The Cattle King of Eastern Montana and Mingusville’s Rise
The article chronicles Pierre Wibaux known as the cattle king who built a vast empire of stock in eastern Montana from 1883, his Beaver Creek ranch near Wibaux, and his social influence. It contrasts Mingusville and Medora, notes Roosevelt’s early visits, and describes frontier town culture and the contrast between luxury and lawlessness.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Montana
Pierre Wibaux
Wibaux
Beaver Creek
Wibaux County
Pierre
Dawson County
Kieth
Medora
Dakota
Mingusville
Rio Grande
Badlands Cowboy
Pierre ‘Wibaux
Theodore Roosevelt
Roosevelt
France
Poplar River
Black Hills
George McCone
McCone
Beeen Bismarck
Fort Keogh
Miles City
Little Beaver
Green
Green River
Donovan
Early Montana Figures Shape Frontier Stock Saga
This piece recalls Prof Florence Smith receiving a Hammond organ at Montana State University. It retells Pierre Wibaux and George McCone era events, noting Wibaux's rebuilding of his cattle herd after a harsh winter and McCone's mail routes and near-fatal attack by raiders, highlighting frontier life and regional expansion.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Montana State University
Florence Smith
Student Union
The Rise and Fall of Pierre Wibaux in the Dust Bowl Era
A narrative on Pierre Wibaux as a cattle king whose prairie empire collapsed under white settlement and dust storms. It notes the shift from open range to fenced land, the black blizzards that devastated grass and cattle, his 1913 death, and his bronze statue commemorating a fallen frontier ruler.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Green
Donovan
McCone
Pierre Wibaux
Hard Horn
Gros Ventres
Thirteen-Mile Creek
Apen Ee Petra
Wibaux
Re Ontana
Mingusville
Jules Accart
How Women in Their 40s Can Attract Men
A promotional style fragment suggests advice for women in midlife noting changes and appeal concerns. It mentions a herb tonic Lydia Pinkham's Vegetable Compound and promoting a “system tonic” to ease symptoms. The text lacks clear events or sources and reads like an advertisement with dubious claims.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lydia Ae Pinkham
Tesintan
Fortune in Sight for Wilkinson Potter Oil Leases
Wilkin son and Dr Peter Potter finance a bid for Indian lands near Cut Bank Montana with 2 wells guaranteed. Federal geologists estimate 2 500 000 barrels of oil and output rising to 350 400 barrels daily as the Wilkinson Potter leases prove productive. The pair market the oil to a Pocatello refinery under a long term contract and foresee substantial net worth from the Cut Bank field.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wilkinson-Potter
W. W. Cheelynder
Blackfeet
Cut Bank
Wilkinson-Potter Syndicate
al Wilkinson
Butte
Peter Potter
Wilkinson
Anaconda Company
Big Bend
Dr. Potter
Potter
Salt Lake Way
Pocatello
Idaho
Measles Year Likely As Montana Reports New Cases
Montana health officials note a rising measles pattern in a weekly report by Dr. B. K. Kilbourns. The state shows 152 new cases in seven days, part of a cyclical epidemic every three to ten years, with earlier years recording far higher totals and other diseases listed include scarlet fever, chicken pox, whooping cough, influenza, tuberculosis, typhoid, smallpox and diphtheria.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Montana
B. K. Kilbourns
Board of Health
Kilbourne
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