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Montana Pioneer Francis Goss and the Sun River Road Agents
Francis Goss, first quartz mining claimant near Bannack in 1862, lives on the Blackfeet reservation as a 82 year old stock grower. The article recounts his frontier feats including arresting outlaw Rocky Ryan, early Gold Creek mining, and the Plummer gang's Sun River halt and Electra Bryant’s influence shaping Montana’s gritty frontier history.
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Goss
Montana
Bannacks
Blackfeet
Blackfoot Station
Glacier
Henry Plummer
Gold Creek
Grasshopper Gulch
Middle Western
Rocky” Ryan
Galena
Ill
Savanna
A. 8. Grant
Missouri River
Emily
Fort Benton
Missouri
Samuel T. Hauser
Territorial
Walter B. Dance
Territory
Hauser
Dance
Salmon River
Idaho
Dead Man’s Coulee
Last Chance Gulch
Helena
Bret Harte
Henry Thomas
d’Oreille
Hot Springs
Broadwater
Granville Stuart
A. S&. Blake
Perry W. McAdow
Dr. Atkinson
Pioneer Creek
Tom
Cottonwood Creek
Judge Dance
Jake Monthe
General Lyon
Wilson Creek
James Stuart
William Arnett
C. W. Spillman
B. F. Jernigan
Elk City
Fox
Bull
Pioneer City
Pioneer
Arnett
Spillman
Jernigan
Anett
Corral
Sun River Stockade
Bannack
Sun River Crossing
Sun River
Indiana
Jack Cleveland
George Ives
Bill Bunton
Plummer
States
Far West
Mississippi
Electra Bryant
J. A. Vail
Sunriver
Vail
Blackfeat
Mra
Joe Kipp
James Arnold
Kipp
Browning
Cleveland
Ives
Bunton
Morgan
Virginia City
Miss Bryant
St. Peter’s Mission
Great Falls
Dearborn Crossing
Wfe
Cedar Rapids