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 | [...]Chet Wilson Sheriff Charlie a. Bateman of Garfield County[...] |
| [...]ict No. 16 Flowing Wells School A Look Back from the Future at the Pu[...] |
| [...]orence Aitken Florence A. Bradstreet Yiaude Langstaff Anderson[...]ora R. Petersen or a Pet er sen |
| [...]Early Days in Montana Mrs. John A. Hallberg L.R. Jones L:i.re in Garfield Co.[...]ohnson & Watsons Anna Watson Graham The Reinny Rath Story D[...] |
| [...]ry Rusty Hai ght John A. Kerr Rilla Kerr[...]Doris & Alex Barcl y The Murder & Trial of F. A. Garinger on Woody Creek[...]xby Community Lois S1a hter Belcher Wagon Wheels[...] |
| [...]Freed Alexander Warner Freed A.w. Freed James V. Fie1ds[...]Family Eva Paulos Brown A Short History of the Slaught er Family[...]ry The T.K. Stanton Story Vi a Kooper |
| [...]nd Cl ark , whose f amou s exp e dition met wi th a mishap tha t might well have b r ought it to an a[...]ay , 1805. Lewi s and Cl ark we r e b oth a s hor e. Cha rbonne au, huse and of t h e I ndian woman gu i de, Saca j awe a , wa s steering one of the c anoes when a sudden wi nd s qu all ne arly c apsi zed the craf~ which c a r ri ed a ll papers, ins t ruments, books, medicine, a gr e a t de al of me r chand is e and , to quote Cap tai[...]ssary to insure success of t he enterprise" . For a t en se f rac t i on of a minu te, marked by quick work on the p a r t of ot he r occupants of the canoe, t he f a te of t he exp edition hung i n t he b a l ance; then t he vessel wa s righted and headed[...]l u able p apers abo ut t o fl oat down stream h a d been r esc ued by res ourc e f ul , ind is pensab l e Saca j aw e a . Foll owed the fur t r a de era . But t hi s remote re g i on, mid- way b e t ween Fort Uni on on the e a s t and Fort Be nton on the west, wa s v i sited[...]ssed the river to g raze i n we s t ern Garfield. A f ew years l a ter some of the t hous ands which r eache d Monta[...]r trail found t heir way to t hi s secti on, and a s a s te ady st.r eam of homeseeker s :fol l owing t[...]k ou tfits r e treated to t he vas t Ga r fiel d a rea where i t has been s a i d , t he Mont ana c a ttle baron made his l a st stand . In 1898 a pos t of f i c e was establishe d at Jord an, named for Arthur J ordan , and a short time l a ter the Mosby offi ce wa s opened . To Harry L. H[...]r ed ited the e s t ab l ishment of mail s ervice a t Cohagen . About 1900 , w. c. Henderson , err y[...]J ohnson brothers move d i n to engage in stockr a is ing . F·or a t ime they had t he c ountry very much t o t hems elv es , b u t things were a b i t more crowde d in 190 2 when 48 v ote s we r[...]d ' s 4, 858 square mile s . Twenty- five v oted a t J ordan , fi v e a t Kismet , n ine a t Mosby and nine at Us car Hunter' s r anch .[...]ed it to 5 , 000 and in 1919 the c ounty was c re a te d by a legisl a tiv e a ct which became law without t he signa t u re of[...], Jor dan wa s de signate d temp orary county se a t , and the foll owing officer s , n ame d i n th[...]rs; C. M. Bieve r , Tre as urer ; C. J . Taylor , a ss essor ; I . V. At tix, Cl erk of c ourt[...] |
| [...]perty in the county at ~16 , 030 , 514. Crops had a total value of about ~600 , 00~ including $400 , 000 worth of hay . A considerable tonnage of corn was cut for forage .[...]ockgrowing continued to dominate industrially for a numb e r of years and much of the old west still[...]world , has reached the door of this section i n a second march across the Treas ure State , Garfie l ~ bid f air to s~eerily a ssume a pr ominent pos ition among banne r agricultural c[...]eed , ninth in alfalfa and ninth in flax . A small porti on of Cat Creek oil fiel d extends in[...]the great deposits of lignite coal which furnish a cheap , convenient and dep endable fuel sup ply ,[...]ed from <28,192. 2 to 11, 801 .:2 The per c api t a net debt .for county and school purposes is about[...]ned enrollment is about 1, 000 . Garfield ' s pop a ti n in 1920 was 5 ,368 . It ranks 40th among countie s of the state in popul a ti on and seventh in a rea. (The above story of Garfield County was sent to Hrs . Fern Schillreff by • A . McKenzi e; assistant f•ianager of ubli[...] |
| [...]before Garfield County was created this area was a p art ofDawson County, the largest county in Mon[...]o contact with our county offici als and law wa s a dm inistered in a rather sketchy way. The offices of Justice of the[...]by two cases with which I had experience, once as a juror and once as a complaining witness in a trespass case. Ren Niles had a small ranch about six miles down Calf Cre ek from our homestead. He ran a small bunch of cattle in t he Musselshell Brakes and generally took things pretty much as they came. Ren was a middleaged wi dower and kept house lik e a typical pioneer. He was a fine neighbor and vaa liked and respected by everyone. Ren 1 s ho u se was a one room log buildi n g, not a dugo ut, with bo ard floor but with a dirt roof. Two bunks had been built along one wall and a long board table took up most ot the central space. On each side of the table was a bench that could accomo- date three peop le comfortably. A cookstove and cupboards took up most of one rear corner and a few homemade stools and one chair completed the f urnishings. A few years before I first met Ren someone had put his name on the ballot and he h a d been elected J ustice of t he Peace. He had no[...]I was not displaased one day when Len Warner, a young rancher from several miles down the creek,[...]ot to Ren•s on the day he had set I found quite a few people a lre ady t here. Most of t hem we re from Lodgep o[...]ew per s onally. I soon foun d ou t t ha t t he c a se I had be en c a l led on wa s t he r e sult of an a ssaul t and b a t t ery compl a int mad e by one s ett ler against his neighbor.[...]ten up. We all crowde d int o Hen ' s cabin, he s a t a t the end of t h e table and court was calle d to order. Bill Gre en was a De put y Grune Warden and Cons t able but Ren add[...]aintiff and hi s witne sses on this side of the t a ble (poin ting to his left ) and the defendant an[...]ther . " This Bill proce eded to do wi th qui te a bit of shuffl ing ab out in the crowded cabin . l[...]1n t he jury box." That took some · more moving a r ound to get the s 1~ of u s all comforta[...] |
| [...]nting hi s case in his own way . Judge Niles kept a firm h and at all time s and preserved good order[...]and said,"Lytle , you and Len come on and give me a hand." We did . We peeled quantities of potatoe s[...](and t hat included most every- one) had been fed a r eal bang up me al. We was h ed the dishes , cle[...]r again. Along about the middle of the aft ernoon a ll of t he evidence was in and as neither side seemed to want to make a plea to the jury the Judge took over . "Mr . Bail[...]r o om , l ock them i n and remain outside until a verdict is reached . You will t h en r eturn them[...]ened to Ren r efer to t he jury room I wonde r ed a little bit just what he had in mind . I t hought p ossibl y he was talking about a small log barn a f ew hundred feet ou t in front of the cabin. Whe[...]t urne d right t oward t he coulee I began to get a hunch what the judge had i n mind . That was wher[...]o stand upright and you simply do not sit down in a chi ckenhouse. Whoever was supposed to clean this[...]ncomfo r t able crou ch ed p ositions and deliber a ted . Come to think of i t I don 't t hink delibe r a tion is the right word . Among other definitions[...]ing but there was nothing slow about it. In just a f ew min u tes we called Bailiff Bill and told him we had re a che d a verdict . We filed out, stretched the kinks out o[...]m . Everyone seeme d to think tha t t h e Judge h a d been fair and imp artial and that right h ad pr[...]. I stayed around aft er t he crowd left just for a little visit with Ren . e s a t there smoki ng and after a little pause in the conversat ion he said , "Do y[...]ollars and fifty cents and I won 't get t hat for a co uple of months. Just don ' t look like good bu[...]paid for that jury service. Oh, well. I di d get a free meal. My other experience in Judge Ni[...]homestead was three hundred and twenty ac r es ,C a lf Creek flowing a cross one quarter secti on or it . This pi[...] |
| remaining quarter section were clearly marked by a plowed furrow 1and by posts set in the ground at[...]ere I had gone for the mail, and just as I topped a ridge looking down on our place I saw a band of sheep spread all over the unfenced but ma[...]at his name was Bill. He had always s eemed to be a decent sort of fellow so I pointed out that his s[...]ted his dogs around the side toward our house. In a little wh1le he had them all outs ide the boundar[...]I caught his sheep on that land I would swear out a warrant for his ar~est for trespass. My chance came a short time after that. There were the sheep and I[...]for me to do but go down to Judge Niles, swear to a complaint, and let the law take its course. I exp[...]k- ing out some kind of paper which may have been a warrant , Len Warner rode up. Ren handed him the[...]on home, still mad about the sheep but also just a bit sorry~ was causing what I assumed would be Ma[...]all would be bad to cross so I decided to make it a.foot which I could do down our side of the creek.[...]fter we ate and washed the dishes t he Judge took a calfskin bound legal book from a shelf and put it in front of him as he sat at the end of the table. It was a copy of one volume of Mont ana Code, the only l a[...]had warned the herder, Bill, on two se arate occ a s i ons, asking him to keep the sheep off this la[...]hand as he opened it up, t urned pages for quite a while, c onsulted the index, and t urned m[...] |
| [...]ght as well stay all ni ght . Bill, reach down th a t deck of cards behing you and let ' s play some[...]sleep with.me." · I believe the J udge was a p re t ty s hrewd man and tha t the justice he de[...]law . Here wer e plaint iff and defendant sharing a bed after eating t ogether and spending an aft ernoon and evening in a friendly game of' car ds. I am s u r e we l e ft[...]4. A carpenter 5. A restaurant[...] |
| [...]eople that at last, this area was going to become a County. The excitement must have been terrific[...]ix in Jordan on Feb. 21, 1919, at 10:00 o,clock A.M. The meeting came to order. Arthur Markley wa[...]her two Commissioners ~were B. H. Fleming and W.A. Barker. It was decided that Jordan would be a temporarily County Seat, and since they did need a Courthouse, the Jordan Amuse,· ment Hall would[...]presented plans for remodeling the building into a Qourthouse. The building was purchased \ from R[...]es. And so began the long process of setting up a County Seat . It was the job of the Count[...]Arthur Markley was in charge of dist. No. 1. W.A. Barker had dist. No. 2, and B. H. Fleming had dist. #3. The County purchased a car for each County Commissioner to attend to t[...]- ed as Field Deputy Assessors . This was to be a hard job. There was a lot of territory to cover, and it seemed that the[...]e who resented being taxe d , and didn 't turn in a correct itemized list of their properties. Then the assessor would have to make a trip to their place and make a count of their own and change the records. The[...]ustified. Most cases were dropped bef~~e they had a chance to discuss the matter very thoroughly. T[...]fice. , Th e first warr ant from the Gene r a l fund was drawn in favor of Harry A. Garfield, son of James G. Garfi ld, as a momento of the creation of Garfield Coun[...] |
| [...]yping and proofreading each instrument. This was a big job. Our vaults have many instru- ments which[...]es records. People were getting anxious to set up a permanant county seat. On July 1, 1919, request was made to the cormnissioners for a special election to determi ne the permanent coun[...]missioners met to consider the petition for such a special election and for passing and adapting such resol- ution which would be necessary to hold a special election. All petitions had to comply wit[...]320 acres of land in this country would not make a living for their families. The population was pro[...]be 21 years of age. Tax levies were then set and a special road tax was levied on all male between the ages of 21 and 50 years old. There was also a Bachelor tax on men between the ages of 21 and 60. It took a lot of determination and hard work to get this County started, and eachCounty Commissioner deserves a big Thank-you for the time spent and efforts made[...]g smoothly. We are very fortunate to live in such a community of warrn friendly people. It is truly a[...]UNTY COMMISSIONERS B. H. Flemi ng W. A. Barker Arthur Markley |
| [...]Thomas L. Harvey R. A. Grant Gurtrude Gurnett[...]County had some bonded indebtness, so by applying a per- centage of the land and value taken by Garfield County, a debt of $50,547 .50 that became our debt. So, we[...]ilor was appointed the First County Assessor with a salary of fl00 .00 per month. I noticed that his[...]sessor against W. H. Woods. Taylor was elected by a small margin. His salary increased to $125 .00 per month. Down through the years, there has been a total of six county assessors namely: c. J[...]Two years ago, the County Commissioners purchased a used addressograph. This has been a real lift as far as preparing the Assessme[...] |
| [...]-- 1921 TREASURER Rebert Schubert: Deputy A. E. Sn7der: Deputy Nora Osborn: Deputy H. M. LARS[...]TREASURER Leona Osborn Lahn: Deputy Approx. 6 y e a r s. E. H. WEIMER--------------------1927 TR[...]uty Wm. Tayler: Deputy Alta Robertson: Deputy LEE A. COWIN--------------------1939 TREASURER Edw[...]. MART--------------------1943 TREASURER Lee A. Cowin: Deputy Orlando Patterson: Deputy ORLANDO[...]RER Cornelia Harbaugh: Deputy The abeve ia a partial list or Garfield County p[...] |
| [...]of the District Court On Apr il 3, 1919, a resolution was passed that the office of the Cl[...]d in this capacity until his death in 1965. Hon,A. B. Mar tin was appointed to finish his term and[...]he first Estate filed was for Martin Martens with a Louis Martens as administrator. I see that he h[...]r to me were John Eich, Thos. J. Fitzgerald, L. A. Swansei'F • C. Kibler, Roland Taylor, J[...] |
| [...], ever resigned in September of 1919, said resign a tion to be effective as soon as a de,puty could be appointed. Appointed by Sheriff Roke to assist him were H.A. Heth- erington, 11 Bertn, as deputy and Ray F.[...]23. During his term he had as under-sheriff, H. A. "Bert" Hetherington and Leigh Rood as Deputy.[...]eriff-elect George T. Deniger who served without a deputy until 1935. Jay Phelps was the nex[...] |
| [...]County 3uperint enclent of .Schoo l s A ,. fostcrn Union Telegram wns sent frorn Helena , Hontana to Jordan and r ead a s foll ows: llBCN 5 COLLECT HEL~NA HOt .i TA}.;.~ 7.59A FEB 7 1919 CHl1JIBER COEMli:HCE[...]ls of the Jordan Courtr oom, j us t 50 years l a ter. Thus b e gan Garf'iel o. County . Apri l 1,[...]c ame to our school to visit . I don 1 t know why a ll school pupils be have bett er when the Co un ty Superintendent h a s come to visi t, bu t we ce rtainly di d .[...]ietly roll ing up in her lit tle car and jus t a s quietly came into our cl a ssroom and could be ther e fo r son etirr,e bei'ore the te a che r or pup ils eve r knew she wa s there. Nis[...]or 12 years f rom 1931 to 1943 when she filed for a hi gher pol- itical office . Mrs. Et[...]til 1948 when she resigned and went back to te a c hing sc hools . !·1r . Olando Patter s on, b e t ter knot•m a s 11 Pa t", was appoi n t ed 11 Acting Colmt y Su pe rin tendent" to compl ete t he unexpire d te rrr:;. , a s t te re was no one who was qual- if'ied t ha[...]Cox worked in t he offic e un der Pat . Pat was a l so the County Treasurer a t t his time , so he served in the c apac ity a s Co un t y Superint endent of Schools with no[...]. It no t only ha s t he ' book work , but also h a s figuring budgets , auditing clerks books , · v[...]any typ e of work thut t here is o It is n o t a job that becoH1es t ire- some as th e re a re so many thing s to do t hat you j u st[...] |
| [...]ana, worked at Great Falls and at Lewis- town for a time and then filed on a homestead on Calf Creek in western Dawson County,[...]as Deputy County Surveyor of Rosebud County for . a time during which our o~dest son, John Stewart, w[...]r younger son Lytle Grif- fith, was born there in a small frame house, still standing and very near t[...]at our son was the first boy to be born in Jordan a:rter it became the County Seat. He ls also celebr[...]th birthday anniversary this spring. Oetting a new county to function was an interesting job for[...]gning this rather crude structure but as I saw it a few years ago it apparently has be en serv[...] |
| [...]was located t here for several years. My mother, a former schoolteacher, did the bookkee p i ng for[...]other, Dad, and I usually W6nt to Mites City once a year in a two-horse top buggy and it was a full 100 miles then. We would go about 60 miles the first day, stay overn i Eht at a ''half-way house", leave very early the next morn[...]t near e r than Miles City for many years. A section of Dad's homeste ad was later He nderson'[...]t in the development of the area, such as getting a sc h ool started, having a ba~k and trying to get a railroad line built through Garfield County. He was a representative from Dawson County , with Glendive[...]tayed with us during their terms. Dad ·came from a family who put a hi gh value on education and their membership in[...]The school~ ouse was the community center. A piano was purchased and with the addition -of a fiddle, music was provided for the dances. That piano was l a ter replaced with a player- piano and my folks bought it for our home[...]ren are doi~g their practicing on it. It is still a good Emerson piano, alth ough it is at least 60 y[...]eacher. There was no immediate prospect of having a t~acher the next fail and there was no hi gh scho[...]raduated from the University of Montana at Missou~a. Written by Margue[...] |
| [...]nded school. As each son became of age he took up a homestead adjoining their father's place. C.J.[...]s office and later became Col)_n ty Treasurer for a numbe1· of years . C.J. raised cattle and also ·sheep. Many a trip was made to Milos City with a load of wool and brought back winter supplies . The nea rest railro ·:i. d was Ingemar, which was a very important tra'1- ing p ost for all th[...] |
| [...]along the way, they rode horseback, stopping for a much needed rest at Petersons near Forsyth, Monta[...]eep outfit until Vialls left here. They worked on a ranch on "The South Side" for about two years. Bo[...]Jordan. They ran cattle and horses, and broke up a few acres or land. Later Walter acquired an Addit[...]nick- named Peg Leg Coulee for Mr. Kelly (he had a wooden leg) who lived there. In April 1912 a son, Walter, was born at Stone Shack. (Stone Shack, on the road to Miles City, was a stopping place for freighters and anyone who was[...]n Norman, sometimes on horse back. The folks made a mere living for a few years. Their holdings were almost wiped out d[...]Mother taught school, sometimes for fifty dollars a month. The folks managed to buy some sheep. Dad and Jack Osborn ran sheep together for a few years. Osborns lived a short dist- ance from our place. Whenever one of us hung a red blanket on the clothesline it meant, "Come over, we have a special treat". Dad had a great love for horses. He hated it when, open r a[...]or two of them. He liked to think that he helped a number of young men with some f iner points of ho[...]e Margaret Kerr rode horse-back to our place with a sack of mending and yards of material tied[...] |
| [...]her. We hardly knew what it was to go to a doctor. There was nothing like epson salts and castor oil---a sure cure for almost anything. Dr. Battin lived[...]ave him prescribe for us. The folks owned a Model T Ford car when we were small. Dur- ing the twenties they drove a Hupmobile touring car. It was quite a thrill to see a rain storm coming and grab the side- curtains to put on. In 1928 Dad bought a new Whippet Sedan. The same year Nick bought a new Chevrolet Coupe. Crop s were good that year.[...]t there at dances calling, "Get your partners for a squa re dance 11 • We had to start early and go[...]Y'led. by the ladies of the Comm- unity. This was a happy time for the children when the Club members[...]al School. Two of her teac he rs were the same te a c hers that her mother went to sc hool to years b[...]ed, lived in Or eg on, Montana and Wyoming. She h a s two daug- hters, Darleen and Elean or. In 1947[...]d , the prairie dog's foe We kill t hem a ll where 1 e r we go. Our bosses are Ba[...]the feathers on their caps They'll have a ll the prairie dogs in their laps. By-- A. Wayne Winters . The poem is selr explanatory. Dad also worked on W. P . A. projec ts. ~ .2.. |
| Later he was a Jr. Foreman for the c.c.c. When the camp was dism[...]n Fire Hall. Many children Visited him to receive a treat of candy or ice cream. He loved to p[...] |
| [...]doctor advised him to come west. He had a classmate at Boston University, Bill Sheehan, who[...]young men to come out west. He was working in a bank at Denton, Montana and that is where Jack[...]e and another attorney started out to look for a location and Jack ended up in Jordan. His[...]d then decided to come back. He took up a homestead about six miles north of town, near[...]day and back the next. He finally bought himself a horse but when he wasn't using it, the horse would disappear and he would post a reward and it would appear again. I can[...]just trails. I came out in an open Ford and in a snow storm. The driv er's name was "Irish" and I[...]ng straw hats at that time in the East, so TI had a big brown straw hat on. We arrived on th[...]Fireman's ball and I had my first experience at a western dance. I had on a kelly green satin dress and everyone else had on house dresses and the men in cowboy boots, but I had a lot of tun. What amazed me the most was that eve[...]and I was ready to quit. Jack had made a lot of friends and everyone was so nice to us. T[...]rink the water and also the outside plumbing was a particular hazard. Then we set up housekeeping in a room in back of Jack's office. Poor Jack, bow he[...]16 years out of the twenty and we had qtuhite a time campaigning with him every two years going a[...]d Williams came from Lewistown and his wife at a tr dge party. Jack had to be gone a lot we finally moved i no a wo-room house next t O M Winf'i 1[...] |
| in Jordan, I never had to haul a pail of water or empty ashes except one time when Jack was sick with a kidney stone, I empted the ashes but unfortunately the ashes were hot and I empted them into a wooden barrel next to the "privy" and the "privy"[...], one was built. The men got some land and we had a golf course. We had a pro come out from Miles City and give us lesson[...]ugust and John was born in Oct. of 1919. That was a terrible winter and I just managed to get home be[...]gowns at our dinner dances. We spent days getting a dinner ready, two ladies would entertain at a time, and then when the Holidays came we all went[...]to stay with me when Jack was gone. We had a daughter, Mary born two years after John, I can r[...]ining room t able pads to make him guards. We had a another son, Robert born while we lived in Jordan[...]on in 1940 but try to visit Jordan at l east once a year. Jack passed away a few years ago. Fran & Jack Cavan, S[...] |
| [...]Later she served as deputy under Mrs . Kelly for a few months repaced by Mrs . Geneva Witt. She[...]e year if my memory serves me right. She had a homestead north of Jordan loc a te d on Frasier Creek. She worked in the postoffice for several ye a rs as Deputy. It was while she was employed here[...]ta. She become an invalid, spent several years in a wheel chair. She passed away at Galen Sanatorium in the late fourties or early fifties. She is buried in a lovely little c~metery near Stevensville i[...] |
| [...]Arthur Markley came to the Big Dry Country with a band of sheep in 1908, trailing from the Graveley[...]any years. He and his wife Kate had two children, a son Arlee, and daughter May Billing. He served as a Dawson County Commissioner from 1917, until the c[...]ners board for the new county of Garfield. He was a commissioner till in 1930, serving on the board l[...]d to make our county as it is to day. Art was a very friendly man and made many friends du[...] |
| [...]my office in the Barber Shop which I bought from a Mr. Webster in 1923. This particular cuse was a Moonshiner and Bootlegger who was trailed into m[...]and B.L. recognised_ his voice and he (B.L.) had a bottle of moonshine in his front pocket , so he g[...]over himself under the hair cloth which ex9luded a sour smell that aroused the Sheriff's sus picion[...]n and let him out of the chair and O'Connor filed a complaint charging illegal possession of moonshin[...]come down on my desk with his fist and called it a Kangaroo Court using an Oath- Court then fined hi[...]case was interesting; Lou Thompson who was quite a characters what to a wi dows house and she refused to let him into her[...]nd kicked the door in. She came to town and filed a complaint charging with disturbing the peace. Mr[...]anything to say. Yes, he said, ''I think this is a damn Kangaroo Court. The court asked if that was[...]Falls was bartender at Glendive ~orked till 2:00 A.M. then got in his car and started home on[...] |
| One case was of a truck driver with 600 bushels of wheat on his Sem[...]Coroner on many and some grus ome cases. One was a case of murder which was never solved. A man was wrecking a homestead shack near his home and some p erson fired from a concealed position with a 30-JO rifle, killing the man. who had a couple of kids with him . They took him home and[...]death by gunshot by part;, or parties un- known. A Hr. 2innacker was foreman of Jury. Had some[...]cly kn,,w 2-bo u t who was do ' ng it and finally a man by the name of Bones Rix was appointed Constable anri he caught up with Mr. r rain,ri g h~ away it was a stati onary engine he had taken,valued at about $50.00 so he ar r-ested the man on a warrent issued by ,falter Pollard who was J. P. o[...]Miles City jail; they were keeping our prisoners a t that time. He sai d he would break our C[...] |
| [...]1907 living in West end of the County, working as a Cowhand for the Ranchers He volunteered for army service. Charlie though far beyond draft a~e immed i a tely enlisted in Co. K of the 16th Infantry. He was cited r.'' f'or bravery on a French battlefield. thrice wounded and once gasse[...]ving at the time of his death. Charlie was a man in his prime when death called him. The hards[...]ther's Day in the Trenches To- day my thoughts a re turn j_ng with an inexpressable yearning, T[...]che's shells are screami ng Their hymn of h a te and blo odshed And in my dreams I see[...]by Prvt. Charlie Bateman, Co . K, 16th Inft. A.E.F. France.[...] |
| [...]ly Just fifty-five years ago in May of 1914 a young lawyer named Robert E. Purcell arrived in J[...]of horses and the trip took three days. He rented a room at the Nergaard Hotel. Born in New Yor[...]on, D.C., Bob Purcell had come West to help built a new country. He had graduated from Georgetown Uni[...]ent. After graduation, he requested and was given a transfer to the Land Office in Miles City, Montan[...]Office. It was during this time that he met Mary A. Hickey, principal of the Garfield School in Mile[...]ad come to l'•1ontana from Northern Michigan as a teacher. This was a new country; everyone was young and filled with the spirit of adventure. Bob Purcell was lookin~ for a location as a lawyer. In Feb- ruary of 1913 he moved to Forsyth[...]kan . He was told by other lawyers and friends of a new country just opening up, a town where the railroad would soon be coming; where a man could begin and grow with the new land. Thus[...]r of the First State Bank, located Bob Purcell on a place about three miles northeast of Jor dan on Vail Creek. In 1917 he prove d up on the land. He built a shack on the homestead an<l walked back and forth[...]awyer joined the army. He e~tere d the service as a private September 7, 1917. He served with the 362[...]action. It was not until 1930 that he was awarded a Distinguished Service Cross for this gallantry .[...]1919. . _on Jul; 9, 1919, Bob Purcell and Mary A: Hickey .were ~arried in Miles City, J11ontana .[...]ld County had been established and Jordan was now a County Seat.[...] |
| [...]etired because of his health. Jim Purcell is a graduate of Notre Dame University and Harvard Bus[...]Vice President in charg e of Public Relations and a member of the Board of Directors of the Northern[...]ir home in Munster, Indiana. Mary Purcell is a graduate of the Colle s e of St. Catherine . She taught school and worked as a secretary prior to her marriage to Claude B. Smith. Claude is the manager of the Public Auction Yards, a livestock market in Billings. l"ary and Cl[...] |
| [...]Governor of the Phill ipines , was born at Oceol a , Iowa , 1865. It was here that she r ec eived her early s chooling and a lso taught her f i r st sc hoo l in a rural school out of Oceola ., Iowa . She later taught in ci t y schools in Superio r , Wisconsin for several ye ar s aft er she had married John Allen I11cKee ve r , a t Oceola . They later moved to Eureka ,[...]' s firs t school te ac her in 1888 . Eureka was a Hussi an settlement and after sc hool hours Mrs .[...]et on , 3ou t h Dakota where t hey rema ined for a numb er of' years . Jvi rs . f'icKeever homestead[...]In 1 914 Frs . R::c.: h cKe e ver rrnd. f a!"li ly c ame t c l-1ontana o.nd t t e a rea along t he Big Dry j u st wos t of Jordan whe re .He n a took up a home s tead . She taught . school to supp len ent[...]n t he Big Dry and in 1922 she file d for of fice a t Coun t y Superintendent of .:1chools and won th[...]hi s office for t }1e next fo ur years . After le a ving t hi s office she went b a ck to te a ch- i ng . She taught for s e vera l ye .trs at t[...]les Ci t y and s pen t t he remai:1der of her y e a rs in 1~i11es City, Hontana . She pas s ed[...] |
| Frank McKeever; McKeev"'r f a!"lily ,[...]Delpha Brown came to this area with her family as a small child. She grew to be a charming young lady with snapping brown eyes and a personality admired by all. She taught school for[...]Delpha married Earl Vance and lived in Jordan for a number of years. Earl ~wned a service station in Jordan until it was accidentally burned down, and hen Earl went to Alaska. A serious accident caused him to be laid up for the[...]e. They moved to Billings and Delpha taught a Special Fducation class for Youngsters, and helpe[...]and she sold it and went to Arizona where she met a very nice fellow Y th e name of Fred Sout[...] |
| [...]~houses to retirement as profes~or emeritus from Purdue University's Department o:f Psychology is the :f[...]ming lady. Dr. Kelley, age 79, faces making a decision between stay- ing retired and accepting a position as a clinical psychologist at the children's hospital in St. Paul, Minn . She has been asked to aid in a program to train students, doctors, and nurses.[...]was graduted from Alexandria High School; one of a class of 13 students. After graduation, she was a bookkeeper for a local glove factory for three years • .After s[...]e fulfilled his idea of real living and moved to a ranch in Montana, homesteading on what was then[...]t was expected to visit each school at least once a yearl After two terms in this office, in 1931, th[...]na . At the age of 42, Mrs . Kelley entered Purdue University as a freshman, and at the end of three and one-half ye[...]each Spanish and .English on the secondary level, a Principal's license and a superintendent's license. After grad- uation in 1934, she was invited to stay on as a staff member of the Education and Psychology Depa[...]pt this tempting offer. While she was teaching at Purdue, the Kelley's purchased the farm, near Alexandria[...]d World War II, the professor who was director of Purdue's Children's Clinic went into serv- ice, and Dr.[...]ch she held from 1941 to 1959. This clinic served a practicum for graduate students in courses that counted toward a master's and doctor's degrees. Her school[...] |
| [...]At the end or the war, Dr. Kelley was one of Purdue's dele- gates to the first post-war meeting of th[...]- ization in London. Two years l ater she went on a similar mission to Mexico City, and four years af[...]Indiana's sesquicentenn i al year . Despite a bout with canc er in 1952, she continued her rema[...]edding anniversary, reveling in the beauties of n a ture surrounding their farm and the peace and qui[...]in 1966 . During the f all of 1966, in answer to a friend and form- er associate's query as to what a clinical psychologist could offer a children's hospit3.l in St. Paul , Minn. Dr. Kelley visited the hos 1_it a l as an observer only. A year later, in the fall of 1967, she was asked by[...]re ctor of medical education in st . Paul to make a study of the child- ren's hos p ital, to discuss in that report what a clinical psychologist could offer to help make all situations between trainee and child a learning situation for the doctors-in- training, to propose a proGram for a fulltime psychologis t in the hospital , and a plan for carry i ng out that program . The study[...]ti on at the same salary that would be offered to a person 50 years younger than she. ~14000. Less than a month ago, her left arm, which had been badly bur[...]is now under doctor 's orders to remain quiet for a two-month period . ot one to let the grass[...]t, however, Dr. Kelley is now nquietly" compiling a bibliography of books and articles on personality[...]is every bit as enthusiastic about the future as a youngster delving into his first chocolate[...] |
| [...]ly 1900 1 s when she emb arked on her career with a high school diploma in one hand and a bushel of courage in the other, as weii as plent[...]be by wagon. Although Ingomar was just a General Store, a hotel and restaurant, a post office, black smith shop, three saloons, a land office and railroad station, it[...]freight and railroad service for ranchers within a radius of a hundred miles or more. At the land office, as we[...]to spent the next 3 d1ys waiting for my husband, a two story frame building. ""e were the only women[...]n driven in by herders from grazinr lands within a hundred mile radius for the shearing. Sheep -wagons were dotting the fields. Such a cacaphony of sound -- it seemed to rrry unaccusto[...]ber for our floor-- and enough barb wire to fpnce a garden. Ingomar boasts of only one store, but it is able to supply any thing from a pin to a plow. Added to the load were 2 trunks I'd brought from home. Finally the wagon load was covered with a "tarp" and buttened down and we started on our l[...]Our meal was provided from the grub box which was a necessary adjunct to every western wagon trip of arty length. It was cooked over a fire of pine knots brought by Harley from the "timber". Al though sage brush will make a fire, it is very smudgy. Oh, how good that coffe[...]be. It was 40 miles from the railroad and a horse drawn stage went two times a week to the railroad, carrying the mail. We left the night's camping place about 9:00 a.m. At noon, we arrived at the cabin of a homesteader about 8 miles from our own home to be[...]g make hay there. The talk atthe table was all of a bucking contest that had leen held at Sand Springs the 4th i n whlch one of them had taken a part. The cabin was one- room pine log building, with a dirt roof and was my first introduction to[...] |
| [...]e to stay was one big log room, 20 1X 30 1 , with a dirt roof and dirt floor. It was partitioned off[...]ade to feel at home at once. Next day about 10:00 a.m. we hitched the team up and took the loaded wagon home. The road led up through a rather narrow coulee flanked on either side by st[...]ning yellow in the hot sun, sat our cabin against a steep but not high pine covered hill. About 100 m[...]d sage-laden air. We just sat without talking for a minute or two and then he said--"Ida, there's our[...]rley and I were married November 23, 1909. He was a railroader, I, a. bookkeeper. We lived in Marion, Indiana. He had just finished a four year hitch in the navy. Alwa,y"s, I was con[...]Montana, Wyoming, or Dakota. He planned to work a season in the wheat harvest and look for a location for us. We both worked on until near ha[...]hat summer and became ac~uainted with Otis Cook, a young bachelor, who knew a man who had just filed on 320 acres in the weste[...]to homesteaders, and that he too was looking for a place to locate. Cook had a team and waeon. Harley was a-foot. They talked the matter over wittr Gene Patt[...]the area in which he had located in exchange for a ride"home". _When harvest was over the thre[...]contents. Each man had his own tarp bed. They had a long handled skillet, a coffee pot, a bucket to heat water in, a bent iron rod on which to hand the coffee pot or[...]e-famous Cat Creek Basin· camped at Gilt Edge in a long deserted army p9st area: After about seven d[...]prings, then in old Dawson County. After spending a night there they drove the twenty-five miles to Patterson's homestead on the Middle Fork of Lodge Pole, only a short distance from cite of a future post office to be named Benzien. They all rested a few days and then set out for an intensive look at th e possibilities of the surrounding area. After about a week or ten days[...] |
| [...]e and I had decided that if possible, we'd choose a place with pines and soft water.) Seeping out at[...]the pine covered hill that was to be our bill was a spring , the water of which was free of hard mine[...]d clothes etc . We sent all this by freight about a month before he left. I wa s to come t o ow new h[...]ar Benzien, Dilo, Debra were surely lucky in that a do ctor homesteaded in our midst . He and his fam[...]o back into practice here . But the need here for a doctor forced his return . The frigid winte[...]ur share of the nation wide epid- |
| [...]doctor had spread through that isolated country, a hundred miles from a railroad, with the strange speed with which news[...]ts own dead. The old Doctor had asked, only a few hours before leaving, that his One, a heavy-set, poorly dressed, youngish man was speak[...]now she'll |
| [...]ly finished coffin. They covtred the outside with a gray woolen material and the inside with the silk, pleating it along the sides, and covered a pillow for a head rest with what was left. The following[...]lm. The snow lay in great drifts, sparkling under a cold sun; the pines were resting after their two[...]blizzard. The whole world was quiet and relaxed. A team and bob-sled stood before the old Doctor's d[...]ay to the clean cut grave on the sand rock knoll. A rough box of heavy planks was in the grave and with the lines f rom a set of his work harness they lowered the o[...] |
| [...]An Abstract consists of a summary of the es-[...]conveyance and a brief statement of all liens and[...]rails" was ra~her h'.11'1erous: 11 So, installin' a couple of empty beer cases and a card table 1.t a:-n't no time 'till Red's open f'r business with a kind 'o modified "Hell's Kitchen". For the deligh[...]me "hard- ware" on hand. This goods is stashed in a hole in the wall between Floyd's a nd George's abstract office for the conven[...] |
| [...]for Perry Kepler. They came from Miles City with a team and wagon. As soon as they came here Mr. Mahoney, Hirth 1 s father, filed on a homestead. They lived in Kepler's bunkhouse until they could get a house built. This area and Jordan were the only[...]t this time. Mrs. Mahoney, Hirth 1 s mother, was a nurse and did a lot of country nursing for Dr. Battin in the ear[...]wa Campaign and the Korean occupations. He was im a conference with Herbert Hoover and Mr. Harrimanin[...]ranching, aided Garfield County in getting R. E. A. to the Rural areas as well as the town.[...] |
| [...]e family moved overland to California when he was a small boy. His father who was a "Bullwhaker" on the great p lains, died at an early age, and Fred lived for a while with an older s ister and then he took to t[...]g for Josh McCurstian of the H'f. He married a "homestead" girl, Myrna Garfield in 1916 and they[...]r some help to look for evidence on the p lace of a man accused of butchering a neighbor's beef. The man wasn't considered very d[...]y happ ened up on the "moonshine still" hidden in a coulee, and in full op eration at the time. Howev[...]ned in the transition from farming to ranching th a t was taking p lac e in the country at that time. He died in 1949 after a long illness, and is buried on his origion[...] |
| [...]ives in Miles City, Mgntana. Mrs. Harr was a member or the National Education Associati[...] |
| [...]his father, Herman Wagmer owned and operated for a number of years.[...] |
| [...]to homestead and in 1916 found hers elf living on a very dry land ranch . In 1917 she married Walter Pollard and helped raise a family of four, taught about twenty terms of scho[...]al schools passed in 1949, which has proved to be a wonderful thing for Country people. She ha[...] |
| [...]nt history of the past. All we can do is put into a book some of the memories of the Historians who h[...]r seeing the Dry when it W3S a mile across and full of water, this was atter a cloud-burst about 15 miles up the Dry and not a drop of rain at our house. We later mOYed to the west side of the Dry and lived here tor a short time before moving to a rented place on the Missouri River Bottom. It was[...]watch it go by. We used to go help Dad "rob a bee tree", an, experience that every child should[...]sting and which ones do not. My dad bought a prize winning Model T and I was afraid to ride in[...]ways walked up the hills, mainly to be handy with a block to put behind the wheel when the car had ex[...]Big Dry and moved back there. This place had been a "road house" or sort of hotel for the weary trave[...]Here we were taken to school by Mack or Ernest in a sled or "cutter" behing aa wild ride when the team would decide to ru[...] |
| [...]3 other girls. Our grocery bill ran around $2.85 a month each. 1 t was here at Eastern tha t I[...]for s. H. Kress & Co., but returned a year later to teach in Garfield[...]My first term in Garfield County was a summer school at Green Ridge School near Brusett. I can see why it was a summer school, the building w~s too cold for a winter school. I started school on March 13th wit[...]in all grades. My next term was to complete a school term at Cat Creek School. I was the 5th te[...]ur months. Some place along the line I have heard a song that says, "Home of the Bed-bug and Flea", w[...]years in the services of Uncle Sams'. We lived on a couple of rented places and in 1952 moved back to[...]o teach. I taught at Pure Water School, There was a cellar under my teacherage for which I was very h[...]hool room and taught there also, later they built a nice teacherage on to the school room. After we m[...]his was an improvement as we now had electricity, a telephone and I was right beside an oiled highway[...]t Castle Butte again only to f i nd the school in a new location •• It was while teaching[...] |
| [...]brought to Jordan by Ray Drennen, who operat ed a stage-line between Miles City and Jordan. The men[...]pent the first winter in Jordan, where in January a duaghter, Olet a, was born. Lasting friendships were soon establis[...]The children went to Vail Creek School, first in a "Sod.die" and then in a small frame building which Mr. Kite built.[...]e the children to attend high school and operated a small time dairy. They were members of the Commun[...]s an elder . During this time Mr. Kite was a rural mail carrier. He carried the route from Jor[...]hereby acuiring the name of "Judge Kite." He was a resident of J or dan more t han 40 years u[...] |
| [...]here in June and located claims for us,by having a furrow plowed around parcels of land and putting a stake at each corner. He also bought off one "squatter" as they were called at that time, and got a small frame house, which we used, supplemented by[...]t of their food, some how we managed to give them a feed of grain in nosebags, and when turned loose[...]rk through the harvest season, to raise money for a 11 grub stake", to carry over for another[...] |
| In August, 1920 I was married to Hazel A. Miller, a wonder- ful pardner and helpmate~- She passed awa[...]ike fifty-five years ago. I like many others give a lot of credit to Franklin Delano Roosevelt, who m[...]ted the General Store. Roy Jr. was killed in a logging accident on Feb. 14, 1956. Lowell[...] |
| [...]petitions in 1946 requesting the establishment of a County Library. They needed si gr.atures of ten p[...]ented to the County Commissi_oners, who then held a public hearing, with the re s ult that a decision was made to establish a County Library. Mrs. Wren Mar t was appoin[...]. The library was to be open afternoons five days a week for a twe ~ty hour week. Library cards were to be sold[...]s located above the fire hall on Main street , in a twelve by twelve foot room. After a few years the books were moved down the hall into a two room office with twice as much room, and in 1958 it ex- panded into another two room office, making a room eighteen by twentv three feet, but divided b[...]the Garfield County Free Library participated in a three year demonstration which cul ni ~ated in their becoming a part of the Sagebrush Federation of Libraries in[...]r River dropped out in 1962, Dawson County became a member in 1963, and Rosebud County in 1968. The C[...]two days each month. In 1968 when Rosebud became a member of the Federation, the Hillside stop was discontinued and a stop was made at Angela, along with the Garfield[...]s. The Fortieth Legistltive Assembly passed a law, effective July 1, 1967 that county libraries[...]f 1967 the County Commissioners were able to make a lease agreement with school d istrict No.[...] |
| [...]d crew moved the library books and furnishings to a twenty three by twenty eight foot room in this build i ng, where there was good lighting, a fresh paint job, nice floor, racks for magazines[...]Bookmobile, which can come right to the door. And a telephone was installed. Compared to the 534 boo ks cataloged on opening day, the library now has a collection of 3053 books plust the use of that ma[...]g interest in good library service has grown into a visible community addition. County taxes, of course, are a requisite, and the willingness of the people to p[...]Mrs. Tipton was a music[...] |
| [...]Saturday Ba th Did ya ever take your Saturday b a th, and have to scrap and scrub while squatin dow[...]ani zed washin tub. Well, if not you aint missed a thing, but I'm telling you right I did til I was old and gray, every dog done Saturd ay night. Now I'm a man of clean habits - believe in a ba th a week, it helps to keep you healthy and it freshens your physic. But if I had my druthers, well, I rather eat a bug, than to take my Satu rday bath again in tha[...]that cold steel struck your back--you squeal like a fresh stuck hog. Crawled out of the tub an[...] |
| [...]resented Garfield County in Sta~e Legislature for a number of years, and l ater was Conrnrl.ssioner o[...]e in Hel ena until his death. Albert married a schoolteacher, Eva Hom. They have one son Kermit[...]erprize, Oregon. Corda will be remembered as a Auctioneer. He cried many of the sales in the 30[...]e were moving during t he depression. He was also a County Commissioner for a number of years. |
| [...]wig Holstein, Germany on Dec ember 30th, 1882. in a little t own of Niebull. Fath had a brick house. Th~ hay was upstairs. They had t wo[...]re all in one; you could go from the kitchen into a little hall, then y ou was in t he barn. My Father had t o walk out i n the Country to work on a farm. My Mother was a small woman. Once a week she woul d go to the Bakery, fill a basket full of[...]was to be a fast boat and we[...]sick all the way over. And we got into New York a t Nidnight and I never seen such a pretty sight, lights of all colors and they were there by the thousands. Well, a Hotel ~ an me t us at the boat and took us to his[...]We stayed in New York for two days, thar. got on a train for Brice- ton, Ohio where my Uncle lived on a f a rm. We were all lousy and Aunt Anna h ad a job t o cl e an us up. By tha t time I was 8 year[...]timber, Mostly h ard wood. Father r ented a little plac e for a ye ar, i t was about 40 acre s of land. It had a little house and a little barn on it. Then ~e all h ad to work t o[...]d l and so we cou l d put in some crop . My what a job. My what a job it was! Then wh en we were here two y[...] |
| [...]When I had to go to school I couldn't speak a word of Eng- lish. And there were about as many b[...]s. Well, time kept marching on and I had to go to a confirming school. It just seemed like I had to l[...]was confirmed, I went out to work. I hired out to a neighbor for $12. a month. All rainy days taken out. When it rained I[...]Then I went to another place and he paid me $16. a month, I followed a walking plow all day. I went from their to Toledo, Ohio, where I hired out to a gardner at 25 dollars a month. When fall came he sent me in on the Market with a load of squash. I had to get up at three in the morning. A Jew came along and want- ed to knew the price I w[...]I don't want this one", when he got through I had a half a load left. It was too late to go back on the Market. I soon found out how a Jew does business. I quit that place and hired ou[...]gardened. He had 15 acres of tomatoes, He gave me a pair of shears and put me to cutting those big gr[...]nt to Martin, Ohio to work for my brother. He had a Tile Yard sett- ing tile in a drying shed, worked for him until he sold the yard. Then I got work in the Oil field for 3.00 dollars a day as a Tool dresser. About that time there was a big oil boom in Cleveland, Oklahoma. A friend and I left Ohio to go to Oklahoma. When we[...]y people looking for work and so many looking for a hand out, begging for two bits. I soon got tired[...]iny, Oklahoma and hired out to an Indian that had a farm. He had a white woman for a wife. Hot biscuits three times a day. I v0rked for him until Harvest start- ed in June. I went to Garfield, Oklahoma and helped a farmer stack some wheat. Got a team and wagon went hauling bundles to the thrashing Machine at 3.00 a day for man and Team worked for him till thrashin[...]romised me work till it was all over. Well, I got a harvest ticket but it was only good to Hecla, Sou[...]t mornin~ we was sitting along . on the sidewalk, a farmer came by and said Are you fellows look- ing for work?" Yes sir. "Ever work in a Header box"? One man slid he had, I said I had ne[...]enough I'll take you out. He said"wages are 2.00 a day and if you will help to take care of the Header horses I'll pay you 2.25 a day. So I worked for him thrashing, st arted pitching bundles for 2.00 a day. Crops were good, bundles were heavy, worked[...]o Morgan Brothers for the winter at 20.00 dollars a month. I took care of 20 head of horses an[...] |
| [...]rk for them that summer. They paid me 30. dollars a month for the summer. We had three four Horse te[...]," Why don't you quit working for others?" He had a friend that had a medicine Route, like Watkins. So I went over to Ellendale, North Dakota to see this man. He and I made a deal. I bought his team of horses and his old spring wagon and made a deal with the company. In the spring I started on the road. I never had been a salesman and in about a week I sure had the Blues. But I stayed with that[...]ers. By this time my lfifewas working in town for a family that had a shoe shop. She worked hard for a dollar & 50 cents a week. By that time we were going together. Her pa[...]where married we went to Sherburn, Minnesota for a short Honeymoon. That is where my wife lived before they moved to Oakes, North Dakota. Then I had a brother living in Clark, South Dakota. So in the winter of 1911 I went to pay him a visit. He was ready to go some where else, so we made up our minds to come to come to Montana to look for a homestead. We went out around Townsend,Montana. I got acquainted with a man by the name of Simmons. He told us all about[...]•• It was the garden spot of Montana. He had a brother living north of Cohagen, so we came out north of Cohagen and took up a homestead. I built a little shack in August, 1911. I left my wife in M[...]. After Harvest I came back to Miles City and got a job in the Milwaukee Shops as a Machinest helper. I worked there until spring.[...]to the homestead. One the first day of May we had a terrible blizz- ard and we had to stay in Miles C[...]d horses laying all along the way. 1912 was a good crop year. We put in a garden. And it was good that year, put in some corn and it was good. And when harvest time came I took a team and wagon and drove to Beach, North Dakota t[...]n Glendive, Montana and I took them to Cohagen in a Hay Rack and I got things ready for winter[...] |
| I came back to the old homestead and put in a little crop with two horses and t hat was the las[...]would come to my wife for help. She has delivered a number of them. It was a good thing that she had some nurse Training.[...]arfield County. Arthur Markley, Ben Fleming and W.A. Barker were the first County Commissioners. We h[...]10th day of October we got 18 inches of snow with a heavy crust on it and it turned bitterly cold and[...]ty, he had two loads of hay left. They would drop a little hay at a time so the sheep would follow the wagons. When t[...]ten as Clerk. Robert McRea had to quit for he was a sheepman. One day while attending a meeting the Bucks got in the Band, so he told the[...]same summer my brother's oldest son was killed by a horse. Bad luck started just one thing after anot[...]or Holton came to me and said that we should have a High School at Cohagen, so the board got busy to[...]favor and that Senator Holton was interested was a good help er to get the Hi gh School started. We build a High School 70 by 70 feet A Dormitory 30 by 110 feet with a full basement and a Gym 30 by 70 feet by 1930 Cohagen had a four year Accredited High School. Then in 1929 the great Drouth started and wheat was down to 50 cents a bushel and in 1932 wheat was 25 cents a bushel. In 1934 Cattle were down to 20 dollars a head and the people start- ed to leave the countr[...]ther. In 1938 the last three days of March we had a three day bli~zard and we lost some cattle. Then[...]ver to the Oil Well west of Cohagen and he bought a lot 2 inch Plank and we built the Corrals for the rodeo. We rented 40 a cres of land from the N.P. Railroad for the Rodeo[...]Were the good old days. The cowboys would get on a bronc and ride him just for the fun of it. |
| [...]l the County had no road building machinery, just a maintainer and Durbin Singer was the operator. An[...]n. Then Doyle Kester was elected to the board and a little later Roy Edsall crone and was elected to the board. As time went on we had a good road building machinery, but nobody knew how to build a road. About all that time Gerty Gurnett was Clerk[...]n on the 26th day of June the Town of Jordan held a special election and I was elected as the first M[...]n Attorney. While this board was in Office we got a Sewer System and a water system. We got R.E.A. and the Dial Telephone and just about got present Bank. Jordan was without a Bank for 25 years. I was the Jordan Mayor for eight years. Good Pay 1.00 a Meeting and not over three meetings a month. And now we come to 1960 we celebrat[...] |
| [...]Mrs. Elliot Miller, a daughter Mike Dankletsen & hi■ .friend at Mrs[...], &ina Cozzens this field of oats in the year a daughter, at their 50th Wedding of 193[...] |
| [...]Cohagan community in the fall of 1912. He took up a homestead 5 miles northwestoof Cohagen, where he[...]rming and ranching, and also some freighting with a string team. Worked occasionally for the neighbor[...]spent one winter in Minneapolis, Minn,, attending a school for mechanics. There being no room for exp[...]bert Holton. My father took "squatters rights" to a piece of land 2½ miles northwest of Cohagen, wh[...]the spring of 1912, particularly. It started as a gentle rain, and the corru- gated roof of our ha[...]ing from the city, thought of the horses. We had a saddle-horse, Dave, who had been kept in a stable before shipping him to Montana. We also had a mare, Queen, who was western-bred. Mother tried to get them into a tent we had close to the house for storage pur- poses. Dave went in all right, but not Queen! Mother was a~raid to tie Dave, fearing the tent would blow do[...]pe just stuck up through the roof, not enough for a good drat'tl We had to stay covered up in bed mos[...]'s and Ben Fleming Sr.•s ef forts t ha t we got a High School in Cohag en. I was on e of the[...] |
| Axel and I were married in Dec. 1926. We took a wedding trip to Minneapolis. We got home on Xmas[...]f drought, hail, grass- hoppers, bad winters, and a tornado in 1935. The latter destroyed all our buildings, as well as our crops, (there was a devastating hail-storm with it), and I believe if[...]ng food and moral support, and in two days we had a roof over our heads again! At times like this, on[...]" and that sort of thing that is always needed on a ranch. I am busy most of the time, too. Have been[...]World War 1 Veterans in Miles City. Axel was a member of the Garfield County Draft Board[...] |
| [...]1923. Chil,d unknoen. "Dad" Reed 1 a Store, Cohagen. Clauson Heme afte[...] |
| [...]art of the country. It is said that Sitting Bull, a Sioux Chief, had a crunp near the place where the VFW Hall now stand[...]nized in the late 1800 1 s. The first teacher was a man known as "Professor" or Society Brown who tau[...]at is now the Old Folks Home. The next school was a log building which had been Mr . Jordan's Store a[...]ended bar at night. The third building was a frrune building that was located at the present s[...]As the student enrollment increased there was a greated need for larger school buildings . In 1930 a new building was built. They moved into it during[...]No . 16 of Dawson County. The first appointed bo a rd of trustees were: John Cavan,Sterling West , M[...]ollefson, George B. Hart and Chet Wilson, as well a s the present board who are Carl Harbaugh, Jr., C[...]nexation of other districts to District No. 1 has a cqui red t he following schools; Harbaugh, Lang F[...]Creek. Some of the pers ons who have taught here a re: Charles Ab'?ott, Mrs. L. H. Ni ckey, M[...] |
| [...]rown to an enrollment of 175 pupils and there was a need for a larger school building. The new Grade School was errected in 1966 with 8 classrooms and a Library as well as a Multi-purpose room where the lunch program is ser[...]n's First Grade Teacher for a number of years. Mrs.[...]upper grades in Jordan for a nW!lber of years. She retired for a very short time, but[...] |
| [...]eated in April 8, 1919. Be fo re that time it was a part of Dawson County. The first school e l ectio[...]re the minutes of one of th e r egular meetings: "A regular meeting was held at Fairview schoolhouse April 13, 1936, at 9 a.m . All members were present. Ishmael We eding was sworn in as a new trustee, elected April 4, 1936 . J"a ke Koelbl was selected as Chairman of the Board . A.H. Kruse was a ppoln~ea clerk . A.H. Kruse a greed to bring one barrel of water to the schoolh[...]cent per gallen. There being no further business a moti on was made to adjourn . Motion carried . /sl A. H. Kr use, Clerk" Geneva Highland mentio[...]k. One year she had 22 or 23 pupils in s even g r a des. |
| [...]ar (1953) is seven pupils in five grades. This is a one teacher school. The Castle Butte School[...]for the most part, log houses or dugouts, tpough a few had sawed lumber houses. Most of the recreati[...]wn implements. They used to plow their lands with a horse drawn plow. They would walk through the the[...]1, Jordan.) Harth star School Da:,a[...] |
| [...]t home oka y . Gr andma didn't go to sch oo l for a whole week because h er ankle wa s so sore .[...]ol , but she says it seems just like yes~erday th a t she and the other kids said goodbye at school. A lot of water has run in that creek since. Fanny,[...]Franc es Peterson who taught during 1922-23, bu t a real good friend ) who was m.arried to Grandma's[...]. Charlie Roll taught from 1930-31. Mr . Roll was a teacher from Indiana. From 1931-32, Mr. Go[...]hern halve s o.f' sections twenty-four, thirteen, a nd fo urty- three . They bad three daughters that[...]of 1923-24.) Mr. Charlie Roll taught again a nd this time he taught two terms. He taught durin[...]Della Peterson in the summer of 1934. De lla wa s a nurse at the Holy Rosary Hospital of Miles City whe re she r eceived her training . She is a sister to Gladys {Pe terson) S trand , who was ma[...]ma's broth er, Andrew. Grandma says it seems like a family album to her, as t hese last teac hers are[...]ere coming f rom Andrew Stra nds and got stuck in a c reek . They had to walk one and a half miles to the East Ua l l Scho ol and De l la[...]r he r because the school later on was closed for a number of yea rs a nd time has slipped by . She h e rself j u[...]. East Uall School |
| [...]e it home okay. Grandma didn't go to sch oo l for a whole week because her ankle was s o sore .[...]at she and the other kids said goodbye at school. A lot of wa t er has run 1n that creek since. Fanny[...]ranc e s Peterson who taught during 1922-23, bu t a real good friend ) who was m.arried to Grandma's[...]thern halve s o.f sections twenty-four, thirteen, a nd fourty-three . They had three daughters that c[...]of 1923-24.) Mr. Charlie Roll taught again a nd this time he taught t wo terms. He taught duri[...]d Della Peterson in the summer of 1934. Della was a nurse at the Holy Rosary Hospital of Miles City where sh e received her training . She is a siste r to Gladys (Pe terson) S trand, who was ma[...]s bro t h er, Andrew. Grandma s ays it seems like a family album to her, as t h ese last teac hers ar[...]In the winter of 1934-35, Charlie an d Del l a were coming f rom Andrew Strands a nd got stuck in a c re e k . They had to walk one and a half miles to the East Ua l l Sch ool and Della f[...]he r becaus e the school later on was closed for a number of years an d time has slipped by. S[...]of March. She has thre e da ughte r s , one son, a nd e ight grand- ch ildren. Written by Diana[...]. East Uall School |
| [...]ho now lives at Osborn, Idaho, and recently wrote a letter to Mr. and Mrs. Andy Schofield answering t[...]am Wheat- crott, Victor Nelson, Mrs. Ida Heath, C.A. Parks, S.R. Midkiff, and Rev. T. E. Mack. Clerks[...]in with the Meckel School. Bill tieehel's father a nd grandfather built the Meckel School which s t[...]ad to attend the Steve's Fork School to the west. A little later in summer, school was hel d i n what is now a granary on the old Calk's place until the[...] |
| [...]to return to the first District #49. Records show a Crown Butte School which may have earlier been kn[...]ext year by Mrs. Mary Hetherington. In 1925 a store fornerly owned by Ollie Edsel was turned into a school building and Georgia Hampton Farrin[...] |
| [...]The teacher was Mrs. Pederson for six weeks. For a short interval there was no school and then Mrs.[...]he year. Mrs. Mack killed two rattle- snakes with a pistol in one day. One of these was killed on the[...]Down through the years since 19~ there have been a total of 16 schools. People who came to this coun[...]249, t acres, has down through the years had a total of 16 schools and was once f e separate sch[...]ly Fitch In 1953 Ralph Robertson purchased· a building in Sumatra and it was moved half way bet[...]t our school •. The same little grouo was -nere a1.so Bill Drew who began the 1st. irade.[...] |
| [...]in the new building. Seems they held school for a few weeks in Hoverson's bunkhouse while awaiting[...]tern end of the district (old Billings School) as a vote was taken to move the school to the Billings[...]usy tearing down the old log building and getting a found- ation for the new school. By September 194[...]out 26 ft and 16 with an entr~ way. There is also a teacherage with 2 small rooms, The original build[...]tead. At that time it was -t the Viall School for-a teacherage and later moved down[...] |
| [...], Jimmy Hoverson; pupils or Van Norman School and Patricia Frad7 - - - teacher with research done by[...] |
| [...]he county. The first term of school was held in a bunkhouse at the John Viall home in 1910. Miss[...]rst teacher. She receiv- ed thirty-five dollars a month salary and the term of school was four mo[...]Heisels 1 attended school. While a schoolhouse was being built about a mile south of the Viall home and sixteen miles[...]In nineteen fourteen or fifteen, the children won a contest and received a water fountain as their prize. That same year a petition••• signed to have a nine month term of school,also to establish a school district separate from the Jordan district[...]ool-yard fence. During the twenties Max Capwell 1 a ~mestead shack was bought and moved to the school for a teacherage. In later years it was moved to the V[...]ices were held Sunday afternoons. A few humorous incidents occurred. In 1912 one neig[...], t ' -:• ... ·: : .. nc schoolhouse to within a half mile of his house• The schov~ boa1d heard[...]to its original location. In 1920 a woman, who was a widow and owned a ranch,taught the school. She had a hen setting on eggs in a box in the corner or the schoolroom. The[...] |
| [...]ar Mahoney's place, "Sits by the side of the road a ragged beggar sunning." It has been kept i[...] |
| [...]inning of the year, in 1915, they decided to call a bond election to build a school called the "Pioneer Schoolu. The first tea[...]ning horses at the Hat X ranch for the 44. He had a gr~l and Milo Hammond and his brother lived near there. Mr. Miller found a woman to teach these children. The woman was an elderly lady named Miss Dalton. She was supposed to be a sister of the famous Dalton Gang. In 1917 and 191[...]shed their own textbooks. The men were Paid $4.50 a load for the coal and $ 7.00 for wood split.[...]School in McCone County. Her dad t~ok her over in a buggy on Monday morning and brought her back on F[...]husband kept childr en there at school just like a dormitory. Maxine {LaPine) Milroy also stayed t h[...]30 . School was held in t he teacherage . until a ne w bui ld i ng was built. LaPines, Betty[...] |
| [...]an Kelly who is still in Miles City. The Childre.a..al.l rode horseback. There were sometimes ten horses in the seb.ooi yard. Sometimes a horse or two would decide it didn't want to be ca[...]linger, Bill Helm and Elmer Liebelt agreed to buJ a building rrom Kingman Hedstrom. It was moved to t[...]the first teacher. Swede and Esther Hedstrom gave a dance in their Quonset to raise money for[...] |
| A look Back from the Future at the Purewater School[...]y, which also included what is now Dist. No. 15. A few ot the trustees at that time seem to have bee[...]were of school age. In 1915, the district called a bond election to build a new school. The new school was to be called the "Pioneer". No one today seems sure of its exact location. A Miss Halle Seeds was the first teacher of the "Pioneer" School. A number of years later, the Spring Creek School was built and Miss Katie Doerloer ·was hired to teach at a sum of $84.00 per month. In 1915 school census sh[...]ols today. They never had electricity for lights, a telephone, nor any of the modern conveniences of[...]he work on the board. The only thing they had tor a play- ground was a stride. A stride was a long pole,reaching about 15 feet into the air. At the top was a round bearing with chains hanging from it. All the children would -hold onto a chain, run i'- |
| [...]the pole. Later, this instrument was changed into a merry-go-round. The stove used was little more than a bunch of iron. It was shaped in form of a cone and laid in a large sand box. This stove used coal or wood which had to be carried from a coal shed. The children usually rode porseback or[...]P.J. Nickolfa homestead was located about a quarter of a mile from the present location of John Bollinger'[...]his share to Roy and went back to North CaroliJl.a. There he was married to a pretty young lady. In 1918 Jay came back to Monta[...]Gackle, North Dakota in 1913. There he lived for a few years and started his family. Then he and his[...]the dry 3o~s he moved to Vida,Montana, then on to a place in California wnEtr~ ne 'lived until his de[...]unity felt the need not only for schools, but for a place of worship, also. So they decided to build a church. They called it the Newdorfer Lutheran Chu[...]this church. This church was Webber's home until a substantial church could be built. A build- ing was erected, named and still st[...] |
| [...]agen to complete their schooling. There was a church one mile south of the Timber Creek School.[...]7 and in the first week of May in 1927 there came a three day storm and the Crow Rock ranch was lambi[...]e sheep wagons in the yard at Art Jordan's. A lot of the people that lived around in this area[...]1916 and homesteaded on Section 8. They lived in a one room shack that winter and the next year John[...]i tells of the time when his brother. Hubert, and a rattle snake took their afternoon siesta to~ether[...]the shade on the north side of the house and take a nap. Hubert curled up and went to sleep. When Mrs[...]to get them up to go back to the fields there was a rattlesnake curled up taking his afternoon nap 1n[...]t mildly. She backed off and thought about it for a while. She Was afraid if she tried to get[...] |
| [...]e and tnereby in every probability save nim from a nasty bite. John Jordan tells of the time he and his family went out to clean out a rattlesnake den. John was dressed in high buckle overshoes so that he could go right in and kill them with a shovel. They killed 126 rattlesnakes that day so they filled a pound coffee can with the rattles. The exciting[...]rattles or some of the dead snakes and there was a live one and they managed to grab her back just in time. Seely Hammond had a cream route and picked up cans of cream once a week and hauled it to the railroad.[...]built in 1917. Tree Coulee ~erived its name from a single tree in a coulee. Neuhardts, Wahls & Naaszs were amon[...]tending the school. Some others sent children for a brief period. During[...]1943-44, Martha Jordan supervised the planting of a |
| [...]t in the summer of 1919 by Ike Sandbacken who was a carpenter by trade and homesteaded with his famil[...]and moved to Miles City. Olof Sutherland was a minister and on Sundays he would hold church serv[...]mily came from Minneapolis, Minnesota, and he was a barber by trade. They moved back to Minneapolis i[...]Gordon Johnson taught during 1933-34 and he was a pupil at this same school the year it was started[...]om 1938-39. The school was closed in 1939. It had a resting stage for 25 years. In 1944 a big tornado came and ripped up the old coa[...] |
| [...]acher during the winter ~or.ths. He was pulled on a sled by a Model T Ford tha t could be bought new for $202.[...]abama. In 1931 Vic and Jim Taylor were about a half mile from school when Vic Taylor pulle d out a farmer's match and struck it on his shoe and it b[...]dn't, so they we nt on. They looled back and saw a fire had started. They ran about a mile to get help but the fire burned about[...] |
| [...]was h e rding sheep, he found what he thought was a coyote den so he threw • his coat over the hole. That evening Alvin a nd h is boy, Bud, who was about seven or eight years o l d, came back to di g out the coyotes. It was a pretty b ig hole so they decided to l et Sud d own in it to take a look. They lit a lantern and Alvin hung on to Bud's leg s a nd let him down . Bud had a n ine shot .22 calibre pistol in one hand and a lantern in the other. Bud said at first al[...]him out. Bud fi g ured Alvin was probably rolling a Bull Durham cigarette while he wa s in the ho 2.e[...]ter about f ive mi n utes she fell over. She ha d a hole in her h ead a b out the size of your th umb. They killed[...]y lor and Tex Taylor were going to s chool they r a n into about six s hunks. The s kun~s ran into a h ole, so they decided to dig them out. T~ey dug out five of t h em and thou ght t h ey h ad t h em a l l ou t. Tex loo ked in the hole to s e e if t he re was a ny left, a nd he g ot it right in the e ye. Written by Dallas Taylor There was a black stud in a pasture through which oud Taylor went to the Ual[...]stud. The next mor n ing the stud saw the buggy a nd started to run as far as he could and never pawed the b uggy a gain. Bud and Vic Taylor used to got to school in a toboggan and Vic would pull it wi th the h orse, Johnny. Th ere was a time when Sud Taylor trie d to g o h ome in a bllzz9.rd. When Bud g ot a mile from the Uall School, he decided ··a ~o up the creek back to the schoolh ouse. His t e[...]him at the schoolh ouse. Then his pare ~ts came a f ter Bud. Tritten by Darw i n Pluh[...] |
| [...]1921-22. Once they tried to have school in a tarpaper schoolhouse called Frohlich's homestead[...]ick Wangberg, having to rush the kids home before a b-ig rainstorm started. It got so hot in that tar[...]ol and Miss Brown had forgotten to get up. It was a freezing winter day so the kids atood 1n r[...] |
| [...]the other side of the creek, they would give them a school. This was certainly not feasible, so they[...]teacher being J. J.f0'0onnor, they held school in a log building until the weather got too cold and t[...]school was started again. &y this time, they baa a fair size school with at least three Tripp chiler[...]I started schoo l , so I can sorta remember what a stir went on because in our days nepotism just wa[...]e team ane buggy and after the snow came, we used a sled. I believe this was the year that my folks built the new h ouse anj we had a most unforgettable Halloween party in it before i[...]de4 with the families. The next year we had a laey named Mrs. Culbertson. She ha~ a son with her called Oscar Harol d Percy Cu[...] |
| was called "Ik~y ~oy". He was . about my age and we had a flaming romance going on. She stayed with Tripps. She ana the girls drove to school in a lumberwagon ana horses every day. It was very ni[...]een little hellions, be~ause we very seldom kept a teacher more than one year, it seems. The next year, though, we di~ have a returnanoe when Edna Gallup came back. Like most[...]ourishea in learning while she was there. We got aa path to her t1oor. ·Most often on Moneay morning[...]ad been built out of several olt1 cars, an• for a seat they had a gas barrel. They came along th1!11 o·ne so~t of[...]- tinued their journey • . They · were really a mess when they got to school. Miss Fatur t11dn 1[...]re~lly razzed her good. I believe most of us got a shaking before the day was over. The school was s[...]re year 1-n the Tripp bunkhouse. George Tripp had a 'serious operation and couldn't riee to school.[...]her, like going out at the lunch hour aml getting a little bull snake and putting it 1n her desk. I w[...]There were just we two children, so we bo·th got a whipping for it. One of the big obstacles[...]r the creek came eown h-1p:h and Mr. Tripp was th A only one that made it to school to see tha[...] |
| [...]nk but it was the one on the other· side of home a.nd the horses got out ana went home am) our tlad ha.u to come a.no get us. He took us home ano we got dr1ea out t[...]r that Curtis Chamberlin started to school, Glenn Graham ana George Shawver moved a cabln in for Mrs. l"'\anrb~rlin to live in. The eabin was several miles a.way and in or ■ er to bring in they has to come[...]mes it was dark when they got home. Four miles is a long way for little children. One night they heard this coyote yell close by ana they ran for a cutbank and stayea there until they thought the c[...]traps uncovered. They die, however, finally catch a coyote and were so proud of it they took it to sc[...]re very scarce in those days and one cay we founa a fawn that had fallen on the ice and had br[...] |
| Long Ago at Spring Creek Once a long time back there used to be a school over east 'that was called Spring Creek, where my dad used to go; up on the hill. It was a log cabin, the first one built at that time. The[...]ny children so they enlarged it. They also added a teacherage so the teacher could stay there.[...]s called Metersville. They had mail service after a few years. Grandad Mury would ride over in t[...]efore the creek came up. One night there was a real blizzard. It snowed and blew so much that th[...]n't get out of their cabin as it was just behind a hill. Their neighbor Jftck Richardson came and sh[...]now away so they could get out of the cabin. A few years after Arnold Mury was out of school, Ro[...]Childers were riding home from school. They heard a lot of noise up on a rock ledge so they came back to the Mury cabin. Arnold Mury went over to see what it was. He climbed a tree close by and was greeted by a mother bobcat. He got out of there and went over to Guy Sower's place to get a gun. Roxie and Glenda watched with their teacher,[...]ok one and Murys took the other. Murys had theirs a long time and finally killed it so it would- n't get their chickens. The school district moved a frame building in and used the log cabin on the hill for a horse barn. One half of the build- ing was used as a coal shed. Two years ago the district moved a trailor house in two miles west of Cap Roc[...] |
| [...], books, book shelves, desks, chairs, tables, and a steel cabinet. The cabinet holds items such as ta[...]Also, many other aides that were unheard of just a few years ago. There is a piano which belongs to Amy Crane. The second room[...]et, and is used to house the teacher. It contains a wardrobe closet, chest of drawers, bed, refri[...]side roads are wet and covered with snow is still a problem even with the four wheel drive pick-ups. Patsy Ryan still rides a horse to school every day. She ages not miss scho[...]ept for· electricity and the telephone. There is a well behind the school so the water does not have[...]orthwest of the present Pine Grove School. It was a rather sturdy old log school that is still being used as a granery by the Alex Crane farm. It was built by n[...]n land not yet surveyed. The building was used as a ~ommunity Hall as well as a school. People gathered from miles around by way[...]d to his work. In the front of the room were hung a bunch of willow switches that the teacher had cut[...]r could use the switches. Water was supplied from a coulee. About a dozen childr&n were in need of a school at this time although, there were only a few families here at the time. The first pu[...]ol's first teacher was Mrs. Cora Trotter. She was a good teacher. The wage was $40.00 a month. Pretty fair for the times. Mrs. Trotter r[...]~g~fiogge h orseback on Monday mornings. Shes aye a 91 |
| [...]chool was h eld duri ng the summer months. A very interesti ng event ha ppened about t h is time in 1910. There was a large forest fire in I daho. The s tr.oke was so thick and de nse in this area t !:"la t ~ a •r:ps TTere needed in the day time. Mary and Ch[...]be near the Muss e lshell River. There were only a f ew men in the country but they saddled their ho[...]tter protected her school. Somehow she back-fired a circle around the sch ool house about a hundred feet around it. Th e people still wonder[...]-28. The pupils were not me n tioned. I n 1931-32 a s mall neighbor- hood school was held o~ the Fren[...]Loomis, Catherine and Marilyn Crane this created a problem. For this reason it is understood that Al[...]33 E . in 1951. District 19 had $800.00 to build a schoolhouse. That wouldn't go far if you had to b[...]ding materials. Alex Crane furnished tne land for a school site. The logs were cut on the farms of ne[...]to the Fre deric k Loomis Farm. Here was located a mill where the trees were sa~ed into boards. Thes[...]e are still here 1n 1969. This is the history of a r ural school.[...]s: Bobby Phipps, Mary Phipps, Evelyn Ma rs t on , a nd Bon n ie Wilson[...] |
| [...]ayes Ranch) with Harry Ruyle as teacher. Below is a picture or what is now the Slim Hayes Ranch:[...]was reported for that school year. A Census had b[...]were found to be es~ablished in that area. A school house in those days was not elaborate. Chi[...]through its doors and on out again. It served as a school for District No. 23 until September of 193[...]and F. c. Kibler. 'Their Clerk was E.C.Caldwell. A\J.ma Dage was th~ first teacher in Kester School[...]eek• was added in the early 19)0s which brought a larger enrollment. Below are J>ictures[...] |
| [...]y June Anderson A band, the first for Kester School, was[...]e second school was replaced about this time with a nice frame building from the Missouri. River Breaks. It was moved from the old site to a new site ( halfway between McKnights and Gagnons)[...]ing needed a face lifting. Veneer[...]er burned aIXi what was left of it is now used as a garage for C.Dleman Murnion on the Slim Hayes place.) Elma Dage and Mrs. Strand started a 4-H club for the students. Livestock dairy[...] |
| [...]here was a turn-over or teachers, also.[...]Jllabel Pollard and now Fern E. Schillreff. A new school house was built after the (old Hell Creek School) building caught fire. Indoor facilities are now a specialty-- except when the Electricity go[...] |
| [...]approximately 1911. The .first known teacher was a "Setsing", but in 1911 the school was moved to Re[...]lower grades from 1961 to 1967 when she resigned a.fter she was in a car accident in route to school. It is inter[...]s when there was no longer an immediate need .for a school house in one area, the building would be m[...]William Pluhar•s yard where it became stuck in a mud hole, and had to be jacked up be.fore[...] |
| This school ran only a few years, from 1926 to 1930, with the following[...]llows: Mrs. LeRoy Alexander,George Studbaker,Ruth A. Fleming, Ferral Yates, Lulu Ankerman, Ernest Biv[...]High School was started in 1920, Cohagan boosted a population of 25 persons. !be first High School t[...]n, and Mrs. Rena McKeever. In 1935 there was a tornado that struck Cohagen High School and tore[...]rebuilt the Gym as Cohagen High School supported a very good basket ball team most of the years that[...]Gym is still standing in Cohagen and is used for a community hall. Res[...] |
| [...]ed for the State Examinations. The following is a copy of the Montana Eigth Grade Examination in[...]ates for the last ten years. 2. Farming is making a living out of the ____ • 3. To develop a better community spirit the f armers have organ-[...]cattle during the winter. X. Name four parts of a flower. What is the use of each part? XI. What ar[...]ying type of chick- en? What does it mean to cull a flock? XII.Multiple choice test: Underling the word or words that make the sentence true. l. Froebel was a prominent (farmer, engineer, Manufacturer!teacher[...]to drain. f 4. (Humus, Loam)is a soil that is intermediate between sand & clay. 5. A potato is composed mostly of (starch, fat,[...] |
| [...]the seeds. 8. The ( sugar beet, alfalfa, flax) is a forage crop. 9. Pasteurization destroys the (heat[...]e correct number. 1. Capillary action is A. plant disease 2. Grarting is used to B. the tiny plant within a seed. 3. Budding is a C.live but one year 4. Smut is a D.necessary for the manufacture[...]starch 5. Barberry plants_ E. produce a different fruit on a tree. 6[...] |
| [...]t in 1913 or 1914. It was in use until 1937. TheR a frame building was moved from the McQuiston place[...]enda Childers, Flora Lindenfield, Lois Mickelson, Patricia Riley, Patrick Fitzgerald, Elaine Witt. Mr[...] |
| [...]). The O'Connor school was opened in 1953 in a building near the O'Connor house. Pupils atten[...]rict was formed the teachers• salary was $85.00 a month. They have gradually increased to $475.00 a month. Population in the district in 1919 may hav[...]tion of the same district is around Jo. There was a post office at both Benzien and Dilo. At one time Benzien had a grocery store and a newspaper with several subscribers. At one time t[...]Benzien school. Today there are 4. There was a school near the McQuiston place which may[...] |
| [...]Swanser, Blackfoot, Eagle Nest & Graham. By 1926, the people were moving away, The Graham and Eagle Nest closed.[...] |
| [...]he s e schools. The only rec cl l0ct i on t~1a ·c I h a v-0 0f Unity 3chool was the two months, October a[...]ed in the year of 1935; as the children had moved a way or gone to high school. For those[...] |
| [...]dna and Raymond Thompson. District No. 42 is a very large area. It is composed of many smaller e[...]taught more than one year and some only parts of a term: Hallie Donaldson Mrs. J. G. Foster Sarah Larson Mrs. Lucie Milam A. Elaine Gauderman Doris Gray Nelle St[...] |
| not aware that such a school existed. The first teacher was Musa Stephe[...]certain since school was only held when there was a teacher available. The school building was a homestead shanty that was abandoned by a man named Aaronson. One of the school terms had Mrs. Fern Hetspath as a teacher and ran for about three months in the sum[...]end- ed were three Meckel children, Panny Bright, a Kennelly boy and Bob Cozzens.[...]n elderly gentleman was the first teacher. He had a homestead three miles from the school. In 1917-18[...]9 were; W.H. Searl, J.W. Hiett and Walter Powell. A few of the families who had children in th[...] |
| [...]hwell-- Jeannette Thomas-- Carl Shogren. Some say a Walter Sullivan taught here, but I could find no[...]o was taught his 9th grade by Jeannette Thomas is a teacher in Texas. Alice and Ellen Stewart are tea[...]and Barker girls attended the Mitchell School for a short time, later enrollins in the Jordan School.[...]Calf Creek School In 1951 a school was opened for Harold and Linda Matovich.[...]and Winona Nordahl. Mrs. Bruce Dut~on taught a Calf Creek School at her home in 1955-56. Joe Dut[...]No. 42 moved the teacherage from Sand Springs to a plot of ground given to the school by George Will[...]uilding had three rooms. Part of it· was used as a teacherage. Later a living room was cut off and another wall was take[...]n the National Guard. Craig Shaw, now married and a student at Eastern Montana College David Dutton w[...]r home. Lois Rogge is married to Darrell Johnson, a Great Falls teacher.[...] |
| [...]he Sand Springs School, Sand Springs Montan~ with a special thanks to Jeannette Thomas,Jordan, Montan[...]osby, Montana. The schoolhouse was moved by a flatbed truck to its new site. There it underwent a face l ifting. The roof was torn off and new shi[...]rs. Phil D. Hill. They ~ere sanay, Gary and Lind a. Julie Robertson, daughter of Mr. and Mrs John Robertson a nd Gl e nd a Du tton, da ughter of Mr. and Mrs. Br;ce Dutton[...]up. During this school year we were benefited by a trai l er teacbe rage, playground[...] |
| equipment, and a science cabinet. The children published a · paper, "The Calf Creek Roundup." They made a good sum of money which they "blew• on a very fun and educating field trip to Billin·g s,[...]School in Sand Springs, Montana. Mr. John Fitch, a local man, undertook the teaching position. The c[...]o abide. During the spring month of April we held a Kite Flying Contest and invited the Sand Springs School over. We bad a lot of fun and after we had flown the kites, we )lad an Easter Egg Hunt. John Morford graduated and now is a student 1n the Fergus County High School in Lewis[...]this past school term, Mrs. Dale Kreider, wife of a 1ocal rancher, is teaching. We have two new pupils~ Ricky and Debra Akerley. In December we enjoyed a field trip to the late Mrs. -;r0hn Murnion[...] |
| [...]one ia now. The family came later by train. A po·s t office was established at the Mosby resid[...]ved farther down the Mussellshell River and again a post office wsa est- ablished at their residence.[...]ce, W3 s hington ». c. The mail was brought once a week from Melstone and later twice a week_ then three ti~~ ~ a week. People came from miles around for their mai[...]had gone to Weede, Montana f~r their mail. Later a route was extended farther down the river, to Ross. Mr. Mosby had a ferry across the Mussellshell River. Mrs. Mosby also had a saloon. An old saloon is now a community hall near Mosby. Bill Mosby was e[...]ectors from the East would come out here and need a saddle horse to ride out into the hills. They didn't know their way around or how to ride a horse so the family horse"Jimmy" was assigned to[...]took over the post office at Mosby and also built a store. His son, D.S. Gates, is now a veterinarian in Lewistown. In 1923 Francis[...]th and Allan Boulden now have the post office and a filling station. In 1920 Herb Mosby built a hotel. It burned down in 1922. In 1920 Charles McWilliams built a garage and a blacksmith shop. The oil boom began in 1919. In 1921 a small refinery was built by John Hill Sr. and Lem[...]e Jet Fuel Refinery was organized in 1952. It was a partnership of William M. Hanlon and York Oil Company. It was organized as a means of marketing high gravity crude oil[...] |
| [...]cedars. School was held there several years. Then a school house was moved in on another location whi[...]continued to go there until 1967. They now attend aa home- stead in Cow Basin. She walked 1 3/4 miles[...]e McCleary taught the McDaniels School. There was a achool in Cow Basin which was called the Whoop-up[...]cCleary. It was supposed to have been named after a trail from Texas that went across Central Montana to northern Ranges. A partial list of teachers that has taught a[...] |
| [...]that was later ~::>ld by the boy made her out as a cruel teacher. The same little boy later said, "[...]one had to be alert. Mrs. Warner decided to tie a string to the bat and slip it over her wrist, b[...]out. She and the pupils fixed them, but it took a month. During this time the State Supervisor had called a meeting for the teachers of several districts to meet there. It was quite embarrassing as it was a windy day. Soon after that a state nurse came to examine the children. This was probably the first time a state nurse had come to examine children here.[...]had 16 pupils and seven grades. Tnis was quite a task. Even though there were so many pupils and[...]ey must have had "doggie" troubles according to a newspaper clipping which was signed by Mrs. Cul[...]mpered since birth, until now, he is nought but a trouble making stink. He smells to high-he[...] |
| [...]ls having an unusual visitor at school. There was a hole in the floor under the teachers desk. Every time everyone was quiet, a rat would come out of the hole and run around the[...]e Benson children explored an old Indian cave in a butte near Johnny Hills ranch on the Mussellshell[...]t to the cave entrance except by being dropped on a rope from a rock above the entrance. In the cave they found[...]t very happy as they had heard that the cave was a burial ground for Indians who had died of smallpo[...]hay one day. That night it rained, and there was a flash flood. The creek came up and washed it all[...]eacher couldn't get home because of high water in a creek so a young man affered to pack her across. When he got[...]! She T""':"--:----=---? In 1917 there was a big iee jam. Herb Mosby heard some- thing[...] |
| [...]. John Hill Jr. rode to Mosby from Lodgepole once a week to get the mail when he was only 6 years old[...]les. He had an Indian pony which was branded with a picture of a crow. A hard brand to make. In order to vote, a person had to register with a regi~tration agent. John Hill Sr. was a registration agent. He went from place to place fer people to register. One winter he made a trip to Indian Creek. When he got to this man's p[...]aw Creek where Mr. Christianson lived, and it was a long ride. Herseback was the main means of[...]ry. No one thought anything of riding 30 miles to a dance or town. One couple eloped and went clear t[...]Verda Aeith In order to get a school started for the children that lived on the[...]River 12 year old Knute Nordahl rode 75 miles to a town called Gilt Edge in Fer~s County to attend a board meeting. The board members knew that the people on the lower Musselshell were in a dif ferent county but they were so much impressed[...]equest that was made that they agreed to provide a teacher and also to pay her wages.[...] |
| [...]lfeather children. The neighbors constructed a small log cabin across the river on what we know[...]first teacher being Miss Belcher who taught for a six-months term. During the next two ye ~rs the school was taught by a Mrs. Humphrey. There is a slight loss of memory for a few years. In about 1910 a small log school house was built on the Touhy pla[...]school age children decided to move the school to a more central location. School was held here for only a year with Susie Kies, the teacher. Then in about 1911 the school house was moved with a 12 horse team from the Touhy place down and across the river to the Piper place where a new frame school house was being built. The[...]the river. Here the older building wa s used for a teacherage and then a woodshed while the new one was being used. This[...]hool house. Some called it the "Ross School" and a few called it the "Ripley School"• In 1919[...]ter of 1926-27. One day her students were having a snowball battle with snow forts, etc. The losing[...]e and larger soldiers. She protested-that she was a poor snow-baller and couldn't hit the broad-side of a barn. The little folk were tearfully insistent, so she finally joined the defense, made a soft snowball and threw it wildly in the directio[...]s in the moonlight on the ice to play cards or to a dance. I n the spring of 1927 when Ruth (Via[...]ss Hennessey,.Miss Kiley and Mrs. McDaniels. A li~tle log school house was built for the[...] |
| [...]Smith, Hazel Gibson and Orpha Dann. There was a School called "Lone Star" at the mouta of Lodge P[...]about 1917. There was another one which was built a little further up the creek and later it was move[...]building is now being used by Marcus Mate vich as a bunkhouse. School District No. 52 was[...] |
| [...]T NO. 55 Back in abeut· the year of 1913 a lonely little iaelatea scheel was instituted, knc[...]rk was done with horses. Besides its use as a school house, this building was used for all publ[...]y dances were held in it also. Durin6 World War I a platform was built at its front for dancing. The[...]0, trustees of District No. 35 acted favorably on a petition for a new district; the district was divided and district 54 was created. On October 26, 1926 another petition for a new district was presented and former parts of sc[...]k Carman as trustees. School was started in a log house at Cat Creek. And in 1951 the Ha[...] |
| [...]J. Norville, Thomas Eldridge, DeEtta Edwards, H. A. Mielke. A. P. Thomas, Delbert Bragg, W. H. Embleton, Chas.[...], Frank Goode ana Roy Russell. In 1953 after a long struggle, a new school was started in the old abondoned distr[...]The school Board refused to recognize it as a school or pay the teacher, so on March 2,[...] |
| [...]axby Post Office and Mrs. Edwards home. A few of the teachers that taught in this community[...]made, who was the County Superintendent, was on a hot October day. In crossing the gumbo badlands her car slipped into a rut and high centered. There she remained until dark with only a stick and her hands picking out the hard chunks[...]m under her car. Dr. Farrand was called to a home near the Haxby Store and found a very sick man, so with what was at hand and with one of the neighbor women holding the lamp he performed a delicate operation. Another time a man rode horseback to the Lismas Ferry and than[...]fourteen miles to the home and he also performed a delicate operation. Then with his little black b[...]arm, church, Sunday school and fights. Sunday was a day for general visiting. The young fellows with[...]nt. One night they stole all his chickens and had a big bachelor feed, then the next night return- ed[...]oor. Another time they loaded up all his flour on a tractor and hauled it some four miles. Such were[...]by horse-back or with four-horse sleigh loads, to a dance they would go. They arrived at the place wh[...]w from Miles City were stuck and broke down about a mile from the present Haxby Post Office. M[...] |
| [...]while in the garden with her mother was struck by a rattlesnake on her shin. With the Model T she was[...]body and she was buried in Jordan. In 1953 a new school about a mile north of the Haxby Post Office was establish[...]he Fourth Point or Erickson School was started as a second school in District 54. It was attended by[...]. In 1932 a third school was started in District No. 54. 1 hi[...]Thomas J. Norville was on the school board with H.A. Milke and A.P. Thomas at this time. The first teacher[...]s who taught there through the years were: Mrs. N.A. Lingle, Frank McClellan, Alberta Cushing, Deewar[...]In 1928 the Big Dry School was started as a second school in District 35. It was started for[...]hey used Mrs. DeEtta Edwards' homestead shack for a school house during all the years school was held. This building is now used as a granary by Lawrence Edwards. This school wa[...]Otis Gasli n. This building is now being used as a chicken house. , Florence Melton taught the first year with a salary of $99.00 a month. ~e taught 3 Long 3 Hall 2 Oaslin[...] |
| [...]Clerk Kathleen Edwards. The Lakeview School, a second school in uistrict 55 was started in 1953.[...]ng Children. Kenneth Kin~ allowed the use of a building for school until it was discont- inued[...]hester Joyce. In summary District 55 is now a combination of Districts 55, 35, and 54.[...] |
| [...]Gladys Frazier as the first teacher. Those member a ppointed to the board were: Chris Ved nes s, Math[...]first board members appointed were: W. J. Eyle , A. J. Viall, Mrs. Florence Collins and M. W. Wheeler, Clerk. Those next elected were: Mrs. Henry Duell, A. J. Viall, George Page, and M. W. Wheeler, Clerk. A'Tlong those serving as board !Tl.embers were: R.[...]ld. The first appointed board members were: A. J. Viall, Marvel Hammond, Leo Berry and 1.i -lal[...]the board were: Glen M. Viall, Milo Hammond, Bert A. Boughton, Mel Fitzgerald, Walter Twitchell, Jim[...]tl.ilroy. The school was closed in 1961. L.A. Berry donated the land for the Flat Cr ee[...] |
| [...]It seems as though there has always been a need for the Elementary school building and the[...]rdan and Garfield County felt the great need for a High School, and in 1914, Etta Louise Erickson t[...]lding. It was in the fall of 1915 that Jordan had a full 4- year High School. They now used two room[...]High School. As time went on there because a need for more space & larger rooms, and in 1930 a new Elementary school was built and the drade sc[...]building warm in all kinds of weather. There was a separate heating stove in each room. As th[...]munity Hall, (now the VFW Hall} There was a Dormitory for the students who did not have a place to stay, While attending High School. It wa[...]e hauling ashes and coal, etc. The Girls dorm had a Matron and Cook. I'm not certain just who[...]Matron and Miss Margaret Montgomery was cook for a while. The Jordan High School was under th[...]gh Schools. It was in the fall of 1936 that a new modern High School building and Dorm building[...]acilities. The High School had its own Gymnaisum, a music room and a library as well Science labs. The Dorm was a two story building. Girls had rooms on t0p tloor[...]d Laundry room in Basement floor. There were also a Matron and a Cook. The Dorm was now next door to the Hi[...] |
| [...]s with changing times and student enrollment find a need for a new High School building. Who knows what the futu[...]h School group in 1926 4th fr011 Right is B.A.Ta:,lor, Supt, Se[...] |
| [...]ansas for Montana. My Mother passed away suddenly a few days before we left, after a three-day illness. My sister Vira Serviss[...]y in 1914. ~hey went to Moore, Montana as I had a sister and family living there at that time. In 1913 Vira and Walter hired a land locater to bring them to some surveyed cla[...]how much they liked the country and thought it a good place to locate. Kansas had been having dr[...]farm and co~e to Montana . My Father hired a box-car and loaded his horses, farm machinery an[...]train. Clara met us in Miles City. We stayed at a hotel until my father came. Ai'ter unloading our things we camped on Tongue River for over a week, assembled the wagons, and let the horses graze and get in shape to travel. Quite a number of Indians were camped not far from us. My fat- her a~cve one wagon and Eva the other one. It took us e[...]one on on each claim. We arrived April 28. ~twas a cold day as we had a heavy wet snow the night before. We camped that n[...]s. During the summer my father and brother built a dugout on father's place and a large sod house on Evas. We had brought quite a large tent with us, during the first summer we l[...]s held in one room of the grade school, was just a two-year school. I had finished two years in Kans[...]was only taking one extre subject I did not have a credit and just attended until Christmas. In 191[...]as for my Junior year. That fall Jordan was made a full four year High School. I came back in 1916[...]oms attached to the grade school and two rooms in a separate building, a Home Ee. and sort 0f Physic Lab . All my t[...]ck and Mavis Burgess and two of my grandaughters, Patricia and Deanna Jo Frady. In 1917 I took the T[...]as mostly in this end of the county. I started te a ching in March 1918 on Vail Creek, six miles wes[...]hool. I think there were 11 or 12 pupils. It was a large sod building, nice and cool for summ[...] |
| [...]ndis married us at my fathers home. That was just a few days before Garfield was made a county. We both voted for Jordan as the county se[...]he Phon District. It was the Liberty School. Just a new school with six or seven pupils. The Prank Gr[...]er- sham. All beginners. The school was opened in a ranch house belonging to Beneckys. After two mont[...]ool and another two years more. In 1942 we bought a place on Woody Creek and moved there in sp[...] |
| [...]s, he came t• work for him in April 1907. After a year and a half he went into business with Jay and in 1914 w[...]ain boundaries were respected as be• longing to a certain outfit. In the spring saddle horses were[...]road at Miles City or Glasgow. Some cowboys owned a few head of cattle and rode without wages so they[...]s for awhile not heard around very eften. One day a little neighber boy, when visiting heard some of these expressions and made a song of •You All" and paper poke (sack) and san[...]t familiar in Montana. I was born at Thorp, Wisconsin, May 11, 1898. My father and mother were Henry an[...]l in Sidney, took Teacher examinations and taught a short term of school on Coal Creek. At that[...]this district then# 104, and the school house was a small tar paper homestead shack(like so many othe[...]h• Northern Pacific Railway Co. for school, and a schoolhouse waa built on it. I taught there for t[...]awson County was divided and district# 104 became a joint district with McCone County. I scarc[...] |
| [...]t day so it was rather embarrassing. They were in a hurry to get back to Jordan, so they looked at my[...]n wagons. One couple used to bring their organ in a wagon. These People who came as settlers were fro[...]s., as well as from several foreign countries, so a number of out of the ord- inary dances were intro[...]{Gene) and David. Getting them through school was a real problem as there was not a school near us and each year seemed to present a situation all its own, so we tried anything that looked like a way to get them to school. A couple of them were boarded at homes thru the wee[...]would have money to pay the teacher and one year a neighbor boarded the teacher part time and we par[...]At one time there were enough dairy cattle , that aa lovely day, but in the late afternoon a storm came up so we a1dn't attempt to come home. Everything was mud. They tried to go on with a dance, but the floor was covered with mud.[...] |
| [...]he bad lands and roughs. Finally the old wolf and a couple of pupa were found and later two more pupa[...]hs most likely some from not being able to get to a doctor. There wasn't much surgery even if a doctor was avail~ able and some of our neighbors[...]. At first there weren't many women and when a man was bat- ching, his place was open to anyone[...]ver they needed. One day Roy drove into the yard. A stranger came to the door and said "Take care of[...]and come in. Dinner is ready." So that day he was a guest in his own home. When Roy came to Mont[...]and supplies brought out only two or three times a year. They even got their mail there, until a land office and post office were established at C[...]ill rode the 35 miles for mail, taking turns with a neighbor. As homesteaders came in more post offic[...]e Roy has been here there have been ten addresses A mail route thru Hedstroms to Jordan was once used[...]The years have passed and time and progress have _a way of making many changes not mentioned in the f[...]n the thought that they may have contributed even a mite to its growth. Roy Gibbs 1 5o[...] |
| [...]he early da;rs Thi ■corn field never ■av a |
| [...]e children that Mrs. Clark taught were: Gibson's, Graham's and Dutton children. The Hope school was lat- e[...]at school •. She substituted in Jordan for a while. Her last school was the Fairview School. A[...]At the end of the school term they always had a school picnic. Other activities during the[...] |
| [...]came squaling into the worl d January 9, 1890, on a farm near Ozark, Missouri. I spent much of my chi[...]hat legs were made for wa lking. In 1907 I spent a year with my sister at Tyro, Kansas and I went to school there too. There was a glass plant at Tyro and I watched the men blow gl[...]cked hogs were monarchs of many of the hills, and a coon hunt was music to your ears. A running, baying hound is like no other sound. When I first went to Ava, Missouri, I asked a native how far it was to Ava? He replied, nTwo sees and a goby." I put him down as "teched 11 in the head. I drove on. I was traveling with a buggy and horse. I dropped into a hollow, drove its length, climbed slowly out, leveled off and saw a village in the dist- ance. Again I dipped into a hollow, traveled its length, came out on top of a hill, and glimpsed a village in the distance. Soon I crune to a sign that read, "Ava two miles." I mentally took off my hat to a man who measures distance not in miles but in "se[...]ps that beautified the countryside. I spent a year at Garden City, Kansas, then in 1913 drifted[...]es were not always available, and luxury was just a ~ in the dictionary. 1924 found me finishing a term of school at Spring Creek School, Dist. 19.[...]ld benefit by his own and other's mistakes. I had a visitor that morning, who giggled when her son ha[...]re like people, only they do not have such long t a ils. 11 I taught nine months at Snow Creek,[...]confided in my old e st girl pup il that I woul d a sk her to take my desk when I would s ay, "I do n[...]be floor. She ran to me while the other pupils s a t stunned. She l as hed out at the others with ,[...]I smiled, and t hey ca ught on. Bu t it taught me a lesson never to stun youngsters wi t h fri[...] |
| me th a t he couldn't move, he was so fri ghtened .[...]. The parents we r e excep tionally considerate a nd generous . At home the pupils did not s p e ak the English languag e which posed a small probl em . At Chri s trr.a s time the parents r,. lways presen ted the t eacher with a home - made present . I still hav e a basket t ha t Mr . Ickerman wove me from willows[...]up the Delaware to cross and then march 9 miles b a c k on _ the other side to c apture the Hessian[...]Americ an soldiers, some the Hessians celebrating a t Trenton . The Hessi an soldiers were half - hear tedly_ doing thei.r part. I grabb ed one of them and s a id , "Come on; dance like you mean t it . 11 The next day I got a note from one of the mothers , asking me not to t eac h her c hildren to dunc e . She wa s f rom a mi ssionary f mni ly who believe d tha t religio[...]thered their neighbor ; on .b,ri- day afternonn a t Art time I wo ul d allow them to work and t alk together. From that school on I never a ll owed whispering in my classroom . That was th[...]oks , sharpen pencils, do board work . There wns a p enalty if they whis p e red once; anotr' er if[...]s by co rrespon<lence. I n 1928 I signed a contr a ct to teach Swanser school , Dist . 12, on what i[...]ed . ,~hen I took my te s t in Principles of Educ a tion, one qu estion was , "In wha t way is civili[...]that the prefix 11 in 11 meant not a nd from k nowing ins me ani ng and the wa[...]n John Hooker's place . At t hat time t here was a p ost office and store there operated by Will Farrington . I had a clerk there who thought I should earn my sal a ry twice , so my second warrant[...] |
| woul d be du e hefore I got my first. I fina lly lard down a law of my o~n to he r . I n ev er saw a school bo a rd that I didn 't like, bu t clerk s - t hose 111-rn tch d cg s of t he Tre a s ury ; those dicta tors of sc hool bo a r ds, I could have t hrottled wi t h ple a s ure. I t au ght Pine Grove sc hool i n[...]as my home Disti Once I wa s off e red fiv e doll a rs more per month to teach Spring Creek scho ol,[...]Free dom and I woul d not, and ne ver di d break a con tra ct. I moved to Jordan i n t he f[...]gr ade school. In t he s pring of 1 933, I signed a contract to te a ch a summe r school a t Lone Star, Dist.36. I taught here four s1.1.n1.[...]y Darwin Scott. During thre e s ummers at Lone St a r, I was paid $60.00 monthly. The fo urth s ummer[...]gingly raised me to qp70.oo. The school ch ildren a nd I dug a cellar unde r t he school house an d across the coulee from t he school house we watched men dig out a di n os aur. Peggy Huston fi n is h ed my l a st month a t Lone Sta r as Delpha Brown, the County Superint[...]sters coul d run me out as t hey had the last te a che r . I had daubed school hou ses, b uilt t abl[...]school fo r 2 hours wh ile I playe d mid-wife to a nei ghbor's cow. J:iadam neighbor c ame for h elp because she d i dn't know which end of a calf c rone first. From 1937 until 1944 I di d not te a ch. Muc h of this time I covere d t he sheep front, 1500 a c r es daily, p lus t he b a ck and fort h s. I h a d p lenty of 11 think 11 t i me and while I wa sn[...]wa s contes t ing. In 1944 I deci de d I would r a t h er "herd " yo ungs t e ;rs for money t han sheep f or noth- ing. I taug ht t wo terms a t Fre ed om, Dist. 1, 1944 & 1945. $185[...]s s school, Di s t 52. This wa s the h ighest rur a l s a l ary in t he county a t t ha t time. I loved t h is scho ol; an all g i[...]i s miss e d t hem. Thi s is an i nteresting l oc a l i ty. ller e l ive d t he woman who was the fi[...]gl nntes on t he l owe r Hus s els hel l . I ot f a r f r om[...]le St uart nn d t he vi gl ante s h ang ed t he l a st of t he early thie v es . I ho.d be c ome intere sted in cont est ing nnd while a t Hos s s en t in some que ~, t ions in t he s pring of 1947 to t he Cali z ld.ds,- F~u~ ye a rs l a ter t h e y use d on e of my question s an d sen t me a :Z.eni t n r ad io t hen v a l ue d a t ~119 . It was the f all of 1947 I s t ar t ed te a ch.inc Kester school. Here t h e youngs t e rs and I dug a c e l lar. I n eve r l i ve d out of tin cans and had to have a p l ac e to ke ep v e ~e t able s . Thi s s chool[...]ught the Sheldon s choo l, Dis t.?4 • I bough t a l i neoleurrr for t he t ea cherage, ~nd ins ula t ed the ce i l- ing a s I h ad my ail ing husband with me . The communi t y and I p ut on a p ar t y a nd raise d enough mon ey t o insul at e t he s choo l hous e cei ling . I n t he fall of 1953 I went b a ck to Four Corners . The[...] |
| years th:::.t I was a t Four Corne rs we {l i-d -a l q_t of; folk cL1nc1:ng a t noons and r c:: c es s e s . We ·11ad. lots of[...]part of' t he second , t ho scho ol house was in a f'iel d west of the old Sand Springs store . 'ri-[...]'l'he 1 first two ye a rs here I rec e ived 0290 . 00 monthly , the last[...]s qui r r els u s ed t::-ieir t ails f'or ; what a her t ai l for?" . P[...]c hless . They just co ul dn ' t re:;iember wha t a c ow u sed her |
| [...]n we would have nothing for record which would be a shame since we have so much good story material o[...]ng to posterity, afterall. I did not attend a country school but started to school in Jordan an[...]graduated I started teaching school, myself, and a country school, being a graduate of a Normal Training Course placed in our High School[...]my story. I lived 3½ miles SE ofcTordan on a homestead with my parents and there was a country school out by us but not very close so my[...]nd School and for the Anderson children who lived a mile beyond us, their round trip averaged 10 mile[...]eautiful so we didn 1 t mind walking at all. A new building was just finished so~ got to start[...]de the Anderson children moved away so Dad got me a horse named Shortle to ride. This would have been five except I had to picket my horse a lttle ways from school to graze on grass. At noon[...]well as give Shortle oats I had brought along in a feed bag. I watered him when crossing the[...] |
| Dry Creek coming in and , :~; oin g home a gain, chang e d h is p lace of p; razing to fresh[...]until some boys s potted him ano wou l d g o down a n d pester him. I told my folks so t he y arra[...]o the homestead so when it was deci d ed to have a man by the name of Whitlock r~ rive a ri g , picking up all the chil dren out our way it soun ded like a wonderful idea. So tho se childr en like C[...]ock would j us t loaf along and yodel. |
| [...]dom rural school where I went back to teach, just a month after I graduated. This school house at Fre[...]er-ranchers, was 12 miles south of Jordan. It was a school with all eight grades to teach and were ch[...]ren staying with the J.K. Browns from Eau Claire, Wisconsin. Those you might remember at both schools[...] |
| [...]trom Plains, Montana. Thia was her first year as a school teacher. She said that she can reca[...] |
| [...]orence Aitken by F.A. Bradstreet Florence Aitken, who taught the[...]ol in Glasgow. All 12 years she rode to school in a canvas covered horse drawn school bus.[...]ter having completed grade school. They were a very good family, so she enjoyed her time spent i[...]creation. People came from miles around to attend a dance, even in bitterly cold weather and a good many came on horseback if neea be. The Missouri river was often a source of worry to the ranch- ers and their famil[...]ated by Horace Gamas and later John Ferguson, was a necessity to travel north and south of the Missou[...]ion of work at Fort Peck the Bradstreets moved to a farm, they bought 6 miles south of Huntley where[...]ley Project schools, her parents were busy making a living on a small productive farm. They raised a big garden, canned a good deal of food, milked cows, sold cream & eggs and friers, and ran a small herd of cattle and for five years a small herd of sbeep~ Good crops of alfalfa hay an[...]family took part in many activities. Beverly was a 4-Her for 7 years, her mother a 4-H leader for 10 years. Her dad was a school board member for the last 6 years Beverly[...]to th~ school PTA and the women folk belonged to a Home Ve~onstration club for ten years which was a pleasure and a benefit to home- / 4Y |
| makers. For 4 or 5 years the frunilies belonged to a square dance club. We felt very fortunate in finding a farm so close to a large city like Billings {11 miles) and 6 miles from a small town. Don Bradstreet acquired a second farm and worked 8 years as a custodian at the Yellowstone Courthouse, j[...] |
| Maude Langstaff Anderson From a former school-ma•.,. who taught at Llamas schoo[...]e were thirteen pupils, seven girls and six boys, a real good bunch. Lismas ferry wasn't too far away[...]rades. The man I married, Emmett Anderson is a machinist and mech- anic as w,11 as a farmer. When grain farming didn't pay off too wel[...]e raise the barley that is fed to th~ hens and to a bunch of hoga. With the help of our two sons we h[...]arbon County. Moat of the hens are caged. We have a good market for our top guality eggs. We p[...] |
| [...]the Big Dry for about five years before moving to a home near the Missouri River. All this land is no[...]rfield County. I can remember when we traveled in a wagon or in a buggy behind a team of horses. My father had range horses and br[...]s of the free range and horse roundups are almost a thing of the past. We were a horse-loving family. My father rode a lot and I can remember when my mother wore a riding skirt and rode horse- back around home. Fe[...]service, no telephones, horses for transportation(a little later a Model T). Schools were far away, a little store and postoffice ten or fifteen miles away, miles from a doctor in a land of rattlesnakes and Cactus. There was a time when my family would have been happy for the[...]cked her in the face. She fell to the ground with a bad wound. I ran and told mother that she was dead. MMther ran to her and my father got a team ready to take Fern to the Doctor. They crossed the Dry to a neighbors home. They took Mother and Fern in thei[...]three years. It wa s here that my pupils planted a dead bull snake in my waste basket and a live mouse in my desk drawer. Their joke failed a[...]" will remember this ranch as well as the old N-N a few miles away, sometimes referred to as the "Hog[...]ils in this school won one of the first prizes in a National Art Contest. She has in later yea[...] |
| [...]r who lived near Wolf Point, Montana. We lived on a rented ranch for over a year then bought our present home. We have five c[...]shortage at the Sheldon School, so I taught ~here a term. The next term I started teaching in[...] |
| [...]ing was at Hillside, Montana 19WL-45, salary $140 a month, with ten children: Art Larson, grade.8; Ma[...]. That was during World War II when you could get a permit to teach with one quarter of concentrated[...]hing about teaching first graders. At first I had a terrible time distinguishing Mabel and Marie Lars[...]only way I could tell "who was who," was one wore a bracelet and I'd always look for the bracelet bef[...]ncident that stands out in my mind is I cooked on a kerosene stove. Inez and Elvera Hagloff boarded w[...]cherage and this particular Monday they'd brought a wild goose for me to cook. I filled the kerosene[...]or lunch. I rushed over at recess (teacherage was a separate building) to see how the goose was doing. When I opened the door a cloud or smoke met me in the face. When the smoke[...]oven I found the problem. The burners were turned a little too h igh, thus causing them to smoke. Needless to say, everything in the teacherage was covered with a layer of soot. I was so upset over the whole situ[...]the Mosby School at Mosby, Montana. After a two-year rest I taught two years at the old Valley View School. I didn't teach a gain until about 1942. There was such a ne ed for te achers during the war that I went back to teaching. I f i nished a term at the Blackfoot School. I also taught it th[...]n October the school burned and that ended my t e a ch ing career. |
| [...]Garfield Co. Teacher 11 Be a school Teacher! "You h ave had enough education.[...]rintendent. Starting l ate as I did was not a hinderence as it would seem Fern had cl a sses, assignnent s, and total schedule, in order. In this way it was far better for a greenhorn to step in and take over, then to start[...]ttle fe et in and out. Most parents were consider a te on this point because of lack of facilities and were willing to lend a helping hand whenever possible. The childre[...]were three weeks in the spring that I had to ride a tractor the t v~o miles to school because of the mud. Now I had never driven a tractor before but I learned the hard way . Being[...]nd picked up the other chi l dren on the way with a tractor and wagon. The children tried to arrive a[...]the hill on the tractor. It must have been quite a sight. At the Four Corners School in 1960 w[...]y and Jerry Coulter, and Jeanne Shawver. This was a conscientious group who did the work assigned . T[...]o travel the Sheldon School visited us one Friday a month during Art Period to tumble with us . The children worked hard , working up a routine for a show that they presented for Play Day Entertainme[...]became interested in Cheerleading. I showed them a few antiquated cheers t ha t X did as a Cheerleader at Custer High . The mos[...] |
| We know the energy of a child and we should try to put it to good use.[...]home in 1959. The building was vacant and used as a stor- age building. The one-room had heat and ele[...]hter Linda Stanton. Shortly af'ter we got a good start with our little school,it met with dis[...]aughter, Linda and I were on our way to school in a Jeep, which was the only thing we could get to sc[...]he muddy season. We came over the hill at about I A.M. and saw smoke boiling up about the location of[...]School was held at the Irvin Saylor home for a few weeks. Mr. Saylor moved a building onto his ranch and remodeled it nicely. It was a very comfortable little school. We were able to b[...]very bad. Several weeks it was necessary to take a tractor to get to school. We had a new Wagner tractor I initiated. Here I learned ab[...]any other things pertinent to tractor driving. On a cool still day you could hear the Jimmy Diesel fo[...]was understood that I had to quit. We had planned a tour ot Old Mexico with the Flying Farmers and ha[...]rk most of the time. The cluldren have been doing a little tumbling on cold days. They are a little young yet for that. The pupils are Brenda[...]ther. I love to teach school. It gives me a thrill to see the light in a child's eye when he understands what he is[...] |
| [...]k over the last thirty-six years of my career as a teacher, I can 1 t help seeing a drastic change for the better in the rural schoo[...]d to teach, in many places they didn't even have a teacherage to live in. I just moved my bed into t[...]Cars weren't as common as they are now, so I had a saddle horse to ride, and when the weather was g[...]of the time the stoves were worn out, and it was a problem to make them burn. I can remember about midnight one night I had a big coal fire on and the stove was red hot. I was awakened by a big noise,and the grate bad fallen out of the sto[...]raft to burn. The buildings were lighted by a kerosene lamp. In the even- ing and during the ni[...]to be disturbed. The water supply was also a big problem. The children usually carried enough water with them for the day, or it was hauled in a large wooden barrel, which often became stale bef[...]t near to the Big Dry. The Schlenker children had a buggy drawn by one horse which they came to schoo[...]that they have today. If they said they were for a certain grade that is what we us ed. Workb[...] |
| [...]he pupils. Transportation difficulties are a thing of the past. The p arents either bring their chil dren, or they have a honda, or a car and they drive themselves. Some of the[...]n now. In 1967 I had the pleasu~e of teachi ng in a new completely modern trailar home. This was some[...]better their rural schools in order to make them a more desirable place f or both work and pl[...] |
| [...]rmed in the Red River Valley. In 1911 they bought a dairy at Bismark,N.D. where I graduated from high[...]to western Dawson Oounty where my f0lks had taken a homestead in the spring before in the Brusett are[...]he buggy and rode the horses on in. This was a six month term, Mrs. R.N. Phipps was clerk of the[...]e Forks. Using Ward Haisletts homestead shack for a school room. There were so many in there we could[...]iltons, Mathers and others. They all walked quite a distance across the hills. After finishing that school, I went home planning on a short vacation. When I was asked to fin- ish anot[...]beth Butts and others. In Sept. 1915, I took a six months school on Sand Greek liv- ing with Mr. and Mrs. W.L. Harbaugh family. It was a very inter- esting term. Attending were fo[...] |
| [...]by Mrs. Oscar Gackle A midwife assisted in my presentation into the world on a homestead southwest of Angela, Montana. When I wa[...]ears old, my parents, baby sister, and I moved to a ranch south of Angela. There is where I re[...]ouse. On inves- tigation she found I was carrying a kitten in my mouth just like a Mother Kitty! I start~d school, 6 miles away, while we lived on the ranch. The first day I heard a car go by so naturally I went to the window to se[...]and I were in the store doing various things when a large back car drove up and parked a short distance from the gas pumps. As the Gypsy w[...]It is an Indian~• I said, for I had never seen a Gypsy before. I soon learned this was no ordintlr[...]ther was valiant! When Mrs. Gypsy finally left in a hu.t't, Mother gave us a lecture on Gyps i_es we never for got. In :fact w[...]s to the breaking point this day as I dashed into a small room used for various things to cry it out, thinking I'd be alone. I collided with a Negro lady who took me in her arms and consoled me so sweetly and gently. A while after graduation from North Central Bible College I was asked by a lady to drive her to California. I took finger- printing, classifying and filing of fingerprints in a night class in Inglewood. While waiting for the returns of the test and Placement I took a job as a cashier at Roberts Super Market on on LeBr[...] |
| [...]lice!" Mr. Ballard did live (very uncertainly for a month) wa s rele ased from the hospital after fou[...]nia . Shortly after arr iving home we had word of a death of a relative in Canada. I spent a year there. A friend, Pete Ronning who I have lmown all my life, had a birthday one day after mine. So quite often I'd send him a card, which I did while in Canada. His wife aclmo[...]nitely in one week . Carol suggested I try it for a year . I was always happy l did . Later I went to California and took a Practical Nursing Course, but I was so anxious to[...]ell was in high school and Thomas Nelson started, a first grader . Thomas Nelson had an eye problem(n[...]had gotten corrective glasses , he had developed a habit of dropping his head to the book to[...] |
| [...]rs. In September of 1 66 I was married to a very fine man from Brockway, a farmer. He has three children, Duane , employed with R.E.A. (Accountant) Gloria, Mrs. Clarence Lala,Jr. (registe r ed nurse) and Delton (Del), a sopbmore at M.C.C. Like all proud parents shou[...]year, ter·ribly. 'l'his year 1968-69, I am te a ching the Tree Coulee School with three $ingleton[...]rry, who are twins in the 7th grade and Carla, a first grader. Carla is the object of quite a lot of teasing. One day shortly after they came to school Jerry was giving Carla a bad time for not selling her lamb, Buttons, so she could get money toward the purchase of a saddle. Very seriously she looked at him, "Jer[...]ome very dear to me and I do consider teaching a privelege and a challenge. L. to R. Mr. & Mrs. Harley Farra[...]Mrs. Fred hanphere, Delp~a Vance,[...] |
| [...]by Olga E. Jordan On a farm near the Hontana border in North Dakota I wa[...]I attended and graduated from the eighth grade in a rural school. After my eighth grade graduation I[...]hile attend- ing grade school that I wanted to be a teacher. As soon as I graduated from High School[...]y first teacher's certificate I began teaching in a rural school in McKenzie County, North Dakota on a salary of $85.00 per month. The next year we bega[...]ers were paid with registered warrants which drew a rate of interest of six per cent. As money became[...]r hearing that salaries were higher farther west, a friend of mine and I decided to send our applicat[...]k of Schools in District 18 of Garfield County. I a ccepted the position of teacher for Tree Coulee S[...]nty Superi ntendent of Schools of Garfield County a t the time. 1l) 1959 my husband pa ssed away wit h a hear t atta ck. I continued teach- i ng f or an[...]tana State Univ- ersity at Bozeman , Montana with a de gree in Nursing . She wor ke d as a nurse fo r several year s in Veter ans ' ho s pitals in Californ i a. She is happily marr ied and has one dau~h t er.[...]raduated fr om ~1ontana Stat e Unive r sity with a de gree in Civil Engineer ing . He is s€[...] |
| [...]or three years . 1.r.y ;,rother, who had fil e d a so_uatter-'s right" on Mon ta r.a land which was s oo to be opened for homest e ad[...]of the land. At t ha t time t here was a sh orta ge of teach€ rs in this area, as a good ma ny fa mi lies were moving : n, a ttracted by the prospect of h ome ste ad ing this land . Late in the u:nm r, I decided to teach a short t erm of s ch ool that fall . At tha t tim[...]ese short terms to acco !ITlOdate the pa re n ts a nd c h i ldren . Fall terms us ually ran fr-om SEptember through December, when the older boy s could a tt end afte.r mos t of the fa,rm work was done.[...]for me to attend "Teacher's Institue ", and ahe a req uired teacher ' s exa mination, as my thre e[...]the cla im from Lewi s town, and was not fa mili a r with t he trails (if there were any then) to G[...]i stown , I commented on the number of very young a pearing g irls a mon those wh o had taY.en the t e sts . A Teacher ' s Colle e rof es sor ( h y c a l led t hese co ll£ges ormal Schools then) wh o[...]. They ' re eli gi bl o teach in Mon ta r.a , if they can pa ss t h es tc ac . r's exa m ra 1[...]I taught in what is row Garfield ounty , was i n a l og cabin on the John H 11 . 9. r • The s 1 e[...]een used i n the w~nter of 19 12-13, I br i eve , a s a school - house on what is now t he F ich r 9. ch . Th e qc~ er was a .arried woman from els tone , wh ose name I do r.[...]en ir t his schoo , moved back to their ho me ste a ds , I bel ev e , aft e r s c hool was ou t .[...]uring the wint e r of 19 lu -1 S . The c hil dren a teLJding that year were Geor e , An nie ar.d Lou Hill , and thr e children from the Garlick f ~ily , wh ose ~a m s I do no t r e call . The t·rm[...] |
| [...]<id s are on top of the butte , and t~er e are s ~a~es all around t h em . We couldn 't get them down ." I ran and climbe d the butte a s fast as I coul d, pic king up the first long ,[...]led i n the midcle of th e flat butte top and all a rou nd them were slit~~ rirg, c oil ing and uncoi[...]alyed slowl y toward the children, hitting righ t a nd le ft with my club ~s I went . To my dismay , I couldn't seem to hi t straigh t. There was a c rook in the far end of the stick , but I kept !1it tin g at them and mad e a path - way through to the little children . Then,[...]this was or.e of the first warm days, and the s ~a}es were ~ot as active pro bably , as they would h[...]e ranch , I taught in the Cohagen High School for a number of years , and then for a lor ~er period in Garfield County High Sch[...] |
| [...]ere three fami lys in this caravan . There were a couple of older childr en in this Caravan . The h[...]on the wag ons. The cattle were trailed. J ust a few head per family . The horses that were brou[...]i th round roof on, as years went by, there was a lean to adde d on one side , then on the other, and then eventually the roofs were taken off and a pitch roof put on the whole house and maybe the walls were added on and a upstairs for more rooms , In October of[...]I was 11 years, one bro - ther 8, one four and a sister 2 years old; but we go t along p retty g ood. I was the oldest, so I had to do a l ot of household chores and keep watch on the s[...]Abo ut 1920 my Father remarried . He married a woman with 5 children and my Uncle Jacob Schlepp[...]the Flu Epidemic remarried soon after my Father, a woman with 6 children. There we re a lot of children to play games with on Swdays . An[...]er and helped on the farm until I was 21 years of a-e , then I went to farm for myself . I am still o[...]oy is with me yet and does the farming and raises a few cattle. Things sure have changed since[...]ook us about 5 days sometines 6 . I ma cle qui te a few of t hem trips with my Father driving one wagon team . Then ln 1927 a lot of them bought 1 ton trucks and the wa~on t e[...]o about 10 miles to get our mail. There was also a st l' re c1t ,·ason lats . they took in E[...] |
| [...]down when 1 was small yet, and Herman Ulrich run a Blacksmith shop there for a few years. Later on he run the shop on his homest[...]926 he moved south of Miles City. Tb.ere was a store put up¼ mile north of Taylor Creek Bridge[...]y s ome old people by the name of Kribs, later on a po stoffice was establish- ed there by the name o[...]the country , and 1•irs . Sam Gibbs run it for a while, then Pat Nicholes took it over , and run the store and postoffice and started a truck route and haul- ed cream ann other freight[...]he country, Herman Deering run the postoffice for a short time. Then it was taken over to John F . Schlepp s p lace and run for a few more years then in about 1930 Purewater pos t[...]s Wason Flats again, but we had route service. In a few years Wason Flats went off the map and our ad[...]and Custom work. I and Ed harvested together for a few years until he re- tired and moved to Miles C[...]ld ice box with its cake of ice and replaced many a g as pump eng ine and many others. And the Teleph[...]33. It will be 35 years this coming Jul.y . I got a lot of learning out of it, met a lot of people and served under many school[...] |
| [...]here they had no house bu ilt so t hey l ived in a tent until they built t heir stone h ouse. My dad was the only bl a ck- smith for miles around. He shod plenty of hor[...]lif ornia, Karl Ullrich lives on t he home ranc h a t Broadus . Frieda UUriob has a Beauty Shop i n Forsyth, Mont. an d Albert[...] |
| [...]8th grade. The Texas trail, which began a t the Rio Grande and foll owed up north to the C[...]1 t first owned it were Gook and Penman . It was a she eD outfit while they owned it and for many ye[...]steader s began flocking into this cow1try in gre a t n umber8 in about 1914 . It is estimate d that at one time, about 1917, there was a family to every section . The Tree Coulee school[...]Rock One summer in the ei ~hteen-eightys , a little band of a bout fifteen Crow Ind ians were returning home t[...]ow1try with stolen horses . While they were going a cross the country, whi ch the Sioux clai'11ed , a larger band of Sioux j umped t hem and chased the[...]they kille d their horses and drank their blood . A little later the Crows a ll died of hunger an<l thirst . A large nwnber of Ind i a n Arrowheads have been found around this rock . I[...]ked and headed for Mo~tana to hunt buffalo. After a time they acquired such a liking for buffalo hunting that they kept[...] |
| [...]were only country grade s c hools there. A school house had been built on Sec. 28;twp 14-33; made of logs for pupils in that neighborhood. A school house of lumber was built on Sec 29-twp 14-34; this was on railroad l a nd bought by Wiliis Davis. Some homestead[...]our townships. The oil companies paid one dollar a year per acre for oil leases on some of the land[...]ontana; othera went back to Iowa or other states. A few were able to keep their land after they left[...]in summer and taKe cattle out to feed in winter. A few of the homsteadera or their heirs own[...] |
| [...]rds, two stores ea c h , Hotels , Feed Barns , Re a l Estate Offices, and saloons; but n o filling st[...]re wer e only country grad schools there. A school hou s e had b e en bu ilt o n Sec. 28 ; twp 14- 33; made of logs for pupils in that neighborhood. A school house of lumber was built on Sec 29-twp 14-34; t his was on railroad l a nd bought by Wil~is Davis. Some homestead[...]or dril - ling . They paid one dollar for lea s e a f t he J20 acres for one year . The first well wa[...]our townships . The oil companies paid one dollar a y ea r per acre for oil leases on some of the lan[...]they had no crops or pasture, winters when they h a d snow that covered the range , They had no feed[...]eir cattle and horses for what the y owe d t he b a nk . Some found work on rail road or in the copp e r mi ne a t Butte , Montana ; other• went back to IQwa or other stat es . A f e w were able to keep their land after they left i t. Some were a ble to lease to stoc en fer enough to pay taxe s.[...]were taken over by Garfield County for taxes a s t he lo an companies and banks we r e broke . T[...]e li v es in the four townships . The cattle comp a ni es and ranchers gr a ze it in s ummer and take cattle out t o f e e d in winter . A fe w of the homsteaders or their heirs own[...] |
| [...]MOUNT AYR, IOWA We received your request for a history ef the early days of homesteading in Garf[...]Montana. Some of the homesteaders were there a few years before my days; Willis Davis, George Jo[...]er, Henry Hayden and Cloya Foster. I left Io~a in March of 1914 and the 1st day of April 1914, I[...]Went to hotel, and after noon lunch I went out on a drive with a man that claimed to be a locater or gu.iae for the people wanting to file on a homestead. As he drove out on the higher la[...]; that butte could be seen for many miles; it was a real land mark for me; we did visit this butte. I[...]he Haydens•; 36 miles, so I was told. There was a strong N.W. wind but not really cold, but I had my top coat on; 2 egg sandwiches and a "Whiskey Bottlett filled with just plain water; When I came to a furrow so many miles (20 or 22) then N.W. past th[...]nk; in the distant several miles N.W. I could see a snack on a butte side-- Will R. Davis. Over that bQtte and d[...]it wasn't sundown yet. W. H. Hayden, owned a gas tr actor and a plow out fit, I worked for him; we plowed for the homesteaders far and near. Mr. Hayden purchase a thrasher of the Gar Scett Co. in Billi•n gs, Mo[...]Ne. of home. home. "Cold weather"• I was a young man and I wasn't afraid of any kind of work[...]arried, JaD 23, 1910. The tie I wore this day was a dark purple em-beded with "1916" numbers,[...] |
| [...]30- township 14- range 34, they set busy getting a place built to liTe in and laying provisions in f[...]as she was eastern, Iowa born and this was quite a contrast. However Willis had to leave Iowa bec[...]n Iowa in May of 1905. Schooling was very much of a problem to all. Harold attended school• in rura[...]urned to teach one term at Anad, District# 49 and a couple months in District #39--at BrightTiew, the[...]l travelers to and from Sandsprings to Sumatra as a plac e to stop, water horses, eat & sleep; and upon many occasions spend days at a time. Rains always brought many stranded people t[...]th was impossible. We could see road •outh oTer a mile and north approxiametly same distance . In those days a woman never went without stockings away fro the h[...]fortable, as the summers were hot & dry, and when a "rig" would appear on the horizon notner would ru[...]s. Many timea my mother and I slept on the table,(a larg~ famil y size} te accommodate tourists} beca[...]vis as teacher. I was toe young to be enrolled as a pupil but no baby sitter so she and I walk[...] |
| Willis had a sale of all belongings, except a few personal items, in the fall of 1928 and we mo[...]er passed away in 1947 and father in 1965. As was a known desire of theirs they were buried in Iewa w[...]arTin, more commonly known) in March 1936. Alyce, a daughter was born in August of 1,31, and daughter[...]1955 and 1963 respectfully. To date we have a son in law and 3 grandchildren. Family of daughte[...]n, Montana. She married Ted Haider in 1955 and is a Telephone line Contractor. Nelene is gradua[...]astern Montana College in June and hoping to make a career in t eaching business and Physical Education. Marvin dro•e a freight truck many years for Baan Wille, and now is Manager of Farmers Union Oil co, a position that he ha s held for 22 years. I helped[...]everal years, cooked at Garfield Co. Hospital fer a couple years and then employed by Jim Viall in c[...]king there I had an op~ortunity for advancment by a request from Cornelia Harbaugh to serve as Deputy[...]arch 2, 1971 . Speaking for the Willia Davi a and Marvin Hallberg family, there bas been many blue days etc, but all in all we have been bleased with a very happy life; and hope that each and ev[...] |
| [...]on October 14. It was a town 8 miles s outh of Lewistown[...]tead, I traveled with a team of horses hitched to a wa gon . My first post office addres[...]years later. Then, they built one a r ound three miles ea[...]Barney Thomas children and a f a mily by the name of B[...]sh ell on about the 23rd of June, and thE:re was a bad storm come up . In the morning when we g ot up it wa s around 20 below zero, with a hard wind . It stQrmed for two days. There were ouite a few cattle and horses Y.illed for there was a l o t of snow. Then when we left Flat Nil[...]made ca ~p that night . Come to find out we were a mile and a half from Sand S rir • Then we travelled for six or seven more days huntin a place to file on. Be f ore we go t back to Lewis town, ~on t!l a , on the 2nd of July, 1917 to file on our homes t[...]me aft t r we ~ot our crops harves , d and put up a homestead hcuse . We put up lo houses and[...]thing to eat . We were able to get some sa~e hens a nd rabbits , then there was a man who went by that had some supplies for a sheep 177 |
| camp. He let us have a sack of flour, so we made out 'til we got back to[...]e. You can ima gine how we looked . We hadn't had a haircut or shave since we left home. I g ot a shave and h aircut and liked to froze before I go[...]ek, eight miles from Moore, Montana. I made a lot of trips going back and forth. There wasn't a[...]lways drove four horses to the wagon, when I made a trip. Many times when I made a trip, the weather was bad, either raining or snow[...]ime would unroll my bed on the snow and cook over a campfire. There was a dance once in a while . There wasn't very many g irls or women ar[...]r horseback to get to the dances. There was a large outfit, that had lots of sheep and cattle. They tried to run us homesteaders out. They had a bunch of cattle that they would drive up t[...] |
| [...]ontana as Grace Eloise Hall, to work for her aunt a s a milliner. I came from I owa to 25 miles nor th of Sumatra Montana, to the homestead country to beeome a honyonker, that i s what they called a homesteader . Well life on a homestead isn ' t a bed of roses , and I think anyone that has don e[...]hail storms, bot winds and hot air, I rurni s hed a lot of that . But it i a wonderful soil our there, and you could raise mos[...]d even raise babie s out t he r e. Well there was a young fellow by the name of George Johns on , that I knew in Iowa and I had the same section of land , a nd Graces• brother a n d John.sons • brother in law had a section about 3 miles from ours, and Graces folks[...]d I had my team and buggy out , when we saw Grace a nd her brother running a horse rac e, and when he saw us he brought her do[...]will have to get that girl , and he said, Oh, you a r e darn right Bill, one of us will have t o get[...]e home to live with her folks. She must haTe been a kind of human magne t , f or something seemed to draw me oTer that way, and my team a nd my s addle horse soon learned to bead west when I took them out . !spent a lot of time at the Hall home, but the night of Ju[...]s the first time that I realized t hat Gra ce was a 11 ttle weak minded, for that was t h e ni ght t hat she asked me to marry her. (Grace say• t h1 a is a lie. ) I couldn ' t imagine what would cause her to ask a ques ti on like that , but she was nearly 24 and maybe she a like t h e old maid that was praying for the Lord to s end hr a man , and an old hoot owl, said, "who- who-ll, an[...]lks pl ace on Christmas day in 1916. e had a three day bli zzard , the 24-25-26, it really sto[...]d the rest, and she said don ' t you ever do that a gain. Well I knew I would hav to us a differe nt approach, so once after that I went up to th house Tery quietly and never said a word, just tood there lo ok ing a t her . She didn't know I was near, finally she l o oked and saw me and boy don • t tell me that a woman can •t repeat , for s he did and how. I think that from that time on she had a desire and a fear. She had a desire to kill me a nd fear of De er Ledge . I never dared to tell her that the y paid a bounty for shooting guys like me. In 191 7[...]1 Lucille was born . In the winter of 1922 we had a lot of s now, ao I made the kids a sled and one day we were out[...] |
| [...]d them off in the snow seTeral times and they got a big kick out of it . So I told Grace to ~et on, b[...]she went off head first in the snow. The kids got a big kick out of that. But I expect Graces desire[...]d so Grace went out to get some kindling. She put a small stick, one end on the chop- ping leg and th[...]acked her eye. When the neifhbors Cllllle she was a sight to behold . When he saw her said, My Gd Bil[...]nd one of them had left some soft gooey manure on a stick of wood . So I got an armful of wood and I[...]ave oTercome er fear and there would ha~e been a dead Honyonk&r. But for some reason she let me l[...]Montana so we could put the kids in town school. A short time before we left, Grace started to go down in the basement and right at the bottom step there was a big snake all curled up and just daring any one to come down, Grace said she didn 't think she touched a step coming up, but ahe thought she just flew . S[...]it up out of the base- ent there aeemed to be a kind ef a disappointed look on Graces• face. Maybe she t[...]ur married life . We hadn't been in Bridger only a short time till polio struck Grace and I'll say[...]nd Grace was paralized on her left aide, and for a long tie she couldn't even get out of a chair or sit down alone. I carried her around in my arms like a baby for a long time. You can imagine how fast our m[...] |
| fer a year or more, then the depression came and by the[...]wed just about everyone and his brother. Ther was a lot to times we hardly knew where our next meal w[...], the kids finiahed school and they never gave us a bit of worry and we were always proud of them. My[...]ne day less than eight months. Maybe they were in a hurry to get away from their old dumb dad. Yet I[...]t me at the drop er the hat, ao please don't drop a hat. I worked for the A.c. M. Ce. in Anaconda for 26 yeara before they fo[...]ery month to keep me from coming back. (Now I get a pension of $81.96.) Maybe they are still afraid I will come baak. They even gave me a thouaand dollar paid up Life Insurance policy. I must haTe been bad and now yeara later 1n Hamilton, we have a little nest out here in the west, and we'll let t[...]e I will say in all seriouanesa that she has been a wonderful pal. She has never griped about her aff[...]would yout Gra•• and I have never had a real quarrel. Oh yee ve have had words alright, but I neTer got a chance to use ■ ine. Now then this ia my[...] |
| [...]Montana , by train and my dad met us the re with a team and covered wagon . There wasn ' t much of a road t hen and we ran into several real rnud hole[...]15 , 1 ? 19 Guy Gi b s on was born . l,.Te built a Virge log cabin th 9. t was our ho:ne seve r a 1 years . James died from eating frosted muslmelon abo u t 1°20 . Dad homesteaded on a place just ea st of ~a 1 t er Leligdou icz's place . We childr en went t[...]d to haul o ig p itch loe s to Sar.d s~rin~s with a three-horse team for exc h a ng e of groceries. Allan was the man 's na[...] |
| [...]wash d ay and so on. It was $eptember when we re a ched Montana, near Garniel in then Fergus County[...]n orphan cousin and grandparents(hother 1 s) also a man and his son came along to see the country and[...]The vehicles u se d were three covered wagons and a s pr_ng wagon in which many r ode and had two pos[...]There were two dogs and the horse s (no extras) , a light buggy team f or the spring wagon and 2 work horses each for the wa~on s . The s pring wagon was a surrey with the fringe on top . There were four s[...]s . To me it wa s beau tiful . The buggy whip had a tassel , no doubt . The covere d wagon had br a ckets so the bed could be made wider . An ordinar[...]wagons so as to watch where the horses drifted . A bell was pu t on one horse (a le ader), 4nd also t hey were all hobbled . We had a camu stove and pi eces of fl ~t metal that made into a sort of s t ove where we coul d place ket tl es . ~e used a lot of of cu red meat ; a lso the men killed wild chickens , rabbi ts anc.[...]ope . It may have b P,en out of season , but it t a sted gooa . We bought s upplies along the road .[...]nuch sugar I can t drink sweetened coffee since . A tarp was s r ead on the gro d picnic style, and I[...]~1ct,1c . e us ed tin p lates and cups , and a s we called then later our black table1are .[...]n ordinary wo rk clothe s . In t ~ose days it was a dis~race for women to wear t rousers ; also dress[...]ramp , possibly by lndians , and we spent most of a day overtaking them . ,fo had no sLidcile horses , s o that me ant a long walk for s ever 'l l. rtll c '1.me out okay[...]) nnd F3.nny ( t3l'lck) ( one worl~ team); i:md !'a t (brown) wns one one of tr.e o c: her hor::;es t[...]'ln I do n ' t know . uur light team had lots of a;et 11p "nd rr o , b ut fl ll r-rew we Ary[...] |
| [...]We followe d the general course of the railroad a t the time, a nd forded many streams and rivers. We started fro[...]Lu ckily we all kept up our courage and streng th a s far a s I can r emember . Grandma had the usual h e a d aches g randmas have, a n d often had her food carr ied into the wagon.[...]d ent I recall is when Uncle Frank went to cross a bri dge over a small stream and the bridge gave away and the wa g on landed in the wa ter . This wa s the supply wagon and a lot of food had to be thr own out, even to the hu[...]see her crawl out t he rear opening in t h e canv a s was funny. I think it cured the headache. We had a lot of fun and t he chan e of habitation meant ve[...]favorite companion was my cou sin . She was over a ye ar o lder, but sisters and brothers are just d[...]e s u ccession of crop f ai l ures in Kansas . Gr a sshop pers moved in and took the crops , so we co[...]the farm g o and sell our po ssessi ons t o raise a bit of c ash . we took very little but cloth es,[...]and pers onal belongings . After working a t r anc h work for the first year , Dad rented a p l a ce an d we went on from there. We ferr i e d a cross the Big horn River wh en we came . I can lf'f |
| [...]Montana were from Texas and everyone could tell a green Texan kid like me as far as they could see[...]as mee ting that week in Miles City , so I landed a job from J. p. ''.Tosh" McCuis tion . He owned an[...]it on Squaw Creek. He told me be would ive me $40 a month and all I'd have to do was eat, sleep, and ride a pony. The middle of May the roundup wagon p[...]l celebrated the Fourth of July in Jordan. It was a lively time for all, but the 5th w s a "headache" day, and not a roundup wagon so much as moved camp . The 7th we camped at the mouth of Lone Tree Creek o the Bi Dry. A big bail storm hit at 4 p.m. just at supper time . One of the worst things that happened was when a 79 Remud stampeded and piled up in a cut coulee killing 11 head for the 79 and[...] |
| [...]hell S t o r i es In 1898 , La rkin -=> a n c i dge c ame to the lower Mussels h ell The main ent e rt a i nme n t among the e ar ly se t tler s wer e c o[...]hor se back , te am and wagon , b o bsl e ds and a f o o t id Bus cs helped establish the hecaha po s t of f i c e a bou t 1916. |
| [...]ifornia, Oregon and Canada . In 1909 Bert took up a homestead in Canada and became a Canadian citzen . Bert's folks, Dr. and Mrs. Lon Keith bought a relinquishment in what was then Dawson county. Be[...]there, Carl (Jack) and Wanda (Judy). They leased a place from W. G. Roberts on the Musselshell river[...]~930 . In about 1943, Bert and Jack bought a place at the mouth of Lodge Pole Creek from Mr .[...]n the Jordan hosp ital May 1954, after being sick a lot of her lil'e. Bert continued to live o[...] |
| [...]ss from the Ross Post Office. They lived in a tent until their two room log house was built. Ma[...]y to Mel stone. They later moved to Calf Creek on a ranch. They have 4 children ; Raymond of Hosby,f[...]on t hey would ride horseback 20 or 30 mile s to a dance , and to visit neighbors. Some of th[...] |
| [...]eman in the 1870 1 s and 1860 1 s was killed when a two horse outfit hauling a half load of lumber overturned while he was driving _it down the Blood Creek hill. My father, not being a stock man,sold the cattle and there- after until[...]my mother, ran the Ross post office, {named after a close family friend,as the name of Gilfeather or Sandidge didn't seem to fit as the name for a post office). The mail was delivered once a week for a number of years and then three time a week when the settlers moved in and settled on al[...]meone being at our place for two or three days at a time to get their mail. My mother did a land office business ordering clothes for a great number of people in that territory out of t[...]avage mail order catalogues, and particularly for a recent European immigrant group which had[...] |
| [...]ies of the time. As the law beg an hot pursuit of a thief he would slip down one of these creeks, cam[...]all over ag ain. Over the ye ar s my mo ther f ed a few re peaters . As a small boy I can remember Al Morgan , Sheriff of F[...]looking for one of my mother 's boarders. He was a real character of the era from 1910 to 1915 or so[...]e. Al Morgan always left his gun in the crotch of a tree in the hay corral where he left his horse to[...]ten or twelve years old. Local rodeos and horse r a ces, of course , prevailed throughout all the time and if you were a native you were expect- ed to partici pate, regar[...]r wells of some of the hill billies it was rather a high risk b usiness. The ranchers from near the s[...]sn ake Springs and Chenney Springs and t hen made a two day d r y urive into Gailbrith or Sumatra. I[...]st pair of h i gh healed (sec ond h an d ) boots, a string of seven horses and was a f ull - fledged cowboy . The next year l had the[...]t he Li tle Dry area . He was in my estimati on , a real cowboy . ,.e had come up from Texas with trail herds . I woul d love to have had a movln picture of his sad dling a horse . It was the ultimate in coordin- ation and util i z a t ion of movement . He swung on the sacfrle blank[...]c , than the left hand cau. ht t he cinch, the ri a.;ht shoved the lad d igo t h ronrh the cinch ring , then hand over h and , l ike a sailor clinbing a rope , the s addle wa s ti ghtened , the s[...] |
| [...]mith. I did not know him well no one did . He was a close nei ghbor for ye ars. He was a good neighbor in that he never disturbed anyone a[...]ising hay and wintering cattle for others. He got a few letters and I am informed that he was qui te sick once and he thought he was going to die; he made a Will le aving everything he had to a nurse who had been good to him while he was in th[...]rade school at the Ross school whic h was two and a half miles south of our p lace. My father was always a scho ol Trustee and my mother the Clerk. Mrs . Guy Bump was my first teacher, then I had a Miss Kiley , a Miss Hennessey, a Miss Mc- Grath, Mrs . Ed Nave, Mrs. Kelly and Mrs[...]in the fall of 1922 . The first year I worked as a janitor at the high school. During my four years I worked for t he bank as a janitor until it went broke, (I had nothine to do with that) and I worked for Mr . Alexander and was a janitor and Clerk for Sol Stormwind. Also I was o[...]Willius, Ted Beckman, Audrey oore and myself had a dance band my last t~o years of high school.[...]ti ent with me and was responsible for my getting a great deal of enjoyment out of athletics in Winne[...]I think we had some very good teachers . e had a tall, rather slender, dark-haired history teacher[...]majored in history and govern- ment . le also had a nice Spanish teacher , although 1 was a very poor language student . Stle later contacted[...]shell v alley fre e open ranee g razing area to f a rm l and and then to controlled graz in·[...] |
| Probably f a te require d the s e changes to bring out the best a~ I feel thes e l ands are more productive when pr[...]ol l owed , however , in the process of culti- v a t~ng these l an d s and the ove r grazing of the remaining grass during the droug ht, cre a t ed wheat grass has pretty much replaced t he on[...]my. brother, Charles, and Don Bowen , - t o name a few , would ;equire' g o i ng far beyond t he sc[...]ng b ack t o the early peri ods I can remember as a little to t seeing a l ar ge b and of Indians passing our place on the[...]tries to ~ec apt u re t he i r olf way of lif e. A little later I remember see- i ng a larg e p orti on of the cat tle of the huge Long Cattle Comp any traile d p a ssed our place when it left our territory, t hu s e ndin g t h e e ra of r eal large op en range a ctivity . I have ridden d ay herd and sto od night - guard with men who ro de the l a st " H Cross " s h i pment , which I understand from first hand re- l a ting by t hose men, to have r eached the railroad after a three day ' d r y d riv e ' under the l ucky star of a tail wind as the herd fina lly c ame in on water . I was born and raised in this cow count r y a t t he beg inn i n g of the errl of its cowboying[...]is past orofession . I was s oared that pain b ec a use my moth e r said ( and insisted) , "go west,[...]l " . So I packed my bag , saddled my horse, took a smal l l unch and r ode out to the Rogge brothers[...]ving developed an apnreciation of others which is a direct result of having been raised in this area . Down on the lower Mussellshell there is a feelinF of nearness of your distant neightbor . Y[...]dge that the good an~ welf re of your neighbor is a lso your good and welfare and the needs of one is[...]tages do not out- weigh the disadvantages insofar a3 the gathering of worldly possessions are concern[...]enjoyment of life . l'his training I feel has had a direct bearing upon my public and ersonal _1;re .[...]1918 . Dr . Alexander once to ld me that a man 's act al success i n life is n ot measured b[...]is funeral . If you plan to attend the funeral of a resident of the lower Mlssellshell area ,[...] |
| [...]rs later at dances and p icni cs and such. He and a brother came to Montana from Kans a s in t he spring of 1912. Each of them homesteaded . David and I married Sept ember 17, 1917 . We r a ised a f amily of four boys and three girls . We ret ire[...]ed at Cat Creek Field. Mosby at that time became a small village. There was a general store , and the postoffice was ran by George Gates f amily. A restaurant and hotel, the restaurant and hotel burned six years later . Also there was a pool hall that is known now as t he Community Hal[...]ommunity by J oseph Bagwell. It was also used for a dance hall for several year s . Some[...] |
| [...]It is hard to condense forty-one years into a few paragraphs so this will merely hit a few high spots. Watson bought the Drug Store[...]by Floyd Tollefson and it took them all day with a lot of pushing through the snow drifts. Gina[...]Grade and H igh School students were crowded into a small building on the site of the present old gra[...]and quite a rev ,till[...]It has been a good[...] |
| [...]t- rial School in Miles City and Mrs . Walker was a teacher there in Miles City. They came out to Jord an to take up a homestead . In the breaks they fourtd a place with go od water and their ne a rest neighbor was Trumbos; and he was s uch good[...]Mrs. Walker was Matron at the Dormitory for sever a l years and also taught school in Garfield . Coun[...]were very few cars in those days, so we rod e in a wagon with the side s cut down for my c omfort. We slept in a tent made of a large tarp . The first night out was on th[...]in Jordan. When the crowd were on their way home; a couple men crune to our tent to borrow some water , when t hey brought the bucket back; they gave Ted a drink out of a bottle , he pre tended to take a drink and the man s aid ,"give your partner a drink " and Ted said,"That is my wife and she don[...]t. Ha l Hal When we came to Jordan i t was a small tov n . Mail was carr- ied out from Miles C[...]s bu ilt, and the Home - steaders moved in; not c a ttle people , b ut farmers like t he Tuppers , t[...]use. One Ted came home from Trumbo 1 s and a sked me , if I would cut Trumbo I s hair . eli, I[...]in and did very well . He was all fixed to go to a dance and didn 't have time to go to Mr . Shook so , after t hat I became a barber . Hal Ha l I remember on Sundays the Neie;hbors an o friends gathering at the hook family for a waternelon party the fall of 1936 at the Ranch .[...]Bud Denniger "Dad" Walker s Di.ck J ohntson "'1a" walker ' s back "Pennie" Mrs Merry (light[...] |
| [...]told by my fol ks , Jos eph F . and Irma Nault ; a beautiful day with clear blue skies a lthough a br isk wind was blowing · just l i ke it always[...]hen our cherry red Hudson car s uddenly came over a r i dge and and there it was, J ORDAN ! At t hat[...]hi s ridge ( later called Hooligan Hill) and then a tiny town was down b elow, nestled in a sort of bowl shap ed valley. It was r a t her steep coming down from this ri dg e that le[...]pa st Kati e Markley ' s home befor e we crossed a bridge and then curved t o the right on a road that ran (a t the back of the hous e n ow owne d by Claribel[...]"flipped their lid§ and trying to get me j us t a s exc i t ed only puzzled me more . I don't reall[...]when we left the t own of Cr ookston , Minnesota (a t own abou t the size of Miles City) is that my m[...]t hre e people?" J ordan really l ooked more like a T I G POST than a t own with its f ew building made of logs . And like a p on- eer town, whi ch i t was , its buildings consisted of store , post office , s a l oon, r es taurant , ho t el , rooming house and[...]from Miles Cit y , hav ing to stay ove r night at a halfway house on unconfort- abl e bed and t ravel[...]g house , owned by the Hash family who also owned a livery stable next to it and he got us a room . Besides t t , our house was not f inished[...]ad come to ont- ana ahead of Mother so as to have a house ready to welcome us when we arrived . It turned out that we had to stay at the rooming house a week before our house 3½miles SE of Jorda[...] |
| [...]ey had never been stopped of that habit until now a.fter the "homestead law" had passed,allow- ing people to come out and make a claim on 360 acres of land where said homesteade[...]know why we were out west settling on land and c a lled HOMESTEADERS . The angry ranchers called us[...]at were homesteaders,too, fairly close to us like a mile or two away and were the Schranks, Millers,[...]of us , just naming those I remembe r· well. And a .few families came out from Crookston, Minnesota[...]and raise stock while the FitzGeralds come to run a drugstore , our first one in Jordan. They bad one[...]dship in letting them move their stock through in a more direct route which they respected by careful[...]corn and grain as well as our vegetable garden to a void trampling it. But one day a group were not so considerate. Mo ther heard the[...]Our last Christmas spent on the home stead was a sad one. Mother wanted a pine tree to trim for the occasion as she wa s tired of trying to decorate a sage brush like she'd been doing 1n the past . There were no pine trees in Jordan to buy so a man offered to go with Dad t o pine tree c ountry[...]ey drove up on the day of Christmas Eve and after a long and I 98" |
| tedious trip, brough t a tree back t o Jor dan a t the e nd o~ the day. The man would not take any[...]do to thank him fo r hi s trouble was to buy him a hot brandy, his fa vorite drink . Da d joined hi[...]hma n drunk, re f err ing to my dad . Dad was not a heavy drinker and besides that, wa s anxi ous to[...]ee but t he playful heavier men would drag da d b a ck to the bar every time he'd t r y to leave bu t[...]light s whic h had to be done on the outs ide of a car ar.d while doing this the jolly guys had mi s[...]e ' d jump int o his car and drive without lights a short dis tanc e and out of s lght of t he saloon[...]t the time he had reache d the Kramer home he h e a r d an engine noise so automa t ica l ly h e t urned to his right a s he would do in car traffic in a c i t y . But the object he was me eting and couldn't see turned le f t and it a l l ende d with the only two cars in the ,·country h 2v i ng a he ad- on c ollision . Dad was thr own through th[...]er Mother and me. Mother l earned fr om Dr. B ker a..f t er we arrived that dad had three ribs b roke[...]g et r e l ief until the third day when he .felt a rele a se or s ome thi ng and said : "I believe that I s[...]las t s ev ere pain . Dr . Baker said the ribs h a d slipp ed back into place and e v en though he w[...]of danger so we moved h im ou t to the homestead a s soon a s he was able to travel. There wa s no hos p ital[...]ther canned goods , fl our , navy beans, macaroni a s wel l as vegetables out of our gar den, some of[...]r abb its and brought to us which Mother fixed 1n a casse ro l e, t hey t asted like chi cken and someone else brought us a c hunk of beef Folks were kind and we wintered just fine . Dad 11 had t ime to think a lot as our money dwindled away s.l owly"but sur n[...]er he was able Dad lef t fo r Mil es City to find a job . He was hired to run a theat r e , s ome t hing he knew best , being in[...]everal year s before we moved to Montana , owning a theatre in Crookston, another in Duluth., Minnesota as well as one in LaCross , Wisconsin . I tJ t |
| [...]ward Reeves who suggested pairing up and starting a stage line between Miles City and Jor dan, carryi[...]went into business with Walt Waltenbaugh running a saloon , filling station (our first filling station in Jordan & affiliated with Conoco) and a theatre (also our !'irst theatre in Jordan), Dad remaining in Jordan until he had a heart attack and passed away in 1940. Mother rema[...]ittle "CUTIE" that really happened in Jordan when a lady by the name of Mrs. Huff whose husband was a[...]Bank decided to make Jordan, society minded with a n400" flavor. They built the house where Norma Hoverson and her family now live . Mrs . Huff decided to give a formal dance so rented the community dance hall a[...]rdan would announce to folks that there wo uld be a dance where lad ies came in cotton dresses and di[...]hed back school seats until daylight , then go to a restaurant and eat breakfast, after a ttending to the stock , later afte we had a community hall, the habit of square dances and si[...]dresses to dance in was much the s ame s o quite a shock to the home folks in Jordan, to have the mo[...]ct one for this formal affair so Mo ther selected a white ankle length crepe de meter dres s with an[...]Mrs . Huff met them at the door all decked out in a long gown with a long train behind it, dragging a long the floor and only lifting it up when she danced . Believe me , this is a true story! I never felt like being such a pioneer until right now while relating the highlights of my family of which I was a small part , but nevertheless experienced[...] |
| [...]jobs and then worked in the Soil Conservation or A.~.A. Office for a number of years. Al later set up the Hawkinso[...]y about the early days and this fits this area to a 'T'. I always felt badly about having to burn Buf[...]Mrs. Morgan cooked at the Cohagen Dormitory for a year or so and then beca e Matron at the Garfield County High School Dormitor y for a while. She married Al Hawkinson in 1952 and m[...]to R~undup, Montana . F.d married Hazel Bryson, a school teacher, nd is now living in New M[...] |
| [...]l e to Ethe l) t o rrov e on cla·rri and went; b a ck . Jay and Ethel carr ied mail fr om }:,'rc edo:1 to J rrd.m for severa l ye a rs in a :t-1odel T. They left in 191() and returned in 19[...]orks for Dr . Parl·and sinc e 1952 • . Their f a'11ily is scattered , i1 on ql rl i s married and[...]ana fr om the str te of Virginia . Af ter liv ing a t Lewistm•m for one or two years , t .e y moved[...]in~ton and ilrscce r e sides in Billings , Montan a . The Freedom commun i ty in which i ';re[...]' nday worsl. · p . fhere .-1ere n umerous card ~a rties , ice cre am parties , an•! brand in tirn gatheri ngs to help make l if e a bit more interestinr, . fuen I at tended[...]with m feet up on the chair ahead of Me as I w~s a fra id snakes would co e thro u~h the open doorwa[...]not en"u n cl ild- ren in the communi t y to hrwe a school . 'l'I en y parents had to move t o Jorcl'[...]stern lfontnna hormal School at Billings , hontan a . 1.fter one :to r ' s trai ng I beg~n te a c hing coun try school at dpring Crook Br sett ontu a . S·ring Cre ek s c~ool was n ~e nf lo-s[...]bir ~elebrations interforin,- W' t "'•Y sleep . A oartition sep"rated the cla.saro m from th[...] |
| of t he t ime from a s :9r l ng down below the hi l l • .Most of the[...]day , I try to teach b oys and g irls some t hing a b ou t l ife in t he country , especially life in the country a s it wa s 25 or JO y e crs n~o . Ot her schools I[...]n Schoo1 , Free d o'tl'l sc hoc• l and !;art of a year : t the McKnight(Kester) .Schoo l[...]~wn , Lee is i n t he Navy in Flori da . he ha s a wife and 2 chil dren . Our (18.U"'h ter, i•1a r ~d e h , s 3 children and l i ves a t Boze - man , Mont:m.'l . Freedom Communi[...] |
| [...]1 Jessen was born in Germany . He c ame to U. d . A. when he was two years ol d . Hi s folks homestea[...]His folks later move d t o Miles City . He came b a ck to Jordan in 1940 clild we 1ere at the Dorm fo[...]He married Mar~aret Purcell of Lansford, N. Dakot a in 1928 . They had two children , Barbara marrie[...]rles mar r ied Esther Rath and l i ves with his f a."llily in Jordan . William Jessen d e d i n Augus[...]e knew him better as Bill J essen . I used to be a cowboy many years ago I didn't mind the winter's cold , blizz a r ds and deep snow But now I'm getting a bit ol d Its hard for me to g et out and face the[...]the Frazier all to myse l.f alone Taking care of a few dog~ies and think ing of homes eet home For t[...]t seem to want to quit The old thermometer hangs a t twenty and th rty below and don 't gi ve up a bit You c ome in cold , t he fi res a re out, and you find your beans are froze But that's not bad , n o c ause to kick For you go and grab a b iscui t and its froze harder than a brick But all in all its not so bad for tomorr ow may be warm And you pr ay to God , that f or a week or so it won ' t storm I ' ll tell you boys a c owboy's life ain ' t free and full of fun For when a blizz ard ' s ra~ing those l ittle doggies will kee p you on the run Just a wor d to cowboy minded Fe llows, yo u be tt e r stay at home and ~et an educ a tion And Leave the thundering herd alone .[...] |
| [...]o unmarried daught- ers, Marguerite, Cornelia and a married daughter , Hazel Johnson and her husb and[...]l of 1919 . Having made arrangements with a local garageman to take u s north, we arrive d at[...]scene was something like one might read about in a western novel. A group of men were sitting at a long table eating and drinking and having a gay evening . They were very hos pitable and move[...]d start- ed for the Benzien co untry. After going a few miles the driver stopped the c ar, go t out a[...]d our luggage and oh yes , t he bird c age con t a ini ng the pair of red birds that my sister , Hazel ha.d smuggle d all the way from Hissouri. He pointed to a small cabin tucke d away in t he h ills t:rom t h[...]g us to Mont • The re st o!' us stayed a t the Neit ers• until arran- gement s were made t o t ake us to t he Johnson ranch. My Dad bo ht a r anc h about s i x mi les nor th of Benzien and wes t of t he Di lo ostoffic e , known a s the Phillip Berg ranc h . My s i ster and husba[...]t two miles. (The ir ) son Charle s J r ., l ater a t tende d ade sc hool in Jordan. ) Th[...]nhappy years , with droughts, b ad wi nte rs etc. a lways challeng ing one's pe r- servance but ins tilling in t he f amily a l ove of t h is count ry . y bro ther Ed c ame from ashlngton to ope r a te t he r anc h and stay- e d form y years final[...]nch . e co p l eted our H h School years in umatr a , Hontana and I .,Corneli h d my f irs t job at t[...]ked for s everal years at that time stopp ing for a short t ime and a t tend- ing s c hool at Eas torn in Billings ., f•1ontana . That is a l l much f rther back through the year s t han I[...]e in Billings . I Co rnelia , marri ed Paul Barb a h in 1933 . ie settled on the home ranch e[...] |
| [...]here he has been in partnership since. He mattied Patricia Weber, who is Super- intendent of Garfield County Hospital. We have a grandau hter, Barbara Jo who is seven years old a[...]lways out to our many relatives an<l frien ds and a cquaintances we have made throughou t the years.[...]of 1969 . It is filled with frie ndly people and a way of life that appeals to tho se of us w[...] |
| [...]p of hi s voic e until everyone within blocks was a l erted tha t something was wrong . ) Ye s, we c ame to :Montana in t he ye a r of 1910 to establis h a home where I c o u l d re r my fami ly t hat cons[...]oys namely , RaJ.ph, William, Cecil , Carl , Paul a nd one d ughter · gnes , "bless he r" . We[...]o t h e l and office to find out what land was av a il ab le and wh ere it was located . I he ded nor[...]rdan country and Sand Creak . I c hoos~ t his loc a tion (at the present time it is oi-med by my youn[...]ul and his son , Larry) , becaus e of live wate r a nd deposits of coal along the creek banks . Af'ter loc ating the land I went back to Mil es City· a n d bought a team and wagon , loaded our.furniture that we had shipped from the Ea.st, bo ught a "grub stake II and headed for the promised land .[...]have walked f r om Miles City . ~e erected a 11 make d o 11 shelter, one couldn't c a ll it a house . we mo v ed in and I walked b ack to •dl[...]kids to hold down the home - ste d . They raised a garden and during the drought. they formed a bucket brigate and packed water from t h e nearby[...]cise . In time we constructed buildings and a corral , which I might dd got plenty of use wit[...]e 1 em . lany an ol d broomtail turned out to be a pretty good s addle horse when they were through[...]. Carl and Paul became good ri der and rod e many a bronc either for money or .fun . The kids attended grade school in a one room school house , crude beyond description[...]n . They were an inventive b unch . Our house was a gathering place for the neighbors on Sunday and s[...]se name escapes my me mory . Lizzie, my wif'e was a good cook and we alwn.ys enjoyed sharing w[...] |
| [...]. i olin and family i n to the wagon and drive to a dance miles away . I pl ayed the violin until the[...]ite the hardships and the work it took to eak out a living in this new land . e tried just abou t eve[...]rmed , marketed ve ge table s -----we even bought a knitting machine and made and sold s ocks as well[...]upplied. Agnes, our daughter, still comments with a groan about those 11 old black stock ing s" that[...]t to Bremerton , Washington to work in the ship y a rds. I was to old to pack a gun but I could help build ships for our boys. Th[...]and it was during the second World ar t her e was a great shortage of school teachers and I was calle[...]he class Each striving gallantly to p a ss . e will remember stocks and bonds[...]me or s pace Or circles large or small a t base , Of algebra we made a stew, 0:f X, Y1 s and f igures[...] |
| [...]n had its place With civics it had run a race . Then Agriculture had its share[...]rushes cannot wait to start . Their te a cher's old and bent and g rey But when[...]rovement for the better . I am proud to h ve been a part of settling up Garfield County, home then, n[...]h Man & Dad Harbaugh with a |
| [...]•ve been here since 1910 so that entitles me to a place in this book of old-timers. I 1 ve seen the[...]d land, to farming, ranching and stock-growing on a different scale unknown in the early days. This h[...]things that has over the ye ar s f astened us in a grip so strong it would be hard to give it a l l up . I wouldn't want to . My experienc[...]in the past years. Early days I could qualify as a nbronc buster 11 which I did for a good many years . After being married to Cornelia[...]it was decided about then that my ri ding days as a bronc rider was ove~ My son was born and I was ha[...]and turn the ranch over to Larry so that I can c a tch up on a little si ght seeing etc; that I haven I t been "[...]ing t he busy, bu sy year•. 1 1 11 take Corneli a alnng too, 11' she ever decides to quit work- ing[...]In the meantime drop by friends and neighbors for a visit at the llli Ranch. I ' m never to bu[...] |
| [...]Light Co ., but due to the fact that there wa s a stri l e on and they were layed off, we decided to g o to Montana and prove up a claim. I had two brothers and t heir families living in 10 tana at the time. So Jack, Don, who was a little shaver then and I packed up bag and ba ga[...]i,ing in tiles City, Montana on August 5, 1919 on a hot dr y , dusty, day . From there we took the ma[...]the Castle Sutte Commimi ty. I finished teaching a t erm of school hat fa and Jack worked in John Fi[...]easy. We had to dig sagebrush and br ak sod with a wal k ing plow . But we were you g and had good h[...]el Weeding , Ro es, Umlands, The Klundt Brothers, a nd John Adams •[...] |
| [...]e school houses . We would drive miles and ~il es a nd sometimes stay all n iRht. Most everything ende d up with a dance and the ladies served s an dwiches and cakes. The men cooY.ed a bo iler of coffee out doors and sometimes had a "little r. ip 11 of something else out there. Everybody seemed to have a ~ood time. At Castle Butte we ma naged to have Sunday School and a minister came now and then through the s p ring a[...]our homestead and moved into Jordan and went into a business. We ran the Jordan Garage, a red building, on the corner. In 1913 we bo[...] |
| [...]n the boarder between there and Germany. There is a river there named Lahn River. About the age of nine hi s f ath- er put him on a ranch in eastern Wyoming with an uncle. He didn't[...]didn't like it there, and one time when there was a trail herd coming thru, he to ok off and joined t[...]ss t he rivers and it would take the most part of a year to trail a herd up from the south. He t ol d of staying one[...]ay over n ight and s ome times stay with them for a day during the dr i ve . One time the J ames Brothers bought a fat beef' from t hem, butc hered 1t and took i t to a widow with several children wher e t hey had s ta[...]was in the Jordan country long before there wa s a. town of Jordan. He worked for several big c attl[...]auled them over to bu ild the house . He tol d of a b unch of the cowboys rop ing a black bear on Vai l Creek fl at j ust e ast of wh[...]s as di d most of the cowboys t hen, and was also a ver y good hand with a rope. Some t ime in t he earl y 1900 1 s or late[...]who knew him around Jordan lalow he was crippled. A t e am of hors es r away with him and s omew[...]is where he met Dorothy Peterson . She wa s born a t Cora , Kans a s, June 23 , 1881 of a f amily of six childr en, t wo ~i r ls and four b[...]k mos t of the sunnner to do so . Her mother kept a d i a r y on t he l ong t rip, p art of which was among[...]y . Accordi to t he dia r y , t hey s t a r t e d from Kansas wi t h 30 head of cattle but as t hey went a l ong t he catt le b ecame lame , some died, othe[...]e was one white stallion . According t o t he d i a r y they crune U ' thru Sheridan , Wyomi n[...] |
| [...]or 32 some of the fami ly in Kansa s put together a record of the family . I t was stat e d in t h is[...]p arty with Lewis & Clark expe d iti on , who was a distant r e lat i ve of Dorothy ' s mother , an u[...]l. 1 , 1901. They l i ved on h i s homeste ad for a while. Thre e boy s were b orn, Earl Feb . 18, 19[...]Mi lo, Feb. 24, 1905 . In 1913 t hey move d onto a place abou t f ive miles north of the Yellowst one river on Horse Creek where they run s heep an(! c a t t le . The hard winter of 1914 2 191.5 abou t p[...]es Ci t y and Jordan , t hat s p1~i ng . He drove a str i ng team as many a s 14 head of horses and t hree wagons on t hese f[...]ro thy stayed on Horse Creek wi t h the boys f or a while, but t he spring of 1918 the y moved t o Jordan . Li ve d i n a hou se of Cl yde Whi te's n orth of whe r e t he[...]h n ow stand s , later moved i nto what was known a s t he J ohns on h ou se j u s t e a s t of the Yellowst one Lumbe r. , He con t inu e[...]go with him now and then . 'l'hey tell of being c a ursh t in s nowstorms during the winter and hav i[...]c old to trave l . One tri p ou t he was h auling a pig for s ome one at J or dan . The wagon was covered wit h a tarp b u t it got so cold the pig f ro ze to de ath . Fo llow i ng is a piece taken from the Miles City Star i n 1965 fro[...]ago" section: "After encount e r ing obstac le s a l most unsurmountable , R. M. Lane, an old stage driver , drove into town yesterday from J or dan , a little wor se fo r wear b ut s till in the r i ng[...]r oad" . About 1919 or 1920 he s t ar t ed a l ar ,e buil ding whi ch he hoped to rent out a s a s tore building . Thi s wa s l oc ated just north[...]n g quarters in he back c-f the buildi • It was a t wo story build- ing , anu the up stairs was u sed for RoyaJ. Neighb or meet i n g s for a long while . Dances were held in the b ottom, and[...]ural way t hey would spell it and he , only being a l i t t le pas t 9 years old , let it go at tha t[...]so the family cont inued to spell it that way for a long while . Finally , Dore thy , thought , to ma[...]"Lane" . In later years Earl and hi s Mother took a trip back t o Afton to see Bob ' s brot her and some co usins who lived there. Mil o was back also a cot..._ Jle of di f fe r ent .[...] |
| [...]antage of t he shortage , the fuel sold for 75¢ a gallon. In 1927 Bob bought a Chevrol et Tr ~ck and g ave up freight i ng with[...]t 1938 s he left t he big house and moved i nt o a small log house on t he e as t si de of Jordan which she had bough t , where s he l i ve d f or a l ong t i me exce p t when s he wou l d be gone v isi t ing the ki d s or other r e l a t- ives. To supplement the p ensi on the gover nm[...]pe or,le , in f act she don e thi s most uf he r a dul t l i fe unt i l her s i r:;ht g ot s o bad s[...]mown for the n ice wcr k s he don e . In 1963 old a :,;e s tarte d to c a t c h u o wi t h her so she mo ved t o t he Gar fiel d Rest · home whe re she s t aye d f or two ye a rs . She b ee e qui te feeble and t he y cou l dn[...]She was 87 ye ar s o l d . The b oys are a l l mar r ie d and have fami lie s of t he il' oi[...]n wi th c oal f or many y ears , t hen l ive d on a p l ac e on t he Miss our i iUver & lat •.: r F[...]worke d 0 1,; t for she ep c ompanys and doi ng c a rp entry . He now l i ves in Miles City where he r uns a t r ai l e r c ourt . Fre e. and f ami ly l i v ed on ranches f or a whi le , was a ba r b e :::· i n Joroan a few years and als 0 worke d on ro aa n s oon a ft e r gra d t ion f r om hi~ h s choLl f or t hr[...]ghway -'ngineers whi le t hey were work i n g on a ru ad j ob sou t h of Jor da n t he s ,. . r i ng of 192 He h a s work e d f o r the st a te e ve r since exc e p t f or s ev en ye a r s b etween s ~ring of 1942 and f all of 1949 .[...]ase Cons t r u ct i c,n i n Hew Viexico , •r ex a s and Colorado , d on r o ad wr- r k in 1-i ontana and a dam i n C,kl ahoma . he was wo r k i ng f or Nola[...]ng of 1948 t o t he fall of 194r; he l i v ed on a r an ch eas t of J ord an , - t hen r e t 1rned t o work ror the st a t e h ighway . He n r w l i ve s in Lew .:. st _\-:n , r.r.ont . a n ti is look i n · fo rward to ret i r ing the s pr in~ of 1970 . An i nt e r e st i n,~ f a ct t hat mi ·ht b e wor th men t ir n .:.r:g i s ,, hat Dor o thy was born at Co ra , Kansas, the ~eo ·r a pl1 1cal c nter of t he i.inite d State s and d ied a t Lewi s t cun , Mc- nt ana the ,.,.e r graphi cal c e nter of h ont an a . ,j 1? |
| [...]Gi nther John E. Ginthe r, als o known a s Jack , or "Wild Cat Jack" came to Montana as a young man. He work e d for many cattle outfits, a[...]aking many saddle h ors e s. He appe ared in many a 4th of July bucking contest, and als o wa s " O[...]place about 6 miles d ue north of Jordan. Bu t a l ways the love of "horses" was strung in h is[...]hor ses as well as his farming . He was a very ou tst anding person of the "Early Days . "H[...]til the l ater years; in fact when h is wife's f a the r was dying t hey broadcas t on the radio for Mr s . J a ck Ginther, a nd no one knew who that waJ ; It is rumored he a[...]name "Wil d Cat Jack" because whenever there was a f i ght anywhere n e a r by, he' d gave a yell , and be in the midst of it. He e[...]with his stories of the OLD DAYS . An d h e wa s a good s t ory teller , He could rattle off the n[...]r what year that ev ents took place . J a ck wa s b orn i n Neb r a ska , mov ed to Kansas where he grad- uated; t he[...]s homestead until 1954 , when he died follow- ing a v ery short final illness ; although he h ad been crippled from arthritis for a long time . He always said tha t he got the arthr[...]morning ; or get soaked from the r ains . He had a bout with infla- mmatory r he umatism years befor[...]e fo r him . One day when he lay there helpless , a snake came to pay a visit , foun d his chest nice and ;;arm , preceed[...]urse as soon as he wa s able he ~as in the saddle a ~ain , riding in the horse ro und-ups for many mo[...]of the two, and until he was very old he rebelled a t anyone exce p t his owner ,Jack being on[...] |
| About 1925 he married Josephine Denis ar (being a confired batchelor until tha t time) . He had be[...]i n his home ste ad shac k until then , so buil t a l arger house , an d although the house they buil[...]it t o, perhap s t o shel t e r some wander er in a storm , or in need of shelter . There a re p i ctur es e ncl o se d of this shack . For a short while in later years , he worked f o[...] |
| [...]lutne II '1':_d~.._. t ,_;a~ j~~ . ,;i~.:~[...] |
| [...]ugh cue .tr011 the state ot Washington to take up a hoaestead in Montana. Thq located on a place about 10 Idles north- west o.t Jordan in th[...]re born here. The boys started to achool in a tarpaper shack, later the District built a new school house where the others of the family a[...]and was aoved to Hell Creek Recreation Parle !or a suraer Cabin. Ed Stinebaugh vas a !anaer in that part o.t Garfield County. He al•o raised. a .tev cattle. _lllined his own coal. There w[...]chool -1931 Stinebaugh .tamily'. . ill' grew up 1a · 1st.- Frank KeCay,Jr. ell Garfield C[...]ugh, Ruby Turn.er, to other locations. Llo:yd is a printer Lorene Turner, Ra, Stinebaugh[...]ald is 118.l"ried Turner, Keith Turner, to a rancher and lives near Slllok;y Batte; 4th.- Lester Fowler, Edith Esther Hedstrom aarried a rancher and Stinebaugh, Shirley Stin[...]nk is vorlcing in Jordan; Bertha Langaao liTes on a ranch near Brocklfa,-. lfr. md Mrs. Stinebaugh retired. and nnt West to look .tor a location to liTe and retire, but came back to Jordan and their 11&1J1' friends and bought a hou in Jordan where they lived until Mr. Stinebau[...]J acJd.e & Royce Hedstrc:a |
| [...]Charley LaMoure, as he was familiarly known to a wide circle of friends, had served in an official[...]stance to the late Geo. B. Hart when the FERA was a life-saver to scores of worthy men dur- ing the l[...]and clerked in ·Mr. Jenkins store. later became a pardner and when Mr. Jenkins died, he become the[...]- ess till he passed away in 1949. Charley had a son who accompanied him to Jordan, Bronson C. LaM[...]y had two children, the little girl died infancy, a son Bronson (Buster) c. LaMoure Jr. He is[...] |
| [...]urned with him to Minneapolis. Pat maintained a friendly bachalor home till 1932, when he married[...]help raise their grandson, Buster LaMoure. It was a very happy home and they bad many neighbors. They[...]is time they retired to jordan, where they bought a home. Martha died 1n Nov. 1965. And Pat pa[...] |
| [...]area, his first employment in Montana was being a cook for a Harvest crew near Great Falls. After settling nea[...]ome one of their enterprizes, Hugo starting with a horse drawn wagon, later turning that over to Fred and his International truck. About 1922, Fred bought a Red River Special thrashing machine and John Deer[...]This was one of the first in the neighborhood and a great help to the whole neighborhood during the h[...]Hugo Baugotz, married t3esSl Anderson, who was a widow wt th two sons, Kenneth and Tredrick[...] |
| [...]oss county from Mond ak, N. Dakota to Jor dan in a l ight wagon . They squatted on homesteads ab ou[...]and was n ot surveyed at that time. They p lowed a furrow around the home - stead s and built a dugo u t to l ive in . One day when they return- e d from town, they d isc ov ered tha t a b ig stalli on had fallen thru the roof of the dugou t. The horse belon~ed to a lar e 0 horse ranch a few miles f rom the r e. Everything in the dugout[...]e s ueing them . |
| [...]the men sometimes played horse shoes. There were a few parties when everyone in the neighborhood was[...]n our daughter Phyllis reached school age, we had a pro- bl~m. She attended school in Jordan, so we h[...]me problem with our son, Billy and school. We had a car then which was a great help, but there were times when we had to shovel a lot snow. Eventually they both gradu ated from Hi[...]on became ill and t hey left. Charley Grimes was a neighbor for a few years. He once went to visit a bachelor neighbor. He sat down on a chair that had a coat laying on it. Every few minutes, as t[...] |
| a winter camp, which they decided to abandon. Frank[...]ders moved into the county. Dr. Battin filed on a homestead right next to my Dads. Dad said there[...]y sold them. It was decided that we would move to a place on Crooked Creek about 3 miles from Uncle[...]wo years. Then she sold · the place and bought a place on Wolf Creek, about 16 miles northeast of[...]illian was born in Spearfish, s. Dakota. She was a baby when they moved to the Pine Hills. She atten[...]inter in Miles City. That winter she was 111 with a very high fever for a few days and after that she became hard of hear-[...]l years. She married Ross Crater, they lived, on a homestead on Frazer Creek for a number of years. Then they sold and moved to Florida for a few years. They returned and bought a place on the Big Dry just west of Kepplers. I be[...]ith the except- ion of one year that he attended a school that had been built about 5 miles from ou[...]ys . He married Isabell Clark and they lived our a ranch on Wolf preek Thomas died of Pneumonia[...]bad lived there that winter so she would be near a doctor, but the doctor could not get to her becau[...]when be attended the school closer to the ranch; a11 ~~f hi s school Atten- dance was in Jordan. He married Bernice Thomas, they lived on Mother's ranch for a short time, then they moved to California and con[...]lif. I, Mabel, was born in the Pine hills and was a year old when we first came to the Garfield Count[...]eek place . Mother and Dad were trying to corr al a yearling steer. We thee children were sitting on a corral pole watching . I suppose we were b[...] |
| [...]always stopped whatever she was doing and cooked a meal for anyone that crone there hungry. There we[...]e in this country when I was small. Jim Vance and a Mr. Brush came right after we did. They settled o[...]Jim Vance owned for many years. They used to tell a story about Jim Vance, I don't know who started i[...]from Missouri. Anyway some one said that Jim got a new wagon that had a red tongue and he sawed it in two to see if it wa[...]bachelors at that time. Then Jim Vial settled on a place that was between them. He left and Walter Barker lived on that place. There was a family by the name of Prindle settled above us at the mouth of Langs Fork, but they left after a few years. Perry Kepler hired Mr. & Mrs. Ed Byrum[...]e married. Martin Olson also married, they stayed a few more years then he sold to Ira Neff or Claren[...]Oscar & Hughie Bunter. Arthur Jordan started a Post Office, and a little store,some- where near the spot that the F[...]haul everything from Miles City. Some one started a story, that Jordan said there wasn't much use to[...]believe that was the first year they had school. A Mr. Brown was the teacher. I started to school in 1907, a new school house had been built, it was quite a large building and was used for dancing. I[...] |
| bought it the next spring. Henderson's house was a log house at that time, later they added to it and covered the logs so it be- came a frame house. It was just west of where the lumber[...]it now. About where the dance hall is there was a log house, Mrs. Hodgins and daughters lived ther[...]re. The part of the hotel in which Mr. Clark had a store later, was across the street, south of the[...]blacksmith shop was the Livery Stable. There was a log house across the street west of the store, Th[...]st south of whe r e the hospital is now there was a small building halt log and halt dug out. East of there, just south of the Rest Home , there was a dugout. That is where my sister Lily,brother Tom[...]to school. Mr. & Mrs. Lee Chandler were running a resturant in the building Arthur Jordan had b uilt first. It was east and a little south of where we lived. Wildcat Jack Gin[...]e of the other men thought it great sport to put a bucket over the stove pipe on the dugout and smok[...]west of where the Al Hawkinson house is there was a log house. The Frank Robinsons were livi the[...]ast of Jo an, just north of the Big Dry there was a duguut where a family named Gillis lived. About½ mile east of them was a log hous e, a ram1iy named Walls lived there. Jordan didn't change much in the next few years. Mr. Hash built a log house and moved his family 1n for school. That building is the liquor store now. Mr . Henderson built a warehouse which was moved later and is the Pos t[...]ly recreation at that time was dancing . They had a dance every holiday, and danced until dayli ht .[...]ity with treight- wagons. One of the men that ran a freight outfit was long-haired Fred, Elmer[...] |
| [...]ere were enough children in the county to start a high school. The first year was in the divided school house, next year they had built a small building just west of the school house, for~ high, school. The next year they built a larger ·building for a high school and to add one room to the g[...] |
| [...].e to Montana in the winter of 1916. They took up a hcmestead 14 miles north vest of Jordan near Saol[...]the other homesteaders liho remained here, bought a few or the other homesteads and fal'lled and rais[...]y from Jordan m.ost of the ti.me. Be aarried Nora.a Ryan wtlo was killed in a car wreck in 1950, he then m.oved to Calitornia w[...]pl y at a birthd"Y par· y t[...] |
| [...]John Elmer Anderson was born in 1873 in a town called Sagarstugan, Sweeden. His f athe r'[...]Carl , Axel and Gustaf . They lived in New York a l mo st a year doing odd jobs working on farms. Then they[...]heard t h at j obs were more promising . There a daughter Nancy was born to them. They lat er mo[...], Nebraska and filed on some land and built up a home just fo r themselves instead of working .f[...]at h,,me until just after 14th birthday. Being a man , i n his own right , also caused by hard t[...]d , he had been in every state in the United St a tes bu t two. He did .farm work , worked in the timber, worked as a stock man , calle d "c owboy" at that time . He was not a two-gun c owb oy as some were at that time . He has ridden on many a cattle r oundup , starting as a horse wrangler and cook's helper. Then a s he be came older and more competant , he was a[...]n t o the older waddies spin yarns . It was gre a t, think i ng tha t some day, he would be doing a[...]he was called the Swede Kid , as i n t hose days a man was general l y known by just one name , and[...]ntana in 1911. Elmer looked around .f or a suitable place and finally decided that he woul[...]at time there would be good money in t hem. Like a ll young f ell ows a t t hat time , he didn ' t have very much c ash.[...], the first thing for him t o do was to bui l d a dwelling . Havi~ lots of strength and ambition he buil t a sos house , called a ' soddie" . It had a beaten dir t fl oo r, and plastered inside . As[...]ld be money in frei htinR so Elmer tried that for a time . Thinking that if he did do f reighting he[...]to go in with him, they decided to g et together a large herd . They ove them up int[...] |
| [...]to Mine and haul coal. By this time he had bought a truck. As there was no coal on his place, Elmer h[...]iron and other met als. Elmer Anderson was a wonderful man and was liked by all who knew him. He had a few light strokes, so he moved to the Rest Home i[...]s always amiable and in good s pirits •. He had a great strength of c haracter. He and Pearl raised a large family of boys and girls . Elmer pas[...] |
| [...]John Trumbo was born in Tinsdale, South Dakota , a few miles from Yankton, February 12, 1884. His[...]owa and his mother from Waterloo, Iowa. He had aa farm there until he was 16 years old. Going to a school in that area . Hi s folks leased a place and had several head of cattle. It was the[...]ular customers, the year round. Eggs sold at 8~ a dozen and b utter at 25~ a pound. They raised their own grain and hay to feed their livestock. They also raised hogs, chickens and a large garden . As in those days they had to be[...]o the super- market as we do now. His mother was a bard working woman and the best of cooks. She could make a wonderful meal out of almost no~hing but what th[...]saucers wi th the fluted edges of cookies of now a days. Very good and very rich and all pure maple sugar. On a Sunday they would dress up in their best, and wit[...]hes, take the milk pail to the barn, sit down on a milking stool, to start milking . His head would[...]n to the next, there he was sound asleep and not a drop of milk in the bucketl In a neighborhood where there are lots of children, an[...]Fred and Cora went to school in the winter time . A storm came up, a real blizzard. His father and Hr . Sutton[...] |
| [...]started trapping in different areas . There were a lot of wolves and coyotes at that time. He made r[...]helped care for cattle around Baker, Montana for a rancher for a couple years, then he decided to come to this are a and file on a place. He kept right on trapping in this area for several years; at the same time building up a ranch. He came here in 1913, picked out his place and built himself a two-room log cabin. He went back to Dakota and br[...]arne here, Elmer and another fellow tried running a restaurant for a couple years in Knowland. There were pine t[...]e, so he took the team and haule d l ogs t o make a large barn and several corrals. He kept enlarging his herd of cattle. At that time it seemed best to keep a steer until it was a 3 or 4 year old before sending them back east on[...]ighbors would get together, drive their cattle to a certain place where they were to meet, then putti[...]tra saddle horse or two. After reaching the train a few of them, two or three were elected to get on[...]g to the brands on the cattle. Elmer traded a good saddle horse for his first car, a 1912 Model T Ford, in 1916, then in 1918 he traded the Model T Ford to Al Waterson for a team of horse s. In 1928 Elmer bought a 1926 Chevrolet coupe in Miles City , then in 1936 he traded it for a new Chevy½ ton pickup . Mr. Charley Campbe[...]sometimes by horseback when the roads were bad, l a ter he got a car and delivered the mail . At that time[...] |
| [...]father and mother's brother, Clarence Hawkins, in a Model ~ Ford with side curtains. My two sisters[...]ere almost 4 miles from Cohagen, Montana, we hit a couple of · bumps and broke an axle. Car loaded[...]do believe that was the coldest place in the U.S.A. up over the store. We reached Jordan the[...]the ranch, whe re Dad had home- steaded. It was a 12 by 24 frame house, one stove, a cook stove with oven doors on both sides that burned sage brush and coal . Dad made a hand sled and we would go to the coal mine , we had discovered, every day and sometimes twice a day and dig coal and pull it down by hand,a couple of sacks at a time. "We made hay while the sun shone" for it was a cold, long winter , 1917. Thank God for wo[...]es at the Old Sensiba Ranch. We never had a school for several years, then it was in a log house, owned by Mrs . John Sensiba, sister to[...]was on the Big ~inger Jack's place, which they l a ter sold to Frank McKeever . Doc and Baldy Willia[...]ng in the hosp- ital; her brother, Baldy, is also a patient there . Both are close to 90 and over . Aunt Jane died three years a o . While living on Snow Creek we had many[...]s. Al Hawkinson; Mrs. Rosa Robuck, who would ride a horse to our place to help out when I had[...] |
| [...]Montana in Oc t ober 1916 . In August of that ye a r, in a new Model T. ford of Aubreys , he and Harry Denis[...]h ye ar ~ubrey returned to N.D. at harvest t .ime a s he had f armin.J interests with a brother-in-law. Mrs. Floyd and Aubrey came[...]t of the f urniture . In December they had a big snow, and cold spell, the river froze ov er e[...]ver on bob sled s, which were pulled by tne men ; a s the i ce still not strong enough to carry horse[...]l ater went to California to make her home wit h a dm•ghter, and passed away there in the 1940 1 s. Aubrey married in N. D. and raised a f ami ly. lie and his wife Stella still reside in[...]Aubrey & Stella Floyd Mrs. A. Floyd, upon a visit to Montana Mr. & Mrs .[...] |
| [...]on and Aubrey Floyd left Antler N. D. to look for a homestead, hoping to better themselves . Harry wa[...]ad been born in Ill .) and they lived in Illinois a while, then went to Iowa , then t o • D. and th[...]n Johnson and Dale Mellott(Harry 1 s cousin); and a 12xl6 one for Denisar's, who a little later built a 3-room house . They had driven to Montana in a new Model T Ford of Aubrey Floyd's . Ai'ter build[...]ana . The Denisars and Floyds drove ou t in a new Model T. Ford of Denisars as Aubrey had left[...]unning. When the ice froze hard enou h (there was a strip of ice between 2 open areas of wate r ) the stock was brought across one by one, a s they were not sure of t he strength of the ice.[...]the homestead {two wagons on e ach trip) . A!'ter getting settled they had to drive S miles fo[...]there was an abundance when their fuel wa s l ow. A coal mine was found on the homestead , and they m[...]and beef. ~rs . Floyd u se to wa lk to the Denis a r 1 s ne ~rly every day when the weather permitte[...]ol . There was little ent ertainment except a few dances and picn- ic s, and v~s i ting[...] |
| [...]tners ~Jer e t h ere , but s o0n left . Of course a trip to Mi les City , 1 00 miles away wa s qui[...]y hop ed th at it would not rain, s that me·mt a lay over someplace[...]the mun pud dles . Mrs . Denisar t aught a t different dchools , but before she started teaching she had to t ake her rl au<c.". hter to school in a buggy , but so on she had her ri ding horseback[...]p2 rt i cul arl y wa s Caro l gettinr- ~ severe c a se of the whooping cough , and g iving it t o her f~ther , who really had a r ough time wlth it . Also on the tri[...]her two we re to help hold it so it wo uld not b a ck down the hill . '.!be strategy di d not wor k ; the car backed down the hill a s t hey could n o t hold it. I t landed on a fill - in , ti pped 011er onto a 4 strand b a rbed wire fence , bending the carto p The suitc a ses and belongings were carried to the t op of th[...]8. S undoubtedly good practice though, for many a time in t hose days of ruts for roads , the c 'lr[...]d k ind; not the horsepower under the hoods of c a rs a s we n ow know it) . At present Harry Denisar is living a t ~oute #2 , ualesb g , Illinois. Jos ephine Den[...]n they were trying to bring ou t sup - plies to l a st for sever a l months . Abou t 1 925 Josephine married[...]the 1930 1 s Jose oh ne worked in or ran cooking a t the Hospital and the dormitory , anr <1 lso nt[...]ed her h otiSe to Jorda and lived alone there for a goo d many ye a rs , except for visits t o I l linois to her n umerous rel a tives there , and to 1 r l7.ona when her d[...] |
| [...]rth of Miles City somewhere on Sunday Creek for a ti.me, before comin.g to what is now known as G[...]Later, the Curreys and Kiblers settled near them. A warm friendship existed between these early day[...]eaving Oscar and Bud to batch. Oscar was a great practical joker and was always good for a laugh. He could take a joke as well as dish-it-out. He later marr[...]nd I were corralling some horses and were having a little trouble. Oscar saddled Old Jack, his favo[...]his pipe tumbled down into his lap. He was a wonderful cook. His Sour Dough Biscuits were just[...]Maybe we were just more appreciative b cause of a better appetite then. We used to enjoy Osc[...]early day experi nces and of his friends. He had a real knack for story telling. I' truly sorry that[...]n they moved t Miles City, where they spent about a year, before returning to Jordan. They resided he[...]ea Sensiba :marriec Homer Walden and now lives in a suburb of Denver with her family. Her husb[...] |
| [...]DAYS IN MONTANA BY: Mrs. John A. Hallberg We arrived in Jordan, Montana April 14, 1917• in a cevered wa gon, 2 cows and a couple of pigs. We had filed on a homestead, on Vail Creek about 12 miles northwest of Jordan. Our first house wa s a d~g-out. The reason for coming, we hoped to make a home and build a future for our family. We found out it was not so[...]nson, Pfeiffers , Feigels, and many others. A couple incidents that might be called humorous; we had been to the school house for a church service, when we -ame home we found a large bull snake slithering along the side >f the dugout heading for the door. We had a 410 shot gun. I got that and shot it, the childre[...]John went back to Minnesota to thrash, as he had a thrashing machine. Another time we came hom[...]now was the teacher; there were 12 pupils, I have a picture of them . After that they went to Castle Butte, that was quite a walk for them. The school was later moved to a place more ~centerally located, then there only was one mile to walk. Castle Butte was a land mark, then there was Smokey Butte which was[...]h . We had to carry all our wa ter up quite a steep hiLl. Yes I am sure that people now a days woul d find it hard to believe all the thin[...]hips. in being one of the early settlers, and had a pari in starting of Garfield County. and I guess I could write a book of everything we went thru from 1917 until we left in 193, . E- R- J. A. Hallberg Andy Olson, Canada M[...] |
| [...]the county seat was voted upon; which was really a hot election; as Edwards made Jordan set up and t[...]y in 1918 to file on homestead, and wanted to get a piece of land to become some value later on in my[...]hree months up ther e, and West was selling syrup a nd molosses for sugar substitute. My suit was in[...]mail at Rock Spri ngs and you could ride the sled a day to R S and another day to Miles . My h[...]careful how I turned them down when invited for a meal , as I did not have time |
| dull; so as a last r esort like; we drug Wiege out and went to[...]ask Weige your first fellow's name; which it did A LB E R T. That got her puzzled and next morning s[...]she said i f Weige could do t hat, he might tell a lot of things, that had happened to her, ha. I f fact, it got me a little but it truly happened with two of us runni[...]to add . Night is 'oer and have- thought of a f ew things which I will now add. I can recall the Red Butte school which was about a mi le north of my place and we used to have some[...]n 1918 and the 4th of July we had and it was sure a wild mob that day, having fun; thi s was just nor[...]do i t easy:. Times have changed since fadder was a boy. I think~ that is a dandy letter t hat Leona Lahn pU'b in the local p[...]l of them. Remember when t he Lahns used to,~-run a freight outfit with a bunch of teams strung out on a strong chain. Tait Bromfield &[...] |
| [...]mestead on July 24th, 1915. We were 100 days with a covered wagon coming from Miss ouri. The first ye[...]ac~es of sod witha walking sod plow. we lived in a one room shack for S years. The kids walked 3 miles to school at Sand School, just south of us, for a 3 month term. The first year there there were 32[...]uri in a covered wagon being pulled by two big[...]ordinary wagon with a double box with bows and a canvas stretched over the bows. We pulled a spring wagon behind the covered wagon. We cooked over a camp fire most of the time; we had a kerosene stove with[...]We had two other horses, one was a saddle[...]kick and bite as he had been teased when he wa s a colt. My father traded him for a mule. In this area the horses had some kind of si[...]ne day he had one of these spells near the top of a hill,by the time he ran to the bottom of the hill[...]the dead animals there. So we burried the mule in a shallow grave on his back and decorated his grave[...]see his feet and legs come up out of the grave in a few days. Just before we got to Owl River in[...]n old Indian came riding our of the brush. He had a long black braid of hair hangin down alon hi ~ t~ck and did not have a saddle, bridle or anythi ng on the horse. Just before we got to Pierre, South Dakota, ray uncle shot a skunk and hung it on the fence. There were three[...]gon. My Uncle stoo e~ near Fkalak~ to work on a fa rm. We a~·i ved on the· ho~~-stt-ad 011 July 24, 1915. |
| [...]b J Anna 1:'a tson ,raha"Tl ::twas the s ori 'l ·[...]ard L • .Tohnson and brother Leonard In 1917 it was a rE al bad year and we moved to Roundup where Mr . Johnson |
| [...]6, my mother moved to Miles City where she bought a home and later; I believe in 1953 she remarried a[...]aude and Anna Watson lives in Minneapolis, he has a wife and five children. Evelyn lives in Miles Cit[...]Dean the youngest of our family lost his life in a car .accident in 1958, his wife was also killed i[...]mily is still home r•m happy to say, she is but a seventh grader so we hope to have her home[...] |
| [...]He got a job in a school in Iorth Dakota that needed a hard rues[...]Min onie, Wisconsin, ta•gbt school[...]were a.ch higher in !forth Dakota,[...]Hr. Hensleigh bou.ght a wagon, tea or hou.ses., supplies to set up housek[...]d wheat .tor breaktast f'ood. The idea caae .t'rm a sample received in the 11ail. It required. a lot of chew- ing. Oar first house, after th[...]ocks, 2 & 3 .toot fiat sand rocks, it still stand.a since 1920. We bought our first car, Buick,[...]'. That. year , 1928, ve were hailed out and toot a trip to Chicago, W1.sconS1.n and Minnesota to Ti.[...]7ears. We bought an. old Majestic stove at a sale .tor $7 .So which is still at the ranch.[...]ried to Cora Weeding, has 3 children. Bill passed a.way April 1, 1969 of' Multiple Schleros:1.s after being a£fiected .tor about 12 ,.-ears. |
| [...]Lewistown with her tandly ot 3 children. She is a imrse. Bett7 Mae Fimon is also a nurse and lins in Minneapolis with her foil,- or[...]ren and liTes in Seattle, Washington. She is also a nurse. George is aarried to Freda Ka[...] |
| [...]m hi s home near Mankato , Minneso ta and took up a Homestead near Roundup,Montana . He worked for a merchant by the name of Schrump in Roundup. In 1915 Schrump & Ewy had a s tore constructed in Jor dan as this was a promising area , and hundreds of people were comi[...]ver the United States. Grass was "Knee Hi gh" and a railroad was to be built, and the future lo oked[...]fore going 11 west 11 to Roundup , Ed Ewy had met a young g irl from Canada by the name of Marie Schnitzler who was working for her brother on a newspaper in Devils Lake, North Dakota. They fell[...]Roundup where t hey were married . To this uni on a son, Marlowe was born. In the rainy spring[...]other ou t in every way possible . No one was in a hurry, it was a hard but g ood life . Then in the la[...] |
| [...], also has a Rock Cutter hobby which he enjoys[...]Valley County, where she ran a hotel. She[...]for two years; a daughter Mrs. S.W.[...] |
| [...]ept . 26,1892 the youngest of eight children . At a very earlJ age he began his life's }'Tork, an app[...]ling to the land of opportunity, the good old U.S.A. After a seven day voyage they disembarked at Hoboken , N.[...]a train to Miles City, Mont. There they purchased a team of horses, wagon, lumber to build homes and[...]an and Mino and Joe Koopman took to the wagon for a five day trip to Jordan On the evening of t[...]newly purchased bed-rolls. Must have been rather a noval experience as neither one of the three had ever slept a night on the ground under the starry sky or taken care of a team of horses. Next morning as they opened their eyes, they were covered with a light |
| [...]One of Baan' s many a(:\ Entures[...]touches to t hi s career came when a couple re ques ted him to perform a wedding ce[...]imation, was asking jus t a little too much and he hustled them off to Jordan[...]e were trucked in from Ingomar and in later years a traveling saleman stopped by,one of these was from Swift & Co . Baan decided to stock slabs of bacon, really a treat in those days, and sold them almost as fast[...]keep the merchandi se in t he store, at least for a lit- tle while, the difference in the opinion of[...]i s managing Baan Will , Inc • Clara Ann, a resistcred nur se f r om Columbia, S.D. ca[...] |
| [...]d like the far end of the earth in spite of being a neighbaring state of S. Dakota. J;1eiy.bers[...]witchell, is living in Jordan. Daughter Karmen is a senior at G.C.H. S. and Kalvin and Kermit[...] |
| [...]ore, until the store burned in the early 30s '• A.t the time the store burned she was employed by B[...]d and went back to her home town to livo. She vas a member of the 8ommunity Presbyterian Church and was a charter member of the American Ausiliary in Jordan. It is impossible to sum up in a few words the many th~ngs and deeds that she did[...]dan she will always be remembered by the children a.a one who could listen to child talk; serve them teas, or anything that they Jli.ght wish. Just a aere mention of the name of "Pem.e" will bring ba[...]her. Mrs. Pemble passed away November 1968, after a long illness at the home of her sister "Ba[...] |
| [...]to what is now Garfield County. They took up a homestead claim about 16 miles northwest of Jorda[...]la t er owned by Bill Baker and Bill ran a freight line to Miles later by Everet[...] |
| [...]folks in a covered wagon and[...]which started with a small[...]t o a hereford stock . Fuzzy[...]bard place . School has alway s been rather a · handycap in Gar field County due to the large[...]to what little he had left of his addit ional 320 a.cres . In his l ast years on the ranch , he raised a few purebred bulls for 8ale . He was active on that place to the last months when he suffered a stroke in the summer of 1957 and died in O[...] |
| [...]is family : while his father stayed here to build a house for them to live in. I 11 April of' 191[...]s mother, Virginia Crowder, came here and took up a home- stead near her husbands; next came Marcia Hale, a sister to Mel, and staked a claim in the same areaJ Mel's brother, Cut Crowde[...]has 2 children, Jimmy Sullivan of Texas, and Patricia Peters of Washington.[...] |
| [...]Below: Patricia Peters. CeCelia Crowder has spent most of her life in Garfield County. She now |
| [...]n. When crops failed around Antler that year a group of men got Jake and Fred to take them out to Montana to look around for new homestead land. Jake ran a livery stable and made trips by car for hire. Amo[...]for the move. Fred and Jake decided to make a new beginning too. In Nov. of 1916 the two famili[...]er adverse conditions. Snow was melted for water. A buffalo horn was used for a drinking dipper. Other families arrived and had t[...]ought later on. In early spring the two men built a house and moved the families into it. The furn- i[...]is homestead claim. This was located three and a half miles northeast of town. He built a three-room frame house and moved his family out i[...]White, Bennetts and Leuschens. Kerosene was $1.00 a gallon and was called hardship coal, A tornado took this house but Fred built again, protected by a hill. He worked at odd jobs to make a living, working with Asa Norman, hauling coal fro[...]the winters they moved to town and Fred worked as a carpenter, helping~to build the town hall,[...] |
| A girl, Marlys, was born to them in the town of Jor[...]er of 1920, the family went back to Minnesota for a wint e r visit. A friend, Mr. Scanlon, wrote and told them e ve r y[...]een stolen from their place, so they never came b a ck to l i ve. But they did come back to visit with Jake and fami ly and old friends. On a visit in 1949 they placed a head- s tone on Dalton's gr ave. Now living in su[...]ng r umors of free homestead land out in Montana, a group of men hir ed J ake Fellman, who was in the[...]the move. Jake and Fred decided they wou ld make a new beginning too. Jake's wife had died three yea[...]mother had d ie d when he was very young leaving a family of two boys and a baby g irl whose ages corresponded to Jake's chil[...]ar was open, but when it turned cold , windy or r a iny we s topp ed and buttoned on the curti[...] |
| [...]e was nothing to do but camp for awhile and wait. A big log house was near the river. It was shared b[...]ent conditions with good humor. After all, it was a new adventure we had all under- taken and we were[...]o us the buttes were mountains; we had never seen aa house so we two Fellman families settled into the[...]Avenue. This hotel was owned and operated by Wm. A. and Minnie Connacher and was really quite grand for such a small isolated town in 1916. It still stands today, old, and minus it's grandeur, and is now a rooming house owned and operated by Viola Adams.[...]two general stores, Vannoy's and Ewy's. Ewy's had a big hitching lot right next to the store where th[...]church. Where the Presbyterian church now stands a rodeo was held the following summer of 1917. Billie Searles rode a bronc right into~the handle of the brake on someone's wagon and cut his face. On this same street was a busy stage depot and several other bus- iness. Across the street was a blacksmith shop run by Wm. McCant~ a boarding house and other businesses. Leavitt Aven[...]Phill ip in second. Our first days at school were a n ightma re. It wa s hard to be that young, and enter a new school, alre a dy i n session, in a strange environment. But worst of all, whe[...] |
| [...]ts on the west side of town. He and Fred, who was a carpenter, built an 18 1 by 24' frame house. The[...]ilies moved in. We had heard that sage brush made a good hot fire, so we eagerly gathered lots of it[...]w where our furniture had been shipped. Coming up a steep hill on the way back with it, he upset the load into a deep coulee and just went on and left it. So we h[...]hen the weather bec ame more favorable Fred built a three room frame house out on his homestead, three and a half miles northeast of town, His family lived there in summers and in town in the winters. Dad filed on a homestead, three miles south of town, but never built a house there. We continued to live in town as he had to work to make a living for us and we three child- ren had t o att[...]and so was money. Every few years Dad would build a new house. We'd move into it, selling the old one. Our fourth and last move was into a dif'f'erent part of town, on the north side. Afte[...]teens Dad came home one day with an Alladin lamp, a new inven- tion. It burned kerosene but used a mantle. We thought it gave a truly magic light. Every back yard had it's outdoor toilet, where catalogs were a necessary furnishing. Toilet tissue was un- heard of. At Christmas there was no tree, except a huge one at the church, lit with burning wax candles, which sometimes started a fire . Oranges were a rare treat for such occasions as Christmas Fresh[...]ere high school age. Then one of the teachers ran a projec tor one night a week at the school. These were silent film[...] |
| [...]were no shoes in town to fit me. Mr. Ewy ordered a pair, but I waited and waited tlll the old ones were completely gone. Finally Dad bought me a small pair of overshoes to wear as shoes. I suffe[...]My schoolmates didn't · understand· but without a word being said, my teacher did, and never. asked me to take them off. At last my shoes came and were a staggering price, but they were worth any price to me. They were a beautitu1 rich brown and laced well above my ankl[...]able, rooming house, boarding house, stage depot, a clothing store, a restaurant, two blacksmith shops, two drugstores, two newspapers, two banks, two attorney's offices, a real estate office, a sureveyor's office, a wireless office, and a mortuary. A brick manufacturing plant did business for a short while, till the bricks were proved worthless, when a chimney built from them, disintegrated when heated. There was a creamery and an ice house. Ice was cut on the Big[...]or the town during the hot summers. Once or twice a week ice was delivered to the housewives for thei[...]sometimes call the refrigerator an ice box •• A couple fellows started an oil refinery, bringing the crude oil in from Mosby. One of the homesteaders was a den~ 1st and set up shop. One homesteader's wife[...]meal time. Every chimney and stove- pipe sent up a coltnnn of smoke as the housewives started up the fire in their kitchen ranges. It was really a pretty and heart warming sight and gave a feeling of community spirit. After we got in[...]ourt and she was his deputy. For this I r eceived a dollar a day. Phil took a two year normal cour s e while in high school. When he graduated he not only received a diploma, but also a two year teachi ng certificate as we~l. I[...] |
| [...]was very happy to have his goal accomplished, of a high school diploma for each of his three[...] |
| [...]by Agnes Sallivan The ?ullivans were a family of twelve children, seven boys |
| [...]ked him into remaining there at his job as he had a chance for promotion on the police force. In orde[...]was possible on the home- stead and bought quite a lot of adjoining land, among it the old Max Siebe[...]l the Sullivans with one of the attractions being a beautiful flowing well. After John came, al[...]handiest with tools, took care that each one got a shack built on his homestead, got forty acres fe[...]eniences,but everyone made the best or things and a lot of good times were enjoyed by the whole commu[...]whole community. And the Sullivans were very much a large part of the community and always ready to lend a helping hand in any time of need, often making a fast run on horseback to get a doctor for a new baby on it's way into this world or an older person on his way out. I remember one time when a casket had to be made . It was winte r and[...] |
| [...]and began paying taxes. As soon as this happened a school district was formed and Dave help- ed to h[...]oldest nephew, Jim Jr., only son of Jim, died of a heart attack at the ranch he so dearly loved, whi[...]ll they cherish and conserve it and make as great a contribution to society as their ancestor~[...] |
| [...]m Ireland with John, to the ranch on Crow Rock in a spring wagon.. Sam only had one leg and when they[...]they were supposed to sleep. He waved his a arm in big circle around the dugout and said, "there~ a million acres here boys, take your pick." I[...]ile they we·r e still helping Mccrae and Vessey, a spring From here he went to wor[...]aard was the freighter. Big Mike and his partner, a |
| [...]heir belongings they wished to bring with them in a box car. At that time there was a special rate for prospective homesteaders on the[...]ellowstone River. There was several men ·who had a profitable business guid- ing men to land that wa[...]three Turner men and Martin Derenburger Sr. hired a guide to bring them to Dawson County. They choose[...]August, 1918 when they lost their j·oungest son, a twin, Milford. There was an epidemic of flu[...]ry Ann and 7 children to survive alone . Life was a continual struggle with lots of hardships[...] |
| [...]7. Enoch (wife) Alice and twins Mildred and My-in.a,. Kuk1.· |
| [...]1915. Winnie grew up & went to school. She became a school teacher and t aught two terms before comi[...]easures of homestead- ing three times and says in a loud clear tone with a gay twinkle in her eyes " I'd do it again if I had a chance. ,t When Fort Peck was comple[...] |
| [...]rom Fulton, New York in 1911. Mr. and Mrs. Bruce A. Dutton Sr., located in what is now Garfield Cou[...]n V. Dutton homesteaded on the Musselshell rliver a few miles above Mosby in 1912. Mrs. Grove H. Dut[...]Jr., homesteaded in 1913 on the land where Bruce A. Dutton Jr. is now living. Cort E. Dutton homeste[...]r. section. Ruths. Dutton homesteaded in 1916 on a se ction cornering her brother Cort. Grove Jr., Cort and Ruth Dutton's places are now part of Bruce A. Dutton Jr. ranch. My brother Bruce with[...]is homestead which corner- ed Clem Shaw's) and I a passenger were three days making the roughly 30[...]ade Shaw's before dark. The foll owing day, a stormy one, shortly after breakfast, three wet and cold horse-backers showed up. William Scott, who had a homestead in that locality was one of them, they[...]re North of the Rattle Snake crossing, we crossed a furrow that was running East and west, when I asked how come, it was explained to me, that a year or so before,there was a murder committed in that part of the state. A question arose as to which County should prosecute the case. To settle it they run a survey along the County line b e tween Rosebud an[...]then Dawson County. Along this survey was p lowed a furrow to mark the line. How long the furr[...] |
| [...]nothing of the sort . To me the whole thing was a lark, my position was simliar to that of a di sappointed kid who felt slighted because he had not been i nvi te d t o a party. In December I went into Town to e[...]llow this anymore. One just had to wait his turn. A lawyer friend composed a belly-achi ng letter for me. Telling of the troub[...]Months l ate r while in Fr ance I receive d a torwarded notice telling me t o re port to my Dr[...]ed this summons. After the War t here was a gradual departure of a lot of those early Settl ers; brought on to a certain degree by a succession of dry summers and hard winters.[...]0. He too gravitated to Spokane , Was hing ton in a few years, he spent the rest of his life in that[...]ncheloe in 1920 and went to live on his ranch n e a r Melstone, Montana. Ruth died in 1962. Her husba[...]After the War I engaged i n the stock business in a dmall way. The winter of 1919 and 1920 broke me.[...]rs, finally settling down in Great Falls , Montan a . He r e I wor ked in the Post Office for[...] |
| [...]n Garfield County My Dad, John Rothwell, was a coal miner at Sand Coulee which is about twelve miles southeast of Great Falls, He h;d worked as a foreman for one man for many years when his boss[...]accident. My Dad didn't want to start to work for a new man, so he decided to homestead and try his hand at raising stock. He had such a glowing picture of Garfield County {which was then Dawson County) from a Mr. Dennis who had already been to this country.[...]in the winter time. So Dad loaded us up in a covered spring wagon, and we Aegan our two hundre[...]Ella. Also on the trip was my .Aunt and Uncle and a little girl plus a few head of livestock. We started out the f[...]tion. It rained on us nearly every day which made a rather miserable trip. Mother had to cook the mea[...]evening near an "alkali flat". My Aunt was taking a walk and not being used to the mud, she soon foun[...]deeper and deeper. Dad and Uncle had one heck of a time pulling her out. Dad later remarked to Mothe[...]was so nice to see someone from home that day in a strange country with Dad on the road to Sumatra.[...]summer. One day just as dinner was ready, we had a windstorm and when it was over, everything was covered with a thick layer of dust. Needless to say, we had a little food with our dirt that day. Two of the first things we had to do was built a corral to hold the horses and dig a well. The horses got away from us a few times and we had to walk several miles[...] |
| [...]1916, Mr . and Mrs. Sol Kay from Ingemar started a store at Benzien with Mrs . Cohen as its post mis[...]ollard and Mrs. Kelly. Dad made two trips a year to the railroad for supplies. We had been here a year before I met a girl my own age. That was when the Ben Cooper fa[...]was one of our first neighbors to visit, and was a frequent caller as he enjoyed playing 11 500 11[...]onths was an occasional cowboy who would stop for a meal and to warm himself. In 1929 Emil and[...]Springs where I live today. Emil passed away from a stroke in 1962 . The crash of 1929 was fol[...]dry years of the 1930's, We sold lambs for $2 .50 a head, and one sp_ring we got an advance[...] |
| on our wool for five cents a pound. We also sold five head of cattle one fall for a total of $61.00. Stella and Alice attended t[...]farm seven miles west of Sand Springs. They have a daughter Lois, who is married to Darrell Johnson. They live in Great Falls, where he teaches art. They have a little girl, Sheryl, which makes five generations in our family. Stella and Clarence also have a son, Richard, who is attending college in Havre.[...]e. Vernon and Dana live near Lewistown. They have a new baby girl,Charmin, who makes the second five[...]ell River every day to attend school at Ross. A.bOYes Barker Ranch Ri_ghts Mrs. lna Bar[...] |
| [...]A bob-tailed CBC crew[...] |
| [...]s Patrick family came from Illinois, to settle on a homestead near Hettinger. Edith Patrick was then 12 years old. It was with a bit of excitement that she journeyed with the family to a new land. The family built their first home of pr[...]ng spirit as bis ancestors had prevously filed on a homestead near Sand Springs,Montana in 1915. In 1[...]ollected their belongings and drove overland with a team and covered wagon, to establish a home in Dawson County now Garfield. The Nielsens[...]Hall's homestead. Than the goverment established a postoffice and named it Alice. It was named after Sidney Hall's wife, and she was the first postmast- er. A man by the name of Coffman was hired to carry mail from Hibbard twice a week. ~e Nielsens lived on the homestead unt[...]ie is in the administrative Division of the State A.s.c. office in Bozeman. He served in World War 11. He is married to Blanche Dunn of Bozeman, they h·a ve three sons. Aileen married James Bailey of Stanford, Montana who is now a wheat farmer and geologist. They live in Great Falls, and they have a daughter Myrna and two sons, Robert and James Jr.[...]e years in the Judith Basin. He retired two years a go. We are now living at 315 W Evelyn Lewi[...] |
| [...]Montana and traveled by train t? Melstone, where a team of Clydesdale horses and wagon were loaded with all of the beginning things for a remote homestead location in Dawson County (later to be come a portion of Garfield Co.). The homestead later became known as Bruce~ as a post office by that name was estab- lished there[...]year was one never to be forgotten. We had taken a hired man out with us by the name of Alex Hewett. We pitched a large tent where the family slept and cooked and[...]r groceries began to dvingle so my father went to a neighbors ranch(we located a water hole so I guess we weren't too welcome) to[...]le. The place was the Lee Welch place, he sold us a gunny sack full of big heets for $5.oo. So my Father took the wagon and team and went to · Sumatra for a load of needed items. The May equinox st[...]hen my father returned he and the hired man built a large dugout, our first shelter. This later also[...]estors. At that time there were remains of a drift fence rur.ning East and West, on the South side of the Steves Fork Creek. Our place was a stopping place for people going to the rail- road towns of Ingamar and Sumatra from a ll areas North to the Canadian line.[...] |
| [...]ns. Our nearest neighbors to the north were a family by the name of Hetherington. They had a man working for them by the name of Jim Swisher, a real old-timer that at one time had lived with Indians. They also had a cowboy by the name of Pug McMillian. He wore orange colored augora chaps and was quite a colorful char- acter. Later people swarmed in an[...]Draper and lower down the Wheatcroft brothers. In a northerly direction was Fred Stevens, Tommy Riggs[...]eepman sent large bands in and often gave us half a mutton and Mother would give them jars of pumpkin[...]icy. Later Micy and Jerry Murphy had some kind of a conflect. One of them had a number of horses running loose on the range and the brought in a herd of horses with distemper and there were dead[...]rom both bands.They eac~ had stall~ ions, one was a crippled brown. How they would ~fight(, Southeast of us an old-timer, Matt Roake had a ranch. He was a real old-timer. His was called the "79 Ranch". It later became lmown as "Edwards" and there was a postoffice by that name. We found -a large cutbank that was full of petrified oyster shells and many petrified teeth from some kind of a prehistoric monster. The last I lmfil, the people[...]my family. Her daughter was born at our p lace on a stormy night. we were always happy when we[...] |
| [...]r folks and other ways . Folks of the open plains a part Who'eer were true in lives and heart To whom[...]r our schools But have our par t in making rules. A lovely place to be, Oh, yes . But, oh, the joys y[...]in one big c l an Met, played and talked and ate a nd s ang. Those j olly crowds, those ha pp[...] |
| [...]n St. Patrick's Day, March 17, 1914, after having a car of freight on before us, we, my husband Lan, little daughter, and I, left Indiana by train to make a new home for ourselves on three hundred-twenty a[...]·sam•s tree · land in what was at that time a part of Dawson County, Montana~ Louise and I stopped off in Minnesota with my sister until Lan could build a homesteader's shack on his1 claim. As soon as th[...]food taste good even though often "peppered" with a generous amount of pra- irie dust. The fir[...]e reflection of the sun on the new lumber gave me a very severe sunburn. Such was my introduction to[...]ailroad he brought out lumber with which he built a much- needed addition to our shack. We then "plowed" in a patch of potatoes and also planted a small garden. Now, after building a barbwire fence around the house and this bit of p[...]ne stayed until morning. One winter evening a sledload of neighbors came to our place unexpectedly.When the dog barked we went to the door and a chorus of "We Won'!J Go Home Till Morning" met us. It seemed that a short distance from the house their sled had tipp[...]of the party had spilled out into the deep snow. A mother and her young baby, members of the party,[...]po l es, peeled them and then laid -the~ up into a good sized building for a schoolhouse. The building was also use d for Sund[...]y often for dances as Well. The first teacher was a Mrs. Handcock, wife of a loc al home- steader. Some of her pupils w[...] |
| [...]day shortly after the schoolhouse had been built a tornado went through our part o~ the country. It lifted the roof off t h e schoolhouse and carr ied it a distance of a hundred or more feet before dropp ing it. As school was not in Session at t he time no one wa s injured and a new roof soon rep- laced the old one. In[...]t he Edwards p os t of f i ce requ ire d almost a full day and neighbors u su ally brought t h e m[...]amilies. On one such trip t h at my husband made a blizzard came on in late af'ternoon and the ther[...]repared t o c amp out he kept on traveling. About a mile f r om home whe n comi ng around a butte Lan somehow lost his bearings and forced t[...]er wander- ing around for an hour or more he saw a homesteader's light, and making his way t here, he found -himself only a halt' mile from home. He then came the r est of[...]very tire d , and very much disgusted. As a well was one of the first things a homesteader needed; we began work on one j ust as[...]y digging on low ground we started our well ne ar a coulee. My husband did t he shovel work and hoisted the pails of dirt with a rope and pulley. I emptied them. The work was going nicely when one n ight there came a terrific cloudburst and filled our well with mud[...]fin i s h i t; but finally, after working through a layer of co al we hi t a vein of good clear water. Over the year s we had to go through the hard work of digging more well a s occasionally one went dry or another one caved in. So when a deep - well driller came to our community to put down wells , we too had a deep well dr illed, close to the house; and tha t put a wel come end to our well-digging days. Li[...]ncome was n ever enough to me e t our ne ed s; so a s I had been a teacher b efo r e my marri age I began to teac h sc hool ag ain. I first acted as a s ubstitute teacher f or thre e months in Jordan , then taught a number of terms i n the country . My first countr[...]hat I s tarte d in the primary gr ade t here wa s a Carroll Graham, n ow of Lodge Grass , Mont an a , who , I am qu ite thrilled to know, is St a te Sena tor fro m his distri c t . In t h[...]ly way of get t ing to and f rom s chool was with a hor se and two-wheeled c art, and when teach- ing the Edwar ds scho ol tha t s i xteen-mi le trip e a ch Monday and Fri-[...] |
| day became a real hardship, espeeially during the winter months . So in the spring of 1924 we bought our first car, a "MODEL T\1 Ford, the first new car in our neighbo[...]so many of our best years, but in 1957 we bought a home in Jordan and in the fall moved to town where my husband passed away a few years later. As my daughter and her fam[...]l very much alone. But I love Montana, and I have a comfortable home and wonderful friends here so I[...]drive so Mrs. Thompson., Babe Thompson broke a cow to drive & Babe i"1oore |
| [...]nch where Clem Smith and Earl Lammer had wintered a band of sheep. Later we heard that Clem and wife[...]nnings decdded to go to Dawson County and take up a homestead and get rich quick. We took along two-f[...]nts for our Winter head quarters while putting up a log cabin for each. We located on township 14, So[...]range 32 Eas t. The winter was long cold, it was a real struggle getting out the logs. Knowing[...]. In~ few days we went back to our one room cabin a happy bride and groom. In September 1916 our son[...]another room. I had to work out part time to make a living for the family so went to the Rothiemay country two stmm1ers and run a steam engine for plowing and thrashing. In the winter we had sheep and a few cattle to look after. In May 1918 our d[...]short of feed many families lost cattle, besides a disease hit some of the herds. My wife and Kiddie[...]ents the Jenning. We had Red Cross meetings twice a month with pot-luck dinners and we don't want to[...]t post office was at Sand Spring but later we got a post office at McTwigan. In the Spring of 1920 I[...]by way of the Alice Post Office to Sumatra twice a week. Also there were private mail boxes along th[...]I acted as grocery boy as some of the people had a grocery list for me to take in and have put up, t[...]t me on the return trip. During good roads I used a car but after a rain or snow the gumbo roads required hors[...] |
| [...]nch where Clem Smith and Earl Lammer had wintered a band of sheep. Later we heard that Clem and wife[...]nings deedde d to go to Dawson County and take up a homestead and get rich quick. We took along two-f[...]nts for our Winter head quarters while putting up a log cabin for each. We located on township 14, So[...], range 32 East. The winter was long cold, it was a real struggle getting out the logs. Knowing[...]. In~ few days we went back to our one room cabin a happy bride and groom. In September 1916 our son[...]another room. I had to work out part time to make a living for the family so went to the Rothiemay country two sunnners and run a steam engine for plowing and thrashing. In the winter we had sheep and a few cattle to look after. In May 1918 our d[...]short of feed many families lost cattle, besides a disease hit some of the herds. My wife and Kiddie[...]ents the J~nning. We had Red Cross meetings twice a month with pot-luck dinners and we don't want to[...]t post office was at Sand Spring but later we got a post office at McTwigan. In the Spring of 1920 I[...]by way of the Ali ce Post Office to Sumatra twice a week. Also there were private mail boxes along th[...]I acted as grocery boy as some of the people had a grocery list for me to take in and have put up, t[...]t me on the return trip. During good roads I used a car but after a rain or snow the gumbo roads requi red hor[...] |
| [...]had marked for himself an estimated half section a s hor t distance from here that he would s how us, and we could pla c e a squatter's filing notice on it, assuring us that[...]e othe~ sec- t ions or the country be.fore making a final decision. The storm had cleared and we prep[...]deck of this partly broken bronc di s appear over a small butte. We ret- urned to Lewistown to resume[...]we would wait until later in the year to l oc ate a homestead. We communicated with a rancher-surveyor residing on the Musselshell rive[...]rn Paci.fie railr oad, our f inal selections were a mile or so apart from each other . We fi l ed on[...]Spring. By that time each of us had secured a team of horses, wagon and some other essent i al[...]by 20 in size, were soon finished and batching on a homestead commen c ed . We were off to an optimis[...]s. Much could be written concerning life of a homesteader of those days, such a weekly hors eback trips 18 mi les to Mosby for ma[...]incid ents that were quite generally accepted as a part o.f l i fe in those days, which joined together, made a rather interest i ng, sometimes exciting, 1.f not[...]involved in war with Germany. In the Fall of 1917 a ne ighbor rode to Ingemar with me. There I took a train t o join military service, and the following day he led my saddle hors e b a ck to the home- stead and turned him out o[...] |
| [...]e landed at Liverpool on Christmas Eve, and afte~ a week there crossed the Channel early on New Year'[...]etting back I rode on the stage from Sumatra with a Mr. ·Kreider to Sand Springs, and then on to the[...]was little evidence remaining. During my absence a large influx of land seekers had moved into Dawso[...]m implements, wagon harnesses and pump, with only a few fence posts remaining. The horses that I had[...]er saw again. Not having much inclination to make a new start, and realizing the urgent necessity to[...]d many other factors became too difficult to make a living,and moved on to more promising areas. Many[...]n the Big Dry by Matt Roake and "Tex" Swisher, at a period when the real Old West of cowboy fa[...] |
| [...]ey took the train out to Ingomar where they hired a car, one of the first in the county, to take them[...]as Steve's Fork boasted Looke 1 s General Store, a school, a church and Charlie Jones's blacksmith and garage.[...]d when Joe's mother passed away and was buried on a knoll above the church, soon followed by another neighbor, and Betty who was killed in a tragic accident in 1931. Joe started[...] |
| [...]Bruce Post Office. There wasn't a church so t[...]Visiting on Sunday posed a .oroblem , as there were no fences it might take a half day to[...]could go visit a few hours. Dances were[...]1 I have been asked to write a history of our family ( Abe Jarden s) and when th[...]n the fall he would go bake near Beach to work as a harvest hand. 3t> I |
| [...]efore because she had two sisters near Wibaux and a brother near Sidney. They lived in the homes[...]two rooms. It has been altered and added on to a great deal since then . The road pa,t our ho[...]nd Mother had shut the cows up for the night when a cloudburst came. After it was over she went out a[...]se. Dad passed away in 1962 as the result of a tractor accident. Mother now 84, is still getting[...]ty and used to make trips out here to Jordan with a horse and buggy. Mr. &[...] |
| [...]argaret Herron Dutton was born Margaret Herron on A~gust 22, 1882, at Donaghadee, County Down, Northe[...]Margaret Herron signed up to come to Canada as a domestic helper when she was twenty-four years ol[...]North America two responsible persons had to sign a statement of recommendation and Margaret obtained[...]argaret sailed from Liverpool on the "Virginian", a mail boat. She came to work for the Liffitons[...]out after one's arrival. She next worked for a year for Mrs. Adams of Montreal whose husband was a former Mayor of that city. Next, Margaret wai[...]s City, Missouri. Mr. Keeler worked for Miss Cox, a commander in the Salvation Army. Margaret worked here a year. Her wages were $2.50 per week. Iff June[...]Butch) Herron, had already come to Melstone about a month before Margaret arrived. In 1911[...] |
| [...]ght: Mary E. Shaw L. to R,: Cort Dutton, Bruce A. Dutton |
| [...]hich area is now in the Uarden pastures. · After a mud-bound week in the gumbo the balance of the tr[...]like those are all gone the the country has lost a lot.) The three Donohoe Bros. to the south w[...]steading near our parents; first at Peace Valley, a short distance east of the Benson corrals and aft[...]f Jordru;i. She passed away in Jan. 1929, leaving a small daughter who now lives in Tacoma,Washington. Leslie, who took a claim adjacent to that of our parents, volunteere[...]ar. The other two remained on the claim, to which a fair amount of hand was added thu the years, unti[...]st of the scoria buttes scattered along or within a few miles of the divide between the creeks[...] |
| arter which school for the area was held in a building moved in beside . the county road[...] |
| [...]d 28 applications for the one year, this was when a teacher had to send in her applic a tion for a school, but times have changed. Trustees would har dly hire a mar r ied teacher. Anna Robertson, Mother,[...]nse it was n amed. At _ one time Sand Springs had a garage, 2 grocery stores, flo ur mill, twa· churches, a restaurant, a hotel and printing office. It ran competition wit[...]s elect- ricity and washers etc,of today.) A few of the homesteaders that I remember we[...] |
| [...]Lincoln, Nebraska. Her husband had taken up a homestead near Sand Springs before his death[...]they lived with a cousin and her husband Matt[...]Buskirk school for a couple of terms, later[...]went to the Bright View School for a short time, but ma[...]ert Clason who ran a bulk oil station in Ingamar, Midge married Edwin Winney whose father had a hotel first in Edw[...]ace and is leased out, but every summer Tom makes a trip or two out into the sagebrush and cac[...] |
| [...]settled on a small ranch[...]Burleson, issued a -·. C::QJnnQ:ssi-onl for a Post Office to Perry o.[...]g up. Many of these years will live in our memory a long time. In June of 1942, Mrs. Ke pler mar[...]Nick tlarker a, neighbor of the[...] |
| [...]five girls and four boys of English decent. His f a ther died when he was very young, he said he c o[...]live and l ater to Eastern Nebraska along the Pl a tt river near Cullum. This is where he met my mother, Magg ie Smith. She was bor n at Ashland , Nebr a ska which is in this same vicinity, on Aug. 7, 1[...]-Irish de cent. Her folks and the family lived l a ter a t Cu llum, which is no longer on the map it seems[...]ond of her then and they told about him .bringing a pples to school for her . Then hi s f ami ly mov[...]an "Old Settler's Picnic" some years later, thru a brother Pete, they di scovered each other again. Sept. 18, 1901 they were marrie d and moved onto a f arm e a st of Lincoln, Nebr. 'l'here were three children[...]ther, Pete, wa s ou t here at the t ime and als o a si s ter and her husband, Ralph Tandy. They lived on a she ep r anch out n ortheast ·or Jordan about 15 miles. Since I was only l ½ ye a rs ol d at the time, I don't remember much about[...]nderstand that we lived there with the Tandys for a while. We came to Miles City by train and on out[...]arly aate , the land was not surveyed for t aking a homestead, so p eople found a piece of land they lik ed and settled there , t h[...]Squa1;;ter 1 s Ri ghts 11 • My folks settled on a piec e of land on Fra i ser Creek possibly 5 mile[...]too much about l iving on Fraiser Creek bu t for a few incidents which made a real impression on me, th;se I will rel a te as I go on[...] |
| [...]e for twc or three months un_til the happy event. A few things· I do remem- ber during our stay in M[...]u se after the baby was all wrapped and laying in a big chair. She wa s _1_- fussing and crying a little and Floyd, not quite three years old yet, got all excited and s ays, "What are that a grow:}..ing?" This was the extent of the family,[...]boy 11 as Floyd would say when we g irls gave him a bad time. · .. Uncle Pete and[...]hen the herd-er would come to the ranch house for a change of :pace. On o":o.e: .-of these occasions, after he had left, mother found that we kids:; a11 · had head lice. To get r!d of them, she scowered our heads with a kerosene solution. Imagine the job with Nora and[...]our waists. It got the job done however. Life was a challenge in those days. The only mode of travel[...]emembe~ one tome I had an ulcerated tooth. It was a baby tooth and in -front, so they pulled it thems[...]kin off the top of my foot. Needless to say I had a very bad burn·, and it took sometime for it to h[...]e scar. There was no doc t or, just home remedies a ~ain. We all s u rvived tho, none the worse off. One event I do remember very vividly, there was a big hill back of our house, I went up there to play in the dirt and sat d own in a big black an t hill. Do you wonder that I remember? Still another time, meat wasn't too plentiful so we a te a lot of wild meat of different kinds. My father went out one day to get an antelope. He was a very good shot with this old 30-40 win- chester he had. He saw some antelop_e running down a ridge, on the sky line, so took a shot at one. Missed, an d took anothe r sh[...] |
| [...]o t hit one. leedless to s ay , we h ad me at for a while. Well, thi s is j u st a few of the t h ings I remember ab out l i v ins on Frai ser Creek . School was a bi P, problem back when. The fall of 1910, mus t[...]s e on t h e Viall pl ac or one year at le a s t. For t wo ye ars, I beli eve, we l i ved in a he ep wagon and a tent while a tten di ng school during the wint 1 • Bu t to p: et b a ck to the first day of school, I W R S a lways the s hy one anci. let No r a do the t alk ing f or both of us. When the teacher a sked wha t our names were, Nora spoke up and said[...]when I did get ove r it, I know I was st i ll p l a ,r~u e d wi th i. t when I went to High Scho ol[...]I was fi ve y e ar s old when I s t a rte d , but sc hoo l be ing such a pro bl em, l st a rted the s ame year Nora di d . However, I did los e uu t t h e y e a r I wa. s in the second p;r ade. The t[...]t ake the second g rad.e over, therefore, I wa s a ye a r behind her in school, wher e I sho ..ll d h a ve been anywa y . A sc h 0o l hous e was bu ilt abou t a mile s o Jth of t he old Viall house so we live d ne a r the re in the ten t e tc. t h e second year we[...]and in order to ho l cl it , my fa ther file d on a piece of land which a fellow relinqu ished t o him. It wa s on the Big Dry Creek about 15 miles e a st of J or d an an d 2 mile s west o f t h e new[...]The r e were few nei g hb ors then, most of them a long way off. West of u s were Ke p lers and a l i ttle farther t.:.p t h e Dry was Dr. Bat tin . Kerrs l i ve d in t h e Vial l h ou se for a whIDle. Barkers were uu r closest ne ighbors, only a b out a quarter of a mi le away. He i sels 1 Lve d east of us abov.t[...]·l c h wRs l nter o cc upied by t h e Bat eman f a·11 ily. Dirk Capwe ll anrJ. the h?. tters on Br[...].ci enrl.s 1 i v in~; on Wo o d y Creek, e r t h a t v icini ty whe r e we visite d now an ~ then by[...]f or one OC "asi on an,' was there f or thre e d a ys. I c::?.n 't rememb:3r i f it was a h o ll ic7ay , li k e Christmas s o was a winter storm , 0r mo.yb e it j u st r a ined , anyway we h n(l t u stay until ·c he wea the1· c lear·e d . Can I t rec a l l what the v d one d11 r ing the rlay , but at n ight they danced . Getting b a ck io scho Gl, tho, we walke d th[...]d or storming then jJa d w<., uld t ake i.: s in a b o b sled b e hind the ol 1 f ai thful te am of horses. F , ,r a while the No.honeys lived we~t r f us so ~ ~rth_ anci Helen drove a n old red horse t o a b uggy , an,.1 we wo v.l rl. rio e 1.-n th them on t o schoo l . ' . n a 1 h omes t e ad is _ . 'T-'h.is origJ[...]rest of the i r lives . At fi r st we l i ve d in a b o ar d shack with a di rt flo c· r ancl as extra slee oi rn-~ sp a ce use d che boarded 1 1p tent and. sheep wagon . A d irt fioo r wa s ve 1·y c om.rnon then :[...] |
| build a log house, just one room. The neighbors came in and help- ed to lay up the log~·-.. A few years later another room about the same size[...]complete where they lived to the last, except for a small f~ower room which Dad built on for mother's house plants. She always had a lot of those. The first car they owned was an ol[...]rs. The new room was large enuf for dances. Many a dance was held there over 11;he : years. All the furnit ure was set out side ana.·:- covered with a tarp. Dancing , of course, was the intertainment[...]dill pickles and baked beans. Coffee was made in a wash boiler and at midnight was set in the middle[...]everyone filled his own cup as he wanted it. Many a dollar was raised by basket socials for necess~ry[...]ng men thought he knew which basket belonged to· a gal he was fond of, the sky was the limit to get[...]remember some of them going as high as $30.00 for a basket and that was really a lot of money in those days. You hear all kind of[...]y for these baskets, they felt it was go- ing for a very -good cause. I would like to say ri ght here I have never known a stingy scotchman and I've known a lot of them. The settlement on east of us around Van Norman were mostly scotch and a more wonderful lot of people you would never know[...]in the wagon, or on the benches along the walls. A, trip to Jordan was a real treat for us. The folks would have t o go to town about once a week for staple groceries, all others were home c[...]ere penned up from the milk cows, or maybe get in a yo!,lllg horse and try ri ding it, which we did o[...]st up and socke d her in the eye, s he really had a shiner. I thought my doom woul d surely come when[...]r to ease the shock I told them bef ore t hey had a chance to see her. She was gone to drive in t he milk cows. We r eally gave Floyd a bad time too on these oc ca s ions. We' d[...] |
| [...]ter that he sold the sheep and raised cattle f or a while and farmed. During the hard years hen mone[...]t we should . · I remember one time when I was l a te getting home as I had been given a 11 bum lamb" to bring home EU!.d was about 5 1\~~[...]elp to look for me. I returned un- hurt, but with a good scolding in store. I'm sure there we,re many[...]t, one of h is activit i es was freight i ng with a string team -and two wagons b etween Mi les City[...]e he took us . all along. They must have · asked a neighbor to do the chores while we were away. This was a neighborly act which people done for each other i[...]xchanging dUDies of this kind. Ge Ge tting a new pair of shoes was qu ite an experience for us[...]want t o wait f or t hem to be exchanged. Dad had a shoe last and woulu r esole the shoes as long as[...]have s ome new shoes. Dad says, "Yes, if you find a dollar roll- ing up hill , you can get new shoes". This was a saying of his1• I was walking al ong down the furrow in the road and he laid a dollar down so it wou l d roll past me. You can imagine the excite= ment t hat caused . Funny things a person will remember. O~e other time we ~ot to Mi[...]the big Fourth of July cel- ebration, then called a "roundup", in 1914. Father was to be in Mile Ci t[...]p i n and it took us all day to go,of course just a two f urrow road up t he old Uall trail. W[...]ed out. It was quite an improvement hen Dad got a light spr ing wagon f or us to travel places like this An other occasion was a t Chris tmas t ime when we had planned to g0 to J[...]ad didn' t want to take us out but we put up such a funs that he fin ally gave in to us and s aid[...]didn '~ compl ain. He fixed up the bob sled with a lot of straw in t h e bott om, covere d it ove r with - a tarp and then we were wr apped up i n quil[...] |
| [...]e~ing. Another ou ting we use to have was getting a group together and making a trip to the Missouri River to fish. By this time[...]its and took off for the river to stay f'or about a week . 'I'hese were lots of fun for all the kids[...]ather's side lines was shearin8 sheep . There was a crew of men who went out every spring to shear sh[...]. They done all the shearing by hand but put thru a lot of sheep in a day , over one hundred each. In the fall of the y[...]ne from home, he cdecidedl to try r l:nning sheep a g ain along with the cattle, which didn I t need a lot of car e during the summer of' course . Sever[...]ear at the University in Mi ssoula and I finished aa f'ew years dur in0 the second World War when he w[...]Floyd worked in t he Jordan Tribune offic·e f'or a while 1 then for road constru ction contractor s[...]e with Dad on the ranch for 8 or 9 years and is a ~ain back at the printing business in a shop at Fort Benton, Montana. Violet and husband[...]l have lived in several places in Montana, s pent a while ;n Tacoma, Washin~ton. They lived on a u lace near the home ranch whic h we had b[...] |
| [...]the Crater place and lived there until Andy took a job with the REA . They s p ent three years runni[...]ilo & I lived on the plac e we had bought and run a few head of cattle from 1948 to 1950 when he wen[...]wasn't strong enuf t o stand the shock as she had a we ak he art fr om a severe heart attack back in about 1943. She pass ed away on Jan. 20, 1950. Andy & Violet s pent a year with Dad on the ranch. Then Floyd came back to be with him. He took life a li t tle easier for t he next seven years •with[...]e spent as much t i me fishing in Fort _Peck Lake a s he could. He spent ~is remaining days on the ra[...]we re ceived word that he was seriously ill with a heart attack . We ~ent di rectly to Jor dan, but he was gone when we got there. I know the f olks had a lot of hard times, but I know they would not comp[...]homestead days. Just when l if e could have been a little e asier for them by having electric i t y[...]left it all. Now I know this story is _similar to a lot of others dur i ng the early ·1900 1[...] |
| [...]Alta Mahoney I arrived at a small farm south of Sand Springs,Montana on Febru[...]from Southern Illinois. I arrived with the aid of a very good sised.-·· nurse. This homestead was s[...]here came to be five children in that home. A few years passed and a new schoolhouse was built about 2 3/4 miJes west[...]ell. He had no children but he couldn't have been a better trustee. We all went through grade school[...]on and Bill Thomas; Raymond Thompson, Pete Tucor~ a Beebe family; Merlin and Joe Bacon. The teachers[...]igh · school in Ingomar and three in Sumatra and a good many free rides from John Brain, Eddie Fellm[...]ater and not caught up with our work yet. We have a daughter Mary, 25 years old, who teaches at Worden Montana Here's a list of my postoffice addresses while living in G[...]tra, Ingomar, Jordan and Edwards. I'm nothing but a housewife. What do I do for ent- ertainmen[...] |
| [...]lle Ee. in a wide spot in the road in Wisconsin when I met Jim. Jim was[...]Bank of Circle. Jim had a saddle horse[...]here. He was too good a horse to stay in Wisconsin. B[...]In the dry thirties we leased a ranch a[...]shipped a carload of horses up there •• (I had[...]was the most homesick, the horse s or me. After a winter at Dupyer, I thought it wa s too bad tha[...]could just walk with help I used to lift her on a saddle horse and she would ride. After[...] |
| John A. Eerr My parents, Charles and Mary Kerr arri[...]all place on the Big Dry. People in that vicinity a lit- tle later received their mail at Keplerville[...]estead with my holdings. During the years we made a living from some cattle, the boys working out for[...]father passed away in 1920 leaving my· Mother ~d a famil'Y· of twelve children living here; Bill, M[...],John, Norman, Jean, Anne, Gertrude and Roy, also a son, Charles, 1n Scotland. Needless to say all th[...]children, the gardening and all in order to make a living for such a large family. We had good times too. A few of us were musical which added to our fun. My first year of school was dpent in a Bunk House on the John Viall place with Miss Vero[...]garet Bensen, and Alice and Glen .Durl to mention a few. Some of us had to wor~ in the spring thereto[...]worked for smme that woul d forget me for days at a time. That was bad too as we listened to coyotes,[...]the possibllity ot letting lost. There were still a few grey wolves left in the[...] |
| [...]Jim recalls his hair standing on end when he knew a wolf' was following him and he got to the wagon and spied Mr. Wolf in the coulee behind the wagon. He got a gun and waited but for some reason the gun wouldn[...]IG ME was going to check the crossing when all or a sudden horse and I went out of si ~ht. Wet or not we had quite a laugh. Carl finally won my sisters afrection and they were married. Our Mother must have stood many a time saying a prayer when all us boys would dive orr :iinto the[...]d going after the cows. Kids today can't even get a real, true picture watching TV. I remember one teacher who met us at the door with a good switch; guess we respected her too because in our spare time we didn't put a cow in the school as we had done berore. Oh, we w[...]s. We had lots of rodeos in those days. Once a month at least there was a d~ce at a schoolhouse or a basket social, sometimes at private homes such as[...]ies were brought in by wagon once and later twice a year. Sometimes the chuck wagon brought winter gr[...]How we young kids waited ror the men to return as a long stick or licorice was such a treat as was an apple. Supplies such as 1,200 lbs[...]d fruit, 50 lbs. tea and some coffee. That's just a few items. Mother no doubt, awaited the bo[...] |
| [...]ay our post off i ce and we now get the ma i l on a Rural Rou.te, Jordan, MT. I file d and p roved u p on a homestead in 1927 and I still have i t i n my hol[...]l and Guy Madison. We went t o r anches to she ar a s well as the old U-All shearing pens on the Lit[...]Model T Ford· appeared, Jay Gibbs came home with a b ig Bu ick and Charlie Forbes wi th a Dodge. Needless to say e very eye was on them wondering when mo re of u s could get a car. Little did our 9arents dr eam of the fancy cars, rJickup s, trucks, tractors, c a terp illars, mo dern homes and s 1.:.ch that thei[...]ice windows. Friends came fr om f ar and near for a log roll- ing to hel ;> g e t t he hou se up fast[...]farm for threshing. I 've s pent all bu t a couple ye ars here in Garfield County. I s p ent[...]rmer Rilla Barker, are now ha,,p ily ensconced in a cozy country home. Th ey were in Jordan Mond ay evenin{'.> and planne d a shor t v i sit wi th Mrs. Kerr 's mother, Mrs . Emla Barker , teacher of a nearby r ural school". Yup, I got marr i e d and i n 194l? I ado:,ted my wife's girls by a former marriag e Darleen and Eleanor Hayden. Finall y , our g irls a re g rown an d marrie d . In 1960 I took |
| [...]Helen Hammond Gibbs I am going to wr ite a few lines and memories about some of my relat i v[...]here in 1899. They then moved to Taylor Creek for a short time and then Jack Milr oy bought Smoky Ni[...]the Billy Milroy r anch. His wife, Jean Kerr, is a ne ice of Bi lly's. Mrs. Ifo r cio McKenzi[...]ly. Jack Milroy , my grandf athe r talke d a lot about the old days when this country and the[...]e l'lilroy Hannnond , told me that she had me t L.A. Huffman and co ul d remember him taking pictur e[...]ammond in 1924. He, his two brothers and mother h a d a rrive d in Hontana fr om Ill inoi s in 1913. They settled first a t 0 1 Neal , M0 ntana, a little p ost office on Powder Ri ve r . · They then mo ve d to a place close to the old Hat x Ranch on Timber Creek. He and his broth er went to a school whi-ch w;:i.s held in t he bunkhouse on that ranch. His brother Jhad as a teacher, Miss Dalton, who wa s a sister to tt.e famed Dalton Brothers •. They move cl to Flat Creek a few years later whe r e he & his Hother homesteaded . He still owns t hese plac e s, a l thou;-~h he and his da ughter, t•1ary[...] |
| [...]e until 1946 when, becau se of his wife's i ll he a lth t hey sold the ranch and moved to Jordan.[...]her oldtimer who is still livin 0 on his ori :,in a l ranch. He came here on the Little Dry i n 1907[...]has also menti oned the ashes falling out of the a i r. Th ere are more old settlers whom I s[...]r s had gone by, and they were able to return for a visit, all ties we r e gone and their fami[...] |
| [...]When Jim first came he lived in a dugout above a spring and later built a two roan log cabin. He[...]until 1928. They bought a frame house and it was moved about Jim & Olli[...]brand now. There is one horse |
| [...]of these individuals who left enough stories for a book. Sinc e he did live part of his life in this county a few incidents should be told. Joe Cobb (Wil[...]-brothers and f i ve sisters. The family was a reasonably promin[...]ode from Terry to a place in Eastern Garfield County bridless.[...]old how he, Jimmy came to Montana. Joe had bought a new Terraplane in Chicago and got to Washington,[...]e said that he studied the Bible to try to f i nd a passage sanctioni ng the t ype of lif e he[...] |
| [...]heard of this open west and had hopes or building a sheep ranch. His first ranch was ne ar Wibaux, Mo[...]its rough Hombres t'~de into the past, and to see a new era of automobiles and electric machines. He[...]n on their way to Minnesota, where he found out l a ter they had robbed a bank. Bill was in the sheep business with his bro[...]hool days. Before leaving Scotland, she worked as a maid in Lord Humes Castle. Bill and his fa[...]and sent it back east to his boss to portray what a bad winter and heavy loss they had had. The pic-[...]and children. Bill Milroy has passed away leaving a wonderful wife Maxine and a family of five, Clifford, Bonnie, Dean, Eva and Roy. Emily has been a school teacher in Garfield County for 30 y[...] |
| [...]. Mary Gibbons 1 }lrs. Mary A. Gibbons, of Walnut Iowa reared her nine child- ren after the death of their father. and invented a 11 Corn Har- vester and Hay baler", also successf[...]ay Baler and Huski ng machine. She also patented a automobile inner tube. She called her shop, Gibb[...]ep and cattle. The ladies herded their sheep with a one- horse cart wearing long dresses. She made m[...]moved to Jordan • Mrs . Has tings worked as a cook at the "Dorm and the cafes or any- other job she could find. She was a women who had more than her share of sorrow. She[...]e of her four children and her husband, all in tr a gic deaths. but she always had a smil~ and tried to help other people. He r health gave out and after a long illness died in June of 1956. Mrs. Gibbons g[...], Eloise and her husband , Walter Saylor, live on a ranch in the Steve Fork area. They have a daughter, Irene and son, Ronald. They have[...] |
| [...]eman, who is my mother's sister. Mrs. Bateman had a home- ste ad joining ours on Woody Creek. My father, Mr. O.B. Wickersham had a ranch on the south branch of Woody Creek, about 25 miles northe a st of Jordan. Jim and Earl Vance were our neighbo[...]December, 1917, i n Jor dan an<l we crune home in a bob sleigh which took 2 days. The 40 de g rees be[...]ere there to catch us. One hot summer day a rattle-snake crawled under our log house b e tween the ro ck found a tion. We were afraid to go to bed b e cau se it sound like he wa s just under our bed. We called Mr. W. A. Ba teman ~he next day and he set a trap so when the snake c ame out to sun himself,[...]in the school house. One Sunday there was a "Flash Floo d". The creek was h,i gh and we h ad[...]ckersha~ home in Jordan 1930 & Daughter Thel..~a- 1918 Joe ~ault home in background ' |
| A group of "old timers" at Liberty school, 1924[...]Liberty School and children on their ho1 A rabbit hunt 1924 |
| [...]Bateman Mrs. Amelia J. Bateman, wife of W. A. Bateman of Phon , on Tuesday of this week made f[...]0-acre homestead. This is the first proof made on a stockraising homestead in this locality, and as f[...]first in Garfield County. Mrs. Bateman settled on a half section of unaccepted surveyed gover11c~ent[...]nal proof can be made on the additional eP.~ry on a showing of an expendit- ure o:f at $1.25 per acre[...]1r im1frovements placed on the land there ~ill be a great many of these final proofs. Now this[...]The day arrived that we must be in Jordan at a certain hour . Olin Wickersham was one of the wit[...]rk of Woody Creek rode into town with us. Yes! in a lumber-wagon. We had a snow storm and then melted with a Shinook wind and the dirt road had big ruts -alon[...]t hankful to have this section for stock. It was a big pasture with seven natural spring s of wa ter and lots of Coulees, whic h wa s known a s Camp Creek. Supolies were bought and we were re[...]people were such fi~ folk s insis t ed t hat we e a t supper. WellJ we did; it was a pl ain mea l, potato soup and coffee but Oh~it tasted good . They a s ked us to stay t he night but No! Worth[...] |
| [...]trot al ong in places; we woul d j ump off i nto a deep rut, an d Boy! what a jolt and the poor horses so hard on them too. Fi[...]isted we stop t h ere for the ni ght, but Worth s a i d nNo", we must go on home. Yest three more mil[...]I climbe d out of the wagon and walked from "gate a t top of:' divide to home; and our preciou s h ab[...]ed the hous e , our hired man, Walter Bryant had a good fire in he ater and we were home. We were ve[...]ontana was trapp- ed and killed by Worth Bateman; a cattleman living on the ~outh fork of' Woody Gree[...]krnep. He had ki l led several calves and during a recent sno~- storm had killed a yearling colt ri ght in a pasture close to the homestead house of Barry Owe[...]y Cre ek:\How true that was, every rancher was we a ry of' his howling. This wa s a very hard winter and very deep snow on the level. The wolf ha d lost its' mate a few years before. Sever al ranchers along the Nor[...]e se traps; Wor th deci ded to t ake h is f amily a lon g th is nice winter mor n i ng,( as ~rs. Wick[...]d the bob-sle d with hay and with Mrs . Bateman, a n d ( a baby in the b a s ket) & t h e son Ayne sworth 3 year s. ol d st[...]~o rth had ha s tily made snow-sho e s r rom s l a t s of an apple- box. The r ea son for snow-s hoe[...]smell or see t he man t racks of the trapper. 11 a ll the equipment was in the sled fo r trapping. He use d j ust two .i: ew Rouse No. 4 tra p s wi th a strong ch~in be tween them. These traps[...] |
| [...]s' home and. stayed for dinner. Afte r visin ting a few hours, they drov e back down the Creek on the[...]hain nicily tangled up around some s age-brush ne a r the coulee. He shot this wolf with a 30-30 Winchester rifle trucing precaution not to[...]hide. He brought his prized specimen home aft e r a few hours and left the animal froze until spring.[...]th and tusks which showed his age, as they were b a dly worp down and broken; also his n a tural paws. The news of t he trapped wolf spread[...]ghting 93 pounds. His fur was entirely white with a dark grey streak from his mane to the tip of his[...]is animal-head mounted on the skin and used it as a rug in front of the fire- place in his Big Dry Ho[...]ms across from the Airport. Don't mistake it for a white Polar Bea r; many do. The Trapper; Worth Bateman came to this p a rt of 1· ontana in |
| [...]in 1925 looking for work. She heard of a job openi ng of cooking and keeping house on a ranch out of Jordan. She worked on this ranch for a year then married[...]later worked for Jim Vance. He took out a home- stead here[...]The first school was a 5 month school held[...]hool was moved here. Later this was replaced with a building trom the Hell Creek Area. L[...] |
| [...]We children only had a half mile to[...]children who a t tended school here had Doris McKnight[...]the only ways of transportation a lot of the families had at that time. Usually e[...]playing cards and the children playing "I Spy" or a similar game. Dancing and horseback riding w[...]reation. I enjoyed all kinds of work from raising a garden to working in the fiilss with a 4 hourse team. On a ranch there isn't a shortage of work. Our closest neighbo[...] |
| The Murder and Trial of F.A. Garinger on Woody Creek[...]&"Glendive Monitor". The Murder trial of F. A. Garinger was held at Glendive, Montana in Dawson[...]Felt 7 Sheriff- George Twible Clerk of Court- F. A. Parrett Court Reporter - A. C. Ross The following named persons were subpoen[...]r Henry Duell Dr. D.A. Baker W.C. Henderson Gus Johnso[...]Janes Chestnut Julius Lindberg W. A. Bateman Ollie Watts[...]nds and the identification of hand writing. A man by the name of F. A. Garinger from Canada came to the Phan Commun- ity and staked out a homestead. This tract of land joined the James Harry homestead. Garinger had plowed a furrow around his land; as the law rEquired, which was level and a fine piece of farming ground. He was faithfully plowing and cultivating•it as to proving up on this land. A woman by the name of Lillian Stallard and her brother, James Harry and a college friend by the name of Lester Black wanted this homestead. A sheep-rancher by the name of Worth Bateman had a band of sheep feeding on this free range and Olli[...]nger when he would be out tending his fields with a good team of horses. He also had a fine saddle horse and he was very fond of his horses, but being a bachelor lived very much to himself and had very[...]rning on October 12, 1914, James Harry hid behind a post pile on Gari nger' s place and shot him as h[...]ting at.i...coyotes ~t that early . hour. However a few days l ater, riding around he missed G[...] |
| [...]ees . He found Garinger's white saddle horse near a cut- bank shot and saddle & bridle still on the a[...]Bateman said nsomething is wrong,;, yes! perhaps a murder". After riding out of that Coulee he thoug[...]Harr y , Black and }1rs . Stottard came back with a spring-wagon and moved the body to Harry ' s plac[...]n- aged to buy something and had his signature on a bill of sal e. Mrs. Stottard for ged his name on a bill of sale about his team of horses and farming[...]The sheriff and other authorities & ranchers se t a day which was several days after the murder; and[...]17, 1915 Three plead guilty to murder of F. A. Garinger. Sudden halt in the trial comes[...] |
| [...]2. Mrs. A.L. ·Davis ( Grandmother)[...]A.t & Bert Davis. 3. ott Bauman and Alice Merwin. 4. Evie, Fdl.a & Reg Billing, Bud 5. Alice & Bud and chi[...] |
| [...]r .. Grant had b€en in Montana , when he was on a Texas cattle drive in 1870 . In 1927 during his o[...]nd, Aureus McKinney, in 1900, and they settled on a farm at Culbertson ,rhere they reared a family af nine . Maggie Grant came to Culbertson[...]same time Frank Grant came to Montana and leased a place at Bainville . ' He returned to Missouri on a visit and married Mabel Davis , and they returned[...]in 1913 . In 1910 Zoe Grant came to Bainville as a school teacher and that year married John Pace th[...]ame to the Woody with 11arshall and they built up a ranch where in the bad winter of 1916- 17 Harshal[...]ied in 1919 . Their three children, Ray , Jr., is a licensed abstractor in Miles City, Dorothy teache[...]ors is married to Clarke Murnion and they live in a ranch at Brusett . They have one~girl and five bo[...], they were all squatting and by guess had plowed a furrow around their respective parcels of land . It seems the clan settled around a hollow square in anticipation that the las[...] |
| [...]in that capac- ity until the big boss brought in a Harvard boy for Wes to teach the funda- mentals[...]main-manager of the Veseth Ranch south of Malta, a 2500-cow spr ead, where the boys still are[...] |
| [...]Grant's Hu.';Jan Interest Stories There's a story of an August, 1927, trail herd to Nashua. G[...]three Human Interest - There was a fellow, known as Ji:n, probably a hired cowhand, |
| [...]yle died at 97 years old on Jur,e, 1944. They and a sister Elizabeth Rainey homesteaded south of the[...]dult age moved to College Spr ings, Iowa; and ran a Nurse ry business before coming to Montana .[...]s very simple; Don't get nervous or excited about a ~ything, try to keep calm. That rule seems to hav[...]eturning from India after 40 years of s Erving as a Missionary there. However, she died very sudden and was buried in I ndia. It was a big disappointment for the twins.[...] |
| [...]i, the Yellostone bridge was built at Fort Keogh, a cavalry station. He heard of a place for sale on the Missouri for $250.00. The p[...]sage hens and thought they were ~urkeys and.shot a couple. Mr. Vandenburg later moved to what is not District No. 55. He was here before a school was started ( in about 1925) He saw his fi[...]n 1918 to the head of Gilbert Creek. They came in a covered wagon. They had 13 ho~ses, a cow and a mule. Mr. Bert A. Boughton ,(1909-1969) wasi.born at Nez Perce, Id[...]ow until they built a school on the river. He worked[...]married Bernice Gaslin and run a ranch of his own. T[...]ey had 3 children and $6.oo. They had to pay 10¢ a pound for potatoeso Hugo better known as[...] |
| [...]Cary was born in 1867. She came to .Montana f'rom Wisconsin. She came with her family with a team and wagon, and 1 cow and a calf. This was their start on the little homestea[...]er sold it to Frank }artin who run the ferry f'or a number of years, The Carys bought a few boards and built a manger. They used sagebrush for the back and sod and sagebrush f'or the walls. They built a shack and when they got it built the wind blew so[...]. Cary took the team and hauled her own coal from a mine four miles away. In spite of the many[...] |
| [...]Frank G. Carman left Iowa about 1912 with a dapple grey team of horses, a wagon aib.d all of his personal belongings. Traveling northwest at a very slow rate compared to todays• speed.[...]to homestead. He found 320 acres that looked like a fine spot to settle down. After filing on the land, he immediately built a 12 by 14 tarpaper Shack, purchased a walking plow in town and went to work. Things looked good the first year, plenty of moisture and a bumper crop, 8 bushels per acre. The next[...]now Garfield County,Mon.t ana. Here he met a gal, Delila Cary Evans, who had come west with he[...]ister, Agnes, brothers, Fay, Wall ace and aessie. A.fter a few old time dances, they decided two could do be[...]he .family grew. By 1931 the weather again became a big headache to the farmer. A.fter f-ive years my .father once more gave up far[...]n. Jim and Vernon, at Missoula,Montana. Raymond ·a t Lochsa, Idaho, Myrtle and Dorothy at Dea[...] |
| [...]the country and wanted to own their land and have a better life as a rancher and raise stock. The first undertaking was to build a house, so he could have his future bride join him[...]ey cooked on an open fire out of doors, with only a grate over the fire, for lack of a stove. With one kettle and a lard pail for making stew, they managed, until they ·c ould get a stove and table. They had plain food, but enough[...]e men grub sagebrush to clear the land and it was a very different life than she had ever known. How-[...]ar and the women did alot of knit- ting for them. A dance was held at Stoetzels for donations for the[...]ervice of their country. Garfield County was a land of hospitality, and anyone traveling thru th[...]one else was always willing to come to the aid of a neighbor. The Miller children, as well as other area children attended a one room Cat Creek grade school 0 All eight grade[...]ne being when Annie Long, about age 6, was bit by a rattlesnakeo Her father, Joe Long went to[...] |
| [...]est. We all looked foreward to those parties with a lot of excitement. Dick and Clara Mil[...] |
| [...]The Martin boys also ran the Lismas Ferry for a number of years. Frank was almost always there to lend a helping hand in crossing the Mi ssouri River, both in summer a nd in Wintero Aunt Maggie Duell, as she wa s[...]r many friends , lived in the Haxby community for a number of years . Above: Charlie St ec[...] |
| [...], 1951. When qui te young , he joined the a r my and served with the, Fifth Infantry i n Cub a during t he Spanish-American War. During his l as[...]acted malaria and was in the Wal te r Reed Hospit a l in } ew York City until his recovery. In 1 899 , he first came to Mont ana £rom Iowa with a hunting p ar ty, which incl uded hi s brot her Frank Gotch, who_ was a profess- iona l wrestler . They hun te d in and ne a r the Larb Hills southwe s t of Glasgow a nd re t u rne d to Iowa . Geor g e trained and traveled with his broth er for several ye a rs. Abo u t 1 90 2 , h e again c rune t o[...]- of f place was Hinsdale, 1ontana, and as the tr a in was pulling to a ha lt, he wa tched two men run out of a s aloon , on e cha sing the other with a gun in his hand. They ran around a h o rse tie d t o a hi tching rack until the first ma n got his gun o[...]mmediately ro de away and was never seen in tha t a re a aga in . ( He wo u ld not have been charged, as i[...]) Od d l y enoug h , this man was the brother to a woman who was subsequently a near neighbor of Georg e's. He worked f or a time for shee p ranchers, Gibson and Carpent- e r , sou th of Gl a s gow. He then moved to the place where Bob Mille[...]ves , on Gil bert Creek, where h e ran she ep for a year or two. The remnants of a shee o s h e d he b u ilt a t tha t time are still in evi denc e . ·[...]of' 1906- 7 , h e and s everal ot h ers lived in a tent . ot to o surprisingly , while t end[...]fe e t . Hi s bi ~ toe on one foot refused t o he a l, so he sha r ~ ene d a c a se knife and cut the t oe o ff himself, sin ce ·[...]the Big Dr y , where h e h omesteaded , raising c a ttle , shee p a nd horses . He remained there until the Fort Peck[...]h. He wa s mar r ied to De~tta King in Gl a s g ow on July 5, 1 911. They had fo ur chil d re[...]Ki n g an d llooli e, bot h o f Jord an , Montan a , a n d a daughte r, De ~tta , who died s hortly after birt[...]By Mr . u ~ rs . Hoolie Edw a r d s ~eEtt u Edward s was born i n Tawa s City , Michigan , Aug .Jl,1884 |
| The H011esteaders Age There was a period in American History |
| [...], Minn.) in 1890 Relocated to Miles City, Montan a about 1 900 Marri~d 16 July, 1904, a t Miles City to Mathilda Peterson . a registered Nurse (Stat e Hos pital , S t. Peter ,[...]ly north of the Yellowstone River p rior to 1903, a t which time he established his own shee p ranch[...]int o early 20 1 s. Employed as guard, Montana st a te penetentury , Deer Lodg e, about 1923 to 1 928[...]ge, Montana, Sept . 1940 , age 67 "Shorty" Freed, a hunk of' a man-- 6 1 11 "tall, slim as a rail in his youth, · weighed 235# in mature year[...]end , with an endle ss repertoire of tall stories a pp ro priate to the ol d west . His was the dispo[...]o endeaver to convert the untamed wilderness into a p lace of habitation for ord inary mortals and th[...]that wi lderness, everybo dy knew everybody, for a hundred miles in every di recti on , and Shor t y[...]t he Freed r anch on the oody wa s the choice for a wint e r home f or many a grub-line rlder in those days . " Tilly" Freed raised an irrigated garden , kept a flock of chi ckens, and even had a few white faced cows as a hed g e against the calamituous d e pressions that afflicted sheep raising . t his , plus a string of freight outf its on the road, taking wool to the Miles City market , assured of~ ~ol l set table a t all seasons of the year . Yes , there were b ot h sheep and cattle on the same r P~ich , even at a time of real bloodletting wars between cattlemen[...]r "Shorty" Free d 's Tilly was small but she h ad a mind of her own . She had been in Miles City long enough to ap p reciate that there was a di f fe rance in the stability of the v a rious kinds of live stock r a ising th a t a efinately favored cattle ov e r she e p in the lo[...]hard winter reduced five larg e bands of sheep to a few hundr ed in ~he hospital band and a g ain in 1908[...] |
| when a cloudburst totally wiped the fresh start ri ght a[...]he well reputed Freed hospitality, attracted many a rootless single young man . Many young men, attra[...]anches of the area. Here they did chores, learned a littl e of the rudiments of ranching, matured a little, put on a few pounds of flesh , and in general developed a degree of manhood that would enable them to take[...]the alma mat er, the mother of knowledge to many a young man of that time and situation . Shorty and[...]ranch. The se men will tell you today, with just a trace of wonderment in their vo i ces of the expe[...]uffalo and Indiana, wild g ame and trail herds to a nestors area , and on to the big ranch country of[...]n experience to witness and to take par t in such a transition , to be a part of the generation tha t saw the last wild bu[...]and the first tin Li'zzy, the first survey stake a:i d the first barbed wire. They saw the demise of[...]very to the most remote ranches . In the 1900 1 s a cowhand wouldn't walk across the road , he'd fork[...]not be there . by A. W. Freed |
| [...]o Montana in 1883 to live with an uncle, who was a trapp e r and buffalo hunter and lived south of[...]me establis hed one of his own on Skinners Gulch, a tributary of Pumpkin Creek. On a trip to Minnapolis he met Hannah Peterson and in[...]1905 , travelling as far as Yell owstone Park in a covered wagon. My father sold his team and wagon[...]ssouri River in Garfield County, and proved up on a home- stead near the mouth of Gilbert Creek.[...]the adjoining hill country who had come there at a muc h earlier date . Joe Bell was one of the lar[...]was Frank Griffin, and Ben Vande rburg lived in a house with a puncheon floor. Most of the houses were of log wi[...]hard packed dirt floors. Frank Griffin lived in a dugout, as did others . As the land was[...]earlier date to work f or large sheep outfits, l a ter established their own homes on homestead land[...]0 miles from Jordan and the same distance from Gl a sgow. we usually got ot:.r su~plies in Glasgow, w[...]om Sears Roebuck or Montgomery Ward , and it wa s a joy for the housewife to go through these c atalo[...]he couldn 't aff or d . We lived very isol a t ed liv e s, n o tel e~hones , radio s ju[...] |
| [...]were living there. The children went to school in a log building on Fifth Point, others attending at[...]ty t here , ann he ran sheep at this location for a few yearss In the meanth.e the .family was[...] |
| [...]ansas to northestern Montana to build themselves "A Home on the Range." They were among those fami ly[...]to his boss describing the condition of the herd a.ft er that oldtimers ' worst winter- 1886-87.[...]furnished, roomy l og cabin. They had also built a bunkhouse and a chickenhouse. This homesite was l ocated in the[...]y County where the Missouri River zig- zags into a natural boundary line . Uncle Frank wa s a top cowhand and a go od provider • He would remind you a lot of Will Rogers . Aunt Annie, my mother's youngest sister , was a tall, grace - ful young woman, with a knack for getting styl e into her dress , even on the ranch truly a queen in calico, and her log cabin was her c a stle. Aside from their wedding gifts , her most cherished househo l d possessions were a Singer sewing machine and a supply of Mason jars- woman's cov e ted c onveni[...]ng me thod was unknown then, but they had stored a plentiful supply of root vegetables in the cellar[...]ry with s taples purchased from the I•ian- Dan, a rancher's supply boat that made a yearly trip down t he river from Fort Benton . In Octob er , Unc le Frank and a cowboy g athered the market steers from the upper[...]ed out to Chicago . This operation required about a month. Aunt Annie busied herself making the[...]had finished for John, t wo men rode up . One was a strange r . The othe~ a Hungarian immigrant, was an early settler called[...]arried the child along . They found the cows half a-mile away over a hill. They were turning them homeward when Rita s aid ,"Hama , look - smokel" A huge pillar of smoke was rising over the h[...] |
| cabin glowed like a huge l i ve co a l. Though t of s aving anyth ing was useles s, A home on the range was n o more. The de s ol[...]se. When they opened the door, smoke 9oursd out. A pile of magazines was smoldering against a rag- bag in t h e corner. Aunt Annie wa s then cl[...]lively tomorrows . At dawn she wa s out and found a sl opbucket, scrubbed it with sand in t he r i ve[...]rwards s he explored t he rag-bag . Rolle d up in a partially finished braided r ug was treasure inde[...]d scissors. Al ways wi se to the possibilities of a garment she managed to make t hem a ll a change of clothe s from the contents of the rag-[...]tive fa s hi on for t wo weeks. One morning a r ider came along from the Content country. His name was Charley Conaster , later a p rominent rancher in t he Tam- pico re ~ion . He[...]d Glasgow . Four days later he r e t urned wi t h a wagon load of the necessary provisions . In the Ol d West y ou di dn 't i nsult a cowboy by offering payment for a kindnes s. When Uncle Frank came home afte[...]on down the Missouri . Now thes e settlers are sc a tt ered like Longfellow ' s Aoadian s, the[...] |
| [...]soula. Heywood Daley, an Englishman with a title no less . Came to Montana from Vancouver,[...]7th point at one time or another . The parents, a Swedish couple, were also there. Herbert ~itt- m[...]ry Bryant and his wife Eunice lived neighbors for a short time, Later moving to t he Miles ... Ci.ty[...]h Columbia. 'Scotty' bmbleton , who kept a bachelor camp with lots of Poker and plenty to drink . A great place for the cowpunchers to gather . Scott[...]grub'. Ben Vanderburg was his next door neighbor, a b achelor for many years but event ua lly marr ie[...]rney Egosque , who married Florence Ingalls , was a Basque an d had been in Mon t ana for a good many ye a rs, and now lives in Nashua • .fete Tihista , a[...]t was known as Fifth Yoint Many dances were hel d a t his home when he was a bachelor , and were always enjoye d . he made a tri p t o France an d came back with a dark eyed Basque br ide , who of course couldn 't[...]d tells how she co oked by re ad ing recipes with a French an d ~ng l i sh dictionary . Pete h as bee[...]n the harvest fiel ds one fall and came home with a wife of Irish extraction who kept us all a.rnus6d wi th her wit . |
| [...]ng t he Ri ver. Edythe came originally from Canad a to kee p ho use for her brother, Fred LaRoque . Whit was a na t ive of Misso u ri. He is now d ead and his uife is a resi d ent of J·ord~n , a s is their s on, Vaughn. Frank Kincaid boug[...]ly there. The r e we r e e ight children and :for a time Mrs . Kincaids paren ts live d with them , a[...]art and her four c hi l d ren. They were hos p it a ble pe o r,l e and the house was ofte n b"urs tin[...]lks . Anyone wi thin 50 miles was c ons i C:.ered a n ei ghbor, and treated as s u ch.[...] |
| [...]t 1913. Here they bought aore land and lived for a time, then moved to Gilbert Creek. They bought a ranch from John Etchepare. From there we moved ba[...]MARIE KINCAID CONN I taught a year at West Galpin School where Fort Peck is now[...]that they were used for country dances and t ook a reai beating from that and the kids. My sc[...]Royce Biddle and the clerk was Art Blew. We had a niee group of pupils. The older girls were Lura[...]ode horseback most of the timeo They lived quite a way up the creek. Fern could get a lot out of old "Buster" 0 They really cevered t[...]ell as Dorothy Ann Blew, the Palmer children, and a little boy who lived down by the Dry, Milford Jon[...]iver and Johno I stayed at the home of the A. P. Thomas familyo They had three grown children[...]equi- ped by modern day standards. We operated at a more leisurely pace. It wasn't uncommon to be using books twenty years oldo Now a-days a ten year old book is frowned upon . In fact five[...]strange, but those children learnedo There wasn't a goof-off in the loto I taught there two years, but not consecutively, I went to school a year betweeno Dances at Lismas, Haxby, Seco[...]get across the river we used the ferry at Lismas, a rowboat, or crossed on the ice . The f erry was run by a man named Fergusono There were a few house parties. Thomases had a large front room and had card partie 3 . Some of[...]bors had partie s . The school house was used for a few dances and the usual Christmas programs. The Thomases' owned sheep and some cattle. They we r e a 3C:- !;- |
| a· hard working family . They sold out under the d[...]ounty, Sixth Point we r e Pete Wittmeyers, Hayes, A.xtells , Point ers, and Crowde r so It was a pretty well settled area. Down a t Bee Bee Bottom were several families I didn't k[...]ept milk f r esh 0 Ten dollars above taxes lasted a long timeo They could wint er on a hundred. We can't live a week on that now . All this is under wa t e[...]The Big Dry gave people some exe itement once in a while. After a big rain a wall ef water woul d come down the dry bed and an[...]e c ollection was gumbo mudo I walked the two and a quart e r miles back and forth except in the worst weather, when s omeone woul d take a team and take meo I learned to dress for it and t[...]et in great chunks , I could sli p and sli de for a yard before gain- ing my fe0tingo Walking afte r a ra in or in spring breakup was a real problemo I a lways welc omed a ride. Once on an espec ially bad day Pi e r[...]'d known Pie rre s ince I was t en o lie had been a young ki d just over here from Fran c e to ma ke hi s way in Americao The Tihistas were a ll fine men and go od fri endso At the dances when I was a youngster the Fr enc hmen were mo r e courteous t[...]ith my sister and brother- in- law , Mr & Mrso Cl a ude[...]My folks lived in Glasgow for some years 1924 to a bout 1936, I think . Mrs. Kincaid moved to[...] |
| [...]ow: Walter Bridges, Dean Kibler, Duane Conn, Cecl a Crowder Flint, Walter Twitchell; Paul Conn[...] |
| [...]hawk. The purpose of the gather wss to get rid of a l e t of horses that were running the range, eating grass that -as needed for cows. Many a homesteader pulled out for greener pastures, leaving a horse or two because he had no place for them and[...]ss to anyone. This hit and miss breeding produced a pretty scrubby type of animal. Since no taxes wer[...]uth. Johnny Kincaid waa wagon boss until he broke a leg on Ash Creek near Vandalia. Vic Archair.beau[...]nd camp sites. If possible the herds were held in a corral at night. The saddle horses were held in a rope corral which was made quickly by pounding a number of stakes in the ground• and stringing a rope across them about three feet high. This kind of a corral has been used by cowboys on the move ever since there were cowboys. A kid named Jim Billingsley was in charge of the sa[...]to the unfortunate rider who found his mount had a "hump" in his back" that morning. The 5 O was one[...]rd had his arms around me, but my know-how helped a little , too ." Johnny claimed modestly. The time he rode in with a broken thumb, most of the boys silently gave a round to the white Matador horse though the detai[...]Other riders were Dee Stockton . He could spot a brand a long way off and was a top hand . He was brand inspector here and in Sio[...]ed off. He lit on his head and balanced there for a few monents . He had a pretty stiff neck for the next few days .[...] |
| For a man near 70, Old Bill didn't let badger holes or cut coulees bother him when he took in after a bunch of cayuses. Also Hooley Hu...~ter, Happy J[...]h e rotgh string . A Rough Haircut One Sunday afternoon after th[...]t on the Frank Jones place, Red decided he needed a hair cut and shave. Helmer Lund acted as barber.[...]had sprouted near the hairline. The cook ran with a handful of flour to stop flowing blood. Red was t[...]the cooking in the Ford truck chuck wagon. He was a very good man with beef, ·beans and biscuits. (I[...]ses there had been on the range. After owners had a chance to claim any animals collected by mistake,[...]y nearly paid all expenses on the round-up. A lot of this information came from Jim Billingsley who was a saddle horse wrangler.[...]•,a~[...] |
| [...]in the spring of 1916, and started their life on a farm homestead near Whitetail, Montana, in Daniel[...]failure due mostly to wheat rust, Jim decided on a move to an area which would be strictly cattle ra[...]md Maud packed up their household belongings into a large high bexed wagon to which a four hQrse team was harnessed and set out for a destination of one-hundred miles. Four days later the tired travelers pulled the dusty weary teams to a halt beside a low one room cabin• built on a one-hundred sixty acre ranch bordering the south[...]Glasgow, Montana. Abruptly behiDd the cabin a wall of diamond willows, enforced by thorny briar[...]Thistles, still in their tender young stage made a soft carpet about the cabin. The low hanging eaves had a tendency to droop and when the hard rains came th[...]and connecting the black stoYe pipe, foliowed by a quickly pre- pared supper, and beds enough to ·s[...]ing accom- modations were assembled, life took on a more livable aspeat. However, due to the hot weat[...]xtended out from the end of the cabin to serve as a shelter over the doorway. This arrangment had sev[...]n convincing the county commissioners our need of a school. Classes were held the first year in Alvin[...]next fall the neighbors joined hands in building a new school building. This was really an improvement , although made of logs it had a shingled roof and cement foundation. Many ha[...]et the "Montana Fever" to return to the state for a visit. At present all six children and thei[...]passed away December 29, 1935. They both had run a good race, and like - 310 |
| other sturdy pioneers, left behind them a good heritage for their children and futu[...] |
| [...]. That first summer on the ranch was indeed a busy one. Along with clearing of land, was the co[...]ange. At the dawn of day Dad would rise and after a hasty breakfast prepared by Mom, he would quickly saddle Kal, a prancing sorrel, riding away over the crest of th[...]So spirited was this dymano on hoofs that it took a strong alert mount to hold him in line . The ride[...]ome, come many names to mind. I especially recall a childhood scene. Mother was sewing a beautiful laTender organdy dress for the coming dance to take place in a school house in the community. This was being done for a very "young Bell", Cora Ingalls. She had many adm[...]s her romances with my mother. Cora later married a Mr . Fawcett , brother of Al Fawcett, who in late[...]ed on but their memory lingers. ScottyEmelton was a close friend and always could be counted on for a lot of good humor . Among other friends, were the[...]dance which stands out in my memory took place in a clearing among the cottonwood trees. It was a beautirul eTening with the moon shining just oier[...]use I was just sixteen and the first time to wear a new voile formal. Many a hot summer day , as one gazed off into the distance, the vision could detect a motion on the horizon . We called thi s he[...] |
| [...]oose thing in its path into the air. In just such a situation, the sun shining, a blast of wind came turning the hay rack half load[...]our house was an excellent place to climb to when a kid had need of solitude, just to think things ov[...]rim of the hill and surveyed the situation. With a gentle evening breeze blowing through the hair and a ·relaxed study of the landscape, with the slanti[...]ckson at work Jim u-1.ckson taming a bronc Below: Fourth Point Scho[...] |
| [...]Clarence Palmer Clarence Palmer , 83, a single man, who makes hi'·s home in Glasgow with[...]ost seventy years in the vicinity. "I was born on a .farm at Hedwooci Falls, Minnesota in 1886, the s[...]each our destination. We stopped occasionally for a 25¢ meal or a loaf of bread and sausage. We had about $5 betwee[...]p . The following winter I and several others had a logging camp ne ar Wiota and cut cord wood fo r i[...]Big Dry (now part of the Fort Peck lake). He had a sheep raising operation. "I worked mostly as a ranch hand until 1912, when I homestead- ed on Fi[...]n anticipation of the building of Fort Peck Dam , a survey for which had be en conducted as earl y as[...]sale to wintering ranchers, later I paid '600 to a contractor for clearing 50 acres of timbe~ brush[...]all. When the Mi ssouri River flooded the land as a result of ice j ams in its meandering river bed ,[...]ni ~ht , no one worried about him until morning . A search party was org anized • . ! and another m[...]been almost at the gate to his home . Rohde left a l arge family , one of the sons ,[...] |
| [...]Rohde, is still in the Glasgow-Vandalia area and a grandson Richard Rohde works at sheep ranching. ' "Along in 1918 I forme d a partn ership with Nellie Byrum for ranching. Mrs.[...]k dam. We settled for 140 per acre. We thought it a poor pri ce for such a good place to make a living. We had at one time had Sam Ellsworth's o[...]. per thousand; $5.00 per load for sawdus t, and a good market :for slabs. · "We were able to buy a comparable plac e about 10 miles east of Glasgow[...]This would be augmented by homegrown beef, hogs, a few grouse, mutton and plenty of venison . "Going to town for supplies was a major operation . We usua- lly planned for the tr[...]lunch along the roadside. Spending two nights and a day meant business for the hotels, restaurants an[...]el both had bars and dining rooms. There was both a Chinese and a Jap anese restaurant as well as Bert Hauge 's fam- ous cafeteria, where a 25f meal was featured . Other bars were run by Be[...]Norville had an altercation . Martin rec- e ived a bullet wound in the elbow, which resulted in a crippled arm for the rest of his life . Som[...]the east side of the Big Dry was also considered a neighbor , Also Fred Alvord and Lee Hapgood who had a band of sheep . Minnie and Lena Strupple a[...] |
| [...]d for varioti.s farmers and ranchers and also for a few months for A, J. (Froggie) Ferguson on the Lismas Ferry which[...]purchased the Lismas ferry which by that time was a power ferry, stern wheel type wit~ a flat bottom and shallow draft so that the sand ba[...]ho moved it to Oswego and operated it ·there for a while. Since then he has spent his time in[...]f w Markles • •They .have two children, a daughter, Marian Gou.J.et o: Glasgow and a son Jerry; a career man wi. th the Army at present in N[...] |
| [...]i R. from Fort Benton f,or several years . It was a grocery store . It docked and ,old supplie[...] |
| [...]Glasgow on the train, where Shorty met us with a team and wagon, it took us all day to get from Glasgow to our place, to find that the house didn't have a roof, so we all stayed at Frank Cole's place till the men put a roof on the house. Dad bought a band of wild horses, and he and Shorty broke ho[...]he river was so bad there was no way of getting a doctor, so a Mrs. Ki~tleson took care of Mother and us kids[...]and there were herds of wild cattle, so Dad kept a man that did nothing but row me across the rive[...]o have me stay at the John Maxness home close to a school on the Glasgow bench, where I attended s[...]t the George Edwards home. Mrs. Edwards had been a teacher before her marriage, and she was to teac[...]he Big Dry at Fort Peck, so they boardP-d me for a time and Mr . esterman helped me with my studies[...]more people had moved in, so they managed to get a short term teacher and held scho ol in the Bill D[...]ng it down the path to the barn, so we would have a nice slick place to slide, that was great fun til[...]programs and dances and there always seemed to be a gang at our house on 'aturday or Sunday ni[...] |
| [...]hat I moved to Glasgow-, went to work and started a whole new life . I have one son Rus s e l l[...]ent when the Fort Peck Dam was built. They bought a ranch on Hornet Creek near Council , Idaho where they liv e d till 1962. They n ow have a home in Council• Dad(A . P. Thomas ) pass ed away i n the s pring of 193[...]n February , 1 969 at the age of 95 ye ars. Babe (A. E. Thomas) and Gertrude still live in t h[...] |
| [...]bert Bragg Living in Oz ark Co. Missouri te a ching school and l osing my health shortly a fter getting mar ried to Lelia Ear le Lon g , be[...]Doctor that I must qu it the sc hool-room, go t o a high dry climate and live out-doors a s much a s possibl e . We t ook the train for Longdale, Okla.to vis i t her f a t her & mother and family. Ou r intentions were t[...]. Ther e were lands there to h omestead and I had a b ro t her who had home- steaded there some ye ar[...]ouri Rive r about 25 miles from Glasgow. Earl's p a r en t s wante d us t o go there so on July 23, w[...]Long , Fat her wife Olive E. and Chil dr en. Leli a E. being ir s . Bragg t he oldest , Joe & wife, L[...]of feed for the stock . We often stop- ped n ear a s t ream and would seine for fish but never sought shelter only the covered wagon a..ua all our food was cooked over the campfire. Me[...]. I think the next day after we arrived , a man rode into camp on a sorrel bald-faced horse with a J0-30 strapped on his saddle , His name was Frank Cole , an old timer there who proved to be a real friend and helpful neighbor .[...] |
| I will only rel ate a couple of amu sing incidents which were not so am[...]ith one kick t he t wo pr otrucing teeth disapp e a red, more quicklyand much le s s pain than a professional co uld p ossibly have done . Bud Nicols too , had a h or se r anch and a City cousin came out from St . Paul fo r a v i s i t, They were worki n g ho r ses too and w[...]the corral , really hit t he ground h ard. A city cousin pe eking though between t he pole s w[...]jus t had t o do s omething abou t i t. There was a big straw pile near by whe r e they had t hres hed t he gr a in. He went to Bud and asked if he c ared i f h e[...]ar r y all you want to, which he did , and spent a couple of hours a t it. In the after- noon of the s ame day t hey t hought t ney wou l d have a little fun with the c ou s i n, so Bud a sked him i f he woul d like to go for a ride ; sure I would . They saddled a s uppose dl y gentle critter and he climbed on bu t a s expected didn 't stay. The gentle old fellow ju[...]im . Getting hi s win d ba ck go t up, never said a word just went and got his pit chfork an d carrie[...]all over t he corr al fe nce. We filed on a piece of land joining Earl's f a t her and we re soon cutting logs for the cabins[...]nd one for t he Long family, Earle and I slept in a t ent all that winter wi t h no heat, and some of[...]ded , but in the spring of 15 we manage d t o get a cabin up, built with log s and the roof was made[...]. We had taken some bed clothes with us but f or a bedstead we went to an old mill set and found sla[...]d dining table . We ha<l no range stove , we used a small wood heater with a round oven in the pioe as a combination heat and cooking unit . For a floor we scraped the ground smooth , wet it oown[...]yway ~arle somehow kept it clean and furniture ne a t . Sa~e hen , Jackrabbit , fish, potatoes was a pretty re ~u l ar diet , desert consisted of buffalo berries , a tarty, small re rl ber r y that we picked from a 3f~ |
| scrubby thorne d brush. Af t e r a f reeze the be rry seem to s of ten and loose s[...]t ogether with f ood and horse feed too, we had a ni ce s oft bed in the s t raw s t a ck . Believe it or not this was re ally apprec[...]On September 15t h, 1915 our f irst baby a r ri ved, and a s usua l we were without fun ds so we went acros s t he fer ry t o a Mrs. Roy as she was a real good midwife and pr oved to be a fine f ri end and I worked picking corn to sett[...]on . Sept. 19,1919 Sylvia Lee came . to us, born a t home and Grandma Roy came and stayed and care[...]n ot Mrs. Sylvia Wilkins, Tacoma, Wash. She i s a widow, l os t ;her hus band while in service. Years l a ter Dor othy wa s born on Marc h 28th,1 926 . Sh[...]he ro ad during the sunnner month and Earl e and a helper, us ually Buck Crid er, put up t he hay an[...]e same b oat . We had three different pl a ces while we wer e there , trade d the land we filed on for a pl ace down on the rive r bott om , t hen trade d[...]art of the s t ate. Now l ive in Steven- sville, a qui e t s lee py, t own where many old retire d p[...]the Bud Nic ol ' s ranch where they would r un in a bunch of bronc ~ off the range an0 everyone enjoy[...]all we r e successfuL Sometimes j ust g etting on a saddle-horse an d riding out on the free range so[...]re in Missoula at the age of 92 . Hermin Mielke , a bachelor, Bob Mielke, Shorty Thomas , Al Thomas Cl a r ence Palmer , Roy Russell,Nell Byrum, Fr[...] |
| [...]nd the Martins for some time and was re placed by a power boat, regular fee was $1.00 Team wagon, or car; 25¢ a passenger. First School was held in what we called the blu e house or McCune place 4 month term. Then a school house was built on S.W. corner of Tom Riley Place which we acquired, later on A Mrs. McIntyre I believe was one of the first teac[...]in the school-house while teaching . Then we had a lady Miss Alice Solberg , 9 month term, Miss Fern[...]The school house was u sed for Sunday school and a Rev. Johnson, a Presbyterian Minister from Jordan came and held a service on a Friday nite once a month . He was very good. He once told us his Grandfather didn't want him to be a Minister. After preach- ing a while, Grandfather said "I still don't see taking a first class busine ss man to make a third class preacher!" Sometimes we didn't[...] |
| [...]orge, Vernon and Esther . They went to school in a one-room school house 2 miles away and had to cr[...]which wa s dry excep t in the s pring and after a big rain. One morning in spring we boys started out for school. The snow had been thawing a l ot dur ing the days, I stepped outside the doo[...]as 7. Vernon was little and chubby and Ge or ge s a id "I didn't think he could make it", but they did, they had to miss a few days of school. We had nice neighbors[...]er and children , The Delbert Braggs, Bob Milkie, A.P. Thomas•s, Eldridges , Coles, Slaughters, Nelson and Art Blew. Mrs. Blew was a good friend of mine , when she passed away it lef[...]morning .where all the neighbors came . There was a minister from Jordan 1 00 miles away that came down once a month and con- ducted services, Brother Johnson, we called him , he stayed at our p lace a lot and he took the boys fishing . I had canned a lot of Chokecherrys and he go t a slice of bread and put chokecherry syrup and crea[...]un yet so he had to cross on Cables, as there was a Cable Ferry at that time . He got accross all rig[...]ange . Our neighbor, Bub Milkie had raised a lot of melons one year and he and Royce piled up a double wagon box full and took them to the Fair i[...]by George Biddle Mom & Dad homesteaded on a piece of land that was originall.v in Valley Coun[...]ding took place in approximately 1918. They built a cabin on the island in 1920 and moved there when I was a baby. I started Lismas School in September o[...]stay at Braggs' place on the top of the hill for a week or two until the water receded.[...] |
| [...]he place down on the flat about three quarters of a mile south and east of us. In 1931, the height of the depression, our cash income was just a little over $200. I graduated from the eighth gra[...]ad started working in the Ft. Peek Dam in 1932 as a brush clearing foreman. S011e of the neighbo[...]inspecting his bees. a load of honey Minnesot~ #23 corn[...]Biddle Kids and a few co.rote & skunk a day' s catch a load or melbns hides[...] |
| [...]for the next three years in their log shack with a dirt floor. She then married my dad; 11 Ted[...]) who came to the U. s. at the age of 16. Dad had a place below Fort Peck . He said he lived in a dugout and run sheep. All of we children attende[...]river to Kenneth King's shack near arrens, (only a little while though when we returned from Great F[...]that ridge between us and Coles. They once plowed a single furrow and found a number of them. The Crider and Paulos families ha[...]Wash.; Earl Crider lives in anta Clara, Calirorn1a, Erntst "Monk" Crider works for the Dana Ranch near Great Falls, Eva Paulos, now Mrs. Kenneth A. Br own ~i v e s in Denver & Bill Paulos l[...] |
| A SHORT HISTORY OF THE SLAUGHTER FAMILY[...]n were born there., Sidney, Ralph and Lillian. In a covered wagon they left Missouri to go to Oklahom[...]ame to Idaho with their parents. Here they bought a farm in the Deer Flat area, 11 miles out of Nampa[...]here were three daughters born to them; Margaret, Patricia and Joyce. Lester Slaughter married in Tonkawa, Oklahoma. A daughter Bonnie, and a son Neal were born to them. James(Mack) Sla[...]r, Salem, Oregon: Barbara Rush, Nampa, Idaho: and a sonRaymond (Skip) Slaughter, now of the u. s. Ar[...]ete Pipe co., and she as an X-Ray technoligist at a Medical Center. (Thats• enough histor1 o[...] |
| [...]na on the 21 of August. The family drove there in a 1917 Model T touring car, that had kerosene lamps on the side, and a self starter hanging from the front. There we r e[...]ht before going on to their new home was spent on a creek bed on the Big Dry. The next day they drove out from Lismas about six miles to a 320 acre ranch. The place had been homesteaded , so there was a one room log house, that. had dirt floors and sod[...]the same manner. Later Ed Slaughter filed on a 320 acre tract, and homes- teaded this land .[...]Glasgow to the train that took t~em on . This was a very sad day for mothe r Slaughter. She had alrea[...]are Dorothy Blew, and Dorothy Bragg. One evening a man rushed into the house , saying he had hi-s wi[...]was all "Callie" needed to hear, so she picked up a blanket and bed she e t and went out to th[...] |
| [...]arles) taught -the next year. Then there was a widow woman with one child that taught for awhile[...]. The old connnunity hall at Haxby, that had a dance every Saturday night. The Fort Peek Da[...]velt came to visit the dam and was presented with a cane made from the Diamond Willow. The name of th[...]ft. of water of the Fort Peck Dam (resivour). On a clear day, with the water down, one can see the old fence lines and a large rock of the Slaughter place. There was a horse outfit, caLled the C.B.C., that ship[...] |
| [...]ching to the borisona on all sides and each brush a potential home for rattlesnakes, bull snakes etc.[...]life to keep a sharp lookout for[...]er ever open a box without using a stick preferably a very long st[...]tool box and found a huge snake e[...]t he fall of 1917 to a one-room log cabin with a dirt floor to[...]us i.f you don't" and as I was one little girl in a · neighborhood of boys I "did". I was rolled dow[...]moking efforts, etc etc. When we finally had a school-house to attend scho ol, we either had to[...]iles to school so Mac decided to teach me to ride a horse. He put me in the saddle, handed me the rei[...]Now, you can either ride him or fall off" so with a bro ther on either side of me, they whipped my horse into a run and I "rode em". I was seven at the time.[...]orge t the time our brother Lester 'lost out ' in a fight agains t gravity. He reasoned that i[...] |
| [...]nest was delivering mail, in his rattletrap Model A; he was coming down the Joe Lang Hill and his right back wheel reached the bottom be.fore he did. What a car that was, you had - to turn the wheel around[...]e day because it wouldn't go forward. It was a wonderful feeling to know and be known by[...] |
| [...]ve for Schlitz beer always made him say "Bring me a bottle of the beer I can't pronounce because I li[...]ross the Bi g Dry River from us lived Buck Jensen a con- firmed bachelor and I'll never for ge t his[...]owed another "start" and I never attemp ted to be a good Samaritan again in his behalf. He got the "Mange" from skinning a Coyote and his hair came out in patches to his extreme embarrassment. Poor Buck, he was a wonderful friend to everyone in the neighborhood[...]en. We were all bereft when she p assed away with a bra.in tumor at the age of 7. This are so many me[...]iders at that. I>ee Stockton, teaching me to use a 410 gauge shotgun & rifle to kill sage hens ~ prairie dogs from the back of a horse. Riq.ing fence line al one_ or with my dad[...]and the gradual and painful leaving of friends of a life time to goodness knows where. whole communit[...]and married our res pective mates. Ernest married a lovely blonde gi rl in the summer of 1 38 while I[...]age and he later married another lo~ely girl~with a small daughter, this time a brunette. Bill and I lost our only child, a son, at birth on Nov.30,1938 and 4 years later we adont ed a wee little bit of a girl, 7 weeks old with black eyes and h[...] |
| [...]Ed Slaughter 5. A day at the Al Thomas Ranch[...] |
| [...]f age he went to Rocky Ford. Colorado to work in a Sugar factory, ' as his father was 111 and his w[...]assed away -the doctors told Dad he should go to a dry climate as the "Southern Climate was too dam[...]t train out and arrived at Culbertson,Montana 1n a good Montana Blizzard in 1908. Dad like many new[...]t behind, so dressed in light-weight clothes and a big hat he stepped off the depot platform at CuJ,- bertaon, Montana into a big snow bank. He worked around Culhertso[...]n- common for them to have to take to cover when a herd of wild cattle would see them out nflagging[...]m. He later went to Glasgow and f'iled on a homestead_ on the south bench, just south of Gla[...]eld County. In November,1919 we hitched a team of horses to the sled and started for the A[...]ing and when the roundup riders would drop in for a meal, I would wonder what I should cook for them, until a neighbor lady said,"Always have a pan of beans and a Mulligan stAw ready." In this way I learned how to live on a ranch. While on this ranch- our J oungest[...]about two years old, , got kicked in the face by a horse. W~:couldn't tell if her eye was gone as t[...]Glasgow with her. We had to cross the Big Dry in a wagon. When we got to our neighbors, Ed Slaughte[...]. He said that she was his fourth patient within a month that had been kicked by a horse and two of them had died • . Anothe[...]this ranch one of uur ·neighbors came. He was a short fellow with a long black beard, pe was wearing a ten-gallon hat and chapps. Lura, the older[...] |
| We lived on thi s ranch a little over two years, then moved to the West side of the Big Dry where we thought the pasture was a little greener and we could do a little better. The home we moved to had been a "road house", as it was on the eross road , eas[...]. We lived there two years, then moved to a raneh on the Missouri River bottom. We still had[...]he summer my husband and neighbors would cross in a row boat t o get the mail that had been left for[...]ey tied ropes to each other then strung out quite a ways apart and crawled across on the ice. This[...]thaw her tongue loose with cold water, so I took a tea-kettle of hot water and poured it on 'the stove; then had to use a knife to cut her tongue loose. · The house we had moved into on the "River Bottom" was a log house. We were remodeling it, but before we could get the mop boards on, the cat chased a big diamond-back rattler from under- neath the house up through a hole where the mop boards should have been and o[...]ver when it was running quite high. Kel Moss had a make shift row boat. He was taking, besides himself, a neighbor man and wife, myself, also five hundred[...]started to go across, I looked up stream and saw a big tree floating toward us. I was so frightened[...]the river, we would often go and watch the boats a s they went by. The Missouri River has taken man~ lives and leaves a sad memory for many. Billy used to get on a bronc and when the bronc would quit bucking he would ride by a post where I had put his hat and woul~ col[...] |
| We lived on the river ranch a little over two years, then moved back to the Big[...]unt of the dam being built. So my friends made me a friendship quilt with their n ames on it. As I lo[...]als, etc. In the spring of 1938 we moved to a ranch ten miles north of Jordan and lived there[...]n 1962, then I moved to Jordan. This is but a small part of my lif'e in Garfield County. With t[...]ties, everyone was jolly and always met you with a friendly "Hello". Friends were always there to lend a helping hand in time or need. To me Garfiel[...]ere to help you bear the burden of your day. A friendship never leaves your side, if it is tried[...]re is faith and hope, and boundless charity; A helping hand and most of all, .sincerest s[...] |
| [...]f Missouri, decided to come to Montana to take up a homestead and raise good Montana beef. Dave had been helping a man in Missouri feed and sell out the cattle tha[...]d in Montana. Dave who had been working for $20. a month feeding stock had an offer of $40.00 per mo[...]d for Lismas and the Haxby connnunity. They knew a fellow by the name of Bill Dixon who had come fro[...]t until morning to cross. At Lismas Mrs. Day had a small place where she cooked meals for some of the stoppers and also had a place to stay. Being new to the ways of the earl[...]meals to people without the bacon. Smiths wanted a place to stay all night. Frank told them to stay in one of the cabins that were there, but when they found a cabin to stay in they were afraid to leave it to[...]gh. Frank Martin who was always on hand to assist a needy person across the river was there with his[...]ed Frank if he thought that the boat was safe for a woman to ride in and Frank said, "It is if she wi[...]than went up to see Bill Dixon who was living on a homestead. Bill had several plots of land picked out for them. A family by the name of Arndt was having some troub[...]or $400.00. At this time there were qu ite a few persons living in this area. There was a family on about every 320 acres. Mr. Smith s aid that there we r e about 9 different families within a mile and a half of their place. Some of the early set[...] |
| [...]next morning the ice had jammed in the river and a light skim of slushy ice about 3 inches thick cov[...]horse first, in case he didn't make it. This was a horse called "Tommy" that Dave had bought from Gr[...]nt ahead of the horse and Al was behind, each had a rope and was quite some distance from the horse.[...]s in this same way, but the last one to cross was a large horse of Al Thomas's and he fell through th[...]r outfits on such thin ice had to wait as long as a month to cross over. Oh yes, we had wrecks[...]threshing grain at Jack Norvilles and was taking a cut across country. It was after dark and Dave wa[...]ion and the other went straight ahead, right over a steep bank. The horses broke the harness apart, a[...]t right through the front end of the rack, making a big opening in the front of the rack, skinned his[...]oceeded home with one horse, until he came across a badly frightened Tommy several miles to- ward hom[...]e and Vira was living on the homestead there came a knock at the door. Vira said, "I was scared and d[...]ave t:> go to the door". Dave opened the door and a man said "I am Ed Nelson and I live on Rock Creek[...]ill think that you have killed me." That night Ed a11d Nellie Nels on and son, Lyle, stayed al[...] |
| [...]ousework. Then came Fort Peck Daml This was a headache, as the Smith's land was included in par[...]s appraised by some person who had never lived on a ranch or knew nothing of the land value, as many[...]nd would not let them destroy the house which was a modern home just a few years old. After much discussion and bickerin[...]offered to sell the house back to the Smiths for a total of $25.00. Dave paid the $25.00 and the pri[...]After moving from the Big Dry, Dave bought a place on the Woody and continued to run Hereford[...]rn tor refrigeration- 1928. Not enough with a 1 small catch'[...] |
| [...]his homestead north of Haxby. Later he purchased a cattle and hay ranch at the mouth of the Big Dry[...]dredge moved to Nashua in 1936 where he purchased a small farm. From 1934 to 1939 he worked on Fort P[...]the Big Porcupine creek, which she had made into a sheep and cattle ranch. She sold the ranch in 194[...]was town Magistrate and Justice of the Peace for a number of years in Nashua. He was also Director,[...]for more than 20 years. During that time the P.9. A. moved from loaning $400,000 to over $3,500,000 a year when he retired in 1965. This is the way I happened to locate where I did north of Haxby. A |
| [...]married Frank Cole, one of the Cole Brothers that a ranch on the river. They had come there in 1902. Frank and Olive are both gone now. Their oldes t son is a Lieutenant Colonel in the U.S. Air Force now fly[...]Glasgow to do our trading, crossing the river on a cable ferry or the ice when the river was frozen[...]1 South of Glasgcm. It was a very isolated county, just cowboys. There were no[...]folks. |
| [...]sville,Montana(near Helena). A few years later the family moved to a ranch near Augusta.[...]belongings to the Squaw Creek, where Brem took up a homestead (now owned by Glen Cesna). John stayed only about a year. Brem worked for the Hooker and Kramer ranch[...]r son, did not attend that school. Brem was a rugged individual with a hearty "Hello" that took you ~ight into his he art. He was insulated with a s aving sense of humor and his built-in character was the quality tha t made his life a success. He might razz you unmercifully but[...]his own misfortunes but was always ready to help a neighbor through his difficulties. A[...] |
| [...]ng with and without. His children remember him as a hard driving, fun-making, family-loving father wh[...]ir children have passed away. Their second child, a son, died in infancy; Brenchley their second son was killed from a fall off a horse in October 1939; and Gladys and her husband Frank Weiderrick were killed in a train-truck accident in November 1961.[...] |
| [...]f 1912. Then we we nt to the Blackfoot country in a covered wa gon in May or April, 1913. r<Iy father and u ncle went out i n May a r.d built a log shack. 1,f uen th is was f i r: i shed the n[...]grain. Freighting grain to Miles City was a long dry trip at 25 miles a day. It was 130 miles one way. In 1915 El[...]word for Dr. D. W. Battin to come out. He came in a buggy 30 miles. He said her appendix had burst and there wa sn' t anything he could do for her. ln a few days our dad g ot home and we took her to Mil[...]ppendix had burst and sack had formed around them a nd held the poi~on. In about 2 months dad took he[...]ened through the years, g ood and bad, would fill a 1,000 page book! The winter of 1916 the s[...]Tod came home from the Army to Sumatra and had a h ard time ~etting home. He came out on the stage[...]rea k up until Ap ril The creeks would swim a horse • . Ethel May Loomis and Bryan Clar[...]the other five were de l i vered by my mother and a mid wife. Wri[...] |
| [...], came here in 1913 from Lewistown and filed on a homestead in the Brusett area, when Loney and I were real Sll&ll. We lived in a tent the first summer while Dad and Bill Beckel b[...]me. One night Dad got home from the railroad with a six horse teaa and a wagon load of supplies. It was late, so he just d[...]largest in the neighborhood, so it was used for a gathering place, and for Church services for a time. The Barrett fami ly were near neighb[...]e of the aost colorful stoppers were Bill Cherry, a trapper and hunter who used to stop for a hse-eooked aeal once in a while as well as a un whose name I never knew. We j~st called him the One Armed Mexican. Maybe he wasn •t even a Mexican. Duncan McLaughlin and Billy Porte[...]y frOJR home in Ml. ssouri and came,vest with a ra herd • l'he, gave him a mu.le to ride, but he didn •t mind. It w[...] |
| [...]horses. He co-workers was the late Charles M• c a:sssel,[...]"I ain't working now, I'm retired, but I had a few head now and then before the big freeze ruint us all in 1 88. I got in kind of a scrape about then and heades out of the country for a while. As we left, rrry partner got both his wood[...]and so he was caught by the sheriff. But I got me a pack hourse and wolded and rode all the way to th[...]back Bill to Montana." Cherry was a well known figure in Garfield County.[...] |
| [...], from Upton, Wyoming by wagon. They stayed about a month in Miles City, Montana. Then, in October th[...]n 36 on the Sheep Hill. They spent that winter in a part dugout house. Then, they moved to the homest[...]f 1915-16, dad broke his collar-bone while riding a home made bobsled. He had a young neighbor woman on his back. During th[...]utts. There were four or five in the family, plus a hired girl, schoolteacher, and two hired men. The[...]iggs were the hired men. School was held in a log building called Fairview. It was on the Mack Thomas place. The school was later used as a community hall for da nces, get-togethers, dinner[...]present Fairview Hall at the Four Corners. Later a stone schoolhouse was built on the L.A. Swanser place which was in District 12. Fairview[...]s City, Montana sometime in March. There had been a big snowstorm and there were no stages between Mi[...]rl Campbell, also just released from the Army, in a Ford touring car, along with extra parts for the[...]The men had shoveled through many snow drifts. A man with a team had to pull us in from Red Buttes. The next[...]degrees below zero. We started out for Jordan in a wide- tread wagon. The narrow-tread broken trail was tough for a wide-tread wagon, but we finally got to Jordan ab[...]n to meet us. Got home about midnight by mules on a ''pung." Grandpa Stanton came ~o homestead in 1921. He was a Civil War Veteran and died at the age of 95. Dad was a blacksmith by trade and did lots of plough-share[...]and I pumped the forge for him for many hours at a time. |
| [...]ios were shared with our neighbors. Coil had a little store down by Sheldons in the early years.[...]d Goins. East of us was Dents. South of us were L.A. Swansers, Cora Wells, Henry Clay and two children, Willie and Mary. To the West were Lizzie Cheevers, a widow, and hired man, Jack Beck, u. G. Adkins, an[...]Lagge), Orlena (Michael) and Margaret (Wedel) and a number of grandchildren. Ida had two boys, Marvin[...]family still living. That being Ebert, who h.s. s a trucking firm in Jordan. Three of the wido[...] |
| [...]a in the spring of 1907. My folks worked at a ranch on Tongue River for two months, then they o[...]s over, we went to Hans Hansons on Sand Creek for a short visit, then on to Jim Donaldsons sheep ranc[...]le in the Blackfoot Country, as he had beard what a paradise it was. So this is where we were headed, with a light spring wagon, all the belongings we had, and a team Dad bough t from Joe Greer. Our next s[...]w the John Hooker ranch. Lee Welch lived there in a dugout. He wasn't at home when we arrived but Ed[...]Shortly after we came, three Indians who were on a permit hunting trip from the Reservation rode in[...]d Sims fried steaks and potatoes for s upper over a camp fire, and of course we had coffee. The Indians joined us and we enjoyed a delicious supper. In the morning Lee Welch[...]d spare any grub, He finally drove them away with a blacksnake whip. Ed Sims was about ready to leave[...]had every jar in the house full of jell. They had a little girl named Inez, she was a little younger than I was and we had a big time playing together. Inez, my brother and I[...]the most, having sixty stick horses. It was quite a job breaking these out. ve stayed at the Sims Place while Dad was building a log nouse on our homestead, which was later taken[...]uri Breaks, about half way to the river. They had a daughter named Mable, two years older than I, a boy Frank, who was the oldest and Lloyd, about my[...]eir three boys: Jim, Orne ana Clarence. Grace was a baby about six months old or less. Her mother was a lovely person. Mr. Galle nger had a sawmill an~ we watched them saw lumber. Fr[...] |
| [...]d elsewhere. Bob Cooper lived on what was l a ter called the Wes Huston Ranch. The only r anche[...]were Barretta, Kreamers and the Sims Ranch. A man by the name of Papsey Lal Williams l i ved do[...]son, Bill, and daughter, Helen, and Antrims came a little later on. In the fall of 1907 an early winter caught us with our house only a few logs high so lived in a one room cabin on the Henry Linebarger place. We were later told that some horse theives had lived there a year or two before. In March we went bac k[...]stead. In 1910 we returned to Montana. We visited a short time with the Clarence Heisels on Woody Cre[...]ent back to the Blackfoot Country and Dad took up a homestead joining Henry Linebarger on the East. As a summer school was in progress, my bother and I at[...]1968-1969. Our entertainment was dances and a few picnics in the summer with of course a big celebration nearly every 4th of July. I[...]Antri~ - Mr. and Mrs. Wes Huston, h is sister and a small daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Laipple, and a few others besides ourselves went to Jordan with[...]to where the lumber yard is at prese nt. This was a 90 mile round trip for us and farther for t h ose[...]ide and then the other bawling every time he made a swipe but Mox rode him to a finish. We thought nothing of going 35 or 40 miles horseback to a dance. One time eight of us went to a dance at Ga l lengers horse- b k d th Gall[...]dances at the Linebarger School. Mrs~ Butts rode a side saddle and she always brought a delicious ca e.[...] |
| [...]ripps in the fall we went down to Garthofners to a. dance in Ed Tripps Motor boat. It was a b~autiful boat ride. In the spring when[...]We got our mail at the Leedy Postoffice. This was a nine mile trip horseback from our place and then[...]d in later years Lewis Butts could drive it with a car just as if it was a black-top bighwa1. In 1917-1918 I attend[...]he first world War was going strong and there was a shortage of teachers, I took the teachers exam a[...]Buster and Frances Knapp in the spring. We rented a farm arid during the winter we lived in Sumatra,[...]the Missouri River while Louis and his wife took a vaca-tion. While there we were to meet Hannah Armingtou., Edna and Ed Skibby, and a girl from New York that was staying with her uncl[...]n the North side of the Missouri River, and go to a dance on Sun Prairie, which was 17 miles going t[...]ing in. After supper we went across the river in a boat .swimming our horses. Th is was the last bi[...]ode double. on Sylvans 1 i ttle horse. Hannah had a small black puppy to travel. He was so tir[...] |
| [...]rdan 28 years. During that time Burley worked as a carpenter, ran the li quor store, wa s undersheri[...]cooked in the cafes one year, worked in the F. s. A. office for Duke Baumon and f or the County Agen[...]took the G. E. D. test, passed and have kept up a ''B" average. I had one year of High School.[...]t the "Pitzer" school until the end of the term, a nd Merle went to the Jordan School. During[...]she, Norma Strausburg, and Mary Alexander formed a dance orchestra. As they had no drummer that cou[...]bbon Drummer, at ,.Eastern". That summer I bought a full set of drums and we played for dances all o[...]rly always returne d to Jordan for the wee k ends a nd the summer months. I taught one more year in G[...]illi ngs nearl y every ye ar and before we bought a home there, and my mo~her, Mrs. French 1 v[...] |
| [...], Myrna Kay, Myrna married Jack Allen, the son of a Bozeman contractor, and we have two cute little g[...]Lenae, 4 and one half years, and Chuchie, one and a half. Merle married Don Bauman. They have six children, one boy, David a Jr. in high school. Donna a sophomore, De n ise a Freshman, Deree in Jr. High, Debbie in the 3rd gr[...]the 2nd grade. Don's dad USA to be the F. S. A. man in Garfield County and Ot Bauman ran a cafe in ~ordan. The two families now[...] |
| A DRIFTER by Roland[...]l of corn. I was born in a log cabin, I have split r[...]th the West, got ahold of a pair of shoes and drifted up into Iowa and found a job tearing down an old b[...]d bulls were Irish and if they caught you bumming a ride and you gave them an Irish name, they usuall[...], Montana for $2.00 or to Armington for $J.OO for a job mucking (I never did know what that meant). We took the one to Bowdoin for $2.00, that left us with a little money to eat on. They gave us a passenger coach to ride in. They hooked us on train Number 3 that was a second class train that was better for us because it stopped at every station, which gave us a chance to get something to eat (a can of pork & beans, or cheese and· crackers, or a can of sardines). It was February, 1907 and they had had a hard winter. There were box cars along for statio[...]w was about level with the tops of them. They had a big chinook 1n Montana and the snow was about gon[...]ht. We went over to the Castle Berg Hotel and got a room for 50 cents, dried out and had enough left[...]a. We were walking around next morning when a fellow asked us if we wanted a job, we s~:d yes and he bought me a bed and some clothes and took us out to the Larb Hills to work on a sheep ranch. I had a job watching a bunch of lambs and digging holes for a shed, while I was resting. (It's a cattle ranch now and a good one.) When lambing was over he took us to Ma[...]time and it seems that the sheep shearers went on a strike and they were hiring anybody, so I[...] |
| learned to she a r sheep. I shear~d for Saylor Brothers in 1915 ( but more about that later). When shearing was over I got a job haying on a ranch 50 miles south of Ma l ta, hnown as the Pro[...]Com".nission Co., South St. Paul. They also ba d a ranch at Buford, North Da kota, that they used ju[...]tovich now.) I fooled around out there for a year or so, then went to work for the Long X Catt[...]as I could get some thing to read. I did burn up a lot of kerosene reading at night. One winter I s[...]es peare and O'Henry's wor1s. I never got mucp of a kick out of Sha kespeare (too dumb, I guess). I d[...]ke, we run lots of colts to death. Jim Cotter had a sheep ranch half way between the Long X and Malta, and we stopped there lots to run horses. Cotter had a nephew that came out from New York, his name was Tommy Vaughn. 'Ihey wanted to make a ranch hand out of him, but Tommy didn't think much of work. All he wanted to do was get on a horse and follow us around. Jim Cotter had a brother called Mickey that called me "Rawlins". Somebody asked him what kind of a ranch hand Tommy was and .Mick told him, "He was just like that Rawlins, not worth a damn, only to ride a horse and dance. There was probably more truth th[...]ss". That winter, 1911-12, Ed Herman built a dance hall at Leedy. I was floor manager and this Tommy Vaughn kept after me to gEt him a §irl to dance with. I always called him the "Wil[...]didn't wan t to settle down. In 1913, I filed on a homestead in the present[...] |
| [...]ear the Wes Huston and John Mccarter place, built a log house and rode by it once in a while, so I could prove up on it. I rode with the H-Cross wagon in 1913 and 14, and for R. a. Varney. In the winter I stayed at the John Mccar[...]On Christmas I went down to Leedy after the mail. A heavy package came for him and I tho ~ght it was[...]rds were getting old and squeaky. We were getting a little tired of Ada Jones and Billie Murray. I pu[...]d when I got home with it and opened it up it was a fruit cake John's sister had sent to him from Cut[...]ext Christmas ' and here came another one. We had a penny-ante poker game that lasted about all night[...]ter and one winter they were out sawing wood with a dull cross-cut saw and Ji~my said t0 John, '•r[...]rothers. Ed seemed to be the main owner. They had a place up near the divide, between Squaw Creek and[...]ed there were fiddler's. Norval Nallace had a homestead joining mine and he always said when he[...]foreman at the Long X, that he was going to hire a negro boy to wake him up at 10:00 o'clock and say, "second guard". He was going to have a boot handy to hit the negro over the head with an[...]caught up on sleep. During the depression, he had a Federal Land Bank loan on his land and a bank loan on his cattle, and they sent a man out to collect. He told him to take them, but[...]' horseback and said to Norval, "Ain't you a little came along late milking the cows.," Norval[...]west. Lots of good people in Garfield County and a lot of my friends are buried there. r heard of a town about like Jordan, where a fellow put up a saloon too close to the church. The women[...] |
| [...]he Williams children: John and Jim. They drove in a one-horse buggy. Cora Marie Weeding also went tha[...]side and climbed this tall ladder that went up to a little window. He was looking in the window and singing "I Have No Use For the Women." We had a woman teacher, so that didn't go over too[...] |
| [...]Jenny took care of the Butte Creek Postoffice for a number of years. I remember George Miller a[...]ips to the Wille Store and trips into Jordan were a special treat. After my father passe[...] |
| [...]urvey di d go through, John had to move his house a short ways west. The Darneel family were their nearest nei ghbor, and they always gave a Christmas p arty and it was Bell's job to[...] |
| [...]y we would go visiting or have company. We had a Brusett club that met once a month at different homes. We also had a Satur- day night 11 Sing", where people would com[...]my folks at their Jordan Dairy. Boyl I wish I had a penny for all the bottles I have washed. I also w[...]A. I married Ray Shawver in 1938. We worked a year and half for my Dad, Claude Saylor, on his d[...]e lived in Idaho for six months and Ray worked in a lumber yard. When we returne d to Garfiel d County, we bought a ranch at Brusett, where we farm & raise sheep and[...]memor- ial for the people. When I was just a child, I would sit for hours and listen to all t[...]mestead days. People came here with high hopes of a "Garden of Eden." But in a few years, people were praying for rain as their[...]lly the bad years that was remembered. My father, a wonderful man always looked at the bright side of[...]ach other and some- thing to eat and we c ould be a darne d sight worse off." Whenever times g[...] |
| [...]about 16 when I first came to Montana. My dad had a ranch in Cascade County, right up against the mountain. One day he asked me to take a. team o:f horses and wagon and go up the mountain side and cut some green poles, as he wanted to make a calf pen. So I took the team, they were gentle enough ordinarily but they were locoed (This is a disease, animals have :from eating loco weed)anyo[...].tell how they will act, they may shy in passing a fenee post or wait until you are ready to hitch them up a:fter dinner. But I went and got the poles and sta[...]n the mountain side. I was getting along ok until a jackrabbit jumped up beside the trail and spooked them. I had to stay on the trail, on my right side was a cut-bank and on the left side was another cut- ba[...]this time no one told me to do it or ask me too. A big sorrel stray horse showed up there on my dad's ranch. I got a rope on him and took him behind the bar~1~ There[...]s until winter. During the summer of 1904, Ed met a man by the name of Gardner, he had a dug-out and a saddle horse at what was called "Grey Stud Spring[...]d left our winter food supplies in the wagon with a tarp over it, during the night, horses sme[...] |
| We built two cabins and a barn between the fifteenth of January and the fi[...]e had two covered wagons coupled together. It was a late dry spring in 1906. We got as far as Blood[...]an you or I was in charge. The sun came out £or a day and than it rained for another week. It was s[...]ons would bog on the range. There had been a old corral there, made of big pitch posts and we had plenty of fire wood for camp, about~ mile away was a big set of corrals, where we could pen the herd a[...]nd 4 years old, comi'ortable and warm. Its a funny thing if you are on a long trip and ask someone, you meet about directions, you are apt to get a bum steer as we did, when ve meet a man, after we left the corrals and were traveling three or four days. A man passed us and told Jim Barnes, that we were a long ways from the Mussellshell. Tb.ere just happened to be a big rock by the trail, I told Jim, 0 we should be[...]much it would rise in 24 hours. -Barnes lost a good saddle horse, he bogged down and chilled. It was a very good thing, that I had passed that way befor[...]g was good . We swam our horses and went to a place called Kismet,con- sisting of one or two buildings. A man was there and he said if we would help him cr[...]utts•s sr,11-in-law, Claude Moran came along in a buggy with his wife,we h3l~ed him to cross and he[...]s coming out of the house when he saw us, he made a rnn for the Missouri River, wh~re he had a boat and made a quick get away. Barnes said, "he had a notion to scuttle the guy's boat~ After tw[...] |
| [...]f the creek, the storm was coming fast with about a 75 or 80 mile an hour wind behind it, soon the Big Dry was a raging torrent wit h hail the size of half an egg[...]was gone, my sheep wagon wa s upside down. I had a new pair or shoes, when the storm start- ed but b[...]were married in 1910, and we de- cided we wanted a farm. Montana was our selection, we decided to ge[...]oving into, but as we traveled the country became a little less for- midable. The sun was so hot and as we were in a wagon with no shade it w.as almost unbearable, just a trail to follow. We spent that night in San[...]er husband were working there. Mrs. Robertson was a bride of six months. Through the years we would r[...]me for most of the next year. Ed Saylor had a homestead on Lone Tree but hadn't built .his house yet so they too lived with Art. We squatted o~ a piece of land on the Blackfoot divide which I sti[...]nkato and purchased some cows, chickens. We hired a railroad car loaded our stock and furniture that[...]round to buy it. Not having any ice we had to dig a pit in- the ground to keep it cool.[...] |
| We covered it with tarpaper and had a trap door, it looked like a grave. At different times we sold butter to the s[...]. There were some jumping of claims. I seldom saw a women but the men were circulating around and alw[...]p ice and we would make ice cream which was quite a treat. The cowboys were always around and on[...]if I would cook them. So the next 3unday we had a big feed and later I found he had stolen them fro[...]Montana, and shot it full of holes, anything for a little excitement was great fun for them. One night Billy Porter, a neigh- bor of ours was standing in his doorway an[...]eir horses take them home. Walter Lucks had a dance one tirne at their home and after the dance[...]e they ever drunk. Some one presented Walter with a bottle of peach brandy. He had it cashed in the b[...]n't approve of tippling. So he would slip out for a small snort of it each day. ·One night at a dance in the Lone Tree schoolhouse I was helping[...]will happen. On 4th of July we usually had a celebration at the Limberger schoolhouse. |
| [...]Minnesota and lived with Claude. The men built on a addition to the cabin which I never saw. As one n[...]my brother, Henry and his wife, Martha settled on a homestead adjoining us In about 1916 we al7. oegan -tnfiiKing about a school, so the neighbors got together and decided to start a school. The nearest school was twelve mile s a~ay. We offered our bunkhouse for the schoolhouse[...], as Claude was clerk of the school board and had a difficult time getting teachers. About this time we decided to build a schoolhouse so we had quite a time selecting the schoolhouse site. We decid- ed on a day to go, Mr. Anderson and Jud Magellan went on[...]et, Frank Hash and Max Magallan who were breaking a horse to drive, gathered up the rest of us, a whole wagonload. Someone suggested going over to[...]nd the mail which we did. We were all having such a merry time that it got to late to join the two me[...]h perturbed they got disgusted and had gone home. A family with three children moved to the west of us so Mr. Byrd let the district build a schoolhouse on his land. The schoolhouse was called Eagle Nest after a big eagle's nest in a tree near the school. I was the first teache[...]ter-in- law were all teachers also Irving Ady and a niece Ad~ Matteson from Minn. War work took so ma[...]h no, he laid down the law. He said, "You can get a woman to take care of the baby but we can't find a teacher,• so I went and taught the school, Many[...]an, Mr. Ginsty, teach our school one term, he had a wooden leg which he broke one day and replaced it with a new one. One day we were late getting home so he used his old wooden leg to make a fire to cook his supper. As I think back ove[...]anges • The men h¥,ring to mine the coal and h_a ul in the wood in the fall. The men taking[...] |
| [...]Mr. Spracklin later bought out the _homestead of a nephew, Harry Spracklin. They brought 2 car loads[...]as killed at F~rt -Peck'' in 1934; Harley died in a car accident in 1964; Clifford works on Tongue Ri[...]Hubbard,7tex Hill, ? 2. Billy .:>~arls at a 4h of July tt'odeo at tlell Creek Bi[...] |
| [...]appeared Spinner, the horse that had established a reputation in "dismount- ing his riders".[...]d. The horse whirled around and around much like a dog chasing his tail. His first rider, a white man, was thrown, and later Bird-in-the-Ground, a crow Indian, rode the horse. The horse whirled a[...]eorge McKinnon was associated with Jasper, having a homestead on Hell Creek in northern Garfield County. Searls was employed as a trailer for the outfit. As the Montana Kid tells[...]pinning."When I got off I felt like I had been on a cheap drunk. I managed to stay on my feet, but I did a lot of staggering around." It was in the s[...]m to the hor~e sale. Just to have some fun to job a certain cowboy who was a fairly good rider and stock hand who had been lay[...]. He was always bragging and boasting what a great rider he was. Said he could ride any four l[...]d you like to make some easy money?" "I ain't got a red sow," Bill replied. "Would you like to make s[...]ll, "lead me to it." Searls told him he had a little bay horse that he had been breaking[...] |
| made a good showing and was eas t o ride and if he wanted to try him out we would pass the hat, take up a collection and split the purse 50-50. He shook hands with me and jumped at a chance to show the folks in Jordan what a great rider he was. Attired in Boots, chaps[...]re? Watch this rider ride him in the air. O, he's a bear, he's a bear". "Cut the Comedy," shouted Searls to the co[...]ed to Searls with "why that's the spinning son of a sea otter, why didn't you tell that was Spinner?"[...]e with the rider; the amount was about $12. A Michigan lad attempted to ride the Spinner. This[...]e time. "Bill", said Shively to Searls, "you have a bucking horse over at your place; bring him over, we'll see what the boy c an do." Baker said, "If he got a horse and got a good hold on the saddle no horse could throw him." At a dance being held at Elmer Trurnbos on Hell Creek,[...]ll Bill got on. Then I turned him loose, gave him a slap and he sure turned it on. He bucked and spun[...]the end of bucking for Spinner, "He sure did make a top cutting horse," said Searls. In 1920 Searls ro de Spinner at a ro deo in Jordan, in a pot- ato race and our side won, and everybody gai[...]traded his saddle and old Spinner back to me for a new Fur bronc saddle, I had bought a short time before !'or $45. "Then as I was sellin[...]ed him ~o Frank Haney, then my father-in-l aw for a team of h orses which~ sold at my sale for[...] |
| [...]in 1896. He landed in Virginia Cit.,,r, Montana. A year later he went to work for the 2 Dot Wilson R[...]e. He ar~ived there Jan. 1, 1900. He then took up a homestead near Chalky Butte in 1901. He had a string team of 14 horses and pulled c wagons and a ndinky" (a dinky was a~ wheeled cart with just enough room to . carry food supplies, cook in sleep.) In nice weather he cooked on a camp-fire and slept out side. In the summer[...]s land and sold them. •tMaggie" Allen had a brother Charley . Mrs. Charley Allen was the firs[...]before her term was up and Miss Fannie Mcdibboney a school teacher from Springfield, Mo. finished her[...]Old Roundup and were married there. They returned a f ter the honeymoon to the homestead, where Joe c[...]Avon Kemp. The Woody Creek years recall a community picnic and ball game every |
| [...]ana in the spring and spent the first winter near a little town, Caats, Kansas, where Daddy and Hal w[...]From there we went to Roundup, looking around for a suitable place to homestead. There we met a Mr. Knapp, his son-in-law, Ralph Bunker; a friend, ·Peto Peter- son; and Grace and Anna Sny[...]ons and stock and we come down to locate west and a little north of Jordan. We came in by Chalk Butte[...]morning as we was hitching the team ready to go, a man came along in a car and got stuck in the creek in front of Lue Jo[...], (Jerry Iverson). So we came back and settled on a half- section just north of Lue Johnsons. Later t[...]Country of Canada when he came from. Dad gave him a hundred dollara for the things he ·couldn't take[...]bald, in fact, had very heavy, wavy hair but when a boy, he had lost his hair from a fever. The hair came back but not the name[...] |
| [...]Helm; Fannie or Mrs. Joe Kemph, a Miss Lillian Colb[...]took turns. The Trotters had a portable folding organ they used to bring on a pack- horse. Some[...]rse to the wagon ·or sled as the case be, to eat a midnight lunch was a pot-luck affair mostly cake and sandwitches. The men would build a fire outside and make the coffee. (the small chil[...]g too close) The coffee which was usually made in a wash boiler was then carried in and set so[...] |
| [...]Davenport A report of Sgt. Davenport's death in[...]The Sergeant, of Co. A, 163 Inf. of the[...]the death of "Red" in a letter from his[...]y was the second time I attended hi s grave." The a.ocal On a slimy jungle battlefield where there is no monopoly on heroism, a |
| [...]By Lois Slaughter Belcher Haxby had a local combination grocery store and Post of.fice[...]n summer it was very regular but winters depended a lot on the snow and rain from Jordan and the Missouri River from Glasgow. During the summer there was a .ferry which was owned by "Froggy" Ferguson and o[...]"Soap Hill", which was slippery as soap when just a little wet. But all in all there were very few ma[...]ntertainment was "Country dancing" to the tune of a fiddle and guitar and the whole family from the b[...]inment included Sunday gather- ings at neighbors. A .family would cook their "Sunday dinner" and take[...]m put on by the schools in which each student had a "piece" to speak after which there was usually a "box social'' dance and the fellow who bought the "box" at with who ever brought it; with many a bachelor enjoying a hearty meal with some married lady and all he~ ch[...]some "talented" groµp o.f adults would "put ofl a Home Talent play with occasionally the cast being[...]political rallies, etc., were always followed by a dance. Almost every summer there was a week or two of summer Bible School held for the c[...]ndays during the summer Sunday School was held at a local school, and it always ended in the fall with a big Sunday School picnic, again with every[...] |
| Each was a one-room school house with one teacher, teaching[...]During the early days people worked hard. Many a day working .from daylight to way past dark, wit[...]roundup of range cattle, which would be branded, a community affair, with each !'armer tak- ing his[...]y few of the local people even realized there was a depression during the late 1 20 1 s and early '3[...]inter through, but unlike the ant when there was a chance to play, they could sure be grass- hopper[...]" than any one else around. In other words he did a good business. Some of the persons[...] |
| [...]th old son Gilbert, they pack- ed up and bought a ticket ($30.00 would take them to any point west[...]ver been separated- from her twin sister u.ntil a few months before, they llen'& Dy st. Paul, Minn[...]st through Montana. Stopping at Bozeman to visit a friend, they met Tom Kirk who pursuaded them to[...]atr~, some 65 miles and were almost rained out at a camp on Black Tail. The Saylors, Butts, Merlaks, and Sparlins came earier. Corda and Mable moved into a cabin built by his brother Therm.an Locke the sp[...]are for his draft call and loading everything in a wagon, with the milch cow tied behind the wagon and the chickens in a coop under the wagon,headed f'or Bozeman to awai[...]he spring of l. 919, wl th. 2 month old Lila, and a car load of cattle they shipped back to Sumatra[...]e homestead by wagon, driving the cattle. It was a cold, snowy 65 miles. That was a bad spring and hay was $50.00 a ton when you could find it and had the money to[...]te Creek about 1920 by spring wagon and later in a model T Ford. Mable helped carry when he was bus[...]In 1921 Roana joined the family. In 1924 a neighbor, Doc Searles, insisted Corda auction off[...]al auctioneer ha:d. passed on and Miles City was a long way to import one. Corda had never auctioned a thing in his life and just laughed but Doe said[...]are you .going to take me?" That's how he started a career that has lasted some 45 years. (He was hea[...]brought in the cows) In the summer of 1925 he had a sale every other day for 35 days, that ls a lot of talking! I The ladies always served[...] |
| [...]o•Connor was sheriff at the time. It was quite a job espec- ially during the depression, the siege[...]sage- brush and chewed on the fence posts. It was a rough looking country for a few years. In 1930 Wayne was born in Jordan[...]ipped between 3000 and 4000 horses to Indiana and Wisconsin, driving them to Brockway to the railway. Part of[...]78 he buys cattle for consignment and even cries a few sales now and then. Mable passed away in 1960. Roana and husband Kenneth Kooch have a ranch in the valley and raise registered h[...] |
Schillreff, Fern and Jessie M. Shawver, Garfield County: The Golden Years (1969). Montana History Portal, accessed 18/02/2025, https://www.mtmemory.org/nodes/view/5589
