Yellowstone Ski Pioneer Freeman’s perilous park patrol tale
In 1901 Lewis R. Freeman, later a noted traveler and writer, skied through Yellowstone with Army patrols. He endured a rough initiation on Mammoth terrain, a brutal test by a sergeant, and daring rides with guides including Pete Holt and winter host Clark. The trek included encounters with buffalo and goats and a dramatic canyon ride near the falls.
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Crow
National Park
Yellowstone Park
Nam Lewis R. Freeman
Yellowstone
Freeman
Stanford University
Alaska
North Pacific
Idaho
Montana
Butte
Chamber of Commerce
Yankee
Livingston
Mammoth
Yankee Jim
Yellowstone River
Park
Mammoth Hot Springs
Pete Holt
Army
Fort Yellowstone
Holt
Park Trin
Gardiner River
Corporal
Ear Hotel
Clark
Old VF Ranch Horses Led Montana Roundups in Madison County
In Madison County Montana the old VF ranch conducted the state’s largest spring horse roundup. From May 15 riders gathered at Jack Creek bench to drive horses from the hills to Indian Creek corrals, with 40 plus riders forming an impregnable line as they moved the herds to marketable stock.
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Montana
VF Ranch
Madison County
Indian Creek
Ennis
Jack Creek
Auarter
Eeny Vithen Aoeep
Madison
Madison Valley
Lana
Butte Bandit Fails Robbery Effort in 1895 City Scene
A garbled narrative recounts a 1895 Butte attempted bank robbery gone wrong with the clerk surviving. The tale shifts to Montana horse drives, roundups, and era events including cavalry use, bucking horses, camps, and frontier adventures across Madison valley and surrounding areas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Butte
Unusual Montana Train Wreck Hit by Wandering Bull
The Northern Pacific eastbound passenger train, an hour late in June 1896 near Reed, Montana, struck a wandering bull on the right of way. The bull was thrown clear, the locomotive and cars were badly damaged, and several hobos and passengers were injured. Trainmen and others were taken to the Northern Pacific hospital at Missoula for treatment.
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Hayden Valley
Freeman
Tuskegee
Montana
Bull
Ontana
Northern Pacific
Reed P
DeHart
Big Timber
Grey Cliff
Missoula
Carto Ona
Montana Mails Relief Funds to Needy Citizens
The Montana public welfare department reports April relief payments totaling 297,917.18 across 13,954 checks. Of these, 12,070 checks for 245,459.83 went to aged 65 or older, with an average monthly payment around 33. Branded notes 1,884 families receive 4,449 dependent children totaling 52,437.35, averaging 11.79 per dependent and 27.84 per family. May 1937 old age payments rose to 203,423.75 across 9,788 checks as part of ongoing federal adjustments totaling about 3,000,000 for 12 months.
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Montana
L M. Brandford
Brandford
United States
Fed
State oil contracts awarded to three Montana firms
The Home Oil Co. of Great Falls Yale Oil Co. of Billings and the Independent Re aining Co. of Billings shared in state contracts awarded by State Purchasing Agent S. B. MecQuitty for supplying 142000 gallons of oil. Prices ranged from five to nine cents a gallon based on type, oil costs and heating needs.
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Home Oil Co
Great Falls
Yale Oil Co
Billings
Independent Reaining Co
S. 8
MecQuitty Oll
Montana Saloon Law Referendum Suit Returns to Supreme Court
A 1937 suit to block a referendum on Montana saloon law is before the state supreme court after the court issued a writ taking supervisory control. The district court in Lewis and Clark county had ruled the law could not be referred to a vote as it is an appropriation measure and an emergency law.
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Montana
State Supreme Court
District Court of
Lewis and Clark County
Grasshopper Control Plan Urged by Montana Expert
Dr Harlow Bills of Montana State College entomology urges rapid grasshopper control through a three point program. He advises against stubbing in any crops and promotes plowing stubble six inches deep, early weed burning, and quick poisoning with a mechanical spreader to reduce bait use and protect fields. The migratory locust is the main Montana threat, spreading eggs across grain and flax stubble.
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Harlow
Montana
Mills
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Lewis R. Freeman
Yellowstone National Park
Veepee
Quick
Bacon
Norris Basin
Lake Station
Gardiner
Fats
Uts
Agsan
Ingran
Hamilton
Ingram
Terest
South Africa
United States Army
Montana Broncos
Union
Cuba
Minnesota
Iowa
Missouri
Nebraska
Thompson
Maynard
Amon Orses
Girden
Will
Lumbrey
Mason
Virden
Thom
Canyon
Trout Creek
The
Ark
Fortellowstone
Norris Station
Public Welfare Department
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