Happy Idea Names New McCone County in Montana
A lobbyist editor, F. S. Kalberg of Circle, helped split Dawson County into Garfield and McCone. McCone, named for longtime Senator George McCone, covers 2736 square miles with about 5.27 million dollars assessed value, while Garfield mirrors that value with a larger area. Dawson, once the state's largest by area, shrank to 2412 square miles retaining eastern portions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dawson
Old County
Dawson County
Rhode Island
Sixteenth
Legislative Assembly
Montana
Garfield
McCone
F. 8. Kalberg
Circle
George McCone
Sixteenth Legislative Assembly
Kalberg
Richland County
Fisk's Gold Seekers Trek Across Plains to Montana
A fragment from Dr Dibb’s notes chronicles Captain James L. Fisk leading an overland expedition from St Paul to Idaho in 1862 with emigrants marching via Fort Abercrombie and St. Cloud. The diary records camps, buffalo hunts, encounters with Assiniboines and Blackfeet, fort visits, mining prospects at Deer Lodge, and progress toward the Yellowstone gold diggings, ending with San Francisco and Acapulco passages.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Burritt
Fort Benton
Box Elder Creek
Fisk
Fort Union
Little Dog
Diggins
Deer Lodge
Yellow Country
Deer Creek
American Forks
Pike’s Peak Gulch
Coeur d'Alene
Johnny
tTrain
Bond
Chariton
Pelouse
Walla Walla
Boise
Portland
San Francisco
California
Bay of
Acapulco
Noted soldiers to handle fund for veterans welfare
Sheridan Cutts and Pew named to form Montana veterans welfare commission as governor appoints a board to disburse 225000 dollars for aid and relief of returned soldiers sailors and marines. The commission takes over 25000 dollars from a prior group and will operate with no pay, funded by appropriations and expenses only.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles L. Sheridan
Bozeman
William Cutts
Butte
C. E. Pew
Helena
Veterans’ Welfare Commission
S. W. Stewart
Soldiers’ Welcome Commission
Welfare Commission
W. W. McDowell
J. C. Kinney
Wibaux County
W. J. McCormick
Missoula
W. B. George
Billings
Sam D. Goza
United States
Montana
Washington
Lost 1860s Fisk expedition diary found in Minneapolis trunk
A diary by Dr William Denton Dibb, physician on Captain James L. Fisk's three 1860s expeditions, was recovered from an old Minneapolis trunk. The 22,000-word diary recounts buffalo hunts, grizzly fights, Sioux clashes, treaties, and the party's 1862 first expedition, with further installments promised for upcoming issues.
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Bottineau
Fisk
Turgiss
Missouri
Fort Union
Fort Kipp
Gros Ventres
Minnesota
Montana
Minneapolis
Wiliam Denton Dibb
Minneapols
James L. Fisk
Minnehaha Falls
Minnehaha Creek
N. P. Langford
James H. Dibb
Great Falls
Dibb
United States
Sibley
North Dakota
Prayerful Trek Brought 12 Pound Howitzer From Fort
A long journey of about 250 miles was planned with careful precautions for safety. The party secured a 12 pound howitzer from the fort, and these measures helped ease their fears as prayers accompanied the effort.
Malta Hero Wins Distinguished Service Cross
Private Clifford M. Jordan of Company L 16th Infantry earned the Distinguished Service Cross for extraordinary heroism near Cantigny France on June 2 1918. He moved forward under intense machine gun and artillery fire to help evacuate a wounded comrade over about one kilometer. Home address listed as J I B Harson Malta Montana.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Malta
Clifford M. Jordan
Cantigny
16Th Infantry
France
Jordan
J. I. B. Harson
Mont
Diary Excerpt From Pacific Voyage To New York
A traveler recounts a voyage in late December 1862 detailing a stop at Panama and avoidant travel to dodge the Alabama. The entry notes a hospital fort town in ruins, a December harbor arrival, Christmas at sea with no lights, and a final arrival near New York after rounding Cape Hatteras.
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Constitution
San Francisco
Ariel
Alabama
Panama
Cape Hatteras
New York
Chicago
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F’. S. Kalberg
Cammhy
Kautiaia
Plains
St. Paul
David Charlton
William Denton Dibb
R. C. Knox
Pierre Bottineau
George Giere
Fort Abercrombie
St. Cloud
St. Anthony
Sauk River
Otter Tail
Red River
Breckenridge
Missouri River
Pembina
St. Joseph
East Branch
Maple
Coteau
Langford
The
E. W. Burritt
Dr. W
Denton Dibb
David Chariton
Postum
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