Founders chose Billings site for convenient road link to Fort Benton
The townsite of Billings was placed for easy overland connection to Fort Benton via Alkali creek routes and proximity to mining centers like Maiden. Herman Clark and Frederick Billings of the Minnesota & Montana Land Improvement Co led the effort, aiming for a site with strong freighting prospects as the Northern Pacific survey neared.
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Benton
Oak Seeone
Billings
Northern Pacific Railway
Montana
Bil
Yellowstone River
Canyon Creek
Laurel
Minnesota& Montana Land Improvement Co
Herman Clark
Frederick Billings
Clark
Fort Benton
Fort Maginnis
Maiden
Yellowstone Valley
Missouri River
Northern Pacific
Yellowstone
Musselshell
Judith Basin
Great Northern
Great Falls
Lvestock Industrie Musselshell
Judith Bas
Terriory
Alkali Creek
Painted Robe
Lavina
Judith Gap
Junction
Custer
Huntley
Abraham Lincoln
Minnesota
Oregon
Minnesota & Montana Land & Improvement Co
Rockslide Reveals Eggs of Dinosaur Near Waterton Park
Workmen widening the Chief Mountain highway at Waterton National Park unearthed fossil dinosaur eggs after a rockslide. The eggs, football sized, date to prehistoric North America and will likely be sent to Ottawa’s national museum.
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Chief Mountain
Waterton National Park
North America
Alberta
Montana
National Museum
Ottawa
Bayer Aspirin for Quick Relief Promises Immediate Action
An advertisement touts Genuine Bayer Aspirin as dissolving instantly to start relieving pains from headaches neuralgia and neuritis almost immediately. It argues buyers should insist on Bayer Aspirin to ensure genuine product and swift relief, urging immediate trial.
Poet of Sour Dough Creek and Montana editor
More than 35 years ago A. K. Yerkes influenced Montana affairs as editor of the Bozeman Chronicle, a leading weekly. He ran a Coulson newspaper in the Yellowstone valley, gaining the nickname "Poet of Sour Dough Creek" and now resides in Seattle.
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A. K. Yerkes
Montana
Bozeman Chronicle
Yerkes
Coulson
Yellowstone Valley
Billings
Sour Dough Creek
Seattle
Drama in Boots and Saddle Call at Early Army Fort
The article recalls Fort Custer in 1880 where soldiers and Crow Indians attended an amateur stage, with a live chase scene after a Sioux raid. John Maguire staged Captain John Smith as crowds fled to join Plenty Coups’ council, ending at dawn with recaptured horses and a nightlong pursuit.
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Post
George Marsh
Montana
Fort Custer
Little Log Theater
Second Cavalry
Big Horn
Little Big Horn
Hardin
Custer
John Smith
Buell
Billings Beginnings and the Clark Fork Settlement Story
The Clark's Fork bottom area near Billings grew from railroad land sales to a planned city with irrigated farms. Wisconsin settlers formed the Ripon colony and built the big ditch while mining and coal prospects nearby signaled regional growth. Early town plans westward expansion and misaligned Coulson hopes shaped street numbering and depot placement, linking Billings to a galaxy of journalists and pioneers such as Abel Yerkes and John Matheson.
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Northern Pacific Railroad
Frederick Billings
Railway Company
Clark's Fork
Clark’s Fork
Yellowstone
Young's Point
Park City
Billings
Wisconsin
Ripon
Momanhd
Coulson
P. W. McAdoo
J. J. Alderson
McAdoo
Alderson
First
Montana
Bill Nye
Mark Twain
West
Abel K. Yerkes
John D. Matheson
Alexander Devine
H. F
Charles McFarlin
Samuel Panton
A. Hersey
Edgar B. Camp
E. H. Becker
Jean Decker
Yerkes
Miles City
Yellowstone Journal
Sour Dough Creek
Walter Mathewson
Cognac Seal Guards Wheatland Legion’s Last Survivor
During Armistice day dedication at Harlowton a hermetically sealed monument was erected in the Wheatland American Legion post building. It contains the post charter membership roll the 1936 membership a dedicatory program and a bottle of cognac. It is to be opened by the last surviving member with a plate inscribed Here lies the body of John Cognac. The last is first. The rest are gone. I drink to them. Time marches on.
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Wheatland American Legion Post
Harlowton
Wheatland Post
John Cognac
Old World touches to Red Lodge Rink House
Preparations for a warming house at Red Lodge are moving quickly with timber from Rock Creek canyon and gasoline donated for log transport. Italian and Scandinavian artisans will shape a historic wall and logwork, while regionals citeMontana press figures linked to the Billings Gazette in its early consolidation and notable editors and correspondents.
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Red Lodge
Rock Creek Canyon
Italy
Cardston to Celebrate Jubilee Year Next Year
Cardston Alberta known as the first Mormon settlement on British soil plans a golden jubilee in the coming year. The town founded in 1887 by Charles Ora Card and 30 families from Cad Valley Utah will host thousands of visitors led by Joseph Y. Card grandson of Brigham Young. The original pioneer home remains standing as Cardston grows among southern Alberta Mormon communities.
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Cardston
Alberta
Babb
Calgary
Banff
Will
Charles Ora Card
Utah
Idaho
Montana
Washington
British Columbia
Prairie Country
Macleod
International Boundary
Lee’s Creek
Card
First Presidency
Mormon Church
Cad Valley
Joseph Y. Card
Brigham Young
Zina Young Card
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Bozan
Frontier
West 27Th St
RAW Fur Corp
Railway Express
John Maguire
Montana-Wyoming
Colstrip
Wyoming
Bozeman
Sa Site
Billings Herald
Rustler
Billings Gazette
Matheson
Hersey
Swordbearer
London Spectator
Black Hills
Old Butte
The
Montana Standard
Charles Card
Canada
Mormon Colony
Au Ea
Larry
Buster” Crabbe
Flash Gordon
Cas
Frank Rugeman
Manhattan
Anaconda
Montana State Experiment Station
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