Missouri River Toll Road Into Montana From East
The Missouri River, called the Big Muddy, flows from Three Forks and carries fur trade era craft such as bull boats pirogues and keel boats. Early navigators faced shifting currents, long treks upriver, and brutal up river work with crews of 100 on keel boats. Steamboats began in 1819 but true reach to Fort Union came only in 1859 under Captain La Barge with the Chippewa and Yellowstone later.
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Gallatin
Madison
Jefferson
Montana
Great River
Big Muddy
Missouri
Marquette
Yellow River
la Balle
Mississippi
Lower
Naomi
St. Louis
Joseph LaBarge
Bible
Upper
Fort Union
Yellowstone
Fort McKenzie
Chapell
Cordelle
Rockies
Independence
John Nelson
Chappell
Thomas Jefferson
Osage
R. M. Johnson
Manuel Lisa
Council Bluffs
Pierre Chouteau
Prince Maximilian
John la- Barge
Joseph la- Barge
Judith River
Fort Benton
State Liquor Revenue Shows Ten Months Gain
Montana's net liquor revenue for the first 10 months of 1941 was 2,249,427.90, over 220,332 above last year's same period. The liquor control board sent a 150,000 dividend to the state treasurer from November operations. Total 10 month sales reached 5,139,723.22, up from 4,534,979.48 in 1940 with gross profits 1,618,849.21 versus 1,474,953.20 and liquor license sales totaling 348,647.45 compared with 311,710 in 1940.
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Montana
Ray L. Wahl
Liquor Control Board
Charles Carver Lived Eventful Pioneer Career
The Montana pioneer Charles Carver recounts a life of frontier boldness from shaping early law and profiteering responses to flour hoarding. He recalls joining the Klondike rush, a Montana territorial era, and a harsh Dearborn creek stampede that cost lives amid sudden winter.
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Charles Carver
WPA Writers Aid Good Neighbor Plan in Montana
State WPA administrator Joseph E. Parker announced the Montana WPA Writers project will translate the book The United States of America: a Pictorial Guide to a Democracy into Spanish and Portuguese for South American distribution. Florence Kerr noted the work offers a human picture of American democracy to neighbors in the south.
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United States
Montana
WPA
Joseph E. Parker
Parker
United States of America
Department of State
South America
Florence Kerr
Washington, D. C
South
Agriculture officials warn of grave farm machinery shortage
Agriculture department officials say defense authorities fail to recognize farming needs for equipment to meet rising food demands. Dairy and poultry producers face the sharpest pinch as production goals loom. Only 80 percent of last quarter’s farm machinery allotments are available, forcing farmers to defer nonurgent purchases.
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Agriculture Department
Defense
Great Britain
Office of Production Management
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Tom Carter
Fort Benton Levee
Butte
Carver
Idaho
Northland
Bill Owsley
Bill
Silver Bow
John Noyes
Arctic Circle
Alaska
Dearborn Creek
Helena
California
Scientific American
Defense Savings
Western Insurance Company
B. Richardson
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