Barking Dog Is Savior of Life at Lennox Fire
A Belgian police dog awakens his mistress in Missoula saving seven residents from a basement blaze at the Lennox apartment building near Cedar and Woody streets. Firefighters rescue six others as smoke fills stairs and hallways. two tenants jump to a neighboring roof. The hero dog is missing after the alarm.
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Missoula
Lennox
Bert Drew
Cedar and
Woody Strets
Margaret Kaiser
Ronnie’ Deschamps
Cheyenne
California
Helena
Bannack
San Francisco
Montana Pioneers and the Fur Trade Legacy
Martha Edgerton Plassmann recounts how fur traders and their employees became Montana’s first pioneers by opening knowledge of the Upper Missouri region and establishing access via steamboats. The second wave, gold seekers in 1825, founded a state with law and order, drawing diverse migrants from across the globe and shaping early American frontier society.
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Montana
Upper
Missouri
Rocky Mountains
Gold Creek
Francois Finlay
Def
Oxford
Yale
Harvard
Princeton
Indiana
Yankee Flat
Sis Toliver
First Montana court trial ends in bar fight and fine
The first Montana court trial, held in 1862 at Hell's Gate Missoula County, ended with a brawl in Boltie's saloon after Baron O Keeff insulted Justice Henry Brooks known as Bishop. The jury returned a verdict for Tin cup Joe, who won damages and costs totaling 90 dollars.
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Montana
Hell’s Gate
Missoula County
Territory of
Washington
Henry “Bishop” Brooks
L. R. Maillet
Bitter Root
Neil McArthur
Hudson’s Bay
Cantonment Stevens
Willow Creek
Mullan
Missoula
Legislative Assembly
Territory of Washington
Spokane County
Fort Owen
Jocko Agency
Hell's Gate
Brooks
George P. White
Josephine Mincinger
Bishop
P. W. McAdow
Woody
Old Brooks
O’keef
Frank Woody
O’keefe
Boltic
Higgins and Worden
State
Frank H. Woody
Learling
Tincup Joe
Aaron” O’keef
Colville
W. B.S. Higgins
A. S. Blake
Bart Henderson
Yellowstone Country
Bishop” Brooks
Uncle Ben's Gulch
Blackfoot City
Fistle
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Barking Dog
Pyradium Company
Helena, Montana
Canova
T. J. Hocking
Glasgow
By Martha Edgerton Plassmann
Pike County
Posy County
Chrisman
Idaho
East
Lincoln
Glacier National Park
Montana Park
Say
Bayer
Spokane
Spokane Union Stock Yards
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