Jessie Crowley and Lynn Purdy met, as young people will, of a certain geographic area. There were community dances, picnics, parties, school. They both came from parents who believed in the creed of getting your work done. The parents thought these young kids were too wild and tended toward laziness. The parents were going to do everything in their power to straighten out those kids. Jessie and Lynn were probably no exceptions.
Stories of the Purdy boys’ horse races with the equally wild Frost boys and the flirtations of the irrepressible Crowley girls set a stage for trouble, as anyone in turn-of-the Âcentury Eureka, Montana would have attested to.
