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Choteau Acantha

Location

Choteau, Montana, United States of America

Date

Aug 18, 1927

Page

7

Montana Pioneer Tales of Warren Gillette Fort Benton to Bannack

Warren Gillette, pioneer merchant and freighter, recounts his 1860s Montana trek from New York to Fort Benton to Bannack and Helena. He built the first Prickly Pear canyon toll road, faced Sioux and Blackfeet challenges, and bought, sold, and hauled freight with 24 wagon trains and 200 oxen.

Warren C. Gillette Prickly Pear Canyon Montana Mr. Gillette Gillette Malcolm Clarke Fort Benton Missouri Rocky Mountains Orleans County New York Helena New York City James King Galena, Jr Salmon River Mines Washington Territory St. Louis Joseph la Barge St. Joseph Emile John la Barge Cottonwood Deer Lodge Sioux City la Barge Harkness & Co Shreveport Yankton Juneau Fort Pierre Vaughn Buchanan Politte Sioux Country Feminisee Stockade Robert Lemon Fort Campbell Clark Christopher L. Payne Big Prickly Pear J. L. Fisk East Helena Fisk E. M. Dunphy Dunphy Benton Prickly Pear Lemon Marias River Milk River Tingley Sun River Vail Bird Tail Mountain Dearborn Wolf Creek Lyon Dawson Buffalo Bill William Keyser Missouri River Great Falls Paris Gibson Bannack Square Butte Plummer Cleveland Willow Creek American Fur Company Virginia City Wall Alder Gulch Jefferson Last Chance Gulch Edward A. Lewis Little Prickly Pear Canyon Lewis and Clark County Copeland I. I. Roe & Co Diamond R Freight Company Leavenworth Kan Salt Lake Dearborn Crossing Soppick Joseph Kipp Coppick

SAPPHIRES ONLY GEMS IN STATE

Ore deposit fills a vertical fissure forming a dyke eight feet wide and three and a half miles long. Montana hosts unique sapphire mines controlled by a foreign syndicate with an estimated 10 to 20 million dollars in 28 years of operation. Gemstones go to London, then France and Switzerland for cutting and polishing.

Yogo Creek Jaedith Basin Les Montana South Africa London France Switzerland Yogo Rock Creek Granite County Granite County, Along Dry Cottonwood Creek, Deer Lodge Missouri River Helena Lewis and Clark County Musselshell Powder River

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