Brown Nellie the Fastest Horse of Montana’s Early Days
The Sunday Standard recalls Brown Nellie, a famed long distance mare owned by Johnny Stone. In 1868 she and Stone raced Argenta to Bannack and back, covering 30 miles in under two hours to win a legendary contest that drew massive bets and praise from Bannack miners. Nellie later performed tricks in a Montana circus before passing away on the Grasshopper.
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Territory
Montana
Bannack
Johnny Stone
Brown Nellie
Stone’s Station
Padley Ranch
Dillon
Virginia City
Johnny
Argenta
William Bivens
Bivens
Madison County
Nellie
Stone
Mr. Stone
McDonald
George D. French
Argénta
James Harby
William Stearns
Stoe
Old Town
Amede Bessette
A. BK. Gracter
Snowfall patterns across Montana mountains and new copper stack plan
January snow amounts vary by region with heavy depths above timberline in Silver Bow Beaverhead Madison and Gallatin counties while some valleys are bare. A copper company plans a 3000 foot smokestack plus a 30 foot diameter second stack to vent gases high above Anaconda eliminating valley pollution fears at a cost around half a million dollars and employing many workers.
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Silver Bow
Beaverhead
Madison County
Tobacco Root
Madison
South Boulder
Gallatin County
West Gallatin
Jefferson
Boulder River
Jefferson River
Amalgamated Copper Company
Deer Lodge
Anaconda
A Canyon Masterpiece On the Rio Grande Route
An advertisement touts the Grande Canyon on the Rio Grande Railroad as a picturesque winter and summer sight. Poet Cy Warman is cited praising the canyon, with G W Fitzgerald, general agent in Butte Montana, inviting readers to request rates and folders.
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Canyon of the Grande
Cy Warman
Canyon of the Grand
G. W. Fitzgerald
Butte
Mont
Order Fixing Terms of Court for Fifth Judicial District
The order fixes 1903 regular terms of the Montana Fifth Judicial District in Beaverhead Jefferson and Madison counties. Jefferson begins first Mondays in January April July and October. Beaverhead begins third Mondays in February May November and August. Madison begins second Mondays in March June September and December. Dated December 4 1902 Bondder Montana.
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District Court
Fifth Judicial District
Montana
Beaverhead
Jefferson
Madison
State of
Jefferson County
Beaverhead County
Madison County
Bondder
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U. S. Department of Agriculture
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Dillon Examiner
Dillon, Montana
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