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.
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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.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
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.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sidney Edgerton
Austin
Virginia City
Texas
Georgia
Edgerton
Ohio
Sanders
Edgerton County
Lewis and Clark
Montana
Idaho
Missouri
Lewiston
Sweetwater
Denver
Bannack
Montana Territory
Utah
Ives
Wilbur
Alder Gulch
George Ives
Alex Carter
Tom Thurman
Tom
Slade
Brown
Frank D. Brown
Missoula
Montana Pioneers
Mr. Brown
Fort Union
Virginia City Post
Alder
Lexington
Walkerville
A. J. Davis
James G. Blaine
Granite Mountain
St. Louis
British Columbia
Alaska
Missoula County
Philipsburg Mail
Granite County
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Phil McGovern
William Maloney
Edward H. Clark
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Tagus P. Hickshaw
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Frank Finch
G. ‘W. French
Blain
George Beaty
Broadtex F
Putman
Carbon
James Austin
John Harris
Ben Faulk
Edward
Brassey
Henry Flathead
al Orton
John LeMott
Glacier
William Dingwall
Sanita
Santa Barbara
Cal
W. A. Clark
Hips
A. Trask
Powell
Henry Buck
Clark
Montana ‘Electric Company
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Butte ‘Mont
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Frank “Sandbar” Brown
Montana Crude Oil