Last Cooke City Pioneer Sees 55 Years of Boom and Bust
J. P. Allen, 85, recalls his 1882 arrival in Cooke City after the Crow reservation moved, built a hotel, ran mining claims, and survived boom times and harsh winters. He notes tourism and improved highways have revived the town, while his wife’s 80s hip injury frames a quiet twilight. He proclaims, I’m the last of the Cooke pioneers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cooke City
J. P. Allen
Cooke
Crow Indian
Soda Butte Creek
Clark’s Fork
Peter Moore
George Huston
Yellowstone
James Gourley
Ed Hibbard
Horn Miller
Bart Henderson
Bozeman
Crow Reservation
George O. Eaton
Montana
Great Republic Mining Co
Great Republic
Gardiner
Trail Roads
Livingston
Chicago
Mr. Allen
Rhode Island
Black Hills
Deadwood
S. C
Miles City
Columbus
Stillwater
Red Lodge
Yellowstone Park
Battle at Yellowstone Lake 1839 Between Trappers and Piegans
In 1839 near Yellowstone Lake a group of 40 white trappers fought a two day battle against a wandering band of Piegan Indians. Five trappers died and several score Indians were killed as the defenders held a makeshift fort in the camp, repelling assaults and securing water and supplies.
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Yellowstone Lake
National Park
Montana
Hudson’s Bay Co
Madison and
Jefferson
Fort Bridger
Blacks Fork
Green River
Washakie
Jim Bridger
Ducharme
Louis Anderson
Jim Baker
Joe Baker
L’humprie
Corral
Three White Brothers Born in One Montana Ranch
George P. White and his wife were early Missoula county settlers. Their sons George H W W and R O were all born in the same house on the ranch that lay near Hellgate below present Missoula. The sons were born in Washington Idaho and Montana as county borders shifted between territories. The White family also held the first white marriage in the county in 1862 and endured vigilante history near their land.
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George H. White
W. W. White
KR. O. White
George P. White
Montana
Washington
Idaho
Hellgate
Missoula
Mona
Missoula County
Henry Brooks
White
Josephine Meininger
Meininger
George H
Washington Territory
W. W
R. O
White Ranch
Dukes
Readvertise Bid for Huntley Bridge Camp Ground Work
The state highway commission will readvertise for bids to landscape and construct facilities at the campground at the Huntley bridge on the Billings Pompeys Pillar road in Yellowstone county. Only one bid was received at the last board meeting and rejected. The next contract award will be made in Helena on June 30.
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State Highway Commission
Camp Ground
Huntley Bridge
Yellowstone County
Helena
Yellowstone park air service begins for 1937 season
National Parks Airways launched the Yellowstone park air service from Great Falls to West Yellowstone with morning and evening southbound flights and daily return, starting June 10. The scenic air tour over Yellowstone and Grand Teton National Parks will begin around June 30, using multi motor planes with connections to Salt Lake City and Butte, plus additional vacation packages to Craters of the Moon and Dude ranch trips.
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Yellowstone Park
National Parks Airways
NPA Airway
Great Falls
West Yellowstone
Yellowstone
Grand Teton National Parks
NPA
Beautiful West Yellowstone
Targhee National Forest
Scenic Air Tour
Firehole
Shoshone Lake
Grand Canyon
Yellowstone Falls
Niagara
Norris Geyser
Salt Lake City
Butte
Helena
Craters-of the Moon
Idaho
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Mammoth Hot Springs
Lamar
Soda Butte
Baronette
Cooke’s Pioneers
Calgary
Governor General of
Canada
J. G. Gardiner
Calgary Exhibition & Stampede Ltd
J. Chas. Yule
E. L. Richardson
Mer
Calvary Exhibition & Stampede Ltd
Montana Life Insurance Company
VIA
Boeing
AIR Express
Ogden
Pocatello
Idaho Falls
P.M. Ly
National Parks Airways, Inc
Utah
Bridger
Park Bridger
Snake River Country
Park Country
Continental Divide
Elk River
Sure EL
General Foods
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