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Gash and Matte in Bitter Root Horse Theft and Murder
In Stevensville and Bitter Root areas during the 1870s a Gash family tied to saloon life faces accused horse theft and murder. Jim Gash and Pete Matte allegedly drove horses to Utah, killed Goodwin on Snake river Idaho, and fled. Sheriff Marion pursues. Matte testifies. Jim ambushes the jail with Ad Gash during a night shooting, wounding the sheriff.
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Will
Stevensville
Missoula County
Ravalli County
Gash
Jim
Gina
Hmttleburg
Peté Matte
Jim Gash
Willam
Bill) Brown
George W
Red) Dobbins
Brown
Dobbins
Bill
Red
Gina Gash
Gash Creek
Victor
Pete Matte
Pete
Big Hole Basin
Utah
Goodwin
Matte
Montana
Snake River
Idaho
Colt
Silver Bow
Missoula
Joseph E
Marion
William Lyons
Missoulian
Ad Gash
Ad Gagh
Sion
Bitter Root
the Big Hole
Old Louis Gird
Ruby Creek
Nez Perces
Gird
Gibbon
Perces
Joseph
Brig Blodgett
Sleeping Child Creek
W. S. Moon
Moon
Jim Burley
Stubblefield
Moses Drouillard
Drouillard
Moses
Pine Hollow
Bill Brown