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Rough pioneer year in Dillon Montana 1880
The 1880 Dillon period covers Eliel Brothers arrival, early county population, Bannack roots, Butte and Glendale banking news, railroad rumors, mining booms, livestock and wool journeys, the Western Montana Fair, and Salt Lake beer shipments marking civilization coming to the territory. It notes Utah Northern railroad progress and local attitudes toward “other siders” and prospecting in Beaverhead gulches.
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Elie
Dillon
Montana
Custer
The
Little Big Horn
Joseph
Gibbon
the Big Hole
Butte
Big Beaverhead
Eliel Brothers
Bannack
H. S. Mills
California
Oregon
Jordan Valley
Ore
Malad
Idaho
Horse Prairie
Missoula
Glendale
Noah Armstrong
Charles Armstrong
Charles W. Turner
First Territorial Bank of
Utah & Northern
Red Rock
Helena
Silver Bow
Deer Lodge Valley
Montana Copper Co
Yellowstone Park
Salt Lake Tribune
Salt Lake
Territory
Utah