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Newspaper
Choteau Acantha
Location
Choteau, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jan 18, 1940
Page
3
Manuscript dictated in 1857 to Col. DeWitt C. Peters in Taos New Mexico appears in a Chicago archive as authentic frontier memoir. Historians confirm its provenance and privately reprint the treasure trove for scholars of western lore.
A Paris attic discovery reveals Kit Carson dictated his life story to Col. DeWitt Peters and Mrs. Peters in 1857. The manuscript, later published in 1926, offers a vivid, fact based account of trapper life and Montana frontier adventures with Br idger and other mountain men.
An essay traces cowhand speech origins from cattle terms like cows and head to maverick and dogie. It notes the cowboy’s poetry in bridle terms, rodeo slang, horse lore, and frontier life and recalls Kit Carson’s frontier era and Montana river memories.
The state prison at Deer Lodge reports 576 inmates on December 1 and 577 on January 1, per Warden Theodore R. Bergstrom.
Montana oil fields produced 527 375 barrels of crude oil in November and refineries processed 450 827 barrels, according to a state oil conservation board report.
The text suggests removing rust stains from washable materials by rinsing in cold water, applying lemon juice, covering with salt, and sun drying for two days before a second wash. It also notes grass stains can be removed with alcohol.
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