Free Red Men Is Chieftain's Plea
The chieftain says he has seen more war paint on 400 New York women than on all his people all his days. Indians are fighting with the colors and buying liberty bonds.
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New York
Red Fox Skinhusha
Butte
America
Red Fox
Germany
Red Cross
Defense
Black Hawk
Stewart
Baker
Wilson
United States
Whitehall
Tepee Order of America
Famous Overland Stage Drivers Known to Montana Pioneers
A portrait of the old Overland route and Montana connections highlights renowned drivers. Notable figures include Bob Martin alias Frank Williams, Colonel Bill Trotter, Sam V. Getts who carried the last mail before the 1869 spike, and Bishop West famed for calm speech and frontier feats. The piece also recounts ambushes, arrests, and the era’s rough justice along the Virginia City line.
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Montana
Western Plains
Missouri River
Atchison
Kansas
California
Salt Lake City
Virginia City
Ben Holladay
King of the Overland
Salt Lake
Holladay
Spotswood
Forts Kearney
Laramie
South Platte River
Julesburg
West
Bob Martin
Frank Williams
Martin
Big Sandy
Liberty Farm
Fort Kearney
Williams
James Brown
L. F. Carpenter
David Dinan
W. L. Mers
A. J. McCausland
Parker
Charles Parks
Dinan
McCausland
Mers
Parks
Carpenter
Brown
Overland
Bill” Trotter
Old Windsor
Boulder
Jefferson County
Trotter
Concord
Old Julesburg
Colorado
Slade
Jules
O’fallon’s Bluffs
Willow Island
Getts
Sam V. Getts
Cascade
Cascade County
Union Pacific
Central Pacific
Ed. B. Kilburn
Bishop” West
Pony Express
Ey P. West
Burbank super wheat harvests tested in Bozeman plot
Bozeman agronomy reports yield for Burbank super-wheat at 54.6 bushels per acre, ranking twelfth among eighteen fall varieties. Montana 36 led with 82.6 bushels per acre. The Burbank grain resembles Crail Fife and has medium milling quality. One Red Cross unit in Honolulu described a driver named West amid a camelot of cultural mixing. A Western coachman, Bishop, quiet and skilled, faced taunting eastern passengers during a steep descent into Idaho Springs.
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Agronomy
Bozeman
Burbank
Luther Burbank
California
Montana
West
New England
Bishop
Virginia Canyon
Idaho Springs
Tenderfoot
Springs
Rare Turkey Red wheat experiment reaches Musselshell county
County Agent Scott of Musselshell county has secured one bushel of banned Turkey Red wheat for experimental tests from a total world supply of five bushels. The hardy Kansas State College line is suited to Montana's drier areas and will be distributed to growers next year to build up quantities for further testing. Farmer Fred Metzger, known in the Rothiemay district, plans to sow about 40 acres using the Burbank super wheat and expects high yields with heads carrying roughly twice as many berries as other varieties.
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Scott
Musselshell County
Kansas Agricultural College
Montana
Fred Metzger
Rothiemay
Burbank
Early Montana Laws Reveal 1860s Civic Rules and Fights
The 1860s Montana legislature enacted curious laws reflecting frontier life. Provisions included night watchmen powers in Helena, a fireman duty for session doors, a first census pay per head, Lord's Day restrictions, trout fishing rules with fines up to 200 dollars, bans on crooked gambling, Upper Missouri River steamboat navigation charter, and concealed weapon crime penalties.
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Montana
Territorial Legislative Assembly
Manna
Helena
Thomas Francis Meagher
Gover
Edgerton County
Lewis and Clark County
Legislative Assembly
Bannack
Bis
Jake de Hart
Upper Missouri Navigation
Upper
Missouri
Fort Benton
Three Forks
Gallatin City
N. W. Burris
G. W. Stapleton
John D. Ritchie
A. V. Brookie
F. Moore
B. S. Peabody
Richard F Lawless
Senator Hoffman Heads Pioneers War Post Trader at Fort Buford
Charles Wheeler Hoffman elected president of the Montana Society of Pioneers at Anaconda meeting. A Bozeman resident since the 1860s, he served as state senator from Gallatin 1889–1904 and held posts at Fort Randall Fort Buford Fort Ellis. As Fort Buford post trader he supervised the mercantile store and the post grew into a key fur trade hub amid Sioux conflicts. He later led Bozeman National Bank before its merger and now focuses on farming interests.
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Bozeman
Anaconda
Fort Buford
Charles Wheeler Hoffman
Montana Society of Pioneers
Gallatin Valley
Gallatin
Hoffman
Montana
Missouri River
Fort Randall
Dakota
Yellowstone River
Post
Buford
Senator Hoffman
Northwest Fur Company
Durfee & Peck
Charles Larpenteur
Fort Ellis
Bozeman National Bank
Commercial National Bank
Hereford Breeders Form Montana Association
At a Helena meeting local Hereford cattle breeders organized the Montana Hereford Breeders Association and laid out a campaign for the whiteface beef breed. Hal B. Ives of Helena was elected state president with George B. Cook as vice president and Chatterton as secretary-treasurer, alongside other officers from Bozeman, Carlyle, Cardwell, Billings, and Flathead county.
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Montana
Helena
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Blackfeet
Columbia University
Denver
Cherry Creek
West and
W.N. Byers
Rocky
Mountain News
Bill Lrotver
Old Windsor Hotel
Honolulu
C. W. Hoffman
Great Falls Brick & Tile Co
Great Falls
1St National Bank
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