2006. I spent that amount in helena at the Historical Society to work on the cypress hill massacre. Has anybody heard of this massacre . Excellent. It was at that even as a sort of a notorious but obscure 1873 slaughter in which a group of montana who wolf trap first slipped across into canada and held to a dozen indians. But i thought i would use this event and this is why i had gone in the first place, to explain the hardening of the u. S. Canada border ever after, the socalled wild west of the United States and the mild west of canada north and 49th. This is why i was in montana that summer. The problem was i became very bored with the story which is a bad sign in the new project. Adding to my displeasure is the fact i was living in on the glamorous life that is the typical of an academic eating tv dinners and eating Peanut Butter and jelly sandwiches for lunch every day and allowing myself only one diet coke in an effort to stretch my grant from the Historical Society as far as i c