First Indian West of Mandan Meets Lewis and Clark Tale
The Shoshone camp story told by sentinel to Farnham in 1830s recounts the first meeting with Meriwether Lewis and his party near the continental divide in August 1805. Cameahwait and elders doubted the pale strangers but welcomed them after demonstrations of friendship and gifts.
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Mandan Country
Lewis and Clark
T. J. Farnham
Fort David Crockett
Cameahwait
Meriwether Lewis
Drouillard
Shields
McNeal
Continental Divide
Pacific
Sentinel
Thomas J. Farnham
Brown’s Hole
Colorado
Indian Sentinel
Beaverhead Rock
Dillon
Lewis
Yellowstone
Northwest Company
Lewis Arra
Clark
Gacalawea
Crockett
Farnham
Sacajawea
Fort Crockett
Fraternity Chief Recalled from Fort David Meeting
A fragment recalls Thomas J. Farnham journeying through mountain country to Oregon in the late 1830s with a stop at Fort David Grockett in Brown's era. Farnham published his travel narrative in 1840 and describes meeting at Fort David.
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Mandans
Thomas J. Farnham
Oregon
Fort David Grockett
Brown
Fort David
Writers Project Plans New Montana Books in WPA Series
The Works Progress Administration prepares two Montana themed books to boost tourism. Your Vacation in Montana, a 12 500 word booklet with maps and 18 photos, is due in May and covers recreation facts and events. Montana A Profile in Pictures, a rotogravure state picture book, will be published by M Barrow Co with over 140 photos and a 5 000 word manuscript.
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WPA
Montana
Washington
Michael Kennedy
Glacier Park
Beartooth Mountains
Flathead Lake
Bitter Root Valley
Absarokee Mountains
Gallatin Canyon
Kootenai Country
Blackfoot-Clearwater Area
Kennedy
Capitol
Helena
M. Barrow & Co
New York
Montanas Inc
United States Forest Service
Animal Husbandry Students Tour U S Experiment Stations
A group of 30 Montana State college animal husbandry students completed a five day tour to the United States range sheep experiment station at Dubois Idaho and to ranches in the Madison and Deer Lodge valleys and the Big Hole basin. Ralph McCall accompanied the students as associate animal husbandman. The trip aimed to show Montana ranching systems in practice and connect classroom study with field work.
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Montana State College
Dubois
Idaho
Madison
Deer Lodge
Big Hole
Ralph McCall
McCall
Montana
Campus Leader Norman Nelson Named MSU Publications Board Chairman
Anaconda youth Norman Nelson is chairman of Montana State University publications board, the student governing body for campus newspapers and other publications. Active in student affairs throughout college, he has served on the State Board and student store managing board for several years and is president of Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity.
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F. Miles Bush
Gene Lake
Montana State University
Alpha Kappa Psi
E. R. Santor
Ce Met
Bush
Philadelphia
Norman Nelson
Montana State University Publications Board
Nelson
Sigma Alpha Epsilon
State liquor board declares $150000 profit dividend
The state liquor control board approved a profit dividend of 150000 dollars at an early May meeting, with Administrator L M A Wass stating the sum was moved to the general fund for allocation to old age pensions water conservation teachers retirement pensions and other legislative appropriations. The senate controlled Spain from 711 until 1492.
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State Liquor Control Board
L. M. A. Wass
106 Year Old Indian Gabriel Beauchman Dies at Wolf Point
Gabriel Beauchman aged 106 died at Wolf Point and is believed eastern Montana’s oldest resident. Born Aug 30 1833 at Fort Union he spoke multiple languages and knew Sitting Bull. A French Indian scout with Western exploits he spent final years near Wolf Point with son Gabriel Jr leaving a large family.
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Gabriel Beauchman
Wolf Point
Bushman
Montana
Northwest
Old Fort Union
Montana-Dakota Line
Sitting Bull
Beauchman
Gabriel Jr
State Board of Equalization Reports April Collections Rise
The state board of equalization collected 828,115 in April, up 129,029 from a year ago. Income tax led gains at 223,630, up 60,387. corporation tax rose 31,919 and gasoline tax 28,724.
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State Board of Equalization
Montana Retail Stores See 11.7 Percent Sales Rise
Census bureau report shows independent Montana retailers with sales in the first quarter up 11.7 percent from a year earlier. The data cover 522 stores across nearly every business category.
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Montana
Census Bureau
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By Elno
U.S. Experiment Station
Senate
Spain
Conoco
Continental Oil Company
Eno Sronz
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