Death of Teddy Blue Revered Old Time Cowboy Remembered
A Montana reminiscence memorializes E. C. Abbott known as Teddy Blue, hero of Fergus County and Three Deuce ranch founder. The author recalls saving his life in 1884 crossing the Yellowstone with the N-Bar-N herd, their forty-year friendship, and Blue’s neighborly ethos and courage.
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N-Bar-N
Teddy Blue
Montana
E. C. Abcott
Home Land Co
Yellowstone
Fort Keogh
Miles City
George Redd
Redd
Abbott
Abcott
Blue
Ayer
Kid White
White
E. C. Abbott
Teddy
Uly
Texas
Green Mountain Livestock Co
Forsyth
Setember
Nebraska
Running Water Cattle Co
Musselshell River
Teenie
DHS
Granville Stuart
Helena
Fergus County
Mary Stuart
Gilt Edge
Bill Hawkins
Er. C. Abbott
John B
Sodawater Jack
Hawkins
D. J. O'Malley
T. W
Whit) Longly
Eau Claire
Wis
Whit Longly
Jack Hawkins
Dillon
Main Street
Mr. Blue
Son
O. K
Important Mail Awaits H Plummer
A Virginia City postmaster confronts an odd tranche of mail addressed to Henry Plummer, noted for leading a 1863 64 road agent gang. A postcard hints at a magazine story about his hanging, leaving officials unsure how to forward the mail to him.
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Uncle Sam
Virginia City
Henry Plummer
Montana
Mr. Plummer
Plummer
Aldergulch
Yellowstone Terrace Shifts as Mammoth Spring Surface Drops
Tourists watch as a large section of Mammoth Hot Spring’s travertine terrace drops several inches. Park Naturalist Dr. C Max Bauer says water carved a cavern under the surface causing the shift. Springs alter flow, and officials expect normal conditions to return in a week or two. An asphalt footpath once covered by a pool reemerges dry.
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Main Terrace
Range E
C. Max Bauer
Butte Elected President of Montana Golf Association for 1940
W A O Kelly of Butte was elected president at the Montana State Golf association annual meeting in Great Falls succeeding Chet Dick. Wallace Smith of Anaconda named vice president, Loren Findly of Butte re elected secretary. Directors named include S T Blair Anaconda Thomas Clemon Billings Golf and Country club A L Strand Bozeman Ray Gill Butte C D McDonald Chateau Fred Pascal Deer Lodge and others with A W Merkle of Butte at large.
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W. A. O'Kelly
Butte
Chet Dick
Great Falls
Montana State Golf Association
Wallace Smith
Anaconda
O'Kelly
Loren Findly
L. R. Fousch
S. T. Blair
Thomas Clemon
Billings Golf and Country Club
A. L. Strand
Bozeman
Ray B. Gill
Butte Country Club
C. D. McDonald
Chateau
Fred Pascal
Deer Lodge
Enor K. Matson
Helena
A. B. Foutz
Butte Highlands
C. M. Wood
Billings Islands
Henry Good
Kalispell
Nels Rousness
Lewistown
Dave Fitzgerald
Livingston
Frank Wallace
Great Falls Meadow
Shelby
Clayton Dickson
Whitefish
Henry Shaw
White Sulphur Springs
Bob Patterson
Havre
F. A. Elliott
Malta
A. W. Merkle
Last of the old Montana cowboys passes with Teddy Blue
The 1880s range men Bill Jaycox Platt Price Harry Rutter and C Abbott were among the finest. Teddy Blue’s death marks the end of an era as the old N Bar N cowboys fade away.
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Montana
Bill Jaycox
Platt Price
Harry Rutter
C. Abbott
Lone Trail
Texas
Teddy Blue
Airlines traffic climbs for nine months in 1987
Airlines carried 838,485 passengers through September 30, up from 744,700 in the same period of 1936, a gain of 93,785 passengers. This reflects a strong year over year increase in scheduled air travel.
Indians Adopt Bozeman Lads at Sun Dance Ceremony
Bozeman youths Bill Huffine and Bud Purdy were inducted into the Blackfeet tribe during the Horned Society sun dance near Cardston Alberta. With special Canadian permission they observed rituals in Belly Bluff camp, were named Sorrel Horse and Black Fale, and photographed key ceremonies in a circle of tepees and a medicine lodge.
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Horned Society
Bozeman
Blackfeet
Bill Huffine
Bud Purdy
Purdy
Huffine
Lone Wolf
Belly Bluff
Cardston
Alta
Stuffine
White Eagle
Medicine Man
Malfine
Sorrel Horse
Medicine Lodge
Montana
Alberta
Two Killed and Six Hurt in Premature Blast Near Malta
A dynamite blast on the Milk River bank six miles north of Malta killed Roland Aagard and Dale Skide and injured six others including Undersheriff Frank Partridge. The crowd of about 75 onlookers witnessed the explosion as the body recovery effort for a drowning victim went wrong.
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Malta
Roland Aagard
Dale Skide
Frank Partridge
Andrew Ebaugh
Jack Sammond
Ray Thomson
Bill Kauffman
August Gies
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D O'Malley
The
Nopar" Kid
Sam Bass
Harry
Pierre la Grange
E. C
Edward
Edwin
Elmer
Park Street
Friend
St. Paul
Wisconsin
Montana_ Stockgrowers association
H. Plummer
Pals
Mother Nature
Yellowstone National Park
O’kelly
Lon
Gerry May
Canada
Tepee of
Sun Dance of Horned Society
Mary of
England
Lydia E. Pinkham
Pinkham
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