Kipp Defied Hudson Bay Co Built Fort Piegan and Won Trade
James Kipp led 44 men to establish Fort Piegan in 1831 amid Blackfeet arrival 500 lodges. He used strategic generosity and a bold cannon shot to deter attacks and win massive beaver trade, defeating British rivals and securing American Fur Company dominance from the Yellowstone to the Marias region. The siege ended with a negotiated trade and Kipp moving to Fort Union as spring arrived.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kipp
Hudson Bay CO
Missouri River
Rocky Mountain Country
Montana
Hudson Bay Company
James Kipp
Kenneth McKenzie
American Fur Company
Fort Union
Yellowstone River
Marias River
Fort Benton
Blackfeet
McKenzie
Burger
Hudson Bay
New Post
Fort Piegan
Union
Marins
Yellowstone
New Ferro-Manganese Plant Opens in Great Falls
The Anaconda Copper Mining Company opens a ferro-manganese plant in Great Falls, Montana, built at government request. It will produce 90 tons daily, support 85 new jobs, use 100,000 volts stepped to 6,600 and then 85 to 100 volts, and supply material for Pittsburg iron. First furnace began Sep tember 17, and the plant costs exceed 500000 dollars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Anaconda Copper Mining Company
Great Falls
Montana
Missouri River
Pittsburg
Lawmakers Named In Broad Montana Party Ticket
Republican and Democratic candidates named for Montana state senate and house seats. Meagher and Rosebud counties have no opposition on the Republican side. Republicans hold 15 senate seats with 10 needed for a majority. several counties list full Republican or Democratic slates and a mix of holdovers. House races show multiple counties with unopposed Republican candidates and broad ticket competition elsewhere.
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Meagher and
Rosebud
Legislative Assembly
Meagher
State Senate
House
Blaine
Big Horn
Richland
Senate
World War Headlines From Across The Globe
A compilation notesMontreal reports 14,000,000 drafted through 18 to 46 registrations. St Mihiel success claims 20,000 Germans captured in 27 hours. Logan Coal contributes 26000 to Red Cross amid profiteering charge. Parsifal line defense from Antwerp to Metz. Gas shell pumice stone linger effect alleged. Galway Castle torpedoed. 200 dead. Debs convicted and sentenced to 20 years. British steamer reaches port after fog submarine attack. Wilson urges work or military service. Razvozoff rumored murdered at Petrograd. Pershing descendant of French Huguenots claim. Chicago mayor Thompson beaten amid pro German stance. Draft evaders fight a posse near Eau Claire. one dead. Red Cross clothing drive for Belgium and France. Two Montana men arrested crossing to Mexico to dodge draft. German pilot of downed airplane was a woman. Morphine and narcotics use rising. a million and a half dope fields claimed. Lenine Trotzky German agents proofs published. Eleven home guard youths killed in German guard clash.
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Newport
Montana
Washington
St. Mihiel Salient
Fierkees
Philadelphia
Logan Coal Company
Red Cross
Paris
Antwerp
Metz
London
St. Mihiel
South Africa
Port
Conn
Wilson
Stoc
A. V. Razvozoff
Baltic
Petrograd
Cleveland
Ohio
Eugene V. Debs
New York
Pittsburg
Arcee
Amsterdam
Christiania
Springfield
Mass
Smith & Wesson
War Labor Board
Okm Okla
General Pershing
France
Alsace
Pershing
Cago
Wild Bill Thompson
Chicago
U. S. Senate
Medill McCormick
Eau Claine
American Red Cross
Belgium
el Paso
Tex
Mexico
Otto Johnson
C. H. Wilson
Butte
Germany
Washi
Lenine
Trotzky
Home Defense Guard
Home Guard
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KODAK
Schoettner Studio
N. Main Street
West
New York City
Beaverhead County
George Featherly
Holdover
R. Big Horn
G. F. Burla
George McCone
R. Deer Lodge
J. B. Goose
R. Fallon
E. S. Booth
J. H. Bergstrom
D. Fergus
E. O. Herrick
B. C. White
D. Flathead
Robert Pauline
J. E. Erickson
D. Gallatin
George O. Arnold
D. Granite
Gould
D. Meagher
James T. Wood
Mineral
G. R. Cooper
Wilkinson
D. Missoula
Ed Dondon
Frank H. Cooney
D. Musselshell
Dan Slayton
R. Park
Dan Healey
D. Phillips
Prairie
Haley
R. Ravalli
Frank Cone
Hamilton Thatcher
D. Richland
H. A. Gallway
D. Stillwater
H. Leuthold
J. Calhoun
D. Sweet Grass
Henry Ellingson
R. Teton
T. O. Larson
C. C. Davis
D. Toole
William Bourke
T. L. Clark
D. Valley
J. L. Slattery
M. A. We Sand
D. Wheatland
C. P. Tooley
R. H. Duan
D. Wibaux
J. C. Kinney
A. E. Jeffers
D. Yellowstone
F. B. Connelly
T. S. Hogan
House of Representatives
Beaverhead
J. C. Patterson
Jesse W. Finsley
D. Big Horn
J. Scott
James Griffin
Water
D. Neil
Hugh Broderick
D. Carbon
J. Baldwin
Albert Budas
Walter Alderson
Wallace Bent
W. J. Crismas
Margaret Sanders
D. Cascade
H. W
W. R. Felton
C. Crumpacker
Charles Stevens
George M. Everett
George Martinson
Ira Liebrasse
D. Custer
N. H. Fuller
F. T. Kelsey
J. B. Collins
Randolph Diebel
Charles de Graffenreid
Karl Johnson
D. Dawson
C. Henderson
E. M. Naylor
C. A. Rasmussen
T. J. Johnson
T. L. Haines
Mason Knapp
D. Deer Lodge
R. Godby
E. C. Johnson
John W. James
Cc. A. Lemmon
Michael Doyle
J. L. Chrystal
D. Fallon
C. C. Conser
C. B. Lieurance
O. W. Belden
John A. Wilson
Herman C. Otter
Homer Goodell
George Evane
B. F. Gordon
EB. G. Worden
D. J. Burke
Flathead
Percy F. Dodds
Emma A. Ingalls
J. H. McAfee
J. B. Sinclaire
J. M. Dawson
W. L. Fitzsimmons
W. M. Mulaney
W. T. McKeown
Jasper Haaland
R. A. Sickles
D. Jefferson
M. W. Atwater
M. J. Sullivan
D. Lewis and Clark
B. R. Streets
J. H. Carmichael
M. J. Silverman
William Dryburgh
J. C. Bayerd
Ray Church
William Muth
Levin S. Wild
William Meyer
E. T. Mooney
O. M. Gudmansen
Walter L. Hurd
Sweet Grass
E. J. Moe
W. A. Donald
D. Teton
H. T. Rhodes
John W. Coburn
E. D. Forrect
Forseth
W. M. Black
J. W. Cavitt
E. T. Phelps
O. M. Christenson
C. C. Sargent
C. C. Arnold
M. Sekman
J. A. Meade
Ward Beley
G. C. Derry
Thomas M. Kehoe
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Great Falls Brick & Tile Co
Great Fall&s
1St National Bank
Western Accident & Indemnity Company
Helena
Concord
Jonathan
Wagner
Rome
Express
Cherrylane Orchards
Sreenacres, Wash
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