Yankee Jim and the Canyon King of Yellowstone
The tale recalls Jim George known as Yankee Jim who built a toll road through the canyon north of Yellowstone park by 1879, becoming monarch of the upper Yellowstone valley. Roosevelt once invited him to Gardiner, and Kipling is noted among visitors to his hunter’s tavern, as travelers paid tribute at the toll gate on the route to the park.
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Yankee Jim
Yellowstone Park
Canyon
Elno
Roosevelt
Gardiner
Yellowstone Valley
Jim George
California
Montana
Park
2 Canyon
Aldridge
Electric
Yankee Jim’s Canyon
Livingston
Rudyard Kipting
Kipling
Northern Pacific Railway
Yellowstone
Gardiner, Electric
J. E. Stuart
Jim
Emigrant
Cinnabar Basin
Yankee Jim of Yellowstone Crowned King of Canyon Folklore
Roosevelt praises the Fort Peck Dam project while recounting Yankee Jim’s rise and fall. The Montana canyon monarch lost power with the railroad, turned to hunting resorts, lived in poverty, and remained famed for hospitality and odd clairvoyant tales. He died in California after decades of eccentric generosity.
Mysterious Life Of Aged Scout Robert Lemon
Robert Lemon of Lodgepole, killed in a Harlem area car crash, lived among Assinniboine and Gros Ventres Indians. Born 1886, his paternity remains unknown. some say he was found after a hostile attack and raised as one of them. He served as a government scout starting in 1884 and left two daughters, 15 grandchildren, and two great grandchildren. He died from injuries after the Harlem highway incident near Fort Belknap agency hospital.
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Robert Lemon
Lodgepole
Harlem
Lemon
Gros Ventres
Richard Snell
Rex Flying
Fort Belknap Agency
Ranger Has Strange Time With Beavers
Ranger Arthur McIntosh and Dr. Joseph Copeland observe two beavers at a river willow slide. McIntosh aims for a photo as a beaver dives, then narrowly avoids a beaver’s path and a willow branch.
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Beavers
Arthur McIntosh
Cone
Yellowstone Park Ranger-Naturalists
Joseph Copeland
The
College of the City of New York
McIntosh
Beaver
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Indianapolis
Conoco
Indianapolis Speedway
Continental Oil Company
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Harry Richman
Jack Denny
John B. Kennedy
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