Big Hole Basin Ranches and Scenic Valley Description
The article portrays the Big Hole Basin in Montana with its scenic medicine lodge valley, climate shifts, and sparse but sturdy settlement. It notes 20 settlers, 400 population, 190 registered voters, and details ranch activity by Bielenberg Walker Anaconda and Waldherr. It mentions hay crops, stage mail, and the growing community as a bridge between Snake River country and Bannack.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Medicine Lodge Canyon
Snake River
Bannack
Salmon City
North Fork
Noyes
Wm. Fraser
A. H. McVay
Jas. Innes
Frank Dixon
James Geery
Wisdom
Montana
Jackson Place
Bielenberg & Walker
Anaconda
Basin ranches and prospects in Horse Prairie basin
The article chronicles Montgomery Bros and partners building one of the valley’s finest ranches, hay production from 600 to 1,200 tons annually, and plans to bring water from Lake Creek. It notes other ranches like Morton, Nelson, Thorpe, and Stanchfield holdings, winter feeding needs, seasonal cattle drives, and hopes for a railway branch to open markets beyond the beef trade dominated by a few Montana firms.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Poole Creek
Mat Waldherr
Montgomery Bros
Horse Prairie
Loin Lowe
Lake Creek
J. I. Morse
Dillon
A. d. Noyes
C. K E. Stanchfield Place
Morton
Nels Nelson
Fox
Phil. Thorpe
Nelson
W. A. Stanchfield
Martin Sorenson
Win. Christiansen
August Wenger
Frank Pendleton
Francis Bros
Montana
Glendale Becomes Early Beaverhead County Town and School
Glendale in Trapper gulch Beaverhead county 80 miles north of Dillon five miles west of Melrose Union Pacific station founded 1874 by Noah Armstrong and partners. Public school established soon after founding with a 1876 annual meeting electing trustees Longley Stager Hollenbeck Robbins. 71 children listed in the census.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Glendale
Beaverhead County
Trapper Gulch
Dillon
Melrose
Union Pacific Railway
Noah Armstrong
E. C. Atkins
Charles L.dabler
Hugh Duncan
John T. Longley
George Stager
Sylvester Hollenbeck
Thomas M. Robbins
Also Mentioned on This Page
Red Rock
Dec
Medicine Lodge
Big Hole Basin
Big Hole
Doolittle Creek
Henry Burfeind
Pyhrie
G. W. Dart Hardware Co
World’s
General Hardwarehouse
Main Street
Dillon, Mont
Crockery
Hecla Consolidated Mining Company
Dahler, Armstrong & Co
Atlantis
First National Bank Building
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