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Ben Holladay and the Overland Stage Legend of Montana
The article recounts Ben Holladay known as the Overland King guiding first stage coaches into Montana. It details his rise from Kentucky birth to leading the vast Overland line, challenges from Indian attacks and robbers, government subsidies saving him, and his eventual financial collapse and death in 1877.
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Ben Holladay
Overland King and Croesus
Frontier
Trail
Montana
Montana Shorthorn Breeders’ Association
Billings
Great Falls
Harry L. Summers
Bozeman
Summers
Shorthorn Breeders’ Organization
A. R. Deschamps
Missoula
Association
Overland
Buffalo
West
Overland Mail
Missouri
Pacific Coast
Virginia City
Alder Gulch
Overland Stage Company
Holladay
Boise
Idaho
Salt Lake
R. J. Spottswood
Spottswood
Missouri River
Kentucky
Old Blue Tack Battlefield
William Holladay
Ben
Doniphan
Salt Lake Valley
Brigham Young
Oregon
Panama
Japan
China
Portland
United States
Samuel Woodson
Independence
Kansas
California
Judge Woodson
W. M. ¥. McGraw
Maryland
McGraw
Kimball & Co
A. S. Johnson
Shiloh
Fort Bridger
St. Louis
St. Joseph
Placerville
Slade
Julesburg
Colorado
Holaday
North Platte and
Sweetwater
Bridger’s Pass
Bitter Creek
George K. Otis
Wells, Fargo & Co
Oregon & California
Waterloo
Salem
Europe
Sherman
Congress
Washington
Holliaday
New York
Fifth Avenue
Wall Street
Hudson River
Ophir Place
America
Paris
Berlin
Joseph