Cooke City Montana A Mining Camp With Big Ups and Downs
The story traces Cooke City at Yellowstone’s northeast edge from its 1870 discovery by hardy prospectors to repeated boom bust cycles. Obstructed by Congress, a railway, and park boundaries, the town survived with mining bands, saloons, and rugged pioneers, awaiting renewed fortunes amid ongoing prospecting and tourism.
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Yellowstone Park
Dokerty
Montana
Congress
W. H. Banfill
Barrly
Cooke City
Leadville
New World
Horn Miller
Bart Henderson
Ed Hibbard
James Gourley
Old Crow Agency
Mission Creek
Livingston
Yellowstone River
Bear Gulch
Emigrant
Yellowstone Country
Soda Butte Creek
Yellowstone
Clark's Fork
Cache Creek
Sam Shively
Pat O'Hara
Bill
Bozeman
Eastern Montana Mining Company
Josep
Nez Perces
Clark’s Fork
Crow Reservation
Republic
Jay Cooke, Jr
Cooke
Big Thin Cooke
Clark's Fork City
Sigmund Or
Sam” Deutsch
Edelweiss
Billings
Washington
J. A. Savage
Allan R. Joy
Alvin P. Vinnedge
Sigmund Deutsch
Deutsch
E. H. Topping
Jack Baronette
Zed Daniels
Dave Boerum
George Huston
John F. Work
George Easton
Tom Miner
Joe Keeney
Cooper
Col
Dan Noble
Jack Alien
Cosmopolitan Hospital
Martin Rammel
Crandall Creek
Columbus
Red Lodge
Western Smelting and Power Company
Glengarry Mining Company
Grasshopper
New Dresses for The Peace Gil
Mae Martin promotes Diamond Dyes with testimonials from a mother in Little Rock about reworking out of style dresses. She claims the dye kit revitalizes garments without harming fabric and touts a free color guide book Color Craft from Diamond Dyes Burlington Vermont.
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Little Rock
Arkansas
Mae Martin
Home Service Dept
Diamond Dyes
Burlington
Vermont
Giant Springs Old Silver Smelter Stack Blasted Down
The 155 foot high 12 foot base smokestack of the 1888 Giant Springs silver smelter near Great Falls, built by Montana Smelting and later operated by American Smelting and Refining, was destroyed with dynamite on Aug. 18 by East Helena experts. Judge F. M. Pyle aided with construction, blasting, and connects to local history as the landmark vanished after a 12 year run and ore shipments ended in 1900.
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Giant Springs
Great Falls
Amokestack
American Smelting and Refining Company
East Helena
Montana Smelting Company
Harry Child
Yellowstone Park Transportation Company
Nethart
Wolf Creek
Barker
Ontana
Nelhart
Helena
Butte
F. M. Pyle
Judge Pyle
Pyle
Child
Cascade County
A. R. McKenzie
A. 8
McKenzie
Joe Bevich
Mr. Devich
John Percich
Frank Saseek
Joe Gough
Great Palma
State Fish and Game Commission
Bear disrupts chase as sheep herder flees through timber
A herder near Martinsdale, Joe Burdean, faced a bear that diverted from a lamb he tended. After a shot wounded him the bear charged. Burdean fired again but missed. He ran for safety while the bear knocked two sheep down and then disappeared into the timber.
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Joe Burdean
Moores
Martinsdale
Anys
Mr. Burdean
Eastern Montana Normal School Expands Facilities
Dr. L. B. McMullen announces four additional rooms for classes at the eastern Montana normal school. Last year the school used space in Billings high school. this year the new rooms are scattered across the city to accommodate the expanded program.
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L. B. McMullen
Eastern Montana Normal School
Billings High School
Shoemaker escorts Col. Bates at Crow Agency grounds study
James A. Shoemaker of Billings served as escort for Col. Charles Bates retired who has conducted an extensive review of the Custer battle and is surveying the Crow Agency grounds to assess local conditions.
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James A. Shoemaker
Billings
Crow Agency
Charles Bates
Trip Down Yellowstone Im 1865 Fraught With Hardship and Danger
A reminiscence recounts Allen Hosmer and family’s 1865 Yellowstone-Missouri River journey starting September 21 from Virginia City. They faced a wagon accident, feared Indian war parties, and navigated the Yellowstone in a mixed flotilla, meeting Fort Sully and hearing Two Lances’ eloquent peace speech.
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Yellowstone
Allen
Judge Hosmer
Hosmer
Virginia City
Sam Russell
Russell
Bozeman
Hosmers
Butte
Knox and Bradbury
Bivens
van Cleave
Hanson
Fort Sully
Two Lances
Irish kin claim fortune of late Butte railway worker
In Butte two years after William Welch died at 78 with $4,800 in the bank, Irish relatives from Kilkenny flood attorney Thomas C. Malee with claims to Welch’s estate. Dozens insist they are uncles aunts nephews or nieces seeking a share, many inclosing birth certificates.
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Walshes
Welches
County Kilkenny
Ireland
Willam Welch
Butte
Mr. Welch
Thomas C. Malee
Kilkenny
America
Malee
County
Kilkenny People
Welch
Anya
William Welch
Killxenny
William E. Carroll
Electric Cutters Improve Mine Operations at Belt
Sam Williamson and Robert Heron, operators of the B. and M. coal mine northeast of Belt, have installed electric rock and coal cutters to remove rock rib and slate before breaking coal. The new equipment promises labor savings in cleaning and enhances coal quality.
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Sam Williamson
Robert Heron
B. and M
Belt
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Emigrant Gulch
Colonel Bates
M. E. Plassmann
Alexander Legegnt
lJeal
J. Allen Hosmer
Missouri
Oregon Trail
Big Horn
Old Fort Sarpy
Fort Alexander
Fort Bridger
Brasseau
Fort William
M. KE. Piassm
Scores Claim
Butte Estate
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