Critics accuse Garett article of bias against Montana
Montana Association officials plan action against a Garett article in the Saturday Evening Post. They claim the piece paints an unfair, outdated view of conditions, ignoring recent recovery and diversification gains and risking adverse effects on the state's improving economy.
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Saturday Evening Post
Montana Association of Commercial Organization
Garet Garett
Economist
Montana
L. B. Jones
Garett
Jones
Northwest
Mr. Garett
The Oregon Trail and Montana Fur Trade Trails Map
Readable text describes old South Pass and Oregon Trail routes across Idaho Montana Wyoming. It notes 1864 Idaho Territory creation, 1869 Wyoming separation, Indian conflicts, missions, and explorers like Whitman Fremont De Smet. It recounts Bozeman cut off, Forts Reno Kearney C. F. Smith, and Bozeman’s death in 1867.
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Oregon
Territory of
Montana
Idaho
Wyoming
Congress
Idaho Territory
Senate
Andrew Johnson
Grant
Old South Pass
Oregon Trail
Bannack City
Platte River
Fort Kearney
Fort Laramie
Fort Hall
Fort Bridger
Snake River
Walla Walla
Columbia River
California
Bannack
Father de Smet
St. Louis
South Pass
Old Fort Owen
Bitter Root
Utah
John C. Fremont
James L. Fisk
Territory
Dakota
Minnesota
Fisk
Fort Abercrombie
Plains
North
Fort Benton
Dakota’ Territory
Landers
Bozeman
Missouri
Jim Bridger
Wind River Mountains
Clarks Fork
Yellowstone
Fort Phil
Kearney
Northwest
Guess
Cottonwood Towns in Judith Basin Preceded Lewistown
The Cottonwood settlement, a mile south of Lewistown, served early Judith Basin mining and livestock interests. It had a post office before Lewistown and featured the Lehman & Company general store, built 1882–84, later destroyed by fire July 19, 1892. The article notes several early Cottonwood residents and the town’s eventual decline.
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Lewistown
Judith Basin
Cottonwood
Cottonwood Creek
Herman Otten
DeWitt
W.W. DeWitt
Martin
George J. Bach
Charles Lehman & Company
San Diego
L. W. Eldridge
David L. Shafer
Edward Brassey
Brassey
Charles Lehman &Company
Charles Lehman
Montana
Lehman
Mineral Argus
Maiden
Prairie county booster touts diversified farming to save wallet
R P Chapman of Living Spring in Prairie county advocates diversified farming. He says cows and poultry plus corn and logs cut his grocery bill, noting he fed about six acres of corn last year and plans at least 60 acres this year for his pure bred black Poland China hogs. He favors Northwestern dent corn, which has matured well since 1921.
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R. P. Chapman
Living Spring Country
Prairie County
Chapman
Veal Calf Brought From Kempton Beach Impresses Terry Market
A five week old veal calf weighing 132 pounds, raised on Kemp ton beach by A Harris, remains attached to its mother until slaughter and fed all milk. The calf is hailed as one of the best seen on the Terry market, signaling strong local veal farming prospects.
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Terry
A. Harris
Kempton Beach
Highmore
C. J. B. Stephens
P. S
J. B. Gs
Sunburst Woman Heroine Dares Fire With Soup Wagon
Mrs. J. D. O Sullivan of Sunburst Montana drives a loaded soup wagon containing 50 quarts of nitro glycerine to a well firing site. When ignition locks her car, she short circuits the switch and crosses wires. The wagon bursts into flames but she calmly douses the blaze and avoids panic earning local admiration.
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J. D. O'Sullivan
Sunburst
Montana
Mrs. O'Sullivan
Former county official shot to death in Thatcher building
Pueblo details describe J. H. H. Low 65 former county judge and district attorney killed in his office on the seventh floor of the Thatcher building with two bullets. no clue to killer. Mexico City dispatch notes rebels executed by firing squad including three generals, three colonels, four lieutenant colonels and one major lined up against a wall.
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Pueblo
J. H. H. Low
Thatcher Building
Mexico City
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L. EB. Jones
Ontils
Argonauts
Marcus Whitman
Samuel Parker
Green River
Big Horn Mountains
Virginia City
Missouri River
Robert Stuart
Bonneville
Kit Carson
Nathaniel J. Wyeth
Whitman
Pierre Hole
Henry’s Lake
Stevens
Pacific Coast
Red River
St. Paul
Dacotay
Northern Plains
Helena Herald
Helena Record-Herald
Judith Basin Center
Well Shooter
DR. C. J. B. Stephens
Chateau
Radium Remedies Co
Helena, Montana
Pyradium
Pyradium Company
Helena, Mont
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