Montana Prairie Schools Built By Tact and Sacrifice
The piece recounts how settlers in 1969 Montana created and expanded a local education system. It notes bringing in a teacher, funding a building, and forming a district with homegrown trustees, later adding a town, two to three teachers, and a four year high school. Pupils later entered the University of California, Northwestern, and the University of Montana.
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Russell Sage Foundation
Montana
Central School
Jim Hill
Eonty
Nome
Abe
University of California
Northwestern University
University of Montana
State Department
Helena
Skyline Drive in Glacier National Park Opens to View
Construction of the Sky Line Drive in Glacier National Park advances with August milestone as the first car reaches Golden Stairs on St. Marys Lake. Officials expect completion by 1928. The piece notes government involvement and local school funding debates amid the project.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Glacier National Park
Golden Stairs
St. Mary’s Lake
United States
Cordelling a Flat Boat to Fort Benton 1852
In 1852 Alexander Culbertson at Ft Union and Peter A. Sharp sent Louis Letellier to Ft Benton to build a flat boat. A crew of twenty five plus natives cordelled the craft upstream, faced shallow channels and fords, endured drough and duress, and ferried goods and men toward Fort Benton amid Blackfeet interactions and severe travel hardships.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fort Benton
Fort Union
M. E. Plassmann
Alexander Culbertson
Ft. Union
Peter A. Sharp
American Fur Company
Louis Letelier
Ft. Benton
Letellier
Quebec
Upper
Missouri
Malcolm Clark
Prickly Pear Canyon
Baker
Baptiste Champagne
Cordelle
Clark
Fur Companies
Hamel’s Island
Cordelie
Dauphin
Rapid
A Pablo
Prince Maximilian
White Castle
Teton
Log Hut Dispute over Miles City First Dwelling Sparked
Oscar Brackett of Ismay recalls arriving with General Miles in 1876 and building a log structure for woodchoppers on the Tongue river. He counters T D Coats of Moberly claiming Coats built Miles City’s first white dwelling. Brackett notes earlier stationing, mail route work, and Fort Keogh beginnings.
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Not
T. D
Brick) Coats
Moberly
Miles City
Oscar Brackett
Ismay
Montana
H. T. Thompson
Fifth Infantry
Miles
Tongue River
Coats
Mr. Brackett
Moorhead
N. P
Black Hills
Fort Keogh
United States Range Experiment Station
Brakett
Also Mentioned on This Page
Montana Prairies
Anne Hawkins
Lucy Darling
Bannack
Great Falls
Lewistown
Whitehall
Oscar Brakett
T. D. Coats
Custer County
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