Brave mountain mail carriers of the Rocky mountains
The article honors mail carriers who trek the Rocky mountains on snowshoes delivering letters and packages to mining camps in Colorado Utah and Idaho. It recounts Swan Nilson a Swedish carrier lost in a 1883 snowslide near Ophir and found in 1885 with his mail pouch intact, illustrating the peril and heroism of frontier postal work.
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Rocky Mountain
Colorado
Utah
Idaho
West
Rocky Mountains
Mid-Continent
Little Frontier Post Office
New England
Swan Nilson
San Juan
Silverton
Ophir
Nilson
Sweden
Swan
Egat
San al
Hyer
San Juanez
Den
Western Railway
Chicago News
Our Correspondence From Twin Bridges Wisdom and Dillon News
Our regular correspondence reports a 24 below zero night in Southern Montana and notes the death of A C Witter and wife of Dillon. It covers a city election with Republican sweep, a boy injured by a horse in Adobetown, snow in the mountains, and court plans for Feb 16. Twin Bridges reports a snowstorm, a cattle market move to Iowa, a death at 82, a masquerade ball, and local school events. Wisdom discusses railroads, cattle ranges, estrays, and brand notices with local concerns about the Horse Prairie cattle company and brand records.
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Virginia City
A. C. Witter
Dillon
Pat McGovern
Rome
New York
Henry Elling
J. B. Carruthers
Jas. Mitchell
Eugene Stark
Johnny Connors
Adobetown
Miller
Twin Bridges
Montana
Butte
Anaconda
Horse Prairie
Big Hole Cattle Company
B. O
Warm Spring Creek
Fornier
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