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GENEALOGY COLLECTION
ALLEN COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY 3 1833 01066 8751
ANY
ILLUSTRATED HISTORY
-OF-
The State of Montana,
Containing a History of the State of Montana from the Earliest Period of its Discovery to the Present Time, together with Glimpses of its Auspicious Future; Illustrations and full-page portraits of some of its Eminent Men, and Biographical Mention of many of its Pioneers and Prominent Citizens of to-day.
BY JOAQUIN MILLER.
"A people that take no pride in the noble achievements of remote ancestors will never achieve anything worthy to be remembered with pride by remote descendants."-MACAULAY.
CHICAGO: THE LEWIS PUBLISHING CO. 1894.
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INTRODUCTION.
ENEROUSLY employed to write the history of Montana, if I have failed to make it of in- terest and profit to all concerned, the fault is entirely my own; for never had man such material at hand. As a rule, the history of a great land is a history of wars, schemes, marches and counter-marches, miseries, victories, defeats, and all the petty deeds of selfish men. Here, great men in the glorious pursuits of peace laid the foundation stones withont cement of blood, and reared a great State out of material fresh from the hand of God. I may have failed, but, humbly, I have done my best. To have done less had been treason. For all I am, or hope to be, is due entirely to the mountains, here and elsewhere, and I could have undertaken nothing of this sort nearly so well as this work here before me. Nor could I have been induced to undertake the story of any other land or State than Montana, whose very name signifies my home, as boy and man, for nearly half a century.
My mountains still are free; They hurl oppression back, They keep the boon of liberty.
And this has been the history of all nations from the dawn of civilization. Take Scotland, her literature, her philosophy, love of liberty, religion, statesmanship, loyalty and valor, whether of common soldier or king, entirely out of the grand story of the British empire and you will have little left outside of craft and trade to distinguish Albion above the ordinary nations that make up the unhappy history of the contentious world.
The mountains have ever been the bulwarks of freedom. Valor is born there, virtue is cherished there, and these are the seeds of song and story. No land ever yet had a literature to endure that had not thesc for its theme, these offsprings of the pure, sweet atmosphere and sublime splendor of inspiring mountains; and the more glorions the mountains the inore glorious the song and story. What then may we not prophesy for Montana when her now torn and devastated placer fields are terraced vineyards, as in Savoy, and the peace and rest of the old pastoral days of Greece shall possess her?
Meantime, our task is with the hard facts of to-day and the days mainly still within the memory of man, that the dramatic story of the brave men and virtnous women who gathered about the cradle of the infant Mentana may not be lost to those who come after us. And the task is a serions one, serious in its responsibilities, serions in the fact that we look back over a billowy sea of graves. For so many brave men died! Some died even on the way here, before they could yet look down from the mountains into the thousand pretty vales that promised to them and their children snch happy homes. Some fell from exposure and over-toil, some from battle with savages, some died even as they sat for the first time by the new-laid hearth-stone waiting for wife and babe to come with the first wild flowers of spring. It is our duty, sad though it be, to see that they and their valorons endeavors shall not be despised.
Does the world well understand what it cost to come here in the old days? The Pilgrim Fathers set foot in ship and landed on Plymouth Rock. The cavaliers of Virginia sailed pleas- antly up the James river and scarcely knew what a camp in the wilderness meant till they sat down in their future dooryards. Even the Argonauts of California, many of them, merely sailed from port to port. But here lay Montana, a thousand miles from any sea; a wilderness in the very heart of an untrodden wilderness, with savages on the four sides of her and savages in her every pass and valley. And so it was that no man ever set foot here among the first who was not in some sense a soldier; aye, a veteran soldier who had mastered and marched and battled and bivouacked, endured hunger and cold and heat and all that the bravest and most unselfish soldier endures for at least his full half year of service before he even got sight of the promised land. And there was this bitter difference between the Montana veteran and the bravest of the brave in any war that has ever been. The soldier of Cæsar, Napoleon, Grant, had the government to feed him, clothe him, pay and pension him; but the hero of Montana stood alone. There is nothing in all the history of civilization more pathetic, more dramatic than this untold story of the Montana veteran.
But as the endurance and exile of the Puritans only made them the more liberty-loving and liberal-minded in the end, as expatriation only made the valorous and courtly cavalier the more courtly and valorous, and as the wild ventures of the romantic and poetic searchers for the golden fleece only made the Argonaut the more a romancer and poet, so may we not prophesy that our larger experience in this larger land may, as time surges forward, show larger results in all that ennobles man and makes life glorious.
It is not for the historian to magnify facts, much less to emphasize what the finger of God has written. But shall these two mighty rivers of this continent, nursed at the bosom of Mon- tana, remain forever mute and unsung? The lines and laws of God gave to Montana all the marvels of Yellowstone. Man has not given Montana so much, but he could not take away the gates; and Montana shall sit forever with the keys of Yellowstone Park in her hand, whatever man may do or say.
In truth, whichever way you turn, whatever you may say of valor and endurance, whatever you may see in the magnificence of nature, be it river or mountain, lake of fire or high-heaved chain of frost, Montana stands matchless, peerless and alone.
Garmented in silver and in gold, a diadem of precious stones, a mantle of white or green or gold about her stately figure as the seasons come and go, there she stands above the world. The air is very clear on every side, that you may see her well. And but for the fear of not being able to do justice to her and hers, how happy the employment reluctantly ventured upon. But what- ever comes of it, nothing can rob me of the pride and the glory of having stood by the cradle of this now stateliest State in all the sisterhood and studied her features years before she even had a name. Ilappy those who were with us among the first, and those who came after and still survive; and thrice happy those who shall come when song and story still keep onr memories green and Montana has taken her place in the literature of the world, as Scotland has in the liter- ature of the British empire. JOSQUIN MILLER.
CONTENTS.
PART I. FROM THE EARLIEST DATE TO THE GREAT GOLD AND SILVER DISCOVERIES. CHAPTER I.
THE NAME OF MONTANA-FOOTPRINTS OF THE FRENCH-SPANISH POSSESSIONS .9
CHAPTER II.
THE OREGON RIVER-THE SHIP COLUMBIA AND MORE OF THE GREAT EASTERN RIVER- THE BRITISH NAVY IN AMERICAN WATERS. .21
CHLAPTER III.
THE LOUISIANA PURCHASE -- THE FIRST VOYAGE BY WAY OF THE LONG-SOUGHT NORTH- WEST PASSAGE- SPANISH INTERFERENCE 2.4
CHAPTER IV.
FIRST OFFICIAL REPORTS ON THE ANIMALS, CLIMATE, SOIL AND SCENERY OF MONTANA .... .30
CHAPTER V.
DISCOVERY AND DESCRIPTION OF THE GREAT FALLS -- REMARKABLE EXPLOSIONS SILVER. ... 39
CHAPTER VI.
DIPLOMACY -- BATTLES ON PAPER-ROBERT E. LEE-JEFFERSON DAVIS-T. H. BENTON
AND JOHN C. FREMONT. .46
CHAPTER VII.
BENTON IN THE SENATE -- FREMONT IN THE FIELD OF EXPLORATION -NORTHWEST PASSAGE TO INDIA --- STILL HALTING THE BRITISH LION .. .. 55
CHAPTER VIII.
ARGONAUTS OF THE NEW WORLD EARLIEST DISCOVERIES OF GOLD DUST VIRGIN GOLD DUST FOUND BY CORTEZ ON ILIS MEN IN THE AZTEC TEMPLE TO THE SUN -THE GOLD- BELTED COUNTRY -FIRST GOLD FOUND IN CALIFORNIA AND OREGON. .65
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CONTENTS.
CHAPTER IX.
THE GOLDEN ROAD TO MONTANA-ORO FINO -- ELK CITY-THE MOUNT IDAHO MINES A " RUSH." . 102
CHAPTER X.
A PIONEERS' PONY EXPRESS RIDER, IKE MOSSMAN -- SOME SUBSTANTIAL PROTESTS AGAINST ALLEGED " HISTORY," AND IN BEHALF OF TRUTHI. 126
CHAPTER XI.
WHERE DOES GOLD COME FROM ?- SPECULATION-GEOLOGICAL-GEOLOGY WITHOUT BOOKS. . . . 139 CHAPTER XII.
ROCKY MOUNTAINS NOT ROCKY-THE COLD MONTHS NOT COLD-FIRST MINING IN MON-
TANA BY OREGONIANS. .146
CHAPTER XIII.
THE FIRST GOLD FOUND IN MONTANA BY CALIFORNIANS -THE FIRST MINING-SOME IN- TELLIGENT CALIFORNIA MINERS 156
CHAPTER XIV.
THE INFANT CRYING ALOUD IN ITS CRADLE-PROSPECTORS -INDIANS -- ALDER CREEK THE
RICHEST PLACER MINES EVER DISCOVERED ON THE FACE OF THE GLOBE. 175
CHAPTER XV.
FAIRWEATHER-ALDER THE BIRTHDAY OF MONTANA-CITY LIVING -- THE TENDERFOOT-
INCIDENT AND ANECDOTE 227
CHAPTER XVI.
THE EYES OF THE WORLD LIFTED TO THE " SHINING MOUNTAINS" -- THE PLEAIDES-WIDEN- ING OF THE GOLD BELTS-AN INCREASING AND TUMULTUOUS POPULATION -- VIGILANTES GENERAL SHERMAN'S ESTIMATE OF THEM. 252
CHAPTER XVII.
THE BENCH AND BAR OF MONTANA, THE FIRST CHAPTER, BY EX-CHIEF JUSTICE DEVIL'S S. WADE-THE PLANTING AND GROWTH OF LAW -PIONEERS AND EQUITY -- VIGILANTES AND THE RIGHT OF SELF-DEFENSE -- A COMPANY'S PROSECUTION IN THE NAME OF THE PEOPLE - LAWYERS WHO PRACTICED LAW IN MONTANA BEFORE THE ESTABLISHMENT OF OTHER THAN MINERS' LAW -1862 TO 1864. .260
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CONTENTS.
CHAPTER XVIII.
THE RICHEST CITY IN THE WORLD, HELENA- A GEORGIA GOLD MINE-THE RISING AND RECEDING TIDES OF MINING CAMPS-TENDERFEET-FIRST MAGISTRATE-FIRST MAR- RIAGE IN HELENA-DEVELOPMENT OF SILVER BOW AND BUTTE -- RIVERS OF SILVER FLOWING FROM BLACKENED ROCKS-1864 TO 1866 .271
PART II. POLITICAL AND MODERN HISTORY. CHAPTER XIX.
MONTANA TERRITORY-THE FIRST JUDICIAL OFFICER-LAW AND ORDER-THE HIGH SOCIAL ELEMENTS OF THE SUMMIT EMPIRE-POLITICAL HISTORY-FUSING AND MELTING TO- GETHER OF MEN .292
CHAPTER XX.
SECOND CHAPPER ON THE BENCH AND BAR, BY JUDGE DECIUS S. WADE-THE JUDICIAL VESTMENT OF THE ORGANIC ACT FOR THE NEW TERRITORY-JUDICIAL DISTRICTS AND THE FIRST JUDGES TO SIT ON THE BENCH -- MONTANA WELL SUPPLIED WITH ABLE JURISTS-TERM OF OFFICE- THE BANNACK STATUTES THAT SET THE MACHINERY OF LAW IN MOTION-STRENGTH OF THE BAR- OLD LAWYERS AND NEW LAWS-MINING LAWS AND WATER RIGHTS -- THE FOUNDATIONS OF A TEMPLE TO ENDURE -- NAMES OF SOME PROMINENT LAWYERS-SECOND, THIRD AND FOURTH LEGISLATURES THE CALI- FORNIA PRACTICE ACT-THE NEW CHIEF JUSTICE-ASSOCIATES-FIRST VOLUME OF MONTANA REPORTS-FIRST GREAT QUESTION IN COURT -- 1864 To 1870. .308
CHAPTER XXI.
THE FIRST PATRIOT AS GOVERNOR OF MONTANA-ILLEGAL LEGISLATURES-CONTENTIOUS CON- VENTIONS-COLONIAL WARS WITHIN AND AT THE GATES OF MONTANA-A USEFUL CON- VENTON-PASTORAL AND AGRICULTURAL PROGRESS. .. . 325
CHAPTER XXII.
THE INDIAN WARS OF MONTANA-THE TREACHERY OF INDIANS TOWARD THEIR FRIENDS MEANNESS AND IMBECILITY OF CONGRESS IN DEALING WITH MONTANA-GRANT'S WIS- DOM-1868 To 1872 .339
vill
CONTENTS.
CHAPTER XXIII.
THIRD CHAPTER ON THE BENCH AND BAR, BY EX-CHIEF JUSTICE WADE-CODIFICATION AND COMPLETION OF LAWS-THE CALIFORNIA PRACTICE ACT ADOPTED-PRESIDENT GRANT'S APPOINTMENT OF CHIEF JUSTICE WADE-WARM WELCOME IN A SUPPOSED COLD LAND -THE MONTANA LAWYERS-THE FIRST GREAT MINING CASE-NEW WINE IN OLD BOTTLES-BRILLIANT LAWYERS-TERRITORIAL PROTECTION OF WATER RIGHTS-ALIEN ACT VOID-MINERAL LANDS. .. 350
CHAPTER XXIV.
THE FIRST FEDERAL SURVEYORS-FIRST PUBLIC BUILDINGS-GOVERNORS ASHLEY AND POTTS OF OHIO THE TERRITORIAL CAPITAL -- POLITICAL CONTENTIONS- THE CATHOLICS IN MONTANA-THE THREE GOOD FATHERS CHURCH HISTORY. 409
CHAPTER XXV.
THE GEOLOGICAL AND SCIENTIFIC SURVEYS OF MONTANA -- THE' YELLOWSTONE PARK-ARE THE GREAT GEYSERS NEW OR OLD ?. .422
CHAPTER XXVI.
PROGRESSIVE MONTANA-SOME POLITICAL HISTORY-MANY LAWS AND MANY LEGISLATORS -GOVERNOR POTTS AND REFORMS-NEW RAILROADS AND NEW GOVERNORS-IMPORTANT PUBLICATIONS . . 434
CHAPTER XXVII.
BLOODY SPOT IN MONTANA-WAR WITH THE SIOUX-GENERAL CROOK'S BATTLE ON THE ROSEBUD-C'ENERAL CUSTER'S LAST CAMPAIGN-COLONEL CUSTER-LIEUTENANTS CAL- HOUN AND CRITTENDEN. .441
CHLAPTER XXVIII.
MONTANA INDIANS THE INDIAN AS A WHITE MAN-SITTING BULL DRIVEN OUT OF MON- TANACHHER JOSEPH'S FLIGHT ACROSS MONTANA -- DEATH OF SITTING BULL-PERIOD FROM THE DEATH OF CUSTER TO THE DEATH OF SITTING BULL .. .460
CHAPTER XXIX.
PLACER MINING - PROFIT AND LOSS REDUCED TO SCIENTIFIC CALCULATION -- MONTANA'S GOLD PRODUCT UP TO 1849 -- ORIGINAL DEPOSITS -- GOLD DUST -- THE MILLS OF GOD-How GorD Dust Gor To MISSOURI AND OTHER REMOTE PLACES-PROSPECTING BY THE LIGHT OF SCIENCE MONTANA MINERALS PRECIOUS STONES WATER AND WOOD-IRON C'APS IRON DEPOSITS
.517
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CONTENTS.
CHAPTER XXX.
RAPID PROGRESS OF MONTANA-COMPLETION OF THE GREAT NORTHERN PACIFIC RAILROAD -- CHANGE OF GOVERNORS-THE AUSTRALIAN BALLOT-INFLUX OF POPULATION-THE CONSTITUTION-THE VOTE FOR THE CONSTITUTION-FIRST ELECTION IN THE STATE OF MONTANA-SILVER STATUE AT THE COLUMBIAN EXPOSITION . . . 553
CHAPTER XXXI.
HISTORY OF THE REPUBLICAN PARTY IN MONTANA, BY ADELPHUS B. KEITH -- THE VOTE OF SILVER BOW COUNTY-PRECINCT 34-CONTEST FOR SHERIFF-FINDINGS OF SUPREME COURT-THE DEAD-LOCK AND YALE LOCKS-GOVERNOR TOOLE -- LIEUTENANT GOV- ERNOR RICKARDS -- FIRST STATE SENATE-ALLEGED LETTERS-DIDN'T WANT TO GO TO THE LEGISLATURE-TAKEN BY FORCE TO THE LEGISLATIVE HALLS OF MONTANA-FIRST UNITED STATES SENATORS OF MONTANA-THE SECOND LEGISLATURE-ELECTION OF 1892 -THIRD STATE LEGISLATURE-SENTINEL VALLEY .558
CHAPTER XXXII.
HISTORY OF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY IN MONTANA, BY SAMUEL WORD, ESQ.,. .592
CHAPTER XXXIII.
A SAMPLE MONTANA CITY-IN THE COW COUNTIES-CATTLE-HORSES-SHEEP-SCHOOL- HOUSES-CHURCHES-PEACE, PLENTY AND UNIVERSAL PROGRESS. .618
CHAPTER XXXIV.
THE BENCH AND BAR-CHANGES ON THE BENCH-ACQUISITIONS TO THE BAR-MINERAL LANDS AND LAWS-IMPORTANT DECISIONS-DEFECTIVE LAWS-COMMENTS ON THE CONSTITUTION -- 1880 To 1894: BY EX-CHIEF JUSTICE WADE .634
CHAPTER XXXV.
STATISTICAL -GOLD-SILVER-COPPER-LEAD-IRON-COAL-HORSES-CATTLE-SHEEP-
WHEAT-OATS-BARLEY-ACREAGE -WATER DITCHES-IRRIGATION -GARDEN AND ORCHARD-STAPLE PRICES UP TO 1892-3. .671
CHAPTER XXXVI.
HISTORY OF THE HELENA BANKS AND BANKERS-THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK IN MONTANA -SOME PRIVATE BANKS AND BAD MANAGEMENTS IN THE EARLY HISTORY -- PRESENT SOLID BASIS OF IIELENA BANKS -HOW BRAVELY THEY ENCOUNTERED THE FINANCIAL CYCLONE -- 1864 To 1894: BY D. G. EDGERTON. ... 685
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CONTENTS.
CHAPTER XXXVII.
MONTANA MINING-BURIED TREASURES-THE MARVELOUS WEALTH OF MONTANA-HER COUNTIES IN ORDER-EACH COUNTY A KINGDOM RICHER THAN WAS SOLOMON'S: BY DR. G. C. SWALLOW .690
CHAPTER XXXVIII.
THE INDIANS OF MONTANA -- AN APPEAL FOR THEIR PROTECTION -- THE WISDOM OF GRANT AND CLEVELAND -- INDIANS NOT DYING OCT -- A DEMAND FOR AN ARMY OF MOUNTED POLICE IN MONTANA 818
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INDEX.
INDEX.
A
Adams, Abner ... 449
Albrecht, William 466
Allen, H. M. .761
Allen, W. A. 390
Allie, A. W. 550
Allison, W. T. 489
American National Bank 744
Angus, Charles.
342
Ashby, S. C. 570
Atchison, J. B. 96
Atkinson, S. E
63
B
Babcock, A. L. 211
Bach, T. C. 166
Bailey, D. J. 213
Bancroft, W. E. 445
Barden, R. P. 732
Barret, A. H. 253
Barrett, Martin 489
Bass, Dudley C 310
Batterton, J. Y 509
Beachly, W. P 705
Beals, J. H 702
Bean, John. 647
Becker, E. S. 290
Beckwith, C. E.
191
Beckwith, G. G.
.386
Bedard, Theodore.
.598
Beley, Frank.
664
Bennett, A. J.
765
Benton, C. H.
250
Berkin, John. 768
Berkin, William.
700
Berry, C. W. 197
Berry, Daniel. 484
Beuschlein, J. A.
604
Bevridge, L ..
105
Bickett, Wm. J. 786
Bickford, W. M. 393
Bielenberg, N. J. 552
Bindewald, H.
640
Bird, J. J. . 191
Blackburn, G. E. 745
Blake, A. S. 704
Blake, Henry N 71
Blakeley, Charles P. 372
Bliss, Harvey 333
Blodget, B. Y
727
Blume, H. J. 87
Bond, J. J. 311
Booker, George.
.136
Bosworth, S. H
.338
Botkin, A. C. 66
Boncher, Frank . 371
Boulder Hot Springs 273
Bowe, William. 643
Boyce, James R., Sr. .669
Boyce, J. R., Jr. 666
Braden, E. B. 107
Braden, E. S. . 82
Bradford, Donald. 540
Connell, M. J .336
Connelly, F. B. 751
Connors, Michael. 128
Conrad Brothers. 510
Conrad, C. E. 510
Conrad, J D. .278
Conrad, W. G 510
Conger, E. J. 775
Cooper, J. B. 756
Cooper, Walter 790
Copper City Commercial Co ... 655
Cornell, Craig 356
Cotter, J. W 756
Cowan, G. F 296
Cox, Peter 353
Crampton, Martha J 282
Crane, George W .303
Crosby, Howard 173
Cruse, Thomas 416
Crutcher, T. E 77
Cullen, T. P. 739
Cullen, W. E. 788
Cummings, T. A .. 373
Cummins, Mrs. M. S. 92
Curtis, C. D 779
Curtis, F. E. 400
C. & D. Mine 426
D
Darnutzer, C. .315
Dart, G. W .. 192
Davidson, A. J. 782
Davidson, C. O.
150
Davidson, James 411
Davidson, R. M. 150
Davis, A. J. .206
Davis, A. J., Jr. 180
Davis, J. E. 294
Davis, J. H. .329
Deacon, Richard. .233
Deletraz, G. F.
Delury, J. M .. 353
Denny, I. G. 198
Deschamps, Gaspard .. .512
Dexter, W. O .. 194
Dickerman, A. E. 787
Dickinson, W. D. .394
Dickinson, Wm. II. H. .398
Dingwall Bros. .477
Dixon, W. W. .208
Dodson, Philip .699
Donaldson, R. M .262 Donnelly, J. J. .481
Dorrity, Matt. .393
Dougherty, J. S .307
Doughty, J. A 135
Douglas, G. A .373
Dow, Alexander. 317
Duer, C. E. 733
Collins, T. E 452
Comly, H. R. 341
Bradshaw, W. C. 459
Brady, T. E .. 137
Brantly, Theo 243
Bray, A. F .. 561
Broad water, C. A. .378
Brophy, P. J .714
Brown, Angus 283
Brown, F. D. 750
Brown, G. M. 758
Brown, Louis .472
Brown, W. L
.703
Brown, William.
559
Browne, David G. 360
Browne, J. A
473
Buck, Amos. 211
Buck, Fred
221
Buck, Henry
733
Buford, S. R.
227
Bullard, Massena
327
Bullard, Wm. M ..
.147
Burns, Alex. F. 580
Burrell, Alex. .398
Busha, C. T
762
Butte Business College .128
C
Campbell, A. J ... 668
Campbell, Andrew .. 549
Campbell, Wm. H. 265
Cannon, C. W 567
Caplice, John. .784
Cardwell, Ed
660
Carter, T. H .. 181
Cascade Bank 63
Catlin, J. B
530
Cave, Alfred.
274
Chaffin, B. S ..
.743
Chaffin, M. P. 461
Chaffin, N. J. 744
Chapple, Henry
.301
Chessman, W. A
.292
Childs, R. H.
701
Choate, Rufus. 104
Clark, H. H. 491
Clark, 11. S.
350
Clark, Joseph K.
467
Clark, W. A. .364
Clarke, A. G. 112
Clayberg, J. B. 728
Clemens, Moses 215
Clewell, T. H 60
Closton, J. E. 496
Cockrell, George. 485
Cockrill, Wm. M. .699
Cohen, D., Sr .339
Cohen, D. Il. 130
Coleman, Wm. 286
Collins, Denis 516
Duffy, John
.553
.531
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INDEX.
Dugan, E. O. .547
Dulin, J. L .710
Dunschen, Henry. 587
Dungleberg, D. MI. .. 424
Dunne, E. W .397
Durfee, D. M ... . 406
Durfee, F. M. 423
Dwyer, Daniel .357
Dyer, William
83
E
Eddy, John W 100
Edgar, A. D. 123
Edgerton, E. D
93
Eliot, C. D. 172
Elling, Henry 764
Ellis, J. J. 417
Emerson, Orren. 589
Emirick, G. W. 476
Emmons, Orlando. 716
Engelhorn, H. T 559
England, A. G. 360
Esler, A. M. 97
Evans, J. G 65
Evans, Morgan 470
Evans, N. P. 208
Evans, P. E. 241
Ewing, W. II.
56
F
Fant, J. J. 500
Farlin, W. L. 686
Farrell, T. J 491
Fann, P. W 793
Faul, Joseph.
435
Fenner, Robert .. 497
Fergus, James.
261
Ferguson, Gowan
143
Fifer, M. S. 597
First Nat. Bank of Butte City. .180
First Nat. Bank of Missoula . .. .564
First Nat. Bank of Phillipsburg. 768 Fisher, Robert. 536
Fitschen, G. C .. 276
Flanagan, M. A 376
Flanagin, C. II. . 726
Fletcher, E. I. 471
Flynn, Michael.
749
Foley, Thomas. 725
Forbis, J. F. 209
Ford, R. S. 34
Foster, A. II. 450
Foster, F. HI. 711
Foster, Lee W .229
Frank, H. L. 506
Fraser, Alex 648
French, Milo
French. O. D. 492
Frizelle, C. E. 760
Frizzelle, J. W 64
ti
Gaffeny Mercantile Co. 462
Gagnon, E. II .. 707
Galbraith, T. J .487
Gamer, Frederick 113
Gans, Herman
Gans. Louis. 573
Gardener, T. B 391
Garland, R. {' 2.14
Garrett, C. B 194
Gelsthorpe, W. II 9.
George, W. B.
Gerdts, John R. 403
Holter, A. M. 497
Holter, M. M .. 94
Hoopes, B. F. & Son .. 483
Horr, Joseph L. 218
Horsky, Antone 726
Horsky, John. .595
Horsky, Joseph
369
Hough, C. P.
237
Houk, J. K ...
695
Houle, Joseph.
268
Houston, W. H.
711
Hovey, A. S.
75
Howe, George E
75
Howell, H S.
299
Howey, R. H.
Huffman, L. A
754
Hughes, Silven
551
Humber, R. G. 400
Hunter, Duncan 184
Hyde, Joseph A
480
I
Irvine, E. H.
Jackman, Mary E. 158
Jacques, Anthony. 676
Jacques, George. . 701
Janes, Frank. 513
Jensen, Andrew. +40
Jensen, Stuard R 134
Johns, William 389
Johnson & Jensen 133
Johnson, C. M .. 514
Johnson, C. Q.
58
Johnson, F. G 134
Johnson, J. B. . 384
Johnson, J. H. 156
Johnson, J. M . .312
Johnson, Spencer. 456
Johnston, J. C.
K
Kaiser, M. 639
Keith, A. B. 190
Kelley, Owen. 609
Kelly, William .629
Kemper, S. V.
443
Kenck, J. N. 146
Kennnedy, Frank 352
Kennett, Ferd ... 313
Kenney, E. A. 545
Kenyon, W. R.
231
Keppler, J. C .. 714
269
Kessler, II. C.
267
Kimball, J. M
530
King, George W
King, James 415
King, L. A ... 333
Kinsley, J. W
Kirby, George
455
Kirby, Wm. F 636
Klein, Henry .. 143
Kleinschmidt, Albert. 813
Kleinschmidt, 11. F. (' 789
Kleinschmidt, R. II .. 6:3
Kleinschmidt, T. H. 224
Klemm, Otho .. 255
Knight, E. W 78
Hoe, Peter 547 Knight, J. M .. 232
lloffman, (. W .. 35.1
Holliday, S. L. :05
Holines, E. S.
H
Hale, R. S .200
Hall, Wm. H. 746
Hamel, Denis. 590
Hamel, Edmond. 413
Hamilton, J. L. 203
Hamilton, L. J. 54
Hamilton, P. J. .618
187
Hammond, A. B
556
Hammond, J. S. 234
Hammond, Wm. .799
Hanley, Daniel. 555
Hanson, H. H. .562
Hard, C. D. 134
Hardenbrook, C. K 515
Hart, C. B.
710
Hartman, C.S.
638
Harvey, John
359
Hasher, Anton
.397
Haston, Jesse
403
Hatch, A. G .
225
Hatch, George M
385
Hatch, Luke D.
535
Hauser, Samuel T.
126
Hauswirth, John .504
763
Hawes, W. S
741
Ilawkins, J. B.
357
Hayes, Edward.
437
Hays, George M. 518
Hedges, Cornelius 62
Iledges, F. S. 555
Helena Lumber Co.
508
Ilendricks, J. A
585
Henke, Emil. 464
Hennessy, D. J. 694
Henry, Frank 723
Hensley, Wm. A 486
Ilerford, J. B
Hermsmeyer, F 188
Hleyfron, D. ... 6×0
Hickman, R. O 432
Ililger, N.
Hill, W. L ..
212
Hindson, J. J.
10;
Hoback, Richard 141
Knowles, Ella Ł 85
Knowles, Hiram.
69
Kohrs, Conrad. .692
Goddard, O. F. 599
220
Gohn, George.
235
Goodwin, J. L ..
.482
Gordon, R. P. R. .107
Gourley, James .499
Gouthier, Joseph 557
Graeter, A. F 242
Graham, Alex
467
Grant, H. H.
738
Green, J. H
Greenough, T. L
.376
Gregson, George 49G
Grigg, T. A. 404
Gunn, J. W .451
Gerhauser, Adam 117
Gibson, Paris. 118
Gillette, W. C. 41
Gilliam, A. P. 603
Girard, Elisha. .505
Goff, Cortez.
Hamilton, R. S.
Harmon, Wm. 694
Haviland, W. II
Kessler, Nicholas.
xiii
INDEX.
L
McIntyre, Angus. .436
0
O'Brien, Wm .. . .420
O'Donnell, I. D. 97
O'Leary, Timothy 663
Ostien, H. C.
282
Otto, Charles.
.533
Ovren, Peter 702
P
Page, J. M.
502
Palin, Hilaire. 982
Palmer, C. H. .505
Parchen, H. M. 79
Parker, M. II. 492
Parker, M. S. .318
Parkison, J. T. .258
Parmeter, O. F. 468
Pascoe, George. .370
Patterson, H. M. .130
Patterson, Jesse 524
. 164
Peeler, D. R. .279
Pemberton, W. Y
68
Pennington, J .509
Perry, George. 395
Petritz, J. V. 440
Phillips, J. T. 545
Phillipsburg Iron Works. .427
Pickman, H. D.
.428
Pinkham, Willden .319
Piper, W. F .. 463
Pizer, Benjamin 396
Poitras, Isaie ..
Porter, T. C.
475
Porter, William
798
Potter, John .. 80
Potting, H. H 174
Power, John W 465
Power, T. C' 803
Preuitt, W. G 73
Price, C. W. 293
Price, H. J. 813
R
Raleigh, W. B .. 331
Ramsdell, Claton 584
Ramsdell, Joseph . 734
Ramsey, S. G. 537
Ranken, D. P. 665
Rankin, John 565
Ray, Josiah H
217
Raymond, W.
Read, F. S ...
87
Redfern, Francis 503
Reed, C. O.
99
Reed, John 240
Reeves, Moses. 719
Reeves, George W. 307
Reifenrath, Minnie A. 116
Reynolds, R. A 525
Reynolds, S. J.
Rice, A. F .. . 128
Rickards, J. E. 153
Riddell, Wm. C. 300
Riggin, F. A. .478
Riley, P. F. 635
Rinda, V. Charles. 110
Rinehart, J. II. 326
Norcross, C. V. 740 Robbins, T. M .656
Robbins, Wm. L. 579
Roberts, Wm.
155
Robertson, J. S.
628
M
Maclay, E. G. 794
Maguire, John .. 295
Maiden, B. F. .715
Mallahan, Wm. O. .. 645
Mallory, J. K. P. .257
Mann, Frank L .. .654
Mantle, Lee. 343
Marceau, Dillon. ₹30
Marchesseau, S. 429
Marcyes, H. R .308
Marion, J. E.
.280
Marshall, C. S. .657
Marshall, T. C .. 410
Matheson, Walter. .138
Mayger, William
Mc.Carty, J. W.
Naughton, Thomas 626
Neill, J. S. M. 189
Neill, R. W. 86
Nelson, A. H. 187
Nesbitt, F. J 281
New York Dry Goods Co 81
Nicholson, H. 552
Nickey, J. J. & F. II.
McCormick, W. J. 563 Nicol, R. W. .383
McCranor, David. .760 Niedenhofen, H. A. 752 Riggs, Gilmon. .600
Niedenhofen, Wm. 752
Nissler, Chris. 311
McDonald, A. A. 453 Noe, Nicholas. 718
McDonald, II. J. .747
McDonald, John. 462
McDonel, James 441 Maguire, F. M .. 635
McKay, Alexander. 413
Lachapelle, E. .591
Landram, J. A. 422
Lapeyre Brothers. 192
Largey, P. A 753
Larson, John. 419
La Salle, Adolph 405
Lashorn, M. H.' 747
Latimer, J. R. 460
Laurin, J. B. 177
Leavitt, E. D .. .614
Lebcher, C. B. 642
Ledoux, Damien. .593
Ledoux, Narcisse .294
Lee, E. H .. .352
Leggat, J. A. .681
Leggat, R. D.
731
Leighton, I. A.
414
Leslie, P. H. 501
Lewis, G. S. 697
Lewis, S. W 374
Leys, J. D ... 207
Lightbody, Thomas. 739
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