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Newspaper
Dillon Examiner
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
Feb 06, 1918
Page
5
A western Montana banker, famed for starting with gold dust in Virginia City, buried in a burned saloon lot and built a cradle placer wash. He netted over $10,000 in ten days, guarding the operation at night. The windfall spurred a property boom around old saloon sites.
A historical survey traces legends of a white race in the upper Missouri region linked to Madoc and Welsh lore. It recounts Cherokee, French, and Sioux testimonies from 18th century sources about white communities, emblems, and myths alleged to have inhabited or visited the Missouri basin, and notes such tales as speculative, not proven.
A profile of Lieutenant James E. Bradley a famed mounted officer in the Civil War and Indian campaigns in Montana He led troops against the Nez Perce at Big Hole and served twelve years at Fort Benton His writings enriched Montana history and he died defending settlers in 1877.
The ghost of Ray Gullich, hanged for murder, supposedly vowed to haunt Patrolman Phil Prija for testifying against him. Prija dismissed the threat, while police investigated the incident as part of charges against him.
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