Gambling gunfight in Missoula 1891 ends in sheriff killing Louis Simons
Missoula sheriff Bill Houston engages gambler Louis Simons in a dawn confrontation on West Front street. Simons wounds Officer Billie Houtchens. Houston and deputy Ike Abernathy shoot Simons, who dies hours later. Coroner's verdict finds Houston acted to arrest the deceased.
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Montana
Bill Houston
Missoula County
Missoula
Louis Simons
Houston
Law and Order
Simons
William “Billie" Houtchens
Exchange
West Front Street
Honsinger
Lynch
Louie
Pansy
Billie’ Houtchens
Houtchens
Kentucky
Ed Hart
Fletcher M. Houtchens
Billie Houtchens
Great Palls
Billie
Spokane
William “Billy” Houtchens
Helena Fourth of July 1865 Gala In Montana
The Helena celebration described by a Montana Post correspondent features a large procession to Owyhee Park, a 60 by 60 foot pavilion, a speaker's raised stand, and a day of music and dancing. Women in silk gowns from Last Chance and chivalrous men filled two long banquet tables as rain and cold threatened.
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M. E. Plassmann
Montana
Virginia City
Helena
Montana Post
Capitol
David Hilger
Gem of the Mountains
Owyhee Park
J. W. McLaughlin
E. Warren Toole
George M. Pinney
Terpsichore
Last Chance Cercek
Last Chance Gulch
Missouri
New York
Godey
Mirror of
Elysium
Wwell
Montana Territory
Episodes From the Life of American George Chubb
Walter I. Shay recounts the Montana tale of George Chubb known as American George and the Ten Day Man. His bravado and pace through Butte and Marysville mines ended tragically when a premature blast hurled him into a winze, with his death ruled a delirium tremens case for his partner Corway a year later.
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George” Chubb
George
Marysville
Corway
Chubb
Carway
Cal
George Carway
Pennsylvania
Butte
John O'Farrell
East Park Street
Pass Found At Marias Pass Glacier National Park
The 1854 pass near the northern Rocky Mountains south of Glacier National Park remained unvisited until 1889. Early explorers like Lewis and Clark nearly reached it. the Blackfeet impeded progress. John F. Stevens finally crossed Marias pass in midwinter, with a lone Flathead companion, earning commemoration in bronze.
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Ing
Rocky Mountains
Glacier National Park
Lewis and Clark
Oregon Territory
Tinkham
Cut Bank Pass
Nyack Creek
Flathead River
Marias Pass
Doty
Stevens
Marias River
Marlas
Ft. Benton
War Department
Great Northern
Helena
Pacific
John F. Stevens
Rocky Mountain
Marlas Pass
Ee Pass
Motorman Stanley Jones Killed at Belmont Mine
Stanley Jones a motorman at the Belmont mine in Butte was instantly killed when his head struck a chute as the motor he rode moved. It is supposed he was riding backward when the impact threw him from the vehicle.
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Stanley Jones
Belmont
Butte
Jones
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Asir
James W. Faulds
Tinhorn
Ike Abernathy
Eamy
Oliver
Egnell
Walter I. Shay
Forge Chubb
Granite
Marysvile
Park
Arizona
Park Street
Rialto Theater
Jack
Deaconess Hospital
Never Sweat Mine
Denny
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