Pioneer Driller Gordon Campbell Wins In Sweetgrass Arch
Editor Tom Stout chronicles Gordon Campbell’s 1920s return to the Sweetgrass arch in northern Montana after earlier dives into Devils Basin and Cat Creek. Through harsh winters, funding struggles, and skeptical talk, Campbell drilled back to success and found oil, signaling a commercial producer at his north country well.
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Devil’s Basin
Tom Stout
Gordon Campbell
Sweetgrass Arch
Montana
Devils Basin
Musselshell County
Cat Creek
Campbell
North Country
Kevin
Romantic Tale of John Colter and the Upper Missouri Fur Trade
John Colter, famed Lewis and Clark frontiersman, stays in the Upper Missouri beaver paradise after 1806. He aids Manuel Lisa’s fur post at Fort Manuel, travels hundreds of miles among tribes, fights Blackfeet and Crows, and survives a perilous pursuit by running a gauntlet, escaping into a beaver house, then returning to Lisa’s outfit with legendary endurance.
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John Colter
Upper
Missouri
Northwest
Colter
Lewis and Clark
Daniel Boone
Fort Mandan
Pacific
Mississippi
St. Louis
Missouri River
United States
Yellowstone Wonderland
Big Horn River
Wind River
Colorado River
Jackson’s Hole
Yellowstone Country
Lisa
Big Horn
Yellowstone
Fort Manuel
Clark
Marias River
Piegan
Fort
Manuél
Jefferson
Madison
Potts
Beaver House
Madison River
Lisa’s
Three Forks
Andrew Henry
Pinch Smuggler of Ham and Eggs
George Cooney of Helena, brother of E H Cooney of Great Falls, faces a humorous yet tense border incident at a Mexican track. After paying one peso to cross for breakfast ham and eggs, a guard confiscates his food and money, leaving the horse waiting and the ham and eggs gone. He returns to the stable, curses the staff, and later builds a trading post before a Blackfeet attack alters his fate.
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George Cooney
Helena
E. H. Cooney
Great Falls
Tia Juana
Mexico
George
Villa
Cooney Racing Stable
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Stout
North
Charles M. Russell
Christopher Columbus
The
Montana Petroleum World
Blackfeet
Lisa’s Fort
Montanan
Mads of
Whey
America
Rostamy Cereal Companys Inc
Battle
Creoksm
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