Coburn Honored as Story Writer for Action Stories
Walter J. Coburn a former Great Falls resident now in Carmel California has been named the most popular author writing for Action Stories and awarded 500 dollars by editor J B Kelly His western fiction features Montana cattle country settings and characters His recent works include Goldie and the Sun Dance Kid and Back Trail with several stories already filmed and a planned book length project reflecting Montana’s transition from free range to agriculture
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Walter J. Coburn
Great Falls
Carmel
Calif
J. B. Kelly
Mr. Coburn
Robert J. Coburn
Montana
Fletcher Maddox
Free Range
Coburn
Bouse
Manzanilla Hall
California
Leland Stanford University
Aviation Corps
del Mar
Little Rockies
Malta
Walter
Alder Gulch
Virginia City
Last Chance Gulch
Helena
Bill Fairweather
Denver
Prickly Pear Canyon
Rock Creek
Cascade County
White Sulphur Springs
William Berkin 99th Birthday Pioneer of Montana
William Berkin, Montana pioneer and early U S marshal born 1826 in England, celebrates his ninety ninth birthday in Butte. The independent veteran recalls guiding bull teams, building Boulder valley, shipping the first Butte ore, and surviving Indian conflicts. Now living with his son John, he keeps active, memory sharp, and humor intact as he reflects on a century of Montana’s growth.
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Ontana
William Berkin
Butte
John
Hudgon’s Bay Company
West
Flat Willow
Pacco
Montana
United States
Neil Howie
John X. Belchler
John Tielenton
Wilbur F. Sanders
Henry Plummer
George Ives
Berkin
Meagher
Fergus
Lewistown
Reed’s Fork
Boulder Valley
Mountain Chief
Swansea
Wales
Freiberg
Germany
George Washington
Thomas Jefferson
John Adams
John Quincy Adams
James Madison
James A. Garfield
Grover Clevelland
Taft
Leistershire
Colerton
Liege
William IV
Great Britain
Hanover
William
Victoria Alexander
England
Duke of Cumberland
Odessa
St. Louis
Colonel Wall
James B. Rowe and Company
Hudson's Bay Company
Fort Benton
Alder Gulch
Bergin
Boulder
Whitehall
Parson’s Bridge
Waterloo
Broadwater
Charles A. Broadwater
Broadwater County
Bob” Ford
Great Falls
Jim Malkin
Great ‘Falls
Sam Pepin
Havre
Musselshell
Flatwillow
Tom Berkin
State Museum
Helena
John Berkin
Kenneth McKenzie
Opportunity
Mars
John Allen
Townsend
W. R. Allen
Hattie Kilpatrick
Denver
Tom A. Berkin
Swannington
Old Fort Union
Fort Unioon
Yellowstone
Stage coaches blazed trails from Salt Lake to Virginia City
Clarence E. Mulford notes the Overland stages covered 653 miles in four and a half days from Salt Lake City to Virginia City Nevada. The system required vast capital with 193 stations, 600 coaches and 2,800 horses plus $2.5 million yearly costs and heavy wartime damage during 1864 65.
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Salt Lake City
Virginia City
Clarence E. Mulford
Denver
Salt Lake
Nevada
Plains
Missouri River
Waters of
Pacific
Russell, Majors & Waddell
Pony Express
St. Louis
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Bulgaria
Treasure State
Victoria
Edward
King George
Mississippi River
Lewis and Clark
Dakotas
Pacific Coast
Southey
Wordsworth
Tennyson
Browning
McCauley
Dickens
Thackeray
Chicago
Bristol
New York
Daguerre
Fox Talbot
John Upton
Fort Dearborn
Seattle
Portland
Spokane
Minneapolis
St. Paul
Omaha
Kansas City
San Francisco
Los Angeles
Anaconda Lode
Heydey
Ben Halladay
Placerville
Atchison
Coleman Lamp Company Ta
Kanes Prapenreia
Chicaco
Angela
Tomowro
Ontario
Oleman Maniles
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