Billings Rises as Eastern Montana Metropolis and Wool Center
A retrospective on Billings Montana tracing its rise from a 1900s village of 5,000 to a modern regional hub. It highlights wool markets, cattle and sheep shippings, pioneer boosters, and early industries including Erickson & Scott laundry, Chapmans saddlery, and the Billings Brewing Co. with its boast of biliousness free beer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Billings
Montana
Bilngs
Butte
Grea Falls
Bilgs
Burlington
Cody
Wyo
Musselshell Mountains
Texas
Old Mexico
I. D. O’donnell
Hesper Farm
W. O. Parker
Charles King
C. M. Blair
Custer Sheep Company
Snndow Sheep Company
Yellowstone County
Yellowstone
Missouri
Japan
Pacific
Lake of Atlantic Coast
New York
Ohio
Northwest
Post Office Department
Department of Statistics
United States
Sterling
Ill
Spillings
Northern Pacific Railway
Remount Department
Times
Erickson & Scott
St. Paul
First Avenue
Twenty-sixth Street
W. J. Scott
Dakota Line
Livingston
Sheridan
Red Lodge
Chapman
F. B. Chapman
Yellowstone River
Billings Brewing Co
H Mueller
Phil Grein
Log of the Benton steamer preserved by Fort Benton High School
A rediscovered 1881 log from the steamer Benton of the Block U line records its first trip of the year from Sioux City to Fort Benton with 183 tons of freight and 26 passengers, noting wood loads, bars, groundings, and two drownings, along with later notes on pioneers L H Fenske and A L Babcock, and booster-era Billings views.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Benton
T. C. Power & Bros
Fort Benton
Power
E. Z. Johnson
Loma
Sioux City
Town
Snider's
Bedrock
Rapid Ponca
Warner’s
South Bend
Nellie Pack
Brooke’s
Bow River
St. Helena
Yankton
Frankfort
Bonhome Island
Cowgill
Springfield
Peninah
Nevibrias
Running Water Rock
Keegan’s
Yankton Agency
Thar
Randall
Fort Randall
Bar
Peas Island
Mule Head
Cedar Island
Black Hills
Hot Springs Island
la Roches
Rosebud
Dry Island
Peterson's
Fort
Hale
Fort Thompson
Crow Creek Island
Big Bend
Cedar Bluff
Fisherman's
Farm Island
General Terry
Fisher’s
Fort Pierre
Fontanelle
Pierre
Shaunter Island
Terry
Fort Sully
Fort Bennett
Ash Point
Hartichook’s
Pascal's Island
Stockade Point
Blue Blanket Island
Jordan’s Wood Yar
Fort Buford
Buford
Old Fort Union
Red Butte
Poplar River
Wolf Point
Far West
Milk River
Fort Copelin
Fort Peck Wood Yard
Fourth Point
Peck
Rand
Round Butte
Point Panchette
Key West
Bufalen Shoals
Squaw Creek
Squaw Point
Helena
Paul Morris
Carroll
Mouth Sandy
Cow Island
Bud’s Pande
Dauphin’s
Wood Yard
Drowned Man’s
Arrow River
Hole In Wall
Mouth Marias
Claggett
Sandy
Fort Peck
Speak Eagle
Spread Eagle
Poplar Creek
Boney Point
Red Cloud
Fort Stevenson
Knife River
Bismarck
Cannon Ball River
Standing Rock
Swan Lake Creek
Swan Ras Wood Yard
Butte
McKenzie’s Point
Western
Cheyenne
Nellie Peck
Chapel Creek
St. John’s Wood Yard
General Mead
Fort Hale
Wonetstar Agency
Fort Ranall
Newark
T. Townsend
Miss Dyer Leads Montana State Freshman Counselor Program
Chief Counselor Miss Dyer of Brady heads Montana State University counseling system for freshman orientation. The program, sponsored by the Associated Women Students, assigns upperclass counselors to advise two or three little sisters throughout their first college year. Miss Dyer belongs to Sigma Kappa and works with Pan-Hellenic Council and the Kaimin staff.
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Miss Dyer
Brady
Montana State University
Associated Women
Sigma Kappa Social Sorority
pan-Hellenic Council
Kaimin
Beavers Dig Up Sugar Beets Near Hardin
Deputy Game Warden Frank Star ina reported from Helena that a rancher along the Little Big Horn river near Hardin faced beavers coring sugar beets. Beavers had cleared about a quarter acre, topping and carrying the beets to a lodge for winter use.
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Frank Starina
Helena Department
Little Big Horn
Hardin
Also Mentioned on This Page
Edward B. Reynolds
A. I. Babcock
A. L. Babcock
F. B. Connelly
Babcock
Wyoming
Yellowstone National Bank
H. W. Rowley
P. B. Moss
First National Bank of
Billings State Bank
Hogue, Robinson & Co
Wth
Nitory
Fort Yates
Sullivan's Yard
Bend
Yates
Battle Creek
Fort Rice
Jack’s
Fort Lincoln
Lincoln
Pamtra Wood
Fort Berthold
Pleasant Point
White Earth River
Strawberry Island
Fort Claggett
Dorothy Dyer
Tanya Sakon
Glacier Production Company
Butte, Mont