Montana Men at Frisco Meeting Highlight Jake DeHart
Early San Francisco coverage of Montana delegates depicts Gov. Stewart as a potential president and Jake DeHart as a powerful Montana game warden with 150 ushers. The piece recalls DeHart’s past as a pony express rider and stage driver, including a colorful anecdote about a buffalo-bone meal and high prices in the frontier era.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jake DeHart
Jake
Bluecoats
Montana
Jack
San Francisco
de Hart
Jules Remey
Slade
A. J. Slade
Charley
Jules
Berry
Julesburg
Butte
Faro-Bank
Charles Higganbotham pioneer mail carrier to Butte
The Montana frontier rider Higganbotham drove the first mail into Butte on July 4 1866 and later hauled the last mail out on Christmas Day 1881. His career spanned stage driving placer mining Deadwood travel and a seven year European tour with Buffalo Bill’s show carving a legendary western life.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pony Express
Independent Rock
Sweetwater
Pacific Springs
Bennett’s Ferry
North Platte River
Fort Hallack
Elk Mountain
Salt Lake
St. Joe
Wells-Fargo Express
Higginbotham
Bob Woody
Wells Fargo
Charley
Pioneer
Denver
Omaha
Nebraska and
Colorado Line
Julesburg
Fort McPherson
Charley Slade
Virginia City
Bill Berry
Montana
Slade
Mexico City
Great Peace River
Canada
Deadwood
Europe
Charles Higganbotham
Butte
United States Mail
Bret Harte
Mexico
Mississippi River
Peoria
Ill
Helena
Pollinger
Kansas
Fort Halli
Snake River
Sheep Creek
Missoula Gulch
Gimlet Gulch
Centennial Brewery
Ryan’s Canyon
Barrett
Dillon
Sim Estes
Ryan's Canyon
Sim Estes’ Place
J. X. Biedler
Bill Oliver
Birch Creek
Apex Hill
Joe Brown
Big Hole
Charley Wunderlich
Divide
Feely's
Feely Hill
Silver Bow
Humpy Ford
Park Street
Main
Higganbotham
Deer Lodge
Bob
Priest’s Pass
Blackfoot
Stearns
Dog Creek Hill
Buffalo River
Highlands
Fort Benton
T. C. Power
Etbeer
Wise Osborne
Bill Stolte
Cap Bently
Wise
Granite and
Montana and
Park
Tenner
Warfield
Pete
Bill
Bodie Joe
George Moshier
Gilmore & Salisbury
West Quartz Street
George
South Butte
Clark
West Broadway
Fat Jack
Tom Mays
Boston & Montana Mining Company
Meaderville
Anaconda Company
Coeur d’Alenes
National Park
Cinnabar
Mammoth Hot Springs
Buffalo Bill
Chicago
Owen Wister Reflects On Old West In Billings Visit
Noted author Owen Wister, speaking with his sons in Billings, says civilization hasn’t improved the west from a writer’s view. He recalls Billings as a lively cow town in the 1890s and plans a trip to Wyman’s dude ranch near Shell Wyoming. He turns 60 on July 14 and is drafting a manuscript about French battlefields.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
West
Owen Wister
Billings
Montana
Wyoming
W. H. Wyman
Shell
Wyo
California Honey Output 1919 Holds Steady From 1918
California produced about 45 000 cases of extracted honey and six to seven railroad cars of comb in 1919, totaling around 5 600 000 pounds, similar to 1918’s 5 500 000 pounds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
California
Also Mentioned on This Page
Frisco
Bruce Kremer
Beau Brummel
Examiner
Stewart
Eddie Boyden
Chronicle
J. Bruce Kremer
Bruce
Boyden
Mitch Palmer
Cox
J. Bruce
Edwards
Gerard
the Examiner
Sol
Cottonwoods
Texas
Iowa Stage Company
Bob Galloway
Kansas City
Nontana
Treasure State
Charles W. Meade
Bob Tingley
Butte Camp
Placer
Union Pacific
Cheyenne
Salt Lake City
Spring Hill
Boise
Idaho
Great Peace River Country
Brown
Melrose
Bill Warfield
Pete Hanson
This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!