Pioneer Montana editor Blake wins liberty fight at Montana Post
In 1867 Henry N. Blake of the Montana Post and Gen. Thomas Meagher clashed over state governance in Virginia City. Meagher issued a duel threat, but Blake defused the crisis. later Meagher named Blake as assistant adjutant general, and the pair reconciled before Meagher’s death.
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Henry N. Blake Weilded
Montana
Meagher
Henry N. Blake
Montana Post
Thomas Francis Meagher
Congress
Post
John Buchanan
Virginia City
Thomas J. Dimsdale
Blake
Territorial Assembly
First
Legislative Assembly
General Meagher
Pioneer
Due
Army of the Potomac
Territorial Guards
Missouri
Fort Benton
Hutches
Gabe
The
Northwest
Yellowstone
Austria
Prussia
Daniel W. Tilton
Benjamin R. Dittes
Helena
Montana Democrat
John P. Bruce
Montana Radiator
Robert E
Alder Gulch
Last Chance Gulch
Silver Bow Creek
Silver Bow
Salt Lake City
Telie i
Captain Mills
New
Deer Lodge
James H. Brown
Harry C. Kessler
Butte Miner
Hugh McQuaid
Independent
Montana Gazette
Col W E Sanders Honored by Early Montana Residents
The article recalls Col W E Sanders as highly regarded by early Montanans. It details the 1860s Virginia City telegraph boom, The Post newspaper, and key editors like Blake, Mills, Ronan, and McQuaid, plus early unions, wages, and colorful printer culture shaping Montana journalism.
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Storm
Dr. Cook
Admiral Peary
Virginia City
Green Clay Smith
Andrew Johnson
E. Creighton
Omaha
Hugh McQuaid
Helena Independent
Harry Norton
New Northwest
Deer Lodge
J. H. Mills
Blake
Post
Peter Ronan
Montana Democrat
Flathead
Ronan
H. T. Brown
Butte Miner
James H. Mills
H. N. McGuire
Montana Pick and Plow
Bozeman
Montana
Black Room Chapel
Ted
Territory
The
Democrat
the Post
Jeffing Quads
Mills
Embrant Gulch
Montana Jour
Hunter Sees Record Elk Mounted in Big Hole Basin
H J Sweeney of Butte killed a giant elk on the Big Hole river headwaters in western Montana. Hunters tracked the animal for seven years. The head weighs 35 pounds with antlers measuring 604 inches tip to tip and eight plus nine points, far larger than typical. The elk reportedly weighed over 1000 pounds and was mounted in Livingston as one of the largest seen in two decades.
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Livingston
H. J. Sweeney
Butte
Big Hole River
Montana
Montana NYA quota to more than double in state
Montana plans to raise NYA enrollment to 1,710 youths by mid December, more than doubling the current 850. Miss Shoemaker says the boost will expand construction and NYA workshop training in mechanical skills woodwork and metal craft to aid national defense efforts, while regional supervisor J Parker Boggs confirms the quota.
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NYA
Montana
Miss Shoemaker
J. Parker Boggs
Denver
National Defense Council
Montana frontier memoir recounts gold, vigilantes, and outlaws
A first person reminiscence traces 1850s gold discoveries near Gold Creek and a Montana frontier era. It recalls a repaired shotgun, gang robberies, hangings, and encounters with figures like Bunton Ives Slade and the parties around Virginia City and Bannack, ending with reflections on lawless road agents.
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Plummer
Reeves
Gold Creek
James
Reese Anderson
Virginia
Iowa
Moscow
Rastus Yager
Montana
Bunton
Yager
Yellowstone
George Ives
Ives
Stuart
Virginia City
Bannack
Slade
Skinner's Grave
Pat Tns
Western Air Schedules Seattle Trip Shift to 5 PM
Western Airlines cuts its Great Falls to Seattle routing to a 5 p m departure for the southbound flight effective December 1. The direct link via Northwest at Butte lets Great Falls passengers reach Spokane by 7 05 p m and Seattle by 9 05 p m, replacing the prior 6 15 p m departure with no Butte connection.
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Western Airlines
Great Falls
Northwest Airlines
Butte
Spokane
Seattle
George Keyser
Western Air
Northwest
Tight joint for Stovepipe on stove collar or chimney
Instructions advise cleaning dust and grease from joints and applying furnace cement for an air tight connection.
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By Wilchey
Col. W. E. Sanders
State
Granville Stuart
Harrison A. Trexler
Montana University
Henry Plummer
Montana Highwaymen
Wilbur F. Sanders
Trexler
Reaay
Frank Woody
Charley Reeves
CAB
Caan
Hunter
Big Hole Basin
Wilbur P. Sanders
Sanders
United States
Edgerton
Lydia E. Pinkham
Pinkham
Western Insurance
R. B. Richarden
Ton
Shanti
Conoco Bron
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