Dear Editor,
I wanted to relate to people living in the Yellowstone County area in the 1940’s through the 1960’s. My brother, Gary Kraske, experienced Montana as paradise after living here and getting a degree from EMC.
Owning a doctor’s degree from back east and living all over the world, he moved a lot. His last position was at the University of Maryland as budget director and teacher for 20 years. In his book, Montana Maverick, he also experienced the Pentagon attack. He lived in Europe for twenty years and traveled in 72 countries and experienced meeting and living with all levels of people – not just as a tourist.
He finally retired and has written of his experiences with dry wit and a knack for observations of the extraordinary as hilarious in Europe, India, and the Iron Curtain. Maybe some of you will be interested enough to buy a reasonably priced book from the Huntley Project Museum or Amazon.
After I served in Vietnam, I decided that it was about time I had a nice trip, so I backpacked across 13 countries with a friend for five months. I had the book, $5.00 a Day in Europe. It told me what to see, how to get there, and we did a lot of sleeping outside and walking and hitchhiking. What an experience at 20 years of age!
Bill Kraske,
Huntley, Montana
