Sacajawea and frontier lore drive Montana war service notes
State University of Montana faculty mobilizes with five commissioned or active service members in the war effort. Dorr Skeels leads forestry on leave in France. Several professors, including Spaulding and Swarthout, serve in infantry and overseas units. Other staff join navy, training programs, or war work in Washington and France.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
State University of Montana
Dorr Skeels
School of Forestry
France
Tenth Engineers
Forest
James H. Bonner
19Th Service Battalion of Engineers
Camp Devens
Mass
Bonner
Spaulding
Thomas C. Spaulding
R. D. Jenkins
Joseph KE. Johnston
Jacksonville
Fla
A. S. Merrill
Missoula
Bremerton Navy Yard
Philadelphia
W.N. Jones
Lee R. Dice
Washington
Jones
Dice
Ina E. Gittings
Reed College
Portland
Cecil Holiday
Carl H. Getz
National War Work Council
Henry Haxo
Camp Lewis
Jerry Nissen
Pacific Coast
Aviation Service
Montana fortunes behind Hearst papers and a Lakota tale
A long account links the Hearst family wealth to Montana mining profits and Amalgamated Copper, then shifts to a Mandan tribal narrative of captivity, gambling, love, and survival featuring Otter Woman and the white trader Charboneau. The passages weave finance history with a personal memoir of captivity and marriage.
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Sacajawea
Lewis and Clark
Charboneau
James Willard Schultz
Schultz
Hugh Monroe
Three Forks
Missouri
Otter
Red Arrow
Mandan
Red Arrow’s
Charbonneau
Otter Woman
White Grass
Minnetaree
Eiit
White Cross
No Tobacco Famine Amid War Shipments and Rising Stocks
The census bureau reports only small risk of tobacco shortage despite large exports to the front. Beginning stock stood at 1,176,234,657 pounds, up 12.6 percent from last year, while 1917 production reached 1,196,451,000 pounds. Kentucky led with 426,600,000 pounds.
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Bureau of the Census
Kentucky
Hoover Dinner Reveals Horse Meat Hamburger At Picnic
Fifty guests at the Lewis and Clark county farm bureau picnic at Canyon Ferry enjoyed a Hoover era feast featuring hamburger steak and fried chicken. Unbeknownst to most, the hamburger was horse meat, served to prove it is a palatable and economical diet option.
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Lewis and Clark County Farm Bureau
Canyon Ferry
Great Falls
Fourth of July in Early Days in Missoula Montana
A retrospective recounts Captain Lewis hosting a July 4 1806 feast with Shoshone guides at the mouth of the Rattlesnake River near Missoula. It notes Missoula’s first Fourth in 1864 at Frenchtown and mentions survivor Mrs Ama C Dickinson still living in Missoula.
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Montana
Missoula
Lewis and Clark
Wilds
Louisiana Purchase
Northwest
Bitter Root Mountains
Idaho
Lolo Pass
Bitter Root
Clark
Lewis
Grant Creek
Missoula River
Rockies
Missoula County
Frenchtown
John Mullan
Continental Divide
Fort Benton
Walla Walla
Missoula City
Hellgate
St. John’s
Fay
Near
Ama C. Dickinson
Butte Miner’s savings found in chimney
Jacob Maki, killed in a Butte mining accident, left about $300 in cash and securities hidden in a stove hole of his cabin. Public Administrator Harrington of Silver Bow took charge of the estate. A Liberty bond worth $100 and foreign coins were recovered, with appraisement to follow as letters were issued by Judge Dwyer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jacob Maki
Butte
United States
Harrington
Silver Bow
Maki
Dwyer
War Begins in September After Conference Says Caldwell
Representative Caldwell of New York warned that America would begin war next September. He stated materials would be ready in abundance to project American troops and begin fighting planned for United States soldiers.
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War Office
Caldwell
New York
America
United States
Also Mentioned on This Page
Sacaj Awea
Dean Skeecils
Forestry Schools
Northwest Fur Company
Hearst
Anaconda
Father
Marcus Daly
William H. Hearst
Chicago
San Francisco
Cosmopolitan Magazine
Good Housekeeping
Harper’s Bazaar
Motor, Motor Boating
Puck
Hearst's Magazine
California
Hagegin
Haggin
Heart
Amalgamated Copper Company
Anaconda Company
Senator Heart
Rothschilds
Examiner
American
Northcliff
Phoebe Hearst
Bitter Root Valley
Mandan Jover
Pawnee
Turtle
West Coast
Great Falls Brick & Tile Co
Monta
National Bank 2Sua
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