Grain Rancher’s Daring Ride Through the West
Grace Stone Coates tells how Miles Cavanaugh a Virginia City pioneer traveled with two companions in 1863 as they fled road agents. They bunked near freight outfits crossed divides and Creek canyons. at Salt Lake City Cavanaugh shared a raisin box lunch with three stage passengers including Jim Fisk. He fed hungry families at Point of Rock Bitter Creek and refused payment for the aid.
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Miles Cavanaugh
Virginia City
Colorado
Grace Stone Coates
Diggings
Cavanaugh
Beaver Canyon
Dry Creek
Snake River
Salt Lake City
Salt Lake
Denver
Ben Holliday
Nat Stine
Saltair
Nat
Bitter Creek
Jim Fisk
Ned
Point of Rock
Mr. Cavanaugh
Alder Gulch
Lynch
Paddy Shea
Sam Livingston
Paddy
Rocky Thomas
Joe Davis
Barrel Springs
Jack
Jim Bozeman
Plains
Iowa
Jim Sheehan
Frank Patent
Franklin Richards
Richards
Tom Duffy
Montana
Wisconsin
Bear River
Marsh Valley
Ed Cardwell
Malad
Portniff River
Star Route Postal Scandals of 1881 Involved Two Lines
Stanley Kalish recounts the 1881 star route postal scandal touching Montana with routes from Bismarck to Fort Keogh and Bozeman to Fort Keogh. Garfield ordered investigations with Thomas James and Wayne McVeagh amid Republican ties, uncovering contracts inflated for miles and pay, before reforms cut millions.
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Treasure State
Avers
The
Republic
Stanley Kalish
Milwaukee Journal
Montana
Bismarck
Dakota Territory
Fort Keogh
Bozeman
James A. Garfield
Thomas L. James
Wayne McVeagh
George E. Spencer
Nevada
Garfield
James
Dorsey
Bismarck-Fort Keogh
New York Times
Sun River Project Crops Show Big Sums in 1934
The 1934 Sun River project report by D P Thurber notes cereal yields up 63 percent per acre with total cereal value up 106 percent despite wheat acreage falling 10.6 percent. Alfalfa value rose 86.4 percent while sweet clover adoption grew. Seed peas yielded 17.6 bushels per acre for 132 farmers, with total cash returns near $88,558 and 15,000 acres contracted for 1935. Potatoes produced 100 bushels per acre on 283 acres for about $17,000. Greenfields beets reach 450 tons on 52 acres. Planting totals include 8,805 trees by 30 farmers.
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Sun River
Great Falls
D. P. Thurber
James H. Rowe Honored At Butte Banquet
Montana civic leaders and highway officials gathered in Butte to praise James H. Rowe of the state highway commission. Gov. Frank H. Cooney and other dignitaries spoke as Rowe, praised for lifting Montana’s highway system, was celebrated by attendees from Great Falls Helena Missoula Bozeman Anaconda Butte and other cities.
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Montana
Butte
James H. Rowe
State Highway Commission
Rowe
Safe
Warden
Great Falls
Helena
Missoula
Bozeman
Anaconda
Tilings
Frank H. Cooney
Alfred Atkinson
Montana State College
W. M. Johnston
R&i
Howard Toole
Sen
Charlies H. Williams
Deerease
E. G. Leiphemier
Harry A. Gallway
Betis
Santa Claus to Visit Relief Homes This Christmas
Santa Claus plans to tour relief homes in Montana and beyond as Christmas nears. The Butte FERA project reports hundreds of new and reconditioned toys daily. Great Falls leads a drive to donate toys for renovation and distribution by December 25.
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Santa Claus
Gonda Claus
Montama
Relief Commission
Butte Fera
Great Falls
Santa Clara
FERA
Santa
W. J. Butler
Montess, Relief Administration
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Miles Cavanaugh, JR
Stephen W. Dorsey
Arkansas
Salisbury
Parker
Atchinson
Kan
Price Today
Baking Poewder Specialists
OUR
Creba
Sun River Project
Gibson Dam
Savdtie Rex Flour
Rex KI
Africa
Virginia Dare
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