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Two Thousand Expert Montana Riflemen Rise in State Movement
Montana forms a large rifle club network led by Captain D. Gay Stivers as the National Rifle Association links with state efforts to create home guard regiments. Helena and Butte clubs mobilize dozens of members while a long list of local chapters across Montana reports membership numbers and secretary names.
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War Department
Montana
Stivers
D. Gay Stivers
Rocky Mountain Rifle Club
Butte
America
National Rifle Association of America
National Board For the Promotion of
Congress
National Association
Helena
Stewart
Anaconda Rifle Club
Fred Fisher
Care Copper City Commercial Company
Anaconda
Big Timber Military Rifle Club
Ray Y. Willman
Big Timber
Billings Rifle and Gun Club
A. H. McArthur
Billings
Blackfoot Rifle Club
Daniel Kelleher
Blackfoot
Browning Rifle Club
W. D. Funk
Browning
Butte Rifle Club
al Burton
Choteau Rifle Club
W. H. Webb
Choteau
Corvallis
Carl B. Magni
Crowee Club
Co. D. Munro
Crow Agency
Cushmann-Slayton
BE. M. Welliver
Hamilton
Harlem Rifle Club
H. E. Konshok
Harlem
Harlowton
Montana Newspaper Association
Great Falls