Gold Dreams in the Yellowstone Country Evoke 1864 Expedition
In August 1864 Bruffey and T B Sacket set out with 20 days rations to explore the Yellowstone region amid legends of gold. They crossed the Madison at Forman's Crossing and camped on West Gallatin, entering a land framed by Crow and Sioux watch.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Yellowstone
Bruffey
Montana
Virginia City
Thomases
T. B. Sacket
New York ‘State
West Gallatin
Forman
Scenic Georgetown Lake road starts CCC work along lake shores
L M Stewart announces 25 man CCC crew under Deer Lodge National Forest direction began building fences clearing the 84 mile proposed scenic tour around Georgetown Lake between Anaconda and Philipsburg. Work focuses on 13 1/2 miles from the county road to the east fork road, with completion hoped this season if funds permit.
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Georgetown Lake
Anaconda
Philipsburg
United States Forest Service
L. M. Stewart
Deer Lodge National Forest
Stewart
CCC
Deer Lodge
Forest Service
Rock Creek
Stewart Gard
Deer Lodge Forest Road
Deer Lodge County
Forestry Department
Lake Shore
Granite County Commissioners
Glamor Girl Charlotte Manso Faces Invitations Theft Across Country
A social figure in Mayfair battles theft of invitations to guest of honor events. The piece recalls journeys by horseback near Red Bluff and Warm Spring Creek, with references to Bridger Mountain, East Gallatin, and early travelers like John Bozeman. It details camps, maps, and the allure of gold exploration in rough frontier country.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mayfair
Charlotte Manso
CBS
Bridger Mountain
West Middle Creek
East Gallatin
John Bozeman
Three Forks
Jefferson, Madison and Gallatin
Gallatin
R. C. Knox
al Nichols
Billy Parks
Frank Dunbar
Bozeman
Spanish Jim
Yellowstone
Sour Dough Creek
Is Creek
Two Montana Women Listed in Who's Who in American Art
Mrs. Elizabeth Lochrie of Butte and Mary Meigs Atwater of Basin are named in volume 3 of Who's Who in American Art. Lochrie is listed as painter illustrator and teacher with mural work in public buildings and a Rockefeller Center exhibit. Atwater, a craftsman designer and writer, leads the Shuttle-Craft guild and authored major weaving books. Other Montana artists are noted and the Butte art center plans a fall exhibit.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Montana
Elizabeth D. Lechrie
Butte
Mary Meirs Atwater
Basin
Butte Art Center
American Federation of Arts
Washington, D. C
Lochrie
Rockefeller Center
New York City
North Montana
Minneapolis
Art Academy
Chicago
Julian
Colarossi
Paris
John Landes
Atwater
Shuttle-Craft Guild
Tom Moore
Hamilton
Ingeborg Johnson Merritt
Townsend
Olga Ross Hannon
Bozeman
Irvin Shope
Helena
Lynette Arouni
Great Falls
Billings
LeRoy E. Greene
Will James
James K. Ralston
Hermine H. Roberts
Edmund J. Sawyer
Stevenson
Joan
Denver Art Museum
WPA Art Sect
Miss Montana to Be Named At Falls Fair This Year
North Montana State fair in Great Falls will crown Montana's Miss America contestant during Aug 5 10 with county elimination contests precedin g final selection. Atlantic City committee chose the fair as state elimination venue and pays expenses for the Montana delegate. Contracts for booths and stage dressing rooms were awarded to J C Karaffa and Ray Duggan. The fair will feature Blackfeet handicrafts with tepees and a tribal band plus an exhibit on western travel from travois to automobile supervised by Sid Willis and Bill Shea.
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Montana
Atlantic City
N. J
Great Falls
Fair
North Montana
J. C. Karaffa
Steve Ferche
Roy Anderson
John Sletten
L. L. Rude
Ray Duggan
A. A. Pinski
Blackfeet Reservation
Ler Aing
Sid Willis
Bill Shea
From Bozeman to Yellowstone Trail Tales in 1864
A narrative recounts a trek with Sacket and others through the mountains toward the Yellowstone in September 1864. The group camps, fends off danger, fishes, hunts elk, and notes encounters with other travelers and a Georgian who lured a motherless girl west. The trek passes Yankee Jim Hill and Gardiner as they press toward the Yellowstone Lake, sharing meals and survival details along the way.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Miles
Yellowstone
Minter Creek
Sacket
Yankee Jim Hill
Yankee Jim Hil
Prairies
Gardiner
Yellowstone Lake
Eagle Rock
Willows
Billings Motorcycle Club Through the Years Since 1913
The Billings Motorcycle Club has grown from a 1913 debut with about 20 members to today’s active group of riders. Early races drew thousands at the Midland Empire fair, with state circuits visiting Bozeman Great Falls Helena Miles City and Roundup. Current leaders include Charles Lasher president and Fred Olsen secretary, as the club promotes gypsy tours reliability runs and hill climbs with about 100 machines registered in Yellowstone County.
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Billings
George Bott
August Truman
Clarence H. Lauson
E. J. Robb
Martin Curtis
Oldsters
Joliet
Bozeman
Great Falls
Helena
Miles City
Pat Curtis
Bob Robb
George Turner
Frank Boyd
Don Rieger
Fen G
Johnny Thomas
Charles Spear
Buck Engelhardt
Grant Lamport
Fred Olsen
Joliet Racetrack
Curtis Brothers
Turner
Robb
Nelson Wells
Billings Club
Ira S. Dille
Harry Williams
Alec McLeod
American Motorcycle Association
Stow
R. F E. Cooke
Clarence Lauson
Charles Lasher
Herman Judd
Andrew Duykers
Falls
Myron Erb
Laurel
Montana
Judd
South Bridge
Yellowstone
Organisa
Last Chance’s Gold Findings Spur Alder Gulch Journey
In 1864 the party travels a new route via Three Forks and Crow Creek to prospect along Dry Gulch Small Gulch and Virginia Creek. They settle at Last Chance after July, report satisfactory sluice results, and send Frank Cowan with oxen toward Jefferson River. news reaches after a Yellowstone trip.
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Mullan
Jefferson
Three Forks
Crow Creek
Helena
Virginia Creek
Alder Gulch
John
Gulch
Frank Cowan
White Tail Deer Creek
Jefferson River
Bill Berkin
Jim Gourly
Virginia Ci
Yellowstone
Free Trapper Guides to Fur Riches and Water Volcanoes
A South Fork Snake River trapper joins an expedition seeking abundant fur fields and chronicles encounters with native camps, river journeys, and a water volcano near Yellowstone. He details partners, camps near Alder Gulch, Virginia City, and the Last Chance field rumors sparked by the Cowan party’s June 1864 movements.
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Snake River
Huggs Bay
American Fur Company
Salt Lake
Salmon River
Big Hole
Wisdom River
Hell Gate
Flathead Country
South Snake River
Jackson Lake
Yellowstone Lake
Sacket
Old Camp Gardiner
Little Jake
Yankee Jim Cliffs
Miner Creek
Daley
Mike Ryan
John Martin
Bob
Paradise Valley
Ryan
Martin
Reed
Alder Gulch
Virginia City
Cowan
Aldergulch
John Cowan
Frank Cowan
Miller
Shang
Virginia Creek
Montana WPA Projects Approved by President
Fifteen Works Progress Administration projects in Montana received presidential approval in May with total expenditure of 1,019,958. State WPA Administrator Joseph E. Parker notes one statewide project funding 38,098 for filing and microfilming federal records. County projects include Red Lodge streets and alleys 23,564 Great Falls roads and parks 56,017 and criminal records work 3,237 Helena utilities and streets 252, a 48,540 and other improvements across Flathead Musselshell Pondera Valley Wheatland and related towns.
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Montana
WPA
Joseph E. Parker
Carbon
Red Lodge
Cascade
Great Falls
Fergus
Flathead
Rudyard
Lewis and Clark
Helena
Airport
Mis
Musselshell
Malta
Pondera
Walier
Valley
Glasgow
Wheatland
Cowty
Harlowton
Montana State College to Honor World Traveler Opal Daff
Opal Petrausch Daff, a 1935 Woman's Day speaker and Montana State College alumna, returns from Bombay with a world tour after studying at MSU and earning a degree. She previously worked in Tokyo and Singapore, later marrying A. E. Daff. her career included campus leadership, sorority roles, rifle team captaincy, and the rifle trophy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Montana State College
Orient
Bombay
India
Opal Petrausch Daff
Alpha Omicron Pi
Women's Athletic Association
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Body of Water
Plantacias
Pe Cay
Mary Meigs Atwater
Falls Fair
Nature
Trail Creek
Fridley
Bridger
Vince Moore
Georgia
Nettle
Billings Motorcycle Club
Dem
Vivien Smolen
Campbell
Schaabe
Coben
CS Tre
Betrias
Tet Wood
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