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Stormy Days of First Montana Legislature and Rebel Sympathizers
The article recalls the Seventeenth Montana Legislature looming in Helena amid economic hardship and calls for constructive policy. It contrasts today's session with the rough, factional first territorial assembly at Bannack in 1864 65, detailing Civil War loyalties the oath disputes and early governance challenges.
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Montana
Helena
Placer Hotel
Main Street
National Congress
Sidney Edgerton
Francis M. Thompson
First Legislative Assembly
Bannack
House of Representatives
Lodge
James Stuart
Jefferson County
Isaac N. Buck
Milo Courtwright
George Detwiler
Madison
John H. Rogers
Patrick Ryan
Wila Huf- Yaker
A. E. Mayhew
Francis Bell
Washington J. McCormick
Missoula
E. B. Johnson
Washington J. McCormick, Jr
Congress
Territory of
Edgerton
James Tufts
Tufts
Cottonwood
Deer Lodge
Hell Gate
Fort Owen
Bitter Root Valley
Blackfoot City
Alder Gulch
Madison County
House
Legislative Assembly
Interior
Africa
Virginia City
Gallatin
Fort Benton
Prickly Pear Valley
Bannack City
Jocko
Willow Creek
Hellgate
United States Treasury
Charles S. Bagg
Legislative Assembly of
Erasmus D. Leavitt
Beaverhead County
Butte
Leavitt
Grasshopper Creek
Territory