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War Hero with Many Medals Heads for Anaconda Poor Farm
Patrick Duane, known as Black Paddy, an Irish born veteran of Crimea and China campaigns, settled in Montana after a long military career and travels. He now spends his final days at Deer Lodge county farm, after a life of danger, glory, and hard luck.
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Montana
Anaconda
Great Commonwealth of
Crimea
Turkey
Mohammed
Great Britain
Deer Lodge
County Galway
Ireland
Duane
Birr
King’s County
First
Royal Regiment of Infantry
Graham
J. P. Gore
Castlebar
Athlone
Czar Nicholas
Russia
England
Sublime Porte
France
German
Austria
Richard William Hewey
Cephalonia
Pennyfeather
Balaklava
Inkermann
Black Sea
Hong Kong
China
Strabanzy
Pang Wanching
Bruce
Shanghai
Peking
Tientsin
Hope Grant
Taku
Pehtang
Chan-chia-Wan
Pekin
Hsien-Feng
Chan-chia- Wan
Robert Napier
Tien-tsin
Manchester
Thomas Duane
Sixty-fourth
Chelsea
Aldershot
America
United States
Atlantic Seaboard
St Louis
Kansas City
Virginia City
Bannack
Boomer Dan
Silver Bow
Blackfoot
Bear Gulch
Garrison
Beargulch
Bearmouth
Butte
Bob McMinn
Davis
A. J. Davis
Willow Creek
Black Paddy
Bobby Burns
Nicotine