{"product_id":"hell-with-the-lid-off-butte-montana-9781734886641","title":"Hell With the Lid Off: Butte, Montana","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e Hell With the Lid Off: Butte, Montana\u003c\/em\u003e is the lost manuscript of Horace 'Bert' Smith, who arrived in the West as a teetotaling 21-year-old adventure-seeking reporter. He later went on to publishing successes in New York as part of a salon that included Zane Grey and Upton Sinclair. With his reporter's eye and access to characters on both sides of the law, Smith chronicles wild times, terrible tragedies and sudden millionaires on 'the richest hill on earth'. His granddaughter, Melissa Smith FitzGerald, discovered the manuscript that Smith was finishing and trying to sell to Hollywood when he died suddenly in 1936. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eSmith, Horace Herbert:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Horace Herbert Bert Smith was an 1890s police reporter in Butte, Montana, the setting for a manuscript published posthumously that he titled Hell With the Lid Off. He went on to a writing career and publishing achievements in New York. Smith, born in Ontario, Canada in 1868, died in Fredericksburg, Virginia in 1936.\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eLambrecht, William:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - William Lambrecht is a writer and editor living in Maryland. He was a political and investigative reporter in Illinois and Washington D.C. for several decades, co-founder of New Bay Times\/Bay Weekly newspaper, a visiting professional at the Howard Center for Investigative Journalism and presently a parter in New Bay Books, a publishing house.","brand":"New Bay Books LLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50626682224914,"sku":"9781734886641","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_08a6bb93-17ae-468a-8bc1-d50930b96c73.jpg?v=1732665489","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/hell-with-the-lid-off-butte-montana-9781734886641","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}