Col J I Allen Frontier Scout and Trader Dies at Ninety
Col J I Allen a veteran of the American Fur Company era and later a Crow agency trader died at about ninety. A lifelong frontier figure, he helped establish Fort Pease at the Big Horn, served as a scout under Miles and Doane, and ran stores at Mission Creek, Stillwater and Columbus. He claimed ties to eminent figures like Liver Eating Johnson and One-Eyed Billy Hamilton and was the last survivor of the Sioux siege of Fort Pease.
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American Fur Company
Fort Pease
Big Horn River
L. J. I. Allen
General Miles
Onele Billy” Hamilton
Johnson
Joe” Anderson
Pope
Northwest
Colonel Allen
Mission Creek
Livingston
Rosebud
Absarokee
Stillwater
Columbus
Horace Countryman
William Norton
Albert Myers
Buffalo
N. Y
Missouri River
Spread Eagle
Fort Benton
Dawson
Yellowstone
Gros Ventre
Trdians
Basrel
Allen
St. Louis
Montana
Crow Agency
Yellowstone Park
Horn Miler
Bart Henderson
Cooke Pe
Bozeman
Maj
F. D. Pease
Paul McCormick
Fort
Bill Brockway
Yellowstone County
Coun Raiens
Fort Ellis
Black Hills
Custer
Fort Abraham Lincoln
Zed Daniels
Sir Bull
Viece
Cl Even Arene
Grant Marsh
West
Alien
Doane
Second Cavalry
Vaughn and Ragsdale
California
Commercial Club
Tom
Los Angeles
Conservation proposal for Little Belts game reserve grows
Stanford Rod and Gun Club favors extending the Little Belt reserve to include Blacktail hills and Dry Wolf and Running Wolf canyons. A committee handles details as licenses rise, with 150000 trout fry planted in Dry Wolf and Running Wolf streams and about 50 deer moved near the ranger station. A herd of 20 or more deer wintered near the station this year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Blacktail Hills
Jefferson Forest
Stanford
Stanford Club
Stacey Eckert
Billings Townsite Boom Fuels Investor Frenzy East to Twin Cities
A. K. Yerkes recounts early Billings efforts to start a newspaper, battling Coulson townsite, while a Western real estate boom draws East Coast money. He recalls traveling with Neill Lane, gambling, and a surge of speculation as Minnesota ads hype the Billings boom and investors rush to buy lots.
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Billings
Twin Cities
Montana
A. K. Yerkes
Coulson
Philadelphia
Alderson
McAdow
Northern Pacific
Coulson High
Neill Lane
Beaver Tooth
Lane
Fargo
St. Paul
Alexandria
Pioneer Press
Minnesota
Grea
Constitution Convention Survivors Now Number 12
With the death of Joseph Kemp Toole Montana's first governor in statehood the list of surviving members of Montana's constitutional convention held at Helena in 1889 was cut to 12 names. The living include judges Winston Goddard Loud Hartman and others plus lawyers Bickford Kanouse Durfee Joy Ramsdell Eaton Field Hammond. Toole acted as representative in Congress and introduced the statehood bill signed by President Cleveland in March 1889.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joseph Kemp Toole
Montana
Statehood
Helena
George B. Winston
Deer Lodge
O. F. Goddard
Billings
C. H Loud
Miles City
Walter M. Bickford
Missoula
J. E. Kanouse
Townsend
D. M. Durfee
Philipsburg
Charles H. Hartman
Fort Benton
Allen R. Joy
W. R. Ramsdell
George O. Eaton
William T. Field
R. E. Hammond
Toole
Congress
Cleveland
State game farm plans for Deer Lodge Montana
Montana fish and game commission votes to start a farm at Warm Springs or Deer Lodge with expert survey of sites breeding pens and stock for Chinese pheasants Hungarian partridges and other birds. Beavers creek opened to fishing while some creeks have seasons suspended or closed amid 1931 rules.
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Warm Springs
Deer Lodge
Montana Fish and Game Commission
Helena
Montana
United States Biological Survey
Polson
Libby
Kalispell
Bitter Root
Charles Hutton
Big Horn County
Lake Frances
Pondera County
Big Timber Club
Lewistown
Lewis and Clark
Truman Smith
Hamilton
Beaver Creek
Hill County
Cottonwood Creek
Powell
Horse Racing Planned for Montana State Fair in Helena
Fair officials begin work on premium lists for the Montana State Fair in Helena to run September 23 to 28. State fair secretary A D Thomas says five or six days of horse racing will be scheduled following the legislature passage of the co-ownership racing measure.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Montana
Helena
A. D. Thomas
State Fair
Trunk Heist Delay Then Mud Hole Rescue
A traveler recounts paying to regain trunks, riding by stage to Junction City twenty miles away, facing taunts en route. Midnight, the coach sinks in a river flood mud hole, a voice from darkness urges rescue, and the party moves to higher ground before securing the trunks and continuing calmly.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Junction City
Forsythe
Junction
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Col
J. I. Allen
New York
Musselshell
Hugh L. Scott
Scott
Joseph
Clark
Miles
Bennett Creek
Kelly
Benjamin Franklin
Forsyth
Absarokee Agency
Little Belts
Stanford Rod and Gun Club
Stanford Rod
Wee
Arefer
Davenport Hotel, Inc
Davenport
Inland Empire
United States
Murpheey
Favre
Constitution Convention
DEER
Fish and Game Commission
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