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Skookum Joe to Billings Miner and Explorer of Montana Mines
A portrait of Joseph Richard Anderson known as Skookum Joe, an early Montana prospector who opened sites in the Bear Tooth Absarokas and Moccasin ranges. The article traces his moves from Oregon to Montana in the 1860s and 1870s, notes his mining ventures including Spotted Horse, iron and coal claims, and his diary kept 1886 to 1895. He earned the moniker from Indians and earned the trust of bankers and merchants in Billings before dying in the late 1890s.
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Richard Dick
Moccasin Ranges
Montana
Fergus County
Fort Maginnis
Maiden
Spotted Horse
Perry H. McAdoo
Coulson
Billings
McAdoo
Anderson
I. D. O’donnell
Skookum Joe
Jack Nye
Stillwater
Nye City
West Stillwater
Butcher Creek
Oregon
Good Joe
Skookum
Northwest
New York Sun
Chicago Daily News
Boulder
Ford