Fight Seat Sale Climaxes Ahead of Shelby July 4 Fight
Heavy reservations pour in from Alberta and the Twin Cities for the Shelby bout. Gibbons backers, Louis Hill leading the Minnesota delegation, and Dempsey training near Great Falls fuel excitement as Great Northern expands rail service to handle crowds and tickets top $100,000 in Alberta and Calgary sales.
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Alberta
Twin Cities
Louis Hill
Shelby
Great Falls
the Elks of
Seattle
Lethbridge
Calgary
Gibbons
Ringside
Inner Circle
Outer Circle
Mike Collins
Great Northern
Dempsey
Missouri River
Gregory
St. Paul
Buried Loot Tale at Hysham Tied to Kid Curry Legend
In Hysham, C. L. Harris uncovered cash worth $4000 amid a posthole dig. The find fuels theories it may be Kid Curry hoard. Pinkerton Siringo’s 1910 Morencia bank raid tale is recounted as background to Curry’s era and notoriety.
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Hysham
Kid Curry
C. L. Harris
Harris
Kid
Montana
United States
Curry Gang
Charles A. Siringo
Pinkerton
Curry
Little Rockies
Siringo
Captain Kidd
William J. Burns Detective Agency
Chicago
Morencia
Gila Valley
Great Northern
Wagner
Knoxville
Tenn
Bob McGinnis
Alma
New Mexico
Butch
Cassaday
Jim Lowe
McGinnis
George Scarborough
South
John Stillman
Wesley Harding
Texas
Harding
Phillips County
National Bank of Montana
Helena
Hank
Pueblo
Colorado
Laney
Johnny
Pike Landusky
Landusky
Jew Jake
Sandusky
Jim Thornhill
Coburn Brothers
Arizona
Wild Bunch
Western
South America
Little
Rockies
Pike Sandusky
Johnny Curry
Winters
Meldrum the Crow Chief and Early Montana Explorer
The article recalls Robert Meldrum one of the first white men to live with the Crow on the Yellowstone in the 1830s. It notes his adoption of Crow customs his long hair and lodge his trading success with the American Fur Company and his reputation as a refined gentleman and frontier star in Fort Union era.
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Curry
Meldrum
Montana
Robert Meldrum
American Fur Company
James Beckworth
Edward Rose
Western Plains
Beckworth
Robert Melrrum
Northwest
Scotland
Kentucky
Smith
Benjamin Bonneville
Missouri River
Plains
Prairies
Mountains
Bonneville
Yellowstone
Harper Brothers
Fort Union
Alexander Culbertson
Fort Alexander
Big Horn
Crow Country
Company
Campbell Plans Drilling Drive and Refineries in Montana
Gordon Campbell announces an aggressive drilling campaign in the Kevin Sunburst field with a $5 million Delaware entity backed by Seattle capital. A refinery may be built in Seattle to process Kevin Sunburst crude. Headquarters will be in Kevin, with the Campbell McGowan No 1 project nearing depth as operations restart. Proposals open June 15 for $273,000 Montana highway work.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gordon Campbell
Kevin
Delaware Corporation
Seattle Capital
Campbell
Seattle
Campbell-McGowan
California-Lincoln
Missoula
Montana
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tMir
Charles Siringo
Dempsey-Gibbons Fignt Glass
Postoffice
St. & No
Flaherty Optical Parlor
Third St
N., Great Falls, Montass
Castoria
Unburst Refining Company
Stevenson Companies
Sunburst Refining Company
West Great Falls
Sunburst Oil & Gas Company
Stevenson
L. C. Stevenson
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