First Two Settlers on Missouri River Ambushed Near Great Falls
The memoir recalls Dan Tressler and Wyllis Hedges, early Great Falls settlers and sheepmen, with one killed by Indians in 1876. It recounts the 1878 river navigation plan for Helena and Portage Coulee, encounters with settlers like Russell, and Hedges later becoming a prominent Lewistown figure.
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Missouri River
Great Falls
Dan Tressler
Montana
Vigilantes
Malta
Tressler
Dan
37Th
Ohio Infantry
Bannack
Virginia City
Uncle Dan
Flat Willow Creek
Billings
Little Rockies
Gill Ranch
Sandusky
Maude Whitcomb
Mabel Walker
Neihart
Mildred Smith
Winnett
ALLIS_ A. HEDGES
Lewistown
Electric City
Mr. Hedges
Cornelius Hedges
Helena
Wyllis Hedges
Buchanan County
Iowa
Missouri
United States
Yale
James J. Hill
Paris Gibson
Great Northern Railway
Young Hedges
Musselshell
Hedges
Roosevelt
Federal Land Office
Taft
Big Canal Contract Goes To Low Bidder In Sun River Project
Ten bids for canals and structures on Greenfield division part two were opened at Great Falls. Fred Coolidge of Laramie Wyoming submitted the lowest bid of 66 539 for structural work and Geo Sanford Sunriver project manager will recommend awarding the contract.
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Sun _ river
Great Falls
Fred Coolidge
Laramie
Wyo
Geo. Sanford
Sunriver
Pioneer wood pile at Sun River Crossing described
The plan describes piling wood four feet high in long rows for measure, cut in four-foot lengths for store and settler use at Sun River Crossing. Settlers expected to winter here and haul wood by crossing the river ice from the island or farther shore. They built a cabin, found food, and relied on wild game for sustenance.
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Great Falls
Fort Benton
Missouri River
Helena
Virginia City
Deer Lodge
Diamond City
Portage Coulee
Falls
Stubbs Ferry
Three Forks
Missouri
Col
A. M. Woolfolk
Woolfolk and Toole
B. F. Marsh
Sanford & Evans
Belt Mountains
Craig and
Cascade
Sun River Crossing
Montana Wolf a Film Star in Northland Pictures
The gray timber wolf Trixie from the Highwood mountains near Great Falls is leased to Trimble and Murfin for First National Pictures. Six weeks ago seven wolf pups were captured and sold to the film colony. Foresters say the Highwoods host natural wolves ideal for northern set scenes.
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Strongheart
Trimble-Muffin Company
First National Pictures Corporation
Trixie
Stacy Eckert
Highwood Mountains
Great Falls
Montana
Eckert
B. J. Yeomans
Jefferson National Forest
Joe Brandle
Highwood Ranger Station
Trimble
Murfin
Yeomans
Motion Picture Company
Northland
Eckertas
Highwood
Sam Stephenson
Stephenson
Canada
Chancellor Elliott Returns as Purdue President Elect
Dr Edward C Elliott chancellor of the University of Montana returned to Helena after weeks away visiting Lafayette Indiana and New York City. He will assume the Purdue post on September 1 and spend much time in Helena until then.
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Elliott Home
Edward C. Elliott
University of Montana
Purdue University
Helena
Lafayette
Ind
Purdue
New York City
Butte Business College Named Seventh Largest in Country
Alonzo F. Rice, president and owner, built the Butte Business College into a major national school. The institution ranks seventh in the U S among its kind, with graduates thriving across Montana and neighboring states. Rice, born 1867 in Missouri, arrived in Montana in 1889 and helped found the college.
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Alonzo F. Rice
Butte Business College
United States
Montana
States
Professor Rice
Missouri
Missouri Normal and Sedalia Business College
Silver Bow Club
Butte, Country Club
Elka
Butte Chamber of Commerce
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Pioneer
By Wyllis A. Hedges
Sun River
Robert Vaughn
Vaughn
U. S. Land Office
Charles A. Broadwater
Jack
John W.) Russell
Russell
Sun River Valley
City Bridge
Willows
Fort Shaw
Bill
Bob” Vaughn
Martin Maginnis
Congress
City of
Amy
Nature
Grape-Nuts
Postum Cereal Company, Inc
Battle Creek, Mich
Montana Wolf
Alonzo F. Elece
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