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Broadwater Pioneer of Montana Transport and Railways
Charles A Broadwater arrived in Montana in 1862, laid out Cottonwood, led the Diamond R Transportation Company, built the Montana Central Railway to connect mines with power and markets, and helped found Fort Harrison. He survived Indian ambushes and road agents, expanded freighting from Corinne to Montana, and influenced Helena’s development before dying in 1892.
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Montana
Charles A. Broadwater
Bannack
Virginia City
Cottonwood
Deer Lodge
Great Diamond R. Transportation Company
Bull Run
Kentucky
Missouri
St. Charles
Broadwater
Martin Maginnis
McDowell
Fairfax Courthouse
Leesburg
Point of Rocks
Potomac
Marlows
Monocacy
Thomas A. Marlow
Helena
Colonel Broadwater
St. Louis
Theie
Pike’s Peak
Colorado
John Pemberton
Pemberton
Blackfeet
Gad Moore
Henry Plummer
Moore
Deer Lodge Pass
George Ives
Johnnie Cooper
John Contway
Ives
Cooper
Contway
King & Gillette
Nick Wall
John J. Roe & Co
Diamond R Transportation Company
Fort Benton
Pease
Fort Buford
Diamond R Company
E. G. Maclay
Messrs
Plains
Army Quartermasters
Maclay
Union and Pacific
Ogden
Corinne
Utah
Diamond R
Northern Pacific
Bismarck
N. D
Carroll
Crook
Custer
Sitting Bull
A. H. Wilder
St. Paul
Northwest
Matt Carroll
Terry
Gibbon
Miles
Wilder
Montana National Bank
Ilelena
National Bank of
Marlow
Fort Shaw
Great Falls
Fort Logan
Meagher County
White Sulphur Springs
Fort Ellis
Gallatin County
Fort Assinniboine
Havre
Fort Maginnis
Lewistown
Fort Keogh
Miles City
Fort Maginniss
Butte
Nethart
Barker
Paris Gibson
James J. Hill
Montana Central
Hill
Pacific
Warm Springs
Yellowstone Park
Seattle
Tacoma
Fort. Harrison
Fort Harrison
Army
Harrison