A Slovenian peasant boy leaves his family’s farm. A dashing, Austrian musician performs for Kings and Queens in the great capitals of Europe.
A tall, handsome young man finds himself stuck behind enemy lines when Austria and France go to war in 1914. A refugee lands at Ellis Island with only five francs in his pocket. A car painter becomes Butte, Montana’s Edsel dealer in the 1950’s. What could they all have in common?
They are all the same man, the author’s grandfather, a prominent businessman in Butte, Montana with a colorful past.
Add in a Viennese kitchen maid who received funds from a mysterious benefactor and headed to America, a scrappy gold prospector who faces off with one of the most powerful men in Montana, and a young girl raised in a wild west saloon, and this true family tale is riveting.
This saga will strike a chord with readers. Brimming with excitement and drama, it is especially poignant for the connections it draws to the history and locales of so many impactful historic events.
The Leskovar family is well-known in the Butte and greater Montana area, as they began, and continue to operate, car dealerships in Montana and Washington since the 1950s.