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Pioneer Days in Melville Treated as First Settlers and Cattlemen
The Melville area grew from a rough frontier start with Hubbard O Hickox founding a store post office and saloon on a virgin trail. Early expansion followed by cattle outfits led by John and George Cook and others, alongside Norwegian settlers in The Settlement around Otter Creek.
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Hubbard O. Hickox
Melville
Dornix
Sweet Grass Creek
Cayuse Butte
Rocky Mountains
Slickox
Montana
Sweet Grass County
John and
George Cook
Sim Roberts
Cook Brothers
John Cook
George
Deadwood
Dakota
New Jersey
Frenry Elling
Virginia City
Sam
Otter Creek
Medicine Bow
Henry Ellingson
Filmore County
Minn
Land of Promise
Ole Clausen
Sentinel Butte