Cinnabar Ghost Town Once Served as Nation's Capitol
The diminutive Montana town of Cinnabar briefly hosted the U S government in 1903 during Theodore Roosevelt’s Yellowstone tour. A rail terminus and mining camp, it housed a few hundred residents and a White House on wheels, with messengers coordinating state affairs from the park.
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Yellowstone River
Mountain Range
Northern Pacific Park
Old Cinnabar
United States
White House
Yellowstone Park
Montana
Red Streak Mountain Coal Co
Aldridge
Horr
Northern Pacific
Gardiner
Park Line
Theodore Roosevelt
William Loeb Jr
Secret Service
District of Columbia
Harry Colman
Washington
The
Associated Press
Electric Peak
Rock Creek Park
Yellowstone
Elysian
Pullman
Loeb
Frank Hall
Lindsay Denison
New York Sun
Cinnabar
Livingston
Denison
Durgin
Texas
McCoy
New President of Veterans Association of Northern Pacific
J. J. Collins, freight agent at Seattle, elected president at the association’s fourteenth annual Tacoma convention in June 2022. Collins has served as vice president this past year and began as a baggageman in 1902 at Valley City, N C, rising through roles in Minneapolis St Paul Billings Bozeman Spokane to his current post.
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J. J. Collins
Northern Pacific
Seattle
Veterans Association of the
Northern Pacific Railway
Mr. Collins
Tacoma
Farmington
Minn
Valley City
N. C
Minneapolis
St. Paul
Billings
Bozeman
Spokane
Cinnabar
Post Office Department
Gardiner
W. A. Hall
W. A. Hall Co
C. B. Scott
A. W. Chadbourne
Shields Valley
al H. Wilkins
Fort Benton
Yellowstone Valley
Park
United States
Ferguson Reelected Montanans Manager and New Photographer
W G Ferguson was re-elected manager of Montanans Inc for another year at Helena. F W Byerly of Red Lodge was named official photographer to shoot Montana scenery for tourist advertising. The board also discussed Montana expositions, mining property advertising, and agricultural reports amid reminiscences of Cinnabar and old park figures.
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Montanans, Inc
W. G. Ferguson
Montana Club
Helena
F. W. Byerly
Red Lodge
Byerly
Northern Pacific Railroad
Montana
R. L. Smith
Roy H. Ayers
R. S. Nutt of
Sidney
Fargo
N. D
Minnesota
Dakotas
A. L. Strand
Montana State College
Bozeman
Lewistown
Minneapolis
Indians Welcome Glacier Planes Inauguration At Browning
Western Air Express inaugurates service to Glacier National Park with two Boeing planes landing near Browning. Inducted into the Blackfeet tribe in council tepees, aviation leaders and park officials attended the ceremony. Cameramen filmed the event as Movietone News crews covered the celebrations.
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Shining Mountains
Cut Bank
Glacier National Park
Western Air Express
Boeing
Browning
Seely Hall
United Airlines
Tom Wolfe
W.A.E
Eagle Talk
Earl Popp
Department of Air Commerce
Sitting Eagle
S. A. Stimson
U.A.L
Eagle Bear
John Truck
Glacier Park
C. N. Graves
E. T. Scoven
Howard Hays
Glacier Park Transportation Co
A. A. Arman
Glacier Park Hotel Co
George Miller
Park
C. W. Moore
Great Northern Railroad
Movietone News
The
Great Northern
Glacier K
Jack
Transcontinentals Western
Ines
Bob Six
Continental Airlines
Leslie Arnold
Pennsylvania Airlines
Leslie Farrington
Northwest Airlines
Dick Sanderville
Chief Bull
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Teddy Roosevelt
By Elno
Wilkins
Shields River Valley
Rockies
Old Yellowstone
Midland Canning Corp
Beit
Air Lines
Lydia ER. Pinkham
Nature
Lydia E. Pinkham
Pinkham
Conoco
S. Continental Oil Company
Conogo
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