Miner Miles Cavanaugh Sr. Pioneer of Butte and Helena
Grace Stone Coates recounts Miles Cavanaugh Sr who spent years in western mining, moved from Colorado to Montana in 1863 during Alder Gulch fever, led to Silver Bow and Butte as an early mining authority. He later supervised mineral lands under President Cleveland and died in Helena on January 3, 1915.
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Grace Stone Coates
Milles Cavanaugh
Dover
N. J
Michigan
Colorado
Pike's Peak
Virginia City
Silver Bow County
Butte
Cleveland
Montana
Helena
Margaret
W. C. Flinn
Miles J. Cavanaugh
Golden
Colo
Alder Gulch
Bannack
Idaho
Denver
Dennis
Journey to Alder Gulch Amid Whiskey and Indians
A trading wagon party travels from Denver toward Alder Gulch loaded with provisions and whisky. They outpace Belcher, barter with soldiers at Fort Bridger, and dodge hostile Indians while crossing the Bear River area. Sullivan’s rusty revolver misfires and three ducks fall to its broken stock. Nine or ten horsemen appear on a bridle path signaling danger.
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Belcher
Denver
Alder Gulch
Sullivan
Fort Bridger
Shea
Lander
Big Muddy Creek
Bear River
Wes
Bridger
Father of Col W B Thompson a Montana pioneer leader
William Thompson, father of Col W B Thompson, was a renowned Montana pioneer and former mayor of Butte. He helped found Yankton arrivals in 1863, built sash and lime kilns, constructed mackinaw boats for river transit, led an 168 man expedition to the Yellowstone, and later ran sawmills in Virginia City and Butte.
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Colonel Thompson
William Thompson
Montana
Butte
Thompson
Yankton
Dakota Territory
Virginia City
Landers
Alder Gulch
Yellowstone River
Missouri River
Missouri
Fort Benton
Cow Island
Marias River
Yellowstone
Painted Woods
Fort Unoin
Fort Buford
Fort Rice
Sioux City
Minnesota
Michigan
Canada
Helena
Griffith
Indian horse theft and frontier voyage to Virginia City
The party discovers horses missing after a night in open country. They spot the herd in a ravine and one man believes Indians are hidden. After rest at Soda Springs with Mormon settlers and soldiers, they reach Virginia City in four weeks and three days, finding lawlessness and selling mining tools and wagons at a profit.
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Belcher
Sullivan
Soda Springs
Snake River
Beaver Dick
Salt Lake Road
Virginia City
Denver
United States
Stinking Water Valley
Ruby
Forbes
Vig- Nantes
Nez Perce Scout Recalls Freight Train Massacre Story
An elderly Nez Perce visitor near Hays recounts the Helena trail ambush on Crow Creek during the Nez Perce war. He describes how six white freighters, armed and positioned, were surrounded and killed in minutes while Indians looted and burned the wagons, with no Indian fatalities.
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Gros Ventres
Hays
Crow Creek
Missouri River
Joseph
Miles
Snake Creek
Montana
Idaho
Big Hole
Missouri
Cow Creek
Fort Assinniboine
Fort Benton
Helena
Little Rockies
Bear Paw Mountains
Benton
Nez Perces
Indians and Soldiers Halt Desert Journey in Wyoming
A wagon train survivor recounts hiding horses, a demijohn drink, and a tense encounter with mounted men believed to be Indians. Soldiers later arrived. the deserter was cleared, and the group moved to camp after a grave marked killed by Indians. The expedition pressed onward despite fresh Mormon deaths and a lonesome, dangerous crossing.
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Soday Springs
FERA preschool program to aid Montana youngsters
Mrs. Annmabele Edinger announces emergency nursery schools for relief families in Montana. Fifty-seven trained teachers from Montana State College will staff centers where 2 to 4 year olds receive meals, nurse oversight, naps, and structured activities from 9 to 3 30.
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Montana
FERA
Annmabele Edinger
Divide
Montana State College
Edinger
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Miles Cavanaugh
Montana Territory
Grace Stone Ceates
Raed Veal
Col. W. B. Thompson
Agricultural Division
Department OF Agriculture Agricultural Building
Salem
Oregon
Ereery
W. H. Lytle
Anaconda Copper Mining Company
Conda
Trex
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