Brave Ride of Ferryman James McNanny in Miles City
Eastern Montana history recalls James McNanny a ferryman and buffalo hunter who on a bitter December night in 1898 crossed the Yellowstone to save a rancher’s wife. He guided a messenger to Miles City kept a fire and used his race horses to bring doctor and medicine across 22 miles in one hour 30 minutes. The wife survived and McNanny earned enduring local fame for daring service and steadfast kindness.
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Montana
LOU” Grill
Eastern
James McNanny
Yellowstone Fer
Miles City
McNanny
Tongue River
Jim
Corry Wilson Ranch
Orr
McNann
Endurance
Wilson
Glendive
Mr. McNanny
Renderfoot
New West
Roni
Buffalo Bill
Big Dry Creek
Yellowstone
Jim” McNanny
Yellowstone River
Milestown
Lohman Left Butte Mines to Become Big Stockman
A. S. Lohman a pioneer miner and first mayor of Chinook reflects a life spanning Montana and Alaska. He built a Chinook mercantile success, ran the Lohman block, and led local utilities growth. He shares early western wanderings from Wisconsin to Alaska and his rise as a prominent northern Montana businessman and stockman.
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Lohman
Butte Mines
Butte
Andy Lohman
Montana
Chinook
A. S. Lohman
Charles Hansen
Julius Lehfeldt
Central Avenue
First
Second Streets
Charles Bauman
Great Northern Railway
James J. Hill
Hill
Yantic
Bob Main
Main
Mr. Lohman
Great Falls
Minot
N. D
Wisconsin
Shullsburg
Plains
California
West
Grass Valley
Minnesota
Colorado
Arizona
Mexico
New Mexico
Alaska
Harrisburg
Juneau
Joe Juneau
Dick Harris
Nami
Harris
Dawson Ity
Treadwell
Lexington
Wis
Lillian Martin
Glen German
George Roberts
Prisoner Tests Ten Commandments for Ongoing Inquest
In a Toronto Star snippet, a visiting curate asks why the prisoner is present. The prisoner offers a witty test by recounting the ten commandments and promising to reveal any missed items.
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Toronto Star
Gilluly the Montana Banker Editor Becomes Great-Grandfather
J A Gilluly editor of the Montana Banker is hailed as a patriarch in the Gilluly family. He credits longevity to a proper life and Montana’s climate while noting at 29 he arrived as a lad and now covers vast territory as a popular editor and good sport.
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Great Falls
Gilluly
Utte
Kansas City
William McKeehan Reddig
Reddig
Mr. Gilluly
Montana
Kansas City Star
Gil
J. A. Gilluly
Gillulys
The
Montana Banker
Mark Twain
Cuba establishes sugar sales agency in new government operation
Music Lover recalls a joke about buying a piano with locking requests. The Fort Wayne Sentinel notes Cuba has launched a government sugar selling agency as a newly operative entity.
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Fort Wayne Sentinel
Cuba
Dana Makes Helena HQ for Northwest cattle empire
Dana, famed cattle king of the Northwest, forms the E. L. Dana Livestock Co with 10,000,000 shares and assets across Wyoming and Montana. Headquarters set in Helena, while Dana maintains Parkman ranch in Wyoming and 52,000 acres near Cascade Montana, with 22,000 cattle starting winter.
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Helena
Ed. Dana
Northwest
Montana
Wyoming
Edwin L. Dana
E. L. Dana Livestock Company
Ann Arbor
Michigan
Crow Reservation
Frank Heinrich
Mr. Dana
Parkman
Cascade
Bickett and Sweet Livestock Company
Bicket
Sweet
Dana
FE. L. Dana Livestock Company
Danas
E. L. Dana
F. L. Jacobsen
University of Mint
Sheridan County
Pine Grove
Cal
Placerville
Fort Custer
Missouri
United States
Chicago
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Pain
Bayer
Bayer Aspirin
Idester of
Gali
J. A. Gillaly
Montana Banker of
Dresa
J. H. White
Felten Market
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