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 | [...]5027 The rights to all stories return to their creators[...] |
| [...]e had left out more then we included1 so we began to ta[k about "the next book." StiU1 in the aftermat[...]The working committee was smaUer1 but it proved to be a cracker jack group of thinking1 questioning1 curious1 inteUigent people. Editing was kept to a minimum to insure the voice of the writer was retained. Text[...]er hardware and. software made it possible for us to produce camera-ready pages. PhyUis Robinson keyed[...]d dozens of articles1 especia[[y those pertaining to sports history and [aw and order. Bette Meine HuW[...]ries1 made corrections and returned them. l began to make the final corrections to the computer fi[es1 then suffered an accident tha[...]t hand in a cast for a week. PhyUis Robinson came to my rescue and completed the project. Joan McDougal offered to give a fina[ "read." Her meticulous attention to the text was amazing. She found speUing errors ev[...]county has a rich history1 so we1re sure in three to five years1 an energetic group of capable and ded[...]o start now on your research. A special thanks to the board of directors of the Beaverhead C[...] |
| Dedication To the area historians who, over the decades,[...] |
| [...]k and how best to use it Once we real[...]rather than fu[[y spe[[ed out to conserve space.[...]Original photographs belonging to submitters can be[...]archives in our ongoing effort to preserve visual images of the county1s past.[...]le or family history. Someday we hope to publish a "FulI" index of alI names1 place[...] |
| [...]Some of the ranchmen are opposed to the many changes it would bring, nor are they eager to divide the stock ranges with new settlers[...] |
| [...]mes Blake Bean, about 3-4 years old (1924), ready to rope and ride at his parents' ranch on Clo[...] |
| [...]e from McKinnon, Wyoming with their families to purchase what was originally known as the Henry T[...]Refl63.02 Anna Huber Thompson, sold the ranch to Bill and Lodea Wyatt. Because of her fear of this[...]ny families would take new frontier, she returned to the east. on; however, it proved to be a bonding that still exists. To the original ranch, the Ike Rife ranch on the Med[...]their sons and families, all lived in the large to their waists day after day was not their favorite thing to stone house on the ranch until homes could[...] |
| [...]tion. When the ranch was converted from sheep to cattle and when the ranch was sold to First Continental Corp. in 1979, it was running 3[...]Rife ranch on Medicine Lodge. The ranch belonged to John and Florence George Bradley, Briggs, alo[...]had three children and adopted investigating to see if someone along the line was kidding a Korea[...]and slammed on the brakes and slid to a stop. They exchanged Emmalu Florence.[...]glances with their firemen to make sure they saw them too. Seventeen grandc[...], of three animals. "We figure far enough ahead to make sure our receipts will exceed our disburseme[...]contracted to portray a buffalo hunt by bow and arrow for[...]resident, to purchase a buffalo from his herd. The ranc[...] |
| [...]piercing a lung. would be herded back down to the Oregon Trail to be traded The bull ran for 60 yards before he fal[...]k graphic action shots of that was ready to go back to work to complete the journey the hunt while aboard another horse. to Oregon in front of an immigrant's covered wagon.[...]Texas to the Montana gold country, to feed the horde of Pete Stefonic is offering a[...]iners in Virginia City. Almost all of the leading to the finding of a buffalo bull. He had planned to Texas cattle driven up the trail to Montana were steers, all donate the bull to the barbecue committee to be served at the ending up in the eastern part of the state. Here they grew dedication of the Clark Canyon Dam project, but the bull has fat on the goo[...]weight, they were rounded up and shipped by rail to the the Dell area and, as he has been wandering o[...]with cameras into Oregon from California to eventually contribute to the of all types, received a once-in-a-lifetime t[...]many times. Stefonic offered to furnish buffalo for the barbecue at the All of these yarns are about cattle being driven into Clark Canyon Dam ground breaking ceremonies on Sunday,[...]ontana photographer and four women. They traveled to the 200- near Dillon. Fred Hirschy of[...]erd of five buffalo roamed. No steers to an Alaskan cow buyer, none weighing less than ear[...]did 1,400 pounds and sold by the head for $50 to $60 each. upon sighting the rugged animals. The animals paid little They were driven 75 miles to Red Rock to be loaded on heed and posed majestically while·[...]ll. gauge railway to White Horse, Yukon Territory. The last Most o[...]d most of the snow down the Yukon River to Dawson and the gold mining crowd will have their[...]rie beef" that a camps. It took six months to get them all delivered. With century ago roamed t[...]more steers. From the Big Hole to Alaska[...]the state of Montana and contributes considerably to the mountains to the town of Anaconda to be loaded onto the economy. Historically, cat[...]ssed and railroad. They also were shipped to Seattle where they were recrossed the country--each one having its own story to tell. shod and prepared for the tough trip ah[...]aptain Richard Grant and boat trip took them to Valdez AK where they were unloaded his son, Johnny, and Robert Dempsey, all from the Deer to start the long trip to the interior. Lodge Valley, started buying footso[...]but was long since Idaho. They trailed them north to the Deer Lodge Valley to abandoned. The going was rough and[...] |
| [...]the gold row digger bringing the potatoes to the surface and large fields playing out, this little-known enterprise was wiped out. crews of up to 100 men hand picking the potatoes into bags[...]week when James Geery of Wisdom sold his fat cows to a Montana butchering firm for $32.50 per head.[...]icest of Durhams; many of his cattle are entitled to registration . According to Irvine & Cottom Co. Certified Seed Potatoes w[...]shipping to the southeastern states. There was a need for a[...]until the mid-1970s when he went to work for the City of Quality seed potato production dates back to the early Dillon. 1930s in Dillon when P[...]In 1969 the potato operation was sold to Skone and William Irvine, came to the area to grow seed potatoes. The Connors from Warde[...]ness in Leadore ID , but preferred stayed on to manage the company. Mike later retired but the ri[...]lon. continued to help during harvest into the 1990s. 14[...] |
| [...]nd work well together. Bill runs the office in to do the threshing for the valley farmers. Mr.[...]potatoes, watches the asked them to stop at his ranch and thresh out his wheat wareho[...]designs It was just before school was to start so I had the chance the irrigation systems, does the crop record-keeping, to go along with the threshing crew. We pulled int[...]After the separator was set and we had started to the spud harvester and is responsible for some of[...]isions, financial top of the machine and to trip the bushel container each time planning, gra[...]irrigating, operating it filled up. To me it was a big job for a small boy of machiner[...]eleven. Cottoms are already beginning to help and learn about the It took most of the day to thresh out the wheat crop. farm; so hopefully, the Cottom name will continue to be This was a big surprise for we did no[...]a wheat crop. As I remember, the wheat was years to come.[...]make fine hard wheat flour. He did not expect to sell it to[...]going to put in many more acres the next year.[...] |
| [...]h grew The women always took these to the fair and father into a thriving farm area of[...]ould choose a basket of the biggest, best looking to take. went well until the dry year of 1919 which[...]but conserving the moisture were the farmers able to again there were never more than half a[...]Homestead years to grow them.[...]many At the Blacktail school house they used to have church photographs taken of the grain[...]achers service. Mrs. Orr would get any of the men to take her to (some of them were women). The grain was s[...]ers still use this The new folks built a fort to protect themselves if the same method-conser[...]e children all attended Dillon school . We walked to When the Indians got on the warpath they gathered[...]ly Watters went with us , walking about 1 ¼ mile to our There was a Lewis family that lived on Bl[...]account of sickness. before you went up the hill to the Hinch place. They raised They gave "perf[...]o lived on what we called Dry butter, and sold it to the miners at Virginia City. I think Land Ea[...]hink there sister to Pat and Hube Flynn were several Davis familie[...]summer when whole families brought food and drove to some favorite spot, Axe Canyon and many others. Holden Blacktail Homestead[...]boarded with the Murrays and road horseback to school. We three girls and four boys were born[...]White Acres at Dillon. My father, I went to Maudlon - a country school with 12 children, two[...]ng boys older than I was. By going to summer school I taught sponsored by Montana State[...]and students One summer, 1922, I went to stay with Jessie Williams came to see them and write articles on how they were doin[...]ny of summer, we hiked, she taught me how to tat and some days our neighbors picked the[...] |
| [...]fall that she became Mrs. Luther Smith. She came to Dillon to visit her sister (Maggy) Mrs. Hubert Smith and he[...]hickens, sometimes 1,000 of the morning to prepare. The evening meal was just as baby chicks[...]n meat, beef, pork and sometimes them. She seemed to know just how and lost very few. lamb,[...]rked hard and needed lots of there were many eggs to eat and sell. food.[...]n, sausage always reminded me of grain and a girl to help in the kitchen came. Most of those the d[...]Eva and winter and attended school. Everyone had to rise early - the Ansel Brown arrived early and[...]oughs that work began, rubbing and scraping to remove hair and then were filled as the windmill went ro~nd and round. hung up to cool. There were some times as many as seven.[...]feet, and liver and heart were used and loads of to the barn, harness horses by six o'clock everyone[...]as crackling, The huge wagons took the grain to four silos that held the fat was poured into[...]grain until disposed of, some sold and some taken to mill in for the year. Sausages were made and p[...]made into flour and some of whole kernel cleaned to be used kept them for the winter. Cured meat w[...]things, kept for a certain did take a long time to cook, but we all loved it. Of course length of time, then taken to the smoke house where they some of the wheat or whatever was grown had to be saved became ham and bacon. for seed.[...]rested right amount of smoke. All this had to be done in fall after[...] |
| [...]t Fox school and both schools have neighbors came to help and when they were ready to do the been gone for a numbers of years. sa[...]I rode horseback six miles from ranch to West Fox grade One summer Jessie Smith had re[...]grade school, I graduated from the Bozeman wanted to see Yellowstone Park so we two girls were[...]the sights. I almost got a broken arm when I had to It is a very great blessing that I have s[...]m gets a great big thank you learned what and how to do it. from me. The children of families on up the road went to school[...]driving a white horse named Daisy who was hitched to a two[...]ad Law Amended wheel cart. While going from place to place, he stayed at the home that was closest at[...]--Mary Holden Smith any person to acquire in this manner. We think the policy[...]of the Government should be to furnish as many of its[...]he pre-emption law should have "Wouldn't you like to go with us?" They accepted the been re[...]eden. At last another family planned on going to the repeal of the pre-emption and timber[...]and an America and Mother accepted the invitation to go with them. amendment to the homestead law. In the meantime, Dad and Uncle earned money to buy land. This land is at the foot of Squaw Mount[...]d, they see two bowls level with each other close to the sharp wicked looking peaks. The ranch produced grass to feed cattle and horses. I had three brothers - no[...]diphtheria and he passed away a week after coming to America. Robert was born tongue-tied. The doctors[...]im without asking his mother if she would consent to it. He bled to death and is buried in Jackson Cemetery. All doctors should have enough brains in their heads to ask permission to operate! Next comes Ethel, me. I was m[...] |
| [...]Horse Sales in Dillon Open to Women?[...]orse sales were Office at Washington, in relation to married and single women making final held at a[...]st of proof in desert land entries, will be found to be fully explanatory: the railroad tracks[...]0 Apr 1884. From then until 1917 when it was sold to Washington D.C., 06 June 1884.[...]annually and buyers would asks for information as to the right of single and married[...]over the west. The Dillon Tribune reported women to make final proof in desert land cases, stating th[...]the sale yard, north along the railroad tracks, to the railroad reclaimed the same, to make final proof are abrogated or in stockyards. They drove the horses through this lane to the any manner abridged.[...]stockyards and loaded them in livestock cars to be shipped[...]I remember going to a horse sale with my dad in 1928. We[...]The yard and barn were sold to George Ditty in 1917; he[...]The bank sold it to James M. Fay in 1937. He tore[...]farm. Fay sold the farm to Farnum B. Schuyler and[...]Schuyler sold it to Dr. Short who still has it to this day.[...] |
| [...]thered what they could find in the You would have to know and understand the sentiment that spr[...]ed them again. They lost a few each Pete attaches to the old days when horses were the only ye[...]ans of work and travel. This sentiment causes him to Hills. Sometimes the ranchers would gath[...]herds. At one time he had 20 buffalo but is down to The ranch horses that influenced the wild horse bunch the six now. He sold to buyers from several states who, like most[...]ls Creek to gather wild horses. of the sale was[...]gentle and saddle horses to stabilize them; while some of the on stock being[...]they would trail them into the Dillon area to a holding when it threw the Pete Stefo[...]astures was on the Laknar ranch. when he was able to G[...]cross Horse Prairie Creek, they were a lot easier to handle. "Horses did a good job for us," said[...]e horses as she hard and knew what we wanted them to do. The jeep, truck only weighed 100 pound[...]n see as big a herd of horses rounded up them to ride and sold them; they were small and got real[...]mmon in a bygone day. year before moving on to this area. He brought mares , colts[...]He planned to raise horses so he went to Harrison and[...] |
| [...]or 50 riders; some the winter, he would lose them to the wild bunch . He started at Grassh[...]out from the Cross ranch and the lane. It looked to me like In the winter of 193 8 while still in[...]ead of horses , all headed northeast, made a deal to buy a young gelding from Spence. So on a[...]came from. Friday after school, I rode horseback to his camp at Spring By the time Floyd Sk[...]ether with the BLM bunch of his horses over close to Bannack. and they decided to gather them. They hired a man named I spent the night and after breakfast we rode over to Chug Utter out of Nevada; he had lots of[...]ood pilot. that Spence wanted, but we were afraid to put the two They had a corral trap at[...]. The airplane brought all the horses in from the to the Frank Nay dipping vat corrals where we put th[...]ten or twelve as more than that were much harder to handle. them in the corral with the others. Mine[...]y little There were wing fences on each side to funnel the horses sorrel stud with four stocking[...]trap corral. They also had gentle horses trained to three years old.[...]night. We went airplane bring the horses to a special place in the wings, they over to the K6 ranch that belonged to the Pahnish brothers would tum the gentle[...]ones into the trap. which we saddled up and went to get the two horses. They trucked the horses to the railroad stockyard in Spence took the wil[...]By mid-1970 , the horses had increased to 30 or 40 head. we got to Badger Pass; then Spence took the wild horse and H. L. (Bunch) Patterson made a deal with the BLM to catch went south around the mountain towards Spri[...]me, but time ran out and his camp. I continued on to Dillon. he didn't g[...]the time. Charlie gelded the horse and broke him to ride.[...]. He was raising mostly Stanley sold it to Bielenberg and Walker. They in turn sold thoroughbreds and he grazed them close to the Rocky Hills. to C .E. Jones, commonly known as "Sowbelly Jones." Shorty built several trap corrals and tried to capture the wild Some years later, Jones went i[...]sent Carl Huntley (the oldest of his 13 children) to could be corralled by a jackrabbit drive. They wo[...]Carl liked what he saw and was able enough riders to circle the Rocky Hills perimeter and they to work out a deal whereby he acquired the property[...]re operated as such. The Huntley The plan was to push the wild bunch into the Cross ranch Cattle Co., under the leadership of Carl Huntley, then lane; to this day I can' t understand how we let Da[...] |
| [...]25. Brothers Ralph and Clark Huntley came to the Big Hole Valley in 1924 to help Carl as his health was waning. Carl died in[...]In the 1920s a two-pole derrick was used to stack the Clark and Evelyn Francis Huntley moved[...]hay. Harry Smith and George Stimson used to bring in a ranch to the Miller ranch. Ralph Huntley and Ebba steam engine and threshing machine to harvest the grain Anderson Huntley remained at th[...]crops. After the grain was cut with a binder to make Brothers sold the Swanson ranch to Fred Walchli in 1946. bundles, the bundles were hauled to the threshing machine In May 1950, Clark and[...]rank Husted ranch at team and grain wagon to store in a wooden granary. It was Wise River. The Husted property was sold in 1960 to Vern shoveled into the granary. It took five teams and wagons to Stanchfield and Lowell Mallon.[...]Ralph and Ebba Huntley then retired and moved to Butte. In 1921 the existing ranch barn[...]The children from the area went to school in a buggy.[...]ground up to what is now Laknar Lane and on into town. Kat[...]otatoes, cabbages, is now Lover's Lane to Highway 41 to get into town. Later carrots, etc. for sugar, flo[...]on when sister, Mary (Laknar) Naysich, moved to town, the had chickens, geese, turkeys, pigs and[...]d, Kate would heat bricks in the oven and shipped to Pocatello until the Dillon Creamery was send them with the buggy riders to help keep them warm.[...] |
| [...]rn their horses loose in the mostly unfenced area to pasture when they were not using them. Most of the horses were branded and when it came time to need the horses, they would round them all up and[...]So the family was always Going to the hay field in 1942 on the Laknar ranch. Ref.18[...]d by Wayne Else; then later he and Margaret moved to Butte to work the mines. John leased a place nearby, but later on with wife, Wilda, moved to the Threshing peas in 1[...]hed with a dump rake. Nets were used on the boats to water jacket engine. The usual charge to bale a ton of hay lift the hay onto the stack. The nets were also used to lift was about $2.50 per ton. Baled hay was so[...]hipping for $8-10 per ton. "buck" rakes were used to gather the hay, move it to the In the 1940s the beaverslide and buck rakes were used to stack yard and stack it with a Jay Hawk st[...] |
| [...]John Rebish, Frank Turlot and Holgar Carlson used to help the neighbors with threshing during this time. Holgar was one of the last to use a threshing machine, powering it with a D-2 C[...]ly 6 or 7; of course, the wives of the family had to feed these crews. In 1946 the family purchas[...]e, Kathy, live in Great Falls. Daughter 240 acres to the original 120. From 1940-50 the family[...]he Waters ranch (Emmett John has moved back to Dillon. Blomquist Ranch), but only stayed one yea[...]ive in back with Frank until 1954 when they moved to Reno and Dillon. Their son, John, and wif[...]nd a girl. Marina, their In 1958 Frank wanted to retire and move in with daughter, is married to Steve Royce and lives in Dillon. widowed sister,[...]rold, lives in Oregon and has two daughters. back to run the ranch. The operation now was raising catt[...]he ranch along with son, sheep , lots of pigs (up to 30 sows and 200 feeder pigs) and Larry, and wif[...]four children, Chaela, of horses. George cut meat to supplement the ranch income. Conn, Moria and Megan and live in Helena. In 1965 a permit was purchased to supplement the cattle grazing and increase the herd to 125 head. The sheep and[...]l lived in by George and Ellen. It has been added to and remodeled a couple of times. The family has moved around some. Joe and Margaret have returned to Dillon to be near daughter, Kathy (Laknar) and husba[...] |
| [...]tle from our ranch on the desert east of Hamer ID to our summer range at Kilgore, in the Camas Meadows[...]A car, but still traveled only when they had trip to Beaverhead County near Dillon. to, spending many days without going home or to town for Well, this is a dangerous place to be on a horse in a provmons. Sometimes o[...]there is no place fresh provisions for them. to go but stay put. It was thundering and raining ha[...]touched me on top of my head and run to travel with them. Bob, the next to the youngest, had their finger down my back to the wet saddle, old Monte allergies f[...]taken the lightning strike with The goat had to travel to the homestead with the family , it his feet in th[...]ter. The jolt had gone through was tied to the running boards of the car. They also took me[...]aid there a few minutes, then homesteading to the east of them and would come to visit staggered to his feet, stood there a short time and appeared and get eggs. One day in July, he came to camp carrying to be alright. I climbed back in the saddle and we c[...]e and bridle - when asked what happened - he said to Spring Creek and put the cattle in the big field.[...]was reluctant to go to the homestead because the lightening[...]creek and it was the kids' job to catch them. Henry spent[...]his time fencing and building a new cabin to live in. Henry Meine and Frances Boetticher M[...]'s R9W and Sections 18 and 19 Tl OS R8W. They had to grandsons now run cattle on the[...]1933 , George McDonald was pulling sheep camp for to the homestead.[...]the Pink Mayberry place in the Centennial Valley to the box that could be covered with a tarp. The ro[...]y place east of Armstead. The 10th of October Hom Canyon was always tough, either mud or hot and they camped at Divide Creek next to Henry Meine's dusty. The big team of horses had to be allowed to stop and Homestead . That night and[...] |
| [...]Lion's Den chimney of Henry's cabin. He rode over to get help to for Luanna Lyons. Mike and Ann (Scotty'[...]xt morning they cut Ted and Mabel Rowe came to live there and stayed for many down a green tree and hitched Henry and George's teams to years and then David and Mary Lou Smail. Now Ted and it. The sheep were able to trail single file to lower country Rayleen Crampton are there. out o[...]or who wanted the ground, which made it necessary to spend seven more years at the homestead during th[...]they saw- a lot of while traveling back and forth to the homestead was Tandy Martin. He stayed up ther[...]Tandy provisions. Later Tandy sold his homestead to Henry and it has since been called the Martin fie[...]e from west of the Beaverhead River and then east to and across the present Montana Highway #41. N[...]g land at family in Beaverhead County. He came to America in the the home place. The dry farm on St[...]e dry farm, had over the top of the mountain to the Treasure State Talc a usable cabin, barn and[...]aders' families. This rangeland was located Creek to many different people. The first was Scotty's from Stone Creek and West and Southwest to Carter Creek. brother, Philip, and his wife, Fran[...]deeded and leased land in use in 1955, compared to the the family decided on farming and ranching an[...]the Hereford breed then, and now when they moved to Dillon and Bud found work at a mine supports 900 to 1,000 head of Angus cross cattle.[...] |
| [...]The prices for cattle were as high as $. 80 to $. 90 in 1992 were collected and cleaned and were[...]very depressed at a low of $.55 dozen) and taken to Warner' s grocery store for credit on the to $.65. Hay this winter is selling at a premium of $100 to bill . Any extra milk and cream was taken to the Dillon $125 a ton. Creamery for sal[...]There would have to be a dependable cowboy or two to Scotty's father , in the earlier years of the[...]all the cattle in belly-deep grass all summer and to help and broke many draft horses which were used[...]ging in the barn. This was also heifer decided to calve and needed help. Many a calf ended a source[...]eams up in the empty chicken house next to the fireplace or under could be sold.[...]the heat lamp in order to keep warm during the below zero There was the[...]he average prices of 1956 as follows : seems to bring on scours. 12 Jan - sold 129 steers to Emmet Jones 99, 700#; 4 % Rudy Lasich[...]home in Dillon during the winter months and moved to the March-dehorned.[...]owned up Stone Creek. Rudy 14 Dec - shipped to Ogden Livestock Auction 19 heifers w[...] |
| [...]lesich children would have their horses hauled up to Rudy's place and go along for the ride and maybe[...]le were trailed home just as they were trailed up to the hills for the summer. Until the East Benc[...]t in, there were no fences or gates, save 2 or 3, to stop or hinder the herd. Les Staudenmeyer and Hi[...]hams and bacon which were and help butcher three to six pigs out of the 150 or so immersed[...]so the larger blood being taken out and hung to be smoked and then wrapped sausages.[...]scrappier pieces of pork in had something to contribute from the young to the old. a large pot, then adding seasonings of salt, pepper, sage, Another time for everyone to come together was at cloves, allspice, garlic and[...]hired when the hay anq grain were ready to be cut and put that's left are the crispy pieces.[...]n place, the helpers wash winter feed or taken to town for sale. up and mix the pot by hand to ensure everything is well Many times threshing machines would go from place to mixed. Then this mixture is put into a sausage press which, place to help get the grain in before bad weather or winte[...]om where someone is holding a length needed to get their farming done in the spring or to get their of casing made from pig intestine. This[...]harvests in and thus the custom of going around to the so as not to break the casing which is tied shut on the other[...]e. Families and neighbors aren't as close now due to the loading a wood stove with wood and ju[...] |
| Plenty was grown in order to preserve or can enough to get through the winter and therefore the garden w[...]ar 1976 and left the incorporated ranch operation to his wife, Sally, and sons, John, Edward and Carl,[...]new shop and bunkhouse added and a granary moved to make room. A couple of sheds were added and two g[...]the outbuildings are in use in one way or another to Aerial view of M[...] |
| [...]es. Grandpa described the steers as about as easy to the present (new) barn to a spot across the yard. Because of round up as a herd of elk and about as easy to drive. the move, it now sags severely in the midd[...]the house in 1960 and this is where Sally resides to this day. Pasimeroi River to the Salmon River, down that river to Daughter, Mary Ann and husband, Robert Paddock, p[...]orth of Sally's in 1972 and their Horse Prairie to Red Rock. family has resided there since then.[...]reported that in the past except for the efforts to keep up-to-date with they all suffered from the extrem[...]difficult, but much more complicated than it used to be. job of keeping his legs warm. Unfortunat[...]hide into his pants to protect his manhood. Apparently it Red Rock M[...]pping point for cattle worked. He went on to father seven children. in southwestern Montana an[...]and established a major ranching operation in to be shipped. He said it was tough to hold the cattle in Idaho's Lost River Valley to supply beef to the mines. anywhere close. Production[...]the demand for beef at the They had to send a rider ahead to see how many herds mines, so he had to ship some livestock elsewhere as well. were in line to be shipped and make shipping arrangements. The ne[...]n Eagle Rock ID (now Idaho They tried to schedule their arrival close to when it was time Falls), but they had to drive the cattle across the waterless for them to load the cows into the cattle cars. Snake River Plains to get there. It wasn't all that much Th[...]hers really thought it was funny when the farther to Red Rock MT and there was water along the way.[...]ses in Missouri. At any rate, he was shipped west to December. It warmed up enough for it to rain on the snow, work for his uncle McKim.[...]then the temperature dt;opped to below zero for nearly two Although grandpa di[...]part of the The cattle couldn't get to the grass under the crusted world in the 1880s. M[...]he was telling stories Idaho Legislature to drag the dead cattle away from the stage to my brothers and me. Mom frequently swatted him with road going from the Lost River Valley north to Challis ID a broom and yelled all sorts of things[...]ecause of health concerns and the stench. got him to stop.[...]for a milk cow and mahogany and cottonwoods to keep some of the cattle alive a few saddle horses. The rest of the animals had to make it that cold winter. He died shortly t[...]--Dan Pence, Dillon MT took them to market. Most of the steers had only been caught once to be branded and castrated when they were[...] |
| [...]Conrad Meine brought his family from Germany to the hay into the attic. The east side of[...]lves. 1883 he filed on one of the last homesteads to be had in the Charlie built another large[...]miles ranch that has always been referred to as the engine room. north of Dillon on the stage[...]meat cutting area. The main The time required to "prove-up" under the Homestead floor had[...]ion 21, Mulany homestead cabin was moved to the new building T6S R8W. The 1909-1910 Dillon Ci[...]On 28 Jul 1911, Conrad deeded 320 acres to his son Charles F. Meine, Conrad's son purcha[...]ining about 846 Section 16, T6S R8W, was patented to Charles F. Meine by acres was purchased fr[...]Nov 1917. About 1910 Charles (always referred to as Charlie) built This was always known as the[...]at the time, boasting a farm land. The water to irrigate was picked up from the large horse barn[...]Selway Slough and transported in the Morton Ditch to the large tack rooms, a large hay loft wit[...] |
| [...]any fine cattle and ~orses, he was always working to upgrade his livestock. Charlie and his nephew John Albers, once traveled to Columbus NE and assembled two carloads of registe[...]n stallion, which were shipped by train back to Dillon. In addition to saddle horses used to work the cattle, the farming and haying were done with horse drawn equipment. Horses used to pull Conrad Meine homestead along t[...]To harvest the hay, it was cut with horse drawn mowi[...]ndrows with a horse ahead of four) one horse tied to the outside horse next to the drawn dump rake or side delivery rake, then i[...]unches plowing about a forty-two inch wide swath. To level the until cured then it was pitched[...]he ground. each end of the level and two drivers. To grade dirt one The axle was under the b[...]ld behind the other. A four horse of large 8 to 10 inch timbers that ran the length of the rack.[...]e runners on the bottom of the The horses had to be wrangled each morning from the boat, ro[...]a team of horses, the tongue of the boat brought to the barn. Each one was then tied in the barn and had chains on either side to keep it centered, or no tongue at given grain whi[...]and helped pitch the hay on the boat. and hitched to the equipment. At lunch time the horses were[...]eld all all watered in the slough on the way back to the barn. They the time and helped load the bo[...]read on the bottom of the rack was a hay net came to the house to eat. with a[...]sections with rings in each end, which fastened to the front binder. The bundles were then put into shocks to dry. With and rear ends of the rack. About 1,[...]hay was a team and wagon the bundles were hauled to the threshing hauled on a boat. The hay boats were pulled to the stack machine. Bundles were pitched into the[...]ge pile. The grain from the boat and hoisted to the stack with a team of horses was sacked as it[...]bout 55 feet machine. The grain was either hauled to the granary in high and rigged with pulle[...]an worked on the used was a steam powered tractor to run the threshing stack to keep it square. Later when a beaver slide replace[...]the derrick, it took a four horse team to drag the apron up to the top of the beaver slide.[...] |
| [...]stockholders. Emily sold 1,000 shares of stock to the Mary S. Johnson, who was a childhood fri[...]Apr 1931. A large crew of men was required to do the haying. |
| [...]In 1935 Charlie deeded part of the home ranch to Henry Meine and the rest (the original homestead part) to Carl Meine. In 1937, Charlie turned operation of the ranch over to his sons, Henry and Carl, he still remained active at the ranch. In 1939 electricity was brought to the ranch by Vigilante Rural Electrification Asso[...]Henry and continued to modernize the farming and haying[...]He was 77 years old. Carl and Henry continued to work together and run cattle on the Dutchman Moun[...]new shop was built in 1961 that was large enough to McCormack Deering tractor during grain har[...]Elephant. Ref. I 70. 09. pump house were tom down to make room for the new shop.[...] |
| [...]d in young. Bob purchased a farm hand loader used to load hay 1978 Richard married Linda Lafrance. In 1978 Bob and on the hay racks so it did not have to be pitched on by hand. Dorothy sold the home ranch on Anderson Lane to Richard Buck rakes were built on a turned aro[...]ase of the ranch marked the fourth They were easy to maneuver and could push large loads of generation of Meine's to own the land. loose hay to an overshot derrick, later a beaver slide. Bob la[...]from Orsina McNaul. It included summer range next to the Meine homestead, it had been homesteaded by P[...]ranch, the rest of the Flynn home ranch was sold to Don Gransberry in 1968, except for 65 acres on Fl[...]n their own. By then they had children old enough to help with the work. In 1966 Bob and Dorothy did e[...]e they had purchased from Charlie. They continued to upgrade the equipment used at the ranch. In 1965 Bob Meine sold his interest on the Dutchman to Garth Taylor. Carl Meine and his son, Carl Jr., r[...]eath in 1982. The Carl Meine ranch was later sold to 36 - Beaverhead History No.2 |
| [...]tive for survival. Richard and Jerry continue to modernize the equipment by purchasing a bigger tr[...]r balers. They learned well from their father how to put up good quality hay, which requires baling to be done only when the moisture content is right. Usually most of the baling has to be done at night. Bob and Dorothy retained th[...]homesteaded. They built a They 're back to the fields after dinner. Ref 170. 07. new log hom[...]shipped a truckload of bred heifers and cows to Columbus In the spring of 1980 Bob and Doroth[...]hased part of the Flynn gone in the 1920' s to purchase cattle and a registered place from Rebic[...]n place that Meines previously owned. It is close to to 1,200 pound Hereford/ Angus cross cows. Calf weig[...]home on Flynn Lane. have gone from 450 to 650 lbs. The Martin field, in the summer range, was sold to Rebich Family and friends still help d[...]erry and their wives hosted a continues to be the best part of ranching and the best[...] |
| [...]hauled them to the hogs. With a little grain they really got[...]r Isabelle (whom everyone were always ready to help a neighbor in need. Threshing called Bell) f[...]time came, the neighbors would all go from farm to farm Bench. The land was later owned by Clay Smit[...]ge Stimpson had a big threshing machine and moved to the farm, we being my brother Harold and I (now[...]f us. Hazel Perry Johnson). Dad hired a carpenter to build a four Those days we all visited o[...]hts or water, as we had in our town went to visit a neighbor or we had company in our home. h[...]ried Dad dug a well and cemented it, from top to bottom was chicken and a big freezer of ice[...]The first few years we drove the horse and buggy to no wind. Dad took a 20 gallon barrel and made a bucket Dillon to school. The neighbors got together, decided there attached it to a steel cable and pulled the water up with a were enough children to afford a school in our community. team. He dug a[...]ighbors got together and appointed three trustees to go for water when we had wind. The next thing was to build see about a school. a barn, chicken[...]strict, Blacktail I - ours man, they went up Axes Canyon and got the logs to do the would be Blacktail II. They apporti[...]District could and we would have to raise the balance to The first few years Harold and I were too young to help build a school. The school was built. They gave dances much. Our first job was to trap gophers. They were and basket socials to raise money which was a big success. destroying a[...]ught each two Lots of people came from Dillon to the dances. dozen traps and paid us a penny a gop[...]y decorated and As soon as we were old enough to drive a team we filled with all kinds[...]sister Irene was born. came to the dance. When their baskets came up for bid the[...]as the only two fellows that were determined to get their baskets kept girl for awhile. The three[...]By the time our school was finished the Noah Gees to play with us so rough. We liked it and went back[...]st girl friend, also more. The boys would dare me to do crazy things. I was two boys Harold a[...]my One time we had our old bay horse hitched to a sled, was age, Dorothy was a first grader. G[...]ch. Her husband all over the hills. They dared me to get on the horse Millard had a farm a c[...]and down the hill we went. It was real and I to spend a weekend with her. We always had a icy, th[...]s a big event on the dry farm. All We all had to work hard. We always had time for play, the[...]The major crop was winter buggies and went to Axes Canyon for a big celebration. It wheat out on the bench.[...]large fields of wheat. was Harold and my job to freeze a big freezer of ice cream Dad planted 20[...]d do as we had no irrigation water. It turned out to be church services. a rainy season, the beets did well. They grew to be huge in I was about 15 when my[...] |
| [...]Wife back, says we are going to eat supper at Frank's Water froze up.[...]north pasture again, called neighbor. Tried to find five-section drag, it's lost somewhere.[...]xed fence. Vet wants 6:30 sharp - Wife mad. to talk to me.[...]been something it ate. Paid Neighbor came to get blackfaced cow, vet $10.[...]ed. Sent Sprayer froze solid. Put sprayer in to thaw. check. Weaned pigs[...]in, trash barrels full again. Wife mad, hell to pay if I thaw out sprayer in her bathtub Put water hose in manure spreader to thaw it out. again.[...]THURSDAY Cleaned out hog house, started to spread manure. Rendering Water froze up. truck here to pick up dead steer.[...]. 6:45 - Wife mad, supper cold and kids want to go to town. Banker called. Check bounced. I l[...]rnace quit. Manure spreader froze solid. Need to spray pigs. Black-faced Sow loose in hog[...]th, same as miscounted like that, sure glad to see them all home. I'm getting for my corn.[...]cow still looks peaked. Vet said it might be wise to put wheels under her.[...]Wife mad, dinner cold, mother-in-law waiting to go shopping. Snowed last night, driveway[...]actor loader, changed clothes. to town for groceries. Took black-faced cow to the market, got $185. My neighbor Bla[...]called Truck won't start. Bad time to ask wife to pull me. neighbor, nobody home. Put black-[...] |
| County agent here, says I ought to plant black walnut trees All the neighb[...]ess. Fire truck stuck in driveway. Showed him how to get off the place.[...]Anyway it was $100 deductible (about what it cost to fix Put new steel door on hog house . it). Dealer called , wanted to know how I bent up drag so bad. Said Throw[...]line froze. Went to church in pickup. SATUR[...]Grandparents here , took kids to show. Wife say hog house is on fire. S[...] |
| [...]at the Joe Rebich ranch using mechanized tractor to run equipment. Ref 169.10. worked on the ranch at[...]moved to California in[...]was one of the first to[...]. Ref 169.09. his hay to dairies in Elk[...]he ranch, which included a new barn and adding on to the house. Phil and Joe Jr. joined Joe Sr. in wor[...]g the cattle. After Joe retired in the 1960's due to failing eye sight and poor health, Phillip[...] |
| Joe and Mary continued to spend part of the summer in the Centennial. In 19[...]Ray , Henry, and Daniel Rebich in the Small Horn Canyon for summer It was the spring o[...]brother Dolan Shaw and myself from Dillon to the ranch, In 1979 the Flynn property was sold to Jim Blake so called the Jake Place, where[...]rising above the lofty green pines, was something to the spring to move the cattle out of the hay fields until the[...]y by many grass is mature enough in the mountains to go to summer stormy winters; and a lonely Jack[...]tented In 1985, the Centennial land was sold to purchase land feeling that I will always rem[...]asturing the cows. Now it took only one afternoon to put cowboys, sheepmen, haying crews and ho[...]and check cattle instead of taking two hours just to I attended the Jake Flat School, Blacktail No. 3 as it was travel the 80 miles to the Centennial Valley . They could called,[...]a and Viola Sweet, Lucille, Anna trail the cattle to and from summer range in a day while is and[...]nd Lester Helvie. We had a took two or three days to truck the cows to the Centennial. one room log cabin, with no[...]the year of 1918. Dorothy Meine in the Smallhorn Canyon. Then their I remember the day[...]d. A summer pasture all joined making it possible to pasture all cowboy rode past the school house and stopped to tell us the the cattle in the same area.[...]onderful news. We stood up and pledged allegiance to the Improved irrigation methods and additiona[...]supplied as a result of the construction of Clark Canyon cut the logs and helped Mr. Thomas Sweet build the school Dam, allowed many acres to be irrigated that .could never be house. Mrs.[...]ll the fields were flood irrigated. that helped to make our school more interesting. Miss Jessie In[...]eacher on the Flat. After that the it much easier to irrigate and conserved water. In 1990 and sc[...]falo cattle. Beefalo is in Dillon. I walked to school the 2 ½ miles each day, a cross between b[...]One morning it was 52 below zero. My dad used to take cholesterol, with a very good beef taste.[...]On sunny days it was nice to walk along the road and[...]and down to Sheep Canyon.[...]Lillian Helvie and two small boys lived close to the Cazad[...]family . They were homesteaders too, but moved to Oregon[...]house was our first schoolhouse which he moved on to his[...] |
| [...]hours, or morning. Our groceries were brought to us once a week from Dillon by a truck driver from[...]ross the Flat, and as I think back over the years to that ever so humble home, what place could of bee[...]G PLANT The plant was located at the head of a canyon where Nicholia Creek and Cabin Creek come together to form Big Sheep Creek, about twenty miles s[...] |
| [...]wed a car and took them for June. We always hoped to be finished by the 4th of July. a litt[...]ach fleece was tossed into a cart, then thrown up to the tromper on an elevated platform. He stuffed t[...]then sewed the top of the sack and it was dropped to the floor, then stacked outside the building. Eac[...]low , structure with a tin roof. The tin roof was to provide heat from the sun to cause the grease in the wool to expand (the wool was sold by the pound) and also to make shearing easier. The sheep were crammed[...]inseed- based paint of different colors according to the owner's preference, black, red or green. The[...]nd hardy crew. About once a week they would drive to Dell, get drunk, and return just in time to start shearing at 7 a.m. The cook house was a[...]based in a rich history of cultural heritage off to Dell to finish his spree. and pioneering spirit. .. a history we call to the table regularly The sacks of wool must have sold for about 25 cents per as we struggle to win old and new battles alike. pound or less, bec[...]sheep's unique ability to prosper on almost any kind of Evidently we di[...]The first documented sheep were brought to Beaverhead work . There was little recreat[...] |
| [...]e days of free grass and no fences, it cost money to travel. Crossing on a toll bridge cost them a $40 fee and a toll road $40 as well. Another $40 was paid out to cross the Snake River. The band of sheep were tra[...]f 062.0JA. 1870 wool clip from this flock appears to be the first commercial wool shipped out of the c[...]hat purchased the Richard River. Every year three to three and a half million pounds Deacon ranch[...]on floor. Young men of high school age were hired to load the exceeded the sheep and lamb populat[...]lemen did not get represented the wool from three to four hundred thousand along very amicably.[...]erhead County. range led to a number of conflicts and range use perceptions.[...]by James opportunity brought many hardy pioneers to the Beaverhead Drummond, reference is made to Morse. "Mr. Morse was Valley. Among those to seek their fortune elsewhere were one of the first sheepmen to encounter trouble on the open immigrants drawn to one another by their common language range by cattlemen. About 1900 some cattle objected to his and culture. Upon their arrival in the Beaver[...]utbank. Morse armed his herders with 30-30 enough to homestead a place of their own. Others, in time,[...]Schultz, related an incident where dynamite tied to a wagon respected leaders.[...] |
| [...]that were mostly milking commercial sulfuric acid to two pounds of common salt and shorthorn[...]a gallon of water, there must be enough solution to cover the the first stockmen in Montana to develop a registered and hide. Soak it first in c[...]container. Earl and Wilbur, were to become well known for. Small hides may be removed after 12 to 24 hours but Until 1911 cows wer[...]heavier hides must remain in the solution for two to three Grasshopper valley to the Garrison ranch at Glen for spring days and must be stirred at intervals to assure even and calving and then trail[...]t Linkendoffer, he purchased more calves to run over and sell and pliable. Be careful in maki[...]ge Ditty ranch on the Beaverhead River as a place to[...]was developed, Bang's disease came close to putting the Tash families out of the livestock[...]the Union Pacific Railroad in Dillon and shipped to Santa Rosa CA, accompanied by Harry Tash Jr. and John Knoll, who rode along in the caboose to unload for feed and W. S. Tash ranch,[...]Also noteworthy is the ongoing determination to start over in the cow/calf business with the[...]ounty and the State of Montana who have continued to be family in the fall of 1939. This is an especia[...]ven generations. George M. Clemow a horse to ride from the DL Ranch as[...]railing the first rail car load of Hereford bulls to 46 - Beaverhead History No.2 |
| [...]a suitable and available site in mind, they drove to Bozeman and spent a day with a lady poultry exper[...]covering all phases of the business, from poults to marketing. They ordered 2,000 poults. The bre[...]ich had been developed through selective breeding to produce a proportionately larger amount of breast[...]he site obtained was the Charlie Place on the Axe Canyon road , which had acres of mature deciduous trees,[...]r lilies and lily pads; the kind that frogs liked to sit on. In the cabin were pieces of chairs,[...]eared of trash. Two sheep- wagons were brought in to provide sleeping space for the family, which incl[...]and require tender, loving care, but they grow up to be rugged, birds, preferring to live outside and roost _in high places. Besides[...]arlie built perches and placed poles from branch to branch.[...]of weathered, rough sawed 2x10 boards were used to The turkey ranch created much i[...]frequent , all having been forewarned to step lightly or wear performing tasks.[...]ver boots. Alice and Happy took turns once a week to go Alice' s younger sister, Edith , spent a day at the camp to town for supplies, laundry and recreation. build[...]was the roadrunners. This proved not to be the case at the constructed in the right plac[...]he turkeys never attacked a rattlesnake, but men to move it. The top was four feet wide and te[...] |
| surround the invader, forming a circle ten to twelve feet in the Norman Holden family and t[...]family Howell. They had kids going to school, so we would All the turkeys would com[...]fer, Charlie Brown, Oliver Kurtz, Charley and ran to the source of the commotion, blowing a trumpet[...]on the and sounding, "Charge!" The turkeys seemed to sense that Blacktail, Carter Creek, Huffm[...]and they gracefully stepped aside I went to school in Dillon until I was 17. I went to work to let a pair of legs through the inner circle to dispatch the at home in the spring until we got[...]nake alarm, the birds were quiet and time to go home and help with the crops. I worked on gentle, speaking in low tones to one another and to their ranches and dry farms for many years[...]involved in food production were moving westward to work I worked for Roscoe Cornell that[...]e armed services. Through a 1940, we went to Lala's homestead on the Blacktail. In the series[...]husband, Whitey spring of 1941, I went to work at the Graphite mine. I Palmer, made a temporary move to Oak Harbor on Whidbey worked there until 1946 when it closed. Then I went to Island WA.[...]lon on the Twin that the turkeys had been shipped to market and the Charlie Bridges highway. Whil[...]hat their brother, Roy In 1970, I had to retire at 62. Lala and I had 32 good Hansen, was[...]ing about two times Happy had made a decision to enlist in the army and a week and huntin[...]tarted the paper work with the Dillon Draft Board to enlist in the navy.[...]g back from the I came from Texas to visit my sister, Mrs. Hubert Smith, mountains to tell about the two thousand turkeys at the and I thought how nice it would be to own land in Montana Charlie place.[...]165.20 acres and later I was allowed to have 640 acres We came to Dillon when I was five years old. My dad,[...]of Amarillo TX, and I stepped My brother went to work. My sister was sent to Twin off the land and posted signs which said, "This marks the Bridges and I went to live with Mrs. Stollen. When I was northe[...]raised me. When I was seven years old, I started to 03 Aug 1920. Signed, Jessie Willi[...] |
| [...]homesteaders. I received an X, which had to be witnessed. The ranch is six miles a salary of[...]is location, Mike and Mary had thirteen children. to see if I had plenty of wood and supplies.[...]Under an act named "Intermarriage of to three of his sons, Bill, Ed and Jim. On 15 Jul 1955, Bill homesteaders," we were allowed to choose which homestead and Ed deeded the ranch to Jim and Marie Rebich. we would reside on. We chos[...]l School Number 2 and always had a picnic up Axes Canyon on the Fourth of July. Other canyons were Cottonw[...]al Montana Meridian has filed notice of intention to make the 3 year proof to establish claim to the land above described before F.A. Hazelbaker U[...], Register Aftrr proving up I leased the land to Bruce Mace and sons Herbert and Freeland Mace who[...]ck L-R: Poindexter and Orr Ranch. Later I sold it to the Maces. Sharon and Tom Rice. Sharon is daughter of Jim Rebich. The ranch now belongs to the Matador Company.[...]requiring Jim and Marie to move most of the buildings.[...] |
| They were able to save the calving barns, one garage and a chicken[...]he calving barn in photographs. They looked in to moving the house, but decided to build a new one as moving the old one would be qu[...]e took place in 1964 and 1965. They lost 39 acres to the new highway. C. Thomas Rice and Sharon Mic[...]y Stefonic Rebich near Barrett Station, used from to Dillon 07 Mar 1909-1965 when it was destroyed due to the construction of 1-15. Ref. I 66. 36. 1977 to run the ranch for Jim and Marie who wanted to retire.[...]changes to the land, Mike and Mary Rebich home n[...] |
| Changes in lifestyles from horses to machinery , flood irrigation to sprinklers and full bunk houses to part-time Horse Capital of the World employees[...]ecades horses were the center of the agricultural to water conservation. Tom and Sharon raise cattle,[...]rld and Beaverhead County raised some of the best to be and Simmental cross, and alfalfa hay. It's har[...]found anywhere. Horse sales were exciting events to attend work, but they love it as do their[...] |
| [...]r County Ground breaking ceremonies for Clark Canyon Reservoir, OJ Oct 1961. Ref 056.33.[...] |
| [...]les south of Dillon MT. When Lewis and Clark came to this area, they camped within two miles of the si[...]built. This place was called Two Forks. They had to pull their boats up the river. It took them four days from the site of Dillon to the site of Armstead. They needed horses beca[...]ad MT in 1960, before the construction of Clark Canyon Reservoir. Ref.138.19. could not go any further b[...]ey found out that the chief of this tribe grew to approximately 200 people and there were eight was[...]$50 a month and had 25 pupils. and who was trying to get back to her people, was an Indian The Northern Pa[...]e on the trip. The Chief supplied them with horse to and Pittsburgh, from Armstead to Salmon ID and stopped continue their journey. By[...]th these because it was too difficult to build along the Salmon River. Indians they made f[...]were shipped San Francisco as scrap iron and sold to Japan. and Clark took up their treasures and boat[...]ntinuing of the railroad the Montana State buried to hide from the Indians and were so pleased to have Highway Commission built the highway ri[...]Armstead and the Oregon Short Line continued to service Fortunate. Armstead on its run from Butte to Salt Lake City UT. About one hundred years la[...]County's most important Harry Armstead, had plans to build a concentrator to industry and Armstead grew to be the best shipping point for concentrate ore fr[...]ilver mines. He both cattle and sheep. had to have the coke shipped in by railroad. The ore, too, From 1920 to 1926, John T. Neal, now an 89-year-old had to be shipped out by railroad. The railroad he built[...]Ranch near where Armstead which parallels to an amazing degree the present United was built. F[...]By chance the Northern Pacific Railroad planned to build landowners giving up their land rights. a railroad from the area of Armstead to the Pacific Coast in In 1919, following seven dry years on the bench, a 1908 and immediately set to work on it. commit[...] |
| [...]tem and Grasshopper Valley, was sold in 1905 to the Silver Fissure John T . Neal continued to be the leader of the study. The Mining Co.[...]charge of the mining operation was first step was to raise money to finance the study. A total Harry H. Armstea[...]by law with Neal as president and and down to the Oregon Short Line Railroad, thus creating Joh[...]a logical site for a town. at Argenta, was hired to survey the Bench and on 06 Apr Dur[...]of land Railroad was in the planning stages to be constructed from and the amount of each homesteader's acreage which would the Oregon short Line to Salmon ID. The junction of the be irrigated.[...]it 's name from Harry H. Armstead. forced to give up their lands and seek a living elsewhere.[...]. Residents of there and the surrounding area had to move their homes and sell their land to the United States Government for storage space fo[...]ms. These women thought this custom would be good to start in Armstead and it proved to be highly successful because it brought friendliness, fun and laughter to all the Armstead area residents. The first king and queen to reign over the festivities were Parke Scott, son[...]ng and queen at the abandoning ceremonies in 1963 to reign forever. Slowly the waters of the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation's 6,400 acre Clark Canyon Reservoir, which will soon irrigate 21 ,800 acres[...]Ranch, with lots selling for Armstead 1906 to 1962 $75 ea[...]d been the junction of the and Red Rock River met to form the Beaverhead River. Red Rock and Salmon River Stage Line that ran to Salmon This location is now at the bottom of Clark Canyon ID from the railroad at Red[...] |
| [...]rown four bars or saloons, and a population of 75 to 100 people. 1943- Lillian Henneberry,[...]cker, Dale E. Metlen having a community gathering to Mrs. J. W. (Laura) Scott, 1949- Vert[...]ir serfs together following Christmas for 12 days to 1954- Ethel Fournier, Al Waldemar celeb[...]d 1963 - Bess Gravely, Parke Scott to reign forever Bess Gravely crowned king and queen[...]In the late 1950s, work was started on the Clark Canyon Thus was born a custom -- an eagerly awaited[...]nd of frontier friendliness -- an event which was to many moving to Dillon. Water covered the town in 1963, survive a[...]Armstead. residents from miles around were drawn to the schoolhouse as the Twelfth Night Party spread[...]e bow and fiddle wafted across the frozen prairie to reverberate against the towering mountains while[...]eled crowns (now in the Beaverhead County museum) to the appointees' heads, and then began the[...] |
| [...]several of you know so well . However, I do want to explorers, was his long lost sister Sacajawea. In the famous say that when I came to dillon to teach in our Normal diary is mentioned[...]I had Indian landmark, which some of us used to call the Point of been to Sheep Canyon, Bannack, Browne' s Lake and beyond Rocks. to Lake Agnes, Butte and its Butte-Duluth Mine, Greg[...]for this bit of history I have assembled, I wish to Madison, the Jefferson and the Gallatin. Although later, a acknowledge my indebtedness to "Montana Margins", the branch was know[...]ry of Southern Montana calls Noyes' "History" and to Mrs J.F. Woodside for her Beaverhe[...]rgetic miners, John White and party, on their way to the have endeavored to avoid lifting anything bodily, yet tried to Deer Lodge diggings, crossed from Idaho and followed the adhere to facts. Grasshopper Creek below the canyon and as they found good Undoubtedly men born in Spain came to the mountain prospects, some of them stayed to test the value. land at a very early time, and the very name of Montana Some went on to Deer Lodge but as they did not find ore was deriv[...]uantities nor so rich as they had hoped, returned to know that perhaps as early as 1747 Frenchmen had[...]hoshones who are credited with introducing horses to the good came the bad, Henry Plummer a[...]hey roamed and hunted from the Big Horn Mountains to Woods brothers followed up the North F[...]River to the head of the main divide between Idaho and[...]mped and hunted from the North Saskatchewan River to A saw pit was put up and Lott and D[...]d they had sluice boxes set up and began to pan out gold. the Rockies and at times ranged wes[...]Indian and took out only about $25 to $75 a day per group of eight paintings, some at R[...]om Armstead recorded 23 Sep 1862, granting to Harry Phleger the are mysterious piles of rocks a[...]curious wheel shaped pattern of stones, supposed to have water for mining purposes. Fo[...] |
| [...]orge Copley. This was taken out of Sage to trouble it had getting recogmt10n from Nebraska o[...]1863 on Horse Prairie Creek. Barrett sold to John Peterson "To Jonni Grants in 1911 and Shineberger moved to Red Rock. Fortien, who on Hundred & twe[...]s the sale of undivided quarter The first man to pan out a dollar's worth of gold was interest in and to claim 9 west, on the Dakota Lodge, Idaho Charlie[...]amp kettle for his Territory on 03 Aug 1863 to Moses Burris and J. D. Ritchie pan. White's claim was located at a place called Cedar Tree to satisfy judgement of Moses Burris against John Au[...]Stanley and Henry Zoller also recorded claims up to 01 Nov 1862. Of these men, most were very influen[...]bin in Oct 1862. Later the name Bannock was given to the settlement because of the peaceable tribe kno[...]ablished. Langford says that the first person to die in Bannack was W. H. Bell, who died of typhoi[...]annack, and it is Territory. He followed gold to Sutter 's Fort CA, Australia, true that Bannack w[...]George C. Chrisman to be appointed administrator of the Ther[...] |
| [...]of overcoat with one of the tails missing , said to have been Montana before the government in such a way that Montana caused by getting too close to a camp fire sometimes when was made a ter[...]islature convened 07 Dec 1863 . how far Clark was to go ." Now Clark ' s claim was recorded Four[...]eback and came home by way was given by John Ault to Jack Allport, in Dakota Territory. of San Fr[...]rain . Later he brought the first by the Board to purchase the jail built by the city council of sh[...]med rather unpopular it was changed . There seems to have been no debate whatever over the first girl,[...]Mrs. Henry Zoller is said to have held a private school in[...]family to the Yankee Flat, started a school in Oct 1863.[...]to the Historical Society of Montana" ,[...]of hand and when the stampede to Sidney Edgerton was appointed Chief Justice of[...]in Jun 1863, for a Territory in 1863 and expected to go to Lewiston. He left (later Park), first tim[...]The outlaws were menaces, not men who wished to better their fortunes. They outfitted in Ref090.28. only to whites but also to peaceable[...] |
| [...]teven every good man in the Territory and pledged to render Marshland at Big Hole Ranch on 16 Jan and after other impartial justice to friend and foe, without regard to clime, executions at Virginia City and Hell Gate Canyon, the creed, race or politics. " If there should be doubts in the outrages were brought to an end. mind of any as to full justification for the organization of the[...]ack, 12 Dec 1864. The Governor called the meeting to outrage were from an early date, daily occurrence[...]o they take the Oath of Allegiance to the United States. The record has been preserved.[...]ave furnished that the law allowed no one to be paid who did not swear our early American pioneers . The Vigilantes simply allegiance to the government that paid them. There was no punis[...]le, men more dissention. who were unfit to live in any community. The Vigilante When the capital was moved to Virginia City in 1865, the Oath reads: "We, the u[...]second. According to records in Washington, D. C. , the[...]It is said that a man came earlier to Bannack, with two head[...]spring of 1868. Although many came to the valley in the[...]d miners of 1860s. The first family to come with the intention of establishing[...] |
| [...]dria (b . ?), Robert I have not attempted to tell of the many interesting events (b. 1846), An[...]tus Graeter, in 1863, brought the first top buggy to --Elizabeth H. Luebben, Dillon Montana because he wished his wife to have a comfortable NSDAR State Regent, 1952 vehicle in which to ride. Dimsdale ' s "Vigilantes of Montana" was the first book to be published in Montana in Virginia City at the M[...]Fifty-Seven Years Down Memories Lane Trip to the States by Way of the Yellowstone and Missouri[...]from Alder Gulch to Beaverhead Canyon to begin J. Allen came with his father and the re[...]s cousin, James M. Ryan, his book, Allen returned to become clerk of his father's procured a charter from the legislature to build a wagon road court, published a newspaper f[...]printed his book, a 94 page volume on north to the mouth of Beaverhead Canyon to a point crossing news print, bound in cardboard.[...]Gate. gold dust. Only five or six copies are know to exist and at This enterprise cost about[...]0 a copy. One copy is implement was used to hurry this six-month job: horses, in the State Li[...]d were in evidence. Blasting, too, had to be done. outside the State. To the younger generation, $50,000 for a one-way roa[...]expensive because they had to be brought in from Salt Lake[...]City. Flour was selling at $30 to $50 per hundred, coffee[...]$4 a pound and potatoes $30 to $50 per hundred. Labor,[...]Beaverhead Canyon and succeeded in his life's work[...]among the early settlement in the state and canyon for Helena after selling his interest in the stor[...]ity, and its first post office was Toll Gate to T.M. Barrett. Mr. Ryan also succeeded and at so designated. The name was changed to Argenta on 15 Feb his death was cl[...] |
| The site was near where they were to begin work on the much talked of Toll Bridge.[...]Tendoy, the Bannack Chief, would proudly point to the rock and say, "Heaping big beaver," as would[...]magine their said all he could do would be to pull the stitches as the work plight when they sa[...]en, the Honorable John A memory running back to years ago when I was on the F. Bishop, was one of the first to cross the bridge, and of train going to Deer Lodge in company with my sister is that the[...]the Mentioning the name of Tom Touher brings to mind an canyon road through to Pleasant Valley in 1866. " accident which befell[...]ry Shortly after Henneberry and Ryan moved to the Toll Gate, hill, when the wheelers broke thro[...]and portion of the nostril. north of Clark's Canyon, the coach was stuck and all the With unflinching courage, he unhooked his mules and drove men had to "pile out" and shovel mud. Mr. Word did his them to our home and insisted that father should sew the[...]a political meeting gaping wound. Father refused to do this and Mr. Touher, down the line at which he was to speak and his last clean crazed with pain, swore[...]the finest he explained his predicament to mother and asked if he needles and white silk thread and commanded father to play could get one of Mr. Henneberry's collar[...]Gladly she got a bunch of collars, but how to get them to was holding the candle fainted and my brother, An[...]painful ordeal. anywhere from the chin to nearly the jaw bone, so mother Mr. Touher bra[...]the collar day was on his way. Father advised him to see a doctor, around his neck.[...] |
| [...]bow tie and looked considerably The canyon was always called and known as Beaverhead "dresse[...]in his pocket and how the name of Ryan's canyon crept in, I do not know, and remarked any favor h[...]nless some of the travelers found it an easy name to a pleasure. Mother replied that his advice and prestige in remember--there was no canyon other than the Beaverhead getting the charter thr[...]n in a world which often Many facts have come to my knowledge from personal rejects the commonplace and pays tribute to those who talks with many of the men who lived in[...]stage under the garish footlight building of the canyon road and they always mentioned of c[...]women and children in Beaverhead were ordered to take the Father was the senior partner and being the cattle buyer first stage going to Bannack or Virginia City. The latter for their sh[...]and with my sister who was past five through the canyon to Pleasant Valley. He was impressed yea[...]old, we clamored into the with the scenery of the canyon and noticed what a "cut off" afternoon st[...]ral. Many of the coach was a real thrill to us youngsters. of the freighters mentioned this trail on their trips to Virginia The "big hill" mentioned previousl[...]of the influential citizens and contention" to the travelers. The rule of the stage coach was al[...]that at the foot of the hill all the men had to get out and Many are still living in Beaverhe[...]can yet see the sweat trickling did not hug close to the Rattlesnake Cliff nor did it cross the do[...]ch; instead we traveled over the engine to shame. big hill back of the Mooney bridge, droppe[...]Spur and traveled through the spur on to the Sisters Hospital in Virginia City from the Bi[...]is the Wheeler Hotel. different parts through the canyon, the road was changed My sister was asked her name by a lad twice her age to from the original and it must be remembere[...] |
| [...]n 1868 father and Ryan moved their stock of goods to Father and Johnny Welsh were the princi[...]a general outfitting store and catered but little to the hatched in father's house; I can recall ho[...]was only a box filled with rocks. They pulled him to Estes located the stage station for Gilmer, Salis[...]a joke and for many years after told the incident to filed on a homestead and built the first frame ho[...]in in the Ashbaugh cabins--where sister was born--to their new stealing the Treasury Box, was a[...]t rays of sunlight the road from the Toll Gate to Pleasant Valley. in Beaverhead' s mansion, as it[...]the confusion, the 1871, mother and family moved to Ashbaugh cabin--Ryan in fire truck r[...] |
| [...]n his declining years, he willed all his holdings to a Big Hole People young cou[...]In 1901, father, mother and my sister Ella moved to Deer Lodge; in 1912 mother died, and after this s[...]and Tyson. the writer, under whose roof he passed to his eternal reward That was the main part[...]ce out. Margaret Gleeson dedicated her article to the memory of In 1917 Frank Husted a[...]was then sold to Bill Ferguson to Ben Mallon to Ray Lewis & Clark Expedition . . . . . . . . . . . 1805-1806 Dooling to Carl and Gene White to William Miles to Dan Father Desmet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1840 Verbance and now to a man by the name of Foxley. Great Beaverhea[...]named Jones, I think two brothers. Then it went to people Sunshine Highway 91[...]. . . . . . . . . . . . . mid 1980s Tongs sold to George Dodgson who sold to Ole[...] |
| [...]ived at Wise River on that ranch that now belongs to Donald Jones. Al left it to his son-in- law, James Aiken, who sold to Bill Dodgson who sold to Loren Ware who sold to Leslie Jones. Dick Truman took up land up Wise River. This was sold to George Dodgson to Ernest McKenzie to Walter and Leslie Jones. Log house where Minerva[...]ne. Ref.077.34A. land up Wise River that was sold to Arnie Hjelmstad sold to Harry Bennett to Bud Stallman. Land taken up by Ben Butler is now owned by Jones. Ben Ross sold to Charlie Lambert to Maurice Ethier and Big Hole[...]25 Feb 1939 now after Verbance had it, it is sold to Foxley. Years ago, the mail would go from Divide to Dewey to The Big Hole Valley is the largest and most populous Fish Trap to Wisdom. In the winter it was taken by sled[...]is snowed up again. That statement doesn't it got to going from Divide to Wisdom by truck and I think mean much until we[...]Commissioners be invited to the Big Hole at this time, to see After John Pendergast gave up the stage, an Ellwood what the residents face in trying to get to Butte. The Butte took it. He was a brother to Bob. Then Lowell (father of stage for Wisdom[...]made the passengers and mail are conveyed to Wisdom by an round trip in one day. Willard took[...]mpke took over and now day trip from Butte to Wisdom. his son, Jack, has it. They come from Dil[...]ove Ral~ton. around through the Big Hole and back to Dillon. It took three hours to make that one mile the other day . He Verne just now told me Charlie Miller had the stage had to jack the car up five times and shovel snow from b[...]nett drove the first under it. He carried planks to help get the car out of snow truck in the area fo[...]forced to endure the privations that face us. Our bu[...] |
| [...]heaviest snow removal equipment was unable to blast out minister had been sent for to conduct the service, but he portions of the hard-packed drifts. Mr. Lovell made one failed to arrive because it was impossible to travel. Friends trip with a team of horses an[...]ddy road man at Wisdom, and Glassey offered to fly the mail in his and a team had to be sent for. P[...]month. This is the time the ranchers are required to ship ranches and the "outside." this stoc[...]rachutes on mail days and ranchers are attempting to drive their herds to rail at Divide. attaches one to each mail drop. His plane, equipped with ski Catt[...]minutes, dropping cause heavy shrinkage and loss to the ranchers. bundles of mail a[...]seldom as well as any who are venturesome enough to attempt a fails to toss his deliveries within 30 yards of their ranch journey to Butte or Anaconda by car are abandoning the[...]fame as a stunt flier and has been a even attempt to drive on the ice of the river.[...]approximately 60 of the predators have fallen to the pilot's Butte newspaper, 25 Feb 1939 guns. "To a pilot who can shoot a coyote while flying his[...]10 Mar 1939 A familiar visitor to Butte from the Big Hole country has[...]ary for 68 -[...] |
| [...]e that took place in the 20-year period from 1880 to 1900 was reprinted Big Hole Update 1[...]The prosperous ranches and fine homes have come to the In 1880 this was the summer range for th[...]clime for winter. No one but a fool would attempt to make tissue of gravel mounds. Gold there[...]dare a home here. Utterly impossible it would be to make a say from our vantage point of h[...]now the property of the S6 people. In To look on "The Valley of 10,000 Stacks" basking in[...]he surrounding blue mountains, is an their minds to chance the valley.[...]s here in the Big Hole. The hay is the best to be found any place. It will fatten, without grai[...]l that can be fattened. Our beef cattle are sent to Chicago, Omaha, Seattle, Tacoma, and last but not least, to Dawson City. Men who came here 10 to 13 years ago without anything have their checks[...]our Dillon banks and have property from $10,000 to $75,000 in value--made from legitimate ranching[...]locate with us, and though they may not be able to make quite as much as the "old timer," they certainly will do well. To the man who has money to invest, we would say--come and look over the res[...]s, with the Grasshopper and Wise River mountains to our south and east. All of these ranges have mine[...]ncis, and Bessie and Frank H. Francis. foresight to invest will reap his reward.[...] |
| [...]ell as mail. These four are fueling up for a trip to Centennial Valley. Ref.91.3918.Dingley.[...] |
| [...]ater during this trip (March 1949) Miller changed to his snow plane to complete the trip. Ref.91 .3911.Dingley.[...] |
| [...]tion. Apparently, the damned locals were to blame for shooting the birds and thus the[...]grandmother. Ref.91.3518. these things are fit to eat, so I've been told. 1930s: G-men came to condemn the land for a Refuge. 1950s-[...]udied and fences built. It |
| decide to let water out of Island Park Reservoir to help Dillon, to come "keep house" for the two bachelors and in sw[...]homestead if she was interested. She came to the valley , fell Farmers are not endangered yet;[...]two years of reminding and downright nagging to get Henry few fish found are used for fish fry by Bird Boys. A to work on that cabin. Conservation First. Centennia[...]re road is without the fences; Bird Boys threaten to trespass the snowmobilers as they have no right to use the county road. We all hope the Bird Boys do[...]could become endangered also. Now it is down to a one-man show at the refuge, being wilderness, no cows and all, but it still takes a half-dozen to write reports about what each other does. Sure hope they don't have to send them back to the shrink in Pocatello for counseling on how to get along at headquarters again. A bunch of fish experts come in to figure out why there are no fish in this wilderness. They find that beaver dams occlude the stream to spawning fish. Refuge personnel feel the fish wil[...]everal now transplanted to Princeville IL families and single men had t[...]ecause in the early 1930s, the government decided to one of the most beautiful places in Montana. Rach[...]uy up many of the ranches and homesteads in order to Orr, wife of William C. Orr, named the valley in[...]tnership at that time and they were taking cattle to the Discussion still goes on as to whether the government is valley for the first ti[...]obably went up the savior or villain to the valley, if the status of the swan is Blacktai[...], gave it a try. The one is fortunate enough to be able to spend a night at a next year, Henry convinced his[...]k arthritis that had brought her millinery career to a halt in up into the sky.[...] |
| [...]ls, and their voices sound Clark Canyon Dam crisper. The sky is blacker, the moon fuller,[...]nds of the East Bench Unit is dawn, and went home to do chores and start another day. provided by the Clark Canyon Dam on the Beaverhead The Centennial Valley w[...]r up Prairie Creek. The two streams combine to form the your spine with its isolation and loneli[...]River to form the Jefferson River. Clark Canyon Reservoir, with a total capacity of 261,000[...]of about 6,400 acres. Clark Canyon Dam, an earth- and[...]irrigation season, water is released to the river and diverted[...]from Clark Canyon Dam. The Barrett Diversion Dam,[...]serving the existing Canyon Canal, consists of a concrete[...]Irrigation has been practiced in Children coming to school in upper end of the Centennial thi[...]important to properly time the irrigation water for fav[...] |
| Alfalfa hay continues to constitute the main forage crop on the unit. Beef[...]ruction work on the East Bench Unit ran from 1961 to 1965. Clark Canyon Dam, spillway, and outlet works were scheduled fo[...]y, 6 miles of U.S. Highway 91, 4.4 miles of Clark Canyon Dam as the water began to fill the valley where once the town of Armstead w[...]within the reservoir area. The site of Clark Canyon Reservoir had important historical associations going back to the Lewis and Clark Expedition of 1804-1806. On t[...]On the Eastern route, Captain Clark crossed Clark Canyon Reservoir showing the waters collected and the bo[...]orks of the Red Rock and Horse Prairie on his way to the Yellowstone River. Decades later, prospe[...]rt Hall on The recreational potential of Clark Canyon Reservoir was the Oregon Trail followed the pione[...]that 75,000 recreation visitors would Beaverhead Canyon and Medicine Lodge (Old Corinne Trail) use the waters annually, with picnicking, boating, fishing to their various gold fields. Through Beaverhead and[...]were Most of these early predictions have proven to be valid. laid. Montana was organized as[...] |
| [...]The central situation of Dillon will be the key to its be enhanced in value, besides they help to make the place prosperity. The agricultural a[...]plying in the Our town is bound to keep on growing and these manufacturing of machin[...]supplied and shipped from a apparent to every citizen who thoughtfully considers the dist[...]eat advantages Dillonites should not rely on them to build up the town. We should use every available effort to promote our own growth. This can be done b[...] |
| [...]et 1897, taken by George E. Jewell. Teams belongs to John Sutherland and Henry Seijken. Ref 087[...] |
| [...]Armstrong and Jap Earl (formerly county clerk) as to what should be the name of the town. One wished it to be called Glendale, the other Clifton. To settle it, the two names were written on a chip,[...]g camp showing west end of town. See descriptions to numbers below. Co building[...] |
| [...]of Henry Knippenberg. miles to the east. Within its boundaries are endless miles[...]Lewis and #16 Tramway across road bought charcoal to smelter from Clark, who went[...]nly a short period. Upper road on right leads to Canyon Creek. Road in middle right edge of photo is road to school house. Back of barn and slightly west is h[...]odge. There was daily stage service from Red Rock to Salmon ID. The fare was $2 from Red Rock to Grant and $4 from Grant to Salmon. Grant was privileged to have postal service from 1899 to 1967. G. A. Decker succeeded Frank B. Blair as po[...]tion of the G & P railroad, many businesses moved to Armstead or Dillon.[...]5 Jan 1836, were the first permanent settlers and to The following article was judged third[...] |
| [...]10 feet high in the clear: logs to be 8 inches at the small end:[...]--Mary Barrett to be hewed on the inside only: Ed[...]since Mary wrote this corners to be dove tailed: essay, many of the ranches have been sold to "outsiders" but five ribs on roof and to be pealed: weren't most of us from s[...]Barrett was born in Ireland. roof to project one foot all around: roof to be covered close with inch lumber laid close:[...]of gravel on top: cornice on eaves to be 8 inches: It is a quietly b[...]River, arrived at a front door to be 2'8"X6'8": point where they c[...]se their boats. Their back door to be 2'6"X6'6". guide, Sacajawea,[...]eparation. Inciden_tally, I take this opportunity to the people of the valley could buy small necessities. correct this guide's name. Contrary to mispronunciation,[...]opposed to the commonly used "Bird-woman."[...]The explorers were able to obtain horses from them to[...]lived to bestride the mighty Missouri!"[...]trappers and hunters in the area from time to time. No[...]ndians made their homes in the valley. It appears to have[...]yenne territory in Montana. was similar in design to their Dillon town house. In the[...]Shoshones made up hunting parties to travel into Montana to[...]Lemhi were forced to go east into Cheyenne territory to find Amesville was located 2 ½ miles west of[...]ear's supply of hides and food; also, when handy, to Grant. There was also a large hotel called the Bl[...]rsuit. Usually they the establishments were moved to where Grant is today. made it back to the Lemhi valley, but sometimes there were The sc[...]d Butte--a simply because it was well-liked, easy to say, and easy to well-known rocky outcropping in the va[...] |
| [...]Creek brought a sudden population of nearly 5,000 to · the town called Bannack. People flocked in-- many on their way to earlier strikes in California, Oregon or Colorado[...]m Utah, where they interrupted their travels west to come to Montana. The need for supplying Bannack wi[...]freight wagons traveling from the Union them to fatten up on his meadows and sell to other travelers Pacific Railroad at Corinne UT an[...]start in the cattle business; Missouri River, far to the north. After a few years, when plus, he[...]k with butter. Later, after having sold the ranch to for new camps, but a few stayed. This was the beg[...]son, Herman, and daughter, Alice one of the first to arrive in Bannack. He came in Nov 1862 Cragholm. It was sold around 1955 to John Casey. with Pat Holihan, sometimes spelled O[...]established themselves on come quite early to the Prairie, also from Ireland, and had Horse Pra[...]married Pat until its sale a number of years ago to John Erb of Idaho Desmond. This was the orig[...]aving been a long- when the Nez Perce were trying to escape to Canada, there time County Commissioner. were raids by these Indians. That caused Mr. Holihan to Dave Metlen was another man who was dr[...]lure of the gold fields. In order for the Indians to obtain medicine and bandages after Utah he jo[...]Prairie Creek. He married a woman who had come to He also came from Ireland and went west in search of gold. Bannack to teach. This led him to Salt Lake City, where he and his partner,[...]ke in Bannack and original ranch was sold to Floyd Skelton many years ago. headed north. Howe[...]ctive in community affairs, was a 4-H him decide to settle in the valley, some miles short of[...] |
| [...]cipal freight route, the Corinne Trail, from Utah to Bannack. His holdings were sold to Mr. Rife , whose wife, Katie, was a niece of Mart[...]r sons, Ike and Edgar, until its sale around 1955 to the Briggs ranch. Another ranch on Medicine L[...]sed horses. They were used for all freighting and to haul mining products from Bannack and other minin[...]ed for the building of the railroad from Armstead to Idaho . Later the ranch was sold to Ras Hansen. This ranch runs both sheep and cattle, one of the few in the area to do so. It is owned by a son, Leonard, and his fam[...]s Association. Tom, Dick and John Pierce came to the valley very early . The latter two brothers d[...]te from the bird. After this , the ranch was sold to Drs. Morse and Donovan of Butte. They operated th[...]ied Around 1916 a neighboring ranch belonging to Louis James Selway and they owned the r[...]rson had eventually sold it and moved to Dillon. It is presently come from Norway many yea[...]owned by people from Ohio. retired and returned to Norway. Early in the twentieth century other people who came to When the owners of another ranch were killed[...]ng, and also are packers Subsequently, he sold it to John Brenner, who had come and guides f[...], the one surviving son , ranch had passed on to the third generation, it being Charles, and a gra[...]oughout the years, having served in the ID to the Union Pacific at Armstead, but it made many L[...]nce boasted two saloons , Another early-comer to the valley was William "Billy" a hotel, a[...]a ranch in the upper end the ranch until its sale to McCaleb and George Hughes of of the valle[...]t into a fine spread. the 1950s when Denton moved to Australia. 84 - Beaverhead History No .2 |
| [...]om made on Trail Creek. the area on their way to the railroad to be shipped. She sold The problem of education for children has always been her ranch to Albert and Mildred Decker and retired to live difficult on account of the distances[...]the establishment of a school in Grant, and moved to Butte. Mr. Christie passed away in 1974.[...]y long hours on that time on, cattle were trailed to Armstead and shipped; the bus which picks[...]t by truck. Clark Canyon Dam. During the period from the time of the r[...]crops or any amount of alfalfa land and attempted to raise crops, but this was not successful hay,[...]grassland. and there was not enough land on which to raise cattle, so Reseeding, and spraying o[...]n, have resulted in increased production of added to their holdings.[...]p federal and state land for summer range to supplement their homesteads in the lower Trail Cr[...]ed as the barest outline of the rest and was able to buy out the others. This was built into story of Horse Prairie. To do it credit would result in a a very good ranch[...]ach ranch has its own story. All have contributed to the Horse Prairie has been always primarily c[...]d sheep on Bloody Dick Creek and from there north to the Grasshopper Valley. A stage line ran from Salmon ID to Red Rock (which[...]me of and built a little cabin, intending to locate, but the long hard their inception.[...]In Mar 1877, Henry Hackett, who had come to Bannack early days of placer mining at Chinatown[...]me of it. nearly starving. Hackett returned to Bannack, then bought There was a mine on Dark Horse Creek during the early food enough to last them until spring, when the Moore 1900s and ore was hauled to the railroad with steam- famil[...] |
| B. 0. Fournier came to Warm Springs and located in The firs[...]et and the built-in tub of wood Previous to the advent of mail from Bannack, it was was about[...]size of the room . The water ran impossible to cross the divide in the winter except by into the[...]oes. At that time, freight teams were busy in the to make the water comfortable for bathing. A few yea[...]ly fall hauling provisions into the Basin, enough to last later Mr. Fournier built a cement plunge tha[...]s not permit giving all the had lived since 1884, to a place upon the Bloody Dick names of e[...]here yet or in Creek. After a few years they sold to the Horse Prairie Beaverhead County.[...]Millogue 1886, Association and in 1890 they moved to a more satisfactory Herman Jackson 1884, An[...], Kramer 1897, Finsley 1897, and did all he could to help the community grow. They Findley 1[...]into the Hole. The place across the river he sold to his oldest son, Basin. In a few short years t[...]into ranches. Where there is one ranch owner now, to George Clemow. Then he retired from business and previous to 1900 four to six families lived on smaller moved to Dillon.[...]28 to be pitched from the ground into a rack or wagon a[...]into use and was a great help to hay diggers. Then an Antone Jackson purchased[...]the idea and decided after the death of his wife to give up ranching. of mower wheels placed under[...]kson family for easier for the horses to pull. Now we have buck rakes and years. Mr. and M[...]s. Jorgen Jorgensen, In 1900 Mr. Jackson sold to J. G. Erwin, then they sold as teacher. The Jackson and Lapham children were the only to Dunc Wadams . The Jacksons moved to a ranch northeast students. The school house was moved down to Jackson in of town (which is now owned by his old[...]f the lane one-half mile Jackson) and later moved to Dillon. Dunc Wadams sold the south of Jackson. Children came from miles around, on hotel to Hiram Lapham, who still owns and runs this hotel.[...]g the spring and summer; later the school Jackson to Harry Davis.[...] |
| [...]Dishno with another baby. " The Dishnos moved to Dillon The first wedding took place in the ha[...]as the editor, after a few years moving the plant to Wisdom and selling to Mr. Williams.[...]Baby Marie Davis - 1909 sawmill belonging to Bert Cozad. Ida F[...]dent, Martin Jackson had a fine horse and wishing to win Vemald Henry Edwards - 1914-1920 the race, started to warm up his horse, turning right about ([...]Edwards) half way up the track, then coming back to the starting line. Milton Bean - 1861-1943 (hu[...]Ellis J. Bean - 1898-1941 (killed in logging to the halfway mark, turned right, there.fore losing[...]an - 1884-1909 (Midget) Dillon, a distance of 30 to 50 miles. It would be necessary Mark 0. Bean - 1888-1918 - Pvt. 163 Depot Brig. on such occasions to drive both distances or go by (d[...]owa) horseback, making a long time for a patient to wait.[...] |
| [...]nd infant - 1891-1909 easy access to fresh water, a shallow crossing of the (wife[...]ed in childbirth, Beaverhead River to Bannack City and, most of all, because mother[...]jump was nearby. Chief Tendoy was known to camp there Cleve C. Jones - 1895-1959[...](son of Philip J. and Rachel Jones) Last to be buried in this cemetery. Rachel C. Jones - 187[...]1930s, property belonged to William 0. "Bill" Smith and John A. Jones - 1848-[...]outh Fork Stables west near the river closer to the house. The river itself has of Dillon. During[...]nnack City and Virginia City from 1869 moved to its present location in the 1940s. The small cabin to 1873. was moved to its current location in the 1920s and its sod[...]stage stop was constructed was roof changed to a shingled roof. It is also now stucco. later dee[...]ial place home Grant as part of a 160 acre parcel to Isaac Cornell, a private over the last 1[...] |
| [...]tana brother to Wm. M . Miller, Sr. son of Amelia Hubbard and[...]nsin strychnine in the sugar bowl to kill him rather than pay d. Dec. 21, 1919 Mont[...]erch New York before coming to this country.) Goldie May Wetmore Buries - b. Aug[...]ie and Cecil Wetmore) only to be killed when his saddle horse fell with him and[...](1st to be buried in cemetery) Matt Collins (ranch[...] |
| [...]Salmon ID High School football team came to Lima for a game. They found a wondrous thi[...]if things were okay. Lead and trailing trucks had to be[...]shift began at midnight there would often be four to six[...]to house twelve engines, it had capability to make any repair[...]loss of business and we never had adequate room to house[...]dim lair. The machine shop When an engine got to the service track, many things w[...] |
| [...]ng. Helper engines clanked out of town, south to Dubois to help some freight over the Great Divide at Monida[...]nt of his home and drug store in Lima MT. He came to Lima as and thermometer of[...]n all other departments. The town was created to serve those who serviced the Scient[...]hour. In 1893 such an avalanche swept six people to their The town still exists, the energy is not ye[...]f Interstate 15, halfway between Butte work, glad to have a job. In the mid forties when I worked[...]autumn of 1893 brought excessive snowfall, forty to was stripped of machinery and all things of utili[...]ober and was set afire. The largest building ever to exist in town November. The east slope o[...]an execution of Yet the miners continued to climb daily and descend 3,500 sort; people could not bear to watch. feet in[...] |
| [...]he mine but survived. from Idaho Falls to West Yellowstone, Monida was a little There wa[...]ing-off place for mining engineers devised a plan to set off several heavy Yellowstone National[...]the tum of the century. His auto-livery catered to tourists snow and placed the charges. It brought[...]946, and 1912 Jeffery had commodious tool tramway to the Cleopatra.[...]ts of down windshields. They were successors to the stagecoach Glendale and Melrose came to the aid of their mountain and the three-s[...]well. They could be as ornery as a mule to start and more The price of silver continued to decline. Glendale, than one owner, after[...]ank and fractured his wrist, returned temporarily to the Silver, an element, has many uses aside fr[...]nown for 1933 eight countries signed an agreement to limit production his toastmastership, claimed he made the change from mule so as to stabilize the price of silver. to motor rather violently. One of his white long ear[...]ng out of the corral. Came one walk the last mile to explore the winding streets and the o[...] |
| Just to be contrary, the mule hurried right back. Westcot[...]The rock can be seen with binoculars from Clark Canyon spouts of yesteryear.[...]h the hole in the rock. hills in high. Accustomed to application of only a whip when he needed more po[...]shift. So the Jeffery got full throttle downgrade to make the upgrade in one fell swoop. He turned[...]o a can and cooked some of the eggs he was taking to market while awaiting rescue.[...]ranch school of the Medicine Lodge District hiked to the rock from the Carl School children[...] |
| [...]a large scale involving transportation from place to place. Dillon was a town of commerce[...] |
| [...]informed the Tribune that he and the horses to one side of the road where there was an Mr. Selwa[...]and there being a large load of hay on the field to the corral at the house.[...]e north been no accident. of the lane leading to the house, they were met by Mr. He i[...]bout 10 a.m. Mr. Selway to his home, then came to town and took Dr. The horses became frightened, he said, and Mr. Selway Poindexter out to attend the injured man as quickly as waved his hand and yelled at the driver of the automobile to possible. stop; that the team became unmanageable, turned out to the George Metlen, John Orr and Finlay C[...]. Metlen tells the Tribune himself and Mr. Selway to the ground. that before Mr. Selway waved his hand to them, Mr. Vogler[...]spoke up and said, "We will have to poke along here until[...] |
| [...]Mr. Vogler immediately stopped and went back to the scene of the accident and the rest of his sto[...]ghtened, and that Mr. Vogler had gone as far over to the east side of the road as possible, and that he thought the accident was entirely due to the young Swede pulling the horses over upon the[...]tions, they rendered every service in their power to their beloved husband, father and brother. Hi[...]h his horse drawn bakery wagon, others were eager to try Others such as the Olmsted Stevenson[...]s. were quick to make the move. Frank McFadden and hi[...] |
| Most commercial drivers were cautious, probably due to both their reputations and their potential loss o[...]Who wanted to use a[...] |
| [...]ry respect and fully equipped , a wonderful asset to the community. Years ago one of Beaverhead' s[...]hospital , with the provision that the money was to be used for that purpose after Barrett M[...]191.24. it had been increased by other endowments to $50,000. For many years no addition roo[...]of single rooms, the maternity ward, of was made to the fund , although a large sum of interest was[...]r apartments. The women's ward is on the intended to donate the sum of $100,000 to the building of a first floor. hospital. Sh[...]ent, which contains a increase the endowment fund to $50 ,000. modern operati[...]ating room, and an X-ray room, fitted with opened to the public in June 1923. modern and expensive apparatus, are also to be found in the The hospital is a beautiful t[...]board of county On the first floor , in addition to the offices and reception commissioner[...] |
| [...]At the present time (1972), the executive board to A milestone in the development of Be[...]the old building , diagnostic services; also to carry out a program of research the young men of Dillon volunteered their services to make that would be of importance to the people of Southwestern a new hospital a reali[...]ined in trust, increasing by earnings and further to plan and execute the construction of a new facili[...]vate At present Gile Mitchell has been chosen to head the laboratories in the west. group[...]nd as Hazelbaker of the Executive Board was named to the a result of his observations and the advice of scientists and administrative group to facilitate communications between technicians was able to set up one of the finest equipped the two organiz[...]ratories in the Inter-mountain West. Basin agreed to serve as did Ray Curtis and Roy Cornell.[...]al merchants and builders, making direct returned to Dillon to practice following his training and contri[...]Dr. was Jim Williams who was recommended to the organization Albert Juergens had practiced in Dillon 21 years, coming to by Mrs. Edith Koontz, head of the Montana St[...]ity of Michigan and in St. Louis City service to the farmers and ranchers of Southwestern Hospital[...]e present Beaverhead Laboratory wide, from Alaska to Africa, and two stints in the medical locat[...]ct. medical diagnostic work was transferred to the new Barrett[...]The agricultural diagnostic equipment was donated to hospital. He came to Dillon each Thursday and was on call[...] |
| chair and native of Dillon. The equipment sent to Bozeman from the Beaverhead Laboratory was valued[...]breakdown of the lab, the moving of the equipment to the new sites were carried out by Louis Hayes, wh[...]ness forced his retirement. He has since returned to his native Idaho at the end of the last school te[...]pment, including test tubes and flasks were taken to the Montana State University by Mr. Hayes, the re[...]sfer of the equipment from the abandoned building to the new labs. The laboratory has been support[...]time and personal funds to provide a facility for those in Two of the fi[...]are. Pickman and Dr. Howard. Dr. Howard came from Canyon A firm from Billings was engaged to construct and City OR with his seven sons.[...]orth Oregon. The facility Dr. L. C. Ford came to Lima as a representative of the was first n[...]rned by a Utah and Northern Railroad. Others came to other towns in seven-member Board of Directors consisting of the the county, some to settle, others to move on to more individuals named above. l[...] |
| and the sale of ten-year interest-bearing debentures to the program), Wisdom Ambulance ($25,000 for[...]or, Parkview vacancies on the board. The decision to sell the home to Acres Convalescent & Nursing Home, has led to the Progressive Care Centers in Sep 1975 was larg[...]gulations. organizations dedicated to the service of the community. Following the s[...]bligations, Special recognition is extended to Harold Petersen for his the board deliberated at length as to the disposition of the service as treasurer since 1965 and to Margaret Hagenbarth $197,392 of funds accumulated[...]Officers and Directors in continued as secretary to the board. 1997 are:[...]ce president- Serious consideration was given to dissolution of the Margaret Hagenbarth, 2n[...]Cornell, Corporation and contributing the assets to another exempt secretary-Cecil Jones, trea[...]Petersen, and entity. It was eventually resolved to change the name to directors-Tom Clemow, Tom Welch and Byron Martinell. Beaverhead Foundation, change the entity to a not-for-profit The holders of the Parkv[...]nt and operating foundation and amend the by-laws to restate the Nursing Home debentures were Harry and Helen Andrus, purpose of the foundation to "assist in the welfare and needs Clifford Bay,[...]the new organization. Additional members elected to the Rose Clemow, Berg Christensen Company, Roscoe and Elsie board to fill vacancies over the ensuing 20 years were Tom[...]and Margaret Hagenbarth, Lois Burns as secretary to the board. The initial request Hazelb[...]he sale. Of this, over $250,000 has been retained to and Hazel McGrath, Theodore McFadden, Eugene further its purpose, bringing the current fund balance to McFerran, Dale Metlen, Wayne Montgomery, D[...]ick When Ken Bandelier was invited to attend a Salt Lake Response Unit ($1,365 for equi[...]3,587 for Pagers, manikins invited Nellie to take a day's leave from her elementary and mobile[...]tern Montana the conference, she decided to go along. College ($5,271 for nursing home[...] |
| [...]nvisioned many ways that a computer could be used to teach first graders and other L-R: Ken and Nellie[...]the Bandelier's elementary students. recent visit to Washington D. C. to receive a grant for more than $97,000. Ref 199.18. At the conference the Commodore company offered to give any interested school first time tha[...]computers in their classes. 10. Nellie's request to Tom Delaney, district superintendent With benefit of a grant from M. J. Murdock Charitable to purchase the two computers met with a denial "It[...]college was able to purchase microcomputers and software She continued to pursue the idea of buying computers for to set up a microcomputer resource room in the basem[...]er resource room patterned after received a grant to purchase the computers for the school one that he had observed at Saint Martins College in Lacey and to write the teaching programs. During the summer sh[...]in the Mary Innes school were the first students to the college faculty and students their first opportunity to receive the benefits of this computer instruction[...]econd microcomputer center and Ken had begun to use the large mainframe computer at an offi[...]r seeing the potential college instructors began to use more computers as of desk top computers, he h[...]programs for the elementary school, she continued to use sabbatical leave to study the computer applications in schools them in her classes and trained other teachers to use them. and colleges along the west coast. Nel[...]school, and Western Montana College began to use states from the border of Canada to Mexico. They visited microcomputers in all[...]the Beaverhead County High School Returning to Dillon during the sabbatical, Ken taught a board of trustees, Ken helped convince the district to one day workshop for the Western Montana[...] |
| [...]from their respective jobs. Nellie resigned to serve as director of the CONNECT- Ken purchased a[...]ome use. It NET project. The purpose was to increase the opportunities was used exclusively b[...]stories for children's magazines. to log onto the Internet. The community had few plac[...]nternet, and convincing the school administration to use more sending and receiving e-mail,[...]de computers, Nellie had decided she wasn't going to touch Web. The executive board was[...]the another computer during retirement, not even to use it as a responsibility of obtaining a computer, placing it in an word processor to write personal letters. acc[...]operation. On 13 Sep 1995 application was made to Dillon C) Internet and Just a Modem United Way to purchase an IBM compatible computer for[...]out all of the Internet resources that she was to the Dillon-Net making it possible to accept donations of using in her classes through[...]of the Internet resources for and may be made to the Executive Board treasurer located herself, th[...]ociation. accessed through a local telephone call to the Big Sky In Jan 1996 United Way p[...]ium computer and monitor. On 25 Jan 1996, Western to serve the rural schools in Montana.[...]handicapped available Nellie and Ken decided to get a modem for the IBM that furnished offic[...]ish for the purposes of modem, which enabled them to access the Internet through teaching people how to log onto the Internet, send and BST with a local[...]wo They each obtained an Internet subscription to BST with people volunteering their instructional skills to keep the separate passwords and learned how to download and upload office open on a regula[...]The original office hours were from eight a.m. to five Notes in the Dillon Tribune on the opportuni[...]p.m. Monday through Friday, but were changed to nine a.m. educational resources available through BST. This column to noon and one to five p. m. Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, brought tog[...]and Friday. On Wednesday the hours are one to nine p. m. that Dillon should have a community network. to accommodate anyone who could not attend the regul[...]ally Big Sky Telegraph was the access server used to E) Dillon-Net is Born[...]When the university officials decided to restrict use of Big A number of meetings were[...]sky to educational groups, two local commercial Internet[...]. One of the the rural areas of Beaverhead County to organize a[...]operated by Dan Compton, provided without charge to was organized as an outgrowth of these community[...]Dillon-Net an account to continue these services to the meetings. The first officers of the executive[...]opening hours either to ask computer questions or obtain on- Bande[...] |
| Many people set up appointments of one to one-half Museum office), D'illon Job[...]Volunteers are available at each site to assist any person person can obtain instruction.[...]in the use of the computer. Each person wishing to use the In Apr 1996 the Dillon-Net executive[...]project "This is an Access project primarily to promote public runs from O1 Oct 1996 to 30 Sep 1997. health care services and secondarily to promote education and lifelong learning in southw[...]uters skills, place computers in sites accessible to the public with trained supervisors to help and evaluate individual users progress,[...]tive summary. On 19 Sep 1996, Ken and Nellie flew to Washington, D.C. and participated in the award ce[...]rns who has been especially supportive of efforts to expand Cenex gas station at co[...]Baldwin (Miss Addie), Private Sewing used to purchase MS-DOS computers, Macintosh computers,[...]the Beaverhead Diary public has free access to use the computers for word B[...] |
| [...]right-of-way crossed to the west side of the Beaverhead Dillon Dry Goods[...]River. A bridge would have to be built when spring came. Dillon Bottling Works[...]have thought, "What a a wonderful place to go picnicking". Hartwig Theater, North Idaho St.[...]Whatever the perception, they felt compelled to share it with Hoffman Tire Company, across from H[...]ce was named Selway Park. Dillonites were welcome to Marsh Garage[...]streamers reaching from the center to the four walls. This Perkin's Store (Mrs.)[...]maple floor gave way to roller skating. A professional man Roberts Saddle[...]Dingley during the 1940s. Many youngsters learned to skate Viel's Cash Store (sold to J. H. Dickey) with the encou[...] |
| [...]Floor space was not needed. All good things come to an end. After the skating stopped, upk[...] |
| [...]E & H Auto Sales Donald L. Elliott came to Dillon in 1952 to work as a car salesman at Berger- Cochrane Motors. He was promoted to sales manager in the fall of 1955. Cochrane Motors was sold to George Gleed in 1958 and Don was still the sales manager. The dealership was moved to a new location that year, to a building that had been a livery stable in the e[...]ocated where Safeway is now. The name was changed to E. & H Ford Sales, Don Elliot and Jack Howard, ow[...]Featherly Trucking promoted to general manager in 1958. Gleed was not a good[...]ckline in Beaverhead losing money. He had decided to take over management County around[...]he returned from Helena and things went from bad to The truckline's first trucks were rather small, three ton, by worse. George's father came to talk to Don one day and today's standards. ask[...]haul groceries or livestock for the truckline to Butte and money to buy out George. So the Elliotts borrowed the[...]ership in Aug 1960. They made ranches to the wool house. Walt hauled mining machinery payments to Mr. Gleed for ten years. from Idaho to Montana and hauled rock for Mrs. Hall from[...]nk he hauled big transformers for Hazeltine moved to Dillon as a partner also. The name was Montana Power Company up to the Bonnicord. changed to E & H Ford Sales. Don later bought out[...]first people Denton, who sold his ranch and moved to Australia. who came to work for Dad, though they would later lea[...]O'Brien and Mel Nielson came to work for him shortly Ford Sales. Through the fo[...]asolo thereafter. They hauled garbage to the dump and did other bought Ben Hazeltine's sha[...]lt soon got bigger trucks, that's when he started to do sole owner of the corporation. In 1976 he obta[...]ut peril. Chrysler franchise and changed the name to Elliott Auto He lost one of his trucks,[...]New York up to Birch Creek. Some of the guys got lost[...]keepers to Yellowstone Park to hunt elk. 110 - Beaverhead History No.2 |
| [...]'t need it!" Trucking. I don't know what happened to the rest of the men. The site of Walter Featherly[...]--Kenneth Featherly attraction to this city, listing an endless and fascinating arr[...]ngly beautiful stone wall. Inside is a for ladies to enjoy a before-dinner or an after-dinner drink.[...]Most saloons were untidy and generally restricted to men Lining the store shelves are spor[...]ished the first cocktail lounge in is quick to quote, " ... we keep pretty well hidden." Dillon.[...]deer and elk Idaho Street, now occupied by Coast to Coast Store. heads. A gallon jar was[...]he entrees were from which oldtimers, unable to afford new ones, could prepared in a basement kitchen by a skilled chef, Mrs. Judge choose to fit. Smith. The entrees and soup were carried upstairs to the Bicycles and lawnmowers, of every size and make, cram dining area and placed in a steamtable to be kept hot through the small fenced area to the east, while at the rear is the the lunch hour[...]iction, encyclopedias, This building extended to the alley on the east. The rear medical journals, histories, how-to guides, etc. "We used to half had been used for storage. The Gleeds obtain[...]On the west side is a huge quonset hut, filled to the The ceiling and walls were re-done and the fl[...]ansen Palmer rugged Harlan KY area. He came to Dillon 03 Jul 1930 via[...]Gracie went to work as a waitress at Skeet's Cafe and[...]enough to erect a store, fronting Bannack Street.[...] |
| [...]management, the operation slowly but surely began to flourish. Meanwhile, the equally-shrew[...]which according to[...]no threat of any kind to[...]pinched pennies to buy[...]Adding to that impressive[...]was completed, a true masterpiece which continues to attract viewers in large numbers. 112 - B[...] |
| Steve also utilized those talents to construct a ranch home on the Beaverhead River, a[...]In 1917 Chris Hansen was given the contract to deliver most frightening occurred as she was showing a .22 rifle to the mail from Dillon to Argenta, Bannack, Polaris and a customer. When she turned to help another buyer, the Jackson. Th[...]red it almost into her Route, going from Dillon to Argenta, to Ten Mile Stage face and the bullet whooshed by he[...]y Station and Badger Pass. The old road to Bannack cut off hear it!" When she screamed at th[...]After Bannack he traveled on to Mill Point via Steve experienced a somewhat s[...]L. Ranch (Tash) and showing a .44 Magnum revolver to a man, who asked if Polaris, coming back to the D.L. Ranch. He continued up they could drive out to the dump for some target shooting. Carroll Hill to the Ames Ranch and Carroll Ranch and into Arriving there, Steve loaded the revolver and handed it to Jackson. Chris operated this route f[...]ted except for off in the truck. Steve raced back to town, notified the a few tracks here[...]ong the way. dump road" up Morrow Hill to Argenta. "He didn't go far, though," Grace rememb[...]riched daily by each other." Grace voiced concern to friends that few people would attend the funeral.[...]oula, receiving a triple by-pass. She refuses to slow down, however, and is frequently seen unload[...]hat irks her. "I just can't run as fast as I used to!"[...]snow in high drifts, making it hard for the truck to travel[...]Other horse teams were stabled at the D. L. Ranch to go[...]traded loads, then drive back to their original starting places.[...] |
| [...]stopping to say hello or giving a helping hand to anyone in[...]Just to let you know that you have the heavy snow[...]vation over the Big Hole divide; it is running 20 to[...]six passengers, besides myself, 200# from Dillon to Bannack in 1930s. Ref 145.22.[...]Snow Bird" last fall, every person to a man said it Chris had the Hansen Stage House in Dillon where he would be impossible to climb the Big Hole Mountain. kept supplies, grain[...]n It's a different song now and they like to ride. the 100 block of North Montana Street, next to the old post There is some homemade rei[...]. machines here but none of them can begin to go over Chris wore a buffalo coat in cold wea[...]turdiness, simplicity, buffalo robes in the stage to keep warm and to keep things lightness, the combination whe[...]With no landing field upon which to light,[...]ld find notes for him On the skis he'll cruise. to pick up a certain color thread, or glasses, or te[...]hat fine day, daughter, Mercedes, would often run to town to fill the It would have taken ten horse[...]Carried three passengers, Chris would talk to him about things. Dick would go on[...]we 're banking on Jinker, I'm glad you came along to keep me company." Hansen and his[...] |
| Because Chris was so good to all the people on his route, For running ho[...]ure" or they took up a petition and wrote letters to keep Chris on the "Pony Boy." Scenes with actio[...]Dance" from Carmen or this was a great compliment to Chris. However, in 1937, he "Golliwagg's Cake Walk." Violent scenes: "Sabre Dance" lost the route to a lower bid and thus ended his twenty-year by[...]The floor of the theater sloped to provide better viewing.[...]Uniformed ushers were on duty in both aisles to escort The theater was built in 1919 when silent moving patrons to their choice of seats. After the theater lights w[...]ch episode ended in a crisis , purposely designed to bring and was prepared with appropriate music. Previews of the patrons back the next week to find out how the hero or coming movies were recei[...]gested heroine got out of a fix. music to accompany the different scenes. Much of th[...] |
| [...]hoice of any pattern of sterling silver according to their placement (first, second, third, etc.). All[...]Area ranchers drove to the mine and hauled coal in[...]German tremendous amount of ash - 12 to 15 % - and moisture immigrants, owners of Huber Jewelry Store and cousins of content of 18 to 20 %. It resisted poling or stirring. It Mrs. Kup[...]would only respond to shaking the grates, as it needed a[...]great amount of oxygen from beneath to keep it alive. In[...]supplement to the wood supply.[...]The demand for coal diminished to almost zero, as other[...] |
| [...]ung, Hank was fascinated with owner came in to land at the Butte Airport with the landing airpla[...]Hank gear up, causing extensive damage to the body of the plane. wanted a toy airplane. Han[...]ed his brother Bob shared his interest in planes, to a lesser it to Dillon on his truck . degree. Hank started flying[...]as Hank and Bob were flying together, trading off to practice well as the Montana Fish and Game D[...]ff and landing. The last time they were coming in to called to fly for the Forest Service if smoke was spotted. In land, Bob commented to Hank that the plane was tipping and the earl[...]well at all, Hank answered, "What was called to fly at first light and investigate what had been[...]you were flying the plane!" When reported to be smoke in the area of Hebgen Lake. When they were very close to the ground, Hank took over the Hank got[...]s dust that filled the air, not controls and said to his brother, "Never mind, I got it" and smoke[...]He was one of the first to see the aftermath of the Hank attended Cal-Ae[...]e evening before, and he knew the 1949. Returning to Dillon, Hank combined flying and camp[...]ith tents, camp ranching, always looking for ways to make money in the trailers, cars, and pe[...]ever seen, the side of the After his marriage to Mary Lou Cooper in 1950, they mountain ha[...]or damaged aircraft and selling the opposite canyon wall. He knew there had to be a lot of them at a profit. Hank worked on the[...]rvice" at the Fish and Game hired Hank to fly a biologist to count Dillon Airport. It included aircraft[...] |
| [...]of 08 Mar 1962, Rouse chartered the life to aviation. His loss is aviation's loss and he leaves an plane to conduct an elk count in the rugged Madison irreplaceable void with the end to his faithful and bright mountain area south of Ennis. promise to the future. Kenneth Storey, a Cameron area ra[...]we believe that no real pilot light plane only 50 to 75 feet off the ground and turning into ever[...]Rouse, were killed be for many weeks to come. instantly.[...]fort, only the sorrow of an irreplaceable loss to this community. Hank Meine, a fine pilot and a finer citizen--young, energetic, brave-- he chose to stand in the front lines of progress. With his[...]Ref.128. 36. Hank Meine was a pilot. He loved to fly and he loved airplanes. He made them h[...] |
| [...]The history of newspapering in Dillon goes back to the town's beginnings. Only months after the city[...]eb 1881, in which he minced few words with regard to his support for the "leading railroad town in the[...]nched the Examiner which took a Democratic stance to the Tribune's Republican advocacy. Promising to be "devoted" to the development of Beaverhead County, the Dillon[...]Editors Kress and Barker "acknowledged allegiance to the principles of the Democratic party whose caus[...]entrance for ladies Later, the plant was moved to a site on Montana Street. at the back) and shaves[...]received a Montana State Press Association award to the second floor of the Emerick building on the c[...]er by In 1962 the Examiner sold first to Jerry Hawkins and letter. On 11 Jun 1902, the Examiner revolutionized the then to the Tribune which had been publishing cont[...] |
| [...]In other towns in the county, more research needs to be done to fill in the blanks in the history of several[...]1860s but no copies are known to exist ... or do they? The[...]088. 00. In 1887, Brundage sold the business to his editor, |
| [...]1875-1888 -mail to Amesville in Beaverhead County[...]eview 1897-1938 -mail to Monida counties, first created in Idaho Territory[...]edicine Lodge 1909-1914 -mail to Armstead Valley, Monida and adjoining areas were[...]Monida 1896-1964 -mail to RIS of Lima County.[...]Montana 1866-1871 -name change to Argenta[...]ent 1907-1910 -mail to Grant Post Office Dates of Operation[...]rison 1905-1907 -mail to Argenta[...]ia 1911-1922 -mail to Dell Alamo 1889-1894 -mail to Fox Oliver 1872-1874[...]orded Alice 1895-1899 -papers to Red Rock Point of Rocks 1873-1873[...]rded Allerdice 1881-1889 -name change to LIMA Polaris 1898-1985 -mail to CPO of Dillon Amesville 1884-1897 -mail to Alice Ponsonby 1893-1895 -mail to Dewey Apex 1886-1886 -mail to Dillon Red Rock 1879-1923 -mail to Armstead 1903-1906 -mail to Willis Reichle 1913-1950[...]1906-1925 -mail to Dillon name change to Glen Argenta 1871-1904 -form[...]and mail to Dillon Stones Precin(c)t 1868-1869[...]1906-1934 -mail to Dillon Sturgis 1868-1869 -name changed to Ryan Armstead 1907-1962 -mail to Dillon Terminus 1880-1881 -name changed to Dillon Aurora 1907-1908 -[...]ond 1878-1888 -mail to Deweys Bannack City 1863-1898 -name changed to Bannack Watson 1870-18[...]and mail to Dillon Willis 1880-1913[...]lis Station Beaver Head Rock 1869-1871 -to Madison County and name changed to REICHLE Blaine 1893-1935 -to Madison County Willis Station 1878-1879 -name change to Willis Bonaccord 1899-1899 -mail to Bannack Wisdom 1884-present Bowen 1890-1924 -mail to Wisdom Wise River 1913-present Brenner 1910-1913 -mail to Grant Briston 1899-1919 -mail to Wisdom Doubtful Beaverhead County Post Offi[...]never in Cavendish 1891-1893 -mail to Bannack City operation" and Deweys Flat[...]der of Coolidge 1922-1932 -mail to Wise River establishment rescinded. Darl[...]s recorded -mail to CPO of Dillon Dell Dewey 1890-19[...]mail to Divide (formerly Terminus) Deweys 1878-1888 -mail to Divide 1890-1894 -name changed to Dewey Established as Terminus 30 Ma[...]ovan Ranch 1916-1926 -mail to Grant Edgerton 1879-1880 -no orders recorded Name changed to Dillon 31 May 1881 Farlin 1905-1906 -mail to Apex John Weightman . . . . . . . . . . . .[...]3 Apr 1883 and to Silver Bow County John J. Yoe . . . .[...]Fox 1891-1918 -mail to Wisdom Thomas W. Poindexter . . . . . . .[...]Gibbons 1907-1935 -mail to Wisdom David Lamont . . . . . . . . . . .[...]an 1893 and mail to CPO of Dillon Eugene Poindexter . . .[...]1882-1900 -mail to Helena H.C. Wyatt . . . . . . . . . . . . .[...]ant 1899-1967 -mail to Dillon Walter Grimas . . . . . . . . . . . .[...]0 Hecla 1891-1892 -mail to Glendale Joseph C. Faller . . . . . . . . .[...]1894-1900 -mail to Melrose Harry J. Andrus . . . . . . . . . .[...]1913-1914 -mail to Melrose[...] |
| [...]etty Erb Zink . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 Apr 1989 to present[...] |
| [...]the Metlen Hotel there is a dwelling renown to Rainy Mountain--the highest of McCracken's overwh[...]like he was stamping out ants, gave thrust to "operation get I don't know how many patrons p[...]That's what the Montanans called their chair lift to listen to this newfangled contraption which, they[...]t was too unbelievable for most "practical" minds to accept. By the late twenties, most homes in Di[...]radio was powered by a wet cell battery adjacent to the radio. To tune in, the three dials had to be adjusted. Reception was excellent. There were[...]es of Rainy Mountain. How this mountain was broke to skiing is ski-dom's tallest story--taller by a te[...]for this vibrant outdoorsman. They also monument to the ski-fevered of Dillon MT. introduced him to 20 years of sapping work for the sport and I[...]ing meets over the given for unusual contribution to the sport. Since the award northwest[...] |
| [...]. The cowpokes here were no tourist trail led him to buy Elkhorn Hot Springs, a lodge, swimming[...]cabins in the Rainy Mountain area forty second to none. miles northwest of Dillon. It had a small r[...]sporting families who risked the snow-blown road to Springs proved too small, McCracken establishe[...]he meals, packed the hill, made the beds, managed to keep In 1956 a new rope tow at the foot of Ra[...]day was installed. It brought new skiing fun to the hard core of night prostrate with fatigue.[...]few days later, riding to McCall ID to judge the FIS trials[...]They knew the anatomy of their mountain down to the[...]impossible hill they had to climb. In the next few weeks,[...]dream began to take form.[...]as waxed for the leaving their pot-bellied stoves to take a gander at those first assault on the m[...]ers" sliding down the mountain. There wasn't much to do in the winter except feed hay to the --Dick an[...]r suspicion of such winter hijinks, a few decided to try the ski hill one day. A cowboy is[...] |
| [...]ucking Fay Clinton Riley was born 23 Dec 1920 to Ella Hansen and Clifford J. Riley at Idaho Falls[...]ring World War II. After the war, he returned to Idaho Bair's Truck Stop in Dillon, located about[...]. In 1948 he, Edwin Buck and Hi Cleverly came to Dillon to locate some In 1951 Fay and Edwin Buck[...]they found and obtained by verbal lease truck to haul cottonseed cake from Phoenix AZ to the Rock from Les Staudenmeyer. In 1949 Fay sold his lease to Hi Island Ranch , now the Matador, and oth[...]of cottonseed and produce. The Falls. They moved to Dillon the summer of 1950. "Home" produce was hauled to Ike Meagher-Gambel-Robison in was a rented duplex[...]Herb Wheat, they were able to purchase land from Steffie[...]ce until 1960, then he sold his trucks and garage to[...]Fay purchased a Kenworth diesel truck in 1956 to haul[...]1946 Chevrolet. He began local ranches to summer pastures and returned them to the trucking in 1949 and hauled hay and mine pro[...]ranches in the fall and also hauled livestock to several states. Springs ID . He also haul[...] |
| [...]Idaho, then came back to Lima and opened a small cafe and[...]Line. He sold out to Happy Hubbard in about 1940. He[...]auling livestock in 1990 and turned his attention to maintaining three produce trucks that haul from A[...]about 1925. Man behind counter is and California to points in Calgary and Edmonton, Alberta, Ern[...]f.177.15. Canada. Grain and peat moss were hauled to California and Arizona. Driver Tony Staley has wo[...]rried Marguerite Rood from Twin Bridges and moved to the Dillon area. He spent several years at var[...]n 1952 they sold out their oil business and moved to Saloon and Bowling Alley where the First National[...]or of and Lidy Hot Springs. They returned to Montana in 1959 the White Cafe.[...]water from the Hap Hawkins Dam forced them to close. 126 - Beaverhead History No. 2 |
| [...]early- day history of the area. They returned to Idaho and make their home in Dubois in the[...] |
| [...]worked on it for several years Sec. 26 to the SE4SE4 Sec. 23 to NE4NE4 Sec. 24 to and finished in 1987. Beaverhead County Museum has the SE4SE4 Sec. 13 T8S R12W to NW4NW4 Sec. 18, then original map and supporting[...]ch, up a steep ridge past the cemetery, up a draw to back and highlight the routes that Everett and Fr[...]It 's a followed the original road northwest to the upper end of masterpiece.[...]ngman's Gulch. Thence north past Road Agents Rock to[...]ec. 23 TIS Rl 1W, down a deep gulch 1. First road to Corinne 1862 and Deer Lodge on to Spring Gulch, thence again over the divide and down 2. Main overland road 1867 to 1880 Spring Gulch northeasterly to Rattlesnake Ranch. 3. Virginia City road 1863 to 1880, 1.7) Bunt[...]George Metlen identified the location 4. Bannack to Virginia City 1863-1870?[...]r ground about 1. First road 1862 from Corinne UT to Deer Lodge: 100 feet up the creek[...]nd became known as the "Bull Road" from the south to the Pan Basin and continued north along t[...]ay stations along this Mountain, then north to crossing of Birch Creek to --- route.[...]k and Medicine Lodge Creek. At this point is said to 1.12) Moose Creek station (Jenkins)[...]as Deer Lodge River (now Silver Bow Creek) to Cottonwood the Beaverhead Partnership Ranch Headq[...](now Deer Lodge). county road from Grant to Bannack. Thence one mile north Stations 8 to 14 had not been established in 1862 but the to --- route was there. Considerable travel to and from the Deer[...] |
| [...]road at Horse Prairie crossing thus to Knox Station and It came into what is now Mon[...]his pass in the fall of 1857 when they came north to winter Williams across the railroad line nea[...]the Beaverhead. In the spring of 1858 they tried to go position as occupied by the road today[...]ould south over the pass but were turned back due to deep snow be about where the interchange[...]e Utah and Northern Railroad came through in 1879 to NW4NW4 of Sec. 2; crossing into T12S R[...]so used by the freighters and and 19 to --- immigrant trains. The companies maintained re[...]located about was maintained from 1863 to 1867 at what was known in three miles north of th[...]Sage Creek valley over the Divide to the head of Price 2.2) Junction Station, also known as Williams Station, Creek, down Price Creek to the mouth of the canyon where was located on Junction Creek. SE4SE4 Sec.[...]about the location of the Snowline point, on to --- Grazing Association buildings left over from[...]before the road entered the top end of Price canyon. In 2.3) Alderdice Station was located at SE4[...]1987 , there were still buildings and relics to be found there. T14S R8W. In 1987 the location of[...]ight lodging , meals , etc. It was very necessary to have couple of trees and several graves still rem[...]was owned by was at the mouth of Price Canyon. In 1987 , there was an James Munday.[...]k Station. NW4NW4 Sec. 4 T14S R8W . to the right-hand side of the road that leads into t[...]nch east side of the Blacktail valley to join with roads leading to ground on the south side of the creek less than a[...]located about through Ryan (Beaverhead) canyon. From here it ran where the highway crossed Sheep[...]SW4NW4 Sec. 7 T12S River, up Alder Gulch to Virginia City. R9W. It is in the general area of[...]4. Bannack to Virginia City 1863-1870: 2.7) Willow Springs[...]and Felix Alder Gulch, it was necessary to establish a road to Virginia Hennity. As of 1987, it belonged to James McBee. Mrs. City. Since the road[...]as established northeast and climbed "Hard Tack" to the rest of the drivers.[...]ears was Here the road turned west from Red Rock to join the first known as Nat Woods c[...] |
| [...]SE4SE4 Sec. 15 T6S R8W. 5.2) Clark Canyon station at the mouth of creek bearing At this cro[...]the family until 1986. In 1987, a portion belongs to Carl 5.3) Defrates Station located at the m[...]the road followed down the east side of the river to the --- 4.3) Point of Rocks, across the Beave[...]es until 1900. From here the road followed across to the bench to the east side of the Beaverhead to Stinking Water Creek (Ruby River) near Silver Springs followed up east side to Laurin, there crossing and following up the east bank of Alder Gulch to Virginia City. 5. Virginia City Helena Road 1867-1881: |
| in 1864). From here the road went northeast to join the old held up the completion of the last section of the four-lane Deer Lodge road to continue to road no. 2. SW4SW4 Sec. Interstate 15,[...]ere, the others being removed about ten years ago to make 6. Salmon City 1864-1885 - 1885-1908:[...]At the Ryan Station, the road bridged the river to bring there was a stage route known as the "Salmon City" road. the traffic to Virginia City and Helena to the east side of the This road followed west from Red Rock to the junction with Beaverhead River.[...]W. (1987) implies as it was Nip and Tuck to get that far. Others say This is now the home of[...]his was the last station the snow was too deep to get over the new road over Lewis on this section[...]It is interesting that this road through Ryan' s Canyon in distance some 50 or 60 miles to Salmon. This road was 1866 was the last major link to shorten the Salt Lake to used from 1880-1908. Helena route. As of 1987, the canyon still held true to 6.5) Trail Creek Station on[...] |
| [...]to house the Dillon National Bank , which opened in[...]but voluntarily closed in the Panic of 1892 due to a lack of money. Every cent was paid to the depositors with the[...]ead of Trail Creek. Here started the steep grades to reach street numbering system began at that[...]f Mr. Crow. After Lewis and Clark reached in 1804 to start their descent to the the bank closed, my father, Albert Stamm,[...]od location and a v~ult, so my father was induced to[...]rters! I am now settled in my new store next door to the[...]offered quick time and lowest rates to such places as Challis[...]outfitting point for getting up parties to take in Yellowstone[...]Haines made saddles to order. Williams and Innes had rigs[...]frustrated horses trying in vain to tear a pair of copper-[...]Numerous railroads solicited for passengers: The to Salmon City ID. Here is located the monument to Chicago, Milwaukee & St.Paul, Great[...]from Bannack to the Ruby near Alder Gulch. A great[...]Philippines. Dillon was not to be outdone by New York in 132 - Beaverhe[...] |
| [...]ing community had its country store, such as Ryan Canyon, Pageville, Glendale, Redrock and Centennial Vall[...]han there were gold claims available. Many turned to farming, probably with only squatters' rights, bu[...]he cattlemen recovered and they owed a great deal to B.F. White for survival. It was in that situation[...]business. About 1906 the bank location was moved to the Tribune building on the comer of Bannack and[...]loor. A hole was made in the side of the building to remove the Tribune press. About 1910 dry-land[...]was a dry year, so dry that in going from Dillon to Lima[...]own , and cover the bank. The community owes much to Martin Barrett, the flesh side thickl[...]tions of three ounces of commercial sulfuric acid to two banks that he would not desert them; he saved[...]k men in desperate credit enough solution to cover the hide. Soak it first in cold water until[...]container. Small hides may be removed after 12 to 24 hours but[...]heavier hides must remain in the solution for two to three days and must be stirred at intervals to assure even and uniform tanning.[...] |
| [...]onger and Mrs. Cunningham. Ref073.30 I went to work for Mountain States Telephone and[...]ay of 1953. At that time company was changed to Mountain Bell. 134 - Beav[...] |
| [...]he customers they served. up to four telephones which were referred to as party lines. During the 1970s there was a movement to break up the Obviously each telephone must have a signal to determine Bell System. It didn't matter that[...]el and by the Public combinations were used to signal the party wanted. Service Commission of ea[...]the telephone box. However, if the caller wished to turned over to Federal Judge Green and he set up the system talk to someone on a different circuit he must first ring[...]seven "Baby Bells" were created and operator to switch to the proper circuit and ring the party AT&T was its own company, not related to any of the other wanted. companies. The da[...]as 01 Jan 1984. On The operator had to hand-crank all these calls. 30 Dec 1983, I retire[...]from the floor. There was a slight adjustment to the I enjoyed my thirty years and eight month[...]uldn't have chosen a better line of inches to accommodate the height of the person standing. work or a finer company to work for. Children placed a chair to stand on so as to reach the mouthpiece comfortably and to reach the receiver on the[...]910, the Lemhi When one wished to make a call he first lifted the Telephone Company was formed. Telephone poles and lines receiver to determine if the line was clear. If there was a w[...]wait for the line to clear. A building was constructed near the Or[...]" on the conversation. This was depot in Armstead to house the Gilmore and Pittsburg calle[...]able clicking sound as each receiver was mainline to the many ranch homes on Medicine Lodge and[...] |
| [...]hi Telephone line died a slow agonizing death due to lack of maintenance after the iron rails o[...] |
| [...]Telephone company float circa 1956 to promote rotary dial phone. Ref 197.14.[...] |
| [...]doctor, tell him they were on their way to the hospital." Telephone Service[...]s encircling Wisdom like the back of his hand. to barbed wire." Many phones were out of order becau[...]ced. dead batteries, which it was up to the company to change. George bought controlling interest i[...]ies company in 1944. He saw crank phones give way to direct over the years, George jokingly ac[...]in on calls. "When we went to dial phones, some said they A Wisdom native[...]rking at his which allowed everyone to know everyone else's business. brothers' garage i[...]e for how wanted something for himself and turned to the phone much .. .in those days, peop[...]and could put in poles, run the two women to end their call so he could repair a line. He swi[...]50s, the company provided what kind of cake to make. George couldn't resist cutting 13-hour daily service to a smattering of magneto (crank) in, "You can make mine chocolate." phones, as many as 24 parties to a line. Those on the same George downed[...]line could call each other with a special ring. To reach new poles for the company lines extending to Divide where another line, they had to call through the switchboard. they hooked[...]Grant. connecting calls. "We'd have to look and see if so and so 138 - Beaverhea[...] |
| [...]ork days often lasted 14-16 hours. "I used to come home from work and while Essie was getting d[...]helped." In the late 1950s, the Helmings began to offer 24-hour switchboard service, with Essie on[...]"It's been a challenge all the way tow, headed to California in a five-passenger Buick with through[...]roadside at night. Challenges came naturally to George. There were 12 They settled in Or[...]any years before. the Big Hole. "My brothers used to kid the life out of me. At 14, George went to work. "I just about got out of They said they went to town to get the doctor and got lost in grade school, that[...]e the only non-Mexicans. Pay was six cents 1896 "to see what was going on." He sent for his wife and[...]it." ·"The last fellow is always the guy who has to do everything In 1925, George returned to Wisdom where five brothers the others don't want to do," including feeding chickens, and a sister[...]etters. "I don't wonderful woman." He's proud to say that their daughter, know if she knew what s[...]d money scarce. They traveled by horse and wagon to Dillon twice a year for staples. "We'd bu[...] |
| [...]on after the accident Conductor Heart walked down to Utah & Northern[...]The yard engine was fired up and Dr. Clutter went to the[...]and Cashmore, and in Utah & Northern engine prior to 1884 on the narrow guage charge of freigh[...]eping the cut one hundred and five fe~t to the mile , the train, moving at about one mile no[...]ich will prevent its filling up with estimated to be moving at the extraordinarily rapid rate of th[...]the future. sixty to seventh miles per hour.[...]aboose at work on the brake, was thrown violently to the engine was moving at such a velocity that the[...]ssarily of a fatal character. The animal went to cow heaven in a hurry. The train Th[...]no person was freight was scattered and to a great extent destroyed. Out of killed .[...]forty head of fine horses belonging to Montague & Morgan, Engineer Ne escaped with a[...]lled and several others with alkali mud from head to foot. Fireman Mulligan was more[...] |
| [...]The body of Fireman McShane has been brought to[...]Sweeney Dillon Tribune 26 Jul 1884 U and N to get Air Brakes is badly injured, but is d[...]he Utah and Northern engines and freight cars are to be The northbound passenger train is si[...]urred bad one. At the hour of the Tribune going to press this near Glen Station recently, but which[...]he brake on a passenger care going through Beaver Canyon, he was thrown from the car, sustaining injuries[...]e excavation for the round house at Dillon. It is to be a three-stall turntable round house. It is a m[...]t, and when finished it will be quite an addition to the appearance of our town. Dillon Tribune Dec.[...]ailroading in the country, Trains continued to wreck. This O.S.L engine was damaged |
| [...]sidents of many Beaverhead County towns were slow to organize utility services even when availa[...] |
| [...]nt using water from Lovell's Lake south of Dillon to generate electricity for Dillon. Ref. 074.[...] |
| The history of saloons in Beaverhead County will have to wait for Volume 3, but since the beginning bars and saloons have been the gathering places for men to gether. Ref. 053.11. Above: Rack Nelson'[...] |
| [...]in Centennial Valley. This photo belongs to Jack 's relative, Loretta McDowell Cashmor[...] |
| [...]Heritage 1) Relating to large groups of people classed according to common racial national, tribal, religious,[...] |
| [...]Judge, a ranch woman, would send her son to a high point to look in the distance to see if perchance a traveler was Most of the E[...]coming. If one could be seen, son John was to meet the in the family and personal history section of this volume. stranger and persuade him to lodge for the night at the Judge Here we focus on[...]passed through our another valley came to the door of one of the homes on the county over t[...]o and we present the text as it was written was to enter, kindle a fire, stay overnight, feast on fo[...]lcomed me when I came by stage in late summer try to avoid judging them within the current but ever- of 1908 to spend a week with my cousin, Laura Strombeck, changing politically correct facade. More research needs to who was teaching at the district school in th[...]became uneasy as to the prospector's condition. "Harkee! Harkee! The squaws try in vain to sell the It was past time for his retu[...]d! The pale faces treat us not snowstorm to the prospector's hold-out. He found him in a righ[...]ere? No! No! Our people have been wronged. No use to his blanket and strapped him to his faithful bronco. Down go to the war path. Our braves lie in Mother Earth, but[...]went with young few braves that live have a right to eat. Make ready for a John hanging to the bronco's tail. long journey to our old hunting ground. It pleases the Great[...]n of the kind deeds of the cowboys, Spirit for us to seek food. Before many moons the snow will but I am sidetracking, so ... back to the Indians. fall."[...]ed the valley and made an encampment on their old to his braves as they held council around the campfi[...]turned and were fishing and mountains and valleys to their old home in Beaverhead drying the[...]reservation in southeastern Idaho would like to clean them up and love them. Another lady where they were expected to make a livelihood on parched said, "We had[...]kind them more." of labor is not at all suited to an Indian's nature. Not all were e[...]rew on the mountainside not many hunter likes to follow the chase regardless of the lack of miles[...]"My father lies buried on yonder hill. We go to his the valley in 1908. They were not exac[...] |
| [...]it to the chief and said, "Make your eyes well." Presen[...]was never known to refuse food and the best way to make[...]to ask the question, "Are you hungry?"[...]e answer was always in the affirmative. It seemed to[...]offering a pony for sale or to give Tom a trinket.[...]. The next day just as the noonday meal was ready to serve, Chief Tendoy dropped in to help eat the fish. He[...]he would like to hear the gramophone, which at that time[...]explained the instrument to him the best he could, so in a[...]177. 35. of recommendation to show to the white folks on bis return to the reservation, because some were afraid of him.[...]Ellis turned to me with these remarks, "You write it. You're[...]ny high-falutin' words. In fact, my children used to play over his eyes to protect them from the light. At length, the wi[...]ve. Darkness came on and the I wrote, "To whom it may concern: This is to certify that only sound to be heard was the howling of the coyotes.[...]Signed) Thomas Ellis" Ellis' s cabin inspired him to pay his old friend a visit. It "Ugh! Ugh![...]ef. Joe promised to give him a nickel's worth of spuds in the The[...]ed with his squaw. Joe went offered no objections to being called a squaw, but the young to the roothouse, sorted out about a peck of[...] |
| He refused to carry it, but placed it on the squaw's back. As t[...]kindly answered our questions. Much to our disappointment, the baby's name was Molly. We[...]if a picture is taken of them. They were willing to shorten the life of the papoose for fifty cents,[...]ehind. The squaws quickly hitched the cayuses to the wagons and broke camp. Within a few minutes,[...]nk pure water, hunted the deer and dried the meat to take with them to the reservation. So that is how the Un[...] |
| [...]Laundry day was something we kids looked forward to Chinese at the P & 0[...]to the house carrying a huge load of sheets, blanket[...]veral Chinese men worked at the P & 0 in addition to done up in a sheet on his back. He dropped it on the Tommy Haw, according to Phil Orr, son of Matthew and kitchen t[...]we didn't have to save box tops or green stamps to get them. DAKE was the Chinese cook at the P & 0[...]In circa 1896 he was taken on a wagon expedition to choice piece of Chinese embroidered silk[...]ladies' slippers (always too small for my mother to wear, The party included Katherine Cummings Orr,[...]at I including one armed man in camp at all times to keep a good remember about 1915 it was said t[...]American oxfords, with the counter broken down to form a Phil he always keepum, he nevah bloke."[...]Chinese slipper and shuffled when he walked to keep the While cooking at P & 0 Home Ranch, t[...]and while he could understand what was happening to them. During the complained no person was[...]ummer, or a full shearing crew bound "up country" to but there were just too many bobtailed cats for t[...]t and potatoes, with garden vegetables, ride Dake to task for his cruelty.[...]cat no scale mouse, he had a flunkey to set table and wash dishes, otherwise Charlie catc[...]s, whose foundation had rotted, causing the floor to sag "Wassamattah you, you choppem tail Iii' shee[...]n, ~o stand up and wiggle and scale slopped to the middle, making a crack there that was called[...]From the time I was five or six years old to the time family laundry man for many years[...] |
| [...]There were many hair. Charlie always said to me, "Yo good boy, good boy"[...]census, often shown and we kids wanted to ring the bell, which Charlie allowed[...]as simply with firm restrictions as to the time and length of the[...]on to be done on the the old Indian fort, filled it wit[...]roundhouse Chinese worker in night. We slunk off to the blacksmith shop to thaw out a Lima MT 1917-18, taken by W[...]About 1914 Charlie got a full-time flunkey, said to be his nephew, one Ben Williams, a Chinese boy of[...]inter of 1915-1916, Old Charlie quit and returned to his wife in A Dane Comes to America China, or so it was said.[...]Garrett Dingley Eric Youngquist wrote to Elfreda Woodside in 1971 and[...]included several personal experience manuscripts to the[...]of the non-English speaking immigrant to America in the[...]to you my reason for leaving Sweden and came to America[...]sted fifty-seven years. Please forward our thanks to[...]for us on our trip up to the old homestead. "[...]plainsmen of America's West, I decided to make a visit to OSL roundhouse worker in Lima MT 1917-18,[...] |
| I explained to my mother my intentions and she asked pou[...]long a time I would need. I told her I would like to (Karo syrup). As I had been seasick on the voyage, the have five years to see and learn as much about the West as sig[...]he hotcakes was more I possibly could. She agreed to this. It didn't take long for than my stomach could take. I made a beeline for the men's me to take off for America.[...]vividly described biographies of Returning to the hotel, the stage with its four horses in Buff[...]d many others and of full speed pulled up to a quick halt. The driver was a man their adventur[...]ng my roamed by the millions and the Indians took to the warpath suitcase on the stage, he scrutinized me closely, then with a against the whites to save their hunting grounds. It didn't smile motioned for me to sit up beside him. The smile, I take long to decide that America was the place for me.[...]as caused by the way I looked, my derby I had to go to Copenhagen, Denmark, because I was not hat[...]-pink complexion made him think I was a permitted to leave Sweden legally as I was of military age young preacher from the East and too dumb to talk and about to go through six months of training. In Denmark American. I found it easy to obtain papers and tickets aboard the S.S.[...]our horses and handled his twelve-foot HELIG OLAV to America, where I passed through Ellis[...]mmigrants from city limits of Kimball to the little town of Harrisburg, a Europe. We were[...]ute went over the prairies that passed were taken to the mainland. People sat on following[...]time. When within a especially by elderly ladies to whom their unknown future few miles of Har[...]Before boarding my train west, I was advised to buy a Then the driver continued at high speed to the front of the box of prepared food, price $1.[...]ng, the "News Butcher" called out, supposed to work. Gust took me to the house where I left "Pancho Villa raids again![...]er I could make my suitcase then took me to the barn where I was to load a out that the notorious Mexican outlaw had again crossed the wagon full of manure, take it to the field and unload it. Rio Grande and made a ra[...]as the The slushy manure was three to four inches deep and I West I had expected to experience! At a train stop, a fellow was in my best and only suit and shoes. I just had to grin passenger pointed at a long-haired plainsman[...]way, he they started up, but the Swedish to stop did not work--they would have seen a mouth t[...]until they finally got disgusted and hippopotamus to shame as I saw my idol.[...]way from another stop, I returned and told me to unhook, feed, water and put the saw the name Kimb[...]icking up my horses away before coming in to supper. suitcase, I ran down the aisle to the conductor to whom I When introduced to Huffman, he noticed my suit and showed the tag. H[...]cy cord and the train clothes and told Gust to lend me clothes until next Sunday stopped about a[...]got off and walked back when I could ride to the store and buy some. Later I was to Kimball.[...]a wrangler. This The first man I met happened to be a Dane whom I asked was to bring in the horses to be used that day, tie them up if he knew Gust Joh[...]d feed them before coming in for breakfast. I had to get been in town but had returned to the ranch. He took me to up at 5 a.m. as the herd of sixty horses w[...]otel, got me a room and instructed the proprietor to scattered over the range. I was given the beautiful white wake me early in time to get breakfast before getting on the horse named Dick. The first morning I had to bring all 60 stage for Harrisburg.[...]horses in as I didn't know which ones were to be used. When I awakened, I went to the nearby restaurant where After breakfast I was told to clean out the corral, using I was able to make out words such as bread, eggs, milk.[...] |
| [...]ssue 09 Nov 1923. All four horses were thrown to the ground. After this sudden ending, none of the horses were in the mood to Last week, the night of 03 Oct, Ellis Island at New York object to be untangled from the wreckage. The horses had[...]ng entrance only minor lacerations but the damage to the wagon to the United States. Dozens of big ocean liners wer[...]broken wagon-tongue, one neck yoke, one to port carrying 20,000 more--all gambling their lif[...]that they would be in time to be admitted under the When Mr. Huffman viewed[...]ur involved, his remark was that I had been lucky to have immigration laws. U. S. Commissio[...]r on my first Sunday after rounding up the horses to be used the worst Ellis Island has ever kn[...]do that day, it was suggested I should ride over to Swede is to examine 2,000 a day. Several staff men have broke[...], 1924 pine logs with a sod roof. I was about to dismount when a very dark complexioned Th[...]rough thinking I was at the wrong place, I turned to leave when a Congress shortly after the clo[...]eigner feeling when Asplund and Gust had told him to expect me. He introduced unemployment was wide-spread throughout the United me to the Indian, "Pete."[...]e measure comes up in the next congress, brim hat to protect me against the hot sun and wind. As I however, clearer judgment is likely to prevail, first, because was about to leave, the Indian spoke to Asplund who told me the passions of war have largely died out and secondly, not to leave. Pete had something to tell me concerning because the supply[...]not abundant. Dick, my horse, and the way for me to ride him so as to do This emergency immigration law is a[...]and knew more about his job United States to three per cent of certain nationals on a basis than the average rider. So, his advice was to let Dick of like nationals already res[...]emigrants He said while riding at full speed to keep my eyes fixed are dumped at Ellis Islan[...]whereas it should be in Europe at the source, to eliminate After listening, I thanked the Indian a[...]haps never immigrants. have had a chance to do a good job of wrangling.[...]rigorous method of letting down the bars to foreigners under[...]n, irritation, diplomatic friction, loss of money to[...] |
| [...]a mile away from that trail and are much inferior to the class which came before the quota tha[...]former American residents and northward to the Crows. their children, which were born here,[...]class of immigrants. hips. He was willing to trade or buy my riding boots and We need them for[...]a young papoose with my father, hunt the Atlantic to determine their chance of entry here.[...]ric Youngquist many woodchucks. It was plain to see that my job would be very easy to get enough meat for my newly befriended After[...]spot behind War I in 1919, I immediately started to look for free land. some rocks, I waited. I turned my horse over to the Chief I found and filed a claim for a tract o[...]would fire three rapid-fire shots and he was to bring my As my cash was at low ebb, I went to work as a horse to me. wrangler on the large E.O. Selway Ranch with[...]along the Blacktail shots for my horse to be returned to me. Then I mounted Deer Creek. With that job I had to get up ahead of all the my horse and together with a few braves, we rode back to other men and round up and corral the horses that were to their camp with the rock chucks which th[...]done this, I usually scouted the started to clean and prepare for their meal. I was invited to countryside for Indian artifacts.[...]hunt, riding my horse at a slow walk, he started to meal. weave to and fro and finally stopped. Thinking that he had After bidding good-bye to my newly-made friends, I fully seen a rattlesnake[...]dged him on with realized that this was, to me, the greatest of all my previous my spurs. He[...]privilege bestowed on snorted very loudly. There to my amazement, I saw seven me and which[...]Wondering of what tribe they were, I finally came to the[...]A Japanese Family in Dillon To find out how they came to be there, I rode up and[...]as a professional Blackfoot chief and was allowed to carry a revolver but no photographer and[...]d congeniality. She was, in every sense, language to tell me that they were lost while trying to follow a true professional in her field. the old "Virginia Trail" on their way up to visit and trade horses with the Crows in M[...] |
| [...]t in the Beaverhead River near money and services to Dillon MT. Ref.129.35. schools , organizations, c[...]treasured friend to thousands of Beaverhead residents--young[...]Ref.185.18. and assisted them in numerous routes to educational achievements. She sacrificed extensively to insure professional careers for her own ch[...] |
| [...]by our imperial ancestors, to be observed alike by their America[...]in all places. It is our wish to lay it to heart in all A banquet with superb menu, good[...]was enjoyed by about all thus attain to the same virtue. 40 business and professional men[...]ea in 1903. In 1973, he number which entitled him to a souvenir bearing the led a surv[...]chaeological Survey through dense forest directly to the humorous order, while others were of value, b[...]lial piety, have present time. from generation to generation, illustrated the beauty thereof.[...]pire extensive system of wings that served to channel the animals and therein also lays the sou[...]s of cribbed log Ye, our subjects, be filial to your parents, affectionate to construction, the logs averaging 6 inches in di[...]than 150 logs are stacked between five trees to form a harmonious; as friends, true; bear yoursel[...]er at the top moderation; extend your benevolence to all; pursue learning than at the base.[...]faculties modification of the logs, designed to stabilize the structure. and perfect moral powers[...]comers of the trap. offer yourselves courageously to the state; and thus guard In[...] |
| [...]back pattern could be devised with which to date the logs used to out. These safeguards - the inward sloping walls[...]. overhang - restricted the animals' jumping room to the But the age of the trees suppo[...]y. diameter. These trees amassed between 60 to 70 percent of There is no evidence that metal too[...]have been able to support the structure as early as 1800. Two wings were constructed to channel the animals into A minimum dat[...]aw the site in the summer of that year. According to him, corral southward through the timber and part[...]econd wing in the timbered area would seem to indicate a relatively may have been a continuatio[...]traced for more than 300 yards. literature to the trapping of mountain sheep in high altitude[...]being in the area during his time. But, according to These two structures are tripodal, with extra pol[...]oles have decomposed. Trap is similar to known mountain sheep habitat in Because these str[...]e were reported by probably built to catch mountain sheep. LaMarche to have been built of large felled logs and brush[...]th slope construction had charred ends. According to him there were in the morning and evening.[...]y on the mistaken Although attempts were made to date this site using a notion that deer cannot be driven well enough to be trapped localized -dendrochronology, nothing m[...]early fall of 1973, I date could be obtained. Due to the extremely poor soil in twice[...] |
| [...]expanded southward and forced the Shoshone to retreat ridge; upon reaching the north wing they[...]tools necessary Shoshone groups are known to have used the Big Hole to have constructed and used the site, and the vast[...]cajawea, the Shoshone woman who accompanied which to search for tools that might have been lost. The[...]ead, and the Shoshone, are the major groups known to Shoshones used the area extensively as lat[...]ntil now no the Shoshone is the group most likely to have constructed the demonstrated evidence of[...]ep. horses even though other Shoshone prior to the advent of the The two latter were usually tak[...]s. are no presently known kill sites attributable to the Crow. The author's theory is that in[...]oming, of the older, localized Continental Divide to the Bitterroot Valley in Western territ[...]poorer, lower class Montana. They made excursions to and through the Big Shoshone, who remained without horses and were called Hole region to the plains to hunt buffalo, but spent most of Shoshocoes or[...]lace between classes, depending on the was simply to station hunters in an appropriate area, and to acquisition or loss of horses. It is likely t[...]possibility is that the Tukudika simply preferred to Games Trap.[...] |
| Prior to acquiring the horse, the Shoshone had a well-[...]er colt at home, I used stylized corral complexes to trap deer, mountain sheep, rode up to the Pierce ranch. Through some a[...]corrals or pens of wood, brush, or stone, with to this place, but as soon as they received the news[...]h or stone wings, often in a V-shape, that served to approach of the Indians, they headed for Ba[...]reported trap in northern Utah. better go to Bannack. Knowing that my old mare would It is[...]mbles known Shoshone traps, and it is concluded to go down to the ranch and let it out of the in an area that w[...]fter I had left the its construction - about 1800 to 1850. Of the several groups ranch, it began to get dusk and before I had made a mile or of Shosh[...]tuated with the crack of Tukudika are most likely to have built and used the trap rifles and the[...]fast as their horses could carry In contrast to some Shoshone game drives which were them,[...]reload their groups of people were not necessary to build or use the rifles. One glance was al[...]fectively operated the trap. to meet that colt and I dug my spurs into her sides[...]induced her to add still a little more speed to her good --submitte[...]reference and promptly bucked him off. He ran to the brush and hid, the foo[...]the best of the race; finally we came to a place where old A Race with Chief Joseph's[...]d one. My old mare had been over Ireland and came to Montana, taking up land in Horse the ro[...]dmen could not see the obstruction until they got to it. expecting Chief Joseph and his band would com[...]f August that stopped even if they had wanted to. Right here the chase, the Indians finally made t[...]s over, but I did not that the Indians were close to the prairie, messengers were stop to think about it. I heard the crash of the broken fence sent from ranch to ranch with the understanding that we all[...] |
| I came to the bridge across Horse Prairie Creek. In the[...]l another war party. For an instant creek to safety. only, I hesitated, as I knew the Indians[...]ing there was danger in retreating, so I resolved to go ahead and during the night. He was somewhat[...]of the speed out of my mare time he went to Bannack he wore a $50 suit of clothes and possible, I dashed across the bridge and found to my relief a $20 pair of boots. When he returned to the ranch, he that it was only shadows that start[...]lloped and soon overtook a man He had been to Bannack the day of the Indians' visit to the named Hanlon. "The Indians have gotten everyb[...]g. Dressed in overalls without coat put his spurs to his horse and galloped away like the wind or vest, he and a hired man took to the hills, leaving his toward Bannack, leaving me[...]in his shirt sleeves, came near freezing to death. The hired everything on the prairie and it is now a wilderness!" was man was compelled to lay on him and with the warmth of my greeting.[...]re was a tragedy enacted on the prairie that day. to Bannack.[...]ans . The men had been told that comfortable trip to Bannack and I coaxed the speed out of dang[...]cruelly murdered and their bodies were subjected to the chance of an occasional Indian party sneaking around to indignation. steal horses or murder settlers[...]that Montana and were in Idaho. They returned to their homes night and I know of more than one man who wanted to but it was many a day before they ce[...]Six Pictograph Sites Pierce Ranch when I left it to go down to my place after the in Beaverhead[...]Kelley and his cousin, who had caused the Indians to give me the scare, had started to help drive the Pierce horses This survey of[...]t there were Indians lying down were brought to my attention by friends who had noticed on the sides of their horses until they started to drive them them on earlier occasions. We share[...]rail. Kelley's cousin, after he was shot, managed to miles up Little Sheep Creek. This stream[...]k River which ultimately flows into the Jefferson to the ranch. Together the two men crawled on their[...]st. An old across the prickly pear-covered hills to Bannack. When they cabin is located here, and[...]were filled with prickly pear thorns and swollen to double[...] |
| [...]961. Ref 139.02. after 1962 when a new highway is to be constructed here. It is conceivable that proper action may be employed to save or remove these figures for preservation in[...]ht: Site 6) Near Armstead, southwest of Clark Canyon Dam and lake, near the old Bannack-Red Roc[...] |
| [...]death of Tendoy. They band was transferred to the Fort An friend for an Isolated Ranch[...]asin in southwest Montana was clout to be granted his annual fishing trip, because few drawing to a close. Dad was up on the stack while I drove Indians were allowed to leave the boundaries of the the derrick team.[...]by a pair of mismatched horses, and Visitors to the north end of the basin were infrequent, so[...]ns-a branch of Sacajawea's In addition to the passengers, the buckboard usually people, the[...]spent a week or carried a canvas tepee to be erected in bad weather, a large so camping and[...]s directly west of our ranch and just along to trade or sell. across the Continental Divide.[...]or four As a boy I would often ride my pony to the top of the summers, the chief and I ha[...]from Armstead MT over Bannock Pass and then north to members of his family were not expected to, nor were they Salmon ID and south through Leadore and finally to interested in, entering into socia[...]and I were too shy in one another's presence to do much covered about 100 miles, but the presiden[...]an smile at each other. a man named Bichler, used to brag, "My railroad isn't as The chie[...]ry , was impressed by the presence and seasonally to hunt buffalo in the Yellowstone Valley and, in[...]er headdress, symbol of his tribal Toopompey back to our area to camp and fish, escaping for leadership, w[...]efs who was The family rode in back. friendly to the early white trappers and settlers . Tendoy[...]d, peaceably, the efforts of early federal agents to cabin, barn and corrals. I was anxious to head out and meet educate the children of his band and later to move the band them, thinking that my mother had probably already seen to the reservation at Fort Hall. He never warred on[...]and sister had been badly frightened when, in the to "fire water."[...]out with him at the time but was in no condition to help, as he buildings. was also intoxicated[...]ted, "Tendoy tough, he come in all children to call her "Papa" while she tried to speak in a deep right." But Tendoy was an old ma[...]s a man and he wasn't "tough" enough. He managed to crawl out of in the house. They c[...] |
| [...]ls of a campfire above which hung the big managed to have him nearby during my waking hours. He[...]rite saddle small bowls. The chief pointed to a bowl and indicated that horse, Jack, to some Lemhi Indians just across the I[...]ving up her favorite horse (Dad's idea, not hers) to walk over and look into the kettle: ground sq[...]cabin while the loaded buckboard was still had to hurry home. a little distance away and rode out to meet it. Toopompey The next day Dad and[...]ot expected any display of and Dad sent me over to the herder's canvas-covered sheep pleasure on his part but did sense that he was glad to see wagon about a half mile away to get some trading goods. I me. I tried to indicate that he should stop at the cabin[...]l treat, I took couple of miles north . He seemed to understand and the herder's last pack[...]in every sheep wagon I was The chief drove up to the hitching rack between the cabin ever in. an[...]ook a few the saddle horn and rode Baldy back to the camp. While I steps toward the cabin, then abruptly returned to the was gone, the women had spread thei[...]e walked up gauntlets that would reach almost to the elbow, beautifully to my parents who were standing on the porch, mutter[...]leted gloves for Mom, Once inside, he pointed to the Edison phonograph and and Dad and I ea[...]gave them a distinct but not unpleasant my mother to take a picture of him and me. Mom turned to odor. Dad and the chief bartered, item by item, between the Dad to explain that she had used the last of the Kodak f[...]ause, as I remember it, when an impasse intention to get more film on the next trip to Dell, 28 miles was reached, it was Dad who usua[...]from the basin country. On my next visit to the camp I was disappointed to find She took the Kodak from a chest drawer,[...]ought that my friend back and gestured helplessly to show the chief that it was had left without me having an opportunity to have my empty. The problem now was to get the chief to understand picture taken with an Indian chief or even to say goodbye. that if he would come back at a certain time his picture But then it occurred to me that perhaps his time away from would be taken[...]e reservation was running out, and he had decided to break or "seven days" with a show of seven fingers, he nodded his camp and start the long journey back to Fort Hall before the head and, still carrying the[...]at the seven day period As they left Dad said to me, "We'll go by the camp had not elapse[...]appointment. However, I found an excuse to ride by the camp almost "He seemed pretty anxious to have his picture taken," every day. Their camp wa[...]bareback on one of the horses used to pull the buckboard. 166 - Beaverhead History No.2 |
| [...]ckskin bag protecting the war I like to think of him, when the hunt has ended, in a bonne[...]from 1967 to 1975. beaded elk skin vest, beaded sash and arm b[...]lliam S. Hart pose. The reader will probably have to be at least 60 years old or more to remember William S. Hart as the first hero of Wes[...]without a backward glace. Toopompey never got to see the pictures, and I never saw him again. He returned to the reservation, and during that winter he suffer[...]time," he never regained consciousness according to the Pocatello Tribune. He received an elabora[...]ulprits were ever punished, word did trickle back to Dad and me the Toopompey' s brother George was mu[...]ographer. Ref 93.1214.Dingley. salvaged and given to me by a rancher friend who was passing by at the[...]ed. Whenever I look at the picture, I attempt to blot out the tragic ending he, his father and brother suffered, and try to imagine my old friend no longer bound by white men's laws but free to follow the buffalo trails wherever they mi[...] |
| [...]According to Lillian Hackett Hanson (later[...]1881 to 1886, the future Mrs. Emerick stepped off[...]pregnant and in need of a friend. She came to the[...]train and they planned to marry as soon as he[...]was due just weeks. What was she to do?[...]years later, Mr. George Emerick came to mind. He[...]was a widower, without children, rich enough to[...]There was only one way to answer that question. She went to see him, explained the plight of the Mr. and Mrs.[...]ns, William "Boss" young woman, and convinced him to at least take and William "Diggle" Emerick. Ref 129. 20. her to dinner, get to know her, decide for himself if[...]et, had dinner, discussed the situation, and came to an agreement to marry. Several weeks later, she gave birth to a son and they named him William after his step-f[...]e." A few years later, the bride again gave birth to a son. They decided to name him after his real father, so William was be[...]s, often riding their horses from their fine home to Centennial Valley to visit their "Aunt Lil." Did the brothers know the[...]ined close friends for years. George loaned money to Lillian numerous times while she ranched in the Valley or for a trip back to New England to visit relatives. Regardless of the circums[...] |
| [...]in fancy clothes, especially if someone is going to paint their portrait. The museum has[...] |
| [...]Ernest Sorenson and Emerson Slack. ~at a fun way to keep cook on a hot summer day. These "Good Old Boys " of Bannack have many great memories to share in this gathering in Bannack. Standi[...] |
| [...]'s sleep , the guard dog snoozing outside ready to alert the sheepherder if a coyote or mount[...] |
| This is reputed to be the first house in Wisdom MT and probab[...] |
| [...]d Effie Roe at Red Rock. Later the house belonged to June Roe Forsythe Staudenmeyer, then Judy[...] |
| Martin Sorenson family's third home from 1908 to 1918 at the end of Kentucky Avenue where i[...] |
| [...]rence Albertson was born 08 Apr 1917 in Denver CO to Walter Albertson and Jane Drout Albertson. His fa[...]ld War I when Walter was a baby. His mother moved to Butte with Walter and an older brother, Dick, now[...]oys Central High School in Butte. Walter went to work for Mountain Bell Telephone Company soon aft[...]es by hand and getting $75 a month. He felt lucky to have a job since it was the middle of the 1930s depression. He was transferred to Drummond in 1950 and then to Dillon in 1953 as manager. Walter married Lucille[...]d away in 1978. @Mountain Bel |
| [...]through Beaverhead Valley in 1866 on his way to Virginia Maxine, and son, Bryce, having sold real[...]ily Utah, moved onto the property in early August to begin arrived in Dillon in Sep 1956. h[...]the teen-age daughter of Shorty and Elaine, came to Dillon in late August to begin the school year, but it was not until the b[...]and the youngest son, five year old Nathan, moved to Montana. Their oldest son, Brett, never moved fro[...]her cows from the Dillon property forty-six miles to the Woody ranch in Jackson. Some were moved onto[...]lay Anders, children Kevin, Paul and Julie; moved to the Polaris properties in late fall before coming on and mother Dorothy, taken 1968. Ref.163.11. to the Dillon place for winter feeding and calving. Upon moving to Montana, Shorty and Dutch continued traveling and[...]ations. Western Montana College of Education to teach Industrial In the Beaverhead area, they[...]wells on Jack Jordan, President of WMC, to replace 0. K. Moe, due to Hirschy's ranches, one on the Hansen ranch at Med[...]the Centennial Valley. The house was next to Mr. and Mrs. and Carolyn Gibson. This is where th[...]ut the Shorty sold the Woody ranch in Jackson to Cliff Swenson possibility of a killing fros[...]th-old son, Kevin Clayborn, made themselves ranch to John and Sandy Wendt. Later, Swenson purchased[...]t the Traughber place and Shorty moved his family to Casper was $70. WY, where his oil field e[...]since the early 1980s. Later, they Helena to college was made smooth because of friendly moved to their present home in Hyde Park UT. Their[...]her return to teaching until three children were in scho[...] |
| that the Dillon Anders children were off to a good start in Arbour and her children, Dale, Joe, Dan, Randy and life. In 1958 the family decided to build a new home six Cheryl. Since the 195[...]lie began at Carroll College, Helena, transferred to[...]Company. She returned to teaching in 1976, tutoring in[...]e as The Beaverhead area was a superb place to live and raise well as the East Pioneers. In 1960[...]ouse in Mr. Kenneth Eliason's felt fortunate to have spent 37 years in such an environment[...] |
| [...]put out on the range to keep the coyotes away. Later he converted to a lambing shed operation. Hans Christian Ande[...]ns and considered an authority on sheep. Olga, to her native Denmark. She died there when daughter Georgiana Crouse was born near Bozeman in 1913 to Christine was born. The children remained on the[...]its history to the colonists. Fred moved the family to Dillon With the exception of Christine, the A[...]eam in 1914. The family included a four- returned to Bannack when Hans was nine. At that time,[...]taken over by the banks when ranchers were unable to in community affairs and was chosen Dillon[...]st Year in 1977. National Bank of Dillon to manage the 10,000 head of sheep Hans an[...]mits in three different areas which required Hans to do a Montana College. Georgiana served First Presbyterian lot of traveling; 70 miles to the Centennial, 30 miles to Wise Church in many capacities. River and 30 miles to Bloody Dick. All the sheep were To this union four children were born: Elaine Andersen trailed (no trucking) to summer range. Managing the ranch Peterson,[...]etirement, Keith Andersen converted the operation to Emergency Act to reduce their sheep bands and cattle herds cattle and continues to ranch there. due to the Depression, grasshoppers and the drought. Hans died in May 1996. Georgiana continues to reside Eighteen hundred sheep were killed at the[...]er the same reduction plan. Ranchers were willing to --[...]use feed was so scarce. Gradually, Hans began to establish his own sheep ranch. He was in a sheep[...]Selway through Ellis Island, both going to Minneapolis where they Ranch southeast of Dillon,[...]the home of relatives He added several homesteads to the property and improved there in the early 1900s. Two sons were born to this union, the hay meadows. On this ranch the he[...]essible by truck where In 1912 they came to Horse Prairie to be with Fred supplies for sheep and herder[...] |
| [...]Tendoy 's Indian tribe made treks through the to nearly go blind after two weeks of wearing them.[...]ulated one thousand dollars with which he planned to were gone. return to college. Claus's cousin asked Oscar to loan him Carl went to school at Armstead for a time, but when the thousand dollars and promised to pay it back after the Oscar started school, a new[...]had their youngsters so they wouldn't have so far to go to dreamed of for a college education. sch[...]Claus and Wendla, with the boys' help , moved to a place In the 1920s the Andersons moved to a place on Carter north along the river an[...]. One day Claus was putting up ice moved to the west bench north of Dillon for some years. fo[...]she was carrying, and the bruise turned to cancer. She had decided he had broken the hip, it was too late to set it. He surgery and treatments in Butte where Oscar took her in his was taken to a Butte hospital where he lay spread-eagled on car. He quit his job and stayed at home to nurse her until two beds for three months. Finall[...]he was Disillusioned, Oscar asked his dad to move with him to never able to work as before. At another time, he had a nail a place he had decided to buy and start a dairy. They fly into his eye, bli[...]dressed and sold them, and also from house to house for ten years until the rationing of gas , sold eggs and butter to faithful customers for many years. tires ,[...]house and ate his meals with them, Claus was able to pay off his entire hospital bill eventually. grateful he no longer had to cook. They lived at this place for perhaps ten or so years . The Louise gave birth 20 Jun 1942 to a daughter, Myrna. As boys went to grade school at the rural Drummey school,[...]the evenings. Claus became ill and Carl went to Chicago to learn to be an electrician and died of a stroke foll[...]years and married Lulu Belle Due to the drought, even though Oscar had accumulated Gi[...]Anson, who now works for Hewlett- having to feed his cattle hay when there should have been P[...]many years and died He sold his farm to Frank Willis in 1945 and bought a suddenly in Red[...]A son, Eddie, was born 08 Sep 1945 . Due to never- --Louise Smith Ande[...]four years. Due to low wages, they moved to Kalispell for Oscar Anderson two years and to Conrad for two years before buying a farm[...]erhead County High Oscar's health began to fail so they subdivided the farm and School, he s[...]. through the years. His art work has gone to several In 1929, Oscar attended the Nor[...] |
| [...]Mary Hester Decker (Kurtz). They fondly referred to each several years by car, camper and plane.[...]d brothers Albert (born 1912) and Edmond was able to be at his memorial service. His widow[...]dentally shot by his friend at age 12), continues to live in the Victor home.[...]Helen attended high school in Missoula due to her father's have a daughter, Wendie, and a son,[...]ia. He suffered a military service related injury to his ankle in 1967. He was in Korea for thirteen m[...]tury brought the birth of a baby who was destined to leave his imprint on Beaverhead County. Harry J.[...]re raised on the ranch until it was sold in order to build one of Montana's finest hotels, the Andrus Hotel in Dillon, completed in 1918. While tending to sheep high in the mountains, Harry J. and his friend, Lester Schulz from Sheridan, decided to seek[...]n expanded career as a home Harry J. returned to Dillon and took an active part in economics teacher from 1945 to 1954 and 1961 to 1966 at managing the Andrus Hotel until he was ap[...]40) and a brother, Harry (1941). Schuler (married to Fern), operated a fox farm located on[...]cousin, Marie Busch. Harry also born 21 Mar 1914 to Carl and Nellie Decker, in Armstead, ope[...]desire to keep ranching. 186 - Beaverhead History No .2 |
| [...]was due to her organizational skills and interest. Many[...]continued to be active and travel with the Retired[...]They moved out to the ranch. When he was about ten[...]Mountain. He came into an opening about 60 to 75 yards[...]like brass, which proved to be the butt plate of a flintlock After the de[...]rsued the building of Parkview Acres Nursing Home to find them. He started looking around and[...]he gun was, he saw the tooth of a bear on service to the community, Harry J. was recognized with the[...]nown as who owned it had the bear down, went to reload and broke Helen's Style Shop, later Hazel'[...]nglish make, has the English Crown Westwood, next to the Andrus Hotel. Upon meeting Harry, on i[...]tt, an ancient dragon on one she devoted her time to raising three babies, each born one sid[...] |
| [...]of year and the time we made seemed slow to me. In fact,[...]wanted to go.[...]Mr. Dixon, I was driven to the home of my brother-in-law,[...]This ranch was the first in the valley to be entirely fenced.[...]gone to Horse Prairie to visit her aunt, Mrs. Thomas H.[...]I borrowed a team and wagon from Al Noyes to go to[...]Melrose for our household goods, barely enough to furnish[...]one room. I also got a team from him to bring the family Edwin Andrus of Wilder ID showin[...]oody Dick trail going over from the Horse Prairie to the first rib of the roof didn't deter us f[...]hough the bacon may have been somewhat scarce due to the to someone in that party.[...]of the family exchequer. I. E. gave this gun to his son, Edwin E. Andrus, of The Chu[...]oad at that time went over the hill and came down to the[...]extremely well to haul 1500-1800 pounds of freight. W.[...]6 at the us. Eight times we were compelled to go through this Bryant Hotel at Dewey, which at t[...]econd spring after my arrival, Wat Maloney and I, to realize it now as one rolls through the place in[...]and supplies. The river was high and we expected to haul The morning of the 31st, we left[...] |
| I happened to be in the lead and when we came to the After serving in World War II in[...]which had not yet materialized), of course I had to During this time, she often visited in Di[...]between the box and the sideboards and it seemed to be floating downstream. To say I was glad to get across would be putting it very mildly. I stood up and looked over the wagon to see how Wat was coming, but he wasn't. He waved h[...]ventfully and instead of loading in Butte, I went to Dillon and came home by way of Jackson. The previous winter, 1885-86, Mr. Noyes had gotten out logs to bridge the river so travel to Gibbonsville could cross during high water. Al, F[...]g snow came down with a rush, filling the channel to overflowing and flooding In 1969 she decided to return to Dillon and make a the entire river bottom.[...]ately became active in the Mrs. Armitage used to take the children across the river American Legion Post #20 and was adjutant for many years to school when the wagon box had been raised six inches until she resigned in 1996. and chained to the running gear. Even then, the water[...]in the valley for two years, Mrs. Armitage to the team has always been generous. went to Butte and brought our youngest child, Reece, back[...]had been with her. He was the last of the family to arrive in the named the national winner of the American Legion valley and the first to leave, at present being located at Outstanding Baseball Woman Award for her contributions to Bremerton WA.[...]After twelve years on our pre-emption, we sold it to Arthur was instrumental in starting[...]tournament the Maybelle Arthur to honor her." Maybelle Arthur[...]secretary to the Director of Sports at Greiner Field in New[...]d she During her life she loved to horseback ride, hunt and moved with her parents and siblings to a ranch at Fort fish. She was a world[...]ed most of the Bridger WY. As a child she learned to ride horses, herd countries in t[...] |
| [...]to Buffalo WY where Perry owned and managed a lumber Florence Carter was born 25 Jan 1884 in Dillon to yard. Florence and Perry had two childr[...]ven children. W.B. Carter Virginia, 7, back to Dillon where they lived in the Carter established[...]m now stands. Her son Bill married Florence loved to tell stories of her family and how Grandpa Liz[...]World War II, her daughter asked Florence to care for her[...]so in the summer she had his son, Jimmy, to care for as his[...]Flossie, but she did not care for her family to call her that.[...]to live up to. If she disliked a person, she never said[...]judgement of others. Her advice to her children and[...]grandchildren was accepted as the way to do and is still passed on to the next generation. It has proved to be helpful[...]umber of Ives in Nevada City . The rope was found to be too long so covered clothes hangars. Carter volunteered to shorten the rope. Before doing so, he Her[...]were Gunsmoke and asked Bennett what disposition to make of his effects in case Lawrence Welk. She loved listening to her grandchildren he did not come down alive.[...]g member entertained for hours on end about going to parties and of the Eastern Star, a Mother Advisor to Rainbow Girls and dances at surrounding ra[...] |
| [...]. He was considered too old, but he felt the need to defend his country and managed to be accepted. He went 1) Lizabeth S[...]and While on the ground, in addition to working on the planes, Anna Selway Carter. His fa[...]er- he was also the base mailman, due to his postal experience. manager of the lumberyard[...]In the spring of 1945 , Bill was transferred to Sandpoint mother and sister lived in Sheridan WY.[...]Jimmy lived father in 1922. The family moved back to Dillon where his with her parents who had moved to Seattle. Lizabeth mother, sister and he lived at[...]es Sallee and Betty Coffey Sallee from to Dillon. Lizabeth decided to stay in Seattle, so a divorce Danville KY. Bill m[...]ly 1946 the Reno Bar in Armstead came up for sale to their marriage. Bill worked at the Montana Mercan[...]Fred and Nancy. Also in 1948, Jimmy came home to live operated. They had one son, James Sal[...] |
| [...]ly fishing. Bill was considered fifth-wheeler to Furnace Creek CA for the winters. There, to be one of the expert fishermen and boaters on bot[...]hop. When not working, they golfed and took trips to Las came to Armstead, he would check with Bill to find out Vegas for shows and played. Bil[...]Ken and Nellie Bandelier arrived to make Dillon their new home. The decision to move from Indiana to Montana was not easy to make. Both Nellie and Ken left permanent[...]and needle leafed pine trees in they trusted him to hold their money until they needed it. contr[...]ana flat lands and gently rolling hills? This not to be missed. This was during the era when Armstead question haunted them as they adjusted to a new was the largest cattle shipping point on th[...]ce methods, Bill and Ginny sold the Reno prior to the dam in 1957 and psychology. Dan Block[...]e Doc Curry. They were the first family to move into the Masonic Order and a member of the S[...]illon; they were lucky that the college rented it to them. his Texaco station. Bill was one of the fou[...]ry and junior high schools. recreation, traveling to many courses. 192 - Beaverhead History No.2 |
| [...]She developed the first software using a computer to teach vocabulary to first grade students and convinced the[...]administration to purchase the first computers used in the[...]Ref 139.32. While they considered themselves to be from the |
| [...]hey married in 1976 in the church. Gary continued to serve as pastor until he was moved to the Lonsdale United Methodist Church in Sidney,[...]Bertram Bird Barnes was the second child born to[...]iel, and Judy Ann in 1905 they moved out to west Texas and then on to New Bandelier Treglown. Ref 171. 04.[...] |
| [...]nn, was born 08 Oct fortunate that they were able to finish high school in Texas 1959. In the fall of 1960 Frank and Betty moved to Malta before going to New Mexico. This proved to be fortunate MT and were there about five years before coming to Dillon indeed; for later Bertram went off to teach school in order in Aug 1965. to keep body and soul together. It was in fall 1923[...]All the children were in school, so Betty decided to began to teach school in the community of Plainview. One[...]om Beaverhead Nellie was the fifth child born to George Samuel Seely County High School. Frank[...]ive. In the spring of 1907 this family also moved to New Mexico where Samuel filed on his 320-acre hom[...]nview, Lea County NM, the eldest of two sons born to[...]2) William Henry Perkins army and was assigned to the 10th Mountain Division, the Bon[...]of Mary (May) Elinor Barnhart to Joseph and Minerva Jane Upon graduation he went to work for the Soil (Jenny) Pell Barn[...]llinois by covered years before transferring over to the Bureau of Land wagon when May's imminent birth forced them to stop in Management. It was upon this transfer that he moved to Spearfish. Farmington NM and met Betty Je[...]The family moved from Spearfish to Lead to Deadwood. Betty Jean Anderson was born 18 Jul[...]a child, May saw the wagon bringing Calamity Jane to NM, the fifth child born to Dempse Anderson and his wife, the doctor whe[...]ul figure. Zandt County TX, the second child born to John Dickson The family remained in S[...]l School in Spearfish. Although 1911 Dempse moved to Clay County, where his sister was she trained as a teacher, her health was not up to the living, and there he met and married Sula May[...]wood, 12 Jan 1912. Sula was the eldest child born to John shovelling snow, carrying coal, p[...]cold of a Dakota The Medders family had moved to Texas from Alabama winter. Her doctor recommended living in the mountains to about 1910, living first in Red River County and then help her asthma, so the family moved to Colorado. They moving to Clay County about 1911. Then, about 1920 both[...]the Medders family and the Anderson family moved to New to sell locally. May and her younger sister, Louise[...]n As most homesteaders soon learned, they had to find engineer for the Denver & Rio Grande Railroad. They had other employment to keep things going. While Dempse three[...]seph made a good living for his family. They went to Gallup to work. Then, in 1926, all the family had[...]china for everyday dishes, good silverware, moved to Gallup and it was here that Betty was born.[...]at the El Rancho Hotel in Gallup until she moved to Farmington in Dale was still a babe in arms. May and the children tried 1950 to work for the El Paso Natural Gas Company.[...] |
| [...]ane Perkins. In Nov 1931 Will took the family to Montana. He worked as a conductor for the Union Pacific. On a run to Billings, the train derailed. Will was struck in[...]aused congestive heart disease, and he was unable to work. In 1932 he staked a claim for placer go[...]gold that Will, Loren and Dale panned was enough to keep the family fed, clothed and housed during th[...]ught the In 1940 the family again moved to Bon Accord where a Moneghan to Bannack and the Bon Accord. May cooked for[...]ars The Moneghan was a very large shovel used to put gravel in gold taken from the claim in one[...]g the same time. They used the Moneghan shovel to pick up the dirt through sluice boxes and[...] |
| [...]stories about being able to catch enough fish to feed the[...]overnment confiscated the shovel and it was taken to Alaska to build the Al-Can Highway. The family moved to Dillon. May went to work at the little Deluxe Cafe, located on the co[...]now. She worked there about a year and then went to work at the Oasis Cafe, owned by ·Ernest Hazel. It was where the Dilmart is at present. She was forced to retire due to failing health in 1949. She was well known for he[...]ral years at The Club. Boy, would he have stories to[...]s for his entire life. Together they had one born to Chris and Petra Bay. Two older brothers passed[...]cancer, leaving Art to cope with the raising of his four and two brother[...]working for Jack's Market until it closed, then to Roberts' During summer vacations while[...] |
| [...]Clifford was born 06 Dec 1917 to Elizabeth and Jens Bay[...]when he went to the South Pacific war zone and served in[...]service to Dillon and Beaverhead County was presented to[...]e Year in the Tribune in 1980 was a great tribute to a man who raised four of his five children alone[...]but he learned real fast and was more than happy to find wash-and-wear clothing. His cooking w[...] |
| He likes to recall those hiking trips into mountain lakes[...]g game animal and teaching the art of ice fishing to married David Henry Bays, son of Roy P. "G[...]urg. Accolades of praise and acknowledgements to Clifford They made their home in Dillon[...]story log home which they he was always contented to call home. Happy memories of thoroughly e[...]rowing up, playing, working, take them back often to the home site when they return to Montana.[...]Mamie and Dave had the opportunity to adopt an eight-[...]month-old girl. Thus Kathleen Jean came to their home and[...]from Beaverhead County High School and moved to a ranch[...]in the Armstead area where she commuted to finish school. They later moved to Dillon where Paul worked for the Mamie Alberta[...]children. She had two sisters, and Kathy moved to Washington. Nellie and Laura, and four brothers,[...]before going to work for Tri-State Minerals (Pfizer) where Ma[...]ave enjoyed raising bum lambs and many they moved to Dillon and her father and mother divorced.[...] |
| [...]in 1980 at the family home, where Mamie continued to reside until poor health sent her to the rest home where she died January 10, 1994. Due to the size of their home and their love for company[...]suspected one of her neighbors of helping himself to her own herd, but she could never catch him in th[...]James Blake Bean. Refl71.09. She decided to even the score, anyway. When the neighbor remarke[...]k she served after Sunny and Thelma decided to ease the work of trapping a roundup, Maggie repli[...]One of the first Maggie brought some culture to the remote valley. When stories my daddy tol[...]ch in Lima and taught green. religious studies to their children. His greatest gift to my He'd hoist his pet badger up above the grass and point father was to teach him how to fly fish. Blake would him towards the[...]rasp and take off in a into Maggie's chicken coop to catch chicken dinner for the beeline to catch the ground squirrel. The badger brought the[...]squirrels back to Blake, uneaten. Daddy let his pet To make more money, Sunny and Blake trapped furs in[...]ly four, my grandfather Blake went to school in Lima and Monida, sometimes loaded a sma[...]Loretta McDowell. He the sled, pulled by a horse, to check and reset the traps. started high school in Polson and then moved back to Dillon That day, crossing the frozen Red Rock Riv[...]e, sending as seriously as they do now, even to the point of coming up the heater and Blake into[...]My with jobs for promising athletes to keep them in the school. grandfather dove into th[...]verhead County High School in back the five miles to Clover Creek. When Thelma 1[...] |
| [...]lot was later, he'd laugh about how naive he was, to think he could needed to fly him around the country to fund raising events. just up and leave the Army w[...]ickly earning the nickname The Army sent him to Anchorage and Juneau AK as a[...]t~legraph operator. Blake's greatest ambition was to fly Dad~y s~d the closest he ever came to death as a pilot auplanes. When I was a little _g[...]Wanda_, traveled by train from Sacramento to marry my Russian weather code in Alaska, he was g[...]e had contracted malaria in New Guinea and it led to He wanted to be a pilot. Only college graduates were[...]tack while my parents were in Washington. allowed to go to pilot school, but Daddy was persistent and[...]Asthma grounded him. He was able to stay in the Air Force he finally got his wish, going to King City CA in 1942. It[...]as hard going and most would-be pilots washed out to[...]One solution was to work with Hollywood to make war After he graduated, he left the United States to fly with[...]who flew around the country with Blake helping to establish Blake flew 52 missions in the Paci[...]w Guinea. They were picked up by a tribe friendly to[...]Allies and taken down the river in dugout canoes to an[...]the Air Force as a major and continued to work making morphine.[...]'t care as much for the high life of brought back to Washington, D.C. as a war hero to help sell[...]Hollywood and soon talked Blake into moving to Sacramento government bonds before the war ended.[...]to start a dry-cleaning business. assigned to the War Department at the Pentagon and sent to Daddy went on to work as a salesman for Lyon Van and school at Washington-Lee University to become a public[...]affairs officer. As a military attache, he worked to establish[...]He returned to the Centennial Valley each year for elk[...]and friends gathered for the long trip to the hunting camps.[...]In 1959 my parents and I moved to the Centennial to ranch[...] |
| [...]my parents divorced. Wanda returned to school, to Western Montana College, to be a teacher and my father continued to ranch with his parents . In 1967 after the ranch[...]married Viola Catherine Heiller Hughes and moved to Monterey CA to share a business with her, Vi sewing and Blake in[...]d made good friends . Blake and Vi moved back to Montana when my grandfather was diagnosed[...]she was born that he told Blake's health started to fail and he and Vi went to the his coworkers that it was a boy. When t[...]baby on the oven door. " The physicians tried to stabilize his health and worked to In 1928, the family moved to Easton WA. She was a help him withstand the high[...]perfect Montana. Finally, Daddy and Vi were able to return to attendance. In 1939 they moved back to Montana, living on Dillon and the valley for a fe[...]riends and family. they moved to Spencer ID. Daddy died 24 Jun 1980 in St. Jam[...]Floyd, was born in Seattle WA. They Cemetery next to his mother and father. Vi stayed in Dillon divorced and Vernadine moved back to Monida, living with until 1988 when she moved to Grants Pass OR. "This is the her mother. The[...]moved to Fort Peck where Casey was employed by the U.S.[...]1955 they moved to Slippery Ann Game Station, located on 2) Har[...]Bridge on Highway 191. To say it was isolated was an[...]y generated electricity, 35 miles over dirt roads to Lost Packer gold mine near Ivers ID. Vernadine ar[...]was about one and a half years old, he oven door to act as a substitute for an incubator.[...] |
| impossible to take him to a doctor. The good Lord must Trage[...]at's child). She gave him some pills and told him to cut them in half. grieved for her so[...]b 1984, and is buried in the jam and gave the jam to Patrick. They put his crib up on cemete[...]died 11 Dec 1991. vacuum wands from the teakettle to his crib, which they covered with a sheet. The pi[...]hings besides wife and mother. Once a hunter came to the Vernald Floyd Bean door and[...]On 08 Aug 1929 Vernald Floyd ~ean was born to She checked the man's wounds and found that[...]lley. He was Farmer until he could be transported to the hospital. and Ethel's sec[...]he Monida MT and Spencer ID and later went to school in became the teacher. She taught the firs[...]rnald joined the U.S. Army. He was The roads to the school became almost impassable that[...]he was on Guam that he made what he and her sons to school. The ruts in the road were so deep[...]oined the Catholic Church and was baptized at way to the school without anyone touching the steering[...]Honorable Discharge from the Army. He returned to Another son, Timothy Joe, was born 14 Oct 19[...]imothy didn't give much warning that he was about to around Deer Lodge, did some trucking out of Gold Creek arrive. Casey used a two-way radio to call for an with a friend and worked for a construction company which ambulance to take her to the hospital in Malta. The was buil[...]it took Butte. Vernadine and Casey to travel nine miles on the muddy The second major decision came in 1953 when he went roads to the highway. to work for The National Cash Register Company in Bu[...]and by and was immediately transferred to Billings to do his 1961 Casey had built additional rooms on[...]s he made the third major decision and delivered to a mail box only nine miles away.[...]married 24 Apr 1954. 1961. In Aug 1969 she moved to Roy so that the boys could From 1954[...]Register Company was to become known throughout the the high school. Ver[...]rked at many jobs, including claimed she learned to cook on her parents' ranch where[...]agerial positions in several there were often 15 to 30 men to feed.[...]Vice President with school annual was dedicated to her two different years. In a[...]facturing plants in newspaper article it is easy to see why, "Each day's menu,[...]e President-Corporate Field Engineering, manages to bake a little extra so that each child cou[...] |
| In 1983 he was promoted to Vice President of Customer Services with world-wi[...]Oakland CA; and Thomas persuaded him to come to Dillon in 1925. He worked his Edward , born 29 Ja[...]ontway Patsy Contway was the third child born to Harold "Toke" and Helene Wenger Contway in 1942.[...]waiter in Butte. The Bennetts are looking forward to retirement when camping and grandchildren[...] |
| [...]John Seidensticker and and in 1944 sold the ranch to Bryan Ball. Amy Gilbert. They sold $100 shares to the public and in He and Cora lived a year in[...]nt home. later be sold to the Hillhaven Corporation. Debentures were The[...]area of the ranch. That subsequently been used to aid many worthwhile projects in system is still i[...]sshopper Valley which he sold several years later to DeMar Taylor who initiated a The c[...]. Cora still lives in Arnold worked diligently to improve conditions for Dillon. farmers a[...]an Farm Bureau and in 1956 was the first operator to[...]tle. He also harbored another major ambition--to secure a nursing home in the Dillon area.[...] |
| [...]trailed or trucked back to Dillon. Mildred Christine Carlson was born 10[...]haying. He also "worked horses," training them to ride and graduating from Beaverhead County High S[...]work. As a young person, Ron was allowed to experience She received a two-year teaching degre[...]in father was a teacher and exposed Ron to all facets of Malta in Phillips County.[...]Marilyn Miller was born 25 Apr 1944 to Helen Pavel Maxine attended school in Dillon[...]Dillon 31 Oct 1958. Freeland and Analee Mace to the south and to the north They had three sons, all raised in Dill[...]tended Dillon schools and went on Tribune. to earn college degrees. Carl and Larry have married[...]March 1956. Following his death, Mildred returned to college (now called Western Montana College) in D[...]hird grade in Troy for two years and then went on to teach two years in the Hamilton elementary school[...]ler Ronald Albert Benson was born 26 Dec 1942 to Arnold and Cora Benson. He was raised three miles[...]ossessed a high energy level and drive. When came to rural areas.[...]salads and desserts for sale. She desired to become an aspiring rancher, he began working by t[...]iling cattle 110 miles from the Dillon Sweetwater to the She graduated from BCHS and Gonzaga Unive[...]The cattle drive took Spokane WA. She returned to Dillon and worked for eleven days, sometim[...] |
| [...]erous state Catholic Church in Dillon. They moved to Ron's ranch on awards. the Sweetwater wh[...]. She is presently a C.P.A. and controller access to his ranch and remodeled the ranch house for his[...]he graduated improvements and his hard-work ethic to produce a farm and from the Syracuse School[...]married ranch management system that enables him to run his Stephen A. Luigs of Paducah[...]for General Electric. Five children were born to this marriage. Their only Cindy Sue,[...]n from son, Billy, died as an infant. In addition to Billy, they had BCHS and magna cum laude from[...]ng home-schooled. She is active in 4-H and in the to the ranch in 1967, there was a school bus serving[...]ice was eliminated. Thus, Marilyn drove the girls to[...]1884 in the Lofoten Islands, Norway to Ole A. and Martha[...]Paulsen. As a child he came to America with his parents[...]high school in Eau Claire, later moving to Chinook MT.[...]to Chinook at the age of two years. She attended ele[...]Valedictorian. She taught school in Chinook prior to[...]To Laura and O.A. were born three sons, William[...]executive secretary to Montana Governor Joseph Dixon. Front L-R: Dan Chr[...]at Niagara Falls. They moved to Dillon in 1928 where O.A. owned Ref 171.13[...] |
| [...]Laura was successful, even at the high elevation, to grow[...]hand, supplied the pan-sized "brookies" for Laura to cook on[...]O.A. continued to live in Dillon, participating in political[...]others were asked to represent Montana at the Yucca Flats,[...]Bench Irrigation District, bringing water to 22,000 acres of[...]orothy leading Montanan in the struggle to conserve water, preserve (Roberts) , and their fo[...]personal record stands as a milepost on the road to high The entire front of the cabin was[...] |
| [...]intent was to rob the State Bank but there were too many[...]e bank In Dillon 18 Apr 1905, Gordon was born to J runes and[...]followed him out, being able to see him get into a Mercury Gordon began workin[...]otted down the license number. 1932 and continued to work there until he was inducted into[...]te police chief the Army 16 Nov 1942. He was sent to Fort Douglas UT[...]block was set up at the for basic training, then to Fort Lewis WA where he[...]Gordon passed away 11 Sep 1978. Eleva moved to 36 years with the bank he retired in 1968. Nevada to be near her daughter.[...]cowboys and my father went to work for Jim Dodd and[...]Centennial in 1917 and moved to Dillon for the children to[...]through on the train and waved to us from the observation[...]scarce. Some fathers had to seek employment elsewhere, as[...]came out each spring. A dime would take you to the[...]pened at the bank in Dec delivered milk to the neighbors at ten cents a quart. Butter 1953 w[...]ed for groceries at Bond $4,565. He handed a note to teller Fielding Graves, written Groc[...] |
| [...]crepe paper costumes to wind the May Pole and hoped it[...]teachers and parents, but was beautiful to see and always[...]The first half of the third grade, children went to the[...]to see her mother and father. It took eight days. Wh[...]In 1930 Mayor Ott Vandegrift and others decided to have[...]had Young John Berry, A Texas cowboy on his way to Clifford, Jr. and Gregory. Cliffor[...]Barrett Station was a favorite place for families to get John Berry died in 1934 and Eul[...] |
| [...]t of five children born Ruth Marie Kuchler to James and Sadie Berry. He went to school in Dillon and when World War II came along[...]Ken was born in Penrose WY 20 Sep 1910 to James C.[...]and Botilda Gylling Berthelson. He came to Montana in the[...]to go touring the country in a trailer looking for a[...]home. They settled in Bountiful UT, but decided to move[...]ervice he mainly worked on gliders that were used to land men and materials behind enemy lines.[...]arrived in Lima from Powell WY. They intended to buy Biloxi MS, he attained the rank of Sergeant b[...]Kuchler decided not to sell so the Berthelsons moved into After he re[...]Lima. exploration and mining locally, then moved to Anaconda Ken really liked the area,[...]und so he made a good living; it was a good place to poisoning which may have contributed to his early death at bring up the children. Ke[...]Lima; he worked on fixing up the cemetery so that to California and worked for Lockheed Aircraft. He n[...]We moved to Dillon in 1966 for a short while for the[...]children to go to high school. Ken worked in Missoula[...] |
| [...]Nevada, New Mexico, even south to the Carolinas. On coming home, Ken . bought the old Dell school house thinking to start an antique shop. We were building a house to live in when our daughter Joan died, leaving us four grandchildren to raise. We needed a way to make a living so we started the Yesterday[...]from delivering and hawking newspapers to attend the 1904[...]In 1913, he was raised to Master Mason degree of Dillon[...]e 0. M. Bests, Three children were born to the J. P. Bests: Judson was born 29 Aug 1881[...]n familiarly as Michigan law school from 1910 to 1913 and then joined his "Pete") in 1918;[...]ian, 1st class, in the Navy band in in Dillon to set up housekeeping.[...]of Beaverhead County asked for a transfer to active duty. He served as a seaman, in 1932,[...]ssor and was Eventually, he advanced to quartermaster, serving in both reelected in 1[...]After his Navy stint, he went back to college, at the In 1943, he resigned as a[...]f Wisconsin, and then secured employment as a to accept appointment as chief of the Withholding Ta[...]accountant for a steel company. In 1951, he moved to Division of the U. S. Internal Revenue Servic[...]in Kenosha WI where he Later, he was assigned to the auditing division in Helena bec[...] |
| [...]omplished water-colorist, remains. Bob went to work for the United States Postal and is retired[...]ce in 1959 where he worked until 1977 when he had to live in Kenosha, and also maintain a permanent trailer home take a Disability Retirement. He loved to trap shoot, hunt in Lake Geneva WI. They have a g[...]and enjoying the grandkids. Judson Jr., went to Montana State Normal College for Deb[...]chools in Dillon and three years, leaving in 1938 to become a truck driver for graduated from[...]Nov 1993 . After her job was abolished, she went to work Eventually, he and his wife divorced and he went to live for her father-in-law, Dick Pierce,[...]-employed as a consultant service he moved to Toston. He is a truck driver and for a period, an[...]. Beyers attended school in Helena and Foundation to work on political and human matters in[...]business for herself as a professional returning to the United States to resume consultant work. photographer. She[...]ne Redmond to Mr. and Mrs . Joseph Wall. She attended school at[...]1906 and Bob was born 30 Sep 1931 in Helena MT to Clara L. from Montana State Normal C[...]ools, including Dell, Nelson, Big and later moved to Helena. Clara stayed in Helena and died Hole , Kidd and Armstead. in 1977. Frank moved to Toston and built the Bunkhouse She[...]more and Pittsburgh Railway which ran Bob went to school in Helena for 11 years. He moved from Armstead to Salmon ID. The Bichlers made their to Townsend and graduated there. He enlisted in the[...]e Korean War. He was They moved to Chehalis WA and lived there until their discharge[...]963 in Chehalis and some farming. In 1955 he went to work for the State is buried at Mou[...]Highway Department, surveying, which brought him to Beaverhead County.[...] |
| [...]to 1936.[...]um Families to Croatia and throughout the world.[...]h a degree in months, then returned to Dillon to set up his practice in mathematics, then taught high school in Darby from 1924 to March 1965. 1926 , where she also coached t[...]a B.S. in Beaverhead County High School from 1926 to 1965. elementary education. She t[...]es A. McCollum in 1930. Jim was prior to their marriage and earned a master's degre[...] |
| [...]she earned a Anderson Lane. In 1960, much to the dismay of many of degree in history in 1993.[...]e and communications. was the first to graduate from the Parkview Junior High, John[...]Bobbie has loved horses and all things to do with them[...]after four years' service in the US Navy. He went to uttered her first words, "Jesus Christ, sure is c[...]isn't it?" Around age three or four, Bobbie began to walk operation owned by Don Culver, where h[...], suggested for Wayne Montgomery, Jim went to work at the Co-op they take her to Mrs. Hall, who was probably the area's fir[...] |
| Bobbie continued to work for Frank Davis. She was active in the Dillo[...]Voris Carson went to work for Dave Ferris; then, in 1975, bought his own truck and went into the hauling business. Bobbie learned to Emmett Edward Blomquist was born in Lewis[...]in Lincoln ID and the next born. Bobbie returned to work for Frank Davis (also eleven yea[...]two different farms near Idaho Falls. summer off to run the swather, a job she would have for[...]overrun with housing developments . He many years to come. moved to Hamer ID in 1935 _with his parents. He met Voris[...]hard James, was born 19 Jan 1982. Bobbie returned to work for Frank Davis, now the District Judge, in[...]In the next several years, Robert grew old enough to help with baling in the summer, and Bobbie tried[...]She had done typing for court reporters and began to learn "scoping". She spent eight months at Pfizer[...]ok over moving pipe at the farm and Richard began to help with haying and farming. In Sep 1993, Bobbie went to work as deputy clerk of the District Court. Robert graduated from high school in the spring of 1995 and went to work at Montana Pride. Richard began to take a real interest in helping his grandpa with[...]at the Clerk of Court's office at the end of 1996 to pursue a full- time career in scoping, plus attending to her livestock.[...]We moved to Dillon in 1942, buying our first piece of[...] |
| [...]d the Navy , serving four years. He then returned to the ranch for several years. He and his wife[...]ula. She married David Beck in 1968 who was going to BYU earning a degree in mechanical enginee[...] |
| [...]le ID; Elsa Lueticha, born 25 Jul 1921 at decided to get some more education and went to Western Lewisville; Wayne Eugene, bo[...]e she met my father. They married a I learned to fly an airplane, built an airstrip and a hangar.[...]ng the firstborn in 1919, there was no school bus to airplane and lots of fun. haul the children to school so I rode a horse to school when We raised certified seed oats and[...]lace along with feed grain, alfalfa and grass hay to use to far to walk. Father obtained a little mare for me to ride. feed our cattle during the winter months. We raised and To mount her I had to get her over beside the fence to climb sold Hereford bulls for many years until we switched to the on and off and we would go to school; the same procedure Simmental breed. We im[...]The Simmental business opened a whole new world to us. Lincoln ID east of Idaho Falls. The[...]bers belong. We were used to swim there every day in the summer. membership nu[...]hile in South America we a liking to Beaverhead County and in 1940 purchased the toure[...]s north of Dillon on Highway 91. before returning to the U.S.A., the best place of all. T[...]ad greater potential, so he proceeded with a plan to develop wonderful time touring Europe, Russia, Finland, Sweden, it to its ultimate potential. After several years of Norway, Denmark, Germany and England, then back to the development work the spring produced 3,231,360 gallons or U.S.A. and home to Dillon. Wherever we travel, we love five acre feet of water per day and continues to do so today. to come home.[...]The task of running the house fell to Wanda. Voris,[...]John was always looking for ways to improve his lot for Stockholm in July 1865[...] |
| [...]15 Nov 1945. Paul transferred to Dillon in 1942. He My father's philosophy of life was to never be satisfied worked as Train Dispatcher in Montpelier ID during World with the status quo but to improve it and make it better. He War II while[...]n the extra board relieving agents and on to sing for funerals, weddings, and other entertainm[...]different stations before opportunities to work with some excellent choirs, including[...] |
| [...]s. At his retirement, several plants were donated to the WMC Library, some remain as of 1997. Paul wor[...]16th year of teaching, she took a one year leave to accompany her husband on an LDS Mission in[...]ere the first full-time LDS Missionaries assigned to the Virgin Islands. Paul and Verla have taken[...]d the Holy Land, Europe, and the Orient. They try to live life to the fullest, welcoming each new grandchild[...] |
| [...]wife, Eleanor, moved back to Dillon where they now live.[...]Anton "Tony" Boka was born in Austria 01 Jun 1896 to[...]life-long residents of Dillon. Michel, emigrated to Canada, entering Nova Scotia. Tony[...]ment. They have no Holton ME 16 Nov 1915. He came to Dillon in 1917 and[...]I, Mary Rebich Bolick, was born 06 Jul 1917 to Veronica Apex during the 1920s. Two of their chil[...]eb 1919, From Apex they moved south of Dillon to another ranch. Carolyn (Scharff) 19 May 19[...]horse and cart, Eventually they moved closer to Dillon onto the place walking , or someti[...]e. Ford. It was five miles from our home to school; when the These were good years for the fa[...]er was bad we would miss school, which turned out to excellent cook, and almost every Sunday there wer[...]In Apr 1932 at age 15, I went to live with my They were living there 24 Sep 19[...]My grandmother was in poor health so I was to help her and health for some time. Ironically, hi[...]rs before Tony 's death. remained in California to care for my grandfather. Mike was 42 when he died[...]In the fall of 1932 my cousin, John, took me to high After Tony's death, Mary tried to raise her children school to register. I graduated in 1936 and went to work at alone, but had to take jobs cooking on ranches and she could M[...]in Oct 1936 my friend, Florence Brady, and I time to Edward Reis . She and Ed both worked at the White decided to go to San Francisco. We rented an apartment Cafe in Dil[...]he cook and Ed washing dishes. and went to work in a Chinese restaurant for 10 cents an Duri[...]ur. We joined the union and our wages were raised to 35 Ranch.[...]his death, even though she was I went to work for a union restaurant for two years until suffering from cancer, she returned to work at the Cornell 1938 when the World's[...]he big brick ranch house until a few went to work there. I walked three blocks to catch a street days before Thanksgiving, when she was taken to Barrett car that took me to catch the ferry which would take me to Hospital where she died Thanksgiving Day 1967.[...]lived in Butte when her there was so much to do and see. Prior to the opening of father died. They had two daughter[...]attraction to the Fair. Walt was married twice, and[...] |
| [...]arl Alex, was born 02 Feb Frank, had gone to fight in the war and hired help was 1941 at St. J[...]We bought a home in San almost impossible to get because of the war effort. Bruno CA which was[...], Veronica, was born 17 Jul 1944 at Barrett miles to work in San Francisco. He was promoted to Hospital in Dillon. The ranch house[...]no driving the Texaco gas truck and then promoted to office plumbing or water. We heated the ho[...]that time farming was done mostly Blowing Rock NC to Emmanuel and Mary Bolick. He with[...]rs and three sisters. At age 18 Carl had to learn about farming and ranching in a short he left home and traveled to Washington and then to time. He had worked for his uncle in[...]to work for the railroad and George went to work at the talc[...]In January 1973 they moved to the Bolick-Barrett ranch and[...]worked for us for one year to get some experience as Larry[...]and Larry then moved to the Bolick ranch and started their[...]as ranchers. The Bolick-Barrett ranch was leased to[...]four years. We then leased part of it to Larry and Claris,[...]ogether with the rangeland, and part of the ranch to David[...]traveling. We enjoyed a trip to Hawaii and went to Turkey in 1975 to visit our son and his family who were stationed[...]there with the Air Force. We also traveled to Yugoslavia to[...]People would bring him piles of junk to restore and when he[...]urniture and left for family. I have continued to travel, garden and enjoy my Montana. World War II[...]n, four of whom live nearby had asked Carl and me to return to Montana so that we on the ranch and one[...]m on the ranch. My two brothers, George and to have my first great-grandchild. It has been a gre[...]I have much to be thankful for. 222 - Beaverhead History No.2 |
| [...]Upon his return in Nov 1967 the family moved to Little Car1 "Alex" Bolick, Jr.[...]In the fall of 1970 Alex and family returned to Keesler 2) Barbara Perry Smieszek[...]munications officers school. He was then assigned to Born in San Francisco CA 02 Feb 1941 , Carl A[...]attended the OSI Investigations Academy receiving to Dillon in 1943. The family lived in Dillon until[...]ed near the Tash ranch south he was transferred to Ankara, Turkey, for a two-year of Dillon. He atte[...]r three years. In the fall of 1962 he transferred to throughout the Middle East, his wife and c[...]In Jul 1975 the family returned to Washington D.C. In April 1963 Alex married Ma[...]round communications officer, his early moved to Mountain Home AFB ID and McGuire AFB NJ rmhtary a[...]66. In Nov 1966 Maxine and the two children moved to and entered the corporate work place[...] |
| [...]y Bolick Alex moved his family from Medford NJ to West Trenton in 1985 to ease his transportation to and from work. I was born 17 Jul 1944 at Ba[...]me Director of Security, decided I needed to learn how to socialize with kids my own Chemical Bank New Jersey. age and sent me to town school for the eighth grade. His daughter[...]yo, Japan where he teaches English. on the 3 to 11 p.m. shift. I worked with a great staff who[...]formal education was needed. So I went back to school at Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands. They resid[...]na State University in Bozeman for the years 1965 to In Apr 1996 Alex returned to work in New York City 1967 and re[...] |
| [...]age in the Province of Oaxaca. I returned briefly to Barrett Hospital and then left Montana for other[...]Sun Valley ID for one year, 1968-1969, then went to Seattle WA where I worked in various specialty ar[...]I took a two-year hiatus during which time I went to the Caribbean and worked as a cook- crew member o[...]ears of no nursing and the need for money took me to Saudi Arabia for three years. It was an interesti[...]r a single female and afforded me the opportunity to learn how to scuba dive in the Red Sea. In 1988 after my stay in Saudi Arabia, I returned to the United States and traveled to Phoenix AZ and began working for the Department o[...]n 1996. During my nursing career I have been able to volunteer with medical teams traveling to Kuwait after the Gulf War, Bangladesh after one of their many devastating flood seasons, and to Florida after Hurricane Hugo. Because I have never married or had children, I have been able to do many things others of my generation hav[...] |
| On 09 Mar 1921, according to records at the county courthouse in Dillon MT, pa[...]est of the Montana Meridian. This claim was given to him under the direction of and signed by the Pres[...]stead until January 1926. Four children were born to this union: Gladys, Carl H., Grace and myself, Ed[...]ce a week Mother always took a large can of cream to Apex to be shipped to a dairy by train. I remember riding with her in a one-horse buggy to make the delivery. They struggled as all farmers do, trying to eke out a living on their small acreage. There we[...]y had with friends and neighbors. With six mouths to feed and my mother not being fond of farming, the[...]as the Curtis hospital in the 1910s-early decided to go to Wyoming where there was an oil boom[...]visited there closed. Later the house belonged to William J. Cushing and with my daughter, Sheila, to show her where her roots were his wife, Helen Conway Cushing, who operated an started. According to records filed February 6, 1928 in the apart[...]y Jo Maxwell Scott purchased the home in was sold to the Security State Bank Corp. of Dillon MT for 1980s and lives there now. Photo belongs to Chuck Davis. the sum of $2,485.00.[...] |
| [...]to certify for his CPA, Ron took a job with Lockheed[...]er two of four brothers and two sisters. He loved to play sports years with Lockheed, Ron decided to go back to school and and was active in baseball from Little[...]t a Master's Degree in Business. The family moved to school as a catcher. He was a linebacker in footb[...]baby sat in the from high school in 1976 and went to Snow College in Utah afternoons and en[...]ton State University in Pullman. The family moved to Ames IA when Christie was three years old. She ha[...]ny other activity that was offered. She moved to Oxford OH and then to Normal IL where she graduated from high school. S[...]987 in Glendale right after the family had moved to Montclair CA. This move created quite a drive fo[...]Enjoying the change of pace from L.A. to Provo and days were filled with ballet lessons, story time at the library, wanting to move even farther away from the "big city," Ron[...]ade a career change and moved the family up north to lessons. Kimberly came into the world lau[...] |
| We love it in Dillon and think it a great place to raise a he hires no additional help, and he ea[...]t. If I get tired of one, I tum Six Months to Live - 83 Years Later on th[...]mining a 17-year-old much as I used to. Still listen to the news a lot, though, and tubercular patient at a St. Louis MO clinic back in 1879, try to keep up with what's goin' on in the world." told[...]wns his own car, has a valid driver's license and to be 21. It's very possible that you might not last another drives back and forth to work from his home. Hasn't been six months." Stun[...]y for past three years because he feels he is not to his home near Mexico MO, packed his few belonging[...]to Salt Lake City by train with his oldest and young[...]sisters, transferred there to Lima (then known as Spring Hill) and on to Dillon where they caught a stagecoach to[...]he had an aunt married to one of the doctors.[...]Turning over the sisters to his aunt, Jay lived the[...]to become a cowboy.[...]eb 1962 Following lunch, they went out to a corral where a large at Jay's gas station in Li[...]ght, kid; you spirit displayed today by this soon-to-be centenarian, who have a job," he told me[...]while on a cattle drive. As the crew prepared to make camp lonesome now since the death of his hou[...]ht, Fratt noted Indian signs and told his cowboys to Emma Edman, who had been with him for almost 19 y[...]"keep your horses saddled tonight and be ready to go." His work at the station, however, kee[...] |
| [...]ings will ever get screaming and shooting, hoping to stampede the cattle and settled." at the[...]Then, changing the subject, "Guess I'll have to go up to Fratt's crew fired back and following a shor[...]t fatalities on either side but it today. Have to get it pulled. I try to stay away from took the riders ten days to round up the cattle. doctors and hospitals. Haven't been to a hospital since I fell "I had many narrow escapes but always managed to win and sprained my arm years ago. There's a young doctor in out," Brandenburg recalls. "I used to cross the Yellowstone Dillon I kinda like.[...]a steer's tail and got out okay. That was to what he attributed bis longevity. "Don't worry. K[...]Fratt, Jay was often in Livingston and afraid to get outdoors once in a while!" it was there the m[...]hiskey. I have never and began a career which was to span over 30 years . missed a nip bu[...]only because I wasn't there." runs from mountains to plains resulted in an affliction of An[...]Karrol and Ann Brandvold came to the Dillon area as fish then and less people--al[...]d attended school. He was the and Jay moved back to Lima where he purchased a bulk oil[...]Karrol moved to Montana in the 1930s, where he worked retired--planning to spend his time in pursuit of big game[...]1941 to 13 Dec 1945, he served with the U.S. Army Air[...]bad laying around and it looked like I was going to outlive my returned to Dillon and was working on the Lima-area Gleed mo[...]nessmen in Dillon contacted the beauty urged Jay to come live with her but he is reluctant to leave[...]Ann moved to Dillon in 1947 and worked for a couple of Indian[...]Karrol went to work for the Union Pacific Railroad in ne[...] |
| brother, John, had moved to Dillon by that time and was An award-[...]e made many life-long friends and always had time to be American trap shooting tournament that year in Vandalia a friend; after retiring, Ann continued to visit the elderly OH. Ann and Karrol were alwa[...]ds from all over the state looked Karrol loved to hunt and fish and spent many years forward to spending time with them. But perhaps the enjoying[...]s when Ann and Karrol attended the 1996 looked up to Karrol and highly regarded his knowledge of[...]ch Karrol was the outdoors; he was always willing to take time to teach inducted into the Montana Trap Shooti[...]this writing, Ann continues to live in their long-time home[...]in Papillion NE. It was popular for young people to run away and get married. It didn't go so well, because Elizabeth had to have permission from a parent. Her mother was shopping in Omaha, so they had to go back to Omaha, find her and get a written permission.[...]Mill's County for nearly four years before moving to Montana. Dolores Ann was born in Council Bluffs I[...]eth Breneman house in Centennial Valley from 1945 to 1974. Ref 192.38. they had leased from Bill Clayt[...]1944 The next year the Doyle school had to use a room of the and moved there in 1945. Life took on a different tempo Breneman home to have school for the five or six children with tha[...]an in the spring. Another year, Elizabeth had to board the schoolteachers, act as clerk of another[...]chool board and do most of the things that needed to be in the old house on the Jones ranch. She mar[...]Lakeview. One Elizabeth Kippers came to teach the next year and she child was from Califo[...]as from school board decided they needed to build a school. The old Idaho living with the sam[...]had been on the Sunny Bean ranch and he told them to go to school but they needed one more child from the[...]ce of ground off the county road, as the district to open the Lakeview school again.[...] |
| [...]l board members, were too busy with their ranches to take time to care for this school house building problem.[...]ther and two children, went up into the mountains to find Mr. Sawyer to hire him to build the schoolhouse. With about ten wire gates to open and shut, it was quite an ordeal. Mrs. O[...]When they would lose one, Elizabeth was expected to fill in. In October, the County Superintendent sent a woman from Ohio out to teach. The Flints brought her to the After one year of college at Weste[...]lightly frightened ; professor advised Dolores to go where she could have good the woman appeared to be either insane or drunk. The voice trai[...]College in Sioux City IA. The city is on the back to the school house for Lys. They had a party that[...]fter suffering from night and when Lys dressed up to go to the party, the laryngitis from the high hu[...]t use her voice in that condition and advised her to her. June Forsythe had taken her in to board, and she had go back to Montana. agreed with Lys.[...]library Now was the time for the school board to function. They endorsement. She married twice du[...]excuse why they couldn't keep always went back to her maiden name. She is a librarian in her, Bill Jones and Sam Breneman were elected to take her the Florence AZ school system. She has traveled to Africa, to Monida. They always laughed and said one of them[...]Mary Jo was a dance teacher. She went to Western for Following that experience, a man[...]ns. Brenemans sent their only child of school age to Des Moines Their first children were twin da[...]to Sea Gate, later followed some of her friends to another Four years later, after Dolores was out of high school, company and on to Knutson Mortgage Corporation. She she came back and taught the next four years while the two moved to another mortgage company as technical support you[...]as a much loved analyst. She always moved to better pay and benefits. Her and respected[...] |
| [...]al they need in the sheriff's department called to ask them to go look for the real computer world. She lives in[...]people. They had been up in Odell Canyon the day before Tom and his wife Barbara live[...]and had heard snowmobiles. At the time they said to each enjoy a home on an acreage with Princeville[...]lot of work elsewhere. He did blizzard to find them. Overnight there was an additional cons[...]feet of snow, making breaking trail with snow up to he was a foreman for the labor crew at Red Rock Refuge in their thighs very slow. They headed to where they had the summer time. He drove a truck[...]during the years the children were living in town to attend from their night out. A fire had been[...]attempting to walk out, which would have been a disaster if[...]you weep With radio communication to the sheriff's searchers on alone. Laugh and the w[...]snowmobiles and snow cats, they were able to give them cloud has a silver lining." Yes, Mrs. Casson, you were so directions on how to get to the group. All were rescued. It right; there is a[...]tremendous physical effort put out by Tom and Pat to Sam and Lys have retired in Dillon where they enjoy the locate them. There was too much new snow to access that conveniences of town living.[...]Blomquist Tom was born in Dillon 18 Aug 1948 to Sam and Elizabeth Breneman. He and his sisters, D[...]in heat detecting twice a day, Tom was determined to get into a program using a trial drug for heat sy[...]n. The Upjohn Pharmaceutical Co. chose their herd to be one of the field trial herds. The herd of 550[...]Over the years a great many calves were sold to steer jockeys for show calves. Many of their calves then went on to win large livestock shows in the Midwest. The AI[...]side of the valley operation changed at the ranch to leasing out summer after the fall gath[...]Winters being so long and the Refuge was going to shoot them and put them out of isolated made them[...]Tom and Kevin Rush drove on snowmobiles to where He and friend, Pat McKenna of Lakeview, spent many a day they were stranded to see how bad off they were. They skiing the slopes up Odell Canyon. They knew that area so were living[...] |
| [...]pe. Tom informed the Refuge that he was going to call the ASPCA and tell them that they were going to shoot the cattle only because they were too lazy to rescue them. Tom was able to purchase the cattle for a reasonable amount. A fe[...]Tom and Kevin Rush first hauled hay and water to the cattle with snowmobiles while packing the snow for a snow road for them to walk on. They were able to trail them ten miles over several days. A major s[...]orm was over, the cattle could no longer walk due to the deep snow, so Tom got inventive on how to solve this situation. Kevin had a bombardier and[...]the bombardier. There was some discussion as to how to load them into the trailer without any fence or corral to walk them along . A pad of hay in the trailer was all it took. They made three trips to get them. The rescue took two weeks. In the spring, three of them calved and the herd grew. Tom began to do a lot of building construction and woodworking[...]His final transfer was to Dillon as manager of the J.C. Fred Bridenstin[...]e brothers and 1961. Dillon became home to them. During this time he sister operated a dairy[...]he His interest in photography extended to the rodeo in 1945 Western Washington champion for[...]as 74 years old. Following graduation he went to Chicago to attend "I had many close calls but was[...]mail (which continued until her death in to excavate part of the basement and build a lunchro[...]Fred's and Rotary's trimmer. In 1924 he took time to go to Portland and marry dedication to community service. Dorothy. They then took their[...]n a tree nursery inside passage and by train back to Kankakee. which flourished unti[...]ny of the Blue Spruce In 1925 they drove back to Portland by way of Texas and trees around tow[...]hter, Janet, was born. In 1933 he was transferred to successfully cultivated and moved to permanent homes. Butte MT as a window trimmer. In[...]rothy was a gardener and was interested in potted to Havre MT as assistant manager. In 193 7 he was ag[...]mplemented the trees which transferred, this time to Forsyth MT as manager. inte[...] |
| lot , gradually took over the garden and eventually spread to photography given by the Professional Photogr[...]icture frame shop, so nursery for trees which had to survive several winters before Fred set up a[...]y, fishing, hunting college in 1947 and then left to continue college in Wheaton (one or more dee[...]Kansas to homestead and settled in Dillon. Ansle ' s dad[...]his brother, Les, were soon old enough to drive and help[...]for his homestead which is on Axes Canyon Road. They[...]He went to the Big Sheep area where he worked as a[...]that fortunate, so he turned to ranching. He and his family[...]moved to Ansle' s homestead on Timber Creek where they[...]Ansle could sell all the poles he could cut to the P & 0 climbing ; in his albums from that time photographs of Mt. Ranch to build the well-known "jack fence" that surrounded[...]tire P & 0 holdings. Taking out poles also helped to Columbia River. His albums are his personal history and make enough money to pay their expenses. later included his new family[...]Three years He began doing rodeo photography to create western later Fred was born. Fr[...]ter." The boys grew up on interest in photography to blossom. Over the next few years the ranch,[...]good photographer. Upon sheep. They liked to go trapping and checked traps with retirem[...] |
| [...]Cornell Ranch as sheep well known for his ability to catch coyotes. foreman. Eva and[...]hay fields at the P & 0. In the fall when he went to the Blacktail area. Many of the ranchers could le[...]high school, he boarded in town. Buster continued to work graze on federal land in the area as well as[...]c, trapped in the area where he He wanted to go into the service and enlisted 10 Dec kept the[...]County. Buster trained in Alabama and was sent to the[...]happy to get back to the ranch.[...]married. They came to the ranch to make their home and[...]were happy to have two granddaughters. Ansle was F[...]3. especially proud that the girls went to college.[...]73 Ansle and Eva Soon it was time for the boys to go to school. Eva got to see Judy graduate from WMC. She has taught school moved to town where she rented a house and cooked for ever since. college boys who came to Dillon to go to school at WMC. In 1964 they got electr[...]0th anniversary. The folks spent their moved back to the ranch for the summer. Harold was[...]health finally failed them and in 1973 rushed him to the hospital in Butte where he died. This[...] |
| [...]Kristy, were preschoolers when they moved to Dillon. The[...]ocal boys. Carl C. Brown came from Chicago IL to Beaverhead Julie married Richard C[...]rley County in 1955. In May 1957, he met his wife-to-be at the Carpenter. They are the parents o[...]Jones. Their in Boise for five years, they moved to Dillon in Nov 1963. children are: BreAnne, B[...]oys grew up on the ranch on Timber Creek and went to school in Dillon. In 1930 Buster lost his brother. Buster's parents went to work at the Cornell Ranch in 1931. Ansle was the[...]. In the fall of 1940, our country was about to go to war. Buster decided he wanted Helen is the daughter of Nels and Maren Jensen to go into the service and enlisted. He was one of t[...]n the boat and became friends. Maren and was sent to the European Theater with the 35th Infantry. had[...]Lo, Metz and time. Later Nels encouraged her to come out west to the Battle of the Bulge. He was decorated with si[...]stead on Carter Creek. boys, but he was fortunate to return home. Buster said very Nels and Maren[...]r Creek. Nels was a dry land farmer, raising sent to do."[...] |
| [...]es on the ranch on she married and moved to Dubois ID where she worked in Carter Creek. Ann i[...]the Sheriff Department. She later moved to Boise where she Growing up on a ranch during[...]ducation. She took many other families that moved to town to go to school. We her first job in Miles City and[...]In 1985 Helen and Judy went to Denmark. They visited When the war broke out,[...]'s parents and met many relatives. and was called to duty. He served in New Guinea. Helen Helen had always hoped that her mother could return to her graduated from high school in 1941 and went to the ranch birthplace for a visit. Maren's poor health and untimely to help her folks during the war.[...]death at the age of 52 did not allow Helen's wish to come true. In 1995 Buster and Judy returned to Normandy on a[...]Buster was pleased to see the countryside restored, beautiful[...]Helen and Buster married 05 May 1946. They moved to the ranch on Timber Creek and made their home the[...]girls were old enough, Helen and the girls moved to town so they could attend school. Helen[...]nniversary party hosted 4-H. In 1966, Sharon went to Europe with a 4-H Goodwill by their dau[...]Sharon finished high school in Dillon and went to Butte[...] |
| [...]pits with the road and it was hard to distinguish between the[...]Bill Ganrude with his solo vox attached to the piano to m'ake intr[...]went back home to take care of their livestock or[...]Ansel, headed to Armstead to get her hu[...]r way back to Dillon; they had to shovel through[...]st in time to greet a tiny,[...]eth and Ruth Ann Brown. Ref. I 76. 07. win a trip to National 4-H became known as Congress in 1953. Re[...]ckbum, who would drive Armstead school and headed to Beaverhead County High[...]out from Dillon. All this added to the drama of living in School in Dillon in[...] |
| [...]the art department until retiring in 1994. adding to winter activities. Drifts of snow up to the rooftops The summer of 1989 I attended[...]s the way of life. Summer was usually late to London twice since, also spending time in Scotlan[...]sic part of my country life; at the age Clark Canyon that belongs to me and memories drift back of eight I was allowed to join the Garden Club because from time to time, with ghosts of the past haunting my without[...]here weren't thoughts. enough youngsters to have an official club . I stayed in 4-H I can no longer return to Armstead or most of its people; work for the next[...]is dead as it lies under the blue waters of Clark Canyon In Nov 1953 I was proud to represent the State of Dam and folks o[...]near Helena 29 Jul 1870 to George L. and Catherine In 1954 Lowell Hildret[...]born in Beaverhead County. In 1967 I returned to college where I earned a Bachelor[...]es Raymond Patton and I married in 1968 and moved to marked "Return to Pearl Spring Ranch, Geo. Staudaher,[...] |
| [...]nd retained an active role in the church guild up to the time of her death. She passed away on April 2[...]e. ln 1918, Dorothy was transported by Paul Stahl to Butte for a tonsillectomy. His carriage ro[...] |
| [...]Kentucky. He came to Beaverhead County in 1934 with the The deceas[...]verhead was born at Oldtown ME 79 years ago, went to California County settlers, Oscar and Gertrude Sharp (vol 1 pg 498). in the 1850s, from thence to Nevada and from there to Buck was deputy sheriff in the late 19[...]n Montana he trapped and Dorothy moved to Bozeman in the 1960s where Buck hunted bear as a[...]kind and whole-hearted disposition, always ready to make an acquaintance and was true to his[...]sband. He leaves a wife, four daughters and a son to mourn his death. The funeral took place at[...] |
| [...]singing, piano performance and activities related to music . Charles & Alice Burgess family[...] |
| [...]esses moved Beaverhead County in the 1880s. to Missoula in 1977 where they enjoyed the culture o[...]life of that area for sixteen years before moving to Stevensville. They were members of the Deer Lodge[...]Del moved to Seattle WA in 1940. He worked at the[...]sful movie, radio and television He returned to civilian life in 1946 in Washington where he act[...]He moved to Los Angeles in 1958, where he worked for[...]Standard Oil for 10 years. He moved to Europe in 1969,[...] |
| returning to this country in 1971, and worked for the[...]often called away from her family to help deliver babies as In 1973, Del entered t[...]inly "General Hospital", where the clothes to dry outside on lines and fences. Everything he re[...]n years playing the part of Karl. He needed to be ironed, which she did with flat irons heated o[...]cook stove. She washed dishes by hand in addition to in Cincinnati," "One Day At a Time," "Mary Tyler[...]ng her siblings with school studies. She was able to Hour" and "Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman." He also[...]tle Aqua Theater, "Kiss Me Kate" and "Brigadoon", to pageant work for the Miss America Pageant in Atla[...]hich features 16 singers and 3 dancers performing to the works of Cole Porter.[...]Zina Weeks Burton, grandmother to Eathal Hildreth. Bonneville County ID, the sixth[...]Ref 171.33. 4 daughters) born to Samuel Charles Weekes and Laura Margaret (Merrill[...]oved the E from Weekes. Zina May Weeks is reputed to be the first white Her life was what w[...]brothers played many musical They grew up proud to be Americans, law abiding and instruments and often enlisted Zina to play with them. She God-fearing people.[...]played the guitar, harmonica and piano. She loved to sing 244 - Beaverhead History No.2 |
| and to dance. When you have a musical family there was a[...]Burton all her life and they married 18 Mar 1908. To that union were born Henry, Clarence, Madaline an[...]Hovey Cantrell and his sister, Viola, went to school at the Eathal and Reuben. Zina took them to raise. old Dell school house a[...]ed hat on his head, he carried an old lard bucket to near Jackson MT. Hallelujah, for the first time i[...]days and the days he thermostatically controlled to heat the entire home. spent growing up[...]getables from her garden Although he moved to Idaho in his late twenties, his heart and flowers[...]t outside of Dell at the ranch house of his begin to sprout. As Eathal and Reuben grew up and needed[...]and high school, she and the other children moved to Dillon for father, May Viola Martinell Cantrell and Earl Hovey the school year and then back to the ranch for weekends and Cantrell, settled i[...]ranch and purchased a home on were very close to the same age. An old family photo shows Kentucky[...]orking at home. Summers, he worked home and moved to Menan ID. for Pascal Bimat haying. Every chance he got to haul[...]would hire Hovey to drive one of his trucks with a load of[...]livestock to Dillon. Some people still remember the time[...]When he returned to Dell after his stint in the Navy,[...]Bateman, from Lima. Hovey and Artell moved to the[...]moved to Dillon. A year later they sold out and Hovey and[...]Artell also moved to Dillon. Hovey never quite took to She lived with her oldest son, Henry and Alic[...]ranching. Truck driving seemed to be in his blood. He Zina died O1 Mar 1985 at the[...]ed his professional truck driving career by going to while visiting her grandchildren, Henry an[...] |
| [...]the other. In 1953 Hovey moved the family to Idaho Falls where he got a job with Idaho Livesto[...]ce, was born and about a year later they moved to Pocatello where he began working for Gar[...] |
| [...]north of Dillon, the seventh of ten children born to[...]he Malesich children. After Bud and near Red Rock to Earl and May Cantrell. The ranch was A[...]a McBee. Earl ran sheep and summered them up Bell Canyon where the family moved for one summer and tended[...]When Vi was three years old, the Cantrells moved to the Smith-McNight place near Dell where her father worked on the ranch and bought hay to feed his sheep in the winter.[...]11 with Mrs. McNight at 10 o'clock every day to go to her |
| [...]round the house and in the big garden. They moved to Stone Creek in 1951, another portion of the M[...]Bud and Agnes purchased a trailer home and moved to the Lyons Den Trailer Court. Agnes worked at the[...]yons and Althea McEwan, where she continued to work until retiring in 197 5 . Bud worked at[...]argest stock ranches in construction before going to work for the BLM. Madison Coun[...]as killed in a car accident 17 Aug 1972 returning to American Legion Post 20 and Disabled American Vet[...]rris Bud and Agnes sold their trailer in 1975 to Bette and passed away 24 Apr 1980. His mo[...]se of death was listed as coronary thrombosis due to heart disease. Agnes continued to live at their home in Dillon until poor Holger B. Carlson health made it necessary for her to move to the Parkview Acres Care and Rehabilitation Center[...]Beaverhead County High School in 1929 and went on to Louie Hansen[...]had to return to Dillon after only two years. Because of his E[...]father's failing health, he was needed at home to run the eldest of three living children born to Walter and Marie family ranch. Carlson.[...]of John and Ellen Laughlin Laden. She was a twin to the Big Hole area.[...]They Margaret was the only child to leave the Dillon area.[...] |
| [...]Betty was the last person to graduate from the Nelson[...]n Kimball from the Polson until moving to Bozeman in 197 6. They moved to Butte in area. They furthered their educat[...] |
| [...]ry Zunino Cesare Carpita was born 15 Jun 1883 to Teresa (D'Luca) and she and Toni married 20 Mar 1909, and sailed to the and Pietro Carpita in Navachio County of Casc[...]d worked in Italy until the May and traveled on to Verdi NV where Toni's family had age of 26 when he immigrated to the United States. He settled. arrived in New York City on March 11, 1910. He went to Toni proved to be a very abusive man who found Red Rock MT. It w[...]brother, Ginlio's, drinking and gambling much to his liking. Mary's life with brother-in-law, Meno[...]r Cesare worked there for a while, then moved to Glen, people. She provided for them, living at various times with then on to Goodin working for a construction company,[...]occasion, they had their own eventually returning to work for the railroad. His job took home. To further complicate her life, Mary could not speak him to Mud Lake ID, then to Verdi NV, on to California English. To this marriage were born Marie (Mamie) and back again to Verdi. Jose[...]g all together and taking his Verdi. washing to Mrs. Tony Minetto, that was me." Marie[...]with her little girls Provincia of Genova, Italy, to Bates tine (Minetto) and while she worked[...]but as Mary was abused more by her early age went to work as a housekeeper. When she was husband, Cesare stepped in to take her part. Mary found 18, a man named Toni Mi[...]that she was in love with Cesare. She still tried to make her mother's) returned to Italy from the United States looking marriage work and she urged Cesare to leave the area. This for a wife. The economic sit[...]ve situation was very grim. Her family urged Mary to marry this man escalated and finally Toni left her. She was all alone. and go to the United States for a better life. Mary[...] |
| [...]from Toni. He was now in California and told Mary to move to him. At this same time, Cesare came back. He would send her to Ogden UT and arrange for a divorce for her. He insisted that she had to choose whether to go back to Toni and cruel life or go with Cesare. She chose to go to Ogden. Cesare went to Melrose MT where he secured a job on the section[...]d they were married. From Melrose, they moved to the section house at the snow was so high[...]the snow. The man took Mary and woman taught Mary to speak English instead of paying for the children to the house where Cesare had left one of his the laundry work. Then in 1915, Cesare went into a men to keep it warm. The men went back and finally found[...]eration at Cesare frozen stiff. They put him to bed and put warm Hecla. The family moved there th[...]ed him and finally revived him. time for the baby to come. Using a horse and buggy, they A short time later, Mary took in boarders and washing to went down to Melrose from Hecla. Mary's writings state, h[...]Hecla. They lived in one, rented one When we got to Melrose, there was no place to stay. We and tore one apart for wood. They lived in Hecla for three got on the night train to Dillon and went to the home of Dan years. In 1918 Cesare became very[...]he doctor didn't know when the baby would have to quit working in the mines. He went back to would come, so Cesare went back to Hecla." work for the railroad and studied to learn to read and write On 22 Nov 1915, Daniel William[...]ut Nov, he applied for a job on the railroad back to Hecla. They went to Melrose on the train, stayed and 03 Feb 1919, he went to work as a foreman. His first there overnight at t[...]rted out in a wagon men. Mamie and Edith went to school by train to Divide. and changed to a sled at Glendale . .[...]21, a second son, Thomas James her, with the baby to her breast and the girls, Mamie and Carpita, w[...]t. Cesare and another man sat on the back moved to Red Rock, then on to Menan ID, and Ucon ID. of the sled. In a short ti[...]head. Cesare and the other man, Mr. Meloni, tried to keep In 1927 they found themselves back in Lima. From warm by drinking whiskey. By the time they got to Hecla, Lima, they moved to Brigham City UT, on to Salt Lake City, back to Dell, and then, as Mary writes, "home to[...] |
| [...]red from the Union Pacific transferred to Dillon to the main office as assistant manager. Railroad.[...]Dan continued to work for the REA until he and his brother- Ce[...]buried at Mountain View Cemetery. Mary continued to in February 1952. In 1955 he and George[...]it in 1960. strong determination, very dedicated to her family and Tragedy struck 17 Aug[...]n Mountain View Cemetery in Dillon. Cemetery next to her husband. --Jame[...]Daniel William Carpita, Sr., was born 22 Nov 1915 to |
| [...]ranary (Baurer) Campbell in Butte. They continued to live at the is where several barn dances w[...]Dillon. Muggs' four boys , Jim, Don, Ed to the fact that it was so big and the wood floors w[...]--James & Myrna (Shafer) Carpita then went to work at Boeing Aircraft Company during[...]d the two wheel buggy pulled by a pony named Nig, to go to school. One day after school they were supposed to hurry home to help pick potatoes. All four children were in the[...]ound the pony 's neck . Nig didn't need an excuse to run. Bob was trying to stop ~he pony by pulling against the pony's neck.[...]a quarter of a mile. Probably seemed like a mile to Evelyn. Evelyn also recalls the winter of 19[...]opened the road. Their home was always open to friends and relatives. During the holidays, everyone came to the ranch to enjoy the great meals Frances prepared . They alw[...]hn garden, a big potato cellar and plenty of meat to eat. W. Carr, taken summer 1943.[...]part was licking the paddle. Evelyn recalls going to the Quantico, she moved to Arlington VA and worked at the ice house digging[...]transferred to Camp Pendleton, she moved to Oceanside CA. Everyone in the family worked[...]hn was sent overseas, Evelyn and Janet moved back to Columbia Gardens in Butte, Ziegler Hot Springs, and Dillon to live un_til the war ended and John came home. Elkhorn Hot Springs. She also recalls many fun things to do at the ranch such as sliding down the[...] |
| The family returned to Seattle where John worked for Boeing. When John's father became ill, they returned to Dillon. They had two more daughters, Joan Marilyn[...]r the next 20 years. In Jan 1967 the family moved to Medford OR where they have resided since, spendin[...]m Carr John William Carr was born 12 May 1920 to Francis an interest in-the City Fuel Co[...]Emma May Hardgrove. John's oldest moved to Dillon and lived in a house at 7 South Atlantic sister, Ann, helped to deliver him in their log house with a near the[...]big In 1935, Frank moved his family to their permanent sheep ranch at the time.[...]from the There were four other children born to Frank and Emma Harrison estate, and the lan[...]A, and one grandson, Kenny. his bicycle to buy Jackie's wedding and engagement rings. Jo[...]seeing Gene Nelson, the man he sold the bike to. 254 - Beaverhead History No. 2 |
| [...]fficers' training at Quantico. He was transferred to Camp Pendleton near Oceanside CA. Evelyn moved to Oceanside also, and their first daughter, Janet I[...]Ref166.34. returned to Dillon to take over the City Fuel Company when his father,[...]born 30 May 1958. When natural gas came to Dillon, John decided to get out of the fuel business after 20 years.[...]the banks of Grasshopper Creek, from Smoky going to Elkhorn Hot Springs MT for the summer. Joh[...] |
| [...]amped on the banks of I returned to civilian life in Dillon and engaged in Grasshoppe[...]ing of 1949 we moved small bedroom was added next to the porch. Recently, to the Patterson place on Warm Spring Creek near Jac[...]the Patterson place in 1950 and moved to Dillon. John's youngest daughter, Jennifer, ma[...]Apr 1958; Maureen 24 May granddaughters belonging to the Connoles: Michean, Steve's 1960; Charlie[...]daughter, and Justyce, Kelly's We were able to raise our family where they enjoyed good daughter[...]I'm glad I returned to Dillon to live and raise my family.[...]very grateful to have done what I did because so many of[...]Children of Purdy, took me to raise with her daughter, Mary Louise Purdy. She took us two children to Manchester CT for a[...]Joe and Judy Carroll: short while, then returned to Dillon. My dad and Mayme Purdy married 09 Jun[...]" Carroll - born 31 Aug 1948 summers and returned to the Carroll house on Sebree during at Barrett[...]turret She graduated from ~CHS in 1970, went to nursing school : gunner on B-17s assigned to the 379th Bomb Group at graduated 1974[...]Idaho, Nevada and California before returning to Dillon Germany, survived a mid-air collisi[...] |
| [...]in 197 6 and served in the U.S. Navy from 1977 to 1981. His best assignment was as trou[...] |
| [...]llecting artifacts. Loretta had a five- continues to teach. She married Matt Winterrowd 18 Jul[...]aught attended grade school in Dillon, then moved to Folsom CA Randy the art of mechanics. In 1958 Bud purchased the in 1980 to live with sister Marie and her husband, George[...]-two years old when his daughter, Loran, returned to Dillon soon after and continues to live here. was born. It took him exactly 24[...]om the hospital before he felt it was safe enough to pick works excavation and construction projects.[...]. You could see that he had given serious thought to[...]n Mitchell washed his hands, walked straight to the bassinet, picked[...]"Bud" Cashmore was born 26 Sep 1915 in Dillon to and he worked for the State Liquor Sto[...]of the Dillon Search and Rescue, Bud returned to Dillon in 1935 after attending college in drove[...]years. He never minded the siren going off in the to General Motors in Detroit and each of them drove[...]needed assistance. new 1939 Chevrolet coupes back to Montana. While He retired from the[...]g as working for Mr. Woodside, Bud was introduced to the world captain. To support him in his volunteer work, Bud learned of aircraft and was so impressed that in 1940 he moved to to scuba dive at age fifty and obtained his EMT certification Glendale CA, to attend Curtis Wright Technical Institute. at age sixty. He was always there to help family, friends, He borrowed $1 ,000 from Bob Barrett to pay for the neighbors or strangers. schoo[...]y on January 5, 1994, at the age of 78, $100 just to see if he was honest." Bud repaid the loan in[...]ily. rode his 1940 Harley-Davidson motorcyle back to Dillon. He applied for two jobs, one at Hickh[...]1941. After World War II was declared, Bud tried to enlist, but he was considered essential personnel at McClellan Field and was unable to join the service. After World War II ended, B[...]California was not the place for him and returned to Montana. After returning to Dillon, he worked for several owners of th[...] |
| [...]1937 the family moved to Dillon so that Loretta's brother,[...]ounty High celebration, so the doctor's nurse had to complete the School during her free perio[...]t Grace and Uncle Tug Judy came and took her back to returned to Dillon to work as an Airport Control Operator their Clover[...]tennial Valley for a and later transferred to Pocatello ID. Loretta resigned from month. Lorett[...]r family lived on the family homestead in them to Fort Des Moines IA. After completing basic Monida, later moved to Colorado Springs CO and from training, Loretta was transferred to Sheppard Field TX for there to Superior NE. While living in Superior, Loretta wa[...]over by a car. She was walking across the street to pick private to corporal (and never wore a PFC stripe). a fight w[...]ing clerk. In Apr 1946 Loretta was promoted to sergeant and skin on her head.[...]ACS. In 1932 the Depression forced the family to move back In 1946 Loretta was set for transfer to Japan, but rather to the log cabin on the homestead in Monida. Loretta than go to Japan, she married Earle Wilson Scott and[...] |
| [...]Randy Loretta has always been eager to try new things. She McDowell Scott, 11 Aug 1947.[...]Montana's the marriage and she and Randy returned to Dillon in 1951 Women's State Small Bore Cham[...]Akan Highway to Alaska four times, including a trip to Loretta got a job as bookkeeper at Ben Redd C[...]Appaloosa horses. This week-long, group got back to the boat dock, Bud was waiting for her. one-[...]returned he went to work for the Union Pacific Railroad, as[...]to become the Railway Express Agent for the U .P. De[...]of my dad's favorite stories was that he was sent to Dillon as punishment for threatening to throw his[...]superintendent out of his office. They referred to Dillon as[...]it but they sent me to Paradise." He loved Dillon and Loretta E. McDowel[...]d mom enjoyed fishing, too. Jay and more children to their family, Loran Eunice, born in 1957, I liked to hike and explore to see who could get to the top of and Alden Louis, born in 1960.[...]d a just bought us new straw hats. We came to a spring. Jay full-time position as bookkeeper an[...]hand and I jumped across, but alas, my hat landed to office manager. She retired from Vigilante Feb 1989 in the water. Jay retrieved it and told me to put it on and after twenty-seven years of[...] |
| [...]he J.C. Penney store until she retired. She loved to play bridge. Progress in Dillon over the year[...]y born 12 Aug 1945 and Ronald Emerson Selway born to complete all four years in the new school .[...]Casterline. When my folks retired, they decided to get out Force along with four friends. They went to LaGrande OR of the cold Montana winters. They went to Arizona for for basic training. When he finished[...]on leave and married Betty Sue Crowe. He went on to the Montana Picnic was one of the[...]n Dec 1975 Dad became ill while they were packing to Squadron and sent to Italy. go[...]n." Many months later his She decided to return to Arizona in 1976. She was not remains were found.[...], Jay's commanding officer had his body sent home to be buried in Mountain[...]Casterline and Chuck Crookshank were on their way to register for college in Missoula. A bus st[...] |
| [...]ef 172.07. Gayle and Catherine Chaffin came to Dillon from Idaho sold the lower Blackta[...]ogether one band of sheep and needed to Montana from Idaho Falls. Carlyle Chaffin, Larry'[...]m Zeke and Jessie Stocker. buying lambs to fatten up on the family farm near Idaho |
| [...]n e w bunkhouse and cook house were constructed to house and feed the ranch hands needed on the ranch in those days. It is interesting to note that by the early 1970s, Larry and our four teenagers were able to do the irrigating with the help of sprinkler syst[...]family moved there. In Nov 1958 we continued to expand and purchased part of the old E.O. Selway[...]l Creek from Ken and Dorothy Paskett. We referred to the old Selway place as the Price Creek ranch.[...]second back _surgery made it necessary for Larry to find work that wasn't as physically demanding. La[...]ipment. Ref.186.07A. business following our move to town.[...] |
| Radio proved to be very interesting and even more Ja[...]Montana in Ken, for five years. When Ken decided to move on, radio 1984. Jack died in Jan 1993. Aileen continues to make her beckoned again and soon KDBM became know[...]Over the next several years, many changes came to radio. We went from having disc jockeys on duty round the Paul Jack Chism clock to computers and satellite broadcasting. In Octo[...]al equipment. We also went from several employees to just Paul Jack Chism was born 09 Dec 1946 in Dillon, the four or five to run the station. so[...]younger years in Dillon, moving with his parents to and its organizations. They were among the first[...]uite well with their games. was a small branch up to the present. They can honestly say Paul at[...]bus the first year until moving to Dillon. After graduating[...]time Paul was sent to Vietnam for a year. Roberta[...]transferring to the Missoula Post Office. Michelle and Kim Ja[...]u of Reclamation in Phoenix 1937 the family moved to Dillon. Bill transferred to the AZ. Roberta has done very well with her[...]n MT. After in the winter months. returning to Dillon he worked at the bakery and at the mink fa[...]Ann, Art & Helen to Dillon. Jack and Aileen Gordon married 10 Mar[...]horse up to the house to start us off on our twelve mile trip We moved to Armstead in 1952 and lived and worked on to the first grade in Dillon. Mother bundled Art and[...]er Postmaster of Armstead. In 1962 he transferred to the Post Creek passing the old Guenther homestead and on to the first Office in Dillon. The Clark Canyon Dam was being built gate. It was too hard for us to open so we slid off, threw and Armstead was being[...]ster and held this job until 31 Dec 1962. to the neighbor's barn where he'd wait for ou[...] |
| [...]Danish speaking parents. walked a mile and a half to Mike Boka's Model T school Classmates to[...]By December, snow started to drift; the old school bus[...]n't come at all. After long waits, we'd walk back to our[...]team to take us home for the weekend. Many of the trips[...]were on a sleigh load of hay that had to be hauled to feed[...]miles over the rutted, frozen roads back to school, usually[...]brawled until we were too frightened to sleep. Changes had to be made, and now that Helen would be ready for th[...]sister dressed, combed her hair, Just getting to school had us worn out and cold and was made[...]ounty paid my parents seventy-five dollars a year to send I only remember three calamities. Helen got a hard knot three of us to school in Dillon. Our parents were the only i[...]letting her sleep with one shoe on until we got to our teacher and drought. for help. My brother, Art, had to wait until I was ready for school Another time playing with Art, I intended to slam the so we started together. I had polio as a two year old and window down to keep him outside and instead slammed it always needed his hand to hold so I wouldn't fall. He was down on Hele[...]and defender. to call Art for help. Somehow we doctored her finger[...]and wanted to speak to our mother.[...] |
| [...]er she was out at the ranch, the lady was furious to think that any parent would leave three little children alone to cook and care for themselves. She threate[...]such neglect. By Friday we were petrified having to tell Mother of the lady's threats and, worse, our[...]ve a team summer fallowing, hauled loads of grain to hand in hand. town and sleigh loads of hay back to the ranch to feed stock. We got to be pretty good cooks, but I didn't measure up[...]and often harsh with each other. Needless to say when Main street and asked for 25 cents worth[...]summer ended, we were ready and anxious to get back in He quizzed, "That many?"[...]ch as my order of potatoes. I was too embarrassed to tell him to take them back, so started out with my first bag[...]or the remaining potatoes. I ran home and got Art to help[...]e lived in two other Berg Christensen came to America from Denmark in cabins, both log and much[...]as born in 1911 and with us and did housecleaning to put food on the table. son, Ejner, in[...]. After a trip back to Denmark in 1914, they bought the Summer vacat[...]nnack in partnership with double on our old horse to take salt to the cattle, hoed Christine's brother, Mads Andersen. tumble weed, picked rocks, carried lunches to Dad in the In 1919 Berg bought the[...]south of field, and in the evening carried water to our parched Dell. The family lived there until 1942 when they moved to 266 - Beaverhead History No. 2 |
| [...]y, was born in 1926. Following another trip to He joined his father on the ranch in 1942.[...]n the Dillon schools, attended homemaker to husband, Peter Lawrence Ipson, and childre[...] |
| [...]His father had come to America from Denmark at the age of[...]17 and made his way to Montana in 1890. He bought his[...]Wallace's mother, born in Switzerland, came to Montana[...]to Paul Charles and Rebecca Jardine Paddock. Her fat[...]to school together · at the Fish Trap school which[...]Creek until Sep 1937 when they moved to the Goris place,[...]together. Both have contributed much to their community Erwin Christensen and bri[...] |
| [...]ersity. She married What a rude beginning to a life-long commitment to a and moved to Ottawa IL. She has two daughters, Dianne[...]Master's and bang pots and pans just to make a sound . She named degree in Nursing from N[...]Zan was ordered to leave college and go to Horse[...] |
| place to a spot near Bloody Dick Creek; Zan moved into the[...]er, Thomas Mortimer Clemow joined him to assist in trying to make a ranch. Zan grubbed sagebrush and dug irrig[...]d ranch after the death of their father and added to wagon roads in a Model-T Ford. She sketched the b[...]ark purchased Horse Prairie scenery she had grown to love while living at the Bar B near Wisdom[...]ved her art training at the In addition to successful ranch operation, Tom has served Art St[...]fellow man all his years. Many owe their success to the After Mickey and Zan married, Gladys returned to her quiet boost given them by Tom Clemow[...]boards and commissions, was a county commissioner to the ranch set in such a beautiful, pristine, remo[...]verhead County in the legislature of so appealing to the eye of the landscape artist.[...]y, became Mrs. a one-room cabin and outdoor privy to four rooms, Tom Clemow in June 1[...]Rose passed away 12 Jan 1991. Tom moved to town and buckets of water from the not-so-nearby[...]utdoor pump, the indoor kitchen pump. to Egypt to see the pyramids and ride a camel. Kerosene and gas lanterns gave way to REA accommodations.[...]ick cattle were upgraded through careful breeding to Herefords commanding top beef prices. These chang[...]rs of their ranching lives were enhanced by trips to Hi Cleverley was born 28 Oct 1914 to William Benjamin cattlemen's conventions made pos[...]ID. Hi farmed in Idaho until he came to Dillon in spring the aid of hired help and neighb[...]randing, winter feeding, and yearly cattle drives to market. Axes Canyon Road. · Mickey ran the house and kitchen with[...]a week old, Leah and the two children moved to Dillon to visiting, story swapping, and eating the good foo[...]he Smith place that fall, so the family went back to party-line phone conversations. Those old crank-t[...]Idaho for the winter. are all the rage to collect now.[...]Ed (Bud) Buck and Fay Riley came to Beaverhead Finally when age made it imperati[...]d land leased from Les Seldom Seen Ranch was sold to the Brenner family, and the[...]Staudenmeyer. By spring 1949, Fay had decided to return Christies took to urban living in Butte, where they had met to Idaho, so Hi and family moved to Dillon, permanently at a party so many years ago[...]this time, to join Bud in farming the land leased from L[...] |
| [...]e from slow combines pulled with crawler tractors to 24-foot self-[...]Verna Smith tracks pulling 16-feet of plows to 250 horse-power rubber- tired articulated tractor[...]age equipment. Beaverhead County became home to William Roger Hi and Leah added two more children to their family, Cleverley when he mov[...]ad County High changed much of the dry bench land to irrigation, Hi bought School in 1963, Roge[...]er a one-year duty at DaNang, and moved from town to the Bench Road. Vietn[...]battalion at Yokosuka, Japan. while he continued to operate the leased dry farm until his While in Japan he made many trips back to Vietnam with death 09 Apr 1981. Gordon, the young[...]from military service in 1969, Roger returned to Dillon Hi served as a member of the board for[...]f course and club house when the course was moved to feed lot.[...] |
| [...]Father Clifford came to Beaverhead County 15 Nov 1915[...]Church in Lima. In 1941 he returned to Dillon to become[...]a genuine Irish sense of humor and was a friend to everyone[...]ly and you'll see the top of Roger Cleverley 's to him by the Reverend James O'Shea for his never-en[...]ather, Hi, waves his hat. energy and devotion to mission outposts of the diocese.[...]1971 he started Cleverley Trucking and continues to haul a variety of products in the area. Roger mar[...]respected rancher who moved from Glendale to the Big Hole[...]River area where he homesteaded. I was privileged to know[...]holding my brother and singing him to sleep. Diabetes Roger Cleverley. Re[...]buried next to my grandfather in Mt. Moriah Cemetery in[...] |
| [...]his ingenuity to re-wire phone lines in order to warn areas[...]Cline adopted and raised. The Cline family moved to San My father was always writing poems[...]he Mark River, you could hear from ear to ear. " Hopkins Hotel until retirement. He passed[...]on 28 Feb 1965. when they moved to Spokane WA. He worked in Catherine Nordstrom Cline's ambition to reach 100 years automotive lines, later operati[...]Minerva Cline Aiken (daughter of Albert F. and to putter around in his shop until about thre[...] |
| [...]ng secretarial work for several years, I returned to school and obtained a nursing degree, working for[...]oln Ryan, passed away in Oct 1944 . Before moving to Wenatchee about 1907 , these people lived in Glen[...]returned to Bozeman to continue work on her Industrial[...]Coleman to Harry and Shirley Coleman in Salmon ID. He was ra[...]leman Construction Peggy was born 24 Jan 1959 to Francis and Esther Company, Inc. Pegg[...]franchise in · Dillon and Mike continued to work for the were Beaverhead County pioneers . Pr[...]treet in Dillon. to North Haven CT. On 24 Mar 1988, a girl, Jennifer[...]Meriden CT . Trucking . In 1966 the family moved to 621 Sebree Street. In Sep 1989 the bak[...]bakery did very well and at times employed up to 15 people. In 1970 the Mooneys built a home o[...]n 1977 and started college at U of M decided to sell their bakery and move back to Montana to in Missoula that fall. On 28 Jan 1978, a son, Jer[...]ll 1978 the mom, Esther Mooney, in order to continue to run the family family moved to Bozeman where Peggy continued college at ranch. From Oct 1994 to the present , Mike and Peggy and MSU in the Indus[...]the program for two years. The family then moved to the the Bob James Home Ranch. Mooney Ranch, the old Selway place, on Lemhi Pass to work for Peggy's parents. On 15 Sep 1980 i[...] |
| [...]ke Ora Tash was born in 1879 in Iowa. She came to area and spent most of his life t[...]e was killed in an accident in Alaska in and came to Bannack to supervise the gold dredges on about[...]ir in Miami FL. marriage and then moved to the Seeley Lake country where George Con[...]from the old town of when they retired and moved to Oregon. Lee died there in Glendale with six-[...]moved with the family to Melrose where he married Lois 2. Richard[...]orn at Melrose and McCauley. They continued to ranch on the family ranch in entered t[...] |
| [...]and 80 acres of hay David. The whole family moved to Corvallis where Kent land near Whitehall.[...]ia died in 1977. Michael is single and moved back to Melrose with the family and spent his early i[...]ranching operation. Bill and Bernadette continue to live in Barkman and they moved to Seattle and Frank worked for Whitehall. Ci[...]hall MT University in Oregon. Tim is a consultant to Stanford University in Menlo Park CA. Frank and J[...]Feb 1911 in Satsop WA. She moved with the family to the ranch in Melrose. She[...]ca was postmistress for several years. They moved to Swan Valley[...]e Forest Service after graduation but transferred to the Soil Alan Craig Conover is the t[...]the While in Nebraska he had the opportunity to stay first day of shearing, Alan decided it was time to enter this overnight at the home of Eva Tash (Ed Tash's widow) and world. He has always liked to cause excitement in the with Nella Tash Johnstone[...]led with him in of his Match Box cars trying to float them, tried to the service to air bases in Liberal KS, Lemoore CA, transplant frogs from Smallhorn Creek to Cabin Creek and Tonapah NV, and Ephrata WA, where[...]him to get a tool when they were working on equipment.[...]such a straight face that she believed him, only to find out Michael and Patricia. Bill had a[...] |
| [...]d in town , but when school was out they returned to Sheep Canyon. John, Sr. spent Murlin Walker Conover and husban[...]Sprinkle place and the Rye Patch further up Sheep Canyon. John L. Conover Martha Wilson[...]naging the ranch. family ranches--in Sheep Canyon and the Dubie place on the Bill went to MSU for one year, then joined the Air Force[...]Kay Conover Smith (21 Jun ranch , married , moved to town and was employed by the 1960); Alan Cr[...]l Brianna Conover Department. John, Sr. continued to herd sheep and work on (07 Oct 1980). the ranch until the mid-1970s when ill health forced him to Johnny started at an early age with ranchin[...]ld and his brother, Bill, was nine Ellen took him to live with their family in Great Falls where years[...]Jul 1983. necessary for John, Sr. to make the trip to Dillon for Murlin continued to live at their home, doing her crafts supplies an[...]that respect In 1992 she sold the house and moved to the Bicentennial from the early 1940s[...] |
| [...]for the wonderful memories it has brought to her. Laurel has always prided herself on bein[...]s and Laurel Conover She has a goal of being able to attend college or business school and becoming an[...]d better play with her and hold her lots and talk to her because you never had much time for all those[...]school in Bannack and then moved to Dillon with his parents[...]31. She enjoys high school at BCHS and likes to attend the 280 - Beaverhead History No . 2 |
| [...]second child of Harold timely notices to both husband Roscoe and Doctor Free were "Toke" a[...]ge and served two years on the rowing scholarship to earn a master's degree from University of team. He returned to the ranch and married Teddy Rouse Oregon in Corva[...]oke retired from teaching in June 1996, returning to his his degree in Range Management and a commi[...]hildren, Kym, Julie and City FL. He returned to the ranch when Craig and Teddy Chris. He is the g[...]--Harold Contway in 1971 going strictly to a cattle operation until its sale in[...]d four years in track while Craig's 1970 and went to work for the Beaverhead County Welfare i[...]as a county social worker and was later promoted to (farm and construction machinery, trucks, c[...]n. Tonya graduated in Mechanical years of service to the State of Montana. Engi[...]1996. After his retirement in 1994, Wayne went to work for the[...]ks in Missoula. Gillespie Cornell, chose to return to Texas to be near her[...] |
| [...]the death during his college tenure. He returned to Dillon following of his mother when Bill was six, he became close to his college and engaged in sheep production with[...]ion Credit Association of Helena which was formed to meet the financial needs of Montana farmers and r[...]ayed a role in moving the Beaverhead Country Club to the new irrigated golf course on the old county p[...]attle on horseback during the summers and helping to work the sheep in spring and fall. She spent the[...]Following college Bill returned to Dillon and farming.[...] |
| Two sons were born to Bill and Dixie, Steven William 26 Apr 1957, and D[...]om was born in Malad ID on 06 Nov 1937. She moved to Dillon with her family in 1950. She was active in[...]ars while he finished his degree. They moved back to Dillon and Dixie took a job at Dick Later's Jewelry Store until the birth of Steve. Dixie then settled down to the job of full-time homemaker and mother. She be[...]e farm as soon as he was old enough and continued to do so through[...]Later they built a house on the property next to it and Philip's eye for detail. He is responsible[...]t only have was born 26 Sep 1963, in Montrose CO, to Wesley Gene they inherited their fath[...]mother's love of horses. All three learned to ride on the her parents and three brothers on a r[...]. Ryan and Cole are active in 4- the family moved to Sheridan MT in 1977. She was active[...] |
| [...]the age of 54, Philip is currently serving on the Canyon Ditch Board of Directors. and his mother, Elizabeth, continued to run the ranch until Lesli has been employed at Ba[...]ected antiques, some the country and look forward to "going to the field" with of which are still in the fa[...]They resided for a year in Idaho before returning to --Lesli Cottom Dillon late in 1934 to make their home. Two sons were born to them, William in 1936 and Robert in 1942. Ruth[...]and Elizabeth (Rees) Cottom, were early pioneers to Leadore, arriving in early 1881 from[...] |
| Philip married again in 1944 to Velma Crookshanks from Philip was known f[...]a device from the death in 1969. Velma continued to live in Dillon until her transmission of an o[...], William Irvine, formed a association worked to improve the quality of seed potatoes partnership[...]r on disease-free seed potatoes that were shipped to most of the the Seed Certification Board for m[...]d the company continued a director of the Clark Canyon Water Users during the with new partners, Mike Sw[...]. planning and construction of the Clark Canyon Dam and Bill and Bob Cottom eventually became inv[...]reat Falls until Mar 1965 when they returned home to Dillon. L-R: Sheila and Brad Cottom, M[...] |
| [...]n which he holds today. Bob is very dedicated to his community, serving on the city council from 1973 to 1976, at which time he resigned to accept his job with the city. In 1982 Bob was appointed to the Beaverhead County Refuse Board where he serve[...]a Public Service award. In 1991 he was appointed to the State Board of Certification for water and wa[...]Falls Clinic in the business office. Upon moving to Dillon, Barbara took a few years off to raise the children, returning to work in 1974 when Brenda started kindergarten. Ba[...]e yard, her flowers and traveling which she hopes to do more of in future years. Bradley Allen Cot[...]n Dillon 20 May 1989. At that time they moved to Jackson WY, where they lived and worked until May 1993 when they returned to Dillon to open the Western Wok Restaurant which is located[...]Cathy Nitsche at Buffalo before moving to Jackson WY in 1991. Brenda met and married Merl G[...]Agricultural Engineering in 1981. He returned to Dillon and[...] |
| [...]three work on the farm and have become valuable to the other organizations, graduating from high sch[...]on. Her love for the wide open spaces lead her to Dillon Through the 1980s and 1990s, St[...]of his where she attended Western Montana College to work on a time towards the expansion of th[...]nterests has been the design and jobs around town to put herself through college and became implem[...]house Improvement Association and was selected to go to the on the Home Ranch, just as his parents did. T[...]oducers Roundtable by Farm Credit Services. moved to the East Bench where they have lived until the[...]Cathy contributes to the farm as a tractor operator and in the[...]Steve, Cathy and kids continue to live and work on the[...]LeRoy Harold Cowins came to Dillon in 1915 after living[...]He was born 14 Sep 1905 to Charles Cowins and Myrtle[...]Reis 23 Jul 1932 . She was born 07 Dec 1911 to Matthew[...]sold their place and moved to Dillon. LeRoy worked for[...]after a lengthy illness. He had moved to Oklahoma to live[...] |
| [...]estern Montana College in Dillon 1965. They moved to Merrill OR. In 1971, they moved to Australia where they still reside and are[...] |
| [...]isco in the 1940s. retired in Feb 1997. They plan to spend their retirement Alice Cragholm inh[...]Dillon (previously married to William Taylor) has five[...]Michael and William. Her son, Ells, is married to Stacia[...]verhead County High School in Dillon before going to Colorado Women's College, continuing her e[...] |
| [...]lor, Lori Taylor. Taken at wedding of Lisa Taylor to Brian Keller. Ref.163.32. 290 - Beaver[...] |
| [...]JC Penney Company in Missoula and was transferred to Kalispell as assistant manager in 1957. Don was transferred to Dillon in 1961 as the manager of the JC Penney st[...]ne. He managed the store for four years. Deciding to make Dillon his home, Don and Dan Kretzer purchas[...]Don and his wife, Loraine, bought out Dan Kretzer to become the sole owners of Eliel 's which had been[...]n Roundup MT and lived in Lavina MT before moving to a wheat farm near Moore with her parents,[...] |
| [...]from Thornley and Dale Dart. In order to take the president, and Dillon Masonic and Shrine Orders member. customers to the Dart Building to shop, they had to take He was a member of the First Lutheran Church[...]m out of the Mason Building and down the sidewalk to in many capacities.[...]hey soon got permission from the Masons and Darts to Soroptomist International president, Southwest Mo[...]they bought the Dart Building and remodeled it to utilize all Temple, bowling, various local bridge[...]Ray loved to fish and hunt. He started playing golf on[...]nailed on it around the green to smooth off their tracks on[...]course. In Oct 1954 Ray and Jan Curtis moved to Dillon from They stood motionless on the[...]en, Teresa and Fred, Ray and Jan loved to dance and joined a dance club held moved here wit[...]h the Girl Scouts. The When Jan and Ray moved to Dillon, they brought their Dilmart was a[...]TV set with them. It was two years before TV came to they enjoyed the activities involved[...]The ·store would sell TVs, then they would have to In 1966 they built a home north of Dillon on Laknar install antennas to get a TV signal into the homes. The TV Lan[...]at Elkhorn around 1975 and with family necessary to put up three sections, 30 feet, above the roof to and friends enjoyed skiing at Maverick Mountai[...]snowmobiling and hiking up Sawtooth Mountain. to Dillon and Beaverhead County.[...]leisa all graduated from In 1956 they decided to change the store's name. They BCHS and en[...]y Webster, have four children, Darin, Teina, area to submit a new name. Estella Shaffner was the lucky[...]d they have two sons, They shortened the name to "The Dilmart." Conrad and Kei[...]Paul and his Elmo Winn and they changed the name to Winn's, Inc. children, Jesse and Charmaine, live in Kalispell MT. They moved the store to Bannack Street. In 1948 it was sold to Floyd Winn and Eldon Noble. We were excite[...] |
| [...]ether for 33 years. In 1986 they sold the Dilmart to Fred and Maggie Curtis and Dan and Cristie Lengst[...]the Dilmart, the first appliance store in Dillon to sell and[...] |
| [...]Major wrote poetry and once confided to his daughter, Major Ellsworth Dansie[...]Major desired to retire back home in Dillon, largely for[...]Portland OR in order to have time with her ailing father. Youthful Ma[...]Eliel brothers against the Dansie sheep going to market. |
| Upon his death three weeks later, Nevada decided to stay Jackson, who now lives in California. Lucille passed away in Dillon to help Dorothy. She enrolled at Western and is[...]art-related community who stayed with her to the end." service. She graduated in May 1997 and[...]to Mexico to try his hand briefly at cattle ranching. He Bi[...]e reader and enjoys the gem trade which leads him to exotic remembered for his warm hospitality,[...]sterling character. His sons are a credit to his memory , Bob, the first son of Major and D[...]his children are grown. Often Bob and Bill travel to the Outback of Australia for fun and exploration.[...]exciting work dealing with the oldest mummy found to date in North America. She has two grown children[...]decided that the Dillon area was where he wanted to base his sheep buying and selling operations. Cha[...]e brought his two sons, Robert J. and Charles N., to help him make a start. Robert J. married Marg[...]Ref166.09. who recently moved to Arizona. Allen and Millie ranched in the Big Hole[...]rmy nurse. She of horses and strong will combined to get him into almost moved to S_alt Lake City where she pursued a career as a d[...]Robert were living in Oreana NV. Robert managed to be around horses and even trained polo ponies had been promising her a horse and she was beginning to in California for a few years.[...] |
| [...]e her new horse into town. The cowboys began to whistle a tune and laugh when they saw her horse[...]enly her horse rose up on its hind legs and began to dance! The cowboys had recognized the horse as a[...]would one keep a dog meant as a gift? She ran out to the garage whites of their eyes. She said t[...]of the first two-story brick buildings in Dillon to house his hardware store there in 1869 and marrie[...]building is still standing at the comer of drove to Utah in a wagon with a shotgun across his lap to Main (later Montana) and Bannack streets. p[...]a towns, retiring He was a Mason and was said to be one of the Vigilantes in Butte where he lives in 1997. as they plotted to bring the road agents to justice at their Our father, Fred Dart, wa[...]their duty. Days and Ways when he gave advice to a man running for · When they died, $385,000 in promissory notes were his life. His advice was to get out of town. The man didn't found, uncoll[...]. It took Fred Dart until he retired back. Stairs to the second stories in those days were on the to pay off the bank on the loan the hardware busines[...]building. to keep its door open. Honesty was important to the Darts When I was a boy, Harriet Dart told[...]in the Dart house that told me they rode so close to town that you could see the almost b[...] |
| moved to Dell. That cannon was donated to the Beaverhead County Museum and may be seen ther[...]orge W. Dart (2nd) Both Thornley and Dale went to school in Dillon and graduated from Beaverhead Co[...]epers" in the libraries of those fortunate enough to have[...] |
| [...]ice was born in 1924, then the Davis family moved to Salmon ID where Jack, Charles, Ben Ben H. Davis f[...]4A. Sam was born later when the family moved back to Dillon.[...]is Conoco set of false teeth. For weeks prior to that day, smiling and station or one of the autom[...]oy and laughter In 1952 the business expanded to Butte. Jack purchased erupted as each of us rea[...]ook great pride in Pacific and was often referred to as the Paul Home. It was his dance band, perfor[...]he piano and trombone. a wonderful place in which to grow up. The house had Ed loved singing the old songs and Sam went on to be a many spacious rooms that accommodated a larg[...]trumpeter and music professor. Two stairwells led to the second floor, convenient for It was[...]for leisure time, special Alice's marriage to Charles Thomas Burgess was held in occasions and[...]stairs, through the hallways and glass doors to the front of where mother baked the wonder[...] |
| [...]Mr. Davis enjoyed retirement with regular visits to his[...]cars to each of two partners for their shares. He was a[...]the building was a railing, probably constructed to keep moisture from draining down onto the bricks below and strong enough to support a person. It became an avenue from the ba[...]d made his way down one of the comer rain gutters to the ground below. There he was found, oblivious to the fact that he had made this nocturnal trip.[...]ducation experiences. Ben and Mazie continued to live at the family home during the fifties, sixti[...]Mrs. Davis stayed in the family home until moving to interests in the American Legion and Legion Auxiliary, Free Missoula in 1981 to be with Alice. Subsequently, she Masonry and Orde[...]--Samuel E. Davis, Alpine TX to play on the Dillon Town Team along with hi[...] |
| [...]where the Clark Canyon Dam is now located. He died in[...]accident. After Ben's death, Frances moved to Missoula ID the fourth of six children of Benjami[...]his release from the Navy , the family moved back to Montana. Kevin Mikel was born 23 Aug 1953 in[...]rs Kelsa Davis Gallagher and Bridges, transferred to Dillon and graduated from BCHS in Kristin Dav[...]niversity of Montana in Missoula. After returning to Dillon, he worked with his father, Ben H.[...] |
| [...]She and Chuck married in 1952 and returned to Dillon[...]University of Montana. In 1946 he led the Beavers to a and Florence Davis. He attended Montana State N[...]he South Pacific in World War II and was recalled to the all four years. Chuck was selected to the All-State First Marine Corps during the Korea[...]etic director and was Montana College in addition to his law practice. He was selected First[...]ir, VA. He was also chosen Most Valuable delegate to the 1972 Montana Constitutional Convention, had[...]Sixth Army at Fort an active role in making Clark Canyon Dam a reality and in Lewis WA. retaining WM[...]Following discharge, he returned to U of M and was attended schools in Butte where her parents were noted named to the Skyline Conference First Team his juni[...] |
| [...]In recognition of longstanding contributions to this area, American Legion, Disabled American Vet[...]itary service. He graduated from U of M. returned to Dillon in 1991 and is employed as a Real E[...] |
| [...]lon, the U.S. Forest Service Missoula in addition to duty in Saudi Arabia during Desert Storm.[...]cosmetics for Saks Fifth Avenue, San Francisco to reside at 1213 Second West Hill Drive, Gre[...] |
| [...]continued to operate as Davis Electric until 1996 under new[...]Myrtle died in 1982. Frank C. moved to Missoula MT[...]Force. When their unit moved to France in Mar 1945 just[...]Eisenhower for permission to get married. After weeks of[...]to get married at Notre Dame in Paris.[...]transferred to Luxembourg. They were married by the[...]From Luxembourg, they moved with their unit to[...]They moved to Knoxville TN where Frank enrolled in[...]On a summer visit to Dillon, Frank met Ted McFadden,[...]a Dillon attorney who persuaded him to quit teaching and 304 - Beaverhead History No .2 |
| join him in the practice of law. The Davis family moved to "State of the Beaverhead" address at the ann[...]As the children grew older and went to college, Joan Frank became a partner in the M[...]st/technician for Dr. Robert English, was elected to the District 10 School Board, and was active[...]Each of the five children went to college. Randy is a[...]and Ruth, a CPA in Sacramento. Frank failed to interest the[...]his participation in a training course designed to enhance the[...]ward" for recognition of his ten years of service to the law[...]ne, John and Edith, were Anderson appointed Frank to succeed him. He was on the very young. S[...]n tumor. Frank Blair of Virginia _City. Returning to his law practice, She married Robert Mar[...] |
| [...]tion from high school, he accepted an appointment to Helen M. Collins[...]retiring to Eugene OR. Jack Benjamin Davis was born 18 Ma[...]during World War II The Davises moved to Butte in 1952 where Jack became aboard the U .S.S[...]which had been established as a branch business to his In 1948 while attending Montana State Nor[...]he met and married Helen in 1978 and moved to Elko NV, where he purchased the Marie Collins bor[...]NAP A Parts Store in that community. moved to Bozeman where he completed his bachelor's[...] |
| [...]sons born to Henry Clay and Alice Finger Davis in Knox[...]1915 when she came from Missouri with a friend to the[...]Florence June Berry was born 23 Dec 1891 to Walter G.[...]and antiques. They live at they came by train to Dillon, drawn by reports of prize- 675 Tel[...] |
| [...]he children stood by and applauded. That approach to the Garland place which they bought from Charlie[...]Dillon's young men. Wanting their children to experience country life, they Loren was a hard-working man with a reputation for moved to the Cole place, 2 ½ miles south of town. Florenc[...]ce and honesty and had a fine sense of humor. had to give up her electrical appliances and running wat[...]in typing and bookkeeping at the high Loren drove to town early in the morning for his 12-hour[...]; discussing and arguing and down Glendale Street to school. polities-was[...]e. He was a volunteer Florence was a delegate to the State PTA. convention and fireman for over 25 years. He belonged to the Masonic gave a paper, "Reading To My Children". With horses, Lodge and w[...]rian Manse Florence decided that it had the power to go straight up the Society, was preside[...] |
| an all-time high, belonged to the Shakespeare Club and Eastern Star. Traged[...]on leave and by stranded travelers in need of gas to[...]struggled valiantly to recover from each, but remained an[...]Before Lloyd and his family moved to California, he and They bought a second-hand c[...]to a rental "Old Furlough" because they loaned it to so many apartment to provide supplemental income. servicemen, furnishe[...]away, to give assistance and cheer. For several years,[...]Florence walked to the Bagley School in the next block and[...] |
| [...]Raymond L. "Buzz" Davis school granddaughter to plant and water flowers in the center of the park[...]and family on five continents. She continued to give inspiration and Raymond L. "Buzz" Davis was the son of Floyd and encouragement to each member of her large family until her[...]Dorothy Davis Forrester Korea. On his return to Dillon, he was deputy sheriff under[...]n his of the law enforcement annex to the Beaverhead County eighteenth birthday. He tra[...]in Court House. Colorado but was sent to the South Pacific and fought in the Buzz[...]tive duty Philippines and New Guinea and was sent to Japan at the conducting a Search and Re[...]enforcement officers. Lloyd transferred to Montana State College in Bozeman His[...]Montana with a Business degree. They returned to Dillon and ran the Chevron bulk plant[...]Katharine Ann Crockett valuable addition to the community. They moved to California with their baby Mark, and[...]Presidential campaign "whistle stop" visit to Dillon by Harry manufacturer as national sales ma[...]organization but chose to attend university instead. He[...] |
| [...]nant in the U.S. Air Force Reserve and was called to administrator in higher education. active dut[...]ty where he In 1965 Dr. Davis returned to Dillon and accepted a received the Master of Musi[...]ved at 537 South Dakota Street. He They moved to Missoula in Aug 1958 where Sam began[...] |
| [...]en, Dennis Widen, Patricia From 1975 to 1995, Dr. Sam Davis was employed at Sul McFadden[...]programs sponsored by Ross representative to the Texas Music Educators WMC and local churches.[...]which delivered astronauts to the moon, and he contributed research to the vehicle which was used on the surface of the[...]for the electric utility industry. an appointment to the United States Military Academy, West[...]t NY, and finished two years of study there prior to[...] |
| [...]h Ann Detton was born 25 Jan 1956 in Pocatello ID to Don and Jean Detton. She attended grade school in[...]r birth), and Michael. to the Big Hole Basin where they were employed by th[...]nd later Clayton Huntley ranch. Upon moving to Dillon, they moved to Los Angeles CA, where Bill attended and[...]mployed by the Dillon Police Ginger continued to live in Augusta where she was Department[...]Phillips Business College as Director of to the Chief of Police. She was later employed by Sneed Financial Aid. She moved back to Los Angeles in 1984 and Cycle Sales.[...] |
| [...]living in Lima from 1944 to 1948, they moved to a ranch located on Hawley Creek in Lemhi County n[...]arate stories about their children. Don moved to Lima in 1940. He and his father, Bob, operated a[...]They moved to Bellevue WA, where Lonnie was based out[...]of Seattle and promoted to_a United Airlines captain. Donna[...]raised on the family in 1978 and was promoted to bank officer in 1985. ranch near Dell. Jea[...] |
| [...]Dillon. Bill attended IMCO Services school to become a drilling[...]--Don & Jean Detton 1978 and moved to Thermopolis WY where he spent the[...]ton moved back to Dillon to work an oil well for IMCO and met Adele R[...]moved from Dillon to Cody WY where he worked for John Robert Detto[...]Creek MT. In fall 1983, Bill was transferred to Evanston Lima. John and Renea are owners of Detto[...]Dillon MT. He is the second of five children born to Montrose Everett Dingley and Lois Mary Bloor Dingley. He grew up and went to school in the Dillon area, graduating from Beaverhead County High School in May 1973. That spring he went to work for F. H. Stoltze Land and Lumber Company as[...]n. In Sept 1973, he attended Missoula Vo-Tech to become Bill Dingley and his children: Jerem[...]. They married 07 Jun 197 4 and he never returned to the Vo-Tech. Two children were born to this marriage: In spring 1985, Bill was transferred to Monahans TX Jeremy James Dingley (06 Sep 1974) in[...]caused his being laid off. He moved back to the Whitehall including logging, which he went back to quite often. He MT area in March 1985 and went to work driving a logging also did some mining and e[...]s born 02 Aug 1986 in hunting again. It just goes to show that sometimes children Bozeman MT. In winter 1986, Bill finally had enough of aren't meant to walk in their father's footsteps. logging and packed up everything and moved to Lakeside In the fall of 1976, Bill attended M[...]ayed in that business until the early 1990s. back to the woods and more logging. In Nov 1977, he moved to Houston TX, leaving his family in Dillon.[...] |
| [...]ill and Dorothy divorced in 1992 and he went back to the oil business as a "mud engineer" for a compan[...]helicopter. Then he flies via Hong Kong or Japan to the U.S. and comes home to Dillon[...]ting in the killing of a Rebich cow. Although Roy to attend Western but when the school cancelled its[...]ially. They sold the program (his sport) , he had to change plans. Chelsea is an ranch to pay the legal fees and moved to Payette ID where honor student in El Cajon CA as[...]a dry land homestead ma In Aug 1997, he moved to Argenta and now lives in the canyon area known as Middle Creek, sixteen miles west of[...]and sisters herd the cows to their new home. With the help enjoys hunti[...] |
| to Montana and lived for awhile with Harriet's widow[...]stand the full her sixteenth birthday. They moved to the Clemow Upper extent of her misery. S[...]y Garrett Dingley divorced in 1940. She moved to the Los Angeles CA area and lived there during Wo[...]heart attack in 1966. She sold her home and moved to Prescott AZ and worked for her niece, Carole Rad[...]ears making specialty key chains before returning to Dillon. She was one of the first tenants in the B[...]son of Montrose E. She loved to bowl, crochet and read, but her favorite[...]he joined the Air Force include a trip to Yesterday's Calf-A in Dell MT for dinner.[...] |
| [...]ather, Don. Don and Pam divorced and Pam returned to New York with Adam, but[...]so with his father, exploring Utah and returning to Dillon when possible. Estella Alice[...]1980s. RefDingley. Later Don was reassigned to George AFB at Victorville |
| [...]as a little twerp according to his dad and Aunt Berniece[...]hour, going from there to[...]tried to get in the U.S. Air Force after graduating in 197[...]ously worked in the timber industry so they moved to Angel's Camp CA where they lived for several year[...]ain on the the oldest child of five children born to Montrose E. Dingley marriage. He once said he l[...]ion in Union Pacific Railroad and got transferred to the Melrose doing a job and not knowing any purpose it was serving. section, so at age four he moved to Melrose and started In early 1977 , h[...]aning of school there for a year before returning to Dillon in the businesses. The company , D &[...]ember and on the ski team, along with a to better himself and have his productive eff[...] |
| perhaps to make up for his lack luster recognition in school[...]1) John Kauer moved to Post Falls ID. Twerp returned to the railroad for several years , then[...]ried. When Hazel Dillon Auto Repair until he went to work at Parkview Acres[...]pressured Hazel to "get rid of her. " Fern was adopted by a He also[...]and still helps clients in their homes. He hopes to[...]at Salt Lake City UT. John was get more training to upgrade his health care skills.[...]Jaime Pierson was born 04 Oct 1982 in Idaho Falls to Edith Marie "Edie" Bird Pierson and Everett Monte[...]r Dingley relatives but we made her a photo album to help her match the faces with the names. Twer[...]Now that two of his three brothers have returned to Dillon, he enjoys having them nearby and wishes[...]chard Kauer, born 28 Aug his father could be here to enjoy the family coming back[...] |
| [...]e in the Dingley family because she was the first to do extensive research into the Dingley family his[...]he has been in practice over 35 years, according to Mae C. Mulkey of Salmon.[...]Rexburg ID to parents William Contway Morris and[...]MT. They were the sixth and seventh children born to Royal Simeon Dingley and Harriet Catherine Huff Dingley. In 1910 she moved with her family to Payette ID and in 1913 to the family homestead in Middle Creek ID. From an[...]husband complained about Fem and pressured Hazel to "get rid of her. " Fem was adopted by a fi[...] |
| [...]Her last marriage in 1955, at age 52, was to Thomas 1923 at Dubois. Isaac ruled his family wit[...]nd meted out harsh discipline. Hazel sent Douglas to live death , she drew a pension based on his e[...]divorced by 1930 . She married returned to Dillon. She moved to Ogden UT , then returned Huey Radwell about 1932 and had a daughter, Carole Ann to Dillon where she died 25 Oct 1986 at age 83 from[...]3) Michael Rogers Carol Radwell clinging to her mother, Hazel Dingley 322 - Beaverhead H[...] |
| [...]nnelly was born 16 Aug 1985 in Dillon. They moved to Leslie and Hazel Dingley were fratern[...]seventh childr_en of Royal Voss, who was adopted to a loving family. Later Jeff and Simeon Dingley and Harriet Catherine Huff Dingley. Kathy moved to Harrisburg IL in search of better jobs, and T[...]history research, at least a dozen pair of later to Golconda IL on the Ohio River. Jeff enlisted in t[...]Margaret Seybold and Ada Belle Brothers had sets to[...]y remained in Golconda IL and Jeff later returned to to settle in Payette ID, then to Middle Creek ID ( 16 miles Montana with a second[...]Roger west of Dubois), and came back to Dillon several times and Dwayne Allen 12 May 1990[...]lliam Everett one of four children born to Henderson Franklin Seybold Dwayne Allen, born 27[...]and Daisy Drown. Daisy Drown was a sister to Edward marriage was stormy and ended in divorce a[...]Ralph Boone to herd them. Lo and behold, soon Louie and[...] |
| [...]His health began to fail in the mid 1980s and he moved to Parkview Acres Rest Home. He died 03 Sep 1988 and[...]g worked on buried in the Lima Cemetery next to his beloved wife, Belle. ranches in the Armstead and Lima areas as well as on his father's places. True to form, Belle and Ralph divorced and[...]est Son Soon after their marriage, they moved to Mud Lake ID where he did custom plowing and thres[...]repaired George Rebich that caused Roy to lose everything in 1909- airplanes after World Wa[...]10. Still the friendship was valued enough to bestow his of Louie Anderson (Les's wife Belle's[...]eton. When he retired, he moved with his canyon called Middle Creek, sixteen miles west of Dubois sisters, Carrie and Hazel, to Prescott and worked for his in Clark County[...]still sell them at youngest of 14 children born to William Hamilton Huff and the Museum) and other s[...]Sarah was 44 years old when and Carrie moved back to Dillon and shared a house, Hattie was born and her father William was 49. moving to the Bicentennial Apartments when it opened. Harriet was 41 years old when she gave birth to Montie, During his retirement he loved to fish and hunt and and he was spoiled terr[...]nd most of his aunts and uncle who lived on loved to go te, the Moose and Lobby bars in Dillon[...] |
| [...]enerations, we cover 130 years from Elias's birth to his great-grandson's birth. Middle Creek ID c[...]'t Roy Dingley's son. I asked how the |
| [...]d child, Marian be better off without some of you to slow it down." He was Elaine Dingley was b[...]have been like if that teacher had taken the time to get to Montie worked for the City of Dillon, d[...]ruck on Dillon' s dusty streets and worked on the to educate himself and became an avid reader in his[...]remain in the family to this day. He was a mechanic and He joined the[...]Bob Davis garages in Squaw Creek in the Gallatin Canyon where he learned Dillon, and worked[...]building , but before he could make arrangements to purchase Just before joining the CCC program, he met Marguerite it, the owner sold it to someone else, and Dingley Auto Marie Evans in Dil[...]has restored Whizzer bikes and was able to sell his[...]to Trail Creek where the fishing was great and the p[...]olumbia, a marital infidelity brought it to an unpleasant breakup in Canada, and came to Dillon with her parents during the 1950 and divorce in 1951. depression. She went to high school in Dillon. 326 - Beaverhead H[...] |
| [...]arie married Wayne Torma of Dillon and they moved to Deer Lodge. The children moved between the two[...]e from his first wife both wounded and they moved to Boise where they still live.[...]x children: Margaret Rose 15 brother, Harry, to accompany Harry and Minnie Dingley to Feb 1954; Bernard Benjamin "Ben" 26 Dec 1956; Leonard California to see the big city of Los Angeles. His brother Fran[...]ay 1965. He used his mountain skills to get his bearings in Whittier Several of the child[...]brother) and until he met a rattlesnake face to face in the crawl space of they moved to the apple orchard at Mesa. The apple[...]largest family owned Greyhound bus back to Dillon. commercial apple orchard in the United St[...]is Bloor and they began dating. Nothing like love to heal 21 Sep 1957; Charles Bryan 14 Jan 1959; Patr[...]n 1964; William Joseph Mt. Tabor WI, to Olive May Burris and Delbert Bloor. "Bill" 23 Jul[...]d cook for years. Council ID and live in the Mesa to Boise ID to Ontario OR Lois had a child, Shirley An[...]r, Florence, and Marian Elaine Dingley moved to the Los Angeles area joined her father to earn money and establish a home for her after she[...]hree children, Bill, Brian Montie managed to have a meal on each shift that Lois and Diana. Ma[...]ather, Shortly after their marriage, they went to Wisconsin to bring married Norma Jean Jones (later Waddington) on 26 Mar six-year-old Shirley to Dillon. Montie was soon challenged 1966 at Misso[...]e 1980s lives in Dillon. and enjoyed getting to know each other at a time when Thei[...]y Roy, born 12 Apr 1955 in memories were best put to rest. Dillon. Bil[...]owns land up the Blacktail and plans to build there.[...] |
| [...]in Golconda IL his older daughters wanting to stay with them, Montie knew with three of her sons and her husband Mike. he needed to find job security. As an eighth grade graduate,[...]he knew many employers would not want to give him a[...]in Melrose living in a railroad house right next to the[...]repairing the track from Spencer ID to Silver Bow MT, in[...]the track through Clark Canyon the night of the 1959[...]meandering creeks and willows all made sense to him. In[...]bear to part with them. He was a pack rat by nature and h[...]passed this talent on to most of his children.[...]He got the required permits to harvest dead but standing[...]enough to transport the timber, and together on the[...]the need to avoid doing business with either profession.[...]Thus, the house they completed in time to move in for[...]slightly more than $4,000. He always planned to have the relished the finds he made of items disc[...]on rescued a large leather-bound ledger belonging to Western Dingley and his best friend, Gary M[...]est Bannack. from the dump. His estate donated it to the Beaverhead A golf ball hit th[...] |
| [...]of the broken glass, and bolted them on together to hold the pieces[...]e drapes drawn for decades. No one ever confessed to whose ball did the damage, and not until[...]and Bea Shepard was born friend Gary to use. Thus, two promising future golf pros[...]s nipped in the broken glass. to D. C. and Grace[...]She loved to bowl, dance and have fun. He loved to[...]freedom even though Montie was about to retire. Montie Dingley bringing in a pail of wate[...]er money from the sale of a house but preferred to spend would come back. In 1975 or 1976 she began to experience Montie' s money. Montie had s[...]poverty of the Great Depression and wasn' t about to share problems that killed her mother and[...] |
| [...]eat Falls at age 78 in challenged her to write one that was better. January 1997. Her obit[...]per, and signed up for a class. She really wanted to write They'd both come through the Great Depressi[...]dle of value of hard work, had previous marriages to learn the writing class, the instruc[...]con frying .... write from ... but. .. it was not to be. for ten minutes[...]revised Montie met Sally Bible during a visit to the Southern dozens of times. She went to Montana to validate the Baptist Church in Dillon during Labo[...]were 20 years apart in age), and school supplies to Mrs. Kirtley, the minister's wife. Montie he[...]younger than his oldest daughter). She returned to Phoenix not attend church services. to her house and her job. He returned to his couch and the Sally Ann Garrett was born[...]n Phoenix AZ security of his living room. to Harry Morton Garrett Sr. and Dorothy Lee Coleman[...]ans and Brandstines were early decided to marry to save money. There were a few other settlers in Fa[...]well and they married 16 Jun 1982 in MO and moved to Phoenix to start a new life in the depths the Luthera[...]ld around the world and translations as assistant to the Controller and later Equipment Accounting[...]ies had no His father had advised him to avoid bankers and lawyers, bearing, what would you like to do?" but he consider[...]tough old goat," and get married again, and move to Montana." avoided physic[...]one of them and list years he gave his trust to physicians Ronald V. Loge and three things you'd have to do to accomplish your goal." Shafi Shafaieh and was most pleased if they would stop to Since she'd been single for 14 years and had[...]job and had he felt they were detrimental to society, but he wasn't no prospect of relocating, so she discarded that. That left opposed to enjoying an inexpensive meal when passing[...] |
| A life-long Democrat, he loved to argue politics with his County MT and Clark Cou[...]pinions about the him seriously enough to ask him about what he knew and he direction the country seemed to be sliding. When he met knew a lot. Sally[...]nd miles apart. long fascination to Montie as he explored the more primitive He w[...]ld pick and chose the clauses of the Constitution to practice, especially when it came to censorship, morality, separation of church and st[...]gun control. They feel that Christians are as apt to be liberal as conservative and that politics can corrupt one's religious beliefs when leaders try to bring them into a marriage of convenience.[...]conference in St. Louis MO, a visit to step-daughter Shirley[...].Dingley taken that road to Bannack more than once. They drove[...]abin where he had been born 78 years earlier in a canyon In his retirement, he loved to explore the history of the called Middle Creek[...]ruck he'd used hunting traveled from the Atlantic to the Pacific Oceans, into Canada for many years.[...]discovered what a big wonderful world lay to the license, Montie got mad and sold the Jeep to Art outside Beaverhead County, yet Dillon[...] |
| [...]County and have access to its graphic images.[...]Association, later changed to Montana Sagebrush Writers.[...]Hospital in Seattle WA. His death was due to liver and[...]renal failure caused by a second exposure to the drug[...]was buried in the Dingley plot next to his second wife, Lois,[...]black cloud had begun to lift slowly. Three years has passed[...]She insisted they would be safe. moving to Indiana. Most of her furniture is already in a Re[...]registered at Indiana University-Purdue and plans to major His pack rat nature paid off in later y[...]at has eluded her since 1958 when she dropped out to samples of many of the early day artifacts and to[...]s time in In her spare time, she pians to resume quilting, research sharing with her the jo[...]take time to play with her grandchildren. She's learned the[...]sted Dingley-Hufffamily reunions in 1985 and to live each day to the fullest. 1990 and was making plans for the th[...]rch. His one regret is that he never made it back to Lewistown ME where[...]was proud of his parents for having the fortitude to come west in the 1870s and Myron D.[...]years later? He donated several hundred hours to the museum in After graduating from[...]nd Groton CT. 1,700 boards. He was always willing to do carpentry jobs Jo Ellen Logan was b[...]iams, the curator. Most importantly, he to Mr. and Mrs. Edward F. Logan. She's been c[...] |
| [...]Home (now Vencore) in Groton CT and transferred to the[...]her work and living in Dillon. Myron is adjusting to being[...]rrollton MO. The children are world travelers due to Myron's naval career and have learned to adjust to new surroundings and new schools out of necessity. Myron loves to hunt and has managed to come home almost every[...]s hand. Lloyd, born 1928, was the year in October to get Sally and Myron Dingley with oldest[...]Harriet Catherine Huff Dingley. moved his family to Dillon in Sep 1996, so the children The Ding[...]s a freshman at Beaverhead County High returned to Dillon. School, the same school her father[...] |
| As a young man, he went to California to seek his Apr 1958. They had two sons, M[...]ivorced. Later Shirley married Charles Monte came to California with her family.[...]ter a short illness. Myron always wanted to live in Montana and he brought Wilma Ruby Din[...]ar 1930 in Pico his young family back to Dillon in the late 1940s. The Rivera CA. She marr[...]family moved back to Whittier where Myron worked at a Four of the chil[...]ntana. with their spouses and children, were able to attend the While Opal was busy shopping, M[...]A few years later, Myron returned to his beloved[...]a woman tell him what to do and where to put things.[...]was too old to live alone and that he should go into the rest[...]home. To prove Leo wrong, Myron at age 83, reshingled[...]sent it to Leo. L-R: Donald, Phyllis, dad Myron F. Dingl[...]able to take care of himself. RefDingley. |
| He continued to live alone but gave up driving after having a ser[...]Elizabeth Drown was declared at fault for failure to yield. His brother, Montie, mowed his lawn, took him to the 2) Minnie Thompson grocery store and to doctor visits and generally kept an eye[...]He was the first child born to Royal Simeon Dingley and the liberal youngest bro[...]arriet Catherine Huff Dingley. The ranch belonged to her and stay friends. Myron reluctantly agreed.[...]Later Roy and Hattie Dingley moved to a place of their[...]Clark Canyon.[...]Being the oldest of ten children when they moved to Payette ID and later to Middle Creek ID, Harry had plenty[...]MT, the fifth of eleven children born to Alma May Seybold[...](Bauguess). There are different opinions as to who was at and Myron just before his 94th birthda[...]Denning and Clark where they both worked. Ed him to come live with them in Marysville CA. He did with[...]to Bob in Dubois shortly before he died. moved to Livingston MT, bringing Myron with them. H[...] |
| [...]ar II, he joined the maintenance staff of planned to even the score with his father's killer's relativ[...]nd Gertrude knew each other Harry loved to be outdoors, hunting, fishing, or mining well and[...]ry and Gertie divorced about 1929 and he returned to Second child Alvin Royal "Al" Dingley, b[...]1896 near Dillon, only returned to Dillon for visits. He Webster's grandmother). They married about 1930 and went to southern California, married Gwen Baker, h[...] |
| [...]family historian and Dec 1897 near Dillon, moved to Payette and Middle Creek kept in touch with[...]The next to youngest child, Katherine Dingley, born 24 Fo[...]Aug 1908 at Barrett Station near Dillon, returned to Dillon near Dillon. She learned amateur photography from her in 1921, then drifted to southern California before settling in mother, Ha[...]Jan 1919. He was a traveling then moved to California again and lived with her sister, sales[...]Nellie. They moved to Whittier CA where they had three D[...]ey live at Bend OR. The Russell children returned to Dillon for the Dingley-Huff family reunion[...] |
| [...]three brothers and one sister. located to the right of the old hospital. George Ditty, Jess[...]May 1916 at Glenfield ND, brother, lived farther to the right. He was a rancher, mostly the daught[...]IG RED BARN". sister left North Dakota to join him. Later, four more boys In the Ditty h[...]as all the students from the Normal College came to buy snacks. The Ditty family members are all deceased. The Atkeson family is related to Jess Ditty , Sam Ditty and George Ditty families,[...]hildren. neighbor's son was old enough to herd, they lost their job. Ref.192.22.[...]Miles City. In the fall of 1935 they moved to Ekalaka son of Jack and Victoria (McCumsey) Dodd.[...]ived in town but Red and Evelyn lived in a Colony to Alzada where his father bought a ranch. He had[...]of snow and temperatures from zero to -60 degrees for 60 338 - Beaverhead History No.2 |
| [...]es, with molasses from Belle Beach VA. Fouche to pour over them, but the cows and sheep survived.[...]t of Twin Bridges. She is the They moved back to their homestead in the fall of 1937. daughter[...]They have two children, In spring 1938 they began to build a room on the tiny shack. Earl J. and Pet[...]at age 63. They followed a shearing crew in acres to a sheep man for $50 and headed west with them in[...]began his Dillon history as he made plans to immigrate to[...]Hans traveled from Denmark to Liverpool, England,[...]way around the U.S. to reach Dillon. He traveled to New Orleans, on to St. Louis, down the tracks to Colorado,[...]Due to Denmark patronymics, Hans was known as Hans[...]Dons in school in Denmark, so when he got to Dillon, he[...]in. Hans disclosed, "this was where I first tried to chew[...]Hans was destined to be a rancher since he moved to a ranching community. He made his way up to Horse Prairie[...]where he worked for Carl Hansen before going to work for Red and Evelyn Dodd on their 38th anniv[...]the time when he was instructed to go and open the gate to[...] |
| [...]e Prairie for a year or two, he made his way down to Idaho Falls. Tiring of local work, he moved on to try out the ocean. Boarding a merchant ship[...]o working in a lumber yard driving a left to cook for the CL. Before they joined hands in team[...]Hans finally proposed to Hanna and she accepted. The Hans moved to the Horse Prairie Mellen Ranch which m[...]at a bar at one time. He tells of Due to an uninvited hail storm that summer, they Roy Jackson Sr. 's solution to this legal dilemma by cutting threshed out e[...]couple of The failed farmers decided to try their hand at running a mutual friends had co[...]h a Jersey bull, two cows and a horse taking them to one of Dillon ' s earliest hospitals (located[...]op Following the death of both , he was asked to be a pall between Dillon and the Big Hole V[...]ering the first the Grasshopper Valley. corpse to the grave site and returning for the second, the[...]money maker. The Great Depressionhad have a drink to warm up. They started on the bottle they[...]y. Ollie, had in the hearse which encouraged them to make a quick Hans and Hanna's daughter,[...]or hotel where she sold candy bars and gas to travelers. Much five drinks which put Hans and th[...]plied by Hanna who hauled it from Dillon the road to inebriation. They had quite the time getting the[...]sshopper Creek while Hans operated a bootleg told to go to the Twin Bridges area to retrieve some stock whiskey business. He would make a booze run to Dillon horses from the winter range . It was love[...]and sell it for $1.50 a pint.. .not didn' t like to get off and walk, so by the time the last horse[...]it kept them from starving out cold that Hans had to call for help from the bunkhouse to during this depressed era. pry Tom off hi[...]gh the experience, Their next move was to a ranch on Rattlesnake Creek in though none the b[...]wner was Frank Hazelbaker, Sr. who Hans loved to tell the story of "the great race" which was had passed away from an allergic reaction to a bee bite. held from Armstead to the CL, a distance of approximately They raised sheep and cattle to pay off the ranch loan. They five miles. Apparent[...]experienced the typical ranch setbacks common to the Ford which he reverently named Flivver. It was deemed to business. In 1964, they had a fire durin[...]p any fence on the ranch, but the Ford would have to harnesses and horse collars. travel the[...]above the ground floor. An unfortunate making it to the ranch gate seconds before the Ford. When loss to an architectural splendor of the time. the driver[...]t their first tractor and dragging it all the way to the barn. Hans didn't remember mower. She[...], only that the gate lost for sure. to the kitchen. 340 - Beaverhead History No.2 |
| [...]first time he tromped on the gas, so he went back to his hoss, never trying the contraption again. If[...]e was one of the last ranchers who trailed cattle to the Big Hole rather than truck them. Cattle were driven to summer pasture on the Ajax ranch in the Big Hole, which was owned by Pete Peterson who later sold out to his twin nephews, Melvin and Elvin. He also summe[...]ary and Barney Dougherty. As a young man he moved to Butte MT and worked in the mines and later as a f[...]Josephine was born in Carson City NV and moved to Butte as a young child. She married Jack Doughert[...]gherty Lynch. Jack and Josie moved from Butte to Dillon in 1942. Jack managed the Red, & White Lau[...]siness from Tim Sullivan and the name was changed to the Beaverhead Laundry & Dry Cleaners. He[...] |
| Later he sold the business to Lloyd and Ray. Jack Dougherty was active in[...]of the Dougherty for years. J. W. Walters Garage to left of laundry. Ref.192.13. Community Train Serv[...]Hawaii. During his tour of duty, he was assigned to a which was located at 29 E. Helena in Dillon.[...]ity Squadron where he flew many types of aircraft to[...]Mick and Evelyn returned to Great Falls in 1945 where[...]n Great Falls. In 1948 Joe and Marg Roe Dillon MT to Josie and James Doyle, pioneer Centennial[...]Red Rock River. The coffee pot Mick and his bride-to-be, Evelyn, had many "fun" dates was always on and the door open to friends and family alike. driving around the area[...]ool committee and the Lima School Board. assigned to flight school in Corpus Christi TX. He[...]The Roe Ranch crew was always ready to help a Mick made a quick trip back to Great Falls and married neighbor in nee[...] |
| [...]nd Western these years, neighbors always had time to help neighbors. Montana College in Dillon.[...]the Roe Ranch until it sold in 1979. They retired to daughter of Maria and Adolfo Gomez[...] |
| [...]ed together and helped children were born to this union: Roselle, Margurite, John, each other[...]worked together in this area taking continues to operate their holdings and manage their cattle. o[...]e posts that Ernest and Ansle could cut and bring to them. Bender who worked for the Bureau of Recla[...]spent several years in North Dakota but returned to played together, and the boys loved to tease the girls. The Dillon when Arnie retired[...]not far from her home. According to information, she[...]started for Lakeview 03 May 1903. She had to cross the[...]to wear rubber boots to get to the boat on account of the[...]supposed that she decided· to return home the same day, that[...]MT to Albert and Katherine (Boatz) Duffner. He was the[...]argurite were ready for school, Ernest miles to school. They raised horses and cattle on the boug[...]also blew the whistle time there but would return to the homestead each summer. for noon hour and[...]a janitor for Barrett Hospital. Ralph went to work at age 13 for the N-Bar Ranch at Adel attend[...]owner and also drove up to ten-horse teams for farming. Adel met Howard Kent while she was working at Barrett Ralph came to Butte in 1935 planning to work in the Hospital. They married and mad[...] |
| killed in the mines the night before, so he went on to school through 8th grade. Then the school[...]rles LaDue and Bruce took the children to Dillon. Thompson. One time he roped a bear w[...]glad when the bear came out of the was tom down to build the new high school. Students went loop. to class in the basement of the college until the new school Ralph and Lamar Moore came to the Diamond O Ranch was finished. She gra[...]ere few students because of the war. Then he went to work for the Whitworths that summer up Most of the boys attending were waiting for their call to the Sheep Creek, out of Dell. That winter he brok[...]ew up, summers were spent helping which were sold to the Army. They rode the horses in cook a[...]s of 20-25 men. Ranchers heavy snow 15 miles down to Dell breaking them. hayed with horses in those days. He returned to the Diamond O Ranch and also drove the R[...]in Oct 1942. Their contact in Drummey school bus to Dillon and worked at Pete Lasich' s those day[...]Alice was in a train wreck while traveling to California.[...]Camp Stoneman which was the port of embarkation to the South Pacific. Ralph drove buses to take the troops to San Francisco to be shipped out and later hauled returning troops[...]to Sacramento and Camp Beale where they were dischar[...]marching to leave; later some would go to Pittsburgh CA and be put on barges, tugged to San Francisco and shipped to the South Pacific.[...]assigned to the 3785 Quartermaster Truck Company. When[...]Ralph and Alice went to the cow camp (the Metzel place)[...]wooden chum that sat on a table. They gave butter to the neighbors and took some to the folks in Dillon. They spent[...]from fall 1946 to spring 1950 at the Diamond O, building up[...]their own cattle herd to about 50 head.[...]om Ralph Duffner Spring 1953 they moved to Dillon where they bought a on their wedding day N[...]The Diamond O was sold Alice Duffner was born to Les and Ruby Staudenmeyer to the Miller family in 1956 and Ralph worked[...] |
| miles west of Sheridan. They added to that ranch when They sold the ranch in Sheridan in 1994 and moved to Leslie decided after a short time at MSU in Bozem[...]e at Lima on In the 1960s they trailed cattle to the Centennial Valley their ranch and su[...] |
| [...]from the mine to the mill in the early 1930s. Later they[...]oads in the Lonnie Lee and Terry Lynn. They moved to Twin Falls ID Crystal Park area above[...]ndall which they ran for 35 years before retiring to Boise ID . Dons, and Dale. Dale died of l[...]once owned by Tommy Haw (Orr), the first Chinese to own land in Beaverhead County.[...]daughter, Lila Jean. They moved to Bon Accord to be near[...]After his discharge, they moved to Ouray CO where he[...]On their return to Dillon, they leased a ranch at Barrett[...]Station for three years; after that Ross went to work for the UP Section Crew . He was the Canyon patrol between[...]already married. When Ross passed away, she moved to[...] |
| [...]Yale graduate turned sheepherder. He took time to translate[...]giant of a man who had the appetite to match. Her earliest[...]memories include sitting on his lap, listening to him read[...]edge and a tattered old a stop for the mail stage to change horses in the days of brand book, l[...]st nine months of winter and three months of able to ride a horse, she rode to the Wisdom school. This fall. She learned this when she was sent to live with her was a daily procedure until deep sn[...]grandparents in LaMesa CA, where she went to high school blocked the roads. From then on, the[...]tment for the In those days the Big Hole, due to its geographic location Anaconda Copper Mining[...]n't take the country out of the summer. It seemed to attract many single men who would girl, so they ended up raising horses and ponies in Hail come to work on the ranches. Many were college graduates[...]ked in town. who for reasons of their own decided to make the Big Hole their home. Some were ru[...] |
| [...]very busy Gallatin Valley and in 1961 they moved to the Ruby Valley wife and mother. near Sh[...]County. He is married to the former Joan Anderson of John Eliel is a d[...]When Lambert married, he and his bride moved to teaches special classes in music and English. Prior to this, California. They had three sons: Lambe[...]areer as a massage therapist in Seattle. returned to Dillon in about 1921 to help his uncles manage Lindsey Eliel[...]a variety of missions. At this children returned to Montana and worked for Jill's parents wri[...]e~~- as possible. Much of John's time is devoted to part-time Mildred Elliott was bor[...] |
| [...]illiam Ambrose The Elliotts moved to Dillon 28 Dec 1952, where Don from Utica NY. Mrs[...]as Don and Marj had taken in boarders to help meet expenses; killed in Whitefish in an acc[...]lon. home. Don was promoted to sales manager in 1955 and Mildred's two daugh[...], Jerry in Dillon, Nancy in Motors was sold to George Gleed in 1958 and Don was Seattle. Nancy died four and a half years ago of cancer. promoted to general manager. Milton Amos Elliott had no c[...]born 12 Aug 1970, and their son, Kory Lee, was ND to Leo Lyon Elliott and Louise R. Elliott. Don's[...]22 Oct 1995, and their son, The family moved to Great Falls where Leo bought a[...]d Lani live small hotel. In 1945 the family moved to Hamilton where[...]in Polson. Leo owned and operated the Coast to Coast Store until 1952.[...]n 197 5. After their born 08 Jun 1928 in Hamilton to Herbert Theodore Kress[...]divorce in 1982, Monte was married for two years to Carol and Helen Elizabeth LeSuer Kress. Her older[...]Monte and son Travis pulled a sheepwagon to Clinton Before Don and Marj were married , h[...]Returning to Grant, Monte worked as a cowboy on[...] |
| [...]like lived a short time in Troy AL, and returned to Grant to help another room. There was a small kitche[...]orse Prairie Hilton. to eat in, so we ate in the dining room. Bruce g[...]big fans to draw the smoke out, but everything was covered[...]12 Aug was from Hamilton, and I had gone to school with his sister 1995. They live in Dillon.[...]and knew the family . He had been sent to Dillon by Marj Kress Elliott died in Yuma 13[...]Safeway Stores and couldn't find a place to live. Shortly married Norah Le01me Richardson 17[...]Anyway, our family had grown from five to eight with the[...]good baby and I kept her Donald Elliott came to Dillon and began work for dressed l[...]ses for her in one single ironing. Now our family to live. He finally found a three-room apartment and[...]pened a small cafe at the Metlen packed and ready to go. He brought a used truck with him Ho[...]owing had the truck and car loaded from the floor to the ceiling. year we were asked to take in another boarder and roomer I had Monte an[...]nd Kress rode in from Jackson. He wanted to play football and so had to live the truck with Don.[...]commodated him. With We stopped in Deer Lodge to eat and Monte and Kress the addition[...]I wonder now how I did all the things I had to do. When brought them back to us and we ate and left. After arriving yo[...]othing of hard work and that was in Dillon we had to unload that night so Don could return W[...]boys and consumed a lot of food. bedroom and had to set up our bed in the living room along[...]40. He had sold several taking hikes up to the "footsies. " cars and was paid wages plus com[...]aid Mr. Stubbs in the foothills and went to see him all the time. off. Don got a lead on a house on South Bozeman Street They took cookies to him and he gave them treasures to and we moved in April. It was so nice to have a place for bring home. the kids to play and have their own bedroom. They went to see him one Christmas morning. It had Don got[...]ed all night and was still dark when they dressed to go. We were proud of that car. That gave me use of our car, a I didn't want them to go , but they had promised to come see 1948 Ford. One day in town I fel[...] |
| [...]y kept it for ten years. We sold out to K-P Mini-Storage in returned, Mr. Stubbs had give[...]with us. We did all the painting, inside and out, to save --submitted by[...]n 1961 and built the pink house just a block away to the east on Reeder Street. In 1965 Remelys bought[...]piece of property north of town and she happened to have it Fred Arthur Else was born 24 Jul 1911 on his parents' on her listing. She offered to buy it for us and we could pay homestead locat[...]a prime the fourth of eleven children born to Weldon and Annie piece of property and we jumped[...]cattle. We poured the foundation to our new house about the Putting up h[...]a derrick. As he grew older, he moved on to other jobs, kitchen and bedroom and bath with sho[...]1940s was completed in exactly ninety days, start to finish. We when he was reduced to driving a one-horse rake for a moved into the hou[...], JOMAR 11 horse or driving a team to the one-room school building two PA INTERS, " and[...]ent 11 Throughout his life he continued to read thousands and straight from doing the dealership to painting the new house thousands of books, as[...]inside and out. Doing the painting gave me money to buy His interests ranged from fiction and current events to new furniture.[...]er graduating from the eighth grade, he continued to[...]und power When rural mail delivery came to the Big Hole, Weldon lines for irrigating with wh[...]Else took the job, delivering mail twice a week to the We found morel mushrooms on the property.[...]ce one year that we couldn't pick them all. to Wisdom. Fred and his brother, George, also helped on We took friends out to pick them, seven or eight paper sacks this jo[...]pasture. Saturday afternoon and absolutely had to be back to carry We had a mile and a half of river front[...]e family home lay Feiten Gulch, there. Don loved to see the deer and fox and all the other[...] |
| [...]new house a few a local rancher, and brought her to this cabin. Over the hundred feet from the original, which along with the barn is years they added to the house and built various outbuildings. still being used. Water from the old spring is piped to both They acquired more land and built their few[...]e herd. It was a lovely place, very isolated, to live there. During these years, he helped his bro[...]Lester move cattle to the range each summer. He and[...]He continued to read and loved to reminisce about the[...]daughter, Susan, moved to Dillon in Aug 1953 and took[...]Lindley moved to Rock Springs WY, to assume the practice[...]sh and his mother drove through Dillon on the way to Fred Else riding Beach Hawk, "A good horse." Ref.[...]to live and open a practice, but there's already an[...]Robin. They all worked hard on the ranch and went to jumped at the chance to live in a college town near the a small school just as their parents had. Fred saw to it that mountains he loved. Previously, he had practiced a year in they got a good education, reading to them, helping with Great Falls and a year[...]irst five years in homework and devising fun ways to improve their math Dillon he was DeMo[...]Bob was born 20 Feb 1927 in Great Falls to John B. and special interest in the hired[...] |
| [...]e was discharged in the fall of 1946 and returned to Jaycees, the City Council, Police Commissi[...]erhead Allied Senior Services. He also was on the to a shortage of help during World War II, many went to board of directors for Norwest Bank. work[...]goal Carol was born 12 Feb 1929 near Benge WA to Burton was to raise Western's enrollment to 500. The Booster Club and Bertha Stephenson. She was educated in schools there. was a successor to this group when enrollment went over the During World War II, her family moved to Portland OR, 500 mark. Later the Save O[...]h School in 1947. Carol left 1988. college to take a position as society editor of the local[...]er. to a ground-floor location on the comer of Idaho and[...]ate Chapter P.E.O. Sisterhood and he moved to 234 E. Glendale Street. He purchased an was named[...]Building. Dr. English continued to keep abreast of new Dr.[...] |
| [...]erries and swimming at Flathead Lake. KS to Blackwell, Oklahoma Territory. The homestead was[...]Safety Councils. A vehicle he was moved to Dillon, Fred had worked at the Rainbow Hotel in d[...]27th Auxiliary was on a 24-hour alert to go to France and in[...]Ref.146. 01. after he got out of the Army to live with his widowed[...]in Fredrick Archer Eudaily was born 11 Mar 1897 to J. Braman OK. Fred came to Dillon in 1919 and he bought Daniel and Sarah (Mc[...]other, owned and operated it until he sold it to Harold (Whitey)[...] |
| [...]ed worked up until he passed Jo came to Dillon in 1935 as a supervisor for the Welfare aw[...]ly was born 26 Jun 1905 Eudaily who came to board there and they went together for to Fred and Mary (MacDonald) Darlington in Missoula[...]a homestead Two children were born to them, Karen Ann, in Dillon on a mountain top in C[...]Daniel Howard 19 Aug 1944 in Butte. old and ready to start school , her legs were too little to come Jo taught at many rural schools in Bea[...]ent of Schools of Beaverhead The family moved to Missoula and Jo completed grade County. She served three terms from Jan 1967 to Apr 1975 . school, four years of high school and five years at the She was the only one to hold the office with a Doctorate University of Mo[...]Cemetery in Dillon. woman in the United States to attain a degree in Forestry.[...]Augustus F. Graeter. The house and land was sold to U. S. Government in 1934 for the present Dillon P[...]t year. Photo donated by Sadie Graeter Poindexter to museum collection. 356 - Beaverhead History No.2 |
| [...]30 Nov City MN in 1880. He died in 1948. He came to the 1921) is married to Judge Frank M. Davis. Virginia Foster Centennial[...]e in Dillon MN in 1884 and died in 1972. She came to the Centennial Ellen Walz (b. 24 Sep 192[...]milk to a few regular customers, raised rabbits and chick[...]grew vegetables, all to help the family grow up healthy. Joe[...]preferred not to have cows but made a concession to Ann. The cows were eventually sold to the Harold Cantrells for a[...] |
| [...]of Glendale and Arizona (which was supposed to be off-limits to us). streets was purchased in 1926 from Findley R[...]treets took advantage of Stahl's hospitality to go in and warm cold to this area from the town district. There were no p[...]a few disappeared along with the barn, to be replaced with lilac scattered houses, meeting[...]ning the Faller girls took the milk cows each day to pasture. irrigation ditch were eradica[...]e vegetable plot Most of the new construction to the northeast was started was moved from the ea[...]t cedar log house, at first rented out, then sold to Homes Association. Since their basements were con[...]few solved the water problem and led Luther Smith to eventually houses standing lonely in a block.[...]Faller girls; there was a great sense of freedom to through town crying "veg--e--tables for s[...]isplaying the beauty of bloom in the summer. To the north was Stahl's Dairy, the original home at 400 The race to the top to see who could get there fastest, E. Mo[...] |
| [...]th's place on the south side of Sebree going back to town were his pea and hay fields coming to a Raymond C. Fallon stop around[...]born to John P. and Catherine Tully Fallon. they sold to grocery stores. They were noted for their[...]They were able to visit briefly and upon parting did not see until[...]ain until June 10, 1919, when Glendale--the first to build in that block; it is presently a car[...]son within half an hour of each repair shop. Next to it on the corner of Glendale and[...]rtly after their discharge, Ray and Cecil decided to go and remodeled into a home. to Montana to homestead. Cecil departed first, backpacking[...]man stopped at homes sawing off big blocks of ice to[...]patchwork repairs. The Model T was able to make it up the It was a good life.[...] |
| [...]blizzard and flat tires, they finally got to Butte. They stayed friends built log cabins and f[...]adjoining sections one night and then went back to the Fassler ranch. and settled in for the long wi[...]in Beaverhead with earphones on which he was able to pick up the late County. The ranch hous[...]t. After earning his homestead, Ray returned to Hutchinson Primarily, our dad raised white-faced Hereford cattle. in 1920 to resume work as a mechanic at his uncle's garage.[...]ment from the telephone company in 1961, Ray went to work for a communications firm . One assignment r[...]installation of long distance lines from Thailand to Laos. They completed a trip around the world on their way home. In 1965 Ray decided to retire again and they bought a home in Mesa AZ. He continued to be active as a consultant to the Arizona Mountain Telephone Company and at age[...]ge 82. He is buried in Mesa where Marge continued to reside. --son T .W[...]tour of various Montana Melrose area to do so. Most of the produce, fresh or |
| [...]four grandchildren. REA came to our area about 1939 and not long after that Mother and Dad moved to Dillon briefly after they sold our parents had a[...]a lot of the Bagley School there. She moved to Missoula with them, general work himself. This ho[...]terstate. to work as a surgical nurse at Kadalec Hospital as s[...]four years, our folks packed up and sent packages to our dad's family in Germany who were in need.[...]ed and burned stumps, picked rock and worked hard to enlarge the tillable acreage[...]nd r~ilroad ties, as the Gilmore and girl cousins to various camps, trips and school functions.[...]Pittsburgh railroad line was going through to Idaho at the About 1937 she took four of us to Yellowstone Park where[...]Our parents sold the ranch in 1947, moved briefly to and operated a sawmill. Dillon, then to Missoula. There, Dad worked in lumber[...]n Patrick Hospital guilds. They enjoyed returning to Melrose[...]ed Montana State University in Bozeman and Dillon to see their relatives and friends. Dad died in[...]got to see Brick Breeden and the Golden Bobcats while Mi[...]In 1933 his folks, Edgar and Clara, returned to the attended Melrose grade school.[...]Schuler place as Clara's family wanted to sell the farm. Dorothy, born in 1926, also a[...]ears, Edgar and Clara purchased the Melrose, went to Sacred Heart Academy in Missoula, then[...]other family members. Bud returned home to help his folks 1944. She graduated from St. Jame[...]born 25 Dec 1916 in Dublin Gulch, Butte MT, to Martin Highway Department. They were our p[...] |
| [...]e, employed ranching, Bud and Betty moved to a home in Dillon on by Dr. Stephan and Mrs. Gregg[...]ted Center Street. Bud still continued to work on the ranch, from Montana State Normal Coll[...]aught there for two years. also continued to fly quite a bit, including several long trips.[...]1939 in Butte. Over the Betty did not like to fly, so their trips together were next 11 years t[...]truggle with the disease. Much time was continued to operate the family ranch . He did not[...]rs of fighting the disease. Later that same year, Canyon Dam, along with DeMar Taylor and Hap Hawkins.[...]ry as of this writing. father and he passed it on to his sons. In Jun 1994[...]to his move to Nevada. Ed is also teaching in Nevada after[...]With his parents, he moved to Montana in 1896, living[...]adjoined land that went. Some of the boys went on to play college ball and his father had purc[...]here he was residing . He Bud and Betty continued to be avid fans. In 1951 he built also homeste[...]land on the east side of the a very tall antenna to receive one of the first television Red Rock[...]gh married Orea Melissa Bonney 01 Dec 1913 at the to watch the 1951 Rose Bowl.[...] |
| [...]tle Slane on The Boyne in Ireland and was related to the Charlie Brothers had a daughter , Effidle "Ef[...]closed her eyes to them and Malcolm's mother died, his fine[...]house and all his priceless possessions burned to the ground,[...]g was born at Conesus , Livingston people to join them in the good life of serenity and love in County NY, on 13 May 1854, the sixth child born to Jacob their compound in Benton Harbor MI,[...]ted in the 1870 persuaded his wife, Susan, to sell the house her family had census.[...]given her and leave all they had known and go to America. James married Linda Lenora Davis 25 Dec 1878 at Malcolm was not allowed to leave at that time because of Wyoming, Stark Coun[...]sters, Mary Kelley and Angeline was put to work in the kitchen of the sect and her younger P[...]ille, was put out of the House of David to shift for themselves in Cooke County TX. He died[...]ears . James ' a strange land. They managed to stay together with the help first daughter was al[...]About that time, Malcolm came to America and when he They moved to Montana in 1896 where he homesteaded saw what had happened to his family, he became very angry 200 acres of lan[...]ck David. Sophie was quietly sent back to New Zealand and River, and in 1903, 40 acres adjo[...]was adjoining and also Instead of being taken to a hospital, he was put in an an additional 160 acres that was close to the land that he had asylum; therefore, Malcol[...]ied Orea Melissa Bonney school and went to work to help support them and they 01 Dec 1913. managed to stay together.[...] |
| [...]At this time Richard went back to Michigan to bring his[...]brother, William, and his mother, Susan, back to Argenta.[...]their claim to high grade their ore. Three of the men were[...]and going to school and she came west. To her surprise,[...]Robert, Elizabeth, Richard and Bertha all managed to graduate from high school with good honors. They[...]$300 from the Maunsell estate and gave the money to Malcolm to go to a mining convention in California. While on his w[...]the mining in Argenta MT and vicinity. He stopped to see what was available to him. Malcolm was a graduate mining engineer a[...]ad for $100 worth of groceries. This enabled them to get out their first shipment of high grade ore (g[...]n 1936 Bertha married a man named Leigh but after to ride out the depression in good style.[...]Bertha divorced him. $53,791.75 and enabled them to live well during the depression while help[...] |
| [...]ast Sebree Street which filled with water and had to be closed. Soon they lost their housed the old[...]al shed was William, Arthur and Richard went back to New Zealand. beside the gate. In 1929 a[...]specting and with the Stimpson, going from farm to farm , which is where Granny help of his brother,[...]ord met the Bums Perry family , as she went along to help family, they found the tungsten mine west of[...]e died in childbirth. He and Robert went back to New Zealand in the early 1970s. Ella had n[...]. Alsie , Opal and Roy came to Dillon with their parents.[...]ed his father, Perry), a six-week-old baby, to raise. All her children were Pennington Ford, and[...]n married and had children of their own. MO to Dillon. Ella was known to everyone as "Granny Ford".[...] |
| [...]to the store and traded for staples. In 1932, Pennin[...]a stroke· while trimming the apple tree and had to be pried[...]with two funeral bills to pay--but we did it. I worked and went to school , graduating from[...]Beaverhead County High School in 1935. I went to work[...]little work here, we moved to San Diego CA in 1941. Granny got to visit us when she was 79 years old and[...]desire was to fly to Missouri to visit her children there but she never got to. She passed away 03 Nov 1947, at the age[...] |
| [...]lege and taught in Three children were born to this union. Judy F. Victor and Billings. She work[...]w (Andy) Forsythe was born in Melville MT in 1897 to Anders and Mary Kirkwold Forsythe, the fi fth of[...]hnson Olson of Ry gate MT. Two children were born to this union , Lilah F. Luoma in 1923 and John (Jack) W. in 1927. Andy, Dagney and their children came to work for Edward B. Roe at the Roe/Shineburger Ran[...]art property in 1920. Andy and family moved to the[...]7L Ranch in the Centennial Valley was sold to Koch Centennial. Dagney cooked for cowhands an[...]June moved to Clayton and Maude Kennedy's ranch. Lasich was the[...]1977. The Kennedy ranch was sold to Canyon Ranch (Leon children moved to Great Falls . The children returned every[...]1989. June died in 1992. Her brothers and summer to be with Andy.[...]eph W. "Joe" Roe are deceased. Elizabeth Roe born to Edward B. and Effie Tong Roe. She attended grade[...]inary MD and graduated in 1929. June returned to Red Rock and developed a dude ranching bus[...] |
| [...]Beaverhead County High older of two children born to Rodney Churchill "Walter" School in 1947 ,[...]Gallatin a book or mitten and daring her to chase him. Rod enlisted County sheep ranchers.[...]umstances at the time of Rod's father's death led to "Bob" Foster) , when Rod was home on leave from[...]er T. Foster, and that Rod found the courage to ask Virginia if he could write wife , Dorothy L. Higgins Foster (daughter of Eva L. and to her. She said OK; this correspondence ended with[...]lantic Street. Gleanne, born 03 Jun 1942, married to George Wray and Rod had attained the[...]es in Moscow ID; Kathy, born 11 Nov 1948, married to the USS Keppler in the Atlantic Fleet. The[...]eived honorable discharge and the couple returned to 1963 at age 55. Dorothy Foster is retired and liv[...]local Billings. She taught school in Dillon prior to teaching in U.S. Postal Service. Thailand wit[...]The Foster home at 906 S. Washington was sold to Bill Chemical at Silver Bow (Rhone-Po[...] |
| [...]Dillon until she and the children left via train to Evelyn. Frank worked for Great Northern Rail[...]WA. After the death of Walter T. Foster, Rod went to two children, Joe and Margaret. Gra[...]raduated from Wallace High School and all went on to college. From 1973 to 1981 Virginia was Office Manager at the sales-ser[...]In 1984 her widowed mother, Ann Faller, urged her to return to Dillon. Since her children were independent by then, she did. The Foster children like to relate stories to their children of the times they spent in Dillon[...]s. With Virginia retired here they have incentive to come. Grandma Ann Faller is now in Parkvie[...] |
| [...]Franks Granddad Pendleton divorced and moved to Utah where he married and had two children, Grant[...]George Gleed Franks was born 03 Jan 1914 in Lima to Christensen. They had Joe and Joanne. Obed passed[...]third child born to Matt and Katie Pershe Kajin in Dillon. My mot[...]te in Dillon. Sula three years, then moved closer to Darby where I started In 1933 Kate went to work as a housekeeper for Charlie school. We moved to Wisdom in 1923. and Be[...]res, drove truck, She left the Brenner ranch to take a job at the Lima Cafe stage to Divide and back, and was a government trapper. owned by George Milehish. He and mother liked to play cards. Dad liked to hunt and fish. Each summer for twelve years, Mother, Della and I would go up to Grandma Shaw's hay camp. They had 22 men every su[...]cis. We lived in Wisdom four years and then moved to the Bitterroot. I got a divorce and worked in a variety store in Hamilton. I married Verne Pike and moved to Seattle. We had a boy, LaVerne Kenneth. Donal[...]and Jordan, One day she was left alone to mind the cafe when two then divorced and remarrie[...]Verne retired from Boeing in 1976. We both like to beer, but they pointed to the cupboard under the back bar bowl. He likes to fish and hunt. and[...]ihelish's Kathleen. Della got a divorce and moved to Washington. return he asked her about the two men. She explained to Later she married Bob Sawyer and had Tommy[...] |
| [...]e Franks, and George and Kate retired to Dillon and celebrated their they were married 14[...]sity and other food stuffs from grateful ranchers to supplement of Southern California in musi[...]sed away 23 Dec 1991, and is buried in from place to place by the road patrol.[...]wagon and dropped the two by four across the door to secure it. She grabbed an axe and stood at the side of the door in wait for any of them to try to make their way into Sam J. F[...]erved them coming along the road and hurried back to camp . The Sam J. Freeman was b[...]west in the United States. The family went to Texas, and Where else would a youngster put a live cartridge but in the from Texas they came to Montana by covered wagon. On cigarette lighter. Upon hearing the explosion, my parents the way to Montana, two of Sam's sisters died. He believed came bounding out of the wagon to find my brother' s face they are buried in Oklahoma. Sam came to Dillon as a a little cut up, but otherwise all in[...]small boy with his parents who came to run a dairy on the What a wonderful childhood to remember. Camping out P&O (Poindexter[...], became associated with the cowboys, and learned to County, meeting all of the fine people that lived from the be a cowboy. Centennial Valley to Horse Prairie to Medicine Lodge and When he became o[...]se taking our Saturday own in Smallhorn Canyon. In the summer Sam was a rider night baths in the[...]for all the people who had cattle in Smallhorn Canyon. George played the piano and saxophone and wa[...]e. Ada wrote a poem about the Dillon Rodeo in the to earn extra income. Most dances were held at the o[...]s cattle and cut hay in the the price of a ticket to dance their cares away on Saturday summer.[...]1925. Sam used a chisel and hammer to carve "Henry In 1941 , George hired out as a[...]grave. In 1955 he wrote a he had enough seniority to take a permanent job in Lima.[...]very fitting poem in farewell to Ben Froman. He retired as an engineer in 1974 aft[...]the best of his bucking horses to the Madison Square Garden was always on call.[...]took him up to the ranch and broke him to ride.[...] |
| [...]In 1951 land owners in Smallhorn Canyon (including[...]Freeman) decided to round up all the horses that ran free up[...]this was a good time to sell. There were about five cowboys[...]top hand. The horses were rounded up and taken to the[...]then drove the horses to the stock yards in Dillon. Tex sold[...]some as bucking horse prospects to Hutchinson Rodeo in[...]with a flat brim and a pinched crown. something to Sam about having to double rein a bucking Sam died 28 Apr[...]s a information for this story. cowhide tied to the horse's tail with a short rope. Bob Meine[...]h, Dillon traveling with his parents up Smallhorn Canyon, it was very cold and raining, the children were[...]the horse he was riding. Sam had severe injuries to his chest.[...]eines loaded him in their wagon and took him back to town, and it was only natural that he should[...]aim. He has ranched, too, but he seemed Smallhorn Canyon. Though seriously injured, Sam did not never to take this life seriously, for inevitably he found his want to go to town, so they put him in his bed where he interests wandering back to a mining shaft or a stretch along stayed during the night. The next morning, Sam came to the a creek where he had found color in his p[...]ult Later Sam sold his place on Carrigan Lane to Matt Reis of his own. and bought a place nort[...]The elder French was a Wisconsinite with desires to start the Pete and George Rebish place. Sam still continued to a brewery in California. He had gathered th[...]ound in the streams and gulches sold most of them to his neighbors. Sam owned some fine[...] |
| [...]As the shaft sank deeper, the man in the hole had to had no place in this man's future.[...]ith a whim which was turned operation and decided to call this country his home . He sold by a ho[...]ways assayed the ore for waste before the brewery to saloon-keeper, Jim Harby, in 1870 and it was hauled by wagon to Dillon where it was shipped by moved to Argenta where he operated a stage coach station train to mills in Midvale UT or Helena. for the Gilman and[...]lso worked as a cabinet maker and was called upon to build a coffin for Henry Plummer, the renegade Vi[...]Bannock City, Jan. 12, '64--F.M. Thompson to G.D. French. Making coffin and burying th[...]spiced with miner's talk and dreams so he decided to further his education with correspondence courses[...]three miles west of Argenta from around the 1880s to 1930. Some 16 freight car loads of ore were taken[...]howing traces of gold , silver or lead, will lead to the claim. The trail of float may run for 100 yards , more or less , and when it ends it is time to pick a spot and start digging , French said. The[...]ch French said the ore around Argenta seemed to run mostly in 1912. Tony mined and Flossie served as Argenta to pockets, and that often a vein of quartz would ex[...]until it closed. Ref.146. 08. through one pocket to another. French and his brother had sunk the[...]ried he ranched for a while before returning to Argenta where the according to the miner. "Mostly it depended on how much[...]s. French have lived in Dillon since leaving had to hammer and turn and tum and hammer, French[...] |
| [...]ta postmistress until it was closed. They retired to live Elizabeth Hughes[...]h. George D. French was born in England, came to New They had no children and lived in A[...]York, and married Elizabeth Hughes. They planned to in Jan 1932. They were a lovely couple who entertained migrate to Australia and sailed with a large company for tha[...]ed after the They were a comfort and delight to all who knew them. passage through the Straits of[...]t French married A. Graeter and they lived in the to return to New York, where they arrived safely after a[...]served as Beaverhead County The family moved to Palmyra WI in 1857, but in 1863 Clerk and[...]house fire the call of the West caused Mr. French to sell his business (when?). After her husband's death, Margaret went to live there, buy ox teams and a covered wagon and[...]the growing town of I have been unable to do any research on her family, so Bannack MT. Many on the train decided to try their luck am only stating the facts[...]John Ganier he sold out to James Harby and moved his family to the then Trapper of the Big Ho[...]e country near Wisdom between. I have been unable to research statistics for these Thursday and his remains were yesterday brought to Butte children but presume they may have died dur[...]w making an George D. French had the contract to provide caskets and investigation. On the resu[...]"The morning after the triple hanging, I was told to go years. Until last summer he was employed by Frank with my sister, Margaret, to the butcher shop to secure the Boucher. When he left Butte he went direct to the Big Hole daily meat supply. It was not seemly for a young lady to country to engage in trapping. It is understood he did well.[...]--Dillon Examiner 23 Dec 1903 which caused me to think someone had grabbed her, but there she stoo[...]to the window of an empty store. I rushed forward to see what had Bert Gaskill[...]my great- 09 Nov 1870 (Tony says 1867). He moved to Argenta with grandparents and Frank Carr was my grandpa. his parents, grew to manhood there and married Florence Way back in my brain, I seemed to recall there was a Conway, daughter of the manage[...]lter. newspaper in Glendale MT. I was able to find it in a book They had no children.[...] |
| [...]s After publishing in Ogden UT , Freeman went to Butte in were put among her family and friend[...]and Mrs. John Gelhaus , pioneers of Glendale went to Yakima WA. In Butte, he published The Frontier and Melrose. The family moved to Dillon and that would be Index and the Inter-Moun[...]her home the rest of her life. reference to his son selling "The Butte Inter-Mountain" for[...]he class of 1931. an Atlantis mine, later changed to Antlantus . The caption on For many years ,[...]I recall there waiting for Georgia and Bertie to drive up in their red no more about it. I used to visit Dad and Grandpa in Helena 1964 Chrysler. and go to newspapers . However, my first step into ne[...]street comer uptown in 1935-1936. The paper used to call my school to get me out during school hours when there was an[...]n Beaverhead Bill and Ida George moved to Dillon in 1936 with their County was killed near[...]ill always be remembered as "Mr. and was presumed to be an albino. However, it later proved Minnesota Woolens." He traveled for years to all the to be an Arctic wolf, a long way from home. It was[...]rairie or Medicine Lodge area. suits and shoes to those rural neighbors at a time when travel I also recall about 1924-1925 going to the ranch of my was difficult and mail order[...]ard that it had stormed in the Big Hole, he drove to Sheep Creek. I asked where his son (my uncle) Fred Carr Wisdom to see how much snow had fallen. was and was told he[...]friend said to the family, "She's happy now, you know.[...] |
| [...]ix younger brothers and sisters and sent them all to colleges and universities. Harry was elected mayo[...]chers College, she bravely rode the train, alone, to begin a career teaching school in Dillon. Amy tau[...]grandmother, Harry sent Amy away from Dillon to Chicago[...]came along, Amy had tired of traveling to Chicago, so Lois[...]went to college, the ranch became a great source of[...]friends visiting and asked the ranch hands to have eleven[...]the saddles were on backwards and Lois had to resaddle all Ref.199.23.[...]on the ranch. Amy made sure to give the "Eastern" cousins While working in t[...]rt a taste of Montana ranch life and put them to work in the had been watching Amy 's bank account[...]spberry patch. They all Amy was not one to squander her money , and being a no- reme[...]d shout, "Off nonsense sort of man, Harry decided to woo Amy Lees. On with their heads," on his way to kill chickens, wielding the their first date, a d[...]Vanderwalker and meat cleaver in such a way to put fear in the hearts of the Fred Waldorf, Amy was thrilled to discover that Harry was young Gilber[...] |
| [...]n and Lois sold their shares of Gilbert Livestock to their cousins. Today, two of the descendants[...]t descendants in Dillon 1994. See identifications to left. Ref 199.19. Amy became a prominent member o[...]Wally joined the Marines. Jean returned to Dillon to stay Cancer Society, president of the PTA, presid[...]t of the Republican Women's True to course, Harry sent his daughter away from Organiz[...]sity of Coaches Bus Company. Jean was close to her mother's Chicago he was both a golf and a han[...]r., bore Montana plates. He returned every summer to camp age 8, pulled Lois's daughter Jan[...]Young Jack taught his nephew, Wally Jaax Jr., to play golf. Wally gently placed Janet face[...]lubs were decrepit but his swing was a off to play. Both survived the ordeal. Wally remembers it natural. Jack also taught his nephew, Jimmy Mountjoy, to vividly. Janet doesn't. fish on the Ruby[...]One summer when the Jaax family didn't make it to a reminder that if he can catch trout with that,[...]in 1956. lilac bush in the backyard. Jean, to this day , has never Genevieve endured eve[...] |
| [...]is Anne Gilbert was the last person in her family to suffer from typhoid. After a weekend at the ranch, Harry Gilbert returned home to "the smell of typhoid." Lois had contracted the d[...]aught on fire. As Alice Davis (Burgess) was about to sing, smoke poured from under the lid of the gran[...]the rehearsal dinner and the wedding. They moved to Santa Monica CA where John was an electrical engi[...]geles. Their marriage dissolved and Lois returned to Dillon. She married James Shannon Mountjoy of Bou[...]rother, Jack Gilbert, in 1983. Lois lost her will to live and died at home in 1985. Jim Mountjoy is re[...]as a close Hole Guide for five years. He returned to Dillon to become friend of his father, John R. Gilbert. a jack of all trades from running heavy equipment to logging John R. Gilbert had emigrated from Cornwall in 1859 at to owning a roofing company.[...]rings CO Cape of Good Hope (South America) to San Francisco, there by rail to Corinne UT and to Trout Creek MT, near the[...]which were disposed of by the Gilbert families to purchase[...] |
| [...]d of after John R. Gilbert's death by the Tom to be such county attorney. Gilbert families to purchase the Judge and the Larrabie B[...]g Western Hemisphere. He employed John R. Gilbert to build he and his wife's and Tom's graduati[...]School at Ann Arbor. in 1889 such smelters ceased to operate. Later the smelter was moved and rebuilt at East Helena MT, where it is now reputed to be the most advanced smelter in the state of[...]Wicks mines and smelter, John R. Gilbert returned to Dillon and was employed at Bannack where he appro[...]ed direct electrical Republican for current to power the Fielding L. Graves dredge boat in Banna[...]urrent had not be developed). Thereafter he moved to northern Mexico where he lived in[...]c.aty the Copper Canyon area a number of years until forced to leave by Poncho Villa. About the year 1900, John R. Gilbert was employed by W. A. Clark of Butte to build a smelter at KOFA (King of Arizona mine) ne[...]ert Livestock Company. He served ten terms He saw to it that the younger boys, Duke and Tom, and the[...]d was the second formed Gilbert Livestock Company to operate their ranches largest sheep[...] |
| [...]la Giles. His parents of years. She resigned to help Norman in the market for the brought him to Dillon MT when he was only three years old[...]verhead County the remainder of his life. back to the Courthouse for the Clerk and Recorder before He went to grade school at the Rattlesnake School going to work at the First National Bank in Dillon. (River[...]ana Children's Center in taking cigarette makings to school for the boys to try Twin Bridges as a bookkeeper in 1963[...]usiness Service Officer. She retired in 197 4. it to the ground. (Editor's note: for more details about this Tress continues to live in Dillon in the same house the story of the[...]ly bought in 1944. Cowboy by Garrett and Rebich). To make matters worse, The couple had[...]ehold. who is married to Steve Stephens, has two children and lives N[...]ring his senior year. Bridges. He continued to work there for several years.[...]or over twenty-five years. Rife and was appointed to that position when Mr. Rife died.[...]ven He ran for Clerk of the Court and was elected to a two-year term in 1938 and was elected to two more full terms. In 1948 he was elected Count[...]months and lambed there. He sold the KS to Eva Stone Gilman and John Gilman. He was their Ce[...]n ulcerated vein in his left leg which forced him to go to terrible storm somewhere off the coast of Arg[...]e in 1968 from which he Louis went back to Leavenworth and farmed for three never completely[...]he years, then he decided that he was going to Alaska to seek remaining twenty years of his life. He rarel[...]pped off in and took each day at a time. He loved to spend time with Dillon to visit his uncle, A.L. Stone. His uncle offered to his grandchildren and travel when he could . Norm[...]Clothing Store. Lulu Belle Palin was born 18 Feb to John and Augusta Dolezal. The family moved to Gildford 1886 to Elizabeth Ann Mead Palin and Elisha Palin, who MT[...]Dec at the Great Falls Business College. She came to work at 1913, in Pierre SD. She was[...] |
| [...]May 1996. She was a nurse (R.N.) and was married to Carl shared what they had with others, espec[...]Carl was born 29 Apr 1903 to Beaverhead County[...] |
| World War II came, he took his family to Sandpoint ID[...]truction work on the Navy Base. Upon returning to Dillon, his interests were in mining and the live[...]f Mountain west of Glen. These claims were leased to Minerals Engineering and General Electric who bui[...]Philip Isadore was born 07 Mar 1897 to Isadore and[...]attended the Nelson school and later went to the Bagley Jessie Farr Giudici and husband[...] |
| [...]ater Valley which Two children were born to Florence and Phil; a daughter, he held until 1945. In the 1920's he went to work for the Carol Vivienne on 17 Aug 1929,[...]on. About 1935 Phil started transition from horse to machinery. He told how horses working in[...]Butte. They had an apartment at the were shipped to Hansen Packing for slaughter, the meat Olive Hotel on East Broadway. Later they moved to a canned and shipped to Europe and Russia where it was house op[...]e at the At times so many horses were shipped to the slaughter Blaine School. During this tim[...]s worked house that there were not enough corrals to hold them and as substitute teacher. then he[...]amily left Butte for Sandpoint ID where Phil them to the open range where they kept as many as two[...]thousand at a time moving from one grazing place to another they moved to Portland OR where Phil worked at the until there were corrals open to hold them. shipyards. The fami[...]and her second husband, August Due to the illness of Florence's mother, the family Hans[...]family until Kestine's death , at age returned to Dillon in June of 1943 to help her. After her 79, in 1904. After her death, August Hanson returned to death in 1945, they remained in Dillon. Ph[...]1951. He served in the Army and then went to work for Nelsons became her life-long friends.[...]In 1951 Phil returned to the pipefitting trade working at[...]Florence returned to Dillon in 1962 to be near her[...]an injury forced her to retire. After many months of[...]g those years. In 1928 she decided against a trip to Hawaii with her teaching friends in favor[...] |
| [...]Glendive MT for a short time before moving to Dillon[...]South Atlantic Street and Hospital , Dillon MT , to Philip Isadore and Florence Nelson consisted[...]ct 1960; Kathleene Ann, born 30 Dec 1961; and him to be called "Junior."[...]90. Patrick Craig graduated from Later they moved to town at 423 South Railroad Avenue. Cen[...]sity at Ellensburg in 1987. Bryan They then moved to Butte in about 1935 and lived at the en[...]ct 1994 after 39 In Nov 1942 the family moved to Sandpoint ID and later years and 6 months. In 1993 he had retired from Co. A to Portland OR where Phil worked as a steam pipefitt[...]t school for any more fourth graders , so Ray had to walk into Portland ,[...]oss the Willamette River Bridge (no school buses) to attend school. Sister Carol graduated from eighth[...]ecile Coulter In Jun 1943 the family returned to Dillon to help on the ranch of Mary C. Nelson because of he[...]present Virgil was known for being able to build a cabin with a site of the Pioneer Federal[...]re being drafted into the Army O1 Apr moved to a homestead site across Medicine Lodge Creek 1953. After two years at Fort Lewis WA, he returned to from Mr. and Mrs. Duke Davis and here[...]d the schools in Medicine Lodge and at they moved to Dillon in 1944 . Grant. Dale moved to Dillon to become an independent trucker In 1928 they moved to Armstead. Jim worked as a for Dillon Feed and See[...]between Armstead and Salmon ID with a branch line to at 113 North Pacific Street.[...] |
| [...]school in Dillon at the Normal College with plans to teach in Armstead. During the flu epidemic that year, after tending to people who were ill, Cecile herself came down wit[...]terminated when there was a train wreck adjacent to the Virgil "Jim" Given and his sec[...]f 163.25. Freeman Ranch. Jim and his family moved to Davenport IA where Jim and his daughter, Margaret[...]ter graduation in 1940, the Given family returned to After completing the 8th grade, Coulter'[...]nded. He worked on various ranches and then moved to gratifying practice in Anaconda for many years. T[...]m Springs. In the 1950s they moved their practice to Bannack had been a booming town in it[...]early 1950s when the "Company" moved big learned to repair clocks and watches by taking them apart,[...]m all in a row. Then he would Coulter worked to set those boilers in place, but the dream clean a[...]" they could start the process. when it came to mechanics. He was very adept with[...]cessary parts and fishing and made many trips to the area lakes. The[...] |
| [...]Ramona Rouse 1950s, Coulter was one of the party to go in and help bring the pilot out. His knowledge and ability to get things done Ramona Rouse was born on[...]at hand served him well. to Emory and Adele Rouse. She was born in Butte at S[...]John H. and Miriam K. The Glaus family moved to Wise[...]David attended school in Wise River and then went to[...]River, Cardwell ID and Oregon before returning to Montana in 1988 and back to the Dillon area in 1995.[...]Two children were born to David and Ramona. A son,[...]is buried at the Cardwell cemetery next to his grandfather,[...]ead County High School. Coulter and Ruth moved to Dillon in 1952 and Coulter worked as a driver for[...]mona & David Rouse Stone Creek area and from Axes Canyon to the plant south of Dillon. He went to work for Tri-State Minerals (later to become Barrett Minerals) as a licensed boi[...] |
| [...]Ramona Rouse 1950s, Coulter was one of the party to go in and help bring the pilot out. His knowledge and ability to get things done Ramona Rouse was born on[...]at hand served him well. to Emory and Adele Rouse. She was born in Butte at S[...]John H . and Miriam K. The Glaus family moved to Wise[...]David attended school in Wise River and then went to[...]River, Cardwell ID and Oregon before returning to Montana in 1988 and back to the Dillon area in 1995.[...]Two children were bo_rn to David and Ramona. A son,[...]is buried at the Cardwell cemetery next to his grandfather,[...]ead County High School. Coulter and Ruth moved to Dillon in 1952 and Coulter worked as a driver for[...]mona & David Rouse Stone Creek area and from Axes Canyon to the plant south of Dillon. He went to work for Tri-State Minerals (later to become Barrett Minerals) as a licensed boi[...] |
| [...]197 4 in Lewiston. Mary Jo was born 22 Aug moved to Dillon. Bill engaged in livestock buying and[...]ars. Both Bill and Mae passed away in Much to the delight of Rebecca and her sisters, the next[...]hildren, a son who died in infancy move was to a house with a big basement on a dry farm and two[...]away near Rapelje MT. The family moved back to Dillon in Jan two years after her parents' death.[...]Hazel Franks. While there, Rebecca got to be a flower girl when her[...]ime in Miles City MT. Rebecca went for a few days to[...]young and the school was not organized to teach Rebecca Hull[...]to go back to Dillon to the ranch house. Rebecca attended[...]mother had gone to school eighteen years earlier. Rebecca's[...]same school before her family moved to a ranch near[...]ebecca finished first grade in Fairfield, and had to[...]Rebecca and her sisters went to school for four more[...]years in Fairfield until the family moved back to Dillon.[...]Blake's house while locating a house to live in.[...]into a particular room then try to find a way back to the[...]and was expected to switch rooms for classes. By eighth[...]Microsoft in Seattle. In May 1994 Rebecca moved to the were living near Dillon in a mobile home. Les[...]parents moved College, Seattle University. to a ranch near Big Sandy MT, then to a dry farm near Rebecca graduated fr[...]The next move Rebecca and her parents made was to Brian Goff and Rebecca Hull[...] |
| [...]r 1974 in Lewiston. Mary Jo was born 22 Aug moved to Dillon. Bill engaged in livestock buying and[...]ars. Both Bill and Mae passed away in Much to the delight of Rebecca and her sisters, the next[...]hildren, a son who died in infancy move was to a house with a big basement on a dry farm and two[...]away near Rapelje MT. The family moved back to Dillon in Jan two years after her parents' death.[...]Hazel Franks. While there, Rebecca got to be a flower girl when her[...]ime in Miles City MT. Rebecca went for a few days to[...]young and the school was not organized to teach Rebecca Hull[...]to go back to Dillon to the ranch house. Rebecca attended[...]mother had gone to school eighteen years earlier. Rebecca's[...]same school before her family moved to a ranch near[...]ebecca finished first grade in Fairfield, and had to[...]Rebecca and her sisters went to school for four more[...]years in Fairfield until the family moved back to Dillon.[...]Blake's house while locating a house to live in.[...]into a particular room then try to find a way back to the[...]and was expected to switch rooms for classes. By eighth[...]Microsoft in Seattle. In May 1994 Rebecca moved to the were living near Dillon in a mobile home. Les[...]parents moved College, Seattle University. to a ranch near Big Sandy MT, then to a dry farm near Rebecca graduated f[...]The next move Rebecca and her parents made was to Brian Goff and Rebecca Hull[...] |
| tryout with the St. Louis Browns but returned to Dillon to farthest from the headwaters. George often[...]sons, Tommy and Charles, with him when he went to check Gilbert. She was the daughter of Mr. and Mr[...]c 1891 on the Gilbert Ranch had rights to. George worked as the water commissioner north of[...]ould not get the mask off in time. Next, they had to see it floating in a washtub while it cured.[...]in Dillon. George Graham was born 18 Dec 1882 to Thomas L. "I never got to meet my great-grandpa or grandma, but Graham and[...]family. I just wish there was more to say. He may be gone On 11 Jan 1936 George mar[...]--Tamica Woods Graham, to appoint George water commissioner of Beaverhead R[...]anddaughter of Charles Graham and His job was to make sure that in a drought ranchers with[...] |
| [...]now dead except for R. C. and me. R.C. didn't get to go to high school as he went to work to help provide for the family. My dad didn't believe in girls going to high school or any higher, but with mother coming[...]rd and room. I made it the first year; then I had to find another place, which I did, but it was tough[...]Ref164.18. that place to Granny Hildreth ' s home. I finished high sc[...]ght a skunk and ruined a lot of stuff. So, we had to from BCHS, I went to work at M.H. King's. It was good move[...]. You could get a candy We moved back to Dillon, where Lewis got work with bar for a nicke[...]n and remained there until he got the I was ready to be married; the boss at the store wanted me[...]b on the railroad. He stayed there the last three to continue working but Lewis just told him, if he c[...]six years when I met Ray Young, many more things to catch the eyes of everyone. Credit marri[...]different jobs in our nine short misfortune to be left alone again. . year[...]we were It didn't stop me, as I love to travel. I took all the kids living in a large tent in the mountains where Lewis and and went to South Carolina to learn and to visit many of my another fellow were getting out[...]red man couldn't figure out when and where I went to each time I find more relatives. the[...] |
| [...]Edith Graves , the third child born to Fielding Louis and[...]d the area where their daughter lived and decided to retire there in 1942. According to her nephew, Lee Graves, Dorothy lived a very full[...]ver 20 years as a clerk. Upon her return to Bannack she met her future husband, She and R[...]Charles Arley Randolph "A.R." Jacobs. According to the who now lives in Bellevue WA with her son, Ro[...]nderson years after their marriage and moved to Missoula in 1909.[...]ident of the bank, with terms extending from 1939 to 1975 . According to Randy Jacobs, A.R. shunned publicity[...] |
| [...]pinochle was the game made generous contributions to the Episcopal Church. of choice.[...]as being a quiet, stern man, According to her daughter, Lelah had a special place in althou[...]he Jacobs family donated a bell in memory of A.R. to the University of Montana Main Hall[...]1953, and Ted and Randy Jacobs donated nine acres to the City of Missoula for a public park. Jacobs Is[...]Fork River near the University is also dedicated to him. Like most women of her generation, Edith was primarily a homemaker and mother to three children, Theodore (Ted), Randolph and Marj[...]ctors could not diagnose, A.R. and Edith traveled to the Mayo Clinic where she underwent surgery for a[...]tion performed at Mayo and they weren't sure what to charge for the surgery. The hospital staff finall[...]r husband, A.R. Archie was born 22 Sep 1915 to Maude Joy Green and Jacobs.[...]at the ranch home of his maternal Lelah grew to be a lovely woman and was acknowledged gr[...]own then). He lived on the many suitors but chose to marry Chandler Wellington ranch and[...]e attended Stallings, a mining engineer who moved to Bannack in 1913 . Beaverhead County High Sch[...]anch chores and loved his horse "Tony." were used to finding her home and if by accident she was[...]knitting, sewing, crocheting umbrella out to the goose house, climbed up and jumped off[...] |
| [...]rather than his body. Grandma Joy came to bless their marriage. They lived at 519 Thomsen Avenue flying to his rescue. The goose wound up on the dinner[...]Archie played football. In one They moved to Thompson Falls. Archie taught in Junior game in B[...]fellow, he finished the game. The arm was tended to later. the primary grades. After three years, they moved to Archie worked at the Red Boot Shoe Shop on Center Street Billings to teach until 1977 when Archie retired. The for his[...]ey settled in Mesa AZ college coeds and found one to his liking in Louise McGee where they continued to live. In Mesa, Archie played golf from Livingston[...]ed 27 Jun 1937 in Livingston and belonged to the Fountain of the Sun Country Club. He at the M[...]continues to make her home there. Archie was proud of his[...]roots in Dillon and chose to have his final earthly resting[...]service and lives in Poway CA. He married Margaret[...]he died 09 Jul 1951 in Dillon. He came to Dillon in June[...]Mr. Gregory was hired to be the director of the Dillon[...]ken and animals were trained with the band to do their acts by Nov 1983. Ref 173.08. the music. They were timed to a second. Most of the band[...]cil, was active in the Elks and attached to the Bagley School . Masonic Lodges, fished and hu[...]the Street and gave private lessons to anyone who wanted to Northern Pacific Railroad as a fireman, out of Livingston. learn to play. He began teaching in the grade school. He Due to the demand for shoe repair after shoes were[...]his private pupils rationed, he was ordered back to Dillon to reopen Green's with 30 or 40 in each group[...]ed it. He had to hold practice after school at first becaus[...] |
| [...]d grade school bands. Some years he would have 60 to 75 players Introduction: A few years[...]answer was, "That's your fault. You could tell it to wanted music.[...]especially movie makers have always been known to change that time in the late 1930s because many of the boys were in things to make a little money. Cleve Seafield told history to athletics and a band was badly needed.[...]re, I learned from Dell Bacon, my dad and from in to help fill out the orchestra. They stayed together[...]e started an orchestra and needed the history to members of the next generation who live on the teachers and other players to make a full group; by that land it concer[...]live here time, his pupils made a great addition to any organization. and make a living here. Ou[...]s land. It is not that those who told the history to us which played for different school functions. Every year a wanted it to be lost; they didn't want it to be misused. carnival was held for a money-making[...]tumes made by each band member. rules to make a little money. He struggled hard as did all[...]r two or three them from bending the rules to make a little money. George nights. A different t[...]as Hairpin. Mike Barrett hired a gunman to kill Gronn and his professionals or teachers. Man[...]ng partner. The gunman did kill Gronn' s partner. to him they were playing in the grade school and high school Gronn moved down to Salifsky Gulch where his cabin bands and orchestr[...]nd calves, butchered the calves and took the veal to orchestras. I cut short my honeymoon with Bill Tayne to Anaconda or the Bitterroot for sale. Whe[...]rried in New York The law got on to them taking a load of butchered calves where they lived until he started his teaching in Minnesota. to the Bitterroot. Gronn got wise that the law was about to Lillian always gave Lynn instructions on which d[...]Gorris and Salifsky with the veal. Gronn got on a to use for his sandwich when she made a trip to Butte; most good horse and rode. When the la[...]and Salifsky, they were innocently on their way to town to his own. The Gregorys' recreations were camping,[...]Gronn moved from Salifsky Gulch to the Big Hole River[...] |
| [...]Sheares Grose, emigrated to the United States from Gronn moved to section 23 Tl N, R 14 W near Toomey Cor[...]ng with them Spring and homesteaded, but sold out to Toomey and moved their son, Gannet. to Fishtrap. At Fishtrap he started a saloon. Later[...]n Butte 08 Apr 1891 at the age of four moved back to a spot near the road in the same section 23. years. The parents went to Bannack and 02 Aug 1891, their The road of that d[...]rence Alice, was born in Hecla where her location to Squaw Creek, some of his friends helped. The[...]When William S. was a youth, he seems to have been a and Salifsky helped young Dave keep t[...]g worked in the mines in South America contesters to it by signing some legal documents as[...]The homestead cabin where place. He needed money to get out of that jam, so Gronn, he lived w[...]is told that Bessie "worked like a man" grubbing to help. He put up the money and acquired the saloon[...]ing the years that the family law was passed that to have a saloon, you must have 20 lived i[...]he entire population of Hecla it until he sold it to Matt Christiansen in 1922. would t[...]l. It had County poor farm in Dillon, he returned to Squaw Creek. been made earlier by draggi[...]d would cover the houses and people had to tunnel out and Lawrence and Wallace Christiansen took him to Dillon. free the chimneys. He stay[...]Louise Beall 24 May cuss", he'd say he was going to kill so and so from time to 1917. She was a daughter of Orren and Emily[...]born in Glendale in Mar 1892, attended moved him to Warm Springs State Mental Hospital. He[...]th Division in France. He served as a runner, due to[...]--Betty Humbert, Wise River MT from point to point. He entered the service 07 Jun 1918 and[...]his father hauled ore from Hecla to the railroad at Melrose.[...] |
| [...]o children. He had a good singing voice and loved to about it. yodel. He lived at the rest ho[...]Gulch years and would sing early in the morning, to the delight of which was previously owned by[...]lls. Orren The family apparently moved back to Butte when William and Emily Beall homestea[...]rs. James T. told a story of later sold it to W.G. and Nellie Grose. this time:[...]Orren Beall came to this area from his birthplace in "When W. G[...]and shipped ice cream by horse and wagon. He had to go into the them back to Missouri. He adopted a boy, Mike Penaluma, Dubli[...]in Missouri. Mike didn't stay long and went to Butte to of his deliveries, so I went with him.[...]m "During one trip a gang of toughs decided to beat up on Missouri. He, too, didn't stay lo[...]orses. James T. reported, "Ben took to drink!" They galloped away and we escaped."[...]d of times in his early manhood. The moved to the Beall ranch on Cherry Creek and Nellie's "Ov[...]f the "Dublin Gulch parents left there to live on another ranch in lower Brown's toughs," would come to Melrose in the early 1900s and Gulch.[...]boys. Due to difficulty in getting the boys to school, she One night a group of locals got together and surprised the often moved to Glendale or Melrose during the school year. Overall Gang and sent them back to Butte, thoroughly She was a devo[...]acific train which also carried people who wanted to James Orren married Theo Malloy in 1943[...]this Dale. time was in a building next door to the present-day D-Club. Carol, born in[...]oward, plus his _When Bessie Grose died, he moved to Helena. daughters, Keni, bo[...]two sisters who emigrated September 1980. to the United States, Claire and Marg Sheares, one o[...]in 1949, graduated from California State moved to Denver CO. All trace of either of them has been[...]until he and W. G. started hauling ore from Hecla to the working for the State for several ye[...]After his mother's death in 1946, he stayed on to help his passengers to Hecla. He told of how, on a particularly steep[...]jersom, who had hill, the passengers would have to get out and walk, as the a son Richa[...] |
| [...]6). In 1970, Shirley, Harry and family moved due to hardship in getting children to school. They bought a ranch about ten miles south[...]encer ID. He was the second of four children born to Frank J. and May Browne Hagenbarth. His grandpare[...]1887. Dave returned from Notre Dame in about 1924 to help his father with the complex operation of the Wood Livestock Company. Due to many factors, including the economics of the time[...]fishing right out their door, horses to ride and the beautiful Margaret Sweeney was born 25 Jun 1916 in Dillon to forest and flowers to run through and enjoy. It was an ideal William an[...]y. Margaret attended all eight years of glad to return to the comfort of their winter home in Dillon. grade[...]meshed together. As a bride, Margaret moved to a beautiful spot in the David attended[...]in 1971. Dillon since all the livestock was moved to the Glen area for During the 1950s and 1960s, Dave continued to expand the winter months. Two sons were born to Dave and and improve his out[...] |
| [...]Hagenbarth and Patricia Carrick spring, the move to Idaho was made and another summer of marrie[...]re at BCHS. In about 1966 Dave's health began to fail. He was able Margaret has always been active in community affairs. to keep the outfit going until David graduated from[...]Norwest Bank until retirement age. industry led to the decision to sell the sheep and some She was a very[...]ive in the community, and has livestock returning to Idaho for the summer with all three contributed much data to the section on county schools in families moving[...]e season and this book. working together to keep the operation going.[...]allowed him the vision and perseverance required to[...]gifted in his ability to use the telegraph. James came from[...]nd telegrams as well as shipping cattle and sheep to various[...]born to them in their first year of marriage. Sadly, Fren[...]lonely years for James as he struggled to make sense out of[...]unior at the 73. She was born in 1831 to the Kinney family of University of Notre[...] |
| [...]acific area in the field chores, all were anxious to try out a new land where artillery.[...]d his position; he and Mildred then moved to Canada. mother's second cousin, Algetha Kinney. E[...]in the WA. He received a fellowship to Oregon State where he Methodist Church of Dillon[...]averhead papers were signed. James took more time to think things County High School. He atte[...]this time was spent in White Sands NM. his honor to be the best American citizen he was capable of[...]Barrett before moving to Canada. After the death of his mother in 1904, he made decision After moving to Canada, he returned to school and to move his family to Alberta, Canada. His final term as becam[...]rication. Roy married Edith Schlump in 1972. They to Canada ensued shortly thereafter. His children gr[...]m the Normal College; her class was the first one to be awarded a B.E. degree. Mildred taugh[...] |
| [...]Mary W. McLaughlin was born 03 Jul 1937 in Butte to came to this area when he was a young man and worked for[...]. childhood, the family moved to Dillon where Mary attended While a resident h[...]n. She enrolled in the three-year Dakota and came to Dillon after her graduation from school. nu[...]St. Vincent's Hospital in Billings. and was said to have been the oldest chiropractor in point of ser[...]ercolor paintings, many of roses , which she gave to her friends. Dr. Hall's office was in her home and it was open to her patients any time of the day or night. Her eq[...]a plumb bob hanging from the ceiling for patients to stand in front of so she could tell if their back[...]colorful and caring person. William Hall went to work as a mail messenger for the Post Office Department in 1942. For many years it was his job to meet the train and pick up the mail. He would take his Model A Ford pickup and go to the depot, hook onto an iron-wheeled wagon and take it to the train, load the mail and take it back to the depot, often in the middle of the night and i[...]er. A daughter, Betty Regina Louise, was born to the Halls in 1918. She married Blaine Doyel from[...]e Civilian Conservation Corps. He was transferred to Libby, then Missoula and eventually moved to Arkansas. William Hall died suddenly at his h[...]Ref 94-0106 Dingley. Dr. Beta Hall continued to live alone at her home. She passed away Monday, 17 May 1954. Death was apparently due to a heart attack. She was stricken while doi[...] |
| [...]her spare Helen was born 23 Dec 1925 in Butte to Eldred W. and Sue time enjoying her children and[...]d soon advanced to the time-pay department. After Helen and[...]rray Hand was born 21 Aug 1924 in returned to work in 1964 for the Power Company where she Butte to Montana pioneers John and Ida B. (Hartwig) Hand.[...]and later period she lost only two days of work to illness. settled in Argenta and Dillon. He[...]railroad railcar switching system was awarded to Bill during[...]party encouraging folks to vote for him. That election he[...]Argenta district and promoted the property to some investors to make it work. This project turned out to be one of[...]this project, Bill formed an organization to protect the rights[...] |
| [...]raduate National Junior and Senior Honor Society (to which she was Program and receiving a Graduate[...]Duo and Solo and Serious Solo) , bowling to explore the outside world, New York City to be exact, league, S-Club, Sophomore class preside[...]ll and basketball. wanted to be, she returned home to her beloved Montana to[...]MCT's "Jack and the Beanstalk". She was fortunate to[...] |
| [...]yota and acted in many shows since then and plans to continue to Corolla FX that still runs well. She is ever[...]parks, digging for crystals, Adele went home to Dillon for a break during summer playing[...]a new and promising future. She talking to people of all ages, playing Hearts, driving cars,[...]d Beaverhead County Museum Association, and plans to create friend, rubbing her dogs' tummies,[...]-Adele Hansen Board members' support, it promises to grow into something spectacular.[...]Amos came to America in 1912 to his older brother's ranch[...]Danish name, he changed it to Amos--the name the cowboys[...]Amos before coming to America.[...]Inn to honor those Danish soldiers who had fought for th[...]being honored. He met his bride-to-be at that party and they[...]which helped the Hansens to continue ranching on their Adele Hansen playing M[...]rnice in 1932 at family believes in her potential to bring good things to the the Dell ranch. Th~ir only son wa[...] |
| [...]'s his name was Carl but he wanted to be called Cally. The christened name. It always takes an explanation how to teacher, not noticing the slight dif[...]Show; Chairman, Military Junction and they moved to British Columbia, Canada in Demonstr[...]oon after retiring , they moved from Dawson Creek to the warmer climate on Vancouver Island. Ber[...]married --C[...] |
| returned to Montana and became County Agent of Meagher Count[...]of the Montana Woolgrowers Association and moved to Helena, residing at "The Montana Club, " a[...]3, the fifth child of Carl His next move was to Billings and a traveling job, buying and K[...]from Ezra Taft Benson, Secretary of Agriculture, to head the Farm-Home Administration in Montana. He[...]d by politicians seeking any means, fair or foul, to discredit Secretary Benson or the administration?[...]s proved. Hansen doubled the volume of the agency to a $20 million figure and handled nearly six thous[...]iticism. " After this blowup , Kelly retired to a less stressful life and dabbled in real estate[...]at he preached. All of the clothing he bought had to be labeled "Domestic Wool" ---his suits, shirts, socks , underwear, neckties, scarves and gloves had to be made of domestic wool---and he had all his family and friends brainwashed to do likewise. All the gifts he bought were somethi[...]war against Germany, Chris was shipped to the European[...]spent tending to wounded soldiers on the battlefield. He[...] |
| [...]Rasmus Rasmussen. In 1900 he came to Butte with Danish[...]friends. After living in Butte, he moved to Dillon, ran a[...]Lottie was born 12 Jun 1886 at Cable MT to Henry and[...]fields to Bannack and Dillon. Her father left for the Alask[...]a gas company. They moved to Deer Lodge where Chris[...]Ref 146.12. Lucille moved from Anchorage AK to Dillon to live with |
| [...]there. It was sold in 1935 when the family moved to It read, "If you need a ride, call Chris Hansen." Lake Elsinore CA for a year, then returned to Dillon. In 1920, they purchased lots at 436 N[...]He loved to dance and have fun. His favorite sayings[...]measure twice and cut once." He liked to take personal[...]them from 1905 to 1925, sharing work and pleasure. Lottie[...]embroidery, tatting and quilting. She loved to work in her[...]surgery related to the fall, Chris died 29 May 1943 at 69.[...]tie sold her property in Dillon in 1945 and moved to Salt[...]Lake City. She returned to Dillon in 1977.[...]in Sunderlin OR. From 1914 to 1934 Chris operated the US Government[...]at the Dell airport. Star Mail Route from Dillon to Jackson. He also had the He worke[...] |
| [...]Eric, David, at the end of Laknar Lane to the Koenig's to purchase fresh Wade, Loma, Mark, Craig, Joel, and[...]ool in 1971, Craig offered Donna Margie moved to Salt Lake City when she was sixteen. a ride[...]California and then moved to Helena where Craig was[...]spent traveling back to Dillon to earn money by power[...]they moved to Bozeman where Craig worked for Gallatin[...]were able to buy the Koenig family farm which had been[...]Vol 1). They were thrilled to be back home among friends[...]County. They were finally back to the "best place to raise[...]and anything else to try to make farm payments.[...]dramatically announced to her grandparents at the WMC[...]born 30 Jul 1955, in Dillon In addition to the farm work, they kept busy with to Richard M. and Ruth H. Koenig Hansen. Donna Rae[...]s, rabbits, Hayden was born 18 Sep 1956, in Butte to Archie Douglas lambs, cats, dogs and any[...]yden. Donna's family Craig said "NO" to goats. moved from Butte to Dillon in 1965 purchasing the Hayden Ho[...]r, Daisy May Koenig, lived north of enough to allow Donna to get out of the swather long Dillon on present day Laknar Lane. Craig loved to help on enough to deliver her. the farm so he would ride the school bus to grandma's house. Craig and Donna began the[...] |
| Marriage of Jamie Hansen to Lenny Hehlhoff on March 20, 1993, with many Hanse[...]in Jan timing of this birth was better in regard to haying, it sure 1955 and did overseas duty in[...]months after his discharge in 1957 but returned to the family Haying season again. In March of 1988 they purchased ranch to help his father. He continued to help his mother more acreage on Anderson Lane. As[...]n Decker Andrus (long-time home economics married to Lenny (Mr. John Deere) Mehlhoff. They now[...]married. After her marriage to Ejner, she moved to the[...]west of Dell, a baby boy, Ejner (A-ner), was born to May 1965; Russell (Rusty) 30 Oct 1966; and[...]acher and the first eight grades and then went on to graduate from carpenter-contractor[...] |
| [...]In spring 1991, the Hansens sold the family ranch to Canyon Ranch Corporation (Leon Hirsh) . Ejner and Carla relocated their cattle and farm operation to Kinsey, a rural March weather brought sub-z[...]born in a log cabin without a doctor. Needless to say, his mother was not one to boast of the event. Art was destined to be in an isolated yet happy home environme[...] |
| [...]nd the Battle by the age of ten. The family moved to a much larger ranch of the Bulge where he was wounded. on Medicine Lodge which Art was to call home until he With a combinatio[...]school years limited service, he returned to duty with his former combat were spent "batching"[...]ing out" Duty involved assignments related to the Army of with Maud Kennedy, Alvira Gowan and Louise Brundage as Occupation; short trips to other countries included an eleven- "house mothers" for the remaining years. He supplemented day visit to relatives in Denmark and an audience with King hi[...]r ten cents an hour including He returned to Dillon the day after Christmas 1945. Ras overtime[...]uit son as a Graduating in 1936, he continued to work full-time at Major and his active service to his country came to a Safeway for another year, then returned to the home ranch rewarding close. to work until Sep 1938 when he enrolled at Montana State He went to Libby to renew an acquaintance with a young Normal College[...]s born in The fall quarter of 1939 he transferred to the University of Clark Fork ID, one of four ch[...]ve number already in the "fish bowl", Art decided to shorten that Art and Pat decided to make a truly new beginning with education time by transferring to Northwestern Business a life together. The[...]more rewarding classification should he be called to Since Pat had lived and worked in Sea[...]es. Art decided to finish his education at the University of Rec[...]st-graduate work. Armed Forces from that date was to span a period of 13 With Pat working[...]G .I. Bill and university housing , he was able to finish officer and eight years with the Or[...] |
| [...]ny on Medicine Lodge, Art and his family returned to the ranch to help out. Their three sons, Max Arthur,[...]Kay, born 07 Apr 1959. The family moved back to Kalispell in 1962 and Art resumed his previous wo[...]nd visiting relatives in Denmark. They moved back to Dillon in December 1989--back to his roots, where he can see and visit with family[...]riends, fish the streams recalling his childhood, to see his legacy in the home he built for hi[...] |
| [...]ther Arthur, who was five years old when we moved to Medicine Lodge; that probably moaned and groaned more than he did. is where I grew up and went to school for seven years. The In late May 1929, the family moved to a larger ranch school was then discontinued with[...]the summer before school started gave them time to explore After high school graduation in 1941,[...]eventh grades control. Upon discharge, I returned to the ranch for two at the Medicine Lodge[...]og cabin school in session medical degree, I went to work in Billings. for just[...]ean Barck, a St. Paul MN native. In 1956 we moved to Wisconsin, establishing a veterinary practice fir[...]k farms and in increasing the number of commuters to the cities. Many lakes and picturesque rivers make this a desirable place to live. Our son, Tom, and daughter, Christine, live with their families in the St. Paul area. It is nice to have them and our three grandchildren near us. We[...]family in Beaverhead County. It is a great place to visit. This old heart always skips a beat when we[...]el-T. It would be more convenient for all of them to home, but soon mother and baby returned to the small get to school. Howard would argue that. Daily chores wer[...]ome in Sheep Creek Basin, approximately to feed and quarter the horses, store up wood for th[...]mentary education under All this work had to be done before class work began at the guidance o[...]l factor. youthful activities such as taking time to scuffle "fight" with School was canceled for the day. neighbors and race to and from school. 414 - Beaverhead History No.2 |
| Upon completion of grammar school, Howard chose not to attend high school, so it followed that he took a[...], however, take time from his duties on the ranch to attend the "Short[...]s at Montana State. While at the ranch, according to his wishes, his parents allowed him to Leonard Hans Hansen was born in Dillon[...]og cabin "bunkhouse" along with sharing the to Danish immigrants Rasmus and Cecilie Hansen. He w[...]ou Missoula and assigned, after recruit training, to the 143 F .A. wanted running water, you could r[...]words, these basics were of little concern to Leonard and he embarked 25 Sep 1942, from San Fra[...]at Leyte Gulf, just short of a and moved to the upper end of Sheep Creek Basin to a small planned invasion of the Philippines.[...]tleship Missouri in September 1945 brought an end to the team with his sister and later his brot[...]ward's mission was completed. Howard returned to Dillon and home at the ranch in Dec 1945. In 1941[...]nes brothers. Paul and Howard would trail steers to Armstead to load them on the train and then have supper at th[...]wagon with blade salt and spend a day hauling it to the mountains to spread it to the cattle. Howard loved music and played hi[...]g evenings at the ranch and would take his family to the dances at Armstead and Dell. He looked forward to the Labor Day rodeos and could be heard cheering[...]wboys, the Reynolds brothers John and Ben. Going to the 1st Lutheran Church was important to him and he made many friends through this[...] |
| In 1929 the family moved to a larger ranch operation on He always favore[...]and tractor. education posed a problem. In order to attend Beaverhead In the seventies, L[...]. Ross later went On weekends he would travel to the ranch and help out on to ranch in Dell while Paul continues to maintain Hansen with the routine chores. On Monda[...]in Dillon, bringing milk, cream, butter and meat to help pay for his room and board. Upon graduat[...]t Depression and it followed that Leonard elected to return to the ranch to take the place of a man full-time. Due to eye problems, Leonard was denied enlistment for s[...]served in uniform. Leonard took over the day-to-day management of the ranch with his brother, Howard, in 1951 when his parents tapered off with retirement to a new home in Dillon. Howard died in 1958 and Leonard's brother, Art, and his family moved from Kalispell to the ranch to fill in and help out until 1962 when they returned to Kalispell. Ranching was in Leonard ' s blood[...]ersen, who was working on the Tash Ranch. Not one to let a good thing slip away, Leonard married Hansi[...]ixth child of nine, Hansine was born 28 Aug 1930, to Hans and Hansine Pedersen, farmers on the island[...]ame island from which Leonard's parents emigrated to America. Hansine arrived in Dillon speaking n[...]ided advantage over other suitors, as he was able to speak and comprehend Danish. He could be heard to remark, "She had to marry me, no one else could Leonard Hanse[...]he donated to the Beaverhead County Museum. Ref 187.03. So it was that an adventurous trip to America for Hansine turned into a life-long ventu[...]Jul 1994. They live in Hansine was able to indulge in her love of gardening and Dillon with[...]fferent The ranch on Medicine Lodge continued to prosper and varieties of beautiful flower[...]. In the fall of 1995, they Leonard ' s adage was to take care of the stock first and then moved to Dillon. Leonard began a period of involvement tak[...]grounds. The cows, but it takes a damn smart man to herd sheep." sheep wagon dates back to the Craver ranch of about 1916 Leonard loved[...]s , especially draft horses. Visitors loved to chat with Leonard about those early[...] |
| [...]children. After a short stopover in Holdredge NE to visit an Leonard died 16 Jan 1997 after losing[...]th a uncle, Rasmus P. Rasmussen, a brother to his mother, he chronic lung disease and is buried[...]their family and returned to Denmark so the partnership was[...]Cecilie was born 13 May 1890, to Jorgen Knudsen and[...]1908. Prior to her marriage to Rasmus, Cecilie worked as[...]Soon after their marriage, they moved to a home they[...]about five miles north of Dillon on what has come to[...]miles to school by horseback. Later, when Leonard was[...]Just prior to the stock market crash in 1929, the Hansen[...]family moved to Medicine Lodge with Armstead as their[...]as purchased and renamed Rasmus Hansen was born to Hans Rasmus Hansen and Peters[...] |
| To start this new operation, sheep were purchased at[...]ines for electricity and Cecilie no longer needed to clean lamp chimneys which had been a daily chore.[...]all their family home, Ras and Cecilie were able to retire and move to Dillon. They enjoyed their later years in a home[...]never regretted leaving their families in Denmark to make a new life for themselves in Dillon. Ras wou[...]County Attorney's The USS Renville returned to sea a week later. office for Leonard Schul[...] |
| [...]stay at that time cost $67.50. From Mar 1948 to 1952 they leased Dick and Ruth Hansen's children.[...]children and In spring 1952 the family moved to the Barnes place on bookkeeping and making a[...]in Dillon. He developed back problems and turned to music, playing piano, digging crystals, sma[...]nd outings year around. Their favorite they moved to 410 South Pacific where they lived for the[...]camping, nest. In 1980 Dick and Ruth moved to their five acres, the cars , motorbikes, friends,[...]providing for the family. projects of his own to keep him busy. They have a travel When he needed[...]pace from selling, he worked trailer ready to go down the road for days or weeks at a[...] |
| [...]he Japanese. This project required two years to stars shine bright, the sky paints breath-taking[...]lon who died at Cabanatuan. He was Staff-Sergeant to enjoy. Their 50th wedding anniversary was a three[...]ra PA was placed in my mail box. It was addressed to Postmaster, Dillon MT. Bruce Watters had written[...]Mary, was Roy's and my post office. I would like to hear from folks of Roy Hansen. " country school[...]He received his first five years of laps moved us to Cabanatuan P.O. W. camp. I slept next to schooling in a Medicine Lodge branch school[...]ed Abie Abraham's three-year tour of duty was to last nine as a waiter at Skeet's Cafe, then l[...]East years. When General MacArthur returned to the Bannack Street, and attended cla[...]pines, he assigned Abraham, together with a crew, to After the Civilian Conservation C[...] |
| [...]nd a waiting period at Angel Island only, to the kitchen sink, and it was frozen up whenever i[...]there. The bathroom had a toilet, and in order to flush it, nine months ahead of the Japanese surprise attack. someone had to hike over to the feedlot with a five-gallon During that pe[...]pshots worked for a month before the wedding to get the house of the people of the rural villages[...]living a primitive life, they were was to them a palace. friendly, happy and loveable. Of t[...]elsewhere in the vast Pacific. They were referred to as the old hospital in Dillon. Gail went back to school the week "expendables . "[...]ing which struck the barracks at Cabanatuan. to Arlee MT that summer and Gail taught kindergarten[...]rces Cemetery, The family returned to Dillon Jun 1971 to a trailer house Manila, P .I.[...]&W Restaurant. Gail became what she always wanted to many years had passed before he wrote for informa[...]or me, and how thoughtful that he made the effort to locate which he leased. Armstead MT and to write the details of Roy's interment[...]not provide for the "next-of-kin ." milkman to running the farm and delivered milk to all the How fortunate for me that Postmaster Bruce Watters stores and to the houses in town. Five a.m. became his knew my family and sent the letter to me. I was to hear normal waking hour. When they knew[...]y moved in. Two years later on 02 Oct 1978, issue to former prisoners of war, or their next of kin. "[...]ed the family. He wrote instructions on where to apply and what A growing family of that size consumes a lot of information to send. Subsequently, the medal and related groceries, but Gail just got bigger pans to cook in. A big information was received. It will[...]also had chickens for eggs. The children learned to all Prisoners of War who did not come home. The[...]pets like dogs, cats, birds and lambs and horses to ride. --Ed[...]The children were nearly raised, and Wade wanted to Gail Dawson work 40 hours a week rather than the 80 to 90 he was[...]ed and made a place for grandchildren to have fun. They have for his uncle in a feedlot op[...]a grass-covered hill for kids to roll down in the summer and[...] |
| irrigation ditch with a Tarzan rope to swing into the water Metlen Hotel 23 Oct[...]Lugar. trees and a bonfire area for kids who want to "rough it" in Jim and Alta built a house on the property, only to have the backyard, and grassed-in dirt piles for[...]they were supposed to be.[...]Jim was very close to his maternal grandmother, Lillian[...]private pond. They were the last of the pioneers to[...]y 12 % vision. She said she was the first patient to[...]ther Hanson, were the best of friends. They liked to ride horses , hunt and play games together. J[...]A favorite for both of them was telling stories to their courting for the summer, they decided to get married. three grandsons, Dan,[...]Jim passed Jim and his uncle, Tuck Jones , drove to Teton City ID to away 21 Mar 197 6, and Alta on 26 May 1[...]buried at Dillon. Nibley. They drove to Dillon and married at the new[...] |
| [...]ts. Some winters the family moved out for him to go to school. One winter they lived in Idaho, another a[...]ley Flint family. Terry, being an only child, had to entertain himself and had lots of puzzles, sheep,[...]grandparents and the boys really worked hard to help with all the chores. thought he needed all the props to keep busy. In 1978 Terry start[...]years, then in Charles and Mary Nibley, and went to South Fremont High 1994, after some physica[...]gging School. He had many small jobs after school to earn accident returned, he sold the business to son, Danny. spending money. It was here he got hi[...]some time restoring antiques that belonged to our parents High School. They dated while Terry a[...]ifornia, Terry weekends, and Kenny is married to JoAnne Kercher and was shipped to Korea. th[...]hen Terry came home from the service, he returned to Concrete. They have one son, James Bryce Hans[...]right side and was in a coma for 30 days. He had to learn to walk and talk again. Just one year to the day, the family moved to Twin Bridges, where they still reside. The[...] |
| [...]1957 was elected to the state board of directors. In March[...]capacity until November 1979 when he chose to retire. Groom Bernard John Harkness and bride[...]d of Directors , on the board of the Western Farm |
| [...]one of seven children. Ruth Kent was born on plan to grow hay there.[...]Any future stories on our family I shall leave to our kids They were married 28 Jan 1923 in Dillon. They moved and six grandkids to tell. The grandchildren are: Shayne to the Muddy Creek ranch, which Ernest purchased, an[...]On 28 Feb 1925, a son, Bernard John, was born to them four are the children of Janice and William[...]1987. In 1987 the Muddy Creek ranch was sold to Dr. John[...]kness the head of Cottonwood Creek were sold to Joyce[...]Livestock land was sold to Amadeo F. Angelo of California. Ernest[...]Kearney NE to Jackson, arriving on a stage driven by Chet.[...]She had been hired to be the teacher in the one-room[...]James "Jim" was born 19 Nov 1909 in Butte to Cornelius Bonnie Jean and Bernard John. Ref.173.2[...]and Mary Harrington. The family moved to the Bitterroot[...] |
| moved to Moise in the Flathead valley where they remained[...]large walk-in aluminum coolers and freezers to the[...]ed the University of Washington for one year. Due to the depression of the 1930s, he was forced to quit school and returned to Moise to help his father on the farm. He passed[...]Butte following a long illness. Children born to them are Edward James, now living in Bozeman, and[...]e H & S Refrigeration Company in Dillon from 1945 to 1961 when he was forced to retire due to ill health. James was a licensed pilot and[...] |
| [...]his family was allowed to board the train to tell him good-[...]bye. It was the last time they were to see him. He died in Homer was born in Clay Ce[...]and Harlan was father, Franklin Proctor Harrison, to bring to Montana alone only ill for three days. on the[...]ldren. There were three girls and eight boys born to Roseanna Benjamin and Benjamin Meunier. When Roseanna's father came to be naturalized from his native France, the offici[...]s last name, St. Aubin, so they just shortened it to his first name Benjamin. Therefore, when Roseanna[...]ntatives, being a strict Catholic father, decided to send his three daughters to a convent boarding school near relatives south of Quebec, Canada. All his sons were sent to a Catholic boarding school at McGill University i[...]that regard. As they graduated, they all returned to live in Pauline Meunier Harrison and hus[...]nda smelter. When Pauline graduated, she came to live with her much Bob Harrison met an[...]ding house. Since she weeks before he was to leave for his army duty in 1942. spoke only French, she was hired to teach the language at Four years later, he returned to Dillon and they started their Girls Central High[...]ine, 19 Jun 1953. Robert worked as a banker prior to After a time, Pauline became aware of a new b[...]ier's position at the in Anaconda and then moved to Dillon when their store in University of Montana in Missoula. She left there to marry Anaconda sold.[...]lock of East Helena Street They moved to the family ranch on Horse Prairie and where three[...]l or Jackie was bought a house on Kentucky Avenue to better accommodate born in 1950 and Cole[...]chnician in Pasadena CA and has a home there. He to a used-furniture store and then was closed.[...]all graduated from high school in moved back to Dillon after Tom's death and attended college Dillon. Harlan went on to Western Montana College, for[...] |
| [...]th James Dwight Harrison was born 15 Oct 1915, to James Jackson. After their marriage 29 J[...]had sheep and cattle. Dwight and Ruth moved back to the Dwight was raised near the 1887 homestead[...]he Gilbert place which is north of and horse next to their home. Di[...]to trail cattle there from the Grasshopper.[...]hired to cook for about 24 men during haying which lasted[...]six weeks. She sometimes had to sneak treats out of her own kitchen to give her children because the grouchy cook[...]looked forward to hunting season and loves to fly fish on[...]rst ID where he owns a home construction addition to the school, Millpointhad a hotel, bar and stables[...]hool administrator and Quackenbush who kissed him to make him behave. He currently driv[...]th twelve grandchildren and eleven great- the way to school when he drove over the bottom pole of a[...]on Harrison When their home burned, they moved to the old Judge place, which is where Dwight[...] |
| [...]Lucille Harrison was the first child born to Mr. and Mrs. school at the Polaris School as did[...]Some of her earliest memories were learning to swim at John married Danna J. Scott in 1977. D[...]of Daniel C. and Bobbie J. parents' ranch to trade for food. She went to the original Giudici Scott, and the fourth genera[...]Dillon. school , then went to Beaverhead County High School. John and Danna[...]Montana. In 1937 Darrel was reassigned to the Dillon[...]was then assigned to the Lolo District where they spent the[...] |
| [...]from the Forest Service and moved the family back to Dillon. He and his father-in-law started construc[...]that venture impractical. In 1945 they moved to Wenatchee WA where Darrel was associated with his[...]in Wenatchee for three years. Their next move was to a Lucille Harrison Weaver and her three young son[...]arrel and Lucille thought they were finally going to be able to "put down roots," but Darrel began having health problems. In May 1951 they moved back to Dillon. Darrel died in Aug 1951. Lucil[...] |
| [...]She graduated from Briston School and then went to high[...]2 Apr 1928 at After a short time they moved to the Lugar ranch to go to the family ranch in Grasshopper Valley. He was th[...]tually buying the ranch and of five children born to George and Hazel Hartzell Harrison. living ther[...]for a place in the eighth grade. His folks moved to Dillon in 1942 and Bill Beaverhead Valley i[...]and moved to acreage on Fox Farm Road. The Big Hole He joi[...]two children: Thomas Dean, born camp he was sent to Hawaii where he served until 16 Dec[...]. They discharged. When he returned home, he went to Western have two children, Jason Keaki b[...]Montana College for one quarter, then transferred to Sherilyn Kapua Lani born 07 Oct 1983. M[...]nd married Brian Bachelor of Arts Degree. He went to Sidney MT to work DeMars 04 Jun 1983 . They have one[...]Beaverhead County MT to Fredrick Julius Hartwig and[...]In 1921 she married Frank Kambich and moved to[...]later moved to a ranch at Glendale MT where they ranched[...]Selling out, she moved to a smaller ranch on Cherry[...]Overcome with grief, she sold the ranch and went to[...]moved to Coeur d'Alene ID looking for work and took a job[...]Service Station. It was while he owned moved to Tanasket WA. While there she worked in an the sta[...]re apple processing plant. She returned to Montana and they married.[...]Blaz and Zella south of Melrose and on to Dillon where they made their Hanson Lugar, born 0[...]e permanent home. Centennial Valley, going to the first grade there and then moving with her folks to the Big Hole Valley.[...] |
| [...]She left the farm in her teens to work in Idaho Falls until[...]Moving to Dillon in 1927, Lamar supervised the[...]left to build their own fox farm. They were replaced by[...]Glenn and Lola 'Walters who later left to support the war[...]. were then cleaned, boxed and shipped to either Seattle or Louise died 03 Mar 1980 at the[...]hundreds of top quality animals as breeding stock to both[...]years due to style changes, excise taxes on fur and fur-[...]continued to pelt down their herds while waiting for the[...]uri Baum market to rebound. Instead, it got worse and by 1948, all[...]of years and then moved to Phoenix in 1951. Son, Ned, Lamar Hatton was bo[...]lege in 1950, taught fourth of five children born to Annie Blanch and Leonard two years in Butte,[...]nce. glass and nail factories. At age 17 he moved to Rigby ID, Lamar died 21 Aug 1988 at 93. He is survived by wife, where he raised bees until called to the war in France. Murl (as of 1989), son, N[...]Provo UT in 1901, the eldest of six children born to Ruby Haws and Orson Baum. In 1908,[...]age 3, and the parents moved by wagon from Provo to Ashton ID, a two-week journey. 432 - Be[...] |
| [...]fe in Dillon from a young kid's point of view had to be became so attached to his benefactor that he tried to call the best of all worlds. We were free to roam every himself by his name, which he lisped a[...]by that name. We had creeks to swim in during the summer and skated on He came to Montana when about 15 years of age with the the[...]r cattle. Tom Orr had never allowed the there to swing and climb on along the banks. young Chinese to cut his queue, but one of his acts upon O[...]cottonwoods and reaching the Beaverhead ranch was to use his jackknife on willows that line the Bla[...]of Mr. and Mrs. Hans Dons . up close to Western Montana College whose campus grounds The other ranch was sold to John Hull in 1905 for the allowed for lots of[...]ce of $15,000. The water right was the early 1870 to numerous sidewalks or running through the gi[...]ny years. One day, dry enough to see the bare sidewalk during[...]with surprise to see their stretched out arms and smiling[...] |
| [...]erry and 1959 in Kalispell MT. He was most likely to be seen Joan bought the Dillon Exam[...]Otto walking on the Beaverhead river road heading to hike on the Sassman, then sold the paper rights to "Pop" and Ed "M" or packing a .22 ready to hunt down the elusive Townsend, own[...]e. Dan, along with his buddy Glen Smith, used to work trap lines on the river that ran along the b[...]would help Dan skin muskrats so they could afford to go to the movies weekly. Jo Lee and Dan graduated f[...]tillwater County Planning Board. The couple moved to Helena MT in 1986 where Dan went to work for State of Montana Department of Justice.[...]l Justice and a minor in Philosophy. He continues to be active locally, statewide and nationally with[...]n. Jo Lee is a dental assistant and continues to dabble in various mediums of art and music. She a[...]--Jo Lee Mular Hawkins rights to the Hawkinses, creating Beaverhead Printers. Both[...]Jerry and Joan Hawkins moved their young family to Dana and Mike Jones, Burley ID, have three children: Dillon O1 Apr 1960, from Polson to accept employment at Alan and Mike Hale[...]ey. the Dillon Tribune. It was a desire of theirs to return to Daniel (Tyke) and Dawn Hawkins of Doug[...]e, both of Douglas. Joan was born in Sheridan to Lloyd and Anna (Dullea) Darla and Ti[...]--Jerry Hawkins Jerry was born in Butte to Tom and Cecile Hawkins. His father was a Michigan native, moving to Butte shortly after the turn of the century. His mother, Cecile, was born in Dillon in 1893 to Charles and Cora Perry. 434 - Beaverhe[...] |
| [...]cile Frances Perry was born 12 Dec 1893 in Dillon to Cora (Johns) and Charles Perry . Her father , Cha[...]ee and shortly after their marriage they migrated to Dillon . Charlie worked at many trades in Bea[...]. female operators in the United States belonging to the Typographical Union.[...], but Cecile always cemetery. longed to return to Dillon. She accomplished this in 1961 foll[...] |
| [...]MT to Archie W. and Lucy M. Hayden. Emilia Rose Salvo[...]was born 20 Jan 1935 in Dillon to Nick and Josephine[...]William Watson "Happy" or "Hap" Hawkins came to Beaverhead County 01 Jun 1919 after having served[...]Dillon. there. He grew up in Miles City , leaving to attend the Archie went into the service in 1952 and served in Korea. University of Washington prior to WWI. He was honorably discharged in 1956 and returned to live in He worked at the First National Bank[...]was born 18 Sep 1956, active in getting the Clark Canyon Dam built. The reservoir and Jo Lynn was born[...]ne Jones of Dillon. The ranch and returned to Dillon to ranch. Archie still continued Jones family came to Montana from Luverne MN in 1909, construction work until an injury forced him to leave initially residing on a ranch near Twin Bri[...]Dillon. He is the fourth generation of Haydens to be named year member of many organizations[...] |
| [...]on Laknar Lane. Later this property was sold to their[...]was born 24 Nov 1899 to "Hughes Ranch".[...]yden Virginia City to Charles Glenn Conk[...]y 1934. In 1936 the family purchased and moved to the ranch 15 miles north of Dillon. They raised A[...]ed by Glenn Hayden. More property was soon needed to supply their expanding[...] |
| [...]continuously until 1963 when it was torn down to make way with but two telephones in town. George[...]I, my father Paul settled gave much of the credit to Essie, "She was a worker. She in San Franci[...]In 1931 my folks came to Montana, built and operated The telephone off[...]t housed a what was originally known as the Canyon Resort but later magneto (crank) switchboard. Lit[...]ones. There were sometimes as many as ten parties to This orchestra was well known in the county a[...]line with They had cabins which they rented out to fishermen, mostly a special ring. As in any small[...]found out where In 1937 they returned to San Francisco and remained almost anyone was avai[...]e. They until 1951 when they again returned to Montana and took were the "answering service" for[...]when most of it was Workdays often lasted 14 to 15 hours. George said, "I sold and, finally in January 1996, the old house and the used to come home from work and while Essie was getting[...]e all at Southern Montana Telephone Company began to convert to Golden Gate National Cemetery in San Brun[...]I lived most of my life in San Francisco, coming to in 1977 a microwave system was completed as their link to Montana for vacations and in the fall to hunt. My brother, the outside world. In 1983 the[...]dren, those Hyatt kids, are scattered from Helena to Wyoming to Pennsylvania. John and Beverly Helming assume[...]4 and George died in 1981, neither of them living to see the long-planned-for telephone company[...] |
| [...]postings in the U.S., provided four children to be doted on Cliff and Betty Henningsen[...]nly their son Cliff and Betty Henningsen came to Beaverhead County was born in the U .S.--M[...]their beloved Black Hills SD in 1964. They moved to of their girls were born in foreign countries--Rebekah in Dillon because Cliff had the opportunity to work with his Germany, Abigail in Zimbabwe[...]oy who became the apple of Cliff's eye and Womack to teach in the elementary school, Betty soon a very important part of his last few years. moved to her first love, secondary education. She earned a[...]he was known as a strict grammarian who was quick to voice displeasure at any abuse of the English language. Her ability to communicate those principles was graphically evid[...]g in Dillon, it did not take Cliff and Betty long to fit in and contribute to a vibrant Beaverhead County. Cliff, a lifelong sp[...]he "sports nut" like her husband, was often quick to point out that after watching her husband coach a[...]ips. With a twinkle in her eye, she was heard to say on a few / occasions that t[...]s. H" left this world 25 Aug 1991, and Cliff went to was spent entertaining friends in their home around a bridge glory to be with his beloved Betty 30 May 1996. They are o[...]of the up there waiting for the rest of us to come. Henningsen family, once wrote that "Betty w[...]would be the radio. opponents who attempted to bluff her at the poker table!"[...], Kim, a West Point graduate whose duty took him to Vietnam, Germany, Africa and numerous 440[...] |
| [...]Clarence Henrie family moved from Wyoming to Beaverhead County in 1947. Clarence was born[...]Sara Ann, were all born in Wyoming. They came to Montana to work on the Tom Clemow ranch . Clarence worked[...]g with them. He did everything from breaking them to shoeing them and LaVerne was born in W[...]r care of his horses than Clarence did. went to grade school in Jackson WY and Jackson MT. Al[...]al ranches around Jackson and at Laverne went to high school in Illinois , in Rock Springs the old plunge before it was torn down to build the Diamond WY , and to BCHS. LaVerne worked at Skeet' s Cafe, White Bar Inn where she continued to cook and do various jobs . Cafe and Ditty ' s[...]rtin Jackson of Jackson in In 1953 they moved to Dillon where Alice cooked at the 1956 and has[...]time. She began third grade when they moved to Jackson forced him to quit. He died in 1971. where she went until.1953 when they moved to Dillon where Warren was born in Winton WY July 10, 1934 . He went she went to BCHS. Lyla worked at the Big Dipper, the Red to grade school in Jackson WY and Jackson MT. He[...]he family lived in Trafelet in 1957 and continued to live and work in various Jackson when he was in h[...]a and Albert have four children: the time for him to go to Dillon to school. Warren lived in Fredrick Charles, Richa[...]Air Force, until he Rebecca Lee Verlehoff. moved to Bozeman to go to college. Betty was[...]in the Air Force. After college he moving to Dillon where she finished her schooling. She moved to West Yellowstone where he lived until his[...] |
| Johnson in California in 1967 and they moved to Dillon in June is the third daughter of El[...]ding horseback three miles every day. Seventh and to school in Jackson MT and Dillon. She worked at th[...]ving her and lived in Arkansas before moving back to Dillon in 1987 to finish eighth grade as the only student in the sc[...]orked in Portland till haying time, then returned to help at the ranch. That fall she went back to school for --Betty Henrie Johnson, Dillon MT another semester. She returned to Dillon to work at the[...]stayed at home for sixteen years to raise their family. In Arlo Herman 1964 she returned to the bank and stayed there till retirement[...]Battle of the Bulge, and June of 1976, and to that union a daughter, Kelli June, was Charlotte[...]s attending college at Coos Bay OR. Returning to Dillon, he was employed at the Chevrolet g[...] |
| Our second son, Richard, was born in 1949. He went to school in Dillon and attended WMC for two semeste[...]Company in the parts department and then moved up to Sales Manager. He married the "girl next door,[...]5th wedding anniversary and are going on a cruise to the Mexican Riviera. They have two children, S[...]& Vanessa, Arlo & June, Breeanne, Georgia, moved to Missoula ten Scott. Middle row L-R: Kenda and[...]baseball, football and basketball. Scott went to school in Missoula and during high school B[...]ut being a true Montanan, he and Kelli moved back to Kalispell, where Scott is employed at Don K Chevr[...]s only been in the Bicentennial Who. She is going to tour Washington, D.C. and the Apart[...]Her maiden name was Herr; her father came to Bannack he still resides in Dillon. He and[...] |
| were taken to the courthouse. As it turned out, the Indians never did come to the Bannack area," she said. Coral attended s[...]ere for several years. A boy and a girl were born to this union; the girl has passed away but Forrest,[...]jobs. There was a very rich Chinese lady who came to town to visit relatives, and she wanted to take me back to China. But my dad soon put his foot down on that idea. I had my bag packed and I was ready to go. " When asked about her thoughts on the yo[...]hey mind their own business and most of them seem to have hobbies and interests of their own." "Th[...]did , " son Forrest added. From Indian raids to the Bicentennial Apartments is a long step in tim[...]homestead near Ekalaka. Lila Jean moved back to Dillon Lowell V. Hight[...]in 1991. He is a mechanic for John Deere Co. came to Dillon at the age of three months.[...]Perkins, in Dillon, Bon Accord and Bannack, going to with the 7th Fleet in Japan. He met[...] |
| [...]ing with radio, television, home-made transferred to Stuttgardt where he was attached to UCOM rockets and any other scientific advent[...]there up. While still in grade school, he liked to read about 10 Jul 1993. He is buried in the Diebe[...]second year of high school, his interests turned to[...]of that year. Interest in science and the desire to build a good life for a family led him to Montana State[...]After graduation, Barton went to work for Autonetics, a[...]missiles into service in respons~ to the Cuban crisis.[...]back to California. He moved back to Montana and went to Dorothy Deanne married Gene Loder of Kansas 27[...]He transferred to Butte in 1970 for a one-year training[...]to them.[...]--Eathal Waters Hildreth the waters of Clark Canyon Dam. He attended eight grades at the Armstead school and then bussed to Dillon for four years at Beaverhead County[...] |
| [...]e, he and his brothers roamed the hills , climbed to the caves , learned how to hunt , how to care for livestock and teased their home school t[...]aude in 1980. She and Gene were divorced in 1979, to lease ranching property from Ambrose Brown. Gene kept Gene staying on the ranch and Wini moving to Dillon. on running the shop while leasing Ray and[...]hman year. She Gene and Ray sold the shop in 1958 to Bill Flynn. graduated with a BA in Math and Art in 1971. She was an The Clark Canyon Dam construction started in 1961, honor[...]vacated, as were the surrounding ranches. to complete her Master's in Math while Mike worked f[...]Kindred and Booker. The children went to school at Dell--Bernice was in the Berni[...]n, Jonathan, was born December 24, the school bus to Lima, Bernice graduating from LHS in 19[...]Julie graduated from high school in 1970, went to beauty his parents in 1973, and the Bradley place[...]bought Cabin Creek. The Peterson she went to Vancouver WA to barber school. She received ranch on lower Sheep Creek was sold to Herman and Pat her Master Barbe[...] |
| [...]autician. camp was in Texas and then he went to Oregon. While in They divorced in 1984 and Julie returned to Helena. She Oregon, Henry began to learn how to fly. He was shipped lived with Bernice and Mike, caring for Bernice and Jon to the Philippines. When the ship was close to the while working evenings at a beauty shop. She[...]and left it for health reasons. In 1987 she went to live When Henry returned home from the Phil[...]ought the first Piper Super Cub in Julie came to Dillon to live with her mother in August, Montana in[...]ced Zone Therapy and took two part-time to check sheep on the range. It was also used as the[...]transportation to and from the ranch to Armstead. Craig graduated from Lima High Scho[...]ine in May, 1982. 1935. Trudy decided to come to America to visit and stay Their daughter, Jennifer, was born[...]Farmers' Home Administration and the family moved to Bottineau ND. Jesse was born there 27 Jul 1987. In 1988 Craig transferred to Cut Bank MT. Because of the changes in[...]n March 1995. The family bought a home and moved to Bozeman in April 1995. Gene Hildreth married[...]r, E.W. , was in the Mayo Clinic. Bessie returned to the Hildreth ranch in Medicine Lodge soon after H[...]y, Cat Thompson and Amera Murray. Henry moved to Armstead for schooling the last two years and was[...]Bill, of 700 sheep. When Henry was 16, he started to break horses and at 17 he began logg~ng. In 1[...]ther, Bill, went in partnership with their father to buy the DeWitt ranch in Armstead and[...]edding day, 28 Jun 1956 the Dansie ranch in Clark Canyon. The brothers agreed to[...] |
| [...]On 16 May 1956 Henry asked Trudy if she wanted to go to town with him. They stopped at the jewelry store[...]s shearing sheep two hours before the service was to begin Henry Hildreth family. Back L-R: Henry Jr.[...]married Monica 1983. Part of the ranch was leased-to-buy to Henry from Garrahan in 1990 and has one daughter, Andrea, and one his father in 1956 to 1975. Sheep were still the main source step-daug[...]eliminated because of the building of the Clark Canyon When E.W. took over the ranch, the name had b[...]her, Henry Olson (vol. 1 pg 407) of the Big to be taken 30 miles to school in Grant every day. Hole Basin.[...]Hansine Hansen also helped drive the kids halfway to and After many hardships of rustling and endl[...]ng, Hildreth Livestock gave up the sheep business to go unsuccessful, thus Trudy decided to rent an apartment in into the cattle business _in[...]Trudy bought a house and moved the kids to Dillon for the Henry started road constructio[...]Hildreth They wanted their children to have good educations, so Construction doing contr[...]ck 60 miles of interstate highway fence from Dell to to the ranch permanently. Beaverhead Livestock Auction that were also done to make Henry and Trudy also have two guest[...]and tourists to rent and that income helps to keep the ranch The couple had four chi[...] |
| [...]the way of having fun. It was a way of being able to keep up with the older boys, to be one of the gang. Horses, milk cow, sheep,[...]dn't believe in spankings and of course according to the boys, they didn't need any anyway. They had f[...]it was his dad's, he left the play hill and tried to catch up with them. He went a long ways from home[...]ide the road and took a nap. Dick Freeman came by to catch up with his herder and band of sheep and found Lowell. Dick took him back home to the family. Another time when Lowell was abou[...]ields because haying was over and they were going to bring the rest of the machinery in. Pa put the car gear in low and told Lowell what to do and where to park the car. As he crossed the bridge and was close to home, he saw his mom in the doorway watching him.[...]That summer they came home to the family ranch at said to his mom, "Now don't tell anyone." But she was[...]About 1959, Lowell had the opportunity to buy the Of the six boys in the family, Lowell[...]McMenomey ranch right below Clark Canyon Dam. He serious. He always earned good grades. He was able to go[...]Clark Canyon from his Dad. At this time he was ra1smg Lodge. T[...]sheep but was leaning more to getting into cattle. were Agnes Roberts, May Spri[...]n the attended high school in Dillon. He belonged to the F.F.A.[...]and gradually went mto 1947. He had a scholarship to go to college. About three[...]s allowed, he bought into years later, he decided to use his scholarship and enrolled at[...]which had become a very popular spot. Also Clark Canyon Like most of his family, he is a constitutionalis[...]s big game. The ranch became a well-known belongs to the Republican Party.[...]for its elk in Clark Canyon. Korean Conflict.[...] |
| [...]ion in Colorado Springs CO. He and his to Bannack. son, Justin, purchased a game ranch near[...]rt of his ranch across the river Bell, came to Beaverhead County in a covered wagon in where he plans to build a home. He has enjoyed being able 1886 from Illinois to Colorado Springs and then to to try some new things. His son, Justin, is running[...]ne children and cattle and is looking for a ranch to buy. settled in what is now Bell Canyon by Dell. Their third Gail lives in Klamath Fa[...]ration in Beaverhead County. apartments. He hopes to go into radio full-time some day. Dar[...]of grandparents, Henry and Harriet Hildreth, came to Dillon 06 Jul 1893 from Madera CA and_ eventually[...]no fighting among his brothers. Everyone was good to him. Family and cousins were his best friends. When he was five, he was admitted to the home school with his brothers. Ray worked hard to catch up with his brothers in work on the ranch. He started to milk at five. Being able to work in the fields with his brothers was great and he was able to drive the derrick loads up on the haystacks at ag[...]graduated from the 8th grade in Armstead and went to BCHS where he met Darlene Goodfellow during his s[...]s great-great-grandmother, Sarah Ann Hudson, came to Virginia City in a covered wagon in 1863.[...] |
| Darlene bounced around a lot and went to 13 different grade schools, most of them in Utah.[...]r mother had graduated. In June of 1946 she moved to Dillon with her Mom. Ray and Darlene had a lot of fun in high school, going to dances, games and al ways a dance once a month in[...]CHS and married 08 Oct 1950. The couple moved to Medicine Lodge where Ray remodeled the old house[...]Raymond and Darlene Hildreth. They would move to Standing L-R: Amber, Clayton,[...]r anyone else's bad luck." That was Then Ray went to work in Armstead on a ranch for w[...]ound broken leg and a run-away truck, it was time to It was a busy time for the Ray Hildreths . Th[...]he plant in 1988 and he and Ray have been in able to get a loan for $2,500 from the State Bank. Banker[...]s been instrumental in Bob Barrett was a good guy to the young folks. Later, the developing thr[...]yearlings on poison, the dogs got then hopes to slow down and retire somewhat and do the fun int[...]uple has been active in politics on the federal, to go on and on. Darlene was feeling mjghtily depres[...]everyone should take part to make a good country for their He said, "Don't worry, Mom, we still have a lot to be children and grandchildren. They[...] |
| [...]ns and get-togethers with friends. They also like to ski, bowl, hike and go four-wheel riding. All[...]rmy. He was trained as a medic and was on his way to Korea when his orders were changed and he was sent to Germany instead. While stationed in Germany, h[...]m Krieger and Sophie Mueller Krieger. Gisela came to the United States Gisela & Bill-H[...] |
| We went back to Germany in 1958 with our two oldest daughters to visit my parents and while in Europe went to He turned quickly and saw what had ha[...]Ella Heleen, born 19 Sep 1952 in Dillon. Married to his body, lodging in his breast. He liv[...]ing hit and walked from the scene of the accident to Nathan and Troy.[...]. Married accident. He was conscious up to the last and showed to Daniel Quinn of Alder MT.[...]hawn Caroline, born O1 Feb 1960 in Butte. Married to Mr. Dahlman was almost crazed with gr[...]Robert Adam, born 31 Jul 1962 in Butte. Married to or more in the employ of MacArthur Bro[...]tomobile flooded, we built and operated the Clark Canyon Marina and at once for Armstead. At first[...]inquest, but after being fully informed as to all the Canyon Dam, 20 miles south of Dillon.[...]sympathy to Mr. Dahlman.[...]nd beloved young One of the saddest accidents to happen in this county men of this county[...]noon (1911). Charles hearted and true to the core, Chas . Hill was beloved by all Hill, on[...]e friends. of Salmon City, to mourn his loss. The unfortunate accident occu[...]Lima, Redrock, Dillon and Armstead have gone to Salmon Mr. Hill had recently accepted a position resigned by Mr. City to attend the funeral services which will be held there Dahlman who was leaving to look after MacArthur Bros.' tomorrow a[...]nch fraternity. together and had gone to the office to tum the affairs over Among those attending were Patrick Ward and family, to Mr. Hill when the accident occurred.[...]r Harrington & Richardson revolver and To the sorrowing relatives , the host of friends thr[...]e trigger was pulled it would fire, so he started to tum the cylinder to a --Dillon Ex[...]The revolver was of the old hammerless type and to tum the cylinder he had to press on the trigger. In doing this, the weapon w[...]nding eight or ten feet away from Mr. Dahlman and to his left. Mr. Dahlman states that he h[...] |
| [...]In 1895 he established a stage Iine from Red Rock to Salmon ID, using 4 and 6 horse teams, with sleigh[...]n and received the charter from the city trustees to put in an exchange system. He owned the entire te[...]c convention ever held after Montana was admitted to statehood. He was a lifelong member of the[...]y, homesteaded and moved his family from Red Rock to Salmon, where he with their family on th[...]years, then helped his dad trail cattle to the railroad at Divide and was elected probate ju[...]ed about 06 Jun 1944, after an illness of went to the University of California-Davis for a short ti[...]getting out timber on the ranch. Jack had to take a[...] |
| [...]ried in Salmon O1 Jan 1944. Ann Carl was born to Fred and Alice Carl on 27 Jun 1921, joining her s[...]raduated from Salmon High School in 1938 and went to San Bernardino Junior College in Califor[...]onal CowBelles (now renamed National friends went to Oakland CA to find work in the war effort. Cattlewomen) was[...]In 1972 Ann was appointed by President Nixon to the lived there ever since. They are the parents[...]s. In 1973 she became Montana director of the had to the hard work and dedication of their parents and[...]n 1979 grandparents who gave them the opportunity to learn and she was appointed to the Board of Directors of the Western succeed.[...]1945. This became a life-long One and saw it to publication, a great experience. Also affiliation[...]. He and Ann enjoyable for her is being asked to judge 4-H events, Junior also were members[...] |
| [...]re active ranchers and their children Waldemar to move their belongings to Egin Bench ID. Egin are fifth generation Big Hole[...]ar returned to John's home at Mt. Pleasant, Sanpete, UT. John[...]then returned to Egin. Torie, was born 28 Sep 1875 at Fairview, Sa[...]She was the fifth child and second daughter born to William Louis Hjort and Matenia Hansen Nielsen. V[...], she and her brother were sent out in the desert to get the cows home at night; they became lost. The[...]son in the far distance dressed in white beckoned to them to follow , which they did. Soon they came to the main road and when they turned to thank the person, he had disappeared. Victoria learned how to milk cows and when she was about fifteen years ol[...]a dairy. She and two other girls had fifteen cows to milk each night and morning. Victoria made cheese[...]se chores, she had the family washing and ironing to do, for which she received her room and board and three dollars a week. Every day Victoria was required to tum all the big round cakes of cheese and wipe ea[...]ellie, had married Ephriam Davidson and had moved to Twin Groves ID. After a while, Victoria went to visit Mellie and her husband, Eph. While there,[...]Ref 150.11. Mellie were able to persuade their parents to move to Idaho. Victoria returned to Utah in the spring of 1894; her[...]canals in the father's family were on their way to Idaho. William Louis[...]Egin Bench area. Two more boys were born to John and Hjort hired a young freighter by[...] |
| [...]ng year, another boy blessed the moved to be near John's work and when the Waldemars Waldem[...]butter, which she sold to all the ranchers. The kids helped The Waldemar family continued to farm in the Egin area by raising bum lambs and herding them out into the hills to up to the beginning of the twentieth century. On 17 Oct[...]John liked the area and soon moved his family to the With the new washing machine, the boys were glad to give prairie. John and Torie homesteaded a parcel[...]he Waldemar family lived in tents be born to the family while living in Grant. She was pitched[...]s and John was very handy when it came to emergencies. He hay stacks on Horse Prairie. John[...]broken bone or sew up a cut as well as any hired to help with the hay during the summer and he would[...]of his thigh and then carry two or three of them to help in the winter work. With cauterized it[...]e time, Victoria had a lot of he was going to do it. cooking and extra washing to do. In 1914[...]rank, were put in charge of enough, John took him to Mt. Pleasant UT to stay with his running it. Leonard and Fran[...]den. The next winter, Leonard and Alvon both went to Mt. That same year on 18 Feb 1914 another boy was born to Pleasant. While living in Grant, two more childre[...]toria, christened Ralph Hjort Waldemar. From born to John and Victoria. They were John Axel Waldemar, 1914 to 1918, the Waldemar family moved back and forth bo[...]and Elsie Matenia Waldemar, from Idaho to Montana, each winter to Idaho for school and born 28 Mar 1907 at Grant. A year before Elsie's birth, back in the summer to Montana for the hay harvest. John John moved his family back to Egin ID, where his three would round up[...]rs, Ina In Jan 1907, the Waldemars moved back to Montana to and Elsie, would cook for the other. work on their ranch. The moving process from Idaho to Al von and Trevor were operating[...]d a school being held in a little log cabin close to where the into the Army to fight in the war. At this same time, Waldemars li[...]s at this school. A season in those days amounted to care of her mother, Matenia Nielsen Hjort.[...]d John and his two daughters, Ina and Elsie, went to cook Leonard drove a horse and buggy eight miles to attend for the hay crews on Horse Prai[...]1918, classes. Sometimes the temperatures dipped to 40 below Victoria gave birth to a baby girl christened Ada Elna zero. When the te[...]this birth. Ada would be the bottom of the buggy to keep her children's feet warm. last child born to John and Victoria. The war ended and The nex[...]was created and it was housed in returned to Montana as did Leonard. John decided to move one room of the Waldemar home. One pupil boarded with back to Idaho and he brought with him some of his cows an[...]m equipment. on horseback along with the teacher to attend school. The Victoria's m[...] |
| In 1922 John Waldemar rented his farm out to a young man his daughter, Ina, had been keeping s[...]r and I stopped at a huge family once again moved to Montana to live. John truck stop at the wester[...]and Tiny. second child was 6 months old, she went to Grant to see her In 1959 we were living in Reno NV,[...]us family at Christmas. Helen Waldemar was going to high to come to Squaw Valley CA, where he, as head chef, was scho[...]posed the entire family. Squaw Valley was host to the Winter Olympics in 1960. He Everyone in the f[...]them all highest chef hat he could find. back to good health and she suddenly came down with the In 1965 we were living in Las Vegas and Tiny came to fever and almost died.[...]burned down, so John gave five acres of the farm to his daughter, Ina, and he sold the rest. On 12 Ma[...]r suffered an asthma attack and died. He was laid to rest 15 Mar in the Dillon cemetery. John was 27 d[...]married Harry Stocker at Grant MT, and they moved to Aberdeen WA to live. Victoria lived at Aberdeen with Harry until his death in 1948, then sold her home in Aberdeen and went to live with her sister, Mae Hjort Smith, whose husb[...]fter she was released from the hospital, she went to stay with her son, Trevor, until she was well enough to ride with her daughter, Ina, to her home in Archer ID. One day Ina took Victoria to St. Anthony to visit her granddaughter. On the return trip, the[...]ip was broken from the accident and she was taken to the hospital for two weeks. Upon her release, she[...]a long period of recuperation, Victoria was able to walk and move around again. At this time she went to live with another daughter, Elsie, who lived in N[...]and could not watch Victoria, so she hired a girl to stay with Victoria in the daytime. Victoria was v[...]l), Victoria was not happy there and did not want to live. She taken 1964-65 at Annie Oakley house in Las Vegas NV. continued to get worse and passed away 07 Jul 1964.[...]held at Dillon, and her remains were placed next to her husband's in the Dillon cemetery. At the time[...]en great-grandchildren, Mexico, and Tiny wanted to get Lyston's expert advice on and five great-gre[...]aqui County, a very dangerous, inhospitable place to be.[...] |
| [...]his Land Alfreida and her sons journeyed to America in about Rover up for collateral. However, he needed the vehicle to 1909 on the same vessel. go back to the mine. They lived and worked in Nebraska prior to being Later, when we were living in Reno agai[...]encouraged by their close friend, Sam Peterson, to come to he had died in Mexico. I called his lawyer (with[...]abundance of grass improbable name of John Bull) to find out if there was any and water, the Big Hole Basin. Charlie and Carl way to get possession of the vehicle. I was told to forget it, homesteaded at the foot of Squaw Mountain near Fox which and it would be dangerous to pursue the matter. was about twe[...]ired approximately 1,500 acres us it was not wise to coat a lead brick with gold and try to where they raised horses, cattle, hogs and a few sheep. Hay sell it, because buyers were on to the scam and now tested was put up by using[...]team and drove to Dillon for supplies; he was always[...]Ethel), they proceeded to drink enough moonshine to turn Ben Holland[...]ne. Alfreida made cottage cheese and her Falls ID to Charles and Ellen Holland . Faye Floy Gerard[...]Holland was born 23 Jul 1920 at home in Level ID to Harry several times a year where neighbors[...]n's father passed away leaving Ben and his mother to continue ranching in the Howe ID area. Ben[...] |
| [...]the family plot at Mountain View and later moved to Livingston where he worked as a train Ce[...]until she married Hans Sorenson in 1956 and moved to Dillon. Alfreida was related to the Swedish singer and actress, Jenny Lind. Carl[...]e he gained U.S. citizenship, he changed his name to Linden, which was apparently a family name, possi[...]eida and Carl eventually sold the ranch and moved to Dillon. Charlie died 06 Jul 1958, Alfreida 24 Jan[...]ary Beatrice was the oldest of nine children born to 09 Dec 1961. He worked in the mines there.[...]born 21 Oct 1909 in Muskogee OK. The family moved to daughter, Lisa Rae, was born 25 Mar[...]ed in Feb 1982. Steve and Lisa attended They went to the Centennial Valley to homestead in 1916. Dillon schools and gr[...]raduated from Western Montana 1946 in Dillon. Due to ill health, George sold the Alaska colleg[...]n Wolf Point MT. Basin ranch and moved the family to a ninety-acre farm near Steve works for the[...]y home on Barnett the farm, the Holt family moved to Dillon to be near her Avenue. family . The Holt children went to Dillon schools and all Joseph Orr Hol[...]or a while they lived at Silver Bow MT, returning to All live in California. Dillon in[...] |
| [...]illon. Jed now lives at Selma CA. The Holts moved to Clements CA. After their divorce in 1980, Joe returned to southwestern Montana and Dubois ID area.[...]in Ririe ID. They lived in Idaho before returning to Montana. This family includes four stepdaught[...]e taught a few years in rural They moved to California where George learned to build schools in Beaverhead County and is now a l[...]in Sheridan MT. On 09 They returned to Dillon in 1983. Grady Thomas Holt Feb 198[...] |
| [...]After winning the bet, he said, "Anyone want to bet I Hole. He was a giant[...]Jack was known to eat porcupine, squirrel, beaver, over six feet ta[...]ranch woman to cook some toadstools he had gathered in the pound[...]ook out a frying pan, fried According to them up, and ate them with no ill effects, to the newspaper clippings,[...]Along with his eating, Jack liked to show off his strength Bitteroot and had a[...]sacks with his teeth. He also liked to show how he could sister. Their parents[...]ranches on a trip to his cabin in Sagebrush Park. That boy, his way to the Big who is in his 80s now, considers that trip to be one of the Hole where he spent[...]and True to his character, he also had some unusual talents. He got to know the[...]intelligent and well read on many subjects. to ranch doing odd[...]e, Jack put together a sort of house trailer jobs to earn money Big Jack Houseman. that he pulled with a Model T. He continued to visit various for a grubstake for Ref.138.09. ranches (where he was welcome to stay) and help out by the winter. He[...]filing saws or whatever needed doing. He managed to acquire a[...], 1949 at the age of 65. His which were essential to his way of life. full name was John F. Houseman. He wrote poetry on an He took to trapping in the winter, living in a cabin[...] |
| [...]n She went to school in Minnesota and then moved to[...]coming to Dillon she taught 7th grade at the Bagley School.[...]t acquainted and in 1929 they John Hovren came to America in 1866, one year after the[...]college, he returned to Dillon to work at the Standard[...]Falls in the U.S. Marines. After the war he went to South Dakota to work for an older brother who had many business i[...]s didn't work out quite right and the opportunity to work in a lumber company in western Montana appealed to L-R: John Hovren, daughter Margy, Rosella, grandson him. So in 1926, he came to Dillon as the bookkeeper for Lonnie, son A[...], there are only two Hovrens who live in had come to America in the 1700s. They lived in the east[...]n, who have gone their separate and migrated west to Minnesota.[...] |
| [...]Union. He also raised and sold horses to the army and the[...]of Ray's siblings died very young from I came to Dillon from Pocatello ID in Sep 1956 to teach diphtheria and two died in their twenti[...]d taught until Jun 1961. After that I stayed home to raise our two adopted children, Marjorie and Andr[...]eavers. Andy was awarded a basketball scholarship to Gray's Harbor College at Aberdeen WA. He finished[...]Montana with a degree in Social Work. She went on to get a Master' s Degree in Social Work at Barry Un[...]each FL. She is totally career oriented and likes to travel. Esther and Ray Howard, tak[...]After the kids were raised and in college, I went to work They settled in Iowa for a short time befo[...]children in the Haugen family; seven survived to adulthood. also have a side business in photograp[...]hat endeavor. on the ship coming to America. In 1991 I said good-bye to John and he has followed his When Ray's f[...]gave up farming, sold their belongings, and moved to Fort[...]In 1941 Ray and Esther moved to Dillon where Ray Esther Christina Haugen[...]92 and still lives Ray S. Howard met his wife-to-be, Esther Christina[...]heir only son, married Arletta Wright was changed to Richland County in 1914. He was the[...]Dillon area. Howard, was from Indiana. They came to Montana and settled near Mondak which was[...] |
| [...]edick was born 24 May 1905 in Plains MT. She came to Beaverhead County in 1922 with her mother, Gertrude Lynch Benedick, who came to nurse a patient 24 hours a day. Ruth stayed on th[...]William and Irving Orr, sons of Ernest Orr, rode to school in a Cadillac each day. The car was too heavy to lift out of difficulties, so the family bought th[...]ater she received her Bachelor's Degree in 1965. To pay for school and living in the dormitory, she i[...]white uniforms. She said they were very difficult to iron because they were a wrap-around[...] |
| [...]Since Ruth had always thought it would be fun to do soda wonderful Buick car that traveled through Dewey Flat and fountain work, George was able to talk her into coming to could go 50 miles an hour![...]ation. After a short courtship, Ruth Benedick and to Ruth at a local dance. The driver told her that h[...]George Huber married 24 Jun 1931 in Butte. going to marry her. She really laughed because she didn't[...]After two years, Ruth left Dewey Flat and went to to go to a higher math school. When he was 18 years old, California to visit her father. Then she went to Salt Lake it became obvious that Germany was headed for war. His City to continue her schooling but got a call from Hiawat[...]rents had saved a little money and they urged him to UT, to take the place of a teacher who had been run off by 1eave the country. He came to the United States in 1913. the students.[...]m and in coal mines. The work was They wanted her to return, so she signed her contract for the har[...]ey learned some English and saved some wanted her to come back to Montana to work. She did and money, they bought a car and headed west to Jackson Hole was hired at an Indian School in Nia[...]ohn D. Rockefeller and a game warden advised them to[...]Bill Miller went to Idaho and became a wheat farmer.[...]George went to Bu~te and worked in the mines. He was[...]convinced him to find another livelihood.[...]lumber was sent by train to Dillon and the whiskey was taken to Butte in the Buick. He also managed Jackson Hot[...]Dewey Flat got on the train and would pay to wrestle the bear. They would also gamble on gave[...]very busy place. considered stylish at that time to paint one's gums with Montana Power was p[...]who owned the Melrose from Divide to Melrose and later from Melrose to Dillon. Hotel, Dining Room and Beer Parlor. It ha[...]vice station, ice house, dance hall and a pasture to There were always Union Pacific rai[...] |
| In 1940 George sold the Melrose place to Hampton "Ham" Norris and the family moved to Wise River where George had the Wise River Bar and Hotel. One morning a moose came up close to Ruth when she was standing on the front porch of[...]as deer, in the pasture with a 10-foot fence next to the hotel. He built five "hardship" cabins along the creek, using logs from a dance hall that was next to the hotel . They were chinked with saplings and e[...]sold the place in Wise River and the family moved to Ramsay, which had been built as a DuPont company[...]Silver Bow, where cock fights were held from time to time for special entertainment. Two years later in 1943, the family moved to Butte where George bought the Beaver Bar in the B[...]Butte. Louis was born 03 Nov 1947 in Havre MT to Michael In Jan 1973 the family moved to a ranch near Big Sandy, John Hull and Jeanne Eliz[...]ttended Chester schools and Western moved to a dry farm near Judith Gap MT. Louis worked as Mo[...]l it closed in In early 1976 Louis went to work as a farm manager 1960, then Dillon Schools,[...]C. moved back to Dillon and lived at the Meine Ranch where[...] |
| [...]Louis and Bette sold the farm and moved back to Dillon months in 1978, they lived near Miles City[...]nd grass hay. In Nov 1978 the family returned to the Meine ranch, Bette worked at Davis Electric from Aug 1986 to Jan 1990. Rebecca attended kindergarten at the Ma[...]Louis tie down ropes came loose causing Louis to lose his balance M. Hull Trucking. and fall 15 ½ feet to the ground. He sustained severe breaks[...]returned to hay hauling, even though the physicians said he[...]transfering to WMC. Mary Jo works for the Forest Service[...]and try to attend their sporting activities and special even[...]the museum's main room belonged to Clarence Hunt, an[...]Creek area. The land now belongs to the Walsh family from[...]: Mary Jo and Lake, which now belongs to the Red Rock Lakes Refuge. Cynthia. Ref.169.11.[...]to go to Monida, Henry's Lake and to West Yellowstone. The only access to the Centennial in winter was the In the fall o[...]d kindergarten, which stagecoach from Monida to West Yellowstone known as the she attended until[...]In the winter time, the coachs used covered moved to Fairfield MT. They expanded into custom haying[...]re of Nicole. They recall that their Dad knew how to fix from Lakeview to Monida. almost everything.[...] |
| [...]ake William Huntley was born 26 Feb 1958 in Butte to Clayton and Barbara Huntley . He attended grade s[...]Clayton L. Huntley was born 04 Feb 1930 in Dillon to Brenda Lee Ronnemose was born 28 Apr 1960 to Russell Ralph W. Huntley and Ebba Adele And[...]o first home was the Dishno ranch (which belonged to the was chairman of the school board at B[...]Barbara was born 26 Mar 1930 in Mackay ID to Darwin Blake manages the family ranching oper[...]uthwestern Stockgrowers Association and moved to Montana in 1937 and she attended grade sch[...] |
| [...]y. See individual family articles for who belongs to which Huntley family. Barbara continued to entertain and participate in theatrical |
| [...]They had no cash on hand , but always had food to eat.[...]They only had to purchase flour, sugar and salt. Because of[...]difficult life was in the rest of the country due to the[...]the county to keep the roads open, Mom spent a month in[...]do not know who took the ranch house. So they had to set up housekeeping in the Mother to Butte, but Jack Hirschy told me Dad was working b[...]cattle at their ranch when someone came to tell Dad he had Life on a ranch in the 1920s[...]tchered hog. We lived there from October to about the first of May so we The men butchered a nice fat steer, but it was up to would be close to school . Dad became a commuter. He Mother to wrestle the quarters of beef and cut up the meat[...]ed in time for supper. chicken, it was her job to catch the beast, chop off its head, pluck the fea[...]at. valley. Mother belonged to the Wisdom Women' s Club When mom decided to redecorate, she had to mix her which maintained the Wis[...] |
| [...]nd Barbara were now on the ranch. before her turn to serve arrived. The house was always[...]d bought a home in Butte on the scrubbed from top to bottom, windows washed and sterling golf c[...]to the ranch during special times such as branding,[...]Dad stayed in Butte another year and then moved to[...]Ashmore, who were attending college. He continued to[...]duation he was employed by Boeing. After marriage to Cindy Denholm, Rob and Cindy moved to Seattle WA. The[...]family ranch, he moved to Bozeman. Rob found[...]Rob obtained financial security enough to begin fulfilling Clayton attended high school[...]e enjoys life as house in Dillon and Dad commuted to the ranch, generally only Montana can offe[...]is father and brother spending weekends in Dillon to watch the Beavers play. on the ranch and[...]boarded at various other homes. We continued to follow the Beavers wherever they played th[...] |
| [...]from the University of Montana. Now ready to pursue the[...]following year she transferred to the Missoula School[...]pregnancy due to her diabetes. The couple therefore adopted[...] |
| [...]mmer haying gives employment and ranch experience to Beaverhead County High School. In 1948 he married[...]d both as moderator of the in 1980. He moved back to Dillon in 1987. Presbytery, one of few women who have been elected to this He was 77 years old when he died[...] |
| [...]he coming of Dolores was born in 1931 in Boise ID to Edythe (Alder) and electricity to the Big Hole Valley. It changed the way things Fl[...]a young man, he followed his brother, Ben Davis, to Salmon were available as well as power tools. and then to Dillon. He was employed by Ben at the Ford Another change was from four-legged horse power to the garage in both towns in the 1920s.[...]lon and attended college at Western members to ride. Bus prefers the four-wheeler; howeve[...] |
| [...]ties? extensively in the hay season. John uses it to mow hay . So , thanks to the Laphams, more Ibey descendants became Life hasn't been all work. Bus and John learned to ski at citizens of Dillon. Rainy Mountain ([...]ter Dodd and their Dillon, asked Dan to build him a large bunkhouse. During sisters, Judy[...]its construction, other people came to talk to Dan about John and Dolores (who was also an avid skier) taught building for them. their daughters to ski on "Baily Hill" south of Jackson. This[...]chased by a moose. In the Hampshire came to Dillon to work for him. Among them 1960s snowmobiles came i[...]ng and William McAlister. All of them elected to stay in the and sledding excursions and general t[...]aine, Donna Ibey Wilson, both widows, came to visit Dan and his family, and Terry. Elaine is an[...]Wilson, with the~. They all decided to make Dillon their Donna married Dennis Himmelberg[...]Ibey Construction Co. office was located adjacent to cleaning business in Billings. Donna is an RN, em[...]and Dolores and Bus (who never married) continue to operate the ranch along with their nephew , Vince[...]ybil Barber In Aug 1949, Daniel P. Ibey drove to Dillon with his wife , Sybil Barber Ibey , and daughter, Sylvia, who was 11 years of age . They went to visit Dan's three aunts, Sarah Ibey Holloran, Mar[...]'s father, grew up in New Hampshire but had moved to Dillon when they were young ladies. Margaret and[...]ding many homes , erecting metal buildings moving to Dillon. They asked Dan if he would build t[...] |
| [...]rom the auto accident at age 17 years, just prior to his senior year in University of Montana School o[...]ports to Sidney, Australia, then changed to the Atlantic Their second child, Jackie, marr[...]fter thirty years as a sea captain, Evans retired to Minerals Technology.[...]san, married Art Mautz of Dillon. buried next to his mother and father at Mountain View They have[...]Linn OR. Art is a paramedic in belonged to the Elks and was a member of the St. Andrew Portl[...]rk. Dan passed away in 1979. Sybil moved back to Enfield NH, where she now resides. She enjoys spe[...]Gilbert Lyle Innes was born 02 Jul 1915 to Evans and Elaine Godden[...]wo years. Following this, he tried a in Dillon MT to Evans and Jennie Briney Innes. He variety of careers . From 1935 to 1940, Gilbert worked with graduated from B[...] |
| [...]War, he worked on Elane moved from Billings to Polson and in 1986 they ship designs in Los Angeles CA. Following the war until moved to Sun City West AZ. Joe is a member of the 1950, Gi[...]Vegas NV . In 1950, Gilbert and his family moved to Shrine Oriental Band. This band has been wo[...]Ruth Innes was born 24 Apr 1900 in Dillon to Martin Spain, South Africa, Mexico , British Isle[...]duated from MacDuff, Scotland. He came to this country in Jul 1886 Beaverhead County High S[...]gston for many years. As a young and was promoted to assistant manager of the men's man, Bi[...]ast of Big Timber department. In 1937, James went to work for Butler on the Yellowstone Riv[...]joined EKCO Products Company of Chicago and moved to San Francisco CA . He retired from EKCO Products[...]ch Joseph Innes was born in Dillon 09 Jan 1910 to Evans and Jennie Innes. In 1933 Joe graduated fro[...]te University as a Mechanical Engineer. From 1934 to 1939, he worked as a meat cutter in Missoula MT.[...]n the restaurant equipment business and from 1939 to 1950 sold equipment. In 1950 he joined the[...] |
| [...]ng disease-free seed potatoes. In 1933 they moved to they bought the Herb Jones ranch on the Red[...]Potato Company. behind the Lima Peaks. To this day, Ken and Vi still enjoy Within a few yea[...]ates and as far as South America. continued to ranch between the two until 1979 when they In[...]farm land in sold the Sheep Creek ranch to Vi's daughter, Sandy, and Texline TX and grew seed potatoes there for shipping to the husband, Ross Hansen. southeastern states[...]875 in Scio OH, they sold the working part to Canyon Ranches owned by the youngest of seven brothers a[...]ch. They kept their house and outbuildings on the to Montana in the early 1890s with her family.[...]ce 1985 they As a rancher;s wife, in addition to the household work, have spent the winter mon[...]a skilled hunter and marksman and would ride out to the sloughs and rivers near Three Forks and bring back waterfowl and other game birds to feed the ranch hands. She told of shooting ducks[...]retrieving and lifting the birds so she never had to get off her horse in a morning of hunting. Ma[...]born on a homestead near Highwood MT 21 Aug 1917 to Paul and Anna (Sevik) Iverson. The family moved to Highwood where he graduated from high school in 1[...]d Elizabeth (Betty) Margaret McKenzie. They moved to Tacoma WA, where Ken worked as a welder in the sh[...]Ken Iverson. Ref 193.12. They returned to Montana where he owned and operated a Hudson deal[...]the Ross were born in Lima. Ken and family moved to[...]cars are not old, they were new to him when he first saw the early 1960s Ken and Bet[...]n and a 1954 Studebaker, all of which he restored to enjoyed by their children and grandchildren today[...]married Viola Cantrell Sweeney in 1966 and moved to Dell. They ranched in the Big Sheep Creek[...] |
| At the age of 77, Ken tried to move his Hudson (which was under repair) out of t[...]Montana became a state. He moved with his parents to Twin Bridges MT when he was about four years old. He went to school in Twin Bridges and was graduated from hig[...]there had not been a course in chemistry for him to take. He graduated from Montana State Coll[...] |
| [...]They moved to Columbus MT where Earl taught and Dorothy was[...]coached. They next moved to Hobson MT in 1934, where Doctor Atwater, the fema[...]to Cut Bank MT. Earl taught, coached and became High[...]School Principal. Dorothy's mother Cora wanted to name her baby Dorthea[...]On 05 May 1942 Earl was called to service. Dorothy Marie, Dr. Atwater registered he[...]has continued to live in Cut Bank.[...]in Dillon MT, to John William Carr and Evelyn Jane[...]rade school and through the middle Ranch. Driving to town to go to school with her brother of her junior year o[...]d died in March, so she and her mother allowed to wear pants to school unless it dropped below moved to Bozeman where they lived with her brother Don.[...]the Carr Coal and Fuel oil business in introduced to college society by her brother. Don belonged Dillon. They had the first paved street in Dillon, Chapman, to the Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity. Through him, she m[...]on with the used oil. It was great place husband-to-be, Earl Robert Keyes, a dashing football star. to sled in the winter. Dorothy belonged to Kappa Delta sorority and the Spurs, Joan went to the ski hill, Baldy Mountain, now |
| It was also fun to lay on the grass and try to figure out the A couple of months later, Jo[...]spent time every the Army. When he returned to the States, they married 12 chance she got. She loved to ride horses. Later, Carl Jul 1969 in Medford. John used his G.I. Bill and went to Giudici gave her a mare to ride and she kept her in Dillon. school to get his license to be an Airplane Mechanic. They She would take all[...]School until the graduated, they moved back to Montana. middle of her junior year. She was in Porn Porn Girls, John went to work for his dad on the ranch in Jackson, Twirler[...]John and Joan were unable to have children, so in 1975,[...]how to operate all of her dad's haying equipment and is[...]Bozeman to seek an Engineering Degree.[...]Jackie Lynn came to them in July. She was born 19 Jun[...]1979, and is a half sister to Jaime, but the girls are complete[...]opposites in their personalities. Jackie plans to graduate[...]unable to run the machinery or ride horseback. She still[...]They have a lot of great friends and relatives to fill their[...]lives. Joan loves Montana and would not want to live[...]1913 and brought his bride to the ranch near Jackson where[...]Karen, who died as an infant; John, enjoyed going to dances and just spending time with him on[...] |
| [...]th of Dillon until Bud's death. Irma then moved to Dillon where she still resides. They are the pare[...]the Big Hole Valley, John and Margaret retired to their home in Dillon. They resided there until[...]ski Kotar, the mountainous region of Yugoslavia, to the great state of Montana, Jack and Slava Jokov[...]l and wonderful life. Jakov, known as "Yacha" to his children, was born in[...]Tomonovich, married Sungar, Yugoslavia, in 1892 to a family of seven children.[...]by three of his older brothers, he bid farewell to his parents in Yugoslavia at the age of seventeen to pursue a better life in the United States. His[...]re grown, Jakov became an avid ambitions led him to a job in the mines at Butte MT. pinoc[...]e Slava enjoyed her Later, Salmon ID beckoned to him. He purchased a 40- time at home. Th[...]ouched and in Sungar, Yugoslavia, had also moved to Salmon with her helped many in Beaverhead[...]with her mother, Antonia descendants help to make this world and Beaverhead County Tomonovich, two sisters and one brother to join their father a better place for all. wh[...]Trowbridge and Theresa Jakovac Guay. Wanting to give their children the most opportunities[...] |
| [...]In 1995 he got an infection in his foot and had to have his leg removed. He is now confined to a wheel chair and 2) Alvaretta Hand Conklin[...]lding later Lee M. James was born 12 Jul 1917 to Henrietta St. John housed Kentucky Cash Grocer[...]hool Frank, and a sister, Hazel. The family moved to Argenta in at Reichle, Buhrer School in Madis[...]he mining field, working in Sr. joined the Navy to serve his country in WWII, leaving various places wherever he could find jobs. While working Alvaretta to raise three children. She and the children in Lea[...]et and married Hazel Hutchen. moved to Argenta to be close to Alvaretta's parents. They They moved back to Argenta where Lee and a partner, lived the[...]ve out. Alvaretta went to work as a waitress at the Ditty Cafe in He bo[...]after the death of Alvaretta's father, they moved to divorced.[...]Poor health required Lee and Alvaretta to move to the[...]in Livingston. The family moved to his grandfather's ranch[...]At 13, his father taught him to drive so he could take his[...]brother, Fred, and himself six miles to school in Livingston[...]wasn't able to read for five years due to a head injury. The[...]ome mining at Polaris and then in 1970 moved back to Railroad traffic was a rush of troop[...]oove materials and coal trains from Colstrip to a secret project at house logs and they we[...] |
| [...]. His mother and the their path on the way to their deaths. Out-of-work kids ran the d[...]with less than perfect hired carpenters agreed to build the new house for what the help. They took over the contract to run the County Farm insurance paid. that[...]I went to Eastern Montana College and began teaching at[...]mesteaded by her grandfather Holliday on to coffee by Yankee Jim. I taught there, at Cowan an[...]vingston. area as a boy of 15 when his folks came to Corinne UT on My brother joined the National Guard for the mandatory the train and then by wagon to Livingston. three-months service, but the time was extended to regular[...]nd he went with the 163rd Infantry 141st Division to[...]young people went to the coast to work at Boeing for good[...]teaching to help at home. Frances Holliday Johnson, taken June 1946. Ref 187. 08. We children rode horseback to grade school and then |
| [...]resulting in many was nine at the time. trips to Denver and then to Mayo Clinic for the next 20 We built[...]lding at the present location years. We had moved to Livingston where I stayed with the and sold it to Ken Rolandson in 1972, several years after childr[...]omers and family of dealers were close and worked to get it ready. He lived at the Andrus Hotel to his heart. The Montana Hardware and Implement[...]and batched. I Association brought him close to many like-minded people. moved here in Jul 1957 to the Carrigan house on South He won trips to Bermuda and the Bahamas with people Washington St[...]da, Montana and North and South We lived next to Elsie Rouse, a wonderful friend. Dillon Dakot[...]ed of molasses in the back where a huge drum used to saw the beautiful Budweiser team being gro[...]e fall of 1983 when short of oxygen but he wanted to be outdoors. He had open Everett had four[...]those historic sites. We found Bunton's implanted to speed up his heart. He then did all the things[...]the Rattlesnake, a hangout for Plummer he wanted to--bought a horse, guns, hunted and enjoyed the[...]gilante Drive in 1958. County Commissioners to serve on the Beaverhead County At that time nothi[...]n the president, Sally Dingley, stepped aside due to Sam, was born 14 Dec 1964. All the children went to personal reasons. He remained in tha[...]kview, Beaverhead High laws required him to step down. He remained on the board and Western M[...]museum obtaining approval for a CTEP grant to assist in the Richardson the same week. They taug[...]lege in Dillon. (Note: that project will go to bids Sep 1997.) the fall of 1996.[...]ad, married Ken Moon and moved tirelessly to record and save it. His map of the stage routes to Helena where he went to VoTech and now works for and station[...]. It's proven invaluable for researchers who come to senior at Havre; Sam, a senior at Helena; and Kai[...]roying our almost-new bringing politicians to town during the election years. 488 -[...] |
| He loved to discuss politics, especially with Democrats[...]was definitely conservative and very had to lease his farm to sharecroppers and move his family patriotic. back to Wisconsin to bury his mother who had passed away He served on the Library Board, a rewarding endeavor, and to salvage what little he could from the old place.[...]Fred, May, and the family finally returned to Montana in himself to operate the computer and this enabled him to 1929. The farm had not been kept record h[...]basement of the up and many repairs had to be made. Fred was a good Court House and worked t[...]home as he became carpenter and started to put things slowly back together. more unable to do physical work.[...]kept a few milk cows. Hospital in Missoula. I try to pick up the threads and will Fred's main crop was raising seeds for Roger's Seed learn to compute.[...]family with no way to make the payments on the farm, so Fred[...]llman forced to tum the hogs and chickens out to feed on what was[...]Fred was obliged to get a loan from a local grocery store Fred E[...]at he could make ends meet and so that first came to Beaverhead County in 1912. He worked on the[...]per acre. He was paid In 1915, Fred decided to take up a homestead in the highest prices for his peas and was able to pay off all of Beaverhead County. Not only did he return to Wisconsin to his debts; he even bought a new car. get hi[...]Fred and May leased the Dubois Ranch next to their also returned to get his young bride, Annie May Kallman. fa[...]ortly thereafter, farm homestead and moved to Dillon in 1953. their first and only son, Sigfred[...]he homestead that building has since been moved to Jackson MT. All of the first year; however, it did not provide enough to live on, so children also graduated from Beaverhead County High Fred went to work for the Spur Ranch again. School. Elinor's class was the first to graduate in the new On the new homestead, Fr[...]n 1968. May spent the rest of her table. May used to tell stories of how it took her a while to years keeping busy by sewing for many friends; she even get used to the rattlesnakes that would invade the chicken[...]n 1918 Fred pledged his homestead and possessions to borrow money so that he Beatr[...]e Spur Ranch. The old "prove-up shack" was moved to the new Everett Martin i[...]Dillon, married Everett Martin in 1936 and moved to followed by a second daughter, Beatrice Moselle,[...]They later divorced. Beatrice remarried and moved to children were delivered with the help of[...] |
| [...]inor built and ran the Buffalo Lodge by the Clark Canyon John Schuster Reservoir for 18 years before retiring to Dillon. Dave[...]family moved to Kansas where he works as a state credit Ma[...]Burgess returned to Dillon to attend Western Montana College.[...]ral cafes in Dillon. However, she later went back to school and took business courses which led to her getting a 490 - Beaverhead History No.2 |
| [...]hnson, was born 25 Feb 1947, at Livingston the canyon of Lahood Park in a cloudburst, moving furniture to Everett Francis Johnson and Frances Holliday Johnson. from Livingston to Dillon. My grandparents were Dominic and Grace Jo[...]the remember walking down Washington Street to the old Ford 8N with my grandfather, Dom Johnson,[...]I remember driving equipment up the ramp to the store Holland baler pushing the very heavy ba[...]I recall setting fire to the shop while welding on the bench next to a pan of gas. My father and Wally Baker put[...]moved to the new house at 631 Vigilante Drive, with oil[...]no clinkers, no coal We moved into Livingston to a large brick house on smoke in the midd[...]I graduated high school in 1965 and went to Helena removing the paint from the woodwor[...] |
| When my dad had a heart attack, I left college to run, if My other sister is Joellen Moon o[...]the Dillon Ranch Supply (John Deere). married to Ken Moon from Conrad. Their daughter, Kara, In 19[...]Kaitlin, live in Helena. equipment and trying to recover the fuel, fertilizer and equipment costs[...]aho in 1973. Dad sold the John Deere business to Ken Rolandson in[...]d May Johnson's son, was born 1916 It took a year to eat my way out of that.[...]and son, Fred, decided to try their luck in Alaska. Dad and I started the trailer plant north of Dillon to[...]to work for the National Weather Service and remaine[...]. no money down, the first three months rent-free to finish the[...]r, Carol, lives in Phoenix and has two I went to work for Barrett Minerals (Pfizer) November[...]siness at Big Lake AK. 1988 and transferred back to the mine in 1995 where I am presently employed ([...]rets are few. One is not going with Denton Hughes to Australia in 1967 when he begged me to go to take care of the equipment on the ranch he bought[...]had been converted into a Conrad, who is married to Lee Richardson of Antelope. school. Their children are David who is moving to Butte; he is Jane has fond memories of growing up in Bannack. Since engaged to Bonita Biscallian of Washington; he has children[...]wn was relatively empty, the local kids were free to Lisa and Christopher Terry. Son Cory is married to Alyce investigate the abandoned homes and[...]tt currently lives in where they wanted to. On winter days after school they Vermont[...] |
| [...]per Creek, sometimes all the was hired to cook for prisoners at the Beaverhead County way to Paddock's ranch and build a bonfire.[...]they move into an apartment As Bannack began to grow in the late 1920s, there were adjacent to the jail. They lived there until 1954 when Jane more kids to play with and many hours were spent playing[...]uring the 16 years The Stallings family moved to Dillon in 1931, the year that it was open[...]ith the Jane entered seventh grade. They returned to Bannack in neighborhood children who stopped by daily to buy popsicles 193 7, after Jane's graduation from[...]erhead families. She routinely travels 50 to 500 miles during the County father to be drafted during World War II. After his[...]produced a steady stream of custom Jane returned to work at Eli el' s, then cooked on a ranch for[...]but the mill had ceased operation. They came to Dillon[...]sojourn to Cody WY for a very few years with his parents )[...]Bruce returned to finish elementary school in Ballantine.[...]class of 1957. In June 1957 he went to work in Billings for[...]moved to Billings and began their life together. Br[...] |
| [...]of all trades for the automobile agency. Lee went to work at King's as a sales clerk. In May 1961[...]age 9 and son Taylor, age 6. from Idaho Falls to Armstead in the summer of 1947. Kay Rob has been[...]s a secretary. found a house to rent. Soon we were settled into our own Brady[...]th the class of 1990. He married Chantel to Salmon ID six days a week. I looked forward to his Kipp , daughter of Russell and Patty Thompson Kipp. They return at night because he used to bring us pink popcorn. reside in Bozeman where Br[...]have a theater or other activities to entertain us. We had to[...]Mom used to send me to the store for bread and milk.[...] |
| [...]arry and Helen Andrus put in lots of elbow grease to candy, and if you were flush with money, you coul[...]ow-tired bicycle We would go from one end of town to the other, filling our pedaled by our dad wi[...]ot wet from breathing in it, it would Mom had to walk as Dad needed the bicycle to get to the freeze. It took us quite a while to go to every door in town post office for his job. an[...]sn't compatible with In 1954 our family moved to Salmon ID, where Kay, Jim Donna's allergies; however, Carla (1939) and Harry (1941) and I went to school. I'll always have a warm spot in my[...]born there and Mom took time off from teaching to raise her[...]Brown The three older children went off to college at MSU.[...]not figure out how that guy could beat them to the top. Church with sister, Carla Andrus, and Ej[...]Bernie worked the bottom and Tom got another $5 to This was the second double wedding held at St. Rose and walk to the top of the mountain to start the chairlift motor. for unknown reasons he[...]ynch and Lloyd Dougherty and ski slope to the bottom. Annabel George held on O1 Jun 1946.[...]positions in Oroville WA, and did not return to Dillon for day, in time to walk across the stage for his diploma and out f[...]resumed teaching at Parkview Elementary the door to the church to be married at noon. while getti[...]Tom Jones Tom was born in 1939 in McAllister to William and Insurance Agency. T[...]babies just minutes apart (Tom was the last). Canyon gathered and laid by the Joneses with the help of[...]nna was born in 1940 at Barrett Memorial Hospital to front of the building. Harry J. and Helen And[...]of whole body painting of Gentian Violet and tar to heal business. She is the designer for Western[...]rashes, resulting in other playmates not wanting to join her as well as drawing blueprints for new[...]t which once Janet (1968) is the first-born to Tom and Donna. She floated down the forbidden dit[...]in June 1996. was presented by Donna's children to her of the beloved green rabbit preserved[...] |
| [...]Louise "Tootsie" was born 13 Feb 1940 in Dillon to Joe three display art talent in their own field.[...]en born in. It with multiple injuries, especially to her left hand and arm. was a happy home shar[...]en remaining sisters Everyone in the area extends to her their best for a full and brothers. r[...]later owned his own machine. He did not wish to ask his parents for shares of the family ranch bu[...]ired man for thirty-two years. He worked hard to get people to sign up for electricity which came to the valley from the Vigilante Electric Co-op. He[...]Frances Moran, from Butte. Two children were born to this marriage, Carolee and Carl Donald Kambich. C[...]ly kicked by the Enrollment ranged from ten to fourteen students all in one calf's mother[...] |
| [...]"Jim" Keef. Jim was born 09 Mar 193 7 in Arkansas to Eugene & Dovie Keef. They moved to Butte when Jim was an infant where his father wor[...]e Catholic Church in Ibeyville continued to expand and the streets were paved Dillon and move[...]acked his young family in their Jim was hired to teach seventh and eighth grade science station wagon and went to school for two months. It was at the Bagley Schoo[...]olled at the University Jim was transferred there to teach general science. While of Montana to start work on an Ed.D. degree. The whole teaching school, Jim went to evening classes and summer family looked forward to their summer stay in Missoula at school completin[...]The family continued the family housing . to grow with the birth of James Jr. 10 Jun 1961 and[...]Summer 1962, Jim resigned and moved his family to a ten year tenure at BCHS. While in Sh[...]y Louise, and family made job related moves to Choteau MT, Jim' s contract was up. That summer,[...]ani Keef live in Kennewick WA (Ibeyville) offered to build them a house in his addition and[...]When Sheryl entered college in 1983, Louise went to Guse to earn the down payment.[...] |
| [...]n The Kennedys were one of the few to winter over in the Livingston, Louise continued h[...]rian in One of Maud's jobs every fall was to make out a list of the Basin Public Library. They frequently return to Dillon provisions. She would buy potatoes by the ton. She was to visit with family and friends and look forward to building very proud of the fact that she never[...]s and is presently owned by Clayton forgot to order his Copenhagen. He had to take a Louise's two brothers.[...]horse and buggy all the way across the valley to Monida to get it. Then he had to travel all the way back. Maud never[...]always brought home the game for Maud to clean and cook.[...]the men to bring to Maud. Eventually, Maud decided she Maud Coley[...]the ducks. Whereupon, she announced very clearly to Clayton Turney Kennedy was born in Ohio in 18[...]in Montana and suggested Clayton turned to the hired hands and told them "from that Clayton[...]sure that the ranch was a secure and fun place to visit. The Two, Clayton became the sole owner of[...]weeks at a time. Maud and Clayton's Maud went to Montana in 1915 with the idea of teaching h[...]the train personnel There were sand dunes to climb, arrowheads to find, cows told her she had received a request for Maud to get off the to be branded, birds to hear, mountains to climb and love to train there. There was a need for a teacher in Ce[...]Clayton moved to Flathead Lake MT. Then, in the late 60s, Maud[...]t the Blake ranch. He was very they moved to Sheridan MT. shy. His first words to her were, "Do you think it is going Clayton died in 1971. As he lay dying in the hospital, he to rain?"[...]Maud, I couldn't have done it She was invited to teach in Bannack, the biggest and best without[...]1983 until 1997, Maud lived letter. Clayton wrote to Maud's father to ask for permission with her granddaughter, Ma[...]Maud was 102 Her father replied, "I trust her to make her decisions. years old. Clayton and M[...]ter. The saddle and everything she needed to ride. They rode "sweet ones" or "pr[...]house with a sod roof. If it leaked, all they had to do was Helen Kennedy throw a shovelf[...]on had Grandma Peterson took in washing to help support seven 320 acres. Very shortly, he d[...]mouse. The older Peterson children went to work as soon[...] |
| as they were old enough to hold a job to help their mother To say Naomi's mother was surprised would be putting[...]towel over his I spent a lot of time talking to Grandma Foster about the head. No harm had be[...]family, as I was her oldest grandchild and seemed to be Beaverhead County High School when h[...]tin, first of five children, was born 08 Dec 1906 to James Frederick and Almira Couch Kerr of Dillon M[...]leaning the shotgun. In 1920 the family moved to Big Lake WA. It was here that Survantus lost his mother 22 Oct 1921. They returned to Dillon and laid Almira to rest beside her father, John Martin Couch, in Mou[...]ontana State Normal College; later he transferred to Fresno State in California. He was a member of Si[...]. In the fall of 1931, Survantus transferred back to Montana State Normal College in Dillon and gradua[...]taken 1933. _Ref.150.19. 1908 to Henry Daulton and Harriet Phillips Hildreth on th[...], centered around the animals. There were kittens to play Sep 1933 Survantus and Naomi taug~t their first school with; Billy, a large sheep, to pull her sled across the snow; at Bannack MT.[...]a merry-go-round. Survantus installed it to stand sturdy. snowballs on his shoes. As h[...] |
| [...]Creek and the lower Beaverhead River from Dillon to the Point of Rocks. On 28 Mar 1938 Survantus put Naomi and Winifred on the last stage-sled to leave Jackson for Dillon until spring. The next d[...]were born at the Barrett Hospital. From 1940 to 1941 the family resided in White Sulphur Springs[...]urvantus and Naomi moved their family 22 Feb 1943 to Seattle WA. Survantus was a shipfitter for the sh[...]I, Anna Rebich Kielhamer, was born 13 Jan 1923 to Veronica and George W. Rebich at the Rebich home[...]s, High School for two years, and in 1940 I moved to and Tess Kielhamer, 14, of Santa Rosa CA. California to live with my sister, Mary, while I finishe[...] |
| [...]beautiful tablecloths and doilies, giving many to family and[...]together. One highlight was the trip they took to Alaska where they had the opportunity to be with family and do[...]Anita retired to their home in Dillon getting it prepared[...]892. Knapp. Jim or Jimmy was the name he answered to most of His mother was Ethel Anna Martine[...]ties. At the tender age of 12 or 13, Jim went to work at the Sheep prices were $2.50 per p[...]m took the job of herding cattle Jim returned to the area he loved to find work and his off poison for his neighbo[...]in the Butte mines. and Ethel managed to survive the depression when some of Not long[...]rvice, he met again their neighbors were forced to sell their homesteads. Carl the girl he had shown[...]ending his summers there. down the road to the Al and Ruth Price place on Sage They teased him that he had to go around the world to marry Creek. The ranch consisted of 3,100 acr[...]hafer Riley and Forest A. Riley. which I came to detest in my first few years of marriage.[...] |
| Again in the market to enlarge their operation, they In 1981[...]ght Henry Hoenstein's homestead, adding 420 acres to homestead on the headwaters of Long Creek[...]homestead site. This added another section to the ranch. were working long hours with the lives[...]etting for another years. There were very few men to hire to help with the wedding; Polly Jo (born 196[...]ol Rose, beginning the third generation of Knoxes to live Carl moved Shirley to the Anderson place. Once again he on the ranch. They have built a two-room log cabin "with was back to a house with a path-along and kerosene lamps.[...]rest of the house was added on as the family grew to Jay Tallent, son of Jay and Ella Tallent,[...]born 29 Mar 1949, Tana on 22 Mar neighbors to W.D. and Ethel, is the only one of the early 195[...]Clarence was born 25 Aug 1897 to Godfrey and Keturah[...]1898 to Henry and Harriet Phillips Hildreth, Medicine[...]Lodge Ranch , Red Rock MT. Clarence came to Montana in[...]came back to Montana.[...]family of four moved to their homestead Jun 1923 at[...]In Oct 1924 they moved to Armstead, purchasing the[...]8 cents a quart due to a price war. McGraw at the ranch, where th[...] |
| [...]ill health forced him (2 years old). Ref 145 .17. to sell in 1956. Clarence bought and sold sheep on c[...]arge he leased the Chevron helping hand was given to family, friends and neighbors in Station, ra[...]n word. ardent sportsman, devoted years to Little League baseball, Clarence was hardwork[...]945 he always had a twinkle in his eyes. He loved to fish the in Seattle. Children: Eric, David,[...]el and Adele. exceptionally fast runner and loved to play baseball. Norma married Don McC[...]ht piano many years. The couple ranched near kept to give to the grandchildren on birthdays and other M[...]Good times: family gatherings, anniversary trips to Medicine Lodge, one unforgettable trip to see Clarence's family in Loveland CO in 1[...] |
| [...]ould join him as he walked down the street and go to the lower mountains to feed. In the evening they would return and the geese would drop out to go to their own barns. The barns were on the ground Ton[...]ng quarters. When older, he would take cattle to the mountains, go rattlesnakes, she would[...]and Road). each morning take the rest of the milk to the village to the His mother lived in the house at the[...]e house had thirty acres. There were He wrote to his aunt, his mother's sister, Margaret[...]ad, which later became part of the Rebich Butala, to send him the fare to Dillon. His aunt sent Willis place, Dunstan place, Perkins place, the old airport to him to Mary Innes to school. She started with first grade the s[...]ond-1988 and Peggy-1989. He worked one whole year to pay for the fare money to his Grandchildren are Jeannette, Gary, Lar[...]--Ruby Kruljac Prohosky went to East Helena to visit friends, where he met Mary Krainatz and lat[...]year in Yugoslavia. Her father, Marcus, decided to take his wife and daughter to Yugoslavia to live, but in a year they returned. Tony and Mary's first home was a small cabin in the canyon south at the warm springs. There were so m[...] |
| [...]moved to Ashland KS where they bought and operated a[...]returned to Ashland KS and dated Agnes A. Sughrue.[...]Agnes, being the first white child to be born in Ashland,[...]in France 18 Oct 1918. His body was brought back to Dillon in Jan 1921. His name is the first World W[...]s now in However, Vance never lost his yearning to work with cattle, the Dillon American Legion coll[...]en Leck and Virginia told of the military walking to the cemetery when the Katherine, they headed west. remains were laid to rest. The fo[...]move to the homestead four miles north of Lima. It[...] |
| [...]I remember when we went to the country dances; I would[...]We left Dillon in 1919 and went to Lima where Dad[...]back and forth from the ranch to town. It was that winter I[...]enough for him to prove up on it. Then we spent the winter[...]born. We later returned to Lima where he did some teaming[...]to fade and they moved to Ogden."[...]Elsie Mueller was born 11 Apr 1920 in Chinook MT to We went north through Laramie WY and stopped in[...]ork. I remember quite in 4-H. She came to Dillon to attend Western Montana well a tug-of-war at the c[...]is a diversified operation. Summers, We moved to Deer Lodge for a short time and I Fran[...]oach ride, changing horses at Wise River and then to enjoyed her animals, especially her sheep. She would work Divide where Gin and I got our first train ride to Dillon. long hours to save sick animals when others would have We moved to Grant where Dad drove a freight outfit for give[...]rkeys. Those who the Bannack mines. He hauled ore to the railroad and helped her pick turkeys[...]Francis delivered many a holiday turkey to Butte to fill When the mine closed, we moved back to Dillon where orders. Innumerable visitors, well acquainted or not, have Dad tried to dryfarm grain. He was called up for the b[...]time tradition, countless meals were served to hay crews and[...] |
| [...]dedicated lady and an especially pleasing person to work[...]group, but also learned to be enterprising, responsible,[...]citizens. Many said they felt honored to work with Elsie. Newcomers to the sheep industry often came to her for advice and she gave direction to many a youth with his/her[...]Neighbors Extension Homemakers Club. True to her[...]"Anyway, that's the way I see it. We've got to help each[...]wanted to be the first of the sisters "to go."[...]Agnes Keenan Elsie dedicated 46 years to serving the 4-H program of Irish immigra[...]Charles M. Laden was one of the first draftees to be a member of the State 4-H Awards Committee. Tw[...]ched with Charles' brothers John Her service to the Beaverhead County Fair began in 1950 W. an[...]6 "Charlie" joined his building, and in the years to follow she was superintendent brother Francis[...]s parents and two brothers all preceded him in on to become leaders themselves and many more[...]John W. Laden married Hazel Foster and to them were Mothers expressed gratitude for th[...]s Elsie modeled as a leader teaching club members to raised cattle and sheep and lived on the prope[...]born until his death in Apr 1980. manners and how to become involved in public speaking. 508[...] |
| [...]parcels were later sold to Leon Hirsch and Dave Schuett.[...]he and Charlie seemed to have more often worked on the[...] |
| [...]884: Harvey Eugene Lake was born 31 May 1937 to James Mrs. L. Lamont, and daughter[...]will remain in Dillon. Mr. Noble, |
| [...]estock at Glen. From Wood Livestock, Tom went to work for Dave Hagenbarth until 1940 when he bough[...]He stayed on the ranch until 1921 when he went to work winning a trip to Mexico City. He served as president of[...] |
| [...]for little family grocery store was located next to the Mary Innes many lovely dinner and card part[...]from 1944 until the store closed 25 moved to the Brookside Apartments. Verl worked at the year[...]to retire. Frank continued as secretary of the Dillo[...]the apartment until 1990 when he moved to Parkview Acres[...]Rocks. He was the seventh of eight children born to George[...]married in Butte MT and moved to Beaverhead County in 1896 to homestead their ranch.[...]and Gardner prior to her marriage to Matt 23 May 1934 in[...]continued to live there until 1971 when they sold the[...]homestead ranch and retired to live in Dillon. They raised[...]ch. Ref. I 47. 03. cattle drive to upper Stone Creek was an annual affair.[...]the Old-Fashioned Dancing Club from 1940 to 1965 and Council for eight years and served as Pr[...]nearby towns, including Armstead, which was to be covered Lodge #1554 in 1929 and held most of t[...]and State President of Jessie belonged to the Home Demonstration Club for the Montana State[...]niversary marvelous cook. Anyone fortunate enough to have been in on 23 May 1984 with a large[...]Jessie was the first of four in her family to reach a 50th "Christmas Candy Cooking Bee" will n[...]e wedding anniversary. The other three to reach that goal mouth-watering goodies.[...]an MT and Willis Violett of Lothair MT. Matt wife to her Lodge-minded husband. They were a frie[...] |
| [...]Hole to Armstead for shipping and broke a lot of horses,[...]GA on 10 Oct 1943. Isabell , called Tim, was to Dillon, Tim taught second grade at the Mary Innes[...]repaired harness and worked on ranches, Prior to their marriage, Tim had taught school in[...]was their trip to the World ' s Fair in Seattle in 1962.[...]en ' s Golf Club and selling hot dogs at the Fair to[...]best trips was to the Winter Olympics in Albertville, France,[...]small in size and Mr. Christy would have her walk to the most interesting and exasperating experience[...]ave Sullivan, a road contractor in the loud to the class. Afton remembered this as an unp[...] |
| [...]k house was overwhelming. Situated close to the house on the ranch was used as a school for c[...]tual went on for several weeks until she adjusted to head for the neighbors' to have a dance and party. married li[...]d at Ruby. They bought and her brother and sister to sit on during those trips, for if land also on[...]. built. In 1939-1942 Afton and Ed moved to Helena to The ranch was sold in 1916 and Afton's family moved to operate the George Whitworth and Sons Wo[...]In 1942, Afton and Ed left Helena and moved back to the[...]Ed loved to travel and they visited many countries--New[...]Edwin Keith Lloyd was born 28 Dec 1901 to W.E. and[...]married 14 Jan 1929 at Missoula. She and Ed moved to his father's ranch at Dell MT. Afton found[...] |
| [...]loyd's parents sold the ranch in 1916 and moved to Dillon where he graduated from Beaverhead County[...]e trip daily for more than four years. He moved to California in 1925 and worked for several garages over the next few years, then returned to Montana and worked as a car salesman in Butte a[...]as an electrician. He left Seattle and returned to Missoula as a car salesman and eventually owned[...]sold the successful business in 1963 and returned to Dillon in 1965. He operated Lloyd ' s La[...] |
| [...]She was the first child Montana College. born to Elizabeth Parkinson and W .E. Lloyd.[...]District 34. Evelyn and her brother, janitor to principal in one day. He enjoyed people and was K[...]a diplomat. An upset parent was often told to come back following year George Tash constructed[...]is principal of Target Range, a K-8 She went to work for Elizabeth and Elmo Winn until they s[...]dies in the 6th Treasurer and served O1 Jan 194 2 to 31 Dec 1946. grade in Dillon. She is married to Larry Skiles. Following that experience, she[...]He reportedly came first to Bannack in 1882, then settled in[...]the Beaverhead Valley. In 1894 he went to work as a[...]Five children were born to John and Mary Ellen: Maggie[...]In 1900 the John Poultney Loughridge family moved to Katherine Russell Lodge. property in Bridger Canyon fifteen miles from Bozeman, He attended schools i[...]MT taught in Hill City and Wall SD, before moving to Redstone MT in 1943.[...]he game. After one year of coaching, he was asked to be Colorado gold mines were in full[...] |
| Thomas signed a Central City CO oath of allegiance to the by 1950. He continued working for SCS u[...]l Resource Consultant. James apparently went home to join, as he served as a Carole was b[...]and graduated from Harrison High School journeyed to the Montana gold fields, not arriving until the[...]after. Little is known of James after he went to Montana with Thomas. He is enumerated on the 1870[...]Iowa. After arriving in Montana, Thomas went to Blackfoot MT, a mining camp west of Helena, then he moved to Argenta, a mining camp a few miles northeast of B[...]il 1879 when he moved into the Beaverhead Valley to engage in farming, stock raising and dairying.[...]le Krauss Earl and Carole (Krauss) Love moved to Dillon from Ennis in 1960 when Earl accepted the[...]ss' parents ranched in the Alder area in the came to the Madison Valley from Missouri in 1916.[...]early 1900s. John moved to the Madison Valley in 191~. Earl's mother, Pearl Cassidy, came to Montana in 1916[...]rved as County Commissioner of area. After moving to Ennis to teach, she met and married Madison County f[...]d Shewmaker Ranch one mile north Daems' came to Bannack in 1863 and moved on to Virginia of Ennis in 1935. They lived there until selling the ranch in City to' the new gold strike. He was educated in Belgium[...]mayo:. Korea. After his discharge Earl returned to Ennis and Great-grandmother, Mari[...] |
| [...]culptor, one an engraver and jeweler, one plan to stay there as long as possible. died in Virginia[...]n 1962. He graduated mother, Agnes, came to join Blaz Sr in Butte MT. Agnes from Flathead Com[...]ton on Flathead Lake. He and his wife, Maris to the Dillon area, accompanied by Mr. and Mrs. Izid[...]and Basar who later took Joe and returned to Butte where he Andrea, one year old.[...]orce Academy. He married Angie moved to the Centennial Valley where Blaz Sr had a Pearson[...]t Mary A. Metzel's and also friends. This has led to spending several weeks in the in Lakeview[...]s; however, the place often driving the truck to Monida to pick up supplies. 518 - Beaverhead History No. 2 |
| [...]would do anything on command from tricks to cattle work, Hanson. to retrieving ducks and also was the lead dog for Ze[...]the winter. the upper Centennial Valley next to her grandmother, Lillian Blaz fed cattle[...]daughter, Harriet "Sherrie" born 05 Dec 1932. to the Lower Centennial to Grandpa John A. "Pap" Jones' Blaz and Fay Selby had the mail contract from Monida to live, and while there the girls attended the Doyle School to Henry's Lake ID. This was while they lived at the[...]ranches surrounding the Red Rock Lakes to form the Bird[...]no out buildings to speak of, and not very good fences. Blaz[...]to the Big Hole in the spring of 1938. The first thi[...]did was to build a corral so they could tum their horses[...]to Dillon.[...]the cattle real early and then go to the timber and cut and[...]The intention was to move to Dillon until the girls[...]tells about driving a horse and Zella retired to Dillon. and buggy to Riverside and the entertainment of the day was[...]a very ·hardworking, get-things-done person. to see how far up on the jack leg fence you could ru[...]he could. He never They later moved back to the Centennial where the expected anyone to do more than he did himself. Neighbors purcha[...]equally as busy and ambitious. She was chief to Billy and Eileen Jones when the Neighbors[...] |
| [...]"up sot. " After a wild scramble for the lantern to get it After the move to the Big Hole, Zella acquired a Maytag out of[...]ngine. The trials and tribulations of way to the dance. wash day when the engine would not start and she had to On 19 Jul 1953 when the wood stove w[...]ast, fire broke out of the chimney. Zella managed to and won the battle. get a call through to one of the neighbors and everyone for[...]miles around came to help, but all they managed to save was[...]showers to help replace the losses. They lived in a log cabi[...]t summer and put an old Butte City Lines bus next to it to feed the hay crew in. Last thing on the table was[...]Once again Zella was cooking and heating water to do[...]and were in it to celebrate Christmas.[...]two years later. He still came out in haying to run the mow crew and Zella came to help in the kitchen. Blaz helped[...]to Dillon on Saturday evening after finishing the wi[...]Lois Dougherty Both Blaz and Zella loved to dance and went to almost all Raymond M. Lynch was born in But[...]served in Pond's Lodge at Henry's Lake, Blaz went to sleep and ran the U.S. Navy and a few yea[...]t served in the Korean Conflict. He returned to Dillon and a big rock that kept it from rolling clear to the bottom of a was associated with his wife's[...]ravine. Blaz, Zella and the girls all walked back to get help Red & White Laundry & Dry Cleaners. to get the car up and going again.[...]e business from Jack and Josie A favorite way to go in the wintertime was with one of Doughe[...]ail line. These were the front bobs changed to Beaverhead Laundry & Dry Cleaners. Lloyd with a f[...]were partners in the out of an old truck in front to look out and a hole cut under business. that for the lines to the team. There was usually hay on the[...] |
| [...]mmunity servant began in 1957 when he was elected to the Dillon City Council. He served in that positi[...]can Legion. dedication to the work at hand. He was a 'man for all Ray w[...]and Activities Committee for left a legacy to be remembered with pride by all he served 22 years. He was elected to the Hall of Fame at Western in public lif[...]uation He was appointed by Governor Tom Judge to the State from Butte High School in 1943,[...]Local Government and the State Health to Dillon and was employed as a bookkeeper for her f[...]in his court justice always prevailed according to the letter of the law and always a fairness to those who appeared before him.[...] |
| [...]In 1949 or 1950, he moved to Dillon where his sister, John's father was Dun[...]d a summer, but as the Korean War began to heat up, he was homestead in the Big Hole.[...]ed back into active duty in the Navy. He was sent to Their three children included John born 21 Dec[...]frogmen. As of this writing, Duncan Jr, continues to live and work in John and Helen were marrie[...]discharge; he, Helen and Diana returned to Dillon. He[...]enough to convince most men to go peacefully. However,[...]emergency call bell for her. She ran to the office and found[...]him to twist his knee. The prisoner, a trick rider, was[...]her way to another rodeo the next day, but John was on[...]After that introduction to the teaching life, they taught in John B. MacDona[...]state. The family returned to Dillon for the 10-week[...]ol in 1938. He which has since been moved to make way for an Arctic worked at the mines briefl[...]Millicoma, also lent his carpentry skills to restoring the old church in which was torp[...] |
| [...]Madden. He came to Beaverhead County as a boy to visit[...]named to the basketball Hall of Fame in Springfield MA.[...]In Sep 1964, Helen and John were hired to teach in Lyle He was very proud of the ring[...]Helen bought a farm near Lyle. They returned to Dillon for Joe was gassed during his servi[...]his retirement. their travels and moved them to the new farm. His war-caused disabilities required him to spend part of On Veteran's Day, 11 Nov 1965, John went to get wood each year at Fitzsimmons Veterans'[...]Harrison on 14 Aug 1972 and is buried tnbute to John and presented his master's diploma to Helen. at Mountain View Cemetery in Dillon next to his brother, To this day, "Big John" is widely remembered[...] |
| [...]Paddock near Dillon for two years, prior to remodeling the[...]presently Head Baker. Ed and Barb feel fortunate to be able 1966. Ref.164.35. to give their children the opportunity to be raised on the[...]Philip James Malesich was born 01 May 1918 to John Edward Steven Malesich was born 29 Nov 1952 to and Angela Malesich in Dillon, the yo[...]der brother, John Wiley Dillon. He went on to graduate from Beaverhead County Malesich, and you[...]Philip was the only child in the Malesich family to 1971 and attended Montana State University majoring in graduate from high school and go on to college. Prior to Agricultural Production. He graduated with honors[...]Philip met Frances M. Coleman when she came to work After Scotty's death, Ed became president[...]ch he and his brothers operate together. born to Harrison and Josephine (Vezina) Coleman in Ed is[...]instructor. He was a superior marksman and Falls to Dale Edward and Shirley Lorraine (Enloe) M[...] |
| 1946. In 1950 Phil and Frances moved back to the Dillon Their second child, Rand[...]on Stone accident near Drummond MT, due to very poor signage Creek. The farm house was not e[...]s under construction, in running water. Water had to be brought in fresh each day. poor weathe[...]lon. He a butane refrigerator that made it easier to keep fresh food resides in Billings and is a[...]blower. He is buried in Leadore ID next to his son, Randy.[...]born 26 Apr 1916 to John Malesich and Angela T . Miller[...]expected to work on the family ranch. Schooling for him[...]ana history. In 1951 or 1952 the family moved to a ranch at Moiese[...]n his father died of complications MT and then on to Thompson Falls MT and there began a[...]g with George and others, did the best they could to became manager of a branch store. Encouraged by t[...]going for several years. representative from NAPA to open their own store, they[...]ew older and the rest of the family married moved to Harlowton MT in 1959 and opened their own[...]of his brothers, George and Philip, remained to work on the Phil and Frances made the area ab[...]3 Jul 1942. He was 26 years old. It was hard work to have two children, Heather Brooke and Trek[...] |
| [...]tor at the Beaverhead across the Beaverhead River to the west where the Mallons County airport i[...]copal Church in Bozeman MT. When neither had time to devote to flying. The plane was sold a they returned to Dillon after the wedding, they were year or so later. However, Scotty had gone to some trouble properly shivareed through the streets of Dillon in a horse- to put up a hangar for "his" airplane on the ranch.[...]Gardening, start to finish, entered into the picture as[...]be someone hired to help with all of the work. Often it[...]all reside on or near the ranch, handle the day-to-day Sally and Scotty Malesich on their wedding da[...]Lowell Mallon 23 Aug 1921 to Wiley S. and Bertha F. Jeffers Davis in Bozeman MT to a Madison Valley pioneer family. Sally[...]Lowell Lee Mallon was born 13 Jul 1922 to Millie and Economics. She taught for one year in[...]arie was born 28 Apr 1924, slow for her. She went to Washington D.C. for six months, Lowell and[...]r School, staying with family friends and then on to New York City sometimes riding to school on a horse. When they finished for Federal[...]County High School After training, Sally went to Augusta ME and worked as in Dillon and gradu[...]r graduation, Lowell's father's health forced him to She found an opportunity to return to Montana and went to retire, so Lowell took over running the ran[...]te on 10 Feb 1952. This grew old and she went to Sun Valley ID and was They had fiv[...] |
| [...]The following year, Lowell and Dolores moved to Dillon[...]then they moved to the Ruegsegger place.[...]and Tyler Lee. They moved to Washington about nine years[...]Julie went to VoTech in Butte and took a course to be a medical secretary. She moved to Lynnwood WA. She met[...]went to work in insurance. In 1981 she married Tim[...]on. They divorced a few years later. She returned to[...]sclerosis, which finally forced her to quit working. The MS[...]Lowell is semi-retired but still likes to keep his hand in[...].181. 02. Helena MT to James and Anna Mansfield of Grant. He[...]oid fever at Gonzaga necessitated his return home to the was an excellent acquisition.[...]ad no formal training, he was an excellent back to Wise River to work on the ranch with his dad. practic[...]originated the movement to trap elk in the Yellowstone ar~a When Larry finished school in Bozeman, he joined to ship them to upper Horse Prairie. They were taken m Lowell a[...]ch. In 1981, after leasing the railway cars to the valley on the Gilmore and Pittsburgh Howard[...]been wiped out in previous years. suited to haying, it was used for summer pasture.[...]any years as school trustee for the Larry moved to Dillon to manage that ranch. Since Dillon Grant scho[...]School was erected. He was , the cows down there to calve them out. a direct[...]n Dillon and Six years later, they decided to move their whole[...]an Elks Club member. operation to Dillon, so they sold the ranch at Wise River and[...]gger ranch. Jerry, Katie and their girls moved to it.[...] |
| [...]illon. Nevada Marie Wall was born in Ogden UT to Joseph and Beesy (Brady) Wall 20 Aug 1886. She at[...]Joseph J. Mansfield was born to James N. and Nevada[...]Church in theater of operations. He returned to the family ranch in Dillon 24 Oct 1917, with Reve[...]fields made their home on the family he moved to Seattle WA and studied in the Metal Trades ranch[...]machine shop. Cowbelles (women's auxiliary to the Cattlemen's In 1969[...] |
| [...]Springs came to the ranch for fresh milk and other items.[...]Margaret "Polly" Mansfield was born 11 Aug 1927 to enjoyed all these visitors. She would run to the window James and Nevada Mansfield. She was educated in local when the dog barked to see who was coming. schools and graduated from th[...]In the early 1950s, Ted and Wilda sold the ranch to his Missoula in 1948.[...]the Bitterroot Valley for a few years, then moved to and worked in Spokane, Yakima and various locations in the Oregon to live with his daughter and her family. He died in[...]places are in the Riverview Cemetery at she moved to Spokane WA.[...]He had fond memories of the many trips he made to Comet. Ted spoke of climbing the mountain, with[...]ther-in-law, Jack Brown, built the new addition to the ranch house in the early 1920s. The ranch b[...]raining in 1918 at Johnstown PA and went right to work in the midst of the horrible flu epidemic[...]per Valley. Ted and Wilda worked very hard to pay for the ranch. Robert Dewey Marchess[...]cult for Grasshopper Valley 30 Sep 1900 to Edmond and Elizabeth everyone. To help boost their income, they sold products[...]such as milk, cream, butter, eggs, chickens, etc. to Bannack twelve, all of which were born at home . residents. They made weekly and semi-monthly trips to[...] |
| Dewey went to the Scudder Creek School which was conveniently l[...]s would Plutt. My mother and father moved to Dillon and bought dig them out, peel the mud off[...]ter cold winter with very little snow and no rain to speak of in the summer. There were literally clou[...]s for warmth. Next morning when the hoppers began to stir, the cow chips looked as if they were moving[...]backs. When his father died in 1934 he continued to help his mother with the ranch until she died in[...]s. Later on, when his older brother Ted was ready to retire and move to Hamilton, he purchased his ranch. This was also a[...]d for Dr. Poindexter until she married and moved to the ranch. They became parents of six childre[...], Jules, Jim, and Gordon (Tex). The sons continue to operate the ranch which is known as Marchesseaul[...]moved Janet, dad Jack Lane. Ref.150. 26. to Dillon and in her latter years lived with her dau[...]In 1936 I went to work for Irvine & Cottom Potatoes at[...]My father plowed the ground from six a.m. to six p.m. at[...]the P & 0 Ranch and I plowed from six p.m. to six a.m.[...]because the P & 0 only had one tractor to pull the plow.[...]in the early part of the year loaded them to ship to all southern states. We heated the box cars to 90 degrees so[...] |
| [...]four years, in 1940, I figured I would go out to Portland OR and take up the sheet metal trade[...]er a short time, the instructor said, "Go out to the Oregon ship yard and take your test. " I[...]aid time and a half. Before long, he asked me to work Sundays for double time. In 1941 I had to sign up for the draft and in July 1942, the dra[...]y dad and a girl I knew met the train. I was glad to said, "I want to go in the Navy." They said, "Yes." get in a warm house. We went to Dillon the next day or so I transferred my papers to Helena MT and came back to and I started looking for a job. I stopp[...]e picking and he said he months of going to Butte with my father's 1935 Studebaker, would p[...]made picking. we agreed to get married 01 Aug 1946. My father and I I was called in October 1942 to report to Helena and they fixed up the house and added a second bedroom and bath put us on a train to Norfolk VA for training. We were and[...]ntrance made a place for the washer and allowed to come home for Christmas and I had a chance to dryer. see all my family.[...]d one well and an outhouse and we put in plumbing to the (they opened up in front to put in tanks and Jeeps). It took sewer and to the city water. Weekends and after work, we us 40 days to reach North Africa.[...]e time. At the end of the year we returned to USA and were sent Christmas Eve 1948 our daughter, Diane, was born. In to the Philippine invasion. I left there in late 194[...]e earnings and they millions who were prepared to go into Japan. They then both had enough to pay their college. loaded us in a transport to come home . We were not able Diane married Jack Lane from Three Forks and they had , to dock at San Francisco or Seattle as the longshore[...]aster's . were on strike, so we came up the river to Portland and Degree in teaching the he[...]ed. It was 1997. Brent Lane is going to UM in Missoula. He works Christmas Eve.[...]dio that there were 2,000 homes and also goes to his classes. His boss is very good to sailors from all over the western USA and people were him. Brent is able to pay for his college himself. Janet driving around to take us home for dinner. It was very nice. Lane has been able to pay a lot of her schooling. We went by train to Bremerton near Seattle to be discharged and got a ticket by train to Butte MT. That was a big surprise; it w[...] |
| [...]listening to her stories of childhood days. She was in Race[...]He worked for an oil firm in Denver CO, then went to school in Denver as a para-legal and now works fo[...]s born 05 Aug 1868 in Abbeford, England. She came to the United States with her parents when she was t[...]ttled in the Deer Lodge valley. In 1916 she moved to Anaconda and operated a successful grocery store[...], Matilda Marchesseau from Polaris, convinced her to move to Dillon so she would be closer. Still having the g[...]erated it for many years until her health started to Ref.174.33. fail.[...] |
| [...]e and several broken bones in her To this union were born eight children. Three died i[...]inell and Addie Estella Calvert were hauled to Butte mines to feed the horses and mules that married 19 Jan[...]ont of the Al Young place, about also shipped to Tijuana, Mexico, for race horses. five miles north of Dell, to let Elmer and his bride off the Cattle wer[...]p Creek. Elmer tried raising until they moved to the place Elmer had purchased from a sheep[...]time away from grubbing out sagebrush to develop more hay The homestead was locate[...]out ground and irrigating . Grain was grown to help develop the one mile east of Dell just n[...]national Exposition bugs. Before her marriage to Elmer, she had been a teacher in 1915 for so[...]homesteads, one belonging to his brother, Mitch, located just[...]rothers until the spring of 1960 when Ray elected to retire.[...]rn 1944; twins It was frightening for Addie to be alone in their cabin Carol and Ja[...] |
| [...]wned previously by Jim and Anna Martinell Company to conduct the ranch business. Having McKenzi[...]ne (Mayberry) married in 1972. They boundary next to the West Fork of the Madison River by hav[...]trees along the river, a fitting tribute to the Martinell legacy[...]Elmer Marion Martinell came to Montana the same day it was admitted to the Union, 08 Nov 1889. He bought his[...]On 14 May 1973, they purchased the Buck place to the as Martinell Brothers, a sheep and cow[...]Babe" and Mary E. when Ray retired and moved to Lima with his wife, Grace. Buck. This property al[...]ranch and moved to Salmon ID in 1966. The land in the Centennial is used for summer pasture to Gordon and Gladys' oldest daughter, Gail An[...]ep Creek that was lost after the 1959), went to first grade at the Nicholia School before the par[...]In 1980, still being short on family moved to Salmon. This was the last year the school spring[...]er place west of the Dell airport. That bus to Lima for school. Before the bus began going up sa[...]n system was Sheep Creek in 1970, parents had to take turns driving their installed and eventually the land planted to alfalfa. children down to old Highway 91 to meet the bus near Dell. Families - 534 |
| [...]years in Salmon, Gordon, Gladys and family moved to Idaho Falls in 1968 where Gordon continued his[...]Mathews. Her mother was the 1978 they moved back to Sheep Creek and have lived on the second wh[...]ghter, Kari, is a veterinarian in Sidney, married to Craig Johnson. They have two sons, Ben and Cole.[...]il Ann Treasurer, Bertie was elected to that office and during the married Dana Kisling a[...]Kim, married Shawn Jones Bookstore prior to accepting a secretarial position with and they ha[...]her retirement to her and Georgia' s home on South Atlantic[...]numerous birdhouses, havens to the feathered friends which[...] |
| In deference to the birds, however, no cats were tolerated 198[...]." the only time Bertie ever raised her voice was to a Those momentous occasions conf[...]ing her beloved birds. She also worked diligently to college's century-long existence have afford[...]rother, women's dorm. Her contributions to the intellectual and Barry, and sister, Hazel, wh[...]half a century, Georgia Mathews endeared herself to countless Western Montana College students, parents and co-workers through her unique dedication to both the institution and those who attended and t[...]ss leaders. Her natural capabilities then led to a position with the Georgia Mathews, born[...]as County Treasurer in 1919, the first woman ever to occupy that post. Her major career, however, originated in 1923 when she Second only to her love for the "Normal School" was her joined t[...]tana State Normal College as loyalty to the Democratic Party. It is highly improbable tha[...]tion in more than 70 years. She was ever promoted to business manager just three year later. In 1942[...]and in every room. It was an accepted first woman to serve on the vestry of St. James Episcopal fact among her many friends that if you wished to please Church, charter member of P.E.O. (Chapter[...]incomparable delights to her many friends. Those gourmet Two si[...] |
| [...]ew Later, Julius came out west to Montana and settled in things more than making a[...]d her Dillon where he went to work for Frank Landon. Landon sister, Bertie, wer[...]ege which they revered. They to purchase more land and put together one of the be[...]wo sisters moved well as of the land. to a local rest home where they spent their final years. Both Julius continued to work for Landon until he sold out. now rest in th[...]ew Cemetery. Julius then went to work for the P & 0 Ranch and later at[...]many years tending camp. He continued to do this until his[...]Julius retired and moved to Dillon to spend some good Julius Mathias[...]t the age of 80. young life in Wisconsin and went to school there. He joined the U.S. Marine Corps and[...]--Fred "Buster" Brown ended, Julius returned home to Wisconsin.[...] |
| [...]and Annie Mautz, Joe's parents, leased the ranch to Anne Williams and Dorothy Shaffler. He attended the them and Mautz Sr. moved to Dillon. After leasing the Riverside School. His d[...]on. there, she was promoted to supervisor and head cook. Many times his grai[...]Joe and Agnes sold their ranch in 1981 and moved to Agnes Mautz was born 19 Nov 1915. She[...] |
| [...]Quincy Adams, 26 Jun 1929 in Taylorsville. Prior to their marriage, Edith taught school for four years. They moved to Detroit Ml, where he worked construction until he lost his job due to the Depression.[...]Frenchie's and worked there to pay for the pasture bill.[...]By 16 Dec 1944, he had saved enough money to[...]the girls moved to Dillon for the girls to attend school. The only way to travel in the winter was by horse and[...]1956 when electricity was brought to the valley. Pink sold his homestead to Wayne Montgomery in 1959[...]Model T Ford purchased new Ranch was sold to Lee Martinell in June 1961. The lower for $330. R[...]Mayberry Ranch was sold to Frederick and Bernice[...]n October 1933. The next year, Ralph continued on to well-known for her cooking, especially h[...]y's ranch, beaverslide derrick. Pink loved to break and work horses. hauled mail for Blaz Lugar from Monida to Lakeview with Ranch life was an aro[...] |
| [...]was born 31 Mar 1907 in Thoeny, Valley County MT to Mr. and Mrs. David Mayne. He had four brothers an[...]anny" a ranch in the Upper Centennial Valley next to her grandmother Lillian Culver's ranch. She atten[...]Over the years she managed to babysit most of the Dan and Lila worked in Ce[...]another, going through an auto Fitter, then moved to the Big Hole Valley and worked for accide[...]ice as owned the # 10 Cafe in Whitehall from 1957 to 1961. Sheriff of Beaverhead County,[...]together with her St. Bernard 1972 when she moved to Dillon to be close to her sister, "Freddie." She'd hunt[...] |
| [...]stopping for a little goose hunting on the way to a county the sheriff rousted hoboes in the "jungle", going to accident teachers' meeting, bagged several birds and put them in the scenes, and riding along to deliver convicts to the prison at trunk, only to have some of the stunned birds revive in the Deer[...]a break in the meeting. then the family began to travel to the most interesting places. High school wa[...]and her baby sister Debra, family went back to Dillon each summer while John and during the week. And then a commute to Wyola for the Helen worked on advanc[...]heir jeep went flying off the road on the way to Bill McAnally at the end of her sophomore year. Penny to school and landed in the only tree in the area. A[...]eventually going to Washington to help with Helen's farm[...]for a time before moving to Hermiston OR, where the girls[...]attended high school and then to Glasgow MT.[...]seems to have inherited some of her grandmother's artistic[...]Diana divorced in 1990 and moved back to Washington[...]attempts to garden, happily fishes, rock hounds, camps, does[...]Known to her grandkids as the "biker granny", she m[...] |
| [...]He went to the First National Bank and Bill Tait and told[...]him he figured if he could borrow enough money to buy a[...]loan and have enough operating capital to keep the ranch May 1921. One morning in 1936 at a[...]re enough, the plan worked and the ranch grew way to school, Truman decided he needed to know what was from there. Ironically, this[...]r and that band at the end of the road. He walked to Roberts ID, where he of 900 ewes were the o[...]own cattle, Truman and Don built he made his way to the Big Hole Valley where he went to a large feedlot. For ten years they winte[...]hers from Wisdom. appendicitis sent him back home to Idaho where he stayed In 1968 they pur[...]ulling the This was also the beginning of a dream to own a ranch and camp trailer, began the eig[...]m that would come true cattle from the Valley to the home place. through determination and hard wo[...]entually son-in- World War II, he and Verla moved to Dillon and started on law, Farrell, joined[...]n. their trek through the Beaverhead. Truman went to work Truman always had a great love[...]he races and became the race The family moved to Melrose and entered into a ranching starter a[...]Truman would always give them a fair opportunity to lease the Willard place (where Jeff and Ta[...] |
| [...]met and married Phyllis Evans in Dillon in 1921. To bishopric for nineteen years. Verla served as Pri[...]l building (the Oasis, now the Dilmart). He moved to remarried and spent most of his remaining years i[...]r diminished. When asked Gaines moved to Bozeman in 1925 and opened a branch of where he was from, he was quick to reply, "Dillon, the McCracken Brot[...]T. Lee, as he was known to all, was bitten by the ski bug[...]four pairs of skis for people to try this new-to-the-U .S.[...]sport. Soon there was a nucleus of 12 to 15 people and[...]center of interest moved to the Elkhorn area. The CCC built[...]When the owner of Elkhorn refused to rent cabins in the[...]ke. He never met a stranger and was always ready to help a neighbor. Verla had a sweet gentle spirit[...]vice. They left a proud name and a fine heritage to their family. -[...]Phyllis Evans |
| [...]on. Ref 175.11. After the war, skiing moved to Tash Hill since the new The Dillon Ski Club moved the ski area to its present |
| [...]ard in 1967 from the National etc. They have been to nearly every lake and on top of most Educati[...]His knowledge of history led to an interest in firearms. Two children were born to Dick and Marcia, Megan Lee He had an exce[...]oka Dean Walter McDowell was born 03 Apr 1923 to Walter L. and Roberta (Bean) McDowell in Idaho Fa[...]ok and cow milker. In 1937 bis parents moved to Dillon for Dean to attend high school. After graduating, in 1941, he enlisted in the Army and was assigned to the 414th Military Police at Fort Knox KY. From there he was sent with a convoy to North Africa to bring back German and Italian prisoners-of-war f[...]Corporal. At the end of the war, he returned to Dillon. Dean married Dorthianne Boka 29 May 1946[...], their son, Dana, and daughter, returned to Dillon to make a run on the Big Hole River Karlye, were bo[...]Summers were spent with In 1955 they moved to Lind WA to continue their his family at a[...] |
| [...]f the National Education there he went to California to work for Ryan Aeronautical Association, as well a[...]MT to J. Frank McGuire of White Sulphur Springs MT and[...]ed her career as a Nurse's Aid Tester in 1995. MT to Clifton Henry McEldery and Mable Nellie (M[...] |
| [...]lawyers. In 1953 he formed McFadden & now married to Greg Whitworth. Their children are son[...]argued that, if negligence existed, it was up to the jury to[...]in Silver Bow County while being taken to the Beaverhead Lead SD, son of Thomas and Margar[...]but on McFadden's motion, a change of venue to preliminary education at public and parochial sch[...]graduated LL.B in 1922 at the University of to the Montana Supreme Court. Virginia.[...]ully argued that, if there was false Admitted to the Montana Bar that same year, he formed i[...]this case, Bergin v. Temple, were so He moved to Dillon where he at first was associated in i[...], McFadden was principal attorney in was changed to Gilbert, Gilbert & McFadden at that time. a[...]partnership until 1939, when he opened prior to the testatrix's death. After her death, th[...] |
| [...]t. could contest a will was one who would succeed to some Rose Roman Catholic Church, Dillon,[...]ewspaperman. They had a daughter, In addition to his private law practice, he served as Patr[...]School Association, he helped numerous young men to pursue the study of law, Tod[...]Bank to Carl Alexander "Alex" Bolick, Jr. and Maxine[...]family moved to Mississippi shortly after Jennifer's birth.[...]They moved to Michigan where her younger brother,[...]In 1966 Jennifer and her brother moved back to Cut Bank[...]Jennifer, her mom and her brother had moved back to Montana in April 1971 while waiting to join Alex, who was[...]Jennifer down the lane to catch the school bus and at the end[...]to walk her back up the lane to the house. When she wasn't[...]he fed hay to the cows, help bottle feed the baby lambs, feed[...]garden. She even got to take some baby chicks to school for[...] |
| Medford NJ, where she graduated in 1982. She moved back to Montana and attended Montana State University in[...]on and a minor in Business Management. She moved to Big Sky and worked in the Accounting Department[...]sity when Scotland 25 Sep 1885. He came to the U.S. in 1896 and they met. In August 1991 he moved to Big Sky and worked settled in Ohio where[...]n this field. He brought a load of purebred sheep to a construction worker for Blue Ribbon Builders.[...]o had purchased sheep in his horse and proposed to Jennifer. Fort Benton[...]Fort Benton for 28 years and married Ann moved to Dillon. Jennifer is an insurance agent for Wester[...]ant. The McKenzie family came to Beaverhead County in The house they live in[...]in January the house was built, the place used to be an old stagecoach 1955. Six of the childre[...]tes, known as Watson ranch was sold in 1956 to the Tanner family of Idaho. Station.[...] |
Beaverhead County Museum Association, More History of Beaverhead County Part A (Pages 1-551) (1997). Montana History Portal, accessed 22/03/2025, https://www.mtmemory.org/nodes/view/78578
