A Montana Mountaineer and a Julesburg Night
A July 6 1876 Troy Herald recounts a November night in Julesburg where a Montana mountaineer enters a gambling hall on a construction train westward, bets heavily, confronts Joe Morford, and ends in a deadly shootout that leaves the mountaineer and two others dead, with a sister mourning over her brother. The piece shifts to reflections on frontier life and a Harper’s Magazine vignette about Julesburg’s decay.
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Jules Dury
Mott
Kelley
Jane
Ray
Clase
Titian
Arizona
Julesburg
Black Hills
Union Pacific
Gold
Bozeman
Mountaineer
Ilo
Joe Morford
Lila
Borderer
Ile
New York
Philadelphia
Boston
Morford
Borderers
Llenry
Graves Near the Old Tank Mark Passages of Julesburg
The passage describes three unnamed graves beside a railroad track about eighty yards from an old tank. A locomotive chugs past, bearing civilization forward, while the guard of the body of the phe and the officer's soul remains unnamed in the backdrop of Julesburg's remembered era.
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Julesburg
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J. Crosby
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Tle
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