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Montana Pioneer Converts Gold Dreams to Wheat Wealth
The article profiles 72 year old Montana farmer William Flannery who, after passing up gold camps in 1865, built a 53 year farming career. He remains a leading grain grower with 2000 acres near Hardin and a Gallatin valley stake from his first Bozeman land. Flannery recounts early dry land wheat, pioneer milling, and the shift from gold rushes to farming success. He contrasts fortunes of miners like Sullivan and Aldergulch figures with his steady agricultural path.
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Senate
Park Smith
Lewis and Clark
Daniel O’shea
Carbon County
Federal Land Loan Bank
Spokane
C. B. Roberts
Lincoln County
Great Falls
O. G. Willet
Mineral County
Wheatland
Jones
Meagher County
John Oliver
Fallon County
Carter County
Fallon
James O’connor
Park County
Washington
Department of the Attorney General of the
United States
William Cutts
Silver Bow
National Army
Jansen
Cascade
California
Frank C. Murray
Harold C. Blake
Deer Lodge
H. A. Hussar
Hill
Lincoln Working
Lewis and Clark County
Valley County
James Griffin
Blaine County
William J. Cristmas
Wheatland County
Montana
Big Horn County
Hardin
Gallatin County
William Flannery
Treasure
Mr. Flannery
Rocky Mountains
Omaha
Plains
Nebraska City
Fort Kearney
Platte
Julesburg
Salt Lake
Pole Creek
Black Hills
Ben Holliday
Little Laramie
Rock Creek
Salt
St. Louis
Gallatin
Bozeman
N. W. Pennell
W. A. Clark
Sullivan
Confederate Gulch
Missouri River
Ireland
States
Colorado
Butte
Barney Hughes
Aldergulch
Big Hole Basin