Miles City Saddler Al Furstnow Shapes Montana’s Saddle History
In Miles City Montana a famed saddle maker Al Furstnow rose to prominence during frontier days. He crafted the first flower stamped saddle in Montana for Lord Sidney Pagett and Leigh Remington of Remington Arms. Furstnow later worked with Buffalo Bill’s Wild West and led his own shop from 1894 onward shaping cow country gear.
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Fort Keogh
Miles City
Europe
France
Milestown
Powder River Country
Cow Country
Montana
Judith Basin
Milk River
Old Milestown
Powder River
Mexican
Canadian
Cowland
al Furst
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Remington Arms Company
Furstnow
Omaha
G. H
J. 8
Collins
Nebraska
Buffalo Bill
Paris
Cheyenne
San Francisco
Robbins & Lehoir Saddlery Company
Frank Conley To Lead Montana Highway Construction Effort
Profile of Frank Conley of Deer Lodge hailed as a strong leader for Montana’s new state highway system. Longtime Deer Lodge mayor and 33 year prison official, Conley is praised for road work by convict labor and his firm, principled management.
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Frank Conley
Deer Lodge
Powell
Commonwealth
Stewart
Conley
West
Corley
United States
Tom Irvine
Custer County
Miles City
Jack
Miles
Crook
Lame Deer
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Irvine
Yellowstone
Powder River
Cay Gane
Tom Mewarden
McTague
Insane Asylum
Warm Springs
Pardon Board
Pris
America
Conley outlines plan to build durable Montana trunk highways
Frank Conley of Deer Lodge in a Montana Highway Commission briefing says Montana should quit narrow dirt roads and build long lasting gravel surfaced highways funded by state counties matching federal money. He calls a Billings conference of county commissioners to raise funds for a trunk highway across the state from Wibaux to Bozeman this year with further trunks planned for rapid expansion.
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Frank Conley
Montana Highway Commission
Montana
Conley
Billings
New Rockford to Watford Cut-Off Planned for Great Northern
The project would extend 150 miles from New Rockford to Watford and similar length from Chippewa to Richey, completing a direct Montana route to Great Falls. Bridges over the Missouri would be built. total cost estimated at 12 to 15 million dollars. Federal Manager W P Kenney in Montana reportedly said construction will resume, though Great Northern officials deny official confirmation and cite financial concerns.
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Rockford
Great Northern
Montana
Watford
Chippewa
Richey
New Rockford
Great Falls
Missouri River
W. P. Kenney
Montana Helped to Feed World
D. W. Raymond of the Montana Stock Growers' Association reports heavy cattle shipments to Chicago St Paul and Omaha in 1917 and 1918 due to short grass and drought. He cites government census figures and details by class including steers cows calves and bulls with rising totals and notes poor railroad and terminal market conditions in 1918.
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D. W. Raymond
Stockgrowers’ Association
Montana
Chicago
St. Paul
Omaha
Montana Stock Growers’ Association
State Livestock Commission
Raymond
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Postum
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