Pioneer Driver Higginbotham Recalled as Montana Wildest Camp Figure
A Montana pioneer Charles Higginbotham drove the first U S mail into Butte and later staged on routes from Bennett’s Ferry to Fort Hallack. His career spanned pony express duties, Wells Fargo stages, and a life of frontier mobility from Mexico to Canada. He joined Charley Slade, recounted Julesburg clashes, and reflected on early day Montana ventures and notable figures like the Montana Kid.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Butte
Mexico City
Great Peace River
Canada
Montana
Deadwood
Europe
Mfe
Charles Higganbotham
United States Mail
Bret Harte
West
Territory
Mexico
Great Empire
Mississippi River
Peoria
Ill
Pony Express
Independent Rock
Sweetwater
Pacific Springs
Bennett’s Ferry
North Platte River
Fort Hallack
Elk Mountain
Salt Lake
St. Joe
Charley
Pioneer
Denver
Omaha
Nebraska and
Colorado
Julesburg
Fort McPherson
Charley Slade
Virginia City
Bill Berry
Slade
Jules Remey
A. J. Slade
Jules
Berry
Higganbotham
Cottonwoods
Texas
Iowa Stage Company
Bob Galloway
Pioneer Stage Man Recounts Montana Trail Tales
A general superintendent of a stage company recalls a lifelong partnership begun in 1864. The tale follows travels from Kansas City to Fort Benton Helena Virginia City and Butte, a placer mine payout, mail routes, a Canadian gold dust trek, and later life driving stages in Montana.
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Kansas City
Montana
Bob
Treasure State
Fort Benton
Charles W. Meade
Helena
Bob Tingley
Virginia City
Pollinger
Kansas
Charley
Fort Hall
Snake River
Sheep Creek Basin
Salt Lake
Butte Stage Crew Braving Freezing Shortage of Warm Gear
Soldiers in Butte recall a frigid day with 66 degrees below zero as they dressed in dusters over buffalo coats and straw hats to parade into town. Brown the lean job artist noted the scene as dusters flew and straw hats waved. The next day a piece described the stove carried by stage drivers and shotgun messengers. Warfield and Hanson joked about a five tens fine for a fast crossing, and Pete saved the moment by noting the man cannot read.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Butte
Granite and
Main
Montana and
Park
Melrose
Bill Warfield
Pete Hanson
Warfield
Pete
Bill
Meanest Men in Montana Targeted in Milk Bottle Theft
Sybil Eileen Flaherty and Joe Kennard, collectors for Four Pennies for Britain, reported stolen milk bottle funds in Great Falls. Flaherty called the theft despicable, noting the money aids war victims in England. She urged citizens to watch for thieves and protect the relief funds used to help mothers and children.
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Montana
Britain
Great Falls
Sybil Eileen Flaherty
Joe Kennard
Miss Flaherty
England
London
Youth Sets Ski Journey From Alaska to British Columbia
Ed Borders, 24 year old University of Alaska mining student, left Fairbanks for a wilderness ski trek of over 1200 miles toward Yazelton, B. C. He travels light with concentrated foods a rifle a movie camera and a sleeping bag to endure rugged terrain mostly untraveled by settlers or natives.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ed Borders
University of Alaska
Fairbanks
Alaska
Yazelton
B. C
Borders
Last mail out of Butte hauled in grain wagon on Christmas Day
Higganbotham recalls driving the stage that carried the last mail out of Butte in 1881 as Oregon Short Line finished to Silver Bow. He describes a Christmas shooting in King S& Lowry’s saloon, the stage office move, a 10-day grain-wagon punishment, and the return of the mail in his wagon. He then details a life of livery stables, hacks, fires, ore hauling, and a seven-year European tour with Buffalo Bill's show ending at Chicago's 1893 fair.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Butte
Virginia City
Missoula Gulch
Gimlet Gulch
Centennial Brewery
Wells Fargo
Salt Lake
Ryan's Canyon
Barrett
Dillon
Pollinger
Sim Estes‘ Place
Ryan’s Canyon
Sim Estes’ Place
J. X. Biedier
Bill Oliver
Birch Creek
Apex Pass
Charley Wunderlich
Divide
Feely
Feely Hill
Silver Bow
Humpy Ford
Park Street
Main
Higganbotham
Helena
Deer Lodge
Bob
Priest
Blackfoot
Stearns
Dog Creek Hill
Buffalo River
Highlands
Union Pacific
Cheyenne
Omaha
Texas
Salt Lake City
Montana
Spring Hill
Boise
Idaho
Canada
Great Peace River Country
Fort Benton
T. C. Power
Wise Osborne
Bill Stolte
Cap Bently
Wise
Oregon
Utah & Northern
Joe Campbell
Bodie Joe
King S&& Lowry
Main Street
George Moshier
Gilmore & Salisbury
West Quartz Street
George
South Butte
Grays
Boston & Montana Mining Company
Meaderville
Anaconda Company
Coeur d'Alenes
National Park
Cinnabar
Mammoth Hot Springs
Buffalo Bill
Europe
Chicago
Study Yourself for Right Job
Leo Smith, vocational guidance director, urges students to study themselves to find a satisfactory job. He notes tests aid choice, stresses coordinating mind and body, and cites that about 4,000 job types exist with 15 percent mind work only, 18 percent manual skill, and 67 percent both.
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Leo Smith
Great Falls
Smith
Combined good must oppose bad men, Burke quote
A historical quote from Edmund Burke on collective action against evil. It cautions that when the righteous fail to unite, individuals fall victims to a cruel struggle.
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Burke
Also Mentioned on This Page
E. M. Clipman
Wass
Toni Gilman
Columbia Network
Martha Webster
Milan
Dean Janis
Floria Vestoff
Lydia E. Pinkham
Pinkham
Mister
Glacier Production Company
Butte, Mont
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