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| WHAT'S IN A NAME FROST PICTURES [A Tribute to Bronc Savage}[...]r hand, And very meticulous is he Ain't a horse born I can't understand.[...]pecimens are as fine as hair, He never had money, a home or a wife One can plainly de[...]ack's twinkling But we who remember, hope that on a far range snowflake creations fo[...]I'm intrigued by this unseen chap There was never a wild one he couldn't tame Who[...]By Gladys Robinson Blankenship A MONTANA ETCHING | |
| [...]7: 13 a.[...]Train 42 Oeparts 8:47 a.[...]Mayor-A. L. MITCHELL In nine years Hardin ha.a (Continued)[...]rst Methodist-Rev. Thos. grown from nothing to be a ed here at big profit and th[...]tantial city and It Is easy fruit a.a well as the vegetables to explain why. The founda[...]have a wonderfully fine flavor.[...]her huge Irrigation pro- Judge-R. A. VICKERS the prosperity of a town can ject, Involving more[...]In the vicinity and It Is Just a matter of time[...]an-Rev. A. H. Schmidt Irrigated land which p-roduces[...]ensified farming for Marshal-J. A. PUTNAM ~umper crops with never fa.11-[...]THOMAS THAIN surrounds Hardin a. crop fail - ure ls unknown na, Hardin ha.a opportunity ga-[...]advertisers for further In- 3rd-W. A. PEDEN. th e temperate zone can be rals-[...]C. A. BROTHERSON H. B. Westergaar[...] | |
| [...]hands of W. E. Reno and A. P. MacDonald. They By John K. Rankin operated out of a large barn located on the east side of The Lincoln Land Company in trying to find a South Custer. This business was principa[...]d with Indian names, by Mr. Reno, who built a residence adjacent to the even considered naming[...](see special business. Reno also operated a horse and mule ranch appendix at the end of this article.). All names were north of Hardin. A. P. MacDonald had ranching discarded and ultimat[...]he old Two Leggins Bridge area Samuel B. Hardin, a personal friend of C. H. Morrall, south of[...]any. Mr. Hardin adequately dispensed by A. Becker, at his Montana was a citizen of Wyoming where he engaged in cattle[...]Hardin from Billings, where he also operated a similar After the town of Hardin became established, Carl business. Later on a second floor addition expanded Rankin, who had s[...]Smith Hardware and Implement Company operated by A. L. Smith, a former hardware salesman from Council Bluffs, Iowa. Mr. Smith also erected a residence on the S/E corner of Fifth and Custer;[...]Interior of Big Horn County Bank-in Gay Block A. Howell as Cashier. Mr. Howell, an associate of M[...]d with the latter family to Hardin after building a home on the west side managing while Stoltenburg continued to live in of Crow A venue, between Third and Fourth. The man[...]the floor contained, in addition to the Bar, a well-appointed[...] | |
| [...]Third and Center (later years, the location of a business C. A. Cobb, whose son, Robert or Bob, later in his lif[...]e Big Horn River. Here Mr. Anderson also operated a restaurant and bar. The journalistic en[...]townsite gave Mr. Rathbone a lot after he had[...]while the survey was in progress, was located in a tent on the south side of the CB & Q tracks ... foot of Center A venue ... owned by E. E. Spencer, selling a general class of merchandise (Dry Goods, Grocerie[...]APPENDIX: the hands of Dr. W. C. Richards, a graduate of the The receipt th[...]lot sold [I have practiced medicine elsewhere for a number of years this receipt in my posses[...]th and Columbus. The Hardin yards were managed by a Mr. Calhoun. The Received of Thom[...]lock No. dealer, and also dealt in hay and grain. A new town [12] twelve, Town of Ft. Custer, Mont. for ap- has to have a United States Land Commissioner. The[...]CARL RANKIN who also was a notary public, insurance agent and sold[...]had not been settled by May 31, 1907, or that if a his energies in Hardin, where he soon started the[...]dered, my father was not aware of construction of a large building at the intersection of t[...] | |
| [...]is bar- Dad and I ate our first breakfast in a small cafe bershop in one corner of the poo[...]rected the large brick building There was a wooden frame building next to the where they ran a large general store for years. alley[...]was an old Chinaman who ran a Chinese hand laundry.[...]to A. S. Broat, who later sold to the Hardin Lumber[...]A. A. Becker, the Old Fashioned Bar owned by Interior[...]y Charley, Frank, and Bill Eder was where A. Vickers, and Harry DeTuncq. Roy (McEvoy) Bowler[...]oast Store is now. T. E. Gay Hardware, was a linotype operator for the Tribune. -There was a operated by Mr. Gay and an Englishman named Foy, small cleaning establishment operated by a Mr. Ned and located in a wooden frame building where the Ragan; I remember he did his pressing with . a hand Liquor store is now.[...]ink, by One meat shop, owned by Tom Mouat and A. P. gasoline. MacDonald, was later so[...]the mid- now occupied by the Stockman's Bar; Mr. A. M . night telegrapher. Rastus was quite a banjo player, and Hicks was her druggist, and Dr.[...]lper. There were two pool halls, one owned by a Fren- There were three blacksmiths:[...]in Photo building, and the other Harry, a Mr. Wertz, and a Mr. McMeekin. Two livery[...] | |
| [...]K Dr. 0. S. Haverfield and Dr. W. A. Russell were Livery barn, the larger of the two[...]the two doctors-the latter was County Health Officer ternational Harvester buildings are now, was operated for many years. by a John Lee and Ed Dornboss. The "picture show" was located in a galvanized The three churches were the Congr[...]t Big Rev. I. L. Cory, pastor; the Methodist with a Rev. Hom County Bank. The operator of th[...]t National Bank, Gwen F. Burla, President and E. A. Howell vice-president, and Fred M. Lipp as cashi[...]Warren and E. L. Kelley were connected with it. -A real estate office was operated by A. L. Mitchell and John Wade. Ear[...]rth brothers, Reuben and Homer, who Mrs. R. A. Vickers, 4. Mrs . H . W. Bunston, 5. Edna sold to their brother-in-law Earl Cammock. When he Vickers, 6.[...]Charlie Schneider had a harness and saddle shop- John Boyland had th[...]Van Houten, Mr. Perry Conver and son, master. J . A. (Brig) Youst operated the other dray line. Guy, erected a small galvanized sheet iron garage on a Brig was always breaking horses on his dray; one[...]e the Triangle Motor Co. have their garage he had a colored boy working for him and they were[...]was in the early summer of 1914. Another breaking a pair of mules. The boy was pulling back on son, Jake Conver, was working as a mechanic in a the lines and yelling "Whoa" while Brig was layin[...]to move. Hardin as a mechanic in the Conver garage. Hardin depot and water tank, 1917 A typical scene on the roads 1916-29-A FLAT TIRE![...] | |
| There was a brickyard located on the east side of[...] | |
| [...]birth control-just By Blanche A. Schaller kids. This was a far cry from the one room schools up It wil[...]r things hill to Hardin. Hardin in those days was a very frontier that went into the community e[...]Indians and cowboys and electricity and a lot of headaches. but in general appearance.[...]le-hearted effort brought Someone had taken a good long look at the sub- forth a generation of people that knew no other marginal[...]economy. The beet industry had grown into a colossal they had envisioned crops, sugar beets i[...]gaps between Hardin and sure, it had been a terrible waste of human resources: Sheridan in th[...]rn valley. These men brought The pride of a special breed of men The Farmers. in good familie[...]d. Farmers and fieldmen and tires and trucks took a beating in more ways than one. About this time Ro[...]ieldmen for this factory area were H. P. &haller, A. B. Cook, Tom Clump, Carl Sloan and C. C. Bounous[...]began to talk about the sugar factory. There were a few diehards that did Hardin's firs[...]was completed for operation in 1937. We as a family were assigned south of Hardin to the St. X[...]Kalberg, Sam Meeke [?], Bill Larkin sported a thin layer of gravel. Farmers and families | |
| [...]ng more than you hardware, two hotels, a dry goods store, a bakery, a found upon first sight we hope that we can help you furniture store, a blacksmith shop, a shoe shop, a find it before you have occasion to leave. One thing I barber shop, a drug store, an elevator, two bulk am sure of and that is that Lodge Grass has a lot more gasoline plants, a municipal light plant, and last but to offer now than it did when the Stork discovered that not least a livery stable. Along with the change in the my t[...]tory of L. G. that he had found occasion to leave a that keep our cars running. Although I have[...]on the names of all the different people who were a very low altitude or else he would have missed th[...]sinesses, town completely. I'll try and paint you a picture of they were all people of a pioneering nature, people who what our fair town[...]xcept along the river ; no lawns or streets; just a few Although there have been dark days Lodge Grass has trails and old wagon roads; a few barbed wire fences always grown and d[...]he vast area between our Trading A large number present this evening are interested[...]have here today. can find that a lot of our permanent citizens were When we[...]y teachers, and before they knew it some Grass is a relatively new town; one of the last frontiers[...]merica, and this history I Let us take a look at the development of our school am relating[...]was started in Lodge Grass in Haven't we enjoyed a marvelous development in that the year 1911. School was held in a little log house and short period of time? From t[...]ved down to the cafe that is now we have grown to a point where we have over 500 located[...]oman's Grass was started with the construction of A. M. Club organization (Marjorie Steve[...]her primary education. In 1912 the people in took a great deal of nerve and - shall I say "intestinal[...]tevenson School which is now fortitude " to build a building of its size and kind right being used[...]e room. For several years it out in the middle of a big 120 acre field. But it was this was large e[...]haracter that the community figured they had a school house that have been responsible for its f[...]large enough for years to come. It was also A couple of years after Allie moved his trading used as a sort of community center. Many a time I can post down to the nice new brick buildi[...]crawling into the seats that were stacked started a store which is now owned by W. T. Benbrook[...] | |
| [...]t is now used for the second grade of town. A community is usually judged by its schools was ma[...]e cerned, Lodge Grass is entitled to a 100% rating. settled, but lo and behold, it was just about two years The town as it grew needed police protection, and later that it was necessary to mo[...]henever we didn't get caught. In purchased a light plant in 1931 which has served us our gradu[...]ntly since that date. Although year 1925; it left a large gap since there were only 27 in the cost[...]ertainly growing can get our electricity at a nominal figure. toward the 200 mark. In 1928 acco[...]ice gym- of Boyhood Reminisences. I have a lot of them, no nasium. During our High School da[...]ay when we find approximately 300 in our schools. A Orin Benbrooks, Keith McKinley, Sam Stevenso[...]his year is $2224.00 per Leonard Young and a lot of the bigger boys used to month. A system which requires close to $30,000.00[...]read daily of the blood bathing and made a bet as to which one could remain shed in the Span[...]our children are being offered the advantages of a free both were drowned. I guess that is what[...]through high school. When "perseverance, a quality essential to success". we read about the[...]all interested in is the success of yo~gsters for a number of years. The whites oc- Lodg[...]the first school house. By 1917, as the result of a lot of folks and the help it offers toward the[...]idents managed to finance and Society as a whole. I don't think that an individual's build t[...]Church which we are using this success nor a communities success should be measured eve[...] | |
| [...]e generation to generation, starting with A. M. (Allie) invest in education and in our churc[...]children who are Clayton Clanin, to Marjorie's brother and Allie's only growing into men and women in o[...]we are offering them here at the on to A. M . Stevenson's great grandsons, Gary M. and source of their careers. You teachers will have a sub- Samuel G. Stevenson, who are the sons[...]ng daily. A. M. Stevenson, Hester Nancy, assisted her husband Now for myself, it is with a great deal of pride and in operating the stor[...]have enjoyed while I have lived here. Previous to a few years ago, I was on the receiving side of the[...]in some type of a retail store operation. The Grand-[...]merchant, and later had a grocery store in Lodge Grass. Stevenson's Store, built 1911 Mr. A . M. Stevenson was also the first Postmaster[...]in Lodge Grass, The post office was situated in a corner of the store. Later as a political appointment it was STEVENSON'S STORE[...]are as follows: 1880, Charles Babcock established a Trading Post at Morris Shreve, 19[...]the Crows ' first Agencies). When the James A. Thompson, 1905 ; Frank Nolan, 1908; Mary Crow Agency headquarters was moved to the present A. Beaumont, 1913; Maud Coates, 1920 ; A. M. site at Crow Agency in the 1880's, Babcock al[...]umbaca, 1945. present owner of Stevenson's Store, A . M. Stevenson ran away from his home in Michigan[...]s relatives and friends as " Allie" Stevenson was a The Hutton Post Office was discontinu[...]e Kirby lived there and this became In 1902, A .M. Stevenson and his wife, Hester the[...]ck down Nancy , came to Lodge Grass and purchased a small the Rosebud to the large rock building, now owned by trading post operated by a Mr. Simmons and a small Walter Taylor. It was the[...] | |
| [...]?U·d£~ In account with A. M. STEVENSON A bill from Stevenson's store[...] | |
| [...]~ :_ ---~a.m.,·[...]saloon. There was the hotel and restaurant, a two-story By Elbert S. Connor station, a round house, a two-story section house and In early 1906,[...]th Colonel William F. Cody, Montana. At that time a branch of the railroad ran from[...]I recall of the events other than our enticed by a Mr. Wiley to operate his land-opening[...]he register was saved I do not which later proved a failure.[...] | |
| [...]MEMORIES OF TOLUCA Massacre, a visit to the battlefield was a must. Also, By Alva Montgomery the Crow Indians had scheduled a fair at Crow Agency. I was nine years[...]rce, Cheyennes, Toluca was strictly a railroad town built up by the Blackfeet and many[...]ces were held railroad. In 1909 Toluca had a section house, depot, at the rodeo grounds and tepees were scattered all along roundhouse, coal chute, a large rooming house, an the river. Th~ government had built many houses in eating house with a large dining room and lunch room, Crow Agency for the Indians but they refused to live in a laundry, and a number of car bodies for railroaders them. They c[...]road had been built to Reno's battlefield and as a result few people saw it or were aware of the par[...]he bones of men and horses had been removed. A set of seven photographic post cards, which were[...]year after the fight. The pictures were taken by a Sheridan, Wyoming photographer. These have since[...]ming on the passenger train enroute to He is a past President of the Santa Barbara Co[...]had about four waitresses as well Calif., and is a veteran of World War I, having served in as two or three in the lunch room. My ~other had France and was a member of the Army of Occupation, charge[...]ooks. He attended Sorbonne University and is a Several large tables in the di[...]covered with a white table cloth with a bouquet of[...]for thirty-five cents a meal. They were served family[...]table and were charged seventy five cents a meal for the[...]cents a meal.[...]The first injunction ran out on a Sunday.[...] | |
| [...]uca at that time. to one unused section house and a sign by the road that[...]n the Johnston Hardware and Lumber yard, Mr. A Baptist Mission Boarding School for the Wyola[...]Indians was built on the outskirts of the town. A Miss Boyd and Stevens groc_e ry store; Mr. a[...]ere railway Wyola but we do know it was built for a railway station. station telegraphers, Lee an[...]e Horn river could easily be piped operated a grocery store, Dave Robertson ran the grain to run into a water tank to fill the steam locomotives el[...]Sheridan Mills. used on the Burlington Railroad. A coal chute was also Some of the ranche[...]ottie Niver after losing her husband "Kid" Niver. A and Mrs. "Doc" Spear, Mr. and Mrs. Carl S[...]cery store built by Jim Wallace, who formerly ran a and Mrs. Hucke, Mr. and Mrs. Carter Donohoe[...]old to and Mrs. Carl Riplett, Mr. and Mrs. A. H. Bowman, H. V. Bailey. Mr. McNutt ran the stor[...]er were Mr. and Mrs. Frank tank for the railroad. A railway station house and depot Greenough, Bi[...]blacksmith shop, Hardware store and Lumber yard. A Dillon, Edward and Charles Redwolf, Mil[...]Steve the town. Al Brotherson kept bees and built a building Driftwood, George Peters, Frank Medicine Horse, for extracting honey. A two room brick school was near Barne[...] | |
| [...]people, finished and completely furnished a Community Up the valley, near the mouth of the Little Hom Baptist Church in 1934. A parsonage was built and canyon, were Raymond Powe[...]ald Coffeen. A new school building was completed in 1957. W[...]ally diminished until, today, Near Wyola was a Bentonite Mill started in 1942 only a ghost of what the town was at one time, remains. called the W yotana Mining Company. Bentonite is a collodial clay found in Wyoming, Montana and Sout[...]ter about ten years as the Bentonite was too poor a quality. Wyola, Montana[...] | |
| [...]d hills the vegetation is mainly low growth a lead plate with writing in a foreign language had been like sage brush, short[...]here it was stone. In such places the hills have a sparse growth of found? Ponderosa Pine. Litt[...]ng water except during descent for possibly a century or more after the the dryest years. I do[...]left no fish in it. Along such streams, there is a narrow band of record. Quite likely fur trapper[...]danger gone, cowmen and seen. I have never seen a bobcat in the wild, and the sheepherders we[...]ometimes puzzling. began to be homesteaded. A possible explanation is that this most adaptable of North American animals is smarter than some people. A rattlesnake occasionally frightened the neighbors by biting a child, but I do not remember any deaths from[...]NA snake bites or any serious injury to an adult. A According to old timers, Decker derived its name bullsnake or other harmless reptile, like a homed toad, from a man by the name of Charlie Decker, who used to was sometimes seen. A rattlesnake was easily identified do prospec[...]and we children were warned to run away was a general dealer in anything that was for sale or f[...]on This Charlie Decker lived for a time in a dugout nearby reservations were comparative newco[...]ed further down the Tongue river and later way to a "celebration" in Sheridan. On one such oc-[...]hey moved in Miles casion, when we were eating in a Sheridan restaurant, a City country, and old timers in this area lost track of man sitting at a nearby table came over and pinned a him. button on my coat with the words "bo[...]arned department now in the National Archives, a post office of that language.[...]to time west bank of Badger creek. Morris A. Shreve was first in the 20,000 or 30,000 years t[...]the East. The location. Cheyennes came in a dramatic winter flight from The[...]esent standing, but has been made into a residence with a reservation. For a long time the legal status of the porch a[...]at of prisoners of war. been moved to a new location.[...] | |
| [...]and has served as an officer many times. She is a past[...]Mr. and Mrs. Abel have recently bought a home in Sheridan, Wyoming. Mrs. Abel still has a huge flower[...]. Fay Abel MARY AND FAY ABEL | |
| [...]y, and Junie are all buried land and the logs for a school on Elk Creek. Men of the on a hill above the Weltner homestead house near[...]mother had used some of the books herself as a child. Ruby was eight and a half and Darrel and Harold were The seats we[...]stove, we cooked on one ten that year and I have a wealth of memories of "out side and froze on the other. We walked about two miles home". We led a pioneer life for the next three years. · · to s[...]oms on the cabin We had one teacher (a new teacher each year) for while another uncle built a coal house for "Mom and us eight to twelve ki[...]o one hauled in the wagon for winter. We also had a root would go in after recess because the[...]Another day we spent walking five miles to a "petrified logs-filling the cracks between the logs of the cabin forest'' - a ravine with several petrified trees in it. The with mud to keep the winter winds out. We raised a teacher and we kids dug out large fern-le[...]One winter day the weather was really eerie. A The shelves in the root cellar were filled each f[...]. we got half way home, a blizzard struck. We strung out, We picked w[...]wild berries in season. We canned them for brother was on the side near the barbed wire fence. His s[...]wed the fields, planted and meet us with a lantern and blankets. Years later she harvested.[...]One of my jobs was to help the others with their a bath behind the stove in an old wash tub? I have,[...]er. We would gather around the many of them, with a ~apful of Lysol in every bath. We dining room table with a kerosene lamp for light and do had a garden to hoe and W'lod to chop. Was it Ben[...]wn wood is is probably the reason I am a school teacher today. twice warmed?"[...]e wheat smutted. The second year the We had a radio run by a car battery but no one grasshoppers too[...]groups Our entertainment was playing together as a family. and set fire to them, we beat them[...]ouse. In Montana when six children lived in a certain That ended our stay. I was ready for high school area, a school could be built for them. There were[...] | |
| [...]tubes. Those a little more advanced could clean and[...]Even I could do those things, but Allen had a real feel for it, and he knew a car as he knew his alphabet. By the[...]en, and all driver's seat and drove the car at a speed posing no helped to support the family. Yea[...]k alongside. Annie wrote of their experiences in "A Bride Goes West". sat seriously beside h[...]he served one term, and to be happy, and he did a perfect joyous job. then returned to teaching. She taught in the grades in Cars were by no means a rarity in those days, but Sheridan until her reti[...]and horses both, considered horses the currently a resident of the Eventide Rest home in best bet. However, a surprising number of Big Horn Sheridan.[...]County folks felt even fifty years ago, that a car was an[...]tted or my parents to Bozeman, Montana as a child. At this bumpy. In really bad weather, winter or summer, it time there were no signs of a town that later became loitered at its Spring Cre[...]ly In the spring of 1909, my father and a few other liquid weather, it would mire do[...] | |
| [...]ir 160 etc. We also had Sunday School and once a month a acres of land that my dad decided to take, ten mi[...], leaving the dirt roof. our moving. He chartered a box car to bring a team of Several times, after big rains, the roof would leak, and horses, our household goods, a cow, and some chickens once we had to move[...]ents decided to come, too. I had one brother born on the Homestead in 1911. They drove overland in a covered wagon, brought two My parents an[...]ve passed away. Others other teams of horses, and a couple of wagon loads of have moved away l[...]ench. The House still stands, the home of Mildred a week to drive over all dirt roads. Ragland and sons. In a few weeks father put up a couple tents for us We have had several[...]as first started by the Big Hom Land and night in a small rooming house.[...]t was 1914 The next morning Father came with a wagon that they started work. Years[...]s, their wives, four granddaughters 1907.) It was a small building on the west end of the lot and[...]not many old timers, the ones from 1907 were only a few boxes and a small store. Mr. Spencer to 1975 left to[...]e didn't live in tents very long before Dad built a been happy to have lived and seen all these things come small wooden shack. That was a hot summer, and as to pass. time pass[...]ere the Torskes, Wagners, and Atkins, so they had a school before we did. By this time Dad built another larger one-room house, a barn, and chicken house. We moved in on Thanksgiving Day, 1909 and what a cold one, with lots of deep snow. Then spring and summer came, Dad plowed up a few acres, and planted grain and some potatoes; t[...]orms, and grasshoppers. My father asked for a school building and they said if he'd do the work[...]cated on the School Section, cattlemen shipped in a lot of Texas Longhorns. The cattle used to come t[...]t made frequent visits to the Reservation during a one.[...]ir lifetimes. From 1903 to 1907, H. V. Bailey was a Years later with the area more settled, the[...]ged.' The Farmers Union came and held a store at Wyola, the H. V. Bailey Company,[...] | |
| [...]some European travel. At Chester he had acquired a by a dappled grey mare, Dolly. Mr. and Mrs. degree in civil engineering and a soldierly bearing that Richardson eventuall[...]orked for Colonel Babcock's hardware store. Being a he and Bess lived there. The Bailey parl[...]and he Bill to practice on when he was a boy in Missouri. went with it. Home again, he met[...]re married in 1901. on that piano, and, a real pleasure, she played for the Lillian B[...]ith its bird's-eye maple furniture and brass bed. A my mother, brother, and I accompanied the groom from large red, white, and black Navajo set the color scheme Billings-a harrowing experience for him, he used to[...]sized beads-a fad then, as now.[...]a frequent visitor. Having fun one night she and Li[...]llian's more glamorous trousseau stuff, including a[...]Alice with mustache and waving a sword, we children, who had been listening to a bedtime story, were so[...]ed in 1928, Bill within two years. By way of a honey moon, besides the trip home, Bill took his[...]ven here, besides personal memories, are night in a large bunkhouse full of men. They provided[...]rom Montana of privacy for the lady by suspending a blanket from a the Cowboy Hall of Fame. It says: "Charles Monroe rafter. Bill had a new house waiting for her in Billings, a Bair, who was to become 'King of Western _Wool[...]e took his young bride to live manager of the E . A. Richardson store. Clerks there in Helena." In 1890, using his savings plus a bank loan, were Ernest Woolston, Mrs. Richardson's nephew, and he bought a small ranch, with a sod-roofed house, near[...] | |
| Lavina, and got a band of sheep. A family story tells of t he Two Leggins I rr[...]riP.velop irrigation in Rosebud County. Governor a rattlesnake curled above the stove, where it had Babcock named after him a large reservoir near crawled t hrough the sod for[...]arters. Although his In 1893, he established a ranch west of Billings. He greatest investments were in Montana, he also had also had a home in Billings, where the Fox t heater now[...]buying many paintings, some to give away. He had a[...]1903. Let a blizzard threaten, and Uncle Charles arrived[...]was lost in a blizzard on a below-zero day; but the[...]built to clear range for 78,000 sheep; and my brother thinks that the plow cleared a path for the sheep, to[...]Sometimes, between trains, Mr. Bair spent a night with us, sleeping on a solid oak davenport, sturdy[...]He brought us the most beautiful candy, always a five-pound box, a work of art. That could be what we Joining the Klondike goldrush in 1898, he staked a who were children then remember best about hi[...]round-thawing think of him. machine that a friend had patented and that he and At last he moved his sheep to a 60,000 acre ranch, three others had financed.[...]Plenty Coups. By 1906, he clipped nearly one and a half million pounds of wool a year. I remember visiting a MR. AND MRS. E. A. BAKER shearing shed-a long row of stalls with a sheep in each one being rolled about by the shear[...]ene Baker and daughters, Pearl, off the wool like a blanket, with hand-powered shears. Ruby and Opal came to Lodge Grass from Bridger to be In 1910 a trainload of Bair wooi about a million dollars near Irene's parents, Mr. and[...]from good wheat crops in 1928, 1929 and 1930. A depression morning to late afternoon. They were C[...]Yellowstone Bank and crop thinking to get a better price in the spring but had later was a founder and director of the Midland to sell it for 17 cents a bushel. When their farming bills National Bank, o[...]Ted went to work for the State Highway at a $4.00 years, he owned a ranch near Hardin, which he sold a day wage. Horses and slips were used by the Highway later to the Holly Sugar Corporation. He was a backer workman to change the Little[...] | |
| [...]iring in January 1963. Ted and Irene cows, rented a pasture up Lodge Grass Creek, and and family have a host of friends over Big Hom started a milk route in Lodge Grass. They sold twelve[...]e members in the Eastern Star, quarts of milk for a dollar (8 1/2 cents a quart) Masonic orders and Shrine. They[...]caused them to sell the and Montana. They have a home in Hardin. Gardening milk cows. Grasshoppers[...]Mrs. Pearl Towne also lives in for around $20.00 a head. Hardin a[...]May 1917. My father, Erle M. Baker, bought a section[...]my brother and I) there was nothing but prairie covered[...]delivery of milk It truly was a start from scratch effort. We lived in two[...]other with a fly between where we cooked and ate. My[...]open range so it became the job of my brother and I to[...]horses to go with them, so it was a constant battle[...]We children had a two-wheel cart and a single[...]gave us a good many wild and rough rides and often we[...]was three rooms with a cement floor because Dad planned to use it for a shop and garage later when lie built a permanent home. Water was the greatest[...]Creek near Corinth. So Dad built a cistern which was[...]in 1949 and has Gardening was not a real success because the rains been an Avo[...] | |
| [...]d upstairs in the depot. Our education was always a Spear O or the OW, but I had a brother, Cy Baldwin, problem of moving to and from. When[...]Charles Squire, my Sunday School Teacher had for a group of 4th graders. We met each Saturday at her[...]dren didn't see another woman for three months at a time. Occasionally there would be a community picnic, usually the last day of school. Or there would be a dance at the school house. These usually lasted t[...]tle that helper engine. In the winter, we went in a bob-sled with were unloaded off from the cars a[...]eople came on Country. One year we trailed a bunch from the Big Dry, horse back, too.[...]rk but there I remember one year there was a horseman who were many things about it that were[...]think bought all the horses who belonged to a man living on some of our children today would ha[...]yola. My family moved here someone with a horse water tanK that I could get to for a couple of years, then went to Seat~le where ~y[...]grew up and marned. They still There was a man and wife living down the Little live in that area. Horn a few miles where I stayed and she gave me board[...]and room. They had a girl about twelve years old used[...]re over 100 head of horses in this bunch. I built a I was working over in the Sarpy Creek, Tulloch chute inside of the stockyards and set a snubbing post Creek and the Reservation Creek in[...]would run a horse in the chute and I put one of those[...] | |
| [...]any of the horses would try was well known as a round-up cook. I can remember to come up the bank, she would spook them back. After visiting him on a wagon and how good everything we would get them[...]ns, Richard William (Dick) and Frank. He also had a and I would spook the horses back in the stockya[...]nt and Uncle, Jess and Viola Mashburn also A lot of people wanted to know how I got this idea had a homestead in this area. They filed and built a to break horses to lead and go to water. Well, I worked cabin in a draw running off of Four Mile Creek below in the[...]orses for World War One in 1914-1915. There were a bunch of us bronco busters working in the sale y[...]ds of horses shipped to the East. Each of us had a corral, chute, and a snubbing post. We would run these horses into chutes and put a grass halter and a long rope on them. We had this snubbing post set[...]o the buyers the next morning. We put ten head in a small corral and they stepped on one anothers' le[...]While on a buffalo hunt in Dakota in 1881, he[...]nd eleven days later. His last Arkansas. He filed a homestead in what is still kno~ expeditio[...]up the Crow Indians while as Barber Draw. This is a long draw that runs into Four serving[...] | |
| [...]e born in Hardin. All street. On another occasion a parade was passing by seven of the girls graduated from Hardin High School. and a tall, young man stood while it was going by ; We lived on a dry land farm north east of Hardin suddenly his hat flew off, and he turned to confront an for a number of years. We lived on the farm in the angr[...]wn your hat off when the flag goes by! " Tony was a soldier, in the winter so we children could go[...]fornia for several years and local doctor and a neighbor lady. All ten of us were born returned,[...]the In those days nearly everyone had a garden. guest of honor at a large dinner party on his ninety- Everyone[...]f its most knew how to "cold pack" on a coal range. There were colorful characters. quite a few chickens and turkeys raised for meat as well[...]as beef and pork. Nearly everyone had a milk cow or bought milk from a neighbor. The farmer who had a[...]school and church. Before we had cars we drove a team[...]of a job after school. Some of the girls worked in sto[...]We thought we were making good wages if we got a Col. Baron and party going to Reno Battlefield dollar a day for housework. I worked in a maternity l-r: Tony, Mrs. Woodward, Dr. Russell,[...]He graduated ~nng from arthritis, she maintained a cheerful alert from Hardin High School in 1941. mterest in each of her children. She was a charter state- He served in the Marine Co[...]forced her retirement in Washington, D. C. with a B.S. in foreign service in 1938.[...]1955. FAMILY OF MR. AND MRS. S. A. BEALL He married Marg[...]ll Louk Two daughters and a son were born to Ed and Margie. The family of Mr. and Mrs. Sherm A. Beall came to At present, Ed is a supervisory historian for the Montana from[...] | |
| [...]y baseball on the Massachusetts, and he had a pastorate among the oil Howell Place, went to Sat[...]months of which were in France. Following is a quotation from The Billings For two y[...]r of Hardin Post No. 8 Gazette, January 3, 1965: "A Montanan has given of the American Legion, five years State Chaplain for Mississippi a world's first: Resurrection of a Civil War Montana, and for many years was chap[...]ears he was actively related to Billings, and now a National Park Service research the Boy S[...]of a Recreational Center at Hardin valued at nearly[...]to Hardin Council of Kadosh. He is also a member of the from Billings when he heard of the[...]ts, the first sold, on the corner of He is a Past Master of the Masonic Lodge at Hardin what, I believe, is now called Center St. About 1908 he and a member of the Consistory and Shrine at Billings,[...]lding in Hardin. Montana. A man named Jake Norris, and John Wade,[...]d Nellie Brown Mrs. Bentley always took a very active part in the was my first teacher. Lat[...]niversary September 1, 1972. The other children, a son eldest son of Dr. John A. Meeke. John was in the in- and a daughter, have passed away. urance business and a Deputy Sheriff. Our son John Jr. In Apr[...]n adult com- they went to Alaska to visit a granddaughter as well as munity called Leisure Wo[...]to go sightseeing. DR. AND MRS. CHESTER A. BENTLEY | |
| [...]ss it was haying or Dunmore area before moving to a farm in the North combining time. Vall[...]they'd meet a bull snake coming out after he'd just[...]Turner the mailman, would hauled from Hardin. For a number of years the Benzel's drive up in hi[...]chicks residents; the only pay asked was to bring a tank of were given a home in the corner of the big screened water on t[...], ferred to the chicken house. ~her~ was only a small four room house. They enlarged[...]kunks were constant ~t to mclude another bedroom, a utility room, a screened threats in those days, and even the[...]f the first indoor the dreaded rattling of a rattlesnake. bathrooms in North Valley. The original homestead, a dugout with a cot- .. Kerosene lamps, now a thing of the past, as the tall onwood pole front and straw roof, was used as a ~t~ty poles marched across the Benzel's dryland to chickenhouse for a number of years, but has since rmg electricity.[...]and tubs. water the Benzel's pigs, which had a pen right next to The family all helped sh[...]rway. Carol fell into this ditch when she was sug_a r beets, stack hay, irrigate alfalfa and combine[...]saw her and rescued her gram_ Mrs. Benzel raised a large garden, preserved her before t[...] | |
| [...]an up and down the bank, barking school with a straight A average for all four years. They her dismay until[...]nd strangers, not even out of their cars. She was a member of the 4-H parade in Hardin one summer, an[...]ement to all youngsters. Lawrence Benzel was a charter member of the Community Hustlers 4-H Club[...]meetings in the members homes. Carol later became a member and secretary. The Benzels were early[...]s were enjoyed at the old Harriet Theatre. It was a treat for the Benzel children to mow their grandp[...]Arthur Black, known as Butch, was a Virginian. I[...]the "West Side." He was a fellow slight of build and[...]punching and was a favorite of ours. When Frank[...]Heinrich gave our sister Rosalind a fine pony, she[...]about his neck into a bonnet with ties. This was worn,[...]923, and tried to teach us how he rolled a cigarette with one farmed in the Dunmore area until they retired in 1945. hand, a trick for the convenience of horsemen. With Besid[...]Arthur, who bridle reins in the left hand, a rider could fetch his book married Frieda Amen; M[...]f cigarette papers from his shirt pocket, extract a Carl, who married Betty Taylor; Edward, who marri[...]ed the paper. The right hand alone rolled it into a Schaneman; and Lora, now Mrs. Don Hert. Fred, Sr.[...]Billings, walking near Crow Agency before buying a farm about three out to our house[...] | |
| [...]of sky, high up where a great full moon began to rise.[...]last, we found the road but no wagons. A light appeared in the east, perhaps a car twenty miles away. "The[...]camp!" we agreed, and started toward it at a gallop in[...]and I, not long married had been there a few days[...]pelt down. A deluge of several days made the roads[...]-wagon getting ready to move, 1914 for a day, my dog and I being in a far part of the house.[...]wore an old Stetson on his greying, curly head. A large, working cattle all afternoon. I had return[...]le beneath his vest. cool off in the shade beside a clear stream. It was His opinion was that I was starving. Three times a day, d~ided to move camp before supper, and I said, " I'll go he'd bring me a good meal, which I strove to eat. One of with Joh[...]rly the boys even went forth to catch me a trout. And teenager and a wrangler. Doc was wagon boss. The Butch[...]. wagons followed the primitive road, but we took a Soon I was packed off to Billings, and I didn 't see short-cut. The cavvy strung out along a hillside trail, him again ever. We were told that he had left Montana. perhaps a hundred horses. Johnny followed them; I[...]aying, and ahead; hut we could see nothing except a bright patch left all his belongings[...] | |
| [...]ember 14, 1918. Returning to Hardin, he worked at a truck and hauled gravel, beets, loose hay, or any[...]l Farming. He married Edel Buckingham in to make a dime. In 1937 I bought a livestock trailer and 1924 and moved to Wyomi[...]time I had five of them-and worked as a painter until he went to work for the B.I.A. headaches! I was arrested by a U. S. Marshall for in Crow Agency in[...]t Hardin. In 1938 I remarried- roped and hog-tied a girl master when Wesley Magnuson moved to[...]in Big Horn County. He retired from the B.I.A. in 1945 Coys on both sides![...]5 per month, and at Masonic Lodge No. 92. A.F. & A.M. and served as times in Montana for $30, and it[...]ster National Cemetery, might ride 30-40 miles to a dance, where a good time at Crow Agency. His son Eugene[...]dren were born to them while in Crow. Owen was in a truck, , but the only animal to put me off my feet active in the Masonic Lodge being a charter member of was a real gentle kid's pony: he kicked me twice on the St. John Lodge No. 92 A.F. & A.M. in Hardin. Gladys knee in the same spot.[...]erred back to Lame and their boys take over. Have a host of friends (I Deer as Superintende[...]re he was transferred to New Mexico, then to from a stock country to a farming country, but my Eureka, Calif[...]during World War II, he was a Lieutenant in the Air[...]m Lawrenceberg, Kentucky to visit another son and brother Owne M. Boggess, who was living in Lame Deer, Mon[...]Aye, Owen M. Boggess was working for the B.I.A. in Iowa, April 22, 1881. They were ma[...]resided until March 1914. They then moved to a farm California but remained in Montana with his brother seven miles north of Hardin. and[...] | |
| Mr. Bowers passed away April 7, 1949, with a He left in the spring of 1908 fo[...]a quarter change coming, and if the bill was $10. 7[...]irst outside of Pryor. Mr. Bowman worked as a rancher, and came here in May of 1907. The town s[...]ing in had his own herd of cattle, and was a bus driver. Mrs. ~une, and grew rapidly at first. When Mr. Bowman Bowman began a painstaking research project on the first came, all there was here were a few people in tents. life of the Crow chief and set up a small museum in the He joined them the fir[...] | |
| [...]in 1970 and now live in their man, put it in a sack and throw the sack from the home in Edgar, Montana. engine in a choke cherry patch on certain days. Joe[...]would pick the mail as he came by running a trap line. A son and a daughter were born to Joe and Cecile[...]Scotland November 17, 1886, and came to the U. S. A. with his family when he was two years old. He[...]ing wrapped in the American Flag and clinging to a church steeple, as the church was washed two blo[...]He worked at the Kendrick Ranch, broke horses for a Mr. McNabb. Later he went to work for Mr. George Tschirgi, where he made a life long friend of George's Mary Anna Boyd M[...]Sr. At the Tschirgi ranch, he met a wolfer named "Buck" Smith, a brother of Bob Smith who ranched In 1923 a fine new home was built on the Boyd near Wyola, Montana many years. ranch, a place that later became famous for the quality .[...]The Chinese Pheasant was introduced as a wild without a permit.[...]efforts of Matt Tschirgi The partners built a cottonwood log cabin on the and Joe Boyd. Li[...]Tom Woodley place, later the Van followed by a stroke on her left side. She passed away Der Sloo[...]enties J. R. Boyd and Henry Little Horn. He owned a few cattle, a grizzly bear and a Stevens of Sheridan formed a ranching partnership wolf he had chained for pets[...]eath December 23, 1945. H. C. Stevens then formed a Buck Smith promise to kill his pets as he deemed[...]rtnership with Joe's son, J . Phillips Boyd which a little dangerous for an Eastern bride.[...] | |
| [...]the West fork of the Little Horn before there was a forest reserve. When the forest preserve was[...]y, from January 1945 until his death. He was a Mason, thirty-second degree Scottish Rite Consistory member, and a Shriner. Since 1938 Joe occupied top positio[...]started working on the railroad as a hosteler and a[...]Worthy Matron of the Eastern Star have been such a pleasant memory for me. I miss the friends I left[...]t New castle, Wyoming because Tom, Pat's dad, was a railroad engineer and at the time Newcastl[...] | |
| [...]saddle horses and enjoyed riding. Their ranch was a good distance from Hardin and they often rode hor[...]gh- bors. They would load all their youngsters in a sled or buggy and all go to have fun. Baby sitting in those days was not practiced. The whole family went as a group to social functions. In 1930 Mr. and M[...]Big Horn roads. He worked for Big Horn County as a road patrol operator for many years. Pat retired[...]: Mrs. Snow, Mrs. Chas. Dyckman, Mrs. Pat is a rockbound, he has a wonderful collection of Andrew Frazer, Evelyn Brennan, Alma Frazer; seated: agates. He has a fine display of different styles of Mr. Sn[...]Frazer through the years. This wire is mounted on a piece of heavy canvass. Mrs. Brennan does[...] | |
| [...]chickens. When I was older, I got them to stay in a born August 18, 1853 at Lauderdale County[...]Lodge Grass, Montana. The Cattle Company had a feed older, we went down to Frank Medicine Horse'[...]y an Appaloosa horse that he had for sale. He was a gather their cattle off the Wolf Mountains a[...]feed lot. He made several trips turned out to be a good race horse as I raced the other to the fe[...]Helen Moore. I, Jim, finally leased a place on Indian Creek in the My grandmother[...]he Kansas tana, and farmed for myself and ran a few cattle. City Star, I also got the "Youth's Co[...]in and I went after the In 1926 I bought a small place on Owl Creek from mail. A bad storm was coming up, and I had been told[...]ouble, so we did the best we could. jagged edges, a cloudburst accompamed the hail .. I I[...]waiting for our train, we s~w ~he I had a wife and four children who helped me Graf Zeppeli[...]ardin one hot day in July, bought in 1926. A son, Francis, who passed away April 1933 to get s[...]still see the smoke. Dad was sitting on the on a ranch of their own. Maxine, married Jack ewkirk d[...]of Hardin and lives at Bozeman, Montana. They own a House and Mom and Dad slept out in a shed until we business there. could get b[...]Hardin about 1910 with her father, who had a farm Business College in Wichita. We came back to[...]ing three terms. married to Mary Wiley. They have a daughter, Sherry She then taught in Billings and became principal of Beth and a son, Dale Justin. We live on the former H[...] | |
| [...]oth in Hardin and shoeing them could be a dangerous business. and in Billings. She was a charter member of Gamma Chapter, Delta Kappa Gamm[...]er interests to include retired teachers. She was a charter member of the Yellowstone Association of[...]Cal Buckingham shoeing a horse, 1912 Cal and Mary Buckingham,[...]at Fort McKenzie, driving to Sheridan with a ·horse and | |
| [...]cksmithing in the early 1940 's and died in 1948, a year after his wife Mary passed away. Even though[...]ne son, Joseph Thomas, and two grandsons, Richard A. and Kenneth L. of Dr. and Mrs.[...] | |
| [...]INGHAM, D.D. mouse and caught a rattlesnake. Our first furniture By Earl Buckingham consisted of a coal range, a bed, table, two folding Born June 10, 1867, Cornwall, England. Came to chairs and a nail keg for a wash stand. We lived there Montana with his fami[...]ent his early manhood In the spring of 1936 a son, Tom, was born. That fall we ranching with his brother near White Sulphur Springs. moved to the John[...]iana) University, where stock while they made a trip to Indiana. In the spring of he met and marr[...]1937 we returned to the homestead. We bought a neigh- Illinios, and Chicago Dental College.[...]Chicago and Alexis, Illinios until 1910, on a kitchen. when he returned to Montana to manage o[...]One memorable experience on the homestead was brother's ranches near White Sulphur Springs. the invasion of the Mormon Cricket. We had a nice Practiced dentistry in Hardin from 1912 to 1919, garden and in order to save it we built a fence from used our first dentist, with offices o[...]fell into the pits. They and City Councilman for a short time before moving to had to be scoope[...]with oil but Ekalaka, Montana in 1919 to join his brother-in-law we did save the garden. William Mowbray in a general merchandising business. Times[...]I taught the attended grade school at Pine Butte, a mile and a half Pine Butte School for seventeen years. R[...]the mud and snow. The In 1930 Phil filed on a homestead on Hanging winter of 1949 was[...]by horseback. We were glad to see spring arrive. a 12 x 14 shack, unlined, and with cracks in the fl[...]which where mice could enter. One time we had set a trap for a was rented until 1974 when we retired an[...] | |
| [...]accident due to run away horses. Old Brig had a voice Backhoe. He has two children, Sam and Sue.[...]running all over town looking for a brick stretcher. I[...]Lumber yard and a couple of other places before I[...]seen plays, high school band (played a sax), and other things most of the present day Hardin built. When I was a kid occupied my time. I can remember the[...]s, board walks, swamps, When I was a freshman in high school, I had my vacant lots etc[...]he old school building at Third Hardin, as a grocery delivery boy. To this day I still and Cra[...]ding is now Horn River or in the Big Ditch. After a few close calls occupied by the Stockman Bar and Cafe. The summer and a couple of drownings, the present swimming pool following my graduation I went to work as a student was constructed by community-spirited peo[...]When I enlisted I knew that I was color blind (a little) pond up town; the present Court house now[...]the learning to fly etc. for over a year and about ready to limestone blocks by hand.[...]arn code all over again; this is construction was a W. P. A. project. The streets of what I did in[...]e railroad. Anyway, I spent Hardin and curbs were a result of the W. P.A. and the , two and one-half years over-seas in the Middle East as a local tax-payers.[...]for come around with ice for the ice box. It was a great one year and Santa Ana, Californi[...]months. I returned to around town; every once in a while he would have an Hardin a[...] | |
| [...]in Montana, the daughter of Earl J. and Bertha A. Hampton, Iowa, the son of Mr. and M[...]n Nebraska at Everett Bullis was appointed a Deputy coroner of that time: he was then tw[...]civic life of Hardin. Bea belongs to the in a Hardware-Furniture and Funeral Business until Me[...]moving Auxiliary, Neighbors of Woodcraft, and is a past to Hardin, was that the Big Horn[...]5, to be built and Hardin would soon be a Boom Town. served on the County, City Planning B[...]t of the Hardin the Eder Hardware Store and a few months later Lions Club, treasurer and past[...]out Master of the Hardin Johnston had a stock of caskets on hand and Mr. Bullis Boy Scou[...]ndertaking business. In 1916 Sts. John Lodge #92 A.F. and A.M. (Masons) for three he opened up the first Funeral Parlor in Big Horn years, a member of the Hardin Methodist Church, Past[...]son J. Everett Bullis and his grandson Terry A. Bullis. President of the Montana Funeral Direct[...]t, continuous businesses ip Big Horn time, it was a heavy money losing operation and in 1973 Cou[...]financed by the the Methodist Church, a past officer in the Hardin county.[...]uary now serves all of Big Horn Commerce, a former member of the Hardin Volunteer County, als[...]Birney, and Ashland Fire Department, a past officer of the Hardin I.O.O.F. areas.[...]the old Hardin Hotel was located and a plaque on the present City Hall that was built in[...]John Bullis when half of the people in Hardin had a milk cow in the opened the Package Grocery o[...]and gardens. During the Street and Custer A venue. There were very few houses Winter, the kid[...]to the old Harriet Theatre and Mr. Lawlor gave us a free Hardin. The streets were dirt[...] | |
| [...]yowen) all dirt or gravel streets. Hardin has had a steady, and Black Lodge; Rev. Burgess held[...]sound growth and was known as the " Best City By A them on alternate Sundays. In Crow Agency[...]rch to the old respect- he never entered a teepee without first Methodist Church on past the[...]on the outside and receiving permission to times a good big rain would have water running[...]Rev. Burgess built a large two-story house down Mr. Bullis was al[...]the house was very strongly built; despite a variety of 400 block on Custer A venue, in the building now oc- careless tenants, it was worth while for a Hardin cupied by Bud's Locker and Freezer and the[...]n about four years ago, dromat. Later he operated a garage at the corner of remodel it inside and have a two-apartment complex. Center avenue and 2nd Stre[...]ctive in community This was the beginning of a school for white children. affairs and also worke[...]older children and he was Mr. Bullis had. She was a member of the Methodist most helpful in[...]and Mrs. Burgess had the Rebekah Lodge of Hardin, a member of the Degree died in infancy, then[...]ter grade school the two older girls were sent to a oldest Inez Maurine Bullis was born in 1906 and d[...]verett Bullis, Hardin, Montana Mrs. E . A. Richardson is remembered as and Lowell Bullis, L[...]came to Hardin in March, 1911-my husband In a corner of the Baptist Mission at Crow Agency[...]ranite markers which read: a farm southwest of town for a short time, then lived on Lottie[...]4 the Benbrooks' store in a tin building owned by Ed James G[...]mill until it burned down in 1916. He was a contractor, 1851-1911[...]st trees in the City Park. this that a man lay down his Sidewalks[...]corner of Crook and 6th Street. Mrs. Gilmore had a Black Lodge; he rode up horseback and sat down under hospital in her home. Dr. 0 . S. Haverfield built a a tree with his Bible. Soon one man came over and[...]View Rest Haven. Later Dr. L. H . Labbitt built a had been sent to Government boarding schoo[...] | |
| [...]Mother did all our sewing on a treadle Singer B~tler was a farmer and for twenty-two years, a bus sewing machine. She made all our clothes including our driver of a school bus.[...]. V. Edworthy was Mountains to make a shelter for the horses, the one the pastor.[...]milk cow, and the few chickens. The chickens had a Our children attended the Hardin schools, and still perch and a few nests beside the cow. live in Hardin: Ivon, M[...]this was all sod, only a small amount of land could be "broken" at a time with one team and one man.[...]R-CABLE cultivation and a large ditch had to built that brought My fa[...]y, in Bridger. Mother now raised a fair sized garden and Oxford, New Jersey. They m[...]My birthplace completed, my father dug a cistern under the back was a small house on the corner of First Avenue North porch and filled it, spring and fall, from a pipe run from and Thirty-First Street which was on the outer edge of this ditch. Later he put in a pump. Before that the town as the business secti[...]on the south side water was obtained from a bucket on a rope. of the tracks.[...]ng Joliet, Montana where my father had charge of a milking to graze on these foot hil[...]was five years old and I was Lodge. Our home was a small log cabin-as were all seven, we started to school in a small building about others. The cracks between[...]th one mile from our home. The term was a three month mud. The only heat was a wood and coal burning cook summer term[...]to school in the small mining town of by hand on a washboard, heated her water in a large Gebo, one half mile north of what is now Fromberg and boiler on the stove. Light was a kerosene lamp which four and a half miles from our home. I drove a one horse had to have kerosene put in every day,[...]d running water in the house and father would get a quarter of beef and hang it on the elect[...]younger. I was now eighteen years always tied to a hitching rack some distance from our old and would be allowed to teach school by passing a house, I was always "picketed out!" on a rope when out State Teacher's Examination[...]born while we lived in first school (a four month term) at Bee Hive School in Joliet.[...]Clark's the following summer. I then got a six-month ry.iral Fork of the Yellowstone River w[...]Normal again at homesteading. My father filed on a hundred and sixty Dillon that spring qu[...]ere in the spring. Father and then offered a contract for a nine month term in two other homesteaders pooled[...]r and we two girls taught here three and a half years. At this time a mid- lived in a tent, father , too, when he was home. Our[...]water was hauled in barrels on what was known as a Red Lodge. The Was hoe School Board released me. I "flat boat," from the Clark's Fork River over a mile taught this second grade room unti[...]I married and moved to Denver, Colorado. I lived a crude sled. A place cut out for the barrels to fit into so in[...], 1931 , when my husband was they could not slip, a chain fastened around them and killed. t[...]o little boat" was drawn to and from the river by a team of daughters-two and a half years and ten months horses. Our bill[...] | |
| that winter and summer. I obtained a rural school, nine where they were sent to Eng[...]g months term, at Fox and taught here for two and a half those who brought in the last trainload,[...]six At the end of that, Mr. Skeie offered me a teaching weeks found himself in France. He had[...]s there until the Armistice was signed. He earned a Herbel, Flagstaff, Arizona and Margret Taylor, Co[...]Ft. McKenzie into a hospital. There he met and married[...]had become a school teacher like all of her brothers and[...]ank Hatch's plumbing business, in 1929. Pearl had a[...]active in many organizations. Matt was a Mason and a[...]home to find his fortune in the West, working as a business he continued to keep busy in managing a small journeyman plumber in many parts of the Wes[...]uster Battlefield Cemetery. British Columbia with a cousin, but the second year it Matt resides a[...]ian Pacific Hotel with Frank Hatch (who later was a plumber in HISTORY OF EARL CA[...]Cammock On the train going to Calgary he met a man who Born near Bozeman, Montana. In early childhood had a horse ranch, and he offered him a job. While lived in a log house. Had two sisters and five brothers. wai[...]Two brothers died in their early childhood. One brother, the man who ran the Livery Stable in Didsbury, w[...]ge 99, is still he was waiting, suggested he take a ride with him out living in Billings, Montan[...]Attended school an average of three months a year to be a person who had known Matt's family in Nova[...]a. Farmed in Joliet, Scotia, so he took him on as a cow hand. When the war Montana most of his early life. started Pat Burns got a contract to deliver a million In 1916 moved to Hardin, Montana and took up a dollars worth of beef on the hoof, in Live[...] | |
| [...]923 moved to Joliet, Montana and farmed with his brother Leslie. In 1924 married Ruth Elarth and lived in[...]he winters since in Arizona or travelling. Bought a trailer and travelled through Mexico and Florida. Have a son, Earl Cammock, M.D., Mount Vernon, Washington, and a daughter, Charlotte, Mrs. R. D. Hamilton, in Word[...]rls were of school age. from Cedarvale, Kansas in a covered wagon train in Henry leased th[...]They liked California and wanted to buy a fruit orchard and then bought a ranch on Piney Creek and homesteaded live there, but Henry had his heart set on a cattle ranch. extra joining land. Henry planted a row of trees along The fruit orchard they almost bought is now North each side of a half mile lane leading to the house from Hol[...]Hills in Big Horn County. A year later they bought the Henry was a young man at the time of the Johnson Belche[...]ley, which joined the County Invasion in Wyoming. A rider went thru the Pine Hills ranch.[...]h, and all the young men Hardin, and had a lovely three bedroom modern ans wered the call and went to Buffalo to meet the in- bungalow. A year later a large hip-roof barn, vaders. During his life time[...]ad never read house, machine shed, and a pig house were built. A " Banditti of the Plains" by Asa Mercer, his stor[...]e paralled the story as told in this book. He had a keen wired for electricity. A new well was drilled up along the sense of accura[...]e entertainment at the ice cream socials and P.T .A . Line Ditch and the Highline ditch were[...] | |
| [...]Henry was a lover of horses. He raised saddle[...]on a ship at New Orleans, the gang plank came open[...]In 1926 the Campbells moved to a ranch four miles[...]River Valley, orth Dakota. The farm house, now a[...]a log cabin beneath part of it.[...]got a Liberal Arts degree, 1903. He then went on to[...]Cornell University, working toward a Master's for a[...]Henry Campbell believed in an opportunity for a California made him a Doctor of Engineering. good education. He served[...]hool In 1906 he married Bess Bull, a childhood board, both in the Fairview and Communi[...]erved Wheat Company . Their first child, a son, died at three. many years as County C[...] | |
| established a home in California. She could not live in a Long before World War II, foreign governme[...]had sought his children spent the warm months at a ranch north of advice about a program for grain production. This Hardin.[...]that Winston Churchill had invited him to be a consultant some tracts of Government land in Mon[...]The Blitz, 1941. Churchill equipped him with a helmet. President sent him to Secretary of the Interior Lane, Entering the U. S. Air Force as a colonel, he took with whom he scoured Montana, l[...]tana The last year of the war, he became a brigadier general Farming Corporation, approved[...]acreage. The farm was managed, and still is, from a Hardin headquarters and four "camps". In 1947, it produced a half million bushels. In 1948, it was first to us[...]ruck used Tom Campbell was made a Commander of the for hauling wheat[...]ceremony in Washington. The Crow Tribe made him a told that during the Depression, rather than let[...]ep wells could make large appeared in a French magazine, French fan mail came irri[...] | |
| [...]College in Cincinnati, ago, his Stutz Bearcat was a familiar sight in these Ohio. While teaching he met and married Cornelia parts. Now it's a sheltered relic of the tall man with the Thomps[...]in Henning, Illinois until he decided to become a· far-[...]souri in 1916 School was built and was an officer of the association where both had been raised, fo[...]hich took over the Hardin-Custer Telephone Co. He brother lived. Later they both found work on a ranch was always interested in community affairs and gave near Reedpoint, he as a ranch hand and she as a cook. generously of his time and talents.[...]of whom lived near-by. He passed away in birth of a child, there being no doctors close by. She was[...]n, got sick so they left home in their first car; a· Model T, which they called a Tin Lizzie, for town. They did not arrive until two a.m. because the drifts were so bad. Some had crust[...]e feet deep. In 1933 the Carpenters moved to a farm on the Little Horn in Big Horn County near D[...]l in Hardin and helped with the farm work. He was a member of the Armed Services in World War II spen[...]sister Berneice, (later Mrs. Merle Bowers), brother December 27, 1911. They moved to a farm south of St. Harold, and myself. Unc[...]til his retirement in 1960. 1920 I bought a place about a mile from the home place, They moved to Ha[...] | |
| [...]District 16-a most interesting experience. My father[...]responsible for building a telephone down the valley.[...]away in 1967, and in July 1968 I married a long-time[...]ecember 26, 1876. Her father was James B. Cooper, a[...]Margrete Wallace, a daughter of a French fur trader. Wedding picture of Lloyde and[...]in Flenington, Penn- In the early days we had a literary society which sylvania, in 1856. His[...]the violin, Howard Cone the flute, E. K. about a year after the Mayflower. Like his ancestors, Bowman the bass horn, U. S. Miller the cornet and I being a brave and born explorer he came west at the age p[...]ers and and was attracted to Montana. Being a good cook he dances at Foster hall, and at Nine Mile hall which had got a job cooking for a roundup. been built by the Farmer's Union. We had Sunday He married Martha Schenderline, a widow, and School at Nine Mile until 1917,[...] | |
| [...]r, there was a large group of Indians camped there. Very few[...]two weeks, and is buried on Rotten Grass creek, a little head[...]The Chathams built a four room cabin on Rotten Grass near a large spring. 'l'he old Bozeman trail went[...]ch as guns , a bayonet, old forks and knives and even a drum stick.[...]spring, I found a man's ring, at that time I didn't know it was hand made with a real piece of t urquoise. Another time I dug up a child's ring with " Darling" on[...]They built a nine room house in Lodge Grass where[...]done with horses and seeding the fields was from a Ira L. Chatham, age 18 large tubful of grain in the back end of a wagon and hand broadcast. Cutting the grain was with a horse drawn binder and shocked by hand. It was a big day when[...]There was always a large crew, besides the neighbors[...]between. About once a year the Raleigh man would[...]family candy and gum. My mother would buy a supply of sp[...]liniment. We had a lot of company stop in on the way[...] | |
| [...]Library Association; happen on these outings was a big rain storm. At night, State Membership C[...]st Library My mother would find time to tan a couple of deer Association; Secretary for t[...]hides during the smmer, that was quite an art and a real of the Pacific Northwest Library Associ[...]y for two harness. Both my mother and father were a good nurse years; local President for th[...]Gillette Building for awhile then moved to a larger one HISTORY OF HAZEL RENNIE CHRISTIANSE[...]Horn cards, dancing, etc. Kenneth was a member of the County. At the time, I was the Refe[...]ana in my late teens. I attended Rocky library in a deplorable condition, as no trained per-[...], reference or children's books. I found it to be a father had a large cattle ranch. They sold that spread very he[...]e Tongue River, then sold that and As I was a total stranger intown, I wondered where moved to a ranch near Lodge Grass. Later they sold I would find a place to live. However, I did not have to th[...], for I was invited to live with Mr. became a builder, which was really his calling, for he and Mrs. Lawson Winslow, who I found to be a most enjoyed it much more than ranchi[...]ty library and he assisted in building schools-to a bridge party and to meet me. This I v[...]hes the library had during the time I was not say a thing about it. I just "bluffed" my way along.[...]Ever since then I have enjoyed bridge and am a Schools, Bea Dahle, County Red Cross Nurs[...]inners they were-each in trying to find a certain school or ranch. One time a one a real banquet![...]the Brown, then County Supt. of Schools, who was a roads or trails looked alike to us (I think I was with wonderful neighbor and a warm and close friend. Nellie Brown)[...]During the years I lived in Hardin, I became a us, for we could never have found[...] | |
| [...]almost every Saturday night at the school or at a ranch store and P. 0. at Kirby, they continued to[...]y horse and buggy, and t he rest of the way on in a different direction. In this way I always felt I took horseback. There were a few deaths, and the perscns a very personal touch of the library to the many[...]ts in the community as and my mother for a ride in it. In 1915 my father well, where the schools were not near a branch library. bought his first car-a 1915 Cadillac. Since there were During the y[...]e she one by the one t he neighbors got a car. The cars made many warm, close and cherished[...]the horse and buggy did. passed away there after a long illness in 1943. From that tim[...]fork, Red Lodge, Absarokee, and borrowed a horse and rode out to the horn tead to get a what is now the town of Hardin. All three brother[...]au I thought the Indians would scalp m . He built a one-room log cabin, then went back to In-[...]d then for the windows and supplies for a year. While he was by horse and buggy to the cabi[...]as there were rattlesnakes, a well a many other I was born May 12, at the Cheyenn[...]to the grey wolves and coyotes howled a lot at night; I never one room cabin. Four boys were born over a period of a learned to shoot a gun . The nearest railroad was at few years and each time a new baby came along my Crow Agency, where we went when we wanted to sell father built on a log room till he had a seven room log cattle or pick up supplies th[...]hould have some schooling. find . He built a one room school on a little hill not far from The range was[...]d also paid the cattle when he came upon a group of Indian killing a teacher. In 1909 the County formed a school district cow. He tried to stop the[...]of thought we were fancy with varnished desks and a two lines of people who were t[...] | |
| [...]. He still sewing and tried to go to town twice a year, once in the has his bed roll from those[...]s as well as Terry, Montana they ranched in a canyon in the shirts, and dresses for myself an[...]to reach Lame kitchen and bedroom contained a bed, table, chairs, Deer to pick up the packages. cook stove, cupboard and a rocking chair. Water was When someone went to Lame Deer, he picked up carried from a nearby spring. Wood and lignite coal everyone's[...]were used for fuel. Potatoes were stored in a cellar. it off at the centermost house, where th[...]. a milk cow, chickens, as well as a dog and a cat. A little The first school building we had out on Sarpy w~ a farming was done with a plow, harrow, mower and a little log building that everyone helped build.[...]s very rough and slivery. We sent to Chicago for a teacher, who arrived during one of the worst storms of the year. She was a young girl and was afraid to stay as she was sure[...]en hired. She had five students. There was a dance somewhere about every week, so everyone pac[...]ble with the Indians at the Even with a fire going your face would bum and your ranch. We[...]horses. back side would freeze. With a single plow we made a furrow and planted The Clements and f[...]s able to see Hardin come in the spring to a house in the Fourth addition. The out of the gumb[...]wasn't any bridge across the Hardin by a large grain field belonging to D. L. Egnew. river[...]The downtown section of Hardin consisted of a lumber there was a railroad bridge, but Hardin wasn't very big.[...]es, post office, There were three livery stables, a drygoods store, three dry goods stores[...]counties without ever moving". This was as a stock inspector and as a ranch hand. The ranches possible because the larg[...]e Clements, came by train to Montana in 1903 with a herd of cattle from the XIT ranch in Texas.[...]area in 1904. His earliest home was made Terry as a cowboy for forty dollars a month. He broke in Sheridan, Wyoming but h[...]con- Des Moines, Iowa there were only a few buildings and[...] | |
| [...]mpany. Then he and T. an active village: A staff of government employees and H. Mouat established Hardin's first meat market in a families. Nice houses were furnished these[...]There was also a mess hall for those who chose to eat His work as a county commissioner began when he there. There were many departments even to a was asked to finish serving a term of a previous county blacksmith shop, barns, light[...]mbly, Clifford was one of the first purchasers of a lot. teacher's quarters plus many buildi[...]Dad had only a box car for a house on the farm; he[...]Death of a little sister just before we came to[...]my sisters and brother raking turtles out of the[...]turtle fun a howling war cry of an Indian dressed in full[...]H. E. Clifford regalia on a nearby bluff nearly frightened us almost to Note:[...]1972, death. I gathered my sisters and brother and we ran for age 88 years.[...]and stood at the window with a rusty old .22 rifle poked[...]When school started we went to a school built close Ethel, along with her mo[...]river and the Indians had their own school until brother, arrived from Spokane, Washington in Hardin,[...]younger sister. We arrived in a Studebaker touring car. Our While living in the hotel my father ran a taxi to furniture followed us via box car. The St[...]lefield, in those days there was no age limit was a great pleasure and use in time to come.[...] | |
| My father had a dance band: Jeannette Clarke, my As time advanced Dick Warren had a Ford school school teacher was pianist, Jack Da[...]weighed #43 would go through to Hardin at 4:00 A.M. so many beets for Holly Sugar before th[...]th went to work for Agency had running water and a light plant but we had Holly Sugar in 1937[...]completed and to carry our drinking water from a natural spring on both of us worked until r[...]. Onion creek some distance away. My father made a I joined the Congregational Churc[...]ould take turns pulling the handle back was a very devoted husband and father, and interested[...]I was nearly asphyxiated from the fumes from a Congregational Church in Hardin. Ira passe[...]made her home with us the past seven was as much a gamble then as today having hail, yea[...]and think we are very fortunate to have had a member, We had a large garden, grew and cured our own Mr. J. J. Ping, who established a Golden Age Trust meat, took our wheat to the flo[...]many years to come. I had a garden of my own and would sell vegetables to th[...]fun gathering most of the fruit as we would make a picnic of it and be gone all day. Being quite a tom boy I enjoyed climbing for the wild grapes. At harvest time my father had a pair of white mules with which I drove the wagons[...]nson], 1971 In time District 17-H furnished a horse drawn school bus with a stove in it for the winter. My father[...]tell you anything of by George Muth, and enjoyed a hot lunch for my interest or not, but if not there is always a waste basket services. close by, so about all I know is a history of my life here There was the Bapti[...]nd the depot besides the Harry Clifford had a first rate fresh meat market Agent was old C[...]Mr. Bateman was in and Richardson and Skipton had a general store with charge of the livery[...]over and talked to him and he was my first A. G. Carter also had a general store and the acquaintanc[...] | |
| My brother, William Cochran, was teaching school f1 )m[...]winning of World War One. It was a great day , My first summer here I worked f[...]sugar factory and when they ones so he got a lceg of high power and set it on a box on built the railroad they had to move the sc[...]e it is now located. and hung a tin cup on a nail close by and told you to My brother, Bill, taught the first term of school in help[...]1910. had ordered a new bell for the church and it was sitting[...]eral years and had many in- the bunch. A lot of people got lit up a little but everyone teresting experiences. I haul[...]efully and no trouble at all. I winter and he had a big black team that looked like happened[...]sheriff he had to go to Crow to pick up a Negro that was[...]and killed Gilmore and put a bullet in the deputy[...]near that had a gun went to Crow Agency. The place[...]that time the government police arrived on th e scene[...]In the year of 1915 I was working on the ditch a nd contract of hauling school children to school from G. L. Kent was in charge. At that time there was a Garryowen and I had the honor of drivin[...]Johnson 's, who in later high, so the church had a dirt hauling bee one day and years became my father-in-law , Naylor's (Ada, now anyone who had a wagon came and hauled dirt. G. L. Mrs.[...]wo wagons and kids and many more. half a dozen men with shovels and we filled in ar[...] | |
| [...]I helped build the sugar factory, and I drove a good share of the spikes in the floor of the wet[...]Jake served as a volunteer fireman and was also on I feel I have had a very fruitful and interesting life.[...]high school, the Jake active girls, and both had a church wedding in the Convers moved[...]old Congregational church. Each of the girls have a boy[...]His It has been very interesting living in a community[...]and I plan to spend the remainder of our lives in a fruitful retirement. ote: Talk given to the Hi[...]tomobile garage and repair shop. January of 1915 a second son, Jake Conver, came to Hardin to join[...]later sold and Dad Conver retired. in a horse-drawn bus, driven by Harvey Kurzhals, a The Guy Conver family moved to Boise, Idah[...] | |
| [...]had a free ride. Free beer was served the men on one[...]the Tongue River the Torske twins, who lived only a short time. Cheyennes went on the[...]around and heard a voice say "Know me only in the[...]whom Father had earlier done a favor. Father told the[...]the line a chunk of lead would come flying, you started[...]Park City where he ran a dairy. In 1908-09 he moved to When World War I ended, Hardin had a real the mouth of Sorrel Horse Creek,[...]y rode his horse into stores and Valley. He had a place near Guy Van Cleve's.[...] | |
| In 1907 my brother Ernest and I had a bunch of out in the hills, it began snow[...]About where Toluca for the night, but saw a light and thought it was Mrs. is there was a heavy snow storm; we herded them down Hel[...]acks, and never went any further- I needed a bed. I'd had no dinner, but when she asked me bought a place right in that area.[...]es. Ernest hungry. She said they had had a big dinner and there and I broke horses for the S[...]Much later I was being considered for a job in the Cook started the Sorrel Horse school.[...]and an addition was built. Mary Van in a good word for me. That meant more to me than Clev[...]oney! Irwin was the second grade teacher; he used a hr ·se- June 18, 1914 I married Edna[...]tools, as well as household belongings, for a small fee. The family settled on a farm about four miles west of[...]Hardin. The town had a few stores and a population of[...]Mr. Cook went to a country school, Washington[...]cemetery. He and his brother Tom were the janitors at[...]the school for eight dollars a month. They had to come[...]children came to school by horseback, or in a school l. to r.: Mary Marjorie Findlay, Eunice Hudson, bus. This bus was a covered wagon pulled by a team of Edison, Jr., Mr. Cook, Bobby, Mrs. Cook, Alfreda horses with a small stove in the back of the wagon for Simone,[...]in the Pine Ridge area. way to school for a Spelling Bee, riding horseback. Mrs. Helwich aske[...]w was Norris described an animal she 4ad fed from a crusted. Suddenly one boy on a Shetland pony fell bucket- she knew all of its ma[...]the pony's sharp hooves. been missing six years. A mean old fellow, Gayley, was The boys had quite a time digging him out of the snow. suspected of stealing the cattle. I'd tangled with him A school for all grades was built in 1910 in Hardin[...]'em. I placed them around an area, where down in a eight teams to school and made a track behind the draw I'd spotted about two hundr[...]t toward my Melvin Cook's horse was a buckskin that "couldn't be gang. One of the cows[...]ice to feed them. it, and told him it belonged to a poor old couple; he'Said Another time he went into Sawyer's store and heard a "There might be a reward"; "That cow's been here six chirping sound. He picked an egg out of a bunch which years and you've had her calves-ain't that reward a girl had brought in to trade for candy. The store clerk enough?" I answered. I hate a thief! That was one gave him the egg,[...]s so glad to get those cattle back to their a pet. rightful owners.[...] | |
| [...]his cow ran away. The first winter they lived in a tent for the City of Hardin until his retirement in 1973. on Pine Ridge and ran a saw mill. He had to build his[...]vered wagon. When she was eleven she wasn't a doctor in the area then. At that time there was in the fourth grade during a four month term. She were a lot of cattle and sheep around. These were walked[...]ertainment was an occasional taffy pulling party, a other goods shipped in wheelbarrows across[...]en Charlie started growing other crops he had was a quite large house. It was lighted by candles and to use a single-blade hand plow for the plowing. The kerosene lamps. They cooked on a wood, coal, or corn hard job was made even[...]fuel stove. All the clothes were made at home on a alfalfa grow there for a couple of years. When harvest treadle sewing machine, except for twice a year a time came around he had a mower, which all of his seamstress would come to[...]borrowed. There were plenty of times when made on a loom, and for padding they would use straw;[...]had they were nailed down but would come up twice a year to worry about water for his crops. There was a coulee to be changed. Most of the houses were eit[...]telope, but grandmother also had, in their house, a large organ there were a few deer on Pine Ridge. which you pedalled and a phonograph which you wound Every two or three weeks they would have a square up. The diet was pork, beef, fish, chicken[...]dance at somebody's home. The music was played by a corn, beans, tomatoes, apples, peaches, and pears[...]ese When my grandfather was thirteen he worked on a dances sometimes lasted all night. ranch for fifty cents a day. In 1920 C[...], Hardin, Montana. the Holly Sugar Corporation as a Field man. He was Note: Mr. Corkins was p[...]irasago and Koyama families to the Big H for a total of over thirty years. He also served as Hor[...]e of 84. Cool has recently left Hardin to live in a retirement home in Billings. Both Mr. and Mrs. Co[...]Horn County, Montana when I was a few weeks old.[...]lmer, Jean Francis, Dean Clarence and Wilber even a light wagon down Main Street.[...]When he first got here he had two horses and a 1930, mother married H . W. Wyrick, who had three cow, a walking plow, one section of furrow, a bag of children-Harold W. Wyrick, Wi[...] | |
| [...]r Sometimes they would sing and keep time on a tub for Frank and Pearl to come from school. We[...]he back off house. This was eight logs high, had a log floor joist the girls toilet, then bent the nails and set it back up. and a log roof joist and no ceiling. The kids would com[...]sight by the corner of the school section, nearly a down. All three holes were full. We did get[...]One winter we found a coyote that Jim Gibbons I remember hauling[...]e. He was frozen Aunt Florence's house. They had a spring. We had a and we could make him stand up, so we t[...]ouse, pried the door open and propped him up put a little piece of board in the barrel to float on t[...]she had forgotten something. We got in a little trouble we rode on the stoneboat we would get wet. Sometimes mother would put a cloth over it if it was dusty on the over t[...]t sweet buns, hoot owls and cactus. Although when a coyote howled, put them in our shirt fr[...]time we were playing little farm, which we played a Browny got bit by a snake. She limped for several lot in the summer. We would build us a little barn and months. But I was bit nearly every day by cactus. house, and a fence. This day we were using potatoes,[...]were going to put all the potato horses in a hole if she[...]when my little brother saw mother he called, "I didn't[...]had to pick choke cherries and plums, two gallons a[...]chapters and I am Mother raised a lot of turkeys. We would have to not out of the f[...]It was about 14 by 30 feet. It had twenty- a chicken hen. My Dad worked away from home a lot one seats, most of them home-made, windows al[...]ams, and when he came home, he used to sing side, a door in the east end, and a blackboard on the to us kids. He would ta[...]nt of the black rock them and sing. He had a deep voice, which none of board and a big wood burning sto~ in the middle of the[...]e, and listen for him. Sometimes when it toilets, a shed to put the horses in, and a wood shed. In was real cold, we could hear for a mile or so. The first front there was a play yard, but no equipment. We thing[...]the play yard there was the chains or maybe a horse would cough, and then we a flag pole. This reminds me of a story Old Shane, the would run to the hous[...]In trapper, told Frank and I one time, about his brother 1930 in April, my Dad was working for the Flying V who was so patriotic, he was taking a bath and someone when he got wet, caught p[...]old, and died!! to be a man and not cry. And I didn 't until I got alone.[...]ouse was used for church on some took a horse and rode up on the hill and cried all af- S[...]very night after the kids were in bed. We planted a had Bible school, we acted out the book of[...] | |
| [...]tana winter. We played Norwegian Whist about once a week. The grasshoppers and crickets ate everythin[...]started from Sheridan, Wyoming for Montana and a play until daylight. Then about once a month we went homestead. We got as far as the Harrington Place to a dance, either at Monument Creek or down on the[...]he next day we landed at river. Mother got $30.00 a month Mothers' pension. We the place we decided to call home. We lived in a tent would go to Decker, fill the car and we coul[...]go to Birney to file on this 320 acres of land. A couple of out. Then after that I worked for Joe Crackenberger, years later a law was passed and we were allowed to file forema[...]on another 320 acres. We built a small chicken house In 1934 I was eighteen y[...]worked on the county road in the summer bought me a Kodak, then we started to Hardin,[...]hird year he planted wheat. It did Wyoming we had a flat tire and no spare. Mother fine, but when it was almost time to cut, a hail storm wanted me to go on. I finally caught a ride. As we drove came up an[...]hail also took the roof off of our house, it was a tar cried again, but the people were watching me. paper one. A cowboy rode by during the storm and But toda[...]~ ~ I') _,..-a;P -t,l- -;;:,-~~-.._[...]to look after them and feed them grain once a day. So,[...]~L~ very old and one would die about once a week. The[...]we had no gun at this time to scare them away. as a boy of thirteen or fourteen years, and went to wo[...]th the Flying V. to a small hill. Our place wasn't fenced-no one had wa[...]rom the house I saw wild horses coming our way on a to Mexico with them as a mounted scout. When the[...]40 horses were coming at us on a fast gallop! I didn 't called back to the Wyoming[...]the stopped. I let out a yell and waved my apron at them. Wyoming 148th fi[...]come. Believe me I didn't take any more walks for a Wyoming. They took up a homestead on Post creek[...] | |
| I had planted a garden that year but it was so dry Frank g[...]I had to haul water about three-fourths of a mile. cakes but without flour they crumbled so he used a Sometimes when Frank was away working, I would get spoon to eat his lunch. I had a few young chickens up before the chil[...]house to drink for the Sometimes we would kill a cotton tail rabbit, but it was day. prett[...]Frank hauled coal 20 miles to Decker to a rodeo, in a wagon. It was quite a for John Stout, until he got the flu. He was re[...]in fifteen miles and all the picnics, we also had a Not much money was saved but we went back to club that met once a month. We would take whatever the homestead and[...]better, but it never happened. enjoyed it a lot. By now we had 9 children and 4 were born wi[...]On the 4th of July there was always a rodeo some seeing a doctor.[...]t some other family. One 4th we were having a picnic at Grandma to come and take care of the c[...]se the door. It think he would be gone more than a week. It kept was coming in two foo[...]before it divided warm. I decided I would go get a load of coal from the each way. This sto[...]was real cold and I felt started to build a fire in the stove, but it smoked and pretty sorry[...]warm afterwards. Then I there was a large table in the kitchen, and the beds ran out[...]had brought. So, of that. I took flour, lard and a few small things home we and everyone en[...]re I could go into the house. Flo had her feet in a by all. In April 1937 H . W. "Bill" Wyric[...]pan of snow to take the frost out of them. About a week married. Bill had 3 children. Harold[...]e got to Adsits we stayed and works in a Vet hospital. Frank, Jr. lives in all night. The[...]olt, Spokane, Washington, is retired with a medical illness. so we borrowed a horse from the Adsits and left our Ar[...]r Metz horse there until we came back. There were a number of Beer and Ice company. E[...] | |
| Goldenglow, Washington and is a housewife and or rode when a horse was available, horses were needed mother. J[...]ol we had to Dean was killed at I wo Jima, he was a medic in the cross the river on a swinging bridge which the boys Marines, he was on[...]abin; my mother worked there 20 years and now has a medical retirement and some of the other wo[...]ull snakes that crawled As I remember it was a bright day in early May, in. Later on an unused school building from somewhere when as a child of six I came to Big Horn County from was moved into a more central area and there I com- Wyoming, 8 miles north of Decker in a wagon packed pleted the eighth grade, a teacher from another school with the last of our belongings and a milk cow trailing in the area giving me my e[...]ter Charlotte and Here we also built a community hall, where all our myself. Later we w[...]ed the State line she said we are now summer a student minister came and brought services in Mon[...]the nearest phone was five. So, I can remember as a By the time we reached the flat where Dad ha[...]ad it had started to rain and was call for a doctor when my brother was born. However he getting dark. A small wooden frame house had been proc[...]hbors helped one another clamations when we found a claim jumper had taken and oft times t[...]years were not too happy as the cattle- from a deep well, one hundred and twenty-five feet , men[...]which we had drilled with horses, it was a long slow grazing land and tilling the sod. I vag[...]ss but eliminated the trips to the spring two and a cold winter nights, the howls of the mountain lio[...]d to fill the barrels and then which sounded like a woman screaming; the coyotes watch car[...]gh, I can't remember being too reality a moving store traveling the more than sixty lonely[...]buggy, by horse back when the roads about one-and-a-half miles away. W. T. Rooks, the were[...]whatever else a farmer or rancher needed, and couldn't There[...]ill see the big big sum of eight dollars a month unless I was cooking, barrels of lemonade a[...]he games. era when everyone was searching for a job. Our first years of school were s[...] | |
| [...]Mary Ellen (Mrs. alone when our folks had to make a trip to Sheridan, David L. Iserman) and[...]sts were already up. Being kids we could think of a lot of things that would be more fun than watching cattle and of course a lot more import~nt-so we proceeded to pull bindin[...]les. We tied this together and proceeded to build a two wire fence around the stack. It worked too.[...]building in Hardin at this time was a little general store[...]was owned by a Mr. Spencer. At that time the depot[...]over the R. R. Bridge on a wheelbarrow. The second business in Hardin was a saloon located in a tent and[...]anything she could get. She bought a cow and calf from[...]er earnings, also feed, etc. Their first home was a HARRYE.COX dugout, a little later they added a tin shack, and lived in Harry Cox, born in Billings 1902, the son of Mr. this for a couple of years, until a cyclone came and blew and Mrs. Wm. Cox, was for t[...]ty, retiring in January Ridge and built a two-room log house. They built their 1968. He had[...]1912. They hauled all their firewood and lived on a farm about four miles west of town. He from[...]he second county in Mr. and Mrs. Cox made a trip from Billings which took the state to install a machine bookkeeping system to two days. They had a tent for shelter when night came. modernize its work. That night a very strong \\ind came up and blew their He was a very active member of the Baptist tent flat to the ground. On this same trip they lost a church, as well as of the Republican party. In 19[...]he first well on the bench was dug on the Cox was a member of the Association 's legislative c[...] | |
| [...]er they settled there two other shop was a busy place, equipped to shoe the horses and famil[...]ed for neighboring ranchers at the roundup B. A. Erickson, son-in-law of Mrs. Cox, made all[...]delivered by their father. Gladys came in a February[...]lizzard in 1916. The Dodge couple lived less than a[...]OF JOE AND NORA event but a picture taken after the storm shows a deep CRACKENBERGER[...]as and signed on as roundup cook in Nebraska with a herd on the way to Sheridan, Wyoming. He stayed i[...]uman Furman and Eliza Butterfield. Her father was a traveling Baptist Minister. She had studied nursi[...]sic and her training was useful as she came brother, Chester and sister Winnie came to teach. west to join her brother, Will. Her work, delivering Nora's niece,[...]rs. babies and other nursing jobs and joining her brother Chas. Penson) came about the same time. It was a three playing for the community dances, took her[...]In 1924 Joe took a job for the Flying V to winter[...]corrals, a new log bunk house, laid out and built[...]d in bors and newly arrived relatives, they built a log cabin, Hardin in 1936.[...] | |
| [...]the country. A couple of the boys thought they had race[...]years used to work through a large part of Wyoming.[...]gotten a new gun. He wanted to try it out. There were[...]some ducks on a lake. He got 4 out of 5. He took them Gladys Kluk[...]down to the round-up camp. He asked a Portuguese[...]ellow there if he wanted them. "I'll taka the one-a." the[...]. "what the thrown man had river. Later he bought a ranch near Ulm, Wyoming. He to say woul[...]in the early days. Quite a few men made their living[...]from tape recordings "wolfers". Such a man was Ben Rheinhart. Dad knew My father, J[...]ghlin was running was riding, his horse went into a fence and his foot was the wagon at the time[...]thought that they would have to track down a wolf. They found the den and decided to amputate[...]weeks in the sure that he could get out in a hurry in case the wolf Sheridan, Wyoming hospital, he was well enough to go was in there, they tied a rope to one of his feet. Ben got to Spear's Bitte[...]n and gave the signal that the wolf was Gollings, a well known artist of the Sheridan area, came[...]eating Ben up so to the ranch, bringing with him a 30-40 Krag. Bill was he had better act qui[...]the horse and practice Jesse beat Bill. There was a beaver dam near down the hill he went. Be[...](Ben was better alright with the cowboys, it made a good place to water known as Rheinie). "It[...]umped over while Bill was out painting, Jesse saw a blue heron on him as she came out. " Anoth[...]aimed at the for the OW outfit. They gave him a team of little mules middle of the bird. I missed and shot high, about a foot, for his wolfing cart. The mules were ge[...]told him I'd never from Texas and had had a brush or two with the In- shot a gun that size in my life, that I shot at the old dians on the way. The mules got such a fright in these heron's head but it fell a little bit low, just cutting his brushes that w[...]o start out but one mule was lame so it. That was a good shot! " he hitched a pony up with the other mule. He got his A fellow named Tug Wilson, worked on some of the[...]getting along just fine. good cow-ponies; one was a good pony but terribly Some Ch[...] | |
| [...]n the same side as Wards and purchased a kitchen cabinet, dining table, the pony and they[...]k down into the couch (which made into a bed), a white iron bedstead, cart. The mule ran until he lost scent of the Indians and mattress, and a little dressing table and chair for the stopped.[...]up-stairs bedroom. Earlier Jess had had a log house These stories and others are on tape recordings built on the homestead which had a kitchen-dining that Dad made for us.[...]story upstairs was used for a bedroom; there was a cook AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF LUCIA TIPTON[...]5-1940, was blue and grey shoes looked a sight by the time we born in Indiana and my mothe[...]luckily she had brought They wanted me to become a teacher trained to teach some lemonade. deaf children and that is what I did. While taking a On Saturday night we had gone to[...]everal couples with Massachuesetts. I heard about a family in Lodge cowbells, etc. h[...]nted an oral teacher for their baked a cake, and we had bought some candy. I made little[...]three dozen Plymouth Rocks from Mrs. It was a long journey but we finally reached Lodge[...]aped injury. Fern's classroom in one end. She was a very bright We had lots of wood and[...]used for cooking and heating. We had a garden, I 1915. The first week I was there the La[...]s, beans, and beets the cold pack method ; having a chicken pie supper at the school house; Mr. when I had extra fryers, I canned them. We also got a Young brought Jess Criswell, a cowboy for the Spear pig, fattened i[...]thes as I'd always ridden side- saddle, so making a khaki divided skirt was necessary.[...]could get title. He there on Sunday he would get a black horse from the[...]which I really liked. One day while riding we saw a large herd of pinto ponies which were[...]e Mr. and Mrs. Sutton, Guy Bealls, Jeff organized a Sunday School and a Literary Society. Dinsdale, Zelmer[...]Mr. and Wyoming to the Crow Fair they would have a dance in Mrs. Walley from Billings,[...]ines, Stark Bairs, and Polly Lynde, who was later a County Commissioner, and Jaroz-b[...]proved up. Sometimes we would Grover Swartz built a large barn with a hay loft; when get together on the 4th of July- I usually took a freezer it was completed the dances were held the[...]of ice cream and fried chicken. We had a small ice house McDowell played the violin and Bu[...]merican Legion building. in a new Model T Ford. After dinner Mrs. Cranford said Jess filed on a homestead on the west side of the "I'll[...]I were married in the Methodist par- a bobcat-he soon became a rug-and another time a sonage at Toronto, Kansas July 15, 1916. W[...] | |
| Jess had a well drilled in 1915; it was 165 feet deep, The work horses he used were purchased in a sales as they had to drill through several layers of solid rock, barn in Billings, Montana. He kept a few horses, but no and even so had a slight soda taste. Later another well cows for a period of time. was drilled in a coulee and it still furnishes water for[...]in Billings before returning to Michigan for a few years. Hardin; Mr. T. E . Gay, who had a hardware store, gave In 1906 she and her[...]tay. good coffee. In later years Charlie Eder had a hardware The Crouch family then moved to their farm home. store and J . J . Ping a dry goods store. Mr. Crouch cultivated and raised a variety of crops for Mrs. Hubbard, one of[...]for many years. full . She took them to Hardin on a Saturday, and sold Mr. Crouch marri[...]ave lived in Hardin since then. A MONTANA PIONEER | |
| [...]To me, listening to the eighth grade read was a real Florence, Elizabeth, and Robert. Doctor Tuck[...]ing family, with Frances, Ernestine, Gayland, and a baby tale, and I haven't read it since. le[...]ch we from the section house Frank Wagner and his brother. have Donald Lewis to thank- a particualr pal of my The parsonage was down by the river, and Aline, brother and me. Marjorie, and Ormsby Burgess walked throu[...]departing, she was after him. Like Maudie, he was a the Graham family arrived, the first children fro[...], duty, and, to our astonishment, was a great runner Myrtle riding a side-saddle. I had never seen one before, herse[...]an Don's, and snow lay but was too shy to ask for a close look. The Grahams on the ground. Bug[...]were all big kids-Tillman and Bill, I think, and a boy dows. Don gave the escape his all. Cut o[...]gate, he sped across the playground in a wide circle. children of Bill Humphrey were Maud,[...]ere was no observable punishment. grown up. A narrow sidewalk of two by twelve planks laid[...]ig Horn Co. , Montana from Fertile, Minnesota, in a big cottonwood in the grove behind the school-a[...]ll bundle of blankets and canvas firmly lashed to a[...]ime. played porn-porn-pull-away, prisoners' base, a few circle Jim, who had filed on a homestead in 1906, met games, and mumbletipeg (pr[...]took him to the sheep camp winter, we could make a big fox-and-geese ring. We did where his brothers were working for the Ash Sheep Co. a lot of running and chasing. Maudie Humphrey was a This company was owned by Chris and Peter[...]y thousand head of Just inside the door were a big iron stove and the sheep. The shearing wa[...]y. fuel box. The water bucket and dipper stood on a table Then grandpa was made caretaker of the[...]he door were the hooks for coats. was stored in a shed at the shearing pens until it was The rest o[...]time, was bringing fifteen cents per classes. In a front comer was our library, from which we pou[...]hen the wool was sold they moved to the Lou desk, a big chart with pictures and words for first grade[...]t five miles up the creek, to put up reading, and a "modem" little folding organ, which the hay,[...]Hom allotment, now owned looked at the picture of a squirrel, an animal unfamiliar by Robert Stoval[...]hay on four to me. Nowhere in the chart was there a prairie dog. hundred acres. It was a long "back-aching" job. The large, framed pic[...]office called Maschetah. Mail was delivered twice a and others.[...] | |
| [...]t in the Hope Grandpa eventually got a homestead of his own on pasture. Some were broken[...]school teacher, raised a family and decided that Big There were two[...]his Horn County was the place for him. brother Jim's that belonged to Bob Smith and his sister N[...]DAHL with one arm in the sleeve of his jacket and a won- Born in Wisconsin of Norwegian[...]he asked him where he was Signa Dahl was a truly dedicated teacher. She loved going. Shaking[...], Order of the Eastern Star, Lee Parish was a cowpuncher and trapper in the Rebekah's,[...]as wolves. At that time the counties were paying a bounty one of Hardin's strongest teachers.[...]Cross Chairman for on wolf pelts. When Lee caught a coyote, he would skin District 17-H for 25[...]ow Agency, Russel L. Danielson is a Hardin pioneer who truly was the cook for the she[...]always littered with ashes and tobacco juice. If a morsel His parents, Mr. and Mrs. Charles[...]y farm four miles north the sheep company but was a tough hombre. It was of Hardin. After[...]and sheep men and the cattle men, he shot through a moved to town shortly thereafter. sh[...]One job led to another. He became Hardin's City Police one day near Big Hom and being hard of hearing di[...]ow he's Frank Newbold, an Austrian, who was a line rider ready to retire from the bench.[...]rried Rachel Walker in 1925. They have two he was a band leader in Wyoming. He played the[...]Harlan cornet and clarinet very well. He lived in a dugout Danielson of Richland, Washington[...]d crosses Tullock. Later he children. built a two room shack and went to Austria to get his[...]Lodge. He was master of Sts. John Lodge No. 92, A.F. ran into difficulties when he tried to bring his bride & A.M., Hardin in 1941, and was chosen High Pr[...] | |
| [...]· by railroad • The He is past presiding officer of all the York Rite Chicago, Burlington and Q[...]Frank Douglas formed and entered into a partnership[...]spent the summers on a cattle ranch in Sonora State[...]pleasant. We lived a beautiful life, had all the things[...]that it takes to make a good life and spent our summers[...]Montana as a child was the high point of the summer[...]es however in regard to "ONCE UPON A TIME" attending school wa[...]Long Beach, California for one year. This was a treat There was a family consisting of a father, mother, and special privilege at that t[...]first grade teacher whom I dearly loved. She was a crone to Big Hom County to make their home. They[...]doll! I can also recall how frightened I was as a first their cherished friends and ranching enviro[...]Indian Reservation, commonly Health Officer. His deep voice almost frightened me out known as the "Ceded Strip" to run cattle, and buy a farm home, commonly known as the "Brooks Ranch" of my skin, but I later learned that he was a very kind located two miles directly east of Hard[...]a first for me, as I had probably never seen a poodle "Jack" had decided that he and his[...] | |
| [...]lace I've ever seen. And since this began as a "Fairy Tale", starting " Once Upon a Time." I feel that it should be short, but let me[...]In 1929 I bought a fiddle-learned to play it by ear[...]I borrowed a little boy's glove and without any practice[...]ELVINR.DAVIS a ball glove. I was born at Mason City, Iowa[...]gain. That same day I put on an made of logs with a dirt floor. The closest neighbor was exhibition ride at the old Crow Fair riding a cow with a five to fifteen miles away. In the winter flat ir[...]useum, paved roads and well tended cemetery. like a peeled onion and I have been called "Peely" for[...]ol. I the help of God and Dr. Chester A. Bentley, I made her graduated from the eighth gr[...]w living in my second ride I got throwed off into a pile of cactus. Dillon, Montana with h[...] | |
| [...]ars at the Holly Sugar factory and am now a little money, learned several professional round[...]r the Big Horn County square dances, met a lot of interesting people and had Road Dept., and[...]I am now semi-retired and am shrinking up with a very busy but wonderful year. I have been Rainbow arthritis of the spine and a muscle disease similar to Dad for over fifteen years and am a member of the Muscular Dystrophy. My goo[...]elping me I with these organizations. I have been a member of the could run as a "Streaker" and would have to start a Baptist Church since 1937 and have held many offices nudist colony. in the church and presently am a trustee. To all my friends[...]1895. The Dickson finances were at a low ebb. There[...]were four of us: my mother, father, my brother and[...]Rosebud, about a mile below the mouth of Corral Creek.[...]Dad had hauled in a small stock of what it took to start a frontier store. He and my brother built a log cabin that served as a store and living quarters. This little[...]Shortly, dad got his store business going and had a[...]owned a ranch near the present site of Busby. Between[...]35 and the girls, Minnie and Dot, also a son-in-law and his[...]family, the Conley's. Frank Shields had a sheep outfit up Trail Creek. J. J . Thompson, a plantation southerner[...]were a few settlers. Among them were the John[...]lived on Corral Creek. My brother, Jr., lives on Corral[...]go to sleep in a Cheyenne tepee and wake up at home where a squaw had carried me. I remember High Bear[...]A year after we came to the Rosebud, my father[...], and Clarice, 1946 mouth of Corral Creek. A little settlement sprung up[...] | |
| [...]st Office in his store. Mail came through once in a while from Crow Agency. Among the people who buil[...]y and other settlers built what we would now call a community hall. This was used for school, church,[...]the whites occurred. The settlers were ordered by a runner from Fort Keogh to gather at the OD and prepare for trouble. Dad was in Sheridan at the time. Mom had a cowpuncher take word to him, then boarded up the[...]ny white kids at one time. We built forts and had a lot of fun. We were really disappointed when the[...]of war at that time, which status they held until a few years ago. The Cheyenne Reservation was[...]ng to Lusk, Wyoming, homesteaded 40 acres two and a half miles west of consisting of a vast territory of free range. Huge sums Hardin.[...], few taxes, and I started school in 1911 in a house that belonged to little expense. The cattle were rounded up twice yearly a Mrs. Hansen. My teacher was Miss Eder. I later we[...]enished, the My father, George Dimbleby, was a brick mason. horses and riders were re[...]n the library, for several weeks at a time. This was hard living but theatre, Ping's St[...]estward for Montana, I guess we did not have a calendar-we went to settling on Pocket[...]as built close at the turn off, one chased me for a mile. I was so afraid, enough to the Big Hom River that a spring ice jam tore but when he caught up with me he handed me a bottle the kitchen from the front room,[...]safety of the I was on the Ranch when we had a cyclone. Hotses family was sought on high[...]fences. Wagners lived close by, Again a move was made west of the Big Hom and were withou[...]cattle, called the Texas long-horns, Hardin holds a spot in my heart, the others don't.[...] | |
| [...]hadows lengthened On their arrival, if greeted by a cold storm or blizzard, And death ends h[...]ware of the danger of the trip. So his wife sewed a pocket inside his underwear, placed the money ins[...]d carefully marked so it could be re-assembled on a bluff above the river. This two room log house boasted a large iron barrel with a loosely fit door for a front room stove. It stood on crude legs which was anything but a thing of beauty. Long logs were thrust inside it;[...]ry of electricity. The men of the household built a windmill which furnished electricity for the home. However, a choice had to be made. Eithe.r listen to the radi[...]een door for the summer. When Mrs. Douglas cooked a sumptuous dinner for W. C. [Bill] Dr[...]RAKE The water supply for the home was quite a prob- IN BIG HORN COUNTY lem. It came from a hand dug cistern replenished by a By Maude Drake spring which was a short distance from the house. M[...]ame by train to Hardin in February, 1918. ched to a flat bed on which stood two wooden-stayed[...]e log house was torn down and in its place stands a chinking fell out from between the log[...]ll's breath. I slept with the two little selected a log from the old house to have sawed and[...]ere his mornings made. We had a little cookstove with four lids and a Toiling through the sun's bright ra[...] | |
| [...]we would almost be standing on our heads to get a pail of water. We used old lumber scraps to make a table and we had MR. AND MRS. C[...]ee the spring of 1907, and filed on a 320 acre homestead in children all had the small[...]They lived in a log cabin until they could build a The first summer we had ticks and rattlesna[...]three room house. A son was born in 1913. thick as hair on a dog's back and I was constantly[...]wild bunch. They also had a few cows, chickens, and Also, we dug a little well that summer and put a little raised a big garden. Hay and cattle were the main pitcher[...]Vegetables were kept in a root cellar. Clothes and together. As he worked on this building, we lived in a[...]e gotten finished, he worked for the railroad for a few years. at the Crow Agency once a year. Then we decided to move out of town,[...]arpy Post Office. While on the farm, we had a team of horses and got a few milk cows and raised huge gardens. We dried c[...]rots, cabbage etc, and milk, cream and butter, in a dugout root cellar. Later we raised sugar beets and we did all the work by hand. I would make a trip to Crow Agency once a week in a one horse shay, " buggy" to take eggs and dressed chickens to customers there. At times we would have a can of cream to ship by train to Sheridan to the dairy there. Every fall I would catch a freight train at Garryowen and ride in the caboos[...]other day. I used Permillia Coolidge, a second cousin to Calvin a yeast starter for the bread. I washed clothes thr[...]the President of the United States, married times a week on the old washboard and all the white[...]wels, sheets, etc., were boiled on the old coal A year later their first son, Clyde, was born. He w[...]ert in Every summer the church would sponsor a Illinois and Bill, Alice and Ern[...]etc., and have many homestead. He built a barn 30 x 60 with a hay loft and games for the children. This[...] | |
| [...]R., then to Billings by the Northern over a three year period. During this period, he trucked[...]1968, Clyde Dygert sold his business and days and a night-and-a-half. retired. In 1969 and 1970 he oversaw the building of a An old saloon 18 x 20' which stood by the d[...]ough to was moved to the farm and converted into a kitchen, keep him -busy so in 1971 he beg[...]u. He has now retired rooms of the new barn while a hired carpenter and his again to fish, boat, hunt and travel to Mexico and helpers put up a two story house by August. The Canad[...]regon. carpenter worked for the Dygert family for a year. School District 17-H was getting orga[...]short of funds for buildings so Mr. Dygert built a school house across the road from their home. He[...]six pupils. Clyde, twelve years old, would build a fire at the school house each cold day before bre[...]d entered trucking full time. His first truck was a Ford one and a half ton which hauled farm products and coal.[...]ders of Toluca was shoveled out of the truck with a scoop shovel, hydraulic Ernest H. Dygert and[...]Dygert arrived later that evening in a freight car with[...]machinery. They had filed papers on a contested[...]chicken-house and sheds. A schoolhouse was built and[...]Big Horn County was founded as a county in 1913.[...]years after they left. One day in 1945, a woman rancher, Leone Crouch, Mr. and Mrs. Dygert owned a ranch near Luther came in to get him to haul a bull that kept wandering which they later[...]ix sons into running against "Butch" Clifford for a six year and two daughters and the[...] | |
| [...]es an International Harvester Custer on a certain day, to go down to the ranch. dealership[...]ry frightened, as we would have to ford operates a farm outside of Sheridan, Wyoming. Albert,[...]d where Hardin would later be located; just a barren, Lodge, Montana. Bill, who was quite famou[...]Great Falls, Montana. friends had given her a box of candy when we left There were twenty-two g[...]had gone to Fort Custer on the wrong day, and set a[...]In the meantime we had acquired a cat. To take him with us, mother cut a hole in a small valise to[...]eral people to see us off and someone gave mother a[...]could find a hotel. He said we should go to Junction as[...]It was satisfactory, but mother noticed there was a[...]ng of 1906, and we were held new bridge we saw a team and wagon crossing it, and up in Miles City,[...]nd as they came nearer we recognized bridges were a yearly occurrence in those days. To kill it[...], including mother and me, store as dad had a large load of "grub" to get for the climbed on th[...]d we came back to town only Dad had filed on a homestead the previous year, once more be[...]illings, we stayed at the Gage travel for a few miles. Soon we began to smell hotel for a few days, but mother was finally able to get a something and it was rather strong before mother room at the Cottage Hotel which also had a family thought of the wine in with the[...]ing room. She was trying to find an appartment or a course, and when they opened the valise you[...]place to live as we couldn't go to the such a poor, bedraggled cat. They set him on the ranch a[...]two teenage daughters for the the team to a halt, and proudly pointing to something sum.mer?[...]ears. When we reached the mother was able to find a room, with kitchen privileges, ranch we found a fair sized one room, frame shack, with with the G[...]n So. 28th Street. Mr. Gilsdorf floor, and a hitching rack for the team and saddle horse. operated a meat market just back of Yegen Brothers[...]e before. of the valise. Seeing a grimy looking towel hanging on We were still[...]e cat. Soon dad came in school, but went for only a short time as we received a and, glancing from the cat to the wal[...] | |
| [...]" That first summer dad dug a well so we didn't have Shortly after Christ[...]heep for Bair. He left someone with us have a small garden. Mother planted some bachelor who lived in a sheep wagon but came in for meals. He, but[...]stove wood, just outside after. Dad also dug a cellar, built a chicken house, and the back door. To me, it seemed almost as large as the set a tent on a frame foundation for the supplies that house. It was a good thing, too, as we had one of those coul[...]ellar. bitter, Montana winters that year and just a cook stove I had a swing, a little red wagon, a dog, stick to keep us warm, although I don't remember ever being horses and later in the summer, a real horse to ride. I cold. However, I do remember mother getting up in the had a finger in everything that was going on, much to n[...]always early spring, two men came passing by with a team and killed the rattlesnakes. She coul[...]shovel handle for her to use. She too. They asked a lot of questions about our neighbors called it her coup stick and every time she killed a snake on both sides, who also worked for Bair. Mother figured would cut a notch in it. they were probably claim jumpers. Ho[...]school Late in March or early May there was a big in Junction City. chinook and the[...]d -Thus ends my first year and a half in Montana. hear a loud roaring so we went up to the foot of the hil[...]t in the water, pretending to irrigate when I saw a team and wagon coming past the point of the hills[...]began arriving. During the winter mother had fed a flock of camp· robbers, which sat on our woodpil[...]1909. They homesteaded on orth Bench for a few buy sugar and flour by the 100 lbs., eggs by[...]years, then moved into town where Bill opened a meat case of 48 dozen, cases of vegetables, and e[...]r in the summer he went to Illinois with a load of cattle when the ac• there were chokeche[...]had catfish whenever we wanted them and a piece of steel flew out, striking him in the leg. Blood rabbit once in a while and, of course, prairie chicken.[...] | |
| [...], Arthur, Josephine, and Maddarine. The boys were a great help to their Mother-Robert always seemed like a father to Maddarine, who was only three when her father died. Our house was always a gathering place for the kids of the town, and I c[...]wedding breakfast was a miniature ranch in detail, I[...]was ill-prepared for life on a ranch. I had never lived in[...]What leisure time? It was a Fannie Merritt Farmer Cookbook and a knowledgeable husband that got me[...]We came directly to Montana in a borrowed Maxwell car, and lived in a tent while Francis was busy[...]building our first home on a piece of land he had leased[...] | |
| was used as a model of a typical American Indian by a Sheridan for one year. Then, Eileen was ready for New York City artist, and a statue of him is supposed school, so we bought a piece of land on highway 87 near to stand in the[...]ileen was married to Adolph Later, we bought a piece of land in the hills near Fink from Ro[...]d Frances Ann Fink. neighbors and friends gave us a house warming. We worked harder here, as we[...]ked bread every other day and cooked sweet com in a wash boiler kept for that purpose. We learne[...]ng device we got. At first, we carried water from a spring up a hill to the house. Next, we got a pump in the yard, then in the kitchen.[...]irst pole was set on February 11, 1941. This made a the Jim Brown family would often visit us[...] | |
| [...]graveled roads entering of Lodge Grass, and I was a member of the Legion Hardin. It was[...]and Sons Construction Company. It was a good thick[...]was laid, although it was a very dry year, there was rain DA YID L.[...]estry; they The Lammers Apartments, a two story building, came to Virginia and Kentuc[...]to Spencer County, Indiana in 1839. Center A venue and Fourth Street, adjoining the He was active in building a brick school house, named present Lammers B[...]ck was then vacant. At one time which I am still a member. My Mother's people came when fu[...]elly was appointed Fuel Administrator, and he put a for the North, and were attacked and robbed by[...]Lincoln's family, say, green cottonwood is a poor substitute for fuel. At and the Romines wer[...]I have hunted squirrels in the to Hardin. A portion of the block on the east side of woods surrounding the grave of Nancy Hanks Lincoln Center A venue between Third and Fourth Streets was before it became a National Park. I used a long muzzle- also used for a carnival, where later McDonald had a loading rifle and moulded my own bullets; I carried a grocery and Earl H. Menzer had a one man cigar powder horn and used a rooster spur for a measure to factory.The building now used b[...]ather, and two aunts Steam Laundry, with a slogan, "It's the Soft Water". homesteaded in Mo[...]Third Street ended at the 0. K. Barn, a livery stable, uncles, Bert and Sid Romine, home[...]th Dakota. In 1912 I came out to visit, worked in a located. store, and then went back to college[...]ut filtration. At that time the Mayor tendent of a high school in Indiana and we remained an[...]e and left it while we went to Uncle generate a large amount of electricity and when you Sid Romi[...]e driest year on record, and on June 6 Center A venue and Third Street, the Sullivan Building, th[...]have ever had. Feed was scarce and slough hay of a Streets, were the principal buildings d[...]very poor quality was shipped in from Nebraska at a Lee Building (now Wilson) and the Sullivan Building high price. Stockmen lost a lot of cattle and the ex- were both used a[...]mind Courthouse. the winter. I had bought a heavy overcoat with a big fur In 1926 the 50th anniversary of[...]hay was scarce generally, in the late fall I made a trip Sheridan and Hardin cooperated for a year in ad- up the Big Horn Valley, and th[...] | |
| [...]f the organization. We kinds of fruit, and a large garden . Everything was open- succeeded in[...]ey attended, In 1918 we moved to a farm near Centralia which as well as scores of old timers, including Charles had a six bedroom house on it. We were three miles Russ[...]Floyd Curry family- seven boys and three Golden, a member of the Seventh Cavalry, who received girls. Little did Leone and Madonna dream that two of a Congressional Medal of Honor for carrying water[...], landed on the Big Horn River and showed Dr. W. A. Russell and me the point of landing. He is the a[...]e it. You had to use ear- phones. Goldie received a broadcast from Cuba and thought he was in touch w[...]d roads and some people did not have cars, it was a sure sign of spring to see the people walking to[...]M r. and M rs. J. C. Elder it all the way. Being a frontier lover, the early days seem to have been[...]Mr. and Mrs. Elder, Glen, Madonna, and Leone a great future and hope that it remains free of pollution, caine to Hardin in a Model T Ford in April, 1925. dissension, or regimentat ion which might retard its Taylor, an older brother, and his wife, Lorene, were in future progress.[...]stayed in Missouri but later caine to Montana for a[...]bbitt girls, with the salary of thirty-five cents a[...]urry the official car for a colonel in the 7th Cavalry from We Elders liv[...]d Grandfather who Francis-came to Hardin a few months after we did. made his home with us for fifteen years made a happy Lee Curry and Leone Elder were married in October, family. Our Missouri farm had a large orchard of many 1926, and thr[...] | |
| [...]the restaurant business with my brother, Glen, usually[...]started a garage in Lodge Grass in 1941.[...]a rancher from Birney, Montana. We rode in two[...]months supplies for their ranch. The trip took a day and a half. Ranches nearby were the 0. W. owned by John[...]Taintor, a wealthy New York man. Taintor's plan was[...]two years, then ship them to Chicago, bringing in a like[...]a Cowboy. I wanted to become acquainted with the[...]Late in 1913 I took up a 320 acre homestead on[...]., fence we put around the land. I built a log house on my Madonna E ., Taylor E ., Howard C[...]There was a joke going around that when a man took up a homestead he bet Uncle Sam $50 he wouldn 't[...]lorado. In the fall of 1917 I received a notice that I was Madonna and Francis spen[...] | |
| [...]ore there was any town of Hardin. He and his wife a month then some of us were sent to Camp Mill, New[...]ry Regiment of the Addie and Rose. He built a story and a half log house Montana National Guard. We were tr[...]From Liverpool we went by train to A neighbor recalls that Mr. Ewers had a well by France to join the First U.S. Division as[...]e side of the road which had good drinking water (a The First Division fought many hard battles[...]ty in those days), and people usually stopped for a suffered more than 26,000 casualities. After the[...]In addition to other crops, he raised a large garden Montabaur Castle to stay for nine mo[...]getables, eggs, butter, milk and cream to Fort D. A. Russell where we were discharged. to[...]Colorado. acres. In 1945 I returned to live on a ranch I had bought I married Gus Lammers in April 1915 and we lived with a stone house built on it.[...]the hard work. We only kept about busy with a variety of activities. 75 head of cattle on the r[...]d for 3 months. I lived in Montana for half a century. The hospitality in my country impressed me. Anytime you rode up to a ranch you didn't need an invitation to eat or sta[...]again to the ranchers. When I left, I left behind a golden era.[...]is place to the County to "Daddy Ewers" - took up a homestead five miles north make it easier. There was a jog in the road at this point of Hardin, a[...] | |
| [...]Since one is prone to retain a more vivid memory of[...]rough spots along the way, I shall try to recount a[...]I had to make a trip from our headquarters on Shoulder[...]truck up the railroad track several A SHEPHERD'S MEMORIES[...]he road north of Spear Siding. Since I had to use a I, Henry Esp, moved from Big Timber, Mont[...]f Wyola, older son, and I were bringing a band of sheep home Montana, in the operation of[...]Sweet Grass County. I had always was a natural crank, and, at his very worst since he wa[...]not stakey and on the quit, we chose to dig a hole in the have chosen a more suitable place to live with them;[...]m that we were destined to morning with a "Happy Birthday, Dad" and later, after spend the[...]my and provisions for eight bands of sheep with a four- forty-ninth birthday. horse team[...]along the way, and I have mentioned but a few of those the same range, an arrangement abou[...]The Faddis and Spear interests have been a part of I sold our sheep and the ranch we had acq[...]some time. son, who, unlike his father and brother, was never Spear-Zimmerman Catt[...]R. M . Faddis, Willis M. Spear, D. B. business as a way of life. He and his family still operate Zimmerman and H. C. Bostwick as the original Board a ranch on the Crow Reservation.[...] | |
| [...]etary of the company. During the year, J. As a young man he came to Montana seeking his B. Kendrick became a stockholder and director of the fortune. H[...]& of Hardin. The Fosters built and operated a store and a Spear. In 1918 the company name was changed to post office that used the Foster name. A well known Spear-Faddis Cattle Co. In that same y[...]ar and Mrs. I was born in 1917 in a log cabin on the banks of Faddis were elected to[...]ass in conditions were favorable, until 1919 when a severe 1933, I worked on various ranches[...]the whole area, and prices of cattle 1939. A few happenings in between those dates was a tumbled as herd numbers were forced to be reduced to winter spent in CC camp and a couple of trips to fit the short feed. In that ye[...]fellow and I started for California to get a job picking the following spring with very little[...]s became of on the bum. We went without quite a few meals, a serious problem. Profits were an unknown. In 1923 a until we found out about the Salvation Army[...]e Board of Directors con- I finally got a job cleaning a filling station for fifty sisted of R. M. Faddis, Mrs. Alzora D. Faddis, J. R. cents. I bought a dozen cinnamon rolls and a quart of Porter Kennedy and Callie F. Kennedy. Mr[...]part- Harry and Hazel Stimpson. I got a job on the railroad. nership of Faddis-Spear, with their real properties and We traveled a lot and were saving our money for our livestock,[...]check, we lived on rice and tomatoes. It was a real test During the period following World[...]for my young wife, to fix her working husband a lunch physical range operations of the company in[...]P. T . Spear, Spear Good Luck creek and buy a team of horses and five milk & Edwards, W. V. Joh[...]wife a lot of the credit for keeping things going when[...]I are proud that we were privileged to have been a part of the community, and that our three children WALTER FELLOWS FAMILY experienced a part of their growing up on the Forty[...]Minnie Fellows. He was born May 13, 1904 in a sod Kennedy is now president and general manager; Mary house in Blaine County, Nebraska. In 1896 as a Kennedy West is vice-president; John P . Kennedy[...]North Platte, Nebraska. He helped to drive a bunch of secretary of our company, as we p[...] | |
| [...]d to make this his home, My oldest brother was killed by the passenger someday. He came to Hardin in February 1914 to find a train 42 in 1922. He was killed at the cros[...]ren. April 14, 1914. Dad met us at the train with a wagon I went to work as a mule skinner for Floyd Warren and hayrack. We moved to a house near the present in 1923. My wages were $60.00 a month with room and Custer Golf Course.[...]The 6th of November 1924, Mary Wiebert, a neigh- the North Bench. In 1915 the Alfalfa Center School was bor girl from Dunmore and I drove a Model T Ford to built just across the road from t[...]a month without board. We lived on the Warren farm[...]In 1939 we bought a farm nine miles north of[...]e moved to Dunmore on the present A Note: My mother was one of the first patients in[...]for John Young's steam Out of a family of ten children, five are still living. th[...]Idaho, Hardin and Custer farms. I received $3.00 a day for this Opal in Washington, brother, Jim, in California and job.[...]n the lives in Billings. Our son Tom is a dentist at Bozeman, winter. James is a rancher at Big Timber and Charles a rancher My two brothers and I worked on a Government at Chouteau. We have 14 grand[...]d '21 near St. grandchildren. Xavier. Wages for a team, man and scraper were $5. 98 a day. In 1922 we worked on the Holly Sugar ranch.[...]the hard winter of 1918 and 1919. My father took a contract to feed a thousand head of cattle. When the cattle arrived,[...]lies due to the extreme cold. I received 50 cents a head for skinning the dead animals. Bac[...] | |
| [...]erville, Iowa, one of eight children. When he was a went to picture shows, attended country[...]l, St. Xavier chool and inem.ile to Tolsie Owens, a Methodist minister's daughter, on dances a s those were the places large enough to hold the[...]s part of crowds. the country. Dad worked on a ranch near Buffalo, My father[...]go Wyoming, for two years. The ranch was owned by a to pick wild fruit, chokecherries, p[...]pes. My mother made wine of the berries and A year later dad's folks, three sisters, and one grapes. brother moved to the area. His folks homesteaded on[...]grade teacher was ellie V. Brown. My brother found work on the Big Horn Headgates. He built a graduated in 1923. I graduated in 19[...]I married Ed Buchner in 1928. Mr. Buchner was a built numerous houses in the area and kept the tr[...]He cooked at various camps in the county. We had a carpenter. He then bought a lot in Lodge Grass, five children and[...]. Montana, and during the years 1927-1928, built a house After I lost my husband I worke[...]Carl bought another lot in Lodge Grass and built a two- Schuppe ~nd we both worked in the[...]mstress and did My father started a tailor shop in another building. custom sewing to[...]dry cleaning business to my granddaughter raised a huge garden. Dad built another show hall, the[...]leaning hop has been in the Fischbach He received a lot of building work and sold the movie f[...]und. Among some of the buildings built by him was a big barn on the Porter Kennedy Bar Ranch. It is s[...]came to homestead in the arpy ar a in th ond Good Luck, Harry Beads an[...]. Previously, th parent had lived Dad drove a Model A Ford, which kicked every in anada and[...]d with th m two Every Fourth of July we had a family reunion to adopted children, Elwin[...]m an orphanag in Fargo. orth Dakota, always baked a big cake for dad. His family would come an[...]d we held the picnic up the Little Horn Canyon at a During th ir fi t winter in th Hard[...]town. Harlan worked at the yard handicapped by a traditional family reunion on the Fourth of July.[...]Harlan "proved up " on his horn t ad. H planted a[...]H F MILY Harlan wa a gifted man of many t.al nl . H made[...]Tale and figur for seen portraying hi home tead brother . incent and Leslie, my sister Dorothy, who i ljfe. He was a prolific writer of torie . ays, poems. now Mr[...]918. My father, Yakima. Washington museum . a tailor by trade, worked in Billings a short time. Of th ven childr[...]the site of the pr sent on hild and wa a ranch homemaker. Elwin had Anthony tore. A[...] | |
| [...]e College, in preparation for entering worked as a cowboy on various ranches in the Sarpy[...]they returned to the Hardin and E. White. Jean, a graduate of Park College in Missouri Sarpy areas to begin his ministry. Elwin ministered in with a degree in education, was teaching for $90.00 a various western and .mid-western states,[...]Each Wyoming area. mother brought a cake and each father contributed a Elwin and Jean adopted two sons,[...]for school equipment. The Sidney, and a daughter, Linda, Mrs. Steve Gross. people danced[...]tirement age. The following year ( 1928), at a revival held by the William Morrison family in the Wolfe school, Elwin became a Christian. This event was to determine the[...]Springs area in 1914. Arriving with a team and wagon they claimed a section of land and built a log cabin. This was the beginning for them of a stake in what was later to become a very successful farming operation.[...]trips a year to purchase enough staples to last a year. In the fall, Mr. Fly took a wagon load of grain to the[...]or Los Angeles to bake eight loaves of bread a day, dress six to eight become a student at Aimee Semple McPherson's[...] | |
| All of the cooking was done over a coal stove. Sarah Fly the community with man[...]getting them when they were out of the pens. Many a the pot luck dinners when families shar[...]were made into preserves. Robert was a hard-working farmer and made his Hardships w[...]some of the neighboring farms and operated a suc- farming.[...]brought in 1974. enough money to buy a 1936 Ford car. A slight dif· ference from today's cattle prices![...]tin cans together to divert the crickets to go in a different direction. The CCC program also helped[...]iles of metal strips along and they dug pits with a poison mixture in the pits to kill the crickets. This was a success as many crickets were killed this way. In fact these pits of dead crickets left a stench over the land for miles around. However, t[...]the three died at the age of two as the result of a tragic accident during a severe Eastern Montana blizzard.[...]rah revolved around Wyola and logs for a house were hauled from Burnt visiting neig[...] | |
| depression made the rearing of ten children a veritable countryside. They were both happy and content in their struggle. Mr. Foltz invested in a truck which he and the retirement. older boys[...]of contracted hay. Each summer the Foltz's raised a big garden (as well as chickens) and Lena and the[...]unday morning services. The Foltz's all had a great love of music and Mr. Foltz entertained many a student on the school bus he They cel[...]opportunity arose. What better chance to sing to a converged on the family home and the wh[...]e done camped and visited and enjoyed a great time of many evenings to the accompaniment[...]and one F. Fowler (who works for the R.E.A. in Lodge Grass), is in the Navy. When the younge[...]n residence in Big cooked at the Wyola School for a time putting into Hom County. Carl H. a[...]numbers. Carl was an excellent camp cook for many a family, Sidney-he works fot the A.S.C.S.; Billie Jean fire fighting crew.[...]rch almost from its ' founding. They Rachel A. Faught, Wheaton, Illinois-School teacher were ac[...]l Board Wisconsin-housewife; Roberta A. Fellows-grade school during the War years and fo[...]Jose, California- Election Board. He later taught a class of ex-G.I .'s on affiliated with IBM; F[...]ontana- the practical approach to farming and was a member of State Highway Department. the Wyola Men's Club. Mrs. Foltz was a long time Mr. and Mrs. Foltz li[...]made you feel welcome in their home. They had a lot of first campers in that area for a pick-up and the Foltzs friends and many of t[...]st enjoyed viewing the Christian citizen in a democracy to be involved. He had[...] | |
| [...]and had some nice books on the subject. Music was a special enjoyment-he appreciated a good Choir and he drove his horses with jingling[...]ual . The family unit was the cemen t of society. A t the family reunion in 1963 he said, " The famil[...]Ester Liming and son Ben Foster children host ed a family reunion which was held at the Jim Fellows[...]Valley grew fast; by 1911 the sagebrush was where a group of 85 family member s gathered for[...]spirit of t he Foltz's and-their strong built a dance hall, and moved the post office and store b[...]closed the post office because Hardin was on a railroad[...]finally organized a graveyard. Mr. Jack Corwin[...]was a teen-ager who died with heart trouble and was the[...]standing), and with my THE LIFE I LIVED WHEN A YOUNG GIRL mother, moved to Lodge Grass, and bought a farm By Eldora Foster Turner Seivert[...], landed in the Big Hom raised cattle and a garden. Valley in 1906; he built us a tent house with a board For transportation we used hor[...]used when he had to go to town. If one farmer got a anybody else, much, except Indians. When they wer[...]until they were gone. My father decided to start a little cooked for twenty or more. Household go[...]e first radio in so they got together and started a school which we which we went to bear, rai[...]E. K. Bowman taught the In 1912 a saw mill came in on the Malone place, first year;[...]lumber was used to build homes and schools. After a along just fine.[...]own. near where Custer is now. He had six horses, a good In 1916 I married Marvin Turner, a cowboy. After wagon, and the Indians were[...] | |
| [...]our headquarters on those trips and to have a dime to maturity, but the oldest girl died in childbirth. The spend was a real treat for us kids. others are all living-one[...]ne-half miles to school at the Colorado; another, a brick mason and named for his Fairview Sc[...]orence and I went to Community School, we carried a the oldest boy, Raymond, lives here in Hardin wit[...]us warm. I the youngest girl and her husband have a cattle ranch believe Bill Luckett was the bu[...]iven the name of Mt. Vera. At that time it was on brother's place here in town. This is home to me, and[...]A. E. FOWLER FAMILY[...]A. E. Fowler, his wife Ernestine, and son Fred[...]College was 16 years old; A. E. was fifty. A brave[...]possessions in a new wagon, a $400.00 team of matched bay mares, and a saddle horse. They didn't have a fence or building to move to! A tent was set up on the river[...]orth of Hardin in the Big Horn Valley. They built a home and raised a family of six children, and later 21 grandchildre[...]chools in Big Horn County. The Fosters built a country store in 1907, and it included a post office, which was named for them. Mr. Jack W[...]g the mail from Custer to Foster. They also built a community hall, where the valley people congregat[...]ere buried at That month they built a 20' square granary nearby Mount Vera Cemetery in[...]he new home-stove pipe and Mother's again started a new home at Ionia, near Lodge Grass.[...] | |
| [...]in the Little Horn area, carrying on their owned a car! It was quite a car with leather seats, no heritage of com[...]nd cleared their own land during the off season. A grub axe and walking plow shaped their hands and their land. They acquired a buggy and delivered milk in Wyola; went to churc[...]s cattle branding and dehorning time. One brother visiting from Wisconsin complained he didn't see[...]oys who always expected to have an invitation to a meal topped off with Mother's famous sugar cooki[...]fresh meat to trade for fresh cabbage or potatoes-a welcome treat for both parties. There was a[...]and spring. Green ash trees to cut and season for a new wagon tongue, reach or single trees, or fence posts. Trees were felled with a crosscut saw, split with a double-bit axe so it would cure for the summer wo[...]er for house use was carried from the river until a well could be dug beside the back door. Little by little things changed as time went by. A gasoline engine was used to saw wood and grind feed grain. A cistern replaced water barrels on a stone boat for laundry water. They obtained a cream separator and shipped cream to the creamery[...]nging hay s tack er. Mother saved her pennies and a hen house was built in 1926. Eggs were traded for[...]arents in the spring of 1906. refreshing milk and a special treat - homemade ice In August of that same year, I filed on a cream.[...]hich was then in Fred and his father bought a few more cows and Yellowstone County),[...]is another team, another pasture, another meadow, a now. permit to graze some cattle on[...]t and From September 1, 1906, until a few days before were in business-raising Hereford beef cattle! Christmas, I taught a private school on the Harry In 1935 Fred brought a wife home to the Wyola Drum ranch near[...]e. His (one boy and two girls). It was a wonderful experience, wife, Muriel, is the oldest of ten children of the family of a fine family, and I enjoyed it. Chas. M. Foltz who[...]er for the city of Billings. He bought a team of hor es, a members with their daughter Clara Fuller. The church wagon and a cow. was organized in 1918 in a Railroad Chapel Car by Rev. May 1, 1[...]homestead in the Big Hom Valley. We bought a small[...] | |
| cook stove, a bed and dresser, a few dishes and cooking Harry Rosemond also had filed on a homestead utensils and loaded it all in the wagon. Ralph put a just north of where Community School is now[...]homestead. We slept in our wagon and cooked a little from Iowa . We tied the cow to the back of the wagon on a fire by the roadside. We brought most of our food[...]om ready to eat. Part of the way we followed a road and getting loose and running away. A little Shepherd part of the way there was only a trail or cow path. There puppy I held on my lap a[...]A few of our neighbors had come to their[...]built it all by himself; oh, of course, I helped a little.[...]Each homesteader was required to have a little[...]plowing done that summer of 1907. Ralph plowed a little for a number of old maids and old bachelors. We had a real good garden on our homestead near the river[...]a 4th of July picnic in 1908, at Nine Mile. U. S. M[...]organized a band and had good music for a lot of our[...]1908, a number of men in the valley built a log school[...] | |
| Late in the summer of 1908, Ralph and Mrs. A. L. three years later they moved to Upper Sarpy or Sarpy Mitchell organized a Sunday School that met in the log Basin. The Frazers first settled on a half section before school house on Sunday aftern[...]was surveyed and they found out they were in had a minister that came and preached after Sunday the middle of a railroad section and had to move. They school-a Congregational minister until 1914 when the[...]and Bill, and nephew Bill. Their first home was a log afternoon as long as he was in Hardin, which[...]and two girls. built-where it still stands. A few hundred yards from The three boys and the oldest girl went to school at the ranch house, a schoolhouse was built for the Nine Mile and Commu[...]to be buried on a hill west of the ranch house. It was[...]$40 a month. In the winter the "drifters" would work[...]the main diet. One or two trips a year were made to[...]bought 500 or 600 pounds at a time.[...]born at McCook, ebraska , came to Ralph was a good farmer. He raised various crops Hardin[...]alph delivered mail and freight to St. Xavier for a few months. After that he was manager of the Sher[...]when I sold that place and moved to 520 orth Crow A venue where I still make my home. I[...] | |
| [...]ty in 1936. They farmed west of Hardin, living in a house that was in the northwest corner of the cro[...]way in the early 1970's. David and Martha married a sister and brother of the Philipp Schafer family, Minnie and Victor.[...]to Washington state in 1943, where he passed away a few years later. Harry Wagner married a Washington girl, Helen Pope, and lives in the Wap[...]inlayson, Corinth and Hardin. She was regarded as a strict disciplinarian by her students. Mrs. Garrison was a member of the DAR, the ational Society of Mayflower Descendants, a charter member of Gamma Chapter of Delta K[...] | |
| [...]with a 30-30 rifle. The first shot hit Damberger, who[...]a bullet from the negro's rifle hit him in the neck[...]with a third shot from the negro's gun. The sheriff[...]who were in the sheriffs car, jumped out just as a bullet ROBERT P. GILMORE[...]and Ralph squatted down behind the car just as a fifth Robert Porter Gil.more was born in Howard shot from the negro's gun punctured a front tire. He County, Missouri, December 17, 186[...]Ross that Gilmore was 1899, to Mrs. Ella Pickard. A son, Robert C., born to killed and Damber[...]with Mr. and Mrs. Special Federal Officer John MacLeod who was in W.R. Craig, Mr. and Mrs.[...]est or to Hardin. When Hardin was incorporated as a city in shoot the murderer. 1911, he was named as police judge, a position he held Joint funeral servi[...]acLeod in the Harriet Theater and final ployed at a local hardware store after which he served[...]regalia, ten Indian chieftains Gil.more had been a deputy for four years under Sheriff conducted a brief ceremony in their native tongue then John M[...]e was killed in one was placed on each casket,- a tomahawk ! of the most shocking tragedies in the[...]o THE GOOKIN FAMILY IN SARPY BASIN was a candidate on the Democratic ticket for re-[...]s would howl around the cabin and cattle arrested a couple of days before on a charge of corrals at night. A cowboy passing thru warned us disturbing the peac[...]country by the 28th of October or going to a big bounty for him. The cowboy was setting traps[...]large as your hand. across the Burlington tracks, a few rods southwest of Another time m[...]out, and a large rattlesnake crawled into the house a[...] | |
| [...]slough near the house. The same slough was a skating took an axe and waited on top of the bed[...]Our well was 40' deep and we drew water with a a large garage which became a workshop for the boys windlass, but it was very g[...]When the depression hit, all building came to a go and two to return. While returning one winter[...]n gathered in evening there were eleven wolves in a pack just sitting the Graf garage to visit a[...]n seldom went to school every year. My mother was a music teacher in the East, and my Father a teacher so we did not do too badly; they got book[...]THE LIFE OF JOHN GRAF It took a lot of people to build the town of Hardin, Monta[...]born June 29, 1876, at Port Washington, Wisconsin a son of Mr. and Mrs. Carl Graf, just three days af[...]to Dora County, Wisconsin, where the family filed a homestead claim. He grew up in Dora County and as a young man worked for a salvage firm which rescued floundering ships on L[...]In 1896 he began serving his apprenticeship as a mason. He joined the mason's union in 1908, a mem- bership he retained until his death, and is[...]Sheridan, Mr. Ben Kleinhesselink, a Graf neighbor, was at Wyoming, so the children co[...]oal mines near Sheridan for awhile but was a worn out bridge to be replaced John often got the he was a bricklayer and stone mason by trade and soon job. found work with a contractor at Lodge Grass, Mon- When Big Hom County decided to build a new tana, helping with the brickwork on the new Lodge Courthouse with W. P.A. labor, John was contracted Grass school. John ro[...]o Hardin. Mr. Graf the John Spudes, his brother-in-law and two sons who built many of the brick a[...]and were glad to be called to help. John Graf was a true family man and a good father. The John also built the native stone repair shops at Graf children had a great many friends. Their house Crow Agency and built several stone buildings at the was a gathering place for the neighbor children. They[...]e also acted as nold, one of the Graf boys, built a boat and took it to a inspector on a number of buildings in the area.[...] | |
| [...]rain. The tents were our home until a cabin could be[...]days. We had to carry water from a neighbor a block and half away. We carried a bucket in each hand. The[...]e in Billings; covered with bites. Soon we had a well drilled in our three daughters, Mrs. John Ow[...]rade. when a child. We all recovered with no ill effects but i[...]was a trying time.[...]In 1920 we enlarged our house with a basement[...]d enlarged the kitchen and dining room. There was a[...]a cast. My father made some crutches out of broom[...]sticks. I missed a month of school.[...]rub them on the board. We heated flat-irons over a hot stove to iron clothes. It took a lot of ironing for nine[...]We had a good garden and mother canned all the[...]In 1925 we got a ash touring car with a California top. We all went back to visit for a month at Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin that year. We had a grand time. My[...]made a little spending money picking cherries in a larg1[...] | |
| [...]en. After Mother had fixed each of us a little sack with a half graduation I worked in the Hardin Bakery then later at stick of gum for Allene and I and a little sugared Ping's Dry Goods Store for $65.00 a month. popcorn. We were as pleased as if it had been a whole I married Rex Wemple in 1934. Work was[...]he winter was so and he worked for $75.00 to $100 a month. We had three hard and so many peo[...]mic. children one son, John, who lives in Hardin; a son, Ray living in Denver; a daughter, Judith now Mrs. Robert Schneider, Fort[...]physician and he had to drive the nine miles on a dirt road with a horse and buggy to be with my Mother. My f[...]ent directly to the farm where my father and his brother, Tillman Graham were in partnership for two years. Since the two had been batching, a cook was most welcome for both of them. M[...]h Graham [Francis] with Dorothy, Mother had been a t.elephone operator in Sarcoxie Alene a[...]aham, made his transportation other than a team of horses and a wagon first appearance in Montana from Missouri w[...]so one had to put in enough groceries to last was a young man, shortly aft.er 1876. He came to Miles[...]left Miles City with only the clothes he wore and a banks of the creeks for heat. The jack rab[...]ry much afraid of being thick that many a homesteader lost his little stack of attacked by[...]fresh that at.e all the grass so it was a poor place to raise in every ones' minds. Somewhe[...]e cattle. Father sold the homestead to a sheepman in decided to spend the night without an[...]that it was the ice two wagons, one as a trailer behind the other. I was breaking up in th[...]as it was in July and the cattle got sore feet. brother Tillman drove a t.eam and buggy near the town I attended a country school on the Dominic of Edwards on the h[...]man contracted typhoid fever on the trip and died a graduated from Lodge Grass High School in 19[...]Billings which is now the Big Dry and constructed a half dug-out which was Rocky Mountain Col[...]re living in the dug-out. Mother was att.ended by a I was elected to the Stat.e Senat.e[...]e when the folks might say that it has been a rewarding experience, were poor as was eve[...] | |
| [...]I remember one day we had to close school because a Times have really changed in my lifetime. I[...]er we were plowing with three head of horses and a one the school house. Charlie Ferguson[...]County and we drove on to Billings Now there is a combination of good gravel and oil to to[...]We are all on the ranch-a family farm. NELLE YVETTE PICKARD GRAHA[...]water, inside bathrooms and bright lights were a attended grade school in Casper and the Salt Cr[...]quite the first of the second generation. I was a charter takes the place of the hoe in th[...]WM. J.B. GRAHAM in Hardin and also a nursing home. Grandfather[...]n Graham was born in lost his life apprehending a negro who was supposedly Warren, Montana,[...]and mail at rugged. Our family of five lived in a two room house Billings, about 75 miles a[...]1900 when he was 4 years and out. The well was a long way from the house and it old, bis fat[...]Carthage, Missouri, in Jasper County. He bought a lights were little better than candles, and Mot[...]d for six years, again he sold out in cooked on a coal and wood range. She cooked a mighty Missouri and moved back to Montana, landing near the tasty meal for many a threshing crew on that stove. old homest[...]nd horses and it left the clothes she washed on a wash board, and moved to the Crow Reserv[...]t this time was just wash at Grandmothers. What a boon detergents would starting to prosp[...]ght grades, fed north of Hardin and leased a fann. His father leased them lunch, did my own[...]fires all for the big wage of sixty-five dollars a month. Custer until 1916, when he moved to a homestead near Of course there was a little out for teacher's retirement. Jor[...] | |
| [...]Grass. The winter of 1910 was a severe one, the snow was so deep a lot of cattle were lost. The Grahams and[...]was then 20 years old, and he took made a trip back to Missouri to buy machinery, food squ[...]ember 12, Kansas City. My father had a brother near Kansas City 1919, in Jordan, Montana. They[...]hinery that was until 1920. Their first home was a dugout and a sod hut not available in Lodge Grass and ship it to Montana. with a boxcar roof. For fuel they would go out and pull[...]inters Graham and McGredy raised a lot of grain, cattle there. They would have to make a tunnel through the and hogs. We also had a coal mine on the ranch, all of snow to get out o[...]cattle and hogs. Ben Rhinehart and Lee Hollis did a near Custer, Montana. Their first home at Custer[...]hem cleaned out burned down. Mrs. Graham went to a shelf at night to pretty well. find the Bible, lighting a match to find it. She didn't get School for the children on Owl creek was a problem the match put out, and it started a fire, which burned the first year, so the[...]ild the school they would furnish the moved into a granary, which served as their dwelling.[...]forcing children, Verle Heit and Eric Kerts, a boy from Ger- him to reseed spring wheat. That s[...]et together and go hay. That fall he was holding a lantern for another man sleigh riding, youn[...]nd enjoyed them very with gas. The fumes started a fire, and he threw the much. container i[...]Miller Corporation now own the ranch That started a fire and he went in to tramp it out and we did own. was caught on fire himself. He had a leather jacket on Mr. McGredy passe[...]fore he Sutherlin , Oregon. Florence is a beautician in Lo~ passed out. A big part of his body was burned. He[...]Y y ounges t child was born there which gave them a By Joyce Gray Buckingha[...]pot in March of 1914 when she was about nine yean a farm from some Crow Indians.[...]rothers on the In 1941 Mr. Graham purchased a place near train from Woods[...] | |
| buildings and a cistern, and all manner of things to member[...]hool years. She boarded out in served as a director of the Federal Land Bank. Hardin to go t[...]They are: A son, Earl, who is an Electrical Engineer My[...]eld, and lives at Victorville, California. A daughter, Marian MO in 1901. As a small child, he and his family came is marr[...]at Sheridan, through this area (before there was a town of Hardin) in Wyoming. Another daughter, Joyce, is married to a covered wagon on their way to a homestead in the Calvin Buckingham and li[...]Earl Gray farmed in the St. Xavier community with brother Bill and dad Noel. Later the partnership was diss[...]y where they farmed for years. Later, they bought a farm a few miles south of Hardin, and[...]1910 or 1911. He farmed and raised horses for a time, Groups for the Baptist Church. Alma returne[...]Carl married Lucille Rath in 1924, and they made a Degree. She taught at St. Xavier for several year[...]Horn river. Carl had one daughter, Carlene, by a former before she died.[...]did, of the local beet factory for years . He was a retire. They sold their cattle and[...] | |
| [...]ters in California attended school before, so a school was badly needed. or traveling.[...]lings, Montana. She and Wyola, and lived there a number of years. Later, the her husband, Melvin L[...]he 1920's. After In April 1962, Carl died of a heart attack in that it became the Hager[...]California, Mrs. Gross is presently residing with a niece his son Everett. It is now owned by Howar[...]in Sheridan and went on to be a nurse and teacher, so[...]Mrs. Gross lived for a while on the farm but then[...]the summer of that year in Alaska working at a fish Before coming to live in the southern M[...]family and farmed Montana territory. Thus, he had a good working the same place where we[...]liffe (born 1866) in 1889 they made their home on a ranch on Twin Creek, S. W. of Parkman, Wyoming wh[...]t. They had the first school building built, a one room brick on land that housed the later addi[...]it became needed and that served until 1929, when a second brick building of two rooms with indoor plumbing and a basement were built nearby. Before the famil[...]there would be enough students so they could get a school . Frank had attended Wyoming school[...] | |
| [...]could see was a level plain of snow with hardly a tree in[...]rode horses or drove to school in a buggy. The first summer here, we lived in a new granary[...]being built. We hauled water in barrels on a skid pulled by a horse.[...]oss, Wyola postmistress for many years a shed behind a small store on what is now W. 1st.[...]many changes during the By 1921, a new school was built which is still being years.[...]used. Our sister Edith passed away that Spring, a have been good years and drouth, depression and g[...]he seventh through the twelfth times. It has been a challenge, but we have come this grades we[...]On summer nights we had great fun playing a game educated, grew up, married and have their own homes. called Run, Sheep Run. Often we had a range of our We are comfortable in our small mode[...]close to three miles. eigh- country where we have a beautiful view, clean air, and bor children[...]in this new surrounding at Valley City. A. 0. GUSTAFSON AND FAMILY After this first year, the family moved to a place By Mildred G. Holland[...]in 1912 and bought parents then filed on a homestead located twenty miles two sections of la[...]of Beach. This was in the year 1912. While living a hotel in Toluca, 13 miles west of Hardin. At that[...]17. Father came ahead on was Bessie Bridges. a freight train with his horses and cows. He met ou[...]ly remained on this homestead, train in Hardin in a bob-sled, taking us to a rented Oscar changed schools and en[...] | |
| school. The town of Arvid was made up of a building "buck" for help to put up the tipi he had bought and that was a combination store, post office, dance hall,[...]the age of seventeen, Oscar went After a few months chopping wood, in 1894 to work on various ranches in Montana. He performed Hammett got a job with the Custer Cattle Company regular ranch[...]e year 1919. He was em- help cut 450 head a month to feed the militia and the ployed as a guard on a value wagon. This wagon Indians. The price at that time was 4 1/2 cents a pound. carried money and valuable packages from[...]pany, Hammett met up with a band of Canadian He met Fay Elizabeth Shibl[...]ht forearm and the bullet lodged in his shoulder. A 1924. Oscar was 25 years old at that time and his bride friend used a shirt tail to staunch the wound, and it was 20. They rented a small ranch near Wibaux in 1924 worked so well Hammett has never had the slug and were hit by quite a few dry years. They couldn't removed. make a living on this ranch so they trailed a bunch of For 50 years he never missed a day from cow horses to Big Horn County in 1927.[...]mett, Jr. married and only one of these children, a son, Everett, of Lodge Grass and Lee Hammett[...], My first recollections are of a beautiful little city, Texas, May 28, 1875, retired as a cowpuncher at the age Fayetteville, Arkansas[...]In 1893, at age 18 years of age, he worked as a Frank Elwood Taber. Two sisters and two br[...]ix in all. Canadian line and told of never seeing a fence, except The house where we lived was a typical but greatly around little homesteads here[...]ere 350 soldiers at Fort connected with a breezeway, which in that locality was Custer. The[...]structed in 1877 to keep peace designated as a "Dog Trot" . The lot on which the house among the[...]built consisted probably of three or four acres, a terminated the Grow Indians had made the transiti[...]o my hay and grain for Fort Custer. Hammett asked a great joy, near the house a huge chestnut tree under[...] | |
| which we had our play houses and a swing. There were Damned Yankee" consisted[...]we moved to Kansas. vegetable garden, and perhaps a half dozen fruit trees. Then the day da[...]tter made out of for children to adjust to a new place. The children at doors in a huge iron kettle and stirred with long han·[...]helped me is still one of my closest friends. to a thick consistency and canned and used to make[...]days), which meant I finished high school a year younger than cornbread and biscuits, black e[...]ool in nine months and went on to college in made a varied and pretty well balanced diet. Home[...]ions. colleges. Soap was made in a larger kettle than the one for My firs[...]doctor white clothes and bedding, etc., were 'rub-a-dubbed' on suggested that I go to a high altitude. So in 1916 I came a wash board, then put to boil in this huge iron ke[...]reezing we We could not afford hired help as a rule, and to had that first year. cook in a kitchen separate from the house was too I could write a book on those three years at much, so a small kitchen made from a big pantry next Rosebud, the First World W[...]nd all happy ones. When the Superintendent at and a small cook stove and much food was cooked over[...]al of the High Our next door neighbor ,;c1.1 a Senator Dinsmore, a School. I started at 60.00 per month in Rosebud and typical gentleman of the Old South, who had lost a made $100.00 per month in Lavina. At the[...]o never mentioned). One of his ex-slaves lived in a cottage leave and was flattered to be offered t[...]year. "Addie". She was lonely and there never was a kinder I shall always be so glad I c[...]s and tried her best to teaching in Hardin was a great pleasure. o town could make Southern Ladies[...]the teachers than did the town from school it was a little nearer to take the path of Hardin. We became a part of the social and com- through the Dinsmore[...]ch, where John Turner was manager, Heinrich work? A big house to keep clean, food to preserve, sew[...]ind Finn and Tom Sawyer, the Alger books. We were a finer young people and so many have m[...]ch in our wonderful success in life. love as a family.[...]the Boys in Flathead. When the parents of a town are 100% with Blue. Decoration Day was celebrated on two different the school, how happy a community can be. days but the hatchet was[...] | |
| [...]double seats. Often there were three in a seat. Sixty or[...]there are more than twenty-five pupils to a teacher they[...]have changed. My first job as a teacher was principal of[...]the teachers under me got $27.50 a month.[...]there to establish a High School. There were twenty[...]Arkansas. At Camp Pike I earned a commission as[...]I then began to look for a new teaching position. I Faye and Ge[...]She said they wanted to establish a County High[...]in Uniontown, Pa., October 22, 1886. it is a long story, too long to put on paper. I did enjoy[...]school. This was an ideal set up, a nice building, an The house where I was born[...]n he left Hardin the house too small for so large a family, and an ad- to go to Winnetka, I bec[...]x years, through the worst depression We had a large garden with all the vegetables that of[...]side and was made into wine. I remember very well a I resigned from Hardin in 1932. We moved to wine incident. My brother just older than I, and I were Billings where I was connected with a finance company. sent to the cellar to sprout potatoes. A neighbor I did not like that work and after a year in Billings, we dropped in to see us. We wer[...]dent of Schools at potatoes by that light" and my brother said, "you take Thompson Falls, where I worked until 1940, when a shot of the elderberry wine and you don't need a because of a very bad heart attack I had to give up lig[...] | |
| [...]the "Spiked Pumpkin" plot to Montana when it was a territory, three years before it steal I. D. cattle. My father first met him during the was made a state. The Northern Pacific Railroad had[...]ngton .. young Heinrich, he recognized him as a superior sort, . .It is not often that a lad starts riding when 16 years and brought hi[...]heart, of great value. It is not an accident that a 16- Heinrich was visiting New York. These tw[...]renowned Campbell Studio. Later, a framed print hung[...]" Once a week from September to November, often 35[...]cars." We have a snapshot of over 400 steers and 28[...]including our cousin but minus little sister, on a pack he came first to bring some bulls from his f[...]ip through the Big Horns, his summer range. After a farm to a Reservation stockman, John Booze. He told[...]tion. Though The winter 1919-20 was a disaster. Mr. Bostwick's daring horsemanship wasn't a constant thing, we bank came promptl[...]m, something he hadn't figured on coping He spent a winter in an abandoned shack, where he with in a chronic state. He had lived through infection, discovered a a copy of the Story of an African Fann and sma[...]f the First adventures. The worst was when he and a friend, falling National. Mr. Heinrich, larg[...]president and asked for an audit. floating under a sagging bridge of suspended ice. They But w[...]red the frozen assets with his notes for 100,000. A ice. Frank couldn't swim. Hurrying to join[...] | |
| [...]was its first I had the honor of being named a member of the representative to the Legislature,[...]In early 1900 my father, A. L. Hindman, decided to[...]moved farther north. Father outfitted a covered wagon[...]Goose Creeks while father worked as a carpenter. After[...]Peritsa, Montana. Here Father was given a job with the[...]brother Jim, was a telegraph operator and brother Dick was working at Crow Agency. His sister and brother-in- law Mr. and Mrs. A. A. Lewis, lived in Toluca. For the[...]about sixty miles, so a neighbor woman came to help[...]caretaker at the time was a black man.[...]brothers and some Indian boys got hold of a small[...]nails, and shoot it off. One day they shot a hole in the[...]ecognized as precinct committeewomen in the 30 's-a real step forward. I was the Republican co[...] | |
| Later we moved to a homestead east of Sheridan. I am not o[...]no winter feed for the livestock and farmed a couple of years. but the chickens and the turkeys did well on such a high In 1934 we had no crop at all. In the[...]snow all 1938 we came to Hardin and found a place to live and winter for our water. I melted[...]ol, raising sugar beets. We lived selves but, for a few hogs and the chickens, too. three m[...]1936 and 1937 which I shall never forget. We had a battery radio and to be sure to get important thi[...]Hobby Lobby. One day the master of ceremonies had a black woman on who practiced Voodoo and as he clo[...]the knob to 'off' and at the same time there was a knock on the door. The snow was so deep and no tr[...]e by car as far as he could and then had borrowed a horse to ride the rest of the way. He had followe[...]as a teacher in the United States Indian Service. Thus[...]and taught in the and said someday they will find a use for it. Today they High School. Two Indian boys I particularly have and an oil and a coal lease make it interesting. reme[...] | |
| [...]ncholme had milk cows, chickens and a garden from which I Cattle company, is located[...]yed to work on ranches in the back to a day school used for church. It was across surrou[...]amily, sailed to Spain, around the across on a swinging bridge, which I hated! Although coast o[...]he Atlantic to Argentina we did not attend a proper church, I always felt we were where he co[...]many money to travel back to Montana. He took up a cowboys who were always gentlemen[...]we obtained the Calvert well. He and I met just a few days before he was once Correspondenc[...]onded for five first eight grades. This was a job in itself, but it had to years before I deci[...]and ironing. Sometimes I had a person work for me for I sailed from England in August, 1923, to New a few days, but mostly I did it alone with help fro[...]dren and any hired men we may have at married by a minister in the home of friends I had met that time. We had a chore man who worked for $40.00 a aboard ship. Two days later we boarded a train for the month, plus room and board. W[...]ying and shipping seasons, so there were driving a Model T car, met us at the depot and brought[...]hours and discipline at all times! When it spent a few days gathering supplies to take to our own[...]is one hundred miles away. My new home was a two story frame house. This The[...]n the West were log! Many years later, we did add a with temperatures dropping to 50 degree[...]heaters and coal ranges going water, but did have a bathroom with a tub that could be so the place wouldn't freeze up. That year we sold cows drained through a hole in the floor. Our coal stove had a to the Government for $20.00 a head and their calves water tank attached to it. We filled it with a bucket, with them because we had no feed to winter them. from the top, then used a faucet near the bottom to Many ranchers[...]ife with its ups and downs, but did learn to make a good fire! I would smother it, then I would[...]in Sheridan since the death of my husband in had a telephone line between our ranch and the Shreve[...]Bookkeeping is a "must" to keep up with the Rancholme was a "stopping place" for travelers re[...] | |
| [...]About 1917 or 18 the family bought its first car, a moon, is indeed a very good time to have lived! Model[...]in partnership, with their father Ed operating a ranch with a school teacher. Upon leaving the Missouri area,[...]n freight trains finally coming to was mostly a cattle, hay and grain operation on deeded Sherida[...]River in the family decided to buy a larger ranch on Swamp Creek at Musselshell area a[...]the sold and the Hults family moved to a small ranch at canyon in wooden flumes to Dayton,[...]land for a year-around operation in one location. The[...]partnership, E. F. Hults & Sons, then bought a ranch at[...]December of 1969, the Givens ranch was sold to a[...]the Hults Brothers consisted of the parents, one brother, and three sisters. Ranch, located thirteen miles from the town on Lodge Ed and his brother Clarence bought two places on Grass Creek.[...]ontana. Clarence and Ed operated these ranches as a partnership for several years before dissolving and operating individually. Ed and Jessie Irwin, a school MABEL TUCKER H NTINGTO te[...]By Mabel Huntington Decker a few months later. Ed and Jessie were the[...]born in Fort Morgan, went through grade school in a local country school at Nebraska, son of Jo[...]who was Helena Lynch Sheridan only once or twice a year. This was a thirty- daughter of Pvt. Hugh Lynch. She wa[...]gerator was an ice box cooled by put them on a farm south of Lame Deer. They lived ice cu[...] | |
| [...]e remember what he charged, but it was a winter to grew up there and married my Dad, Lee[...]ughtered the 1893 on November 5th. They lived on a ranch 9 miles sheep and hogs. Nobody cou[...]we lost our little boy Clinton. Arthur lived to a good life so far. Sister Val died in 1972. got a job through Cliff Randall, and Helen and I got[...]out at school is still standing and was used for a school for Maxim place at Kirby. In the fall we came back to town more than 60 years. It is now a community building. and got a place to live so we could get Helen back into We[...]ng. The war ended November 11, 1918 and that was a great time for us all. In 1921 I took my State N[...]d cows and we made butter-we sold about 15 pounds a week. With this we bought our[...]ers, son of I visit my children once a year and enjoy all of my Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Rogers. Velda married Robert grand[...]Indian woman jobs of washing or scrubbing a floor. during the depression. Arthur had a car repair shop in The buck, as he was cal[...]ng. He took in alJ kinds of wouJd give them a bucket of milk, loaf of bread, coffee, jobs in re[...]y were happy then, as they Billings and had taken a mechanic course. It sure came didn't have[...]then. We felt sorry for them. rented a little house from 0. E . Anderson, in back of[...]d by the Indians Mrs. Strand. Anyway we had quite a time. I canned over by Lame Deer. He[...]ound out about it and the turkeys, geese, part of a pig, a quarter of a lamb, eggs, Indians showed where he was burie[...]e didn 't go to any shows either. We didn 't have a Indians in those days , if they were your fr[...]ves for company. be trusted . They did have a hard life, but so did my Arthur worked until 11 P.M . He also ran a Taxi for folks . The old Indians[...] | |
| [...]same even gait. It was getting dark and she had a few[...]The next day when he discovered the dead wolf in a trap Iowa. Irene Cooley was born in LaCrosse in[...]to Montana in 1886. Their home and received a good price for it, for th.is was the last of was a three roomed log house. Their water was from a the timberwolves. well and they heated it on a stove which burned wood as At this time[...]she went out to gather the eggs. She the stove in a wash boiler and a wash tub was used for waited until her eyes became accustomed to the dim the bath which was taken once a week There was an light. Just then as s[...]y comfortable in the search for some eggs a Blue Racer snake slithered out of winter time. Ev[...]songs, and going outside she stepped over a stone by her cabin and they had dances in the wi[...]went about her business. When she returned a rat· sleighs and horses. In summer they had pic[...]noticed before. She ran to the shed and got a rake and South Dakota. They located on the Rosebu[...]One evening while bringing in a cow and her calf, sawmill on South Thompson Creek[...]nt to the cabin and got his Otis Shreve who drove a one horse cart. He drove from gun. He returned and killed the animal. It was a bobcat Sheridan one day and back the next day. Th[...]at measured five feet long. delivered three times a week. Prairie[...]They left in 1897 for Carbon County and lived on a was very beautiful and quiet until the cowboys made a ranch until the summer of 1909 when they moved to. change when they rode in during a roundup in the Hardin and ran a feed store just south of Jessie (Clark) spring[...]he says she wouldn't trade her wagons and brought a few chickens and a few cows, and experiences and the inconveniences she endured for all I suppose maybe a pig or two. the luxu[...]te conveniences. She arrived in Montana and lived a the Spear O Ranch on Corral Creek withi[...], was married to The only transportation was a cow pony. Often she Willis B. "Junior" Spear,[...], and it would ride twenty miles or more to visit a near by was during her summer visits to t[...]r On one of these trips she had just entered a coulee Dr. R. E . Henderson was a practicing physician in and traveled up on the divide when she saw a lone, Washington, D. C. between the two W[...]reatly frightened, she knew Zone and again as a Naval Flight Surgeon in World she didn't d[...] | |
| [...]welder and no telephone, Torrey flew a lot in the 40's Hyattsville, Md. They made thei[...]Most of his early flying was done in a 65 horse-powered Spaced approximately two[...]2 place Luscombe 8-E, but Torrey is now flying a 1955 children, Sandra, Robin, Jocelyn (Jolly),[...]d has 150 horse-power, Tempe came along to make a family unit that func- much better f[...]go on Corral Creek in 1967. a Constitutional Convention Delegate in 1972,[...]rs and with the help of Sandra and Besides a work team, Torrey had a 1929 Model A Gene Peabody and their three children, Gina 10, Kelly Ford pickup without a top to use in pulling a wagon 12, and Wendy 5, they manage to[...]near Buffalo in the 1890's. He never carried a gun Reservation into units. making it impossible to allow against a man during the Sheep and Cattle War, but the bun[...]not seeing them behind trees or under the brow of a hill. two bands of sheep at this time and s[...]s, and equipment Since he played a mandolin, he carried it with him to at least thre[...]cows on the X4 in the Wolf Mountains, and had a Crow with anything they were hitched to if not wa[...]k Creeks, and summer closely. They sure scattered a grain binder all over the mountain range in[...]iversity of Montana in 1929 he formed a partnership with Matt Tschirgi on the Missoula an[...]taining from this merger in 1934 due to a heart condition and private groups by singing wes[...]poor health. guitar accompaniment. Also a five minute spot on week Jessamine Spear Johnson was a photographic nights in the Warner Bros. Theatre i[...], mountains and canyons of the Big He started a small Dude ranch on Dry Creek in Horns taken on many pack trips which she organized 1939 on a piece of land contract-purchased from his for the interests of vacationing "dudes". Also, being a parents and got most of the guests from Chicago.[...]good friend of the Cheyennes and Crows, she has a long After moving to the Spear-O Ranch[...] | |
| [...]city. This was in 1907. For a period of some 12 or 13[...]a member of the Teachers' Examining Board, which I[...]A KITCHE BOUQUET[...]"She was a good cook, as cooks go, and, as cooks[...]prefer to think of myself as rather a good cook)-maybe[...]A brief sampler of our neighborhood cooks around[...]A. Very religious and a strict teetotaller, in fact[...]when the men had planned a jaunt to the community[...]produced a batch of taffy and involved the whole group in a taffy-pull; never did you see so many grumpy face[...]B. A pathological liar, preferred lies to truth, even[...]C. A large lady who got stuck in the cook-house[...]D. A pathetic, depressed little mortal who wept at[...]guests by cooking with a cigaret drooping out of one MR. AND MRS[...]ON corner of her mouth, and a man' old tetson tipped to [Na[...]ot to forget F, who esteemed herself a Dear Abbie at the time of their marriage, in Dece[...]day for the harried Mrs. Johnston wrote, in a biographical account housewife. I[...] | |
| [...]He moved with his I worked for a mail contractor hauling mail with a family to Aitkin County when he was a young boy. horse for $1.00 per day for[...]d wagon to their new home where there was a bad forest fire in our area and it looked like his father started a general store. we were goi[...]s old, to McCone At the age of 21 a neighbor boy and I bought a County, Montana to prove up on a homestead. new Ford car and heade[...]e 1915. We landed in Circle, Montana after a week on the homestead, they returned to Minnesot[...]pring of the year; and we got the general store. A son, Raymond, was born in 1921, along pretty[...]fairly early, but at Chevrolet business with his brother Jens. noon we could still see th[...]to the nearest farm and have the farmer come with a moved back to Minnesota, and again started a general team and pull us out. This happened[...]sold out his in- We had to cross the river on a ferry. When we got to terest in the garage and wa[...]eral years. car on a flat car and wait until the local freight train[...]car there. These are some of the reasons it took a week Raymond of Great Falls; Donald was killed by[...]959 mt was married to Edith also as a carpenter and helped build several houses Kalberg[...]that he there. I also filed for, and got a homestead about 25 retired: they old their home i[...]est of Circle. While living in Circle I met my Me a, Arizona. Also, they built a summer home in future wife and we were[...]ovember Minnesota, close to where he had lived as a child. He 1917 and moved to the homestead.[...]Minnesota and is buried some cattle and a number of horses, but in the fall of there.[...]spring we had two calves left, so we gave them to a[...]where I worked as a carpenter for some time and later[...]lived in Billings, our daughter Yvonne nesota, on a farm on February 1 , 1 94, one of a family was born, in January, 1921. She is now[...]ves in Chinook, Montana. I continued and moved to a new location in an area which was ju t work[...]February 1925, when we being settled. This was in a timbered country in the moved to Hardin an[...]gency north central part of Minne ota . Dad built a large, two here. While living here I got involved in a number of tory building with living room, kitch[...]the Hardin Volunteer Fire Department and served a floor. This was in 1904 and we had no refrigerati[...]the roasting was finished. In this area there was a Defense School at the start of World War II. We great deal of wild life so we used a lot of veni on, trained men for defense wo[...]iths. etc. Our winters were quite cold with a lot of snow. We About 1940 I sold the garage business to Graham- kept several cows and also a few hogs and chickens. Our Staunton and went i[...]es, so the services report to the Commanding Officer at Camp dair, were held in the homes until the church was built. Our Oregon, as a technical advisor for the War Department.[...] | |
| Here the 96th Army Division was to go in training. A must have been, trying to milk those cows in a forty year later we had the 70th Army Division fo[...]friends; whenever either set of pointed Ordnance Officer there and we closed the base parents wishe[...]ldren of the absent ones. In 1933 we adopted a girl less than a year old, There was no Catholic chu[...]rved the first two seemed like going to a different world. years as President. Later I helped organize the Big We had a lot of rough times, but many good and Horn County[...]rly nice children-one an R. N. and the other a radio homes here and after my wife passed away in[...]EY, JR. FAMILY My father, Andrew Kallen, and a brother came to The E. L. Kelley family move[...]Iowa. Mrs. Kelley's father, Lester J. Barr, had a at Helena where Dad met and married my mother,[...]ily had loaded him up In 1916 Dad worked for a big wheat farmer at with canned fruit,[...]Toluca. In 1918 he went to farming for himself on a thought he could get off at Fort Custer,[...]and one of the men had been several deaths due to a diphtheria epidemic. was shot and killed.[...]at- home in Whitman oulee. Th y lived in a cabin tention while checking our hearing-he was D[...]built. E. L. got a job a a clerk in the First ational In the years we[...]s place there were Bank of Hardin, bought a horse and rode back and several springs when we h[...]e an experience fast Dad began moving us out with a wagon and team, in real living. There was a pring, and all water had to but om was baking bre[...]fed with pulling the wagon with us all on it, for a short distance. straw. ( r. Dyvig was the only man around with wheat We stayed at the teacherage for a week. Dad had to feed straw) . Dorothy, aged 2, was forever falling in a cactus and milk his cows every day and though the[...]ld , they insisted on going had to fetch a ladder and go down after her a the through the water to their barn. After going through spring was fashioned like a small well. the water a few times they decided to stay in the field. Mrs. Kelley reminisces about two early day Dad had a pretty good-sized dairy herd, so you can see[...]t it wasn't the fun we kids thought it was. What a job it Christmas. I heated bricks bef[...] | |
| [...]and the men hunted up beer kegs on which to build a platform. Mrs. Peck was in charge of the program.[...]seat. The people kept applauding and I thought of a piece I could use as an encore. I asked my husban[...]ken them. W. E. Warren There was to be a program, and I had promised to give a couple of readings. They fixed a sort of platform on a The Hardin State Bank was sold in 1922 a[...]When Mr. Fearis decided to start a fund to establish a library (later to become a Carnegie Library) Mrs. E.[...]Chapman, W. E. Warren, | |
| [...]ad pretty red-bound slates, but no slate pencils; a box She was known to be an excellent cook and alw[...]mbers on the board, Missoula. Edmund III lives on a ranch near Crow and tried to do likewise with a wet finger on their slates. Agency, Kathryn (Mrs. Ed Buzzetti) lives in Missoula, In a few weeks supplies came and we were happy. I as d[...]wish I had kept a record of the many funny mistakes,[...]school February 12th and Lincoln's [This is a copy of a paper read by Mrs. John Keogh birthday always meant a special party for the school. In before the M.E.A. meeting at St. Xavier on October 1, March we had our first visit from a Supervisor, who 1941. Mrs. Keogh is a pioneer teacher, coming here considered[...]x, twenty-three of the children began about 1883, a year after the Agency was moved in schoo[...]rantine the school. It was my first Xavier was in a log house north of the Mission school in cont[...]e had sixty pupils enrolled, forty-five in school a.m., after encountering blizzards and being[...]We had a zealous group of employees and a fine The school house was a frame building in which superintendent.[...]es for the boys and girls, and pleasant rooms one a kindergarten teacher. I was to take charge of the[...]d girls from twelve to board, employing a cook; the regular school cook was fifteen years o[...]permitted to do the employee's cooking in a mall morning were detailed to the sewing room, ki[...]ved to hear After three weeks I was offered a transfer to the stories, and our everung i11[...]. school; five, three boys and two girls, had had a year or The Government Boarding schools on the two of school and could speak a little English. The Re ervation were abolished a number of years ago a pupils ranged in age from six to sixteen, and exc[...]ed under schools. their father's name, with a Christian first name, if there You may be interested in some facts about the first was a baptismal record of such a name; if not, the schools established in what is now known as Big Horn employees had a happy time giving the name of a County. The fir t public cbool was at Fort Custer, relative to a Crow boy or girl. After they were named, wh[...]ds on the Bull", etc. the building used as a chapel, partitioned off from the There were many[...]l, located about twenty-eight miles equipment was a box of third and fourth and fifth grade[...] | |
| It was for Indian pupils, and as there was a large en- Another experience to try the patience of a woman campment of Indians in that part of the valley, there managing a farm and three children was the project of must h[...]taught raising and butchering annually, a flock of 130 or more sewing, rug-making, and fancy work. Part of the turkeys for a Butte concern. building was still standing a few years ago, and the site The family finally moved to Hardin to make their should have a marker. It was a well-known landmark in home about 1923. The[...]her with Hospital Auxiliary, and has served a number of offices a wagon and team and taken to their new home near[...]er hour, Meadow Lark Apartments. leaving a trail of dust behind and frightening teams as wel[...]Frank Kincaid was born on June 2, 1886 in a farm the same location as in 1908. John Kifer owned a home in Grundy County, Missouri, the[...]and Fanny (Darling) Kincaid, the second child in a store to buy furnishings for their new home, she[...]anager who was to become her husband in a course at the Trenton Business College. 1910. Whi[...], no doubt, In Trenton, Frank was a clerk in the men's arranged some of the dances along with Bill and Ed department of a dry goods store, and worked as a street Hoerr as a way of "courtin" Alma. She loved to[...]ld riding to the end of the line with a keg of beer or barrel Lammers Building and "even[...]ad friends who met them at the river if then a dry state. they had come in a wagon. The building was often cold In[...]times he of land. Later, when Mr. Kifer accepted a position as travelled with the cattle to Ka[...]g At the age of twenty-three, Frank, a single man, years. Mr . Kifer recalls the 1918 gr[...]me down to the home grounds He built a one room shack to live in while he hauled in the[...]rd connected logs from Pine Ridge to build a log house. In 1917 he with the very common prairie sod-roof. Mrs. Kifer lived in a lean-to attached to a garage while the present recalls a wind and rain storm taking off half of the roof[...]r the hills. commissioners who were to stop by on a road inspection Lucille taught[...] | |
| families. She later married C. L. Royce, a civil engineer working on the proposed Big Horn C[...]rove up, Frank did custom plowing with horses and a walking plow. For seventeen seasons he and F[...]vorite foods Frank Kincaid in his first car, a 1917 Dodge Touring and when asked what he wanted to eat, he often said Car. "corn". Once a wash boiler of corn was set on the table. Frank later bought a McCormick-Deering Combine and Frank was a bachelor until August 20, 1940 when cut grain for[...]he married Anna Stanerson of Cohagen, Montana. A[...]happened" but Frank Kincaid and half of a team they are in such contrast w[...]know and do. Once a lady asked Frank to thresh beans; he said[...]around." Another time a spark from the separator caused a When he found a couple of likely looking farms, straw stack to bu[...]e my wife of the man who owned the straw stack in a hard- sister Helen was.) Mother and I started to walk to one ware store purchasing a broom. She chased Frank location and[...]ding. Along the way, a young man with a ingle-horse Frank often talked about the rat[...]d you and around residences. In one instance when a family and your Mother like a lift? " To his dying day, I wa returned from taki[...]r, who farmed north of Hardin. doctor, they found a rattlesnake curled up in the house. When[...]the They packed and left. Another time a lady put her hat Redding house from Hardin. on the bed and when she wanted to put it on, a snake The r frigerator is another in[...]to do so. Once while walking through deep snow to a Horn Ri er wher it touch t . lairs' land . I ' a dance in town, he tore his trousers climbing over a fence funny thing too, I've since known that ri[...]s carried by hor e Frank's first tractor was a Fordson; in 1927 he and buggy for a year and half. The now got pretty deep bought a Model D. John Deere with steel wheels which[...]never had to wade snow he used until he purchased a Model A John Deere in to put the mail in Fred Ta[...]often than not, a hot drink wa offered to her.[...] | |
| [...]a freight engine, helped build some cabins, worked[...]Hardin, Montana. There was a good spring of water[...]for improving his land. A tornado came through the[...]He had to build another house a short distance from the[...]raising wheat entirely. Fergusons owned a threshing[...]planted. In 1918 he bought a Model T Ford car. He met In those days when[...]rnoon meeting in the orth Valley, there was a mens' Edna Grace Brown, a Kansas teacher, and they were quartet-we thought[...]Charles Wort. Rev. Meeke once told them, they had a 17, 1919 Mrs. Kingston saw her first C[...]to Logan's good Whitman Coulee, selling wheat was a matter of hauling tying it didn't break". it by 4-horse team into Hardin, and it was a long day's We finally arrived at the[...]s later, the That year we bought a Fordson tractor and kept log parsonage next to it. Uriel also filled the pulpit for a one team of horses. The winter of 1919 and 1920[...]ught the Finlayson school In the early '20's a group of Baptist young people, for we neede[...]accompanied by Rev. elson and his wife, attended a youth meeting in Helena. A rainy spell almost brought During the spring of 1922 our daughter Bette the whole thing to a halt, but when the sun came out Lorene[...], bank failures and one fall know that we were in a low spot, but found out during after the[...]hogs sold for so little it was like giving found a few miles of pavement, but even with that[...]l three baptized in the In 1907 Logan bought a ticket to go to Sheridan, Baptist Church[...]We helped to Wyoming by train. He had to lay over a short time build the log Baptist Church in Hardin that is being in Kansas City. He bought a watch in Kansas City. used at presen[...]other Robert Torske of Hardin. We moved to a small acreage night and day. His money was[...] | |
| [...]time Mother was an excellent markswoman with a gun and from November 1918 to August 1933, on a farm near would often bring home a rabbit, grouse or sage hen for Decker on the Tongue River. The first month of my life a meal. was spent on a ranch near Birney (Rosebud County)[...]ld saw many Big Horn County on another ranch for a few months blocks of ice from the froz[...]he youngest)-until 1934 about two trips a year to Sheridan to buy supplies like when another boy arrived -a surprise and joy to coffee, flour, s[...]foods we raised and preserved at home. lived in a log house which my father built, having cut[...]ought them on baking day, she usually cooked a pot of beans and m out of the hills ready for building. Since I was only that was always such a treat with hot bread and home- two at the time,[...]the river so we visited often; it was always such a before Christmas 1920, and we had a Christmas tree, joy when I was allowed t[...]yone's delight. Very few presents were a few ~ays-Grandmothers always have lots of goodies[...]dinners-Grandmother would begin at least a month family always participated in decorating th[...]made decorations- etc. Mother had a treadle sewing machine and made strings of popcor[...]s little baskets cut out of paper were and my brother. Our shoes and other necessities were filled with[...]obtained by mail order. We girls wore overalls a lot of only had candy and nuts during the holiday[...]Father played the old "squeeze-box" accordion, a riding horses; Father nearly always had a team of neigh~or played the fiddle, someone picked a guitar, mules, and many times we rode them to school. Father sometimes we even had a piano-not big band music let me have my own pony (I called her Cricket), but I but everyone had a good time. All the furniture would had to sell h[...]so morning. We leased and lived on a neighboring farm for resourceful, we ate canned vegetables during the a few years during my childhood and we had a big red winter. We children helped gather the vegetables-up barn with a hayloft where we had dances also. at ~awn while i[...]Our one-room schoolhou e was two and a lialf miles strmg and snap the beans, or cut corn[...]o I had to ride behind ~hrough the winter. We had a food cellar which was dug the saddle with someone- ometime on mule m the ground and had a roof covered with dirt so that it sometimes we would dri':e a team and buggy or led: would keep cool during the[...]and we even walked at tune . When we drove a team buried in sand, and the potatoes placed in a bin, in the and sled, my brother always at the reins, our neighbor's cellar. Onion[...]children would ride with us and we had a wonderful also placed in the cellar until used, a[...]my sisters finished grade school, Father bought a r.i.., for syrup, jam and pies-quite often the entire family big sled and my brother rode hor eback and pulled me would pack a picnic lunch and spend the day. Apples o[...]t when we went over the neighbor's feed lot apple a day.[...]ainly of beef, pork and There was a footbridge across the river by the chickens, all[...]as ground, par- always participated in a Christmas program and all tially fried, packed in layers in a big crock in lard, and parents were pre ent to[...]form. stored in our food cellar. Mother would can a lot of meat In the winter, recesses and[...] | |
| [...]other moved to New attend but I recall attending a Bible class at my Mexico and left me behind, consequently I went to schoolhouse for a short time one summer. work at an early age." "I didn't receive much formal My brother and I were in the same grade in school educat[...]When he hung around saloons looking for work. A new friend, was 13 and I was 12 we were left by ourselves for a week Tom Garrett, said "You won't find work there, you at a time because Father had to go away to work and have to go into the hills" and invited Slim along on a Mother had to stay in Sheridan with my older sist[...]ng" excursion. who were attending high school. My brother took care They walked toward Rosebud[...], making our lunches night was spent with a haying crew near Kirby. One for school-and we never missed a day of school. was Ray Holmes, who se[...]happened in 1915. He was hired by a Dude from New nearby Sheridan so that my brother and I could[...]hrough complete our education. In 1940 I accepted a civil[...]liked to play poker. Every time they rode into a cow I came to the Big Hom Valley in 1910. We bought camp a game would ensue. the Ralph McComb place and stay[...]Park year . t that time every 160 acre tract had a house and "snowed in. " Bacon gravy was a favorite camp food. new buildings. But, bears like bacon. As a result, a bear got the bacon[...]man from Big Hom County to go to France. This was a month before the United States declared war on Ge[...]I returned pril 4, 1919. That summer I worked for a time for Dr. Haverfield and then became an appren[...]h John Young's threshing crew-it would take about a month to complete all the threshing. I recall when Mr. Tuchenhagen, who ran a saw-mill, had his leg cut off in the saw. Mrs. Ma[...]ey Schneider and family . That summer I worked as a carpenter in the oilfields in the Sheridan[...] | |
| [...]hat time. Dr. Russell, County Health Officer, and Fay It was also the first year cars were all[...]ody at his ranch. made a special trip to attend the chest expansion and[...]ter DeHaven and other athletic events at a field day in the spring. eigh- Slim arrived back[...]contests and programs. contact since. DeHaven is a free lance inventor and For the su[...]fit" between 1911 This school was held in a homestead cabin about four and 1915. Pay in those[...]he school from the W. V. In 1915 he filed on a homestead. Through the Johnson ranch w[...]Dillon for more normal training when my sister, a Davis. Jim said "I can't hire anyone that's worth a student at the Sheridan Business College[...]l you the place." "I don't have me to take a business course there. I did so, and worked any m[...]it to you on two years at Lindsey-Sheridan-a wholesale house-as jawbone, 760 acres, $20,000.00" It was a deal. a bookkeeper and did general office work.[...]married in Buffalo. He had bought a ranch on Rosebud In 1916 my parents and family came from near Creek in 1920; there was a five-room house on the ranch Iowa City and settle[...]utter, canned our vegetables, etc. two years, and a summer school near the rock house. In su[...]ght it was warm enough to bathe. walked to school a mile away, held in the Pack Saddle We stayed at home, chiefly, except for a couple of trips Jack house. Gregg, Marie, and Cla[...]wo of to town each year. Mail came once a week if the road Warren Adsit's children, the Kol[...]t; parents brought their schoolroom-but there was a side room we used for our children and th[...]Johnson always a ked everyone to come to their[...]arri ed in Hardin on a 40 degree b low zero morning.[...]farm in partner hip with his brother J. . Koebbe.[...]Going south the next day when hi brother came into town after him with a team and sleigh be could[...]J . A. Koebbe had lea ed a farm about eventeen[...] | |
| Hardin), Joyce (Mrs. Dean Huss, married a Hardin boy) and Marilyn (Mrs. Myron Strand).[...]iva In the spring of 1925 the Koebbes leased a farm[...]where their father had spring of 1930 they bought a farm on the bench south of Two Leggin creek, which did not prove to be a paying a dry-goods store. They lived in Fairibault until F[...]ring the depression years until 1936 when he took a worked in a department store. Frank came to Miles job as carp[...]terested in buying a general store. He heard that the[...]Hardin was a progressive and flourishing little town as[...]The store was a wooden building, twenty-five feet[...]was a vacant 50 x 140 foot lot. Here, in 1917, they bui[...]a modern brick building. It had hard wood floors, s[...]trances-also a balcony. The entire store to the alley Breaking[...]mself. and heridan. He started on a small scale with a drag line, a pick After 20 years, John sold his half interest to Frank up, a cement mixer, and some house moving equip-[...] | |
| [...]e in Minnesota and af- government behind a fence until the emergency was terwards taught in[...]ove to Hardin. When 1915 when I came to Hardin as a bride. these volunteers move[...]charge of the operation and supervised honeymoon. A group of men immediately hand cuffed Am[...]added many more hundreds of acres to his original a "tin lizzie" and drove me up and down Main Street investment and has developed and landscaped a where the Hardin residents were standing on both[...]successfully, from his first love of sugar where a number of ladies were assembled. Thus I was[...]and management of the Perhaps I am shedding a few tears as I write these ranch to his sons[...]home. The children are-Carole, Tommy, Kathryn, is a research engineer for North American Autonetics. Bernice, Marion, Harry, Bobby, and Elaine. She had a daughter, Karen, married to a university Note: Material, from Billings[...]ney in Olympia. She has two married daughters and a son, Brad, an engineering Mr. and[...]a building contractor and came to Sheridan to find[...]Benjamin Lammers came to Hardin and filed on a miles from his present home near Hardin. A bus driver, section a mile and a half west of Hardin. when he started to school, c[...]im to pronounce, and homest:.ead, living in a two room hou e until a larger the name has stuck. Tom attended Hardin sc[...]In 1915, Mr. B. J . Lammers bought a two tory president of the Class of 1933.[...]Tom, at the age of nineteen, managed added a brick building in back. It housed a hoe hop, to lease three-hundred acres of land and[...]nd store with rooms for rent Clara County farmers a lesson in sugar beet farming. In upstair . On[...]crop averaged twenty tons to the acre. He and his brother had plans for a university education in Japan, but language was a barrier to American-born and educated boys and th[...]affairs and report to relocation centers. Life in a barracks at Gila, Arizona soon became monotonous for his busy mind but he and Emi, his bride of a few weeks, kept busy by volunteering for e[...] | |
| B. J. Lammers bought a well drilling machine run In the early thirties Ed started a plumbing shop in by horse power. Ed Lammers, his[...]e horse power outfit. Later Ed Ed was a member of the Hardin Masonic Lodge drilled both water and gas wells as a business with and Odd Fellows Lodge. He and his brother Gus, gasoline powered motors.[...]Wyoming band. Ed passed away in 1940 with a heart attack. November 6, 1912. Grace Cronk came to Sheridan in a George Lammers, Ed's brother, ran the second covered wagon with her parents Mr[...]s Cronk from Beaver City, Nebraska. Mr. Cronk was a destroyed by fire in 1950. George's son, Gayle Lam- carpenter and got a job helping to build more barracks mers, runs a second hand store in Hardin at present. at Fort M[...]Gus Lammers, another brother, became a car- Mr. and Mrs. Ed Lammers lived their fir[...]se to the Ed's son Joe Lammers, who is a well driller and present address 618 N. Crawford[...]THE LAPP FAMILY Ed was town marshall for a short time and in 1914 By Lydia Lapp Unverzagt and he went to Helena with a Federal prisoner. D. Morissette The E. A. Lammers had three children, a son, Joe John Lapp and his wife Katheri[...]States in 1905. Throughout a very rough voyage across[...]north of Richardton, North Dakot.a. After a number of years of hard labor the family[...]a living. John worked on other farms in North Dakot[...]Upon arriving in Hardin, the Lapp family lived in a[...]and thin an acre of beets; weeding was two-and-a-half[...]leaves off and piling them, paid fifty cents a ton. The[...] | |
| [...]g the bare feet caused the children to shed many a tear. Their late 1800's. diet consisted mainly[...]n the The oldest daughter, Lydia, worked as a mother's farm; putting in crops, fencing the[...]m the age of thirteen. She posts, and building a granary. recalls how homesick she was during those early teen years. She kept house, cared for a family of children, Father Loo died in 19[...]eive any cash for her work, only her room, board, a ready for production, he found out we had no hist.ory of set of clothes and a pair of shoes. crops so ou[...]and Otto During the depression that was a bit discouraging. were only going to get the lic[...]ate. Mr. Hanna was the daughter to be married in a ceremony by a minister of Supervisor of Water for Indians in five states. He his choice. John Lapp made a scene and told Otto to became a life-long friend and acted as liaison when the g[...]on the con- courage to come back for her. After a couple of days of struction were given a rebate in the form of tax relief for waiting, the groom strode bravely to the door and a certain number of paid water years. Jay was dema[...]on water projects in Johnstown. delivery with a team and dray wagon. He delivered to the local b[...]we worked for Boeing. to Hardin. Otto worked as a head blacksmith for Holly We returned to the[...]ier and the Big Horn Bridge fifty plow shares in a day for a daily wage of three when we built our log h[...]gar Co. dollars and fifty cents. Otto's skill as a blacksmith built a factory in Hardin, and eighty labor hou were con[...]s not an easy one. Many farmers lives in Hardin. A daughter, Jane, is the wife of the wanted to[...]Joyce Helzer Pattyn. Good roads were a necessity as we had only gravel[...]with the cattlemen paying a small fee. He was also Jay Lee's father and[...]ve horses from instrumental in encouraging a veterinarian to locate in Johnstown, Color[...] | |
| [...]arriage Billings until John was able to alter a warehouse in with John Lewis in Detroit. Two year[...]September 25, 1898. A few years later they moved to Colorado in search[...]to was born on September 15, 1882. The quest for a for- the Indians. Some of his projects were[...]man who makes water run uphill. " A canal on the side Hardships in that period were a way of life. On one of a valley, sloping only enough to give the proper oc[...]es look as though it runs uphill when doctor from a camp high on the mountainside, traveling comp[...]dith name. suspended between them in a small chair. Another time, John detoured off the trail to avoid confrontation with a mountain lion. Lack of funds (not to mention ratt[...]e difficult. After John gave up the hunt for a mineral strike, he obtained work as a carpenter in Montrose, Colorado. He had to learn[...]a large stone monument from the railroad tracks in[...]arrived on a flatcar, and John devised a system of[...]move it to a specially designed sled. A team of horses Adelade Irene Hart Lewi[...] | |
| drag the conveyance to the Battlefield, a distance of two years old when we left Billings and went onto a three and a half miles.[...]many times after leaving Waco unt il consisted of a huge hole dug beside the river to receive[...]from high school, and where my parents providing a filtered-water reservoir; the construction of lived until their deaths. a concrete reservoir (the first of its kind in the[...]hile my father plowed for Mr. Mace, we the top of a hill ; and the pipe system connecting the lived in a tent with boarded-up walls and a board floor. gravel reservoir with the hilltop re[...]rnment sold the so-called children for a school. Papa and Mr. Almond hauled the " Ceded St[...]homestead . John put in his bid for forty acres, a mile and a half The school district furnished the lu[...]and etc. We had three teachers (each stayed a year.) was consumated, he requested retirement an[...]sshoppers would come and sit in the shade of home-a twelve-by-sixteen-foot tent.[...]of When it was decided to build a dam on t he Big Kenneth and Donald, John built a chicken house into H om River, my fath[...]e stars, slept on the able to build and move into a two-story farm house by ground, hobbled[...]sitting flat on the deat h on September 4, 1923. A few months following sidewalk, wearing[...]on to Wyola, then back to Lodge Grass. A few days Burroughs on June 29, 1928. After that,[...]inches of snow and the train arrived at three A.M. great country, and in their small way contribu[...]and town , and the high school was a new brick building up Mary Rumfelt: Kenneth Elmer[...]Father rented a place on the top of Wolf Mountains[...]during that year. We missed a full year of chool but I was born in Billings[...]daughters of Mr. and Mrs. Frank built a house using rough lumber he got as pay for Wesley[...]Lodge Grass. We got a few cows and sold milk while we While we live[...]ed for finished high school. Father made a one-horse led and the Billings Best Flour Mill, My sister, Rosalie, was a two-wheeled cart that we u ed in the summe[...] | |
| [...]ing of cows, District decided to build a bigger one. Miss Eder's delivering milk, wranglin[...]Mr. Anderson was the first groceryman. He put up a Cammock and Chloe McKinley graduated in 1922.[...]Albright to Crow Agency or west to Toluca (a terminal for the School, 10; and the Absaroka Sch[...]Cody Branch Line.) Toluca had two saloons, a small The Absaroka School located on West Soap Creek grocery store, and a hotel. Nearby Peritsa Siding, there and better known as the Soap Creek School was the was a small grocery store, but that is gone. first scho[...]ere I met and My mother, Eva Hanson, a sister, Lulu, and married John oblett, and thus e[...]going good, they built another others, chartered a railroad coach and came west to school u[...]veral new neighbors, the J. Y Springs to join one brother who had come out earlier, Fergusons, Lew and Boone Kennedy, and the Fred and found a place for them to live.[...]n on the Bench. Then ca.me Geo. people and it was a wonderful stock country. There was Kent. In 1911 John Torske homesteaded at the place a family named Hanson, who were originally from[...]drove a horse and buggy to town every day. He worked[...]Reno and his wife. The Fergusons bought Idaho in a covered wagon. Mom's older brother was out them out, and the Renos moved down the valley where there. They lived there for a year but didn't like it, so they lived for yea[...]Gay's Godmother. There was no Dr. when Melvin was brother-in-law came here and filed on two homesteads.[...]ch Johnston and wife moved here and opened up a Hard- we lived. Later a larger home was built and we lived in ware and Furniture Store. Mrs. Johnston was a teacher. that until we sold it in 1933.[...]ned by Mrs. Reeder, who The first school was a little one-room shack that came here with her son, Edgar. Guy Logan and a friend, belonged to my grandmother. Mrs. M[...] | |
| [...]llards came and though she never became a good rider. Mom made homesteaded till 1920, then[...]ery prominent the winter, you raised a garden and canned all you people, whom we enjoyed[...]h was Some years afterwards, I married Dale Lowe, a loaded oh the wagons by hand with the help of a railroad passenger conductor with whom I enjoyed[...]this writing, Mom is in a nursing home in Billings,[...]Montana. She suffered a stroke that left her blind. ANNA ERTL LUTHER[...]ght Spain. As the war with | |
| [...]of his or some of the neighbor's stock, or where a ranch. John, Jr. got Mother's homestead and[...]. In the good years dad hauled wheat to town with a four horse team and in the bad years he hauled co[...]Leonard Luther was John Luther's older brother.[...]ain reason they left the Lake Basin Dad had a bad leg, it was three inches shorter than a[...]tle and sheep men did the other. He got this when a team of broncs ran away not get along too well. One night they moved a herder and turned over the wagon he was driving.[...]heep off their cattle range and the local sheriff a mall boy I remember Dad hauling water in a barrel to and the owner of the sheep did not approve. the pig pen on a stone boat with a team of broncs; he They had two ba[...]he stoneboat and hurt his hip and leg. a bad winter. Bad nowstorms in the late spring of o[...]They ran sheep until the spring of 1918, then for a couple of days, By chance a man came by that Dad bought out Leonard's share. Dad then traded the knew how to sit a walking plow o they plow straight sheep to a man that lived on Rosebud Creek for his wi[...] | |
| [...]George Deputee who worked there. He owned a very and Leonard were married. In 1918 Leonard, B[...]oved to Nevada County, California. made a deal with t he Lynde family to move into his There they bought a ranch from John Fontz in 1918. place. E[...]. T he Lyndes were very hospitable people and was a dugout about 11 x 20. It had logs around the Emma was a good cook so they always had a great d~l topside about three high. The roof cons[...]Bill was a horse trader at heart and did a great deal[...]In the spring of 1914 Bill took a contract with the[...]t to Grass. The local citizen s were unaware that a new build blind corral at variou er k cr[...]ma as she led six year old Rowley for .00 a head. Myron toward the red wooden depot.[...]in need of lodging until they could build a Livery table for peopl who came great find a home. At t hat time t here was no hotel so the distance to the railroad thu giving them a plac to Depot Agen t A. G. Westwood said that his family leav[...]were gone to heridan, could accommodate them for a few days. Hardin or Billing on bu in Bill then contacted Mr. Perle Mapes and got a job Thi large barn al o became a ocial center. Every as teamster hauling timber from the Wolfe Mountains two weeks a dance wa held and they danced from du k to shore[...]he owned at the till dawn. In order to erve a lunch the women hit on the edge of town. (It was[...]arer looked forward to by the people in such a thinly the mine.[...] | |
| [...]r no hay, so to play basketball. It then became a gymnasium. hay had to be shipped from[...]bout 4 miles up Lodge Grass creek. He also bought a When he got home the men had just put in a new piece of land adjoining it from A. L. Barrett. Here the section of cement in the barn. Of course you never left a family moved in the fall. Then in the spring, t[...]car out at night, besides there was plenty of A. C. Dill to build a new home and changed the I.D. room on the older floor for a car, so Bill drove in, cabin into a barn. However he didn't stop quick enough so he[...]laughter and joking one of the men harnessed up a team and pulled him out. The next day he b[...]id much laughter and joking they had to hitch up a team and drag him out. An Indian from Crow[...]essed with the Model T that he traded Bill quite a bunch of ponies for it. It is believed that he was the first full blood Indian to own a car on the reservation In 1916 Bill took a contract with the Indian Department to build liv[...]ell and Bill Lynde Then in 1917 Bill gained a grazing permit and started to run cattle for him[...]ranching and When World War I ended in 1918 a young man by farming and trading horses[...]th the car and made camps, cooking the meals over a camp fire in dutch ovens. It took them four days[...]emand as work horses We both have been a part of Big Horn County for by both white and Ind[...]ve up because they didn't have beginning of a depression. Myron had a good job with enough grass or water, so Bill formed a partnership an oil drilling company. The[...]they went to the Myron got work with a trucking Company. The Powder River ( orthem Wyomi[...]trucking company went broke and could pay only a part head of steers and shipped them to Parkman,[...]were turned The rancher were having a very bad time too. loose with good grass and plenty of water and no Myron's father, Bill Lynde, a ked Myron to work at fences, so they did v[...] | |
| [...]to give up the Dryhead, sell the sheep where a man near our range had 500 head of two year and b[...]l to sell ewes in the Myron was looking for a job. Bill Prante, who was winter, they were the[...]eep foreman for the Tschirgi Ranch, offered Myron a and recognized the ewes as the ones he was missing, job caring for sheep. It was a lonely job. It was hard even the paint brand w[...]ed to Lodge Grass. Myron had an Indian lease with a nice little house on it. We borrowed money to buy[...]illcutt, foreman for E. L. Dana, wrote us. He had a chance to buy some sheep. Would Myron bring his family to Woody Camp and run the sheep for him at $75.00 a month? Myron liked working with sheep, so we took[...]e were able to pay off our loan at the Bank after a while.[...]war was over we built a home in Lodge Grass. In the[...]He and a twenty year old athlete started out in 40[...]below weather, in a 4-wheel drive. The oil line froze up[...]dn't go on. Myron realized he would have to build a Myron decided to quit working for wages and[...]rk for himself. Matt Tschirgi asked Myron to take a as well as some other papers 10 hi pocket to[...]nrise Myron made the treme ffort to reach move to a larger ranch but Matt had the land and t[...]care for the sheep. Shockey, was a powerful man. He carried the boy to th June 3 1944 a sad incident occurred. We had h p wago[...]d bliz.zard Soon the weather cleared and a pilot friend, Dick hit the country. We had shed r[...]on's father 's ranch near Lodge Gra s. In we lost a two year old son by drowning in the river. It 1959 we built a ranch home of our own where we now was a stunning blow. We had to be away for awhile[...]er. Christine is a nurse who work part time at th t.[...] | |
| have a daughter and two sons. Loretta is a Journalism JOHN MACLEO[...]By Jessie MacLeod Ottum Charles Breslin, is a pilot for Johnston's flying service. John Macleod was born in Ross Shire Scotland, They own a small ranch 20 miles out of Missoula, August 31, 1882. As a young man he worked in a game where they make their home.[...]on his desire to become a law officer. Entry fees were[...]ch horse had to cover the I 00 mile course within a[...]Hotel on the 4th. It was a gruelling race for rider and[...]he got back out to the street again, a pickpocket had[...]married Lillie Anne Fitzgerald, a teacher in the Hardin[...]acLeod and Undersheriff Carl 0. Long gained quite a[...]and road blocks amid a fusillade of bullets. through[...]Many times a well placed shot hitting a tire or punc-[...]turing the radiator ended the race of a fugitive machine[...]in a pistol duel with a Mexican dope fiend whom he[...]had only been on duty a couple of months when he met[...]powered rifles and Bolin barricaded in a barn adjoining[...]the cover of the barn taking a shot at anyone who[...] | |
| [...]espite the entreaties jail and locked him up a couple of hours, just to give of several, made a detour around the building sheltering him a taste of his own medicine! The ladies took charge[...]hearted, took arrest or shoot Bolin, he received a bullet through the her for refreshments and a movie. Finishing out the left thigh near the groi[...]negro. There he laid for upwards of an was a teacher in the Crow Agency schools. hour, no one[...]without danger of himself being killed. Finally, A. C. Cole, a mechanic at the Big Horn Garage, succeeded in get[...]e out and he was riddled with bullets from nearly a hundred guns. After he had been brought down he f[...]n where it soon was consumed by the flames. Officer MacLeod was taken to the Crow Hospital but had lost so much blood that he passed away a few minutes later. Joint funeral services f[...]ery were in charge of fraternal organizations and a delegation of the Crow Tribe. Ten Indian Chieftai[...]nberger [Mrs. Andrew] Mr. and Mrs. John conducted a brief ceremony in their native tongue then[...]and John MacLeod. bowed their heads in prayer as a tomahawk was placed on each casket,-the symbol of[...]Schools and after serving a four-year term, returned to[...]n 1917, boarding with the Jess Wolfe need a substitute." family who lived close by. They also[...]ence Preston, enjoying every minute of sub titute a year with their wagons for supplies. It didn't ta[...]use was the hub of the pa sed away, leaving a daughter, J ie (Mrs. Juell community and everyone[...]around looked Ottun) of Hardin, and a son, John, of Edmond , forward to special program[...]with her dramatic readings and oral recitations, a talent which she hared with others THO A · M LEOD throughout her life.[...]By R. B. MacLeod The next year she accepted a job teaching the 6th Thomas MacLeod ho[...]heriff, John. MacLeod, on ovember for a sheep camp. He was born in Rosshire, otland 14th[...]the United States. under the command of Chief of Police John Putnam, Tom lived on[...] | |
| [...]board walks. It was a familiar sight to see Indian[...]caramels, and what a bag full we got![...]vicinity had a good dance crowd, old and young alike.[...]munity, near Sarpy, gave a dance in their new hall,[...]two sons, Colin and Burgess. Mr. MacLeod was a county commissioner for eight Dr. Haverfield[...]art, Sam years in Big Horn County and earlier was a deputy Paulos-Faturos assessor for eight[...]idnight by the ladies of the his own spring wagon a friend asked if he had borrowed community. Dun[...]ies Trading his ortb Dakota homestead for a seven and put them on plates or we wouldn't get t[...]Pie was cut in five pieces and sold for ten cents a four children arrived at the north edge of the booming piece. We worked seven days a week and twelve hours a City of Hardin, May 20, 1920. day. Waitresses got $10.00 a week and uniforms fur- Proudly pointin[...]d unbroken nished. Used ice for refrigeration and a coal stove, ground, he said, "These are the[...]fan in the middle of the ceiling, which we be a dam built in those snow capped mountains, the tho[...]one on the east of electricity for your Maytag (a washer with a wooden Center A venue had cement side walks. The rest were[...] | |
| In the pasture across the dirt road could be seen a Ed Lawler and Bill Hoerr of the Harriett Theatre dim pioneer trail to Pine Ridge, also a huge barren spot weren't fooled much when a youngster presented an old where Buffalo had onc[...]ck to the disclosed arrowheads, French coins and a gold trimmed basement door to be burned l[...]in the blade. same tire was used by a half dozen kids to see Charlie The family lived a month in the Lammers building Chaplin, Tar[...]the Sullivan block, housing Big Hom employed as a carpenter. The floor of the Council Room C[...]as Tony Baron, who also put sticky was laid with a center square graduating outward and fly[...]Torske's garage and Gay Block, with a huge white dog hitched to a cart, paint shop below. They were afraid of the[...]squaws on Main Street. radish seeds on a tree stump that were to be sent to his One[...]. Hom and we could pick strawberries for 3 cents a quart Three summers we walked to the patch beyond the in a 20 acre patch owned by A.H. Bowman. There was east bridge to pick strawberries at 5 cents a quart that no doubt in our minds Dad had found the promised were stored in a root cellar. During the heat of the day, land, until evening when we were a mass of red welts we played on old Fort C[...]ir. Little Hom and sometimes took a row boat ride with Our first home was a wooden-floored tent boarded "Pump House" Ha[...]our way up about 4 feet high on the sides, plus a small frame home, we stole a watermelon from old man Weller, sat building for[...]e ditch bank and ate it. Usually the boss gave us a bors were the Charles Corkins family who moved to[...]At canning time that fall, spend 5 cents for a Green River at Sibleys Drug tiny Mary Corkins sca[...]to fish . Some horseback Indians were shooting at a at the bums riding coal cars; they tossed us big[...]cks. behind a boulder growling defiance with echoes ringing[...]heep Big Horns in one big bed made from a tarpaulin and run, and other games with the Ebeli[...]the site of the pre ent Emanuel King, with a big sled, sleigh bells ringing courthouse, pl[...]ll, beets. Three rows on each side were thrown to a center country school houses and individua[...]arvested beets to the railroad included a dance of the Schottische by Tom Gibbs and dump.[...]d eaten at the store of Chas. Peck and might take a minute to watch nearby city park. The ne[...]acco leaves into cigars in his brought before Police Judge A . H . Roush for discipline. shop next door.[...]hi9 own rack. up to a lighted candle, sitting on top of a barrel. Five Sammy the Greek owned the "Gre[...]drummers on one Tom-Tom provided music from a dark Club Cafe nearby, and always knew whe[...] | |
| [...]like the sport. "I guess my first celebrated with a street dance in 1921. artifact[...]d Indian camp sites. They are crates and included a sack of good candy, not all day always at a good spring and shade ... " He told me of suckers[...]of Hoodoo Denver Post funnies, took our baths in a tin wash tub, Creek. donned our best clothcc: and Sunday shoes. A silver pin Roy has an estimated ten-thous[...]nclude arrowheads (among One fall we shelled a tubful of home grown them Fulsom, Yuma[...]drills, hammers, mortars and clothing. Ping hung a 15 pound sack on her front porch. The Probably most valuable is a cook pot made of soap- money was used to buy Chri[...]here: tungsten, copper ore, re-wrapped and hidden a dozen times before the day. gold nuggets, silver ore, rose quartz, jade, pipestone, We put popcorn in a long handled wire basket shaking obsidian,[...]Frank went to work quite young; he worked in a during a game of rummy.[...]Roy Marsh, 82, is the owner and proprietor of a and exposure.. Frank helped them all he cou[...]in the center of Pryor. He doing acquired a working knowledge of Indian sign came to Billings[...]a. Some of the Cheyennes being in a talkative mood, told[...]Wylie. Frank bought a team of oxen and broke up the[...]rst ground in that part of the country. He raised a fine[...]in the country, also a registered Hereford bull and later a registered mammoth Spanish Jack and raised mules.[...]Frank had been staked by a grandfather in 1886[...]deemed necessary to register brands, so many a new Artifact and rock hunting are the height[...]itials. Frank however, had recorded interest. His brother Glen and sister Pansy Milligan, his i[...] | |
| [...]arly visits from Dr. Russell, the ribs. There was a large cattle outfit towards the County[...]attending a country school was the absence of After the[...]the school days in t own. boss showed him a paper that stated his employer had A[...]on the ribs. They took every head providing a mail box along the main road, patrons were of cat[...]drawstrings. Letters to be mailed were placed in a sack, The ranch was noted for its hospitalit[...]d up and taken to H ardin, and t he sack was used a sort of an advisor and Sophie was the local mid-w[...]many years. By 1911, Frank's health necessitated a carrier put the filled sack in the box, pick[...]the nex t week. in the spring of 1936. Frank was a Mason. Sophie was Farming and cattle[...]One bad winter $25 a ton hay was hauled t he 25 miles[...]memorable year the first load of wheat brought $1 a THE MA YO FAMILY[...]Mayo sold their homestead in and 4 cents a pound at the ranch. Crops were good if Wyoming in[...]d not attend school unt il after 1924 looking for a new home. They traveled in a sheep when the family moved to a ranch on upper Lodge wagon with a team and a saddle horse. Along the way Grass Creek ,[...]lots of wa ter in t he creek and there was a better road to company and aid in case of trouble[...]They which must be opened and closed. After a few years, came into Big Horn County through the[...]e one room school attended Mr. Mayo obtained a plowing contract near by the younger children until 1930; after that each fall a Corinth for the summer. This was virgin soil libe[...]the Ed After the death of Mr. Mayo in a car accident in Mayer farm near Maschetah, a well established 1933, the family moved back to Hardin were they community. A school was built which opened in 1918. lre[...]E.McCarthy led an adventurous life as a railroad tele- provided, a sledding hill was available, and th large gr[...]legrapher-his hand sending was Occasionally, a dance was given and the money clear-cut Morse, and his penman. hip wa as perfect a obtained from tickets was used to buy cases of so[...]bout that time, as there was these years he wa a member of the school board of not a large supply of paper. Children from the O[...] | |
| [...]load at t he coming to Montana he had worked a few years for the depot.[...]Soon after arriving in Sheridan he got a job[...]turned out that proving up on a homestead was not the life for Sam. In less than a year he sold out and went to[...]work for Willis Spear who was running a roundup[...]employed quite a group of riders at that time. Among[...]caught on and stuck although a little later the " Creek"[...]n Texas consisted of his Wagon. parents, a twin sister, and four brothers which included[...]another set of twins. AU of them came to Montana a few and never bring it back until aft[...] | |
| time that Sam's skill as a calf roper became known far were always regard[...]on showing to his friends. Years later, after a collection of the reservation and chances are he'd say, "Why, that's Russell letters had been put into a book called Good Sarpy Sam."[...]din on Two It was while he was visiting such a camp at the Leggin Creek. This ranch was hea[...]ellison family who were living at the Pryor a one-room rural school located about a mile from the Creek Ranch. The Kellisons had come[...], on Thanksgiving Day in 1916, full. It was a treacherous creek, especially in flood he married[...], Montana). Oklahoma, was riding Shimmie, a horse that was not Also, the couple had nine gran[...]Eagle Springs Ranch was a working ranch in every[...]The cattle were forced to jump, one at a time, into the[...]out into the corral to dry off. It was a job that had to be Sam and Carrie Mc[...]head of wild horses. Frank Greenough, old r brother of th "Riding Stockmen and ranchers in the area t[...]r and shipped east to E. L. Dana operated a large cow outfit in both canning factories. Hundr[...]n left right where they fell. Some cattlemen paid a token Pass Creek in Wyoming. Harve Willcutt, r. was amount to anyone bringing them tpe right ear of a wild superintendent of the Dana holdings in[...]horse had been killed. which included a lease on the Dryhead Ranch at the It was in[...]oon after Frank horses that Sarpy Sam wrote a poem entitled, " In Heinrich died, " ar[...]early the of the wild horses but it did establish a writing following pring they moved to Ha[...]ween the two men. The Russell letters worked a few months as deputy county assessor.[...] | |
| [...]THE McKIITRICKS cattle. He wanted to be an officer of the law. Four times AND THE BIG H[...]he biggest ice jam the Darroll Warren tells about a time when he and Mitchell McKittricks could remember. The water covered the Clawson had gone on a hunting trip and had somehow road betwee[...]ook gotten themselves in unfamiliar territory. At a them about three or four hours to get[...]the porch off of Mr. which fork to take. They saw a sign nailed to a post. Hammer's house. The water was up to t[...]In 1920 there were just a few telephones in use. missing each time by only a few votes, but he did serve[...]m engines for cutting wood for appointed Chief-of-Police for the city of Hardin.[...]people in the neighborhood who had a horsepower washing machine that was pulled by a horse.[...]was a five gallon jar with a wooden lid. The motion of[...]. Sam McDowell [Sarpy Sam] as Hardin Chief of Police In 1940, Sarp went to work for P. R. Krone,[...]in the Wolf Mountains east of | |
| [...]married to Mother 's Imagine riding in a box wagon for t he fourteen or brother, so when Grandmother Mehling became a fifteen miles to our new log cabin[...]any girl friends, he forgot and cooking was a cast iron wood and coal stove, no all about them[...]warming oven, just a flat top. I remember we had a There was another Mehling, Conrad, probably a curtain dividing the cabin. One end was[...]and t he other t he kitchen and dining room, with a space lived with them. He went on his own soon af[...]he lived in the Park City kitchen area was a stove, cupboard and table and area of Montana. maybe a couple of benches. I don't remember any chairs[...]ditch, the first thing Dad did was to put up a windmill April, 1908 Mother almost died fro[...]rses good water that later was used to water a garden and came to shave her ( with long razors)[...]orchard above the irrigation ditch. He built a barn with frightened,- thought she was going to be butchered - part of it used for a granary. One time during a bad she had to be held down until s he went to sl[...]neighbors, Cotters, were two brothers, the baby, a boy, died from s ummer complaint. b[...]y. for cooking and drinking. They had bought a cow, their first, one summer. When[...]ing to read and the cow and with the money bought a "Talking write at the same time, m[...]mo t of the time. Of course, children always and a big horn with the prettiest big red roses on it.[...]hey lived got me into trouble. For instance, a boy itting in front in a sod house where I was born. I was told that during of me turned around and grabbed my pencil and broke a hurricane the roof blew off.[...]me it at anoth r de k. was able, she put me into a little wagon and took me Of course, I said[...]ord " swear" meant! beets. Uncle Jake was driving a horse drawn puller There was quite a lot of prejudice against the (before days of tractors) and all of a sudden here was I German-Russians that soon fo[...]some good friends who were helpful to u as well a we have done quite well as farm tenants in ebrask[...]on the farm , so the animal fertilizer was under a partnership, "Mehling Brothers " .[...] | |
| [...]t know people in School District 16 was a desire and need that where, maybe Sheridan, Wyoming and Lodge Grass. became a reality when the Community School was It was[...]ts Bluff. They bought classrooms, and a horsedrawn school bus provided the another farm f[...]town. Finally, the sugar company and railroad put a line down the valley so the beets could be shipped by rail to Sheridan, Wyoming. Later a sugar factory was built at Harnin.[...]a few years where they farmed. While in Mi souri, t[...]191 . Finding a farm close to a cou in of Myrtle's, Mrs. During World War I[...]er friends), closed. The German-Russian came from a strict the elville family moved into a log house located Lutheran background. Dad built a new home to replace about one mile north of the Fairview Cemetery. On a the cabin where brother John, Florence and nne were cold and snow[...]was born. Their daughters Mildred and Helen place a mile from the original homesite. All the children[...]uated in 1924 and 1926 respectively. Soon. we had a church built in Hardin. We shared a After farming the land for a few years, the Melville minister who came[...] | |
| [...]ar the Nine Mile School. Their son, Ver- men a day on an average during this time. nard, attende[...]n Hardin. In the early 1930's the family moved to a dry land farm located on the North Bench where Ve[...]ry in the community room of the court house where a large number of friends and neighbors gathered fo[...]{Mrs. Sam Ragland], Helen [M rs. H arold Swant], A rdelia [Mrs. Kirkman], Vernard MeluiUe, 1935[...]ed in the coal mines at Dietz. They always raised a large garden. Their two daughters, Martha and Sophie would drive to Sheridan with a wagon load of £re h garden vegetables. The girls[...]They moved to Lodge Grass in 1926 and opened a confectionery store, later meats and groceries we[...]ch Supply. Mr. Miklovich's hobby was raising a beautiful ick Miklouich and Gran[...]hat time wa one of sidetracked at Lodge Grass for a short time. The word the 200 guests a[...] | |
| [...]Prentiss Bliss, daughter of a Grand Rapids, Michigan,[...]after serving as a brigade surgeon during the Civil War.[...]In 1880, after completing a course in law at the[...]declining a renomination, he resumed his practice,[...]er The Miklovich retired in 194 . They built a lovely | |
| [...]name, along with Theodore Roosevelt's name is in a we often skated on the Little Horn River.[...]ld Miles City Club in 1884. Some having been a fine figure skater, helped us with the years ago,[...]by. Our folks took us for Theodore Roosevelt with a knife! In this record book of rides in our lar[...]ular, of going to the Matt Tschirgi nine. He adds a word of gratitude to Mrs. L. A. Huff- ranch for this. The children in the f[...]man, wife of the great Wes tern photographer and a dear included in this pastime. Benches were se[...]ially to make our large living room, and had a player piano which sure that the two youngest got[...]e served for music. they needed. She stayed a year. My first swimming was done in the Little Hom Here is a story in Jack Milburn 's words: "Before River[...]g was another happy pastime. It not only asked by a close friend of Mrs. Milburn, the wife of Lt. was a form of entertainment, but provided food for the[...]he table. Hunting for duck and pheasant was a great Battle of the Little Big Horn, to try to fi[...]er husband when they were We had a large vegetable garden, which we married. It carr[...]ller Reynolds I feel it wa a marvelous opportunity to have been I have ma[...]rst year of school at the little one BOB A BILLIE MILLER FAMILIE room school house,[...]Robert Jam "Bob" iller was born December , what a wonderful experience that was. The school[...]des one through the eighth, and all Minnie A. Miller. Hi father and brother-in-law had grades were in one room, and one teacher, but we did gone W t to look for work and a drier, healthier not lack for good training and e[...]the round-ups, helped ranch, the family took up a homestead where they with the branding of[...] | |
| [...]oolhouse. They left Pass Creek in 1915 and bought a near the cabin using two old gentle steers as th[...]e involved and sent him back to headquarters with a bunch of horses. He knew most all ot the people i[...]eridan area. In about 1900 he brought his younger brother Wm. . "Billie" Miller from ebraska to work for th[...]At one time, between 1901-1904, Bob served as a Deputy Sheriff under A. J. "Andy" Nelson. 1n 1905 he was voted one[...]rom Plattsmouth, ebraska. Mr. Critchett came as a brakeman on the first freight train in heridan, W[...]n Sheridan. In the spring of 1907 he sent for his brother Billie Miller to bring some horses over the mount[...]children finished school while Billie established a ranch on Lodge Grass Creek near his Bob Miller brother Bob Miller. They lived there until they tu[...] | |
| [...]tle Co. He later worked for W. B. wasn't much. A number of homesteaders received their " Junior" Spear, before getting a place of his own and mail at the post office. m[...]nded and the post Robert J. "Bob" Miller was a member of Montana office was moved farther along the rou te. Later it was Stockgrowers Assoc., being a Past President. A abandoned, but the mail route from Big Horn is still in member of Elks Lodge in Sheridan and a member of existence, with its Tuesday and[...]rea people in 1918. Mrs. Viola At one time he was a member of their Black Horse Bair, of Hard[...]rn County in 1916 from Central City, Colorado. My brother, Edmund A., was born in 1918. We homesteaded in the Tullock Creek area at what was known as Maschetah. There was a post office by that name, and the mail cam[...] | |
| [...]Ruth O'Brien, and Mrs. Bland. Mrs. this area with a lot of extra-large machinery, for those Pope[...]children at- earJy time . The machinery included a Model 25-30 tended High School in Lodge Grass. ultman Taylor tractor, a grain thresher, a saw mill, an alfalfa seed thresher, and other mac[...]tractor would use up to fifty gallon of gasoline a day and all of it had to be hauled by team and wa[...]rge tractor for power. ll the trees were cut by a two-man cross-cut saw and the logs were skidded on the snow, one at a time, with a team of horse . The lumber was sold to the home t[...]on the ranch. Walter, Jr. lost his life in a car accident a Je ie Maus Miller came to Hardin from Shell[...]ve taken over the ranch work at lbert Maus was a carpenter and came to Montana to present.[...]ert and Ida' • Mrs. Bob Mau • and husband had a son Wayne, and daughter Linda and husband[...]dchildren. he 1920 the Millers bought a five ere tract of land about continue to li[...]They [Note: The following is from a letter from former· moved on this place in 1929. Later they were able to mayor, A. L. Mitchell, Oceanside, California, dated 1· en[...]in mind and files a long line of history. Corwin and Two sons an[...]ardin when major improvements were three miles to a country chool on Little Owl. Some of[...] | |
| [...]nch or anything else she needed. he received $100 a month for nine months a good salary at that time.[...]spoke no English. "A first for all of us, but we sur-[...]Every once in a while, seven or eight wagons and[...]about a Crow child she had scolded, and wondered if she[...]The school bus in the beginning was a horse-drawn affair with a stove rigged up inside to keep the pupils[...]moke streaming from the small stove could Mrs. A. L. Mitchell, wife of Hardin's first mayor[...]ov. 1906 to ov. '23 history of Hardin and a full attendance. the surrounding country. Ask Law[...]co-operated very well. They had an active P . T. A. with expense money allowed me by city for a trip. There is a interested parents as members. A large modern chool world of history centered ther[...]s for Teachers" program in 1957. visit Hardin for a long time and again live the only part r . M[...]Montana [signed]Mr. and Mrs. A. L. Mitchell by the Women ' lub .[...]Board members, and parents arranged a urpri[...]nasuim in May 1967. r . Lipp rt p ented her with a Altha Wallace Montgomery was born in Sherida[...]ing High dian parent and pupils gave her a party and gif he hool in 1922, and goi[...]Wyoming six weeks summer school, she was granted a that spring. Temporary Certificate to teach a country chool known In ovember of 19[...]t later in the school year. and erved a uperintendent for thr y ar and two[...] | |
| months, making a total of forty-seven years in around a lot. I attended school at Thermopolis, Lovell, ed[...]ries bridge as my father was helping build a heavier bridge. are of Wyola and the friends they[...]Hardin, would give me a ride on his new railroad motor[...]r. I attended school in Hardin until 1918 and was a[...]Bozeman college for a time.[...]piling. One of the holes was deep enough to use a ladder[...]was down in the hole alone when a rattle snake fell out[...]the back of the wall. I got out of there without a Alva and Altha Montgomery on their Golden Wedding[...]mery helps with branding at Spear Siding near Wyo/a.[...]farming and ranching for a while and did very well, then ALVA[...]as born ovember , 1 9 , s I was a heavy equipment operator, I went back in a sod house at Eddyville. ebraska, the only on of[...]oad by the airport at Hardin by train just before a cyclone hit the mall Billing , the Tong[...]ver Post at the Toluca plowed snow with a road patrol for about eventeen rooming and boarding hou a everyone coming in on years, at Wyola[...]Cody. chers to get feed to their stock a well as trying to keep Sometimes he would buy all[...]hile before all this was ac- give everyone around a paper. He was a big man with a complished. hearty laugh , a true howman . My years as a cowboy and ranching were the most My mother and a Mrs. Harrington, a railroad enjoyable of my life.[...] | |
| [...]In 1913, Montgomery's moved to Hardin to build a[...]They sold the cafe after about a year and a half and building the Willow Creek dam.[...]Company. They built a bridge over the Little Hom near Part of our[...]d to Hardin in 1967 as they had to be out in a camp. and are now living in Hardin, Montana. Our[...]farming. Mrs. Montgomery ran a cafe in Wyola during[...]Whitten was born at Crete, ebraska lived in a small house near her son until her death in Septe[...]here he worked in the Bozeman Flour Mill. ora and a[...]lived on a plac near al vill , now known a Gallatin[...]tion about thr mil north. He u a team of[...]was born th r . fter two ear they bought a home-[...]to round them up. Thi was quite a job becau e th y[...] | |
| [...]and a cousin, Will Carius, who was to be a neighboring[...]Delbert's belongings on the car included: a walking The home place[...]seed wheat, seed barley, a grain drill, harrows, lumber for a shed, feed for the animals, machinist's tools, on[...]cat, two dogs, a wood burning kitchen range, a tent, a In 1925, due to death in the family , a surviving bed, a clock, and a good Kodak camera with which the niece, Lois, joi[...]tt Morissette, left During the dry thirty's a big garden was planted in her German relatives[...]her husband. saddle up the horse "Old Lady", tie a small wagon on The couple bought a wagon in Hardin and moved behind and head for th[...]fter getting home, Cora would They lived in a tent until a shed was finished. can up to nine-hundred quarts[...]donated an acre of land to the school district so a new schoolhouse could be built. The chool was also used for community ac- tivitie , and a Sunday school was started. Christmas programs wer[...]husband, Delbert, on a wagon in front of our first cabin.[...]He was going after wa ter at t he well about a mile away.[...]place either, so we all brou ght water from a well we[...]and handy as possible, so I made myself a porch shade.[...]a couple of poles across the top and spread a length of[...]water barrels and a bench which I built. Also on the[...]window is a water bag, which every farmer had to have.[...] | |
| [...]he fancy Holstein dairy cows. Later Delbert added a the spaces between the logs, filling in the spaces with silo with a beautiful hardwood floor. The shed at the wood ch[...]he couple while they "The log house had only a dirt floor the first few built the "loggie". years, and as soon as we could we put down a pine floor, The large white alkali patc[...]ght at Mr. and Mrs. maximum yield. A 160 acre homestead could not Peden's store, where[...]eaders bought produce enough for a family to survive. Summer groceries and supplies,[...]dairy herds would thrive on the dry land. around a pot bellied stove, all the women who had come[...]he would Moris ette, and Charle Eder. get in a picture with my neighbor, Mrs. Ethleen weely,[...]s or longer - until stood off to one side and had a good laugh. Soon the supplies ran out.[...]While the men hunted, their young wive a sumed hu band took the picture. We sent my uncle[...]The chneiders' daughter, Dorothy, a young child reassure him.[...] | |
| [...], 'When is Daddy coming Delbert was a machinist and a tool maker by trade. back?' In exasperation Mothe[...]ow if the damned Hudson river. Working as a machinist for the bridge old fool is ever coming[...]completed only the first two grades in a French-[...]t asked the district Fig. 8. "This is a picture of Ethleen Sweely (on the surveyor to loc[...]aders' wives, worlring at this point, Delbert dug a hole, and set a large pitch pine my wood pile-just for fun-,"[...], sitting on the stump; his sister flat and drove a long nail on the side toward the sun, so Bern[...]ch so "I used to saw and split wood a lot-sometimes the shadow of the nail crossed from[...]d, but more often just for o'clock. This gave him a true north-south line. True east something to[...]"Later Delbert took a taxidermy course by[...]in the long winter evenings, and he became a skilled[...]1923 my folks homesteaded in Decker and later of a neighbor he sited across two of the nails and[...]hil Cotton Place on the Tongue River. The located a point about one quarter of a mile down the present town of Decker is on this ranch. boundary line. He then tied a rag around the wagon We four girl[...]g the was it ever cold! We walked a mile to school, and in the revolutions of the wheel, he stopped at a point that winter we had to wait about twenty minutes for our gave him exactly one quarter of a mile. Here he dug overshoes to t[...] | |
| [...]McQueen, and Presumed to be a confirmed bachelor, he met a Helen, Ellen, Wilma, and Alice Burns.[...]ut from Minneapolis Squirrel Creek began as a dance hall. There were to join her father who was U. S. Agent for the Crow not enough children for a school, but they put up a Indians. The Agency was then at Mission-e[...]in 1880 an Indian-Crook fight. The people wanted a good floor , and had four daughters- Harriet[...]ed to finish the work, by laying the floor was a member of the first Constitutional Convention and[...]ever used his homestead right, so popular and for a long time those four "helpful" fellows when the Crow reservation was opened he decided to didn't receive a very cordial welcome at the dances. "pioneer" again. He drew a low number, and filed on When the school-age population needed a school, land one and one-half miles south[...]Two-Leggio Canal had been surveyed so he selected a School was built, about 1915.[...]921 and worked at place. The next year a hail storm took a beautiful crop Forty-Mile and other cow-outfits,[...]Big I-lorn ounty. The idea intrigued her. he a fly." They didn't want me in there, so they flooded elected and re-elected to a second term, but res~gned in meadows, wired gates[...]Walter life d----- miserable. My place was about a quarter of a Hammer, the County Treasurer. He was also one[...]homesteaders on the Reservation, living there a few I raised cattle, and in the spring of 1[...]erm. Later h was again for W. V. Johnson. I built a log cabin and in 1933 I elected County Tr[...]ni M. Hammer When quite young, to win a 5.00 bet, I rode a in 1957 and Montana M. an Doren in 1962[...]and bought a trailer, intending to travel and see where[...]had no doubt in his mind that he wanted to have a THE ALFRED MYERS FAMILY[...]oa t to coast we My father, Alfred Myers, was a real pioneer, not decided to take over th[...]lhood days here and there were Montana in 1866 as a "freighter" with mining supplie still quite a few of the old timers here although many[...] | |
| [...]the train at Crow Agency on a cold, blustery day in the Hardin, M[...]winter of 1915. They were to take up a homestead in the By Amber A. Cook Sarpy Hills. The[...]P. ewell was born February 7, 1879 in the brother Roy Barnard. There followed a blizzard that Gallatin Valley near Bozeman, Montana. He was one of lasted t hree or four days. A former friend from Chicago nine children born to[...]In 1903, Joseph married Nettie Chute. They had a subsided. daughter, Blanche. Nettie died[...]rs. Albert Steen). a bobsled in which to travel and warmed bricks[...]apped in burlap. Montana for Hardin. They came in a lumber wagon Roy had taken a homestead, and his sister decided with all their[...]nd his trip from Roberts to Hardin, where Joe had a contract mother lived was very crude, with a dirt floor and sod to sell Raleigh Products.[...]n the Hardin area. He before sweeping it . held a variety of jobs. He stacked hay for Bill Reno,[...]eeded to go to town for moved to Sorrel Horse for a couple of years- the three groceries (usually twice a year), several banded children started school the[...]took two large wagons and bought Hardin, and ran a dairy for Dr. Labbitt. Later, he suppl[...]al delivered milk for Harvey Barnett who also had a dairy. hundred pounds of staples such as :[...]ecrest's mother ) which was called " Half-Way had a contract to haul garbage. It was here that a fire House." Mrs. Weast would put them up f[...]e. T hey usually managed to have Wier circulated a petition around town and collected enough[...]Gradually they made improvements such as a harness to carry out his city contract.[...]hickens were kep t under the house. They acquired a property of late J. J. Ping. Here he operated a truck milk cow and some hogs, so they wer[...]Hospital in September of 1955. His wife, usan, is a patient in the Hardin Hospital, and has been for[...]hildren; Bob (deceased), Bud Nouark holding brother Herb Dyckman, 1926[...] | |
| [...]his the homestead for sometime. Later Chub served a term occurred, my mother sent my sister Ell[...]as county assessor, and after that he cooked for a road doctor. She didn't know where the doctor[...]direction of town. After In January of 1921 a son was born to Mabel and running several blocks, she was stricken with a stitch in Chub- Robert Franklin who now lives in[...]her side and dropped to the ground in front of a house nadino, California. At about that time, Chub and a on Custer Ave. A man, who had apparently seen her partner Mr. McGi[...]llis, was matter. She said she had to find a doctor as her baby born. Herbert and his family a[...]ally supported himself since he was ten, a feeble cry. The doctor's name was Orville Haverfi[...]ays called Dr. 0. S. (as he was Goering, owner of a meat-market. In 1928 he went to affectiona[...]e usually drove out to the cemetery several times a month (during the summer) to take flowers and dec[...]and I was end. He always felt that one day a dam would be built. fifteen months old, I had con[...]ed much work and printing towards getting Cough - a most dreaded disease at that time. I would[...]thinking I would catch best little town by a dam· ite." It has been a great my breath faster in outside air. Sev[...] | |
| [...]Novark and I were married and have She had a brother, Charles. Her father went alone on lived in Hard[...]near Bedford. It was a place for various festivities. Theodore He[...]les City sometime in Roosevelt was sometimes a guest, as he traveled back about 1876 and spent some time there driving a team. and forth from Medora. He attended the dances, and at Also he drove a team at Fort Keogh, Crow Agency and one of them he picked up Marie, a toddler, and waltzed Fort Custer.[...]k near where Busby remembered working like a slave at the hotel, scrubbing now is and cooked at a ranch, the OD owned by a floors eternally. When she fell in lov[...]ation agent. Henry was Irish, City and worked at a sawmill on South Thompson and Mr. Ser[...]e until he was dragged to death was going to be a priest. But her step-father locked her on Februar[...]04 over by formed on the platform among a group of trainmen and Ranchester, Wyoming. His wages were $60.00 a month passengers. Some of these kind people were fresh fro~ and he came home maybe once a month. He put in the gold fields. They passed around a small, buckskin several days with Mother and chil[...]tween. Later he farmed and raised nuggets, a gift for the bride. The engine hooted, the alfalfa, corn and a garden. We went to Sheridan twice a brakeman yelled, "A-a-ll aboard!" The O'Briens were year for groceries. We carried water from a spring about on their way to look at the Atlantic Ocean. a quarter of mile north of the house. On Saturday w[...]missed, both boiler and we used the wash tub for a bath tub. We had O'Briens got jobs in the Ea[...]Cornell University, where he won a degree in civil I spent my life at home unt[...]e worked around Sheridan at She was a business woman all of her life. When I knew diffe[...]d away on June 20, 1956. the railroad to be a bookkeeper in a Forsyth bank. Our family has one girl, May, March[...]By Edward A. Olenik By Carolyn R. Riebeth[...]lived about seventeen miles north of Hardin, in a large childhood to her marriage. She came with her family house almost a mile east of the highway. with the soldiers and w[...]he river to the Suzda place, 1877. Her father was a civilian, I believe a blacksmith . where there was an old log house. Brother John,[...] | |
| [...]Joseph Olenik, born in Poland, 1883, was a plugged the other end with a wooden plug. John cut the graduate of the[...]n, then lit it. worked on the railroad, in a supervisory position while Boy! it exploded and t[...]ure was lucky none of us were standing by! brother in Red Lodge while learning the language, and[...]Ping's store. Mr. Ping was always nice to a misunderstanding the first "i" was omitted from h[...]ip papers. I used to walk to Fairview School, a mile from For many years he serve[...]rthem Beans. My dad had planned to sell for $5.00 a sack-he had llOO sacks-but George said he was goi[...]THEOTT F ILY wire today because we need a fence to keep them in. We[...]have only 10 left in the bank." That seemed like a lot Mr. and Mrs. ils tt\m and th ir[...]at 2 o'clock, Lyle would ask me Bench a year or two earlier wh n h visited the Tor- to br[...]Kenneth, who died at fi e year of age, and u-gm1a . especially at Thanksgiving time. Everybo[...] | |
| [...]ty, the wail and screech of unschooled fingers on a lovely Fairview cemetery west of Hardin. violin or a blast from the cornet was not always for the[...]sake of developing a skill. Mother tried to bring good[...]was a constant contest with the elements. In this real[...]Big Horn County, Father arranged for a school on the Mr. and Mrs. Nils Ottun ranch. The peal of a handsome wooden handled brass[...]room in our home with desks, map standard, and a flag THE OWEN FAMILY was a miniature of a real class room. Another kind of[...]liam Frances, John the George Rogers. A rancher has his own private Robert-Stockton, Cali[...]Snooks Zumwalt), three orphan children were given a home. There are 16 grand- children; and 8 great g[...]Oklahoma prompted Father to look to the north for a new location. In 1918 furniture and household wares were shipped in a box car with one-half of the freight car reserved[...]The Owens and their five younger children packed a Davis car and followed to make a new home. This cross country trip of 1600 miles over roads little more than a trail was filled with dust, mud, pathos, and laug[...]t the Wolf Mountains, visible for five miles from a saddleback was to become a Mother was the stabilizer and chi[...]me. The first home commissary. Her kitchen was a beehive of activity, for was already there, a half dugout. It was not long before it drew family and guests like bees to the blossoms of a nine-room home was constructed on a high hill clover. The huge iron stove[...]and coal. How Mother mastered this monster has a their appearance as a result of Mother's green thumb. stor[...] | |
| [...]at happiness. cleaning, washing clothes on a washboard, and carrying These family and personal emotions were crystalized by drinking water a quarter of a mile. many, many interwoven incidents. Some too s[...]five miles each way and my sister and I drove a horse detail comes in bold relief, such as:[...]Iowa and two in Foster, Iowa. My salary was $65 a below. month for the first year and $75 a month the second. It The beautiful relationship that grew between a never increased after that. younger brother and his wild pony, Skyrocket.[...]cts. to move to Montana. They purchased a ranch twenty- Summertime, sentimental journe[...]met my future husband. We were married changes at a closer look. The imagined creak of a saddle in the spring of 1931. We lived up the creek several and the quiet humming of a familiar voice makes the miles. mind rea[...]our daughter and shortly Our parents gave us a reason to be proud of our after took two[...]their time and their love. Their In a coulee a mile from our ranch, Cherry Adams spiritual and m[...]was shot and killed. Some people considered him a in the greatest gift of all: horse thief. ... A BELIEF IN GOD AND A BELIEF IN OUR- My husband had a threshing machine and did SELVES ...[...]were invited to dinner. A good sized pig lay on the bed Lod[...]in 1963. I've been living on the We lived on a farm five miles from town, and the ranch a[...]n was team and wagon. When I was ten, papa bought a Model T. In the winter my father and brother[...]13, 1 74. He and four other young I went to a country school through the eighth men f[...]ery Friday various ranches, and accumulated a small herd of cattle the pupils would choose side[...]ts, Mr. and Mrs. James Steele. died. To me it was a tragic experience. Mr. and Mrs. Peck were married in ew Castle, We girls did a lot of embroidery and sewing-even Wyoming[...]Dr. James Chappel farm three-fourths of a mile west of Some evenings, mother would sit in t[...]e highway to and read us interesting stories from a magazine called Billings. The house was a new four-room bungalow, not "Comfort."[...]hed when they moved into it. This farm is As a child I attended the Methodist Church at[...] | |
| [...]Josephine Ackerman taught only one Nellie Brown, a Hardin pioneer teacher. Effie's first year in Montana, Big Horn County is indebted to her pony was a fat little dapple gray with a crow branded for earning the first money which was contributed to a on the left shoulder. The pony was so fat that h[...]of Hardin. father, a sister and a brother as her teachers. The spring of 1912 or 1913 was a very wet, rainy Most of her teachin[...]hool in the wagon because of the muddy a homestead. By paying rather a large sum of money roads-saying the mud was so deep and sticky that it for those days to a Chicago bank for improvements on would have pulle[...]push the mud from turned out to be a fraud, so she was glad to resume her between the[...]with his feet. The mud teaching career in a rural school near Worland. rolled up in lumps so[...]grades in The Hardin School at that time was a four-room her one-room school. No book[...]here were duties in connection with her work that a slough which ran south and west across the area w[...]ere new to her. She paid the janitor five dollars a of the school for another block or so, and since[...]he following year. On time, the children found it a great place to skate during Friday night she[...]first service was Catholic, in charge of a priest who[...]Good reading had always been a hobby with[...]books by putting on a school program. It turned out to Mr. and Mrs. Charles Peck be a church and school program. Quoting from the[...]Christmas Eve, 1909, a church and school program was On the occasio[...]given by Miss Josephine Ackerman and Mrs. A. L. in their first Ford car, Mrs. Peck would quit[...]Mitchell. Although the program was given under up a large rock or two for blocking the back wheels[...]lties owing to the crudity of the hall, there was a because Mr. Peck sometimes killed the motor on th[...]s learned that the retirement in 1948, except for a short period 1919 to district had to set aside a certain amount of money for 1923 when they operat[...]ed. Realizing the Mr. Peck passed away after a stroke in February great need for books[...]952 at the age of 78. Mrs. Peck passed away after a money over to the Hardin Library Fund.[...]in January 1962 at the age of seventy-six. a goal for individuals and organizations to[...] | |
| [...]ng the alley, for the project, the library became a reality, with a donation of engine and the members of the depar[...]e Foundation. The corner Lee had a clothing store which he sold to W. A. stone was laid May 12, 1918.[...]ary Board and the board of County church-a small white building near the comer of Fifth Comm[...]and Custer. So an idea started by a teacher forty years ago is At the time I[...]sorted, then dropped in a box. Mr. Spencer was the first Mrs. Peck co[...]his store; then Fred always be counted on to give a reading, or a book Gladden was post master and the of[...]is taken from notes made at then took over a job in a lumber yard and Mrs. J. W. that time. M. R. C.[...]. Josephine Ackerman, who became my wife, west on a pass; Steve Tupper was the agent here and I[...]The depot and section house were In 1910 a two story brick building, with four rooms was acr[...]there were beds built. Miss Nellie Brown and a Miss Whiting were the upstairs for rent. The rail[...]violin and guitar furnished the music. There was a May 1907. The low numbers got first choice; I took up a piano at Ranchester and a man working at the depot homestead four and one-h[...]rveyed railroad payroll. it. Spencer opened a store across the tracks, then bought a lot. Soon the Becker saloon and the Hardin hotel[...]troubles and lots MR. AND MRS. W. A. PEDE of mosquitoes. Tom Mouat was the first mayo[...], fabrics, hoes, 1911. There was no sheriff, only a town policeman after notions, etc. the town w[...]ganized Methodist Church. Mrs. Peden t.aught A Mr. Smith had started a hardware, but sold it to a Sunday School class of teenage girls. This group[...]ad the only hall ; organized themselves in a Triad Club with objectives they had started a hardware department but sold it to and prog[...]rl Scouts. In 1915, Mrs. Peden took the group for a where Grover's drug store is. John Kifer built a fur- weeks camping trip in Black Canyon, an[...]uilt summer she took them to Thermopolis-truly a the building and started a pool hall. major undertakin[...]e Senator from Big Horn County 1924·1926. He had a hand-propelled chemical fire engine, but it froze[...]. hortly up, and they couldn't use it. They built a small building thereafter, he was struck[...] | |
| Mrs. Peden built a beauty parlor and apartment Bob Carlat, an[...]r, where she died. no longer follow a cow, he enjoyed reading about[...]years old that I became involved in starting a 4-H Club July 28, 1901 at the ranch. He said from[...]was the County Agent. two years old he had ridden a horse along with his Gladys, Alice, Haze[...]nd Marjorie Hamilton, Lenora, three months out of a year during the winter months. Joanne Kobo[...]e and I, walking out in the hills Jack's plal'e. (a log building that later became our home over th[...]early day trappers. I later met an old man in a grocery[...]ranch and had a good forty-six years of life together.[...]into a good irrigated hay ranch. It was one of the first[...]ring the time the OD was Many evenings after a hard day's work he enjoyed established ther[...]mily caught an Indian or Indians butchering a beef. The would go. The Fergusons at Kirby were c[...]ore grass was killed here- Bob Ferguson, brother of my uncle Bill needed so land was leased on the[...]Busby. He had left the OD Ranch and I moved there a few winters to feed hay to the that morning with Perry Hultz, who later became a cattle. Later the old Shreve Ranch was purchased[...]two weeks to find his body. They finally found a little[...] | |
| piece of rope sticking out of a wash where the Indians and used as a line camp by the Wrench Ranch near had pawed some dirt over him in a washed draw. John Sheridan. My father came[...]he winter here. He was herding names of only a few. J. C. Morris- " Packsaddle sheep for people[...]lower Jack"; Bill Bradshaw, who later had a big ranch north Tongue River. The Indians shot him from a long way of here; Red Jack Pennel; Adolph Yonkee, Sr.; Perry off and apparently did a poor job of killing him because Hultz; John Br[...]didn't come any closer to him. a reservation for the Northern Cheyennes. There wer[...]now the exact was the termination of quite a ranching operation. date, but it was in the 90's-[...]n infancy. Charlie Penson died in 1974. organized a cavalry troop which went on down toward Mother and Dad had a real challenging experience the Indian activity to render any assistance they could. raising a family-like all the rest of the old timers. It It was quite a motley bunch of would-be cavalry men, was[...]ember him saying 0. H. Hon was and had a fine time together. The hospitality of the chosen[...]t was very prevalent in those days. You never was a friend of my father. They organized this cavalry[...]Keogh on the gallop. The hills My brother and I went in partnership with my around Lame Deer were just covered with Indians. A father when we were grown-around the 30'[...]the man in charge, who I 1965. believe was a Major Howe. He realized the tenseness of[...]uring 1914 the situation and selected some Indian police who Gregg Penson passed away :"ebruary[...]there, and told everybody else to go home. It was a great piece of strategy because there were enough[...]Y annihilate what few settlers there were. It was a fine By Marie Penson Turley[...]0 . P . Hanna who City, and then worked as a butcher for a cattle feeder in was an early day Sheridan resid[...]Iowa. Father arrived in il ~ City by train. A fri nd, enroute to Bozeman with a wagon train. He was in the Hugh Redman, ac[...]there for three year , Indians. The Indians cut a log and were rolling it and bought a tract of land known as the Big Bend toward them,[...]for the Big Bend in Rosebud Creek. possession was a little brass cannon. They let these[...]the rifle pits were Father and Mother had a log house, two bedrooms, gone because my dad show[...]kitchen, pantry, and large living room with a red shale Hanna showed it to him.[...]away when he was two the head of the Rosebud was a line camp of the OD. years old), Marie,[...]Mr. Jim Glenn (Anna Crilly's father), built a frame[...] | |
| [...]Lee worked at Spear O ranch for a time. He leased a[...]A neighbor, George May, drove a stage-coach with[...]stopped by to leave his mail and visit a while; George[...]told him "Tomorrow". He jumped up to make a pot of[...]Community picnics, and on the Fourth of July had a get-together; boys would ride bucking broncos and[...]played the fiddle. Lee came to Corral Creek with a large herd of cattle-he had helped trail them fro[...]good grass-fed beef, a few pigs, chickens and turkeys,[...]school for a time, then she rode five miles to the log[...]were a real joy to us. We always enjoyed our get•to·[...]Charlene (Mrs. Bob Carlat); Gregg was motorman on a street car. Rufus and Adaline an[...] | |
| [...]iver's Hall, was built Evagene, (Mrs. John Roh), Brian and Jodi; and Natalie in 1905 and it comple[...]andchildren have brought us much hap- a number came quite a distance, activities on Sunday, piness. We have all lived a very happy life together. with a noon meal, took up most of the day. At first the[...]solicitations, raised enough money to build a church William Augustus Petzoldt was born o[...]e needy, visited Crow homes, and was ordained as a Baptist minister in Beaver, Iowa acted as ho[...]uct services at the Cavalry Post, Petzoldt a leave of absence to make an official survey Fort[...]end the rest of their lives. The Crows sent a petition to the Baptist Home Mission Society in New York City for a day school. The Government boarding schools kept[...]children to live at home and still attend school. A Council was held at Lodge Grass in June, 1903. Of[...]e Mission Society met with Chiefs and leaders. If a day school could be established the Indians promi[...]reed, and commissioned Rev. Petzoldt to establish a school and in addition to act as Missionary. Dr. and 1r . W. A. Petzoldt On December 1, 1903, William Petz[...]1928, during dedication from his house into a tent so they would have a place to ceremonies of Chivers Memorial Churc[...]severe. The baby boy, Cedric, Runs Him, a Custer cout, gave Rev. Petzoldt his own became il[...]e was completed in the spring be towed upon a white man. Mrs. Petzoldt's Indian of 1904. Skunks[...]by Wolf during construction. The school house was a frame Lies Down in 1905. The Pe[...] | |
| [...]Lodge Grass, Montana thought a pageant would make the event more In 1903 my parents, Rev. and Mrs. W. A. Petzoldt, meaningful. She carefully researched t[...]orward to by the entire com· establish a day school and mission. The school was in munity.[...]Petzoldt was ably assisted by Co- answer to a petition from the Crow Indians, who Missionaries[...]l which was were dignified as the three Wise Men. A deserving little dedicated in 1904. The childr[...]f Doctor of Divinity at Linfield passed a law enabling Indian children to enroll in public[...]originated the Advisory Board at the Lodge a tent so my parents could live in his house until[...]Mission Residence was built. In January my brother, leadership and responsibility- Later called the[...]hese busy years Rev. Petzoldt took for a Memorial Stone. It was the first Christian burial[...]as the Indians still placed their loved ones on a scaffold or in a tree. first pictures were taken in Sheridan of th[...]ndays were spent with several photography he used a variety of cameras including one services. A long interval at noon gave time for dinner that t[...]itzgerald. instrumental in organizing a white church, now known[...]ery active in the large tribal camps. As a result my parents had a camp mission work, in community service and were[...]ry, root, and hunting camps were im- Petzoldt had a record of speaking engagements in 46 porta[...]ood could be obtained not only for states and was a recognized authority on the American present[...]ounders of Travel use. Club in Lodge Grass and a sponsor of the annual Senior Tea for graduating high school seniors. Dr. Petzoldt was a member of Delta Upsilon Fraternity, a 32nd degree Mason and a member of the Sheridan Rotary Club. The CB & Q Railroad named a loading station on its line after him. He was lis[...], Wyoming, on August 11, 1958, age 82, and Dr. W. A. Petzoldt died in Hardin on May 21, 1960,[...] | |
| We had a buggy with canvas curtains. My father and[...]ernoon talking-we urging him on fashioned it into a camper. The back had a lid which let to tell his memories. Afterward I rushed to jot down his down to form a table. Back of that was a cupboarp words in my "Log", while they we[...]anged so that "Nowadays Bud Phelps is a rather graceful, alert a bed could be made for my parents. I slept in a niche person with the quaint manners of a cowboy and a below. The fishing was excellent, and there were[...]." He meat given us by Indians enabled us to have a varied told us that his grandfather Phelps[...]ndiana. Charles Phelps' or Sheridan was by riding a freight train. People had to children had their[...]n and get on the caboose. probably employed a teacher. Bud told us that he had The passenger tr[...]idn't stop. The mail spent only one year in a public school. bag was thrown from the baggage ca[...]sked, "Bud, how old outgoing mail was attached to a standard near the were you when you began to ride horseback?" track from which it was snatched by a hook-like Bud replied, "Let me t[...]trail cross the Pryors asked my father for a guide, and my became too difficult to negotiate, a parallel one was father said to me, 'Son, yo[...]made. By summertime, when it was dry, there were a show them how to get down off Big Pryor M[...]geous above town. The passenger trains stopped as a matter route. Mr. Phelps had sometimes told his family about of course. There was a newspaper, a resident Doctor, the very hard winter of 18[...]n outhern During World War One, wheat was at a premium. Montana, he and his brothers helped a trapper of Mr. Tom Campbell was successful in rai[...]wolves. One day, east of Dry Head, he came upon a dry land on the west side of the Big Horn River.[...]filled with animal skeletons and bones, of Ohio, a Quaker, Mr. Fred Wilson, read about the[...]ren. Patricia is married to Dr. Richard Moothart, a Fred Phelps' land was in and adjacent to[...]Springs, Canyon, at the foot of the Pryors, a wild, lovely spot, Colorado. They have three children. Bill, a lawyer lives hard to reach from any other place[...]at a forestry station on top of the Pryor fifteen mile[...]away, and a steep climb. A county road ran through the[...]with all fur- roundups of 1916 and '17, Frank was a handsome ni hings and machinery, even chickens. There was a cowboy of much charm. Bud, the youngest, was arou[...]the reading matter. The hou e had plumbing and a Mary's yard. She invited him to dinner on[...] | |
| been piped in. There was a big tank on the unfinished The mosquit[...]One time we went to Crow Agency School to put on a colonial touches, as the porch pillars, stood on a knoll play. We went down by train and had to wait in the in the angle where a small tributary ran into Dry Head depot until[...]n were irrigated. There was We also had a girls' basketball team. Our classy an old buffalo jump on the place; and a legend persisted uniforms were black pleated fu[...]ooking for arrow heads at Old or seven miles with a pack horse. In our time, the mail Fort Smith. We had a girls' club called the Triad Club; man lived at the bottom of another canyon, in a one- Mrs. Peden was our sponsor. Once we went to the Black room cabin with a dirt floor. His family seemed quite Canyon for a camping trip, we had an Indian woman for happy. a guide. We saw bear, all kinds of wild fruit and c[...]PICKARD was first held in a hall over the drug store known as the Lulu Snow Pickard was born on a farm in Warren Sullivan Hall. We gave Churc[...]rth to keep the church going. daughter of a family of six girls of the Albert Snow family. O[...]At this time my father sold this farm and bought a farm in Missouri. However as time went by[...]my father came out to Hardin, Montana and bought a small farm north of Hardin. Uncle Sam Chand[...]y Dad came on ahead with the livestock and to get a place ready for us to live. Mother stayed with us girls until school was out. My Uncle Sam was a carpenter, he built two more rooms onto the two room house already there, also a bunk house and a shed for the livestock. Dad owned two big white w[...]ls were rural mail carrier with wages at 75.00 a month. John sure they were intending to scalp us. drove a Model T Ford on this twenty-five mile rout[...] | |
| but when it rained he would have to take a horse and Ruth lived with one of these in order to graduate from a buggy because the gumbo mud was so bad. It took a[...]summer for 1/4 cent a basket. She ended the season Our daughter, Nellie Yvette and son Robert, with a savings of 90 cents with which she bought a pair finished High School in Hardin. Nellie Yvett[...]County before she married Carroll her older brother took the three youngest to the Fourth Graham who[...]n of July Celebration and gave them each a whole nickel County. Robert worked three years in[...]stories of hardships, but there was also a lot of pleasure In 1942 John and I and our d[...]ound the small church which was the center of was a supervisor at a Defe~se Depot until his community l[...]orked at the Ogden Arsenal for not attended a rural school or taught in one had not four years then went to work at Hill A. F. B. until my really lived. retirement in[...]way in 1965, I sold our home and am now living in a high-rise apart• ment house in Ogden. I have te[...]unty, and here he went to school, graduating from a Presbyterian mission high school there. Upon grad[...]xaminations for teaching and his first school was a country school with more than fifty students. For[...]n different mining towns, and finally in Liberal, a town of about 1000 people which had been started by a spiritualist. It was while he was Superintendent[...]too. Missouri, September 15, 1887. Her father was a farmer When he would hear of people b ing p[...]ld. The family was very poor, the coming to. A he wrote in his own story of hi life, ~ hen fathe[...]uggling to be both he was married he rented a "nice two room hou eon the father and mother to h[...]. Eventually he edge of town for $6.00 a month. On it were an orchard of remarried, and at the time a "stepmother" was to be about five acres, with all kinds of fruit trees, a garden avoided at all costs, so that the older children got jobs and a chicken house.·• Hi alary of 1000 a year must as rapidly as possible, and work[...] | |
| [...]f vegetables at the homes of many had just taken a year off to finish the work necessary to friend[...]nk, the were persuaded by Ruth's sisters who had a ladies' hospital, and other such places.[...]having Hardin enjoy all the good things which a town was exciting and the West was the place to be. Sister can provide for its citizens, and had a part in Lettie had the town picked out-Hardin wa[...]mmunity Center, the Mountain eight years old but a great future was predicted for it. View Rest H[...]Senior The first Ping store was located in a small frame Citizens' Center. J. J. was chai[...]m the time it was established, and took great at a premium in this new town, and the small building pride in seeing it change from a brown, dusty hillside to housed a jewelry store in the front, a cleaning-tailoring the green and shady place it[...]for beautifying. shielded from the customers by a piano. After a short time the store was moved to larger quarter[...]time additions were made to the It was a sunny day in February 1933 when we[...]mudded our way down a little side lane, with snow on stock to include[...]future home. Street in the Goering block, and a branch store was[...]In the middle of an alfalfa field stood a large red operated for more than twen~y years in[...]icago white letters. The door opened into a living room which twice a year to buy the ready-to-wear stock. The[...]s hung on the salesmen were always surprised that a store in so small wall. How I would love to have those harnesses now for and isolated a town carried such good lines. She always my a[...]s City. Both Ruth and J. J. made themselves a part of all that went on in Hardin. J. J. was on[...]entually became the Big Hom County State Bank was a director, and then President, for an ac- cumulati[...]l Scouting, and was the Cancer Drive Chairman for a number of years. Both were active in Eastern Star[...]years in Hardin their friendships revolved around a group which played Rook-this being, at the time, a more acceptable card game to church people than s[...]driving back and forth to Hardin to work. It was a long eighteen miles on poorly graveled roads and[...]eter Pitsch, Jr. in their home, the old dition to a large vegetable garden which necessitated[...] | |
| [...]help in the fields and harvest and never had a reason to day; the walls had a thorough scrubbing with steel wool distrust them. and cleanser. It was a mistake to scrub the first spot One of[...]e never heard from again. scrubbed and polished. A 9' by 12' linoleum rug was Others eventu[...]s cost 29 cents for the three years is that a diary was not kept of the hired men kitchen, 39[...]employed and the funny and sad stories that were a living room. The first towel rack was a piece of twine part of each of those relati[...]happened. There was no need for a moving van to move the One day Peter[...]fter giving the hired furniture. It consisted of a coal stove, a homemade man instructions to plant a shelter belt of some 100 plus kitchen table with slivers on the legs and a second hand spruce trees. Instead of going to[...]the first year. Later we had pinochle parties in a well could be dug. It wasn't as polluted as it is[...]wn for the evening. wanted. The refrigerator was a square hole in the The Lord has been good. We've never had a ground with boards covering it. Here went the milk, complete crop failure. . .maybe a little hail here and butter and cream. We had no fresh vegetables or fruit there, a few grasshoppers, but always something to until[...]but it was of salt pork and some canned meat. . .a gift from good. Mother Pitsch.[...]in the An aunt who lived next door gave us a frying same house although the name GARRYOWE is gone chicken and we had a real banquet. Her slice of and it ha[...]. . .even though there seldom was any those days. A neighbor said as he saw me going across the field, "I thought it was a deer." THE BERT PORTER FAMILY[...]re By Helen [Margie] Thomas a couple of years ago and 'o ur son came to the res[...]nts Bert and Edith Porter came to the and gave me a ride home. I t would have been a struggle Decker area of Big Hom County in th[...]Livestock consisted of four large work horses and a were married in Iowa in 1913. Harvey, my brother, and black milk cow. Although raised on a ranch, I was a flop I were born there. as a farmerette. Being terribly afraid of the milk cow, Our first summer in the W t wa pent in a tent when I tried to milk her I stood as far away[...]fferent. They the soap and tub etc. under a agebru h. were huge and I weighed less than 100 pounds. A pull That fall we moved to Dad's own[...]way they wanted to Decker. The house wa a one room tar paper hack go. The tractor was worse[...]d around the field he was plowing one day to make a until it became a two bedroom hou e. hurried trip to the house. I g[...]le returned. That was the last attempt at driving a cloths that did wonders for th[...] | |
| [...]Hanging Woman during the winter of 1919. This was a heavy snow year and many cattle died. Mother, having been a teacher in Iowa, was soon teaching again both in[...]e of her grandchildren. In 1929, our younger brother, Hayden was born. The family was just beginning to get a start when the great depression hit. This wasn't too bad as there was always a good garden which made a cellar full of canned food and vegetables. Dad tr[...]drought hit along with the depression things were a Harvey Porter, Clara and Harvey Porter, Sr. Bert mite rough ... Mother was earning $60.00 a month Porter, Jess Thomas on car, Edith Porter and John teaching. There was a daughter wanting to go to Mielke, boy in front, Hayden Porter. college, a son in high school who would have to board away from bome, and a little one at home to start to Dad's sense of humor helped us all through many a school. Dad always managed to have a couple of fat rough time. One time he and Forest Neely were on their pigs to sell or a can of cream for extra cash. way to t[...]" Say, don 't you think it's a little close in here?" He[...]emember I felt pretty smart getting sixty dollars a month when most of the cowboys around were only g[...]ess Thomas and went to live at the 77 ranch about a mile from the folks. In 1941 Harvey married Fra D[...]e By 1943 the folks were able to build themselves a new home with running water and a bathroom. School was always a problem in this isolated area. HA[...]heir own fun. There My father and his brother left first with all of our were dances and card parties at the school or homes. belongings in a box car, including my mother's piano, One winter we put on a lot of plays (Comedies). Some corn planter, milk cow and a team of horses. They had Sundays we would have a rodeo. I remember Edgar started to Havre, Montana to take a homestead. Cooper, Simon Muller, Fred Randall, Ji[...]ely and Claude livestock, they ran into a friend from Humestone who Adams being in o[...] | |
| [...]hields in 1945. North Waddle Creek and settled on a squatters' right of We are located on t[...]ich was what my father was looking for, as he was a farmer in Iowa. My mother, sister and I and my Aunt followed on the passenger train. We lived in a tent that summer, until the one-room house was bu[...]ted for home, stopping at Decker, where there was a store, and stocked up on groceries. In the[...]arn Montana, to visit my Aunt and Uncle. We drove a Star car with cloth top and side curtains. We too[...]ded, just HAYDEN PORTER FAMILY a road. We got stuck in the mud near Parkman,[...]ble In- and fixed it for us. I remember there was a little gravel stitute in Chicago where he met[...], whose ranch wa Harvey Porter and parents on a trip to Lewistown located on the upper[...]miles above Wyola, ontana, came from a pion r I think one of the most difficult thi[...]ers on benefit the most children and we would get a school Pass Creek, and Ray wa one of ix[...]t the age started. It was fortunate my mother was a teacher, so of fourteen, Ray left home, and wa a cowboy for L vi she taught much of the time when[...]r his school. We went to school horseback or with a team brother, Roy, near Quietus, Montana. Ray decided to and b[...]iness for himself, and thought We had quite a few neighbors, and everyone was be shoul[...]Ray met Irma Jenkins in 1916. Irma was a school lonesome, even though I might not go to to[...]at the school located on Gay Creek. He con- once a year.[...]fortunate Little Horn. Later, Ray built a pacious two-story home to acquire land fro[...] | |
| seven children. The children attended grade school in a SAMUEL F. RAGLAND [ 190,i-1961 ] AND log[...]te fall. Sam's father was killed by a train when he was a Ray's summer pastures for grazing his cattle[...]with the Morrison family when Lodge Grass creek. A good part of the summer was they firs[...]Camp cooking consisted where they lived on a farm on the North Bench. Sam of meat, potatoes, b[...]iss V\olet Alexander. The delighted and there was a lively contest to see who North Bench at this time had quite a few families living could eat the most corn on th[...]managed the Sawyer Store. A year later they returned K enneth Woodley a[...]. Sam and Mildred bought the Atkins property A lovely, more modem home was built a short and began building the farm and[...]twins, Dick Around 160 acres were fenced off with a nine-foot game and Don. Sam passed away in 1[...]ams began to flood the county road. He also built a lake for waterfowl in this game preserve, and the Canadian geese always made this lake a stopping place on their flight to and from Canada[...]u special treat for their guests. He drilled a well on the site of his second home, instead of pumping from the river, and struck a flow of water that was very unusual. The p[...] | |
| [...]blanket, in some soft sand at the head of a gulch. Fred Ramsey, who was the first settl[...]The land Ramsey had settled on was a part of the Upper Rosebud, came West as a cabin boy on the Reservation for th[...]ty-one, and the land of Ed and Homer Homes a short ways above spent the rest of his life in southern Montana and the Reservation. He built a small home there to live in northern Wyoming. while a nine-room log house was built. He and his wife[...]uri rivers supplied. At the ti.m·e, Roy, and a daughter who was born and died . Later they he a[...]e Deadwood and Bismarck, and the next year built a Big Bend of the Rosebud. cabin; one[...]ot the first, along the Powder Ramsey was a great politician, an ardent River. The summer of 1881 he was with a survey crew Democrat, whose Corrall Cre[...]an election precinct, and he furnished a big barbeque. where he learned enough engineerin[...]along the Powder River. In 1882, Ramsey located a ranch at the mouth of Corrall Creek where he CLIFFORD ALONZO RANDALL built a two-room house of logs with a porch, the first on By Bertha Max[...]town having been named where they still grow as a living monument to a pioneer. after his mother's family. Chauncey Randall was At this time, he was running horses with a Miles City employed by the railroad for[...]lawyers, Ray a doctor in Miles City, and daughter Ramsey's[...]nd office. Clifford, Keogh from New Brunswick as a hunter and had the the youngest, was born in December, 1883, and became distinction of riding a buffalo. He had shot it, but when a civil engineer. As soon as he graduated he was hi[...]figured to assist in the surveying of a railroad from Durango being on it was the safest place until it fell dead. A baby across the mountains to Matlazan, Mexico.[...]such as rattlesnakes Rosebud. This boy was later a doctor at Forsyth. and malaria. Hav[...]her man who had livestock many miles to a Mexican town with one, Clifford was and a cabin on Cache creek, who did riding for Ramsey[...]his own livestock. Early in was tied on a burro that was led to a doctor. May of 1890, Bob was to gather and bring[...]He returned home, and then worked in the East to a sale at Miles City, then the world's largest horse until about 1910 when he and hi brother Ray, who was market. Bob went by the OD Ranch the[...]icine in Miles City, became the owne of borrowing a pair of field glasses and a saddle horse from a ranch at Birney, Montana. Clifford did urveying f[...]eft for the Sarpy the community, had a U. S . land office, and was a country saying he would be back that night with a notary public until 1918 when he sold to his brother-in- bunch of horses to select out the ones he was to take to law Edward Peterson, and bought a ranch at Kirby on the sale. When he did not retur[...]held for more than twenty years. He was a permanent Bob Ferguson had not brought the horses[...]During Clifford' years in office the County built a Indian butchered beef (the meat cut from the bone[...]d set up it was found that he was not a registered Montana camp at a nearby spring. All settlers aided in the draftsman, the blue prints had to be sent to a man who search, and as the hills were full of Ind[...]was registered. He copied the blue-print , making a few to ride alone. On the last day of May, some cowboys minor changes, at a cost the County could ill afford.[...] | |
| [...]her tiny white flowers and cover the grounds when a PIONEER MEMORIES-GUY RANDALL FAMILY[...]funeral took place. On one occasion, when we lost a By Jeanette Randall McCormick[...]and others. When they came, they brought a most During the winter of 1909, Guy and Jennie came useful gift-a rocking chair. out west to visit her brother, Lester Barr, and to look Ways to earn money were few. Father helped a over the prospect of homesteading 160 acres on the Batty, (Hannah) formerly a teacher from Nebraska, to. West Bench. Returning[...]some neighbors loaded their possessions including a team of work built her house, a two story home, made of rough native horses, and a saddle horse into a railroad car and came lumber. They made the p[...]of those who helped was Edelbert Morrissette, a neigh- the streets dark and sloppy. There were no[...]l storms. Once hail broke Father had brought a large tent and lumber with every window in the house except two. Lynn and I were him. He laid a floor and boarded up the side and with alon[...]had seen the storm coming, father could build us a larger one room house. Some and found shelter for himself and the horses. years later, a five-room cement block house was built. Fire[...]for fencing were brought from Pine Ridge. It was a hazardous all day trip, with narrow crooked roads. A cave was dug for the storage and preservation of[...]which father hauled from the Big Horn River. What a treat on hot summer days-iced tea and ice cream. Water was at a premium, as it had to be hauled in barrels and used sparingly. Later father made a cistern for house use and a reservoir for cattle.[...]We went to church at a schoolhouse on the North[...]We11 always remember him, a kindly gentleman with[...]Doris and Jennette attended a one room school, two and a half miles away. Stanley Kelly was the[...]me on North Bench - Lynn Randall in was a sheep wagon, heated with an oil heater. This was[...]showered us with soot. After a year or so, we were Eggs were very high price[...]returned to our country school, namely Washington a recipt" 'or eggless chocolate cake, which turned out Hall. very well. Only once did Dpqqa make a flop of it. Mother Then there were[...] | |
| [...]him on the Crow Reservation, July Hardin. To get a teacher's certificate, one had to pass 3, 1[...]Agency. Later, along with Colonel There are a lot of memories of those days-some Rankin, they moved into a comfortable brick house, of good-some not. But on[...]her two stories (no longer standing) a few houses east of the and dad managed so well. A lot of hard work and faith Server Hotel.[...]teamsters, cooks and cook-tent, storage. A large By John K. Rankin housekeeping tent with a canvas floor was provided[...]nkin came to Crow Agency Johnson, a black man from the South. Mrs. Rankin and followi[...]use, fish and deer, the Crow Reservation, Carl as a member of his father's utilizing wild frui[...]iately due to absence of divided her time between a housekeeping tent out on refrigeration.[...]the Frank Heinrich Cattle Co. The length of time a camp was in a certain area depended upon the number[...]Breakfast was at 7 A.M . Crews in the field by eight[...]Everyone as a rule carried prepared lunches and[...]considered by the Lincoln Land Company to be a member of their survey crew for a new town to be[...]urveyor, Mr. because of their agreement to ceding a considerable Rankin , with Mr. A. B. Smith and his nephew, William portion of thei[...]st line, as well as other equitable within a matter of days in the early pring of 1907. The al[...]l selection of the town site location was made by a ditches and canals ; it being the intention to gi[...]n, field.man for the townsite owners. Crow Indian a sufficient quantity of irrigated land for[...] | |
| [...]ouse belonging to Carl affairs. He was a founder and first secretary of the Rankin. The Rankins later built a second house in 1908 Chamber of Commerce: a charter member in 1929 of at 3rd and Cody where t[...]lived at this location until the department; a member from March 1917 of Saint John following fall. Lodge /192 A.F. & A.M. serving as Master and second In September[...]ity of Hardin as Councilman and in 1940, 1942, to a town of 500 by 1915. Mr. Rankin owned and[...]gain in 1955 served as Mayor. He was an published a newspaper, the Stapleton Enterprise, until av[...]ental in In Hardin he became associated with A. L. Mit- obtaining necessary acreage for the golf course on the chell, Hardin's Mayor and a close personal friend, Fort Custer headla[...]m active ran the Hardin Abstract Co. belonging to A. E. Bollum business with Mrs. Rankin's death[...]mber 1962. Around 1913 Big Hom County became a legal Offspring of Carl and Bess[...]where John majored in Journalism and Carl in join a new bank in Hardin, the Stockman's National,[...]ed three successive from the Armed Service as a Colonel in 1960 and also terms. While a County official, Rankin and Attorney, lives[...]daughters. poration, an amalgamation of A. E. Bollum's Hardin Abstract and the Abstract bus[...]e business RANDOM RECOLLECTIONS . . .. OF A SMALL BOY following his departure from county off[...]By John K. Rankin 1961 and also operated a small insurance business I remember H[...]1907, while my brother Carl was the second baby boy[...]Hardin was Melvin Gay whose father had a hardware[...]The school of my early Hardin years was a two[...]first teacher was a Bill Cochran, followed by Mrs. J. W.[...]Johnston and Mrs. Ralph B. Peck. When my brother[...]Tam Dyvig. A school always had to have its' "Peck's[...] | |
| and a high school building was erected around 1919-20[...]on, coach. The Buzzetti, Arnie Graf and my brother, Carl. next coach Mr. Ostergren, brought basketba[...]Gilmore and walrus mustache with a six gun tied to his Life for small boys in Hardin some sixty years ago right leg, a Bi-plane pilot from Billings who worked for was s[...]own entertainment. One activity from a flat strip of land west of the old engaged in by my brother, Carl, (or Bub as he was also Hardin High S[...]ness, Atlantic ocean as the now famous Chas. A. (Lindy) was scavengering "empties" .... empty be[...]and two cents for quarts. This Store where as a high schooler I clerked all day activity earned us a banked sum of eight hundred Saturday[...]. (To foil in the insurance business. them my brother and I when dressed in shirt and knickers wrapped[...]was on the old DR. AND MRS. WAYNE A. RANSIER Billings road. The road that used to fol[...]The life of Dr. Wayne A. Ransier and Miriam grade, then "Mahoney's Hill".[...]er months. Right town. His father was a cabinet maker, later, County after Sunday School at the Congregational Church we Treasurer for a number of years. Eventually the family would peel[...]mother was a music teacher and her father was in the As[...]ennis when I grew older was brought up in a Christian home where daily under the tutelage of Fred Lipp, a bank employee and devotions, prayer meetin[...]le for the building of school attendance was a regular thing. As the children two wire enclosed[...]ipp moved to Helena and but it was always a part of home life. Early memories John Meeke took his place as my teaching-opponent. A were of "Mama" in a lovely dark red cashmere dressing little later Ca[...]team mem- with variations and were a delight. As we grew older bers were Ed Miller, Bo[...]and young friends joined us, we sang for hours at a Buzzetti, Paul Gilliland, Harry Huffman, A[...] | |
| [...]ld be raised with we determined to have a picnic every month in the year space. M ther cou[...]lis, this Day, was plenty cold in spite of a huge bonfire in the was not so. Mother tried to[...]ities for us in Hardin, the year around, included a door one moring and roasted mother to a crisp for lot of church work. Though the population was not keeping THAT rooster in a city. We had roast rooster great, we had[...]city and the move missionary funds. We had a thriving community to Montana's wide open spaces[...]ave whiskey or molasses barrels) for fifty cents a barrel. Miriam the first commercially made radio in town-a Before the town water plant was installed, we ha[...]ting gift it moved to our 80 acre homestead just a mile from town. later proved to be. After putting up an aerial, then There, Dad developed a spring in 1914 that still serves ordering an[...]s where head We still had the outside toilet but a new convenience, a phones were split and then ten people could l[...]ever better radio sets and at one time there was a ticularly when the temperatures went to 60 below[...]in winter. We ideal dark room. We used a corner of the basement for a had huge family picnics with games, races and swings studio, built a copying machine, installed an enlarger fifty feet[...]enlargements were were married in June and after a little over a year and a published in the rotogravure section of the Denver Post half in a dental office in Butte, Montana, Dr. Ransier[...]e pictures were used by due to plans for building a dam on the Big Horn River. the Entomology d[...]tually, forty years later, the Yellowtail Dam was a University in Bozeman. There being no professional reality, a dream come true.[...]he locality, we were often asked to furnish A son, William (Bill) was only a month old when photographic evidence for l[...]cies the Ransiers arrived in Hardin late in 1920. A short and the F.B.I. One interesting case[...]Eleanor Ransier, younger sister of Wayne, a large cache of marijuana involving three criminal[...]State to nother was in connection with a murder on the be a part of the family . She remained in Hardin until reservation involving two brothers and a boss farmer. time for college. While her home has[...]d three In spite of depression years, it was a good life terms. During those years, mosqui[...]We slept under the stars and whether true or a fund collected by Boy Scouts and supplemented by[...]Ransier passed away at age every trip resulted in a flat tire, fording streams, at forty-eight. T[...]or mastoid, resulted times making our road around a mountain, high in spinal men[...] | |
| [...]ll the unexpired term of fifteen carrying a book on her head developed posture. Family months[...]e year, mending and embroidery made her a skilled the Big Horn County Electric Co-op was or[...]E.O. having Michigan. There she lived with a lady who had taught served as its president the p[...]ad encouraged In June 1941, Miriam accepted a position with the some ambitious students to[...]ame chief Several years later, she married Walter A. Higgins in justice of Montana's Supreme C[...]In 1960 she returned to Cut Bank, and lived with a sister. She was employed in a C.P.A. office there for fourteen years until retirement[...]husetts. He has three children, two daughters and a son and two grand· children. The years pas[...]ividual effort, loved ones and close friends and a trust in our Maker. All this kept life worthwhil[...]bouquet of lilies-of-the-valley and children, one a baby, she moved to Crow Agency for an maid[...]from the Muskegon's locked, she'd take a baseball bat to bed with her when high bank. Beyo[...]is year's and last year's. family. Her father was a judge, her mother a She relied on her friend Smokey W[...]orse dealers. He walked through the hotbeds. were a cutter and bells. She had scarlet fever ,[...]e horses. An with her parents-was photographed in a short-skirted immense work horse j[...] | |
| [...]early memory is of a horseback ride, behind my father, to a herd of 6000 cattle held on the Billings Bench[...]his escape route along a distant ridge to the Big Horn, Mrs. S . G. R[...]Green's ranch on Soap Creek. Green, said to be a graduate of Dublin University, had a Greek-letter[...]probably Big Medicine, Scolds-a-Bear, Little Nest (Crow police), and Indian trader E. A. Richardson.[...]Cheyenne. The agent had to appear twice a year. Y!e[...]with Paul McCormick; slept the second night at a[...]'s ipsy," replied Smokey. Crow police brought our horses home, while we took the S[...]d visit Server had been First Sergeant, Company A, Secon and Joke with them and try to reass[...] | |
| and Old Crow, a famous war chief, were first to discover agric[...]organize a chapter of S. A. E. there. The porch of the Agency Office wa[...]In January, 1921, I married Viva Hewett, a bullet holes, left by the charging warriors of rebelling member of my high school class and daughter of A. L. Wraps Up His Tail. At the rear of this buildi[...]ett. His Security Bridge Company had built twelve police headquarters, a large room fragrant with kin- highway brid[...]and other famous Indians were frequent visitors. A talk Billings. I was employed by F. W. Foulke[...]aveled for it over the My schooling began in a wing of the boarding state. In 1926 I became a special agent for Nor- school's oldest building.[...]8 we returned to Billings in July, 1910. I became a member moved to Hamilton. Until 1946, I was[...]Reynolds swimming hole near Wyola after a hot day of During high school years, I punch[...]of Republican activities; 1922, York, and became a member of Sigma Alpha Epsilon f[...] | |
| [...]Green's Ranch on Soap Creek, there was a camp with S. G. REYNOLDS[...]t together with the aid of Crow leaders, was such a As Indian agent, he was often " Major." Other age[...]of were addressed that way, too-the title perhaps a relic visitors by train) as can never be seen[...]y, 1902. Our family housewifely arts. There was a parade of larger animals lived there until 1910.[...]and farm equipment. The daily program began with a He was a farm boy from southern Michigan. There proce[...]y program, with spectacular bareback companied by a gun-toting grandmother). At six, he (hors[...]catching the greased pig. Each day ended with a dance. Board and judges were Crows. A healthy Fair Fund[...]praise had appeared in the national press, since a[...]work his way through the Ferris Institute. He was a charter student. Socializing with local youth, he[...]ddle-aged generals who had been youngsters on the a bank and mv~ted him~ Billings, July, 1895. In May[...]battle. He knew the Crow Scouts well and had made a long journey on horseback, stopping wherever[...]his get· he c?uld talk to Crows. Dismounting at a camp one away. evenmg, he was attacked by a dog. Teeth marks in his Then, for most[...]oozed blood while sympathetic rescuers led him to a in banking, except for helping his friend Frank Heinrich com~ortable bed in a tepee. There an elderly woman duri[...] | |
| [...]ERVIN A RICHARDSON[...]Ervin A. Richardson, Indian trader, was born at[...]train and thence to Forsyth on a construction train. He[...]Back at the Agency, he opened a store for Paul Mc-[...]ment a trader's license, before 1900. Thereafter, he S.[...]Cheyenne Chief Two Moons talking received a license annually, to sell goods on the Crow over[...]my father and husband dropped the Agency, and a Chinese gentleman had a shop, from in unannounced on a mass meeting of Crows, and sat in which Chin[...]sle, seized my father by the hand, Woolston, a New Jersey girl who had come West to and led him to a chair on the platform. As he passed teach in Indian schools. along, he was followed first by a murmur of recognition, There was already[...]ley on the east friendly murmur had become almost a roar. Ed said side was being built. Richardson followed the con- that he had never seen such a spontaneous display of struction crews wit[...]hing their checks. Alone, except for We have a portrait of Guil Reynolds, painted in his t[...]was the E. A. Richardson store. Where cars are parked Ern[...]now, stood a timber hitching rack. Riders tied their Lavarno i[...]ass. For sale in Swiss ancestry. Louis was always a farmer; the family[...]rfs; bolts of calico; blankets-Hudson's Bay, made a trip to South America searching for more and[...]liked; boots and shoes; buggy whips hanging from a Louis, Helen, Jennie, and Emma.[...]foodstuffs and household necessities. A huge iron stove working, and located homesteads o[...]the gone. REA board for twenty-five years, a local water board, "Uncle Ervie," as some besides his nephews called and a county one.[...]etired to Creston, British Columbia, where he had a In later years, Mr. Richardson enjo[...] | |
| [...]ere She married Ervin A. Richardson, and they lived papooses on their mothers' backs. in a roomy apartment in the pleasant east wing of the J. H. Sharp was a neighbor at Crow, and a friend. store. They had a spacious, fenced yard; and there was The Richardsons acquired some of Sharp 's most a screened verandah, Crow Agency then being the bea[...]relatives, who called her "Aunt Lillie." She was a person of much dignity, with a regal presence. Her[...]anything petty. She was an artist, a teacher, and an[...]those were the times of a recognized visiting day, and[...]uperintendent, she ran the Sunday School, and was a[...]Christmas programs. I have a little book that was[...].:=. -=-- childhood. E. A. Richardson's store calendar, 1906 Richardson owned a store in Forsyth and finally | |
| H. Sharp was a resident artist, but others came oc-[...]and other subjects, directed W. E. Rollins set up a temporary studio in her living- plays, sponsored proms and year books and when the room, where my brother watched him working on the new high sc[...]Rollins liked the subject and the schools as "a hard and happy life". did it again. The second pi[...]l Club. The boarding school's herd included a mean little Jersey bull. Every afternoon the cows[...]s. Richardson again. She had lived in Forsyth for a long time, taking part in all good things, as she[...]stories of her girlhood she was alone except for a couple of boy roomers. She at Crow Agency[...]iece, the Ernest Woolstons. She mother, brother Mike and sister Rosalind. Youngest filled her lif[...]oubtless built 1883-'84 when the Agency was go to a church conference in' California. There she died,[...]park was across the road. I have never heard such a By Alice Riebeth Jacobson and[...]he attended Smith We had pets - a magpie ; rabbits; lots of cats; College. She graduated in 1921 with an A.B. degree. motherless lambs and colts ; several dogs, one by one. " A.B. " because the diploma was in Latin.[...]rolyn assisted her father, Railroad) gave Ros a cocker spaniel, " Sport" , her Guil Reynolds, who was a receiver working in closed companion all[...]several years in other closed " Papa" built a large, covered pen for the pheasants. banks.[...]uilding In Billings Carolyn was on the Y.W.C.A. Board fires in our few stoves and fire[...]ran the " Y" when the Board couldn 't A " big ditch" skirted the edge of the Agency, and pay an executive secretary. She was a charter member the village was criss-crossed by smaller ones . The parks of A.A.U.W. and had long belonged to D.A.R. were a grassy playground where the Agency childre[...] | |
| [...]ing Kinnikinick, giving flowers. the place a lovely fragrance. We'd stick our fingers int o[...]the bullets of Wraps- across from the mill was a good place when adults were up-his-Tail and his i[...]nty years before. with us at night, with a bon-fire. We coasted, too, We learned to ride on a small sorrel mare, Judith. across the tracks[...]ayed until the On my seventh birthday I got Dime, a white pony. Ros coyotes began to howl. in[...]crying, " curlew! curlew!". In the near distance, a herd riding in one of these that had a bed large enough. of wild horses might sweep acro[...]In July of 1910 we moved back to Billings, a very stop and look at us. There were no deer or a[...]ope were gone. Prairie dogs river. We had a fine swimming hole and Dad got us an were plentif[...]ing Old Town Canoe. We brought from Billings a team of one.[...]shetland ponies, Thunder and Lightning, and a small[...]out fit camped across the river a couple of times a[...]take t he girls for a little while? You know that girls[...]E dwin Walter Riebeth (1883-1964), grew up in a[...]; to quit school after fifth grade to become a library page.[...] | |
| [...]Ed was an outdoorsman; he had once made a 400 mile elevator in northern Montana. He was hom[...]lis ridden - said he felt higher up on a horse than he would tennis tournaments. He enjoyed a year in San Fran- on the Empire Stat[...]onship games, by Frank Heinrich's money. A mass of real estate city and state. In his early[...]punishing years, Frank, met, 1922, he was leading a full, bachelor's life, living at remembering his original proposal, offered Ed a most the Y.M.C.A. (later at the Commercial Club), playing[...]·else." The W.P.A. removed his county tenants.[...]months, he tracked down new tenants. A few years[...]feet. Arithmetic came naturally. Looking at a sales slip upside down, he would startle the cler[...]er how long, in his head. Invention had been a spare-time occupation. He had a patent on a spring wheel (no tire), a bronze model of his rotary pump, and a device to send p~otographs by telegraph ready to[...]In 1928 he'd acquired a wife-later, two daughters. His employment by[...]pe_d During the Depression, seeking a living, he prospected from Ed's help in a law suit. To show gratitude to this[...] | |
| [...]hole thing, Barber Shop. For many years she had a boarding even cliff tops. They navigated backwards, rowing house, first on Crow A venue and later operated the upstream like mad to[...]bts. Home to stay at last, he did more inventing. A while before he died, he accompanied me to the Ju[...]They lived at Bozeman for several years on a farm[...]they came to Hardin in 1914, living on a farm northwest[...]Falls, Minnesota, a son of Mr. and Mrs. George Riley.[...]operated a farm northwest of Hardin. In 1929 they moved to a ranch above Lodge Grass.[...]one of the worked out. Mrs. Gibbs cooked on a ranch, Mr. Gibbs several boat trips through Big Hom Canyon in mid- worked at a lambing camp, Elsie did housework for thirties[...]Mrs. Yergey, cooked at a cafe and for Campbells wheat[...]farm. Roy worked around town and was a policeman for a while. (The year is well remembered because of th[...]me to In 1937, Roy was appointed Chief of Police and Hardin on the Burlington R.R. in 1914.[...] | |
| [...]lone". Many beautiful gifts were given, including a Elsie and Mrs. Gibbs helped with the Sherif[...]were busy elsewhere. years until a change in rules made post-masters Mr. Riley[...]To those who knew him he was always "Ernie" -a stjll held the job when he passed away on March 1[...]and whose word was always trusted. Elsie is a past Matron of the Jasmine Chapter No. 65. Roy was a member of St. John's Lodge No. 92 A.F. and A.M., Hardin, a member of the Royal Arch Masons, Hardin, a member of the Commandery of Billings and the Al B[...]O.F. Lodge in Hardin. Roy was well liked as a Sheriff and served the Hardin community in many w[...]re dance, fish and hunt. Roy and Elsie have a son Dale born on June 16, 1930. Dale joined the N[...]y, came up to our area. Hearsay was that he loved a girl in the valley, and she married another, so he was a typical old "Batch". He made the best sourdough p[...]er ate, and biscuits like feathers! He tamed a deer, called Old Splay Foot, a little wild rabbit, and a big bull snake who lived above his cellar door an[...]. He finally went to Reno to live with his brother, Amos, and died there. ERNEST C[...]He | |
| [...]eek and the Little Hom Canyon. Dempsey Voiles ran a livery barn in Wyola and his horses and buggies were available for such outings. In 1924 he entered a partnership with Chris Christensen, formerly of S[...]tore until his death in 1941. The post-office was a part of the store. For twenty years he serv[...]s he lived in Wyola his goal was to make his town a better place in which to Our nearest neighbors were the John A. Perry live.[...]of 1917 from Bowbells, North Dakota. Each took up a homestead joining each other. My father built a one-room homestead shack during that summer in which we lived for about two years, before building a larger, log house. The middle of October of the same year my parents, my brother, Sidney Allen, and myself, Eva (now Mrs. George M[...]ved into our new home, such as it was. My younger brother, James, was born in July of the first summer we s[...]days we had to go seven miles to get our mail at a little country store and post-office called McRae, now extinct. At that time a Mrs. Sid Romine and Jimmy stage[...]r Ross was born in Canada, September 27, and John A. Perry and my father built the Spring Creek[...]be a miller.[...] | |
| He worked as a miller in Burlington, Iowa, and 1938 and[...]n Kossuth, Iowa, their Server Ross died in a Billings nursing home in 1968. children were born[...]Mary (Marie) Barbara Ross taught school as a Hector was elected representative from Des[...]ey lived in St. Xavier for night school to become a millwright, starting new mills. the first two or three years of their marriage. In 1907 a In 1896 Mr. Ross came to Crow Agency to ser[...]il April 29, 1904, when he became ill and died in a They moved to Hardin in 1945. Mr. Lewis died[...]Vivian married Glenn Kimball and lives in a veteran of the Civil War.[...]and lives in Columbus, Montana, where they owned a small acreage Hardin. of land. Bob contin[...]r death in 1963. Jesse and for many years, a specialized law secretary for a Clifford finished their high school education in[...]to be with the rest University where he received a degree in Dentistry in of her family. She was a highly intellectual, self- 1916.[...]in 1885. Her father, Fred Server, had been a soldier in the Hardin Cemetery.[...]d to Marie Laura Server Custer, when both a soldier and a civilian. After he on November 5, 1903, in Crow A[...]resigned from the army he hauled freight for a time but was born in 1885 in Junction City, now C[...]el in Crow Agency. At this time Bob operated a hotel in Custer, where Marie was born and was working for the CB & Q Railroad. A son, Robert spent her early years. Jr.,[...]nued work for the Agency and operated a hotel there. She went to Fort railroad. In 1913 t[...]1927. Cecil the Burlington Railroad. This was a year after the Fort and Orville, twins, were born[...]in was abandoned and dances there were only a memory. 1923 a daughter, Betsy, joined the family. Cecil married[...]ornia. Orville died in to Hardin. Mr. Ross had a very friendly, outgoing[...] | |
| [...]and undesireable, but that did time for a week-end of fun they all went out to not deter t[...]Rankins were meals they had at the end of a ball game or some game staying. When Carl heard[...]ne was there, it took the doc- determined to put a stop to such nonsense, so he tors, bankers, Court House gang, the merchants and all grabbed a rifle and fired a shot out of the bedroom in all they sur[...]kids and all. went through the arm of Mrs. Ross' brother. It was an When we got to Hardin thi[...]ed the fun of working. tainly ended the party on a sour note." (However, the Matt Larkin got me a job working in the bowling lanes Rankins and Ross[...]ther occasion Mr. Ross was on temporary a game and purchased my first pair of shoes from Fr[...]Ross decided to take Gladden-that was a big day and I had money left to pay baby Bobby an[...]uca-and no east bound train until evening. It was a Grocery Store, and from there to the openi[...]Ross spent there Sawyer's Store. with a fussy baby and swarms of flies for company. "I[...]l I had to work and play sure gave that conductor a piece of my mind the next basket ball; i[...]We spent a lot of time down at Crow Agency with The Ro[...], who now all the friends there and it was a great place: always lives in Billings; twins Orvi[...]13 to 1932 home about three-thirty when a car pulled up and some in the 500 block Nort[...]cy, Montana Clerk of Court so he could get a marriage license. I told 1906, it was in Rosebud[...]was working for the Government given out a lot of these license's and have not had one of b[...]lived in Crow back to bed. The fellow got a big kick out of it and said Agency until about 19[...]for the C.B. more." Well, that gave me a twist that I thought was & Q. Railway. We lived i[...]o many classes of people could get remember quite a few of them, and we enjoyed the good together and in a nights' time have such fun! Saturday old board wa[...]l in Hardin with Nellie Brown in watch-it was a great town life. the first grade; it was a great start in life. Dick W~en I[...] | |
| [...]r saw so many folks us, and it would be a long time before there were any that were so happ[...]es to the west, except for an occasional tem- was a jam! The band was playing in front of the Drug[...]ed about the windows man living in such a place on a cold winter day cutting falling-she was having Mr[...]the the time trying to get the crowd back. He had a job. saying that a wood fire warms you twice. We burned Many of the[...]us only in front of the outlet. Larkin was having a time with one of his teeth; he went My[...]Assessor of up to see Clifford and they had quite a talk. About two Big Horn County, originally[...]ation system had been laid out, and he hoped that a not cut hair, so he went up and Dr. did not put him in garden together with a cow and some chickens, would the chair, said he would just look at it. Dr. Haverfield provide a considerable part of the family food and keep cam[...]however, that water was too expensive for a large and going to put something on it to make it better, and garden, and so he sold a lot and a half. We did have winked at Haverfield. He told H[...]rd winked or pets. and Dr. Haverfield with a quick move twisted Bill's In late[...]lled out the tooth. Bill stood there in such a rather unfavorable place, and was told that and h[...]fford told him to the Burlington Railroad owned a section of land there come back next day and mayb[...]. Haverfield kidded Bill for years would be a better site. about that. I don't know if they got[...]the other dwellings had recently trying to put on a wedding with all of the friends they been built. For a long time we had few, if any neighbor had, so we[...]Lodge Lammers, who lived with his family a block east of us. for a dance. They did not know what was going to It was my job to go and get the milk in a pail in the happen until they got to Laurel, then[...]. evening, and so I was with them more for a while than We had a great time and we all had a lot of fun for four any people outside my ow[...](and is) considerably younger than I. When on a visit At the time I was working in Red Lodge; in a back home many years later I learned that Joe was a couple of months after Irene got there we moved t[...]Readers of the Spoon River Anthology, and of a keeping Hardin in our thoughts, as it is a great town. recent collection a Wisconsin town, know that small-[...]early days was not like a place in more settled sections[...]sure whether already knew how to read, after a month in the first the water tower was still bein[...]tmas, the second houses for kitchen water. It was a few years before we grade was move[...] | |
| Pierce (Pearce?) wife of the manager of a dry goods carefully place them, with air[...]til the store, taught the second. I used to have a picture of the kiln was full- kilns were twelv[...]hauled to the building site. We made 5000 bricks a day. teacher- it may have been Miss Pendergast.[...]r material, rolled and stayed in Hardin for only a year. There were three burned, so the b[...]lt myself, I don't suppose I can blame others for a habit the pool hall for John Kifer, where[...]y the river where the sandy soil was good 1 1ave a car for a long time. It was therefore, much more brick[...]places. moved across the river and got a soft mud machine: My view of Hardin is likel[...]way. Several and 1929 merely intensified what was a chronic con- brick homes, a duplex and an apartment house, and dition. I can'[...]cted in the central area of town and streets were a great improvement. That was typical of ma[...]School for us children was a 24' x 24' school house[...]In the fall of 1910 we built a large brick barn on the We came from Billin[...]he lot at 411 N. Crow; we lived in it that winter brother Otto, sister Eva, and myself. Father, who had[...]Going back to 1908 the Gibsons built a fifty-foot homesteaded two miles west of Hardin.[...]a, Oklahoma; they Becker Hotel, the Hardin Hotel, a one-chair barber brought with them a Hambletonian trotting horse, a shop, two saloons (one on each side of the street), and a deep bay. It was bred to a black stallion owned by A. P. small general store which housed the post off[...]ght supplies, then loaded family and groceries in a was a mare, rather large, and the second a "horse colt", wagon and started due west for the[...]o teams and the colts homestead. Father had built a two room house just in the barn. under[...]lived here for two years. We had a town band, organized in the fall of 1910 Fa[...]ublic appearance in 1911; we played at least once a burned at a certain heat; we used coal and wood to get[...]. Woods the bricks for sand-rolled brick-three in a mold and the would take over. Some of the members were my cousins dirt was all ground in a pug-mill. Mud was shovelled in Jack Rowland and Charlie Hunt, brother Otto, Albert at the top, wooden spokes kept worki[...]n hand-rolled, myself. placed in the mold, and a bow with a piano string cut Eva and Otto were th[...], ground to dry and then wheeled into the kiln in a made foundations, and helped with vari[...]Otto fell in love with horses and soon moved to a[...] | |
| [...]e Hay Corral fight, near The Dimblebys built a frame house with a fire Fort Smith, and erected a marker for it. With C. H. place and an unusual chimney-a local land-mark until Asbury and R. A. Vickers pressure was put upon Hon. it burned.[...]Scott Leavitt to have a monument put up on the Reno I left Hardin in 1915, had a homestead seven miles Battlefield and a road built from the Custer Battlefield from Colum[...]interest until his death in 1941. DR. W. A. RUSSELL AND FAMILY By Marion Russell Carper Very early in 1908 my father, Dr. W. A. Russell, Mam.ma, (Jennie Calkins Russell) and I[...]on the Huntley Project. With us came Mama's half-brother, Emory Flickinger who later lived in Hardin and w[...]preceding August. Huntley was both new and "raw", a great contrast to the Michigan home and surroundi[...]e town grow and enjoyed the people; Dad organized a debating society for the young men who had no place to go except the saloons, and Mam.ma was chairman of a women's study group that, during our last year there, started a library. In 1914 I was ready for high school, and this posed a problem. Since there would only be three grades i[...]trict Superin- Dr. W . A. Russell, 1917 tendent and the County Superintendent of Schools to put a ninth grade course of study in its place, and this Mother gave music lessons to a few mature met the needs of the three or four of us who were ready students, had a piano quartet, and was President of the for the w[...]ater system and electric and joined me for a year's travel thru Central and South lights, plus a high school, were most appealing. The Amer[...]of ninety-three. actually arrive until December. A year later Mama Meantime I gradua[...]e two-year In 1917 Dad married Bessie Reed, a distant secretarial course at Montana State, and received my relative and a talented music teacher from Jamestown, Bach[...]urned preventive medicine and while County Health officer to Hardin to teach social studies in the[...]was privileged to have two sabbaticals: one for a year's Mother acted as secretary, chauffeur, and general trip around the world, and the other for a year of travel manager; (learning to drive a car was one of her first and school visiting[...]etired from Winnetka I came home and aspects made a great impression upon Dad and it never[...] | |
| [...]eing Mrs. Lloyde Carper. a motel.[...]My grandmother was born in a small village close[...]west, and established a small ranch near the Tongue[...]there. They had a friend who was Saundra Dohl's father, a sheepman and not very well liked. If the sheep[...]grazed too long on a certain spot they would kill the[...]rents have died but she has lived Mrs. W. A. Russell and Marion, 1962 there si[...]derson is in Montana. His grandfather was a slave- reaching the eastern shore, they decided to go along owner and a soldier for the Confederacy. His grand- with peop[...]mber After reaching Montana, and seeing what a Company came into being. About 1850,[...]ather left Bedford, Virginia, for Missouri, where a home here. They had eight children, the youngest was he started a town on the Grand River and called it Gus. Bedford. To a Virginian, tobacco was the crop to raise, Wh[...]down much of the father died and they had to hire a hand to take care of neighborhood's luxuriant timber to start a tobacco the ranch until the boys were old enough[...]cattle and cut cedar- father, who had been a prisoner in the Civil War, came wood. The boys didn't get to go to town only once a later to Oklahoma; and, in about 1880, he started a month. sawmill business. Frank Turner, who was a tobacco Their house was of log and Gus was born in a buyer, followed his cousins to Oklahoma[...]Saunders, worked in Ranch. " He worked there for a year, then went to work Kansas City. He and his five sons formed the Saunders on a ranch for a man named Dr. Blake. At age Lumber[...]spread over Oklahoma and seventeen, he worked in a sawmill at Birney. When he Nebraska, where it had a store in Red Cloud and several was twenty, he wor[...]two lumber yards could be run for the cost of on a construction job, he was sent to Washington. one in Nebraska, set out for Billings. He opened a yard There he married, and they had their[...] | |
| [...]in Greybull, Wyoming. Oil had been E. A. Richardson's or its predecessor. He and discovered near Grey bull. Later there was a yard in Richardson were friends. In 1906 t[...]and yard at the corner of 3rd Street and Choteau A venue, south of the park. It was a happy and hospitable place. Both of the Saunders[...]urch, the First Congregational. Mrs. Saunders was a great cook and home manager. She was aware, also, of what she could do for friends. It was a good finish to the day of a late- working teacher, after tramping through dusk and snow to an empty abode, to find a fat parcel at the door-supper from the Saunders k[...]1900's the Saunders Lumber Company had built a fine, new building. It now houses French's Buildi[...]in Battlefield from 1893 to 1906. He was a Civil War Gillette, Wyoming; and Martha and hers[...]new, to which, in those days, was attached a stone wing[...]11, 1860, the only doctors were. during a lay-over by his family, who had just come from Soon Mr. Scally had a store at Pryor, in which E. Ireland looking for a home in the U.S.A. They went on A. Richardson may have been interested. Pryor then[...]ventually to Northfield. The father used was a busy hamlet on the Toluca-Cody spur of the to make a one hundred mile round trip afoot to St. Paul,[...]Strip" of the Crow to fetch home on his shoulder a fifty-pound sack of Reservation was open[...]as to suggestion, came west to file on a homestead near Duluth. There father and boys work[...]tie Margaret" in charge of his Montana and became a foreman on one of the ditch motherles[...]ter small house until Mr. Scally built a large one, after spending a winter in a dugout with a companion (some 1910, in the field across[...]obably along the trail from the fort He was a family man. Daughter Harriet says that he to Cust[...]to her so many trader at the fort. He moved on to a Crow Agency store, times that she had[...] | |
| [...]illings High School in 1914. Mr. Scally had owned a house in Billings, against the day when his child[...]the Mayo Clinic. She was the talented daughter of a well-to-do-family who couldn't understand why she insisted on being a nurse. She was a painter of con- siderable ability. She and Bill had a daughter, Ann. Mr. Scally died in 1930, and final[...]gene Sloan. She was often seen on the street with a small grandson Mr. and Mrs. Philipp Schafer[...]ward, Mr. her plate at meals, his grandmother had a long-handled Schafer, back row: August, Vict[...]of the four boys began to reach and grab, he got a crack with the spoon. the only[...]moved to a farm just east of Hardin, near where the[...]the milk, cream, and cheese. Mr. Scally was a mild, scholarly sort. It's un- believable, but true, my father said, that he once knocked a fellow flat for repeated false and damaging statements about a friend. After several polite corrections of these[...]or nothing. At the time of his death, he was a commissioner of Big Horn County. He had served on[...]rize team of bay horses Oregon and Washington for a number of years before settling near Dunmore to f[...]ed on the kitchen range with its hot water reser- a car-horse accident near the Hilltop in 193[...] | |
| Silk stockings were a much valued possession of the young ladies in the[...]y under went this procedure. The wedding was a three-day affair, with church ceremony and feasti[...]e bedrooms. Because Philipp Schafer had been a school teacher in his native Russia, his children[...]Paul was a Holly Fieldman, transferred by Holly[...]· pushed in a doll buggy by their two daughters. He[...]would carry them home. It would be a fallacy to[...]ildren except Hilda, who had married and moved to a farm near the Little Big Horn River. Paul Schafer[...]llowed later by August, who became an Army Career Officer, and married Betty Uffleman of East Helena.[...]aller The Schallers, H. P., his wife, Blanche A. , son Dwayne T., Pauline, and Bill D. cam[...] | |
| [...]e Kronmiller children through many crises. Bert, a rising young lawyer, and his wife needed this help. Sandy, grandee of police dogs, belonged to the Traphagens. He was a one-man dog, although he tolerated the young dau[...]oehring, were early d;iy meat- market owners. As a hobby they raised fox terriers and bulldogs. The[...]nt. After the election, Bob Saun- ders, owner of a lumber yard and ardent Democrat, called and asked[...]December 24, 1973. Mr. Schaller had not only been a farmer and field man for Holly Sugar, but an auctioneer, and a member of the School Board of District 17H for tw[...]Indian artifacts three years she wrote a weekly column "Sage and Soil" for the Hardin Trib[...]An Indian Princess, an early white trapper, a Custer Scout, a French Noblewoman-the ancestors of Julia Schenderline of Lodge Grass are a varied lot who saw and created much of Montana's[...]cause he did pushups that reminded the Indians of a Rising Wolf. Monroe was buried at the foot[...] | |
| [...]The Jackson family owned and lived on a ranch Fort Lincoln near Bismark, N. D. Robert was[...]and running for a touchdown. "That play was outlawed[...]couple moved to Lodge Grass. Schenderline was a[...]Now they reside in Lodge Grass with a little pet[...]children Lenice, Kate, Irma, and Rachel, and a son, his Robert Jackson, Mrs. Schenderline's fath[...]land with only sagebrush. They built a house 16' x 20' and drilled a well by hand but the water was not fit to[...]ns trails leading to the Big Horn River indicated a large the first summer and the next two summ[...]. Within sister worked in the Gallatin valley. a few days every man in his column would be dead.[...]elds bought the general store in Jackson and a few other Scouts were cut off from C[...] | |
| [...]Stevenson who was known as a Licensed Indian Trader[...] | |
| [...]-A COWBOY-[...]Grass School In those days Sheridan was a real old cowtown, along with the Stevenson, Campb[...]the "big day" so to have a few nickels in his pocket he[...]also dance a jig for a nickel-that's how he came to be[...]"Bum" was a cowboy, not the "drugstore, movie-[...]He was a cowboy because he had never had a desire in[...]life to be anything else. He was hardy, and had a[...]expression was kind, he had a rather philosophical sense of humor and he loved a good story.[...]He worked hard all his life and when he got a[...]somewhat of a rounder. He liked " purty" girls, fine[...]12, 1953 might say he liked the latter a bit too well, but perhaps[...]a, had ever thought of him as being also a family man Montana doing the same kind of job for[...]not so aware of the freedom to be felt in a cowboy's himself on the Upper Little Horn River a[...]e best of it. Little Horn at that time. Now it is a prosperous farming Sometimes I 'm sure the burden of home and a family and cattle feeding area. was just a little too much for him. And since he[...] | |
| [...]Ontario, Canada and his father was a native of Ireland.[...]e in the First World War. couldn't always jump on a horse and " move on" he may He was stationed at Camp McArthur, located at have at times turned to a handier solace. Waco, Texas,[...]war. Henry Schubert wrote for two winters on a book to Returning to Hardin he became a partner in the Hardin be published of his experiences as a cowboy. H e didn 't Motor Company with Will[...]and entered into a partnership with Glen Whiteman[...]ted with his parents to the U . S. who located on a farm near La Crosse, Wis,c onsin. As a youth he learned the printer's trade in the offic[...]osse, Jacksonport, Arkansas and in ew Mexico, for a number of years, he ret urned to La Crosse[...] | |
| [...]h of his father he entered politics and fulfill a contract with Mrs. Phoebe Hearst, who was was el[...]Clerk & Recorder of Big Hom making a gift of Indian paintings to the University of Co[...]d in 1930. He did not California. file for a third term as he intended returning to Chicag to[...]and held that position for ten years. fl accepted a position with Holly Sugar Company in 19 in the ac[...]t Commander of District #j American Legion. He is a past President of Hard) Kiwanis Club having a perfect attendance for thir seven years. He is th[...]ter Member of Kiwan in an active role. He is also a past head of the Moo Lodge. He is a member of St. Johns Lodge /192 and h been a member for fifty-five years. He served as C[...]drives during the war years in both the Red Cross a; the U.S.O. He holds Life Memberships in th[...]t of J. H. Sharp by Meyer Studi.o, Cincinnati and a son, Willard N. Scott, living in Billings.[...]Addie had given up a musical career to look after JOSEPH HE[...]were "Japanese print," and her dishes were he had a lively boyhood. He entered the Cincinnati Art[...]. " She played for us, too. Once from Indiana. In a few years, he and Addie Byram were when L[...]studying abroad together, he art and she a little concert at our house, both performing with[...]he stayed on alone. out for my parents on a trip east. The interior Henry returned to his old[...]harp cabin was mostly by Henry. I classes. He did a portrait of William Howard Taft, and have a painting of the living room: log walls covered he[...]hides embroidered with porcupine quills, and a few was one of the first painters to do work at T[...]Mexico, where the ancient pueblo is ; and he was a Southwest ; and a huge set of antlers equipped with iron founder of the famous colony there. For a residence, he discs for candles hangs on an[...]up into rooms, all tree. It is decorated with a stuffed weasel- good in a row, and added a long porch facing a side yard and medicine. The fireplac[...] | |
| [...]acquired from Elbert punch-and we sold a lot of pictures." Hubbard's Roycrofters.[...]bard came to Crow one summer to see was a beloved family member. It was a true grief when Sharp. The next summer he sent his son Ralph, age he died after a fight with a porcupine. In our talks twenty. Another occasional guest was Mrs. Ed Dana about old times during a Riebeth visit to Taos in 1946, (Fra), herself an[...]their cabin in an open field, not much more than a shed or move his things until the 30's. He[...]and his life once more became one of my portrait, a surprise for my father, when I was five. travel and hard work-a life he enjoyed. He had me take a seat on a straight chair placed on a In Pasadena, where he also had a home, he died in low platform and said, "Sissy, t[...]came in time Alonzo aged ten months, into a covered wagon and for the fair in October. That k[...]wife's lips, but no one several days, find a camping place and stay a day or so else's. He carried a pad for communication. Still, he and to do the washing, and bake bread in a dutch oven over my father held long conversations, full of jokes and a campfire, then resume their journey. When the lau[...]in sign children became ill, they'd find a place to sleep, but language ; I have seen him do[...]charged for a night's lodging.[...]before. (He had come from Texas with a trail herd.) They built a one-room log cabin, with a dirt roof[...]with a pack horse. The snow was so deep and traveling[...]munication or transportation. A few years later,[...] | |
| [...]I was born a pioneer; you ask why? My father was As time[...]wins) and Frank. in a covered wagon train in 1888, and they settled at There were a few '' hair raising'' experiences during Eugene[...]that never came. One "sheep killing" took place. A sheepherder moved his flock on to a range that the cattlemen claimed as theirs. The c[...]My parents were married July 3, 1893, and took a[...]owned on a wagon and started across the Cascade[...]Mountains. It took weeks to cross. They trailed a cow, tied to their wagon, and had a pig in a crate. Father filed on a homestead three miles out of Prineville, in[...]September, 1899. He built a 12' x 18' shack, put in[...]sed were sand toads and kids. The midwife charged a B essie.[...]re was system developed, and the place built into a successful free land. The pioneer blood was[...]homesteaded celebration in the states for a long time. The next day and everything grazed in[...]e were on our way to visit The homestead was a part of three Montana Grandmother,[...]s the county seat, July 27th father took a few belongings and started Rosebud with Forsyth a[...]ived September 27 , 1913. Next day postmaster for a number of years and served as Brand supplies, kids and all were loaded on a wagon and we Inspector and County Commissioner fo[...]saw " funny " people. The Shreves purchased a home in Sheridan where Hardly any[...] | |
| [...]in the field, in. We knew no one, neighbors were a mile away in each and I cooked. The wind was[...]king all our savings. We sold cattle we had given a hundred dollars for, for seventeen dollars a head-we'd fed them hay that cost forty dollars a ton. We decided to come back to the States. We wo[...]and the roads were bad. We had a new Plymouth coupe[...]the car with our belongings and a pup. It took all day to[...]no dinner and there was no cafe, so we ate a cold lunch[...]Savoy and the Club; the Club looked like a working[...]Sim had rented a house from Potato Walker on Crow A venue. The first ladies I met were Jessie Miller[...]what a time we had! As for me, I knew my stay was[...]In 1930 a house at 405 N. Crow Ave. was up for tax Wh[...]over every window was gone and we had to buy have a bottle of Canadian spirits; he'd hid it under the new ones. car seat. An officer came out to the car and I asked him We ha[...]ountry was hot and dry, far away smiles that only a red coat can give, and said with no crops, mo[...]on. You could buy pork chops for twelve cents a pound, honest, just by looking at them. " When Si[...]or ditch the bottle. Savoy cafe for one dollar a day, twelve hours a day, My face might not look so honest next time!" seven days a week. Milk was ten cents a quart. I[...] | |
| remember buying a pound of butter, a quart of milk, a discovered that I directed both the Catholic and the loaf of bread, and a pound of good meat for fifty cents, Lutheran c[...]t the fifty cents. they decided that I would be a help to my husband who A group of us ladies went out and picked up potatoe[...]rintendency of District for our families. Sim was a hunter; we canned wild meat 17-H. Anyway, he[...]Here we made many friends, and outstanding among a community garden in south Hardin. They plowed the[...]do was get seed, plant it and care for it; it was a year Mr. Skeie was stricken with a fatal heart attack. Godsend to many.[...]ere for sale for five dollars each, but they were a frog pond then. I haven't said anything abou[...]eighbors we are; each nation has its own culture, a birthright to which we are entitled. I don't inte[...]o us- we arrived in Hardin with one young son and a spotted pup. Over the years we were blessed with another son, William, and a daughter, Janice. All three attended Hardin schoo[...]r, in the space program, in New Orleans. William, a music instructor, has taught in many fine schools and studied in Vienna, Ann Skeie [Mrs. E. A.] in the rose garden of the Austria. Janice, her[...]s as well as in church. only say I am proud to be a part of it. From childho[...]Memories of my years [Mrs. E. A. Skeie] in Hardin are preci[...]nds I made there. God bless you all! and attended a private school seven miles from town. The discipl[...]ns in the New York schools was daughter of a young man from Ireland and a Cheyenne great, and I was horrified at the behavi[...]our family, all well- people to live with a Quaker family in Madison, behaved and helpful to each other. Father, a preacher, Wisconsin, when she was three. I b[...]ne saw the accident, and she sat there in the smg a couple of hymns was sheer joy. I also sang in the[...]m (unexpectedly) at dinner. They them in a convent where they stayed until they were[...] | |
| [...]married Ed Schroeder and was school days drew to a close, she could hardly wait to get also living[...]ne grandfather show him Lillian rode Ikey, a "Cheyenne pony" (because he was to have been a self-respecting, independent man. It was brown with a black stripe along his spine). said that he woul[...]of 1929, she was my neighbor at Crow. We had many a chat on the sidewalk in front of the store. She was small, trim, and pretty, with a deep dimple. She joined the Hardin (Jasmine) Chap[...]Chapter L, P.E.O. She was studious by habit, and a great reader. Her friends say that she was partic[...]for sentimental reasons, mostly. When he had been a teen-ager, Sharp had doubtless been his good frie[...]hed and lighted every night, in Henry's youth, by a policeman named Stone.[...]ride evidently was part of the entertainment for a guest, Mattie Williams was born on the Yellowstone at a young girl; and the horse she was mounted on was a Junction City. The census of Junction, 1880 lists[...]Shively's saddle horse. When we turned homeward a Cora, five months old. Mattie was yet to come. An[...]iles up the valley, the big horse bolted, leaving a group picture shows the two little girls sitting[...]Mattie's guest screamed in fright. In Jinnie, was a Crow girl. During my father 's tenure as an[...]-middle-aged and yanked him around to a stop. Mattie was probably Crow men happened to have in those days-Big lucky to be a tall, strong girl; but I, not yet eight, felt Med[...]Even we children couldn't help hearing that a Thereafter their children had first names. The wi[...]Mattie. Mr. Small, the Agency miller, had a large Big Medicine, and so on. Mattie was an expe[...]He helped his father at the mill for a time. In leisure[...] | |
| hours he rode about on a nice dappled grey called business. So[...]acquainted in Crow. Lame Deer. Their brother Max has long beeQ an at- Mattie was reserved and[...]derline, have recently returned from a stay of 23 years By 1911 we were back on the Reservation at a in Sitka, Alsaka where both were empl[...]. Ted was maintenance man for the Wyola. Upstream a few miles, Henry and Mattie were school and Josie was a matron. starting a ranch on Mattie's allotted land. Though we[...]back and forth. That first summer, the Smalls had a first Cheyenne Chief to sign a peace treaty with the beautiful living arrangement. Beside the stream, on the Government and received a silver medallion with the wide beach, they had put up a large, walled tent on a date, May 1825. The next year this chief,[...]rom the Cheyenne tribe. Mary On the extension was a screened porch covered with a Rondeau had a trunk full of the garments and or- fly. The view was upstream and also across to a grassy naments of her father, the medallion and clothes of her spot sheltered by a low cliff. As a child, I thought theirs equally capable chief brother called High Wolf. was a perfect way to live. By the next summer, they[...]was born in 1848, married at Fort Laramie to had a log house on higher ground. We saw them every an army officer, Colonel Bullock. After he retired from summer un[...]w Mattie again. he had a large store. They had two daughters and in Several years later, as my parents were taking a 1878 they were divorced. In 1884 she marr[...]urprised Rondeau whose history would fill a book. John traveled to meet Mattie. The three str[...]Now she raised horses and cattle and had a freight outfit. was about to have an operation; b[...]sephine. When Josephine was small they moved walk a bit. They said goodbye and parted. The next[...]too was buried in the family cemetery beside both a rancher and a Presbyterian minister. Both sides Josephin[...]Around Cowboy" three years in a row. His grandsons In 1907, at the age of 17, Tom's brother Henry are also making names for themsel[...]the south end of t he returned to Indiana for a visit in 1903 and on his return Reservation near[...]where Hardin now Tom was in great demand as a veterinarian, for his stands, over to the w[...]were ability to break horses and for his skill as a cowboy. All building a home. He asked why they weren 't settling[...] | |
| system and they replied that there was to be a dam Dad and Mother are still alive,[...]ree children, Dad met Mother, formerly Mary A. Bennett, at Claude B. Smith, of Billing[...]ing Rockvale and they were married in 1906. With a team of City, Oregon, and J. W. (Bill) Smith[...]Dad likes to reminisce and has, I think, a gear he went to his homestead on the Huntley proj[...]those of his generation, for the most part, were a very being U.S. Miller, Ralph McCone, James Foste[...]In the early 1900's, Gillette, Wyoming was a center of social affairs. Dances were held freque[...], Kentucky came to Wyoming to see how he'd always a good turnout of young couples, no drinking of[...]urice, who was born February liquor, but they had a wonderful time and would bed 18, 1881, le[...]and his brothers and sisters, They did have a few controversial matters and returned only a couple of times during his lifetime naturally, an[...]ountry for short visits. had the negative side on a debate on the raising of Maurice had[...]for Lewiston, Idaho in 1915. was a popular place at that time. In 1917 Dad went to the land office in Billings to file on a homestead in the Sarpy area and he met and visited with a man standing next to him in line-Cary Mabe-who wa[...]ler (father of George and Ed), Andrew Miller, and a man named Weast. Dad at a later date sold his land in the Iron Springs area[...]grain by team and wagon for thirty-five miles was a good days trip and it was a welcome sight to see the lights of town when coming over the last hill, but there were times when after a rest and a good feed of oats for the horses they headed right back with the empty wagon. You can hardly blame a few of those who chose to distill it down so they[...]and one-half miles south of Hardin and purchased a small farm of his own in 1924 which was th[...] | |
| [...]ter The second season didn't produce a very good crop their marriage in 1888, and had se[...]illette. Grass where Maurice took a job operating a dray-line Maurice was soon courting Ruby, an[...]Maurice and Ruby then moved the family into a Wyoming. They worked on several ranches in the ar[...]I was living on a farm in southern Iowa with my[...]Aunt and Uncle; my father was a railroad section foreman at Ionia, Montana, a rail siding between Lodge[...]a rail pass to come for a visit until corn shucking[...]Elizabeth Fox, Ruby Smith, William Fox, a few days, when his Indian section laborer, by the[...]d name of Clifford White Shirt, got a pay check and Smith. 1926[...]yoming bound for Lodge Grass, Montana. Ruby drove a 1927 Chevrolet and Maurice with the household goods in a Model T Ford truck. The first Model T burned out[...]tives. The roads were mostly dirt, but there were a few miles of pavement in the vicinity of Sheridan. When they reached Ranchester, Wyoming the next day, a portion of the present road was under constructio[...]er's wedding picture, 1917 man, Wyoming. He hired a driver for the car part of the way, but also drov[...]I remember my first day of work was at Benteen, a They settled on 80 acres of leased land on[...]d spot another empty they arrived. Maurice bought a team of horses and a to load. I worked on the Ionia section th[...]lis Spear- Grass. He also bought some horses from a rancher on loaded several thirty-car trai[...]The farm land was foul with weeds and it was a late cattle loaded were three and four years ol[...]car. enough to see the family through the winter. A horse- In October my father was transferred to the drawn school bus, complete with a coal-fired heater Hardin section ; a Japanese man took charge of the[...] | |
| [...]e coming in by the thousands-it was really a bird place Dad was ta.Iring, was Ed Conroy. He was loading hunter's paradise. his household goods in a box car for Sheridan, The railroad had just completed a new bridge Wyoming, as he was ta.Iring charge of[...]ge crew. This was when I met the Mon- starting of a life long friendship. gome[...]t. In those days the Railroad Company always left a heating stove in their section houses and the coa[...]n-hour days with one hour off for lunch, six days a week-no paid vacations nor fringe benefits. Today[...]I was a railroad telegrapher at Hardin 1915-31; a[...]were a miscellaneous variety. I remember George[...]Secrest and a Mr. H. B. McDonald trapped every[...] | |
| [...]ave several bales of coyote, bob- cat, skunk, and a few martin furs which they shipped by express to[...]homestead, two miles west and three- quarters of a mile south of Hardin. On it there was a two-room log homestead cabin, a log chicken house, and a log cow or horse shed. There was a dug well, with a pulley and rope with bucket attached to draw wate[...]d v.as to wall the well up with brick and install a pump. Dad later sided the log cabin, and it still[...]t hat winter at Junction City, Montana, where his brother-in-law, Paul McCormick, had a trading post, and ran cattle on the Crow Reservation. Willis was 21 then and put in some time working as a cowboy there. On November 18, 1885 he married Vir[...]n those steers. The drop in the price leased over a million acres on the Crow Reservation and of[...]He still had the Big Horn, Wyoming ranch, a house in Montana. The Burlington Railroad built a siding and Sheridan, the Spear-0-Wigwam[...]eir own and 26,000 turned the Wigwam into a dude ranch. He then formed for other companies. W[...]an cattle on the lease various ranches by driving a fast team, called " The that Doc Spear ha[...]ing the wires on for 16 years. He operated a sheep and cattle outfit until fence posts.[...] | |
| [...]Grass Creek. For a number of years they ran a Dude[...]d bridge. We could see up the railroad only about a half a mile above the bridge. I had picked up a pole so I could pry the wheels over the rails, which was lucky as we were on a high fill on the railroad track, when a freight train came in sight. I jumped out[...] | |
| [...]wagons. Ten teams driven with a jerk line pulled a BRADFORD J. SPEAR wagon with a trail wagon behind. These wagons hauled[...]old, I started to help my Spear for many years as a youngster, and rode a pony 4 dad get coyote pups. One time we were going along a 1/2 miles up Corral Creek to school. The p[...] | |
| [...]mounted which are in our homes today. I still do a being so cunning, had killed our dog, tearing him[...]my dad near Lodge happened when dad crawled into a wolf den to get the Grass on lower Rotten Grass Creek. We bought the old pups. In a little pocket in the den, laid a large rat- Bert Hayes place. Perry Howe w[...]had to ease himself out inch by inch past brother Melvin worked for dad. This was the year of the r[...]ent to work trapping for horses to pull a wagon load of wheat into the elevator. the govern[...]ling heifers, and I had to picket one to keep the a den with five deer carcasses that the wolves had[...]em. We got eight pen them in. I have seen a lot of changes in the pups there, too.[...]married Agnes Berquist, a daughter of Mrs. An-[...]summer fallow ground running a diesel powered[...]Michigan where this story begins. When a young man[...]my mother. They came in a covered wagon to Bridger, Mr. and Mrs. Dell Stan[...]Montana, in 1901, with a wagon train, crossing the Big[...]Lodge Grass; the Pryor, the wolves had hamstrung a cow, and she was road between Hardin[...]hile the wolves were eating on her. She was a team had to be used to pull the car thru t[...] | |
| [...]causing a traffic jam before the supervisor could be[...]Coyotes also were a menace to stockmen. Twenty-[...]chasing a coyote on the Campbell Farming Corporation[...]of their stripped-down car was Joe, ready with a rifle,[...]out, and they found him a mile or so back, still clinging[...]of fish. They pinned bed-sheets together to make a fish net and scooped up all they could use, then[...]started out. Some time later Mrs. Standish heard a man's voice call and there was her friend on a horse, with a bloody ankle and Walter Standish with wolf pup[...]Dell Standish of Lodge Grass, three wolves killed a colt and gashed the mother helped in m[...]er, Hardin, and Birdie Allen, Hayes In 1923 a lone wolf roamed the Pryor country- Springs, Nebraska, and a brother, Melvin of Anaconda wise and wary, it avoi[...] | |
| [...]Academy in Miles City where I spent a year. The next[...]year I went to school in Stacy, a little place with a hotel and restaurant, and a store and one house. The family[...]About three years later, when our son was a year- and-a-half and I was six months pregnant with the[...]alone, so I sold it, and bought a house in Ashland where[...]sylvania; my that to Missoula. Next came ·a transfer back to Miles mother's name was Cora Bennett, and my father's City as a Supervisor of the Custer National Forest. He nam[...]s job, in the Dept. of Agriculture. Montana with a bull team. It took them two or three A year later he applied for work in the Indian yea[...]Crow Agency until his retirement, when we bought a told me. They came thru to Crow Agency, shortly[...]n they went on to were not as much of a problem. Absaroka. When they came to the Big Hom[...]t Raymond and Russell; Raymond was killed in a tractor while the bulls swam across.[...]two girls: Clark works for the Government in on a piece of land, and built a house. My mother did not Washington, D. C., H[...]was three years old. I Hardin, and Wendell is a lawyer and C.P.A. in do not remember anything of her. My father w[...]all good, and it wasn't all bad, but still it was a fairly a small son, Michael. The other daughter, Donna nice life. We had these sheep and couldn't afford a Allison, also lives in Sheridan and has two sons and a herder, so my brothers and sister and I had to h[...]heep I nearly died. buffalo at the Yellowt.a.il damsite, before the dam was Looking back, it[...]was two Crow Reservation. houses, joined as a V; one had a kitchen and dining room and the other had two ro[...]k moved from Parkman, who were part Indian, held a great deal of grazing and Wyoming to a homestead on Indian Creek near the Big farming l[...]lumbus and Hom Co. line. The house was a dugout, which Dad built Absarokee. a month before my mother and us six boys came. We[...]my sister and I to moved ten days when my brother Dale became lost. It do but go to Ashland where o[...]was in October and Dale was only three and a half years father took me down. My sister said "[...]go old. My dad and an Uncle were building a house about a to school"; I said " Fine, show me the sch[...] | |
| [...]n the him the road. But for some reason Dale took a road in Hardin area, until I went to work f[...]Texas with a trailherd of cattle in February 1905. In[...]where he had staked a land claim. Her mother, Helen,[...]on a homestead north of Hardin and began farming.[...]t time somewhere, they would have to hitch up a team of word had got to Billings. A lot of people helped in the horses and use th[...]st. They used the ice to make ice cream and to by a passenger on the train, who had been reading[...]en wanted to study they sat by the happened to be a Doctor and a nurse on board, and this oil lamps. probably[...]id he would The older kids would find a tree that had honey in have only lived about thre[...]riage. I had been raised in Chicago and worked as a[...]okkeeper; I knew nothing about farming or life of a[...]had good crops, but we were in a hail streak and often Stark boys: Walter o[...] | |
| For a while Mr. Steen was the Agency miller and for a time, working for different cow outfits. He got a then he was the irrigation and construction fore[...]It was at this twenty-one or twenty-two men for a year and a half-in place, he came in contact with th[...]h summer the crews were bigger. My husband built a big caused him to dislike Socialism all[...]ig Timber country, where he in Crow and each took a ton of ice at intervals, met and ma[...]Tom and depending upon the weather. He also had a coal Mary Kent, who owned a large cow and sheep outfit business, which he han[...]dren, four boys and the Blue Front garage and ran a garage there for many five daughters, th[...]until the fumes began to affect his lungs. He ran a and Josephine Goering. Those who remain are[...]hool bus for many years. In May, 1943 he suffered a John, Chester (Pete), Agnes Fisher, Marg[...]other times we crossed on the railroad bridge; if a large load was involved we were A TRIBUTE TO DOMINIC STEVENS sometimes met on the other side by friends with a team and buggy, or wagon.[...]roundup wagon on the Because Mr. Steen was a business man he was able head of Lodge Grass creek, when a stranger rode into to build a house in town, which is where I live now. camp. He greeted every one he knew with a soft spoken We have two children: Albert who now runs the word, and a smile. I had never seen the man before but I Rich[...]Stevens, a rancher from "down the crick."[...]y, Con- years. necticut in 1870. As a young child he moyed with his parents to Pittsbur[...]welcome, and many a stray cowboy riding the "grub[...]He was a home builder, he believed in the fire-side,[...]deeds. I have never heard a word spoken of him except[...]horizon there is another world- a world to which the[...]her, we know that you, My Friend, have He got a job with a trail herd coming to Montana. already been welcomed there. and so we bid you a last He came to the Wilsall community, whe[...] | |
| [...]One of Mrs. Steven's greatest delights was a From Hardin Tribune-Herald spring house her husband built for her a short distance "There were good days and happy, but there was a from the house. The cold spring water coming[...]include the delight and laughter they moved into a tent, where they spent their first of the c[...], Tom, times the cook stoveld be1-o be dug out of a snowdrift Agnes and John at the time they mov[...]e logs vtlesnakll)lace, they still had no A new modern house was built on the Stevens doors o[...]in 1942, approximately two years before Mr. were a constant nuisance, Mrs. Stevens said. It was not Stevens passed away. an uncommon occurrence to find a rattler under the The old chuckwagon[...]a symbol of the old days.[...]fan and was active in a number of community[...]MR. AND MRS. A. M. STEVENSON[...]a bachelor, W. W. Simmond. Their first home was the[...]was hung on a crane to be snatched by the trainman as[...]they passed by. A diamond dye box served as postoffice[...]Rosebud creek with her mother and brother.[...](Allie) Stevenson at a dance at the Forty-mile ranch. He[...]dewalks in Lodge Grass and the building destroyed a den of rattlers some five yards from the log of[...]When Mrs. Stevenson was mayor of the town, a and improvements to the home were made from time[...]town joined the Rural time, and the ranch became a familiar landmark to Electrification ass[...]e area. been a municipal power plant operated by the city[...] | |
| [...]owned a store at Kirby and one at Lodge Grass. My[...]Store. George Deputee, a squaw-man, who worked for[...]and Petzoldts. Mr. Petzoldt was a missionary for the Mr. and Mrs. A. M. Stevenson-wedding picture, 1898 Bap[...]Dad had a store over at Kirby, as well as the one in[...]not the one which school in Lodge Grass. They had a hard time getting it. is there now, but was a little frame store which sat Dr. Petzoldt and Allie Stevenson made a trip by team about five miles or so south[...]ot yet formed and Lodge family lived in a one-story log house of about three or Grass was i[...]this muslin were hung pictures which to build it. A deed for it was recorded in 1912. or what-ha[...]was a heavy load by the time it was ready to go. Mother[...]was a clear, cold spring. We'd get there about noon and[...]ach taking his own car. Dad's was an Mr. and Mrs. A. M . Stevenson as most of the Lodge Oakl[...]often put the brake on AFTER he hit a bump. About Allie Stevenson built the first brick building in half way up a hill, the engine would start chugging, and town in 1911 when he put up a store with h'ving he'd lose speed to[...]f us would get out, and if the car had except for a few years when they were in California and st[...]uilding is still up the hill. being used as a store with Albert Stevenson, Allie's[...]g the store. our cars in Livingston, and take a stagecoach through[...] | |
| [...]raditional harmony with wilderness. I spent a lot of time with ones seen in the western movies,[...]l while I was growing up. sides and ends, but had a top. There were nine or ten It has alwa[...]r people. The driver let us man there is a woman". Without Grandma, Gramps children take tur[...]with him, which would have been only half a man. She is an organizer for made for an enjoyable trip. the family. Quite a busy lady at that. Everyone was[...]more than welcome in their home, and I felt a special[...]a happy day.[...]a kid could survive without a man like Gramps,[...]always around, and he always found time to tell a story. Blankenship The sport of hunting agates was a favorite of his. I[...]ifference between Hardin from Billings soon after a hard rain, and I've rocks and agates. After[...]walks by the the downtown area where we stayed in a hotel till the silver and agate bracelet he[...]Lodge Grass. Hunting occupied quite a lot of Grandpa's time. As[...]nnie C. Stobaugh he faked a phone call. The boys always started some Char[...]e came, kissy bites with his Montana. He received a secondary degree in Education moustache and[...]Montana in Even if Gramps did hunt for a sport, he loved 1957.[...]St. Xavier, Pryor, and Crow Agency. He Now a little stone marker engraved "Tuffy" is was elect[...]rintendent of Schools in 1935, surrounded by a small picket fence. Grandpa found fun and held th[...]: Charles Reuben, Billings, and Gramps was a stubborn man. I never did see him Missoula; Nadin[...]ick. At times it seemed like he was invulnerable, a man GRANDPA BILL STODDARD[...]By Wanda Schissler a victim of a heart attack. Like the mountains, Gran[...] | |
| He was my Gramps, a "Hell of a man" and I'm proud school-and a woman, recalling just last week, said to be relat[...]rd was born in Blue Earth, In 1945 began a twenty-year period of service as Minnesota on Oct[...]d. maintained a concerned interest in her church, the[...]tional Church for forty years. She Following a childhood on a farm in central was an active member[...]When the Yellowstone Valley Retired Teachers (a study. After three years there, she joined a group in- branch of the National Retired Tea[...]ntributed much time and thought to their Soon her brother came and they filed on two sections, proble[...]t. She has between Ekalaka and Alzada. She taught a rural school been a most helpful member of the Big Horn County near h[...]LIVAN FAMILY That fall she came to Hardin as a music and By Eleanor Sul[...]Kirby in the Spring of she married H. M. Strand, a jeweler and the father of 1906. My father w[...]the Middlefork two sons, Arthur and Robert, from a previous marriage. Cattle Company. Our first house, a log cabin, burned to In 1925 Baby Ralph joined th[...]erected a large white house, which, many years later,[...]brother, Elmer, of about two. My aunt took the oldest[...]trand {Mrs. H. M.J later we got a baby sister, Margaret Helen, nicknamed[...]edit for being the first con- Mr. Strand was a prominent business man, much servationis[...]nd most of all, his family. His death in 1927 was a garden. During the haying season the C[...]theast corner of the tents were always such a marvel to us: they were so Sullivan block,[...] | |
| [...]e especially good with cream and My dad was a notary public for the area and it sugar, t[...]aving papers taken care of. At one time there was a three or four inches tall we gathered them[...]hered by the bucketful- My sister Mary, her brother and I went to school in Mother made the most de[...]o find out how to do it. Wild plums, It was about a mile and a half or two miles from our plenty of them;[...]unded it with rocks, sundried the animals. We had a heavy two-wheeled cart to which resulti[...]n strips, hung them over ropes and poles until be a runaway and that would be the end of us.[...]so nice, and dry our chokecherries-we had a cherry-pitter which she was always good to them.[...]pring to tell them to take Lydia Pinkham's tonic-"a baby in bought the ranch at Wyola, five mil[...]Pass Creek. In 1923 my dad was stung by a bee and stronger, and there were no more babies i[...]infection. In 1924 Mother and her Then came a time when the county was to be childr[...]ad was Greening house and made it into a rooming and appointed one of the first County Com[...]n, but my to Mrs. Sweet Cool and lived in a small house on Sixth Mother objected. She said th[...]until she passed away in 1961. run the place for a week out of every month while he I,[...]I retired in 1965. I Another season that was a great deal of fun was married Frank Starina of Wyola, the son of a pioneer the putting up of ice, which came from th[...]the game warden for thirty-one years, was put in a little log house, covered with sawdust, re[...]of Washington in Seattle. She has a Master's degree in It seemed that the Middle[...]were my start in life. I had my own brand, it was a Joe Tritschler, a rancher at St. Xavier. Mary is still on Quarter Circle A on the left jaw; it was my start in the ra[...]al years ago. business. The money was invested in a bank which later Memories of childhood[...]ite often to reminisce, about the days when I had a everybody would take large picnic baskets of food- it crush on her brother Charlie. The Fergusons and all of seemed that eac[...].chool was on the Upper Little Horn. Miss once in a great while an occasional minister would[...]and I rode horseback to school from the come, or a Mennonite minister from Busby would hold Tschirgi ranch where we lived in a cabin and batched. services. Services were[...] | |
| Trail, I crossed a divide, took down the fence, replaced supplies to a spot on his route near their shack. When the f[...]et it because of the deep snow-they carried it on a One night there was a big snowstorm and I was pole between them[...]me afraid to try my short-cut lest I end up in a gulch so I carpentering in the vicinity. They went to work at a went around the long way and was so late getting home grain elevator and later built one. After a spell with that the family were very alarmed.[...]decided to dig a well. They consulted a water douser who told them to dig at a certain spot. This they did, by JOHN SVAREN hand, to a depth of fifty-seven feet, but they found no -MY GRANDFATHER and a PIONEER- water. He did[...]cooked, and landed in New York City, and after a short delay broke horses. They had a good crop, and in the fall headed for Chicago t[...]In 1917 he came to Hardin, Montana to build a Ten days after arriving he had his first job-helping a house. That winter he spent in North Dakota preparing man dig a cistern, for which he was paid seventy-five to move to Montana. In April he married Betsy cents a day, of ten hours. Until 1909 Grandfather[...]e lived here ever since. At first on working as a farm hand. Preparing the land and seeding co[...]and stacked it, then they would live in a tent at the place where the house they cut the g[...]moved to North Dakota and settled in from a mud-streeted little village to a nice town. Dickinson. He found three-quarters of a section of land that would do nicely as a sister and brother planned to homestead with him- each was allowed a quarter SWEENEY FAMILY section. The "Surveying" was done by a man who knew Mr. and Mrs. E. P. Sw[...]amily the distance around his wagon wheels, tied a han- homesteaded in the Big Horn Valle[...]Joliet, Montana, and the young couple filed on a first of November when they returned to prove up[...]to their homesteads. Erling remained in Belfield a few World War one. There they built a log house, and their days to get lumber as well as a stove, some scant two children Marjori[...]d for fuel, Finnegan, who later married a Tullock Creek bachelor, melted snow for drinking[...]thirteen miles to the nearest settlement to rent a during recess for the boys was trapping gop[...]was year and I imagine she taught those bachelors a little determined by the discipline shown[...]Sweeney family moved to Hardin in There was a mail route that ran between Murray[...] | |
| [...]chelor farm partners, Bill Winton and Bill Lobin. a small boy of four or five years. He was hired by[...]Winton, Lobin cabin was located between the Dowd, a bachelor farmer whose farm was at the west[...]ool wheeling daylight into Mr. Dowd's cellar with a and have a slice of warm bread and jelly or a roll with wheelbarrow. On trips from the homestea[...]homestead. Purchase of the Model T required that a they traveled horseback to school so they[...]ardin, Marjorie and Charles provided by gasoline, a handful of moth balls dropped attended grade[...]liam F. Rice and has resided there since, raising a[...]for a year and a half and was called into service in[...]December of 1941 as a Second Lieutenant. Shortly after[...]over the North Sea and spent two years in a German[...]returned to Hardin where he and Naomi bought a farm,[...]Angus cattle. Charles then took a job with the Big[...]President of the bank. He and Naomi live on a farm[...]DR. A. T. TAGGART Dr. A. T. Taggart came to Wyoming with his brother-in-law Mr. McShane who started the logging[...]cemetery. A fitting tribute to an old time country[...]living relatives to provide a fitting marker.[...]on the homestead, picnics were Taggart "A dear old time country doctor. When sent he[...] | |
| [...]husband first lived in a log cabin, then in a larger log[...]their only daughter, Lois Harriet, for a time in[...]ed Taylor, Dr. D. W. Carper Dr. A. T. Taggert[...]wo DAR chapters, and was the daughters of an Army Officer. After her father retired second regent of the[...]the Hardin Rebekah lodge and Nebraska, and opened a grocery store. One of her first a Past Noble Grand. memories, she says, is of sneaking a taste of brown Reno, Nevada was her la[...]first as a cowboy and then as foreman of the 77 ranch[...] | |
| [...]s as time would permit. He and filed on a homestead, next to the last one before the started as a bronc rider even if the broncs couldn't buck withdrawal of land for homesteading. him off, he couldn't win a dime so he went on to calf It was a hard experience, but, I had bet the $32.00 roping[...]at filing fees, I could win-with the help of a wonderful Wyola in about 1933. In team tying he f[...]It was a gratifying experience, in spite of hard As s[...]ven cows people in the Decker area, quite a number have passed and calves. Later he bought th[...]ure holds for the Decker Area. It has always been a[...]quarters of the Burlington depot, a rare vantage point[...]where he had been a telegrapher for ten years. A native[...]Omaha at the turn of the century, married a ebraska[...]and most amazing of all-a real, live Indian in blanket[...]aos. Years later we were to marvel at the station A painting of Jess Thomas made by Bernard Thomas, improvements, when fresh, gray paint gave way to a Jess's brother. The Sheridan, Wyoming rodeo used this picture fo[...]try and lived there three years. Then they bought a ranch just below Decker on Tongue River from Jimm[...]have two girls, Susanne and Sheryl. They live on a ranch near Sheridan, Wyoming. Mrs. Roger Nicholas[...]ilities" in Woman creek, February 1, 1932 feeding a "Hospit,l Edgemont. So. Dakota[...] | |
| [...](and no P.G. rating necessary.) I remember best a trees, grass and flowers planted and tended by v[...]World War I; at the Harriet Theater, and it made a you!" When we got to the chorus, th[...]ar itself, I guys in khaki would let out a whoop of 'Tuesday, SOO- recall a home talent military band playing for troop[...]dma Thompson train arrivals, at least one member a woman in smart, remarked tersely, 'Wel[...]erseas cap. again.' One November morning a pile of papers was tossed off G[...]she twelve, and eager to show off a smart, black straw hat alternated between fearing she would die and hoping with a wreath of daisies and grosgrain ribbons down the[...]he four back. My vanity was diverted for a time by an even daily passenger trains did little to alleviate her misery.) grander presence: a handsome young man was putting By way of variety, Dad and little sister had what an a special offering into the collection box in honor[...]Surely none present then has forgotten a certain lost loved ones.[...]was moving a number of gowned, hooded figures, the[...]leader placed a long envelope on the pulpit. Then, without a word, the ghostly company wheeled and[...]contained a contribution toward completing the Church[...]One day in the early 30's a local minister dropped[...]on Ladies Aid; some felt that the "Reverend" had a[...]"I trust that a bit of clean levity is not amiss." The It would require a book to recount my memories of dawn of a new era-or the end of the old. school days, among the happiest of my life and most A word more about my father, Ray Thompson. gainful, thanks to fine, dedicated teachers-a number After the war he was bookkeeper for Mr. Robert A. of whom are still going strong, and aren't we gl[...]whose friendly interest he became a member of St. Who of our time can forget the[...]nd squared off and flung such challenges as: 'Had a little was also active in Jasmine Chapte[...]de, cuz he had good sense!' Heady stuff, but only a during Carl Rankin's incumbency. He se[...]the Big Top for adult entertainment a number of relief programs, such as Crilket[...] | |
| [...]Thompson [Patagonia, Arizona] 20's, Dad operated a 'bee farm' -not profitable, but to Sam[...]te combs 1896, and lived in Big Horn County a great part of his of honey sold for 15 cents or 2[...]s, Montana and Marshall J. Ray Thompson was a man of many interests, of Absarokee,[...]1892 from It was still going strong up to 1930 as a fishing car. The Nebraska. They came here to wo[...]ummer of 1920, 'Tin Lizzie' carried the family on a trip Railroad grade which was being built from[...]eridan, Wyoming. That same year at Rapid City, in a wallow of mud. My mother wrote of they filed on a homestead on Young's Creek and started these then fairly uncommon experiences for the Hardin a ranch there. In 1896 Mr. Thompson sold the ranch Tribune; several of her poems were also published in a and purchased land on the Rosebud Creek fro[...]McCuistion. In 1903 or 1904 they moved to a ranch at[...]the head of Post Creek and ran sheep for a number of[...]a few years and later started a store where Decker was for a long period. He sold the store to R. W. Morris[...]this ranch for A. K. Creig, who was a banker in Sheridan. In 1927 he ran a horse roundup for Big Horn[...]for a period when travel was not the best. He used a 1923 Dodge, a motorcycle, and horseback. He had[...]officer). I feel my brother and I were very fortunate to Mama had one of the first electric ranges and a be able to attend the first eight grades[...]aire in her kitchen, if little else. Back in 1918 a as teacher and parent. Winnie Thompson taught a total Victrola with many Red Seal records was our[...]use to listen to the Kenneth Thompson is a well-known auctioneer in radio, taking turns with[...]gs, Montana where he lives with his family. K.D.K.A, Pittsburgh, we got Amos n' Andy and[...]erry, Dave Egnew, 'Domie' Domberger, to name only a few who RICHARD THROSS[...]ute home-t~e State of Washington as a very young man. His highlight of the trip[...] | |
| always said that he was one-fourth Cree. His brother formal education at the young age of fourteen, Ed Harry Throssel, already a clerk in the Crow Agency migrated to th[...]s John and Hans Torske, who had im- long Dick was a clerk, too-until his move to Billings in migrated a few years before his arrival, were in the 1910.[...]iness at Borup, Minnesota. So it He married a girl from Indiana, who had come to was there he received employment. He learned the Crow Agency to be a matron at the Indian boarding English[...]school. Her daughter Vera tells that when she was a College. Upon completion of formal cours[...]carry the little Throssels about. Dick had a hobby for photography, which soon turned into a profession. He began taking landscapes and scenes[...]t his work was very good, and, though not himself a professional photographer, could give some help f[...]Agency before moving to Billings, where he set up a professional studio that did a good business. He also developed other people's f[...]hrossel" en- velopes. In the 1920's, he was a representative from Yellowstone County to the Mon[...]g just arrived by plane in Helena to take part in a National Guard encampment, he died of a heart attack. He was fifty-four. Mrs. Throssel di[...]ghty-six. Throssel's Indian pictures are on a long-time loan at the Laramie Museum, where they[...]tral and eastern Montana. Having and friends, had a wide variety of interests as indicated a desire to become a land owner, Ed in the fall of 1906 in her summer[...]worked with Girl Scouts, and point for a surrey ride that was to take him and three studied home nursing. She had a remarkably sunny prospecting homesteaders as far south as Hardin. disposition and a sense of humor which delighted her[...]our miles west of Hardin. It was this She is a life member of the Montana Education la[...]ourage brothers John and Hans to this last she is a State Founder and a charter member of be a part of this new venture. Gamma Chapter. She also[...]was more than the family could take, so now live a very active retired life in Scottsburg, where[...]and erecting farm machinery much in demand as a WEST BENCH HOMESTEADER[...]nally the entire 160 acres was under cultivation. A Sundalen, Norway, the youngest child of Jo[...] | |
| [...]e (number and length of blasts) naturalization as a United States citizen at Billings, instruction to all of the next operation. Threshing was a Montana.[...]hreshing was complete on all the farms to take up a homestead some two miles southeast of the i[...]buds would rise as Ed Torske farm. Mr. Dyvig was a widower having two we think of all the[...]from Cylinder, Iowa, There would always be a few extra pieces of pie or cake they moved to Borup, Minnesota, area because a left over. We children would get th[...]th these extra goodies. newly constructed barn in a devastating storm that The family[...]tender care. the fourth couple to apply for a marriage license in the School was a must for all of Ed and Mary Torske's newly formed[...]Ed married a second time to Lucy Winn on[...]brought a team of horses, milk cows and the furniture[...]wagon. Mother and we children came by train about a[...] | |
| [...]rrived in air and see-sawed on the reins-this was a worry each Brandon, Minnesota June 4, 1900 w[...]the woods as a lumberjack.[...]school as a carpenter: an A-1 carpenter, as a man[...]Sivert for a time. I remember Dad talking about the[...]got our first car and in December of child, a son, Sterling Torske, who also met and married that year our Mother passed away. Dad died in 1963 at a girl from Osnabrock, North Dakota, Edith Evanson,[...]ta who married We have seen Hardin grow from a hitching post Jerry Butkay and lives on th[...]disaster struck them with a fire destroying their home, By Sterling Torske started by a cigarette from a hired hand, who became so Sivert Torske was[...]hey had dalin, Norway to Marit and Jorgen Torske, a family of just butchered and had the basement[...]n being prepared for smoking, so all the His brother settled in Canada and today his family h[...]ves in Inwood, Manitoba, Canada. happened on a Sunday while they were visiting friends.[...] | |
| [...]principal with 5 percent interest; throw in a 2 percent homestead, the present home of Neita and Jerry loss clause and still have a good deal for himself, even if Butkay, and moved[...]1957 which involved a deal with Armour & Co., for the[...]livered to Billings at the rate of 740 head twice a week. The price was $19.75 per hundred-weight for a Sivert Torske and his prize rooster total package of nearly $1,500,000. A cheering feature[...]ham. children and friends. Their son Sterling has a flower The Antler stood apart from othe[...]a. tradition in running a straight steer outfit. He bought[...]usiness. The two worked hand in hand. Loyalty was a main factor that kept the gears working on his ra[...]itself used by his father in 1884. He was a man living at the right time and at the right pla[...]right or leased. By the second war, he had a sound nucleus of some 50,000 acres of deeded land[...]om which he controlled his empire of roughly half a million acres at its peak. in 1959 he sold half o[...]land. Livestock, as Matt put it, was just a means of cashing in on grass. He considered himse[...]ng the range, Antler irrigated land could take on a partner's steers for 50 cents per head produced 6,000 tons of hay a year. Hay crews were per month; provide al[...] | |
| [...]s sold after his son's death, they Custer in a wagon. have found many obstacles. For one thin[...]of Tschirgi was changed in Switzerland from A. L. Mitchell, M. M. Brooks, and G. F. Burla for where a General Tschirgorian (the original name being[...]Creek. government of Russia. From Canton of St. Gall, a Tschirgi migrated from the Monasterial town, after acquiring a knowledge of brewing. His trails ended in Dubuque, Iowa where he established a brewery, the first in the State of Iowa. Of th[...], was born on Pass Creek, his head could fit in a teacup they say. Reared in the western tradition, Matt was not a stranger to hard work. H~ was a self-educated man, a reader of the classics. His favorite was "Ivanh[...]and wagons until 1951. The outfit travelled with a cavy of 120 horses. The roundup wagon filled wi[...]rkansas. Their father came to Hardin and leased a ranch from Charlie Bair. Known as '•Bert·•[...]live with him. Mr. Van Cleve bought a log house, tore it[...]they could move their household furnishings on a sled. By Joyce Rogers as told by Mrs. Guy Van C[...]They had a cream separator, which was valuable to Guy[...]883 in Terre them, since cream checks were a main source of income. Haute, Indiana, the son o[...]1917 Guy Van Cleve married Mary Cleve. He had one brother Ray, and two sisters, Clara[...]Gilliland. They went through Yellowstone Park in a and Gretchen.[...]s, Montana where he across the river in a boat. Part of that summer was worked for the Robinson Sheep Outfit for a few months. spent in a tent until they moved a house off one In 1906 he filed on a 142.73 acre homestead located homestead. and[...]pany. In 1944 he bought 3,600 acres of Cleve took a contract to build a mile of irrigation canal dry land pasture tha[...]died ovember one month . They were paid ten cents a yard. They had a 1, 1958. He is survived by his wife,[...] | |
| [...]Selma C. Nelson, whose father had a neighboring farm. In 1909, Piet and Marie V[...]n County with Robert A. Vickers his parents in 1919. For a while he farmed with his father, then tried his hand at being a cowhand. He Robert wanted to get m[...]as twenty-one. the Tschirgi ranch of Wyola. After a few years of being Being a good and obedient son, he waited till after his c[...]therine was born July 16, 1911 at Richardson .D., a father, John elson left ebraska for Montana[...]. weather was bitter cold, with a lot of snow. When they Lambert and Katherine[...]he train at Whitehall, they were met by Robert in a at Wyola, Montana. They farmed in the Hardin area[...]for their feet, and fur rugs for and later bought a farm 18 miles south of Hardin. They covering[...]Robert was a printer by trade, and he worked on[...]the Alder-Gulch Times, and made a home for his wife LIFE OF[...]Virginia City. By 1907 the ROBERT A. VICKERS couple had si[...]s time, the Government was opening up Robert A. Vickers was born in Virginia City, lan[...]o take Borrell Vickers. The elder Mr. Vickers was a merchant up a home tead. Mr. Vickers decided to keep working in[...]on the newspaper just long enough to get a start in Vigilantes, who a few years earlier had taken the law in farming[...]to take matters into their own hands. There were a would plan to join his family, but there was alway a number of hangings after these citizens took over[...]He At the age of nineteen, young Robert took a trip to commuted back and forth, visiting his[...]sit some cousins prior to his leaving for once a month. (In those day , new paper people go[...] | |
| [...]en, all but one of whom are still living : Robert A. After some discussion, it was noted that there was of Westport, Washington, Ellen Rowland Rousseau, a newspaper at Hardin which might be for sale. So[...]ned by Harry DeTunq. He was desirous of taking in a partner, and Mr. Vickers bought one-half interest[...]nine the family moved to Spokane, There was a lot of excitement that day as the Washing[...]rawford Ave. the present We were living in a tent, on the Wagner home of Miss Dolores Guenther[...]seven children August 7, 1909. My Dad, brother Roy and myself tumbled out of the wagon. It happe[...]e tent from blowing away, in the band was playing a concert on Main St. , and the boys of process Dad's back was hammered black and blue from the family made a running bee-line to Main Street to the hail, it took weeks to heal. A two story building, watch the band play. Their fa[...]about irrigating, I was a dry land farmer; that was just[...]were in abundance. Mr. and Mrs . Robert A. Vickers celebrate their fiftieth | |
| [...]ing. W e t hreshed with an Indian crew. Everytime a jack- rabbit was chased up from the bundles all t[...]n the west bench fording t he river each way with a team of six horses. Charlie Worley, Lawrence[...]I bought my first car in September 1920, a Model[...]Shortly after I joined, my uncle and I took a load of[...]horses shod a snoose salesman came in and gave us a can of snoose. I had a bad cold and my uncle, who was[...]always full of the devil said, "take a good big chew that[...]had during this time was a flour mill, this was located[...]I have two daughters, Mrs. A. Dwain Reed and Howard and B eulah Wagner's we[...]"See what I traded for last night." He handed me a .44 colt gun and not knowing it was cocked I took[...]buck. I I was born in Ekalaka, Montana, a daughter of Mr. held the reins in my left hand an[...]Haverfield. I took the school teaching had met at a dance two years before. job[...]pring fast before we would go home. This would be a family we moved to farm the Bowman place an[...]Car- dance. We lived near the railroad tracks in a brick and per's mother passed away. We farmed[...]r living in San Diego, California. Beulah spotted a snake all stretched out on the rocks[...] | |
| [...]ert's folks used to own the Foster Hall, they had a Livingston. I also had Eunice Campbell and three store and a Post Office. Her folks lived down near the James[...]ed across the road, me that at one time there was a school on the old Dr. Alvin Kurtz now liv[...]community entertainment and charity. I remember a[...]we gave a dance and raised $500.00. At that time we[...]rward to the fun as much as the grown-ups. Mr. H. A.[...]way to Custer. A car would start up the hill and make it[...]start pushing. It had to be a pretty good old car to[...]e hub all the way out. He couldn't make it out in a[...]me across from the Carper place, sitting seen a lot of changes in the North Valley. I was on the in the corner was a store known as Carperville. The mail farm when the drain ditches went in and the R.E.A. was came from Hardin and was distributed there and went put in. My children studied by a kerosene lamp and on to Custer twice a week. The second Mr. Carper had rode two m[...]d then it was abandoned. In front of my place was a except Nine Mile and a new two-teacher Community bunch of mail boxes abo[...]tuation was worse in the summer and I had to fill a before she got the mail to our place ;ind my kitc[...]ove the route for neighbors got together as a community project and twenty-five years and the Community gave her a filled each others' ice house[...] | |
| [...]of wood. Also in the It was always a problem getting the children to spring neighbors[...]Ford which looked ready to fall apart. He carried a Stella Laura, Lottie, Lawrence, Floyd, Harry and Evin. hammer with which he leaned over every once in a while They lived in a large log house one mile north of the and gave the wheel a tap to keep it on. He took us down present Hardi[...]the river about six miles; he had brought a gun along, The first school she attended in Hardin was in a and after shooting it three times a man appeared on the building where the present D[...]and Clarence opposite shore, came over in a boat and took us across Belue have their offices[...]the river. We learned that this was sort of a crossing grades including the eighth. Catholic a[...]by the cattlemen and real estate men ; there was a L,ongregational Church services were also held h[...]the to greenhorns like us. Milt Brooks and A. L. Mitchell Hardin Cemetery and the children wa[...]sold most of the real estate. there for a few years. This building is now a barn on the We were still seven or eight[...]and afoot. A cowpuncher rode up, saw we were lost, and[...]that was ride my horse-it's only been ridden a few times and located where the present primary[...]ery well". I thought that that rode to school in a covered wagon pulled by a team of beat walking so I climbed on, and t[...]driving the bus. She recalls it being heated with a return in my flouncy dress and funny hat, all i[...]the school. couldn't buck me off. Fred walked a long, hot way that She lived in Meeteetsee,[...]d moved to Hardin from and fertile; a small house had been built sometime Anselmo, Neb[...]plowed 500 acres and planted wheat. E. Warren and brother Richard in 1909. They had a In January, 1913, we left Belgrad[...]with ranch just north of Hardin. W. E. Warren was a well all our belongings in what they cal[...]until his death in 1947, and car-sort of a box car. We had three horses, a cow, Richard was a Hardin businessman, too. chickens, furniture, and a new Altman-Taylor tractor- When they were f[...]ust being put on the market. It was very lived in a one room log cabin out by Pine Ridge. It had a large and heavy, and had various plows, drills[...]et thick enough to hold up In 1918 they had a home built on the Fort Custer that enormous[...]firmly expected all of it to be in Harvey Warren, a grandson, lives there now. They had the b[...]Bonnie (now Bonnie no road so we fixed a makeshift one. We almost Beary), Jack (die[...] | |
| society, or sometimes a party. In summer there were worked for them that caused us trouble. We were a lot picnics in the groves. We found the people[...]Gus Dietsche, and us. Later Charles Miller, his brother, country, plowed up the good grass and planted[...]with us died when she calved), and one day a cowboy day, play cards, have parties, and go with to dances at threw a rope at her and put out her eye! They wanted to[...]feed so our cattle starved and froze for want of a the railroad bridge, pick up mail for all the n[...]er of 1919 Fred Waterman and The next year a ferry was built about opposite the Charles Miller went to the new County Com- Wort place and Jim Gear, a real frontiersman, was missioners- Her[...]could run only during high water and to have a road built along the ridge. The Commissioners a road had to be built along the hills to get to it. To decided it would be cheaper to build a bridge, and in signal the ferry-man that one wanted to cross, a gun 1921 we had a bridge, called Nine Mile bridge. More was fired. One night a fellow came to cross on the ferry; people came[...]m, and didn't Holmes, and Wights. We soon had a voting precinct at come out. Next time he shot t[...]ur house. On July 19 we had started to cut wheat, a came out flying. A small settlement formed around the cloud came up and in twenty minutes 500 acres lay in a ferry: Roy Barnards, Art Reno, Roy Reed, Robers,[...]d the hills Dewey Riddle, our first sheriff, had a cabin; sheds where the threshing crew slept. One night Tony Perry Hoshaw had a cabin beside one of the few springs Rober, w[...]bed out three times, we had, and Bill Roach had a place. and a rattler was under it each time. Finally, he put it We had a covey of sagehens who followed the plow on t[...]ou. shocking grain, and under each shock was a rattler! He One day a fellow from town shot them all, and left them[...]on went the way One day our daughter and a neighbor child were of the buffalo. We fished an[...]e when one sturgeon, and ling. We also installed a large pump in screamed "A snake, a snake!" - one was coiled right the river and had[...]ld dog bounded out, grabbed the considered quite a feat. With 500 feet of pipe we snake an[...]bitten in three watered the garden and even had a sink. places on his jaws and[...]t permanganate of The Spear Cattle Co. shipped in a trainload of Mexican potassium (in solution[...]ate came back and I shot it with the 20 gauge not a one was left- they lay in the coulees like cord-[...]pposed to be hay was others. This dog was a cross of white bulldog and shipped in from the Dakotas at a high price, and though coyote hound ; he and his brother ranged far afield in the cattle were starving, th[...]still bottom of the bluffs. Some big outfit lost a lot of their ran coyotes (and caught them). I[...]k; he drove their little wagons down below us, in a sort of got tick fever and almost died-the[...]ks valley where the floor was level, and salvaged a lot of on the sagebrush. He was in town at t[...]ns passed our house for several days his brother, Clifford, tried to ford the river on a horse, and made camp a few miles below us, staying until the and[...]. They had been fat cattle, were quick with a load of wheat; the ice was rotten and he fell fro[...]as ran lots of cattle in the fell thru with a load of hay, but were able to pull ours hills bey[...]h herds into our field , ate up our For a side-line I raised turkeys. I started with one co[...]e of our cattle, mixed them with hen and a gobbler and the last year I had 500. I shi[...] | |
| [...]day and back the OW, U-Cross (of which his brother John was each Monday until the depression of the[...]where Billings is sold our few cattle for $10-$20 a head, tore down our now located. Besides bei[...]into ranches, Mr. Weir also operated a butcher shop at Crow Hardin, where Fred opened a plumbing shop. Agency early in th[...]Weir was one of eleven children, four of whom at a box social where Ernest was teaching in 1917.[...]tern Illinois in 1967 at the age of 96. He was a great source of in- Macomb, passed the North Dak[...]unties in Illinois while assisting his father as a cattle and horse buyer for Eastern markets.[...]y to move his parents, Sam and Etta Weir, his brother, Webb, and to Montana to assist his parents. In t[...]ntana where Mrs. Weir's father Henrietta followed a year later, in August, 1919, and Albin Webb operated a Golden Rule Store. The Weirs they were married in[...]. worked at Mr. Webb's store a couple of years. In 1918 Ernest assisted hi[...]ead. From 1926-30, Ernest and Henrietta far· med a 640 acreage known as the Samuelson place. In 1930[...]ildren, Don, Dorothy, and Rachel attended school. A fourth child, Ernest, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Orrin Weir was born later in Hardin. Ernest was a Rawleigh Dealer, covering Big Horn County,[...] | |
| [...]n attractive offers, sold The Weirs operated a general merchandise store in his own home and gave up a life which would have the building, under the nam[...]borly kindness of commuting by bicycle to work in a truck garden. It was 0. Y. W. He truly lived[...]ule. "all work and no play" for the eldest son of a hard- Marie continued to teach until she retired in 1967; driving, ambitious father and a semi-invalid mother. with her help he was a[...]I started school in a country school and it was used as a church on Sundays at Hickory Grove, Missouri.[...]f Polk County and this was where Baby Face A part time branch store was operated by the Nelson fashioned a gun out of a potato, painted it black, Golden Rule at the Tsc[...]I graduated from Hardin High School in 1923 on a cowboys were handled.[...]oe Forsyth, helped Papa in the store during a critical Newell, who had a job with a survey crew working on period, and then wor[...]es. the Spear-Faddis were driving a bunch of cattle across In 1926 he went to E[...]hile he drowned. At this time there was a a dance hall for the continued as general manager o[...]them. Some of the old Indians like Whiteman ways a man on Main street in a growing Western town would get involved in[...]at Mr. Westergaard, school principal, always wore a management of the store. A disastrous fire , huge bowler hat. One day the wind blew it off and his toupee hospital bills and a general depression caused the loss went along with it. The kids had a lot of fun over it. of the business.[...]o. She was teaching in Hardin they had quite a celebration. They moved a barrel of High School at that time and as married[...]orked in the store, managed Big store under a canopy and set out a lot of tin cups. They Hom County women's work projects and the local put a bung in it and when the barrel ran dry, they would W.P.A. sewing room. She also did volunteer work for wheel out another. Mint Kelley , at that time a fellow the Red Cross and was a substitute teacher and later a around town and the Mayor, Mayor Mitchell, got a full-time teacher.[...] | |
| [...]yor up and down the of town and had a cow - he delivered milk to t he drug street on th[...]get carbonated water. We mixed it ourselves in a rocker once or twice, and an Indian woman got up[...]also worked at the soda fountain . that was a funny incident. The Koprivas, across the street had a m ercantile One of things that happened tha[...]ed by this Negro dad used to have a factory at Hardin, and .at-the time shoemaker at[...]barn across the boot-leggers and made a haul. Sometimes it wasn 't from the old depot and[...]random. I too bad. John Meeke was a deputy , and he went to drained a gallon of gasoline out of my automobile and[...]picked him up and since Sam was his brother, nothing came of it. and carried him to the fence; he was given to someone I have a wife, two daughters, one step-daughter, to care f[...]f; he and Andy and four grandsons , a granddaughter, and one great Dornberger had gone[...]to Dorney, and get him A MONTANA PIONEER back to Hardin where he was in bad shape for a long By Emma Timm Welt[...]I was born a t Beckton , Wyoming-eig ht miles I went to[...]an appetite. Germany as a stowaway on a ship. H e first came to Another thing that[...]re moving to Wyoming where he Crow Agency, we had a Negro shoe-shine man in homeste[...]Creek. My mother Hardin. Ira Smith, t he Chief of Police asked me if I came to Wyoming from Wisc[...]ld me t he Negro was holed up in the bought a team of mules, and came to Story, Wyoming paint s[...]children. This in• to Toluca where he could get a r ide on a freight and thus eluded two sets of twins. One set of twins died-a boy get out of town. H e said he 'd never come back to and a girl. Hardin. I met Fred Weltner while visiting a girl-friend near Getting ba ck to the early[...]ft for the army in 1917, and we were uncommon for a horse to sink clear down in the streets[...]horses to We had th ree children: a son, J ean Frank of get mired up to t heir knees. Mr. Youst had a side-board Sheridan, a daughter, Frances Jewel of Gillette, affair on hi[...]h the side of this could Wyoming, and a son who died in infancy. take group s out for a ride, and he did this at times. He We played for dances and had a dance at our home also took coffins to t he cemet[...]piano. M r. Astle bought an automobile, or a dray truck One Fourth of Jul[...] | |
| [...]must have been there for hundreds of boxing, and a dance that lasted all night. ye[...]found. We kids loved to hunt artifacts and it was a house. They had a tree with candles on it. Fred played favorite pastime for us. My Dad has a large collection of Santa, and while passing out[...]teacher them found at this location. grabbed a horse hide robe off the cot, covered Fred and My folks had built a large log house which was pushed him out the door. The horse hide smothered the used for a school house and for a community center. fire with only a few burns for Fred. The children never The dances that we used to have there were a "High knew what became of Santa or why he left in such a Time In The Old Place Tonight" for most[...]hurry. We all went ahead with the program and had a bors for 20 to 30 miles around. good ti[...]My father and mother played for a lot of the dances Once when on the way to a dance, a baby skunk with my dad playing the viol[...]d stopped the car and walked in the sax (a C melody saxophone) or chording on the the grass[...]e was piano or playing the drums. They were a pretty good so embarrassed but no one seemed to n[...]kept in glass jars and set in a box in the spring to keep We moved to Sheri[...]when you dared to peek under her. A few ducks and two Fred sawmilled and did threshing-working away or three pigs, a work team, two saddle horses and a from home, so the children and I were alone a lot. Our small herd of white-faced hereford[...]chop bought the old County Jail building and had a museum it out and bring the ice home. for[...]d beautiful. By evening it was just stubble, with a[...]ed and Emma Weltner, 13 West 8th St., onto a truck or a wagon with a canthook and chained Hardin, Montana and I have one brother, Jean F. down. The logs were hauled to[...]an city schools. We moved About once a week, my dad would haul a load of back to the homestead every summer when school was lumber to Sheridan, usually on a Saturday. We could go out and back to Sheridan in[...]ring vacation and picture of the week. What a treat this was. Johnny helped put our garden and[...]rings; this and trees. This usual1y ended in a skinned head. my grandparents, Oscar and Blanche[...]of water for miles. The summer and she is a marvelous cook. It was hot in the cowboys or ranc[...]erent neighbors used to come every other day a doll chest and another carved a shovel and a rake. I and haul three to eight barrels of water[...]bubbled up them from wood. Whittling was a pastime for them . out of the rocks, cold[...] | |
| [...]must have been there for hundreds of boxing, and a dance that lasted all night. ye[...]found. We kids loved to hunt artifacts and it was a house. They had a tree with candles on it. Fred played favorite pastime for us. My Dad has a large collection of Santa, and while passing out[...]teacher them found at this location. grabbed a horse hide robe off the cot, covered Fred and My folks had built a large log house which was pushed him out the door. The horse hide smothered the used for a school house and for a community center. fire with only a few burns for Fred. The children never The dances that we used to have there were a "High knew what became of Santa or why he left in such a Time In The Old Place Tonight" for most[...]hurry. We all went ahead with the program and had a bors for 20 to 30 miles around. good ti[...]My father and mother played for a lot of the dances Once when on the way to a dance, a baby skunk with my dad playing the viol[...]d stopped the car and walked in the sax (a C melody saxophone) or chording on the the grass[...]He was piano or playing the drums. They were a pretty good so embarrassed but no one seemed to n[...]kept in glass jars and set in a box in the spring to keep We moved to Sheri[...]when you dared to peek under her. A few ducks and two Fred sawmilled and did threshing-working away or three pigs, a work team, two saddle horses and a from home, so the children and I were alone a lot. Our small herd of white-faced hereford[...]chop bought the old County Jail building and had a museum it out and bring the ice home. for[...]d beautiful. By evening it was just stubble, with a[...]ed and Emma Weltner, 13 West 8th St., onto a truck or a wagon with a canthook and chained Hardin, Montana and I have one brother, Jean F. down. The logs were hauled to[...]an city schools. We moved About once a week, my dad would haul a load of back to the homestead every summer when school was lumber to Sheridan, usually on a Saturday. We could go out and back to Sheridan in[...]ring vacation and picture of the week. What a treat this was. Johnny helped put our garden and[...]rings; this and trees. This usually ended in a skinned head. my grandparents, Oscar and Blanche[...]of water for miles. The summer and she is a marvelous cook. It was hot in the cowboys or ranc[...]erent neighbors used to come every other day a doll chest and another carved a shovel and a rake. I and haul three to eight barrels of water[...]bubbled up them from wood. Whittling was a pastime for them . out of the rocks, cold[...] | |
| My folks built a rock house in 1908, which is still FLORENCE WESTWOOD standing; my brother, Lee E. Weltner, was born there [Mrs. A. G. Westwood] in August 1908.[...]I came to Lodge Grass the fall of 1930 as a first camp with a team and sled when he found Mr. and Mrs. g[...]to 40 degrees below zero, and stay that cold for a week or more at a time. I can remember hearing the folks tell of t[...]BILL WHALEN the latter part of May there was a blizzard for three By Mik[...]r-old cattle and many Bill Whalen was a roundup cook. I probably met sheep and birds.[...]When we had to go to Sheridan it was with a team during several summers when I was a cowboy for Frank and wagon; it took all day to g[...]old some of the sheep, but still ran about a mustache, and evidently a bachelor. On the job, he 2,000 head. wore a battered Stetson and a flour-sack apron. He had Some of the homest[...]Watenpaugh, wife and family-he taught school for a few years; and the Adsits, wife and family. Some[...]We never went to school more than seven months a term, and sometimes only four months, but in some[...]n Sheridan right the cook's tent at 3:00 a.m. About 3:30, he'd roar, "R-r- past our house- it seemed to take a long time for them r-oll out! And saddle up!" Breakfast was at 4:00 a.m., to pass. I was late for school, as the cattle[...]still dark in the tent. Each candle was held in a coil at Dad sold the last of the sheep in the fall of 1920. the top of an iron rod with a point at the other end so I married George A. Kimble April 14, 1925. We that it could be thrust into the ground. The men sat had a girl born December 31, 1925 on the same ranch[...]ranch. was just a regulation camp range with handles on the[...] | |
| [...]cook, making a sharp turn down into a ford, took his wagon over a cut bank and turned it upside down in the[...]and baked famous pies. He had a delicious, special[...]pudding, too, that he called "son-of-a-bitch-in-a-sack."[...]The dough, full of dried fruit, was put into a cloth sack that was tied to a stick and placed over a boiling[...]and outside the tent, some in a pose characteristic of[...]would chase him out with a meat cleaver. The crew that Bill served, as[...]im) Kobold ; Tom Davis; Albert and half-brother had come earlier with two other Thomas, and in 1913 his brother Frank; Bob Anderson, families from Fort Co[...]The night Mother and I arrived there was a terrible name); a cowboy called Minnie, from the southwest; electric storm. The depot was a box-car set out on the and several " reps" from o[...]rs across the railroad show up and finally became a regular hand. bridge. Sam Hill had left a light in his house so we knew These are by n[...]on the ranches furniture had been stored in a tent, and my brother or in the camps. When we moved to the west side,[...]howled close by. He was Bill had retired, we had a different crew, but with many thirteen, and ca[...]use, so we had pans all around to catch the drips a four-horse team. It was part of the cook's job, t[...]do their share on the farm . Mother and my brother both[...]Hardin so my brother went to Billings Polytechnic[...] | |
| [...]ck rabbit drives, and sleigh drug store at $12.50 a week. I had two years at Mon- parties. In 1[...]1924 to Hugh Wells, and One Goose Place for a couple of years. We then moved we lived in variou[...]into our first privately owned home. Ned sublet a mail Wheeler. I continued to manage the theatre u[...]enjoying living in Hardin. of driving a school bus. He's also been a summer time[...]h rider for the Bozeman Trail Ditch Co. He's been a[...]HERBERT A. WILLIAMS AND FAMILY[...]on a homestead approximately twenty-five miles north[...]River and is now owned by a Mrs. Margaret Wolfe of[...]and you can imagine what a welcome sight he was.[...]They had to cross the river on a log to get to the site,[...]r of the Big Hom Land and Irrigation and make a life and living in the country so new to Company[...]m- as wife and family. In 1919, and after a son John and munity in 1940 and have lived there[...]ed rural grade schools in the barrel to a farm on the west side of the Big Hom River County[...]d Mary. Everyone worked hard, had fun-sorrow - as a hired hand for farmers . Some winters he worked for tears-and sweat, but all survived with a broader $7 .50 a month.[...]Pauline worked on the family farm and later as a Herb was very active in all commu[...] | |
| [...]Stillwater Valley after his abandonment by a gang of Now-the year 1975-Herb is a guest at the Big deserters, who evi[...]al Nursing Home in Hardin and is like a sla ve, and abused him so tha t he was covered 91 years of age. Those of his family living are a son with bruises. The Crows befriended h[...]in great grandchildren. He has been and still is a GRAND 1884. He learned to speak Crow per[...]her. Mr. MacKenzie's letter says : " He served as a[...]h who had impressed him by and $65.00 a month. his daring, expert horsemanship. Smokey was breaking horses for the Cavalry when Scott, a recent West Point graduate, first went to Fort El[...]id that the first time he saw Smokey, the boy was a mile high on a bucking broncho that couldn't shake him. Scott made a trip to Billings in the fall of 1929 to see my fa[...]r boat. According t o my fa t her , he worked for a livery stable there for awhile.[...]worked as a kind of all-round handy man at the Agency .[...]"When C. A. Asbury became superintendent in[...]p to Hardin, Smokey took the team aero s the A letter to Beverly Wilson Big Man , Smokey 's[...]ked over. I can see him granddaugh ter , from eil A. MacKenzie, Realty Officer yet. I can see him also exercising Monty ( un Dream , (1971), tells of a 1924 affidavit in which Smokey says[...] | |
| [...]ly- trains arrive, stop, and pull on-a thrilling ex- achin'!" was as severe as he ever g[...]our little perience-one could never tell when a famous person sister, Rosalind, and would sometim[...]ng salesmen, well dressed and carrying at home on a dark winter morning was the tramp,[...]the grocery and caught the next train He was a member of the Crow police and served out. The salesmen often sa[...]Smokey and Lodge Grass. some Indians. A man had been killed in an accident,[...]ffee stick his head under the buggy hood, and say a few fiJled the house. friendly words[...]Hitching posts were a necessity, for team and Two years later, Smo[...]Dad, who people. How I liked going for a Sunday drive with my always hunted him up when in[...]My dad ran a livery stable and kept it neat and[...]clean with everything in place. He was a lover of horses. HELEN PEASE WOL[...]Grass, Montana to jumping from a building, and dislocating his hip as a I, Helen Pease Wolf, was born on Rotten Grass child. He was never taken to a doctor to have it set. He Creek in 1906. My pare[...]ked cabinet making and built wooden tenth child, a girl. My folks traded at that time at their cas[...]ith white canvas. country by team and wagon twice a year. It was a common sight to see chopped fingers, My dad[...]fingers gone from both hands. business and built a new Indian Trading Post close to My[...]rchandise for the stores had to be was a treat to ride to Hardin by way of the Two Leggin hauled from the Little Horn Station a distance of about bridge, stay overnight at[...]me. All outgoing mail for Lodge Grass was hung on a delivered merchandise to the business pla[...]rain and and carbide lights, this was a big improvement over the picked up by the officia[...]n't stop model T. except when flagged. In 1908 a depot was moved in My parents, brothers and I took a trip to North from another location and Lodge Gra[...]Dakota to visit my mother's people. It was a week's There were a number of depots and substations located[...]en't geared to go much over on the Burlington for a distance of about sixty miles. twenty mile[...]rn, Terry, Montana by boat and that was a thrilling ex- Lodge Grass, Ionia, GarryOwen, Crow[...]perience. It was on the way back my dad met with a Dunmore, Hardin and Toluca. Some of these[...] | |
| [...]to take place Jesse Wolfe filed on a homestead in the Sarpy soon after but the childr[...]. She still were their nearest neighbors for a year. harbored the feeling that the soldiers who[...]lly stayed with Grandma Dyck- Virginia. This was a drastic change and some of the man. The following year there was a school built on the children died away from home[...]d Harry Hite) and Lillian of college. I have been a life long member of the Crow MacLeod were[...]s of 1925. and Mormon Crickets. My husband, being a Billy died at the age[...]ied in 1943 in Richmond, California. Olga died in a month ranch jobs to make a down payment on the 1965 in Modesto,[...]he school houses in the Sarpy strength to walk up a ramp and into a truck to be area. hauled away. We killed our sheep and turned in a patch Grandpa Wolfe lived with Uncle[...]live at the turning of the 20th Century for I got a glimpse of what Dakota. our fore-fathers mu[...]me parentage, nine brothers and four children and a devoted husband. Life has been complete fo[...] | |
| [...]56 years. He was a life member of the Elks Lodge in Throughout[...]A brother, William Burks, and a sister and brother-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Will Cornwell, came to[...]a log cabin on the bank of the Big Horn Rive[...] | |
| [...]and her family Agency 's west edge in a small plat wit h large trees. crossed into Wyoming where they homesteaded on surrounded by a white picket fence. Pass Creek near the town of Slack, Wyoming. She Elizabeth Barstow was a fine pianist; bu t Mrs. made her home there for s[...]n miles south of Wyola, Montana. They main tained a home there until J. P. Boyd purchased the ranch a[...]Aid Society of the Wyola Baptist Church and the D.A .R. She was very interested in preserving hi[...]was born into an old-time New Jersey family , on a farm near Beverly, January 13,[...]verly High School and had worked for two years in a local drug store before his arrival in Crow Agency, 1900, to be a clerk for his uncle Although the Agency was over seventy miles bv in t he E. A. Richardson store. E rnest was seventeen train from anything that could be called a town, it was when he found himself in this exotic[...]e, and they found much to do. environment. He was a Westerner for t he rest of his life. Fishing a[...]derly Indian, Big church parties, even dances. A place called the Mac- Ox, whom I remember, attached himself voluntarily to cabbees Hall had a room big enough for dance . I was the store, spen[...]e out in back examining inside once, at a dance evidently organized by an the treasures dis[...]w who made his living arranging such he had found a hat decorated with artificial flowers. He fe[...]cond store there. In 1906 Erne t Ernest was a lover of music. His wife, Mary writes: went to[...]m do it, saying t hat the accomplishment Ohio. A graduate of Miami University, Ohio, she ha[...] | |
| [...]ethodist Church until her Mr. and Mrs. Chas. A. Wort, and daughters Helen death in 1967.[...]rdin. The girls drove back and forth to school in a horse and buggy to Hardin. Helen graduated from H[...]ension worker with the Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Wort, 1931 Indian Department[...]the valley, starting in 1917. At first she drove a team and spring wagon on which Mr. Wort had built a wooden, box-type cab, with a window in the back that[...]JOHN T. YOUNG could be opened in summer, and a removable front panel and window, with a slit for the reins , that helped Mr. Youn[...]In bad weather, or when Woodston, Kansas, a son of Mr. and Mrs. Samuel roads were only muddy[...]nths old. The family keenly anticipated for there a hot cup of tea was lived on a farm on Rock Creek flats near Joliet for a waiting. When roads improved she bought a car but for time, and then moved to[...] | |
| [...]rth, where the concrete silo now stands. This was a[...]threshing machine in this valley. It was a steam[...]the steam engine is in a museum in California. We also had a saw-mill and made lumber and railroad ties. A lot of this lumber was used to build[...]union was born a daughter, Lena, now Mrs. Unverzagt.[...]1943 I took a leave of absence from the City, enlisted in[...]te Operators by Governor Tim Babcock. He is union a son and two daughters were born. Mrs. Young[...]by the American Water Works Association. He is a life area on February 29, 1912, and settled on a farm on the member of the Montana Section of[...]settling basins for the water of Hardin - a technique Mr. Young moved to Hardin about 19[...]Placerville, Chadron, Nebraska. Later a younger brother, James, California.[...]ly . My mother died in Albert married a ebraska neighbor girl, Elsie 1908; we moved from[...]dan, where lived there for two years, then bought a ranch five miles Elsie still lives. They[...] | |
| [...]t Lodge Grass. He married Minnie McKinley and ran a store there. He also ran a store at Kirby about 1907 and 1908. They had thre[...]children to Montana. Some came by train, some in a car, and the remaining four, along with their father, came with team and wagon, 400 miles, a nice summer tour. Today Mary, LaRue, John, a[...], as did two sisters, Alice and Delphia, and one brother George E. Youst. Another brother, Claudius B. Youst died in 1967. The J[...]Sage Creek. Then in December of 1893 he drove a again packed their belongings in covered wagons[...]the Hutchinfeller widow, possibly a farm and ranch one half mile from the town of (later snowbound. Albert, now 17, loaded a covered wagon named) Belfry, Montana[...]ned wagon children; three girls and two boys, one a small baby, trains to New Mexico and also[...]eroic deeds and the Clarks Fork Valley. A son, Gordon July Youst was good Samaritan respons[...]nts among family and friends-likening A daughter Velda Belfry Youst, was the first[...] | |
| [...]and Albert became Ranch Foreman for John Tolhnan, a rancher in the Clarks Fork Valley. In the year 19[...]Montana, where he engaged in farming then started a *transfer business in 1910 and moved his family i[...], built two transfer wagons for him, according to Albert's specifications, Hardin Transfer (wagons) 1 & 2.[...]Albert's widow, Goldie, died January 21, 1970, in[...]H.) Miller of Boulder, Colorado; a grandson, Gary Brig Youst and his dra[...]Edwin Miller of Montreal, Quebec; a grandaughter,[...]sidence in Hardin, moving to the farm. Albert was a lover of the open range and not happy being a farmer, so the farm was leased and he returned t[...]d Woody Creeks were Albert "Brig" Youst was a man with a great heart being developed about 1923. an[...]y man, woman or child in need or distress. He had a great wealth of friends where ever he lived or tr[...]friends honestly and was trusted by them. He was a skilled horse breaker and wild horses were his "a[...]no chronic illness, just infirmities of old age. Albert's sunny disposition and joviality; the wonderful hi[...]eared him forever in the hearts of his family and a world of friends.[...] | |
| [...]ned in the operation of the flight school. It was a welder in the entire area. That same year I marri[...]mission to develop the Fairgrounds Air Park-a county[...]St. Louis hard brick that had been brought in on a river boat and the home-made brick from Fort Custer. In 1938 we moved about two miles east of town, bought a two acre tract from Floyd Warren, and built a two-story house. This meant that I was no longer[...]op and moved back to town. Altha I had built a glider in the early '30's, it was 1944 when my in[...]in 1946 received my commercial license. I started a flight school up on the hill where the water[...]Boles and I were partners for a time and then it became[...] | |
| [...]Bob Young deserves a lot of credit for saving the City[...]Manager. (The salary for this latter job is $1.00 a year.) Ursula Zelka outside Dr. Labbitt's hospital, where she Getting the high tension wires buried at the west | |
| [...]Sept ember 1890 Mr. A. A. Spencer succeeded Mr. Bond 1919 Lucy Batt[...]it he said " Its capacity is fifty. It is a model school on a 1923 Nellie V. Brown small scale. The building is really like a large cottage, 1925 Nellie V. Brown rather crowded by having a home like appearance. The 1927 Nellie V. B[...]ood shop work." For nine years 1931 Lillie A. MacLeod t he schoo[...]the Unitarian Association and 1933 Lillie A. MacLeod then t he[...]Agency where the government was operating a 1943 Charles R . Stobaugh[...]and if he could afford such help, he employed a teacher i 968 Altha F. Montgomery (Elected[...]ey from Painted Robe Creek in the 1880's-a day's journey[...]of the Uncomnaghre Utes, with my wife, to select a location for establishing a mission school for Indians. We came to Crow Agenc[...]s during summers, there was a school in the Dry Head[...] | |
| [...]dangerous for children in the winter. ship. A hat was passed before each event to pay entry[...]honor. It was a wild, wild night, full of rivalry, ex-[...]had pedestal bases and slatted backs with quite a I cannot say precisely when hot noon lunches[...]started at the Spring Creek School, but they were a positioned two of them, and called upon[...]nsidering him both dignified and dour. He mounted a as tables, so each could arrange things to suit h[...]THE NORTH BENCH I 1920-1922 story of part of it. A kerosene stove was the cook-stove[...]h crisp bacon was another it had a good playground with out-door toilets, barn, favorite. We could never get through a week without coal-house, pump, swings,[...]only, the latest word in jacketed coal stoves, a kerosene that, carrying the makings of chow mein[...]rgan, victrola, picture of lunch that day. It was a surprise present from their Washington, w[...]s. Kent everything thought to be needful. A supply of library sent, and enjoyed our Chinese d[...]we kept secret. I went (and listened to) a wide variety of books, _including into Hardin, an[...]n. to cover the neighborhood. On each one, I drew a large The people of orth Bench had not made their red heart, and typed, "Have a heart, and bring a few fortunes in that dry area, but they were a close knit dimes and nickels out with you.[...] | |
| [...]day, carrying water three-quarters of a mile from a spring, cooking my own meals, packing a lunch each[...]my aunt's home-a fifteen mile trip horseback each[...]wash my clothes, first heating water in a big iron pot[...]using a washboard. I would return to a cold log cabin, drag wood in- North Bench School[...]on the porch side to chop and start a fire in the sheepherder's stove.[...]se all my pencils. The pack rats stole the it was a little hard to plan a get-together until they were silverware and the[...]school I turned it upside down; out rolled a dead, planned a week ahead, but very often it was decided[...]ers. be held, and the caravan started out. It was a very flexible arrangement, but oh, homemade bread[...]ts and mashed potatoes and gravy! A SCHOOLMA'AM'S TALE | |
| me out. No one was in the house as usual. I left a note saying, "Why doesn 't someone stay home?" Later I heard a bachelor was looking for that girl who left him a note. This cured me of writing notes! But, I had to continue traveling and there would be a fog or some other accident of nature that would k[...]ies. At times we had to clean out the stove pipe- a job for the whole school. The big events at[...]m the County Superintendent and the County Health Officer, Dr. Russell. Accompanied by his wife,[...]the children. The patrons would come that day and a big picnic dinner was prepared. I did not ge[...]the fall until school ended in the spring. It was a hard cold winter as some will still remember and[...]larger than mine, until new shoes could come from a mail order house. One time my aunt and I rode to a dance at Shorty Caddell' s with our 'war bags' ti[...]of our horses. We changed to dresses and then got a ride home after the dance in a wagon. The key to the school house was in the poc[...]d I forgot it when we had changed clothes. It was a red-faced teacher that stopped at this bac[...] | |
| [...]the children. Some moved away. Iron Springs was a remote area in those days, with communication an[...]and wood chunks in the back yard. I had an ax and a hand saw, and got to work, so I got some fuel collected, and built a small fire, as it didn't take a big one for Jennie and me when we sat by the stov[...]Heat was supplied by a huge jacketed coal heater, By V[...]osene were kept in the coal house. efforts of J . A. Perry and J. S. Romine, who were Equipment was up-to-date-a good teacher's desk determined that their children should have a place to go and chair, individual seats and desks for the children, a to school. The building also served as a community large crockery water cooler and individual cups, a flag, center. School has not been held there for several years, a large picture of Washington, globe and large roller but it is still used as a voting place, and for special wall maps, a victrola, pencil sharpener, huge waste meetings.[...]Hills Note the screened out-door toilet for boys. A similar one modem. for girls is out of sight[...]the schools of yesteryear had their pliance with a state department ruling, as cross lighting b[...]ation for the Sorrel Horse School, so named after a kerosene lamps.[...] | |
| [...]eacher. In 1923 the building was moved north a few miles and served the Old Mission area which had been without a school since about 1897. By 1926 the Big Horn Val[...]lated ; the building was moved again-this time to a site about a mile and a half south of the Van Cleve ranch onto an acre of[...]ay White and Ella Mae Cline (Clenn). In 1929 a new school was built on this site ; the old building was used for a teacherage some of the time. Frank Mielke and his[...]he old equipment was moved into the new building. A well had been drilled and a fine new pump was installed.[...]out Dr. Russell was the County Health Officer who for a house-warming on Saturday night . What a good came to check the sanitation in the[...]r in this new building was Beulah job became a part of the many tasks that t he Hoffman (Crouch ) who was paid $120.00 a month, superintendents had when they[...]school. with the J runes Cech family more than a mile up the A barn was built to shelter t he several horses tha[...]sisted of building fires and banking time a loud noise was heard banging against the t hem in[...]flag each day . proceeds from a Halloween yard party and from a play, ellie Brown was County Superi[...] | |
| [...]ol, too. Between acts of hired; this was a blow to the students who admired and both perfor[...]al selections directed by their teacher. No a petition asking that he be retained; the entire s[...]underlying cause, made public years later, was a matter hand and on the other he wore a contraption that of church affiliati[...]wn and entertained us for high school had a banquet at the Hardin hotel. several minutes the[...]two completed and we had two rooms, plus a small room at hands!" It was a fine piano. The children and teachers the[...]Dunlap was added to the staff; that it still had a beautiful tone when the building and she tau[...]later. It had helped classes, and with a gym in the basement of the new part immeasureably[...]Dick Warren, another member of the In 1937 a two-room teacherage was added to the team, who was asleep in a Billings hotel. He succeeded, building. A few years later electricity became available[...]get to the schoolhouse was wired for lights. What a boon that Columbus, the game was cancelle[...]rickson, Luella Artz proved we were a four-year high school. (Paul), Kassie Ree Owens ([...]g who moved it to their ranch, remodeling it into a lovely home. The piano and old seats were sold to[...]music, and knowing that Marion couldn 't carry a tune, algebra and general science in his small of[...]boratory for experimen ts , so discordant note. A room was finished off in the we drew pictures of the changes made by sun or basement for a science laboratory, and all the physics chemicals[...]r equipment, under the direction of G. Wiley gave a play, and was so elated at its s uccess that we Brown.There was a room on the other side of the fur- took it[...] | |
| [...]block between Cody and Crawford A venues and Third[...]There was a slight smile if he had kept any youngster[...]quietly lend a hand to any individual who needed help-or, a word of encouragement.[...]made our first public appearance when we were in a parade that ended with the laying of the comer-st[...]aledictorian and salutatorian essays were read as a Montana, 1914 part of the program. The bo[...]e, of which Bill and Willard were members, struck a "funny" spot and The first school ho[...]ained to finished until almost Christmas. W. A. Ru sel of get their diplomas. Sheridan, Wyoming was the builder. A second room HOW TIMES HAVE CHA GED.[...]beginning, it was decided to have school six days a Hardin school building that stood in the center of the week, and try and finish the studies for a year.[...] | |
| [...]e Upper Little Horn school house was moved in for a gymnasium and community center as the population[...]n from the ranches nearby to Wyola. In 1957, a modern school building with several classrooms, lunchroom, and gymnasium was completed. Over a hundred pupils now attend the Wyola School.[...]ek School: Chester Crackenberger, Crow {a-~he.r ~nd '!>On ·trom an v,-,.;;~ned[...] | |
| [...]ca pupils and teacher Pine Ridge School: Mrs. A. Brown Teacher, Miss Pryor Ind[...] | |
| A ntler School, cement building used as a school[...]First School building, specifically built for a school at[...] | |
| [...]ft to right: Tam Dyvig, Stanley Ronald Bur/a; Front row: Miss Olive Cory Director, Kell[...] | |
| [...]vote. Everyone was busy at his job when we saw a top buggy I didn't see much of Hardin[...]loor, when some one came along and said "There is a McKinley, a rancher, who had a small ranch on movie up the street",[...]this is now part of the ranch owned came to a sheet iron building. We went in and took our by[...]e Hope). The other man was John seats on a rough pine two by twelve board laid on Boylan, who had a coal and ice business in Hardin; empty na[...]et from and all hands gathered around. They had a lot of cigars Safeway's present store. and se[...]Hardin, Matt cigars, then told us that they had a petition to form a Tschirgi and I reported to the Court House and[...]s. The name of the new county was butchering a steer belonging to Doc Spear branded to be Big Horn. open box A. This man went to the penitentiary for As[...]jury. Commissioners were Dan Sullivan of Kirby, A. H. Bowman of Hardin, and Herschler of Sarpy. I[...]Gus Thompson owned the farm about a mile south The first County Attorney, I am sure was a Mr. of Hardin where the large house and ba[...]oing to sweeten Elmer Savage, Guy Logan, and A. P. MacDonald. me up with an office. I am going t[...]January in 1913; the day was Person who did a lot of trapping each winter and clear and[...] | |
| [...]e Roy Petersons-their daughter, Mrs. Send a rider down from Heaven Alvin Torske lives on a farm south of Hardin; Noah Before it is t[...]U.S. Miller, Art Sweeney, Cattle Co. for a year before being purchased by the late Perry Young, Steve Tupper, A. L. Mitchell, the John B. Kendrick. Lucketts, Joe Olenik, A. E. Callahan, Bill Wilson, J. C. At the ag[...]r, H. 1879, he left with the outfit trailing a large herd of J. Helwich, Charles and eff Garriso[...]ent site of the 0. W. ranch on Hanging Woman been a Justice of the Peace in Hardin, Dr. Carper and creek in Montana. brother Dick, Guy Van Cleve, Ralph Peck, Dave King,[...]Ed Keuhn and his father, the Longacres, a bride in 1891, living there for twenty years. She[...]BIG HORN CANYON SEND DOWN A RIDER IRRIGATION[...]Sometime before 1912 the big dream of a small There is an old cowpuncher[...]of Hardin and the Big Horn valley was of a big dam to Waiting by the pasture gate[...]west side of the river, electric power for a spur railroad Send down a rider from Heaven Before it is too late[...]Anton Becker, vice-president, Edward He has spent a life-time tending Lawlor, secretary•treasurer, and A. W. F. Koch chief To this or that old cow,[...]ountry at that time, was the consulting He' s got a real sharp eye, en[...]any was incorporated and shares in So hurry! Send a rider[...] | |
| [...]here was very little amusement, only what we with a 1300 foot span; the present Yellowtail dam is 525 created ourselves. When there was a public horse sale at feet high and has a span of 1450 feet, and is about 300 the For[...]Deer Lodge to the States into World War I caused a postponement of the Bitter Roots. launch[...]o get over the loneliness and to Yellowtail, Mrs. A. W. F. Koch, the only survivor of get fa[...]The soldiers found out he had gone to bring back a surveys in the six weeks they took if they had no[...]his been the chief witness-and could not come for a bride arrived about sun down. The s[...]formed we could one-hundredth year in a little log cabin near Fromberg, not remain in the Garrison. We were at a loss to know Montana. what to do. However, we made our lonely camp on the There was a lot of travel in Montana even in those banks of t[...]o us, but told us it was breaking had a neighbor, John. Ramsey, who lived a short military rules to let us stay at the Fort.[...]e lonely hills and Billings. Mr. Ramsey ran a dairy and delivered milk to the tall cottonwood t[...]e lived here for four allowed to wear the officer's discarded uniforms. They years, when an order c[...]were very proud of the distinction of being a govern- the Crow Reservation, then we moved to Co[...]nsas, but we never saw our old home again. We ran a there was a band of Indians who were not Crows. We stage stat[...]the stage driver and did not dare to light a lamp. They were galloping the passengers had thei[...]shooting. their horses there. We occasionally had a dance as we We crawled under the bed for[...]ts we could see buffalo rush back at a gallop just like they would go right playing seve[...]h the horses. They carried on this There was a general store in Fort Custer run by a way all night until four in the mo[...] | |
| [...]ch of it came down to the lower hills and valley a nightmare to me.[...]either in cattle or the mining industry. A number did only a hewed log floor to dance on. We always had good[...]s by pack outfits our place. But we could not buy a board to make our provided by profession[...]trips. There were all kinds of game birds it up. A sight that was usually interesting was the[...]k in the fall to get our the Fort. One summer day a number of cattle were winters supply[...]f the river to hold the cattle back. days in a tent. We had plenty of fresh meat and He finally[...]d. We when he got in the water and he backed into a deep hole brought a lot of fresh meat home with us which we and both[...]ge the names had fallen off. The following summer a new[...]hem that unloaded at Fort Custer. The next winter a huge sled[...]o'clock in a blinding snow storm. The men then turned could only take 1/4 of it at a time and it took eight yoke[...]e would see great herds of buffalo. heard a noise outside. I went out to see what it could Th[...]me. I said "Why don't you get off and come A report was circulated one day that a large band into the house?" He did not answer[...]everal times with no answer. I finally stepped up a camped during the Custer battle. The general sent[...]ied to pull him off, but couldn't. I went and got a returned with the word they were there. Orders we[...]off and dragged him up to the house. There was a high ambulance would come to get them and take them into step at the door and I had a hard time getting him over the Post for safety. W[...]p by the fireplace. His Post for ten days. It was a dreary place, but a much overshoes and woolen German socks we[...]e were. The commanding feet. I took a knife and cut them off. His clothing was officers[...]. o one knew where they speak. I made a bed for him right by the fire place, but went. Th[...]soon saw that would not do, so I went out and got a everywhere for miles, but could not locate any of[...]Suddenly I manding officers would not let us go. A man came by thought of the idea of givin[...]re and went to the bunk house and found a bottle. I hurried said there was an Indian camp f[...]is frightened us considerable. When we a little. I worked with him all day, and when the m[...]pt him at our place for about two months. haying. A little ten year old girl stayed with me at[...] | |
| [...]e Fort and have all the wood we could use. We had a huge fireplace some of it was brought up the r[...]h gave us both heat and light. If anyone ever got a Josephine. After the Northern Pacific R.R. was[...]to the Fort by a large freight outfit called the Diamond It w[...], which mostly used ox teams for the hauling. had a small cook stove and a large fireplace and a stone There was a government garden across the river hearth with su[...]only, but veniences whatever. our house stood in a large grove of the gardeners saw that we had l[...]nd we had hundreds of cords of In 1884 a report was circulated that a small band of government wood piled around. Our fireplace took a Bannock Indians were seen and as soon as possible a four foot stick. We never got to bed until about[...]place each day, one to dians, had quite a battle, all the Indians escaped except Coulson, o[...]nd ran toward the river They ate breakfast at six a.m. and supper at seven p.m. and jumped off the[...]hem jump in the river. The river was dragged with a Commissary every three months, we were not allowe[...]through so many hands to get Benton. It was a very hard drive and bad roads and no ok'd. We had a large bunk house for the wood choppers conve[...]r cabin to visit and Benton the stage hauled a ~ t deal of valuable cargo. enjoyed staying for d[...]to get drivers for the road as robbers but it was a change from the food served at the fort. had[...]wo young men by the name of Hughes and Leunrs who officer's wives use to come to our cabin, too. My were not afraid of the robbers, though they did have brother would play the violin and we used to dance on[...]and send someone Hazel Christiansen who was a personal friend of Mrs. for it.[...]We had no place to put our money. There was a it. small bank in the Fort, but we could[...]money in boxes and bags. We decided we would have a bank of our own. The requirements were each one must furnish his own TO MO TA A' PIONEER containers in the form of tin cans with[...]tes, hewed pine logs, we could raise the log with a crow bar. A host of sturdy pioneers have entered through her[...]e to them Montana in which to live and was to put a light in the window. But I never did this. die, But many a night I did not sleep a wink and some of With her bea[...] | |
| A grander, better people, never yet have graced thi[...]think of the early days of Hardin four We of a younger generation, can't realize their things stand right out in my mind, a lot of mighty fine worth.[...]increased by leaps and bounds. I was holding down a wrought[...]heavy in those days, How one time they "ketched" a horse thief, and hung the road was full of trains and many days it took over him to a tree,[...]back under some very trying conditions over a period with snow;[...]and schools, and churches, and They were a great help to me, the only trouble the waving fie[...]railroad officials would only use them a few months at a Their work and perseverance brought about this[...]a telegraph office maintained just east of the Big[...]e west! We point to them with time had been a station and there was a small depot pride[...]Custer as telegraph At their homes you found a welcome-the lat- operator for train or[...]Hardin was made a station. I had my office in a small And no matter what the task was, a helping hand shack at the east end of[...]it never got too hot or cold for them to help "a through Big Horn bridge and moved to the ne[...], with their depot was set upon a new fill made mostly of gumbo ever-changing moods[...]and when it rained it was a sea of gumbo around the Love to listen to th[...]warm chinook winds that melt the winter was a mess. When the passenger train arrived from the s[...]east they had a five-hundred pound barrel of red paint And b[...]where no done and the barrel sank about a foot in the mud and "Pale Face's" gun resounds,[...]left alone with Crow Agency for several days at a time until I could God;[...]g it over to us. I If I could keep on writing for a hundred million years, would look after the m[...]'s Pioneers. times the mail would come over on a fast freight that[...] | |
| [...]omestead and would have mail along the track for a full block. It was brought my pony to the depot[...]r crane just over to us. The delay about getting a post office was on east of the depot, and I then went to my bathroom for a account of the name for the new office. The firs[...]ana. That name did not suit the people at all and a along at Hardin for a couple of hours. But horrors ; just demand was m[...]stle that the train did not know, was named after a prominent Wyoming intend to sto[...]was my "pal" and a good tough Indian pony, but no The honor of being Hardin's first official host to a match for that iron horse that was bearing down upon mighty timid guest went to Carl Rankin. He had a her. I dashed out of the freight house[...]ars, all I had on Eder's store now stands. It was a small building and was a towel and birthday clothes. I saved my pony by a stood by its lonesome on the Great Hardin townsite of few feet. As I returned to the depot a wagon load of which Carl was the Agent. About the[...]thirty p.m. and to our suprise came to using a towel instead of a blanket. The unlooked for a stop at the station. In the early days of Hardin trains train was a soldier special that had come on the road #41 and #42 not only did not make a regular stop at rather sudden. When I nex[...]mentioned when #41 stopped the conductor assisted a station agent's uniform that I was wearing when they lady to alight and she had a small baby in her arms. The passed through Har[...]e to the lady was Mrs. S. D. Slaughter. S. D. had a homestead homestead that afternoon I had l[...]and I wondered just why one who had worked on a at the train. The mail then could not be depended[...]mind would tie his horse on the main line of a railroad? I available to take Mrs. Slaughter to the homestead and never used it for a hitching post thereafter. she was rather startled[...]lever. His wit was original and he furnished many a vacated for the night his elaborate office and sl[...]will always remember her first night spent on a wet and dry problem all of his own. His weakness[...]his likeness for liquid refreshments that had a kick in[...]ad their shoes off warming their feet when all of a sudden out of the storm came a through freight from[...]the wreckage clear of the track. He did a good job a he First station agent was J. S. Tupper, who moue[...]always a disgrace to an old time foreman like Jack to let[...]his hand car be hit by a train, but much more so while One Sunday afternoon I put on a fast one act show he was toasting his shins[...]ers in Hardin failed to see. could get a new hand car and keep from getting fired. Bathrooms were then unknown in Hardin. A good big By the necessary arrangements by a charitable Road[...] | |
| Master at Sheridan, Wyoming, and a lapse of memory Big Lake made the reply,[...]k so of the train crew and others, Jack was given a new hand fast that it made Daylight and himse[...]em.'' All old timers will well remember old John "A Happy Irishman''.[...]the old Indian with only one good eye. Now-a-days when electric refrigeration is so W[...]of water. After the Hardin station was times a day the same question, "How soon Hardin all open[...]ut my station use was hauled from Crow Agency in a cast off importance as Agent. He seemed to t[...]over all the Crow Indians. Old John sure was a card. He countless barrels of the Crow Agency water away. took a liking to me and used me as his banker and There[...]w hot it was on the gumbo townsite. only in a small wooden drawer. I simply could not carry Th[...]d, the spots around the depot and never lost a cent. It would Division Supt. from Sheridan, Wyo, E. P. Bracken, have been a different story if there had been a fire at came along over the line and jumped me ab[...]ut to the homestead. water complaints and wanted a showdown about the I sure gave old[...]ed requests to conserve four p.m. and gave me a nice roll of money to keep for same. Mr. Bracken was a mighty fine man and a real him. Soon after he left the depot I got a message from a railroad man. I then told him I had been giving t[...]w urgent the Billings with him and attend a good road show, that need was and that the Burlington expected a town to be was to be in Billings that evenin[...]hirty p.m., would not stop but railroad by giving a " cup of cold water" to the pioneers slow up so[...]er, but I coaxed certain train crews to throw off a came along. He saw me lock up the station in a hurry good supply of ice from the ice boxes of re[...]ough Hardin . pened". Old John nearly had a fit. He could not find When I explained the true[...]en, he out as to why I had left town in such a hurry. No one in smiled and said he hoped cold we[...]and ice demand would not be so great. in a long night awaiting my return. I returned at six After that heart to heart talk with Mr. Bracken, a.m. the next morning and made John happy by Burlin[...]cted many of the nation's at the Hardin Hotel for a short time. floating popula[...]were the drug habit victims. They would float had a good laugh from watching two old time Crow[...]gs plasterers were sure making things fly. All of a to watch close to see that they did not steal s[...]hotel and went out in the hot sun and sat down on a pile sufferings were pitiful to witness. I gav[...]so to get rid of them and arranged with a train crew to asked them why leave the coolspot for a real hot spot. take them to the next[...] | |
| sells the drugs is the one that should be taken for a ride stall at the 0. K. Livery barn. Just before the storm instead of the poor fellow that is a victim of the drug broke, Old Roaney brok[...]barn that night, some seven with us. Eloise was a small baby in arms at that time. or eight[...]hat I coming up and it did not look at all good. A freight never had before or since. I wa[...]as coming up fast against me as Agent. A horse buyer came to Hardin and I knew the train[...]stock men and said he desired to ship a car load of horses from would stay in the way ca[...]er. I had locked up the depot for the night using a have to have brand inspection and took h[...]and give me the certificate when place in case of a severe wind storm, as I well knew that he r[...]horses to be loaded. This just west of the Center A venue railroad crossing. I took train did n[...]for the car of horses to the conductor on a hoop as the stairs and by the time we reached the[...]fury and any old timer gone an hour and a half the Deputy Sheriff came to the that was in H[...]f the station. I had brand inspection. In a couple of weeks a warrant was trouble unlocking the switch lock on[...]of the Burlington at Just west of the depot stood a small coal house with a Omaha that he thought best to not resist[...]with the Burlington officials surprise and horror a long string of box cars were and they[...]track at Express train Billings attorney a long message giving my record on speed being move[...]was always thankful to the carpenters of a serious throat trouble I had not been working on[...]no avail. I Spencer building was blown flat just a block from the knew that 1 was slipping[...]me in a weaker condition and uni s a change took place The old timers will remember that there was a wise it would not be long before I would cr[...]rm. He divide. In this condition 1 made a trip to Sheridan was J. W. Johnston's old Hoss "R[...]legraph job at Fort Custer. one of the other knew a bad storm was coming up. He was tied in a rear railroad men wanted that pla[...] | |
| [...]llings and bought the lumber for my gave us a fine party that night and some gifts that were h[...]ley. Quite Guy Logan, Milt Lyons and others. a number of the homesteaders were already on their[...]t and ready for me to occupy and she had a heart in her as big as a box car. Mary same by May 15th. After making the[...]n was mighty good to me. I want to also say made a trip to ebraska to see my parents. I was quite[...]n they dition. I had been at the home place only a few days first saw me at my homestead that[...]ack just south of the first depot in met up with a pal who was willing to help me out. His Hard[...]slept in same The Spencer second store was a "work of art". He used the night of May 15, 1907[...]s on the reasons. It was at Hardin that I staged a come back as outside and saw-dust in between.[...]t our first in the store it most always took a nose dive for one of house in Hardin and our dau[...]Spencer store . The saw dust store We made a lot of fine friendships in Hardin. The was replaced by a two story concrete block store. The Hardin peopl[...]ife when she third Spencer store was made a total wreck by the came to town as a bride. When I married my wife, her cyclone[...]from Wenatchee money panic and that was a hard blow to a new town to Hardin my wife asked many questions a[...]t Hardin. Said it PIONEER DOCTOR AND HEALTH OFFICER looked desolate. I took her down the valley to the DR. W. A. RUSSELL homestead, "more tears " . Said the home[...]fe is [Note: The following excerpts are from a paper given no clifferent from other people, when once you live in February 9th, 1975 at a meeting of the Big Hom Montana you learn to love[...]cried The major period of Dad's work as a health officer because it was desolate. When we moved from Hardi[...], our first in Hardin. We tried to side Health Officer to the rural schools he was "horrified" at track[...]Born in Michigan in 1872, Dad had grown up on a search of us put up ladders and came into the rooms farm, taught school, graduated from a medical college[...] | |
| [...]water where it is possible to get it, and health officer in Ludington, Michigan before coming to 8[...]drug In one school, forty-five miles from a railroad, every store in Huntley. In September 19[...]only three gumboils were found. Doz,ens of these officer-in the city as well as the county.[...]Dolly Marsh recently told me a bout the of the weather and roads, saving those n[...]for milk morning, and in the afternoon were given a talk on[...]n the lates t techniques in the realm of would be a stereopticon lecture on Flies, Tuberculosis,[...], etc. There were especially prepared slides, and a different lecture each year.[...]eight, height, age, condition of eyes, quite a close watch on the work in Big Horn County, ears,[...]l checking for sent Mrs. Ann K. Waring, a public health nurse to give tonsils and adenoids)[...]children, so a special physical-therapist, Miss Marion Amo[...]Federal, State, County, City and school board . A That this program was of benefit to the com-[...]Monta na TB Assn., Mrs. munities is evident from a report written, I think , in the Henrietta Cro[...]on programs. Coun ty, t here has been carried on a campaign for better ot un ti l 1924 did Indians, as a ru le. attend public health among the children an[...]nditions. became involved and Dad had a new challenge. "After t hree years we are be[...]e chief problems. Kerosene vanquished the first , a has a population of 7,000 and in 1917 four babies died[...]chools. It was a dark, rainy day with muddy roads and " One o[...]of the children and announced that he would hold a began there was scarcely a sanitary boys ' toilet in the health meeting for Indian mothers. A large number County. 62% of the schools were without water, and it gathered on the second floor of a warehouse ; as the was impossible to get 25% of t[...]T he poor old man had demnation of t he sanitary officer , virtually every sc hool d riven in fro[...] | |
| [...]rence." After we barbecued these wether swallowed a few times, and went back up-stairs to tell[...]to come back to Sheridan for another City Health Officer Early in this health campaign Dad was City[...]kid her Dad about being a cowman and serving sheep Health officer, and a clean-up campaign was among the[...]Willis Spear said, "Les, don't breathe a word about culmination of the first clean-up: May[...]this or they will scalp me." on the front seat of a topless car, inspecting the alleys,[...]ut on an old roundup mess wagon dutch the park as a conclusion came later. Dad remained City[...]or the old timers who lived in Wyoming and Health officer until his death in April, 1941.[...]ls. They had a public address system here at the At the en[...]up cook, in the 80's and Les P. tied his wagon to a star, and the rope broke".[...]Booz told a story over the public address system about[...]the year 1885, and it was a dry year. He was cooking on OUTDOOR[...]little ganders going to the Yellowstone River for a ·Mr. and Mrs. Les P. Barlwin are in Story,[...]anded Ox Yoke from Nelson Story and they has been a lr,g time 'lince we saw you last, as it had[...]elp you and your late Dad, Willis Spear, barbeque a Musselshell country. DHS Granville Stewart.[...]guests tecito, California, the year they made it a ational and after 34 years we stopped i[...]to see Cemetery. Willis Spear said, "Les, I'm in a bad way, the Illustrious Potentat[...] | |
| [...]Shriners at Sheridan, Wyoming should put up a marker The late Illustrious Petentate, Charl[...]Hvm farnwr ~ tht•y a lrc:ul) nrf' tu tlw Whe[...]A[...]-"'fully colth1.\ted in th~ Big Horn \'al1ey. The a,•e.mge yieh1 of wheat in[...]tha t in a. few year,c tb f> t onnngt• rai"4"1[...]them Bot hette.r Htill. a.,;k yonr Ht :,t iun al.'rn. am.l or oo.t" 6-1• bushel, wbHe a[...]J.,.rr11win,t.:" 1,.,1mfafi. 111 a n"'W hri1•k h1il 1[...]Big Uom 111u11ity i."'a:drot1Kimlkatiouur ih• JJroh- :ihitit~·.[...]y TI.J..,, ,·;tll1•\· aruumJ HanHu L-i: at a luWt.lr 1 lukt>r~·. :! lumlwi:- yanl'- :! hn•ry 1•l1watiu11. ~,nt.J l~in,c forth~r a " ,.... ,. fru1u[...],_ a h.u~r grvwing IW'..uk.lu ......:11rt'll.[...]a ytM applt»f anU herrit"X will U1 a f~w ye:.u·ll lit: vl~me nt hon,~ I h.[...]HARDIN COM ll 6RCIAt. CL.US 1,1,." ' prolifie a Mo,irce of re~e.nn"' to th~ BiK W1trb ")'[...]caw 111• c,enalnty or a ._,[...]I iu Ydltm•"touc t.'lmn ty . a t from on" to two dou...,,,.. per QCTP. for[...],\1n~rk'a. th~ .,..-.p~ ~ • llN! pkk[...]un the 8qrJiuKton rnibuu.J. a It-Tm of Je&"- ( N",t, tn,m taut11,n[...]and the man :,H mik--t NOU tbeo.,l of Balling,1 -a.nd "-'i TbiA land 1,o or the ._, lo u[...]ff,n~raJ Co"'" tllan tlgf!nl M Cn,w A»-ncy. Mont\lflll 11rt[...]t .SIOO f-t. n.,. ehtnAtf"' \.' a-mall • ""' milit;uy 111~t Old fort Cn." \tPr[...]i,..,. ...~u ..,., l. n,.. f'-Mtn'a"'T «b., hri.~"'9'hh[...]Jin '"' of th~ hP-tt in \lninti,na ~md a ma.n wnro rmm u,,. l'[...]· ~ trntn H.a.-tt. HO t.M Or,,at[...]'""" ,..b,lo th<' IMtllMI .ll'ahun "'•tne uf "A bkb 1.."'CLI\ hr 11ut1l(bt[...]rl"-II tbh1A,,,k •dnd" lick u11 thfo •~,-. hi ,,t n rt"llt[...]M rs. H. C. Rankin, settled a mile west of Hardin in Club when H ardin w[...] | |
| [...]Bank.] President, E. A. Howell, Cashier, F. M. Lipp, Assistant 187[...]Cashier. The Directors were G. F. Burla, T. A. Snidow, 1878 Mrs. Sarah Thompson came to F[...]William Bender, Guss Thompson, Sally B. Howell, a 16 year old bride from Fall River, Kansas in a wagon Charles McDaniel, and E. A. Howell. drawn by two horses and driven by her 1[...]got F. Burla was elected President, E. A. Howell, who had contract with Post to furnish hay, and they lived in a been Cashier since the founding of the bank,[...]New Directors were G. F . Burla, E. A. Howell, hidden under the floor of the cabin. 45[...]is was probably the first B. Howell and T. A. Snidow. All Directors were now unchartered and u[...]local men. One June 7, 1918 Frank M. Heinrich, E. A. stands.[...]Stockyards National Bank in Omaha, purchased a large 1903 Fort Custer to be torn down unde[...]First National Bank of Hardin. Mr. vision of B.I. A . at Crow Agency. Heinri[...]er to the West of President, and Director E. A. Howell was elected old Fort Custer where Hardin[...]B. 1920 On January 16th H. W. Howell, a brother of Arnold and E. . Howell, from Billings, for $550.00 and E. A. Howell, was elected Assistant Cashier and F. M.[...]er where Archie Grover's drug Heinrich, E. A. Howell, W. J . Scott, W. E. Reno and store now stands. Mr. Arnold and Mr. Howell had a Guss Thompson were elected Directors. Ca[...]Surplus had been increased to $109,547.80. with a capital account of $10,000.00 the Bank of Hardin C. M. Squire opened a real estate office in the rear was established an[...]Bank's Real Estate B. Arnold as President and E . A. Howell as Cashier. Department there.[...]x month savings and 6% on 1 year site for a new sugar refinery. savings. These are almost ide[...]5, 1908. It was 1922 On July 21, E. A. Howell resigned as organized with $25,000.00 cap[...]nrich was elected President. F. President with E. A. Howell as Cashier. The first Board M. Lipp, w[...]11, was of Directors consisted of J.B. Arnold, E. A. Howell, T. elected Vice President and Cashier. Howell remained on A. Snidow, Carl Rank.in and Sally B. Howell, wife of E. the Board of Directors. A. In September 1908 J . B. Arnold sold his interes[...]1923 In January the First ational Bank took a October and replaced Sally B. Howell on the Board of full page ad in the Tribune making a strong showing- Directors. At that time the Bank had total resources of no borrowed money and carrying a big cash reserve. At $68,406.25 . 1908 slogan "A city with a reason". the end of 1923 the Ban[...] | |
| Thomas D. Campbell, in a speech, predicted that On October 2[...]petitioned the State Banking Department to have A. H. people.[...]eorge Swords. Lots of publicity predicting a railroad would be 1926 In November,[...]ar that Hardin started receiving follows: A. S. Broat, President, J . J . Ping, Vice electri[...]rd of Directors were as Lots of talk about a canning factory to be located follows: A. S. Broat, J. J. Ping, F. M. Heinrich, C. H. in[...]After the bank had re-opened, a celebration in the Banking. The reason given was for the protection of the form of a public dance was held in the Sullivan Hall depo[...]depositors, were W. E. G . Humphries, A. H. Roush and Bank.[...]approximately 500 depositors 1928 A.H. Roush replaced J. L. Hagerman on the of the Bank met in the Harriett Theatre and elected a Board and William Heinrich replaced F. M.[...]ts in old W. E. G. Humphries, Chairman, R. A. Vickers, First ational Bank were paid in full . Secretary, John MacLeod, J. H. Ransier, Rev. J. A. 1930-1945 During this period of[...]er was dicated that the depositors would not lose a dollar. shown-"Sunny Side Up." A. . Broat left Hardin and[...]n. J . J . In 1925 Ping's Store established a branch store in[...]Ping became President of the Bank to replace A. . Powell, Wyoming called "The Leader".[...]n Bakery an- Bowman replaced him . C. H. A bury left in 1934, and nounced that, due to the s[...]r, they were and Ira Haynie replaced him. A. H. Roush died in 1940, forced to incr~se the pri[...]127, 93. 3 depositors over a three year period. The plan had to be[...]J . Ping, The plan was accepted. On June 4, 1926 a meeting of President and Chairman, H. G[...]n January 11 , 1945 the Big Horn ounty Humphires, A. S. Broat, F. M. Heinrich, John Kopriva ,[...]pened in Gay Building where Big Horn did not have a legal obligation to do this, but did it as a County Bank had been. W. E. Warren retir[...] | |
| [...]nks. Richard E. Warren Bank and became a member of the Fed. Moved to is devoting his time[...]J . W . Chapman, A . H. Bowman, W. E. Warren, Walter[...]showed: 1911 On August 21 of this year a charter was Total Resourc[...]hier. State Bank were closed because of a steady withdrawal Directors were: J . W. C[...]nk were placed in the F. Young, L. D. Lewis, and A.H. Bowman. hands of the State[...]ers and Young were replaced by E. L . Kelley Jr., A. H. found that more than half of School[...]1918, J . of the bank. They considered calling a special election W. Chapman was elected President[...]9, 1923, County Treasurer Harvey H . P. Ross and A. H. Roush formed the Board of Direc- Ba[...]nd Henry Skaug, Ass't. Cashier. R. Boyd, a depositor, to Rarey 's personal account. The[...]1925, that Court ordered the John Boylam replaced A.H. Roush who had resigned in case dismis[...]caused a very substantial loss to its depositors. 19[...]and The Officers of the new Bank were: A. H . Bowman. operated under the name and charter[...]ock in the Federal Reserve Cashier, and A. J . Sheets, Ass't Cashier.[...] | |
| The Board of Directors was composed of: A. H. 1924 On August 12, 1924, the Fir[...]Bank closing. Western Sugar Co. of Billings, E. A. Richardson, Vice President of Bank of Commerce[...]to The Officers of the new Bank were: A.H. Bowman, the Board of Directors and W . 0. Lee[...]ner The Directors of the new Bank were: A. H . of 4th St. and Center Ave. (where Jack 's Ph[...]1921 E. C. Woodley replaced W . M. Spear as a purchased by Roy Covert of Billings, Bert Rarey o[...]r. The published Statement of December 31, Baker, A.H. Roush, and R. P. Ross of Hardin.[...]: Officers of the newly organized Bank were: A. H. Total Resources $121,197.55 Bowman, President, E. A. Richardson, Vice President,[...]Directors of the newly organized Bank were: A. H. 1922 George W. Messick of Sheridan, Wyoming Bowman, E. A. Richardson, W . L. Lawson, T. H. replaced A. H. Bowman as a Director. Mouatt, and A. H. Roush.[...]rt Sheets, Cashier. In addition to the Bowman, E. A. Richardson, Roy J . Covert, T. H. thr[...]also elected Mouatt, Bert Rarey, R. P. Ross, and A. H. Roush Directors, M . H . Tschirgi[...]Directors. Hardin State Bank on March 6, 1922, in a voluntary 1924-1935 In 1925 Henry ma[...]hed statement appeared on May 24, 1918 and listed A. H. Bowman, President, J. W .[...]6th Bank Directors: . H. Bowman, W. M . Spear, W. A. Pet· 1920 The t. Xavier tate Bank was chartered on zoldt, R. J. Miller, and A. M. Stevenson. pril 7, 1920 an[...]ear end The Officers of th.i Bank were: A. H. Bowman, published statement and it showed:[...]esources 140,745.30 Cashier, and A. F. Howorth, s't ashier. To[...]613.05 The Directors of the new Bank were: A. H . 1919-1923 On September 14, 1923, J.M. T[...]December 31, 1923 published statement listed a proper tart by a h.ier B rt Rarey of the tockmens' J . Mason Daniel as Cashier and W. T . Benbrooks as a ational Bank of Hardin". Mr. Howort[...] | |
| [...]apital of $20,000.00 and Surplus of $5,000.00. E. A. were several individuals and business[...]later. The Directors of the new Bank will be: E . A. HARDIN BUILDING AND LOAN Richardson, Crow Agency, A.H. Bowman, Hardin, J. Opened[...]1916, C. F. Gillette, W. Scally, Crow Agency, E. A. Galliher, Crow Agency, Secretary. In[...]Bank and consequently it never opened its' doors. A building had NORRIS & WAD[...]W. Bun ton, Hardin. When the Bank opened, it had a Guarantee Fund of 315,000.00 which was 9 times the Capital ccount and formed a reserve. The published statement of Sep· tember[...]reased $140,000.00 at year end over one year ago. Officer and Directors were as follows : W. E. Warr[...] | |
| TBB OBOW BBBBBVATIOH A BRIEF REVIEW OF THE HISTORY OF[...]bert Yellowtail, Sr. provided a boarding school for the half-hearted at- This is a review of Crow Tribal History since 1884 te[...]erican Presidents their problems employed a t.eacher and were permitted beginning with President Grover Cleveland to to use a vacant room adjoining the laundry where Presiden[...]rs, I think of the Montana and, thus, it was a case of the survival of the people-both Indian an[...]ir Indian Medicine Doctors to and amongst, I have a mixed feeling of joy and sadness whom they[...]hey were still alive to see the great and as a matt.er of comparison, we have at Crow Agency, a unbelieveable changes that have taken place since[...]days" just never existed; and it is a wonder that we, 1. There were no trains in th[...]hence to destinations at Ft. securing a livelihood for the Crows, which they did not Bent[...]forced upon them. It was a.musing and fun to watch the 3. All passengers[...]each pony and another Indjan u ing a whip to urge the 4. All travel in those days[...]their appearance. the plows trying to plow a straight furrow and thus, Wagons were too slow an[...]se-drawn Crow Indians in the early 90's . A complete re rsal of passenger state coaches relin[...]life, his native culture and left him to survive a by couriers on horseback of the Paul Revere kind[...]no wire fences between Sheridan, It was a case of plowing the earth for food or star[...] | |
| [...]for their livelihood. immemorial; that of a nomadic huntsman whose 10. At about this time[...]shelter, in exchange for the white man's who was a local cattle raiser, initiated grazing the Crow way of life which meant living in a confined small spot Reservation ranges and employ[...]ccordance with the course of study Indians became a landless horde seeking Government prescr[...]nothing more than a prison to hold them there im- s previously[...]dan. Wyoming area and Billing , Montana was still a va t tretch of wild country, which imprisone[...]of the Crows of the seven Districts needing only a little fanning, and a full fledge shooting of the Crow Reservation vi[...]d elders, decided to, each y'¾lr, r,ut on a white man's Crow Agency, from the time of[...] | |
| [...]s satisfaction as the best period of my life a t.h y h Jped the result - see Mrs. E. A. Richardson 's vivio account me to view lif[...]derstanding mood. have similar shows and, as a result, there are such Law and order on[...]the Crows. All runners were charge of a boss farm er, and a siz.abl numb r of row s tripped down to their bre[...]cy and extending to the mouth of th Big firing of a pistol ; Pop Warner holding a s top wat.ch to Horn River, t hence up th Ye[...]Mon tana-Wyomi ng boundary line , with it race a regular and official race, a new record would be headquarters at what i[...]ig Hom Riv r kinds of athletic contests have been a main feature of valley to its confluence[...]vation with their district h dquarte und r a bo ployees of the Government and their famili at[...]c . row Agency by a policeman couri r ho carried hi t Crow Agency, t he white employees were a m sag by the police on ho back. Th" th happy bunch. T here were a large group of them here administrativ[...]n and b For in tance, Mr. E lmer Dove was a fine musician w re disbanded and removed to who organized a fine brass band among the Crow and th[...]Tb g tate of ontana at that time, a it prinkled with lod . ex-Carlisle[...]ho a prof ional pi[...]the voe · · a mixed choir which ctP[...] | |
| [...]person in this country. What a change under respect for[...]ighlights of autocratic rule on the Crow A new day has dawned for the American Indians Reser[...]ways be respected. They must remember that secure a written permit; if his request was granted,[...]civil rights respected by the administration his police to see that the time granted was not violated.[...], Equal Protection of Law, on Indian Reservations a Robert Yellowtail, a Crow Indian of Montana false deception, and, thus, the Constitution, a dead Editor's Note: Robert Yellowtail was[...]ee, and how the Indian 1945. I n 1917, when a very y oung man he was chosen Bureau got away wit[...]wer Senator T. J. Walsh who this country has been a mystery to me. Let some officer wished to open t he reservation to no[...] | |
| [...], Jason Wilson at work horse, Fred Phelps at row: a ·mall by- tander, pri oner, -[...] | |
| [...]on hor eback Breaking a bronc on the Crackenberger ranch[...] | |
| [...]shine Club of North Valley seated: Rueben Elarth, A. M. Crilly, Ed Kuehn Back row fl t[...]Helen Carper, Mary Besel, seated, Rueben Elarth, A. M. Crilly, Ed Kuehn Andrea [Babe][...]Carper A group of Sarpy Homesteaders | |
| [...]toonist, creator of "Rick O'Shay" comic strip, as a small boy growing up in Lodge Grass[...] | |
| [...]Dr. Thomas Marquis, author of "Memoirs of A White Crow Indian" talks with Thomas LaForge, a former[...]this and other books. He also had a smal,l museum for a time in Hardin. White Man Runs Him-a Custer Scout[...] | |
| [...]lBllllWIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII-IIIIII •1mna.a11111mu1111n111111111.,•••••"'• ---•[...]The Crow Bill became a law on June 4, 1920,[...]Now Available Has a population of 2,0CO,[...]can d1spoee of If Has two progressive newspapera, a job print-[...]pose of their land snh- ages and business houses, a new creamery,[...]avaJlable at this time. fl Has a city water system, electric li ghts, tele-[...]n offers to the home seeker phone system, sewer-a, municipal h.ospital,[...]leposed of. The uplands modern grade achoo ls and a $100,000 H ig h School an.ta Carnegie Library.[...]few years from the Big Horn Canyon Project, a re organized.[...]marine,, on annual payments covering a period H.ARDlN TH.£. HUB[...]exceed twenty years. modern lines. ft possesses a ftne community[...]directions. A large number of good schools[...]m,a::--.••--1""'11---------,------"I[...]Hardin, Montana, a Modern Citg on the Custer Battlefield Hiwa[...] | |
| [...]Island, with a wealth of natural resources.[...]II These resources cover a wide range, but their[...]3,200,000 acres-all but a comparatively email[...]l'J In the fall of 1017, Mr. Thomas D CampiJPII. a[...]wheat on a big scale as a "Win-the-War" enter-[...]$40,000,000.00 a yeu.[...]a single day 300 acres has been plowed and as[...]fit, a tractor pulling three twelve-toot seeders,[...]with a crew ot two men. Seventy-five men are[...]tion the land bas been found to posaess a pro-[...]ha s become a law. the Immediate construction[...]1s assured. This project will . at a comparatively[...]lre,a,endous 1uagn11ude a,i to insure the develop-[...]h,i,uance of this !older. The {act.a It briefly 11re- Conditions tor suc~e:.slul div[...]im11rovPd farms arfl to be had al prl('es only a[...]I But the only way for the man looking for a alfalfa, ten tons; of wheat. fifty-five bushels;[...][arm, a borne or a business location lo under corn, sixty-ft ve bush[...]•PPiog It with bis own ey<>a. hearing Crom their est sugar test or any beets g[...]made, but acres were pl :rnted to sugar beets and a factory[...]e world, 's assured nPxt year, giving the fnrmers a cash[...]11nt you lo ome with tht'm wide op('n. llardin Is a 1.200 acre farm devoted almos t[...]H A RDIN. MONTANA •Ull possible to obtain Irrigated[...]"A CITY W ITH A REASON"[...] | |
| [...]. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65 Baker, E. A. and Irene .............. . ... . ..... . . . ..[...]. 70 Beall, S . A . ..... . .... . ............. . . . ............[...]72 Bentley, Dr. and Mrs. C. A . .............. . .................. 32[...].. 83 Buckley, Phil a.n d Helen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .[...] | |
| [...]..... . .. . ......... .. ... 145 Fowler Family (A . E .) ............................. . .. ..... 1[...]........... ....... 104 Maxham, Frank A. ........ . .... . . . ...... . . . ...... . ....[...]............ .. . . . . .......... 164 Gustafson, A. 0. and Family ...... . . . ............... ..... .. 113 Mitchell, A. L . .......... . .. . .... . ..................[...]... .. ..... 123 Olenik, Edward A .. ......... ... ... ...... .... .............. 1[...]. . . . 127 Peden, Mr. and Mrs. W. A. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ........[...]. . . 131 Petzoldt, Dr. and Mrs. W. A. .... . ..........[...] | |
| [...]. ........ 194 Taggart, Dr. A. T ................ . . .....[...]. . 250 Ransier, Dr. W. A. and Mrs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .[...]. .. 254 Richardson, Ervin A. ..........[...]Vickers, Robert A . ...[...]. ....................... 265 Russell, Dr. W. A. and Family . . . . . . . ........ .. .. . . . ..[...]. ..... . .. 220 Williams, Herbert A. and Family .......[...]288 Stevenson, Mr. and Mrs. A. M .....[...] | |
| [...]Settlers . 297 nd Down a Rid r (Poem) .[...]302 Pion r Dr. and H alt.h Officer 306 Outdoor B[...]Local Artists . 332a-332c lndu;[...] | |
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| A history of Big Horn County communities; a history of the Crow Reservation, and profi[...] |
Big Horn County Historical Society, Hardin, Mont., Lookin' Back: Big Horn County (1976). Montana History Portal, accessed 06/03/2025, https://www.mtmemory.org/nodes/view/5597