If you are at all curious what life might be like living on a Montana ranch, you've hit pay dirt with this book.  Where the Wild Onions Grew is a wonderful collection of true life stories that take place on a ranch located at the base of the Tobacco Root Mountains.  They will have you laughing, crying, and sitting on the edge of your set all the while wondering how on earth anyone could (or would) take on a family ranch.

Author Michele Pierce Franich has created an easy read that will have you marveling at her spunk and ingenuity in keeping the place going while her can-do husband, Michael, built up the ranch as well as ran a long-haul trucking business to make ends meet.  Michele shares her colorful recollections with an authenticity that describes the way they lived thier life in joyful optimism.  Her heartwarning and humorous collection of true stories will give you firsthand knowledge of what life was like in the 1980's in rural Montana.  You will share in the emotional journey this ranch couple endures trying to find a balance between raising a family, running a business and managing finances.  Recollections of love, laughter, heartache and survival are deftly written into these heartfelt stories.  Enduring the wrath of mother nature, fire and devastation is not overlooked.  This and so much more is written for the reader, who will surely envy the places and adventures Where the Wild Onions Grew.