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Broadwater the Montana Pioneer and Railroad Builder
Charles A. Broadwater arrived in Montana in 1862 and helped found Cottonwood near Deer Lodge. He led the Diamond R Transportation Company, built the Montana Central Railway from Havre to Butte, directed major freighting operations, and aided fort construction and hotel ventures before dying in 1892 with a multimillion-dollar estate.
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Montana
Charles A. Broadwater
Bannack
Virginia City
Cottonwood
Deer Lodge
Great Diamond R. Transportation Company
Bull Run
Kentucky
Missouri
St. Charles
Broadwater
Martin Maginnis
McDowell
Fairfax Courthouse
Leesburg
Point of Rocks
Potomac
Marlows
John Pemberton
Pemberton
Blackfeet
Gad Moore
Henry Plummer
Moore
Colonel Broadwater
Deer Lodge Pass
George Ives
Johnnie Cooper
John Contway
Ives
Cooper
Contway
St. Louis
Diamond R Transportation Company
Missouri River
Fort Benton
Pease
Helena
Fort Buford
Diamond R Company
E. G. Maclay
Messrs
Plains
Maclay
Union and Pacific
Ogden
Corinne
Utah
Diamond R
Northern Pacific
Bismarck
N. D
Carroll
Crook
Custer
Sitting Bull
A. H. Wilder
St. Paul
Northwest
Matt Carroll
Terry, Gibbon
Miles
Wilder
Montana National Bank
Thomas A. Marlow
National Bank of
Marlow
Havre
Fort Maginnis
Lewistown
Fort Keogh
Miles City
Fort Assinniboine
Fort Maginniss
Fort Harrison
Army
Great Northern
Harrison