Christmas in Virginia City Montana 1868 Golden Days
A New York Tribune correspondent recalls Christmas in Virginia City Montana as the liveliest festive day of 1868. The town buzzes with social joy, saloons fill, auctions entertain, and a Planters ball hosts about a hundred guests with tickets at twenty dollars each.
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Pioneer Nurse Catherine Carruthers Remains in Fort Benton
The first Montana nurse, Catherine Carruthers formerly Babbage, now in her eighties, lives on a ranch near Fort Benton. She traveled up the Missouri by steamboat as a young widow with few white women present, trained in a Washington maternity hospital, and helped as nurse and doctor amid early frontier life.
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Johnny” Carruthers
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