Yankee Jim Dies Remembered Montana West Pioneer
James George known as Yankee Jim, a Bozeman native and friend of Roosevelt Calamity Jane and Liver-Eating Johnson, died in Los Angeles. Kipling praised his yarns and frontier feats including building the park road and toll gate. He joked about fines and his legendary mischief with visitors and judges.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bozeman
Roosevelt
Calamity Jane
Johnson
James George
Montana
Yankee Jim
Los Angeles
West
Colonel Roosevelt
Jane
Rudyard Kipling
Yellowstone National Park
Kipling
Ananias
Yellowstone
New Hampshire
McCleary
Cuticura Toilet Trio Promoted for Baby Skin Relief
Advertisement extols Cuticura Soap for soothing red rough itchy skin with hot baths and Cuticura Ointment plus scented dusting powder. Recommends Cuticura Talcum as part of the indispensable trio for baby care.
FisksOverland Expedition Through Hostile Plains to Montana
The essay recalls Captain Fisk’s 1863 North Overland emigrant expedition from St. Cloud to Fort Benton via Fort Ripley and the Marias valley. It details daily progress, guard orders, camp routines, encounters with Sioux and Assiniboine bands, and interactions at Milk River Fort Benton with praise for officers and emigrants.
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Rogers
Fisk
Montana
Otter Tail
St. Cloud
Minn
Fort Benton
James L. Fisk
United States Army
St. Paul
Fort Abercrombie
Fort Ripley
J. T. Smallin and His Career
Jonathan Tipton Smallin a Montana pioneer who died at Shields River Valley recounts a Civil War escape aided by Wild Bill Hickok. He enlisted at 17 in Missouri's 16th Cavalry, served as dispatch bearer, was captured by Quantrell's men, then saved when Hickok cut the rope. He later trekked west to Montana near Bozeman.
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Jonathan T. Smallin
Shields River Valley
Wild Bill’ Hickok
Montana
Bozeman
Jonathan Tipton Smallin
Tennessee
Missouri
Company M
16Th
Missouri Volunteer Cavalry
George W. Taylor
Hickok
Tip
Quantrell
Wild Bill
West
Bridger
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Park
Yankee Jim" George
Fise
Plains
Shelby
United States
Pembina
Dayton
Maple River
Red River
Coteau
Antoine Frenier
Broken Arm
Red Snow
Drunken Bear
Assinniboines
Captain Fisk
Missouri River
Milk River
Rocky
Bear Paw
Gros Ventres
Hawkins
Bannock City
Fort St. Charles
Bannock
Box Elder Creek
American Fur Company
Vandenburg
Ginia City
Marias River
Teton River
Wwe
Steel
Rocky Mountains
Great Falls
Dawson
Virginia
Shreveport
John Torbits
Minnesota
E. W. Burditt
N. P. Langford
William Denton Dibb
David Charlton
J. T. Smallin
Wild Bill” Hickok
Sunburst Refining Company
F. G. Elder
Day-Elder Motors Corporation
Newark
N. J
Liberty Building
L. C. Stevenson
Silver Black Fox Ranching
Ranch Plana
Montana Silver Black Fox CO
Missoula
S. O. Huseth
Opticiar Optometrist and
Optician
Arwat Fattr Wormats
Regina-Shelby Oil & Gas CO
Johnson Block
First National Bank
Royal Bank of Canada
Regina
Sask
J. W. Speer
C. B. Keenleyside
B. V. Hole
Bert Stringer
Calgary
Alberta
T. M. Bee
Patriotic Fund
Toole County
N. W
N.W
S.W
S.E
N. E
N.E
Regina No. 1
Lilly & Smith
Madison
Ellis
Kootenai
Treasury
Madison Lime
Murray Hotel
Shelby, Montana
Regina- Shelby
Shelby, Mont
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