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Newspaper
Dillon Examiner
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
Oct 14, 1925
Page
7
The article recalls frontier life shaping a community facing harsh weather and sparse population. It notes progress in communication and transport, moral questions, and the rough justice of early times including vigilante action and occasional murders. It highlights character developed amid law and disorder.
In 1880 81 young settlers bought a ranch to found a city Dillon sprang to life with a townsite platted by a surveyor from Ogden A busy freight era followed with mule teams wagons and vast loads moving to Helena Bozeman and Missoula The coming railroad to Melrose and Silver Bow cut Dillon’s freight prominence and that frontier era became a tradition.
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