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Early Big Timber settlement and the Boulder bridge era
The article tracks Big Timber’s beginnings from the Bie Timber post and ferry, through the Boulder river crossings and town growth. It notes the Big Timber to Dornix shift, early businesses, rail spur development, wool trade rise, and social life of cowboys and sheepmen in the 1880s to early 1900s.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Yellowstone Valley
Dunham
Bi Timber
Boulder
Keiger Bros
McLeod
Boulder District
Lewis and Clarke
Big Timber
Yellowstone
Bozeman
Miles City
Crow Reservation
Boulder River
Gallatin
John Anderson
Harvey Bliss
N. P. Railway
Dornix
Livingston
Northern Pacific
James Mirrielees
Billy” Bramble
Merrielees
Walter Allen
Ed Everett
Merriclees
Foster
Hannah Cardell
Brooks, Brown
Joseph Hooper
Reiger
J. G. Marley
Yellowstone Bridge
Hooper
Iss
Mr. Bliss
F. W. Vreeland
Bozemin
Hart Brothers
Melville
A. G. Yule
George Hatch
Sweet Grass Valley
Colman Puett
Diamond Gulch
Montana
Chicago
Glendive
United States
C. T. Busha
Morton Hatch
Charivaris
Brambles Hotel