Helena Man Was Teddy's Friend in Montana Tale of Rider
In Medora and Helena a legendary ranching figure Moses D. Rider recalls friendship with Theodore Roosevelt. The 23 year ranching career covers Nebraska to Montana with ties to Marquis de Mores, the 79 outfit, and early railroad era life. Rider reflects on family, war service tests, and life among cowboys.
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H. T. Bailey
Medora
Mac
Moses D. Rider
Theodore Roosevelt
Teddy
Rider
Helena
Bremerton Yards
Stephen
C. F. Rider
Spokane
Octavia Rider Young
Oswego
Tioga County
New York
Texas
Plains
Hash Knife
Three Seven
O. X
Eaton Brothers
Sim Roberts
Sam Roberts
Prohibition
Old
Teddy Roosevelt
Old 79
John T. Murphy
Cattle King of the World
Nelson Story Outfit
Briggs and Ellis
Livingston
Marquis de Mores
Northern
Pacific
Africa
Paris
Marquis
Box Elder
Pondera Extension Report Highlights 1932 Achievements
The Pondera county extension program in 1932 involved 165 men and 86 women leaders with 24 junior leaders. It reached 10,248 people at meetings and home visits, with a value estimate of $53,511.65. Budgets and projects covered cereals, weeds, crops, irrigation, gardens, and pest control, including sales profits and extensive weed and pest programs across multiple districts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pondera County
Walier-Montana Land and Water Company
Brady Ditch Company
Board of Commissioners
Beartooths Attract Thousands In Yearlong Visit Surge
Beartooth division reports about 4 500 visitors in the last year with 4 050 by auto 50 by rail and 200 hikers. Special use permits hosted 600 people and 300 stayed at hotels or dude camps while 400 campers enjoyed the scenery and fishing. Carbon County expects about 1 041 83 in forest receipts with 29 743 to the state from grazing and related fees.
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Beartooth
Custer National Forest
Warren Akers
Forest Office
Akers
Rock Creek
Carbon County
National Forest
West Fork
East Rosebud
Rider's Long Years of Work and Wild Life Tales
The narrative traces a man in early Montana and North Dakota who served as deputy sheriff, later entering plumbing and heating. He helped design Montana's capitol and Fort Harrison, backed a Clancy brickyard, and retired two years ago. He recalls eight days of antelope subsistence during a spring flood in 1881 and a recklessly unlucky ride involving Bill Jones and the horse Nig, with Roosevelt nearby.
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Billings County
North Dakota
Bell and Kent
Montana
Fort Harrison
Clancy
East Helena
Rider
Stoneville
Bill Jones
Old Cut Head
Jones
Bill
Roosevelt
Mr. Jones
Foreign heirs to large share of Hamilton Baxter estate
Four thirds of a 2 000 600 dollar estate goes to England and Scotland while an American cousin misses out. The California supreme court ruling limits share to nearer relatives and about 40 third grand cousins receive distributive shares. A 12 year old Butte girl is left one fourth of the estate, with three fourths undistributed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James L. Hamilton
Elizabeth Baxter
England
Scotland
Mary Hamilton Wallace Smith
Detroit
Mich
Maggie Plews
Annie S. Innes
Butte
California Supreme Court
Baxter
Hamilton
State Grants Oil and Gas Leases Across Multiple Counties
The state land board granted six oil and gas leases totaling 2 054 acres in Petroleum and Glacier counties and issued a coal mining lease covering 320 acres in Hill county. The state highway commission secured rights of way on 40.07 acres across Lake, Flathead, Custer, Madison and Garfield counties. County commissioners discussed Phillips county printing bids and planned to award to Phillips County News unless bidder figures differ materially from prior submissions.
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Petroleum
Glacier
State Land Board
Hill County
State Highway Commission
Lake, Flathead
Custer
Madison
Garfield
Phillips County
Phillips County News
Saco Independent
Missoula Sugar Factory Ends Season Run
The Missoula Amalgamated Sugar plant wrapped its season after processing 100000 tons of sugar beets since October. The 1931 output totals 300000 hundred pound bags with beets averaging 17.8 percent sugar. The plant, capable of 9800 ton mill, operated on three shifts, delivering 1180 tons daily. Farmers in Western Montana received 550000 for beets, with deliveries from Bitter Root valley and over 2000 beet cars from western districts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Missoula
Amalgamated Sugar Company
Western Montana
Bitter Root
Montana
Montana Lambs Fed in Indiana Show Strong Gains
Montana lambs moved to farms in Indiana are reported to be gaining well. Murray Stebbins of the Montana Livestock Marketing association notes 55,000 lambs were shipped by 20 Montana growers to 125 farms for fattening on a corn oats and soybean hay ration. Stebbins spoke after attending the National Woolgrowers convention in Portland and a National Wool Marketing directors meeting in Chicago, then visited farms in Indiana and Montana. The article also mentions the Russia aviation society Osoaviakhim with over 5,000,000 members and a South Africa gold stock boom.
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Drouth
Pondera County
Agricultural Credit Corporation of Minneapolis
Second Agricultural Credit Corporaon
Pondera Poultry Growers Association
National Woolgrowers Association
Montana
Indiana
Murray Stebbins
Montana Livestock Marketing Association
Stebbins
Helena
National Woolgrowers
Portland
Ore
Chicago
National Wool Marketing Corporation
Indianapolis
Baby beef champions emerge from Montana State College
4-H club members fattened 400 baby beef animals across Montana Chicago and St Paul selling on open market and at auctions. Average price 7.21 per hundredweight with some shipments reaching 925 per hundredweight. calves aged 12 to 18 months weigh about 1000 pounds. I M C Anderson credits 4-H work for upturn in beef fattening and urges stockmen to review records via county agents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Montana State College
I. M. C. Anderson
Montana
Chicago
St. Paul
Corn Belt
Anderson
Montana Club
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Braska
North Platte
Young
Deadwood
Alzada
Little Missouri
Northern Pacific Railway
Rocky Ridge
Fallon Creek
Fort Keogh
Fort Kearney
Sam Marney
Stockmen’s Journal
Pondera
Dairy Herd Improvement Association
Beartooths
Malden, Maca
Huseth
Optemerist and
Optician
Great Falls
Clark’s Fork Valley
Blackfoot Land Development CO
Missoula, Mont
HE Polytechnic
Billings Polytechnic Institute
Ernest T. Eaton
Polytechnic
Lewis T. Eaton
Columbia Falls, Mont
James L. Hamilton-Baxter
Isles
National Parks Airways, Inc
U. S. Air Mail
Anry
Reat Falls
Butte, Ydahn Wi
Aes
Alla
Idaho
Pocatello
Ogden
Utah
Ealt Lake City
Balt Lake
Osden
Pocatello Butte
Oxeden
Sanes D
Wees
Salt Lake City
San Francisco
Los Angeles
Northwest
United States
Air Express
Recet National Pares Irways
WTRA
IC Department
National Parees Airways, Inc
Pal
Mont
Nerthbe and
Daily
Reed Up
Missoula Factory
East
Osoaviakhim
Russia
South Africa
Baby Beeves
Germany
Pells
the Wheat Krinkler Corp
Jee A. L A
Columbus, Ohio
Yearbook Dept
State Nursery & Seeb CO
Helena Mont
Washor Bear Creek
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