Slade Helps a Woman and Executes Vigilante Justice
Amede Besette recalls Captain Jack Slade aiding travelers and delivering swift punishment to two killers, Henry Bacon and Harry Smith, near Independence Rock in 1861. Slade confronts Smith, hanging him with a lariat, then orders Bacon hanged nearby, leaving their bodies by a gate post as Plante flees with a buggy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jack Slade
Amede Besette
Old Bannack
Besette
Slade
North Platte
Nebraska
Jules Reni
North Platte Bridge
California
Jule
Jules
Overland Stage Co
Julesburg
Independence Rock
Wyo
Henry Bacon
Harry Smith
Sweetwater River
Bacon and Smith
Joseph Plante
Plante
Bacon and
Smith
Bartholomew
Bacon
Conversion of Blackfeet Indians Was Dangerous Mission Effort
The article traces early Jesuit efforts to convert the Blackfeet, noting dangers and hardships faced by Father DeSmet and others. It covers stages from initial contact in 1846 through missions established near Chateau and Sun River Fort Shaw, including encounters with tribal chiefs, setbacks, and the aim to teach farming and adapt indigenous life to new livelihoods amid frontier resistance and exploration.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Father DeSmet
Father Point
Major Vaughn
Father Hoecken
Blackfeet
Chateau
Father Imoda
Sun River
Father Giorda
Fort Benton
Gros Ventres
Father Palladino
Bull Dog
Giorda
Fort Colville
St. Ignatius Mission
Father Ravalli
St. Ignatius
St. Peter's
Sun River Valley
Montana
Baker
Malcolm Clarke
Bird Tail Divide
Father Gioda
Gioda
Missouri
St. Peter's Mission
Helena
Father Imada
St. Peter’s Mission
Father Menetrey
Square Butte
Great Falls
Rolfe
Gibson
Belt
Clingan
John Healy
William and
Joseph Conrad
Wren
Overfield
Nathan
Col. Stanford
Charles Conrad
Kalispell
Hirschbergs
Southland
Fort Benton in 1879 A Frontier Snapshot of Change
Fort Benton in 1879 stood at the Missouri head of navigation with three major trading houses I G Baker T C Power and Murphy Maclay and a mix of frontiersmen and Piegan Indians. The town faced brutal winters, Indian-white tensions, and evolving missions while Fort Assiniboine reduced garrison needs and local life centered on Front Street houses and frontier resilience.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fort Benton
Missouri
Montana
Piegan
Judith
I. G. Baker
T. C. Power
Murphy-Maclay
Front Street
Conrad
The Old Trapper Speaks by ER Brininstool
A rugged reminiscence on vanished frontiers as progress reshapes the land. The speaker laments civilized change, railroads, and settlement, vowing to seek new echoes of the old wilds in rugged canyons and pine forests. The poem centers on loss, nostalgia, and a wish to return to primitive nature.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Old Trapper
ER. Brininstool
Town must hike tax to pay bond issue Supreme Court rules
Montana Supreme Court unanimously holds Ryegate must levy taxes to pay bonds issued in 1920 for a town water system. Justice Leif Erickson states the bonds are a general obligation and the town must increase taxes to cover the bonds. The ruling reversed the Golden Valley district court and favored Harold E. Mueller, bond holder.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Supreme Court
Ryegate
Montana Supreme Court
Leif Erickson
Harold E. Mueller
H. G. Todd
Julius Houglan
Golden Valley District Court
Mueller
Gas Station Helped Woman Driver With Empty Tank Joke
A filling station man answered a distress call and found a stalled car with the female driver frantic yet safe. He noted the car was out of gas and the woman quipped about driving home on an empty air, joking about the situation.
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James Stanford
Fort Assiniboine
Moale
Gibbon
Episcopal Church
Griffith
Brooklyn, N. Y
American Fur Ce
Jacob Mills
Methodist
James
Minneapolis
Leonard
Wyoming
Utah
Bishop Tuttle
Bentonites
William Hunt
Porto Rico
Herbert Rolfe
Lepley
Kingsbury
Morrows
Nelhart
Paris Gibson
Fort, Benton
Biddin
Maconda Montan
Anaconda Copper Mining Company Fertilizer Department
Anaconda, Mont
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