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Pioneer Trails Ass'n Tales From an 1881 Montana Homestead
A Montana ranch memoir recounts 1881 moves from California to Sweet Grass and Grey Cliff areas, family life, pioneer schooling, stage routes, whiskey saloon violence, and the Deadman’s Canyon legend. It covers migrations, early trading, rationing, a ferry on the Yellowstone, and three generations on the same ranch.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Monterey
Calif
Michigan
Peter M. Wheaton
Celuvia Wheaton
Dora
Bert
Jenne
Montana
Erastus Ewing
Miller Pederson
Mother
Stockton
San Joaquin
San Francisco
Dillon
California
Livingston
Sweet Grass
Yellowstone
Fred Bartels
Ole Crest
John Hoff
Alex Forte
Bill Bramble
W. A. Harrison
al Harrison
W. L. Shanks
Sweet Grass County
Bramble Ranch
Lee Harrison
del Harrison
Ace Cox
Ome Dunham
Fernando la Roche
Jim
Gertie Ewing
Dunham
Big Timber Creek
Canada
Fort Benton
Missouri
Bozeman
Catle
Hunter’s Hot Springs
Melville
White Beaver
West White Beaver
Stone House
Brady
Dead N’s Canyon
Father
Boulder River
State Capitol
Solberg Ranch
Howie
Andrew Forsythe
W. K. Amery
Howard Forsythe
Oscar Forsythe
Arthur Tangen
Polson
Big Timber
Grey Cliff
Grey
Gallatin County
Park