Expedition From Virginia City to Yellowstone Ends With Raid by Sioux
A 1866 overland trek from Virginia City to the Yellowstone River led a mixed party of 25 men women and children to drift on a damaged raft downslope under threat of Sioux attack. Major Brooke rebuilt a raft after a wrecked boat failed, crossed the Yellowstone in a snowstorm to Bozeman, and survived a brutal Montana blizzard on a perilous retreat. Food ran low, they ate prickly pears, and several members carried the vulnerable across the ice cold river in five trips.
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Virginia City
Yellowstone River
M. E. Plassmann
Pring
Yellowstone
D. L. Bowen
E. G. Brooke
Whitehall
Godfrey
Butler
New Orleans
Major Brooke
Confederacy
Maryland
St. Louis
Virginia
Bowen
Brooke
Gallatin
Armstrong
Bozeman
Montana
Aheat
Bozeman Ford
Mr. Piles
Wallace Street
Shields River
State Historical Library
Piles
Williams
Air Mail Route Opens Great Falls to Salt Lake Corridor
National Parks Airways begins air mail service between Great Falls and Salt Lake with stops at Helena Butte Pocatello Ogden. Two planes daily carry mail and passengers with schedule: Great Falls to Helena to Butte to Pocatello to Ogden to Salt Lake. return trip begins next morning. Passenger rates range from 10 to 50 dollars with mail rates 5 cents per ounce plus 10 cents each extra.
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Great Falls
Butte
National Parks Airways, Inc
Salt Lake
Helena
Pocatello
Ida
Ogden
Utah
Poca- Prcdtea
Tello
Chamber of Commerce
Montana Press Association Meeting Plans Aug Convention
The Montana State Press association outlines the Helena convention August 9 to 11 with sessions on county printers bill, foreign advertising, the editorial page, and elections. It notes rail fare discounts, ticket certification, and a business agenda for publishers statewide.
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Helena
Montana State Press Association
Montana
Joe Whetstone
T. F. Rucker
Joe Gehrett
Stanley Thurston
T. L. Greenfield
Harry F. Y
School of Journalism
EE. G. Leipheimer
Clair Flint
A. L. Stone
Campbell-Ewald Company
George O. Leonard
Congress and the Press
Tom Stout
G. M. Moss
H. Z. Mitchell
Bemidji
Minn
National Editorial Association
H. B. Brooks
Nashua Cream Shipments Rise With Diversified Farming
Farmers in Nashua demonstrate diversified farming as cream shipments increase. Each month farmers send a substantial amount of cream to market, with over 365 cans and around 3,000 gallons shipped, marking a clear rise from last year at this time.
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Nashua
Rae
Nine year old saves sisters from lightning and fire
A 9 year old boy saved his four sisters when lightning struck their farm home near Stockett Montana. He found them unconscious with two dresses on fire and, with help from his mother, revived the children and extinguished flames. Two sisters Rose and Martha aged 11 and 12 remain critically injured.
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Harry Dennis
Stockett
Rose
Martha
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Livingston
M.E. Plassmann
Falls
W. R. Walker
Jose
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