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Newspaper

Dillon Examiner

Location

Dillon, Montana, United States of America

Date

Sep 10, 1924

Page

12

Montana Pioneers Meet recounts Edgerton views and hard history

Jimmy Austin recalls Montana’s early days and Governor Edgerton, the Slade execution, and frontier justice. He traces Edgerton’s Idaho governorship, Lewiston plans, and the 1860s Alder Gulch mining era while pioneers reflect on loyalty, trials, and the 1924 Butte convention within a broad Montana heritage narrative.

Montana Jimmy Austin Cascade County Butte Austin Jim Slade Slade Jimmy Jules Bent Julesburg Colo Denver Virginia City

Pioneers to Organize in Helena Meeting

The Montana Society of Pioneers invites members to a September 19 1884 meeting at the Helena courthouse to organize a pioneers associates. The group honors the frontier fathers and mothers who crossed the plains and built Montana. Local committees and officers are listed as supporting the convention.

Grand Army Montana Society of Pioneers J. R. Wilson Montana the Historical Society Territory Congress Charles Rumely Helena Beaverhead Lewis and Clark Missoula Gallatin Meagher Madison Silver Bow Chouteau Jefferson Yellowstone Dawson Deer Lodge Samuel Hauser James Fergus Fergus Col W. F. Sanders J. A. Sanders John R. Horsky Society of Montana Pioneers Butte Levi Wild Frank Pioneers Silver Bow and Country Clubs West Tom Moore Lewistown Ronald Higgins Sons and Daughters of Montana Pioneers Bozeman M. Trask Frand D Sandbar) Brown F. Tuttle Jefferson County David Hilger John Horsky Earl Dingwald Drummond Ted Larable Sons and Daughters Lottie Rumsey Gene Bishop Dillon W. A. Clark, Jr George Porter Jean Bishop the Sons and Daughters Lottie Rumsep H. A. Mallet Ed Horsky Allan Bowie Fred Scheuer Bessie Whitcomb George W. French Argenta M. Mathews FE. Graeter Margaret A. Graeter Joems Kirkpatrick Phil Lovell Phi McGovern W. D. Cochran Harlem Thomas Rheeby Big Sandy William T. Morrow Fort Ton J. A. Harkshaw Belt John Hops Great Falls George Furlong Allen MacPhail Summond Tuttle E. Ryan E. T. Concannon Bridett McCauley Boulder George Beatty Inston Phoebe Train W.H. LaRue Mra W. Jakue William Johns Mre W. L. Milligan C. C. Wasweider John Horshey Ena H. B. Daems Varney C.W. Barker Sheridan Thomas Thorton Ennis Pat Carney Waterloo H. G Virginia City Violet Collins Jordan Edella Eby Alder A. P. Johnston Superior Samuel Clem George Bruffey Montan Society of Pioneers Fathers and Mothers of Butth Society of Pioneers Eye Montana Society Matthew McGuirck Mounts Lily Fergus Gilpatrick Wallace H. Milligan Mra. R Hamilton Michael Burns David E. Folsom Marcus Lisaner John Wagner Williaam A. Dingee George W. Irwin Pat Patten W. C. Dexter Ohn Potter Terrence O'Donnell Timothy Wilcox Walter W. DeLacey Andrew W. Fisk Daniel St. Weston August Welsenborn William A. Rumsey George W. Morse Sam Schwab John A. Ming John Stewart C. “Kit” Etherington Willian A. Sutherlin Junius G. Sanders Charles L. Dabler al Oldham Dr. Wm. L. Steele George B. Foote Francis Adkinson James Kirkpatrick Wallace L. Millegan Samuel W. Longhorne Harry H. Thale Matt Mignon Robert 8. Hale George Travia James R. Boyce, Sr Benjamin C. Brooke Charles Rumley Benjamin Ezekiel Cornelius Hedges Charles W. Cannon James W. Hathaway R. Zeigler Theodore HW Kleinschmidt William F. Wheeler H.sappington Sylvan Hughes Harvey A Samuel Ward William Roe C. Mead Pony Raleigh F. Watkinson Court Mouse Lewis and Clark County

How F. Sandbar Brown Gained His Peculiar Name

An account of Frank D. Brown known as Sandbar Brown explains the origin of his nickname from a 1866 incident on the Missouri River when he and two companions hid on a sandbar to escape pursuing Blood Indians. He describes shooting and killing three Indians, scalping them, and the name sticking thereafter.

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