McCarthyville the Toughest Montana Town of the Rail Era
McCarthyville, near Glacier Park, flourished 18 months as a rough boomtown for railroad construction workers. Founder Eugene McCarthy recalls brutal winters, saloons, a company hospital, and a violent Beaudin homicide, then a rapid decline as rails moved west and the town died.
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McCarthyville
Hardy
Missoula
Sheppard
Sims
Lfe
Mike Conley
Teton County
Dan Sullivan
Shelby
Abraham
Hiram Briggs
Plegan
Badger Creek
Demersville
Montana
America
Great Northern
Pacific
Drowning at Glendive Pool Claims Clarence Spencer
A man who could not swim drowned at Glendive pool the first fatality since it opened last year. His wife watched, cried out, and called for help as attempts by bystanders failed to reach him for twenty one minutes. Drs. Beach and Strowd assisted in futile resuscitation.
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Cut Bank
McCarthyville
Will Hardy
Great Falls
Pierre Beaudin
Joe Beaudin
Warner
Wanner
LeBlanc
Beaudin
al Johnson
Bill Houston
Missoula County
Cummins
Hart
Missoula
Alaska
McCarthy
Buffalo Range
Flathead
Flathead County
Ball's Crossing
Kalispell
St. Ignatius
Selish
Flathead River
Flnthead County
Fort Steele
British Columbia
Fort Assinniboine
Thomas Greenough
Little Empire of Construction
Clarence Spencer
Glendive
C. H. Bowles
Spencer
Henry Mullendore
James H. McQueenie dies famed Butte tree pioneer
James McQueenie of Butte dies at age after forty years residence in the city. He is credited as the first man to successfully grow trees there marking a notable horticultural achievement.
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James McQueenie
James H. McQueenie
Butte
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M’carthyville
Glacier Park
Belton
Fielding Station
Columbia Falls
Rockies
Eugene McCarthy
Justice of the Peace
Prairies
Grim Reaper
Cady
Joe
Two Medicine Crossing
Winner
Lake MacDonald
Sunburst Refining Company
F. G. Elder
Day-Elder Motors Corporation
Newark
N. J
Liberty Building
L. C. Stevenson
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