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Big Timber Pioneer

Location

Big Timber, Montana, United States of America

Date

Aug 14, 1941

Page

2

Yankee Jim's Toll Gate Legend in Montana Folklore

The Montana figure known as Yankee Jim, famed for a toll gate on the Yellowstone frontier, is recalled through a judge's tale of his claim to rights and a railway trespass dispute. The account blends frontier bravado with court scrutiny as Jim loses the case but preserves his colorful myth.

Jim” George Montana Los Angeles Rudyard Kipling Old Plains Mountain Jim Yellowstone Virginia City Kipling Yellowstone Park Northern Pacific Railway Helena W. F. Sanders Mount Ararat Washington California

Great Falls Industries and Resources Highlight Growth

The article surveys Great Falls Montana's early rail connections to the Great Northern and Montana Central, notes the townsite surveyed by Paris Gibson in 1883, and highlights natural assets waterpower at multiple falls, vast coal, iron ore, rich wheat, cattle and sheep industries, and emerging sectors like hog farming oil gas refining meat packing milling and printing as foundations for a prosperous future.

Great Falls Missouri River Rainbow Falls Black Eagle Falls Colter Belt Sand Coulee Little Belt Montana Anaconda Copper Mining Co

Kipling Echoes of Humiliation Over Montana

In his usual spirit Kipling would have left Montana a saddened and humiliated young man reflecting on a troubling episode.

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