Book Release: An Evening with Author Daniel Blake Smith & Wilmot Collins
Tue, Oct 06
|Montana Book Company
Montana Book Co welcomes former Helena Mayor Wilmot Collins and his Biographer Daniel Blake Smith to the store for a special evening in conversation. We invite you to join!
Time & Location
Oct 06, 2026, 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM
Montana Book Company, 331 N Last Chance Gulch, Helena, MT 59601, USA
About the event
Montana Book Co welcomes former Helena Mayor Wilmot Collins and his Biographer Daniel Blake Smith to the store for a special evening in conversation. We invite you to join!
RUN: The Wilmot Collins Story—From Liberian Refugee to First Black Mayor in Montana
The University Press of Kansas announces the publication of RUN: The Wilmot Collins Story—From Liberian Refugee to First Black Mayor in Montana by award-winning author and filmmaker Daniel Blake Smith. The Wilmot Collins story is a powerful and timely narrative that speaks directly to some of the most urgent questions shaping public life today. At a moment of heightened debate over immigration, race, and belonging, this book offers a story that is as necessary as it is inspiring.
Wilmot Collins fled the devastation of the Liberian Civil War after losing family members and witnessing the collapse of his homeland. Smith traces Collins’s extraordinary journey from violence and displacement…