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Stormy Days of First Montana Legislature
The article recalls the seventeenth Montana legislature convening in Helena during hard times from bad crops and economic strains. It contrasts with the 1864 1865 Bannack session under Governor Edgerton, noting factional Civil War sympathies, rough living conditions, disputed oaths and seating, and early legislative acts including charters and infrastructure plans amid a tense political climate.
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Montana
Seventeenth Legislative Assembly
Helena
Placer Hotel
Main Street
National Congress
Sidney Edgerton
Francis M. Thompson
First Legislative Assembly
Bannack
House of Representatives
Territory of
Edgerton
James Tufts
Tufts
Cottonwood
Deer Lodge
Hell Gate
Missoula
Fort Owen
Bitter Root Valley
Blackfoot City
Alder Gulch
Madison County
House
Grahe Detwiler
Congress
Council
Legislative Assembly
Virginia City
Gallatin
Fort Benton
Prickly Pear Valley
Bannack City
Jocko
Willow Creek
Hellgate
United States Treasury
Charles S. Bagg