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| [...]cas and Gordon Halverson, and Douglas contributed in any way to this bit of personal history of[...] |
| WHAT'S IN A NAME[...]rystaled shrubberies grow and creep What they had in mind as they circled the fence. Ove[...]ave them alone Stands forth in perfect symmetry. And by their very nature they'l[...]lost or Proving his talent unmatched in etching fame. strange.[...]r winter-bound hills and plains. honk His friends in their wisdom, called this cowboy Bronc.[...]nd these Proof, that winter fairies have crept up in the night poems are used, with th[...] |
| [...].................. .... . . . . .... 297 Banking in Big Horn County[...] |
| [...]No Figuring Necessary MODERN IN EVER Y[...]Mayor-A. L. MITCHELL In nine years Hardin ha.a[...]ed by teen million dollars, Is In view Chief Pollce-J. R. JONES Rev. J. M. Nelson, Mla- what the land In the vicinity and It Is Just a m[...]slona.ry Produces. Hardin Is right In when this will go through. In Attomcy--0. F. GILLEITE the cent[...]lst-J. E. CONVER In the vast acreage of non- 1rrlgated wheat land, which In the garden spot of Monta- THO[...]to the advertisers for further In- 3rd-W. A. PEDEN. th e temperate z[...]Phone 21-J" TRICTLY MODERN In Hotel Construction[...] |
| [...]the east side of The Lincoln Land Company in trying to find a South Custer. This busi[...]ontana was a citizen of Wyoming where he engaged in cattle Saloon (now Becker Hotel and Bar),[...]07, to Drake, who had other business interests in Billings, Harry E. Clifford and Thomas H. Mouat[...]Building of the Howell's House, 310 N. Crow, Hardin,[...]er Avenue July 4th, 1908 Within six to nine months after the first building in Hardin was completed, the butcher, the baker, and[...]many diversified business enterprises were soon in evidence. The main street (Center Avenue) of the new town was now in the business of supplying essential commodities to the new community and its surrounding environs. In most instances, the new town's business men not[...]h and Custer; J. B. Arnold, with banking interest in Billings and Huntley established the Bank of Hard[...]installed E. Interior of Big Horn County Bank-in Gay Block A. Howell as Cashier. Mr. Howell, an as[...]W. E. Warren Arnold's had had banking experience in Missouri, prior to moving to Billings. The Arnold[...]lings, and with the latter family to Hardin after building a home on the west side managing while Stoltenburg continued to live in of Crow A venue, between Third and Fourth. The ma[...]ching business. Mr. who built the first residence in Hardin, C. C. Hutton, an Robert Anderson, one of the first of Hardin's business old-timer in the general area for twelve or more years, men, operated the Hardin Bar and Hardin Hotel the first in ranching then engaged in Livery business in latter categorized as the "finest hotel in central and Crow Agency, came to Hardin in the spring of 1907, eastern Montana," wi[...]t general area for Feed, Livery and Transfer were in the floor contained, in addition to the Bar, a well-appointed[...] |
| [...]iness C. A. Cobb, whose son, Robert or Bob, later in his life run by Frank and Tony Buzzetti), where he sold hard-[...]t. Bob Cobb was also part owner of the engaged in the undertaking business (which brought old Los A[...]interests extended to the ownership needs were in the hands of Coulter and Bayles, whose of the tow[...]R. branched to Cody, during the winter months, from the sloughs and old Wyoming, (the main line[...]The journalistic endeavors of the new town were in Unfortunately or otherwise, Toluca "never got off[...]Hardin Tribune, which at first was small in size but[...]8 Actually, the first business establishment in Hardin, just prior to and while the survey was in progress, was located in a tent on the south side of the CB & Q tracks ...[...]y Hardin residents and surrounding community were in APPENDIX: the hands of Dr. W. C. Richards[...]ewhere for a number of years this receipt in my possession] to Harry E. Clifford and before settling in Hardin. Construction needs were sold Thomas H.[...]Ft. Custer, Mt. May 31, 1907 branches in Billings, Forsyth and Columbus. The Hardin yards[...]t No. [1] seven, Block No. dealer, and also dealt in hay and grain. A new town [12] twelve[...]There has been some controversy as to when, lived in Billings and Bridger, in which communities he where and how the naming[...]ettled by May 31, 1907, or that if a his energies in Hardin, where he soon started the decisi[...]y father was not aware of construction of a large building at the intersection of that decision at[...] |
| [...]owned by Mr. and Mrs. Jim Reed, in the building north As Recalled by Lloyd Snyder[...]d his bar- Dad and I ate our first breakfast in a small cafe bershop in one corner of the pool hall. John Mahoney located[...]ng houses. story brick building on the same lot. Al Brotherson was[...]barbering for Mr. Mahoney in 1913 and later operated[...]three general stores: Benbrook and Bordewick were in the cement block building south of the Becker Bar; Peden's General Store; and Gibson's Store located in two wooden frame buildings where Solazzi's Fur- Interior of Weir's Golden Rule Store in early '20's; niture is now. Kopriva Bros., Frank[...]ght Webb Weir right front out Gibsons and in 1915 erected the large brick building There was a wooden frame building next to the where they ran a large general store for years. alley behind the cement block building where the post[...]master, and in the rear of this post office building there[...]the Scott yards - Ralph and Willard Scott were in[...]Building and Supply Co.[...]Bar owned by Interior of the Brekke Grocery store in early '20's, with Charley Blankenship; and the[...]g establishment operated by a Mr. Ned and located in a wooden frame building where the Ragan; I remember he did his[...]ist, and Dr. Buckingham had his was much in demand for playing for dances. Albert dental offi[...]were three blacksmiths: George Ball and son chman in the Hardin Photo building, and the other Harry, a Mr. Wert[...] |
| [...]Livery barn, the larger of the two was where the in- the two doctors-the latter was County Hea[...]The "picture show" was located in a galvanized The three churches were the Congregational with sheet iron building on the comer east of the present Big Rev. I. L. C[...]ther Tallman - he also was over the show building; Mrs. Laura Equal and had charge of the St. Xavie[...]hn Wade. Early Day Hardin Women in front of the Pearl Theatre The bakery was o[...]s . H . W. Bunston, 5. Edna sold to their brother-in-law Earl Cammock. When he Vickers, 6. Ma[...]and ice house and later an ice cream parlor-in one of the brick buildings delivered coal and ice to customers in town. Ralph Peck north of the Becker. operate[...]Cochran was working for The carpenters in Hardin prior to 1915 were Ernest him. Mr. Peck so[...]king for him and they were now; this was in the early summer of 1914. Another breaking a pair[...]son, Jake Conver, was working as a mechanic in a the lines and yelling "Whoa" while Brig was lay[...]Hardin as a mechanic in the Conver garage. Hardin depot and water tank, 1917 A typical s[...] |
| [...]Center and Third in early '20's-Sullivan Building at Center Avenue, August 1917[...] |
| [...]ere were many other things hill to Hardin. Hardin in those days was a very frontier that went int[...]and electricity and a lot of headaches. but in general appearance.[...]a colossal they had envisioned crops, sugar beets in particular. enterprise of mechanization,[...]w men had been added to the sugar beet water and management of the farm operators. operation,[...]rstand this blunt action. For Another was to fill in all the gaps between Hardin and sure, it had been a terrible waste of human resources: Sheridan in the Little Horn valley. These men brought The pride of a special breed of men The Farmers. in good families on the promise of this expansion. I[...]and fieldmen and tires and trucks took a beating in more ways than one. About this time Roy Cool beca[...]lization. The factory was completed for operation in 1937. We as a family were assigned south of[...]Hardin Volunteer Fire Department in the '20's[...]ater, Jess Roberts, -?-, Tommy Crew at the Hardin Water Works, 1933 or 1934 Cook, Edelbe[...]a thin layer of gravel. Farmers and families came in and lived in some very primitive places. Spanish-Americans settled for less. Fences went in, new two room houses were built and placed along[...]in and alfalfa fields and uncultivated acres. In the fall of 1937 the wheels were turning in the new factory. The banks put on a new face with the payroll in view. Leases were made on land that had be[...] |
| [...]However, from this beginning in merchandizing, Lodge LODGE GRASS, MONT[...]ries. Today When you newcomers first landed in Lodge Grass we have six grocery stores, t[...]not least a livery stable. Along with the change in the my ticket ran out and left me at the depot h[...]s Grass some 27 years ago. It was the second time in the accommodations until now he handles the[...]ve a that keep our cars running. Although I haven't time to white boy here. The old stork must have b[...]ature, people who what our fair town consisted of in those days. There had enough confidence in the future of Lodge Grass to were four families that made up the population in total. invest their time and money here. With very few ex- Up in the southwest comer of the present Lodge Grass[...]was Stevenson's Trading Post and Postoffice. Out in businesses today are the people who were[...]the Lodge Grass as we now see it and don't in any respect George Pease family resided. Then dow[...]River was the location of the Baptist in its infancy. Since the inception of the first bus[...]ildings; no trees, might call the Dark Ages in the history of our town. except along the river ;[...]ed wire fences always grown and developed in spite of drought years running across this big fi[...]epot, and the Baptist Mission. From that in the teaching profession. In fact if one looks around he nucleus has grown wha[...]wpuncher convinced them that dry farming was more in the U. S. It is going on to 500 years when Columb[...]00. system. The first school was started in Lodge Grass in Haven't we enjoyed a marvelous development in that the year 1911. School was held in a little log house and short period of time? From[...]. They tell me that they didn't registered voters in Lodge Grass and its immediate have any[...]which to figure their arithmetic problems. It was in In 1911 the business part of the present Lodge[...]Street. It some of her primary education. In 1912 the people in took a great deal of nerve and - shall I say "int[...]venson School which is now fortitude " to build a building of its size and kind right being used for the first grade room. For several years it out in the middle of a big 120 acre field. But it was this was large enough to accommodate all the children in all kind of nerve and confidence in the future that started the grades. At the t[...]Many a time I can post down to the nice new brick building, George Pease remember crawling into[...] |
| [...]he pupils dition of the Catholic Church over in the Southeast part in the one room. What is now used for the second gra[...]it was decided by the business men of Lodge Grass in to the community room of this church for school[...]town was large enough to afford its own purposes. In 1919 the present High School building was government and have its own government.[...]hool classes were started with incorporated in that year with John T. Ryan serving as an enrollm[...]pring Mrs. Stevenson was elected to take over the building. I was in the seventh grade at that time, and reins of the Town in the capacity. we certainly enjoyed sliding down the banisters in this Needing some sort of lighting system, the town building - that is, whenever we didn't get caught. In purchased a light plant in 1931 which has served us our graduating class there were six - that was in the very faithfully and efficiently since[...]925; it left a large gap since there were only 27 in the cost is somewhat high, we are all looking f[...]tricity at a nominal figure. toward the 200 mark. In 1928 accommodations were The highlights in the development of Lodge Grass again insufficient, and the Valley View building was have been recited. I have drifted awa[...]hat we the wonderful days that I spent in the very same are offering our children today.[...]g pool; how t.oday when we find approximately 300 in our schools. A Orin Benbrooks, Keith McKinle[...]ch requires close to $30,000.00 delight in seeing how long they could hold us little annuall[...]believe there is anyone fellows under the water without drowning us. You who can truthfully say that education in Lodge Grass have no doubt heard of the two scotchmen who were in has been neglected. When we read daily of the blo[...]and made a bet as to which one could remain shed in the Spanish Revolution, we can be thankful that under the water the longest with the result that they our childre[...]freedom of thought. If the standard of education in Spain were as high as our standards, the revoluti[...]ce of education cannot and will not be overlooked in Lodge Grass or in the United States we hope. No community can[...]luence of religion. Religion has always gone hand in Early View of Lodge Grass han?[...]town. The Crow Indian Baptist Mission was started in 1904 by Mr. Petzoldt; they also handled the education of the Indian What we are all interested in is the success of yo~gsters for a number of years[...]fore, Sunday School and Church services were held in be measured by the opportunities it offers[...]a communities success should be measured evening. In 1929 the large Baptist Mission was con- in dollars and cents, but rather be measured by the part structed across the track, and in 1932 we had the ad- the individual or the community has played in the[...] |
| [...]o generation, starting with A. M. (Allie) invest in education and in our churches. No river is Stevenson to his daughter and son-in-law, Marjorie and greater than its source so it[...]ther and Allie's only growing into men and women in our community. Their son, Sam, to Sam's son, the present owner, Albert M. achievements in the world are being earmarked daily by Stevenson II. The store is now in the process of passing the opportunities we are[...]myself, it is with a great deal of pride and in operating the store. She was also one of the firs[...]my boyhood and school days women mayors in Montana, serving as Mayor of Lodge in Lodge Grass. I am certainly thankful for the[...]uring the 1930's. privileges that were offered me in an educational way and also for the community lif[...]is that I may be of such service to the community in the future so as to repay for that which was offered me in my boyhood days.[...]Clayton Clanin, the Stevenson's son-in-law Being in the retail merchandising business is[...]in some type of a retail store operation. The Grand-[...]father on the maternal side was also in the retail[...]merchant, and later had a grocery store in Lodge Grass. |
| [...]_ _ _ _ _ 19_ M ~~ ~~ ?U·d£~ A. M. STEVENSON[...] |
| [...]Road. Mrs. Roehling was Postmistress until it and run by Frank Young who was Postmaster until[...]round house, a two-story section house and In early 1906, my father, Joseph Brittain Conner,[...]y Railroad for Toluca, much in common with Colonel William F. Cody, Montana. At[...]father and the Colonel reminisce about overnight in Toluca to reach Cody. My uncle, Thomas[...]om the railroad to operate hotels and restaurants in Alliance, Nebraska, In 1907 the town of Hardin held an official and Gill[...]Hardin for the operated the hotel and restaurant in Toluca until he was festivities.[...]o the only hotel, which I believe has since hotel in Wiley, Wyoming, 20 miles from Cody and[...]know, but in any event, the names of the Conner family In Toluca, few buildings existed, as there wa[...] |
| [...]thers. The horse races were held railroad. In 1909 Toluca had a section house, depot, at the ro[...]n the river. Th~ government had built many houses in eating house with a large dining room an[...]w Agency for the Indians but they refused to live in a laundry, and a number of car bodies for rai[...]g caused them to and section workers to bunk in. Mrs. Anderson ran the develop tuberculosis and so the houses were empty. Saloon. In the evenings the dances were held around the camp[...]ven photographic post cards, which were purchased in Hardin in 1907, showed the battlefield one year after the f[...]n presented to the Buffalo Bill Historical Center in Section house at Toluca. Cody, Wyoming. Elbert S. Conner formerly lived in Toluca, Montana, The mail clerks and tr[...]f Santa Barbara, had to stay over night in Toluca. |
| [...]ew says Toluca. Grain fields are planted in the place where injunction could not be served un[...]H. V. Bailey Company store in Wyola, 1912 Town of Wyola, Montana in 1920 This store later burned.[...]ran the hotel; The town of Wyola was started in about 1910 with Arthur Davis and Bill Schaubel ran the garage; Ernest the section house the first building near the railroad. Robinson was the postmaste[...]station telegraphers, Lee and Grover Hendricks Water from the Little Horn river could easily be piped[...]a grocery store, Dave Robertson ran the grain to run into a water tank to fill the steam locomotives elevator[...]ing near Wyola, whose built at Wyola, so fuel and water could be taken at the stories are not in our biographies are Mr. and Mrs. same time.[...]Mrs. Dick Gordon were early People in partnership with Matt Tschirgi or residents. Dick operated the coal chute and the water employees of the Antler were Mr. and Mrs.[...]were built with the station agent living upstairs in the Whams, Henry Esps, Bill Prante, Handsel Holeman, two story building. John Hi[...]Carson Yellowtail, James LaForge, grocery store. In 1925 Wyola was thriving. It had two and so[...]eve the town. Al Brotherson kept bees and built a building Driftwood, George Peters, Frank Medi[...] |
| Knows the Gun, J aines Brown and Adam Bird in Wyola, through the combined[...]mouth of the Little Hom Baptist Church in 1934. A parsonage was built and canyon, were Raym[...]A new school building was completed in 1957. Wyola had many Community organizations[...]s sold out to larger ranchers the were all active in promoting various projects. town[...]day, Near Wyola was a Bentonite Mill started in 1942 only a ghost of what the town was[...]ning Company. Bentonite is a collodial clay found in Wyoming, Montana and South Dakota. Chris J[...] |
| [...]The first white men in the vicinity were members B[...]those unfamiliar with the scene, it may be in 1743. Historians have long disputed the route of[...]mainly low growth a lead plate with writing in a foreign language had been like sage brush, short grass and cactus. In that rather found on the Powers Ranch and thr[...]lly seen the Big Horn Mountains, where there are water bearing rocks like Eagle sand- and had buried this plate near the spot where it was stone. In such places the hills have a sparse growth of[...]ns of European thru the Ranch, contained running water except during descent for possibly a centur[...], unless it be lonely wanderers who left no fish in it. Along such streams, there is a narrow band of[...]crossed the continent farther south, in Wyoming. The animais most talked about were[...]coyotes, to their rendezvous with destiny in 1876. Not many skunks, and rattlesnakes. They we[...]one, cowmen and seen. I have never seen a bobcat in the wild, and the sheepherders were thru he[...]and by its rattle, and we children were warned to run away was a general dealer in anything that was for sale or from one as fast as[...]This Charlie Decker lived for a time in a dugout nearby reservations were comparative new[...]ly store, but the family didn't remain long in one location. Indians we saw were Cheyennes in their wagons on the They moved further down the Tongue river and later way to a "celebration" in Sheridan. On one such oc- onto Pumpkin creek. From there they moved in Miles casion, when we were eating in a Sheridan restaurant, a City country, and old timers in this area lost track of man sitting at a nearby t[...]that is all that I have learned department now in the National Archives, a post office of that lang[...]was established at Decker (formerly in Custer and No doubt bands of hunters of the[...]ffice was more cultures that have been identified in the Northern situated on the east bank of th[...]bank of Badger creek. Morris A. Shreve was first in the 20,000 or 30,000 years that the subspecies[...]s thropologist's map shows Kiowa and Kiowa Apache in changed slightly seven different times[...]rom the East. The location. Cheyennes came in a dramatic winter flight from[...] |
| [...]mers and Businessmen of Big Horn County Displayed in the Lobby Cafe, Hardin, Montana.[...] |
| [...]Mr. and Mrs. Abel have recently bought a home in[...]garden in the back yard of their Sheridan home.[...]MARY AND FAY ABEL A pair of canvas gloves in a picture frame adorns the living room wall at th[...]Mr. and Mrs. Abel first came to Lodge Grass in MEMORIES OF THE HOMESTEAD IN MONTANA 1919, from Sheridan, Wyo. Mr. Abel gradua[...]nd Susie Abel, then Mary Michael, attended school in Sheridan. Mary Weltner Adsit, homesteaded on[...]~. football team ever to play an out-of-town game in 1910 They built a two-room log cabin and start[...]heir eight children were born here or He was in the grocery business for 17 years in at lier parents near Decker, with the eight[...]nd for a time, he operated a store of his born in Ranchester, Wyoming. Minnie Miller, Mama's own. L[...]company, for child by a previous marriage died in infancy. The names 27 years, covering most of eastern Montana and in later of the children, oldest to youngest, were[...]arold Ira, Lena Mary, Jarry Mr. Abel retired in 1963 and shortly after that Dean, Jack Lee, and Charlotte Bell. Eight children in became city clerk of Lodge Grass. He is very active in ten years, no twins. the Masonic Lodge and is[...]called to the service for World War I. He left in July or recognition several years ago. August of 1918, served in France in the Meuse Argonne Mrs. Abel came from Moorcroft to Sheridan, Wyo. battle, and was discharged in May 1919. in 1911 with her parents Mr. and Mrs. Michael. For[...]k fever and many years, Mrs. Abel has been active in Eastern Star died on July 10, 1919. Ja[...] |
| [...]tutoring them at home. I behind you in penmanship class. We had an old pot- benefitted f[...]bitten hands and feet, we didn't dare sit near it in the Papa died February 14, 1929 and it wasn[...]rs. · · to school, carrying our own lunches and water. My uncle helped build three more rooms on the ca[...]ook the clapper out of the bell and no one hauled in the wagon for winter. We also had a root would go in after recess because the bell didn't ring. cellar[...]forest'' - a ravine with several petrified trees in it. The with mud to keep the winter winds out. We[...]r day the weather was really eerie. A The shelves in the root cellar were filled each fall with littl[...]holding hands with the two little ones in the middle. My and other wild berries in season. We canned them for brother was on t[...]per. My sister cried half the night All our water was carried from the spring: water after Mama read about Little Eva's death in Uncle for drinking and the household, the garden[...]lp the others with their a bath behind the stove in an old wash tub? I have, lessons after sup[...]r around the many of them, with a ~apful of Lysol in every bath. We dining room table with a kero[...]on the homestead three years. The first wound up in the "out house." yea[...]smutted. The second year the We had a radio run by a car battery but no one grasshoppers[...]he Mormon crickets wiped us out. They came in in the morning and the news in the evening (period). droves. We stompe[...]house. In Montana when six children lived in a certain That ended our stay. I was[...]re weren't enough children to keep the school us in grade school in 1934 so Mama donated an area of open,[...] |
| [...]In the winter, the snow piled up and drifted. No[...]snow plows were operating in the sage brush, and[...]in working condition, whether the roads were or not.[...]Another car I knew very well is shown in one of the[...]school from their home in Whitman Coulee when the weather was fit. In bad weather, they rode horseback.[...]but I haven't the slightest idea what make it was.[...]Incidentally, in 1925, the Muths were operating FAY ALDERSON the bakery in Crow Agency, and both Mr. and Mrs. In 1921 Fay Alderson became the third County were so busy in it that they had no time to drive their Superintendent of Schools in Big Horn County. The new car nor take t[...]th her family at Birney. Her father died out in the car on nice days. Peter sat solemnly in the when she was young, the second of four childr[...]walk alongside. Annie wrote of their experiences in "A Bride Goes West". sat seriously beside him, holding the baby very Fay taught rural schools in the area, and in Hardin carefully. As for the baby, his whole r[...]joyous job. then returned to teaching. She taught in the grades in Cars were by no means a rarity in those days, but Sheridan until her retirement and[...]ither, nor garages as numerous. Many people lived in her Mother's cabin on Eaton's Ranch until ill[...]he currently a resident of the Eventide Rest home in best bet. However, a surprising number[...]By Lucille Atkins Schoer had purchased in the middle teens, and it was fun to I was born in Blairstown, Missouri and came with ride in when the roads were dry and not too rutted or[...]ts to Bozeman, Montana as a child. At this bumpy. In really bad weather, winter or summer, it[...]at later became loitered at its Spring Creek home in the Sarpy area, and Hardin. let horses do the work. There was no highway. In really In the spring of 1909, my father and a few other liq[...]the wheels would be homesteads. We were still in Yellowstone[...] |
| [...]some chickens once we had to move out. By building onto the house it to Hardin. The box car wouldn't hold all the made it warm in winter and cool in the summer. belongings, as my grandparents decide[...]I had one brother born on the Homestead in 1911. They drove overland in a covered wagon, brought two My parents[...]. Ragland and sons. In a few weeks father put up a couple tents for us[...]e had several booms; one is the mining of to live in. Then he sent for us. We arrived here by train coal in the Sarpy Area, the other is the Yellowtail Dam. in the middle of the night, and spent the rest of the It was first started by the Big Hom Land and night in a small rooming house. Irrigation Company, organized in 1912, but it was 1914 The next morning Fathe[...]loaded with lumber and another one for us to ride in. So, took hold and work started again. we star[...]to our new home. We I was married in 1925. My husband passed away in stopped at the Post Office (the first one, put up in 1952. I have two sons, their wives, four granddaughters 1907.) It was a small building on the west end of the lot and one grandson of whom I am very proud. where Johnny Thompson's building now stands. There There are not ma[...]to 1975 left to tell the story of what happened in these was the first postmaster and Mr. Benbrooks[...]experience. I for one, have We didn't live in tents very long before Dad built a been happy t[...]these things come small wooden shack. That was a hot summer, and as to pass. time passed other families moved in. Also, on the West Bench were the Torskes, Wagner[...]e-room house, a barn, and chicken house. We moved in on Thanksgiving Day, 1909 and what a cold one, wi[...]grasshoppers. My father asked for a school building and they said if he'd do the work they'd furnish the lumber. By this time another family with children moved in so together they built the first school. (We were still in Yellowstone County). It was in 1913 when we became Big Horn County. The County S[...]located on the School Section, cattlemen shipped in a lot of Texas Longhorns. The cattle used to come to the windows and look in. We'd have to stay inside, maybe most of the day. We had many good times in the little school house. We had Christmas program[...]cy, my grandparents and sing-the bachelors never In1ssed but made frequent visits to the Reser[...]re manager at Crow. After 1910, he was interested in times changed.' The Farmers Union came and held[...]dances, oyster suppers, box socials, burned in the 1920' s and went out of business.[...] |
| [...]y a dappled grey mare, Dolly. Mr. and Mrs. degree in civil engineering and a soldierly bearing that[...]had another store. The Baileys still lived in the little Herbert Vern, he willingly adopted th[...]onel and Mrs. "Won't You Come Home, Bill Bailey?" In Billings, he Rankin, Alice, Gretchen, a[...]Bill to practice on when he was a boy in Missouri. went with it. Home again, he met the young sister-in- Though he seldom performed, he could pla[...]essons was visiting her sister. They were married in 1901. on that piano, and, a real pleasure, she played for the Lillian Brown was born in Big Rapids, Michigan, family there once. Her little dog, Franzel, was thrown in 1878, and spent her youth there until her marriag[...]ill. He was somewhat older. This event took place in The main bedroom of the little house[...]In 1905, Alice, the youngest Brown, was married[...]to Lee Mains in the Bailey's living room. She had been[...]had dressed up in Uncle Bill's uniform and some of[...]y 4th, Bill would set off at the edge of the park in[...]When the Baileys moved to Miles City in 1907,[...]Company in Miles City. Bill went, about 1920, to[...]Dixon. Lillian died in 1928, Bill within two years. By way of a hon[...]given here, besides personal memories, are night in a large bunkhouse full of men. They provided included in his citation as an Honoree from Montana of privac[...]nroe rafter. Bill had a new house waiting for her in Billings, a Bair, who was to become 'King of Western _Wool few doors from her sister's. They lived in it only two Growers,' was born June 18, 1857, in Paris, Ohio .... He years, as Bill was sent to Cr[...]ding school to age fifteen). It was the only building on the north side of the After some e[...]et at an odd angle Northern Pacific, where his run was generally between that suggested it had been there before the main street. Helena and Billings. In 1886, he married Mary Jacobs When it was finally[...]he E . A. Richardson store. Clerks there in Helena." In 1890, using his savings plus a bank loan,[...] |
| [...]ne morning, discovered riP.velop irrigation in Rosebud County. Governor a rattlesnake curled abo[...]nsdale, hiJ final headquarters. Although his In 1893, he established a ranch west of Billings. He greatest investments were in Montana, he also had also had a home in Billings, where the Fox t heater now interests in other states. He was acquainted with U.S. stands.[...]He was J . H. Sharp's best customer in Montana,[...]casional guest. We often visited the Bairs in Billings,[...]in Crow on the next passenger, in bufflao coat, beaver[...]was lost in a blizzard on a below-zero day; but the[...]night train to Billings. Uncle Charles, in buffalo coat,[...]uld be what we Joining the Klondike goldrush in 1898, he staked a who were children then reme[...]visits. profitable claim. His principal interest in the Klondike, I know that, if I ever see candie[...]immense tracts of the Crow ended his days in March, 1943, at age eighty-six. Reservation. He had good friends in the tribe, including Plenty Coups. By 1906, he cl[...]R shearing shed-a long row of stalls with a sheep in each one being rolled about by the shearer who was taking In 1926 Ted and Irene Baker and daughters, Pearl, of[...]y and Opal came to Lodge Grass from Bridger to be In 1910 a trainload of Bair wooi about a million dol[...]d west of Lodge Grass recently told me that, once in his boyhood, he watched and planted it to wi[...]home, filling the street from good wheat crops in 1928, 1929 and 1930. A depression morning to late afternoon. They were Charles Hair's. came in 1931 and 1932. They stored their 1932 wheat[...]nk and crop thinking to get a better price in the spring but had later was a founder and direct[...]where paid Ted ended up with the sum of $11.00 in his fields near Roundup and formed the Bair-Collins Coal pocket. Company, which once operated in Hardin. For many Ted went[...] |
| [...]Mr. Baker became Hiway Section Maintenance water would wash out the road. Foreman in 1942. He worked thirty-one years for the At[...]o bought thirteen milk State Hiway retiring in January 1963. Ted and Irene cows, rented a pastur[...]host of friends over Big Hom started a milk route in Lodge Grass. They sold twelve County. They are active members in the Eastern Star, quarts of milk for a dollar (8[...]s and Shrine. They both like social delivering it in glass containers morning and night to danci[...]attending Square dances in nearby towns in Wyoming In 1948 illness in the family caused them to sell the and Montana. They have a home in Hardin. Gardening milk cows. Grasshoppers and cri[...]Their daughter, Mrs. Pearl Towne also lives in for around $20.00 a head.[...]States Treasury in Washington D. C. They have four[...]My family moved to Big Horn County early in[...]t truly was a start from scratch effort. We lived in two[...]built a permanent home. Water was the greatest Mr. and Mrs. Ted B[...]filled when necessary. and we saved rain water from the They lost their middle daughter Ruby in 1949. metal roofs for washing. Irene started selling Avon products in 1949 and has Gardening was not a real success because the rains been an Avon Representative in Big Hom County for didn't come regular[...]products crop. But we did have some garden in the spring before at present. it became too hot.[...] |
| [...]cattle back on their or drove the two wheel cart in the fall and spring. That ranges. The Crow Indian Reservation and what cattle I first winter was spent in Hardin, where my sister was had, we took with the herd of cattle and went over in born. Dad spent the most part of the winter building the Wolf Mountains to the headwaters of Hor[...]t flows into the One winter, mother ran the store in Toluca while the Yellowstone River. owners[...]ed on the Crow Reservation for the lived upstairs in the depot. Our education was always a Spear O[...]w up on the Crow school term and back to the farm in the summer. Reservation. They worked o[...]e of whatever was to be done. When we lived in Hardin, we attended the Methodist Sunday School.[...]he Red Cross. We felt we were helping our country in the war effort. Social life at Toluca was n[...]nd we children didn't see another woman for three months at a time. Occasionally there would be a communit[...]in on Mess Wagon and the rest joined the grownups in the fun. Sometimes people came from Hardin and Co[...]es when I helped trail cattle that helper engine. In the winter, we went in a bob-sled with were unloaded off from the cars at Custer, Montana straw in the bottom of the box and heated rocks and[...]break out all the horses to lead; there was no water in We continued to live out there until 1925 w[...]family moved here someone with a horse water tanK that I could get to for a couple of years, then went to Seat~le where ~y haul water in to the yards with, but I couldn't find any. siste[...]re was a man and wife living down the Little live in that area.[...]the stockyards to the Little Horn River to water. There By Les Baldwin were over 100 head of horses in this bunch. I built a I was working over in the Sarpy Creek, Tulloch chute inside of t[...]t a snubbing post Creek and the Reservation Creek in the Wolf Moun- in the corral in front of the chute, in the stockyards; we would run a horse in the chute and I put one of those ains. I was work[...]e, they were braided flat out Arnold sent me over in that country to rep with the[...] |
| [...]opened the chute for Mile Creek before it goes in the Tongue River. The main me, I would take the[...]girl would get on her one of the first cars in the area and was always called on pony and go do[...]cross when anyone needed transportation. In later years he over on the other side, when any[...]He also had a and I would spook the horses back in the stockyards. I son, Eugene by another mar[...]days it took her and I to when he died in Sheridan, Wyoming in 1945. break those horses to lead.[...]ed to know how I got this idea had a homestead in this area. They filed and built a to break horses to lead and go to water. Well, I worked cabin in a draw running off of Four Mile Creek below in the Miles City Horse sale Yards for several years[...]the British were buying horses for World War One in 1914-1915. There were a bunch of us bronco busters working in the sale yards riding and showing horses to the[...]d a corral, chute, and a snubbing post. We would run these horses into chutes and put a grass halter[...]w to the buyers the next morning. We put ten head in a small corral and they stepped on one anothers'[...]nd took the kinks out of their necks. We could go in and pick up one of the ropes and lead the horse o[...]different riders who I worked with during my time in Miles City, Sheridan, Wyoming, and Grand Island, Nebraska, but I worked with some great riders in my time. I can remember in 1914 when Lee Caldwell won the State Championship[...]riding on the Flying Devil. He also worked there in the yards showing horses to the British Governmen[...]emember Doc Corrigan from the White River Country in Canada, also Yakima Canutt, Jackson Sundown, the[...]Billy Searles whom I worked with and grew up with in the West River country of South Dakota, Wyoming a[...]ere thousands of Tony Baron was born in 1850 in Washington, D. C. horses that went through those yards and they were In 1878 he went to the Black Hills and worked in gold shipping them out by the trainloads. Miles City, in mines, until March 12, 1879 when he join[...]He was discharged from the army in 1884. While on a buffalo hunt in Dakota in 1881, he WILLIAM BARBER[...]er came to Bighorn wild berries, with water from the morning dew on the County m the early 1900's. He was born in Little Rock grass, until he was found eleven days later. His last Arkansas. He filed a homestead in what is still kno~ expedition was[...] |
| Tony came to Hardin in 1913, and was custodian of There were ten children in our family. There were the Court House, in the Sullivan block. Early residents seven gi[...]living but recall his hosing down of the sidewalk in front of the the oldest son who passed away in 1915. Of the ten building every hot day to allay the dust and cool off the children the five youngest girls were born in Hardin. All street. On another occasion a parade[...]for a number of years. We lived on the farm in the angry, pudgy little man who said "Young man,[...]summer, raised grain and stock, and then lived in town your hat off when the flag goes by! " Tony was a soldier, in the winter so we children could go to school. In those always.[...]abies were born at home with the help of the In 1928 he went to California for several years and[...]the sixtieth anniversary of the Custer In those days the winters were long and severe battl[...]with lots of snow. Not many families had water in their Assistant Chief of Staff, as well as National Guard homes. All carried their water. We burned wood for Marshall and State Commander[...]ns. cooking and for heat. He died in November 1942 shortly after being the In those days nearly everyone had a garden. guest of[...]outgrown. If we lived in town we walked to and from[...]to and from school and church if we lived in the[...]of a job after school. Some of the girls worked in stores[...]dollar a day for housework. I worked in a maternity l-r: Tony, Mrs. Woodward, Dr. Russell[...]I was married in 1933 and moved to Crow Agency HANNAH[...]moved to Billings These two sisters grew up in Blair, Nebraska and where we have lived ev[...]ranch while Miss Lucy taught school Sarpy in June 1920 when Omar's father, Edwin C. m town. Bo[...]he Cranfords. Ed's community, and much interested in politics. mother, Virginia Morse Bearss, came to the ranch in Miss Lucy was the second County Superintende[...]e the only two then returned to the primary rooms in Hardin. She had children born to the Bearss family. been in the teaching profession thirty-two years (more[...]py school from 1935 to 1937. He th~n half of them in Big Horn County.) Despite suf- graduated from Sarpy 8th grade in 1937. He graduated ~nng from arthritis, she maintained a cheerful alert from Hardin High School in 1941. mterest in each of her children. She was a charter state- He served in the Marine Corps from April 1942 till honorary me[...]1946. teachers society). She was the first person in Montana He graduated from Georgetown U[...]eive this honor. Ill health forced her retirement in Washington, D. C. with a B.S. in foreign service in 1938.[...]1949. He got his Masters from Indiana University in[...]He married Margie Riddle, in July, in Mississippi. By Florence Beall Louk[...]a supervisory historian for the Montana from Iowa in 1914. We settled in Carbon National Park Service in Washington, D. C. County. In December of 1915 we settled in Big Horn While living at Sa[...] |
| [...]years in the army, ten months of which were in France. Following is a quotation from The Bi[...]row Agency, and served as historian headquartered in Vicksburg, Mississippi, District Committ[...]rs he was chairman of the Big Horn County Service in the field of history."[...]Rev. Bentley has long been active in Masonry By Genevieve Becker [Meeke] and in 1958 was granted the honor of membership in the My father, Anton Becker went down to Ha[...]ory and Shrine at Billings, built the first brick building in Hardin. Montana. A man named Jake Norris, and John Wade, In 1951 Linfield College at McMinnville, Oregon toge[...]upon Rev. Bentley. the name). I started school in Hardin and Nellie Brown Mrs. Bentley always took a very active part in the was my first teacher. Later I continued my education in work of the church, local women's organizatio[...]the family of four children. Two daughters, In 1918 my father built the Becker Hotel which he[...]f Billings and Mrs. John operated until his death in 1920. My mother and I Zendzian, Jr. of[...], a son eldest son of Dr. John A. Meeke. John was in the in- and a daughter, have passed away. urance business and a Deputy Sheriff. Our son John Jr. In April 1959 the Bentleys were retired from their was born on December 2, 1926 in Hardin. position at Crow Agency and moved to Billings. Here In 1927, John was appointed Rocky Mountain Rev. Bentley has been active in the local chapter of the States Mgr. for the Glen[...]. Y. We then transferred to Helena Montana. Later in visitations, supplying at Sunday church services in 1931, he was transferred to Portland, Oregon as P[...]of the Bentleys enjoy travelling and since 1935, in Portland, Oregon. We lived in Oregon until retirement have been to Afri[...]summer (1975) moved to Laguna Hills, California, in an adult com- they went to Alaska to visi[...]ork of Rev. and Mrs. Burgess, built a fine church building and with un- erstanding and far-sightedness built[...]. Both of the Bentleys were born and grew up in Massachusetts, graduated from colleges the[...] |
| [...]lied the Mrs. Benzel (Hilda Schafer) arrived in the Hardin Hardin School lunch program with[...]s. area at the age of seven, and attended schools in Crow Weeks of hard work in the fields was often wiped Agency and Hardin befo[...]red Benzel out by the dreaded hail storms in the late afternoons of on June 17, 1933 in the Methodist Parsonage, which hot summer days, but rain showers were welcome was next to the Masonic Temple. They farmed in the during the irrigating season, unless it was haying or Dunmore area before moving to a farm in the North combining time. Valley in 1940. The Benzels could stand in their screened porch[...]and watch the hail storms coming, and in the winter,[...]Kittens nestled in the sweet-smelling hay stored in the big barn, which burned down in the 1960's. Grain was stored in the large granary contained in the middle[...]section of the large barn, and cows were milked in the low sections. The children were cautious in the sum-[...]midt; and Donald, who graduated from Hardin High in 1959, were all born in the old Hardin Hospital. Linda, born in 1943 was born in Dygert's Nursing Home and is now the Rev. Dick Kr[...], Washington. The Benzel's farmed 160 acres in North Valley for ten years. The children attended[...]Lawrence the wire clothesline, then were brought in to thaw out near the oil heater. Water for washing and drinking was In early spring, Mr. Turner the mailman, would haule[...]For a number of years the Benzel's drive up in his maroon car to deliver the annual supply water tank was borrowed by many North Valley of peeping baby chicks in the big boxes. The chicks residents; the only pay asked was to bring a tank of were given a home in the corner of the big screened water on the last trip to put in the Benzel's cistern. porch, in an enclosure of cardboard boxes, then tran-[...]r bedroom, a utility room, a screened threats in those days, and even the youngest child knew m po[...]the dreaded rattling of a rattlesnake. bathrooms in North Valley.[...]peared from the hillside. electric clothes dryers in the Valley, but the washing Water was dipped from the High Line ditch to was done with the old-faithful wringer-washer and tubs. water the Benzel's pigs, which had a pen right n[...] |
| The water was usually muddy and unfit for D[...]High swimming, but when the children did venture in, their School. Linda was the only member of her class in St. Bernard, Daisy, ran up and down the bank, bar[...]children were safely back on the now reside in Nampa, Idaho. bank. Daisy was well known by the n[...]er how ofter they came, Daisy wouldn't let anyone in the house, some not even into the yard, and stran[...]of their cars. She was a member of the 4-H parade in Hardin one summer, and was dressed in her 4-H hat and blanket, made by Mrs. Benzel.[...]Hustlers 4-H Club, which held it's first meetings in the Community School, and then later held the meetings in the members homes. Carol later became a member an[...]members of Christ Evangelical and Reformed Church in Hardin, serving on various boards. They were active in the Sunday School Program, Ladies Aid, choir, and[...]ns, confirmation, shopping and visiting were done in Hardin on Saturday afternoons, when all the farme[...]he Benzel children to mow their grandparents lawn in town as the farms didn't have lawns, as we do tod[...]He was always there, in my memory. I associate him with St. Xavier, in the early 1900's. He was friendly[...]generation, perhaps born in the 1870's.[...]through 1915 in the Wyola country; 1916 and 1917 on[...]each us how he rolled a cigarette with one farmed in the Dunmore area until they retired in 1945. hand, a trick for the convenience of ho[...]on Fred, there was Arthur, who bridle reins in the left hand, a rider could fetch his book marri[...]Fred, Sr. compact cylinder. passed away in November of that year. They farmed Once Butch visited my family in Billings, walking near Crow Agency before[...] |
| [...]in the east, perhaps a car twenty miles away. "The[...]mp!" we agreed, and started toward it at a gallop in[...]In the spring of 1928, Butch was stationed at the[...]setting up housekeeping in part of the big house. When[...]ve, 1914 for a day, my dog and I being in a far part of the house.[...]draped the lean middle beneath his vest. cool off in the shade beside a clear stream. It was Hi[...]Butch Black. Some say that he simply disappeared water below us and the soft thump, thump of hors[...] |
| [...]20 and 1920-1921. She taught 15 I was born in Wheatland, Wyoming, September years un[...]tlemen west of retired making her home in Hardin at 720 N. Cody. The Wheatland, between the[...]I broke horses at Fort Laramie active in the First Baptist Church and taught many for Latta Bros. I came to Montana in 1928 and worked classes in Sunday School. She passed away in 1935; her for Antler Wagon "V' . I put in the worst winter I had body was shipped ba[...]Eugene Boggess left the homestead and enlisted in 3000 cattle winter killed. the U.S. Army in World War I. on September 23, 1917. I married Lillian Heller in 1930 and worked for P. He served with the Mac[...]p and herding sheep. One winter and was in officers training when he was discharged on carried mail from Billings to Rapelje. In 1934 I bought November 14, 1918. Returning[...]Campbell Farming. He married Edel Buckingham in to make a dime. In 1937 I bought a livestock trailer and 1924 an[...]was arrested by a U. S. Marshall for in Crow Agency in 1929. He was active in Boy Scout hauling tile out of Sheridan for Mac's Beanery in work, was assistant scout master, becoming Scout Hardin. In 1938 I remarried- roped and hog-tied a girl[...]f she is related to the Hatfields and Mc- in Big Horn County. He retired from the B.I.A. in 1945 Coys on both sides! and moved back to Hardin. He was active in the In W yarning I worked for $35 per month, and at Masonic Lodge No. 92. A.F. & A.M. and served as times in Montana for $30, and it was no eight-hour day. Worshipful Master in 1948-1949. He passed away in When I was young and didn't know any better[...]at Crow Agency. His son Eugene, Jr. lives in Puyallup, was had by all. It seems like the girls[...]there. His daughter Norma and wife still live in Hardin. Have hauled in 50 degree below weather, with no Ow[...]now nothing to visit her sister who lived in Crow Agency. Two else. Have been bucked off, kick[...]rolled over children were born to them while in Crow. Owen was in a truck, , but the only animal to put me off my feet active in the Masonic Lodge being a charter member of was a[...]ce on the St. John Lodge No. 92 A.F. & A.M. in Hardin. Gladys knee in the same spot. was active in the Jasmine Chapter No. 65 Order of I have[...]uperintendent of the Cheyenne Reservation. think) in Big Horn County. Have seen the country go[...]er- heart is still with the cattleman. I sold out in 1970 and ations. He lived in Eu.reka till his retirement. He was got time to l[...]passed away. Their son, Bill, was killed in France[...]during World War II, he was a Lieutenant in the Air[...]daughter Mrs. Harold (Betty) Keohoe still live in By Nonna Boggess California. In 1915 Edmonia H. Boggess and her son, Eugene Hughe[...]r son and brother Owne M. Boggess, who was living in Lame Deer, Montana. MR. AN[...]Y BOWERS Another son James Roger Boggess remained in By Mabel Bowers Smith Kentucky due to poor health and difference in altitude Harvey J. Bowers was born in Logan, Ohio, March in Montana affected his health more. 18, 1877. Bessie McClurg was born in Mount Aye, Owen M. Boggess was working for the B.I.A. in Iowa, April 22, 1881. They were married in 1899 at Lame Deer and was later transferred to Crow Agency Lebanon, Kansas. They lived in Kansas until 1907 as Chief Clerk.[...]They then moved to a farm California but remained in Montana with his brother seven miles no[...]They had seven children- four were born in In 1916 Eugene and his mother both took out Kansas, and three in Montana; all but one are living, homestea[...] |
| [...]ay April 7, 1949, with a He left in the spring of 1908 for Nebraska. When he heart at[...]at work. Mrs. Bowers passed away returned in November many changes had taken place. May 3, 195[...]He filed for the homestead in May. He had brought[...]back the necessary lumber for building the house, when[...]be bought by the nickel and dimes worth. In the stores,[...]beeman. Later he worked in the bank for twenty-seven[...]anniversary, 1975 Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Bowers in their 7-passenger Studebaker, 1916[...]The Bowmans were married in 1925 in Sheridan, STORY OF CARL BOWMAN[...]or. Mr. Bowman worked as a rancher, and came here in May of 1907. The town started growing in had his own herd of cattle, and was a bus[...]first came, all there was here were a few people in tents. life of the Crow chief and set up a small museum in the He joined them the first winter.[...] |
| [...]up their mail at Park- The Bowmans retired in 1970 and now live in their man, put it in a sack and throw the sack from the home in Edgar, Montana. engine in a choke cherry patch on certain days. Joe[...]lips Boyd Johnston Robertson Boyd was born in Glasgow, Scotland November 17, 1886, and came t[...]He was the younges t of four boys. They settled in Johnstown, Pennsylvania. He survived the[...]"Johnstown Flood" May 31 , 1889 by being wrapped in the American Flag and clinging to a church steep[...]ile Kissam Phillips from Albany, New York. In 1905 Joe came to Sheridan, Wyoming by train. He[...]brother of Bob Smith who ranched In 1923 a fine new home was built on the Boyd near W[...]game bird in this area by the efforts of Matt Tschirgi T[...]is place was later known as the Fred In 1926 Cecile underwent an appendectomy Miller plac[...]of the Antler Ranch. June 27, 1927. In 1910 Joe purchased some Indian Land on the In the early twenties J. R. Boyd and Henry Little Ho[...]anching partnership wolf he had chained for pets. In 1910 he left for Albany, called "Boyd an[...] |
| [...]their great grandfather did. Joe Boyd served in the 29th Legislature of Montana as Senator from B[...]provement of Poland China Swine. He was President in 1944-45 of the Midland Empire Swine Association also instrumental in getting the South Side Livestock Yards in Billings underway. He was director for the Centra[...]near Lodge Grass. Joe and Cecile are buried in the Sheridan, Wyoming cemetery. Joe said, as he b[...]as he could rear up on one elbow and see the elk in the Sheridan Park across the valley." Pat and E vely n Brennan taken in Hardin[...]In 1916, Tom Brennan moved to Corinth and Pat[...]He met and married Evelyn Dyckman in 1925, quit[...]Wolf Mountains in the summer then brought them[...]nter feeding. Joe Boyd at Little Horn Canyon in early 1900's MABEL BREKKE |
| [...]neigh- bors. They would load all their youngsters in a sled or buggy and all go to have fun. Baby sitting in those days was not practiced. The whole family went as a group to social functions. In 1930 Mr. and Mrs. Brennan quit farming and moved to the Blackhills for two years. In 1932 they moved to Hardin where Pat found work in various jobs. In 1936 Mr. Brennan started to work on the Big Horn[...]road patrol operator for many years. Pat retired in 1965 and they live in Hardin.[...]Mr. Snow, Andrew Frazer, Chas. Dyckman, ?, in front: barbed wire used in various parts of the country Mike Yuri[...]hters, Margaret, who is Mrs. Stanley Pratt, lives in Hardin; Patsy, Mrs. Bill Collier, Longmont[...] |
| [...]May 20, 1975 I was born Oct. 16, 1917 in Hardin, Montana at the Haverfield Hospital. My Gr[...]as chickens. When I was older, I got them to stay in a born August 18, 1853 at Lauderdale Count[...]ome again on Faddis Cattle Company in Big Horn County, near Wednesday and take me home[...]se Weaver. them back to pasture in the spring. He also broke Some of the teach[...]I, Jim, finally leased a place on Indian Creek in the My grandmother used to send me Thornton[...]Youth's Companion". I at- During the winter months I still worked for Spear- tended High School in Hardin, graduating in 1934. Faddis. In August, 1932, Leone Cain and I went after the In 1926 I bought a small place on Owl Creek from mai[...]helter if I was ever out. We were at Clarence run cattle for myself. Moss's place so raced to the b[...]grasshoppers and crickets added. Everybody was in the were as large as baseballs and some _were fla[...]neighbors, among the think that the storm started in Billings, hitting Hardm farmers and ranchers a[...]hile we State Bank of Wyola, Montana. were in Kansas City waiting for our train, we s~w ~he[...]ns the place I Mom and I went to Hardin one hot day in July, bought in 1926. A son, Francis, who passed away April 1933[...]Jack ewkirk door step of the bunk house. We slept in the ~unk of Hardin and lives at Bozeman, Montana. They own a House and Mom and Dad slept out in a shed until we business there. could get[...]other bed. Mr• My wife and I live in Billings at our home on the Sutton helped Dad bui[...]asurer' Office. Mom Born and educated in Iowa, Nellie Brown came to and Dad and I went bac[...]with her father, who had a farm Business College in Wichita. We came back to Hardin ; about two[...]for B. H. McCarty Seed Company. in Hardin and was elementary school principal before[...]becoming' County Superintendent of Schools in 1923, in 1940. We have one son, M. James Brown, Jr., who 1[...]ve a daughter, Sherry She then taught in Billings and became principal of Beth and[...] |
| Miss Brown was an active participant in Indians of those days rode som[...]rses, professional and social organizations, both in Hardin and shoeing them could be a dangerous business. and in Billings. She was a charter member of Gamma Chapt[...]ks and the theater. Following her retirement in 1952, she extended her interests to include retir[...]ired Teachers-the organizational meeting was held in her home, and she was the second president. Poor[...]r her niece, Willa Morse Forster. She passed away in 1972.[...]1927 He was very active in community and church[...]ggy, playing the game and getting home again, all in munity, was J.C. Buckingham, better known as "Cal[...]ime, being quite to his friends and.aquaintances. In the early days of his talented on both the vio[...]re moved over-land· by wagon from place to place in people of the community formed a "Literary[...]plays, songs, (many of which Cal made up himself) in the Wolf Mountains. It was a sawmill on Eaton's[...]flying munity. sawtooth which cut a nerve in his arm, causing his arm Mary Buckingh[...]cafe for years. She also cooked for other cafes in the Doyle camp was used in the construction of the first vicinity and was in demand for cooking for various Indian school at D[...]ge Grass Grandmother's Club from 1925 until In December 1910, his wife Mary and their six her death. This club is still active in Lodge Grass. She children came to Lodge Grass, wh[...]own Church Ladies Aid also. first blacksmith shop in the community. At that time, After mo[...]the Indian Lila, passed away in 1914. Edel, (Mrs. E. H. Boggess) people, shoe horses and whatever was needed. He was lives in Hardin, Montana. Harlow, is retired and living the first mechanic in the town. He had the first "horse on a[...] |
| [...]red. Mabel, (Mrs. Harold Hartmen) has an interest in Lodge Grass Electric and Hartman's Texaco Service[...]Grass. Cal retired from active blacksmithing in the early 1940 's and died in 1948, a year after his wife Mary passed away. Eve[...]any of their children and grandchildren are still in the county.[...]1902, near Genesee, Illinios, he came to Montana in 1910, and to Hardin in 1912. Attended Congregational Sunday School. Worked one summer in the J. W. Johnston Furniture store. He graduated from Montana State College (now University) in Bozeman in 1923. 1923-1935, with the U. S. Coast and Ge[...]urvey, and Forest Service, the Honolulu Sewer and Water Commission, and the Hawaiian Volcano Observatory.[...]and the American Public Works Association. Listed in "Who's Who in the West", 1954, and "Who is Who in California, " 1958 and 1974. President, Pan[...]Ellen Day of Moweaqua, Illinios, who passed away in May 1974. One son, Joseph Thomas, and two[...] |
| [...]sh stand. We lived there Montana with his family in 1876 (the year Custer was until the fall of[...]at the age of nine. Spent his early manhood In the spring of 1936 a son, Tom, was born. That fal[...]here stock while they made a trip to Indiana. In the spring of he met and married Grace Mowbray of[...]) for $35 and attached Practiced dentistry in White Sulphur Springs, it to the shack. We[...]Cricket. We had a nice Practiced dentistry in Hardin from 1912 to 1919, garden and in order to save it we built a fence from used our f[...]s were dug outside this tin barrier every few and in the Sullivan Building. feet and filled wit[...]d the pits refilled with oil but Ekalaka, Montana in 1919 to join his brother-in-law we did save the garden. William Mowbray in a general merchandising business. Tim[...]wonderful neighbors and made our own Passed away in May, 1936. Interred at White Sulphur enter[...]ng so we leased Mrs. Buckingham passed away in 1948, and is his place and moved there in the spring of 1943 so Tom interred at Geneseo, Il[...]. Prior to that we had to Buckingham, now resides in Oakland, California. board him out, th[...]By Helen Buckley In 1946 Phil purchased his father's place and the[...]Montana from Indiana with Joe Livvix place in 1953. We ranched and farmed , his parents at the[...]the hail Buckley, homesteaded northeast of Decker in 1918. Phil demolished the crops. During this[...]rs. Road ex- from his home, and later High School in Sheridan. periences were many due to the mud and snow. The In 1930 Phil filed on a homestead on Hanging[...]was Woman Creek. He and Helen Hobbs were married in able to get out for forty-two days so[...]arrive. a 12 x 14 shack, unlined, and with cracks in the floor In 1963 we purchased property in Sheridan which where mice could enter. One[...] |
| Tom also lives in Sheridan and operates the Buckley accident due to run away horses. Old Brig had a voice Backhoe. He has[...]town and the words he used We enjoy our home in Sheridan but return to the were not of[...]I finally graduated from High School in 1941.[...]involved in many things in school. I was class president EVERETT AND BEATRICE BULLIS in my junior and senior years, and played basket bal[...]N. only other one on the team that lives in Hardin. George Choteau, Hardin, Montana, the son[...]s at Crow Agency. Class John W. Bullis. I grew up in Hardin and have seen plays, high sch[...]lks, swamps, When I was a freshman in high school, I had my vacant lots etc. that made[...]ob. I worked for Russell Vickers, who still lives in tended grade school in the old school building at Third Hardin, as a grocery delivery boy[...]ay I still and Crawford and later the high school building at refer to some of the old timers by[...]Russell taught me. When I was junior and senior in The activities of the youth were centered a[...]ties were things that we had Roy Chambers in the Chambers Grocery store on the to do on our own. Swimming was done in the Little corner of Third and Center street. That building is now Horn River or in the Big Ditch. After a few close calls occ[...]sex, and Lloyd Snyder. Lloyd Snyder still resides in and service stations. The first community tennis court Hardin. The others have since died. In 1942 I went to was made this way on the corner of[...]m-Staunton Used Car lot. I enlisted in the U. S . Air Force as an Aviation Cadet. Back in the thirty's I used to go to the ice skating[...]blind people could detect camouflauge. After kids in town, would watch the men chip out the[...]rom the colors" and so I was placed in Radio operation and Lime Kiln Creek area just sou[...]A. project. The streets of what I did in my job with the railroad. Anyway, I spent Hardin[...]and the , two and one-half years over-seas in the Middle East as a local tax-payers. radio operator in the Sands of Egypt, Palestine, on the Durin[...]re were some things that Suez Canal, in the Persian Gulf, on Bahrain Island in stand out that are no longer around: The backyard[...]one. and coal box that had to be filled, carrying water from When in the service, I attended college at Eastern the pump in the yard, and waiting for the ice man to[...]th ice. He would have to from the Air Force in 1946 I went to St. Louis, chip off ice and the ch[...]g Youst drove Mortuary Science for twelve months. I returned to around town; every once in a while he would have an Hardin[...] |
| [...]my Father, John Bullis, and his garages in Hardin and it wasn't too hard for us to get partner Art Crilly, in 1947. old discarded tires. While I was still in the Army and stationed at Our close[...]bells, Andrew Torskes, Jack Beatrice M. Zelenka in Billings at the depot on my way Koprivas,[...]s. Today only the Torskes and Teachers College) in Billings and then taught school in W agners remain. Pompeys Pillar, Montana. After I received my degree in Mortuary Science and returned to Hardin, Bea and[...]MR. AND MRS. JOHN W. BULLIS were married in Lewistown, Montana. Beatrice Mary[...]John W. Bullis, was born March 24, 1881 in Montana, the daughter of Earl J. and Bertha A.[...]Zelenka. Bea graduated from Fergus High School in Therman Bullis. John moved with his parents to Lewistown and Eastern Montana College in Billings. Valentine, Nebraska in 1886, when he was five years I purchased Mr. Crilly's interest in the Bullis old. He grew up in Valentine and attended school there. Mortuary in 1950 and in 1955 purchased John W. He later wen[...]stants. was the youngest licensed embalmer in Nebraska at Everett Bullis was appointed a[...]e: he was then twenty years old. Big Horn County in 1949 and was elected Coroner in He married Lucilla Stinard in Valentine on 1955 after the retirement of his fa[...]4. Lucilla Bullis was born May 14, He was joined in the Bullis Mortuary by his son Terry 1885 in Valentine, Nebraska, the daughter of Mr. and in 1972.[...]r moved to Bea and I belong to many things in Hardin and are Sturgis, South Dakota, where Mr. Bullis was employed active in the civic life of Hardin. Bea belongs to the in a Hardware-Furniture and Funeral Business until[...]ost #8, American Legion came to Hardin in 1914. One of the reasons for moving Auxiliary, N[...]ity Planning Board, chairman Upon arrivng in Hardin, John Bullis was employed by of the counc[...]he Hardin the Eder Hardware Store and a few months later Lions Club, treasurer and past president o[...]six years, Secretary of the also was involved in the undertaking business. In 1916 Sts. John Lodge #92 A.F. and A.M. (Masons) for three he opened up the first Funeral Parlor in Big Horn years, a member of the Hardin Methodist Church, Past County and built part of the building that presently is commander of the Hardin Post #[...]llis. President of the Montana Funeral Directors in 1968, John W. Bullis was the first electe[...]nd Missions Horn County and served in the capacity from 1917 until Organization, and served on various committees for the his retirement in 1955. His son Everett was appointed school, city[...]y. Deputy Coroner in 1949 until 1955 at which time The Hardin Ambulance was run by the Bullis Everett was elected Coroner and is serving now. It is Mortuary in 1932 until just two years ago. At that[...]n time, it was a heavy money losing operation and in 1973 County.[...]om- John Bullis was active in many groups in Hardin missioners. Today the ambulance service is[...]e the Methodist Church, a past officer in the Hardin county. Lions Club, active in the Old Hardin Chamber of The Bullis Mortua[...]Fellows Lodge) and an active member of the In looking over the down town area of Hardin I can[...]ardin council at the time the present water filtration plant Photo), also posts just north of Lammer's store, also and the old water tower were built. His name is now on down where t[...]a plaque on the present City Hall that was built in 1920. several other spots on Main Street. I can remember Shortly after his arrival in Hardin John Bullis when half of the people in Hardin had a milk cow in the opened the Package Grocery on the corner[...]own used to take old car tires to or businesses in Hardin when the Bullis' first came to the old Har[...]the theatre. My father ran some three blocks in the main business district and on Third[...] |
| [...]Best City By A them on alternate Sundays. In Crow Agency the chapel Dam Site". The sidewalks in Hardin were few and far in the Indian boarding school was used until the bet[...]rds and built present church was completed in 1912. up on supports that were over five feet hig[...]ng permission to times a good big rain would have water running enter. through the churches o[...]-story house down Mr. Bullis was also active in the automobile by the river. One time th[...]ly 's family had to be rescued by men in row-boats. The Automobile agency in Hardin which was located in the house was very strongly built; despite a variety of 400 block on Custer A venue, in the building now oc- careless tenants, it was worth whil[...]ed and had the Dodge Car Sales at that time. That building is proved to be at least half an inch thick. In the living now owned by John Thompson and his son[...]ch them. Mrs. Lucilla Bullis was also active in community This was the beginning of a school for white children. affairs and also worked in the various businesses that Clyde Lewis was o[...]s a member of the Methodist most helpful in looking out for the little Burgesses. Church, the[...]dge of Hardin, a member of the Degree died in infancy, then came Aline (Now Mrs. Aline of Honor[...]Cooley of Pomona, California), Ormsby (also in Neighbors of Woodcraft. California), and Dorothy who passed away in 1967. John and Lucilla Bullis had six childr[...]ere sent to a oldest Inez Maurine Bullis was born in 1906 and died in boarding school in Jamestown, North Dakota. Cody, Wyoming in 1914. The five children who survive Followi[...]d Lowell Bullis, Laurel, Montana. Mr. Bullis died in 1958, and Mrs. Bullis in 1962.[...]We came to Hardin in March, 1911-my husband In a corner of the Baptist Mission at Crow Agency[...]Bill Reno 's place until fall when we moved in back of 1868-1944 the Benbrooks' store in a tin building owned by Ed James Gregor Burgess Lawlor and Dan King. Charley worked in the alfalfa [AkBaCooshBaEDea] mill until it burned down in 1916. He was a contractor,[...]han Willey planted the first trees in the City Park. this that a man lay down his Sidewalks in Hardin had board laid lengthwise, life for his friends." nailed together in front of stores; street lanterns at the Rev. Burgess was born and reared in England. He corners of Main Street furnishe[...]ional sheriff of Yellowstone County was in charge of Mission Board to Crow Agency about 1894[...]everything until Big Horn County was formed in Protestant missionaries on the Reservation. Mrs.[...]act Hardin's first hospital was the brick building at with the Indian men: they were playing "Shinny[...]de up horseback and sat down under hospital in her home. Dr. 0 . S. Haverfield built a a tree wi[...]ter became an apartment house him from the Bible. In time more Indians came to listen before being[...]s they called him, and accepted were treated in all of these hospitals at various times.[...] |
| [...]perch and a few nests beside the cow. live in Hardin: Ivon, Mrs. Ed Holland; Rowena, Mrs.[...]In due time the one hundred sixty acres was under[...]ught My father, Fred S. Bachelder, was born in irrigation water from the Clark's Fork River near Rutland, Vermont; my mother, Mary E. Casey, in Bridger. Mother now raised a fai[...]den and Oxford, New Jersey. They met and married in Billings, canned quantities from it. As[...]porch and filled it, spring and fall, from a pipe run from and Thirty-First Street which was on the outer edge of this ditch. Later he put in a pump. Before that the town as the business section was then on the south side water was obtained from a bucket on a rope. of the tra[...]ing here was the returned by herself in the evening at milking time. railroad which ran[...]were all seven, we started to school in a small building about others. The cracks between the logs were f[...]term so we walked. This school was closed stove. Water was hauled in barrels from Rock Creek. after the sec[...]all her washing We then went to school in the small mining town of by hand on a washboard, heated her water in a large Gebo, one half mile north of w[...]me. I drove a one horse had to have kerosene put in every day, the chimney had buggy and took[...]Gebo School until I was twelve years old and in the day. There were no baked or canned goods for[...]My father was elected sheriff of Carbon County in vegetables and fruit, and of course potatoes for[...]ring the winter, county seat. We had running water in the house and father would get a quarter of beef[...]embarrassed at being in the same grade with my sister To keep[...]y of the house. My sister was born while we lived in first school (a four month term) at Bee Hive School in Joliet.[...]er County. I saved my money and was able to In 1897 some Indian land between Bridger and[...]one River was "thrown open" for school in Carbon County. I attended Normal again at homeste[...]owing summer. I was acres. We all moved out there in the spring. Father and then offered a contract for a nine month term in two other homesteaders pooled their teams, went t[...]three and a half years. At this time a mid- lived in a tent, father , too, when he was home. Our year vacancy arose in one of the second grade rooms in water was hauled in barrels on what was known as a Red Lo[...]1925, distant. This " flat boat" was made of log in the form of when I married and moved to Denv[...]A place cut out for the barrels to fit into so in Colorado until October, 1931 , when my husband wa[...]daughters-two and a half years and ten months horses. Our bill-of-fare remained much the[...] |
| [...]where they were sent to England. Matt was among months term, at Fox and taught here for two and a half those who brought in the last trainload, and he decided years, when I[...]where I served for six years. In New York he joined the U. S. Army and in six At the end of that, Mr. Skeie offered me a teaching weeks found himself in France. He had barely arrived at position in Hardin which I accepted. th[...], and has the Note: Mrs. Cable continued to teach in Hardin until "distinction" of being the first American soldier 1961. Her retirement was spent in Hardin where she wounded in France. He was soon back in action, and died June 17, 1968, survived by her d[...]Pearl Blevans in 1922. Pearl was born in Barton County, Missouri, and[...]sisters. After teaching in Missouri she, too, felt the lure[...]of the West, and came to teach in Wyoming, and later in Fort Collins, Colorado. In 1915, she and her sister[...]opening the Toggery Shop in Sheridan which they[...]operated until both were married in 1922.[...]Matt had gone into the Plumbing business in[...]Frank Hatch's plumbing business, in 1929. Pearl had a gift shop in the office, combining this with being the[...]active in many organizations. Matt was a Mason and a[...]Shriner, and was Master of Sts. John Lodge in 1936.[...]MRS. M. R. CALDERWOOD benches in the city park so that it could be enjoyed by Mathew R. Calderwood was born in New Germany, townspeople and tourists alike. Nova Scotia, in 1889 and came to the United States In 1940 they moved to Billings, where Matt was when he was seven years old, living first in Florida and involved in working on many projects, including the later- in Pelham, New York. When he was 17 he left[...]l. After he retired from home to find his fortune in the West, working as a business he continued to keep busy in managing a small journeyman plumber in many parts of the West and in apartment complex which they had built. Pearl died in Canada. For two years he tried raising potatoes in 1971, and is buried at the Custer Battlef[...]the second year it Matt resides at Sage Tower in Billings. was impossible to sell what they raised[...]c Hotel with Frank Hatch (who later was a plumber in HISTORY OF EARL CAMMOCK Hardi[...]a man who Born near Bozeman, Montana. In early childhood had a horse ranch, and he offered him a job. While lived in a log house. Had two sisters and five brothers. w[...]up and keep his promise, Two brothers died in their early childhood. One brother, the man who ran the Livery Stable in Didsbury, where Leslie, died in March, 1973. Mother, age 99, is still he was waiting, suggested he take a ride with him out living in Billings, Montana. to the Pat Burns ranch. There[...]ut Attended school an average of three months a year to be a person who had known Matt's family in Nova in Red Lodge and Joliet, Montana. Farmed in Joliet, Scotia, so he took him on as a cow hand.[...]rns got a contract to deliver a million In 1916 moved to Hardin, Montana and took up a dollars worth of beef on the hoof, in Liverpool, and the homestead on Sarpy Creek. The winter of 1917 and 1918 next several months were spent in rounding up and worked for Spear[...] |
| [...]saved were their hides. Entered World War I in May, 1919, and was discharged May 27, 1919. Returned to Big Horn County in 1919. Lived in Lodge Grass, Montana until 1921. Moved to Sherid[...]ed at the Veteran's hospital for one year. In 1923 moved to Joliet, Montana and farmed with his brother Leslie. In 1924 married Ruth Elarth and lived in Joliet until 1925. The Spring of 1925, moved to Hardin and worked for Elarth Bros. in the Hardin Bakery. In 1926 moved to Sheridan, Wyoming and worked at the Sheridan Bread Co. In 1928 moved to Thermopolis, Wyoming. In 1930 moved to Hardin, Montana and worked in the Hardin Bakery for six years. We bought the Hardin Bakery in 1936. Retired in the fall of 1963 and have spent most of the winters since in Arizona or travelling. Bought a trailer and trave[...], and a daughter, Charlotte, Mrs. R. D. Hamilton, in Worden, Montana. Have six grand- children. O[...]Henry Goldwin Campbell was born July 6, 1869 in Guelph, Ontario, Canada. He was the son of Alexa[...]elen Watt Campbell. At the age of fifteen years, in 1884, he came west to Buffalo, Wyoming to live w[...]daughters. Esther May was Mr. Leiter, who lived in England. was born at the B[...]inson ranch home at Henrietta was born in Buffalo. The Campbells moved to Banner, Wyoming.[...]girls were of school age. from Cedarvale, Kansas in a covered wagon train in Henry leased their ranch and started t[...]g Ella (Mrs. Campbell) later spent the winters in Red ranch and later at the Big Corral ranch. Thes[...]Those trees are now eighty years old, In 1916 the Campbells sold their Wyoming in- and for many years the ranch has been known as the terests and bought seven sections of land in the Pine " Shady Lane Ranch". Hills in Big Horn County. A year later they bought the[...]an at the time of the Johnson Belcher Ranch in the Big Horn Valley, which joined the County Invasion in Wyoming. A rider went thru the Pine Hi[...]ns wered the call and went to Buffalo to meet the in- bungalow. A year later a large hip-roof ba[...]all the buildings were paralled the story as told in this book. He had a keen wired for electric[...]d many times Pine Hills. This was done late in the fall after the Low as the entertainmen[...] |
| [...]Wyatt finished high school and attended college in home, one of t he ditches was turned on again, an[...]t and Eunice Campbell were floating on top of the water. Keep-sakes in trunks Lammers graduated from Hardin High School and both were soaked, and the new Delco plant was under water. graduated from Montana State Univ[...]e ranches were Percheron, and he took great pride in[...]In 1926 the Campbells moved to a ranch four miles[...]Oregon in 1942 . Henry Campbell passed away in 1952 in Portland,[...]with her daughters. She passed away in 1956. Mrs. Henry G. Campbell[...]year, until illness in his family called him home. The[...]in mechanical engineering the University of North[...]Cornell, 1904-1906. In 1906, the University of Southern |
| established a home in California. She could not live in a Long before World War II, foreign govern[...]nterprise had had noted Tom Campbell's work. In 1929, during begun in Montana, during World War I, she and the[...]overnment had sought his children spent the warm months at a ranch north of advice about a prog[...]o be a consultant some tracts of Government land in Montana might be- on problems of raising[...]s. So Tom Britain self-sufficient. He was in London during the Campbell became the father of[...]ured Montana, looking for the right part in the North African campaign. He was in Italy land. This they found on the Fort Peck and[...]by the Government and then retired. In 1948, the French government asked but financed by J.P. Morgan, was launched in 1917 on him to help them plan for extensi[...]e, to make North Africa the bread-basket of In 1918, this undertaking became the Campbell France. Farming Corporation, largest wheat farm in the world, which, at its peak, farmed 95,000 acres. In the late 1920's, Campbell's friends proposed him[...]is, from a Hardin headquarters and four "camps". In 1947, it produced a half million bushels. In 1948, it was first to use spray successfully against grasshoppers. In the 1940's, it was farming about 50,000 acres, planting half and summer- fallowing half. In 1949, it was hailed out completely, the first tim[...]-time office manager at Hardin, ceremony in Washington. The Crow Tribe made him a told that d[...]North African friends wrote to him in French. He In the late 1930's he extended his business to New responded in English. When an article about him Mexico, where he felt deep wells could make large appeared in a French magazine, French fan mail came irrigated[...]derground to Hardin. Once during harvest in the late 1940's, three flow wasn't fast en[...] |
| After the war, until his death in Pasadena, 1969, DR. D. W. CARPER Tom Campbell was in Hardin part of each year. Every[...]friends the harvesters returned, Born in 1863 in Illinois, Daniel Carper taught the reunion in his office was warm and gay. Forty years school and attended Medical College in Cincinnati, ago, his Stutz Bearcat was a familiar sight in these Ohio. While teaching he met and mar[...]nners, who used to drive it. in Henning, Illinois until he decided to become a·[...]mer. The family moved to Missouri, then in 1913 they[...]tinued farming until his death in 1940. He served on the School Board in District #16 when the old Community Scott and Glady Carpenter left Missouri in 1916 School was built and was an officer[...]und work on a ranch was always interested in community affairs and gave near Reedpoint, he as[...]D. and and Pompeys Pillar and stayed until 1922. In 1920, Harold, and one daughter, Berneic[...]Bowers, all of whom lived near-by. He passed away in birth of a child, there being no doctors close by. She was 1940 and Mrs. Carper died in 1956. away from March to May. That winter the baby , Marvin, got sick so they left home in their first car; a· Model T, which they called a[...]ver the tops but others were five feet deep. In 1933 the Carpenters moved to a farm on the Little Horn in Big Horn County near Dunmore, Montana. Marvin attended High School in Hardin and helped with the farm work. He was a member of the Armed Services in World War II spending twenty-two months overseas before returning home in 1945. They sold the farm and moved to Hardin in 1955. Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Carper on their f[...]LLOYDE D. CARPER |
| [...]responsible for building a telephone down the valley. In 1925 Helen Wort and I were married; we had[...]Charles. Margaret lives in California and Dan in[...]away in 1967, and in July 1968 I married a long-time[...]and Sam Emmons, one of the original homesteaders in Big Hom Valley[...]settlers in Lodge Grass and on Rotten Grass creek in[...]Ira Chatham was born in Flenington, Penn- In the early days we had a literary society which sylvania, in 1856. His ancestors landed in this country, met at Valley Center school. We had[...]ligious services. Mrs. Fred were four children in the Schenderline family: Joseph, Waterman[...] |
| [...]ver below where the Yellowtail dam is now. It was in the spring o[...]miles were covered in one day.[...]One time when I was digging in the sand near the[...]They built a nine room house in Lodge Grass where we lived in winters so we children could attend school and church. In the spring when school was out we could[...]. Chatham, age 18 large tubful of grain in the back end of a wagon and[...]rs that came in to help. Some of the wheat was taken into[...]creek. In those days neighbors were very few and far[...]Raleigh wagon. He would give the children in our |
| [...]oward home Professional Women Club. While in Hardin, I served as as fast as they could go. Th[...]on paper, called mother was midwife to many women in and around "Montana Libraries", fo[...]My father died December 14, 1919 while we were in During the first year in Hardin, I met my future quarantine for Scarlet Fever. My mother died in 1969 at husband, Kenneth Christiansen, who[...]marriage, June 28, 1928. We kept the apartment in the Gillette Building for awhile then moved to a larger one HISTORY OF HAZEL RENNIE CHRISTIANSEN in the Annex, where we lived until we purchased the[...]an interview with improved. While we lived in Hardin, Kenneth and I the County Commissioners in October, 1926, in regard enjoyed many fine social activitie[...]ounty. At the time, I was the Reference Librarian in American Legion and the Kiwanis Club. Whi[...]licants for the position. I I was born in Brookings, S. D. and raised in was invited to accept the position and I promised[...]r, 1926. I found the moved to Montana in my late teens. I attended Rocky library in a deplorable condition, as no trained per-[...]d studied Library Science for two sonnel had been in charge. No books were cataloged or years[...]of Wisconsin, Madison. classified-no segregation in regard to fiction, non- Kenneth wa[...]o be with. The first night I was there, college in Walla Walla, Washington, Logan, Utah and Mrs. Winslow invited some of her friends in-mostly Cambridge, Mass. He built many f[...]for the county library and he assisted in building schools-to a bridge party and to meet me. This I various buildinj?s in Hardin and vicinity. greatly enjoyed and since I[...]yed bridge During the years I was in the Library, I made before, I found it most intri[...]uzzetti and what dinners they were-each in trying to find a certain school or ranch. One tim[...]After the Winslows left, I rented an apartment in we were trying to find. He was very kind. We had the Gillette Building, later purchased by Mr. and Mrs. stopped at[...]lad he was leading During the years I lived in Hardin, I became a us, for we could never[...]member of the Congregational Church where I sang in think we were trying to find the[...] |
| [...]e one purple, one of pink, one of red, stove. In the winter the ink wells would freeze and one of[...]as well Our only sports were coasting in the winter and as others were always so kind to us when we were in horseback riding in the summer. We did have dances that part of the c[...]aying the fiddle. thoughtful of us. When visiting in the Kirby and My father finall[...]nd There were some serious illnesses in the com· to us. Sometimes we would have to drive[...]y by horse and buggy, and t he rest of the way on in a different direction. In this way I always felt I took horseback. There[...]the library to the many were buried in homemade caskets, on t heir homeplace. library borrowers over the county, in the schools and in The first car to venture up Sarpy, cam[...]ties. During my first years there, Hysham in 1914 over almost impossible roads. Us kids there were still many rural schools in operation in the almost stampeeded at t he first sight o[...]ds, the teacher, the students, but for the adults in the community as and my mother for a ride in it. In 1915 my father well, where the schools were not n[...]c. Since there were During the years I lived in Hardin, my mother, no roads, he learned[...]buggy did. passed away there after a long illness in 1943. From that time on more equipment was invented and We left Hardin in April, 1951, when we purchased we grew mor[...]RK F AMIL Y- 1899-1930 In 1898, when I was 17 and ju t married, my[...]ds and not very many large town . came to Montana in 1888 from Indianapolis, Indiana A[...]s team and wagon. I stayed at the hotel in Fo yth. Two helped to build the fence around The[...]He built a one-room log cabin, then went back to In- The horn tead wa n 't com pl ted[...]d several gone, I tayed on my mattress in the comer, on the head of cattle and rode every d[...]ttle or pick up supplies that could not be bought in house.[...]your cattle. man once went out to drive in some dairy dows. He made the seats and desks and[...]he came upon a group of Indian killing a teacher. In 1909 the County formed a school district[...] |
| [...]sewing and tried to go to town twice a year, once in the has his bed roll from those early times. spring and once in the fall. I would buy yards and yards Following his marriage to Hazel Smith in 1913 at of material, as I made the boy's overalls as well as Terry, Montana they ranched in a canyon in the shirts, and dresses for myself and my daugh[...]cook stove, cupboard and a rocking chair. Water was When someone went to Lame Deer, he pic[...]p were used for fuel. Potatoes were stored in a cellar. it off at the centermost house, where[...]a dog and a cat. A little The first school building we had out on Sarpy w~ a farming was done with a plow, harrow, mower and a little log building that everyone helped build. My rake. hu[...]xt day she agreed to stay and teach for the three months for which she had been hired. She had five studen[...]ked themselves and their children into sleds with hot bricks and plenty of blankets. After we got there[...]t to card games. About noon everybody started out in sleds and got there about 3:00 o'clock. We would[...]The Clements and family moved to Hardin in 1930 wheat, hay and alfalfa. I was able to see Hardin come in the spring to a house in the Fourth addition. The out of the gumbo, but it[...]that "I have Charlie Clements, worked in the Big Hom County lived in three counties without ever moving". This was[...]Spear's ranch at Lodge Grass. He is now in his ninth[...]S Charlie Clements, came by train to Montana in 1903 with a herd of cattle from the XIT ranch in Texas. THE EARLY DAYS OF MR. H. E. CLIFF[...]the ranches around surrounding area in 1904. His earliest home was made Terry as a cowboy for forty dollars a month. He broke in Sheridan, Wyoming but he moved to Crow Agency, horses in the winter time when many cowboys were "on[...] |
| [...]will be the center of town in the near future". Mr. Clifford reached the[...]d H. Mouat established Hardin's first meat market in a families. Nice houses were furnished the[...]elected to serve two jail, etc. more terms in 1930.[...], boys' At the time of the auction of plots in Hardin, Mr. dorm, girls' dorm, dining room, la[...]. Clifford had participated forgotten. actively in public affairs and his interest continues.[...]south east of Crow Agency at the time he arrived in 1904 was "the[...]made arrangements with Supt. Asbury to live in the[...]consecutive months with below zero weather much[...]walking to school and my teacher thawed it out in[...]Montana put my mother in shock and being the oldest•[...]turtle fun a howling war cry of an Indian dressed in full Mr. H. E. Clifford[...]l until brother, arrived from Spokane, Washington in Hardin, Senator Greening voted we should[...]younger sister. We arrived in a Studebaker touring car. Our While living in the hotel my father ran a taxi to furniture follo[...]ar. The Studebaker car Custer Battlefield, in those days there was no age limit was a great pleasure and use in time to come. for driving,[...] |
| [...]rough. My father was also the band were put in piles and then shipped to Sheridan to the leade[...]moved to I was married to Ira Cochran in 1926 and have our new home with no modern conveniences. Crow lived in this house ever since. We both went to work for Agency had running water and a light plant but we had Holly Sugar in 1937 as the factory was completed and to carry our drinking water from a natural spring on both of us worked[...]I joined the Congregational Church in 1926 and stone boat with two barrels fastened to it and we would have worked in it ever since. I helped Mrs. Dr. Labbitt go to t[...]ith Girl Scouts and on other community projects. water which had to settle before we could wash. The[...]on the washing machine and also pulling up in community activities. He had lived in Hardin since and down on the dasher in the big crock churn. 1910. Our daughters were both married in the I was nearly asphyxiated from the fumes from a Congregational Church in Hardin. Ira passed away Coleman gas iron so we h[...]ar old Auntie As everyone realizes fanning in the pioneer days Mamie who has made her home[...]and Mrs. Ira Cochran [Ethel Johnson], 1971 In time District 17-H furnished a horse drawn school bus with a stove in it for the winter. My father[...]I worked during my noon hours at the bakery run I do not know whether I can tell you anything of by George Muth, and enjoyed a hot lunch for my interest or not, but i[...]nce so Father Talman I arrived here in Hardin, Montana the morning of and Rev. Cory came[...]had April 7, 1910 about five o'clock in the morning on the church in the Indian School Assembly hall.[...]Agent was old Charlie Wells. Mr. Bateman was in and Richardson and Skipton had a general store wi[...]barn just across the street, so I the post office in the far end. went ov[...]as Deputy Sheriff of Albert Steens are now living in the house he built Yellowstone C[...] |
| [...]r here I worked for Dave Kamp, everyone in town was out and most everyone (Alma Kifer's step[...]as built on the east side of the get out in the street. Walt Lee was among the main road. Lat[...]y had to move the school house the corner in front of what was the Reeder Brug Store across th[...]My brother, Bill, taught the first term of school in help yourself. At that time the Congregational[...]"America" and said she was the only real American in different jobs for several years and had many in- the bunch. A lot of people got lit up[...]that looked like happened to be playing in the Band and the Band was show horses and when they got ready to run away they on the job all afternoon and la[...]d shot me and the front end of the wagon right up in the air. The team went down the street with In the early days of Big Horn county Dewey double tr[...]Negro and the Negro was in no hurry as he had been[...]and killed Gilmore and put a bullet in the deputy sheriff. Then he barricaded himself in an old barn just[...]and men . Some were upstairs in t he depot and about[...]gasoline and sprayed t he back of the building where the Dray used by Ira Cochran, 19[...]Negro was, and pretty soon the fire drove him out in the[...]r J. W . Johnston, John Bullis, Billings back in the fire . Andrew Dornberger carried the bullet I[...]While working for Dick Warren in 1923, he got the In the year of 1915 I was working on the ditch a nd[...]ing school children to school from G. L. Kent was in charge. At that time there was a Garryo[...]youngsters I hauled were S . J. Johnson 's, who in later high, so the church had a dirt hauling bee one day and years became my father-in-law , Naylor's (Ada, now anyone who had a wagon c[...]more. half a dozen men with shovels and we filled in around the church. In those days they had to load all wagons[...] |
| [...]the job was all the way from the jump-off place in the south-end part of the county to Pryor.[...]factory, and I drove a good share of the spikes in the floor of the wet pulp pit and had the pleasu[...]February 4th. The majority of people living in Hardin now do not realize there were very few side walks, no paved streets, running water, and in the wet weather it was P[...]the Hardin City Council. In 1945, after all three My two daughters were born in Hardin and attended all twelve years of their sch[...]Jake active girls, and both had a church wedding in the Convers moved back to Billings.[...]Guy Conver passed away in March 1975 in old Congregational church. Each of the girls have[...]so and girl and my oldest grandson is now serving in the Marines.[...]Conver passed away in September 1965 in Billings. His It has been very interesting living in a community wife, Bertha, still lives in Billings. Also surviving are of progress where we[...]ilities of which I have stock certificates bought in 1913. For the conclusion my wife and I plan to spend the remainder of our lives in a fruitful retirement. ote: Talk given to the[...]1968. THE CONVER FAMILY |
| [...]Mother passed away in 1928 and Father in 1930. Today Bessie-Mrs. Thomas Bullock-lives in California, Tom and his family are in Wolf Point , Montana, and Melvin and his wife live in Hardin.[...]Marjorie Cook Findlay bakery, and Tom also worked in the bakery while in Born May 12, 1885, Edison Cook came b[...]around and heard a voice say "Know me only in the[...]In later years running horses on the divide between[...]Torske Dad left the Tongue River in 1902 and went to Park City where he ran a dairy. In 1908-09 he moved to When World War I ended,[...]real the mouth of Sorrel Horse Creek, in the Big Horn celebration. Mint Kelley rode[...] |
| In 1907 my brother Ernest and I had a bunch of out in the hills, it began snowing, and I decided to cam[...]inner, but when she asked me bought a place right in that area. if I'd had s[...]Much later I was being considered for a job in the Cook started the Sorrel Horse school. The first building sheriff's office; the sheriff told me (after[...]ek and an addition was built. Mary Van in a good word for me. That meant more to me than Cl[...]June 18, 1914 I married Edna Mae Seek in Billings whip on the children. He cut Mary Marjor[...]Marjorie Findlay at 1502 26th He didn't last long in the school. Luella Tate from Avenue, Cod[...]Melvin Cook was born in Leon, Kansas March 21, 1908. He came to Hardin in 1915 with his parents by[...]early in the morning and light the stove which heated The[...]children came to school by horseback, or in a school l. to r.: Mary Marjorie Findlay, Eunice[...]k, Alfreda horses with a small stove in the back of the wagon for Simone, Ralph, Dorothie[...]In the winter of 1918 the snow drifted over the tops[...]r boys were on their been stolen from the farmers in the Pine Ridge area. way to school for a[...]him A school for all grades was built in 1910 in Hardin. before; my boss told the crew with me to do as I told In the spring Melvin and some of the others brought 'em. I placed them around an area, where down in a eight teams to school and made a trac[...]e draw I'd spotted about two hundred head. I went in present high school. The boys often had[...]every day. Once when he was riding herd where the hot him so he didn't start anything, but he kept driv[...]s-ain't that reward a girl had brought in to trade for candy. The store clerk enough[...] |
| [...]his cow ran away. The first winter they lived in a tent for the City of Hardin until his retirement in 1973. on Pine Ridge and ran a saw mill. He[...]OL grew alfalfa. Then, in about his second year here, he By Ke[...]s rolled My grandmother, Ruth Cool, was born in Penn- over his foot. It was so painful h[...]on. When she was eleven she wasn't a doctor in the area then. At that time there was in the fourth grade during a four month term. She[...]walked one and one-half miles to school every day in shipped from the pens on the other side of the river. summer and in the winter she never went. Their en- New families moving in had to have their furniture and tertainment was a[...]taffy pulling party, a other goods shipped in wheelbarrows across the railroad dance, or differ[...]t would come up twice a year to worry about water for his crops. There was a coulee to be changed.[...]log or sod behind his place and by the time the water got to his houses. For cleaning the house there w[...]e weren't any antelope, but grandmother also had, in their house, a large organ there were a fe[...]y cents a day. In 1920 Charlie moved to Hardin, this was to end[...]ng years. He still has his farm but he Hom County in 1934, where Mr. Cool was employed by now[...]Corkins was part owner of the Hardin instrumental in securing Mexican Nationals to thin Tribune Herald and served as U. S . Commissioner. He beets in the Hardin area. He was responsible, also, for[...]y years. He passed away Mr. Cool passed away in 1964 in Hardin, and Mrs. October 1965 at the age of 84. Cool has recently left Hardin to live in a retirement home in Billings. Both Mr. and Mrs. Cool were very active in church and community affairs while living in[...]I was born in Sheridan, Wyoming, moved to Big[...]wide, nor four miles from anywhere. Unless it is in the old West. One of these homesteaders in Montana straight down. was Charlie Corkins.[...]moved on the Charlie Corkins came to Montana in 1902, and homestead: Pearl Ellen, Walter Franklin (Frank) and married Mary Helen Hazzard in 1906, but it was not myself, Arthur Earne[...]ed either under the saddle or harness. of erosion in the hills and the soil coming down the[...]Robert. After my Dad, Frank James Cotton, died in When he first got here he had two hor[...] |
| [...]o dance to. them through the window by the table in the kit- Us boys, too, went to t[...]s would come On Monday when the girls all got in there, we jerked it in sight by the corner of the school section, nearly[...]coyote that Jim Gibbons I remember hauling water on stoneboat from my had skinned and le[...]n and propped him up put a little piece of board in the barrel to float on the looking at the door. We were all at school early, when water to keep the water from splashing so much, still if the teacher[...]she had forgotten something. We got in a little trouble we rode on the stoneboat we woul[...]eaves watching TV. to catch rain for soft water. At home f[...]es, bob cats, rattlesnakes, used to sneak in to the cupboard and get sweet buns, hoot owls and cactus. Although when a coyote howled, put them in our shirt front and slip out of the house. I usua[...]a snake. She limped for several lot in the summer. We would build us a little barn and months. But I was bit nearly every day by cactus.[...]putting matches in them and using them for horses. We[...]were going to put all the potato horses in a hole if she[...]d when he came home, he used to sing side, a door in the east end, and a blackboard on the to[...]younger kids and west end. The teacher's desk was in front of the black rock them and sing. He[...], which none of board and a big wood burning sto~ in the middle of the us kids inherited. In the winter sometimes Frank and I room. Sometimes the boys would put 22 shells in to would go up the road where we would[...]metimes when it toilets, a shed to put the horses in, and a wood shed. In was real cold, we could hear for a mile or so[...]aling on the snow, then pretty soon we would hear run-sheep-run. In the middle of the play yard there was the c[...]reminds me of a story Old Shane, the would run to the house and say that he was coming. In trapper, told Frank and I one time, about his brother 1930 in April, my Dad was working for the Flying V who wa[...]s played the Star Spangled Banner and he stood up in the fourteen years old and my uncles told[...], so I will leave that part of the story out, but in to be mine for the next few months. Mother used to cry church they used to sing together. In the summer they every night after the kids were in bed. We planted a had Bible school, we acted out[...]e drouth. We didn 't summer. They also had dances in the school. Bum get anything[...] |
| [...]that grew I was born in Iowa in 1893. April 10, 1922 I so no one was unaffected.[...]as married Frank Cotton. In 1916 we loaded up and many as thirty-two people,[...]the place we decided to call home. We lived in a tent would go to Decker, fill the car and we co[...]es 4 years, 2 years and the 10 day old baby. In the spring of 1931, I went to work lambing for[...]er 320 acres. We built a small chicken house In 1934 I was eighteen years old. I joined the[...]Frank worked on the county road in the summer bought me a Kodak, then we started to[...]hills asked if he could come in out of the rain, but there was of Four Mile I get[...]so much rain coming in the house through the roof he[...]Frank got about 20 acres planted in rye the next ~ ~[...]the dead horses, then the coyotes would run the dogs to CHET COTTON[...]ears, and went to work In the spring Frank went to work on the County for D[...]e was away, I got so tired of various cow outfits in the county, but mainly for the old[...]Tongue river children in an old baby buggy and decided to walk over above[...]e at that time, so I just started out and Mexico. In 1916 he went into Sheridan, Wyoming[...]e; when I got about 300 or 400 yards and enlisted in the Wyoming National Guard and went[...]scout. When the fast run. I was afraid as I knew I couldn' t get the outfi[...]kind of hopper that there ever was. Mile creek in Big Horn County. He died in 1964 and is[...] |
| [...]so I made corn meal I had to haul water about three-fourths of a mile. cakes but withou[...]d no lard to use to fry them. and carry fresh water back to the house to drink for the Sometimes we[...]uled coal 20 miles to Decker to a rodeo, in a wagon. It was quite a for John Stout, until h[...]e We did have good times, we took in all the dances when he could and did what he co[...]12 gates to get off the horse and standing in the door watching the storm, when one open and l[...]as about 12 miles called out, "It's coming in the house". Fred Weltner home and we weren't rea[...]ore than a week. It kept was coming in two foot drifts of hail right up to the storming,[...]od and I couldn't keep the children flood water came up to the windowsils before it divided warm.[...]nd they The beds were wet and everything was water soaked. I had to stop and eat dinner. It was real cold and I felt started to build a fire in the stove, but it smoked and pretty sorry for mys[...]ds. Then I there was a large table in the kitchen, and the beds ran out of flour and la[...]s the beds were over that part and took my sister-in-law with me to the Flying V to of the ceiling and took the water that would have run tell Frank he had to come home, but they talked m[...]ness the horses Frank passed away in 1934, he was sadly missed before I could go into the house. Flo had her feet in a by all. In April 1937 H . W. "Bill" Wyrick and I were pan of[...]to go to Kirby when her son Fred was 16 months old, so I raised their to sign up for the draft s[...]Yonkitis lives at Rosebud. Bill passed away in 1960. the fences. I heated stones and kept them in the sled for Between us, we had 14 children. Now I live in Forsyth, warmth. We put in quilts as we took the children along, Montana, I moved here in 1940. I have 110 grand- also two dogs, they rode in the sled and helped to keep children, als[...]e My children, Pearl Clark lives in Portland, Oregon horse played out, so when we got to Adsits we stayed and works in a Vet hospital. Frank, Jr. lives in all night. The next morning the mare had lost her[...]the Adsits and left our Arthur lives in Sheridan, Wyoming working for Metz horse there un[...]a number of Beer and Ice company. Ed is in Billings, he has retired folks that were snowed in at Kirby, so the next morning from road construction. Hazel Pierce lives in[...] |
| [...]e, horses were needed mother. James Foster nurses in Melrose, Colorado. for the farm work.[...]d to Dean was killed at I wo Jima, he was a medic in the cross the river on a swinging bridge[...]f the first to go on the island of delighted in swinging until we girls nearly landed in the Iwo Jima, when the marines landed and was kil[...]our heads. first day on the island. Robert lives in Washington D. The first school close[...]boys delighted in sending we girls to the top of our[...]at crawled As I remember it was a bright day in early May, in. Later on an unused school building from somewhere when as a child of six I came to B[...]and there I com- Wyoming, 8 miles north of Decker in a wagon packed pleted the eighth grade,[...]st of our belongings and a milk cow trailing in the area giving me my examinations; high school b[...]om had explained that we were instead of in the homes, where some times it was leaving our home in Wyoming and going to the country necessary to move out all the furniture. Here, too, we in Montana. held church. We had no regular church but in the When we crossed the State line she said[...]mmer a student minister came and brought services in Montana. Somehow to my young mind I felt we were for the summer. In between our mothers usually saw leaving the world[...]na", I think I Our only doctor was in Sheridan thirty miles away, felt that way for qui[...]had been proceeded to go duck hunting in the area before coming, built on the homestead an[...]r things, carpets and all, were piled doctors'. in the rain. We had the best water in the area, which came Those first years were[...]ed all our chickens; wind up with very little water when we did get home. snow drifts that piled high[...]Our mail carrier was more than that, he was in and happiness. Though, I can't remember being too[...]we had to drive make room for you. miles in the wagon or rode horse back. The Fourth of[...]e I worked at some of the dude ranches in the area for the Weltner Ranch or at Decker. I ca[...]ession weight of all the food and everyone joined in the games. era when everyone was searching for a job. Our first years of school were spent in the mining Of course there are[...] |
| [...]rly memories He married Audie Armstrong in 1939; they my sister and I recall with laughter w[...]. and Dad giving us warning not to let the cattle in to the Ward). Mr. Cox passed away in 1970. fresh straw stack which was used to supplem[...]wire fence around the stack. It worked too. In 1939 I came to Hardin, where I married Harry E .[...]ved here since. Harry and his folks had come here in May 1907 when his Dad, Wm. V. Cox had homesteaded[...]present home, in 1906, but came here in 1907. The only building in Hardin at this time was a little general store[...]business in Hardin was a saloon located in a tent and run by young Becker, whose father put up the present[...]run by Mr. Drake and his sister, Mrs. Wheeler. Mr.[...]Drake built the first building in Hardin after Mr.[...]Spencer's store, which was built in 1907. (Goering Meat[...]Market?) The Hardin Hotel was the second building[...]for the first buildings in Hardin. Harry Cox retiring as Big Horn County Cle[...]a little later they added a tin shack, and lived in Harry Cox, born in Billings 1902, the son of Mr. this for a co[...]from Pine Recorder for Big Horn County, retiring in January Ridge and built a two-room log[...]their 1968. He had come with his family to Hardin in 1907, present home in 1912. They hauled all their firewood and lived on[...]schools and Billings Busin<dss College. In the early days Hardin was part of Yellowstone He[...]built, and Big Horn County was the second county in Mr. and Mrs. Cox made a trip from Billing[...]ost a church, as well as of the Republican party. In 1962 he very valuable racing horse for which[...]refused $500.00. and Recorders Association ; in 1963, 1965, and 1967 he The first well[...]ranch. All the neighbors went there for their water. mittee. Before this well was dug the settlers got their water[...] |
| [...]e Bateman family and another keep the wagons in repair. During these years Joe family. Mr. Bateman had the first bakery in Hardin hauled freight from Miles City an[...]g ranchers at the roundup B. A. Erickson, son-in-law of Mrs. Cox, made all wagons. the first sidewalks and curbings in Hardin, also Born in the next few years were three girls, all foundati[...]delivered by their father. Gladys came in a February blizzard in 1916. The Dodge couple lived less than a[...]rail to their house. Plans for the births of Irma in By Daughters Gladys Kluk, Irma Torske and 1918 and Winnie B. in 1919 were similarly interrupted.[...]lauson Joseph Raleigh Crackenberger was born in Joehaves County, Illinois, in 1885, the oldest of nine children. His parents we[...]er. Joe followed the harvest crews as far as Iowa in the summers during the change from horse power to[...]corn across Kansas and signed on as roundup cook in Nebraska with a herd on the way to Sheridan, Wyoming. He stayed in the area and was working on the Flying V ranch when he met Nora. Nora Furman Thompson, was born in 1888 in Gladys and Irma Crockenberger in Pack Saddle, 1919 Indiana County, Pennsylvania. H[...]d studied nursing, Schools were opening in the community and Joe's art and music and her tra[...]day ride for them to take the state tests in Hardin to Sheridan down the Tongue river. Taking[...]their Montana teacher's certificate. They taught in working cowboys was another of her many interests[...]In 1924 Joe took a job for the Flying V to winter[...]rest of that term in our home. The next four years, Joe and Nora Crackenberger, Prairie Dog homestead, school was held in the Parks homestead cabin. Joe 1923[...]irls all the training married the 12th day of May in 1915, the third marriage they would need. He took lots of time to teach the performed in Big Horn County. They had filed for fu[...]f the county. With help from neigh- graduated in 1933. Irma and Winnie B. graduated in bors and newly arrived relatives, they built a log cabin, Hardin in 1936.[...] |
| [...]horses so they took down their ropes and took in after[...]One time he was in the Clear Creek area and had just[...]e saddle by He was married to Ruth Salverson in the fall of one foot. He mounted his ho[...]rcely be printable!" retired to Sheridan and died in October, 1959.[...]There were many coyotes and wolves in that area in the early days. Quite a few men made their living[...]eral of his experiences. One Curryville, Missouri in 1902. He spent some time time Ben wa[...]y and Chicago on one of their ranches in the Clear Creek area Billings, working for the bi[...]they agreed to "wait and see". After three weeks in the sure that he could get out in a hurry in case the wolf Sheridan, Wyoming hospital, he was well enough to go was in there, they tied a rope to one of his feet. Ben g[...]Creek Ranch to recuperate. Bill down in the den and gave the signal that the wolf was Gollings, a well known artist of the Sheridan area, came in. Bill thought that the wolf might be eating Ben u[...]was down hill so it proud of his markmanship but in some of the target made the rope pull[...]r down the hill he went. Ben's leg caught in the bank and the ranch which the beaver kept well[...]alright with the cowboys, it made a good place to water known as Rheinie). "It like to broke Rheini[...]ng the bird's throat .. ! got him and hung him up in come up the trail on the second trail herd brought up the bunk house. When Bill came in I told him I'd never from Texas and had had a brush or two with the In- shot a gun that size in my life, that I shot at the old dians on the way. The mules got such a fright in these heron's head but it fell a little bi[...] |
| right in them. When the mule got the scent, it ducked stopped over in Kansas City we went to Montgomery down and came u[...]OF LUCIA TIPTON stove in the kitchen. CRISWELL When we arrived in Hardin it had rained, there[...]and grey shoes looked a sight by the time we born in Indiana and my mother, Hattie Maria Bartoo,[...]ck House which had been built 1857-1942, was born in New York. Both were deaf and recentl[...]re Jacksonville, Illinois school and were married in 1883. joined by the Fraziers for the tri[...]he youngest. warned me about alkali water- luckily she had brought They wanted me to become[...]uples with Massachuesetts. I heard about a family in Lodge cowbells, etc. had come to[...]loaded sled but escaped injury. Fern's classroom in one end. She was a very bright We h[...]hired Mr. Gookin to plow it; we put in wheat that fall. Pease Livery Barn which I really[...]Mrs. George Miller, Sr., was postmistress in the really pretty-the first I'd seen.[...]fall of 1916; mail was brought from Big Horn, in The school house was used for church, Rev.[...]ffice. Other neigh- there at times and the people in the community bors were Mr. and[...]eorge When the dudes came from Eaton's Dude Ranch in Millers, Joe and Jack Spray, El[...]Wyoming to the Crow Fair they would have a dance in Mrs. Walley from Billings, Clyde Cor[...]s now the movie show and the In 1918 Mr. and Mrs. Cranford came out to see us school house the American Legion building. in a new Model T Ford. After dinner Mrs. Cranford sa[...]s many times." She really knew what she was plus, in it: Sec. 4, 1 S. Range 37 E . I still own it and rent talking about, for I did. it out for cattle pasture in the summer. Our chi[...]ed; one time it was Jess and I were married in the Methodist par- a bobcat-h[...] |
| Jess had a well drilled in 1915; it was 165 feet deep, The work horses he used were purchased in a sales as they had to drill through several layers of solid rock, barn in Billings, Montana. He kept a few horses, but no a[...]ll cows for a period of time. was drilled in a coulee and it still furnishes water for Mr. Crouch's first wife, Jennie,[...]with their daughter Leone, in the fall of 1901. She lived We bought our first groceries from Mr. Peden in in Billings before returning to Michigan for a few y[...]E . Gay, who had a hardware store, gave In 1906 she and her daughter returned to Montana to[...]and it really made stay. good coffee. In later years Charlie Eder had a hardware[...]many years. Jennie Crouch passed away in 1922; beans, cared for them and harvested 9 seaml[...]d Mr. Crouch married Beulah Hoffman in 1930. They them. They debated whether to keep the money in their have one daughter, Carolyn. They moved to Hardin in " sock" or bank it, but decided to bank it. On Mo[...]l their Mr. Crouch passed away in 1964, and Mrs. Crouch money! now lives in Hardin. The Mormon crickets took everythin[...]ess passed away October 5, 1959, and I have lived inin Jackson, Michigan in 1870, into a family of five. He came to Montana in 1906 because of low wages in Michigan. He arrived in Billings in April and went to work for Mr. Charlie Bair, the owner of a sheep outfit in Pryor country. In 1905 while working for Mr. Bair, he came to what[...]e paid $75 for the improvements, which included a building and a corral, then he went to Miles City, to file[...]HOOL had purchased. He had to pay $4.00 per acre, in ad- By Carolyn R. Riebeth dition to the $75. There was no land office in Billings The records of Rosebud Coun[...]any people had the money to pay cash at in August, 1903. She was thirty-four and lived at Cr[...]Agency. Her second grade certificate was renewed -in improvements brought $800. Mr. Crouch's land,[...]d not apply for renewal when it expired purchased in 1905, was located five miles south of the in 1909. Her references were E. A. Richardson and S.[...]nts of the The first crop he raised was oats in 1910. He County Superintendent show[...]method of planting. The total In 1904 she began teaching in Crow Agency, at the yield was twelve hundred bush[...]had Indian blood, but we owned the first thresher in the valley. The thresher was all lived in English speaking homes, didn 't wear powered by a[...]wo moccasins, and weren 't housed in teepees. In 1904, I dollars and fifty cents a bushel, because[...]new. the Quaker Oats Company was paying. The oats in the Mrs. Cruikshank was a true g[...]rd, businesslike, and expectant of results, In 1909 he put in five acres of potatoes. He har- but also[...]eze. He sold Recalling the children in the school, I am mentally three loads because he[...]e rest was of the Agency. There was youth in almost every one, left to rot.[...] |
| school. The Campbell family came in force: Fenton, To me, listening to[...]Ernestine, Gayland, and a baby tale, and I haven't read it since. left the Agency around 1904, I thi[...]he gate, he sped across the playground in a wide circle. children of Bill Humphrey were Mau[...]her long black skirt, Billy. The Scallys arrived in 1907 with Margaret, was right in his tracks, with outstretched arm. At last Lillia[...]SAM N. CUNNINGHAM AND EARLY TIMES ON lengthwise in pairs led to our school from the main TULLOCK CREEK street. We were the only building in that huge field As told to his grandda[...]iver. One of his children who had died was buried in Big Horn Co. , Montana from Fertile, Minnesota, in a big cottonwood in the grove behind the school-a[...]Jim, who had filed on a homestead in 1906, met games, and mumbletipeg (pronouncing it that way). In grandpa in Big Horn and took him to the sheep camp winter, w[...]have seen her the camp. The men were in the process of shearing and sail across that wide[...]s finished about the first of July. fuel box. The water bucket and dipper stood on a table Then gran[...]f the door were the hooks for coats. was stored in a shed at the shearing pens until it was The rest[...]hat time, was bringing fifteen cents per classes. In a front comer was our library, from which we p[...]all. There they put up hay on four to me. Nowhere in the chart was there a prairie dog.[...] |
| [...]the Homer Allen home. He had to leave her in Canada and come by ranch.[...]then, were mostly one room was successful in bringing her to Montana. shacks with dirt floors[...]egardless of worldly term of court held in Big Horn County. Since there was goods.[...]with team and wagon to get to Hardin. The case in- bor, Ben Hope on wild horse roundups. The men bu[...]use blind corrals at Iron Springs and Burnt Creek in order of lack of evidence. to catch them. They were branded and put in the Hope Grandpa eventually got a ho[...]to ride, and others were Tullock Creek in the Sarpy area. He married the local bred to prod[...]ing how she went to clean his shack and found Bob in the doorway SIGNADAHL with one arm in the sleeve of his jacket and a won- Born in Wisconsin of Norwegian parents, in 1891, dering look on his face. She asked him wher[...]was just trying to remember whether I was comin' in After teaching in rural schools in Wisconsin and South or goin' out." Nell later tau[...]ency, Dakota, she came to Montana and taught in Ryegate, where she met and married Joe Tomlinson. Lavina, Klein, and then in Hardin until her retirement When Big Horn County was created in 1913, the in 1959. north boundary ended at Bob's Homestead. Bi[...]ion, Delta Kappa Gamma, Chapter John Turner ranch in December 1912. L of the[...]ar, Lee Parish was a cowpuncher and trapper in the Rebekah's, and the American Legion Au[...]k. He trapped coyotes and was well known in the community and was regarded as wolves. At that[...]llars on coyote pelts and twenty-five dollars in Hardin she served as Jr. Red Cross Chairman for o[...]rict 17-H for 25 years. it and put big round pegs in the eyes to make them look like wolf eyes. He had[...]he used to color the pelts to resemble wolf hides in order to collect the twenty-five dollars bounty.[...]retrieve it, brush came from Iowa to Billings, in 1905. Their son, Russel, it off, and continue cooking. He cooked in big batches, was born in Billings on April 14, 1906. He was still an espec[...]tion, infant when the family moved to Hardin in January of they soon soured but they were served and at times the 1907-and the town was started in May of that year. whole camp got sick.[...]Danielson received all his schooling in Hardin. He Another old-timer was Jim Gear.[...]was graduated from Hardin High School in 1924 and Yegen Brothers from Virginia City. He ro[...]s of Hardin. After his father's death in 1941, he continued reported that in Wyoming, during the war between the to op[...]nd being hard of hearing didn't magistrate in April of 1957, and also served as U. S. hear the[...]r. At one time He married Rachel Walker in 1925. They have two he was a band leader in Wyoming. He played the children-Mrs[...]nd Harlan cornet and clarinet very well. He lived in a dugout Danielson of Richland, Washingt[...]et his Danielson has been very active in the Masonic boyhood sweetheart. They were married in Austria but Lodge. He was master of Sts.[...]he tried to bring his bride & A.M., Hardin in 1941, and was chosen High Priest of[...] |
| the local Royal Arch lodge in 1953. He was just elected and associates formed[...]re they could Council of Royal and Select Masters in 1966-67. trail their cattle to their ho[...]had been He has acted as master of the Lodge in conducting buying at advertised land sales in Billings, Montana, Masonic funerals for the past[...]he Hardin Title and Insurance for the Wyoming in 1914 has been very permanent as one of past sever[...]all as "Ella Mae". stracts. He plans to continue in this business after he The cowmen who cam[...]company was successful in their operation and after[...]one which made history everywhere in the West, they[...]spent the summers on a cattle ranch in Sonora State and later in Chihuahua State.[...]Douglas family in Douglas, Arizona and lived there for[...]in California, Montana or Washington. Coming back to[...]109-112 degrees or worse in midsummer without any Russel L.[...]One of my first experiences however in regard to "ONCE UPON A TIME"[...]attending school was when I attended kindergarten in By Ella Mae Davis Woodley[...]first grade in Hardin, Montana with Nellie V. Brown as 14 year o[...]t frightened me out known as the "Ceded Strip" to run cattle, and buy a farm home, commonly known as th[...]before. Next was schooling in Arizona with the Douglas whom he had grown to know and love in the Upton,[...]children who were well acquainted with everyone in- Newcastle, and Devil's Tower vicinity would find[...]d opportunity and perhaps better range conditions in this[...]layed with as there was no hint of discrimination in area, with room for expansion. Eight or ni[...] |
| [...]nds and neighbors and have lived here ever since. In fact after these many years and travels elsewhere[...]In 1929 I bought a fiddle-learned to play it by ear[...]I rode into Crow Agency in 1930 to watch the[...]at Mason City, Iowa on November 15, In 1931, I took part in the Mock Battle of Custer's 1911 and came to Montana in March 1912. The folks Last Stand. I was[...]r riding a cow with a five to fifteen miles away. In the winter flat irons were saddle. The Indians named me Jr. Red Cloud. heated and placed in the sled and the kids wrapped in The Battlefield had gravel roads and[...]isiting. I got my first hair cut I worked there in 1934. It is very nice now with the when I was thr[...]ntley, I made her graduated from the eighth grade in 1926-knew more my wife on May 25th, 193[...]woman after forty years and two months. We raised My first bronc ride was when I w[...]hree wonderful children; Violet Ziler, now living in my second ride I got throwed off into a pile of c[...]still tell you how children; Ronald, now living in Chicago but will soon be it felt . My last bronc[...]ife and two boys; and got my nose broke and stuck in the dirt. Clarice Hennebery who lives in Billings, Montana. We moved to Garryowen, Montana in 1927 and I We started our m[...] |
| [...]ad Road Dept., and have loved every minute of it. In 1958 barrels of fun, but we gave it up some t[...]nizations. I have been a member of the could run as a "Streaker" and would have to start a Baptist[...]7 and have held many offices nudist colony. in the church and presently am a trustee.[...]We came to the Rosebud in the late summer of[...]Dad had hauled in a small stock of what it took to start[...]store was the only one in that part of the country. The[...]and the girls, Minnie and Dot, also a son-in-law and his[...]go to sleep in a Cheyenne tepee and wake up at home[...] |
| there and dad had the Hutton Post Office in his store. Mail came through once in a while from Crow Agency. Among the people who bu[...]Dewey, Bob Fauvers-all old neigh- bors of dads' in Nebraska. They and other settlers built what we w[...]nd for all gatherings. It was while we were in the first cabin dad built that the last trouble b[...]gather at the OD and prepare for trouble. Dad was in Sheridan at the time. Mom had a cowpuncher take w[...]came to tell us the "war" was over. Dad got word in the evening and reached home the next morning in his one- horse cart. He checked the place over, t[...]heyenne Reservation was set aside by proclamation in about 1898. The settlers were bought out and we moved to Dayton in the late summer of 1899.[...]le on the open I came to Hardin from England in 1908. We range from Upton, Wyomin[...]free range, few taxes, and I started school in 1911 in a house that belonged to little expense. The[...]nd many more. The only brick fun living. building was the bank on the corner and the first frame When homesteaders came in, fencing the land, and drug store was Mrs. Reeder[...]the kitchen from the front room, carrying it in its path. of vanilla I had dropped, then turned and went ijack. Amidst the roar of the water and the ice, safety of the I was on the Ranc[...]ily was sought on higher grounds. and cattle were run into fences. Wagners lived close by,[...]our house River near the old Foster Hall. In 1917 the Upton all night.[...]ool was dissolved and Frank Douglas took his In those days, it was an all day drive to Billings.[...]went into Old Mexico, bought the I now live in Denver. I also lived in Casper, but long-homed skinny cattle, called the Texas long-horns, Hardin holds a spot in my heart, the others don't. and[...] |
| [...]Death came to Frank Douglas in 1950 and to his Cattle purchases in Old Mexico had to be made in wife, Bertha, in 1957, at Hardin, Montana. cash. Once when Frank had to deliver one thousand dollars in payment for cattle, he was aware of the danger of[...]ould, always aware that lurking Mexicans might be in his path. However, the trip went as planned and the money was delivered. In 1931 Frank Douglas disposed of his interests in Old Mexico, returned to Hardin, Montana and pur-[...]hoice had to be made. Eithe.r listen to the radio in the dark or turn on the light and turn off the ra[...]wigs to drive away the flies. Summers' eating was in abundance for large gardens were raised[...]MAUDE DRAKE The water supply for the home was quite a prob- IN BIG HORN COUNTY lem. It came from a hand dug cist[...]hit- and Hazel, came by train to Hardin in February, 1918. ched to a flat bed on which stood[...]the cold weather in later years. Daughter, Gertrude, Frequent ba[...]uring the flu epidemic that fall. had to haul the water. "Out of water" was no doubt The first home we lived in had been made with three of the worst words to ec[...]ween the logs and between the boards on the In 1944 the ranch was sold to Nils and Juell Ottun[...]t between the springs house and continued to live in it until 1975. Again the and mattress to help make the bed warmer. As the log house was torn down and in its place stands a chinking fel[...] |
| house warm. We would cut the ice each morning in the moved back to Hardin and I am now living m the river to get water for drinking and for washing clothes, Mead[...]almost be standing on our heads to get a pail of water. We used old lumber scraps to make a table and w[...]R. AND MRS. CHARLEY DYCKMAN apple box cupboards. In the spring when the ice broke[...]Mr. Dyckman came west from Aurora, Illinois in In the spring of 1919, my husband and three the spring of 1907, and filed on a 320 acre homestead in children all had the smallpox at the same time.[...]Sarpy Basin. Mrs. Dyckman and daughter came in the glad that I had had it in Oklahoma so I was able to care fall and sh[...]They lived in a log cabin until they could build a The fi[...]three room house. A son was born in 1913. thick as hair on a dog's back and I was co[...]arden. Hay and cattle were the main pitcher pump in it, so we didn't have to carry water[...]ood, and bran. Meat build the first school house in Crow Agency for the[...]Vegetables were kept in a root cellar. Clothes and together. As he worked on this building, we lived in a[...]he bodies of the soldiers buggy starting in 1904 to the Cooley ranch. In 1923 the from Custer's battle and reburied them.[...]carrots, cabbage etc, and milk, cream and butter, in a dugout root cellar. Later we raised sugar beets[...]I would make a trip to Crow Agency once a week in a one horse shay, " buggy" to take eggs and dress[...]would catch a freight train at Garryowen and ride in the caboose to Hardin where I would get stockings[...]be followed by Alma, Harold, Edward, and Albert in Every summer the church would sponsor a Illinois and Bill, Alice and Ernie born in Montana. In community picnic and everyone for miles around wo[...]ery, milk cows and horses My husband retired in 1958 and we moved to were sent by e[...]y Railroad via Omaha, Edgemont, Sheridan and away in April of 1974 and I sold our home there an[...] |
| [...]back to Hardin and his trucking business in 1948. March 14, 1914. The trip by passenger train took two In 1968, Clyde Dygert sold his business and days and[...]-a-half. retired. In 1969 and 1970 he oversaw the building of a An old saloon 18 x 20' which stood by[...]nverted into a kitchen, keep him -busy so in 1971 he began trucking grain. The dining room for the family and the children slept in four truck's capacity being 1,000 bu. He has n[...]across the road from their home. He furnished the building and the coal and the District furnished the teach[...]he tracks of the C.B. & Q. The power line was put in about 1928 and followed the road. The poles turned west in front of the Dygert homestead.[...]out the same time. passenger train number 44 in March of 1914. Mr.[...]Dygert arrived later that evening in a freight car with[...]Big Horn County was founded as a county in 1913. The first election was held in Toluca in 1914. Toluca[...]while Mr. and Mrs. Dygert did not remain in the[...]years after they left. One day in 1945, a woman rancher, Leone Crouch, Mr. and Mrs. Dygert owned a ranch near Luther came in to get him to haul a bull that kept wandering[...]later sold and then moved into Red Lodge to away. In April 1946 they were married. They ranched retire. Ernest Dygert died in July of 1949 and his wife on Soap Creek for two years. His neighbors talked him Millie passed away in October of 1952. Their six sons into running agai[...]and two daughters and their families are located in term as County Commissioner. He was unopposed for[...]ars because be retired from trucking, lives in Hardin, Montana. of the press of his truck[...] |
| years in Big Hom County, died in Hardin in 1970. letter from dad, telling us he would meet us in Fort Harold owns and operates an International Ha[...]ain day, to go down to the ranch. dealership back in Messena, Iowa. Edwin owns and Mother[...]heard so many wild stories who is retired, lives in Fromberg, Montana. Alice, who about it. On[...]t is married to Albert Levi, is retired and lives in Red where Hardin would later be located; just a barren, Lodge, Montana. Bill, who was quite famous in sage brush flat. Dad was not there to meet us and we rodeoing, is now working at the mines in Colstrip. Ernie spent the whole day at the de[...]new date to meet him in Custer. So we started out[...]In the meantime we had acquired a cat. To take[...]him with us, mother cut a hole in a small valise to[...]bottle of wine, which she put in with the cat as we had[...]When we arrived in Custer, dad was not there to[...]there was no desirable one in Custer. The hotel was[...]'s just my son." After at the first election held in Toluca, 1914. she left mother p[...]Looking up the river toward the It was early in the spring of 1906, and we were held new bridge we saw a team and wagon crossing it, and up in Miles City, while the Northern Pacific was[...]he bridge over the Tongue river. Washed out in that direction and as they came nearer we recognized bridges were a yearly occurrence in those days. To kill it was dad. Next morning[...]. I was six years old at the time. This was in October, and we came back to town only Dad h[...]also had a family thought of the wine in with the cat. We stopped, of dining room. She was[...]is solved our living problems and gave dad in the distance said, "There's our house." Mother to[...]looking towel hanging on We were still there in September and I started the wall she took it to dry off the cat. Soon dad came in school, but went for only a short time as[...] |
| [...]Christmas, dad had to go to St. to haul water from the river, and, also, were able to Xavier to[...]ll garden. Mother planted some bachelor who lived in a sheep wagon but came in for meals. He, buttons and scabiosa, and t[...]too, as we had one of those couldn't be kept in the cellar. bitter, Montana winters that year and[...]don't remember ever being horses and later in the summer, a real horse to ride. I cold. However, I do remember mother getting up in the had a finger in everything that was going on, much to night to ke[...]little snake leave the ranch except by foot. Late in the winter or would make mother's hair sta[...]d for Bair. Mother figured would cut a notch in it. they were probably claim jumpers. However, th[...]eight that September. I started school Late in March or early May there was a big in Junction City. chinook and the snow began to disa[...]-Thus ends my first year and a half in Montana. hear a loud roaring so we went up to the foot of the hills to investigate. The water was pouring off the flat above. The roaring was c[...]he snow was all gone from the valley now, and the water was getting deeper and deeper and coming nearer the house every minute. I was playing out in the water, pretending to irrigate when I saw a team and wag[...]we watched them come, splashing through knee deep water. Our long isolation was over. The water ran all around us but never reached the house. Dad had built our house in the same spot where the Indian house had been, an[...]By Maddarine Ebeling Bowers English sparrows in the Big Horn valley then. Our William Otto Ebeling was born in Moline, Illinois principal birds were meadowlarks[...]oves, killdeer, magpies, left for Montana in search of work. He settled in prairie chicken and various hawks. There were no[...]married Jessie Porter. They came to Hardin in August, Having the commissary at our place,[...]by the 100 He was vitally interested in the town, known by lbs., salt cod and lots of ham[...]cheerful. His wife helped him and others, in every way cereal and dried fruit etc., and was ve[...]he could, besides caring for their four children. In 1917 when I first tasted fresh milk. Later in the summer he went to Illinois with a lo[...]gooseberries and currants. Dad used to set lines in the developed trouble and as he and others w[...]a piece of steel flew out, striking him in the leg. Blood rabbit once in a while and, of course, prairie chicken.[...] |
| [...]graduated from Sheridan, Wyoming, High School in[...]aviation service in November, 1918, and I had finished[...]my second year of teaching in Sheridan, we were[...]new home on the Crow Indian Reservation in Big Horn[...]wedding breakfast was a miniature ranch in detail, I[...]l-prepared for life on a ranch. I had never lived in[...]We came directly to Montana in a borrowed Maxwell car, and lived in a tent while Francis was busy building our first home on a piece of land he had leased[...]came immediately to see the new bride. I was In 1920 Jessie married Charles Miller; they moved[...]nd the large knife he was out to Cottonwood Creek in the summers and back to whetting on his le[...]bors at that time: Jenny Wallace, She passed away in August, 1975; her son Robert had Lee Bluebead, and the White Man Runs Him family, preceded her in death.[...] |
| [...]ought a piece of land on highway 87 near to stand in the city. He was picturesque as he wore his[...]she had been asked to substitute and teach in Lodge Grass came to our assistance one day and he[...]en got geese for Christmas gifts for our families in Sheridan. older. I taught for seventeen year[...]groceries with. Our son, Dan, was born In 1939, Dan married Chloe Jones and eventually at the hospital in Sheridan, and two and one-half years we were[...]th four grandchildren : Francis later, Eileen put in her appearance on the ranch before I Daniel, J[...]d to Adolph Later, we bought a piece of land in the hills near Fink from Roundup, and they h[...]yed until it quit. Luckily, I had learned to cook in quantities by then. I baked bread every other day and cooked sweet com in a wash boiler kept for that purpose. We lear[...]labor-saving device we got. At first, we carried water from a spring up a hill to the house. Next, we got a pump in the yard, then in the kitchen.[...]ean Eggart and Margaret People often visited in those days. Sometimes our Eggart 85th Birth[...]it us and we them. great deal of difference in our lives. Francis was also Soon we h[...] |
| [...]road to Crow Auxiliary. Francis conducted classes in "On the Farm Agency was graveled. You ha[...]to tinued to contribute his bit to society until in 1964 when this country when it is dry, it will[...]t, Roundup, Montana, close to my In 1919 there were three churches and three daughter[...]and not too far from my son who saloons in Hardin, and although they have increased lives at[...]and trebled, they have remained tied in numbers. The first paving was put in that year by S. Birch[...]concrete paving and is still in use. Before the paving[...]enough at one time to make the street muddy in front of By David L. Egnew[...]The Lammers Apartments, a two story building, came to Virginia and Kentucky at an early date[...]of grandfather moved to Spencer County, Indiana in 1839. Center A venue and Fourth Street, adjoining the He was active in building a brick school house, named present Lammers Building, It was destroyed by fire. the Egnew school, an[...]obbed by saw rig on the vacant lots in that block and sawed green Morgan's Raiders, so moved to Spencer County, In- cottonwood to aid the short supply of[...]e about five miles away. I have hunted squirrels in the to Hardin. A portion of the block on t[...]rooster spur for a measure to factory.The building now used by the Egnews was at determine the amou[...]Steam Laundry, with a slogan, "It's the Soft Water". homesteaded in Montana near Medicine Lake. Two Thir[...]uncles, Bert and Sid Romine, homesteaded nearby in where the present Chamber of Commerce office is orth Dakota. In 1912 I came out to visit, worked in a located. store, and then went back to colle[...]The present city hall was completed in 1920, school and was admitted to the bar. Elsie[...]together with the filter plant for filtering our water. school, proved up on her homestead, and February 28, Prior to that time, the water was used from the Big 1915 we were married in Indiana. I became Superin- Horn River wi[...]At that time the Mayor tendent of a high school in Indiana and we remained and City Council[...]y by the Hardin On June 6, 1919 we arrived in Hardin on Light and Power Company o[...]e amount of electricity and when you Sid Romine's in Sarpy. We had left our children, turn[...]l appliances, it would dim your Charles and Ruth, in Indiana with my sister who lights. The rate was very high. brought them to Montana in October, 1919. The four brick buildings: the Gay Building on 1919 was the driest year on record, and[...]Center A venue and Third Street, the Sullivan Building, the grass was as brown and dry as it usually is in the on Third and Custer, the Lee Building, on Fourth and late fall. It was followed by one[...]ings down town. The very poor quality was shipped in from Nebraska at a Lee Building (now Wilson) and the Sullivan Building high price. Stockmen lost a lot of cattle and the[...]bought a heavy overcoat with a big fur In 1926 the 50th anniversary of the Custer Battle co[...]f Commerce of Billings, hay was scarce generally, in the late fall I made a trip Sheridan and Hardin cooperated for a year in ad- up the Big Horn Valley, and the Heinrich Ranch in the vance, getting publicity throug[...] |
| [...]d a large garden . Everything was open- succeeded in attracting the largest crowd that ever k[...]. No one became ill over the way it was assembled in the State of Montana. The highways were done. Apples, pot atoes and turnips were pu t in the crowded for days and nights preceeding the celebration. cellar for winter months. The Seventh Cavalry and General Godfrey attended, In 1918 we moved to a farm near Centralia which as w[...]wo of a Congressional Medal of Honor for carrying water those boys would be their husbands! un[...]iff to Reno 's wounded men at the rifle pits, was in at- tendance. He was present when the steamer, "[...]he author of several books. The first radio in Hardin was one owned by E. B. Goldsberry (Goldie)[...]received a broadcast from Cuba and thought he was in touch with the world. Since there were no h[...]rdin and Big Horn County have grown con- st antly in the fifty-six years our family has lived here. During that time Elsie and I have driven in every state of the U . S. looking for some place[...]t it remains free of pollution, caine to Hardin in a Model T Ford in April, 1925. dissension, or regimentat ion which[...]lor, an older brother, and his wife, Lorene, were in future progress.[...]stayed in Missouri but later caine to Montana for a[...]times in the late '20's and '30's: hail storms, and the[...]bank closed its doors in the fall of 1925. We lived north[...]and buggies in 1925-no cars. ever having lived near D . L . Egne[...]y Leone E lder Curry and In June, 1926 Lee Curry (Leone's husband) drove[...]the official car for a colonel in the 7th Cavalry from We Elders lived in Missouri, near Carrollton. There Texas at th[...]niversary of the Custer battle. were six children in the family , Mother (Miranda Scott Thre[...]dfather who Francis-came to Hardin a few months after we did. made his home with us for fifteen y[...]py Lee Curry and Leone Elder were married in October, family. Our Missouri farm had a l[...] |
| Elder were married. In later years all the Curry family Of the Curry family, the father died in 1936 in but two moved to Montana. Missouri, and the mother, Mary Jane, died in Hardin in 1971 at age ninety. One son is still in Missouri, one in Arizona, one in White Sulphur Springs, Montana,[...]daughter Cora is in Colorado, and two of the family,[...]Howard and Margaret (Wheeler) are in Hardin. Velma,[...]Our Father moved to Hardin in 1944 and went into[...]started a garage in Lodge Grass in 1941.[...]I landed in Sheridan, Wyoming, in the spring of[...]a rancher from Birney, Montana. We rode in two[...]months supplies for their ranch. The trip took a day and[...]cow outfits in the Birney neighborhood.[...]to bring in 5,000 head of Mexican steers, keep them for[...]two years, then ship them to Chicago, bringing in a like[...]American Indian. In the fall of 1913 my ambitions were[...]in Timber, the Cheyenne Historian. Late in 1913 I took up a 320 acre homestead on[...]no cattle to run on the land. The $100 helped pay for the Elders a[...]rd Curry. place 16 by 18 feet in 1913.[...]am $50 he wouldn 't Mother Elder passed away in 1953 and Father in starve to death in 3 years. I worked on ranches nearby 1959, in Hardin. Two brothers are living in Missouri, to support my homestead. one in Billings, and one in Grand Junction, Colorado. In the fall of 1917 I received a notice that I was Madonna and Francis spend their winters in Indio, being inducted into the U. S . Army and to report to the California, and the summers in Hardin. Leone now lives Sheriff of Big Horn County. Many of my cowboy in Hardin. friends had received notices too and were in Hardin. We[...] |
| [...]Hardin. There were large cottonwood trees in the within two days of England. We landed in Liverpool Ewers' yard. safe and sound. F[...]the side of the road which had good drinking water (a The First Division fought many hard battles and rarity in those days), and people usually stopped for a suf[...]00 casualities. After the Ar- drink and to water their horses. mistice was signed, we went to Coblenz, Germany, to In addition to other crops, he raised a large garden Montabaur Castle to stay for nine months. We returned and sold fresh vegetables, egg[...]we were discharged. to the housewives in Hardin. Addie Ewers married Ora Back home in Birney I worked on ranches until Smith and lived many years in Sheridan. She now lives 1931 when I got employmen[...]until I had nearly 2,000 Colorado. acres. In 1945 I returned to live on a ranch I had bought I married Gus Lammers in April 1915 and we lived with a stone house built on it. in Burbank, California after 1923. He passed away Ju[...]e winter of 1949 and 1950 we were snowbound for 3 months. I lived in Montana for half a century. The hospitality in my country impressed me. Anytime you rode up to a[...]tay. This was taken for granted. I sold out in 1959 and moved to Sheridan, Wyoming. I loved ranc[...]Mr. and Mrs. B . G. Lammers [Rose Ewers] in Long[...]north make it easier. There was a jog in the road at this point of Hardin, and moved his family there in March 1907 but the present roa[...] |
| Dad was born in Indiana in 1853 and passed away I might note here that in the early thirties there in 1945. Mother was born in 1857 and died in 1933 Both were about 125,000 sheep in Big Hom County, whereas are buried in the Fairview cemetery in Hardin. today there are approximat[...]first experience at wintering sheep in the wide-open[...]December to the first of March in our effort to keep the[...]xpected. Ewers homestead, with the well in front I also remember that du[...]ERD'S MEMORIES miles in order to by-pass an ice-jam which had flooded[...]fe and two young sons to the ranch. in the spring of 1928. I had been hired by Harvey Co[...]there was also the time when Donald, my who was in partnership with M. H. Tschirgi of Wyola,[...]nd I were bringing a band of sheep home Montana, in the operation of the Antler Sheep Com-[...]eek, many years, having been associated with him in the and rather than stay in the wagon with the herder who sheep business in Sweet Grass County. I had always was[...]stakey and on the quit, we chose to dig a hole in the have chosen a more suitable place to live wi[...]snow and roll out our bed. Donald wakened me in the however, little did I dream that we were des[...]later, after spend the greater part of our lives in this wonderful crossing the river on the[...]aster Sunday) one-half of the band of 1750 In the fall of 1928, I took over the job as foreman[...]anded to It is only natural that in the sheep business, as well 50,000 head-one of the largest sheep operations in the as in any endeavour, that there shall be trying times s[...]ut which I was that we encountered. In the long run they were good for rather skeptical until later w[...]irgi family FADDIS-SPEAR in this manner many years. Finally, in 1973 after By Por[...]Spear-Zimmerman Cattle Co. was organized in particularly crazy about sheep, had chosen[...] |
| Bros. Cattle Co. in Montana and Wyoming and[...]My father was Jess Faught, Sr., born in Arkansas. original secretary of the company. Duri[...]mother was born at Absarokee, Montana secretary. In 1917, Mr. Zimmerman retired from the and at the age of three, in 1900 her parents moved north company, having sold[...]e Fosters built and operated a store and a Spear. In 1918 the company name was changed to[...]Foster name. A well known Spear-Faddis Cattle Co. In that same year W. B. landmark and building is the Foster Hall north of (Junior) Spear and Ph[...]Junior) Spear and Mrs. I was born in 1917 in a log cabin on the banks of Faddis were elected t[...]ter, Toluca, Sand creek and Lodge Grass, Montana, in Montana and Wyoming. Throughout the World War[...]Graduating from High School at Lodge Grass in conditions were favorable, until 1919 when a severe 1933, I worked on various ranches in the area until drouth affected the whole area, and prices of cattle 1939. A few happenings in between those dates was a tumbled as herd numbers were forced to be reduced to winter spent in CC camp and a couple of trips to fit the short feed. In that year, many numbers of the Chicago with[...]eals, a serious problem. Profits were an unknown. In 1923 a until we found out about the Salvati[...]rs. Alzora D. Faddis, secretary. In 1939 I married Myrtle Stimpson, daughter of Durin[...]for our livestock, and assumed their obligations. In 1927 the own outfit. One time we were at Ke[...]pay check was missent to Bonneyville, Cattle Co. In 1928 the company purchased Faddis- Wyoming. In the six days that it took us to get my Spear-Give[...]a lunch physical range operations of the company in Big Horn out of that. County, Montana, wer[...]this time, we this combined operation, which was run as "Reser- bought our present place nea[...]s that keep me pretty busy. I drive two dissolved in 1926. sc[...]dships of those years of We are in love with our place near Lodge Grass and associat[...]n of George E lbert and Mile, the S. U. Ranch and in Big Hom County. Bob Minnie Fellows. He was born May 13, 1904 in a sod Kennedy is now president and general manager; Mary house in Blaine County, Nebraska. In 1896 as a Kennedy West is vice-president; John P[...]t past sixty years of operations and associations in Big Cody, Wyoming. They stayed one ni[...] |
| [...]illed by the passenger someday. He came to Hardin in February 1914 to find a train 42 in 1922. He was killed at the crossing south of plac[...]oad bridge while trucking wheat for Floyd arrived in Hardin on train No. 41, on Easter Sunday[...]k. We moved to a house near the present in 1923. My wages were $60.00 a month with room and[...]ber 1924, Mary Wiebert, a neigh- the North Bench. In 1915 the Alfalfa Center School was bor girl[...]Our first child, Margaret, was born in 1925 at[...]In 1927 we moved to Scottsbluff, Nebraska to go[...]James and C~arles were born while we were living in[...]In 1939 we bought a farm nine miles north of[...]moved to Hardin. In 1917 we moved to Dunmore on the present A Note: My mother was one of the first patients in Walter Heitzman place. I went to school at Dunmor[...]ith Dr. 0. S. Haverfield as her during the winter months. The fall of 1918, '19, and '20 Doctor. I ran the water wagon for John Young's steam O[...]most all the My oldest sister, Pearl, lives in Florida, Ruby in Idaho, Hardin and Custer farms. I received $3.00 a day for this Opal in Washington, brother, Jim, in California and job. myself in Montana. Our greatest problems at this time[...]ughter Margaret who is Mrs. Bob Hanley mosquitoes in summer and the extreme cold in the lives in Billings. Our son Tom is a dentist at Bozeman, wi[...]e 14 grandchildren, and 5 great Irrigation Dit.ch in the summer of 1920 and '21 near St. grandchildr[...]es for a team, man and scraper were $5. 98 a day. In 1922 we worked on the Holly Sugar ranch. Our folk[...]m out of the house. We had 35 tons of hay stacked in the yard. The next morning the 35 tons had been e[...]row: Charles Fellows, Thomas Fellows, James In the fall of 1922 my folks moved to Hardin. In Fellows; front row: Margaret Fellows,[...] |
| [...]ue. others who knew him, was born J;,ily 4, 1890, in Cen- For recreation we youngsters r[...]young man, his family moved to Kathleen, Florida, in our parents in an old Overland car. We went to the the year 1911[...]omesteaded on I started to school in Hardin in the third grade. Crazy Woman, out of Buffalo. Mom[...]Horn Headgates. He built a graduated in 1923. I graduated in 192 and my sister in show hall or movie theater after moving to St. Xa[...]. He also I married Ed Buchner in 1928. Mr. Buchner was a built numerous houses in the area and kept the trade as chef. He cooked at various camps in the county. We had a carpenter. He then bought a lot in Lodge Grass, five children and lost one. Ed passed away in 193 . Montana, and during the years 1927-1928, bu[...]After I lost my husband I worked for my father in there. I was born in that l1ouse and it is still in use. He the dry cleaning business. In 1947 I married Carl bought another lot in Lodge Grass and built a two- Schuppe ~nd we both worked in the dry cleaning shop, story house, moved the fam[...]ld the first later buymg my father's interest in the busine s. one. My mother was an excellent sea[...]d My father started a tailor shop in another building. custom sewing to help support the family and alw[...]r husband, Mr. and Mr . Reuben wift., o the first in Lodge Grass, which was also for silent movies. Fishbach Dry Cleaning hop has been in the Fischbach He received a lot of building work and sold the movie family fifty six[...]k Bone, Matthew came to homestead in the arpy ar a in th ond Good Luck, Harry Beads and o[...]ove a Model A Ford, which kicked every in anada and th Imperial all y of alifomia . Th time[...]drove it over thirty miles an family traveled in their covered wagon to th arpy hour. Mom[...]children, five girls and area, wintering in orth m alifornia and pa in three boys, all of whom are living.[...]ce Day. Mom had taken from an orphanag in Fargo. orth Dakota, always baked a big cake for d[...]anyon at a During th ir fi t winter in th Hardin area, th cabin owned by Charlie Gardner[...]home tead ju t east of th Wolfe school in arpy wh re[...]and hymns. Many of hi carvings are hou ed in the to Billings from Staples. Minnesota in 1918. My father, Yakima. Washington museum . a tailor by trade, worked in Billings a short time. Of th ven children, only Marian and Elwin In the spring of 1919 we moved to Hardin to remained in the local area for most of their adult year . est[...]f the become an influential figure in the county .[...] |
| [...]chools, Elwin Foursquare Bible College, in preparation for entering worked as a cowboy on various ranches in the Sarpy the ministry. area. During this time he fell in love with the young Elwin and Jean were married in 1929 and after he school teacher at the Maschetah school in Sarpy, Jean completed his course, they r[...]n and E. White. Jean, a graduate of Park College in Missouri Sarpy areas to begin his ministry. Elwin ministered in with a degree in education, was teaching for $90.00 a various western and .mid-western states, sometimes in month. She was experiencing western living for t[...]. While teaching her first year (1927), she lived in churches developed because of his pioneer w[...]nty. While Elwin preached, Jean Social life in Sarpy consisted mostly of family taught[...]endeared himself to many residents in the Montana- schools: Maschetah, Spring Creek or[...]of the night and left for home In the early fifties the couple returned to Hardin toward morning in time to do the morning milking, per[...]hers and their boyfriends would death in 1962 just before his sixtieth birthday. Jean then[...]ge the furniture and place the taught in the Hardin schools until she reached desks in order for Monday morning.[...]at a revival held by the William Morrison family in the Wolfe school, Elwin became a Christian. This[...]from Fresno, California. They homesteaded in the Iron Springs area in 1914. Arriving with a team and wagon[...]This was the beginning for them of a stake in what was[...]wagon which they used to do their trading in Hardin.[...]In the fall, Mr. Fly took a wagon load of grain to t[...]flour mill in Crow Agency to have ground into flour[...] |
| [...]turkey from Mrs·. Fly graced the table of people in Home-made ice cream was always plentifu[...]Mr. Fly to sell all of his Hereford cattle in 1960 leaving Roy and his family to run the family herd. This was the herd he had been raising since he spread. Both died in Hardin, Robert in 1963 and Sarah homesteaded in 1914. All the cattle sold brought in 1974. enough money to buy a 1936 Ford car. A slig[...]as another bad year when the Mormon crickets came in droves eating leverything as they covered the ground. In order to save the garden Mrs. Fly and the childre[...]ke tin cans together to divert the crickets to go in a different direction. The CCC program also helpe[...]ips along and they dug pits with a poison mixture in the pits to kill the crickets. This was a success as many crickets were killed this way. In fact these pits of dead crickets left a stench ov[...]the rank of Acting Major in the Corps of Cadets.[...]" Carl", married Lena C. Stoddard in Princeton,[...]The couple traveled west in 1914 and homesteaded in Fallon County until August 1918 when they returne[...]minated. In 1921, because of the Depression of the 20 's[...]and lack of jobs in the East, Carl and Lena and their[...]C. Implement Co. and the Conoco Bulk plant. Neva in front. In 1933, the Foftz's bought ten acres southwest of[...]ool provided their ten children was born in 1934. The continuing[...] |
| [...]countryside. They were both happy and content in their struggle. Mr. Foltz invested in a truck which he and the retirement. older bo[...]d the house shining and every shoe being polished in Carl and Lena Foltz, October 1[...]whenever the together for the first time in 25 years. Tents and trailers opportunity arose. W[...]to add their well wishes. One son enlisted in the Army in World War II and The Foltz's lived to see most of their 36 grand- served in the Far East. Two more sons enlisted in the children and 36 great grandchildren. Daughter, Muriel early 50's-one served in the Army in Germany and one F. Fowler (who works for the R.E.A. in Lodge Grass), is in the Navy. When the youngest one left home, Lena the only child to still maintain residence in Big cooked at the Wyola School for a time putting into Hom County. Carl H. and family live in Billings-he practical use her many years of cooki[...]g to know them; and they Carl Foltz retired in 1959. He then built one of the made you feel welcome in their home. They had a lot of first campers in that area for a pick-up and the Foltzs friends and many of them were younger people. There traveled in the Western and Midwestern states visiting was no generation gap there. Carl was interested in friends and relatives. Lena was an avid "rockboun[...]just enjoyed viewing the Christian citizen in a democracy to be involved. He had[...] |
| [...]ids around t o sing Christmas carols. He believed in the infinite wort h of the human being and personal human dignity, and strongly insisted on respect for the in- dividual . The family unit was the cemen t of society. A t the family reunion in 1963 he said, " The family is the backbone of t h[...]hall, and moved the post office and store belief in love of the family lives on t hrough their into t hat, which my older sister and I helped run. My children .[...]I remember my father building several caskets for[...]The Calahan girls were married in their home and in 1916 my sister and I married and left the valley.[...]anning, but My father, J . C. Foster, landed in the Big Hom raised cattle and a garden. Valley in 1906; he built us a tent house with a board[...]socials, and dances. and we four girls got there in the spring of 1908, and We sold box lunches[...]music and we had were the only family for several months. Calahans real good times. moved in next; they had two teen-age girls who taught[...]hey threshed around my father would lock us girls in the bedroom the grain we all helped; som[...]Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Carper got the first radio in so they got together and started a school which w[...]ter. Mr. E. K. Bowman taught the In 1912 a saw mill came in on the Malone place, first year; we bad to walk about five miles to school and was run by am Young and Tuchenhagen. The where there were[...]r is now. He had six horses, a good In 1916 I married Marvin Turner, a cowboy. Af[...] |
| [...]have a dime to maturity, but the oldest girl died in childbirth. The spend was a real treat for us kids. others are all living-one son and family in Pueblo, We walked one and one-half mi[...]s, and later when father, Marvin, and family live in Sheridan, Wyoming; Florence and I went to Co[...]we carried a the oldest boy, Raymond, lives here in Hardin with me; heated iron on the bus in winter to help keep us warm. I the youngest girl[...]o, the occasion when they brought and her husband run the Hardin Bakery. After my first Henry Luck[...]Vera. At that time it was on brother's place here in town. This is home to me, and the Corwin Ran[...]north of Wyola in April 1917. He had been in the area[...]possessions in a new wagon, a $400.00 team of matched[...]or building to move to! A tent was set up on the river[...]was built in 1915 and was the main crossing over the Fo[...]Little Horn, 1922 Little Horn River in that area. HISTORY OF[...]Goe |
| [...]came from the new lumber yard. Later in betterment of their community and were staunch F[...]church and school; better roads, "know-how" for building other sheds, barn, shop, telephone a[...]lara's boys, are bunkhouse. The garage was built in 1929 before they ranchers in the Little Horn area, carrying on their owned a[...]till lives heater, and it didn't start very well in -20 degree on the home place, Fred having passed away in 1968. weather. The salesman gave Fred driving le[...]r land. They acquired a buggy and delivered milk in Wyola; went to church and to visit friends. Near[...]Fence to build, horse harness to oil and repair in winter and spring. Green ash trees to cut and sea[...]bit axe so it would cure for the summer wood fire in the Majestic kitchen range, Coal was mined and hauled from nearby hills to use in the heater for warmth. Water for house use was carried from the river until a[...]saw wood and grind feed grain. A cistern replaced water barrels on a stone boat for laundry water. They obtained a cream separator and shipped crea[...]other saved her pennies and a hen house was built in 1926. Eggs were traded for groceries, the surplus[...]ne enjoyed cool, Montana, with my parents in the spring of 1906. refreshing milk and a special treat - homemade ice In August of that same year, I filed on a cream.[...]homestead in the Big Hom Valley (which was then in Fred and his father bought a few more cows[...]m September 1, 1906, until a few days before were in business-raising Hereford beef cattle![...]mas, I taught a private school on the Harry In 1935 Fred brought a wife home to the Wyola[...]d I enjoyed it. Chas. M. Foltz who moved to Wyola in 1929 and In Billings, on January 2, 1907, I was married to stayed. He died in 1968, his wife, Lena, in 1966. Ralph H. Franklin, from Iowa. We lived in Billings Mr. and Mrs. Fowler who died in 1946, didn 't live until May 1. Ralph worke[...]bs. One I to see their two granddaughters married in the Wyola remember was hauling ice from[...]e church wagon and a cow. was organized in 1918 in a Railroad Chapel Car by Rev. May 1,[...]. They were always interested homestead in the Big Hom Valley. We bought a small[...] |
| [...]d filed on a homestead utensils and loaded it all in the wagon. Ralph put a just north of where C[...]us three days to drive from Billings to our hens in the wagon which Ralph 's mother had sent us homestead. We slept in our wagon and cooked a little from Iowa . We tied[...]ay. were no roads or fences in the valley . There was an[...]homesteads in the fall of 1906. E. K. Bowman, Phil[...]large ; after we put in the partitions we had three rooms.[...]in our unfinished log house was pack rats at night.[...]I'll say all the people that homesteaded in the Big[...]The few people in Hardin joined the valley folk for[...]a 4th of July picnic in 1908, at Nine Mile. U. S. Miller[...]get-togethers and meetings. Also in the summer of 1908, a number of men in the valley built a log school[...]and taught that school in 1909. She stayed with us and[...] |
| Late in the summer of 1908, Ralph and Mrs. A. L. thr[...]Sarpy Mitchell organized a Sunday School that met in the log Basin. The Frazers first settled on a[...]he land was surveyed and they found out they were in had a minister that came and preached after Sunda[...]ht Section 33 from Methodist Church was organized in Hardin. Rev. the railroad for $3.30 a[...]first home was a log afternoon as long as he was in Hardin, which was two cabin that burned wit[...]at there were other Methodist ministers. lived in another cabin before the main ranch house was[...]$40 a month. In the winter the "drifters" would work[...]The ranch was sold in 1955, but three grandsons still live in Big Horn County - John and Robert Frazer[...]ps Hardin with his parents, the Jacob Frie , in 1936. He including beans, wheat, com (for the sil[...]was cattle Katherine Schafer December 22, 193 in Billings. They and hogs. The boys helped milk bet[...]r way through high school. We left the farm in March of 1930 and moved to Hardin. Ralph delivered mail and freight to St. Xavier for a few months. After that he was manager of the Sheridan Elevator in Hardin until his death in August of 1936. Our oldest boy passed away in June 1937. I have continued to live in Hardin, at 616 orth Cody Avenue until the fall of[...]ell Frazer moved from Missouri to Big Horn County in 1900 with their older children. They firs[...] |
| [...]n state where they had two more children, Darrell in 1946 and Kathleen in 1954. David passed away at Wapato, Washington[...]ming from Russia as did many of their con- trymen in the early part of the century, the Jacob Fries family settled first in McCook, Nebraska, before coming to Big Horn County in 1936. They farmed west of Hardin, living in a house that was in the northwest corner of the cross-roads going to[...]a, Harry, Lila and Esther. Mrs. Fries passed away in 1939 and is buried at Fairview Cemetery. Victor,[...]a Moos, moved to Portland, Oregon and passed away in the early 1970's. David and Martha married a sist[...]the widowed Mr. Fries, moved to Washington state in 1943, where he passed away a few years later.[...]married a Washington girl, Helen Pope, and lives in the Wapato area of the Yakima Valley, as do the r[...]GRACE SCOFIELD GARRISON Mrs. Garrison, born in 1884, was educated in the University of Nebraska, and received her Teacher's Diploma in 1932, and her Bachelor's degree in 1939- both from Montana State Teachers' College in Dillon. c,e taught 3 years in ebraska rural schools and one year at Huntley Project. She began teaching in Big Hom County in 1910, and except for two year::i when she was at Hesper, taught here continuously until her retirement in 1954. She taught at Nine Mile, Fairview, Finlayso[...]Elvira Gilmore in her garden She was the wife of eff Garrison,[...]THEGIBSONS hospital in Hardin, in her home. The Doctors performed By[...]able, and hundreds of The first General Store in Hardin was owned and babies in Hardin and vicinity were born in her home. operated by Sam and Charlie Gibson in 1908. J. Steve She received the highest ser[...]bekah Lodge-The Degree of Chivalry-for her Hardin in 1913 for Redcliff, Alberta, Canada, where[...] |
| [...]iff of Big The sheriff drove up in front of the fence Hom County when killed in line of duty in Crow surrounding the cabin and he and Undersheriff Dorn- Agency in 1926.[...]walked through the gate on the path She died in June 1959, at the age of ninety-nine leading to the cabin. Without warning the negro years and nine months. stepped o[...]through the gate in an effort to get behind his car, when[...]a bullet from the negro's rifle hit him in the neck and he fell dead in his tracks just outside the gate. Either this[...]shot in the head and the right chest, Damberger, who[...]In the meantime, Tom Gibbs and Ralph Graham,[...]who were in the sheriffs car, jumped out just as a bullet[...]as a fifth Robert Porter Gil.more was born in Howard shot from the negro's gun pu[...]s union died January 17, 1903 when two years old. In rapidly and soon scores of men, armed with[...]family to Tulsa, Oklahoma, where he Hardin in cars for the scene. farmed until March 1910 when[...]Special Federal Officer John MacLeod who was in W.R. Craig, Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Doane, Mr. and Mrs[...]family came later that same afternoon in an attempt to arrest or to Hardin. When Hardin was incorporated as a city in shoot the murderer. 1911, he was named a[...]. Later he was em- Gilmore and MacLeod in the Harriet Theater and final ployed at a local h[...]row County jail. Prior to his election as sheriff in 1922, Mr. tribe. Dressed in full regalia, ten Indian chieftains Gil.more had[...]rs under Sheriff conducted a brief ceremony in their native tongue then John MacLeod. bowed their heads in prayer as their symbol of bravery In the fall of 1926 Sheriff Gilmore was killed in one was placed on each casket,- a tomahawk ! of the most shocking tragedies in the history of Big Hom County lawmen! On Fr[...]heriff Gil.more, who THE GOOKIN FAMILY IN SARPY BASIN was a candidate on the Democratic tic[...]We moved from the Big Hom Valley in 1916, and accompanied by J. Tom Gibbs, Democratic candidate homesteaded in the corner of the Crow and Cheyenne for represent[...]aving the valley. We later found that they Agency in the sheriff's car to attend an Indian council had had small-pox. Dad was in Billings fixing up papers and do some campaigning[...]The cowboy was setting traps for jail, was still in Crow. The sheriff's party drove around him .[...]ff he rode directly to his cabin his tracks in the fresh dirt, nearly as large as your ha[...] |
| under the bed. She made us girls run outside, and she slough near the house. Th[...]John built Our well was 40' deep and we drew water with a a large garage which became a workshop for the boys windlass, but it was very good water. and their friends. I[...]wo days to When the depression hit, all building came to a go and two to return. While returning o[...]ndstill. John, Arnold and other idle men gathered in evening there were eleven wolves in a pack just sitting the Graf garage to visit[...]past, you can believe! At night when they howled in large packs you could find several beef killed an[...]school every year. My mother was a music teacher in the East, and my Father a teacher so we did not do too badly; they got books from the County Superintendent in Hardin. We would sometimes move near to schools-Crow Agency, Wolf, Sarpy, and finally, to Hardin. In late summer the Basin people would bring picnic lunches and all pick wild plums and berries in our locality. We all really enjoyed this occasion[...]know that baby John's destiny would lie out there in the country near the Custer Battle. Shortly[...]re the family filed a homestead claim. He grew up in Dora County and as a young man worked for a salva[...]rescued floundering ships on Lake Michigan. In 1896 he began serving his apprenticeship as a mason. He joined the mason's union in 1908, a mem- bership he retained until his death,[...]aats, April 20, 1904, at Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin. In 1917 the family moved to Birney, Montana, and lat[...]ime Big Hom County Surveyor and when there worked in the coal mines near Sheridan for awhile but[...]knew how to quarry and cut stone. John wrote In 1919, the family moved to Hardin. Mr. Graf the John Spudes, his brother-in-law and two sons who built many of the brick and stone structures in Hardin. were stone masons from Wisconsin to come help with His first job was laying brick for the new water plant. the building. The Spude family needed the work badly There were seven children in the Graf family and and were glad to be ca[...]ld. At one time he replaced all the went swimming in the big ditch near their home. Ar· tomb[...]ook it to a inspector on a number of buildings in the area.[...] |
| [...]I was born in Sturgeon Bay, Wis. August 22, 1910[...]In the spring of 1917 our family, along with an[...]In June 1919 we moved to Hardin in an unfinished[...]lath as that was the way house walls were built in those Julia and Mabel. days. We had to carry water from a neighbor a block[...]and half away. We carried a bucket in each hand. The mosquitoes would follow us in clouds and with our Mr. Graf died in September 1972 at the age of 96. hands busy carrying water we would be literally Two sons, Arnold and Sheridan, both live in Billings; covered with bites. Soon we had a well drilled in our three daughters, Mrs. John Owens, Mrs. Mabel yard, but the water was hard. Redding, and Mrs. Rex Wemple live in Hardin, Mrs. In September 1919 five of us started to school. Alvi[...]In 1920 we enlarged our house with a basement[...]light plant in Hardin but the electricity was too ex-[...]In the early spring of 1921 I fell out of the swing[...]e school house. Dr. Russell set my leg and put it in[...]In those days we had to make do with chunk of[...]ice for the ice box, soften the water to wash ciothes[...]hot stove to iron clothes. It took a lot of ironing f[...]In 1925 we got a ash touring car with a California[...]made a little spending money picking cherries in a larg1[...]ter, Ruby, Mabel; front row: While I was in High School I helped with th, Julia, Eleanor[...]cooking at the Campbell Farming Corporation in th,[...] |
| [...]us a little sack with a half graduation I worked in the Hardin Bakery then later at stick of[...]if it had been a whole I married Rex Wemple in 1934. Work was scarce sack of toys. That was in 1919 when the winter was so and he worked for $75[...]e had three hard and so many people died in the flu epidemic. children one son, John, who lives in Hardin; a son, Ray living in Denver; a daughter, Judith now Mrs. Robert Schnei[...]Joseph Allen Graham had married Frances Robinson in Sarcoxie, Missouri, in 1912 at Christmas time. They arrived in Hardin by train on New Years' day and went direc[...]e my father and his brother, Tillman Graham were in partnership for two years. Since the two had bee[...]h Dorothy, Mother had been a t.elephone operator in Sarcoxie Alene and Carroll, on the Big[...]han a team of horses and a wagon first appearance in Montana from Missouri when he or buggy, so one had to put in enough groceries to last was a young man, shortly[...]ther canned the vegetables from her Fort Laramie in Wyoming to Fort Custer for the gard[...]e stack of attacked by the Indians as the stories in the hay to the rabbits. There wer[...]t.e all the grass so it was a poor place to raise in every ones' minds. Somewhere along his trail he cattle. Father sold the homestead to a sheepman in decided to spend the night without any fire for f[...]as a trailer behind the other. I was breaking up in the Yellowstone river. He didn't even see twe[...]d the cattle before leaving for the new homestead in the spring of along with the wagons some two hundred miles to 1916. The land in Garfield County had been surveyed Lodge[...]steading. My father and his as it was in July and the cattle got sore feet. brother Tillma[...]ied a graduated from Lodge Grass High School in 1932. I short time aft.er. Father locat.ed about nine miles down attended the Polytechnic in Billings which is now the Big Dry and constructed[...]I married the former Nelle Yvett.e Pickard in 1939. born in January 1915 before we left Hardin, and my[...]Allen. Both are younger sister, Dorothy, was born in 1918 while we married and all of us are living on the ranch. were living in the dug-out. Mother was att.ended by a I was elected to the Stat.e Senat.e in 1960 and have mid-wife, as there were no doctors very close. served in that office continuously since that time. I[...]rding experience, were poor as was every one else in the country. serving the people in my county and state, because it[...] |
| [...]school because a Times have really changed in my lifetime. In 1927 Mama skunk and all her little ones ch[...]open between the ranch and town. license in Big Hom County and we drove on to Billings Now t[...]be married. We found that the license was illegal in travel on and the latest in trucks to haul the produce Yellowstone Cou[...]the best. Clerk of the Court and when he read in~the paper that Nowadays every one is so busy working that he doesn't we were married in Billings he refunded the three have time to enjo[...]n has been made I was born June 28, 1918, in Casper Wyoming. My easier with the coming[...]John Pickard and Lulu Snow Pickard. I water, inside bathrooms and bright lights were a attended grade school in Casper and the Salt Creek oil welcome addit[...]rs. Washing machines I entered my freshman year in Hardin High School and (automatic) weren't even thought of forty years ago. graduated in 1936, which was twenty years after my T[...]niences of their · of the first graduating class in 1916, so that made me city cousins; however[...]was a charter takes the place of the hoe in the garden, and I see some member of The Order of Rainbow for Girls in Hardin of the City cousins are gardenin[...]their money for in antique stores and sales, and I can Among some of the other "firsts" in my family, tell you I would hate to go b[...]e lights Dad and my uncle had the first theater in Hardin. Dad and all the rest of the way of[...]hospital WM. J.B. GRAHAM in Hardin and also a nursing home. Grandfather[...]Erick Graham Gilmore was Big Hom County Sheriff in 1926 when he William Jennings Bryan Graham was born in lost his life apprehending a negro who was supp[...]omesteaded near Warren before the Our life in Saint Xavier, as I look back, was pretty railr[...]es and mail at rugged. Our family of five lived in a two room house Billings, about 75 miles away. The family consisted of that was in no way modem. Water had to be carried in eight boys and six girls. In 1900 when he was 4 years and out. The well was[...]er sold the homestead and moved near seemed the water buckets were always empty. Kerosene Carthage, Missouri, in Jasper County. He bought a lights were little b[...]there and lived for six years, again he sold out in cooked on a coal and wood range. She cooked a m[...]eshing crew on that stove. old homestead in Montana. The water was so hard and alkaline that soap curdled, In 1906, his father purchased wagons and horses an[...]was done at Crow Agency, but once in awhile they The winters were bitterly cold[...]in and back again to the team and Normal School in Billings, which is Eastern Montana wagon[...]h was Mr. Graham attended school in Crow Agency and about five miles below the present site of Yellowtail Custer during his years. In 1911 the family moved Dam. I had sevente[...] |
| [...]place. He and his son, my father, are now in part-[...]McGredy bought the George Deputtee (Indian) place in[...]. My father had a brother near Kansas City 1919, in Jordan, Montana. They lived on the homestead[...]me was a dugout and a sod hut not available in Lodge Grass and ship it to Montana. with a boxca[...]the ranch, all of snow to get out of the house. In 1920 they moved to the neighbors on Owl[...]st child was born. Mr. Graham coal. worked in the orthern Pacific Railroad shops until the In those days the wolves and coyotes were bad to sp[...]him to reseed spring wheat. That summer was very hot many, attended the first school. and dr[...]now own the ranch That started a fire and he went in to tramp it out and we did own. was caug[...]r jacket on Mr. McGredy passed away in California in 1927. and bib overalls . By the time he got his clothes off he My father died in 1950 at the age of 87. My mother died was burnt awful bad. The other fellow tried to talk him in 1964 at the age of 86. Harry Graham works at the[...]Sutherlin , Oregon. Florence is a beautician in Lo~ passed out. A big part of his body was burned[...]tired at Lodge Grass after thirt} spent two weeks in the hospital at Hardin. He healed years[...]on them. That Model T was t heir first car. In 1927 they moved to Parkman, Wyoming. The[...]Gray Buckingham family of four girls and one boy. In 1929 the family My Mother, Alma Dy[...]tana, on West Pass Creek, leasing Depot in March of 1914 when she was about nine yean a farm[...]e came with her parents and brothers on the In 1941 Mr. Graham purchased a place near[...]Horn this new country, they had to put in their crops, buik[...] |
| [...]Toluca County Farmers Union. He was active in 4-H and during her grade school years. She boarded out in served as a director of the Federal Land[...]ool, as it was too far to travel Earl died in May of 1955 on his farm that he loved back and fo[...]well. That same fall Alma sold the place to High in 1923.[...]Starina house. She lived and from then on taught in various schools at Red there for fifteen years until she died in May 1970. Lodge, Tullock Creek, Spring Creek and[...]ical Engineer My father, Earl Gray, was born in Springfield, and lives at Victorville, California. A daughter, Marian MO in 1901. As a small child, he and his family came[...]ugh this area (before there was a town of Hardin) in Wyoming. Another daughter, Joyce, is married to a covered wagon on their way to a homestead in the Calvin Buckingham and lives at Lodge Grass, Mon- Peace River Country in Canada. He later returned to tana. Hardin and married Alma Dygert in July 1929.[...]Earl and Alma Gray, 1930 Earl Gray farmed in the St. Xavier community |
| in 1959 and moved to Sheridan. They planned spending[...]n young men and women who had never their summers in Sheridan and the winters in California attended school before, so a schoo[...]e on the farm south of Carl's daughter lives in Billings, Montana. She and Wyola, and lived th[...]ranch. Later, 'Doc' Spear farmed it in the 1920's. After In April 1962, Carl died of a heart attack in that it became the Hager place, farmed b[...]his son Everett. It is now owned by Howard Wight- in Denver, Colorado. She is in failing health. man. Chris later bui[...]where they lived until Chris died in 1931.[...]daughters, Hazel and Edna lived here in their early[...]in Sheridan and went on to be a nurse and teacher, s[...]moved away. The boys continued to live and farm in the[...]died in 1947 in Springfield, Mo.[...]Frank Gross and Hazel Baker were married in Lucille Gross [Mrs. Carl] in her ranch kitchen September 1925 in Hardin, Montana. We have made[...]in 1935 when we were on the west coast. Frank spent[...]the summer of that year in Alaska working at a fish Before coming to live in the southern Montana plant and the family were in Seattle near the Bakers. area in 1910, Chris Gross, born June 12, 1856, Germany[...]After he married Mattie 0. Radcliffe (born 1866) in 1889 they made their home on a ranch on Twin Cree[...]ere all their five children were born. Early in 1910 he decided to lease land on the reservation in the present Wyola area and to farm it. He broke up much of the farm land in the immediate vicinity of Wyola and there he rais[...]no post office and no school. He was instrumental in getting the first school here. He, along with Mr.[...]he Rosebud County Commissioners, as this was then in Rosebud county and Forsyth was the county seat. They had the first school building built, a one room brick on land that housed the l[...]any years. Another room was added on to the first building as it became needed and that served until 1929, when a second brick building of two rooms with indoor plumbing and a basement[...]attended Wyoming schools, both on Twin creek and in Sheridan before coming here. Some of the f[...] |
| [...]see was a level plain of snow with hardly a tree in[...]Arthur, the oldest, went to school in town while the[...]rode horses or drove to school in a buggy. The first summer here, we lived in a new granary[...]being built. We hauled water in barrels on a skid pulled[...]t year. It had modern plumbing but no electricity in[...]e it dangerous for the horses. We tied our horses in Betty Gross, Wyola postmistress for many years[...]grades we went to this school. School buses were in- far and are grateful for all we have enjoyed, es[...]ter We began with the barest of necessities in two Evan drove the bus. The youngest, Bern[...]d children gathering at our place to ride out in the hills. you can overcome the difficulties. The[...], married and have their own homes. called Run, Sheep Run. Often we had a range of our We are comfortable in our small modern home in the place and the Wagner place, close to[...]view, clean air, and bor children took part in our fun. all the good things of God's great count[...]to bring them home in the early evenings. Sometimes[...]All the vegetables and fruit were canned in those[...]Oscar Hager was born in Toten, orway, on[...]His first two year of school were experienced in Erle Gross on the new tractor, 1949[...]the United States. They settled in Valley City, orth Dakota. This was in the year 1909. He spent one year in school in this new surrounding at Valley City. A.[...]Dakota. Oscar's Our father came to Montana in 1912 and bought parents then filed on a h[...]and sale. He stayed at north of Beach. This was in the year 1912. While living a hotel in Toluca, 13 miles west of Hardin. At that time in this area, Oscar went to school in an abandoned this was the best accommodation near[...]homestead shack. There were five pupils in this school. which is located five and one-half m[...]ive dollars per month. Her name children out here in March, 1917. Father came ahead on was Bessie[...]ough the family remained on this homestead, train in Hardin in a bob-sled, taking us to a rented Oscar changed schools and entered the school in Arvid, house about two miles southwest of[...] |
| school. The town of Arvid was made up of a building "buck" for help to put up the tipi he had[...]ion store, post office, dance hall, was told in no uncertain terms that putting up tipis was and[...]ge of seventeen, Oscar went After a few months chopping wood, in 1894 to work on various ranches in Montana. He performed Hammett got a job wi[...], Johnson and Powers. The outfit worked one year in Butte for the American Railway ran more[...]and valuable packages from the railroad In 1896 still working for the Custer Cattle Com- de[...]nd of Canadian He met Fay Elizabeth Shibley in 1916 and they outlaws in the Missouri Breaks. He was shot in the were married in Wibaux, Montana, on January 31, right forearm and the bullet lodged in his shoulder. A 1924. Oscar was 25 years old at[...]it was 20. They rented a small ranch near Wibaux in 1924 worked so well Hammett has never had th[...]missed a day from cow horses to Big Horn County in 1927. punching. Besides the Custer Cattle Company, Their first summer in Big Horn County they Hammett worked fo[...]ardin, one of the first large steer outfits In the fall of 1927, Oscar and his wife, with their[...]near Wyola most of the time. They did In 1958, he was featured in an article in the Denver spend one winter at Parkman, Wyoming,[...]He married Blanche Brown, November 24, 1920, in In the year 1935 they bought one of the Spear Casper, Wyoming. Mrs. Hammett died in December of ranches. At the time they bought this ranch, there were 1973. five children in the family. All of the children are now T[...]ammett of Sheridan, together with his family live in the Wyola area. Wyoming; four daughter[...]Wyoming visits his other children who are living in several dif- and Mrs. Ina Bell Snyder of Sierra Vista, Arizona; ferent states. One lives in Washington, one in Missouri, twenty-four grandchildren and twenty great grand- one in South Dakota, and one lives in North Dakota. children. Oscar's hobb[...]Who lived in[...]s was Hardin, Montana. John E. Hammett, born in Lampasas County, My first recol[...]her at the age Fayetteville, Arkansas nestled in the heart of the Ozark of 86. He began punching cows on his father's ranch in Mountains. Texas when he was 14.[...]s the fifth child born to Amanda Lillian and In 1893, at age 18 years of age, he worked as a[...]the older than I and one sister younger. Six in all. Canadian line and told of never seeing a fen[...]tle homesteads here and there. run down southern home built many years before the After arriving in Montana, Hammett worked for Civil War. H[...]steamboats that roof and peeling paint, but in all to me, beautiful, brought supplies up the Big[...]Fort connected with a breezeway, which in that locality was Custer. The Fort was constructed in 1877 to keep peace designated as a "D[...] |
| [...]onsisted of two separate words until wild flowers in the woods, and some cultivated flowers, we mo[...]went out of Fresh vegetables from the garden in summer and business and the family moved[...]No one can realize how very hard it can be dried, in great quantities, apple butter made out of[...]n to adjust to a new place. The children at doors in a huge iron kettle and stirred with long han·[...]Arkansas was supposed to be very poor in jelly and jams with the fruit which contained not[...]entire grade enough pectin, (No sure jell powder in those days), which meant I finished high[...]ty of pork (cheaper than beef) taught school in nine months and went on to college in made a varied and pretty well balanced diet. Home[...]casions. colleges. Soap was made in a larger kettle than the one for My first teaching job was in Wewoka, Oklahoma. I apple butter and mother prided herself that it was not taught four years in Oklahoma. Two in Government soft soap but hard enough to shape.[...]ne out of doors. First the had contracted ague in Oklahoma and the doctor white clothes and bedding[...]on suggested that I go to a high altitude. So in 1916 I came a wash board, then put to boil in this huge iron kettle. to Montana to the villa[...]s were scrubbed but not boiled- two bathtubs in the town. I loved Montana from that then both were rinsed and hung out to dry. first minute in spite of the 60 degree below freezing we We[...]as a rule, and to had that first year. cook in a kitchen separate from the house was too[...]dances all over the county. Almost 60 years in the state I believe the only heat we had was[...]nsmore, a School. I started at 60.00 per month in Rosebud and typical gentleman of the Old South, who had lost a made $100.00 per month in Lavina. At the end of three fortune in the war between the states (Civil War was[...]t to never mentioned). One of his ex-slaves lived in a cottage leave and was flattered to be offered[...]and scolded us and tried her best to teaching in Hardin was a great pleasure. o town could make So[...]ife, were invited into all the home , belonged to hot biscuits or cookies when we passed Addie's cabin. the Woman's Club, spent our weekends in nice weather, Addie did help my mother with canni[...]food to preserve, sew Ranch, Kelley's cabin in the Little Horn anyon and all the clothes, includ[...]rts for the boys and many more. father, help in both the vegetable and flower gardens,[...]s to school and Sunday School, (we courses in school- orche tra, band, choral groups. We were P[...]r our lessons were done for the starred in basketball, one year being only second to followi[...]ather would read aloud to us as we Billings in the state. We entered and did well in all sat around the fireplace, Robinson Crusoe, Hu[...]h happy family, poor financially, proud, but rich in our wonderful success in life. love as a family.[...]o flattered that o There were two cemeteries in the town. One in many have paid us visits either in Arizona, or at the which the Southern dead lay and one for the Boys in Flathead. When the parents of a town are[...]on July 4th. Although We were married in 1925 and left Hardin in 1932. I never knew but one Republican duri[...] |
| [...]double seats. Often there were three in a seat. Sixty or[...]strike). Teachers in those days were paid twenty five[...]dollars per month, $200.00 for eight months. Times[...]an eight roomed building. I got $40.00 per month and[...]I graduated from college in 1912. My first teaching[...]students and two teachers to begin with. I was in Mt.[...]were ordered to go to France in October, 1918, and were[...]would be the one to do it. Well, I was born in Uniontown, Pa., October 22, 1886. it is a l[...]twenty-three years old. There were eight children in the Then I came to Hardin as principal of[...]school. This was an ideal set up, a nice building, an The house where I was born was an old ho[...]eachers and fine students. Mr. S. stories, frame. In 1893, my father and mother thought R. Logan[...]all the vegetables that of this country. grow in Pennsylvania. I remember the rows of stone[...]y last year as principal of the high school, jars in the cellar, where the fruit and vegetables that[...]apples and potatoes Home Economics teacher in the high school and were stored in crates and barrels. cont[...]r very well a I resigned from Hardin in 1932. We moved to wine incident. My brother just[...]I did not like that work and after a year in Billings, we dropped in to see us. We were working by the light of[...] |
| [...]My father became agent of the Crows in 1902. He Here are remarks made November 2,[...]nd: "He came to against the rustlers in the "Spiked Pumpkin" plot to Montana when it was[...], president of have been some quality hidden away in his brain and the Stockyards National Ba[...]in the First National Bank. When it consolidated wit[...]Rabbit ford. More than thirty cowboys, 400 cattle in the river, and the owner, Frank Heinrich in white shirt[...]In 1916, Frank Heinrich took the Reynolds youth,[...]life. Then illness The late '90's found him in Alaska, prospecting. overtook him, something he hadn't figured on coping He spent a winter in an abandoned shack, where he with in a chronic state. He had lived through infection,[...]al. Mr. Heinrich, largest stockholder, had asleep in their boat, woke too late to reach shore before[...]bridge of suspended ice. They But within 14 months, the bank re-opened. He had lay flat, listening t[...]Vickers of the rush, he developed blood poisoning in an arm, and, all Depositors' Committee says in part: "Your generous the way to Seattle by freigh[...]extremely ill. Of and unselfish act stands out in this community as the the boiler-tender who saved his life, he'd say act of one man in thousands." He had also paid the regretfully, "I[...]d several thousand on do something for him." Back in Montana, he started notes he had[...] |
| [...]f Commerce, enjoyed travelling and helping in party meetings, invited him to Washington to dis[...]otograph, from the Washington Post, is preserved in our father's scrap- book.[...]In early 1900 my father, A. L. Hindman, decided to[...]several months. Then he, mother and my three older[...]Several ofmy father's relatives were in that area-[...]as working at Crow Agency. His sister and brother-in- law Mr. and Mrs. A. A. Lewis, lived in Toluca. For the[...]The two older brothers attended school with In-[...]nails, and shoot it off. One day they shot a hole in the railroad water tank. My father took the cannon and[...]When my father became the foreman in the I lived in Council Bluffs, Iowa, and Omaha, railroad yards in Sheridan we moved there and I started ebraska,[...]yles Business College after finishing high school in Council Bluffs. I held several positions until mo[...]k Yards until my marriage to Mr. Heinrich. He was in the ranching business, and I helped by hauling gr[...]nd doing anything that needed to be done. He died in 1933 and the management of the ranch, in general was on my shoulders. In 1937 I married Aubrey Knowles, sold out in the sixties, and Mr. Knowles passed away rather recently. I was active in various organizations, but politics was the main[...]Women were recognized as precinct committeewomen in the 30 's-a real step forward. I was the R[...] |
| [...]ts took everything and even ate and raised in North Dakota. We got married in 1932 each other. There was no winter feed for the[...]ns and the turkeys did well on such a high In 1934 we had no crop at all. In the fall of 1934 protein diet of bugs. There was[...]dren and I stayed at the Davis place. The In the spring of 1935 we left North Dakota and sprin[...]an old went to Oregon and Idaho seeking work. In November wash tub on the kitchen range and I pack[...]rdin and found a place to live and winter for our water. I melted snow not only for our- farmed for[...]am he asked her , to wish that everyone listening in would have something nice happen to them. I turne[...]In November 1946 we moved into t:own and in April 1947 August started to work in the lumber yard for Bob Saunders, Sr. In 1971 Troy French bought the[...]My parents, after their marriage in Ohio, moved to[...]as a teacher in the United States Indian Service. Thus,[...]I was born on an Indian Reservation in Oklahoma.[...]experience at living off the reservation. In those days we looked at the coal outcroppings I lived from 1931-1942 in Hardin and taught in the and said someday they will find a use for it.[...]Buffalo and Barney (Junior) Old Today I live in Sheridan as does my daughter Co[...] |
| [...]would run out of food, but we never did! Of course, we[...]les. We raised our own wheat Decker Post Office in the southeast corner of Big Horn which we[...]ouring mill for flour to County. It was started in 1923 by my late husband, make bread, r[...]t one thousand acres from bakeries to run to, so everything was homemade. his good friend[...]Supplies were bought to last six months or longer. George first came to the Unite[...]first year of marriage, we only went to England in 1903, at the age of fifteen. He worked for an Sheridan twice for supplies. uncle in North Dakota that first winter, but he did not[...]England asked how many like the severe cold, so in the spring, he rode horseback churches there were in Decker and which one did I and moved on. When h[...]orse- he liked it, so stayed to work on ranches in the back to a day school used for church. It was across surrounding area. In the ensuing years he went back to the riv[...]tle, Our daughter, Margaret, was born in November, enlisted in the Army and was sent to France. After the 1925. George B. (Sonny) came along in December, 1929 War, he received his discharge th[...]for five first eight grades. This was a job in itself, but it had to years before I decided to[...]rson work for me for I sailed from England in August, 1923, to New a few days, but mos[...]y hired men we may have at married by a minister in the home of friends I had met that time. We[...]h, grasshoppers and crickets, then severe winters in the West were log! Many years later, we did add a[...]for days. For six weeks in 1936 the icicles never melted I did not rea[...]up to keep the oil heaters and coal ranges going water, but did have a bathroom with a tub that could be[...]up. That year we sold cows drained through a hole in the floor. Our coal stove had a to the Government for $20.00 a head and their calves water tank attached to it. We filled it with a bucket,[...]ers had to quit because of those years. We obtain hot water! We had carbide lights, but woe betide stay[...]and much hard work to build back what we lost in those lamps which smoked every time I trimmed the[...]then I would not like the responsibility to run one now. I George would have to come and help make another. We have lived in Sheridan since the death of my husband in had a telephone line between our ranch and[...] |
| [...]Model T Ford, which was still running in 1928.[...]The ranch was purchased by the State Water Board in 1937, to make way for the Tongue River HIS[...]Hults family moved to the Lodge Grass area in the the Decker area, was born in Missouri. Early in life he spring of 1938. The two sons, Irwin[...]teenager ran away from home after trouble in partnership, with their father Ed operating a ran[...]and grain operation on deeded Sheridan, Wyoming. In late 1890, Edgar was known as land and[...]was working for with the Stevens family. In the spring of 1949 the Hults the 76 Ranch north of the Big Horn River in the family decided to buy a larger ranch on Swamp Creek at Musselshell area and later in the Sheridan and Dayton Big Timber, Monta[...]the Hults family moved to a small ranch at canyon in wooden flumes to Dayton, and there made[...]land for a year-around operation in one location. The[...]and selling it in the spring of 1955. Then returning to[...]head of Corral Creek. This ranch, located in the Wolf[...]Grass Creek for late winter and spring calving. In[...]In late 1971 Edgar Hults passed away being[...]preceded in death by his wife, Jessie.[...]rs old the Stimpson family in December 1971 with the two Around the turn o[...]TUCKER H NTINGTO teacher at Dayton, were married in 1906, moving to By Mabel Huntington Decker a few months later. Ed and Jessie were the I w[...]ldren Lynch Tucker. My fath er was born in Fort Morgan, went through grade school in a local country school at Nebraska, son of[...]rances Evans Deer Creek and completed high school in Sheridan, Tucker. He left home when he[...]worked on cattle ranches and was in Ekalaka for ome During the early years the f[...]- daughter of Pvt. Hugh Lynch. She was born in Ireland• mile trip by horse and buggy.[...]father , mother, Most of the food was raised in the home garden , girls and one boy came to the U. S. in 1881. Their Uncle with the meat grown on the ranc[...]h of Lame Deer. They lived ice cut from the river in winter and stored in the cellar there until the Indian uprising. The government gave packed in sawdust until needed.[...] |
| [...]to grew up there and married my Dad, Lee Tucker, in remember. That was the year they slau[...]en if the up Otter Creek. There were 10 children in this family, 7 meat was 0. K. That was the government in those days. girls and 3 boys. One girl died in infancy, the rest of us That spring we lost[...]hur lived to a good life so far. Sister Val died in 1972. got a job through Cliff Randall, and[...]used for a school for Maxim place at Kirby. In the fall we came back to town more than 60 years. It is now a community building. and got a place to live so we could get Helen back into We went to school in all kinds of weather and we walked school. W[...]mehow, to get the kids all through school. frost in the winter. We didn't have any hot soup or cocoa to warm us up. I guess that is why[...]ause I know I had lots of fun. I finished school in Powder River County. It was Custer County at one[...]n went to Miles City and took up nurses training in September 1918. During World War I and the big Epidemic of flu in 1918 I was in training. The war ended November 11, 1918 and that was a great time for us all. In 1921 I took my State Nurses Examination and pass[...]bought our Arthur passed away in October, 1960. I have tried sugar, coffee and oth[...]I went to work at the Senior Citizens in June 1970 made us closer to one another. We lived[...]s and two boys. The first hospital. boy died in infancy. Helen married Chet Rogers, son of[...]would give the different jobs. We moved to Hardin in September 1934, Indian woman jobs of wash[...]ring the depression. Arthur had a car repair shop in The buck, as he was called then, chopped wood. Mother back of the Old Peden BuiJding. He took in alJ kinds of wouJd give them a bucket of milk, loaf of bread, coffee, jobs in regards to repair work. He had gone to school in lard, eggs and what not. They were happy the[...]dn't have very much to live on, and Mother always in handy. We had the two oldest children then. We[...]them. rented a little house from 0. E . Anderson, in back of One of Mother's cousins was[...]was staying with some relatives. He was out took in outside money enough to pay our rent and[...]any shows either. We didn 't have a Indians in those days , if they were your friends, were to r[...]o go to the shows. They the right thing in those days.[...] |
| This is enough for the years gone by. I have been in for f~ that the wolf would also increase his.[...]ulder and coninued to ride on at the when we were in Billings and Worden. same[...]with his weird cry. Joel W. Hutton was born in Jefferson County, Just as darkness was[...]ives. he moved to LaCrosse, Wisconsin and worked in the When she told them of her expe[...]o set out traps but not to poison the bait. In 1857 he married Irene Cooley and moved to The next day when he discovered the dead wolf in a trap Iowa. Irene Cooley was born in LaCrosse in November he was very angry, for he could[...]or to some zoo The Huttons came to Montana in 1886. Their home and received a good price[...]the last of was a three roomed log house. Their water was from a the timberwolves. well and they[...]bobcats. boxelder and cedar. For baths the water was heated on One morning she went out to gather the eggs. She the stove in a wash boiler and a wash tub was used for wa[...]r to outdoor toilet which wasn't very comfortable in the search for some eggs a Blue Racer sna[...]ed over a stone by her cabin and they had dances in the winter with their conveyance went abou[...]s. When she returned a rat· sleighs and horses. In summer they had picnics. lesnake was c[...]she had not The winter of 1886 they stayed in Spearfish, noticed before. She ran to th[...]ake and South Dakota. They located on the Rosebud in Custer an ax. With these she killed the d[...]nt One evening while bringing in a cow and her calf, sawmill on South Thompson Cre[...]ns were numerous, and the country They left in 1897 for Carbon County and lived on a was very[...]when they moved to. change when they rode in during a roundup in the Hardin and ran a feed store just south of Jessie (Clark) spring and fall. Rowland. His son-in-law took over and ran it for some She[...]capped mountains aglitter. In the evening the sun set Grandpa Hutton passed away in Sheridan at my the hills and plains aglow[...]th Crow My grandmother lived in Big Hom County for Avenue in Hardin. They drove horses and covered[...]or two. the luxuries in the east.[...]lived in the Pine Ridge area around 1910-1964. The[...]son live on and operate conveniences. She arrived in Montana and lived a the Spear O Ranch o[...]boundary of the Crow Reservation near Kirby. haul water from the spring.[...]she Willis B. "Junior" Spear, Torrey's uncle, in 1913, and it would ride twenty miles or more to v[...]Dr. R. E . Henderson was a practicing physician in and traveled up on the divide when she saw a lone[...]ing her. By that time she was alone and served in Naval Aviation in World War I in the Canal far away from habitation. Greatly frigh[...]knew Zone and again as a Naval Flight Surgeon in World she didn't dare spur the horse on an[...] |
| [...]ily. Being 50 miles from University of Maryland in January of 1940 and she and Hardin and[...]ic Torrey were married on March 28 of that year in welder and no telephone, Torrey flew a lot in the 40's Hyattsville, Md. They made their first[...]g range combined this with summer dude business in order to and forest fire patrol after thunder-storms in the area. make ends meet.[...]Most of his early flying was done in a 65 horse-powered Spaced approximately tw[...]for getting around the mountains, still tioned in all phases of the ranch work until all had their[...]limited cow- University education and scattered in their own pur- boying. Torrey was elect[...]Flying Farmers and Ranchers Association in 1953 and Terry, Montana, came to make their home and to help served in this capacity for four years. He also served as make the ranch go on Corral Creek in 1967. a Constitutional Convention Delegate in 1972, In the spring of 1943 the J ohnsons purchased 320[...]Corral Creek and Big Corral Creek, In 1966, the Johnsons bought the Spear-O Ranch abou[...]Gina 10, Kelly Ford pickup without a top to use in pulling a wagon 12, and Wendy 5, they[...]nd but they were rough miles. They were strictly in the hay-stacking tractor. cattle busi[...]Torrey's father, William V. Johnson, was born in because help of the kind needed was impossible t[...]Hotel Chef in Cripple Creek and Victor, Colorado, Torrey[...]to Wyoming where he Rosebud head waters. This was in 1927, the year the homesteaded in Johnson County on Tipperary Creek Reservation Poo[...]ke up and began fencing the near Buffalo in the 1890's. He never carried a gun Reservation in[...]nd Cattle War, but the bunches of wild horses to run free anymore as they did have several per[...]of ranched, both cattle and sheep, in Sheridan and taking care of the combined ranchers[...]the Kirby, Montana area. Torrey was 11 months old at Some of the wild horses were large e[...]n 3000 never quite completely gentled. They would run away cows on the X4 in the Wolf Mountains, and had a Crow with anything[...]a grain binder all over the mountain range in the Black Canyon, Bull Elk divide place one careless day at the X4 with Dave Whaley areas to run fifteen bands of sheep. At one time he had drivin[...]f Torrey attended the University of Montana in 1929 he formed a partnership with Matt Tschirgi on the Missoula and the University of Chicago in the middle Antler Ranch on the Little H[...]penses by entertaining from this merger in 1934 due to a heart condition and private groups[...]Jessamine Spear Johnson was a photographic nights in the Warner Bros. Theatre in Oak Park, Ill. at artist and accumulated t[...]ig He started a small Dude ranch on Dry Creek in Horns taken on many pack trip[...] |
| [...]of school held in the infancy of that flourishing little[...]city. This was in 1907. For a period of some 12 or 13[...]substitute work. In the fall of 1909 I was asked by the[...]did until the formation of Big Horn County in 1913."[...]Gazette and the Hardin Tribune, and for some months[...]her philosophy is summed up in her final sentence:[...]it develops in other people's kitchens.[...]A. Very religious and a strict teetotaller, in fact[...]in the authentic variety. I shall never forget the e[...]in a taffy-pull; never did you see so many grumpy fa[...]when the truth wa easier; alway referred to men in[...]C. A large lady who got stuck in the cook-house[...]rself a Dear Abbie at the time of their marriage, in December, 1895. Mr. and persisted in advising neighbors on their more Johnston organiz[...]the subject, later had the first furniture store in Hardin, and sold and , more importantly, does[...]the day for the harried Mrs. Johnston wrote, in a biographical account housewife.[...] |
| [...]sports were Arnt was born February 21, 1891 in Yellow baseball in summer and skating and skiing in winter. Medicine County, Minnesota. He moved wit[...]ew home where there was a bad forest fire in our area and it looked like his father started a[...]new Ford car and headed for Montana. This was in fter the three years required to acquire the 1915. We landed in Circle, Montana after a week on the homestead, t[...]Minnesota to take over road. This trip was in the spring of the year; and we got the general store. A son, Raymond, was born in 1921, along pretty well until we started across North Dakota and another son, Donald in 1924. The store burned in where we found no graveled roads, only gumb[...]et stuck and would have to walk including the one in Hardin. Once more the family to the near[...]was no bridge at that time. the garage business. In later years he sold out his in- We had to cross the river on a ferry. When we got to terest in the garage and was Big Horn County[...]o go from Minneapolis to Circle, Montana. nappers in September, 1972. They had eight grand-[...]arpenter and helped build several houses Kalberg, in Circle, Montana Not long after that he t[...]a homestead about 25 retired: they old their home in Hardin, and moved to miles west of Circle. While living in Circle I met my Me a, Arizona. Also, they built a summer home in future wife and we were married there in ovember Minnesota, close to where he had lived as[...]mestead. We had purchased died September 15, 1965 in Minnesota and is buried some cattle and a number of horses, but in the fall of there. 1919 winter set in early and turned out to be very 11 three c[...]ril and we lost half of chool. Both boys served in the Air Force during World our cattle. The ne[...]near Hanley Falls, Min- While we lived in Billings, our daughter Yvonne nesota, on a farm on February 1 , 1 94, one of a family was born, in January, 1921. She is now Mrs. Reg of nine childr[...]of 10 my folks sold the farm Davies and lives in Chinook, Montana. I continued and moved to a new location in an area which was ju t working in Billings until February 1925, when we being settled. This was in a timbered country in the moved to Hardin and started the Chevro[...]ge, two here. While living here I got involved in a number of tory building with living room, kitchen and dining community organizations. I was elected to serve on the room in the rear and the General Merchandise store in school Board, City Council and as City Mayo[...]teer Fire Department and served a floor. This was in 1904 and we had no refrigeration, so total of 20 years, five as fire chief. I also joined the in s ummer lother would roast large pieces of meat Masonic Lodge here and in 1934 joined the Al Bedoo about half done. and put the meat in large crocks and brine Temple at Billings. I started the mechanics shop pour hot lard to cover and when needed it was removed[...]had charge of the and the roasting was finished. In this area there was a Defense School at the s[...]Staunton and went into the apartment business. In schools were the one-room type with only one teac[...]to the Commanding Officer at Camp dair, were held in the homes until the church was built. Our[...] |
| Here the 96th Army Division was to go in training. A must have been, trying to milk those cows in a forty year later we had the 70th Army Division[...]went Washington to work with the Army Engineers. In 1942 swimming in the river, and attended community I was transferred to the Gore Field Air Base in Great picnics, dances, and parties. The Jake Koebbes and our Falls, Montana. In 1946 the war ended and I was ap· family[...]stayed with the children of the absent ones. In 1933 we adopted a girl less than a year old,[...]riest Carol, who is now Mrs. Orville Kurtz living in Billings. came down to the Oleniks and held s[...]a radio homes here and after my wife passed away in 1965 I announcer, with families of thei[...]into one of my rental units. Mom passed away in 1960 and Dad in 1972. These are some of the high lights of my 60 years in God has been good to us, granting us good health, Montana, and 50 years in Hardin. the ability a[...]ey family moved to Montana from the United States in 1910 from Holland. They and Independe[...]et and married my mother, homestead in this area, and E. L. decided to come, in Dorothy Kessels. She also came from Holland but t[...]e by train, for his family had loaded him up In 1916 Dad worked for a big wheat farmer at[...]ruit, making his suitcases very heavy. He Toluca. In 1918 he went to farming for himself on a[...]the train small farm just south of Hardin, where, in 1918, I was did not stop until it reached T[...]oved to different rented farms the night in the depot there, returning to Fort Custer until he bought the place I now call home, in 1928. the next day. Those were the so-ca[...]nd some rough men were playing poker at the table in now at Torzona, California, Andrea Olenik, Hardin[...]as he had between three and four hundred dollars in his Montana, and myself of the old family home.[...]tolen. While he When we moved to this valley in about 1927 there watched the poker game go[...](Kathryn and Dorothy) stayed in Missouri until the We all attended Community[...]r who used his watch to hold our at- home in Whitman oulee. Th y lived in a cabin tention while checking our hearing-he was[...]built. E. L. got a job a a clerk in the First ational In the years we lived on this place there were[...]eryday for three year while he wa due to ice jams in the Big Horn river. We kids thought "provin[...]s homestead . it was fun. One particular time the water came up so Living on the homestead w[...]gan moving us out with a wagon and team, in real living. There was a pring, and all water had to but om was baking bread, so we had to wait[...]ill to the log cabin. erna raised bread was done. In the meantime water surrounded the chickens and turkeys, bake[...]read was done and all the food bread on her hot stove, and when they had company bedding and clot[...]straw) . Dorothy, aged 2, was forever falling in a cactus and milk his cows every day and though t[...]fell into the pring and her mother higher ground in the field , they insisted on going had to fetch a ladder and go down after her a the through the water to their barn. After going through spring was fashioned like a small well. the water a few times they decided to stay in the field. Mrs. Kelley reminisces[...] |
| [...]ngs on the program, which was held at the Lammers Building, and the men hunted up beer kegs on which to build a platform. Mrs. Peck was in charge of the program. My husband was looking aft[...]form on a The Hardin State Bank was sold in 1922 and hayrack, but I told them I'd have to be first on the terminated in January 1923; so later that year Mr. program, as[...]in the old Sullivan Block to the Gay Building and[...]resigned from the Bank in 1935 to pursue his own[...]Mrs. E. L. Kelley Ed Kelley believed in the future of Hardin and was |
| [...]ather hazy. We used rags for Mr. Kelley died in 1961 and is buried in Fairview cleaning the blackboards and the little ones watched Cemetery. Verna lives at Maplewood Manor in the big ones copy the ABC's and[...]slates. Agency, Kathryn (Mrs. Ed Buzzetti) lives in Missoula, In a few weeks supplies came and we were happy. I as[...]primers and books with pictures, Wilkinson) lives in Springfield, Oregon; Virginia (Mrs. kindergarten material, etc. Wesley Wertz) in Helena, and Jeanne (Mrs. Roger I taught them poems and songs. I remember Gaskill) in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan.[...]hday always meant a special party for the school. In before the M.E.A. meeting at St. Xavier on Octobe[...]oming here considered our school unique in the service and com- from Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania in January 1903.J plimented us on the work we had done so far. In June of The Crow Agency Government Boarding[...]1883, a year after the Agency was moved in school were broken out, and when I called the at-[...]tor and Matron to the fact, they Pryor was opened in 1892. The first public school at St. decided to quarantine the school. It was my first Xavier was in a log house north of the Mission school in contact with the disease, and added to my dis[...]We had sixty pupils enrolled, forty-five in school a.m., after encountering blizzards and bei[...]the older ones being on some detail. I snowbound in New York through to Chicago, to find h[...]yees and a fine The school house was a frame building in which superintendent. All were housed in one building, over 200 children attended classes with five tea[...]was fifteen years of age. The pupils who attended in the permitted to do the employee's cooking in a mall morning were detailed to the sewing room,[...]wo miles from laundry, bake house, and other work in the afternoon, the Post Office and store,[...]he station. and the morning detail came to school in the afternoon, I remained at the schoo[...]become very expert in the three R'~. They loved to hear After thr[...]e abolished a number of years ago a pupils ranged in age from six to sixteen, and except for the[...]irst name, if there You may be interested in some facts about the first was a baptismal record of such a name; if not, the schools established in what is now known as Big Horn employees had a hap[...]after the Custer battle. This their first lesson in English was to learn to say their school was[...]his is Jacob Stands on the Bull", etc. the building used as a chapel, partitioned off from the There were many amusing mistakes, especially in the church. I have been unable to[...] |
| [...]o try the patience of a woman campment of Indians in that part of the valley, there managing a f[...]t of the turkeys for a Butte concern. building was still standing a few years ago, and the site[...]hould have a marker. It was a well-known landmark in home about 1923. Their first home was in the apart- the early days for it was near the old[...]oked for t. Xavier's Mission school was started in 1887 by the the inmates. Later she operated a[...]Mrs. Kifer has always been interested in the from Toledo, Ohio in 1884, and who had schools at history an[...]membership in the Pioneers of Eastern Montana and[...]family were Alma Kifer (Mrs. John) was born in the Gallatin pioneers in the Gallatin Valley where she was born in Valley not far from Bozeman, Montana, the daughte[...]ennial Belle" on the Centennial Train to New area in 1908. Mrs. Kifer recalls vividly the trip and her York City in 1964. She is an active member in several first days in Hardin. She and her mother arrived on the civic and philanthropic organizations in Big Horn evening train and spent the night at the[...]axine (Mrs. having board walks and hitching posts in front of Hillard Miller) and Jennie (Mr[...]ne car she saw came speeding of whom live in Billings. Her present home is in down Main Street at ten to fifteen miles per hour[...]Frank Kincaid was born on June 2, 1886 in a farm the same location as in 1908. John Kifer owned a home in Grundy County, Missouri, the son of Harvey furnit[...]and Fanny (Darling) Kincaid, the second child in a store to buy furnishings for their new home, she met family of nine. He attended schools in Trenton and took the young manager who was to become her husband in a course at the Trenton Business Colleg[...]idn't like to dance he, no doubt, In Trenton, Frank was a clerk in the men's arranged some of the dances along with[...]in" Alma. She loved to car conductor in Kansas City, Missouri. He told of men dance. Many of these dances were held in the old riding to the end of the line with a keg of beer or barrel Lammers Building and "even in winter" they were well of whiskey, getting[...]the river if then a dry state. they had come in a wagon. The building was often cold In 1906 Frank moved to Montana and worked at and hal[...]father were initiated into the Odd Fellows Lodge in children.[...]ds He built a one room shack to live in while he hauled in the valleys. Also, there was the hazard connected logs from Pine Ridge to build a log house. In 1917 he with the very common prairie sod-roof. Mrs. Kifer lived in a lean-to attached to a garage while the present[...]hat if she got one speck of grease on the full of water-pies that were intended for the county[...] |
| [...]n the proposed Big Horn Canyon Dam. She now lives in Berkley, California. Since some homesteaders[...]tched over wire. Since corn was grown on the farm in Missouri, it was one of Frank's favorite foods Frank Kincaid in his first car, a 1917 Dodge Touring and when aske[...]son, John, was born in 1945. During Frank 's lifetime[...]<--' the ranch was expanded and in 1946 he bought his first[...]before his death in 1971. His wife resides on the original[...]One of the really fun things in life has been to recall[...]caid and half of a team they are in such contrast with so many things I now[...]did to the Bitterroot Valley, near Hamilton, in the spring of not have proper attachments. She in[...]h re my wife of the man who owned the straw stack in a hard- sister Helen was.) Mother and I st[...]Frank often talked about the rattlesnakes found in buggy pulled along ide and asked "Willy, would you and around residences. In one instance when a family and your Mother[...]ardin. doctor, they found a rattlesnake curled up in the house. When I drive that road now I c[...], a snake The r frigerator is another in tance ; we, like was coiled in it. eve[...]it touch t . lairs' land . I ' a dance in town, he tore his trousers climbing over a fence[...]t the freeze completely - which again i in contra t to the Lou Torske residence where Mrs. T[...]en my mother started carrying mail north of women in the Hardin area say Frank taught them to Hardin in 1919, the road was only light gravel and that dan[...]y hor e Frank's first tractor was a Fordson; in 1927 he and buggy for a year and half. The[...]w he used until he purchased a Model A John Deere in to put the mail in Fred Taylor's mail box - and more 1941.[...]often than not, a hot drink wa offered to her.[...] |
| [...]While in Sheridan, Logan worked shoveling coal in[...]In 1908, Logan homesteaded 160 acres near[...]Hardin, Montana. There was a good spring of water[...]country in August 1909 and blew Logan's house down.[...]l King, Barbara and Robert parents in the late fall after he had his winter wheat[...]planted. In 1918 he bought a Model T Ford car. He met In those days when Church was an afternoon meeting in the orth Valley, there was a mens'[...]When the couple arrived by train in Hardin March Charles Wort. Rev. Meeke once told t[...]Then I Uriel's family was very instrumental in getting the called it '' My Little Gray Home in the West." log church-Baptist-built, and some yea[...]. Mrs. Emmanuel King, 60 degrees below in November and again in March. The Uriel's mother, was pianist for many y[...]e dried out so I taught the Finlayson school In the early '20's a group of Baptist young people,[...]Rev. elson and his wife, attended a youth meeting in Helena. A rainy spell almost brought[...]ch again until the teacher one morning, the group in two Model T Fords set off. shortage in the 1940's. Since the road to Billings was only thinly graveled, the On the farm those years in the early thirties we had going was slow and by n[...]dust and tumble weeds mixed, piled high in all the cross Timber, where we camped. Since it w[...]rms, bank failures and one fall know that we were in a low spot, but found out during after the wheat was in the elevator, that went broke. the night when it[...]ties and dances at the neighbors Broadwater Hotel in Helena-two days from Hardin to during[...]violin for the dances. In the summer picnics and[...]Bette, our daughter, attended school in Hardin LOGAN KINGSTON[...]until 1938, then she attended Rocky Mountain in By Edna King ton[...]Kansas heard of the worked for Boeing in 1942 and returned to Hardin in fabulous living in the West from his relatives from 1945. Sheridan, Wyoming who were visiting his parents in 1906. During 1926 we were all three baptized in the In 1907 Logan bought a ticket to go to Sheridan,[...]rt time build the log Baptist Church in Hardin that is being in Kansas City. He bought a watch in Kansas City. used at present. Uriel[...]iles from Billings on the day he found his ticket in his watch pocket and arrived Red Lodge road. Our health failed so we moved into in Sheridan with one thin dime in his pocket. Billings Apri[...] |
| [...]KEMO CROOKSHANKS to serve in the summer when it was too hot to butcher. I have lived in Big Horn County most of the time Mother was[...]many Big Horn County on another ranch for a few months blocks of ice from the frozen river, a[...]there to one of the coal mining camp~ in thickness, and pack it in either sawdust or coal slack outside Sheridan, W[...]another short stay, and for use during the hot months to preserve our milk, then back to Big Horn Coun[...]ake home-made ice cream for There were six in the family-father, mother, three special Sund[...]the foods we raised and preserved at home. lived in a log house which my father built, having cut[...]a pot of beans and m out of the hills ready for building. Since I was only that was always such a treat with hot bread and home- two at the time, I must rely on[...]ved about five miles and he told me that we moved in our new home shortly down the river so w[...]begin at least a month family always participated in decorating the tree on and even more in advance preparing fruit cakes, pies, Christmas Ev[...]t of only had candy and nuts during the holidays. In later the time for warmth and for horse back riding to school. years, we were allowed to put candles in clip-on holders We had many dances at h[...]g would continue until the wee hour of the garden in the summer, and, since Mother was so[...]even walked at tune . When we drove a team buried in sand, and the potatoes placed in a bin, in the and sled, my brother always at the reins,[...]d ride with us and we had a wonderful also placed in the cellar until used, along with shelves tim[...]to us by out of paper, drop them into the water from the bridge neighbors-none ofus were very par[...]e was ground, par- always participated in a Christmas program and all tially fried, packed in layers in a big crock in lard, and parents were pre ent to watch their offspring perform. stored in our food cellar. Mother would can a lot of meat In the winter, recesses and noon hours were s[...] |
| [...]Nipple river also, we spent many hours skating, building Elmer Kobold, was born in Indian Territory 1892 bonfires on the ice for warmth and were joined in what is now Oklahoma. "I didn't leave home, as mo[...]t receive much formal My brother and I were in the same grade in school education." "There were lots of school[...]"I worked for cow outfits and finally wound up in to remain home for one year after finishing grade[...]s" and invited Slim along on a Mother had to stay in Sheridan with my older sisters "job huntin[...]care They walked toward Rosebud Creek in Montana. of all the outside chores and I maintain[...]ally found 56 miles from Sheridan on what is In 1933 our farm was purchased by the govern-[...]likes to talk about is now almost entirely under water. We moved to happened in 1915. He was hired by a Dude from New nearby Sher[...]aven, to take him through complete our education. In 1940 I accepted a civil[...]Yellowstone Park on horseback. service job offer in Washington, D.C., and after[...]ear Big Bend working for thirty years, almost all in The Pentagon, I School on the Rosebud. They w[...]turned to Big Horn County and am currently living in down the west slope of the Wolf Mountains to[...]rode into a cow I came to the Big Hom Valley in 1910. We bought camp a game would ensue. t[...]l By the first of October, they were in the Park year . t that time every 160 acre tract had a house and "snowed in. " Bacon gravy was a favorite camp food. new buil[...]tourists lived on boiled fish, canned milk, In July 191 I joined the ational Guard, and oatmeal, and coffee. served in it for five years. We were sent to the Mexican border, and on March 15, 1917 I left for participation in World War I, the first man from Big Hom County to[...]States declared war on Germany, but the Guard was in readiness. I returned pril 4, 1919. That summer I[...]henhagen, who ran a saw-mill, had his leg cut off in the saw. Mrs. Malone rode with him in the wagon to town and prevented him from bleeding t-0 death. I left the valley in 1920. It had been an extremely cold winter and co[...]and family . That summer I worked as a carpenter in the oilfields in the Sheridan area and and have remained in that city ever since. In 1960 I married Rose Ewers Lammers, and we[...] |
| Stage coaches were used in the park at that time. Dr. Russell,[...]Fay It was also the first year cars were allowed in the park. Alderson, the County Superintendent[...]and other athletic events at a field day in the spring. eigh- Slim arrived back on the Rosebud. They have kept in boring schools met for athletic contests[...]Outfit" between 1911 This school was held in a homestead cabin about four and 1915. Pay in those days was $40.00 per month and miles[...]rode horseback to the school from the W. V. In 1915 he filed on a homestead. Through the[...]service in Siberia, in 1919. Four years later we were MRS. ELMER KOBOLD married in Buffalo. He had bought a ranch on Rosebud In 1916 my parents and family came from near Creek in 1920; there was a five-room house on the ranch Iowa City and settled on Clear Creek in Wyoming. My and although we have built on, we still live there. We father's father had come to Iowa in 1846, and he sold had six children, and al[...]before we left. I finished High who passed away in 1968: Mrs. Kathleen Skelton, School in 1918 in Buffalo, and then took normal Missoula, George at Kirby, Mrs. Lenore Johnson, training in Laramie. I taught Rock Creek School on[...]. Elmer Kobold, Billings, and Mrs. Dolores Piney (in Wyoming) one year. Shortage of teachers McKennan, Lansing, Michigan. caused me to go to Big Bend, in Montana, at the We used kerose[...]and a summer school near the rock house. In summer we put tubs of bath water out in the sun in At Big Bend I boarded at Tom Penson's, and[...]ough to bathe. walked to school a mile away, held in the Pack Saddle We stayed at home, chiefly[...]ail-order catalogues, but our food upplies we got in had hot lunches; the District provided canned soup,[...]arri ed in Hardin on a 40 degree b low zero morning.[...]farm in partner hip with his brother J. . Koebbe.[...] |
| [...]First one man combine to be used in Big Hom County.[...]KOPRIVA BROTHERS Freighting in the early 1920's at Art Koebbe's.[...]By Mrs. Frank Kopriva In the spring of 1925 the Koebbes leased a farm[...]Johnson place, where they farmed for five years. In the in St. Paul, Minnesota. When they were very young[...]be a paying a dry-goods store. They lived in Fairibault until Frank venture due to dry seasons and low prices. In 1931 they was twelve years old and then moved[...]ion, North Dakota. Both brothers worked in department then located in the south half of the Hardin Hotel. He store[...], cream, butter, eggs and chickens, In 1910 John went to St. Cloud, Minn. where he durin[...]sion years until 1936 when he took a worked in a department store. Frank came to Miles job as ca[...]Co., when that firm City, Montana, and worked in Mund's Clothing Store. built the Hardin Sugar Fac[...]Frank's father, always interested in investing in completed in 1937. la[...]counties. He knew that his two oldest sons were in- terested in buying a general store. He heard that the[...]Kopriva brothers came to Hardin in January, 1913.[...]The store was a wooden building, twenty-five feet[...]wide, next to the present Solazzi building. ext to it was a vacant 50 x 140 foot lot. Here, in 1917, they built a modern brick building. It had hard wood floors, steam[...]ony. The entire store to the alley Breaking sod in the early 1920' at Art Koebbe's. was div[...]ndise. The front was Hebron brick from South In 1937 he took the job as supervisor of the Two[...]e store was known as the Hardin Mercantile Leggin Water User's s 'n. , which he held until 1947, Co[...]g equip- and moved to Powell, Wyoming. In five more Frank ment. He cleaned ditches, and dra[...]Ronald graduated from High School, Art in 1962 and John in 1961. took him into the business and they built it into the I, Mrs. Frank Kopriva, was born in Minneapolis, present Koebbe Ready Mix.[...]ed with 10 other students from Custer Anniversary in October, 1974. County High School in Miles City in 1909. I graduated[...] |
| from the Winona State College in Minnesota and af- government behind a fence until the emergency was terwards taught in the grade schools of Miles City. I over." H[...]o recruit volunteers and to get met Frank Kopriva in Miles City. We were married in official permission for them to move to H[...]en Hardin before we arrived from our placed in charge of the operation and supervised honeymoon.[...]and for his home. He has since Frank Eder took me in perhaps the only car in Hardin, added many more hundreds of acres t[...]din. We enjoyed and were very happy health in the past several years has forced him to in Hardin and the people were very good to us.[...]s. Dean An- daughters who have grown up in this warm and friendly derson, who lives in Whittier, California. Her husband home. The[...]l, from Billings Gazette March 7, 1965. professor in Cleveland, Ohio. Her two sons are studying electr[...]y other daughter, Jane, Mrs. E. R. Fristoe, lives in Olympia, Washington. MR. AND MRS. ED LAMMERS Her husband is an attorney in Olympia. She has two married daughters and a son,[...]from Hartington, ebraska in 1904. Mr. Lammers was a building contractor and came to Sheridan to find[...]In the fall of 1906, shortly after the Crow Indian Tom Yoshikasu Koyoma was born in 1915, "The Reservation land was thrown open to settlers, Mr. Year of the Tiger" in Dunmore, Montana barely twelve Benjamin La[...]r him to pronounce, and homest:.ead, living in a two room hou e until a larger the name has stuc[...]home was built. The homest:.ead was sold in 1914. twelve years and was graduated with honors as In 1915, Mr. B. J . Lammers bought a two tory president of the Class of 1933. building in Hardin, from Geo. Thoma {on what would At ab[...]the age of nineteen, managed added a brick building in back. It housed a hoe hop, to lease three-hundred[...]with rooms for rent Clara County farmers a lesson in sugar beet farming. In upstair . One time it hou ed the Court Hou of[...]his brother had plans for a university education in Japan, but language was a barrier to American-bor[...]. It wa 1941, and things were getting pretty hot in Japan so the boys decided to come home. Tom was back in California, growing sugar beets successfully when[...]ir affairs and report to relocation centers. Life in a barracks at Gila, Arizona soon became monotonou[...]tes of our B. J . Lammers in his store.[...] |
| B. J. Lammers bought a well drilling machine run In the early thirties Ed started a plumbing shop in by horse power. Ed Lammers, his son, learned to run Hardin where the present M.D.U. offices ar[...]a member of the Hardin Masonic Lodge drilled both water and gas wells as a business with and Odd Fe[...]d motors. played in the first band. Sam Woods was director of the Ed married Grace Cronk in Sheridan, Wyoming band. Ed passed away in 1940 with a heart attack. November 6, 1912. Grace Cronk came to Sheridan in a George Lammers, Ed's brother, ran th[...]her parents Mr. and Mrs. Chalmers hand store in Hardin for many years until it was Cronk from Bea[...]braska. Mr. Cronk was a destroyed by fire in 1950. George's son, Gayle Lam- carpenter and got[...]d more barracks mers, runs a second hand store in Hardin at present. at Fort McKenzie near Sheridan[...]or Ernest Adler, helping to build of married life in the two room house on the homestead. many of the early day homes in Big Horn County. In the spring they moved the homestead house to the[...]plumber also one time Mayor of Hardin, lives in Hardin with additions, is the home of Mrs. Ed Lam[...]time, 1975. in Hardin and Lorelle Ann (Mrs. Robert Shibley) lives Houses in Hardin were two or three blocks apart in in Portland, Oregon. the early days. Neighbors of th[...]LY Ed was town marshall for a short time and in 1914 By Lydia Lapp Unverzagt and[...]August 11, 1913, two daughters, Helen, born in the Great Depression of the early thirties. At th[...]In earlier years, John and Katherine had migrated[...]States in 1905. Throughout a very rough voyage across[...]The Lapps made their way to John's sister in[...]a living. John worked on other farms in North Dakota[...]Upon arriving in Hardin, the Lapp family lived in a labor shack approximately twelve miles from town in[...]rth Valley. He, his wife, and the children worked in[...]hand labor work was in the sugar beet fields. Credit for[...]dollars per acre; and at harvest, topping, which in-[...]were paid for. Each child had one change of Ranch in October, 1940 clothes and one pair of shoes which were worn only in[...] |
| the winter. Running after cows in the stubble fields in back to Colorado in the fall to sell. This was during the bare feet[...]and bread. The mother and girls baked often, and in the years when the When Mr. Lee found he[...]acres on the Big Horn, drastically insufficient in variety as well as quantity. near "Dead Man's Corner." However, Katherine was ingenious in preparing tasty Father Lee told many[...]after two augment the family diet. Milk was kept in the root snows, if she wished to leave.[...]r, Lydia, worked as a mother's farm; putting in crops, fencing the land with steel helper for another family from the age of thirteen. She posts, and building a granary. recalls how homesick she was during t[...]for a family of children, Father Loo died in 193 7, the land became an estate, and milked sev[...]ia did not When Jay went to the ranch in 1937 t.o get the land receive any cash for her w[...]When eighteen, Lydia married Otto Unverzagt in got ten acres of beets and twenty acres of[...]going to get the license, but Otto had Water and taxes had not been paid for several years, as[...]he ceremony. The shy bride quietly let her groom run the Indians, since his renters had reported[...]young couple returned to the Lapp home to Water had to be paid before we could get current water. face Father Lapp's anger. The father had wanted[...]state. Mr. Hanna was the daughter to be married in a ceremony by a minister of Supervisor of Water for Indians in five states. He his choice. John Lapp made a sce[...]So Otto got out, leaving his young bride. Lydia water districts were formed on the Big and Little Horn[...]ouple of days of struction were given a rebate in the form of tax relief for waiting, the groom st[...]to the door and a certain number of paid water years. Jay was demanded his bride. The father 's wrath subsided, and especially interested in water-his father built Lost the couple departed for their little home in Warner. Lake at 11,000 feet, in Estes Park, Colorado, and was Otto was running his own business of local freight on water projects in Johnstown. delivery with a team and dray wagon.[...], but not enough to pay u , o we rented our In the early 30's Otto and Lydia Unverzagt came[...]orked for Campbell Our interests were in the community. Th re were Farming Corporation wh[...]Xavier and the Big Horn Bridge fifty plow shares in a day for a daily wage of three when we built our log hou in 1936. Holly ugar Co. dollars and fifty cents. Otto's skill as a blacksmith built a factory in Hardin, and eighty labor hou were contributed to[...]wn for their devotion and work through the years in the Redeemer Lutheran Church. We wo[...]project was not an easy one. Many farmers lives in Hardin. A daughter, Jane, is the wife of the[...]Lydia's youngest sister, Alma, has resided in the built on the Big Horn after the war- then[...]and in 1937 Jay carried petitions for the side roads. An[...]nd brothers drove horses from instrumental in encouraging a veterinarian to locate in Johnstown, Colorado to Lodge Grass, Montana, in the Hardin, and worked to eradicate Brucellosis in Big spring to graze on the tall grasses, t[...] |
| [...]were born to John and Addie Lewis in Montrose: By Donald John Lewis[...]er 22, 1886, and Kenneth John Lewis was born in Swansea, Wales, May 7, Arnold on January[...]On January 7, 1896, Mr. Graves succeeded in Canada, settling in Michigan sometime in the 1860's. getting John appointed by the O[...]Affairs Adalaide (Addie) Irene Hart was born in Camden, as " Supervisor of Constructed Ditc[...]56, and her family moved t o Reservation in Montana. " Soon thereafter, John, and Flint, Michigan, probably in the 1870's. later, the family went to Montana. The family lived in On October 24, 1874, Addie was united in marriage Billings until John was able to alter a warehouse in with John Lewis in Detroit. Two years later, on October Crow Agen[...]ir daughter, Edith Minerva Lewis, was was in this warehouse that Donald John was born on born in Flint.[...]98. A few years later they moved to Colorado in search John 's work on the Crow Reservation was to of gold and silver where, in Pitkin, Clyde E dward Lewis provide water to the farmland that had been allotted to was bor[...]man who makes water run uphill. " A canal on the side Hardships in that period were a way of life. On one of a valley, sloping only enough to give the proper occasion in the dead of winter, they took E dith to the water flow, does look as though it runs uphill when doc[...]ope of the valley ; hence his Indian on snowshoes in below-zero weather with E dith name. suspended between them in a small chair. Another time, John detoured off th[...]a mineral strike, he obtained work as a carpenter in Montrose, Colorado. He had to learn the trade the hard way, by going around after working hours in the evenings, observing buildings under construct[...]put together. Eventually, he became involved in the con- truction of irrigation structures on the Federal Gun- nison project in Colorado, under the supervision of Walter H . Gra[...]He also became involved in other tasks around the[...]a large stone monument from the railroad tracks in the[...] |
| [...]ear Waco. Mr. Helm and my father Another job in which John participated was the had the place together. remodeling of the water system for the Agency. This We m[...]last move to Lodge Grass where Rosalie and I the water as it seeped through the gravel from the river,[...]school, and where my parents providing a filtered-water reservoir; the construction of lived until their deaths. a concrete reservoir (the first of its kind in the West) on One year while my father pl[...]and the pipe system connecting the lived in a tent with boarded-up walls and a board floor. g[...]es, and Hysham, and our homestead in t he Hysham Hills. Our warehouses. He saw to the[...]ge Grass. All the moves were laying of sidewalks, building of fences, and the made by team and[...]t the school, located on our homestead . John put in his bid for forty acres, a mile and a half[...]The last year on the homestead was hot and dry. days later, Addie and Kenneth) arrived at their new The grasshoppers would come and sit in the shade of home-a twelve-by-sixteen-foot tent.[...]where we could which the family moved. They lived in it temporarily have irrigated land. We[...]ng flat on the deat h on September 4, 1923. A few months following sidewalk, wearing long braids, and the men wore high- this event, Addie joined Donald in Los Angeles and crown black hats. We[...]r, sister, and I left by train for Missouri Edith in Los Angeles until her neath on October 4,[...]he train arrived at three A.M. great country, and in their small way contributed much There was[...]s it was locked. We were taken to the Donald were in World War I. The third generation of Co[...]to Arthur and very large to u . Our building wa in the main part of Pearl Yost: ormal Russell Lewis;[...]town , and the high school was a new brick building up Mary Rumfelt: Kenneth Elmer Lewis, Mrs. Ruth I[...]l Esco Lewis, graduated from high chool in 1929. Our clas was the and Mrs. Rose Mary Jensen;[...]We missed a full year of chool but I was born in Billings, Montana on April 20, 1909, during that time, Father bought three lots in town and the eldest of two daughters of Mr. and M[...]l saw mill. When our lease on Eager, she was born in Missouri, and my father was the mountain was up, father rented ome land near born in Michigan.[...]ew cows and sold milk while we While we lived in Billings, my father worked for finished[...]alie, was a two-wheeled cart that we u ed in the summer and[...] |
| [...]s we were kept very busy and didn 't In 1907, there was no such thing as Hardin-just have[...]to the depot to get the mail. At that Lodge Grass in their beaded garments and elk-toothed tim[...]that would bring mail. They'd throw out the mail in The 1930 graduating class put out the first[...]aduating your mail. There was another box in which to put your class in 1919 had three members: Edith Cam.mock[...]brooks, and Genevieve Petzoldt, In 1908 they moved the depot to Hardin, near the lat[...]irst depot agent. school. There were no graduates in 1920, 1921. Leslie Mr. Anderson was the f[...]He put up a Cammock and Chloe McKinley graduated in 1922. tent about where the Sawyer Store Bldg. is now, and In 1930, school district 27 had five country schools[...]ended my teaching myself were born in White Sulphur Springs. When we career until our two older children were in high school, came here, there were no school[...]rst teacher was Stanley Kelly. The next had lived in Hardin off and on. He worked on the water teacher was Berniece Myers (later Mrs. Wal[...]became the Finlayson School. Back in earlier days after In the spring of 1880 my parents, with forty-three[...]ontana, Pickens is now Mrs. Bair who lives in Hardin. now Virginia City. Later they went to White Sulphur In 1910 we got several new neighbors, the J. Y Sprin[...]a wonderful stock country. There was Kent. In 1911 John Torske homesteaded at the place a famil[...]horse and buggy to town every day. He worked In 1900 my parents, Weldon Clark and Eva[...]moved to Hardin. Hanson, were married. They lived in White Sulphur The original homes[...]ohn Reno and his wife. The Fergusons bought Idaho in a covered wagon. Mom's older brother was out[...]dmother. There was no Dr. when Melvin was brother-in-law came here and filed on two homesteads. born, so she took care of him and his mother. He was In the spring of 1907 we moved overland by way of the first white baby born in Hardin. Melvin's father, T. Edgar, to what is now[...]cle E. Gay, was the first hardware man in town. Mr. J. W. went to Pine Ridge for logs to build the cabins in which Johnston and wife moved here and opened[...]lived. Later a larger home was built and we lived in ware and Furniture Store. Mrs. Johnston was a teacher. that until we sold it in 1933. The first Dru[...]llowing year the School homesteaded in the Valley on the place where Charles[...] |
| Sweeney now lives. In 1910 the Dell Willards came and though[...]were no modern conveniences, if you wanted to eat in The Foley's came in 1911. They were very prominent the w[...]Blackleg. There was no Mexico, Missouri and lived in our vicinity for years. vaccine, and th[...]nd we later separated. Mom helped in the fields; stacking hay which was Some years aft[...]ed out sagebrush by hand. twenty delightful years in Sheridan. He has passed Her mother died in childbirth with twins when away and I've continued to make my home in Sheridan. Mom was seven years old. Her father died in 1925. At this writing, Mom is in a nursing home in Billings,[...]a Ertl crune to the U. S. from Sulbach, Ger- many in 1914. She arrived in New York City on[...]THER, SR. February 1, 1914 with her future sister-in-law, Mary John Luther came to the[...]ary 9, 1914. Dad was to enlist in the Army to fight Spain. As the war with waiting[...]declined the offer. With one American dollar in his Mother spoke no English, and on the train trip to pocket he got a job as a baker in a commercial bakery in Montana, she met Negroes for the first time. She[...]h of them, and since they were porters months and then headed west. and served food, she didn't want anything to eat. He arrived in Colorado and went to work for the Mother came from a small village in Bavaria, Germany. much publicized Cripp[...]he went to work on a dairy was built in the steep mountains of Colorado. Then he farm. On[...]t ran on this line, there were three engines, one in being imported to the U. S. as a new breed of cattle. front, one in the middle and one behind. The one in the In April of 1914, John Luther and Anna Ertl were[...]rk being done by hand He also had a hand in building the rail bridge at and an old treadle sewing mach[...]a large ranch along the Canadian border in Montana. He when he was twenty days old. A neighbor, Mrs. Ira had worked for other ranches in Montana and Colorado. Haynie came to stay with mo[...]he tried. He didn't g t the addle either and In 1916, they moved to a new three-room log[...]use, that dad and Leonard had built. It was built in claimed. an L shape with each room about[...]is older brother and a door on th.e west and east in the kitchen, and a Leonard was in America and working on ranch too. door on the east in the bedroom. These log houses were So th[...]cattle on cold, and had big coal and wood heaters in them. There open range in the Lake Basin country. It was north and was a lot of firewood in this country, as the hills are full west of pr[...]a. They had looked at of trees, and a lot of coal in the hills out from the creeks. land in the Stillwater area, but that year the A lot of h[...]were really bad and even the country homesteaders in the area for fuel. There was one large l[...]could drive into and turn around In the spring of 1911 Dad and Leonard beaded for wit[...]than details on their homestead are given in Leonard's it was in a little village in Germany. In those days, one story. went to town maybe t[...]was a young boy working and riding with Dad in the before coming to Sarpy. She also learn[...] |
| [...]s on the old Weaver for up to sixteen months of passing over the great place that I now own bu[...]re wolves had killed hay on the ranch. In 1946 we three boys bought the cattle of his or so[...]ers lands. seemed to take it all in stride. Whiners and complainers they weren't. In the good years dad hauled wheat to town with a four horse team and in the bad years he hauled cottonseed cake out from town to feed the cows. In 1914 Dad and Mom were married. They had six child[...]He came to America from Bavaria, Germany in 1887.[...]cattle in the Lake Basin country of Montana in 1908. They were in that part of the country until the spring of[...]1911, buying up an old homestead to live in. John and[...]e local sheriff a mall boy I remember Dad hauling water in a barrel to and the owner of the sheep d[...]They had two bands of sheep with about 2500 fell in front of it and got run over by the hor e . He sheep in each band. They did pretty well until they had ro[...]p and leg. a bad winter. Bad nowstorms in the late spring of one Dad told us about hi[...]s without wearing your back out trying to keep it run- herd of cattle. ning straight.[...]ired but he never really did, Leonard did. In 1914 she came to Sarpy and[...] |
| [...]there. He owned a very and Leonard were married. In 1918 Leonard, Blanche nice house in town and his wife was dead , therefore he and son[...]nto his There they bought a ranch from John Fontz in 1918. place. E mma was to keep house and cook for him. He in They raised cattle and horses till Leonard's death in turn would furnish the house and raise beautiful 1947. Mrs. Luther lived on the ranch until her death in gardens. T his worked so well that Mr. Depute[...]In the spring of 1914 Bill took a contract with the[...]uther [wife of Leonard L uther] running in small bunches from 25 to 100 head. They[...]better use for their cattle herd. I t was in ovember of 1913 when t he passenger T[...]ew build blind corral at variou er k cro in and trail family of four had arrived and planned[...]he wild hor decided to Wyoming and was in need of lodging until they could build a[...]ays. Hardin or Billing on bu in Bill then contacted Mr. Perle Mapes and go[...]io the coal mine he owned at the till dawn. In order to erve a lunch the women hit on the edge o[...]house nearer looked forward to by the people in such a thinly the mine.[...]At one end of the haymow, wa two rooms in which Stevenson Store. There they became a[...] |
| [...]he itinerant priest so he every stockman in the country. could hold services for the Cathol[...]At about this time the Indian Department herd In the fall of 1914 their daughter Wilma Theresa was was dispersed and in 1920 Bill was able to buy the ID born.[...]located Bill bought the first Model T Ford in Lodge Grass. about 4 miles up Lodge Grass creek. He also bought a When he got home the men had just put in a new piece of land adjoining it from A. L. Barrett. Here the section of cement in the barn. Of course you never left a family moved in the fall. Then in the spring, they hired shiny new car out at nigh[...]room on the older floor for a car, so Bill drove in, cabin into a barn. However he didn't sto[...]lood Indian to own a car on the reservation In 1916 Bill took a contract with the Indian Depart[...]Carl Crisswell and Bill Lynde Then in 1917 Bill gained a grazing permit and started to run cattle for himself.[...]fe here ranching and When World War I ended in 1918 a young man by farming and trading[...]tion at Ft. Keogh (Miles City) told Bill In 1949 Bill and Em.ma decided to retire so they tha[...]odge Grass, Montana, another daughter Wilma there in the Model T. They purchased about 300 head. Theresa Farmer lives in California. He had twelve Then Barney took the le[...]eat grandchildren. eleven year old Myron followed in the drag. Bill went ahead with the car and made camps, cooking the meals over a camp fire in dutch ovens. It took them four days to get to Lod[...]MYRON AND ELEANOR LYNDE artillery hor e so were in great demand as work horses We both ha[...]y moved to Lodge Gras and Eleanor who were always in need of gentled horses. Graff's[...]rdin. The summer of 1919 had been very dry. In many We were married in 1930, not aware of the place ranchers had to give[...]ession. Myron had a good job with enough grass or water, so Bill formed a partnership an oil dri[...]bad time too. loose with good grass and plenty of water and no Myron's father, Bill Lynde, a[...]been known to old more money at the time in sheep than in cattle, so they time stockmen as the hard winter[...]w with both the Jambs and wool sales. In two years they covered the ground in October and stayed on the pul[...] |
| [...]old ewes for sale. It was unusual to sell ewes in the Myron was looking for a job. Bill Prant[...]little Stan busy. I gave him pencil, paper and in the F.B.I. The man went to prison and we got the[...]p. Would Myron bring his family to Woody Camp and run the sheep for him at $75.00 a month? Myron liked[...]In 1947 our daughter Loretta was born. When the[...]war was over we built a home in Lodge Grass. In the[...]He and a twenty year old athlete started out in 40 below weather, in a 4-wheel drive. The oil line froze up[...]bought Myron's father 's ranch near Lodge Gra s. In we lost a two year old son by drowning in the river. It 1959 we built a ranch home of our[...]e mumps Our children are all living in Montana. Stan, the so he was away from his sheep[...]cartoonist, his wife and three sons, live in Red Lodge. teady herders, however.[...]ere were 500 head of sheep John 's ursing home in Billings . She is married to Joe missing. About this time an ad came out in the paper Chauvin , who is manager fo[...] |
| [...]n's flying service. John Macleod was born in Ross Shire Scotland, They own a small ranch 20 mi[...]August 31, 1882. As a young man he worked in a game where they make their home.[...]America, arriving in Billings in the fall of 1903. His first[...]entered his sorrel gelding, Gold Bug, in the 100 mile endurance race to be run from Billings to Lavina and[...]only $25 but the stakes were high. In order to qualify,[...]Bug made the trip in good shape and was ready to run when the starting gun went off in front of the Northern[...]Finishing in second place, MacLeod wedged through[...]the crowd congregated in the lobby of the Northern for Stanley[...]the payoff. His share was $300 in cash but by the time[...]sheriff, later becoming undersheriff and in 1918 was[...]married Lillie Anne Fitzgerald, a teacher in the Hardin[...]through Big Hom County. Headlines in the paper told[...]in a pistol duel with a Mexican dope fiend whom he[...]killed, and after spending several weeks in the hospital had only been on duty a couple of months when he met[...]his death at Crow gency on October 29. While in-[...]mediately, he arrived at the Burlington depot in Crow[...]powered rifles and Bolin barricaded in a barn adjoining[...]with the hope of setting the building on fire but the[...] |
| [...]just to give of several, made a detour around the building sheltering him a taste of his own medicine! T[...]the groin. He reeled back, took 3 steps, term in 1919, Mrs. MacLeod quit teaching until after fell, then crawled around the corner of the building out the death of her husband in 1926 and from 1927 to 1930 of range of the negro. There he laid for upwards of an was a teacher in the Crow Agency schools. hour, no one being able[...]ole, a mechanic at the Big Horn Garage, succeeded in getting up to the west end of the barn and after throwing gasoline on the walls, set fire to the building. It burned like tinder and soon the flames forced[...]rvices for officers MacLeod and Gilmore were held in the Harriet Theater and was the largest ever held in this section of Montana. More than 1000 persons c[...]heater while twice that number blocked the street in front. Final rites held at the Hardin Fairview cemetery were in charge of fraternal organizations and a delegation of the Crow Tribe. Ten Indian Chieftains dressed in full regalia Lena Dornberger [Mrs. Andrew] Mr. and Mrs. John conducted a brief ceremony in their native tongue then MacLeod and Jessie and John MacLeod. bowed their heads in prayer as a tomahawk was placed on each casket,-the symbol of bravery! In 1930 she was elected County Superintendent of[...]teaching in the Hardin Elementary School system[...]where she taught continously until she retired in 1957. LILLIE ANNE MACLEOD[...]Lillie Anne Fitzgerald was born July 6, 1896 in also served as principal in addition to her teaching Sumas, Washington, and r[...]John, had Western Washington College of Education in been taken prisoner on Bataan and had been in the Bellingham. Coming to Montana, little did she[...]from prison, one of the other administration work in Big Horn County! Miss Fit- teachers sa[...]rald began her teaching career at the Wolf school in which she replied, "Heaven no, tbi i on day I won't the Sarpy area in 1917, boarding with the Jess Wolfe need a[...]ly who lived close by. They also had the only car in After retirement Mrs. MacLeod continued[...]ty, for which she felt fortunate as the in her house across from the chool, now owned by Mrs[...]r wagons for supplies. It didn't take work in the school room when called upon. In 1960 she long to learn that the school house was[...]ashington. was here that Miss Fitzgerald's talent in public speaking came to light entertaining childr[...]Thomas MacLeod horn steaded on arpy Creek in grade in the Hardin Public Schools and married the[...]ovember for a sheep camp. He was born in Rosshire, otland 14th in Billings. Arriving back in Hardin by train, they and pent six year in the the Briti h Royal avy were met by scores of f[...]ffed him and after and moving to Billing in 1948. He died at his home on parading him[...] |
| [...]In the fall of 1929, Swindle's Orchestra was[...]munity, near Sarpy, gave a dance in their new hall, there were over two-hundred in attendance. Many[...]office, about 3:00 o'clock in the morning, all reporting[...], March 28, 1948 Tom married Hettie Secrest in Hardin on March 28, 1918. They had two sons, Coli[...]averfield, Albert Maher, Bob Rhinehart, Sam years in Big Horn County and earlier was a deputy[...]r was Ira Haynie, and the Foster Hall, in North Valley, was the scene of story was told tha[...]d be remembered by all who knew him for In 1933 Swindle's Orchestra played at the his firm h[...]Maher played for many wedding dances in and about[...]r, Frank Mielke and his family of on. Pie was cut in five pieces and sold for ten cents a four child[...]e began to cry. "There's going to an electric fan in the middle of the ceiling, which we be a dam built in those snow capped mountains, the thought r[...] |
| In the pasture across the dirt road could be seen a[...]trimmed basement door to be burned later in the furnace. The trappers knife with three notches in the blade. same tire was used by a[...]ds to see Charlie The family lived a month in the Lammers building Chaplin, Tarzan, and Mary Pickford on the[...]n piles of Maurice Weller provided music in the pit below. lumber for the new City Hall, whe[...]square graduating outward and fly paper in the east window of the Post Office. Portly, is still in use today. They leaned out the window to spit grey haired LeHi Mon Que had similar duties in the upon car tops going to Andy Torske's garage[...]o his One of the first outings was to fish in the Little homeland in China. Hom and we could pick strawberries for 3[...]Three summers we walked to the patch beyond the in a 20 acre patch owned by A.H. Bowman. There was[...]ck strawberries at 5 cents a quart that no doubt in our minds Dad had found the promised were stored in a root cellar. During the heat of the day, land,[...]we played on old Fort Custer, learned to swim in the from mosquitoes plus wood ticks in our hair. Little Hom and sometime[...]e, we stole a watermelon from old man Weller, sat building for the kitchen and player piano. New neigh-[...]les Corkins family who moved to ride in his flivver when he delivered crates of berries to town to publish the Hardin Herald in the basement of genial Mr. McCarthy at the depot. We were allowed to the present Wilson building. At canning time that fall, spend 5 cents fo[...]the top shelf of Pings Store. In September they were Our irrigated garden f[...]vegetables to peddle to the In August of 1925 the family drove to the top of tow[...]they tossed us big chunks mother bear high in the rim rocks. She pushed her cub to fill our gun[...]atop the Gilmore and Wilbur Fish: stopped to play run, sheep Big Horns in one big bed made from a tarpaulin and run, and other games with the Ebeling, Powers and[...]thouse, play crack the whip and jump barrels like in 30 below weather, mustached "Brig" Youst, amid[...]re 8' and his always "wild" team down main street in the dray butterflies. Roller skating wa enjoyed inside canvas business. In the rainy fall of 1925, High School[...]as gloves and overshoes Chevrolet garage in 1933 and 1934. from Fred Gladden's store and help[...]ith drop Union dances at the new Primary building always side boards, hauled harvested beets to the[...]r. Mentzer rolling big tobacco leaves into cigars in his brought before Police Judge A . H . Roush[...]In February 1927 four curious young people Sam[...]arquisee Clothing watched an Indian dance in Lodge Gra s. Dancers shop, down graded the quality of an overcoat his resplendent in beaded buckskin, feathers and bells prospective customer was wearing : the customer was danced in pairs or singles , carrying small hand mir[...] |
| [...]ocks of Main Street paving were also living in Pryor, like the sport. "I guess my first celebrated with a street dance in 1921. artifact hunting was nea[...]e said. "The best place to hunt Store were packed in wooden apple boxes or orange artifacts i[...]orinth. Hooligan, Katzenjammer Kids and Andy Gump in the Dryhead agates are found along the rim of Hoodoo Denver Post funnies, took our baths in a tin wash tub, Creek. donned our best clothc[...]dance about the same number of rocks. Artifacts in his at Sunday School for me.[...]ore, rose quartz, jade, pipestone, We put popcorn in a long handled wire basket shaking obsidian[...]imestone, petrified rocks, iron it over the coals in the heating stove. Homemade butter pyrite, and[...]s. settlers was born December 20, 1858 in Quebec, the son We used playing cards from V[...]and Elizabeth K. Maxham. Hall. These were tossed in the stove if we quarreled Frank went to work quite young; he worked in a during a game of rummy.[...]and exposure.. Frank helped them all he could and in so rock and artifact museum in the center of Pryor. He doing acquired a w[...]g the end of World War I when he In 1885 Frank became the first Cheyenne farmer. step[...]t the Custer Battlefield. worked on several farms in the Pryor area. Some of the Cheyennes being in a talkative mood, told[...]hear. Dr. Marquis in his book relates some of the same[...]first ground in that part of the country. He raised a fine[...]in the country, also a registered Hereford bull and[...]In the fall of 1893 Frank Maxham and Sophie[...]Frank had been staked by a grandfather in 1886[...]ted, but in 1896 he and several other local men went out[...]n and sister Pansy Milligan, his initials FM in 1885 for branding cattle on the thigh,[...] |
| [...], t he teacher was the brands. The owner checked in Helena to see if the the sole authority at the school. brand was recorded, or used in some place not One advantage in living 25 miles from town and registered.[...]lblains were common, and bunch of cowboys dropped in and asked if Frank but measles, mumps an[...]ribs. Frank said he did, the school days in t own. boss showed him a paper that stated his em[...]drawstrings. Letters to be mailed were placed in a sack, The ranch was noted for its hospital[...]h necessitated a carrier put the filled sack in the box, picked up the gall bladder operation. Af[...]return sack ; if you forgot to put the sack in the box , ranch until death in 1931. Sophie lived until her death you received no service the nex t week. in the spring of 1936. Frank was a Mason. Sophie was[...]ushel - however, by the t ime the second load got in, By Violet Mayo Lande[...]Charlie and Edith Mayo sold their homestead in and 4 cents a pound at the ranch. Crops were good if Wyoming in 1916, spent the winter in Sheridan, there was no hail. Wyoming[...]Son William and daughter Mary were born in Violet and sons Paul and Charlie started into Mon[...]after 1924 looking for a new home. They traveled in a sheep when the family moved to a ran[...]ayed together for mut ual lots of wa ter in t he creek and there was a better road to company and aid in case of trouble ; several times both town in spite of t he seventeen gates in seventeen miles teams were needed for steep hills[...]on the Ed After the death of Mr. Mayo in a car accident in Mayer farm near Maschetah, a well established[...]e they community. A school was built which opened in 1918. lresided until 1947. Mrs. Mayo died in 1954. There are 13 Teachers for the next six year[...]: William at Reed Point, ontana and Mary the fire in the big tin-sheathed coal stove, organized C[...]J.E.Mc RTHY they arrived in the morning, and reversed the procedure in the evening. Most of the students rode between two Born in ew York state, 1 72 of Irish parents, J. and thre[...]was available, and th large grapher, working in most of the western states. He was yard was well[...]nches, and other extras for the benefit of In December 1912 he came to Hardin, and excep[...] |
| [...]eclined to seek Sam was always interested in cattle, and before re-election because of the inc[...]Soon after arriving in Sheridan he got a job[...]life for Sam. In less than a year he sold out and went to[...]wagon nort h of the Wyoming line in Montana. Spear[...]One rainy afternoon the cowboys were all in the[...]Shreve. " There's two of 'em in here. "[...]E . McCarthy 50th wedding anniversary, 1946 In 1 96 he married Clara Field, and they had five |
| [...]Montana artist and Winter camps were set up in various parts of the writer and long-time fri[...]y his range. It was the job of the men who stayed in these letters from Charlie Russell had not b[...]But camps to ride after poor cows and bring them in where Sam had been out on the range that summ[...]see how the men were getting along and In 1927 Sam moved his family to the Eagle to check o[...]was the Nebraska some years before and had lived in and teacher. around Billings before mov[...]g bank Pryor Creek Ranch and, on Thanksgiving Day in 1916, full. It was a treacherous creek, especially in flood he married the Kellison's 20-year-old daugh[...]nine grandchildren. trustworthy in unusual circumstances. It was never[...]thought that Shimmie plunged frantically in the deep water causing Bert to strike his head against an[...]saddle and into the raging water. He was so quickly[...]drowned in the muddy waters of Two Leggin Creek.[...]Eagle Springs Ranch was a working ranch in every[...]parasites in those days was by way of the dipping vat.[...]"Doc" Logan, veterinarian in the employ of Frank[...]hot and the vat deep enough to make the cattle swim.[...]In the summer there were horses to break as the[...]old r brother of th "Riding Stockmen and ranchers in the area thought the grass Greenoughs" of[...]to E. L. Dana operated a large cow outfit in both canning factories. Hundreds of others were s[...]y fell. Some cattlemen paid a token Pass Creek in Wyoming. Harve Willcutt, r. was amount to anyone[...]of a wild superintendent of the Dana holdings in ontana, horse as proof that the horse[...]a lease on the Dryhead Ranch at the It was in protest of this treatment of the wild foot o[...]nk horses that Sarpy Sam wrote a poem entitled, " In Heinrich died, " arp" (as most people call d him by Memory of the Cayuse" . The poem was published in then) was hired by Willcutt to take care of the cattle on the Big Timber Pioneer and in The Great Fall Tribune, that part of the ran[...]was leased to Bill Lynde for sheep. expressed in the poem were his own sentiments exactly .[...]he two men. The Russell letters worked a few months as deputy county assessor.[...] |
| Sam McDowell had another interest in life besides THE McKIITRIC[...]AND THE BIG HORN VALLEY he threw his hat in the ring for Sheriff of Big Hom[...]igned far and wide over the county. In March 1920 was the biggest ice jam the Darroll Wa[...]and Mitchell McKittricks could remember. The water covered the Clawson had gone on a hunting trip an[...]rt's and Mrs. Saywer's. It took gotten themselves in unfamiliar territory. At a them about[...]hours to get to Hardin with crossroads they were in the position of not knowing horse and bu[...]sign nailed to a post. Hammer's house. The water was up to the bellies on the Mitch got out of the[...]orses and up to the wagon box when they went down in hopes it would give them an idea of which directi[...]In 1920 they didn't have any gravel roads or paved[...]In 1920 there were just a few telephones in use. missing each time by only a few votes, but h[...]people in the neighborhood who had a horsepower[...]The butter was churned in an old stump churn. It[...]When they came to where the house they live in[...]Dowell [Sarpy Sam] as Hardin Chief of Police In 1940, Sarp went to work for P. R. Krone, who |
| [...]Mehling [Mrs. Paul Schafer] Hardin in early March , the weather was below zero.[...]was married to Mother 's Imagine riding in a box wagon for t he fourteen or brother, so whe[...]ew log cabin home. The one room widow, she moved in with Mother's family, (Winks). log cabin[...]l window had cracks between Dad came to the U.S. in 1906 and settled in t he Denver logs so t he snow blew in. T hey mixed mud, added straw area where he worked in the sugar beet fields and and plastered[...]frozen so they couldn't get any soil), Jake come in 1907. Most of Mot her's fri ends and t[...]worn to her Dad probably had another girl friend in the U.S. by use t here. They hung containers[...]behind the stove for an extra bed. All that was in the Dad came to Hardin. I think he lived in the Park City kitchen area was a stove, cu[...]storage. The Sunday clothes were kept in Mother 's served was lemon pie, which Mother just[...]the place trunk. The other things were stored in boxes pushed[...]ort Morgan. Since water had to be hauled from the irrigation[...]. He was lucky and got infection. She had surgery in D enver . When the nurses good water that later was used to water a garden and came to shave her ( with long razors[...]oof was blown off, and carried across the she was in t he hos pital Dad would bring her forbidden[...]bachelors. We children used to go swimming in the While in t he Denver area, t hey worked on beet irrigation ditch and if caught by the Cotters, got heck. farms in the summer and moved to town in winter They were still filling barrels with water from the ditch where Dad and Uncle J ake worked in the sugar factory. for cooking and drinking.[...]Bluff, swear. ot knowing what swearing in Engli h meant ebraska, where they became farm[...]got me into trouble. For instance, a boy itting in front in a sod house where I was born. I was told that dur[...]he roof blew off. it in two. I aid something I'd heard the men ay and h[...]German-Russians that soon followed my folk . I in the little wagon between two horses. The folks[...]ed. The rabbits brought all of you that were born in It turned out that some bound jumped in an open Montana![...]meat away. E en so, we made Lydia was born in Scotts Bluff in 1911. They must some good friends who were he[...]as well a we have done quite well as farm tenants in ebraska. In being helpful to them. 1912 they bought their first farm in Hardin. Dad and hen the folk fir[...]ed before, came ahead of beets were raised in the area. The crops were hay and Mother, Lydia an[...]other grain , mostly. Wheat was hauled in box wagon by stayed in ebraska and continued to farm there. Uncle horses to the elevator in Hardin. The extra hay wa sold Jake married there[...]metimes sheepmen, who fed the born they joined us in Montana. They were operating anima[...] |
| [...]roving the educational opportunities for the them in carload lots to larger places- don't know people in School District 16 was a desire and need that whe[...]nd built. Grades nine and ten were included in the grandmother came from Scotts Bluff. They boug[...]dents from the local district were boarded raised in the valley. At first they had to be hauled all with families in Hardin at the parents' expense. Some the way to H[...]Verne was born in Illinois, the son of David and[...]Jane Melville. Myrtle was born in Iowa, the daughter of[...]a few years where they farmed. While in Mi souri, their[...]daughters Mildred and Helen were born. In 1911, they[...]While in Kansas their daughter rdelia was born in 1913. fter farming in Kansas for about five years, tr. and Mrs. Paul S[...]family arrived in Hardin, Montana in the spring of[...]191 . Finding a farm close to a cou in of Myrtle's, Mrs. During World War I all Ger[...]Florence and nne were cold and snowy day in ovember of 1919, their son born. Wilma was born a[...]e war were at our home. and were graduated in 1924 and 1926 respectively. Soon. we had a church built in Hardin. We shared a After fa[...] |
| [...]the Nine Mile School until he went to high school in Hardin. In the early 1930's the family moved to a dry land f[...]tle celebrated their fiftieth wedding anniversary in the community room of the court house where a lar[...]of Belgrade, Yugoslavia, where they were married in 1903. Mr. Miklovich came to the United States in 1904 and Mrs. came in 1912. On the trip she saw the sinking of the Titanic, as her ship was one in the immediate vicinity at the time. The Mik.[...]at Sheridan, Wyoming before coming to Lodge Grass in 1926, where they have made their home ever since. Whl]e living at Sheridan, Mr. Miklovich worked in the coal mines at Dietz. They always raised a lar[...]bles were all old. They moved to Lodge Grass in 1926 and opened a confectionery store, later meat[...]is now known as the Kozy Komer. He also built the building that houses Buck's Ranch Supply. Mr. Miklovi[...]ssion, Miklovich's always fed anniversary in 1966 at Lodge Grass, Montana. Hugo J. anyb[...] |
| [...]Pension Department. In 1875 he married Eugenie[...]doctor, D . W. Bliss, who had settled in Washington[...]Dr. Bliss was the surgeon in charge of President[...]In 1880, after completing a course in law at the[...]Santa Fe, where he was admitted to the bar in '81. In[...]Besides supervising the building of Crow Agency and[...]March 1885. In January, 1885, he settled permanently in Miles City to practice law. That year he became[...]Custer County's first county attorney. In 1889 he was[...]Dawson, Custer, and Yellowstone Counties. In 1897,[...]becoming concerned in much important litigation in Eastern Montana. Also he was busy in various[...]fraternal organizations, holding highest offices in[...]In 1900, as candidate of the Democratic, Populist,[...]ad the family moved to Helena, when Eugenie died, in[...]daughter Debbie and.er The Miklovich retired in 194 . They built a lovely |
| "From newspaper articles, Milburn was in Miles City in assisted with the loading of the cattle at Spe[...]entertainment that' we Stockgrowers Association in 1884 at Miles City. His had the privilege of participating in. During the winter, name, along with Theodore Roosevelt's name is in a we often skated on the Little Horn River. My father, record book of the old Miles City Club in 1884. Some having been a fine figure skater, helped us with the years ago, I looked this up in this record book and early training in skating. We often went with our sleds found that[...]olks took us for Theodore Roosevelt with a knife! In this record book of rides in our large sleigh on days when the snow was 1884,[...]and Eugene, were only seven and remember, in particular, of going to the Matt Tschirgi nine. H[...]rs. L. A. Huff- ranch for this. The children in the families were always man, wife of the great Wes tern photographer and a dear included in this pastime. Benches were set up for them friend[...]sually lasted until dawn. We sometimes had dances in look after the Milburn family, and especially to[...]My first swimming was done in the Little Hom Here is a story in Jack Milburn 's words: "Before River, near the house. I believe just about every child in Judge Milburn left Washington on his Indian Service that valley learned to swim in the vicinity of our place, assignment to Montana[...]the Crittenden who was killed with General Custer in the table. Hunting for duck and pheasant wa[...]so, there were numerous taining his name and rank in the 10th U. S. Cavalry. crab apple and regu[...]es that we had to care She hoped that it might be in the hands of an Indian for. When the harves[...]all had to pitch in and help. We always looked forward "Through[...]ll how I looked forward to was found on an Indian in Canada and sent to Judge driving the stacker horse. Milburn then in Miles City, about 1890 or 1891. (He) In order to have the advantage of further sent the watch to Mrs . Crittenden in Washington .... " education, we moved to Hardin, ontana in 1920.[...]in various parts of Big Horn County, and there were[...]fond memories of life on our cattle raised in Big Hom ounty, and to have had the ranch on the L[...]ents, Mr. and Mrs. Fred Miller moved to the ranch in 1915, when I was four Years of age. My sister and[...]ul experience that was. The school 1877 in Calais, Maine, the eld t on of . L. an[...]ll Minnie A. Miller. Hi father and brother-in-law had grades were in one room, and one teacher, but we did gone[...]climate for their families. They found both in heyenne, We had many visitors come to our ranch, Wyoming, working on the building of the railroad especially in the summer. We enjoyed all, and I am sure westward. Th y ent for th ir famili in about 1 . they have many pleasant memo[...]to of Charles Coffee near Harri on, ebraska, in the and have the opportunity to experience[...] |
| [...]ead of cattle Schoolhouse. They left Pass Creek in 1915 and bought a near the cabin using two old gentle steers as their ranch on Lodge Grass Creek in Montana, from Charles "horses".[...]and Nell Heinrich. They moved to this new home in At an early age Bob began working out for v[...]t their cattle drift west and north passed away in 1956 and Bob passed away on into Wyoming in the spring and shipping the beef from December 8, 1961, his 84th birthday. Orion Junction, Wyoming in the fall, returning the balance of herds to ranch[...]a bunch of horses. He knew most all ot the people in- volved. few years later he went to work[...]and "Doc" Spear. He was at the Bitter Creek ranch in Powder River County for some time before working up into the Sheridan area. In about 1900 he brought his younger brother Wm. . "[...]winter Billie stayed with the "Doc" pear family in Big Horn, Wyoming and went to school there. They[...]was voted one of the seven successful contestants in the !Cheyenne) Wyoming Tribune's Most Popular Cow[...]o i:l free trip to the Lewis and Clark Exposition in Portland, Elda M ill.er Oregon. He married Elda M. Critchett in Sheridan, Wyoming. Her parents were John W. and E[...]ett came as a brakeman on the first freight train in heridan, Wyoming. In the fall of 1906 Bob and Elda went to the Bay t[...]eep, Wyoming on business for the Bank of Commerce in Sheridan. In the spring of 1907 he sent for his brother Billie[...]siting her sister at the ranch. They were married in December. 190 , in White Sulphur Springs, Montana, where her sister[...]anch over to their son, Earle. Billie passed away in Their daughter Florence and her husband, M.[...]Pass Creek with their own until it was sold in 1971 to Irwin and Ranch. It was while here their[...]amily. was born and passed away at age twenty-two months, M. T. Wells came to Lodge Grass, Montana from and Florence started to school in the old "Slack" Lampasas. Texas in October, 1919 and went to work for[...] |
| [...]he post office. marrying. M. T. Wells passed away in April, 1972. The mail route was later[...]ndoned, but the mail route from Big Horn is still in member of Elks Lodge in Sheridan and a member of existence, with its Tuesday and Friday service. Masonic Lodge #8 in Sheridan, Scottish Rite Bodies I start[...]Maschetah school , and of Al Bedoo Shrine Temple in Billings, Montana. which was built by local area people in 1918. Mrs. Viola At one time he was a member of t[...]Hardin, was my first grade teacher. Patrol. In the late 1930's he served as Representative of Big Horn County in the Montana State Legislature.[...]Bertha Miller, and myself came to Big Horn County in 1916 from Central City, Colorado. My brother, Edmund A., was born in 1918. We homesteaded in the Tullock Creek area at what was known as Masch[...]ers for this area. Later it was moved to our home in about 1920, and my mother became postmistr[...] |
| [...]luded a Model 25-30 tended High School in Lodge Grass. ultman Taylor tractor, a grain thr[...]and cumbersome, and not at all suited for farming in this type of country. The ultman-Taylor tractor w[...]team and wagon at least twenty miles from Hardin in fifty gallon teel barrels. To say the least, this[...]today's standards. We spent several winters in the Wolf Mountains of the arpy area where my fath[...]of Burwell, ebraska. He came to Decker, Montana in 1916 to homestead. His sister, who is Mrs. Fred T[...]working Walter Miller, Sr. died in October, 1955, and his near Hardin be met and married Jessie Maus in 1918. sons Glenn and Walter, Jr. continue[...]on the ranch. Walter, Jr. lost his life in a car accident a Je ie Maus Miller came to[...]the ranch work too. parents to settle in this wonderful country. Her married Mrs.[...]me as her maiden name. the same town in Missouri. Mrs. Ping's sister Lettie Mr. and[...]omestead Blevans was Mrs. Miller's teacher in Missouri. after they were married. Mr. Miller wor[...]nk and Al Powers, farmed Stark and lives in Hardin. Mr . Miller has seven for . K. Craig and CampbeU Farming Corporation. In grandchildren and three great grandchil[...]s from a letter from former· moved on this place in 1929. Later they were able to mayor, A. L[...]in mind and files a long line of history. Corwin and[...]he Franklin were right along with me in building of Low Walter Miller family. Bernice in 1918, Walter Jr. in Line Canal. Lawler and Brotherson were much with me 1920, and Glenn in 1924. The Miller children traveled[...] |
| [...]month for nine months a good salary at that time.[...]She taught this school for two years. In 1924 she[...]married Alva Montgomery, of Wyola, Montana and in 1925 was elected to teach grades one to four in the[...]the four upper grades of the two room school building.[...]boarding schools in former years. This was Mr .[...]Every once in a while, seven or eight wagons and[...]buggies filled with Indian parents would draw up in the[...]were only interested in the welfare of their children and[...]The school bus in the beginning was a horse-drawn[...]deep mud in the spring and sometimes we had to wait "How it thrills me to recall my part and privilege in the till after nine for the bus students, to st[...]Montana ColJege at Boulevards, Filtration Plant, Water and Sewer, etc. Billings. Th.e teachers a[...]istory centered there, made by the best bunch building was completed in 1957. of folks ever known. Mr. Warren can give yo[...]ponsored an "O cars for Teachers" program in 1957. visit Hardin for a long time and again live[...]LACE MO TGOMERY nasuim in May 1967. r . Lipp rt p ented her with a Altha Wallace Montgomery was born in Sheridan, scrap book containing the names[...]is party. he truly ap· Texas, and Jack, who died in 1973 in Eureka, predated the gifts, letter[...]" Happy Retirement." Later that year the Wyola In· After graduating from Sheridan , Wyoming H[...]upils gave her a party and gif he hool in 1922, and going to the University of[...]icate to teach a country chool known In ovember of 1967, Mr. Lippert resigned as Big as t[...]ection. he wa elected County Superintendent later in the school year. and erved a u[...] |
| months, making a total of forty-seven years in around a lot. I attended school at[...]tgomerys have gone to Arizona the past In 1913 we moved to Hardin and lived near the rail r[...]Nayumatsu, father of the Nayumatsus now living in[...]car. I attended school in Hardin until 1918 and was a[...]I worked for cow outfits in summer when school[...]was out. When my father started building roads and[...]ridges I worked with him. After we moved to Wyola in[...]to get down into it. After I was in the hole the ladder[...]was down in the hole alone when a rattle snake fell out[...]but I surely left that hole Anniversary at Hardin in 1974 and the snake[...]in June 1924 and continued to live in Wyola. I went to[...]s I was a heavy equipment operator, I went back in a sod house at Eddyville. ebraska, the only on of[...]enteen rooming and boarding hou a everyone coming in on years, at Wyola and Lodge Grass. t[...]Toluca. One of my Th big snow storm in pril 1955 was the most paper customers was[...] |
| [...]Toluca in 1909 to work in building the railroad. They went into Wyoming building R. R. bridges through[...]In 1913, Montgomery's moved to Hardin to build a[...]started the Ideal Cafe in Hardin. It was the first short order cafe in Hardin. Alva Montgomery loading trucks with dirt[...]y sold the cafe after about a year and a half and building the Willow Creek dam. went to building bridges for the Security Bridge[...]They then went to work for Big Hom County groups in Hardin, Busby, Lodge Grass and Wyola. We building roads and bridges on county roads. Mrs. also atte[...]cook for the bridge and road crews I retired in 1966 and we moved to Hardin in 1967 as they had to be out in a camp. and are now living in Hardin, Montana. Our recreation They m[...]o and ranched as well as working on the roads in between Arizona for the winter. farming. Mrs. Montgomery ran a cafe in Wyola during[...]de Whitten was born at Crete, ebraska lived in a small house near her son until her death in September 27, 1871 the daughter of Andrew and Lau[...]William B . Moore and wife Cora were both born in son, Alva, was born at Eddyville, ebraska. They Johnson County, Mis ouri, in 1 79 and l 0. In 1 99 settled at Brownlee. ebraska in 1904. William and his parent[...]where he worked in the Bozeman Flour Mill. ora and a[...]sister Mary came to Montana in 1903 and both worked in Yellow tone Park. It wa h r hem t William, and[...]they w re married in Bozeman, D mb r 19 . They[...]In 1913 th family moved to Big Horn ounty and[...]They moved in 1915 to orth B nch on the ta[...]Dena, wa born here in 1922. till farming with hor ,[...]three o'clock in the morning be would be up and ready[...] |
| [...]Billings Land Office in the fall of 1909 to make the first[...]Four years later he paid in full the second, third, fourth,[...]In March of 1910 Delbert or Del, as he was known,[...]ogs, a wood burning kitchen range, a tent, a In 1925, due to death in the family , a surviving bed, a clock, and a[...]During the dry thirty's a big garden was planted in her German relatives in Moline and arrived by the valley to provide food[...]ll wagon on The couple bought a wagon in Hardin and moved behind and head for the garden.[...]. After getting home, Cora would They lived in a tent until a shed was finished. can up to nine-hundred quarts and half gallons for winter use. In later years William donated an acre of land to th[...]dirt roads would become bottomless mud holes. In 1924 William, Cora and Carl bought the Sam Wagner place on West bench. In 1958 Cora passed[...]s of this first home: This is my away and William in 1961. husband, Delbert, on a wagon in front of our first cabin.[...]We tried all over our place and cou ldn't get water anywhere. Our neighbors couldn 't get water on their place either, so we all brou ght water from a well we[...]water barrels and a bench which I built. Also on the[...]window is a water bag, which every farmer had to have.[...]where the air can strike it. the water remains cool." The William Moore Family: D[...] |
| [...]bert added a the spaces between the logs, filling in the spaces with silo with a beautiful hardw[...]e floor, The large white alkali patches in the middle except under the bed.[...]gns of marginal land, held no "While we were building the cabin, we would get so significance to[...], and only range cattle accounts at harvest time. In the back of the store instead of dairy[...]rip home." would not work in southeast Montana. Yet, they did[...]cle from oline, Illinois, Black Canyon to hunt in the fall of 1914. Delbert acted to come with us,[...]if he would Moris ette, and Charle Eder. get in a picture with my neighbor, Mrs. Ethleen weely, Hunting trip into Black Canyon in the homestead and me. He was willing, but[...] |
| [...]was a machinist and a tool maker by trade. back?' In exasperation Mother, weary from the chores In New York state he worked on bridges spanning the[...]completed only the first two grades in a French-[...]whatever he wanted to do. Fig. 6. In this picture, left to right, Earl and Ray, |
| [...]s and then decided to go into the cattle business in sled box with hay and we had lots of quilts, so w[...]after we arrived, we tied the team Mormons in Salt Lake for cattle which he drove to the to the[...]For many years his headquarters were in Bozeman. only bare boards! But the horses had had[...]en Livingston came into existence, that was In 1923 the students at Squirrel Creek were:[...]Indians. The Agency was then at Mission-east of building of large logs with bullets still imbedded from where Livingston now is. They were married in 1880 an Indian-Crook fight. The people wanted a g[...]irst train load else. They reached Squirrel Creek in the middle of the of cattle from that point[...]alf miles southwest of Hardin. The they used this building until the present Squirrel Creek Two-Leggio C[...]l went just below his I came to Lodge Grass in 1921 and worked at place. The next yea[...]t all the maps of the been teaching in Billings, was persuaded to take the country; ther[...]ashington Hall school west of Hardin, and to run for chers taking land around it) but I filed on i[...]dea intrigued her. he a fly." They didn't want me in there, so they flooded elected and re-elected to a second term, but res~gned in meadows, wired gates shut, and did everything to make the middle of the latter in order to marry Walter life d----- miserable. My p[...]on, living there a few I raised cattle, and in the spring of 1929, I worked years after finish[...]again for W. V. Johnson. I built a log cabin and in 1933 I elected County Treasurer, and they[...]children: Jack, Mr. My died in 1920 and Mrs. Myer in 1944. who lives in the Ozarks; James in irginia, and Mary of Both are buried in Fairview Cemetery of Hardin. Tasmania, Australia.[...]Harriet yers Evan died in 1952, Berni M. Hammer When quite young, to win a 5.00 bet, I rode a in 1957 and Montana M. an Doren in 1962. horse one night across the swinging bridge[...]had no doubt in his mind that he wanted to have a THE A[...]FAMILY permanent home in Montana. By Alfreda Myers Potter[...]s of my girlhood days here and there were Montana in 1866 as a "freighter" with mining supplie[...] |
| [...]Butte, and Jim Brown. Mr. Potter passed away in 1971. I spend the greater part of the year here, but go to Phoenix, Arizona for the winter months. LIFE O[...]the train at Crow Agency on a cold, blustery day in the Hardin, Montana (1916-1955][...]winter of 1915. They were to take up a homestead in the By Amber A. Cook[...]s Joseph P. ewell was born February 7, 1879 in the brother Roy Barnard. There followed a[...]They stayed with the Steens until the storm In 1903, Joseph married Nettie Chute. They had a subsided. daughter, Blanche. Nettie died of pneumonia in 1906. When they embarked for the Sarpy Country and In 1910, he married Susan Carr and three children we[...]Steen). a bobsled in which to travel and warmed bricks On May 15, 1916 the ewell family left Roberts, wrapped in burlap. Montana for Hardin. They came in a lumber wagon Roy had taken a[...]days to make the to homestead too. The house in which Bud and his trip from Roberts to Hardin, wh[...]roof. They sprinkled water on the hard-packed dirt floor Joe spent the rest of his life in the Hardin area. He before sweeping it . held a[...]abbitt. Later, he supplies to last for months. They would buy several delivered milk for Harvey[...]din the he had no insurance. He had used his team in carrying following day. out the contract[...]ut his city contract. floor in the house. After the floor was put in, the He later moved to the M. E. Weller pla[...]for the rest of his life. Joseph ewell died in the Hardin Hospital in September of 1955. His wife, usan, is a patient in the Hardin Hospital, and has been for several yea[...]Hardin High School. Most of his family still live in the Hardin Area. Jack and his wife, Mary, h[...]he and her husband Lester, who is deceased, lived in Butte. They had five children; Bob (deceas[...] |
| [...]amily continued to live on would try to help in "bringing me to.'' Once when this the homestead f[...]his office, so she just ran in the direction of town. After In January of 1921 a son was born to Mabel and running several blocks, she was stricken with a stitch in Chub- Robert Franklin who now lives in San Ber· her side and dropped to the ground in front of a house nadino, California. At about tha[...]all, came out of the house and asked what was the In November of 1924 another son, Herbert Ellis, was[...]g. He said, "I'm the Doctor." She make their home in Hardin. Chub continued to operate pointed t[...]n to our home. I the Mission Cafe until his death in 1936. had supposedly quit breathing and had turned black. In 1927 Bud and Doris Vickers were married. Bud[...]0. S. (as he was Goering, owner of a meat-market. In 1928 he went to affectionately called by all) "My Doctor" since I'm told work for John Swindle in the Hardin Meat-Market. In that if it weren't for him, I wouldn't be[...]emories of Hardin was one of my mother talring me in our buggy pulled by our horse, Prince. We usually[...]work toward that myself was that when we arrived in Hardin, and I was end. He always felt that one day a dam would be built. fifteen months old, I had contracted Whooping He d[...]onary regarding Hardin, and calling Hardin, " The run outside with me, probably thinking I would catch[...]dam· ite." It has been a great my breath faster in outside air. Several neighbors, Mr . re[...] |
| In 1927 Bud Novark and I were married and have[...]brother, Charles. Her father went alone on lived in Hardin almost continuously since. We have[...]Server Ross, says that Marie was born in Junction City in 1885. However, the Server hotel must have been at Sherm O'Dell was born in Ohio on the Little Custer Station on the[...]He left Iowa and came to Miles City sometime in Roosevelt was sometimes a guest, as he trave[...]around the room with her in his arms. Electa He came to the Rosebud cr[...]d by a floors eternally. When she fell in love and wished to sheepman.[...]r step-father objected. Electa's young man In 1893 he married Dollie Irene Hutton at Miles[...]rriage. She knew, There were five children in the family, Fay Adsit, though, that Henry and h[...]r O'Dell, January 30, 1895; her window, in case of attempted escape, in which they Jessie O'Dell, April 13, 1896; Bud O'D[...]9, were ready to assist. The train was due in the night. 1897· and Dollie O'Dell, September 2[...]er small trunk down from the chilch-en were born in Custer Co. and went to school in window and followed it herself. Someone appear[...]through the darkness to the Rosebud which burned in June 1974. lighted depot.[...]d, Our way of travel was by team and wagon. In the by the train's lights, the ceremony was[...]fro~ and he came home maybe once a month. He put in the gold fields. They passed around[...]The O'Briens were year for groceries. We carried water from a spring about on their way to look at th[...]rmined that he took our baths by heating the bath water in the wash should have the education that th[...]tub for a bath tub. We had O'Briens got jobs in the East to help him through an outdoor toilet.[...]Cornell University, where he won a degree in civil I spent my life at home until I was m[...], I October 22, 1911 to Warren Adsit who was born in don't know whether I ever graduated fr[...]er that I heard the story of the wedding. Wyoming in 1902. He worked around Sheridan at[...]f her life. When I knew different cow outfits and in October 7, 1907 came to her in Forsyth in the '20's, she traveled for Avon Montana and sett[...]e 20, 1956. the railroad to be a bookkeeper in a Forsyth bank. Our family has one girl, May, Mar[...]ck to be I still live on the place which is run by Tom, our station agent there, the first one[...]r boys and three girls Electa Getchell lived in this region from small lived about seventeen miles north of Hardin, in a large childhood to her marriage. She cam[...] |
| [...]en C. Olenik end of the pipe with mud, put powder in it, and, Joseph Olenik, born in Poland, 1883, was a plugged the other end with a[...]d Howard said, "How are we going to set it in the lower Big Horn Valley in 1906. Earlier he had off?" We found some string and put it in, then lit it. worked on the railroad, in a supervisory position while Boy! it exploded and[...]lucky none of us were standing by! brother in Red Lodge while learning the language, and[...]he name was spelled Oleinik, but due to overshoes in Ping's store. Mr. Ping was always nice to[...]temperature Mr. Olenik passed away in 1958. was 25 degrees below zero and the wind so s[...]. It was 38 degrees below the day I enlisted in the Marines in Billings. My dad took me to the train station and[...], and pendleton shirt. Two days later, we arrived in San Diego, and it was 78 degrees. The bunch from Wyoming and Montana stood around in that 78 degree weather with sheepskins and woolen[...]and he was sick- the price had dropped to $4. 75 in twenty-four hours. Dad didn't laugh at him; peopl[...]Y wire today because we need a fence to keep them in. We B AliceOUun have only 10 left in the bank." That seemed like a lot Mr[...], Lillian, Rachel, and Ju II -came to right, even in the depression. Hardin in April 1913 from Osnabrock, orth Dakota . Joh[...]'s niece. He al o and even if it was 110 degrees in the bade, we had to bought 80 acres in the valley north of Hardin, and the[...]r. Ernest dler. tea. That was the way they did it in Australia.[...]Two children were born to the Ottuns in Hardin - I'll never forget the times we had[...]sat there, and said, " l 've are well and keep in touch with family, relatives and ate enough to last me till next year." friends in Hardin. Two members of the family still li[...] |
| in Montana-Juell, who resides east of Hardin; and[...]he center of many Rachel (Ottun) Luger, who lives in Polson. happy hours. Often Fathe[...]oice could be heard Mrs. Ottun (Carrie) died in October, 1954, and Mr. blending with his off-spring. Any practice time had Ottun died in February, 1959. They are buried in the priority, the wail and screech of unsc[...]ollector's items. She was inspired and encouraged in[...]Deep seated religious convictions were evident in[...]in terms of today was fairly simple, more natural, l[...]was a constant contest with the elements. In this real[...]room in our home with desks, map standard, and a flag[...]education available to us might be classified as in- William Favor Owen "Big Dad" 1873-1953 (We[...]touched by the sages and nobility of the range in the (German and English)[...]g of the herd law and the closing of grazing land in Oklahoma prompted Father to look to the north for a new location. In 1918 furniture and household wares were shipped in a box car with one-half of the freight car reserv[...]f the cultivated land. Young maple top and water reservoir on the side, was fired by wood trees, e[...]Mountains, the back-drop carrying many buckets of water each evening during for all ranch[...] |
| [...]lanting, branding, haying, placed in half gallon jars raw and sealed tight. The jars[...]was were then taken to the creek, placed in gunny sacks and the usual day with pre-dawn coolness used more often anchored in the creek. It would keep from one to two than not. months. Intermingled in the labor of weeks and months Household duties consisted of ma[...]sonal emotions were crystalized by drinking water a quarter of a mile. many, many interwoven incide[...]he I graduated from high school in Moravia. It was mind is reluctant to recall-other[...]ay and my sister and I drove a horse detail comes in bold relief, such as: and[...]om taught school for four years-two years in Mystic, the logs of the ranch stoop, in the amphitheatre of hills Iowa and two in Foster, Iowa. My salary was $65 a below.[...]d his wild pony, Skyrocket. In my fourth year of teaching my parents decided[...]ill not allow the eyes to see the drastic In 1930 I met my future husband. We were married changes at a closer look. The imagined creak of a saddle in the spring of 1931. We lived up the creek several[...]For several years we took Indian children in our examples lived here. home. In 1914 we adopted our daughter and shortly Our[...]ve their time and their love. Their In a coulee a mile from our ranch, Cherry Adams spir[...]was shot and killed. Some people considered him a in the greatest gift of all: horse thief. ... A BELIEF IN GOD AND A BELIEF IN OUR- My husband had a threshi[...]little. I was born in Moravia, Iowa in 1908. There were My husband was in poor health for nine or ten seven children in the family, four boys and three girls. years, and passed away in 1963. I've been living on the We lived on a[...]agon. When I was ten, papa bought a Model T. In the winter my father and brothers worked in the THE CHARLE PECK FAMILY timbe[...]sed By Effie Peck Koebbe in the coal mines. The winters were long and cold. We harles Wesley Peck wa born in Audrain County, heated the home and cooked with w[...]children had to help at home; County in 1900. Of the five, Charley was the only one to th[...]schooling took longer. They attended fall in love with the e t and t.ay. Charley worked on sch[...]and have spelling and which he pastured in the Bull Mountain with other geography matches. W[...]and box ranchers. Mrs. Peck was born in Westwood, Ontario, suppers to raise money for sch[...]Mr. and Mrs. Peck were married in ew Castle, We girls did a lot of embroidery[...]of a mile west of Some evenings, mother would sit in the rocking chair Hardin on the road whic[...]and lr . Gus Mill. Main Station, and was baptized in the Chariton River. The Pecks had tw[...]fresh, it was sliced and Mae, wa born to them in 1920.[...] |
| [...]JOSEPHINE ACKERMAN PECK starting in the first and second grades under Miss[...]rdin pioneer teacher. Effie's first year in Montana, Big Horn County is indebted to her pony[...]fund for Big Horn County. saddle would not stay in place and the pony had to be She re[...]horse. training in Illinois. Five members of her family were T[...]rainy Most of her teaching was done in Illinois before one. Mr. Peck took his children and the Layton Kent's coming to Wyoming in 1908 for the purpose of filing on children to school in the wagon because of the muddy a homes[...]k for improvements on would have pulled the buggy in two. He wore his rubber her land, she wa[...]e trips because he would have to homestead in thirty days. The bank failed and the deal stop on[...]ls with his feet. The mud teaching career in a rural school near Worland. rolled up in lumps so large that it touched and rubbed[...]e term. She had about thirty pupils of all grades in The Hardin School at that time was a four-ro[...]hool. No books were provided, but two story brick building built in 1910 and located in the fortunately most families had brought old text books center of the block where the elementary building now with them when they came out to file[...]preparations when no two readers were alike. building. In the northwest corner of the school yard was There were duties in connection with her work that a slough which ran[...]during Friday night she assisted the janitor in getting the the winter months at recess and noon hours. scho[...]first service was Catholic, in charge of a priest who[...]curred in Hardin. When she called on one of her boys[...]plement the material found in her limited supply of[...]given by Miss Josephine Ackerman and Mrs. A. L. in their first Ford car, Mrs. Peck would quite often[...]ibrary." Later it was learned that the retirement in 1948, except for a short period 1919 to[...]zing the Mr. Peck passed away after a stroke in February great need for books in the community, she turned the 1952 at the age of[...]Hardin Library Fund. This served as heart attack in January 1962 at the age of seventy-six.[...] |
| [...]Peden; Koprivas built the building where Solazzi is When the library was compl[...]for him. library to the people of Big Hom County in the name of The first church in Hardin was the Catholic the Carnegie Library Board and the board of County church-a small white building near the comer of Fifth Commissioners of Big Horn[...]population. St. Xavier mission had already been in excellent books to the library in memory of their loved existence many years. M[...]sorted, then dropped in a box. Mr. Spencer was the first Mrs. Peck[...]eader and could post master, having the office in his store; then Fred always be counted on to give[...]h she the southeast corner of the Sullivan Building. The belonged. The Pecks continued to live in Hardin until Foster graves and Mt. Vera cem[...]water supply; people did get water from the Burlington[...]Schools were organized in 1907. Bill Cochran was Note: March 11, 1963 Ralph Peck talked to an the first teacher in the building on the southeast corner eighth grade Social Studi[...]s of Crow and Fourth. He taught two or three months, in Hardin; the following is taken from notes made at then took over a job in a lumber yard and Mrs. J. W. that time. M. R. C.[...]ught the second I had worked on the railroad in the east and came term. Josephine Ackerman,[...]er him. The depot and section house were In 1910 a two story brick building, with four rooms was across the river; meals were[...]road bridge and then the sheep could walk across. In one across the river. About 1915 the highway bridge, 1906 the railroad built side tracks in Hardin and in just north of the railroad bridge, was bui[...]were moved to We didn't count pennies in the early days-nickels Hardin, to the west side o[...]o dance; Bill Becker's orchestra, of homesteading in 1906; and later this was extended to violi[...]Peden 's Department tore wa the first tore in J. Scott the second-the city had been organized in Hardin specializing in general clothing, fabrics, hoes, 1911. There was[...]he town was organized until the county was formed in Both Pedens were enthusiastic workers in the 1913.[...]teenage girls. This group T. E. Gay. The Lrunmers building had the only hall ; organized themselves in a Triad Club with objectives they had started a h[...]oast is now. The bank was Girl Scouts. In 1915, Mrs. Peden took the group for a where Grove[...]John Kifer built a fur- weeks camping trip in Black Canyon, and the following niture store, but it burned in December 1909; he rebuilt summer she took them to Thermopolis-truly a the building and started a pool hall. major undertaking. In January 1910 the first fire department was Mr. Peden served one term in the St.ate Legislature organized with Charles Sch[...]up, and they couldn't use it. They built a small building thereafter, he was struck by lightning.[...] |
| [...]Bob Carlat, and children Janice, Dan, Shirley and building at 416 Custer where she worked and lived until[...]Western ranch life of others. He lived 68 years in Big Horn County, Montana, his last 5 years in Wyoming. CHARLES AND IRENE PENSON[...]I always enjoyed young people and taught in[...]was born years old that I became involved in starting a 4-H Club July 28, 1901 at the ranch. He said from the time he was in Kirby. George Gustafson was the County Agent. two[...]ung, Dorothy and Marjorie Hamilton, Lenora, three months out of a year during the winter months. Joanne Kobold and Charlene were some of t[...]One day Charlene and I, walking out in the hills Jack's plal'e. (a log building that later became our home over the ranch, disc[...]early day trappers. I later met an old man in a grocery store in Sheridan who said he had lived there when two[...]The OD Ranch was established in 1880 by Mr.[...]to introduce alfalfa in the new area. The operation[...]thousand sheep. Twenty-five men were employed in the[...]prisings usually started after someone or schools in Birney, Decker or Kirby. All the family cau[...]e Reser- Ferguson of Kirby, was killed in 1890 about eight or ten vation. His father spent[...]ater separated and that was the April 1946, still in Big Horn County. last anyone saw of Ferguson. Hultz was the last man to In 1969 Charlie's health failed and we moved[...] |
| [...]e Wrench Ranch near had pawed some dirt over him in a washed draw. John Sheridan. My father came to Montana in April of '93 Hoover was another man who was kill[...]out to the OD for about six years. He did carved in our old barn here at the Big Bend of the[...]l afternoon and asked them to finish the In 1898 the government bought the ranch to make job.[...]n of quite a ranching operation. date, but it was in the 90's- the Indians were very well In 1898 my dad and Hugh Redman took armed. All the m[...]s was accomplished that Hugh Redman was nights up in the hills, were ready, and wanted to fight. shot down at Kirby, so my uncle in Mason City, Iowa, During the night, all the peopl[...]gs and horses all over the ranch at In April 1900 my father, Tom Penson, married dayligh[...]g rifle pits around the ranch and son died in infancy. Charlie Penson died in 1974. organized a cavalry troop which went on dow[...]Hon years ago-he West was very prevalent in those days. You never was a friend of my father.[...]ame Deer. Here was cavalry night. coming in from Fort Keogh on the gallop. The hills My brother and I went in partnership with my around Lame Deer were just co[...]father when we were grown-around the 30's. In 1954 very tight situation existed which could hav[...]my father passed away and my mother passed away in worse if it had not been for the man in charge, who I 1965. believe was a Major How[...]Father, Tom Penson, was born in Mason City, Another interesting place at th[...]e Iowa February 2, 1873. He attended chool in Ma on some rifle pits shown to my dad by 0 . P .[...]and then worked as a butcher for a cattle feeder in was an early day Sheridan resident. He had been Iowa. Father arrived in il ~ City by train. A fri nd, enroute to Bozeman with a wagon train. He was in the Hugh Redman, accompanied him to the OD ranch on group that was there. They were held off water by the Rosebud Creek. Father worked there f[...]n as the Big Bend toward them, shooting from it. In these travelers' Ranch, named for the Big Bend in Rosebud Creek. possession was a little brass cannon. They let these In heridan, Wyoming he married Mabel Barton Indians[...], 1900. other came to point-blank, knocking it up in the air and killing an visit her two sister[...]Penson: The ranch my dad bought from the OD in 1898 at Charley, Howard (who passed[...] |
| house in 1905 for the Pensons. Father hauled the[...]forty miles away. Powder River in 1909. They had eight children: Walter,[...]Olmsted school, and also attended school in Gillette.[...]six horses in Yellowstone Park in the early days. Lee[...]coffee and put beans in the coffee pot! He said, "Oh,[...]We drove to Sheridan in Father's Model T Ford,[...]eback to Joe Crackenberger's on Canyon Tom Penson in front of his first home on Big Bend Creek[...]till five (in the morning) and received $2.00. We had[...]months[...]saddle horses, teams, cattle and sheep. In 1923 Evagene was born in Sheridan; she was the first grandchild in the Penson family so she got lots of at·[...]Penson Turley, 1921 July 29, 1931 in Sheridan and named Natalie. Our girls[...]We always enjoyed our get•to· Lee was born in Farmington, Missouri. He at· gethers with all our families: Charley and Irene Penson tended school in St. Louis for three years. His father a[...] |
| [...]their families often : The church building unit, Chiver's Hall, was built Evagene, (Mrs. John Roh), Brian and Jodi; and Natalie in 1905 and it completed the Mission Compound. Since (Mrs. Jim Lester) and Scott. They all live in Great Falls many could not understand English,[...]1st, 1872, of German parents. His father fought in the The Petzoldts provided religious services, Civil War. The family lived in and around Rochester, supervised the schoo[...]e was graduated from the University of Rochester in 1894 supplies and food to the needy, visited Crow homes, and was ordained as a Baptist minister in Beaver, Iowa acted as hosts to many visitors, answered the in the fall of 1894. In 1895 he became the pastor of the correspondence, and did the bookkeeping in addition to Baptist church at Carroll, Iowa wher[...]orn and Pryor. Schools were discontinued 9, 1876 in Carroll. She attended public schools there and[...]tted all Indian earned her teacher's certificate in 1894. She taught children to attend public[...]p The Petzoldts moved to Sheridan, Wyoming, in to Crow students who were educationally[...]e Baptist Church Rev. attend Bacone College in Oklahome. Petzoldt participated in community activities. He was In 1920 the Home Mission Society gave Rev. often as[...]for the Inter-Church Movement in ew York City of all In July, 1901 Indians from the Crow Reservation Indian reservations in Wyoming, Montana, Idaho, went to Sheridan to join in the Fourth of July Oregon and Washin[...]nt a petition to the Baptist Home Mission Society in New York City for a day school. The Government bo[...]attend school. A Council was held at Lodge Grass in June, 1903. Officials of the Home Mission Society[...]ablished the Indians promised to furnish logs for building. The officials agreed, and commissioned Rev. Petzoldt to establish a school and in addition to act as Missionary.[...]e Talks Up To God". Medicine Crow, Chief of In early January, 1904, Mrs. Petzoldt with the two[...]ined Rev. Petzoldt. White Arm moved Food". In eptember, 1928, during dedication from[...]bonnet. He then took the name of showed sympathy in many ways. "Mornin[...]t can be The log mission house was completed in the spring be towed upon a white man. Mrs.[...]The school house was a frame Lies Down in 1905. The Petzoldts were also adopted building and was dedicated in September, 1904. The into tribal[...] |
| Chivers Hall burned in 1926. The new Chivers THE REVER[...]T FAMILY Memorial built nearer town was dedicated in 1928. For By Genevieve Petzoldt Fitzgerald [Mrs. Jay] the first Christmas in the new building, Mrs. Petzoldt Lodge Grass,[...]t would make the event more In 1903 my parents, Rev. and Mrs. W. A. Petzoldt, me[...]stablish a day school and mission. The school was in munity. Later, Mrs. Petzoldt was ably assisted by[...]part of Mary. McKinley they were away in government boarding schools. The Back Bone, Ben P[...]e three Wise Men. A deserving little dedicated in 1904. The children came on their ponies in boy was chosen each year to carry the lamb in the the morning, returning home after s[...]passed a law enabling Indian children to enroll in public College, McMinnville, Oregon. Anna Petzold[...]ols. ordained to the ministry on October 5, 1929. In 1929 the The first winter White Arm moved[...]t the Lodge a tent so my parents could live in his house until the Grass Baptist Mission to train educated Crows for Mission Residence was built. In January my brother, leadership and responsibility- Later called the Crow who was nine months old, died of pneumonia. People Christian Council;[...]or in a tree. first pictures were taken in Sheridan of the en- campments for the 4th of July[...]to illustrate lectures he gave about families in the district represented by faithful members. the[...]er, Mrs. Jay Fitzgerald. instrumental in organizing a white church, now known[...]Little Brown Church. The Petzoldts retired in 1942 after thirty-nine The Crows were[...]o-workers, Misses Clara Olds homes. However, in the summer, families camped in and Malvina Johnson, were appointed to take charg[...]e were the work. They continued to be very active in the large tribal camps. As a result my parents had a camp mission work, in community service and were respected outfit[...]im- Petzoldt had a record of speaking engagements in 46 portant in that food could be obtained not only for states a[...]dt was one of the founders of Travel use. Club in Lodge Grass and a sponsor of the annual Senior Te[...]ding station on its line after him. He was listed in "Who's Who in America." The Petzoldts celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary in 1947 and their 60th in 1957. They participated in the 50th anniversary of Baptist work among the Crows in 1953. Anna K. Petzoldt died in Sheridan, Wyoming, on August 11, 1958, age 82, and Dr. W. A. Petzoldt died in Hardin on May 21, 1960, age 87. Both are buried in Lodge Grass High School's first graduatin[...]dith Cammock, Edythe Ben· "They gave their lives in service to others". brooks[...] |
| [...]table. Back of that was a cupboarp words in my "Log", while they were fresh. I'll quote where[...]lert a bed could be made for my parents. I slept in a niche person with the quaint manners of a co[...]to get to Billings, sister were sent to school in Indiana. Charles Phelps' or Sheridan was by ridin[...]t didn't stop. The mail spent only one year in a public school. bag was thrown from the baggage[...]gain: "When Bud was five years old, he acted In the early 1920's Lodge Grass had grown.[...]weather to the north and seeking refuge graduated in 1923. in Montana. When Bud was nine, living in outhern During World War One, wheat was at a[...]lped a trapper of Mr. Tom Campbell was successful in raising wheat on wolves. One day, east of[...]dry land on the west side of the Big Horn River. In closed basin filled with animal skeletons[...]bone were Jay Fitzgerald and I were married in ovember gone, and realized that the new fertilizer plants in 1923, with my father officiating. We have two gro[...]Richard Moothart, a Fred Phelps' land was in and adjacent to Dry Head cardiologist at Penrose Hospital in Colorado Springs, Canyon, at the foot of the[...]ard to reach from any other place. The famou "Red in Billings with his wife and son.[...]yor was th bane of early I have always lived in the old mission residence motor-travelers. B[...]and so was Hardin. The nearest telephone in 1916 was[...]barnyard. Traveler lept in th hay loft and ate in the CHARLES PHELPS[...]lps Frank Heinrich bought the ranch in 1915. I first home very well, though, from 1916 o[...]ed. The big house showed that the family from Bud in 1961, when he worked on the Bar Ranch ha[...]band was through the shelves of books in the den, where the big assistant to his father, G[...]nvited him to dinner on July Fourth, furnace. Water from springs along the canyon wall had[...] |
| been piped in. There was a big tank on the unfinished[...]ense summer of getting used to the alkali water, acclimated, "Old Hickory" porch furnishings ver[...]neighbors and among our first friends in Montana.[...]My sister Nellie and I started to school in Hardin in the fall of 1913. I was ready for the Junior year[...]High School and the only one in the class. Supt. Harry[...]Two others joined me in the Senior year. On May[...]in Big Horn County, Montana.[...]Senior Class joined together in class plays and games. The house, built of r[...]oll play. We went down by train and had to wait in the in the angle where a small tributary ran into Dry He[...]ng white that train robbers had buried their loot in the canyon. middy blouses, long black hose and white tennis shoes. In fact there were some holes down the canyon where[...]ow heads at Old or seven miles with a pack horse. In our time, the mail Fort Smith. We had a girls[...]Club; man lived at the bottom of another canyon, in a one- Mrs. Peden was our sponsor. Once we[...]I attended the Methodist Church in Hardin, which LULU SNOW PICKARD was first held in a hall over the drug store known as the Lulu Snow Pickard was born on a farm in Warren Sullivan Hall. We gave Church dinners to raise money County, Iowa near New Virginia in 1898, the fourth to keep the church going.[...]irls of the Albert Snow family. Our family lived in Iowa until I was five years old. At this time my father sold this farm and bought a farm in Missouri. However as time went by many of the farmers in Missouri were hit hard by drouth, army worms, no[...]no exception. Many of the famers were moving out. In the winter of 1912 my father came out to Hardin,[...]Mother, ellie, Cleo, and myself boarded the train in June 1913 for our new home in the West. I hated to John and Lulu Snow Pickard with Nelle Yuette, 1918 leave our friends in Missouri. Dad was at the depot in Hardin to meet us. There were several Indian men and In March 1917 I married John Pickard. He was the women in their blankets at the depot too. We girls[...] |
| [...]e a horse and Ruth lived with one of these in order to graduate from a buggy because the gumbo mud was so bad. It took all two year high school in Schell City, Missouri and then day to make the tr[...]t to live with her sister Lettie who was teaching in In December 1917 we moved to Casper, Wyoming Victor, Colorado, in order to have further schooling, and lived there[...]Warrensburg Yvette, Robert and Johanna were born in Casper. We Nonnal, and to teach for five years before her marriage. were in the grocery business in Casper. My father, Both had many favorite stories which illustrated Albert Snow, passed away in 1932 and we moved back how hard life was[...]Ruth's stories was about picking strawberries in the year then to Hardin.[...]with which she bought a pair finished High School in Hardin. Nellie Yvette taught of slippers. Another was her favorite story of the time one year in Big Horn County before she married Carroll h[...]a whole nickel County. Robert worked three years in Marquisee's to spend any way they want[...]dships, but there was also a lot of pleasure In 1942 John and I and our daughter Johanna[...]community which grew moved to Ogden, Utah to help in the war effort. John up around the small c[...]e. She always felt that anyone who had retirement in 1957. I worked at the Ogden Arsenal for not attended a rural school or taught in one had not four years then went to work at Hill A. F. B. until my really lived. retirement in 1968-nearly twenty-five years of Government Service. After John passed away in 1965, I sold our home and am now living in a high-rise apart• ment house in Ogden. I have ten grandchildren and eleven great[...]mes Jackson Ping (known always as J. J.) was born in Rockcastle County, Kentucky, on December 22, 1881[...]deciding to "go west" to issouri. Here he taught in different mining towns, and finally in Liberal, a town of about 1000 people which had be[...]st. It was while he was Superintendent of schools in Liberal that he met his wife, who was the first g[...]Mr. and Mr . J. J . Ping married in 1911 and their only daughter argaret, was born in Liberal in 1912. Ruth Blevans Ping was born in Barton County, J. J.'s stories had[...]of people b ing paid for manual and lay preacher in the Methodist church, and there labor more per hour than he earned per week in hi first were nine children in the family. Her mother died when schools he[...]ily was very poor, the coming to. A he wrote in his own story of hi life, ~ hen father farming re[...]e at some time teachers. Margaret, arrived in Hardin on eptember 15, 1916.[...] |
| They had been school teachers in Missouri, and J. J. the leaving of bags of[...]ital, and other such places. Both were interested in ready-to-wear store in Sheridan that the business world having Hardi[...]can provide for its citizens, and had a part in Lettie had the town picked out-Hardin was then o[...]the Senior The first Ping store was located in a small frame Citizens' Center. J. J. was chairman of the Cemetery building just north of the old Hardin Hotel. Space was[...]it was established, and took great at a premium in this new town, and the small building pride in seeing it change from a brown, dusty hillside to housed a jewelry store in the front, a cleaning-tailoring the green and shady place it is today. Ruth died in 1970, shop in the rear, and Pings occupied about 20 feet in the and J. J. in 1975. Both are buried in the cemetery they middle. Margaret's "play house[...]hort time the store was moved to larger quarters in the "Bean Block" and when the Gay Block was fini[...]. PETER PITSCH, JR. REMEMBERS occupied the space in that building the farthest to the west on 3rd Street. In time additions were made to the It was a sunny day in February 1933 when we[...]future home. Street in the Goering block, and a branch store was In the middle of an alfalfa field stood a large red operated for more than twen~y years in Lodge Grass. section house with GARRYOWEN on the front in big Ruth went to "market" in St. Louis and Chicago white letters. The[...]n the salesmen were always surprised that a store in so small wall. How I would love to have thos[...]trip together, and brought back accounts of life in the big cities as well as of ex- periences of be[...]J. J. made themselves a part of all that went on in Hardin. J. J. was on the school board for 15 year[...]or an ac- cumulation of 50 years. Ruth was active in church work, in Girl Scouting, and was the Cancer Drive Chairman for a number of years. Both were active in Eastern Star and served the Montana Grand Chapter- Ruth as Worthy Grand Matron in 1937 and Jack as Worthy Grand Patron in 1945. Ruth was instrumental in starting the Rainbow Assembly in Hardin. In their first years in Hardin their friendships revolved around a group[...]the women and children lived there for the summer months, the men and Ruth driving back and forth to Hardi[...]hobbies, J . J. kept loyal to his great interest in gardening. He found it hard to understand anyone who didn't want to help things grow. At one time, in ad- Mr. and Mrs. Peter Pitsch, Jr. in their home, the old dition to a large vege[...] |
| [...]and harnesses were gone come moving help in the fields and harvest and never had a reason to[...]necessary to do it all. There were ranching in the first thirty years we were in Big Hom many layers of grease and dirt.[...]hers eventually started their own operations here in purchased for the living room but the kitchen fl[...]up the bucket of phosphate which he was to use in furniture. At the beginning of that first summer[...]ighbors, on Since there was no well, ditch water sufficed until foot the first year. Later we had pinochle parties in a well could be dug. It wasn't as polluted as it[...]ning. wanted. The refrigerator was a square hole in the The Lord has been good. We've[...]After almost forty-three years we still live in the An aunt who lived next door gave us a f[...]. back here living in Big Horn County. Almost daily the trek was[...]een a struggle Decker area of Big Hom County in the spring of 1917. to have walked back.[...]They were both born and raised on farms in Iowa. They Livestock consisted of four large work horses and a were married in Iowa in 1913. Harvey, my brother, and black milk cow. Alt[...]fraid of the milk cow, Our first summer in the W t wa pent in a tent when I tried to milk her I stood as far away as possible on Waddle creek in Wyoming with Dad' Uncle Hugh and set the bucket u[...]time to walk off she did o, tipping the the water they used. Mother had to take the laundry on buck[...]to shake their heads and down Waddle creek in Montana, about 26 miles east of continue on their[...]dishes, nice quilts the thing. Around and around in circles I went until he and pictures[...] |
| [...]heir hay several years. He was at the O.W. Ranch in 1918 during the flu epidemic. We all moved to th[...]cattle died. Mother, having been a teacher in Iowa, was soon teaching again both in Wyoming and Montana. Altogether she taught someth[...]s and eventually three of her grandchildren. In 1929, our younger brother, Hayden was born.[...]daughter wanting to go to Mielke, boy in front, Hayden Porter. college, a son in high school who would have to board away from bom[...]of cream for extra cash. way to town in the old open Ford. The temperature was[...]" Say, don 't you think it's a little close in here?" He[...]aniversary in 1963 with family and friends in at- tendance. Dad passed away in 1966 and Mother in 1970. They certainly saw great changes in their day, from[...]t to go to Eastern that fall and started teaching in 1933. With Mother and I both teaching we weathere[...]of the cowboys around were only getting 25. In 1936, I married Jess Thomas and went to live at the 77 ranch about a mile from the folks. In 1941 Harvey married Fra Dooley and he took off on[...]able to build themselves a new home with running water and a bathroom. School was always a problem in this isolated area. HARVEY PORTER[...]idn't get any mail for two or three In the spring of 1917, I , Harvey Porter left months. When the neighbors or we went to town, mail[...]Iowa with my parents Bert and Edith for everyone in the area was picked up and delivered. Porter, and my sister Margie. I was 6 months old and Getting the mail was always an exciting time. Margie was 2 1/2 years old. People in those days made their own fun. There[...]parties at the school or homes. belongings in a box car, including my mother's piano, One winte[...]ndall, Jiggs Ulery, Having to stop over in Sheridan, Wyoming to feed the Curley Lilley, Fore[...]ran into a friend from Humestone who Adams being in on the rodeos.[...] |
| [...]John Livvix and Mr. and Mrs. Aaron Shields in 1945. North Waddle Creek and settled on a squatte[...]hat my father was looking for, as he was a farmer in Iowa. My mother, sister and I and my Aunt followed on the passenger train. We lived in a tent that summer, until the one-room house was[...]e was a store, and stocked up on groceries. In the summer of 1926 we went to Lewistown,[...]HAYDEN PORTER FAMILY a road. We got stuck in the mud near Parkman,[...]out. We Hayden Porter was born in 1929, the son of Bert stayed overnight just north[...]all eight of his grade school years. He was in the service with only one mishap with the car. So[...]during World War II. He attended Moody Bible In- and fixed it for us. I remember there was a little gravel stitute in Chicago where he met his wife, ancy. on the road[...]ings. He got his B. S. degree in Agriculture from[...]Bozeman and later his Masters degree in Education. He and ancy were in Alaska three years, one year at Lazy[...]years as Ag. Teacher in high school.[...]tion. Our parents state of Missouri in 1 6. Ray's parents, Thoma and would fix an old building and put it where it would Milicent "Mil[...]y for L vi she taught much of the time when I was in grade Howe on Otter Creek. He also[...]emember of being Ray met Irma Jenkins in 1916. Irma was a school lonesome, even though I m[...]change her name to Powers and I still live in the area with my wife Fra, and where they were[...]. and Mrs. with electricity and running water for his family of[...] |
| seven children. The children attended grade school in a SAMUEL F. RAGLAND [ 190,i-1961 ] AND l[...]Sam F. Ragland was born in Shanee Mound, During these years, Irma spent many hours in her Missouri, the son of Fred and Cora Rag[...]erbeds. The Mildred Ragland was born in Bogard, Missouri, yard was large and many varieti[...]of the summer was they first settled in the Bozeman area. The Morrison spen t in branding, herding and taking care of the cattle family and Sam moved to Hardin in the fall of 1917 held in these summer pastures. Camp cooking consisted[...]Johnson, Pete exciting by campfire tale spinning in the evening and Rosenagle, Windy Miller, A[...]Sam met Mildred in the winter of 1922 and they were married in 1924. After their marriage they farmed[...]While living in Hardin, two sons were born, Sam Jr. in 1930 and Gerald in 1931. In 1931 , Sam and his[...]station. In the spring of 1934 they moved back to the Ir[...]modem home was built a short and began building the farm and ranch that the family ways down stre[...]of Sam Ragland now owns and operates today. In 1941 established an elk pasture or priva te game[...]th a nine-foot game and Don. Sam passed away in 1961 leaving his wife and fence. He had as many a[...]five children. especially loved nature in the raw. He pr otected the beaver in this game preserve until their dams began to flood the county road. He also built a lake for waterfowl in this game preserve, and the Canadian geese always[...]d thP meat on contract to well-known hotel owners in the East as u special treat for their guests.[...]d of pumping from the river, and struck a flow of water that was very unusual. The pressure was so great that he could run three garden hoses from this well at once. I[...]their imprint on Big Horn County. He passed away in The Ragland Family: Mr. and Mrs. Sam Ragland, Sheridan, Wyoming in 1964. Jer[...] |
| [...]found Bob Ferguson laying wrapped in his saddle By B. B. Richard blanket, in some soft sand at the head of a gulch. Fred[...]e Reservation for the Cheyennes, so in 1889, he bought steamer "Carol" in 1876 at the age of twenty-one, and the lan[...]s a short ways above spent the rest of his life in southern Montana and the Reservation. He built a small home there to live in northern Wyoming.[...]ted, and lived until the early 1920's, when In 1879, Ramsey was driving stage between[...]ing to lay out the first He passed away in Sheridan at the age of sixty- race track at Mile[...]Ramsey was hide-hunting along the Powder River. In 1882, Ramsey located a ranch at the mouth of Cor[...]educated. At one time all five living part time in Miles City where he met and married of the[...]lawyers, Ray a doctor in Miles City, and daughter Ramsey's ranch was run by hired men, and one of Addie was marr[...]and had the the youngest, was born in December, 1883, and became distinction of riding[...]t, it got up and Jim figured to assist in the surveying of a railroad from Durango being on[...]quarters were most primitive, always in tents, and 1887, perhaps the first white child on[...]and Beeman while tending his own livestock. Early in was tied on a burro that was led to a d[...]He returned home, and then worked in the East to a sale at Miles City, then the world'[...]the 5th of May, practicing medicine in Miles City, became the owne of borrowing a pair o[...]ary public until 1918 when he sold to his brother-in- bunch of horses to select out the ones he was to[...]permanent Bob Ferguson had not brought the horses in to sell. o resident of Hardin until he r[...]n and all available his daughter, Patsy Cox in Idaho, on Frank in OD cowboys, with foreman, Jim Davis, rode in the Missouri, and son Mike in Kali pell. All of the e direction Bob had gone. O[...]was an During Clifford' years in office the County built a Indian butchered beef ([...]ntana camp at a nearby spring. All settlers aided in the draftsman, the blue prints[...] |
| Clifford Randall died in Boise, Idaho in July 1974, She took many babies into our home and nursed them and is buried in Hardin. back t[...]he sheets with these tiny flowers. She also In the spring of 1910, the Guy Randall family came[...]and did the fencing. One West. When they arrived in Hardin, the train was late, of those who hel[...]a large tent and lumber with every window in the house except two. Lynn and I were him. He lai[...]drapes, it was separated into town. Dad was in the field, and we just knew we'd find bedrooms an[...]and preserved everything. We gathered wild plums in the fall, that was our only fruit for several yea[...]r hauled from the Big Horn River. What a treat on hot summer days-iced tea and ice cream. Water was at a premium, as it had to be hauled in barrels and used sparingly. Later father made a c[...]snow-white hair. His daughter taught school in Hardin[...]ch Guy Randall home on North Bench - Lynn Randall in was a sheep wagon, heated with an oil h[...]me school we said , "We'll fix it." She soaked it in milk, added other attended church. Mothe[...] |
| Dessa attended Graceland College in Lamoni, Iowa following high school graduation at Lawrence, Kansas in the fall of 1911. She stayed with Grandmother Barr. in 1897, in Nebraska, Oregon, Oklahoma, New Mexico The next fall she was teaching in the Valley north of and Arizona, joined h[...]ved to Hardin, where spending the first months of their marriage living in the Lynn attended high school.[...]hard work and faith Server Hotel. It was in this house John K. was born in in God is the answer.[...]e South. Mrs. Rankin and following their marriage in Lawrence, Kansas March, Jim cooked up s[...]ember of his father's utilizing wild fruit in the stuffing or sauce. Fresh game (Colonel John K[...]camp was in a certain area depended upon the number[...]miles distant but always near good water and timber. Breakfast was at 7 A.M . Crews in the field by eight[...]canteens of water. Allotment work started middle of[...]maps. Finally in late January 1906, all allotments were[...]temporary business quarters on his own in the old Fort Carl and Bess Rankin in their tent home while working Custer R. R[...]Railroad Bridge. Here he engaged in land surveying for[...]ing as well as locating home teaders on that In June, 1901, Colonel John Rankin was ordered[...]ana to make allotments to those thru in the fall 1906. Indians who had given up their ori[...]as other equitable within a matter of days in the early pring of 1907. The allotments in view of the construction of irrigation a[...]and for The townsite plotting was finalized in May 1907. The farming. His son Carl, who h[...] |
| [...]C. Carl Rankin was also active in many community Hutton, with the second house belo[...]he Rankin. The Rankins later built a second house in 1908 Chamber of Commerce: a charter member in 1929 of at 3rd and Cody where their son, Carl, was born in Lions Club; twice President of the Volunt[...]192 A.F. & A.M. serving as Master and second In September 1909 the Rankin family moved to[...]arl was em- Mrs. Rankin shared membership in the Order of ployed in the Home Office of the Lincoln Land Co. In Eastern Star #65 serving as Worthy Patron a[...]y Land celebrated fifty years of marriage in 1955. He served Company's agent for the townsite,[...]nothing the City of Hardin as Councilman and in 1940, 1942, to a town of 500 by 1915. Mr. Rankin owned and 1944 and again in 1955 served as Mayor. He was an published a newsp[...]president and secretary after being instrumental in In Hardin he became associated with A. L. Mit-[...]Fort Custer headlands south of Hardin. dealing in insurance and real estate. Carl Rankin also In the late fifties, Mr. Rankin retired from active[...]lum business with Mrs. Rankin's death coming in June 1961 while the latter was in W. W. I. and his own in September 1962. Around 1913 Big Hom County b[...]ounties with R. P. "Bob" Ross its first in 1925 and 1926. Both attended the University of County Clerk and Recorder. In May 1919 he decided to Montana where John majored in Journalism and Carl in join a new bank in Hardin, the Stockman's National, Physical[...]post. Carl Rankin was ap- daughters live in California where he has been engaged pointed to complete Ross' term. ineteen months later in the insurance business for thirty years. Carl ret[...]uccessive from the Armed Service as a Colonel in 1960 and also terms. While a County official, Rankin and Attorney, lives in California. He is the father of one son and two D[...]LL BOY following his departure from county office in January IN THE EARLY DAYS OF HARDIN 1929. He was also Public[...]ich he later turned over to his son, John K., who in family made its return after roughly six years of living turn sold it to Chas. Egnew in 1941 before departing for in Nebraska. I was born at Crow Agency in March of California.[...]born in Hardin in Sept. 1908. The first baby born in[...]Block in 1917.[...]story brick building situated in the middle of the block[...]and tom down in 1953. Our father was instrumental in[...]and I attended Hardin school in 1916, I was in the third grade and Carl in the second. Our principal was Mr.[...]seemed to have taken up residence in Principal Logan's Carl Rankin office. Soon our all-graded building became crowded[...] |
| and a high school building was erected around 1919-20 Huffman, Ray Bu[...]th a six gun tied to his Life for small boys in Hardin some sixty years ago right leg, a Bi-[...]ty life. We the Vance Air School in Billings who sold plan.e rides manufactured our o[...]from a flat strip of land west of the old engaged in by my brother, Carl, (or Bub as he was also Hardin High School building and who later flew the known) and I, until prohib[...]ollars which helped start us at the U. of Montana in the Harriet Theatre where I learned to pla[...]h to my parents' disgust. during the warm weather months. We would collect Later I worked my c[...]ant them before school started, store the empties in gunny commissary boss under Mrs. Dan Maddox[...]ker Bar with our plus found, at Camp One .. in town $115.00 per month. father's help, usually at[...]tle daughters Sue and Sara, left Hardin in 1941 for the San hunting was related to "taking o[...].. .and to get away from the mosquitoes born. In April 1972 I retired, having completed 30 years that swarmed into Hardin late in the afternoon. (To foil in the insurance business. them my brother and I when dressed in shirt and knickers wrapped our legs with newspape[...]one of Ransier (later Higgins), who lived in Big Horn County, these rides with less than two o[...]ottles each .. .would be most disap- died in April 1940 and Miriam continued to live in her pointing.) home in Hardin until 1941. This is being written by[...]worked at mowing lawns and Miriam in 1975, now living in Cut Bank, Montana. watering, distributing the wee[...]e attended the other theatre out of love for in Cando, North Dakota, to Lewis and Kate Ransier. t[...]we were happy among brothers and sisters in the small somewhat addicted to during summer months. Right town. His father was a cabinet[...]tate but by that time, Wayne had scuttle and then in our Sunday go-to-meeting clothes received[...]Dental Surgeon from Chicago search the board walk in front of Tom Thain's Saloon College of Dental Surgery and was in hi own practice for money fallen between the cracks from some un- in Cut Bank, Montana. fortunate patrons being "bounc[...]Miriam Worden was one of four children born in Surprisingly, the pickings were good![...]mother was a music teacher and her father was in the As youngsters we swam in parts of the Little and banking business. T[...]Wisconsin-then Minnesota and finally to Montana in hook rides on empty pole wagons on their way to the 1913. Banks were established in each locality. Miriam river for gravel. I took up tennis when I grew older was brought up in a Christian home where daily under the tutelage[...]unday my father. Mr. Lipp was responsible for the building of school attendance was a regular thing. As[...]were of "Mama" in a lovely dark red cashmere dressing little later Carl and I became intently interested in[...] |
| [...]lly at the edge of town for our being stuck in gumbo mud to the hub caps. One year, father beli[...]we determined to have a picnic every month in the year space. M ther could have chickens and d[...], on New Years and cows. Though during the years in Minneapolis, this Day, was plenty cold in spite of a huge bonfire in the was not so. Mother tried to keep chickens in the new yard of the Girl Scout Cabin nea[...]ighbor appeared at the Activities for us in Hardin, the year around, included a door one mor[...]ough the population was not keeping THAT rooster in a city. We had roast rooster great, we had four church buildings but in all, thirteen for supper that night and the chic[...]ny surviving with Dad's health was not good in the city and the move missionary funds. We[...]f organizations and clubs supported by different in Cut Bank. We had coal oil lamps again, public minded citizens. outside plumbing and even bought water (delivered in We Ransiers had many hobbies. Dr. W[...]l. Miriam the first commercially made radio in town-a Before the town water plant was installed, we had small red[...]up an aerial, then There, Dad developed a spring in 1914 that still serves ordering another little red box to amplify the sounds, the people of the area in springtime when the city water and installing five sets of headphones, we held evening supply from the Cut Bank river tastes of the run-off. parties lasting into the wee small ho[...]s went to 60 below zero. small radio station in our dining room where local talent Those years in Wisconsin were perhaps the held fort[...]was photography. Due playhouses among the trees in the woods. Dad showed to gas being discovered in the area and furnaces con- us how to chew gum from grains of wheat in summer verted from coal to gas, our coal bin was made into an and how to make gum from tamarac sap in winter. We ideal dark room. We used a c[...]g machine, installed an enlarger fifty feet high. In Montana, our teen years en- and with[...]galia and the beauties of Big Horn And now, in 1919, Wayne returned from duty as County[...]as, there was no lack of subject First Lieutenant in the Medical Corps. He and Miriam matter. Many of the Ransier enlargements were were married in June and after a little over a year and a published in the rotogravure section of the Denver Post half in a dental office in Butte, Montana, Dr. Ransier and other publications. During the Mormon cricket established his office in Hardin. This was partially on epidemic, we c[...]res. These pictures were used by due to plans for building a dam on the Big Horn River. the Entomology[...]later, the Yellowtail Dam was a University in Bozeman. There being no professional reality, a dream come true. studio in the locality, we were often asked to furnish[...]for law enforcement agencies the Ransiers arrived in Hardin late in 1920. A short and the F.B.I. One interest[...]a.me from New York State to nother was in connection with a murder on the be a part of the family . She remained in Hardin until reservation involving two brot[...]farmer. time for college. While her home has been in ew York Dr. Ransier was interested in building the community State since that time, her days in Big Horn County hold and served on the City C[...]an and finally as Mayor, being elected three In spite of depression years, it was a good life[...], and played hard on sloughs and stagnant water was introduced, the first too. Recreation in summer included fishing, picnics or settling[...]River to relieve the overloaded city water system due to browsing along the trails . These t[...]ere few, adults city were paved. were crowded in with children on their laps. Almost[...]r. Ransier passed away at age every trip resulted in a flat tire, fording streams, at forty-eight.[...]ng our road around a mountain, high in spinal meningitis which was the cause of h[...] |
| [...]ying a book on her head developed posture. Family months, as Mayor of Hardin. During that same year,[...]tures of their own. She finished high procedures. In June 1940, she presided at the c?n· school in 1890 and for awhile attended the University of ve[...]ts president the preceding year. in Virginia City, Montana, and who had encouraged In June 1941, Miriam accepted a position with the[...]o come t.o Michigan. Carrie Montana Power Company in the Missoula division. met Montana b[...]everal years later, she married Walter A. Higgins in justice of Montana's Supreme Court. California, where they lived until his death in 1958. In 1960 she returned to Cut Bank, and lived with a sister. She was employed in a C.P.A. office there for fourteen years until retirement in 1974. Bill Ransier spent four years in California during early years of W.W. II, then two years in the Army, surviving the battle of Okinawa where h[...]ty of California at Berkeley, earning his degree in Chemical Engineering. He has been employed with Monsanto Chemical Company since that time, presently living in Massachusetts. He has three children, two daughte[...]rand· children. The years pass quickly and in retrospect, those early days in Big Horn County seem very precious in spite of limited conveniences and the need to ma[...]effort, loved ones and close friends and a trust in our Maker. All this kept life worthwhile and exc[...]ocade dress; wired and came with him to Billings. In 1902, with three lace bow in her hair; bouquet of lilies-of-the-valley and chi[...]ame her dear friend. Carrie joined our "cottage," in Billings, built in 1899. For the rest of the Billings Woman's Club[...]as away. She and the children followed Guil which in earlier days drives had floated down, with[...]he relied on her friend Smokey Wilson, especially in " seminary" graduate. When she'd drop in at the nearby matters like raising motherle[...]d whirl and kick ; and rode int.o the countryside in the surrey, my she'd dodge. ipsy, t.o[...]pasture. ext spring, she was sitting on the In her teens, Carrie traveled into ew England corral fence watching Smokey bring in the horses. An with her parents-was photographed in a short-skirted immense work horse jogged[...]the beach of Martha 's Vineyard. She head in her lap. Astonished, s he called , "Who's this, had piano, painting, and dancing lessons, and was in Smoke?"[...] |
| [...]"going back to the blanket." All they had learned in[...]Head kept her in touch with the open country that she loved. In Billings, she joined art and poetry clubs, and[...]I was born in Billings, 1897, son of Samuel[...]In 1902 I went with my family to Crow Agency.[...]The nearest Federal Courts were in Helena and[...]I hooked "the biggest trout ever caught in Lodge Grass[...] |
| [...]of the Agency Office was pitted with In January, 1921, I married Viva Hewett, a bullet ho[...]r of A. L. Wraps Up His Tail. At the rear of this building was Hewett. His Security Bridge Company h[...]traveled for it over the My schooling began in a wing of the boarding state. In 1926 I became a special agent for Nor- school's oldest building. Teacher, Miss Lane. We thwestern Mutual Life Insurance Company. In 1938 we returned to Billings in July, 1910. I became a member moved to Hami[...]concrete brick and premix plant in Ravalli County and[...]Frank Heinrich's cowboys cooling off their horses in the Reynolds swimming hole near Wyola after a hot day of During high school years, I punched cows sum- branding. Man in rear is Harry Robinson mers with Frank Heinrich's[...]year. The fall For twenty years I worked in politics: 1920, ap- of 1916, I entered Cornell Un[...]planted it to wheat, which was har- ference in Yellowstone Park; 1939, chairman, Ravalli vested in August, 1918. I prepared to enter the Army[...] |
| [...]t once. Forever traveling, on his favorite horse, in their own homes and my wife's death, I come back[...]hen agents were Army majors. Guil Reynolds in October 1904, its prime object was to interest th[...]s accidental. His doctor had ordered Crows in agriculture which "boss farmers" and the him out-[...]boards and logs, included an exhibit difficulties in persuading Theodore Roosevelt that hall.[...]s, and examples of retiring from the post at Crow in July, 1902. Our family housewifely arts. There[...]procession around the Agency of mounted Crows in he had attended school, also "singing school,"[...]yed at the fair grounds. The Fair Board had com· in the creek, and had hunted squirrels (often ac-[...]praise had appeared in the national press, since a[...]arles M. ~ai: of ~ontana discovered him working in middle-aged generals who had been youngsters on the a bank and mv~ted him~ Billings, July, 1895. In May, hill with Reno in 1876. The agent provided them with 1896, he roamed Carne Brown in Big Rapids and horses and accompanied[...]ridden with Curley over the trail he used in his get· he c?uld talk to Crows. Dismounting at[...]ay. evenmg, he was attacked by a dog. Teeth marks in his Then, for most of his remaining ye[...]blood while sympathetic rescuers led him to a in banking, except for helping his friend Frank Heinrich com~ortable bed in a tepee. There an elderly woman during the war years. He was always in touch with the applied her own concoction[...] |
| [...]home and land. He passed away in late March, 1973, and burial was in Lodge Grass.[...]business in 1889.[...]largest wholesale drygoods houses in the Northwest"[...]In the early years, the Babcock store was operating at Along in the '30's, my father and husband dropped the Agency, and a Chinese gentleman had a shop, from in unannounced on a mass meeting of Crows, and sat in which Chinese candy and lichi nuts were fort[...]a chair on the platform. As he passed teach in Indian schools. along, he was followed first by a[...]recognition, There was already irrigation in and near the then by louder and louder oh's, ah's, and exclamations Agency; but in the early 1900's the large canal leading of greet[...]We have a portrait of Guil Reynolds, painted in his team and his six-shooter, he carried la[...]a timber hitching rack. Riders tied their Lavarno in northern Italy, the son of Louis and[...]dogs lay on the board walk or in the grass. For sale in Swiss ancestry. Louis was always a farmer; the fa[...]high circular frame by their lashes; the staples in Henry and Ernest came to Wyoming and Montana[...]warmed the place in winter. At Christmas time, the Tongue River, Erne[...]after the sucker was Ella took nurses' s training in Sheridan, Wyoming. While living at Lodge Gra[...]gone. REA board for twenty-five years, a local water board, "Uncle Ervie," as some besides[...]Creston, British Columbia, where he had a In later years, Mr. Richardson enjoyed visiting, in their[...] |
| [...]mothers' backs. in a roomy apartment in the pleasant east wing of the J. H. Sharp wa[...]l, and all the green yards and calendar, doing it in the style of native painting. gard[...]organizer. The only time in four years that our teacher[...]ore calendar, 1906 Richardson owned a store in Forsyth and finally |
| [...]esident artist, but others came oc- In 1941 Carolyn and daughters moved to Hardin casion[...]come to the Crow tribe for many with Ed. In 1943 she started with the school district as year[...]stayed with the district twenty- 1883 (paintings in Nat'l. Gallery, Washington). Mrs. six years, twenty-two of them in Hardin High School. Richardson took an interest in these painters. She let She taught English,[...]directed W. E. Rollins set up a temporary studio in her living- plays, sponsored proms and year[...]life". did it again. The second picture was later in the Billings Commercial Club. The boarding[...]little Jersey bull. Every afternoon the cows came in from pasture to the area behind the campus ; but[...]e had over-turned Dr. Tucker's buggy. When he was in the park, we children hid. It was Mrs. Richardson who appeared in the Agency office and demanded that the dangerous[...]; but my father, the agent, was impressed. In the last year of her life, my father and I met Mrs. Richardson again. She had lived in Forsyth for a long time, taking part in all good things, as she had done at Crow. When sh[...]Ed and Carolyn Riebeth, 1933 working in Forsyth for awhile, she sent us word that she wou[...]he small com- back to Billings. munities in the area, even commencement addresses. " In July, 1902 we moved to Crow. Our home was We had been with her six months when she decided to doubtless built 1883-'84 when the Agency was go to a church conference in' California. There she died, established. It w[...]pright boards August, 1924. Her funeral services, in the large Forsyth painted soft apple-green. T[...]She had been an important bathroom in the Agency because we were next door to person in that church, and in that community. the Crow boarding[...]In summer the birds woke us up. Our yard was full[...]meadowlarks, red-wings, magpies, and owls on the in Montana with the exception of four years in North- outskirts of town. ampton, Massachu[...]e ; rabbits; lots of cats; College. She graduated in 1921 with an A.B. degree. motherless lam[...]ogs, one by one. " A.B. " because the diploma was in Latin. The porter on Charles Pe[...]" , her Guil Reynolds, who was a receiver working in closed companion all his life. The Eaton brothers gave us banks. In 1923 they were in Hardin, in the Hardin State Bantam chickens, then some Chinese pheasants. Bank, then in Forsyth for several years in other closed " Papa" built a large, covered[...]under the fence one night and got them. Late in the 1920's Carolyn married Ed Riebeth. W[...]During the 1930's, the Depression years, Ed lived in later they were successfully planted here[...]ardin part of the time where his business was and in gave our Mike an Angora goat. Billy could[...]s. grinder in the kitchen and, in winter, Smokey building In Billings Carolyn was on the Y.W.C.A. Board fires in our few stoves and fireplace. and one year[...] |
| [...]y fragrance. We'd stick our fingers int o In winter we skated on the ditch. An old river bed the holes left in the porch posts by the bullets of Wraps- across[...]d "little bay team", we'd t ake dancing in some tepee on the riverbank. summer evening rides[...]uld take all the kids crying, " curlew! curlew!". In the near distance, a herd riding in one of these that had a bed large enough. of wild horses might sweep across the hilltops, then In July of 1910 we moved back to Billings, a very stop and look at us. There were no deer or antelope in unhappy day. Summers, though, starting in 1911, we those hills then. Deer had been driven i[...]E dwin Walter Riebeth (1883-1964), grew up in a[...]hrossel three sisters. The boys swam in nearby lakes, and skated on t hem in winter. Everyone played on the[...]. Ed, third youngest, us jump down into the wheat in its huge stora~e bin; to quit school[...] |
| [...]ranches. Offering the job, he said, "The pay In his teens, he traveled to the harvest fields,[...]outdoorsman; he had once made a 400 mile elevator in northern Montana. He was home enough,[...]had seldom before 1910, to win three silver cups in Minneapolis ridden - said he felt high[...]an he would tennis tournaments. He enjoyed a year in San Fran- on the Empire State Building. However, he locked his cisco, employed by Sunset[...]This led to its closing. It re-opened months later, helped in Billings, he was usually in the championship games, by Frank Heinrich's money. A mass of real estate city and state. In his early Hardin years, he was the one need[...]e'd meet the fish-hatchery's car, and plant trout in the He mentioned Fred Lipp and the Buzzetti youth[...]h, Real Estate and insurance, he had learned in until nothing more could be done. M[...]aying generous bonus, the Third Street building with the tennis, chess, volley ball. He belonged to the Young county offices in it. When that good friend died before Men's Club,[...]the transfer was completed, Ed bought the building. He Lions' second president, and editor of the Li[...]building would pay for itself while he did "something[...]months, he tracked down new tenants. A few years[...]building. E. W. Riebeth |
| [...]had built the boat, he bounded through shop in Hardin which is now occupied by Olsen's Bighorn C[...]iver shot them over some huge from Bozeman in 1910 to live with his sister, Mrs. boulder.[...]Frank Nolan. He was in war work; and he kept working, still paying Depre[...]James Thomas Gibbs, born in Indiana and Grace Chapman Gibbs, born in Illinois, were the parents[...]of Elsie Gibbs. Elsie was born in Prescott, Iowa. The[...]to Bozeman, Montana in 1905.[...]they came to Hardin in 1914, living on a farm northwest[...]He came with his parents to Hardin in December of[...]1919. He worked on ranches in Big Hom County for[...]operated a farm northwest of Hardin. In 1929 they[...]. Gibbs several boat trips through Big Hom Canyon in mid- worked at a lambing camp, Elsie did h[...]Gibbs could be cared for more easily. He died in April children John Mason and Lorraine, and Raybu[...]e McDonald of Centralia, Missouri came to In 1937, Roy was appointed Chief of Police and Hardin on the Burlington R.R. in 1914. Walt, as most then became Deputy[...] |
| [...]V. Bailey. This was the first and only store in Wyola for election and served in that capacity for 20 years until he many years.[...]ry 2, 1967. On December 23, 1969 he In 1916 he was adopted into the Crow Indian tribe, w[...]elsewhere. years until a change in rules made post-masters Mr. Riley was Secre[...]s, and was Past Grand Noble of the I.O.O.F. Lodge in Hardin. Roy was well liked as a Sheriff and served the Hardin community in many ways. He liked to bowl, square dance, fish a[...]Bill Roach, one of our neighbors, had lived in the Valley, came up to our area. Hearsay was that he loved a girl in the valley, and she married another, so he was a[...]d looked after things for us while we were living in town. . He[...]nest C. Robinson was born of Scotch-Irish parents in Owatonna, Minnesota, October 1, 1879. He died in Sheridan, Wyoming April 11, 1941 from a heart att[...]ame to Montana for reasons of health, and settled in Wyola in 1912. There were four children: Harry F., William C., James E., and Gladys R. The first home in W yola was known as the Bailey house, and he beca[...]re owned by E. A. Richardson and H. office in rear[...] |
| [...]stic member of the Hardin Rod and Gun Club. In these early days the family enjoyed many trips up[...]ttle Hom Canyon. Dempsey Voiles ran a livery barn in Wyola and his horses and buggies were available for such outings. In 1924 he entered a partnership with Chris Christen[...]erated the Wyola Mercantile Store until his death in 1941. The post-office was a part of the store.[...]J. S. Romine in his buggy, 1919 During the twenty-nine years he lived in Wyola his goal was to make his town a better place in which to Our nearest neighbors were t[...]tertainment near our homes and we were happy in doing so. Teen-agers in those days didn't have access to[...]Creek School we had to room and board in Hardin to go[...]junior and senior years in Hardin High School and it so[...]was then called Eastern Montana Normal School in Romine home on the ranch Billings I taught the total of twenty-one years in[...]ardin District 17-H. Eighteen of those years were in[...]MILY I have lived in this area since the fall of 1917.[...]tark Bair and Tom Coons, came into the Sarpy area in the spring of 1917 from Bowbells, North Dakota. E[...]ilt a one-room homestead shack during that summer in which we lived for about two years, before building a larger, log house. The middle of October of the[...]ch as it was. My younger brother, James, was born in July of the first summer we spent in our new homestead shack. During our early ho[...]Tuesdays and Fridays. There being no school in the Spring Creek com- FAMILY OF HECTO[...]Homer S. Allen Hector Ross was born in Canada, September 27, and John A. Perry an[...] |
| He worked as a miller in Burlington, Iowa, and 1938 and is buried in Billings. Betsy is married to there, in 1871, he married Mary Celina Davey. While William Torske and currently lives in Idaho. Marie living in Wapello, and later in Kossuth, Iowa, their Server Ross died in a Billings nursing home in 1968. children were born. In order, they were: Annabelle, Both Bob and Marie Ross are also buried in Billings. Robert, Ida, Mary Barbara (Marie), Jess[...]esentative from Des substitute teacher in Crow Agency following her arrival Moines County, Iowa, for two terms. there in 1900. In 1905 she was married to Clyde Lewis, The fam[...]ded son of John Lewis and wife. They lived in St. Xavier for night school to become a millwrigh[...]the first two or three years of their marriage. In 1907 a In 1896 Mr. Ross came to Crow Agency to serve as daughter, Vivian, was born. In 1909 they were the the first government miller. T[...]of twin daughters, Evelyn and Genevieve. remained in Iowa to wait for Marie to graduate from Genevieve died at 10 months of age. In 1912 another high school in 1897. Ida arrived in 1898 and taught daughter, Helen, was born. school in Crow Agency. Mrs. Ross, Jesse and Clifford[...]ed the following their brief residency in St. Xavier, and lived telegraphic trade before fo[...]ther, along with there until Clyde's retirement in 1945. He had served Marie, in 1900. Annabelle remained in Iowa, where she continuously in the government service for over 40 had employment[...]een Project Hector Ross continued as miller in Crow Agency Engineer on the Crow Irrigatio[...]until April 29, 1904, when he became ill and died in a They moved to Hardin in 1945. Mr. Lewis died in 1950 Billings hospital from Bright's Disease. During his and is buried in the Hardin Cemetery. Mrs. Lewis time as miller, h[...]k flour samples home for currently resides in the Rosebud Memorial Nursing testing, and Mrs. Ross became famous for the delicious Home in Forsyth. At the age of 94, she is the last bread[...]as buried surviving member of her family. in the Custer Battlefield National Cemetery, as befitted Vivian married Glenn Kimball and lives in a veteran of the Civil War. Hysham. Evelyn married Arnold Graf and lives in Mrs. Ross, Marie, Jesse, and Clifford moved to Billings. Helen married Archie Grover and lives in Columbus, Montana, where they owned a small acreage Hardin. of land. Bob continued to work in the depot in Crow Annabelle, the eldest child of[...]rried and Ross, never married. She lived in Winona, Minnesota, continued to live until her death in 1963. Jesse and for many years, a speciali[...]r a Clifford finished their high school education in Winona law firm. She retired from her[...]th the rest University where he received a degree in Dentistry in of her family. She was a highly intellectua[...]raduation, Clifford opened an office community in which she lived. She died in 1938 and was in Hardin and practiced there until his death during the buried in Mountview Cemetery in Billings. influenza epidemic, at Camp Dodge Iowa, in 1918. Mr. and Mrs. Hector Ross a[...]heir Mrs. Ross and Jesse had sold their home in one daughter, Marie Lewis, and 8 livi[...]ive with Clifford. They 4 of whom still live in this area of Montana. continued their residency in Hardin until the death of Mrs. Ross in 1931. Mrs. Ross was affectionately known as Grand[...]MR. AND MRS. R. P. ROSS never married, and lived in Hardin until his death in [Marie Server] 1955. Mrs. Ross is buried in Custer Battlefield National Marie Server[...]eside her husband and son. Jesse was buried in 1885. Her father, Fred Server, had been a soldier in the Hardin Cemetery. under Captain Reno in 1876. He had helped build Fort Bob (Robert)[...]ier and a civilian. After he on November 5, 1903, in Crow Agency. Marie Server resigned from the army he hauled freight for a time but was born in 1885 in Junction City, now Custer, and her changed o[...]he married. He and his wife parents ran the hotel in Crow Agency. At this time Bob operated a hotel in Custer, where Marie was born and was working for[...]perated a hotel there. She went to Fort railroad. In 1913 they returned to Hardin, and resided Cu[...]rilling of the there until their deaths. Bob died in 1963. During the soldiers - she loved the horses. As she became older she time he lived in Hardin he served as cashier of the was al[...]so many single men County offices. He was active in civic, fraternal, and it is no wonder that s[...]ter. church groups. At the time of his retirement in 1954, he In 1903 she married Bob Ross who was working for had[...]er the Fort and Orville, twins, were born to them in 1915, and in was abandoned and dances there were only a[...]y, joined the family. Cecil married They lived in Crow Agency until 1913 when they moved Doris Mann, and now lives in California. Orville died in to Hardin. Mr. Ross had a very friendly[...] |
| [...]s no surprise when he decided to go families in Hardin, even tho the kids did not meet the into[...]eir wedding. The family life in Hardin was great, the whole city Previously Carl[...]be known that he considered was one family in way or another. When it came such gatherings cru[...]fle and fired a shot out of the bedroom in all they sure let their hair down and had one goo[...]f the crowd, but it time. This was enjoyed in full by kids and all. went through the arm of Mr[...]ver, the Matt Larkin got me a job working in the bowling lanes Rankins and Ross families were[...]board and room. Then I went to work for the came in on schedule but did not stop until it reached[...]cery Store, and from there to the opening of very hot summer's day that Marie Ross spent there[...]of flies for company. "I When I was in high school I had to work and play sure gave that[...]ends there and it was a great place: always lives in Billings; twins Orville (deceased) and Cecil of[...]with them Torske, Blackfoot, Idaho. Mr. Ross died in 1963 and and to enjoy all the good eats[...]My father, R. P. Ross, was in the Court House for[...]enjoyed his work all the time. As I got home in the early[...]early hours. So I remember getting [lived in Big Horn County from 1913 to 1932 home about three-thirty when a car pulled up and some in the 500 block North Custer, Hardin, Montana][...]wanted to see the At the time of my birth in Crow Agency, Montana Clerk of Court so he could get a marriage license. I told 1906, it was in Rosebud County. The folks were living him h[...]a lot of these license's and have not had one of building Grit Mills; he was sent to Crow Agency to put[...]went hotel, it was here that I was born. We lived in Crow back to bed. The fellow got a big ki[...]a twist that I thought was & Q. Railway. We lived in Basin until July 1914 then good-one shoul[...]was at this time that they Playing in the dance band was something I en- started to tak[...]ng those folks really enjoying too many buildings in the town at that time, but I can themselves[...]them, and we enjoyed the good together and in a nights' time have such fun! Saturday old board[...]to sit on the side and I started to school in Hardin with Nellie Brown in watch-it was a great town life. the first grade; it was a great start in life. Dick W~en I remember the e[...] |
| [...]er of Chouteau and out for the day. I was playing in the City Band then, Eighth was by itself.[...]n occasional tem- was a jam! The band was playing in front of the Drug porary shack. I can re[...]as worried about the windows man living in such a place on a cold winter day cutting falling[...]burned Many of the boys went home not feeling too hot but coal mainly in the kitchen stove and in the hot-air they had one good time. furnace in the basement. We dressed warmly and had I r[...]busy all the time. Bill warmed us only in front of the outlet. Larkin was having a time wit[...]t cut hair, so he went up and Dr. did not put him in garden together with a cow and some chicke[...]ble part of the family food and keep came walking in the office and asked Clifford what he us[...]just looking at Bill's tooth however, that water was too expensive for a large and going to put so[...]with a quick move twisted Bill's In later years, I wondered why Hardin was located head and Clifford pulled out the tooth. Bill stood there in such a rather unfavorable place, and was told tha[...]traveled enough to know that there office on the run, went over to the barber shop and told are w[...]e no buildings on either of the half-blocks In 1930 Irene Buzzetti and I got married; we were[...]uteau avenue across from us when we moved married in Red Lodge as we could not see the folks[...]It was my job to go and get the milk in a pail in the happen until they got to Laurel, then Irene t[...]people outside my own folks. Joe Lammers was days in Red Lodge and Billings.[...]. When on a visit At the time I was working in Red Lodge; in a back home many years later I learned that Joe was a couple of months after Irene got there we moved to gra[...]he Spoon River Anthology, and of a keeping Hardin in our thoughts, as it is a great town. rece[...]town and rural life in the early years of this century was[...]the troubles that plague cities today. Hardin in the THE ROUSH FAMILY early days was not like a place in more settled sections By Fred[...]developed the When we moved to Hardin, early in 1915, the big relations, both good and bad, of those lived in longer- question was the new City water system. At that time, settled places. most water was from wells, and one of the tasks, of the[...]to town mainly to send us hired girl was to carry water from the neighbors well, youngsters to school. Since we arrived in winter, I was about 200 feet away. We youngsters[...]ether already knew how to read, after a month in the first the water tower was still being built, but I believe that grade in the old brick building, I was promoted to the as soon as the ground thaw[...]he!-1 were second and went to the "tin can" building, where the dug, water mains laid, as were pipes from them to the[...]s. After Christmas, the second houses for kitchen water. It was a few years before we grad[...] |
| [...]he name of my third-grade hauled to the building site. We made 5000 bricks a day. teacher- it may[...]bricks are of better material, rolled and stayed in Hardin for only a year. There were three[...]my fifth grade year, one of whom later now in brick, make them lighter and holds the mortar mar[...]taught by Miss better. Helen Gebauer. In the Seventh Grade we were moved Father had worked with an Englishman, Mr. to the high school building. I do not remember the Dimbleby, in Billings so he asked him to come to names of most[...]G. M. Harris taught eighth-grade brick building built with the aid of Charlie Hunt was arithmetic[...]what was going on around me particles in the mud out west of town which would swell as man[...]eak when heated-we lost too many bricks, so place in the world, and, for various reasons, we did not[...]ession 1920 and there were six bricks in the mold instead of three. continued through out[...]t one time graveled sidewalks, were erected in the central area of town and streets were a great improvement. That was typical of many are still in use. the times.[...]ing out by itself on the prairie-all eight grades in[...]Belue has just recently built an office building on that AND HARDIN'S BRICK-MAKING[...]By Floyd Rousseau In the fall of 1910 we built a large brick barn on the We came from Billings in May, 1908-my mother, back of the lot at 411 N. Crow; we lived in it that winter brother Otto, sister Eva, and myse[...]west of Hardin. We could see wide store building and sold general merchandise- little except sageb[...]hree feet high, Pedens had groceries-and this building was later sold except some trees along the river,[...]to Koprivas, and is now occupied by Solazzis. The in Hardin. The five buildings on Center avenue were[...]Street. Our folks stopped there and market in town.) I bought the first two colts: the first bought supplies, then loaded family and groceries in a was a mare, rather large, and the second[...]Father had built a two room house just in the barn. under the bench, and we lived here for two years. We had a town band, organized in the fall of 1910 Father had brought us here[...]We practiced all winter and made our first kilns, in which to heat the bricks for they had to be public appearance in 1911; we played at least once a burned at a certa[...]Mrs. Woods the bricks for sand-rolled brick-three in a mold and the would take over. Some of the members were my cousins dirt was all ground in a pug-mill. Mud was shovelled in Jack Rowland and Charlie Hunt, brother Otto,[...]ency), it was then hand-rolled, myself. placed in the mold, and a bow with a piano string cut[...]nts, ground to dry and then wheeled into the kiln in a made foundations, and helped with va[...]barrow. There the moulder would Otto fell in love with horses and soon moved to a[...] |
| [...]a monument put up on the Reno I left Hardin in 1915, had a homestead seven miles Battlefield[...]ield from Columbus, and went back to laying brick in to it. He loved conducting groups of people to various various cities. I was in Wichita Falls, Texas for thirty- sites of historic importance and thus "educating" them three years. In 1964 I came back to Hardin to stay. to ou[...]this became his chief interest until his death in 1941. DR. W. A. RUSSELL AND FAMILY By Marion Russell Carper Very early in 1908 my father, Dr. W. A. Russell, Mam.ma, (Jenni[...]'s half-brother, Emory Flickinger who later lived in Hardin and was the City Engineer. Water had been turned into the big ditch of the Huntley[...]and the challenges great. Both of my parents were in- terested in helping the town grow and enjoyed the people; Dad[...]ing our last year there, started a library. In 1914 I was ready for high school, and this posed a problem. Since there would only be three grades in the upper room, Dad persuaded the District Superi[...]t of Schools to put a ninth grade course of study in its place, and this Mother gave music le[...]ederation of Women's Clubs ; later she held In August of that year we had driven to Hardin to the same office in Chapter L., P.E.O. She studied visit friends who[...]library science and was assistant librarian in the move here. Mr. and Mrs. Peden joined in the praise of Hardin library for nineteen years. She retired in 1948 Hardin and its future, the water system and electric and joined me for a ye[...]about her experiences, practice, home and office in Huntley; ten days later we illustrating them[...]y" moved to Hardin, although we did not in 1969 at the age of ninety-three. actually arrive[...]Meantime I graduated from Hardin High in its passed away.[...]rd graduating class, completed the two-year In 1917 Dad married Bessie Reed, a distant[...]n. My New York. He became increasingly interested in first year of teaching was in Kalispell, then I returned preventive medicine an[...]officer to Hardin to teach social studies in the high school was hired by school boards throug[...]. He conducted pre-school busy place. In 1927 I went to Winnetka, Illinois where clinics in the communities and for at least two years,[...]car was one of her first and school visiting in Central and South America with Montana accomplish[...]on Dad and it never taught three more years in the same building- with the[...] |
| same assembly seats-that I had left and in the junior One year later, he decided t[...]My grandmother was born in a small village close[...]they landed in New York my grandmother remembers[...]afraid of the large horses because in Norway they had[...]grass. This was the cause of the sheep war in Montana[...]m Virginia, Mr. Salveson's parents were born in Norway and where he says the name Boone is[...]h some of their friends. After derson is in Montana. His grandfather was a slave- reaching th[...]he crop to raise, When Mr. Salveson was nine months old, his and so that great-great uncle[...]oys were old enough to work for plantation. In Missouri throve great forests of hickory, themsel[...]cut cedar- father, who had been a prisoner in the Civil War, came wood. The boys didn't get to go to town only once a later to Oklahoma; and, in about 1880, he started a month.[...]acco Their house was of log and Gus was born in a buyer, followed his cousins to Oklahom[...]ne, he started school and went to found himself in the retail lumber business. Many of the the eight[...]Bob's father, Walter Boone Saunders, worked in Ranch. " He worked there for a year, then went to[...]oon spread over Oklahoma and seventeen, he worked in a sawmill at Birney. When he Nebraska, where it had a store in Red Cloud and several was twenty, he worked as an[...]others. The senior Mr. Saunders, discovering that in Indian Emergency Conservation, for two years. Later, Montana two lumber yards could be run for the cost of on a construction job, he was sent to Washington. one in Nebraska, set out for Billings. He opened a yard[...]had their first child, Allan. and settled there in 1906. Robert Boone Saunders was Later he was sent[...]father established yards in Ballantine, Hysham,[...] |
| Rapelje, and in Greybull, Wyoming. Oil had been E. A.[...]discovered near Grey bull. Later there was a yard in Richardson were friends. In 1906 they went together to Gillette.[...]devastation of San Francisco after the ear- In 1928, the company bought out Thompson Yards thquake. That same year Bill Scally lost his wife. in Hardin, and Bob Saunders moved here to be manager[...]w Agency was his roommate there for awhile. In 1927 he married Mattie Bundy. They had three chil[...]le place. Both of the Saunders had great interest in their children and in the children's friends. They were helpful to thei[...]n High School. The boys helped the teams to glory in the late 1940's. During Homecoming at Montana Sta[...]twenty-five years ago. Her portrait was featured in Hardin and Billings papers. Not many years before selling the business in 1971, William Scally-portrait, probably taken in early[...]the Saunders Lumber Company had built a fine, new building. It now houses French's Building Materials. He had married Harriet Grover, whose father, The senior Saunders live in Sheridan, Wyoming; Bob, Andrew Nathan Grover, was superintendent of Custer Jr., and family in Billings; Lloyd and his family in Battlefield from 1893 to 1906. He was a Civil War Gillette, Wyoming; and Martha and hers in Texas. veteran. The Grovers lived in the stone house, then new, to which, in those days, was attached a stone wing[...]orn at Fort Custer; that's where trader, was born in Cincinnati, November 11, 1860, the only[...]m Soon Mr. Scally had a store at Pryor, in which E. Ireland looking for a home in the U.S.A. They went on A. Richardson may[...]ers, Mr. Scally flour. He and his sons all worked in the woods, where took up land near Pryor;[...], the ancient buffalo wallows filled with water, where curlews eldest, left home and joined the A[...]ers. When his stint was over, he was mustered out in With "Auntie Margaret" in charge of his Montana and became a foreman on one[...]hildren (Margaret, Lillian, Bill, and crews that, in the early 1900's built the large canal Harriet), Mr. Scally moved back to Crow in 1907 to down the Big Horn from the canyon.[...]iley was While Pat was still at Fort Custer, in 1885, Bill leaving for Miles City. The family lived in the store's came west to join him, but not in the Army. After small house until Mr. Scally built a large one, after spending a winter in a dugout with a companion (some 1910, in the field across the road from our schoolh[...] |
| Margaret graduated from Billings High School in 1914. Mr. Scally had owned a house in Billings, against the day when his children would be in high school. Into this (which became her property), Aunt Margaret moved when Bill remarried in 1913. The children lived with her during later sc[...]on to college, and got married. She lived awhile in Laurel, and during her last years in Missoula, where she had the loving attention of h[...]et McCann. Young Bill returned to Crow and worked in his father's own store. Mr. Scally's second wife[...]She and Bill had a daughter, Ann. Mr. Scally died in 1930, and finally Mrs. Scally went to live in Hardin with Ann and her husband, Eugene Sloan. Sh[...]lived in Hardin. Hilda remembers going to school in buses to Crow Agency when the family lived in Dunmore. Later, they[...]Like many of the early settlers in Big Horn[...]y Hilda Schafer Benzel The Schafers arrived in the Hardin area in 1921, having emigrated from Russia in 1910. They lived in Mr. Schafer and his prize team of ba[...]J'!ie, now Mrs. Dave Fries, Robert who was killed in heated on the kitchen range with its hot water reser- a car-horse accident near the Hilltop in 1937; August, voir.[...] |
| [...]were a much valued possession of the young ladies in the early '30's. Young women "marcelled" their ha[...]aul Schafer to Marie Mehling, all the young women in the Wedding Party under went this procedure.[...]all children every night, while the men rolled up in quilts on the floor and the women occupied the be[...]Because Philipp Schafer had been a school teacher in his native Russia, his children were taught to re[...]bles, hymn books, and catechisms were all written in the German language. Gradually, the German gave w[...]eventually the Sunday morning services were given in both German and English.[...]were pioneers of Wyoming. They came from Colorado in 1910. All the Schaller children were born in Wyoming. Mr. Schaller retired from Holly Sugar in 1964. Mrs. Schaller retired from District 17H in 1967.[...]· pushed in a doll buggy by their two daughters. He[...]flew in all directions. The cat made the clothes line pol[...]ders, The Schafers moved to Washington State in 1939, pick up the mail and go home. with a[...]also went. Their infant son, Charles who was born in 1936, is buried at Fairview Cemetery. Minnie, Vic[...]ssed away November 23, 1963 and Mrs. Schafer died in August 1970. They are buried in Wapato Reservation Cemetery near Wapato, W[...] |
| [...]daughters. Tom, by the way, was one of our early water conservationists. Many of his reservoirs hold precious water in the hills hereabout today. Grace and Henry[...]ve years. Mrs. Schaller had taught six years in Worland, Wyoming, two in Hardin, and seventeen at St. Xavier. She was an a[...]lf. Monroe was buried at the foot of the mountain in Glacier Park named Rising Wolf in Hugh Monroe, far left, the famous[...] |
| [...]ch Fort Lincoln near Bismark, N. D. Robert was an in- near Big Timber. Julia was born at that ranch in 1890. terpreter to Custer for the Crow scouts bec[...]to put down Indian uprisings. Custer In 1902, Julia Schenderline went to Pennsylvania spl[...]who used to sit behind her in class and pull her hair.[...]In December 1914, Julia married William Sanders.[...]The Sanders made their home in Grey Cliff and raised four children. In 1932 they moved to Pryor and there[...]about 1,000 acres of land each near Pryor in the Crow[...]several years earlier in the Livingston area. In 1933 Julia married Hank Schenderline and the[...]Cemetery for sixteen years. He retired in 1973. Now they reside in Lodge Grass with a little pet[...]dog named Speedy. The long family tree is in no danger[...]Patefield came from Wisconsin in 1917, bringing their[...]and drilled a well by hand but the water was not fit to[...]ided to take his chances. Within sister worked in the Gallatin valley. a few days every man in his column would be dead. In 1920 the Patefields bought the general store in Jackson and a few other Scouts were cut off[...]Reno's troops were Dances were held in the school house and collec- located. The next da[...]near the Big Horn. Later, victory songs of In 1922 I married Geo. H. Schissler, Jr. His[...] |
| [...]four year old steers on what was known in early days as[...]went to work for Worthington General store and run[...]He married Cora L. Williams of Junction City in[...]ntana. Mr. and Mrs. William Patefield hauling water for their Among the[...]ompsons and Tom Brennans-father |
| [...]away at 88 years of age in 1959.[...]Jr. is the owner of Les's Super Mart or Food Farm in '[...]of King Supers' Meat Market in Denver, Colorado.[...]loved best in the place he loved most.[...]Cora Williams in 1887 one of ten children. He came to Sheridan,[...]hroeder family while Wyoming with his parents in 1893 when he was six they lived at Lodge Grass. T[...]ie attended the first Lodge Grass School In those days Sheridan was a real old cowtown, along[...]the "big day" so to have a few nickels in his pocket he[...]called "Bummie". In later years most folks shortened it[...]He was a cowboy because he had never had a desire in[...]looking in any sense of the word. But if you knew him[...]chance, played just as hard. He had in his day been[...]never known what true loneliness can be, nor In 1911 or 1912 Ed was transferred to Wyola,[...]hed heavier than it might have on some who are . In 1915 Ed left the Boss Farmer job to ranch for not so aware of the freedom to be felt in a cowboy's himself on the Upper Little Hor[...] |
| [...]Army during the Civil War. While he was living in Hardin, he played an active part in all movements for[...]creation of Big Horn County; membership in the[...]administration, that the city water works were in- stalled. In 1916 he was elected to serve as represen-[...]tat ive in the state legislature, and served two terms.[...]In February 1884, he was married to Miss[...]lph V., and Willard J . ; only Willard, who lives in Hardin, remains. Mr. Scott passed away in November[...]Willard J. Scott was born in La Crosse, Wisconsin[...]nd Jeannette M. (Lang) Scott. His mother was born in[...]Hardin. He finished his early education in Hardin, graduating from Hardin High School in 1918. He Left: Henry "B um " S chubert R ight: H[...]while there enlisted for service in the First World War. couldn't always jump on a ho[...]o Returning to Hardin he became a partner in the Hardin be published of his experiences as a c[...]o finish it. The part he did finish was published in Richards. The firm had the authorized agency[...]xt four years Hon . Wm. John Scott was born in County Down, completing his education.[...]onsin. As a youth he learned the printer's trade in the office of the historic Brick Pomeroy, owner o[...]se Democrat. After following t he printer's trade in La Crosse, Jacksonport, Arkansas and in ew Mexico, for a number of years, he ret urned to La Crosse. In 1880 he was appointed un- dersheriff of La Crosse County and later elected sheriff. In all, he was connected with the sheriff's office for seventeen years . In 1896, he was appointed to the office of Sup't . o[...]nsin. After retiring from that office, he engaged in general contracting until 1907 when he came to Montana. Here he embarked in the lumber business with N. C. Bacheller of Huntl[...]Co. The business was sold to the Broat Lumber Co. in 1917 and Mr. Scott retired permanently. It is to be noted in this review that much of the life of this patriotic American was spent serving the in- terests of his country. His first vote was cast for Abraham Lincoln while he was serving in the Union[...] |
| He obtained employment at Marshall Fields in garden. It happened to be on the grounds of the old Chicago in the auditing department and was there until Penetente church that was his first studio in Taos. he was called to Hardin on account of his[...]before he came to Montana, where he arrived in 1902 to After the death of his father he en[...]of Indian paintings to the University of County in 1928 and was re-elected in 1930. He did not California. file for a th[...]. fl accepted a position with Holly Sugar Company in 19 in the accounting department and remained in the employ for twenty years. He retired in 1962. He was very active in city and county affai during the early years of h[...]ven years. He is the only Charter Member of Kiwan in an active role. He is also a past head of the Moo[...]II. He conducted fur drives during the war years in both the Red Cross a; the U.S.O. He holds Life Memberships in the Americi Legion and in St. John's Lodge /192. During 50 years he was active in attendi.t military burials at Custer National Cem[...]en Treasurer 1 the United Methodist Church. In 1938 he married Margaret Nelson and ti present fa[...]s. Edwara Guy and Mary E. Scott both of whom live in Helena, Portrait of J. H. Sharp by Meyer Studi.o, Cincinnati and a son, Willard N. Scott, living in Billings. during his Montana years.[...]ry by his family. He housewives, in her big apron stiff with ruffles. Like her sometimes signed himself " Uncle Hennery" in letters husband, she had an eye for beauty; her kitchen cur- to me. He was born in Bridgeport, Ohio, in 1859, where tains were "Japanese print," a[...]and. " She played for us, too. Once from Indiana. In a few years, he and Addie Byram were when Louise was visiting, she accompanied her sister in married and studying abroad together, he art and[...]as one that Addie Sharp had picked to study voice in Germany, where she stayed on alone. out f[...]ow war-shields, papoose boards, pipe sacks, much. In the West, he found what he liked to do. He[...]tree. It is decorated with a stuffed weasel- good in a row, and added a long porch facing a sid[...] |
| [...]he died after a fight with a porcupine. In our talks twenty. Another occasional guest was M[...]about old times during a Riebeth visit to Taos in 1946, (Fra), herself an artist. I don't know whet[...]f, though he didn't give up the cabin their cabin in an open field, not much more than a shed or[...]He married his old at first, but later enlarged. In the old studio, he painted friend Louise, and h[...]seat on a straight chair placed on a In Pasadena, where he also had a home, he died in low platform and said, "Sissy, take out your gum.[...]After three years of drouth and grasshoppers in train. Mrs. Sharp, half buried in fox furs, rushed ahead Kansas, Ben and Miran[...]and the huge portfolio he always carried. He came in time Alonzo aged ten months, into a covered wagon and for the fair in October. That kept brushes and camera sta[...]ill, he and to do the washing, and bake bread in a dutch oven over my father held long conversatio[...]the laughter. He could converse with the Indians in sign children became ill, they'd find a[...]In June 1886, after six weeks of travel, they[...]arrived in Sheridan, Wyoming. They purchased one[...]Tongue River in Montana, twenty-five miles north of[...]the country has ever known) in their cabin. Mrs. Shreve[...]was in Buffalo, and the only neighbors for several miles[...]During the long months, they used up their provisions, so in April Mr. Shreve went to Sheridan[...]ived He immediately began to have exhibits in his and that put an end to some of the[...]terrified of Indians. She was also firs t exhibit in Billings was held at the home of my aunt[...] |
| that fear, and was glad to see the cowboys come in with MABEL SIMMONS' STORY the ro[...]t on more rooms were added to the log born in Erie, Kansas, October 5, 1870, crossed the cabin,[...]and plains with his parents by ox-cart in 1876, and they Ralph (twins) were born on July 22, 1888. Several years settled in Union County, Oregon. Mother was born later four[...]o twins) and Frank. in a covered wagon train in 1888, and they settled at There were a few '[...]ir horses, went to the sheep camp, put the herder in his wagon and told him to stay there till the fol[...]took place, and people nearly starved. In 1899 homesteads were opened in eastern Oregon; father sold[...]tied to their wagon, and had a pig in a crate. Father[...]led on a homestead three miles out of Prineville, in[...]September, 1899. He built a 12' x 18' shack, put in[...]I was born there, the fifth child in six and one-half Standing: [all Shreves], Ollie, John, Mr. and Mrs. Ben years; the country was dry and hot; the best crops Shreve, Frank, Alonzo; seated: Sa[...]We spent our school days in Eugene. In 1913 the Over the years meadows were cleared[...]ll of the land was homesteaded celebration in the states for a long time. The next day and everything grazed in pastures. our wagon was[...]funny " people. The Shreves purchased a home in Sheridan where Hardly anyone could speak[...]od : barn, tool shed, and 1948. Both of them rest in the Sheridan Cemetery. granary.[...] |
| [...]inter set We harvested around Opheim, Sim in the field, in. We knew no one, neighbors were a mile away in each and I cooked. The wind was awful. I had[...]around there said they were snowed in most of the We grew as all young people do[...]happened. lunches froze, and we nearly died. In summer we all worked, who were old enough. Then c[...]be done we did it! The war came to an end in 1918. Sim (J. W. Simmons) and I were married. We[...]We decided to come back to the States. We worked in Washington and Jim was born there. We went back t[...]ld everything but the land, and decided to settle in Montana.[...]In the spring we picked Hardin, Montana as the[...]and pop in the car. We went on to Wyola, spent the rest[...]of the night, and arrived in Hardin at six that night-[...]short. I became ill in June and spent until September in[...]During the early days in Hardin people used to go Mr. and Mrs. J . W. Simmons and son James, 1927 swimming in the Little Horn river above the bridge; the[...]In 1930 a house at 405 N. Crow Ave. was up for tax[...]pers to enter the U. S . and the windows were in, but next day, when we went to leave Canada. Befo[...]We had heard about drouths but were never in one if he wanted to check the car? He gave me one of those until moving to Montana. The country was hot and dry, far away smiles that only a red c[...] |
| [...]friends, and outstanding among a community garden in south Hardin. They plowed the them were the High School Principal and his wife, J . N. ground, the water was furnished, and all people had to and Wil[...]He had worked in Boy Scouts for twenty years, at- After the d[...]ged to many of grass, grain, or anything that got in their way. After educational organizations. the[...]lars each, but they were a frog pond then. I haven't said anything about our Indian neigh- ors, and ne[...]by saying Hardin has been good to us- we arrived in Hardin with one young son and a spotted pup. Over[...]ent on to higher education. James is an engineer, in the space program, in New Orleans. William, a music instructor, has taught in many fine schools and studied in Vienna, Ann Skeie [Mrs. E. A.] in the rose garden of the Austria. Janice, her husband and two small children, retirement home in California, 1975 spent three years in Liberia, West Africa, as missionaries to the Bassa tribe. As for me, who wanted We lived in various places in North Dakota before to get out of Big Horn County as fast as I could forty- coming to Montana, and in each place I participated in seven years ago, I too have changed. When I come[...]Junior and Senior music clubs, and singing in many with its fertile fields, new homes and businesses, I can musical groups as well as in church. only say I am proud to be a part of it.[...]tains, and here in Carlsbad-by-the-Sea I am fortunate to[...]ANN SKEIE available in the San Diego area. Memories of my years [Mrs. E. A. Skeie] in Hardin are precious, and I'll not forget the many[...]LL expected to curtsey to the teacher on arriving in the By Carolyn R. Riebeth m[...]f Henry G. Small was the contrast with conditions in the New York schools was daughter of a you[...]the girl. She was born April 16, 1885, in Tuloga, Oklahoma. students.[...]been taken by her own We were nine children in our family, all well- people to live with a Quaker family in Madison, behaved and helpful to each other. Fathe[...]iding. No one saw the accident, and she sat there in the smg a couple of hymns was sheer joy. I also sang in the dust as the whole party disappeared acros[...]had fallen when she music, singing and directing, in which field I was saw dust again in the distance. Someone was retur- especially train[...]board members from Hardin was again in Oklahoma. She married James Riley and came to Big[...]them (unexpectedly) at dinner. They them in a convent where they stayed until they wer[...] |
| [...]other plans for her, though; he put her to work in his her Matilda, which may have been her rea[...]started working for the Bureau of Indian Affairs in 1907 in Oklahoma. Later she worked in South Dakota, and came to Crow Agency in 1921. She was married in 1923. During the summer of 1929, she was my neighbor at Crow. We had many a chat on the sidewalk in front of the store. She was small, trim, and pret[...]When J. H. Sharp sold his Montana property in the 1930's, Henry Small bought the log cabin on C[...]friend. However, Mary Small spent her last years in that cabin to age 87. She enclosed the porch, for[...]ts, and were replenished and lighted every night, in Henry's youth, by a policeman named Stone.[...]addle horse. When we turned homeward a Cora, five months old. Mattie was yet to come. An old few mi[...]the considerable stretch of road behind him in mere ground; they look not far apart in age. Their mother, seconds, while Mattie's guest screamed in fright. In Jinnie, was a Crow girl. During my father 's tenu[...]and Agent of the Crows (1902-1910), Mattie was an in- away. We could hardly believe that they could overtake dispensable secretary in his office. I believe that she big long-legs[...]op. Mattie was probably Crow men happened to have in those days-Big lucky to be a tal[...]He helped his father at the mill for a time. In leisure[...] |
| [...]Horace at almost impossible not to get acquainted in Crow. Lame Deer. Their brother Max h[...]we were back on the Reservation at a in Sitka, Alsaka where both were employed at the Mt.[...]igh Backed plank floor that extended out over the water. It was so Wolf, was one of the first three[...]he next summer, they Mary was born in 1848, married at Fort Laramie to had a log house[...]he had a large store. They had two daughters and in Several years later, as my parents were taking a 1878 they were divorced. In 1884 she married John Sunday walk in downtown Billings, they were surprised Ro[...]John Rondeau was born in old Mexico in 1840 and died in Montana in 1911 and Mary died near Pine Ridge in 1916. THOMAS LEMUEL SMALL Josephine passed away in February of 1939 and By Bertha Richards was buried at the ranch. In 1948, Tom married Julia One of the Rosebud's[...]where Lemuel was He too was buried in the family cemetery beside both a rancher and a P[...]Around Cowboy" three years in a row. His grandsons In 1907, at the age of 17, Tom's brother Henry are also making names for themselves in the rodeoing went to Gillette, Wyoming. Tom joined him and game. assisted him in bringing one of the large cattle herds from the s[...]e There were numerous old-timers in t he history of Josephine, daughter of Mary and J[...]He first came to Montana from Indiana in 1902 later became theirs and they ranched and raised and worked in Carbon County in the Rockvale area. He livestock there until they[...]h end of t he returned to Indiana for a visit in 1903 and on his return Reservation near the Roseb[...]g across the valley where Hardin now Tom was in great demand as a veterinarian, for his sta[...]reak horses and for his skill as a cowboy. All building a home. He asked why they weren 't settling of his sons profited by his training in the stock down in t he valley which was under an Indian irri[...] |
| [...]Dad and Mother are still alive, living in their own built across the Big Horn river and the foothills where home at 406 Miles Ave., in Billings. They are both they were building would be irrigated-it came to pass ninety-on[...]I. Potter of King Rockvale and they were married in 1906. With a team of City, Oregon, and J. W.[...]r he went to his homestead on the Huntley project in remarkable memory for names and dates and enj[...]or are very few of his generation left, in fact, I can't think Mother to join him.[...]heir land on the project and came to the valley in his time. Big Horn valley on April 1, 1910 and fi[...]ould like to add that my Dad and 'Bachelor Place' in north valley, some of his neighbors those of[...]nett, Sam favors from government and in fact were very disturbed Bennett, and Patrick Swe[...]and School were for the most part the In the early 1900's, Gillette, Wyoming was a center[...]small town, when Maurice Warfield Smith of often in the Holsclaw and Belcher barns. There was[...]time and would bed 18, 1881, left behind in Elkton his parents, Mr. and down the little tykes in the hay. Mrs. John Will[...]n the raising of Maurice hadn't been in Gillette very long before he sugar beets vs. the[...]held at the U. S. Miller home prior worked in the Gillette post office, and the post office to his leaving for Lewiston, Idaho in 1915. was a popular place at that time. In 1917 Dad went to the land office in Billings to file on a homestead in the Sarpy area and he met and visited with a man standing next to him in line-Cary Mabe-who was to become one of his neigh[...]an named Weast. Dad at a later date sold his land in the Iron Springs area to the ·o W' and to George Luther, r. Farmers in the Sarpy area had to haul their grain to Hardin at that time in wagons and to bring sixty bushels of grain by tea[...]could sell it, and transport it by the jug. In 1923 Dad moved to the Doc Perry place three and o[...]h of Hardin and purchased a small farm of his own in 1924 which was three miles south of Hardin and wh[...]ily, Maurice, Becky, Ruby, and moving to Billings in 1956. and Raym[...] |
| Ruby was born in Sundance, Wyoming on provided tr[...]to William Raymond Fox and school building was not yet completed and some of the Elizabeth Z[...]R. and Elizabeth Ann had classes were held in the movie theater. come west from Schoolcraft, Mi[...]on didn't produce a very good crop their marriage in 1888, and had settled in Sundance and so it was necessary for the fami[...]d until 1939. December 24, 1913 they were married in Gillette, Maurice and Ruby then m[...]ly into a Wyoming. They worked on several ranches in the area farm by the Little Big Horn rive[...]death in November 1956. Maurice was well known in his[...]Ruby Smith now lives in Hardin, Montana and[...]I was living on a farm in southern Iowa with my[...]Grass and Crow Agency. In August 1913 my father[...]care to work on the section while visiting? In the first part of March 1928, Maurice and Ruby wi[...]27 Chevrolet and Maurice with the household goods in a Model T Ford truck. The first Model T burned ou[...]e family finances for another truck. They arrived in Sheridan, Wyoming the second night and stayed wit[...]stly dirt, but there were a few miles of pavement in the vicinity of Sheridan. When they reached Ranch[...]The stock cars were only 34' and 36' in length, and the The farm land was foul with[...]he family through the winter. A horse- In October my father was transferred to the d[...] |
| [...]to Hardin on the local freight. It was after water filled sloughs along the railroad tracks near dar[...]at the depot; Bob Ross was the Ionia, and in late September the wild ducks started telegrapher on duty, and the section foreman, whose coming in by the thousands-it was really a bird place Dad w[...]ading hunter's paradise. his household goods in a box car for Sheridan, The rail[...]Slot machines were legal in those days, and Mrs. Reeder had one in her store. Andrew Torske and I[...]the section house and bedded down for the night. In those days the Railroad Company always left a heating stove in their section houses and the coal house was full of coal. The section foreman 's wages in 1913 were $45.00 per month, working ten-hour days[...]W. B. Snyder, father of Lloyd, in his wheat field near[...]reduction in force caused me to be transferred to[...]position in Hardin in 1937, where I remained until my retirement, in February 1963. Goods shipped out of Hardin in those early days[...]winter in the Sarpy country, and in the spring they[...]of chickens on their ranch in Sarpy, and when the CB & Q R .R. station s[...] |
| [...]. Louis. They were true old- time trappers. In November 1916 my father and I purchased the John[...]th a pulley and rope with bucket attached to draw water. One of the first things Dad did v.as to wall the[...]h walls about twelve inches thick, making it cool in summer and warm in winter. I still own this homestead after fifty-nine years. In 1917 I married Pearl Ackerley, and we had two chi[...]. H. R. Salyer of Hardin), and Bill who now lives in Quincey, Illinois. SPEAR FAM[...]Uncle Willis) moved from New |
| June of 1973, and Junior in July of 1974. They moved up from Powder River in 1920, but did not move into their home on Corral[...]In 1922 both Phil and Jessie, Ruth and Junior[...]Ranch and were very active in the Dude Rancher's[...]name was Mather. Jessie preceded Phil in death, 1954 and Phil died in December 1961. Virginia Blue Belle Benton Spe[...]ng this period was the following: "I think |
| good cowboys. State Senator Joe Boyd died in January son of Jessamine and William V. Jo[...]me. County Commissioners as Senator. When he died in He served in the Navy during World War II in the August of that year, Junior was appointed to[...]enator for twelve war. He attended college in Fort Collins, Colorado, and years. Ruth Spear took an avid interest in flying, and Montana State College at Bozeman. He is married to secretly took flying lessons, until in 1945 at the age of Patricia Brooder of Sheridan[...]l into her sixties. She Though Brad lives in Dayton, Wyoming on the was tremendously interested in wild life and birds. For Padlock Ranch, he spends most of his time in Big Hom many years she reported bird and water fowl County, Montana looking afte[...]I was born in Rushville, ebraska on May 16,[...]came to Montana in covered wagons. My sister, Irene,[...]now Mrs. Ted Baker, was only six months old.[...]steep. Both Junior and Ruth were very active in My dad went to work hunting co[...]o Creek Sheepmen, near Billings. and Hawaii in the winters and were alert and active In 1907 I went to school in Billings. There was an until their deaths.[...]located. In about 1907, we saw the last of the freight[...] |
| [...]top, the wolves hides mounted which are in our homes today. I still do a being so cunning, h[...]lower Rotten Grass Creek. We bought the old pups. In a little pocket in the den, laid a large rat- Bert Hayes pla[...]I began ranching on Upper Rotten Grass creek in Bateman; we hunted both wolves and coyotes.[...]ere eating on them. We got eight pen them in. I have seen a lot of changes in the pups there, too.[...]along with the bad. We always put in long hours[...]derson who came to Rotten Grass in the early thirties[...]I was first married in 1924. Later on in 1948, I[...]I'm still able to run my swather cutting hay, and[...]tractor. We have been in diversified farming, raising[...]Nowadays we like to attend the school activities in[...]education. We also like to take in rodeos, parades, 4-H[...]involved in.[...]Walter Standish was born in Jackson, Michigan in[...]my mother. They came in a covered wagon to Bridger, Mr. and Mrs. Dell St[...]Montana, in 1901, with a wagon train, crossing the Big[...]hen we came to the Demmie John Flat near In 1919 they came from Bridger to Lodge Grass; the P[...]were Walter and his family came to Wyoming in 1909, not pleasant; so that is why the ranchers w[...]thirteen cats. We had two retirement in 1942. In 1920 he worked for Willis Spear.[...] |
| [...]hood of his car, and started for his supervisor's in[...]the Standishes had another experience; in the back seat[...]and prepared to shoot when the coyote was in range.[...]rs; I see they are starting to catch their wives- in coyote traps!" Walter Standish caught his last wolf in the Tullock Wolves in the Wolf Mountains were chewing the country in 1925. During the preceding five years he had tail[...]ght, or dead, their mates He passed away in 1965, just short of his ninety- "took off" -usual[...]ed a colt and gashed the mother helped in many of the trapping ventures. He and his severel[...]rene Baker, Hardin, and Birdie Allen, Hayes In 1923 a lone wolf roamed the Pryor country-[...] |
| [...]Academy in Miles City where I spent a year. The next[...]year I went to school in Stacy, a little place with a hotel[...]who lived in the house ran the whole thing. I lived at[...]in Miles City. I graduated from this little school in the eighth grade and then went to high school in Miles[...]I graduated from high school in 1918, returned to[...]and-a-half and I was six months pregnant with the[...]second, my husband was killed in an accident while The last wolf on Pryor Creek, k[...]alone, so I sold it, and bought a house in Ashland where[...]My husband was in the Government Service; we B[...]to Absaroka, resigned from this job, in the Dept. of Agriculture. Montana with a bull te[...]e A year later he applied for work in the Indian years to make the trip because they d[...]vice and worked there for sixteen years. We lived in time. I wasn't even here, so this is what the ol[...]home at 510 Crawford, Hardin. After his death in 1959 I the Custer Battle. Troops were there, and[...]loat Raymond and Russell; Raymond was killed in a tractor while the bulls swam across. accident. Russell is now in Tacoma, Washington. My Absarokee was then[...]and two girls: Clark works for the Government in on a piece of land, and built a house. My mother did not Washington, D. C., Harold Jean is an attorney in live to enjoy it; she died when I was three years old. I Hardin, and Wendell is a lawyer and C.P.A. in do not remember anything of her. My father was in the Billings, Montana, who also does audit[...]t 150 acres. I grew up daughters and lives in Sheridan, Wyoming. One there, being taken care of by my older sisters. It wasn't daughter is in college, and the other is married and has all go[...]nd couldn't afford a Allison, also lives in Sheridan and has two sons and a herder, so my br[...]to herd daughter, the oldest of which is in college. these sheep out on the mesa. This I res[...]fore the dam was Looking back, it wasn't so bad. In later years my Dad built. I saw five truck[...]land where our oldest sister lived. My was in October and Dale was only three and a half years[...]ve got to go old. My dad and an Uncle were building a house about a to school"; I said " Fine,[...] |
| dad, so Mom dressed him in warm clothes and showed I grew up and started working on ranches in the him the road. But for some reason Dale took a road in Hardin area, until I went to work for W. J. Moss in the the opposite direction, which led to some timber where Garvin Basin in 1930 and was there until 1935, when I Dad had bee[...]a which way to Harriette and I were married.in 1938 and she was raised search. He looked until it became too dark to see any in Ashland and Otter Creek Country, as her folks wer[...]Texas with a trailherd of cattle in February 1905. In[...]in the Wolf Mountains 18 miles from the town of Lodg[...]In 1909 my grandmother, Mrs. Katie Stark-[...]word had got to Billings. A lot of people helped in the horses and use the wagon. search, but all they found was some tracks about two In the winter the men would go down to the river mil[...]the third day, we take the ice home, put it in the ice-house, and pack it in received word that he had been found. He was spot[...]train, who had been reading keep their water cold. It would last all summer if it was about the lost child. Dale was tangled up in the right of packed right in the sawdust. way fence. The passenger contacted t[...]The older kids would find a tree that had honey in have only lived about three more hours. They took[...]get the honey out of it. on to Cody where he was in the hospital for ten days. They did n[...]two about four miles, or ride horses. In the winter time the happy people when they brough[...]account was written in 1963.[...]Elbert Steen and Elizabeth Telling were married in[...]marriage. I had been raised in Chicago and worked as a[...]had good crops, but we were in a hail streak and often Stark boys: Walter[...] |
| [...]construction foreman of job driving mules in the construction of the Wicks the Government cre[...]wenty-one or twenty-two men for a year and a half-in place, he came in contact with the I.W.W. Union which summer the c[...]He migrated to the Big Timber country, where he in Crow and each took a ton of ice at intervals,[...]o remain are Clarence, school bus for many years. In May, 1943 he suffered a John, Chester (P[...]o Hardin we could ford the Big Hom river when the water was low, or, in winter, we crossed on the ice. At other times we[...]As you can see, I was very blonde and this in- Many years ago-in June 1912 to be exact-I was trigued the Indian pe[...]creek, when a stranger rode into to build a house in town, which is where I live now. camp. He[...]ed down through the Dominic Stevens was born in Danbury, Con- years. necticut in 1870. As a young child he moyed with his parents to Pittsburg, Penn. He left Pittsburg in 1884 Many times I visited at his home[...]went into the deep south. He ·eventually arrived in kind, generous, and hospitable. No man livin[...]He was a home builder, he believed in the fire-side, in the sacredness of the hearth, and unless gone to[...]in praise.[...] |
| [...]there was a from the house. The cold spring water coming out of the lot of hard work," Mrs. Dominic[...]oing things." In spite of the fact that the nearest neighbors in It was the autumn of 1902 when Dominic Steve[...]set up outside. goodies were brought in from the pantry. The winter was ~1inevere on[...]osephine, Marguerite, Alice and Chester were In March 1903, tlwere iftan building the first log born after the family moved to L[...]s. Ratt Mrs. fus and other varmints ranch in 1942, approximately two years before Mr. were a c[...]ler under the The old chuckwagon was in use many years by dining table.[...]fan and was active in a number of community[...]her husband and two children in 1903, when he pur-[...]cramped bachelor's quarters in the rear of the store.[...]Mrs. Stevenson first came to Montana in April[...]was clerking in his uncle's store at Crow Agency at the[...]Lodge Grass they were in the cattle business on Mrs. Domin[...]ever, Mrs. Stevenson remembers well the building of the was eliminated one day when Mr. Stevens located and first board sidewalks in Lodge Grass and the building destroyed a den of rattlers some five yards from the log of the Little Brown church in 1917. Mr. Stevenson gave house.[...]re made from time to position she accepted in 1936, the town joined the Rural time, and the ran[...]association. Before that time there had everyone in the area.[...] |
| [...]dad in his store, hauled the store supplies from Lodge[...]Mrs. Frank Young. It could get lonely in Lodge Grass[...]Dad had a store over at Kirby, as well as the one in The Stevensons were very thankful for the f[...]. The store at Kirby was not the one which school in Lodge Grass. They had a hard time getting it.[...]s not yet formed and Lodge family lived in a one-story log house of about three or Grass was in Rosebud County. f[...]res which to build it. A deed for it was recorded in 1912. or what-have-you for "interior decorating"-and really, This building is now what we know as the American it[...]The trip to Kirby was an "all day" run. I remember[...]Everything was shipped in wooden cases, so the wagon[...]I remember our first trip to Yellowstone Park, in[...]About Allie Stevenson built the first brick building in half way up a hill, the engine would start chugging, and town in 1911 when he put up a store with h'ving[...]the car had except for a few years when they were in California and stopped set rocks behind the wheels just in case the their son, Sam, and his wife lived there[...]ve to push it With some additions this brick building is still up the hill. being used as a store[...]Allie presently operating the store. our cars in Livingston, and take a stagecoach through[...] |
| [...]wilderness. I spent a lot of time with ones seen in the western movies, but were open on the Gra[...]ithout Grandma, Gramps children take turns riding in front with him, which would have been only[...]more than welcome in their home, and I felt a special[...]how he used to be real strict and tough on them. In fact,[...]se walks by the the downtown area where we stayed in a hotel till the silver and agate bracelet h[...]soon as the season opened he was up and out in the hills[...]UGH threatened to put us in jail, to make it more impressive By[...]kind of mischievious pranks that ended up in wrestling Oklahoma Territory, the son of Mr. and[...]but just the attended Northwestern State College in Alva, special things he did with us[...]with his Montana. He received a secondary degree in Education moustache and taking us for rides. from Eastern Montana College at Billings, Montana in Even if Gramps did hunt for a sport, h[...]e pups; Mr. Stobaugh came to Big Horn County in 1924 as with motherly tenderness he fed and[...]cially loved dogs , particularly Tuffy. positions in St. Xavier, Pryor, and Crow Agency. He Now[...]" is was elected County Superintendent of Schools in 1935, surrounded by a small picket fence. Gr[...]that position until 1943. in harrassing cats and teasing us kids about them. He In 1968, Mr. Stobaugh was elected Chairman of[...]f Hardin, Montana. he'd stay in bed until what ever he had passed and then[...]with strength and determination; like the trees, in determination. Like the mountains h[...] |
| [...]r knew." {Bill] William L. Stoddard was born in Blue Earth, In 1945 began a twenty-year period of service as Min[...]intendent of Schools of Big Horn County, was born in Casper, Wyoming February 5, 191i. They in which position she was noted for efficiency and un- were married May 19, 1931 in Silesia, Montana by derstanding helpfu[...]Oliver. They had three new ones and those in rural communities. children, Wilma Lee Kunau, Joa[...]nd All during her fifty-one years in Hardin she Timothy Gregg Stoddard. maintained a concerned interest in her church, the[...]was sent to Washington, D. C., in 1930 for the national[...]ting. She was the music director and choir leader in LURA PREST STRAND [Mrs. H. M.][...]y years. She Following a childhood on a farm in central was an active member of MEA.,[...]tudy. After three years there, she joined a group in- branch of the National Retired Teachers) was started, terested in filing on homesteads in eastern Montana. she contributed much time[...]gon, of the United Brethern College and graudated in 1923. THE DAN SULL[...]By Eleanor Sullivan Starina English teacher in the High School. In June of 1924, The Dan Sullivans came to Kirby in the Spring of she married H. M. Strand, a jeweler[...]Company. Our first house, a log cabin, burned to In 1925 Baby Ralph joined the family. the ground about two years later and in its place we[...]because we delighted in going there and spending time[...]myself. In 1907 Mother's sister died leaving three small[...]rominent business man, much servationist in the country. He dammed up Indian interested in the community, the Masonic Lodge, and Creek and used the water for irrigation of fields and most of all, his family. His death in 1927 was a garden. During the haying season the Cheyenne In- tremendous loss to all. The older son Arthur, wa[...]s were our help. They would come with their tents in an accident in 1930. and cam[...]ith, besides, the Indians' jewelry store, located in the southeast corner of the tents were alwa[...]van block, until she sold it to Mr. Ernest Bylund in clean and their beautiful quilts were hung on the corral 1934. She resumed teaching in Hardin Elementary fences to ai[...] |
| [...]thing most seemed that there was always some one in the house people never tried was hops. W[...]e or four inches tall we gathered them, tied them in large Indian encampment in our land; Dad was settling bundles and cook[...]My sister Mary, her brother and I went to school in Mother made the most delicious spiced currants,[...]them; coyotes love plums so we tried to get home. In good weather we walked; in bad weather we them when ripe but before[...]to which resulting cakes, storing them in parfleche bags for the they would hitch these broncs to take us kids to and winter. Also in preparing for winter they cut fresh meat from sch[...]nly one child so they came to her and In 1918 the Cattle Company dissolved partnership wan[...]ould think of was That winter my folks lived in Hardin, then in the spring to tell them to take Lydia Pinkham's tonic-"a baby in bought the ranch at Wyola, five miles to th[...]he took the medicine, grew Pass Creek. In 1923 my dad was stung by a bee and stronger, and there were no more babies in the family. died from the infection. In 1924 Mother and her Then came a time when th[...]children moved to Hardin. divided-we were in Rosebud County, but the new Wh[...]e rooming house When his term was up he wanted to run again, but my to Mrs. Sweet Cool and lived in a small house on Sixth Mother objected. She said[...]ad to stay and Street until she passed away in 1961. run the place for a week out of every month while he[...]erdeen and Wyola, then Needless to say, he didn't run. in Hardin under S. R. Logan. I retired in 1965. I Another season that was a great deal[...]was the game warden for thirty-one years, was put in a little log house, covered with sawdust, retired, and passed away in 1969. We had one daughter, and during the summer[...]am, etc. of Washington in Seattle. She has a Master's degree in It seemed that the Middlefork Cattle Company[...]Billie, or Margaret, had one son was also engaged in raising horses as well as cattle, and who is an[...]e buyers would come thru. They Aircraft in Seattle. Mary, the cousin who was raised selected[...]exceptionally well. She had married were my start in life. I had my own brand, it was a Joe Tr[...]Quarter Circle A on the left jaw; it was my start in the ranch, Joe having passed away several years ago. business. The money was invested in a bank which later Memories of childho[...]Penson Turley lives in Hardin and we get together Celebrations were[...]d :.chool was on the Upper Little Horn. Miss once in a great while an occasional minister would[...]would hold Tschirgi ranch where we lived in a cabin and batched. services. Services were held in the little log school- Frank Tschirgi[...] |
| [...]near their shack. When the fence, and was home in short order. I carried they got their fi[...]some afraid to try my short-cut lest I end up in a gulch so I carpentering in the vicinity. They went to work at a went arou[...]decided to dig a well. They consulted a water douser[...]NDFATHER and a PIONEER- water. He did some carpentry work in town, working By Wayne Svaren [1963] hard and being paid little. In the fall there was no work March 14, 1900[...]to be had, so he and Erling dug coal and sold it. In his home near Bergen, Norway. He went first acr[...]t and the other stayed home, cooked, and landed in New York City, and after a short delay broke horses. They had a good crop, and in the fall headed for Chicago then South Dakota,[...]ncle's family to get acquainted with house in Medora. the new country and to rest up from his long journey. In 1917 he came to Hardin, Montana to build a Ten d[...]t job-helping a house. That winter he spent in North Dakota preparing man dig a cistern, for which he was paid seventy-five to move to Montana. In April he married Betsy cents a day, of ten hours[...]hay and stacked it, then they would live in a tent at the place where the house they cut the[...]g built. Together they watched Hardin grow In 1909 he moved to North Dakota and settled in from a mud-streeted little village to a ni[...]wagon wheels, tied a han- homesteaded in the Big Horn Valley north of Hardin in dkerchief around the wheel, and counted the numb[...]Erling and Selma with them and remained in the Hardin area for the rest about the land, they looked at it and in August 1909 of his life. In 1914 Arthur married Minnie Bennett, filed their[...]n they returned to prove up on homestead in the west Tullock Creek area prior to their homesteads. Erling remained in Belfield a few World War one. There they[...]Tullock Creek bachelor, melted snow for drinking water, and shot rabbits and Sam Cunningham, an[...]hool, didn't come until later, so the men batched in Alma Dygert lived with the Sweeneys during[...]er it was hard for every boy set traps in the morning and watched his trap them to keep war[...]ll of knot-holes, and no covering. deep snow in winter when Arthur had to go with the The tempera[...]l through the drifts for the told me "Snow sifted in, and when you got out of bed saddle horses, with the children hoping they wouldn't you stepped in it. That woke you up!" arrive at school til noon. Once in awhile, on warm In the spring of the next year they built the other[...]dad's shack was hard- trees, but school in the open was difficult to control, packed earth.[...]The Arthur Sweeney family moved to Hardin in There was a mail route that ran betw[...] |
| Treasurer and Assessor for many years. Arthur died in attending. Some of the families remembered attending 1958, and Mrs. Sweeney still resides in Hardin at this these picnics were the Wights,[...]d to Hardin, Bill Winton, who was the cook in the bachelor part• Charles would stop at Phil D[...]nership. Also, they would search for pennies in the yard either coming or going, so he could get[...]ind, or they would put on the head set and listen in on[...]horses rounded up on the and cantaloupe seeds in the Spring along the two miles homestead. Purchas[...]with the exception melons to eat along the way in the Fall. However, there[...]be climbed backwards because the T had more power in reverse than in low gear. If vested. additional pep was nee[...]ended grade school and graduated from high school in the gas tank did the job. in 1935. Marjorie then attended business college and[...]graduating in 1940, worked for the Texas Oil Company[...]for a year and a half and was called into service in[...]Hardin. Charles served in the Air Corps, was shot down[...]over the North Sea and spent two years in a German[...]brother-in-law Mr. McShane who started the logging camp in the Big Horn Mountains in the 1880's. Taggart[...]in Ohio in 1868. He was doctor at Parkman, Wyoming in the early[...]away in 1937. He is buried at the Sheridan, Wyomin[...] |
| [...]husband first lived in a log cabin, then in a larger log[...]their only daughter, Lois Harriet, for a time in Pasadena, California. Returning to Montana in 1945,[...]She was active in community and social affairs[...]however wherever she lived. In Montana she was ALICE K. TAYLOR[...]retired second regent of the Absaroka chapter in Hardin. She from the Army he moved the family to[...]d sugar from one of the wide-mouthed storage jars in her away in 1973. father's store. In 1911 she married Fred Taylor on her 33rd birth- day, in Big Hom County, Montana. She and her[...]Jess Thomas was born and raised in Sheridan[...]County, Wyoming and came to the Decker area in the[...] |
| [...]e country, wagon boss. Jess was always interested in rodeoing and so on April 1, 1932, I drew my months pay of $35.00 he worked as many rodeos as time wo[...]s, I could win-with the help of a wonderful Wyola in about 1933. In team tying he first teamed up wife, it took[...]It was a gratifying experience, in spite of hard As soon as Jess was 21 he file[...]e depression and bought seven cows people in the Decker area, quite a number have passed and calves. Later he bought the Lyle Parker and Harry on in recent years, leaving behind pleasant memories. L[...]We live in Sheridan, Wyoming now, but I go back In 1936, he married Margie Porter. The couple's[...]of Wisconsin, he grew up in Kansas, learned his trade in[...]boy, girl, boy) born in Upton between 1910 and 1917.[...]and most amazing of all-a real, live Indian in blanket[...]mother's opinion of the mess in our living quarters left by itinerant trainmen in the wake of World War I[...]picture for advertisement for several years. In 1942 they leased the Perry Rain 's place in the |
| [...]musical group of WWI vets wh.o-· tuned their in- Agent J. E. McCarthy.[...]or many years. Of the War itself, I guys in khaki would let out a whoop of 'Tuesday, SOO- rec[...]pson train arrivals, at least one member a woman in smart, remarked tersely, 'Well, I see[...]e saw or at the Fourth of July picnic in Thompson's Grove south heard the frenzied celebr[...]a special offering into the collection box in honor of his exhausted Dr. 0. S. Haverfield diagn[...]evening service at Methodist Church in 1926; the Rev.[...]One day in the early 30's a local minister dropped in on Ladies Aid; some felt that the "Reverend" had[...]him Heaven would be reinstatement in his native[...]d several years as its Chautauqua? Those mornings in 1919-20 the juniors secretary. In 1925 he served as Worshipful Master, and squared[...]lenges as: 'Had a little was also active in Jasmine Chapter, O.E.S. He was rooster, set him o[...]mber of relief programs, such as Crilket Control. In[...] |
| [...]SAM B. THOMPSON the first official Weather Bureau in Billings. Back in the By Vernon Thompson [Patagonia, Arizon[...]Sam B. Thompson was born on Young's Creek in everybody's delectation. Flawless, crystal-white combs 1896, and lived in Big Horn County a great part of his of honey sold[...]at Miles City, Montana. first Ford (1913 Model T) in Weston County, Wyoming. His family arrived in Montana in 1892 from It was still going strong up to 1930 as[...]Sheridan, Wyoming. That same year at Rapid City, in a wallow of mud. My mother wrote of they f[...]experiences for the Hardin a ranch there. In 1896 Mr. Thompson sold the ranch Tribune; several of her poems were also published in a and purchased land on the Rosebud Creek f[...]zine. McCuistion. In 1903 or 1904 they moved to a ranch at[...]this ranch for A. K. Creig, who was a banker in Sheridan. In 1927 he ran a horse roundup for Big Horn[...]many friends who helped in his endeavor to deliver the[...]Vernon was born at the family home in Hale, Missouri[...]on October 20, 1919 in one of the worst snow storms[...]near the Wyoming line in Montana on August 18, 1921.[...]t grandchild, 1938 School. She taught in the era of Dr. Russell (who I[...]the first eight grades with our mother Frigidaire in her kitchen, if little else. Back in 1918 a as teacher and parent. Winnie Thompson[...]Kenneth Thompson is a well-known auctioneer in radio, taking turns with the headphones. From[...]Vernon Thompson lives with his family in Patagonia, Louie's Hungry Five.[...]a Hawkins of ever forget her luscious plum butter in the brown stone Billings, think that[...] |
| [...]e of fourteen, Ed Harry Throssel, already a clerk in the Crow Agency migrated to the United[...]Dick was a clerk, too-until his move to Billings in migrated a few years before his arrival, were in the 1910.[...]boarding English language and enrolled in Aakers Business school. Her daughter Vera tells t[...]n of formal courses, he became small child living in Billings, the family used to visit bookkeeper[...]people's films. My family have some old pictures in "Throssel" en- velopes. In the 1920's, he was a representative from Yellowstone County to the Montana State Legislature. In June, 1933, having just arrived by plane in Helena to take part in a National Guard encampment, he died of a heart attack. He was fifty-four. Mrs. Throssel died in March, 1959, at the age of eighty-six. Thro[...]was known to Hardin students homesteading in central and eastern Montana. Having and friends,[...]indicated a desire to become a land owner, Ed in the fall of 1906 in her summer activities-she studied library work,[...]e also belonged to the Christian In the spring of 1907, John and Ed Torske filed Chur[...]ould take, so now live a very active retired life in Scottsburg, where they returned to Minnesota. John Torske sold his she is enjoying painting in oils. homestead to Hans Torske. He in turn sold this quarter[...]and erecting farm machinery much in demand as a WEST BENCH HOMESTEADER[...]result of many homesteaders arriving in the area. Each By James Torske[...]age was used known as summer Bergit Hoven Torske. In 1900, after completing his fallo[...] |
| [...]e effort with neighbors and their hired help In 1910, the Sven Dyvig family arrived in the area assisting until threshing was compl[...]a homestead some two miles southeast of the in the neighborhood. Also our taste buds would rise[...]ed by mother to comely daughters, Mary and Josie, in his household. satisfy the hunger pangs[...]with these extra goodies. newly constructed barn in a devastating storm that The family was saddened by the death of mother in came through the Borup area. Again the Dyvig fami[...]the fourth couple to apply for a marriage license in the School was a must for all of Ed and[...]ing six that grew into adult life; April 30, 1913 in Hardin. James,[...]in the spring of 1908 from North Dakota. My father[...]f their married life were marred by loss of twins in the flu epidemic of 1918. Life was trying, down t[...]ation of women called "Ladies Aid Society" served in establishing social and holiday festivities usually held in the homes. Washington Hall, the rural school house in the com- munity, was the gathering center. Many S[...]e Our entertainment was all-day picnics in the early homesteader was the success of t[...] |
| were swimming in the big ditch, and we were driving He was confirmed in the Lutheran faith in 1889, Hovs our pony hitched to the cart. At the s[...]led through the He immigrated to America in May 1900, arrived in air and see-sawed on the reins-this was a worry each Brandon, Minnesota June 4, 1900 where he worked in day.[...]several houses in Hardin.[...]they were having. Not knowing that rice doubled in size, he put enough in for all of them, and when they got[...]done cooking, he had every kettle in the house filled and[...]t her friend, Mrs. Lars Torske. They were married in[...]ock, North Dakota, May 4, 1911. They had one In 1915 we got our first car and in December of child, a son, Sterling Torske, w[...]arried that year our Mother passed away. Dad died in 1963 at a girl from Osnabrock, North Dakota,[...]when Sterling and his mother went back there in 1935 Janice Heath; Larry, Sandra Wigdahl; Eric an[...]rit and Andrea Torske, Matthey and lives in Spokane, Washington: they have two children Natha[...]that Sivert and town into the thriving city it is in 1975. Inga lived most of their mar[...]me so Sivert Torske was born August 31, 1881 in Sun- rattled that all he saved was an old c[...]for smoking, so all the His brother settled in Canada and today his family had left were the clothes on their backs. This nephew Ole Torske lives in Inwood, Manitoba, Canada. happened on[...] |
| [...]principal with 5 percent interest; throw in a 2 percent homestead, the present home of Neita[...]Idaho Falls, Idaho, Ralph Cun- trophies at Fairs in Hardin and Billings. ningham of[...]anch staged the biggest operation of modern times in[...]e Antler stood apart from other ranching shop now in Miles City, Montana. tradition in running a straight steer outfit. He bought[...]them by weight in Mexico where they were light and[...]cheap. After eighteen months, they would double their[...]h by friends and by business. The two worked hand in hand. Loyalty was a main factor that kept the gea[...]Antler Ranch, the brand itself used by his father in 1884. He was a man living at the right tim[...]pire of roughly half a million acres at its peak. in 1959 he sold half of his land holdings west of th[...]tock, as Matt put it, was just a means of cashing in on grass. He considered himself primarily in the grass business. His peak livestock cap[...] |
| [...]was sold after his son's death, they Custer in a wagon. have found many obstacles. For one th[...]e gone. present farm. In 1927, he bought 221.54 acres of land The name of Tschirgi was changed in Switzerland from A. L. Mitchell, M. M. Broo[...]at the time the present farm. He also filed water rights on Sorrel Horse Republic of Switzerland[...]iring a knowledge of brewing. His trails ended in Dubuque, Iowa where he established a brewery, the first in the State of Iowa. Of the five boys and two gi[...]att, was born on Pass Creek, his head could fit in a teacup they say. Reared in the western tradition, Matt was not a stranger[...]r ranches, Matt·s range operation continued to run with teams and wagons until 1951. The outfit tr[...]In 1912 Mr. Van Cleve's parents and sister came to[...]the end of Califf Homestead THE EARLY DAYS IN MONTANA OF cabin. In the winter of 1915, he, his parents, and sister[...]moved in. They moved when the ice was on the river so[...]to Guy Van Cleve was born January 30, 1883 in Terre them, since cream checks were a main[...]Gilliland. They went through Yellowstone Park in a and Gretchen.[...]ers; Annabel, Gretchen, and Virginia. high school in Terre Haute before entering law school. He quit law school and came to Montana because of In the summer of 1917, the Van Cleve's put up hay po[...]ver, taking the machinery apart, to take it In 1905 he came to Billings, Montana where he across the river in a boat. Part of that summer was worked for the Robinson Sheep Outfit for a few months. spent in a tent until they moved a house off one In 1906 he filed on a 142.73 acre homestead located[...]In the fall of 1917 he sold his homestead to the 0. In the fall of 1908, Herb Williams and Mr. Van W. Cattle Company. In 1944 he bought 3,600 acres of Cleve took a contra[...]itch Company. They moved 5,000 In 1946 he leased the farm, and moved to Hardin yards of dirt with two two-horse teams and two slips in where he spent his remaining years. He died[...]aughters, one steam engine that they used to pump water out of the sister, and six grandc[...] |
| [...]elson, whose father had a neighboring farm. In 1909, Piet and Marie Vandersloot came to the[...]om Holland. The family homesteaded born in Keokuk, Iowa. Her family moved to Nebraska at Dutch Coulee near Ryegate, Montana. In 1919, when when she was an infant. it got[...]ohn, and Diana Marie. Piet and family farmed in the Hardin, W yola, and St. Xavier area for many[...]Robert A. Vickers his parents in 1919. For a while he farmed with his father, then[...]Katherine Feller. twenty-first birthday. In February 1891, elma and her Katherine was born Ju[...]t the train at Whitehall, they were met by Robert in a at Wyola, Montana. They farmed in the Hardin area sleigh with heated bric[...]and her widower father in Virginia City. By 1907 the ROBERT[...]nt was opening up Robert A. Vickers was born in Virginia City, land for homesteading along the Yellowstone River in Montana on January 30, 1870 to Robert and Martha[...]a home tead. Mr. Vickers decided to keep working in the town, and was acquainted with most of the on the newspaper just long enough to get a start in Vigilantes, who a few years earlier had taken the law in farming. The salary he earned was to help in buying their own hands. When it was learned that[...]ad agents who were the children, ranging in age from thirteen years to four holding up the stages with shipments of gold, they months, moved to the homestead at Waco, Montana decided[...]ousins prior to his leaving for once a month. (In those day , new paper people got free college in Valparaiso, Indiana. While there he met[...] |
| [...]years. He and Mrs. Vickers were daughter was born in 1911. Charter Mem[...]broke his ties Eastern Star. with the newspaper in Virginia City and came to the Mr. Vic[...]owned by Harry DeTunq. He was desirous of taking in a partner, and Mr. Vickers bought one-half intere[...]HOWARD E. WAGNER Hardin to take up his duties in January 1913, and the I was born in Hamilton County, Iowa, March 7, family joined him in March of that year. 1891. When[...]n Crawford Ave. the present We were living in a tent, on the Wagner home of Miss Dolores Guenther. People in the neigh- Homestead, on the west bench wh[...]managed to keep the tent from blowing away, in the band was playing a concert on Main St. , and[...]the hail, it took weeks to heal. A two story building, watch the band play. Their father was more than[...]ig Hom Motor slightly shocked and embarrassed, as in their ex- stands, blew down, also the li[...]ted at 3rd citement, they forgot to wear hats and in those days, it and Cheyenne. was considered improper for young men to be seen on In June 1910 Charlie Fergurson wanted me to the stre[...]what he wanted so he could train me in his way of[...]were in abundance. Mr. and Mrs . Robert A. Vickers ce[...]arry De Tunq and |
| In the fall of 1910 we hauled t wo railroad cars of[...]I bought my first car in September 1920, a Model[...]T. I started carrying the mail in October 1920 on Rural[...]in Civil Service. I carried the mail until July 16,[...]I joined IOOF, March 9, 1912 in Blairsburg, Iowa.[...]turkeys to town in the wagon; while waiting to have the[...]horses shod a snoose salesman came in and gave us a[...]blood but did he ever buck. I I was born in Ekalaka, Montana, a daughter of Mr. held the reins in my left hand and the gun in my right, & Mrs. H . H. Taylor. I crune here in 1920 to teach but I stayed on him and Charlie sai[...]Hardin. At that time my mother was working in the old June 4, 1919, I married Beulah Black[...]amily we moved to farm the Bowman place and in the fall event, the kids would bed down and the a[...]Mr. Car- dance. We lived near the railroad tracks in a brick and per's mother passed away. We farme[...]cellar William C. Watson. Billy Carper living in Oregon and from the kitchen. One day after I had gone to work Taylor Carper living in San Diego, California. Beulah spotted a snake all[...]l. Miss Faye Alderson was bought our present home in 1926. the county[...] |
| [...]pupils are still There were two halls in the community. Nine Mile living around here. The[...]ll stands. Eldora Hysham ; two Luckett girls live in Billings and one in Seivert's folks used to own the Foster Hal[...]ver where Bernard Crump now lives. He sold out to in the district: Sorrel Horse, Fair View, Alfalfa Ce[...]hool on the old Dr. Alvin Kurtz now lives in what used to be the store. Carper place but that was before my time and I don 't In November 1921 the Sunshine Club was remember it.[...]in the Spring of 1922. It was formed for the purpose[...]Thanksgiving dinners and the Wild Rose dance in June. We had community picnics in the summers. We[...]held Church and Sunday School in their respective[...]car and put rocks in back of the hind wheels and then[...]the hub all the way out. He couldn't make it out in a[...]e Carper place, sitting seen a lot of changes in the North Valley. I was on the in the corner was a store known as Carperville. The mail farm when the drain ditches went in and the R.E.A. was came from Hardin and was distributed there and went put in. My children studied by a kerosene lamp and on to[...]e all been torn down , and then it was abandoned. In front of my place was a except Nine Mile an[...]t went back to town. That was half way. Sometimes in want to go back and live like I used to. The water the winter it would be two o'clock in the afternoon situation was worse in the summer and I had to fill a before she got the[...]ed with men waiting for the mail to arrive. and in the winter that same barrel was filled at the riv[...]ort couldn't make it back to town and sat in my kitchen. There were very few wells and the sam[...]il on into town the what was there was soda water. In the spring the next day and start out agai[...] |
| [...]de. by November we were usually out of wood. Also in the It was always a problem getting[...]ould get together and help butcher school in the winter from the main ranch so they finally th[...]Warren Inc. main ranch is now. Floyd passed away in memories are wonderful but I still wouldn't like[...]e life of Maud Clawson Warren who came In July of 1912 we came to Hardin to look over to Big Horn County in 1907 and has lived here since. several sec[...]n; Montana and they moved to the Hardin vicinity in Bill Eder had the only car in town, an old, one-seated 1907. She had seven bro[...]hammer with which he leaned over every once in a while They lived in a large log house one mile north of the and[...]a gun along, The first school she attended in Hardin was in a and after shooting it three times a man appeared on the building where the present Dr. Downing and Clarence opposite shore, came over in a boat and took us across Belue have their offic[...]of the real estate. there for a few years. This building is now a barn on the We were still seven[...]we were going? He said, "Lady, you can to school in the old two story brick building that was ride my horse-it's only been ridden[...]n very well". I thought that that rode to school in a covered wagon pulled by a team of beat wa[...]bus. She recalls it being heated with a return in my flouncy dress and funny hat, all in one oil burner in the winter which smoked and everyone's pie[...]ool. couldn't buck me off. Fred walked a long, hot way that She lived in Meeteetsee, Wyoming for two years July da[...]ed the looks of the land -it was far-flung Warren in 1916. Floyd had moved to Hardin from[...]and planted wheat. E. Warren and brother Richard in 1909. They had a In January, 1913, we left Belgrade, Montana with ran[...]E. Warren was a well all our belongings in what they called an "Emigrant" known banker in Hardin until his death in 1947, and car-sort of a box car. We had[...]e just being put on the market. It was very lived in a one room log cabin out by Pine Ridge. It had a[...]s, binders, dirt roof and she remembers having to run and move all etc. which we added much later[...]. The heavy stuff was taken down to the river and water leaked in. waiting began for the ice to get thick enough to hold up In 1918 they had a home built on the Fort Custer[...]oss, most of them firmly expected all of it to be in Harvey Warren, a grandson, lives there now. They[...]xed a makeshift one. We almost Beary), Jack (died in 1946) and Robert. overturned[...]t farming was done with teams of mules In winter we crossed on the ice till it got too whic[...]the first honeycombed - then it broke up in great chunks, tractors, huge big 40-80 Ave[...] |
| society, or sometimes a party. In summer there were worked for them that caused us trouble. We were a lot picnics in the groves. We found the people real nice.[...]hams came down so naturally they tried to run us out. I had one cow that from the Gallatin, s[...]they just accidentally turned their cattle in and ate up eighteen miles to the Little Hom, for[...]e long trip home. In the summer of 1919 Fred Waterman and The n[...]s- Hersler, Bowman, and Sullivan-asking found to run it. It could run only during high water and to have a road built along the ridge. The[...]ecided it would be cheaper to build a bridge, and in signal the ferry-man that one wanted to cross, a[...]lement formed around the cloud came up and in twenty minutes 500 acres lay in a ferry: Roy Barnards, Art Reno, Roy Reed, Rober[...]odkers (where Juell Ottun now lives. Farther back in We had lots of rattlers; they were in the barn and the hills Dewey Riddle, our first s[...]turgeon, and ling. We also installed a large pump in screamed "A snake, a snake!" - one was coiled right the river and had water piped to the house, which we beside them.[...]snake and tore him to bits, but was bitten in three watered the garden and even had a sink. places on his jaws and face. He went down in the cool The winter of 1919-20 was very col[...]loor for three days. I poured milk with deep snow in October and didn 't go off until May. and eg[...]put permanganate of The Spear Cattle Co. shipped in a trainload of Mexican potassium (in solution) on the bites, and he lived. The cattle and turned them loose in the hills. Come spring snake's mate came ba[...]it with the 20 gauge not a one was left- they lay in the coulees like cord- shot gun - it was wrapped up in the flowers and vines wood. We lost most of ours[...]This dog was a cross of white bulldog and shipped in from the Dakotas at a high price, and though coyote hound ; he and his brother ranged far afield in the cattle were starving, they wouldn 't eat it.[...]e one Then the snow drifted over the bluffs in cornices, cold day with two steel traps on hi[...]heir ran coyotes (and caught them). I used ice-water and cattle thru the ice, up about where Willcutt'[...]luck; he drove their little wagons down below us, in a sort of got tick fever and almost died-t[...]d salvaged a lot of on the sagebrush. He was in town at the doctor's when them. The Indians passe[...]e Jeff Davis and Douglas ran lots of cattle in the fell thru with a load of hay, bu[...] |
| [...]ch good, they hat· Lee Weir arrived in northern Wyoming in 1888 ched into moths but the ground was bare.[...]lked and hitched rides to Sheridan, Wyoming. In 1925 we moved to town to send our daughter,[...]ned a plumbing shop. Agency early in the 1900's.[...]lter MacClean now Henrietta Junkerman, born in Quincy, Illinois, met live in Sheridan. Ernest Weinberg, born in Augusta, Illinois, in Augusta Mr. Weir was one of eleven children, four of whom at a box social where Ernest was teaching in 1917. lived in this area for many years. He passed away in Ernest had attended school at Western Illinois in 1967 at the age of 96. He was a great source of in- Macomb, passed the North Dakota State Examinati[...]early west. His picture now and taught two years in Candou, North Dakota, from hangs along with Buffalo Bill at the Sheridan Inn in 1904-06. He then took the State Examination in Illinois Sheridan, Wyoming. and taught in Hancock and Schuyler counties in Illinois while assisting his father as a cattle[...]ORRIN YOUNG WEIR In 1916 Ernest's parents moved to Montana and By Marie Weir [his wife] homesteaded in the Burnt Creek District. When the[...]nd Leo, were drafted into the Montana in the fall of 1917 from Humansville, Mo. with service in World War I, Ernest felt it necessary to move[...]ther, Webb, and to Montana to assist his parents. In the spring of 1918 sister, Harriette. The mo[...]ant" car because his mother was failing in health. Their firs t on the train which also carr[...]s. Weir's father Henrietta followed a year later, in August, 1919, and Albin Webb operated a Golden Rule Store. The Weirs they were married in Billings, Montana. worked at Mr. Webb's store a couple of years. In 1918 Ernest assisted his parents on the homestead[...]er taught at the Greenough School on Sarpy Creek. In 1919 forty acres were purchased on Tullock Creek. Ernest taught and they lived in the school at Westside near Spring Creek. The school was essentially for two Fly and three Kray children in the first three grades. Henrietta cooked the hot meals for the noon lunches from supplies the chil[...]to board the train at Hysham. Henrietta returned inIn 1930 they purchased their own 640, known as the M[...]ace where they lived until they moved into Hardin in 1934 where the three children, Don, Dorothy, and[...]Mr. and Mrs. Orrin Weir was born later in Hardin. Ernest was a Rawleigh Dealer, covering Big Horn County, for 27 years, until In January 1920, Sam Weir and Albin Webb he was elected County Treasurer in 1960. purchased the Pearl Theatre building in Hardin from[...] |
| Frank Karsten, who had built it in 1915. This theatre Soon after they were[...]turned to was the center of early day social life in Hardin with farming and raising stock when it[...]The Weirs operated a general merchandise store in his own home and gave up a life which would have the building, under the name of Weir and Co. Golden per[...]life for him. Rule Store. Orrin, the son, worked in the store before This keen sense of responsibility to his parents in school and after, often until midnight on Saturda[...]ighborly kindness of commuting by bicycle to work in a truck garden. It was 0. Y. W. He truly live[...]Marie continued to teach until she retired in 1967; driving, ambitious father and a semi-invali[...]store building and other property. He was able to[...]purchase his beloved TR ranch in North Valley which[...]I started school in a country school and it was used[...]Civil War. He did not believe in slavery, but had ser-[...]the war; Grandfather fought in the War on the side of[...]r the I graduated from Hardin High School in 1923 on a cowboys were handled.[...]Friday and Sunday started out on my own. I worked in One summer, Orrin age about 16, worked for Joe Forsyth, helped Papa in the store during a critical Newell, who had a jo[...]vey crew working on period, and then worked in various places in the Black the Big Horn Dam project being done under Engineer Hills before settling in Rapid City. Arthur Koch. Joe was in charge of the chuck wagon, One thing, I think it was in the Spring of 1919, that while Orrin fed and car[...]addis were driving a bunch of cattle across In 1926 he went to Edgemont, S. Dakota where he[...]for the continued as general manager of the store in Hardin. Indians and when the ice broke up, they began to pull During his years in business, he found time to be these cattle out of the water, made it into jerky and an active member of the M[...]d pow-wows, and it was fun to go down and serving in both Edgemont and Hardin in the many watch them. Some of the old Indians like Whiteman ways a man on Main street in a growing Western town would get involved in some of the dances. I still enjoy would have an o[...]the memories but the younger people who live in the fishing were his chief diversions when time p[...]rdin area now do not realize what happened. In 1928 he returned to Hardin and purchased Albin[...]that when we first went to Hardin Webb's interest in the store and took over active that Mr.[...]s both funny and sad; when the war was over stock in Denver, Colorado. She was teaching in Hardin they had quite a celebration. They mo[...]south side of the drug frowned upon, Marie worked in the store, managed Big store under a canopy[...]ork projects and the local put a bung in it and when the barrel ran dry, they would[...] |
| [...]eet, and on the sidewalk. They tried to in winter, when he would have to go back to his hors[...]rope to the tongue of this express came home in the summer - the Scotts lived on t he edge wagon[...]on. He got dumped off get carbonated water. We mixed it ourselves in a rocker once or twice, and an Indian woman got up on the cart platform device in t he basement and t hat was one of my and held Mayor Mitchell on, with his head in her lap. jobs, along with cleaning out[...]my automobile and Billings. He left Sam in charge, and I was there. When started across the[...]p to t he jail that night t he fellow had cut his building to set it afire. Supt. Asbury grabbed me and[...]ng with him Art down. We locked him up in his cell- they had left the Bisanow grabbed the gasoline, threw it on the building cell door open so that he could have mor[...]A MONTANA PIONEER back to Hardin where he was in bad shape for a long B[...]g-eig ht miles I went to Billings, this was in Prohibition times, west of Sheridan. My pa[...]ere he Crow Agency, we had a Negro shoe-shine man in homesteaded 320 acres on Big Go[...]en she was eleven would stick around until la ter in the evening- he years old. She and h[...]he street and he told me t he Negro was holed up in the bought a team of mules, and came to Sto[...]avis. Negro wanted to get out of town. I took him in my car I was the sixth girl of fourteen children. This in• to Toluca where he could get a r ide on a frei[...]iend near Getting ba ck to the early t imes in H ardin it wasn 't Decker. Fred left for the army in 1917, and we were uncommon for a horse to sink clear down in the streets married after his discharge, in 1918. We moved to his when it began to t haw out in t he spring. The streets homestead on Le[...]his could Wyoming, and a son who died in infancy. take group s out for a ride, and he did[...]ins to t he cemetery, and if there was no in Decker, almost every Saturday night. Fred played[...]layed the especially bad when t hey began to thaw in the spring. saxophone, and chorded on th[...]uly, Fred and his father had one· which was fine in the summer, but it wasn't much good[...] |
| [...]ng out the gifts, he got too close artifacts in the Weltner Wonder Museum, many of to the tree a[...]a "High knew what became of Santa or why he left in such a Time In The Old Place Tonight" for most of the neigh- hur[...]crossed the road, Fred stopped the car and walked in the sax (a C melody saxophone) or chordi[...]kept in glass jars and set in a box in the spring to keep We moved to Sheridan, Wy[...]teen chickens of assorted kinds kept the children in school. Every spring we'd move back to us in eggs. Some eggs were usually set in the spring, the ranch, raise our crops, garden, a[...]ith good taste. We had an We moved to Hardin in September 1949. We ice well on my[...]ce and we used to chop bought the old County Jail building and had a museum it out and bring the ice[...]this One year the grasshoppers came in swarms and building. into our garden. In the morning the garden was green[...]The life of Frances J. Weltner Carson who lived in My dad ran sawmills in the Big Horn mountains Big Horn County at Decker, Montana and whose and in the Wolf mountains at different times and I addr[...]really enjoyed the mountains. We kids would run up the I was born about 30 miles from Sher[...]to Sheridan so that we two whatever was in demand. children could go to Sheridan city school[...]a Saturday. We could go out and back to Sheridan in September for school. We to the show and s[...]as. Johnny helped put our garden and spring crops in, or on Weismuller acted in "Tarzan and the Apes" and every weekends.[...]Springs; this and trees. This usual1y ended in a skinned head. my grandparents, Oscar and Blanch[...]awmill crews that had the only flowing springs of water for miles. The summer and she is a marvelous cook. It was hot in the cowboys or ranchers driving their cattle and[...]he men who used to stop overnight at our place to water their stock, stopped at our house. She always made fresh bread and fij) their water barrels and go on their separate ways . you co[...]and a rake. I and haul three to eight barrels of water for their stil1 have these and remember the men who carved household use from our spring. The water bubbled up them from wood. Whittling was[...]cious. There were no radios in the camp.[...] |
| [...]ng out the gifts, he got too close artifacts in the Weltner Wonder Museum, many of to the tree a[...]a "High knew what became of Santa or why he left in such a Time In The Old Place Tonight" for most of the neigh- hur[...]crossed the road, Fred stopped the car and walked in the sax (a C melody saxophone) or chordi[...]kept in glass jars and set in a box in the spring to keep We moved to Sheridan, Wy[...]teen chickens of assorted kinds kept the children in school. Every spring we'd move back to us in eggs. Some eggs were usually set in the spring, the ranch, raise our crops, garden, a[...]th good taste. We had an We moved to Hardin in September 1949. We ice well on my G[...]ce and we used to chop bought the old County Jail building and had a museum it out and bring the ice[...]this One year the grasshoppers came in swarms and building. into our garden. In the morning the garden was green[...]The life of Frances J. Weltner Carson who lived in My dad ran sawmills in the Big Horn mountains Big Horn County at Decker, Montana and whose and in the Wolf mountains at different times and I addr[...]really enjoyed the mountains. We kids would run up the I was born about 30 miles from Sher[...]to Sheridan so that we two whatever was in demand. children could go to Sheridan city school[...]a Saturday. We could go out and back to Sheridan in September for school. We to the show and s[...]as. Johnny helped put our garden and spring crops in, or on Weismuller acted in "Tarzan and the Apes" and every weekends.[...]Springs; this and trees. This usually ended in a skinned head. my grandparents, Oscar and Blanch[...]awmill crews that had the only flowing springs of water for miles. The summer and she is a marvelous cook. It was hot in the cowboys or ranchers driving their cattle and[...]he men who used to stop overnight at our place to water their stock, stopped at our house. She always made fresh bread and fill their water barrels and go on their separate ways . you co[...]and a rake. I and haul three to eight barrels of water for their still have these and remember the men who carved household use from our spring. The water bubbled up them from wood. Whittling was[...]cious. There were no radios in the camp.[...] |
| My folks built a rock house in 1908, which is still FLORENCE WES[...]ere [Mrs. A. G. Westwood] in August 1908.[...]ade teacher. (The first part of my life was spent in Frank Hanson stuck in the snow. He told them to go to Wisconsin a[...]back to Sheridan. Mr. I was married in 1936 by Mrs. Anna Petzoldt. We Hanson rode hors[...]ame after her. for our men. Water was hauled by the barrel to water The weather there at Decker used to be bad[...]him first in 1912, when I was fifteen, and knew him Whe[...]re, one day to shop, Heinrich's Antler outfit. In Bill's day, it was operating and one day home. I[...]of the Crow Reservation. This lease to Sheridan. In the fall you laid in flour, sugar, coffee, was bounded by the Wyomin[...]ig Horn River, and the top of the Big Horn In about 1915 the country got more homesteaders. Mountains. Bill was then in early middle life, tall, with The folks sold som[...], wife and family. Some of these people are still in the neighborhood. I think the old-timers on the[...]r had an accident anyone present was glad to help in any way-the nearest doctor was in Sheridan. Any time anyone came to your home[...]on. We never went to school more than seven months a term, and sometimes only four months, but in some way, we had schooling! William Ragan taught[...]hink it was about June 1921 when somebody shipped in some 4,000 head of Texas long horns. They He started the day on the roundup rattling pans in were trailed from the railroad yards in Sheridan right the cook's tent at 3:00 a[...]re between served by candle light; for, even in mid-summer, it was me and the school house. still dark in the tent. Each candle was held in a coil at Dad sold the last of the sheep in the fall of 1920. the top of an iron rod wi[...]u was usually fried potatoes, huge pans of baking in her family.[...]syrup, and lots of The folks left the ranch in the spring of 1926 coffee with condens[...]cause he had so much We left the Decker community in the spring of 1927, else on th[...] |
| [...]ed-wagon. who died in the Sheridan hospital after being thrown[...]wagon over a cut bank and turned it upside down in the[...]pudding, too, that he called "son-of-a-bitch-in-a-sack."[...]and outside the tent, some in a pose characteristic of[...]ust squatted balancing com- Antler cowboys coming in for dinner-and Bill fortably on th[...]ll, and his twin brothers Obrey and Mabrey (later in Rodeo at VERA CLELAND WHEEL[...]Tschirgi; Cole Powell; We came here in the spring of 1907 and Bill Prante ; Clarence Ste[...]other had come earlier with two other Thomas, and in 1913 his brother Frank; Bob Anderson, fami[...]Francis E. Bateman who built the first bakery in Kennedy, until time to take cows and calves to Bu[...]bridge. Sam Hill had left a light in his house so we knew These are by no means a[...]re on the ranches furniture had been stored in a tent, and my brother or in the camps. When we moved to the west side, after[...]My first year I walked four miles to school in[...]we were hauled to town in the "sheep wagon", I was at[...]In 1910 my father passed away, so everyone had to[...]worked in the fields and I did what cooking Mother[...]would trust me to do. There was no high school in[...]In the winter of 1915-6 Mother and I moved into[...]town so that I could attend high school. We lived in two[...]library. I helped in the library after school and on "Saddle Up"-horses in rope corral Saturdays.[...] |
| [...]50 a week. I had two years at Mon- parties. In 1924 we got our first battery radio. tana State C[...]yotes liking for lambs took the profit of ebraska in 1922, after which I worked in the Omaha out of the sheep business, we move[...]at the Wyola Garage, living on I was married in January 1924 to Hugh Wells, and One Goose Place for a couple of years. We then moved we lived in various towns in Nebraska until October to Car Body and Ned[...]her, Edward Lawlor. Hugh passed away In 1949 we moved to the other side of the tracks in March 1951, and July 1954 I married Homer 0.[...]th year of when I sold it. My husband passed away in January continous service. This spring w[...]y-five years 1971, but I am still enjoying living in Hardin. of driving a school bus. He's[...]and Big Horn County in the spring of 1905 to prove up[...]In 1906, Herb and his parents, J. C. and Clara Edwar[...]et Theatre, and Williams, again arrived in Big Horn County to dig in secretary-treasurer of the Big Hom Land and Irrigation and make a life and living in the country so new to Company[...]THE NED WILEYS In 1916, Mrs. Bonnie Hussey and two children,[...]ame to the Wyola com- as wife and family. In 1919, and after a son John and munity in 1940 and have lived there ever since.[...]ed to the group, Herb and We both were born in Wibaux County and raised his family along[...]ock and on farms. We attended rural grade schools in the barrel to a farm on the west side o[...]farm and later as a Herb was very active in all community projects waitress.[...]der We never lacked for entertainment either in the the pen-name of "Rhode Island Red", whe[...]were card parties, out his own beliefs in his own way. He never pulled any[...] |
| [...]four years earlier he had encounter ed Crows in the "Herb Williams" whether you were family or fr[...]m, t reated him Horn County Memorial Nursing Home in Hardin and is like a sla ve, and abus[...]the tribe to Crow Agency and t he new reservation in great grandchildren. He has been and still is a G[...]Up His Tail Rebellion Smokey was important in Crow Agency life, and on the Crow Rese[...]know about him during the Sioux uprising in South Dakota in 1891. is from my own memories, my father's storie[...]ent West Point graduate, first went to Fort Ellis in the 1870's. He said that the first time he saw Sm[...]couldn't shake him. Scott made a trip to Billings in the fall of 1929 to see my father about the Gover[...]elt this was the wrong thing to do. Their success in heading it off is noted editorially in t he October 9, 1929 Gazette. Charles Wilso[...]e would have been about t hirteen when he arrived in Fort Benton by river boat. According t o my fa t[...]Rosalind R eynolds Harper, 1926 in Crow Agency[...]and placed Mr. Wilson in charge of caring for his horses[...]"When C. A. Asbury became superintendent in[...]ty ( un Dream , (1971), tells of a 1924 affidavit in which Smokey says the Crow's thoroughbred[...], the barn during the ez Perce (Chief Joseph) war in 1879. About boss and former "Buff[...] |
| [...]n sister, Rosalind, and would sometimes wheel her in her might be looking out the pullman or o[...]ng was the tramp, brief cases came in on the morning train, picked up tramp of Smokey a[...]unter and mun- day and night. One midnight I woke in our family ched on crackers and cheese, occasionally sardines were dormitory to see, in the dim light, several men beside part of the meal because there were no eating houses in my parents ' bed, talking to my father , Smokey a[...]Lodge Grass. some Indians. A man had been killed in an accident, My dad handled ever[...]wagons and harness. Much of the produce came in reached the Agency on horseback. Our father dress[...]t. Coffee came as beans and had to be ground In 1929 we Riebeths spent the summer at Crow.[...]m and Two years later, Smokey came to see us in buggy was the mode of travel for[...]a Sunday drive with my always hunted him up when in Crow. parents in the two-seated, black-fringed surrey with[...]clean with everything in place. He was a lover of horses.[...]ass, Montana to jumping from a building, and dislocating his hip as a I, Helen Peas[...]never taken to a doctor to have it set. He Creek in 1906. My parents, George and Sarah Pease,[...]ldren. Nine boys all older, and I made the in need. He liked cabinet making and built wooden t[...], Wyoming where they wrapped and laid in trees or on top of the ground purchased supplies[...]ratched bloody faces, and always hair cutting for in this community and was postmaster for awhile. He women in mourning. Many of the older women had gave the to[...]delivered merchandise to the business places. In 1916 mechanical arm and picked up by passenger tr[...]ains didn't stop model T. except when flagged. In 1908 a depot was moved in My parents, brothers and I took[...]nd died from leg amputation due provided coal and water for the large steam to the acci[...]became very close after my dad's common from the hot cinders due to coal burning death.[...]rs, two going south, told of an incident in her life I shall never forget. It was #42 and #44 , two going north, #41 and #43 . The in the spring of 1876 when her sisters and ot[...] |
| [...]ce Jesse Wolfe filed on a homestead in the Sarpy soon after but the children impressed the men with section, Steve Wolfe filed on one in the Spring Creek their friendly ways. The soldie[...]the land office to the school. During the summer months she went up in homestead the land to people with famili[...]here on I am lost. I finished grade school in Lodge Grass, attended Our first teacher at the Wolfe School was Miss Bacone in Oklahoma for my high school and two years[...]here also- I don't remember Indian Baptist Church in Lodge Grass and have taught the years. T[...]y years. the Wolfe family. I married in 1931 right at the beginning of the Olga, Jessie, and Billy attended high school in depression with drought, infestations of grasshop[...]Billy died at the age of twenty-five in Billings. conservative man, was able to save money from $40.00 Jesse died in 1943 in Richmond, California. Olga died in a month ranch jobs to make a down payment on the 1965 in Modesto, California. place we now own. Our 8 cent[...]coal and furnished it to the school houses in the Sarpy strength to walk up a ramp and into a t[...]area. hauled away. We killed our sheep and turned in a patch Grandpa Wolfe lived with Unc[...]Thomas Jefferson and Angeline Main Woodley in[...]is in the southeastern part of what is now outh am espe[...]on their ranch on the Little Horn Riuer, Montana in 1914 with Steve Wolfe, (uncle of Jesse).[...] |
| [...]y's father had railroad grading con- In February of 1901 E. C. married Helen E. Burks tracts that brought the family to Wyoming Territory in and they resided on the family homestead, w[...]Some of the first speltz that were raised in Big[...]E. C. 's health began to fail in 1936 but he main-[...]and Edward Clifford Woodley April 3, 1903 in[...]parents in 1914, settling south of Wyola, Montana.[...]He attended schools in Slack, Wyoming, York[...]He was engaged in farming and ranching with his[...]parents until they retired in 1945. He lived in Wyola[...]Tipton homestead on Iron Springs in the Sarpy area. This ranch was sold in 1953 and he lived in Hardin and farmed and engaged in some truck driving for several[...]Kenneth Woodley resided in Big Hom County for[...]56 years. He was a life member of the Elks Lodge in Throughout this time that Mr. Woodley was[...]growing to manhood he worked for several ranchers in members of the Midland Production Credit Ass'n. that area, and when he was in the employ of E. L. Dana Mr. Woodley passed away at his home in Hardin he trailed beef cattle to old Fort Custer[...]brother-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Will Cornwell, came to[...]Big Horn County in 1885 and persuaded the Burks[...]grandmother saw snow for the first time in her life.[...]24, 1887 in the early morning hours. There they were[...]an Reservation and he and his wife, Carrie, lived in[...]In her notes, Mrs. Woodley mentions that the[...] |
| [...]ey and her family Agency 's west edge in a small plat wit h large trees. crossed into Wyom[...]veral years and taught Sharp, who was in Crow winters, would have been the school in the country school houses that abounded at teacher E rnest had in mind. that time. She married Edward Clifford[...]heir home there and purchased the Red Plume Ranch in t he Little Horn Valley, seven miles south of Wyo[...]d the ranch and they retired to Sheridan, Wyoming in the summer of 1945 Mrs. Woodley was active in the Wyola Womens' Club, Big Horn County Federatio[...]urch and the D.A .R. She was very interested in preserving his tory and was one of several that h[...]Old Bozeman Trail. Mrs. Woodley passed away in Sheridan, Wyoming August 20, 1952.[...]Beverly High School and had worked for two years in a local drug store before his arrival in Crow Agency, 1900, to be a clerk for his uncle Although the Agency was over seventy miles bv in t he E. A. Richardson store. E rnest was seventee[...]ld be called a town, it was when he found himself in this exotic, but attractive, full of youn[...]r dance . I was the store, spending much time out in back examining inside once, at a dance[...]arents led off the own hat. This he may have done in the uninhibited first waltz. I had nev[...]ense of humor was Crow Agency being in Rosebud County then, and deep and real. The boys in the store teased him, Ernest Forsyth being t[...]Erve to establish his second store there. In 1906 Erne t Ernest was a lover of music. His wife, Mary writes: went to work in the Richardson Mercantile Company of "E rnest was[...]uld it have been? Uncle Erve flatly In 1916 he married Mary H. Morrill at Madeira, refus[...]Ohio, she had was only for no-good men who played in bars and been supervisor of music in the Forsyth schools for honky-tonks!" The music teacher in question could three years. In his marriage, Ernest found great have been Miss E[...]had support for his continuing interest in music. His wa held one of the higher office positions earlier. Her one of the best voices in his Forsyth church. Ernest and mother had died at Crow in 1890, age twenty-nine. Mary had three[...]illiam, and Ar- Elizabeth came to Crow sometimes, in our day, perhaps thur. Finally, Ern[...] |
| In 1942, the Woolstons moved to Miles City, where times. As in many other places in those days, Mrs. Ernest was employed first by Mil[...]r retirement almost Velmer Clark Furniture store. In 1959, Ernest retired. the whole valley joined in giving her an appreciation He and Mary went first[...]Helen taught the Maschetah and Dunmore died there in November, 1964. sc[...]and then taught one year in Hardin before marrying Lloyde Carper in 1925. She was an active member of the[...]Chas. A. Wort, and daughters Helen death in 1967. and Ada came to the Big Horn Valley from Ha[...]ally from Nebraska, they brought their experience in farming and applied it to the farm purchased four[...]Hardin. The girls drove back and forth to school in a horse and buggy to Hardin. Helen graduated from Hardin High School in 1920 and Ada in 1925.[...]Ada graduated from Montana State University in 1929 in Home Economics. She was an extension agent in Plentywood and Scobey. December 31, 1931 she[...]active in 4-H and the local extension clubs. In 1956 the[...]After the years in Iran the family again settled in[...]Indian Department. Uriel farmed the home place. In Mr. Wort was involved in the dairy business as 1967 they moved to[...]chinchillas and Ada is giving college courses in quilting well as farming. Mrs. Wort was one[...]and other hand-crafts. the valley, starting in 1917. At first she drove a team and spring wagon[...]t had built a wooden, box-type cab, with a window in the back that[...]JOHN T. YOUNG could be opened in summer, and a removable front panel and window, w[...]ovember 25, 1879, at deflect the winds of winter. In bad weather, or when Woodston, Kansas, a[...]ng. He came to the Billings area with his parents in trip. Her stop on the upper road at the Taylor's was 1880, when he was about six months old. The family keenly anticipated for there a hot cup of tea was lived on a farm on Rock[...]r several years the horse-drawn mailcart was used in bad about six years.[...] |
| [...]located near the present Elk's Club. This building was[...]cattle and horses. We owned, in 1913, the second threshing machine in this valley. It was a steam[...]the steam engine is in a museum in California.[...]I was married in 1925 to Pearl Bolton, and to this[...]Grandma passed away in 1914, Grandfather in May 1928, and my father in March 1960.[...]I went to work for the City of Hardin in 1929, and retired in 1969, as Public Works Superintendent. In[...]I took a leave of absence from the City, enlisted in the Navy in the Construction Battalion, and came back[...]to the City Hall in January 1946. I am now retired and Passport pictu[...]for Iran in Hardin.[...]pointment to the State Board of Certification for Water He was married to Lena Austin in 1900, and to this and Waste Operators by Gove[...]the George Warren Fuller award, given passed away in 1908. Mr. Young moved to the Hardin by the American Water Works Association. He is a life area on February[...]member of the Montana Section of the American Water lower Big Horn, later moving to the Rotten Grass[...]Jennie His particular contribution was the building of earth Tuchenhagen in 1916. She passed away in 1950. settling basins for the water of Hardin - a technique Mr. Young moved to Hardin about 1945. Besides new to water works at that time. his ranching inte~sts, he did[...]one of the first self-feeding threshing machines in Big Horn County. On November 8, 1952, he married Mrs. Elizabeth R. Butkay in Hardin. Mr. Young passed away in March THE YOUNGS 19[...]Stevens of Custer, Frank came to this area in the early nineties, from Oklahoma, and Mrs. Georg[...]nted with the Upper Rosebud. They I arrived in Hardin in February 1912, at the age of purchased the Hamm[...]sters, Alma and changing county lines, lived in Custer, Rosebud, and Jenny. Jenny and I were both born in Lethbridge, Big Hom County. He passed[...]y-third Canada ; Alma, my oldest sister, was born in Joliet, birthday in 1965. Alvin passed away in ebras ka in the Montana. Our parents were John and Lena Young[...]all lived together as one family . My mother died in Albert married a ebraska neighbor girl, Elsie 1908; we moved from Canada to the United States in Litchfield, and homesteaded on Spring Cr[...]own. We Rosebud, and spent his last years in Sheridan, where lived there for two years,[...] |
| who lives on the home place, and Mildred Foley, who lives in California. Frank (Smokey) ended up at Lodg[...]hey had nine children, and after his wife's death in the late twenties, he brought his children to Montana. Some came by train, some in a car, and the remaining four, along with their f[...]Mary, LaRue, John, and LaRena (Adsit) still live in the Kirby-Decker area. Joe lives in Longview , Washington, Charles at Meeteetsee, Wyo[...]rick) at Baker, Montana, and Adeline (Rice) lives in Renton, Washington. Jess passed away at Decker in 1966. James is buried at Meeteetsee, Wyoming.[...], more commonly known as " Brig" Youst, was born in Corbin, Kansas, September 11 , 1874. He died at the age of eighty-eight in Billings, Montana on September 15, 1962. His par[...]ginia Victoria Cunningham Youst who preceded him in death, as did two sisters, Alice and Delphia, an[...]. Youst. Another brother, Claudius B. Youst died in 1967. The James Albert Youst "Brig" ag[...]traveling Mallin Frost ranch on Sage creek. In June of 1893 he by covered wagon, where they hom[...]hem and brought them back to homesteaders struck in 1890, the Gilford Youst family Sage Creek. Then in December of 1893 he drove a again packed their belongings in covered wagons and freight team for Al[...]t, on the Red Wyoming winters were violent in those years and Lodge route. while working in 1891 on the Bar N Cattle Ranch, then In September of 1894, Albert joined with his owned b[...]elayed the brothers, Claudius and George, in the homesteading of distress of the Hutchinfelle[...]e Wyoming and into Montana, homesteading too in the next few years and news of his heroic deeds a[...]n July Youst was good Samaritan response to women in distress, roused born on Albert and Gold[...]igham Young and his many women-he in the town, after it had been named Belfry-t[...] |
| [...]became Ranch Foreman for John Tolhnan, a rancher in the Clarks Fork Valley. In the year 1909 Albert moved his family to Hardin, Montana, where he engaged in farming then started a *transfer business in 1910 and moved his family into the town of Hardin. He served the community in this business until the year 1926 when he sold hi[...]Albert's widow, Goldie, died January 21, 1970, in[...]Minda and Blaine of deeded to Albert and Goldie in 1930 and they sold their Terrebonne, Oregon. residence in Hardin, moving to the farm. Albert was a lover o[...]RAY AND URSULA ZELKA County in 1936. Until the year of his retirement, in By Ray C. Zelka 1953,[...]t Sr., on the Grape I came to Hardin in 1921 when I was sixteen. I was Vine Ranch near Black and Big Horn Canyons, then on born in Buffalo, New York and attended trade school the[...]rking for for two years, then went to work in garages. I worked in Hubert Woodard on Fly .Creek. He made his home w[...]for W . E. Warren, and trucked when son, Gordon, in Billings, until his death. the wild cat oil wells in Soap and Woody Creeks were Albert "Brig" Yo[...]as never too busy to help any man, woman or child in need or distress. He had a great wealth of friend[...]"apple pie" -at the age of 83 he was still riding in County Fairs and Rodeo parades-bucking broncos we[...]. Many old fractures and injuries took their toll in the latter years, although he had no chronic illn[...]stories he told so well, of his many experiences in life; his great love for animals and the ability[...]them successfully; his compassion for all people in all walks of life, endeared him forever in the hearts of his family and a world of fr[...] |
| In 1921 there were five blacksmith shops in tank is now. It was the first flight training school in Big Hardin-the era of horse-farming-two machine[...]lanes. Florin Baldwin, who started Gamble's store in welding shop in 1925 and in 1926 got the first electric '46, joined in the operation of the flight school. It was a welder in the entire area. That same year I married[...]for Big Horn County, and the airport on old Fort in 1927 and served for eight years.[...]rport within the city limits and the only airport in[...]ane We built Ray's Welding and Machine Shop in |
| back in five years; the County Commissioners agreed. In 1954-60 I again served on the City Council; the T[...]the remaining funds were used expansion of the water plant was the big problem, and to fence the runwa[...]but by careful planning this was accomplished in five[...]In 1962 I was asked to finish Mr. Jackson's term[...]Rest Haven for four years, and "specialed" in- numerable times. She works awfully hard, and help in the projects of the church groups and in the Hardin[...]We have raised five children: Ray, Jr. is in Billings[...]Grand Forks, . Dakota, and Tom and Jim here in[...] |
| [...]1913-1971 the time. Building was commenced in August 1886 and 1913 C. Bernice Myers the first pupils were received in January 1887. In 1917 Lucy Batty[...]superintendent and reported for the year of 1892. In 1921 Fay Alderson[...]small scale. The building is really like a large cottage, 1925 Nelli[...]school is doing excellent work both in the class room 1929 Eleanor H. Sullivan[...]eod t he school was run by the Unitarian Association and 1933 Lill[...]Lippert tlement in Montana, and if the rancher had children, 1967[...]schools, or to live with families in town, so that they[...]lived in Hardin for many years, told me that she quit[...]down the valley from Painted Robe Creek in the 1880's-a day's journey[...]r attended Hardin was one of the earliest schools in this area. the Billings Polytechnic Institute in its early days. Mr. H. F. Bond, Superintendent of the Mission School wrote "In April 1886, the American Unitarian Association se[...]On the Crow Reservation in the early 1900's, there[...]. -- in the region was the log one at the Charles Phelps[...]ranch in Dry Head Canyon. The picture shows it, in the[...]r Custer, Montana, 1886. The first In 1916-17, when my family were at the ranch school[...]during summers, there was a school in the Dry Head[...] |
| [...]ldren among the con- school was open during nine months of the year which testants. Our two manage[...]r leader- would have been dangerous for children in the winter. ship. A hat was passed before e[...]ld, wild night, full of rivalry, ex- HOT LUNCHES AT NOON cite[...]manship, fun, cheering that woke the IN THE RURAL SCHOOLS rafters, and an ever-swelling pile of cash for our hot OF[...]cks with quite a I cannot say precisely when hot noon lunches were distance from the seat to[...]their home. Teacher and children combined efforts in balance while racing the seat backwards the length of preparing and serving the hot soup, which was heated the room. Both tea[...]and had no further worries about financing the hot[...]unch program that year. My knowledge of the hot lunches at North Bench runs from the fall of 192[...]g, and screaming place upon its wall. In 1921, the building was con- "Macaroni and tomatoes" to emphasize her[...]ound, teeters, etc. those delicacies being voted in. When the campaign fo[...]ings, and besides only, the latest word in jacketed coal stoves, a kerosene that, carrying the makings of chow mein for our hot stove for hot lunches, flag, organ, victrola, picture of lunch[...]a surprise present from their Washington, water cooler, kerosene lamps, teacher's mother, and the[...]ks was obtained every week or so from the library in In the spring of 1922, we learned that the hot lunch Hardin, which was then manned by W. E. Fe[...]fter long and serious discussion, creatures in the Green Meadow. However they read we completed[...], "Have a heart, and bring a few fortunes in that dry area, but they were a close knit dimes a[...]. Curiosity ran Sunday School which met in the school-house was high, and on the appointed e[...]nd the superintendent, and the classes met in every comer. sent alternately to the left[...] |
| [...]I lived by myself in the old Christoph cabin on the[...]day, carrying water three-quarters of a mile from a[...]sometimes in snow, rain, sleet, mud or darkness. Of[...]wash my clothes, first heating water in a big iron pot[...]I would return to a cold log cabin, drag wood in- North Bench School w#h Harvey Kent on the porch side to chop and start a fire in the sheepherder's stove.[...]the floor boards. The cracks in the floor were big Folks there were·very so[...]it was uncomfortable walking-my putting some food in the family rig, usually horse overshoe[...]By Irene Benfer Pe:tson Born on a farm in Kansas-fourth of twelve children, at the age of nineteen I came to Kirby, Big Hom County, Montana in 1921 to be a pioneer teacher. r" arrived in Sheridan and got a room at the Crescent Hotel. Un[...]ahl 's Ranch and then to Prairie Dog. Forty miles in a wagon seemed like quite a trip![...]ing at Four Mile School, This was April and in two weeks I was due in 1920 Hardin to take May teacher examin[...]ten me. Only One time, lost in a heavy snow storm, all a blur of way to get ther[...]ountry from were getting covered in the snow so I kicked my feet Prairie Dog to Hardi[...]en living there, the W yola Hotel, and we arrived in Hardin the third Vincents by name, b[...]us far. After attending put my horse in the barn and stayed all night. It was ormal School in Miles City that summer I was con- n[...]; There were very few houses in all these miles. One Laymond Parks; Carrie, Cleme[...]turf ; time when lost I saw a cabin in the distance and Lily Davis.[...] |
| me out. No one was in the house as usual. I left a note saying, "Why d[...]not get to town from the time I started teaching in the fall until school ended in the spring. It was a hard cold winter as some wil[...]dresses and then got a ride home after the dance in a wagon. The key to the school house was in the pocket of the riding skirt and I forgo[...] |
| [...]By Violet R. Alexander In the lovely fall of 1919, I started the school year at Iron Springs. There were many rural schools in District 17H, then, and Iron Springs was contem[...]Some moved away. Iron Springs was a remote area in those days, with communication and travel both d[...]Spring Creek School House, Allen Romine in front especially after that winter of death and[...]re out. We had some tree branches and wood chunks in the back yard. I had an ax and a hand saw, and go[...]we made candy on my kerosene stove. I was staying in the school house in the cold weather, and keeping one of my uncle's saddle horses in the school barn, so ended the First stude[...]n near the stove from This picture was taken in the spring of 1920, but excessive heat, but making sure that if they were warm the building looked the same in the late teens, and for enough, those fart[...]hrough the kindling, and kerosene were kept in the coal house. efforts of J . A. Perry and J. S.[...]eats and desks for the children, a to school. The building also served as a community large crockery water cooler and individual cups, a flag, center. Schoo[...]nd space where the kerosene stove for cooking the hot lunches was kept. SORREL HORSE SCH[...]ouch The windows were all built on one side, in com- Many of the schools of yester[...]artment ruling, as cross lighting beginnings in some very unusual buildings but the had been foun[...]st important con- plementary lighting, never used in the daytime, was sideration for the So[...]Crow Sub-Chief who had lived in the area. In 1922 an[...] |
| [...]Gilliland (Van Cleve) was the first teacher. In 1923 the building was moved north a few miles and served the Old Mi[...]Big Horn Valley was becoming more populated ; the building was moved again-this time to a site about a mile[...]of dryland donated by Jim Quest. Teachers working in this location were H. E. Irvin, Luella Tate, Viol[...]), Ina May White and Ella Mae Cline (Clenn). In 1929 a new school was built on this site ; the old building was used for a teacherage some of the time. Frank[...]s and were still putting finishing touches to the building when school began. The old equipment was moved into the new building. A well had been drilled and a fine new pump was[...]Schoolboard members in 1929 were Walter[...]Franklin, clerk. Other board members in later years First S orrel H orse S[...]What a good came to check the sanitation in the chools. I don 't time everyone had dancing on the brand new floor. recall others who came in later years so I think that the The first teacher in this new building was Beulah job became a part of the many tas[...]ned loose to graze. One janitor work consisted of building fires and banking time a loud noise was heard banging against the t hem in t he winter, carrying in kindling and coal, schoolhouse. Upon inve[...]ad lai n down to roll and evening, emp tying t he water fountain, etc. The children got too close to the building so that he could n 't get up. elected monitors ev[...]wash "blackboards" , to dust erasers, to fill the water Billy rolled back to get on his feet. fou nt[...]l tasks, including The piano was bought in the fall of 1930 with raising and lowering the fl[...]rganized, followed by Eleanor adults in the community. Those taking parts were Sul[...] |
| [...]he be retained; the entire student time was lost in getting the piano from Lindamood's in body signed it, but the Board denied the r[...]n The second year the west half of the building was do that with one hand, think what you can do[...]aff; that it still had a beautiful tone when the building and she taught Latin, German, and math. We w[...]It had helped classes, and with a gym in the basement of the new part immeasureably to pro[...]!Willard church services that were sometimes held in the remembers missing the Columbus game because he was building.[...]arouse Dick Warren, another member of the In 1937 a two-room teacherage was added to the team, who was asleep in a Billings hotel. He succeeded, building. A few years later electricity became available[...]t before the train pulled out, carrying the other in the area through the Rural Electric Cooperative a[...]were suspended from school for several days. In May Other Sorrel Horse teachers were Luell[...]ornell. The last term at Sorrel Horse ended in the spring of 1964. Mona Cornell, with the children, parents and friends in the community had the usual last-day-of- school picnic in the oyes pasture to mark the end of the term and[...]there was nothing to do but close the doors. The building was sold at auction in January, 1966, to Joe and Kathryn Weinberg who mo[...]Anna Kent,-, Florence When we were freshmen in 1914 Hardin High had Campbell, Homer Wise, Miss Alta Dunlap three grades , and was located in one room-the nor- theast corner, second floor , of the old school built in The third year Miss Olive Cory took ov[...]uldn 't carry a tune, algebra and general science in his small office at the end asked her to plea[...]s , so discordant note. A room was finished off in the we drew pictures of the changes made by sun o[...]the fur- took it to Crow Agency where we gave it in the nace room that later became the manual training room . assembly hall of the Boy 's Building. The School Board The second gradu[...] |
| [...]and Second Streets. It was built in 1910 and he was[...]they were in their home room before the final gong.[...]older sister) drove the horse and buggy in for school in[...]building her feet would be so cold as to be almost numb.[...]was no school. In 1910, the Rosebud County Com-[...]and girls took manual training. We were involved in the war effort and in April saw our manual training teacher, Mr. Todd,[...]We made our first public appearance when we were in a parade that ended with the laying of the comer-[...]library, May 12, 1918. Our baccalaureate was held in the basement of the Methodist church (now the Mas[...]ther, delivering the address. Graduation was held in the Harriet Theatre; Crow Indian Baptist[...]school house, the west room of the old dissolved in laughter. On the third attempt, and failure, brick building, was begun that year, but was not the two non-gra[...]building in the spring of 1911. The first school term[...]began after ew i ear's day in that same year. The REMEMBERING MR. C. W. D[...]s decided to have school six days a Hardin school building that stood in the center of the week, and try and f[...] |
| [...]t, Paul and Charlie Mayo Later another brick building to house the four upper grades was completed. Also, the Upper Little Horn school house was moved in for a gymnasium and community center as the popul[...]e children from the ranches nearby to Wyola. In 1957, a modern school building with several classrooms, lunchroom, and gy[...] |
| [...]School at Toluca; Teacherage-Small building at left Upper Spring Creek Schoo[...]School-x marks Mr. Platts the teacher and |
| [...]A ntler School, cement building used as a school building on Rotten Grass Creek Hart School; back row: B a[...]First School building, specifically built for a school at[...] |
| [...]inley W. H. Banfill- Assembly and study hall in the new building, 1919-20 Teacher, Clifton Jackson-Supt. of School[...]tha Torske, Mr. Clawson, driver. Fourth Grade in Hardin, 1920 |
| [...]ed that day. The only ones BIG HORN COUNTY IN THE MAKING that were lef[...]and I was working on the Crow Reservation in the fall Mrs. Adsit didn't vote because women had not yet of 1912. There were about twenty-two men in the crew. been granted the right to vote.[...]duty. We rode to Lodge Grass and left our broncos in families had two-seated spring wagons, pulled[...]art of the ranch owned came to a sheet iron building. We went in and took our by Mr. and Mrs. Joe Hope). The oth[...]laid on Boylan, who had a coal and ice business in Hardin; empty nail kegs. I don't think that building is there any when they stepped out of the buggy[...]assed out the The morning after arriving in Hardin, Matt cigars, then told us that they had[...]be made from portions of Yellowstone sworn in as jurors. The only case I was on was for and R[...]evidence. This was the second District Court held in that the officers of the new county would be sel[...]e reason Lodge Grass and Wyola were not included in the hand out was because the Indians W t[...]The Wagners, (Howard and Cecil still live in were not many white people around there at that t[...]Lucille Schoer, still lives in Hardin, the E. Morri ettes I don't recall how long Dewey Riddle served as (son, Ray, lives in Hardin) as does Elsie Gibbs Riley Sheriff, but Jo[...]taught school in Hardin for many years and was one of Well, t[...]Alfred and Otto voted on the 12th day of January in 1913; the day was Person who did a lo[...] |
| [...]ranklin, Nick Dethelson, The 0. W. Ranch in the Decker area dates from Arthur Brown, Phil Dow[...]to Charles B. Wulfjen, Round Rock, Texas. In April, Suzdas, Joab James, Jim Keane, Sil and Sid[...]lchers, Luennings, Karstens, E. L. Jones, In 1883 Mr. Wulfjen sold his cattle, ranch and Tom G[...]etables and strawberries from It was in 1887 that the Converse Cattle Company his large garden to the folks in town, Charley and Perry moved from their holdings in central Wyoming to the Corkins, the Chas. Daniels[...]anch on Hanging Woman been a Justice of the Peace in Hardin, Dr. Carper and creek in Montana. brother Dick, Guy Van Cleve, Ralph Peck,[...]remaining cattle, ranch, and range rights in 1888. Since Mr. Kendrick's death in 1933, the 0. W. Sarpy and Tullock Area:[...]n and his father, the Longacres, a bride in 1891, living there for twenty years. She later Ge[...]iswells, John and Ole made her home in Sheridan. Grossfield, the Landons, Mayos, Wolfes,[...]to start. furnish water for irrigation of all the bench land on the[...]s watching; engineer in the country at that time, was the consulting He'[...]engineer. The Company was incorporated and shares in So hurry! Send a rider[...]ld to local people and preparations From up there in the sky. made for wider sales in the East.[...] |
| [...]ng data were would have to roll up in their saddle blankets. One submitted to the appropriate offices in Washington, night late, X Beidler, ring[...]ers found out he had gone to bring back a surveys in the six weeks they took if they had not used[...]s expected back and her husband's maps and charts in the Government's came and asked me if I could get supper for them; I files. Mr. Cooper was in poor health-he would have agreed I wou[...]hey let him cross the river to EXPERIENCES IN EARLY DAYS IN the Fort. Mr. Sweetman[...]and was conductor for several years. He brought in the By Mrs. Sarah Thompson first train to Billings. He assisted in constructing the "We arrived at Fort Custer,[...]railroad from Bridger to Bear Creek. He died in his the sun was going down. We were informed we could one-hundredth year in a little log cabin near Fromberg, not remain in the Garrison. We were at a loss to know M[...]on the There was a lot of travel in Montana even in those banks of the Big Hom River. The officers and soldiers days and we had difficulty in taking care of them. We were very nice to us, but[...]Mrs. Gerald Panton and Mrs. Lillie Goulding live in and we were afraid of the Indians. The lonely hil[...]e tall cottonwood trees surrounded our first home in the post. There were thirty-five Crow Scou[...]ad about fifty worthless dogs that leaving Hardin in 1882, I did not return for forty-three barke[...]from enough money to return to our dear old home in the floor. My husband crept up and[...]freight outfits and with the coming right in or knock the door down. They would go steamer, Jo[...]naged to handle the away from the building about twenty feet and then freight. On moonlight[...]ey carried on this There was a general store in Fort Custer run by a way all night until four in the morning. When they at Mr. Barreup. Everything was so high in this store. last did go we wer[...] |
| [...]As was said previously, most of the dances were in people came to this country to see about inves[...]ad the largest room around. We had either in cattle or the mining industry. A number did only[...]floor to dance on. We always had good invest in one or the other. After the railroad came to musi[...]e butchered for forward to the hunts we took in the fall to get our the Fort. One summer day a nu[...]l never forget the hunting trip we got want to go in the cold water. The butcher was on the snowed in, in the mountains and had to stay there ten horse on the bank of the river to hold the cattle back. days in a tent. We had plenty of fresh meat and He finally went down into the water, though his horse biscuits but we discover[...]and bread did not taste very good. We when he got in the water and he backed into a deep hole brought a lot[...]ot very cold, but there was One cold night in 1881, the stage driver failed to lots of snow, but the winter of 1881 was very cold with come in at his usual time. We all became quite con- lots of snow. In the summer of 1880 the Far West cerned as the hours of the night slipped away. In the commanded by Captain Marsh, brought up the fi[...]station. They got there about three o'clock in the af- stone was sent on the first boat and earl[...]o'clock in a blinding snow storm. The men then turned could[...]band and I use to ride over the hills on In the morning just after my husband had left, I hor[...]be. There stood Sandersons' horse and he was in the biggest thieves, would steal everything they[...]pulled him sent out to all civilians to be ready in one hour and an off and dragged him up to the[...]er the Post for safety. We obeyed orders and were in the it. I then dragged him up by the firep[...]scene of the frozen too as there was sleet in the storm. He could not Indians but they bad gone[...]rge tub of snow. I tried to get him to drink some hot We wanted to go home the next day, but the com·[...]e men went home we feared the Indians were hiding in the came in the evening I was glad to turn the job over to hi[...]ut them. We kept him at our place for about two months. haying. A little ten year old girl stayed with m[...]yed for about night. Wild game was very plentiful in the mountains, six weeks. He always[...] |
| [...]utch ovens for the baking. We had no con- in this soil. These gardens were for the Fort only, but veniences whatever. our house stood in a large grove of the gardeners saw that we had[...]trees and we had hundreds of cords of In 1884 a report was circulated that a small band of[...]to see what they could do. They encountered the In- four. Two stages left our place each day, one to[...]two. These were brought to Fort Custer and put in the Billings now stands, the other stage to Junct[...]got our supplies from the Army them jump in the river. The river was dragged with a Commissary every three months, we were not allowed grappling hook but n[...]mail over this route until 1907 when the building of the once in three months. We were paid in silver and gold. Milwaukee R.R. put the stage[...]s account belongs to Mrs. home and would leave it in the Fort and send someone Hazel Christianse[...]ut our money. There was a it. small bank in the Fort, but we could not have access to it. We had to keep our money in boxes and bags. We decided we would have a bank o[...]TO MO TA A' PIONEER containers in the form of tin cans with their names[...]r floor was made of large Montana is an empire in these old United States, hewed pine logs, we coul[...]ur floor besides That can be found in any state throughout the ourselves. We were never[...]I never left home. In homes of sweet contentment these dear old people My husband was in the hay field every night live, during h[...]was afraid I When she gave to them Montana in which to live and was to put a light in the window. But I never did this. die,[...] |
| [...]an't realize their things stand right out in my mind, a lot of mighty fine worth.[...]gumbo to the right, gumbo to the left, gumbo in front through drouth or rain;[...]Business on the railroad was very heavy in those days, How one time they "ketched" a horse t[...]of fourteen months. I made the ride one morning when There are[...]railroad officials would only use them a few months at a Their work and perseverance brought about th[...]Hardin was made a station. I had my office in a small And no matter what the task was, a helpin[...]sections small enough to go it never got too hot or cold for them to help "a through Big Hor[...]ies of summers for the new depot. I stood in the depot door and Jim long ago.[...]Considine, the passenger conductor, stood in the[...]no done and the barrel sank about a foot in the mud and "Pale Face's" gun resounds,[...]ion was opened at Hardin there was no post office in trod.[...] |
| would not stop and it would be thrown off in bundles tin wash tub and the freight house[...]rought and then tied her to the track at the water crane just over to us. The delay about getting a[...]I had on Eder's store now stands. It was a small building and was a towel and birthday clothes. I sa[...]the "Mascheta" was trying to do them one better in Hardin about ten-thirty p.m. and to our suprise c[...]blanket. The unlooked for a stop at the station. In the early days of Hardin trains train was a so[...]when they lady to alight and she had a small baby in her arms. The passed through Hardin on Sunday. In my ride to the lady was Mrs. S. D. Slaughter. S.[...]railroad for fifteen years and supposed to be in his right and he failed to meet his wife. There w[...]tartled at thoughts of spending the In the early days of Hardin there was an old time ni[...]ter and the baby took Jack McDonnell. In those days we did not know possession. The next d[...]likeness for liquid refreshments that had a kick in[...]would drink for about three months or until he got[...]While the pledge was in operation he would be on the water wagon right, but when the time was up how[...]certain and decidedly he would fall from the water[...]main line, right in front of the depot. Jack and his men[...]the hand First CB & Q Train to stop at the depot in Hardin, June car until close upon it, but whe[...]chief concern was how he that the early settlers in Hardin failed to see. could get a new[...]p from getting fired. Bathrooms were then unknown in Hardin. A good big By the necess[...] |
| [...]ot and would ask me about four ice cold drink of water. After the Hardin station was times a day th[...]Chicago?" He had great hopes for Hardin drinking water was available. The water for Hardin and he had entirely the wrong idea about my station use was hauled from Crow Agency in a cast off importance as Agent. He seemed to think that I was engine tender. The water was intended for railroad use agent and boss[...]trol as the Gov. Indian Agent at Crow Agency had water for drinking purposes at least, and I gave[...]a card. He countless barrels of the Crow Agency water away. took a liking to me and used me a[...]ing. He at Sheridan to me that entirely too much water was little knew how safe it was. The one[...]unds as well as the Express money order who were in Hardin in the summer of 1907 know books. No sa[...]ed and no place to leave same anything about how hot it was on the gumbo townsite. only in a small wooden drawer. I simply could not carry The need for drinking water was great and I continued the money, etc., to the homestead on my overnight to give away Burlington water-knowing full well that trips and I cached the valuables in many different I was courting future trouble, an[...]pot some night while I was out to the homestead. water complaints and wanted a showdown about the[...]ell that I had given large one winter night in 1907. John came to the depot about quantities of water after repeated requests to conserve four p.m.[...]west bound Freight Conductor asking me to go to water away right along, he could see how urgent the[...]e Burlington expected a town to be was to be in Billings that evening. He said they would built u[...]d not stop but railroad by giving a " cup of cold water" to the pioneers slow up so I could catch the w[...]t Old John was leaving town as that freight train water, but I coaxed certain train crews to throw off a came along. He saw me lock up the station in a hurry good supply of ice from the ice boxes of[...]f that west bound train. Right cars going through in fast freights that did not stop at then and th[...]r. Bracken, he out as to why I had left town in such a hurry. No one in smiled and said he hoped cold weather would hurry[...]w that I was leaving town and Old John put so the water and ice demand would not be so great. in a long night awaiting my return. I returned at si[...]he next morning and made John happy by Burlington water flowed more freely than ever and showin[...]act just as he had left it nothing more was heard in the way of complaints. with me. With t[...]The first birth and the first death happened in his tepee with faith restored in his banker and still Hardin on the same day. I am[...]countless Speaking of the Hardin Hotel and hot weather I trouble were the drug habit vict[...]tching two old time Crow into town and run out of dope, would order some and it bucks, Big Lake and Daylight. The hotel was built in would come C.O.D. They would not have the money to 1907 during the summer and it was hot. The dining take up the C.O.D. charges[...]room was being plastered and it was nice and cool in around the depot and beg and implore me to[...]watch close to see that they did not steal some. In sudden Daylight and Big Lake left the shelter of[...]lows got so bad off that their hotel and went out in the hot sun and sat down on a pile sufferings were pit[...]w to asked them why leave the coolspot for a real hot spot. take them to the next division[...] |
| [...]illing experience that I had while the men in charge. It was seven months before Old Agent at Hardin was at the time of th[...]nd and he was o.k., but the 0. K. Stable it was in 1909, about August and around five p.m. My[...]to have supper every horse that was in the barn that night, some seven with us. Eloise was a small baby in arms at that time. or eight of them. Ethan was in Billings for the day. We noticed the storm While Agent in Hardin I had one experience that I coming up and[...]red to ship a car load of horses from would stay in the way car waiting for the storm to pass[...]eritsa, and as thought it best to go down stairs in the depot. At the they left Hardin the De[...]inspection and give me the certificate when place in case of a severe wind storm, as I well knew that[...]conductor and the the Hardin depot had been sawed in sections and Deputy Sheriff had so[...]t stop at Hardin and I handed the way bill Eloise in my arms and the three of us started down[...]nd a half the Deputy Sheriff came to the that was in Hardin that night will tell you it was "Some[...]moved out of the state without stand on our feet in the shelter of the station. I had brand inspection. In a couple of weeks a warrant was trouble unlocking[...]lf. account of trying to hold onto the small baby in my The Burlington had an attorney in Billings and arms. It was while we were trying to[...]d that they would fight thought was for those men in the way car of the train my case as well[...]the depot platform the storm brought in Billings and was of short duration. The Jury made[...]coal shed and short work of their job in finding in favor of th railroad parts of the "Chic Sales" at[...]yer had to pay for needles on the main line right in front of the speeding cars and court expens[...]idence believe that the hand of the Almighty rode in that must be established by May 15, 1907, by all tho e who storm and saved the lives of the men in the way car at drew home teads in the row land drawing. On account Big Horn Wye. I[...]l tran· Custer, they put those sections together in good shape. sportation on the Burlington a[...]he old station made some awful time in Deadwood and D over. I had pent my saving groans but it remained standing while the two story in operations and treatments, etc., all to no avail. I Spencer building was blown flat just a block from the kne[...]me in a weaker condition and uni s a change took place[...]ng before I would cross the great old range horse in Hardin the night of the storm. He divide. In this condition 1 made a trip to Sheridan was J. W[...]e about taking had some years on him, he had been in storms before, he the Telegraph job at For[...]other knew a bad storm was coming up. He was tied in a rear railroad men wanted that p[...] |
| [...]at any time. second story men sure worked fast in Hardin. They I then went to Billings and bought[...]nged share the troubles of all those she came in contact with to have my shack built and ready for me to occupy and she had a heart in her as big as a box car. Mary same by May 15th.[...]avors while I was there was an early improvement in my physical con- holding down my homestea[...]out. the lumber for my shack had been dumped off in the In thinking of the early days in Hardin, I can mud and water about four miles from my homestead. I alwa[...]t Custer, knowing that I and materials used in the Spencer's second store in would have to hurry in order to have my shack ready Hardin. Mr. S[...]the railroad track just south of the first depot in met up with a pal who was willing to help me out[...]the of the railroad where present Spencer building stands. lumber and built the shack and we both slept in same The Spencer second store was a "work o[...]rather hard knocks while lots of building paper and "saw dust". The sides of the homesteading and as Agent at Hardin, but Hardin building were made by putting building paper on the means more to me than any other tow[...]I staged a come back as outside and saw-dust in between. Knotty fence boards regards to health.[...]arted housekeeping there. We built our first in the store it most always took a nose dive for one of house in Hardin and our daughter, Cynthia Louise was[...]knot holes. The Old Timers will well born there in 1911. reme[...]ust store We made a lot of fine friendships in Hardin. The was replaced by a two story conc[...]9. The one story, fourth store replaced home was in Wenatchee, Washington and that point is same at the same location. one of the pretty spots in the state of Washington, Hardin was put on the map in July 1907, and by located on the Columbia River,[...]clifferent from other people, when once you live in February 9th, 1975 at a meeting of the Big H[...]cal Society.} people. When my wife came to Hardin in 1909 she cried The major period of Dad'[...]was 1918-24; typhoid, tuberculosis, and infantile in 1913 she cried still harder because she loved old[...]cial visit as County Harclin chivaris, our first in Hardin. We tried to side Health Officer to the[...]etermined to try and improve them. were up stairs in the Depot and in the darkness those in Born in Michigan in 1872, Dad had grown up on a search of us p[...] |
| in Chicago, practiced medicine and served as City is supplied with water where it is possible to get it, and health officer in Ludington, Michigan before coming to 80%[...]ts were present to watch the the Huntley Project in 1908. He was the first per- examinatio[...]ian on the Project, and had the first drug In one school, forty-five miles from a railroad, every store in Huntley. In September 1914 he sold his home parent[...]ree gumboils were found. Doz,ens of these officer-in the city as well as the county.[...]milk. Over 100 children who were in the malnutrition followed this general line : in the fall, as soon as schools[...]class gained enough in ninety days last year to bring were open, Dad and[...]malnutrition class she was in - how they had to drink favorable climate. Children were examined in the[...]ecess periods, and if money for milk morning, and in the afternoon were given a talk on[...]was not available in t he family, the children broug ht health problem[...]vegetables or eggs to pay for it. in the afternoon and Dad discussed individual or[...]ded Harvard Medical community problems with them. In the evening there[...]School to learn the lates t techniques in the realm of would be a stereopticon lecture on F[...]ion of eyes, quite a close watch on the work in Big Horn County, ears, teeth, nose, throat (with[...]. I know that each child. These records were kept in special books and they held baby clinics in various parts of the county. the previous year's[...], Big Springs, Kirby, Mc- ments to those in need of them. Donald (on Grapevine), St. Xavier, Pryor, Young's In the late 1920's the real pilot project was Creek,[...]Creek, Toluca, Upper establis hed, to run one year, with the cooperation of Spring Creek, and others in 17H and 16. Federal, State[...]ities is evident from a report written, I think , in the Henrietta Crockett , s pent the summer her[...]did, t he Federal Government to greater interest in t heir physical conditions. became in[...]petigo, and tuberculosis were results, especially in t he death-rate. Big H om County the chief[...]ished the first , a has a population of 7,000 and in 1917 four babies died purple medicine kept the second in check, but TB was from preventable bowel trou ble[...]One very touching incident occurred at Pryor, in bowel trouble, and there has been one death from[...]striking results is the improved late in the afternoon. Dad had finished his examination c[...]began there was scarcely a sanitary boys ' toilet in the health meeting for Indian mothers. A large number County. 62% of the schools were without water, and it gathered on the second floor of[...]nger explained that the Chief was old and toilets in t he County t hat broug ht t he severe con-[...]itary officer , virtually every sc hool d riven in from his home outside of Pryor , and after[...] |
| [...]asked what he wanted? The Chief them in the cooler. And when I get over there I will repl[...]ridan for another City Health Officer Early in this health campaign Dad was City v[...]one. This became an annual event. I think picnics in[...]oven feed for the old timers who lived in Wyoming and Health officer until his death in April, 1941.[...]that cooked on the old 7-7 wagon in 1885 for Paul records, played the piano if one was available, and in so[...]ures of the late summary : "I have not made money in my life, I have[...]Johnny Booz, roundup cook, in the 80's and Les P. tied his wagon to a star, and[...]Baldwin, roundup cook, in the early 1900's. Johnny[...]Mother Goose with AT SHERIDAN, WYOMING IN 1932 7 little ganders goin[...]ver for a ·Mr. and Mrs. Les P. Barlwin are in Story, drink of water. Wyoming, as guests of Mrs. Squaw Hedp High,[...]to Billings and been 34 years since we were here in Sheridan, Wyoming they trailed them north[...]hell country. DHS Granville Stewart. venison feed in the old Burlington Railroad Park for the[...]outdoor barbecue feed for the Shriners and Masons in roundup mess wagon was owned by Paul McCormick[...]outdoor feed for the old pioneer people who lived in Spear Johnson had charge of the outdoor venison f[...]late Willis Spear came back to Crow trail in the summertime. Agency where Les was working on t[...]e and I fed the Shriners and Masons they tlefield in 1932 for the Army Engineers out of Mon-[...]a ational and after 34 years we stopped in Sioux City, Iowa to see Cemetery. Willis Spear said, "Les, I'm in a bad way, the Illustrious Potentate of[...]l Harper of Sioux would be all kinds of deer meat in the lockers that was City, Irene's nephew s[...], you go home and get about 7 or 8 her guests in honor of her late husband to attend The he[...] |
| riding one of the white horses in the parade ground[...]\\ ..lmtr,·er crops btw,• be-en mifaled in vt lwr ~ tions uf l.luntann nm t.~"'-"'fully colth1.\ted in th~ Big Horn \'al1ey. The a,•e.mge yieh1 of wheat in he[...]For the rt1lth·atio11 ,,r thP ~nl(ur IN't't[...]tha t in a. few year,c tb f> t onnngt• rai"4"1[...]( ~, f:wtury 111 hn"'inf>K\. m:m in Hardin \\•r, t.- on .. ,,r Ycllow~tunt- county[...]ml ,•011w and ........ ~•iug i" nn1..-ummu11 in th i.-.Jolt'Ction. Yt>-l1owst ,111t'l[...]... ,. suun,c muu . :mtl """' u1• |
| BANEING IN BIG BOBN OOVNTT BANKING[...]der as Vice President and E . L. Kelley, Jr. as IN BIG HORN COUNTY, MONTANA TO 1950[...]ell, a 16 year old bride from Fall River, Kansas in a wagon Charles McDaniel, and E. A. Howell.[...]contract with Post to furnish hay, and they lived in a been Cashier since the founding of the ban[...]s. Mrs. Thompson cooked for 45 lived in Los Angeles. Fred M. Lipp, who had been woodchopp[...]ullivan, former deputy county payments were made in silver and gold and, as there clerk, was elected Assistant Cashier. was no bank, money was kept in cans and sacks and New Directors w[...]Stockyards National Bank in Omaha, purchased a large 1903 Fort Custer to be torn down under super- interest in the First National Bank of Hardin. Mr. vision of[...]Heinrich _was the largest taxpayer in Big Horn County 1906 The Lincoln Land Compa[...]cash. President. 1907 The third lot in Hardin was sold to J. B. 1920 On Janu[...]hompson were elected Directors. Capital and brick building constructed on this corner 25' by 40' and Surpl[...]C. M. Squire opened a real estate office in the rear was established and opened in ovember, 1907 with J. of the bank and oper[...]er. Department there. 1908 Advertised in first issue of Hardin Tribune, 1920 The[...]M. Lipp, William Heinrich and Major S. 1908 In August the Bank of Hardin changed its G.[...]Cashier. Howell remained on A. Snidow, Carl Rank.in and Sally B. Howell, wife of E. the Board of Directors. A. In September 1908 J . B. Arnold sold his interest in In the year of 1922-23, state banks closed their the[...]ors. missioner from Billings, who moved to Hardin in 1923 In January the First ational Bank took a October and[...]ally B. Howell on the Board of full page ad in the Tribune making a strong showing- Directors. A[...]and Undivided 1910 ew two story brick school building con- Profits[...]tional Bank of Hardin shows William In February, 1923 the new depot was dedicated[...] |
| Thomas D. Campbell, in a speech, predicted that On October[...]predicting a railroad would be 1926 In November, 1926 F. M. Lipp moved to built South of Hardin to St. Xavier in near future. Hysham where he had accept[...]ional Bank of Hysham. were promptly loaned out. In January, 1924 there were 1927 On January 22nd, after being closed for 14 five Banks in the County with combined resources of months, the First National Bank of Hardin re-opened ne[...]erson, of Terry, Montana, Cashier, Farmers in the area were offered contracts to grow Carl[...]A. S. Broat, J. J. Ping, F. M. Heinrich, C. H. in Hardin. Lots of moonshining and illegal "still" a[...]Hagerman, and Frank Kopriva. In April of this year, the Indian citizenship Act[...]urplus & Undivided Indians eligible at that time in the County. Profi[...]After the bank had re-opened, a celebration in the Banking. The reason given was for the protection of the form of a public dance was held in the Sullivan Hall depositors. This closing left[...]h replaced J. L. Hagerman on the of the Bank met in the Harriett Theatre and elected a Board[...]were $348,890.33. Approximately 95% of deposits in old W. E. G. Humphries, Chairman, R. A. Vickers, First ational Bank were paid in full . Secretary, John MacLeod, J. H. Ransier, Re[...]. changes in the bank took place: 1930, on June 22 the George Swords spoke at this meeting and in- first talking movie at the Harriett[...]d on the Board by 0 . E . Ander on. J . J . In 1925 Ping's Store established a branch store in[...]Broat. William Heinrich died in 1931 , and Carl E. Also, in February, 1925, the Hardin Bakery an- Bowman replaced him . C. H. A bury left in 1934, and nounced that, due to the steady increase in the price of H. G. Wells replaced him . Frank Kopriva left in 193 , wheat, and consequently the price of flour,[...]and Ira Haynie replaced him. A. H. Roush died in 1940, forced to incr~se the price of bread to two[...]On December 30, 1944 the bank showed : 1926 In February plans were made to reopen the[...]1907, and the Big Horn County Bank was organized in the First ational Bank was re-opened. Mr. Heinrich 1923. Bank opened in Gay Building where Big Horn did not have a legal obliga[...] |
| [...]quarters occupied by Stockmens National Bank in the ranching and other interests. Lee building where Jack's Pharmacy is now located. Directo[...]of deposits. The affairs of the Bank were placed in the F. Young, L. D. Lewis, and A.H. Bowman.[...]moneys for operating the schools were frozen in closing 1918 At the annual election on Janu[...]mmissioners filed suit to tors. Mr. Chapman lived in Red Lodge, Montana and free the County moneys (approximately $74,000.00) the rest lived in Hardin. from[...]on the Board Greening, Rarey and Skaug in connection with perjury of Directors.[...]Bond on February 1920 At the annual meeting in January, 1920 the 15th. On March 21 Bert R[...]. Lee replaced R. P. Ross, and Court and in February, 1925, that Court ordered the John Boylam replaced A.H. Roush who had resigned in case dismissed. Thus the Hardin State Ba[...],060.66 1917 The Stockmens' ational Bank in Hardin was Total Loans[...]dent, C. T . Garvey , State Bank. Purchased stock in the Federal Reserve Cashier, and[...] |
| [...]ier-who had left the Stockmens' ational Bank In April 1919, the Stockmens' National Bank was in Hardin. organized and moved to the Lee building at the corner The Directors of the new[...]cers were 1920 Officers remained the same as in 1919 and the elected: L. S. Fuller, President,[...]\ . H . President, Albert Sheets, Cashier. In addition to the Bowman, E. A. Richardson, Roy J .[...]ed Directors. Hardin State Bank on March 6, 1922, in a voluntary 1924-1935 In 1925 Henry mall, row Agency liquidation. It was m[...]hich moved to the Stockmens ' 1935 In 1935 the Board of Directors was reduced location in the Lee building. There was no loss to the from 5 members to 3[...]b of Cashier of the Bank mens ' ational Bank in Hardin. of Commerce in Sheridan, Wyoming.[...] |
| [...]te Bank will open on June 1, 1920 with In addition to the Banks in Big Horn County, there Capital of $20,000.00 and[...]Bank will be: E . A. HARDIN BUILDING AND LOAN Richardson, Crow Agency, A.H. Bowman, Hardin, J. Opened for business in April, 1916, C. F. Gillette, W. Scally, Crow Agency, E. A. Galliher, Crow Agency, Secretary. In 1919 had between $25,000.00-$30,000.00 and E. K.[...]nk and consequently it never opened its' doors. A building had NORRIS & WADE- been erected in Crow Agency to house the bank.[...]f Billings This was the last Bank to be Chartered in Big Hom Opened branch in Hardin in February, 1919 in County until 1945. Sullivan block. F. L . Young in charge to make farm 1923 The Big Horn County[...]$440,511.36 In 1930 Gracia Dillon was elected Ass't Cashier. 1936 In 1936 William Reilley from Miles City and Red Lodg[...]cted Cashier. The Board of Directors elected in 1936 were : W. E. Warren. Richard E. Warre[...] |
| [...]AND the only schools in this area were at Crow Agency THE[...]trations of government that prevailed in the McKinley Administration. under the various Pr[...]nt but the whit.e as I remember them and see them in my mind's eye, people had to get to B[...]"the and the joys and hardships that they endured in the good old days" I cannot help but thi[...]ces that you enjoy today. life in those old days, including the food and living[...]hich your forebears lived enjoy today in great comfort. The so called "good old without an[...]is a wonder that we, 1. There were no trains in this country until 1892 who lived then, are[...]s-of- 9. This country was still wild in those days. The way to build their tracks for tra[...]nd other farm implements for the new life MacLeod in Alberta, Canada.[...]Indjan u ing a whip to urge the 4. All travel in those days was by horseback. ponies to[...]the ox-teams and horse-drawn Crow Indians in the early 90's . A complete re rsal of passenger[...]killed off by the whit.e man who had which, while in operation in the East, had not invaded his count[...]as a case of plowing the earth for food or starve in Wyoming and Billings Montana as all of this area[...]forthwith engage in the education and int.ellectual[...] |
| [...]fe and to compete on an equal footing with whites in the culture as they and their forebears[...]ence depended upon wild game for their food, were in full swing to the Montana ranges. elson Story, clothing and shelter, in exchange for the white man's who was a local catt[...]grazing the Crow way of life which meant living in a confined small spot Reservation ranges and empl[...]eaking horses for his This period in the life of the Crows which I was cattle horse-w[...]n with born into and helped live it was, in my judgment, the herds from the Texas drives, such as the 04, UT, FUF happiest period in the lives of the Crow people. We had and other c[...]razing as I recall, were very considerate in helping the Crows ranges have yielded many rich[...]djustment to the the Crow people are languishing in economic want and new life that they were a[...]deceptive and conniving bill sponsored days in adjusting to the new lifp that they were forced b[...]87, known as the education of their children in the Reservation schools, Dawes Act, was an Act of[...]to should be pointed out that all education in the reser- the whites. In this manner vast areas of Indian lands vati[...]tes and soon thereafter the study were never in accordance with the course of study Indians becam[...]ked, deceptive half day and the other half in the classroom, the whole and conniving Bill spons[...]im~risoned in school until they were 21 and the girls[...]all were required to stay imprisoned in the schools until CROW AGENCY[...]aid the U. S. Indian gents School until, in disgust, I transferred to the big in the control and government of both the Cheyenne[...]Indian Trade School-the Carlisle ~d Crow Indians, in ~ase of any warlike upheavals by School of[...]Crow Reservation vied with each other to would be in progress. Thus, Ft. Custer became the demonstrate their advancement in the white man's lif~ protecting shield for all no[...]exerted in all aspects of the white man's life. In 1903 Major Reynolds, vith all of the tribe's The[...]f Pre ident Cleveland on agricultural fair in which they could compete with each down through President T. Roosevelt' administration. other in the production of agricultural products, and This period in the lives of both the Crows and engage in all of their tribal sports, dances and oth[...] |
| [...]Richardson 's vivio account me to view life in its true per pective. Th y w r t h of one of the[...]er, molding years of my life, and hav kept m in an un· the Washington BIA Office urged eleven o[...]h chief Plenty oups. running spikes were unknown in those days. The 2. The Black[...]nment and their famili at Crow farmer in charge, reporting to th g nt in char at Agency and in the seven distric .[...]genci at Llvin n and b For in tance, Mr. E lmer Dove was a fine musician[...]hree. white employ , which compared with any band in th Tb g tate of ontana at t[...]lisle band re highly trained in .. 1 Carli l ' B and o[...]I ial influ h in portr ed. ber[...] |
| [...]person in this country. What a change under respect for[...]p to them to organize and become potent relatives in any other district on the Reservation, he p[...]tutional rights had to go through the Boss Fanner in charge and will always be respected.[...]ol, and this means that the Indians must organize in charge of the District he was visiting so that he[...]to see that the time granted was not violated. in power at Washington. This autocratic rule over th[...]s the first Indian to letter on every Reservation in the land. This assertion be sup erintendent of any reservation in the United of Government might and power reverted back to the States. In 1933 he was appointed Superintendent of the days[...]exercise of Crow R eservatio n and served in that capacity until autocratic power to th[...] |
| [...]ot Uam ,mrl wapn11'<. H11ffnln beinl( bro11f(ht in to tock thf' C'ro11· Re.<iert·ation J[...] |
| [...]Fir 'rial. in. Bi[...]hn row Indian in th1rt da ,1 . JOO ton loo hay[...] |
| [...]ckling belly band on work horse. Horse with Taken in front of old Lammer building which served as addle belonged to the[...]. Picture taken at u courthouse until the ulliuan Building was com- the Bozeman Trail[...] |
| [...]Rosebud Creek in 1932. Torrey John -on branding, Jack[...]e Li ti Horn River at pear iduig hippin11 ooint in 1922[...] |
| [...]Jack Truck, 1925 Farm,nR in the Sarpy arM, 1920- lie" RomiTle. a[...] |
| [...]in one thirty-day period Alfalfa seed g[...]North B ench Women in front of Washington Hall[...] |
| Building crew who volunteered to help Andrew Miller rebuil[...]ub Mrs . Mabel Franklin's Sunday School class in 1921 |
| Hardin Community Chorus in the early '40's Top row. l-r: Willard Scott, Gord[...]ck O'Shay" comic strip, as a small boy growing up in Lodge Grass[...] |
| Masonic Fish-fry, 1924. Fish were caught in Black canyon by[...]scout, and subject of the book. Dr. Marquis lived in[...]time in Hardin. White Man Runs Him-a Cust[...] |
| [...]land in Eastern Montana, of which approxi-[...]in the neighborhood of 1,000 acres of land. Of f"[...]lotted within eighteen months, the Indians to 1J Has three gra in elevators.[...]avaJlable at this time. fl Has a city water system, electric li ghts, tele-[...]Water Power BlJI and on which work is ex- blthu li th[...]ll allotted land to soldiers, seamen or farm in the Un ited States.[...]_,____________ II Hardin Isla id out and Is building up on[...]Good roads traverse the Reservation in all spirit and Is an ideal home c ity.[...]erractors in ..Action on the Crow Reservation.-Now Open[...] |
| [...]RA K ING AU"Al.TA IN •10 HC>fl'N VAu..KV[...]try, If not in the world, se!Pcted the Big Horn[...]l'J In the fall of 1017, Mr. Thomas D CampiJPII. a[...]with the Yellowstone. Seventy-five m.Ues in[...]length and from twenty Lo twenty-five miles In[...]farming operations have been shattered. In[...]grazing country in Montana, and under cultiva-[...]ri uctivity uns urpa.ssed anywhere In the West.[...]lllore t han 100,000 acres of the land In the[...]this, and confirmation may be found in the[...]farming operation ever undertaken In lhls coun-[...]point where, that now the Water Power Bill[...]TOUR !ST CAM~. HARD IN . JrotONTANA.[...]flpeclflc are absolutely ideal. Caltle fattened in this[...]in[ormatlon oo any point will be glady fur- va!ley hold all records tor high prices in lbP[...]figures. do not enrn equal profits. run ns hi gh as 400 bushels to the acre; of[...]ring Crom their est sugar test or any beets grown In thP \Vest.[...]Valley ls water p0wer. At the mouth of the[...]r,oo fPCl In belgbl. Lhe highest dam in the world, 's assured nPxt year, giving the fnrme[...]water power in th<' Unltf'd States. This amount[...]iety or raw materlale avsllnble in the Imm<' most dN1irable sort for from $76[...] |
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| [...]. . . . . . . . .. 241 Hot Lunches .[...] |
| [...]Co. . . 298 Experiences in Early Days .[...]. .. . . .. . 309 Banking in the Big Horn County[...] |
Big Horn County Historical Society, Hardin, Mont., Lookin' Back: Big Horn County (1976). Montana History Portal, accessed 18/02/2025, https://www.mtmemory.org/nodes/view/5597
