60,000 members. The elder Murray's story concludes with the bitter fight over his massive estate, involving twenty-six relatives, nine years of court battles, and headline coverage by newspapers throughout the West. This is the tale of a western iconoclast, a pioneering and dominating spirit, more comfortable in saloons than board rooms, who fought for wealth and mother country to his last breath.

James A. Murray: Butte's Radical Irish Millionaire

Biographies & Memoirs

Farley, Bill

Community & Culture

Mountain Press Publishing Co.

Michael Montgomery--soldier of fortune, renegade publisher and hedonist extraordinaire --approaches the 25th anniversary of his enormously successful men's magazine with one goal, to surpass Helmut Harmon and Aristocrat magazine. Monty, as he is universally known, has been Harmon's arch-rival since the first issue of his magazine, MONK. When Harmon's then-girlfriend, the sultry Andrea Carrera, catches him in flagrante and storms out of his Detroit mansion, Montgomery waits to snap her up and showcase her nude in MONK's premiere edition. With the prize of overtaking Aristocrat in sight, internal and external forces are conspiring to derail the Montgomery juggernaut. As the countdown to MONK's anniversary accelerates, Monty must undermine a highly organized anti-pornography campaign led by a fundamentalist minister. He must also deflect Congressional hearings into the smut "industry," circumvent his own secretive security staff and outwit his own conniving senior executives while trying to find the elusive woman whose photos launched MONK.

Sex . . . in the Crosshairs

Literature & Fiction

PublishAmerica

Even after his time in the Army, trouble seems to follow Bobby McRae. A decorated soldier who served as part of an undercover diplomatic unit, McRae comes home and unexpectedly ends up in Hollywood as an executive at a film and television studio. The allure of Tinseltown quickly fades, and McRae moves to a rustic cabin outside Charleston, South Carolina to live the life of a Southern country gentleman. But when a former LA business associate arrives on McRae’s doorstep—quite uninvited and very dead—he has to call on all of his skills to find out who’s behind the murder and why. What McRae begins to uncover, however, is much bigger. An attempt on his life, a fugitive terrorist and Hollywood celebrities all complicate McRae’s simple country life and call him back into action to conduct his dangerous, rogue investigation.

Team Player: A Bobby McRae Mystery

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Mystery

Bublish, Incorporated

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