Early Dillon Pioneers and Community Builders Remembered
The piece profiles Leonard Eliel and Eliel Bros influential in Dillon Montana, detailing their family, partners and rise from a Utah trade network. It notes Col Ferris and L. Fyhrie as early town leaders, describes Beaverhead county settlers and ranches, and lists prominent residents and families who shaped the region before the railroad.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tenderfoot
Dan
Sebree, Ferris & White
Montana
Leonard Eliel
Eliel
Dillon
Beaverhead County
Eliel Bros
Union Pacific
Cheyenne
Ogden
Lambert
Corinne
Utah
Utah & Northern
Adolph
Chicago
Frank
LaPorte
Indiana
F. Ferris
Sebree Ferris & White
First National
B.F. White
Otto Klemm
Col. Ferris
Howard Sebree
RB. F. White
Bozeman
Jbank
L. €. Fyhrie
Annie Adams
James Kirkpatrick
Emily Taylor
Kate Holcomb
Susan Robbins
Vast pre railroad settlements dot Bannack era Beaverhead county
The article recounts early settlements around Bannack and nearby basins before the railroad, naming numerous ranches and families such as the Selways, Thorpes, and Davis, and noting towns like Bannack, Spring Hill now Lima, Glendale, Hecla, and Argenta. It highlights mining camps, drift toward Alder gulch, and hopes for future revival of rich districts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wasson M. Oliver
Oliver
James
Robert Selway
Lars Hansen
Owen
Thorpe
Fairview Station
W. Ek, Davis
W. B. Carter
John F. Bishop
Clark Anderson
J. P. Murray
Nat
William Wood
Gerhard Albers
Thomas Carmen
James Mauldin
Point of Rocks
Annie Martin
Big Hole
Centennial Valley
Sheep Creek
Beaverhead County
George W. Dart
F. L. Graves
William Roe
Spring Hill
Lima
John Peat
Peat
Henry Gleed
Dillon
Dave Allerdyce
Glendale
Hecla
Henry Knippenberg
G. G. Earl
Knippenberg
Samuel A. Barbour
George B. Conway
T.H. Sappington
Lon’ Pickett
Bannack
West
Alder’ Gulch
Madison Gold Fields
Alder Gulch
Argenta
Montana
W. A. Clark
Tuscarora
Con
George
Anthony French
Anthony
George French
George Conway
Birch Creek
Ozias Willis
William H. Oliver
James King
Robert Joy
Fred Hopp
Joe A. Browne
Tensive
Selways
James Selway
Jim Selway
Julia Selway
Ellow
Davis Ranch
Selway
Fifty Years Above the Valley Jewel of Enterprise
A reflective portrait recalls fifty years of transformation from a sagebrush and slough landscape to a growing valley with green forests and watercress beds. It notes old stores and freight teams fading as a city and college towers rise on the mountain crest, celebrating fifty years of enterprise.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joe Shineberger
Ledrock
W. L. McIntosh
Joe Maines
Dillon
Horse Prairie Creek
Herb Noble
Dave Metlen
L. A. Harkness
Gus Graeter
George M. Brown
Sam Jaggers
Tom Barrett
James Mansfield
Martin Barrett
Tom Pierce
Pat Desmond
Phil Shenon
Brenner
Billy Blair
Harrison M. Brown
Sam Batchellor
Joseph B. Crow
O. W. Owens
Hamilton Ranch
Mrs. Blair
California
T. B. Craver
Upper Medicine Lodge
Bannack
Grasshopper Creek
Robert N- Gray
William G. Pahnish
Dave Pierson
Jack Williams
Alex DuPee
William G. Phillips
Louis Kruger
Jim Abrams
Also Mentioned on This Page
Montana Street
Beaverhead
Isaiah Cashmore
Margaret Gracier
Henry Hackett
Charles Neilson
Eliza Black
Kate Burfiend
L. I. Culver
Clara Chapman
Dan Adams
Clarence Axe
Fred Hansen
M. A. Henneberry
Chas
FE. Nelson
Camas Nelson
Warren Graeter
George Banks
Angelo Fyhrie
Craig Carnnell
Cornell
Orr Mansion
Fair Grounds
John Selway
Blacktail Crossing
Tom
Dick Reynolds
Pete Wilson
Flynn Brothers
Poindexter & Orr
Blacktail
Tom Porch
Phil Johnson
P. H. Poindexter
John Poindexter
Sam Ashbaugh
Phil Lovell
Sim Estes
M. B. Henneberry
van Camp
William Jones
William Smith
Kirkpatrick Brothers
Tom Haw
J. M. Mann
J. P. Fletcher
John Ines
Jimmy O'Neil
W. E. Chapman
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