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![Homestead Shacks over Buffalo Tracks: History of Northeastern Fergus County [Montana] (1)](https://i0.wp.com/www.mtmemory.org/img/placeholder.gif?1735518749 "Homestead Shacks over Buffalo Tracks: History of Northeastern Fergus County [Montana] (1)") | [...]CHRIS AND SENA I.ARSEN LeRoy and Charlotte Belden Coulte[...]WII,T-IA-I\,T LEROY CIMRHAKL[...]I.A,URENCE AND MARGA.RET KAI,.NH JOSEP[...] |
| [...]FLORENCE DUFFY LEONA I.A,RSON ERNEST ZAHN[...]elman Norueet Bank of I:wietom First National Bank of Lewistown[...] |
| [...]Graze acres that once were dotted Searching for a life that's free[...]trudged behind the plow Not just the sight that met their eye. That turned the furrow in the louely uirgin[...] |
| [...]h us and encouraging us. Many time the housework didn't get done because the book needed work. Than[...]In reading this history one has to remember that everyone can see, hear, and teli the same story in different ways, The readers will find various stories that differ slightly in the telling for this reason. W[...]this book. We had poems and maps and information that had to be cut to fit the space in the book[...] |
| [...]I Communities B.rok Desi gn .{ck.t.rr* leJfu-."[...]142 Poem "My Native State"[...]Baseball Team i[ining History - Cone Butte r[...]Fort Maginnis .Cir; i;;; .. r87 Landmarks -[...]Stories My Montana Experience[...]Poem Some Stores I Can Remember[...] |
| [...]ted a list of names of anyone they could think of that had lived here. Then everyone in the commun- ity[...]as fallen on about four of the group. Some people didn't feel able to do the actual research and writing b[...]d another group dealing with finances. However we didn't have that many people, so a few did both. We se[...] |
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| [...]And started out to raid. But I also haue a natiue state But liues they took, with That I am loyal to.[...]Some prefer o bandona; And from that April day[...]ew and grew. My stote is MONTANA![...]by I. Willmore The area surrounding Black Butte, an[...]0 feet summer's heat becomes a powdery dust that whirl- |
| [...]',-)lr| Or. N,,rn'r'irras'rl:Hl Fcnc;t's C0uxrr that can hair a vehicie's travel anci make wallling[...]of Ft. Peck Lake. Another animal that old timers told |
| [...]y specimens of bac- range area of 50 to i00 miles and the brandings and F ulites; strange creatures that lived in the sea 60 to 120 sorting that went on. In 1884 cattle fattened on the miilion y[...]Chamberlain is thought to have It is estimated that 12 varieties of dinosaurs inha- brought in[...]nails, clams and birds built for a line camp, that several homesteaders men- have been found.[...]Montana. The his lodging. It is no wonder, then, that with the advent Anderson Ranch was originall[...]- of white man who took from him his way of life, that erson. The Burnett Ranch was originally[...]It is through this country in the summer of 1877 that James Fergus came in with cattle and sett[...]-a tough and the half-breed Metis. It is reported that as early as Toni Keller). In February of 1884 it was reported that the 1830's and 1840's the Metis were hired as gui[...]ge' southern cattle to fatten on the hard grasses that grow and cure in eastern Montana. This gra[...] |
| [...]h the for Carroll to erect a trading post for the I.G. Baker U.S. Marshall as this post was for[...]e river and boarded the Steamboat "Red Cloud" (an I.G. Baker returned to the plains to gra[...]nd of the bulls made a deep moaning sound that rumbled like bottom, a sagebrush flat and[...] |
| [...]nd F the spring with Chas. Conrad, I.G. Baker; Thomas Bos- another man to c[...]ow, with pencil and paper, counting from that government. They could not be convinced and inspecting each robe and marking No. 1 and No. 2 that they could earn a better living hunting here. acc[...]olid, beaver, fox and other hides were also sold. I.G. Baker Gardipee hunted the plains on[...]inst the murderer, but to no avail. Bartlett says that With spring came the steamboats, pufEng[...]each. Charlie Courad, I.G. Baker & Company bought Eighteen Eight[...] |
| [...]while still within our sight. I remarked to Dad, "It A number of men are st[...]tte and sure must be heavy." Dad replied that he had several are through for the winter, ha[...]coal is being sold in Roy. It is way and that it felt like gold it was so heavy. estimated that around a hundred ton have been taken out Ten years later I told the story to another since fall and it[...]hile to fellow. Come to find out, at that time some gold many families who have gotten[...]ing out with that heavy a load, much less crossing Deposits of coa[...]by Dolores Rife Records show that gold and silver and other minerals[...] |
| [...]hey think they and it is thougbt that by the judicioue use of a little have struck[...]of the Golden Jack No. 1 to strike a bonanza i-n about 10 days.[...]ng the ore body for a distance of200 feet. that the early day prospector found a lot of the ore[...]o $26 in silver and about 70 per deposits that are being mined today. There is still much ce[...]ich returns Mountains. Research has it that the gold deposits were have not yet been rece[...]fluids. Those who have seen the mirre say it i8 a great bonanza." Problems between env[...]e atten- start new mines but it is hopeful that well-managed, tion and will ehow up well in t[...]development that Montana needs. Haneen has a claim next to the[...]tely. since they were looking for oil not the gas that they The well on the Landru pro[...]I |
| [...]dock at Fort Benton. In 1882, it carried 300 head that 700 different steamboats plied the Missouri be,[...]he famous due to weather related accidents, snags that pierced rivermen. their hulls, reefs, san[...]ruction cost was raced up the flood-swollen river that spring, against the $50,000 plus $150,000 f[...]ying the fineries of East- The T. C. Power and I. G. Baker businesses in Fort ern civilizat[...]ade clearly visable mounted mining towns that branched offfrom the Mullan Road. between[...] |
| [...]ce began as the "Emilie" and the so enraged that he let go the wheel and snatched his "Spread Eagl[...]es lodged in the river as large stern wheel boats that went up to Ft. Benton, snags. before th[...]ese boats or ships used wood for fuel paddle boat I saw in 1914. It raised the cottonwood power and many of the old timers I knew cut pitch pine trees that were in the river. Men sawed the trees from[...]by I. Willmore ArmeIIs Creeh - S[...] |
| [...]o distinguish it from the head of the creek that runs past the ranch. The bear Bear River[...]name from the 79 Ranch nurses in GiIt Edge ai that time. on the upper[...]naming of Blood Creek (Valentine area). One is that[...]The chimney which is half brick blood was shed that the creek ran red with it. The and half stone is still standing. other is that at one time it was the site of big buffalo C[...]wood In early years there was a house on it that would mirage and look just like a gr[...] |
| [...]Creek. It was so full of alkaline that if one drank too normally only flows du[...] |
| [...]ng. ature of the Butte at one time and discovered that not There are several stories abou[...]ce the temperature was gev- One is that Lewis and Clark, on their expedition,[...]Mountains. Another story is that it got its name because[...]On the topmost part of Black Butte is a place that[...]It is said that whenever you see a halo on the Butte,[...] |
| [...]ds a cabin oll alone On that lonely, wild frontier. It's oll weather-be[...]it's not a disgrace. Yes, I remetnber the lonely cabin[...]great synbol Cause, I was raised in a cabin just tike this one To[...]was understood that the company stay for a meal or The homesteader[...]each passing year the place took on a personality that portation became used, if anyone would g[...]eggs, was the surest way to make a homesteader angry. iences; no roads, water, houses or fences. But i[...]t a lock on anything. The the healthful qualities that nature brings fresh air, homestead shack I am referring to could only be locked wild birds a[...]life, wood box. When this was done that meant'Thank You'. compared to homestead days, pro[...]in ying experience to those who had the spirit to enjoy the the house. In later years this same talent of observation numerous freedoms that do not exist in this generation; was used[...]r work or play, no certain time T owners didn't usually have matching tires like people to[...] |
| [...]psrreo Acrs The Homestead Act of 1862 provided that any adult with the registrar of the land[...]the original 160. Under this new witnesses that the necessary improvements had been act one-eight[...]Residence upon this land was not a require- In i912 legislation was passed reducing the time for[...]TN'{SBN AND STONE I,ETqOS from the land aliowed each year.[...]cost of $2.50 per acre. The Homestead Act read that any person who was[...]ed on public land by any person affidavit stating that he was entitled to the privileges who served[...]lion' for at least three of the homestead act and that the entry was for his months provided he[...]roof of settlement, residence and cultivation for that period. The law allowed only one homestead[...] |
| [...]located under the mining laws of million) that remained to be homesteaded. There was the United[...]considerable improved land in Central Montana that $20 per acre.[...]s Cow Country image. ahead. Several of the people that came, did have money. To protect their a[...]farmers, whereas those that preceded them were cattle Inspired by the Enla[...]from these fertile lands the moisture that did fall was conserved below the sur- that could be had for nothing. The railroads had g[...]llow land was seeded and lands to sell too; lands that the government had given the land that had produced a crop was 'summer. them if they wou[...]Rainfall was plentiful in the decade that followed crops and livestock and who would use th[...]boom years was 1919. It was the driest year ever that were everywhere; Armells, Auburn, Bundane,[...]harvests averaged only 2.4 bushels on land that had miles wide, was over-run, divided up in 320 a[...]s producing some of the lushest crops of that. Then came hordes of grasshoppers and cut- ever s[...]There were those who departed so quickly that they left range system the big cattle outf[...] |
| [...]ry failed. Montana was the only state in the 48 that had a steaders with only a milk cow or[...]fficult, sometimes impossible days. They are here |
| [...]T7 coming from the river to town, one day, and that I could take a nap, which puzzled rrie A i,iruft iiirrr., 1r,i:1, |
| [...]The next morning we packed our supplies from I discovered a mailbag was delivered by pack train Wass's Store. I was hungry for fresh fruit and stuffed from Roy out the Little Crooked route, another five my waist with apples and oranges, keeping theur in miles beyond. So I made that ride, meaning we could place with my belt. That made for bulky riding, but it communicate to the[...]- or so I basis - weather permitting.[...]brought no news frequent ranch stops. That night when it was time to but I was happy to have the activity and contact with[...]lmore's place, and it was there I discovered to my great Along the mail route I would stay at Jensens or the dismay that my precious fruit had frozen solid like a Woodcock c[...]eather dictated. The trip to belt around my waist. There would be no treat of appies the rive[...]McNulty Ranch had feed for and oranges. I was very disappointed, but everyone got cattle and a rare stock of supplies. I made pack trips to a chuckle out ofit. McNult[...]on bare, unshel- place on the King Ttail and I took off to the Jensen tered ground was that a poor cow could freeze and Ranch, on Sand Creek, by way of the Jakes place. I topple over while eating. A gun was always handy,[...]rested a night at Jensens, dropped off the mail. I then that the cow could be shot and dragged out if it were to stayed an extra day to rest my horse, then headed home die that way.[...]Wouldn't you know it, a storm popped up so I didn't was happening to the stock out in the breaks, as ours get in til dark. I had been five days on the trail. Mom and Umsteads[...]ometers we had bottomed out at 52 below. my whereabouts. So when the mercury plunged to the limit we had no As I walked into the corral shed to put away my gear, idea just how cold it was that winter. Later I learned I was to discover that magpies had taken to roosting that minus -60 degrees was frequently recorded in the beneath the roof. As one magpie swept by I reached for area. The warmest it got for ten to twelve weeks, at it, but it broke my grasp and its tail feathers broke off. least, was[...]Many weeks later I would see that poor bird flying up After a month of these con[...]etty grim. We needed food, firewood and I was to make my long trail ride twice more that kerosene for lighting. And there was no sign of a[...]late in March. At the Jensen stop In February I rode into Roy with Al Snook, a boarder over I stayed a day extra to help buzz firewood. at Umst[...]ain staples such as sugar, After lunch that day Ralph Jensen, Jess Woodcock flour, bacon and canned milk. and I set about to work. Suddenly a warm wind cropped[...]and howled in like springtime. The morning Al and I left the ranch it unison. The eagerly awai[...]I had never known such a feeling of relief. miles a[...]ay to town, the weather deterio- However I was not to use the precious automobile rated. Our[...]k. Then winter struck again, an event their noses that they couldn't breathe. The poor things. mak[...]r drink. John Umstead, Al Snook and I cut eight inch thick Somehow we made it to Roy,[...]ran the livery hopetully by fall. stable so that we could take care of our horses. I'll never A winter as harsh as that of 1935-36 seemed to go on forget how great it wa[...]ice between 30 and 36 inches thick. That was ouite The livery was.a small buildin[...] |
| [...]bunched together at the river because there that winter. They had an indescribable quality making[...]rly every day. There were calves to brand, I remember hearing coyotes dragging down a weak bog lines to ride, and fences to tend. I once spent a long deer outside our cabin doo[...]he stock in line. Then there was outside when I got up. the[...]p sets, using dead or dying deer The heat that summer was almost unbearable. I often or cattle to set the traps. (The formidable fact of trap- had to gather stock that had strayed offto hunt for feed ping in this[...]sked to come yapping, giggling coyote sounds. That, of course, was and pick up our stock since water there was growing the howl of a wolf. I made one positive sighting, coming scarce. It took me four days of hard riding to get that within 50 to 75 yards of a wolf in company wi[...]base of Gumbo Ridge at Armells Creek. I had heard of a fellow named "Dutch Fred", a char- I remember how sound can travel at -30 to -60[...]g is so brittle. Armells'. One day I came upon him as he sat beneath a Then there was the time I heard my grandmother cry tree in a creek bottom. Hi[...]The stove lid-lifter had frozen to the bank. I didn't know people lived that way. her hand. Since my horse and I were very thirsty I asked for a Spring of 1936 did arrive. It[...], He returned with a can of tomatoes and my drink of a and would remain so the rest of the year. lifetime. I was impressed. Frank Jakes was engaged to[...]ll the tion and number of our 4H brand cattle that survived cattle from the ranches were tra[...]ce and put up with me, this Jordan, whom I met 53 years later at the Roy Centen- dude kid from the coast. From him I was to learn much nial. At that time he recounted this very drive for about c[...]a rope. He showed me a backhand thing I dreamed up. I cast, which he called a Hoolihan. I sort of got the knack The Hemsing cattle (4H[...]to turn loose the stock was given water. (I'm not sure but I think we calf, then offered to drag him to to[...]ound.) There weren't many fat cattle at the I don't remember the count but I know that winter stockyards that year; the best cow and calf pair drew and oth[...]area's cattle. Branding separated them by I was to bring a carload of cows by train ho[...] |
| [...]eattle and one day more on to Skagii County. I When I returned to LaConner I was but a year older, rode in the caboose the ent[...]though having undergone a maturation that easily Federal regulations at that time were to water and outdistanced the calendar. My school records show that feed stock on the train every 24 hours' Our first stop I weighed out in 1935 at 175 pounds. When I started my was at Deer Lodge where I listened to a prison band junior year in 1936 I was a slimmed down 150! concert. I got acquainted with "commetcial travelers", The world was hot and dry that year. I didn't see a hobos on the freight cars" raindrop until I got back into Washington State! Eleven My sister came east to Roy and drove our mother and[...]to Washington. And here our story I have the fondest and most vivid memories of my ends for half a century.[...]ces and of ali the wonderful peopie November of i935, I was just 15 years old. Had just in the Roy area, especially my good friends, Warren started my sophomore year at LaConner High School. Willmore, Margaret Umstead and Jenny Link, whom I Then all of a sudden I was off to Roy, Montana. I told was to meet again at the 1988 Roy celebration. my school superintendent that "I would betright back." I also maintain a gteat appreciation of Illa Willmore, (Later I couldn't help but recall how that fit Joe Bell's who moved me to recount my stay in Montana. definition of being "right back"). I.IonrsrnN OvpnlaNo PoNv Expnpss[...] |
| [...]. March 12, 1868, Huntley announced that the mail The pony Express riders would cross the[...]ack Butte. Fred Rutschmann and a com- that he had been captured and killed. The rest[...] |
| [...]tember 14, 1867 the mail to there i:r June of 1912. a note written on the package[...]phen Gilpatrick, Jon. 1987. supposition being that the carrier defended his Following i[...]I9t7-2t Drulett - 36 Eci. S.E. of Roy. Robert Wr[...]on July 28 of David Kelker P.M. that year. It was built in three sections: the[...] |
| [...]e street into the Rindal building. Mrs. Rife said that she served a thou- sand patrons during her[...] |
| [...]"THE WIND" Br-r-r-hear that wind a blowing The[...]d ratnpage it is sowing I'Il do ony thing, ond Oh' so good I'II be |
| [...]usehold and upon investiga- tion it is discovered that the snow has completely gone, the "dry" creek is[...]How this act of nature was performed is beyond my mountains. Chinooks do occur elsewhere. In Africa, ability to explain. The frrst I saw was in 1911, and from Europe and Souih Americ[...]r- Roy area, but most of them at that time were south and ing bitter cold weather.[...]ll On another occasion, while going to my homestead on occur as it condenses" Heat is relea[...]erformed. side of the mountain being warrner than that on the My dad and I were on our way to this homestead and western sid[...]k wind. that time. It seemed to be about a mile ahead of us, b[...]able, mystical and wonderful illusion that few in the Others widen and flatten and be[...] |
| [...]e, which sends out electrically charged particles that cause the gases, of which air is ccimprised, to g[...]s and aromas air. Sundogs differ from rainbows in that they are and quiet gentle sounds are[...]are boring-get out Many times the same condition that causes the halo and view that spectacular show going on outside! will cause the[...]Sonap Sronus I CaN Wnr,r, Rpununrn[...]Some of the earlier ones were: February 5, 1933. That Kay was taking nurses training at St. Vi[...]mped at the Mountain View School, I tried to call St. V's to have Roy stay at Clarkes[...]torm they couldn't Probably the worst storm I remember was April 5, reach Billings. I did the chores; put the sheep in the 1955. School[...]eds and got the cattle in around the barns. After that, away from home. Cars and buildings were drifted[...]l drive and pulling them back But the one storm I'll never forget was the 26th of on the road, I didn't even try to turn around. I backed January 1969.[...]ost half a mile home, without going in the ditch. I |
| [...]27 don't know how I maneuvered that, just too scared to from the house. It was a real mess. |
| [...]by Fronk Cimrhak'I The National Weather Service from Great Falls[...], cut a |
| [...]got in town. Reported stock looking well in that area - through. Had to 'shove[...]at about old timers say...Reports that the Bill Baucke ranch on 4" hieh and so dry that engines are setting it afire th[...]ouse, farm machinerry, wagons, hayracks- I. W. Giimore reported some rain last Tuesday.[...]them, but enroute home their horses (the ones that John Umstead loet 84 head of cattle on the Knox place. pulled the wagon that hauled the hay) ate most of the[...]800 head of cattle that might otherwiee have been lost. a hime afte[...]Roy for cattle that had been isolated by deep drifts. field an[...].reply ueually is that they are not euffering, but you of the hor[...]thoee ranchers that etored feed report calves froze, |
| [...]ith Mark cut a small tree. The oniy one that looked suitable. We water...water tore aw[...]down that ridge to where Hap had spotted some last fall. Ma[...]ir brimfull and running over the same one that had 8 cows die in, in and Bon took the tw[...]of highway at New Years day Dad and I took pickup and met Betty at the Armeils Cr[...]Corner. We had dinner at 2:00 p.m. Last time I have been away Box Elder Creek since the bi[...]call; 11.25 feet in July. Ice.jam anyway and that's the last trip the pickup made to date. The[...]wing day we only got to barn and unloaded 4 balee that 25 feet). Ice went out March 7th. .[...]Terrible storm. I fed everything Ieft at the barn including a L977-[...]snow. It started the first couple of bales I had put in the mangers. Pickup wouldn't go[...]Jan. 9, 1978 I cbased the cowe to the little hay pile down 1979,[...]the world in which to view the solar Then I dug out the tractor which was almoet buried and d[...]his eold winter 89-10090. On Feb. 6th red that is worth mentioning. The David Kalina and[...]For whatever the horses. They'll never paw that deep snow with ice cruet. reason the figh[...]eb. f2th Shoveled out pickup and got loe.d of hay that 1986. Precipitation above normal. Short go[...] |
| [...]by I. Willmore One of the biggest and most successf[...]ons were given to Roy campaigns ever launched was that of the railroads in goldsmith, James Ev[...]3th, the railroad was in "wishing trains"; trains that were stocked with exhib- its, posters, pictures o[...]This propaganda was so extensive and so ingrained that even after the dreams had failed and many had left because of the years of disaster, there were still those that voiced the a very words that had brougb.t them here many years earlier. The[...]large headline announcement from St. Paul stated that the railroad would be built to Roy "at once". Thi[...]r -;r It was announced on January 28, 1913 that "the townsite of Roy will be sold March 8." In Fe[...]the future; Armells was to be sold on May 10th of that year. And so the buiiding of the railroad began[...]s not an easy task. It took young, strong men who didn't mind extremely hard, physical work. The laying of[...]y fences to be put up. The usual railroad camp, that followed along as work progressed, consist[...] |
| [...]auto. The mighty herds of horses that were shipped out fourteen cars of freight was pul[...]by the thousands were gone and trucks that could load Roy is a busy town today."[...]shipped by Dengel. Rowiand, 1916 to i936; J.T. Plumb, 1936 to ?; then in August 1918,[...](Armells, In December of 1918 rumors were flying that the 'rail- 1915-1916) Clay Smith, Ar[...]They feed'em grain by hond, That used to wear a cow-horse down[...]by Marie Zahn I don't think any animal has contributed more to[...]es in this area, where once there was free range. I day, the horse is still a necessity to the ranchers and might add that this was a thrilling experience to run the[...] |
| [...]but a few of the thousands of head of horses that were could be handled by the eastern packing plan[...]kirmishes between the sheepmen and I remember my fust rattlesnake scare. I was camping the cattlemen. The sheepherder usually got the brunt of out, b1- Zahns. I laid still for an hour before I realized it the "war" maneuvers. It was open range at the time. I was the seeds in a weed pod doing the rat[...]Steve LaRocque was herding for weed I think it was. Carmikle, a cowboy came in and scat[...]The second scare was for real. Larry Jordan and I over. I worked for cattle outfits, but I thought that was were camping out and the snake crawled in bed with us. getting pretty mean. I didn't like it. Larrl' saw[...] |
| [...]There was a thick block of wood used for a stool. that THn Wnsr Wes Wn o WrrBN L,en[...]and breaking |
| [...]pherders camp. We stayed in the sheepwagon that nightl" "Well, the flood ruined the house and got to the barn. After that they moved the house and built it up higher by[...]_:'.i:_ri., One fall and winter he took a trai[...]ropes," Jordan said. "Once he asked and I said, 'Everytime you catch me on this little black horse and you on that big gray horse you want to pull ropes.'W[...]ng black and white chaps and a big hat. 'I'll pull horses with you,'Isaid.[...]d tied the rope around the saddle horns. I knew this little black horse was fast. T[...]t going like this Weli I pulled and the saddle came right -back a[...]landed on top of him and he was flat on his back. I thought I'd killed him!" Jordan hadn't though, and that stunt was only one of many. "If you didn't have life insurance, you shouldn't be ar[...]ak around the campfire, at Cottonwood Crossing on I used to toke a job o' ridin:[...]wagon that ran in this country. Cowboys frorn left to The ou[...]ust o' come from HelI Can't ride o bronc no more Ben Gorthofner[...]/ t. |
| [...]eaders had taken up An incident I enjoy remembering took place in the nearly all of[...]e and had me help take her to were, remember that the Missouri River here eroded soil Mr. Haney. I had a well broke saddle hotse, but Henry dow[...]e cut out this cow along with two others, I had great dreams of owning many cattle and using[...]nd up days of the 1880's and it seemed that this time she would succeed. Henry and 90's,[...]d running across the prairie as fast as he could. I name as were the creek crossings, such as Ha[...]. This ride us. As we waited Henry and I changed horses and was in very rough[...] |
| [...]ar away on the tired pony, she made a run for me. I we were nearlyto thestockyards[...]e to art open thought she would hit us broadside. I threw my leg for- gate in the fence, t[...]eek and much ward, and the horse had moved enough that the cow brush. The cow w[...]and tied it to some heavy brush. We bucking jump I went sky-high. I came down head first then w[...]re taken off. We then went to supper after having that cow was mad and on a real rampage by now. gone all day without food" I went to our home ranch five Henry crossed the bridge after her and I got on the miles southeast[...]im back across the bridge. I saw Henry a few days later and asked him who Henry and I headed up the lane (fenced road) towards[...]ever she stopped, we then, I did not need help. When I opened the stockyard would go back toward her, an[...]s gate, she came after me so I took off for the Walter again, dragging the long[...]Singular little incident that I know you would enjoy. Case of "Rock and Rye", two steers that became pals[...]session of the streams, and before we thought that a the outfits and he was still a good deal of a k[...]Fergus county at will, and in that portion lying east of of the range with affection[...]to the up in conversation in the judges chambers that led him land of the Crows, we gathered the finest beef that ever to a reminiscent vein. This followed upon th[...]At that time the range was ridden semi.annually by took d[...]times see now. No, they didn't come from Montgomery "Yes, Doc, I know I am slow in relating to you any of my Ward, nor were they the parcel po[...]home than the cow camp on the through those of my belongings which I do not permit lange. Most of them had no possessions except a my wife, or any other person, to handle, I ran acrose my "private", a saddle, and a gun,[...]nge was a post-graduate educa- on the same belt that I used to wear when I was on the tion in the great[...]ature. inches, but the sight of it made me wish that I could They could tell the ti[...]he instinct in their own "Clarence Nelson". But I can't do it, Doc, for two rea.[...]and by the acts of the horsea and sons: First, i peddled my "Clarence Nelson" when I cattle, and their judgeme[...]a hard winter was ueually good. In horees like I used to ride. and if there were. there ain[...] |
| [...]s, a stampede would occur, and The time of which I speak was the year that then Rock and Rye would[...]t of the herd and reach free and neutral the time that on one circle at the junction of several[...]tral Montana. The principal other that on one occassion a horse and rider were brands re[...]ho mention. To illustrate the size of the roundup that day, it could separate the pair singlehanded. is appropriate to say that the state association got[...]Oft-times at night while standing my regular guard corral.[...]and listening to the "attempted" lullaby of my partner You say that you are not familiar with the brute crea' across the herd, have I seen those two steers lying side tion, but Doc, I assume that you, like the poet Burns, can by side[...]across especially true of the brute creation, for I have many the prairie I could hear the wailing of the coyote-that times noticed elements of their nature characteri[...]ealousy, fear and courage are ing that all was well, I took my back track to meet my sometimes as much in evidence in the lower animals as partner and get "the makin's". My partner and I rested in the higher.[...]last guard, I rode around the herd-which was conspic- As they came to my notice these many moons ago, a[...]uous by the absence ofRock and Rye. I did not tell the brotheriy love between two steer[...]boys who relieved me, because I thought we would fi.nd care for each other, is se[...]coulee, but much to my surprise, they were not over- ROCK and RYE-for t[...]herd, which would pass by that same place some three tined that their fate should be somewhat different from[...]well known that the rest of the outfit on the home ranch were sol[...]and in charge of the beef returned. that team the two steers I speak of, worked till the price In t[...]g among the sagebrush and buffalo B3ass, in order that late, we did not stop long to put[...]"cow town"-Billings-but hurried back in order that the butchers block. That fall they were picked up in the we mi[...]same way, but this time not on my guard; they got away society"[...]ng the.watch of Bob [,evens, now The beef herd that fall, as usual, was in charge of the[...]that unsuccessful attempts were made to bring those duty was to see that the herd did not lose any of its p[...]Rappel lings, the shipping point; and it was then that these brothers earned a commission[...]some hard timee. show an amount of nervous energy that would do credit Often at night, un[...]en? And how thankful they must have been indicate that it was time for them to select some eeclud[...] |
| [...]Farewell, old, range, you are nn nwre; on that roundup, but to me they have always been a[...]l.ded to the biner's roar, study-or probabiy I ehould say not forgotten by most Yo[...]dented of them, becauge now it occune to me that many of the Are fields of groin by t[...]la used to roam then grown old in the eaddle-I was the "kid" of the We find some[...]ly for himseU, yet who can under the Winnett i:rigation project, and the rest of the say that there may not be found at this moment, roan-[...]proeperous and ihriving dry-land farmers; and in that by R[...]934 stockmen in the Crooked Creek that time, corDpares with later work. It takee 40 acre[...]ool house and in October of gummer a co'i/ and calf, on the average; less near the that year stockmen in the Indian Butte area met at the[...]one school section on the north side of the river that districts. At the meeting, at Willmores, F[...] |
| [...]he the range and there was a provision in the law that Fish and Wildlife took over. there had to be a dam built so that no cow had to walk The Willmore Ranch i[...]l more than a mile for water. It was at this time that ranches involved in the formation of the[...]ences, size ofstud horses, kinds ofbulls, etc. That same year an area, averaging 6 miles on each[...]n Antelope and Crooked In 1938 several ranches that were members of these Creek held a meetin[...]rn Gnezrwc DtsrRtct tion and that the meeting place would be Rossiter After the f[...]. and the post office to be the decision was made that the Fergus No. 1 area was Roy, Montana. too big, so at a meeting in November of that year inter- In the fall of 1949 it was dec[...]building a fence between Crooked Creek Fergus No. I was split and the Indian Butte Grazing and Indian Butte districts. (Up to that time cattle District was formed. As report[...] |
| [...]started a project in on the water side. I (Frank C.) was with a crew that 1936-37 to give local people some form of employment hauled rock for riprapping. I had a 1927 Chev. flat bed near their homes. This[...]rse teams. Each team pulled a 5-foot My brother-in-law, Frank Stepan and I, lived in a fresno, one behind the other. Everyon[...]mbered as built, from 1 to 13. There day. I received $4.50 for the use of my truck and for were other dams, in other areas, be[...]Dam No. t had the only cement spillway. I hauled William Kudzia, Gus Souchek, Claude Satter[...]for many years". worked in ten day shifts, all that was allowed in a These mattresses were[...]raw ticks most month. There would be another crew that worked people were using up to that time. Workers received no another ten day[...] |
| [...]ate. Clagsmates remember that ehe alwaye had a "flair" for writing. To clirnb a[...]Esther ie the daughter of Dee and I*na Potterf, early day bueineee To dig for uorms a[...]paper that she worked for, for urany years.[...]borhood. In some areas it was preferred that the teacher In the early days, school was somet[...]ool instead of ness like any summer. Charles and I had our everyday Roy. chores tending[...]ing and spelling between the teacher. My mother planned to move into a one our parents. A[...]The same hush- Willmore, Charles and I made the necessary five. "But hush chatter contin[...]solved where is Little Crooked?" we asked. My dad said "We'll itself in about two weeks[...] |
| [...]the Creek where we picked out sticks and willows that viewing the long interior of the hall, it was dec[...]wanted a buckskin, you carefully Fall-f930. As I remember, we were amazed with sc[...]Marie always had the stick horse that bucked the The school desks were double wide bo[...]hardest, forever throwing her to the ground. My brother, tures which made it convenient for the t[...]and range war. Bob and I strung along with the more The building was he[...]ds had torn his favor- tles. "Heaven help the kid that broke the last mantle". ite. Our imagina[...]a wind- was thick on a near by dam. As I remember only about type phonograph. When she pla[...]hills, watching the in note reading from a scale that remained on the last bit of snow m[...]for flowers and small animals. As I have mentioned For art work, we decorated the[...]s bell in the doorway meant times I can remember us planning to build a fire in the u[...]nd they came in a Model A alive, my mother came over the dam banking and need- coach.[...]smoke signals. accomplished in some manner. What I hated most, When we went back to school in Roy, it was proven probably why I remember it, was standing up imitating[...]pleted normal a Miss Hanson, and learned that she aleo wae going to school at Diil[...] |
| [...]field; Dave of teach in the area. It ended up that Joslyn got the Dengel l,ewistown; C[...]Alaska. During that term of school, Anna lived with the Taylor[...], who lived near Great students in the school that year. Falls[...]Roy, and the school was some distance beyond that. But with typical pioneer spirit, young Miss[...]anky homesteader standing nearby, he toid her that he was Gene Covert who iived near Valentine;[...]ibal, Joe "Speed" ranch, and she has lived in that area ever since. Her hus- Komarek, in the back[...]County from her or from her appeal to others, so that the child Superintendent, she visi[...] |
| [...]With the sun at my boch Has seen many moons, droughts and storms; I stand h'ere now, you, pirtur" to take[...]To put along with the rest I'ue got- AII thot is left are memo[...]A great big album to mahe. My brother, Joe, with hopes of f ame, I reminisce of days gone by |
| [...]sseys; John Bleckel; Williard Lamphier enjoy living in a wonderful community with fresh[...] |
| [...]n Cap McCullough's ranch. Fort Maginnis. She sold that homestead and next Rose and K[...]as about went to Shepherd, a trip that took a week's time. Keoka eight years old.[...]"The recent death of Herbert Blanchard reminds us that Blanchard were in business together until 1894 wh[...]Doyle killed Howard at the Howard ranch near Box that had occurred eight years previously. He had been[...]iversally admired in shows that the blizzard has cost us four times as man[...] |
| [...]unty commissioner, were so astounded by the music that when all was said county treasurer and[...]Dixon has applied for a copyright on a song that he and from the U.S. Patent office. A patent[...]d the Treasure State's history concerning Company I of Spanish War Veterans, Veter[...] |
| [...]and was a Andrew who spent most of that fi.rst winter alone with staunch Republican. Jame[...]Mrs. Rauch told the Andersons that the family got on one Nellie (Mrs. Odin Romunstad[...]with us. Our mother was afraid that the Indians would moved there, where they started[...]largest sheep growers and the fall of that year, Bill Cantrell, known as "Flopping wo[...] |
| [...]near the Fergus home where school was held, and that boxes) along this route,"[...]to feuding over range lands with Fergus. She said that[...]Oscar wanted to marry her sister, Agnes, but that he was[...]him and that made Oscar antagonistic toward the[...]esy of the Montana I S6:[...] |
| An:usi-I-s Cneex[...]:i:rl-- "i[...].:.'I]..::r[...];:i. i,':'i[...]aged to insure that the safe, with postal records, was[...]ding of canned goods. old; Hazel had just turned 2i. They had three children: Rescue came whe[...]Agnes Abbie born in 1910; Pamelia June born in 19i4 through the drifts to attempt mail deli[...]Land Company as secretary. She was In i989 Hazel celebrated her 100th birthdav ann[...] |
| [...]over the prairie country and one of them saying, "I married Louella Fergus, daughter of James Fergus.[...]us paid these homesteaders a reasonable price for that time; from $20 to $40 per acre. George a[...] |
| [...]i;-':!.;,.ir-i ,".[...]L;:.;-,:i,:.:[...]*'i?:.:'1t[...]ith their herds of sheep throughout the that they lived in for so many years. The scene belo[...]n the Armells valley and the vast prairie that stretches north Giipatricks sheep shed bur[...] |
| [...], Grace Richards of Glendale, service on 15 April i942. After his discharge in 1945, he California[...]or from neighbor to neighbor as their children "My uncle John Jencick came to this state about the[...]y a team. He homesteaded just a few miles from my dad's The kids were kept busy; ther[...]isited his sister's, our mother and nests that the hens managed to hide out, chopped wood aunt M[...]re Mikil was not much on schools. He maintained that natives of Bulgaria. the chiidren[...] |
| [...]s old the family moved to Montana. It was in 1882 that the matriarch of the Minnesota. Will[...]buttes (Cone and Black) of Montana that he had heard soldier in 1884 and was stationed at[...]le: Helen (Cariney) in Will recalled that, "I went down to visit a friend 1889 in Madison, Wisc[...]other. She was trying to kill a gopher and I thought to |
| [...]Bob, Will, Harriet, Bruce and The original house that Will and Haniet liued in is still Willia[...]pioneer stuff!" Will stated that he loved Montana. "I expect to live Harriet Foster, born in Illinois[...]ruary 29, 1917 and was of their first i place'. He also owned most of the land on the L[...]the barn roof, shingling. They had 40 for dinner that Doug and Colette Landru and[...] |
| [...]r Creek. They built a tiny frame cabin with a bed that school and the University whenever[...]ie moved to a small acreage in Beaver from Oregon didn't withstand the harsh winter, and in C[...]they left the homestead, as did the ing World War I, and was so proud of that service that other relatives who had come from Mic[...]a West Point graduate, is an covered that he'd lost his passenger some three miles architec[...]as they called the dips in the roads back then! I area until retiring to Dayton, Nevada, recently; and always remember that he and Helena loved Montana Pat, who is the wife[...]ed college in house in Roy's east side that is now owned by Harold Bozeman for three y[...] |
| [...]s he had a slab of bacon, a "No Ma'am that isn't a fit place for a lady. There ain't pound o[...]k, he left Fort Benton riding houses! I'll take you to Mrs. Ballinger's. She is a white d[...]t of his sheep so he sold his place in 1897 to at that time. They finally moved to Plymouth, Illi[...] |
| [...]ed a large family, many of them still residing in that business he sent for Linda and the children. By t[...]f his enterprise and the labor of himself Montana that proved most permanently attractive and[...] |
| [...]e they raised cattle. They made their home in Roy i.n later years. They had five sons: Ray, who was[...]y) Ln lJrO. born September 26, i9a3 (all in Lewistown) and Dan born March 5, L952[...]ay then like now. There was one old poor cow, that didn't die, so Charles drew a picture for Fred and l[...]s gone someone stole it. This happened before I knew Fred. Fred told me aLl of this about Cha[...]Ranch on Armells Creek. Some settlers came in that he didn't like. Some of his cowboys ranching himself[...]and cattle. hung a boy on a cottonwood tree. That was in the early The Fred Vessey's bought the Bill Lane ranch below days that happened, but they were still talking about it.[...]hey lived for several years. In the spring of That took place about 7z mile of our place on Armells[...]a sister, Mrs, George County, Missouri on May 22, I87 4, one of eight children Bru[...] |
| [...]stayed on for many years" Louie Fergus, Montana. That post office was located five Lars[...]lambs were big and They built a house that fall. They have four children: traveled better than the baby ones had that spring. Cynthia Rose (Mrs. Rodney[...]1965 and Christopher James born August 23,197I" ear listening, so if he heard coyotes in[...] |
| [...]67 1962. That fall they moved into Rue and Betty's house[...]riving there a |
| [...]d together from seueral The saying was at that time, "That the Government stories that Con Anderson wrote in the 60's and early bet 160 acres of land against $i6.00 that you could not 70's about his father and the early[...]e companies and lending agencies who were eager I, Conrad Anderson, was 17 years old, Iiving with my to invest or loan monies to the homesteader's[...]ft the country. Smart High School in Spokane when I heard my father dis- people, I would say. cussing the idea of going to Montana t[...]ere the better grass and land seemed to be. The My Dad saw advertisements in the Spokane paper Olson's (dad and 3 sons), a Mr. Burk, and Mr. Hatch, that the Milwaukee Land Co. was going to build rail-[...]and wife came in the winter of 1910 and 11 and My father, who was a brick layer, had worked in[...]farmed in Kansas had tried to discourage I came to Montana with my Dad, later in 1910. Afler my father from the homestead idea, stating that all the arriving in Lewistown with some beddin[...]s had to be purchased and a thinking of people is that the other fellow has the best wagon. opportunit[...]to wait in Lewis- saying it must be a poor stick that could not make a town a few days for the ra[...]pment. We pitched our tent on the depot grounds My father, in the year 1883, whiie in Helena, Mon-[...]ew Fergus place. This was on the In April 1910, my father, my older brother Ted, a Mr. Carroll Trail in the[...]locate them "OK," said Dad, "we expect that." on good lands in these areas. I have good reason to After eating, the ho[...]d have done; because it took them to the Roy area that spring and they located was very far to the C[...]ern end of the land within six months, so Dad and my brother had to Judith Mountains. and[...] |
| [...]in 1908 on some Dad's homestead, the same size as my brother's. A land along Bear Creek eas[...]a house and barn in 1909. had a house about twice that size. r There were no sc[...]chool was held there in 1912 and 1913. When the I went with Dad in the early spring of 1911 to pur-[...]ur school chase oats for horse feed. We were told that John was moved some four miles southea[...]asked us to stay overnight. Early next my sister with her to the first teaching held at Smi[...]d there were many around Ft. any further" Dad and I had to each take a sack of oats Maginnis, G[...]"Spokane" here for propping up when needed for my gold mine and[...]ome $2000 he had when he homesteaded. Brother and I did the farm work on his[...] |
| [...]Bertie agreed that when her current set was brewed she[...]would make no more. That last batch was one too many. THE L[...]ssouri who settled on Brickyard Creek that it affected brain tissue. It was reported in her[...]Black Butte. ary that the explosion occurred from "gasoline she was[...]tion. Her cabin stands in deserted soli- times that he automatically went right to it. Hill arrested[...]d after Dad's place to get the mail. My folks had the post otlice they had homesteaded ne[...]Steve was born on January 3, 1892 in Charles, "I remember Josephine would ride horseback into my Nebraska, the son of Mr. and M[...] |
| [...]in Boyd, Minnesota and leased most of my Mom's land. Mom taught school on September 10, 18[...]eard about homesteadins available in My Mom and Dad were married in 1919 and decided |
| [...]/.) to move to Washington State where my Dad got a job as loved farming and if the[...]n automobile mechanic in Opportunity, Washington. I available, he'd have been truly thrilled.[...]. He was a person that could just drive by a wheat field My Dad seemed to have a knack for mechanical[...]..putting |
| [...]rid War II and served in Germany. He mar- Simon didn't stay at the ranch after frnishing school. ried[...]ents he has been crippled and went into the horse that they couldn't ride she could ride. She nev[...] |
| [...], maintenance" from Jim Murphy. He held that job for in 1921. His dad originally had a place i[...]se and put about 14 others through a few weasles. I don't know how I did it, must have been school. "I don't know how we did it on those wages I got miles or betfer!" we did. We didn't live on steaks I know!" 20 He took the hides to town; "had to ri[...]His the stage", he laughs. "I skinned the skunks till I found His granddaughter, Tammi Anderson C[...]in Mt. Vernon, Washington. unskinned ones. After that I buried and froze the Ean and Shau[...]ally had other help on hand, besides her. mistake I ever made, hurt me worse'n it did the teacher.[...]hoisted up in the rear and it was Mrs. Ever since I always stress to these kids, GET THA.T[...]vation Corps) in down, with the result that Mrs. Wright was on the barn 1937. Later he[...] |
| [...]arried Robert Fergus, son of William Fergus. At that time Richard took his name of Fergus. Dick carrie[...]by Fred Haney Walter W. Haney was born July i1, 1872 in Green' Canadian line.[...] |
| [...]interest. that again and they'll carry you out feet first!" I guess He returned to Fergus County in 1903 and worked for the fellow didn't want any more. the 2 Bar outfit, better known as[...]eading brands until 1912. He took up a homestead that is now called in Montana. For several y[...]s abilities to read married Hazel Anderson" From that time on he ranched brands that he was offered the job as brand inspector at in[...]d the band of cowboys bones from that pasture. Even found one buffalo skull. cornered a[...]llow down on the houses from the school. That street was known as 'silk river one time, don't k[...]they was real close to school, which didn't please Fred, as he came to meeting was out on the[...]gured a wagon and borrowed the herder's rifle. By that time the man was only as good as his wor[...]days. For years he made up shipments of cattle that were destined for Chicago and he went with them t[...]and "As a kid spending all my childhood in Roy, I guess I Hazel Anderson Haney, was born on July 12, 1916. A got into as much trouble as I was big enough to. It used to brother, Jack Theo.[...]One time, another boy and I found the whiskey cache of Fred relates a few t[...]all, a ten gallon wooden "These are a few stories I can tell."[...] |
| [...]and left it to the other. This one dropped I guess the worst thing I was involved in, and it was an his off[...]aying with bat and slightly confused, didn't have brains enough to matches and set the Gr[...]us kids ironical, but everyone that had a part or an interest in would pick up w[...]d over the dance and sell them to them. When i learned barbering, I "Great Divide". The oniy two left is the buyer and the didn't know I'd have to cut hair."[...] |
| [...]918. "We got mail at the Burt Sargent place. My father and the neighbors had to go to Hilger for[...]ey would get their bearings and could see lights. My father had a big brown fur coat that was real long and would hold out the cold. Some[...]cuddle down and be warm. It was real exciting. I started school in the Sunnyside school about a fo[...]wagon place in the house Bill Davis now lives in. My first teaeher was Charlie Morgan and other teache[...]he lowa Bench and Winnie McNeii (now Rife). Later my folks moved to school are: mother, Sena[...]Larsen, Helen and Chet. Close neighbors when I was a child were the Kaisers, Mr. and Mrs.[...] |
| [...]a brother to John, born at Wilder, died June 29,I97i. John always Ezear. His naturalization[...]8, 1910, died November 14, John died I\larch 1i, 1948 at the age of 72, 1985. He married Martha B[...]".i-TlL[...]i . :_1 accident.[...]2 years and 5 months at Black Butte. The story is that this child was bitten by a rattlesnake and is bur[...]Demo. Records indicate that they came to the Roy area[...]hite child born at Wilder. December 2. i915. He is buried in Roy. Joe LaFouN[...]me to our cabin and said |
| [...]ore, when the depression was hurting us that was called Rocky Point. all financially, Joe lost all'his property and moved into Joe told me that many trophy hunters came up to the town of Roy. H[...]all the game they haul wood on shares. "No, Joe," I said, "not on shares. I saw and keep only the largest heads and[...]ies away. The buffalo were killed must haul wood. I can't buy coal for heat and cooking.[...]u come and get two or four horses and a wagon and I control the Indians and they receiv[...]Joe said, "People call these hard times now (that was firewood.[...]e depression of the 1930's) but they are nothing. I Those trips took two and three days to complet[...]head." told me a lot of his early doings of which I will write I asked if he had seen worse times and Joe said, "Y[...]e from the antelope were very few. I did a lot of trapping," he said, Indians. The Ind[...]lfblood people as much "and at times I had to eat skunk and coyote meat. Yes, as the whi[...]said, "After you follow the rodeos for as long as I did Starting in the late 1920's Albert LaFou[...]those days. He had a homestead on the side, and didn't retire from working as a pickup man until[...] |
| [...]nal Wildlife Refuge. "That was why I started riding full-time, it seemed like the "My brothers and I spent a lot of our time four or five miles onl[...]ere the Fred Robinson bridge is today," he said. "That After a few years of riding the circuit;[...]ained a home north of Grass Range. Eventually "I guess catching them in the breaks was how I started they had 12 children, including[...]h much and we'd get maybe gb to City. "I never did any good there but I got crippled up," he $10 a head for them."[...]said. "A horse fell on me one time and I was buri for six or LaFountain frnished grade school at Roy. seven months. I didn't like New York or the other cities in the He went[...]Seattle and Portland. And I learned what I do now," he said, "We didn't have much time for school in those days," he[...]day when you need it for almost every- "when I was crippled after a fall in Wisconsin." thing. School didn't do much good back then."[...]19, but years back then," he added. "Not that they'd be killed, they spent more time doing ranc[...]breaking just couldn't ride anymore. I was pretty lucky, luckier than horses. From 1923[...]stayed around the breaks riding some guys. I didn't drink and spend ali my time laid up. Some "smaller rodeos that didn't amount to much." weren't so lucky, like my brother Joe, who used to travel with "My frrst rodeo was in Shelby in 1923," he recalled. "I didn't me and got killed in 1948 when a horse fell on him in Billings. do any good, I got stood on my head, really, but it was an LaFountai[...]four years running in the 1930's. He estimated that in his best "I kept working and mostly rode around here until 19[...]as rough in those days, he rep. $20. Then in 1928 I was breaking horses for Roy Hanson out at l[...]re willing to get along Crooked Creek. He figured I was good enough to ride any and you didn't really see as many fights as people think. But if horse and took me up to Calgary to prove it that summer. you pushed them too far you had your hands full. "That was my first big rodeo, about 150 cowboys, and my "Like me, I've probably had as many friends as any cowboy fir[...]ever, except the jealous ones, but I'm rough on my enemies. It's When the five day event was over, L[...]this," he added, pointing to his artifrcial leg. "I got this second place and brought home $1200. The[...]h, he noted, compared to today, shot me. I'm probably as much to blame as they are, and I when a top rider can make more than $100,000 a ye[...]shouldn't have ever got into it at all, but I'm not scared of From then on the rodeo circuit[...]anything. They left me alone at rodeos. They didn't bother "After that summer I turned pro and stayed on the circuit all good cowboys." the time," he said. "I bought a Model A Ford with a guy named A[...]About his own career, his final comment was, "I had some There were more rodeos in Canada than in[...]than I was. You never got to be 'the best.' "We tried[...]day, sometimes two," he recalled. "Any guy that thinks he's that good is kidding himself." "After a whiie there weren't manv horses that could buck me nfr[...] |
| [...]r magazines. Two Alex was born Juiy 2I, L923 ar Roy. He was the son of large wall placqu[...]n for the REA. Art critics compared his work to that of Charles He served with the Army's[...]by Alice (McCandless) Royston My parents homesteaded near Black Butte, south of[...]they pulled up and stopped, we found our- married my mother, Nellie Alice Glover of Springfield,[...]neighbors. Some of Springfield on March 6, 1886. My brother, Howard, was those I recall were the Steve Bullock's, Nels Jorgensen,[...]ice was born there and they stayed at graph that everyone enjoyed. The records were round Kempton[...]ere were so many snakes. Dad made a Ft. Maginnis. My brother, Howard, was almost five wagon[...]ince we had such strong years old at the time and I was going on three years. winds, he made a[...]the only first to see if it would work. I floated to the ground, building there was a small[...]he jumped and his extra weight turned the assured my mother that as soon as he got a barn built umbrella ins[...]r for house use, came from the Remembering my Dad brings to mind his playing the big spring nea[...]could remember all the old ture as time went on. My sister, Marjorie was born in songs until hi[...]and in order to survive, most of the men had to I remember the trips to town for suppiies and the[...]found work in the gold mines and for candy treats that were aiways given to the children large e[...]hen supplies were purchased. Howard, Marjorie and I Mother taught my brother the first 3 years at home, would snuggle under heavy quilts and deer and bear then when I was old enough for schooi she moved into lap-robe[...]he school term, as daily trips by horse and home. I remember a really bad snow storm that came wagon that far weren't possible. There was a town |
| [...]t'-l Marjorie and I would get almost home, a much larger girl had lot[...]t =F* It became apparent that the homestead land could : never[...]g, so our family moved to l-ewistown in 1925 when I was ten years old. Dad worked as a carpenter unti[...]nnsylvania. At the age of 14 years cook at that time, and married her on the 7th of April he left[...]of 1953. town and the Lewistown to Roy stage. At that time the He is surgived by his only daugh[...]resident of Roy for 30 years. Her obituary listed that while working in a granery one day he slip[...] |
| [...]Eenl aNo WwNm RrpB I am Lila (Rife) Williamson, born December 3, 1925[...]been papered over |
| [...]e the snakes. The Bonnie remembers that when our parents brought next spring our Dad rode[...]ere was no Claudia home, she and I put her in our wicker doll indication that any of the snakes had survived or[...]e was struck by lightning part of the cultivator. I still have a sense of her terror, and killed. The next day, his Aunt, Uncle, friends and her fear that he had been dragged and injured or killed.[...]a went back to teaching in 1943. We had been on I remember the scene yet. We came to a gate, the la[...]e would take a one before reaching the buildings. I got out to open the teaching job on th[...]trict where the taxes were higher if they didn't hold The scene to our right, was a most beautiful field of school. Momma told Mr. Fink that her teaching certifi- alfalfa. The plants were ab[...]breeze. Jim and I batched in Roy. Momma went the twenty And so w[...]and Johnny with her. Claudia started school that year. creek, which was edged by trees and a varie[...], fifth; Ralph Rindal, enjoyable for we children. I suppose not so always for fourth; Mar[...]s. beginners. She taught that school from February We attended the Black Butt[...]to Roy Junction School and taught school years at that school. fro[...]Rindal, Johnny worked for Charley Bishop, I worked Dad had a nice garden in a lower spot along the creek. I for Lynn Phillips and Bonnie stayed on[...]potatoes Bonnie tells this story of that summer: Anton to pick potato bugs and drop them i[...]d, Due to lack of grass and hay for the cattle, my right at the crossing. Bo[...] |
| [...]n the spring of 1946 when school was out, we all That night they stayed rvith me at Lynn Phillips. The went back to Montana and the ranch. That July 2nd, next morning they walked to the ranch,[...]ty they drank water out of the horse I feel the deepest appreciation of our Mother, afte[...]every day or and her devotion to all ofus, that has never waned. She two until finally it disapp[...]burned up also, as there were none at the house that in life. Though there have been so man[...]d with twenty-seven grandchildren and I do not know the Potterfs all winter. During that first winter Jim was number of great g[...]at O'Reiily's. John worked for Pat in the fieids. I remember that summer he made up poetry about his work. It was f[...]e caif was gone. In November of 1944, Momma and I went on the train to Everett. I had graduated that spring. I stayed with my aunt and her family and soon got a riviting job a[...]by Jim Rife I was born July 7, 1927 at Lewistown, Montana- I We were so happy to have a Iot of deer[...]small game and plenty of good water. |
| [...]g at a garage. always remember. We didn't move until the end of Jan- In 1946 I joined the Army. I spent most of my time in uary, 1973, the roads were icy a[...]on 8 below. building air bases. When I got out I started ranching We spent nine pleasant years in Missouri but decided again. I batched most of the time because in 1948 Mom[...]urned to the ranch, bought In the fall of 1948, my brother, John, a friend, Don more construction equipment and it's as though we Rindal and I made a trip through the Dakotas, and to never left. Oklahoma to visit my dad's brothers, to old Mexico, At[...]rried Arizona, California and Washington to visit my moth- and we have six grandchildren.[...]rgot- very good to us. ten trip. In 1952 I married Janet Swanson from Lewistown. Our first s[...]asshoppers again forced the sale of livestock, so I went to work on construction building roads. In 1[...]iful country, but no gold. We came home broke and I went back to work on construction for two years.[...]Roy Schaeffer, served in World War I and was killed in a train wreck' would stay with[...]. He figures promi- largest tax payer that year - $6,398.95' Stephens was a nently in[...] |
| [...]anan The center of entertainment during that time was at Bonner, Montana. Mary was born in Mis[...]nt to the Black Butte School. Teachers I took turns working out. Dad cooked in Denton, Lew[...]Fort Maginnis). Also Adelphia Koliha They said that World War One was over for a long Naylor[...]ord. One thing I remember is, in August when the sage- During th[...]Their homestead shack burned to the ground and I He sold this and bought a place on Warm S[...]. Blaine ran to get Mother, who by Danvers. That was sold when he quit working at the was m[...] |
| [...]iife for me. Roy and the Missouri River are still my roots. (See Meckling-Norskog) Judith Woodard Wai[...]o named bucuu.. of the 14 families from Minnesota that moved to the area' Rowland had encour:rged[...] |
| [...]nd is buried at the l,ewis- Both W.J. and Gracia (my mother) filed homestead town Cemetery as are Gracia and Elmer Grinde, Ruth claims as did my father, Elmer Grinde, who had come[...] |
| [...]d the teacherage and moved it to Roy on the place that Lillie Burnett now owns. He used it for a brooder[...]nto field. It was fenced on two it probably echos that of many other young people of sides. I gave Mr. Shanklin the $350.00 to give to the that time. soldier boy, and I soon had a homestead. I frrst came to Montana in the spring of 1914 to spend In September of that year the "Fad" gave me a week my vacation with friends who had come the year before to go out to Roy to look over my land and establish to teach in the Montana school[...]ut to be a fun trip for Elmie and me. We Montana. I wasn't, at the time, old enough to home- took the train to Roy, Montana. It was the same train I stead. but I was determined to wait until I'could. It was had taken to Winifred three years before. It seems the three years before I finally found what I wanted. Those same train went one day to Wi[...]o each town had and Clothing Co. During this time I made many friends; train service every other day. That time there were no among them was the Shanklin fa[...]rights to a320 acre homestead. wanted to go that afternoon, but was told it would be "Do you still[...]r. Shanklin asked. too much for the team that night. We could, of course, There was a small house on the place and 20 acres understand that. |
| [...]arshall, an attorney from Lewistown, whom I some of the bedding. The big fancy box got the[...]to bedding and a rug. The mirror went in my trunk. Little Crooked where a small grocery store was located. Everything got to the depot, pronto, that morning, This was about six miles from my place. So when we including me and my bags. The train for Roy tooted off told them wher[...]cel our team for the next day. They At Roy, I started for the livery stable once more. It had a[...]nch, was to cost me $20.00 they said to get that stuff out to so Elmie and I just had a snack so we could get started. Byford. O.K. Next day, I went over to see Harry We rode out to Little Croo[...]They were happy to see me and when we started for my homestead. It was supposed to be i told them I was moving out and had hired a dray to three mile[...]usk take me out in the morning, they said that was foolish' and houses along the way were lighte[...]will take you out; he is ip town look for a shack that had no light. Roads were wagon today." I said, "You must know I have a lot of stuffl'. tracks in those days, but[...]"Peters will take care of no light, which was it. I had the key, but I think the you. He'll be in here, and I'll send him over to the depot. door was unlocked. It was my house! There was the You go back ther[...], and don't name of the soldier boy. As Elmie and I belonged to a wony." Back to the depot to wait! "I'll take care of that hiking club in Lewistown we had our own hiking[...]t was short. In walked a little home. The two men didn't want to let us stay there. It man with a big smile. "I'm Peters", he said, "Where is didn't look good to them, but they left us their bag of your stuff?" I had been sitting there with all kinds of water wh[...]go back to Roy qualms about anyone getting my stuff out there. Now, wiih them.[...]this confident little man comes in and I relaxed. "Here's After the men left us, we found a broom in a corner my stuff', I said. "Do you think you can take it?" "Oh, and sw[...]t offthe pine bunk and spread out our yes, I'Il get it on", he said, and he did. camping equip[...]seemed there but somehow he managed, my rain barrel, fancy quite roomy. There was a homem[...]ed Creek, which was just a of it all, my cot and my groceries and me in front. We short walk, and got water to scrub with. We really took off. As I have said before, it was early in March scrubbed[...]the to have some contraption on the wagon that scraped seven mountain ranges hemmed us in and old Black the wheels off. The horses didn't have that and balls of Butte seemed to move into our back y[...]falling, Peters told me we would be to go live on my homestead. The fiends who had beat spen[...]stopped. Peters unhitched the horses, and he and I sheets, pillow cases and two big warm quilts. The[...]orses went up the hill to the Edwards' home. from my Bridge Club gave me a big mirror. The boys at[...]rds was such a warm me dishes and pots and pans. I bought for myself a and friendly woman as so many western women were. folding cot. My roommates gave me a big box covered She[...]aked bread, and the kitchen was so with cretonne that really turned out to be a real fragrant that I was suddenly very hungry. After a treasure. My boss also gave me his .22nfle and his wife[...]w bread along with other food' It had How was I to get all this out to my little house and started to rain and soon Peters left. He had to stay with into it after that? Here goes . . .[...] |
| [...]io build a new school house to the west of my place. In and I asked Mrs. Edwards what I owed her. She smiled the mornings, I could hear them emptying water into and said, "Oh, give me 50Q." I think I was near tears by my rain barrel, so no water carrying for me. How very then, but I slipped two dollars under my plate. Somehow thoughtfully kind all[...]tions on all white flour, hospitality. As we left that morning, after the men had and everyo[...]stuff up, but from the top the bread. I made it often then. rest of the trip was fine. I think it was about 15 miles. One night I was awakened by a roar, and my house At noon Peters stopped to rest the horses. He made a was shaking from side to side. I was frightened! "An fire and fried bacon and made coffee and sandwiches. earth quake", I thought. I went to my window to see a It was like a picnic out there am[...]a horses driving them. The drive split at my house, so it walk to stretch his legs. Tp be candid, so did I. It was wasn't run over, but my yard was a trampled mess. The about 4:00 o'clock that afternoon when we reached my next morning, I heard later that wild horses were being house and it was not so ro[...]nded up for shipment overseas. axe and was out at my wood piie splitting kindling for In late August or early September we had word from my cookstove. When I asked what I owed him, he said, the land office that anyone who would work on a farm "Oh, five bucks is plenty". I handed him the twenty the would have credit for that time as homestead residence, dray wanted, but he handed it back with a big grin and so I packed my bags, checked out at the Lewistown a warm handshake. He was gone. I'm sorry to say, I land offrce and went back to my home in Minnesota. never saw Peters again. Only my younger brother Adolph was at home with It was hard to imagine, time all my own, no alarm my parents, John and Lena Anderson. My older clocks, no regular time for anything.[...]get supplies. During the summer, the that fall, and my year on the farm ended the fall of stage was motorized, and ran, I believe, three times a 1919. Once again I left for Lewistown and the land week. A young man[...]cured a drought leave for all of us as the fields that had good water and he was a very popular young were dried up. No crops for anyone. My 40 acre field on man as he happily shared it with everyone. Little which I had planted corn had been trampled by wild Crooke[...]laces but the horses, and the year that I had winter rye dried up, so I water was alkaline and no good for drinking. We a[...]pool in the creek to Department Store, and I was lucky once more to get soak up, so one day I started rolling my barrel down the work. The remaining time of my residence on my hill. It thumped and bumped its way over the cact[...]kindness of Mr. Sweitzer who gave me time off it. I kept busy trying to pick up the hoops or staves a[...]tt family of the "Three they flew off the barrel. That day was spent trying to Deuce Ranch" were about the most wonderful friends I make a barrel out of something that looked like a big had there. They mad[...]more, so Crooked country, including one that moved me back into the pool it went. Afler soaking for a week or so the from my little house. I have many pictures of my house, Jakes boys took the team and rescued my barrel, filled of the Jakes family and of wild horses which I treasure. it with water and hauled it up to my house. It was a I don't think many of the folks who shared those pr[...]early days with me are there now, but I think there are Those five months of that summer were such wonder- younger peop[...]l and ful carefree days. The children who came by my place gracious as the friends I loved and treasure so in my each day, to and from school, were a joy to me. My memories.Amen.... neighbor,[...] |
| [...]9i) Herbert Bartist Beck was born, 19 September[...]cken with cancer and died 18 March I, Thelma, was married to William E. Erickson, Sr.,[...]outh Pacific zone in plants during WWII. I stayed at Ronan until May of |
| [...]Hrsronv Or NonrHsesrrnn Fencus CouNry that night when we finally arrived, for whenever we |
| [...]q7 and had a heart of gold. He showed my dad how to lay |
| [...]Later a kitchen and several bedrooms were added. That (Smiih) still live in Roy. really took the[...]Laura Lillie was born there" Dad delivered her. That's when Mauland until they retired and moved[...]S Oil Company, as bookkeeper. the government. By that time all the older children[...]Lucas This is a list of the people from Indiana that took up bert's parents Mr. and Mrs. Henry Barchardine, John homesteads that I knew: The Frank Miller's, Mr. and and Ethel Beck, Martha McElwee and my mother's sis- Mrs. Will Isaccs, Mr. and Mr[...] |
| [...]per shack and added it on to I rented a box car and filled it with a team, cows[...]ee of the children: Richard, That winter the thermometer went to 46 degrees below A[...]zero and that old tar paper shack was pretty cold. That The folks gave up the homestead in 1920 or 1921 and winter and the following ones I did a lot of freighting[...]from Lewistown to Roy. I hauled lumber for other home moved back to the Le[...]Many times I walked most of the way to keep warm. I his Roy homestead before he passed ewoy. figured I had walked close to 2000 miles that winter. Land was high priced in Indiana i[...]rain to make a crop. Then by word of mouth I heard about free land in In the required three years I proved up on the place and Montana. I could get 320 acres just by living on it 3 years received a deed. Later I delivered coal with a team all over plus a fr[...]worth of improve- Lewistown. At other times I hauled hay for livery barns, ments, so I came out with my cousin, Will Isaccs. We went farmed, etc.[...]ere were nine another cousin had a homestead. That is[...]something. up a $25 shack and staying there. I had a farm crop in We had 10 children[...]shington and Alice and Mary in In the fall I went back for my family; my wife, Sarah, California. and An[...] |
| [...]of Montana. over, which he expects to run in that section. With the[...] |
| [...]THE TIME HAS COME, MY i.AD Ruth enjoyed Woman's Club in Roy and Fergus,[...]WHEN I MUST ROUND UP THE HERD:[...]THIS HAS BEEN "MY WAY OF LIFE''. LONG YEARS AGO, I SAID "FORTHIS I ASK.''[...]Ruth ONE MOMENT DO I REGRET. and Wolter G. I HAD NO TIME TO FUME AND FRET. Broiser. I WATCHED THE SUN SET IN THE WEST.[...]Roy, Montono, MY I,AD, IT'S UP TO YOU[...]I'M ROUNDING TJPTHE HERD. I'M CALLING TT A DAY. I'LLRIDE AWAY.[...]their seven sons, three of whom were rlarried at that some way and the charge went off when the[...]Andy) born in 1895;John, born in 1900 and That was the end of that well and they got a profes- Carl, born in 1905.[...]had carried two buckets of tead, it was required that they build a house, fence their water at[...] |
| [...]ensen, the fifth son of Paul I remember my dad's parents, Paul and Marie Chris- and Marie Ch[...]y with his parents in 1912. that smelt so good. I remember him as a very stern per- Pearl Irene[...]She lived with my parents until Dad had to take her to a ville, Nor[...]November 12, 1926. They I remember the drug store in Roy. We always got to[...]The town pump was in the middle of town. I remember the Marie Jean (Mathern) born April 12,[...]and we all went to grade school at Fergus. My cousins, Lewistown and Dolores Irene (Hainer) who[...]I do remember the Fergus dances and how my foiks[...]ce; also the neat Chrisbnas plays the teacher I don't really remember too much about our life at[...]es 1 feather ticks to keep us warm, I remember the terrible ground dirt storm we had in[...]e family ever had with him from that day on was a day in never returned to Mont[...] |
| [...]by Laura Agnes Deuine (Dauidson) Although I grew up seventeen miles southeast of Roy u[...]n miles northeast of Grass Range, Roy was that area between Bear Creek to the north and the |
| [...]iman) moved to Roy 1920's, but I think he had died or left before we did. where sh[...]hort period in the late and she and I iived in one room of the Christensen 1920's. Kati[...]g an elementary two homesteads The Churchwell and that of Charlie -[...]ely allied with Moore, whose wife had died before my memory. They the history of this area, I will mention that Ruth, born had both gone, but the buildings were intact, still there September 21, 1915, and I, born July 31, 1917, were the when we left Montan[...]id 1920's. and lived in the Churchwell buildings. My uncle Herb Mr. Pierce believed[...]Black Butte Boosters 4-H Club that was first led by Oregon in the 1920's. Others simply left. My uncle Will, Mrs. Walter Brasier, in[...]bins Hall, and family went back to Indiana before I was born in in 1928. Mary Alice[...]rom Stubbins Hall; Lorraine Lenling; and Ruth and I Fulanwider (a name I shall never forget, as it intrigued were among the members to fill the 5-person minimum my child brain) had gone before my time. The Gootch quota, in the[...]shack three miies year, with my mother as leader. It served both as a northwest o[...]d did pot' them, across Little Box Elder, but all that he meant to luck Sunday dinn[...] |
| [...]she served by a spur of the Milwaukee that passed from was boarding with us because of the l[...]f roads and the often impassibility of Little Box that time in charge of the Auburn Post Office, which[...]th Grass Range and east to Winnett. My parents fought Stubbins School; myself also in th[...]division because the proposed maps came well out my sister in the eighth grade, were schooled in the[...]undation; it had our school district. By that time we had about 1400 been built in the halcyon[...]ther in Lewistown During the winter of 1916-17, my parents lost 10070 of who handled the off[...]heads in hay- of Schools for many years. I should neuer forgetthem. racks of dry reeds and inedible weeds that the govern- The brother oflen drove the[...]county, such as ours. Because of my parents' determi- urging people not to sell their[...]n to get us educated without sending us to remote My father had been drafted, but Dr. Faulds of Roy wh[...]ols, and because to these education- had attended my mother in a delivery nearly fatal to[...]a state apportionment complication and the offr- that cost up to $35 a ton against a price of $5 or $6[...]for Mrs. Grey county superin- the preceding fall. My parents swore they would never tendent[...]over the money for us. live through the horror of that winter-listening to the Each fall, my parents went to Winnett and pleaded. cattle bawli[...]to yield, the To return to education, Ruth and I each finished Roy school board permi[...]ying housekeeping in the old hotel on main street that the of starvation in 1931-32 because they had nothing but Halberts managed, as rentals. I was in a class of eleven stacked g:een th[...]Our family and the hope always present that this time maybe they was always graieful to Roy f[...]g closed the spring of 1931 and a nationwide In my second year of school, a group of Winnett depression; and with my fathdr at death's door from a businessmen and oth[...]would fi.nance all administrative with all that, Roy had agreed to accept me gratis and to and sc[...]ft the hotel building but rented us a from before my time-the Golden West and the Boston[...]until we Montana, nearer the Judith's, and after my time, the were through. Rowland No. 1[...]us, during the scholarship as a result. I was Valedictorian of the Class 1920's.[...]of 1933 and in addition to my scholarship for that, one In the proposed area for Petroleum there w[...]tine and Dovetail, served by stage- 1933that we finally gave up all hopes of utlizing them. co[...]n of Winnett with about 400 people, My father did not soen recover, and the docto[...] |
| [...]vised us to go to a lower altitude, so soon after my Wahl in 1942, and after the war moved wi[...]ing water feeding a good well and a I transferred to the University of Minnesota in the fall big grove and orchard planted by my late grandparents. of 1938, taking a[...]storms ated magna cum laude in 1940. I worked for six years in began and there was no[...]tinued where we lived editor with my husband, Raiph K. Davidson as editor in Montana.[...]of a small newspaper in Leola, South Dakota. My and wife, moved to ours. The barn blew down, the[...]d to Salem, Oregon. After the war we burned down. I have not been back except to pass along[...]1984. Aside from family responsibilities, I have man- Elder where the other wildcat wells had[...]nd "other" poetry, but After Montana, Ruth and I lived in South Dakota, have made a[...]Ruth raised a family of 3 children. I raised two ern Minnesota and where Ruth received[...]ool for several years both in Oregon. My brother-in-law, Charlie Wahl, died[...]in 1984 and my sister, Ruth, in 1985.[...]r meeting the health needs. I remember only two deaths brother, Matt. These wer[...]the Stubbins school. Attend- girl. That was my first experience at a funeral. It was ance was la[...]ier and Cemetery. Another death was that of a young man by Wilma Marsh.[...]the name of William Rowland. on both occasions my Water was supplied by two wells. The stock-wate[...]the The above is a summary of my seventeen years lived kids for swimming an[...] |
| [...]) married to Ida Gronau on February i4, 1901. Ida was born January 19, 1920 in Lewistow[...]farming would have a very nervous shock that might prove fatal were they to go out to G[...]received for three ten-months-old shoats, that were raised and fattened on Buffaio Grass[...]he fed, but can state as an absolute fact that he realized a gteater amount of money for[...]Morgan County, Ohio. He married i896. Mary Elizabeth Springer on February 16, 18?9[...]rich if they had reallzed what the many sketches that Benjamen was a graduate of National Normal Uni-[...]and held thrown away in later years. that position until it closed in 1890. in addition to being The records of Fergus Count-"* indicate that he filed head of the college he taught Latin, Eng[...]telling the late 1800's. The public records show that he per- about was the time he[...] |
| [...]race. Upon conclusion of the prayer he discovered that the plate which had been heaped with fried chicke[...]the blessing. Upon completion this time, he found that Benjamin his fork held the onl[...]pinion. The ump threw the offend- November 25, 792I. The children attended Stubbins i[...]he game, then had to let him in again. school. At that time there was a horse barn at the He owned the ball they were using that day and it was school for the children to stable[...]ccasionally and tend Max tells of a peculiarity that his father had. It seems their grandfather and mother's graves. Max lives in that Heber always wore his cap. He never took it off.[...]rom the 8th grade at Stubbins stepmother confided that Heber even wore his cap to sc[...] |
| [...]ng was also three younger than I and I couldn't leave them, the used for community gat[...]youngest was only 6 years old at that time. All the other homes in the area were heated by a I married in April of 1935 and lived near there unt[...]c. We used coal oil one brother, Douglas. I have four children, 11 grand- iamps and had an outhouse. I only remember one home children and one great grandchild. in the area that had an inside bathroom, which was the home of Walter and Ruth Brasier. My father, Heber Pierce, hauled mail from Roy to Aub[...]to Lewistown with a team of horses and a buggy. My mother died in 1928 when I was 13 years old. I had to take over the household duties, being the oldest girl at home. I didn't get to go to high school. To have These youngsters lined up for school haue been identi- done that I would have had to stay in Roy. There was f[...]on and Ed Thornquist. They later uary 14, I9?2 and Mary on November 25, 1976. They mov[...] |
| [...]train to Hilger, which is around 15 miles. That was as gan. Mr. Harris's heaith wasn't good, t\ey[...]sisted of boiled potatoes, boiled Harris's health didn't improve as they had hoped it meat, dri[...]supper. They built a fire and slept on the floor that first tana for quite some years. Hattie an[...] |
| [...]Dad went to a sale at Fort Maginnis; that was the barn.[...]alls would hold up realized how foolish that had been. "Should have seen under the wind, but k[...]me shake." There was a straw pile close by that the come down upon them any minute.[...]rattlesnakes always kept getting into and a horse that Later Dad bought a two room house, moved[...] |
| [...]- horse, stuck his head up, just at that time, right in her stroke. Basil is als[...]Lake, Minnesota. She raised a familv of there as I couldn't run fast enough to keep up with her. three daughters. Well, she let me waik back under my own power. Never did see the wolf and dear old Frank was just fine. I asked my Dad, one of the last times that I saw him, what kind of a gun she had and he said i[...]large shell was needed, either a BE/45 or 45/55. I know she used to shoot rattlesnakes from the kitc[...]y. Later he received $2.50 per day. "Hardest work I ever did,,, said Dad. When Russell lost the homestead, Mrs. Tully bought ii back for taxes, which didn't make Russell too happy. The Tully's left Lewist[...]er's homestead and their brother. I, Ethel Geyer, have over the years, made twenty-ni[...]trips to visit her. My last trip was in October of 1988" Minnie was bo[...]ctories and at whatever was available to women at that time. She was also a beautician and worked at that trade for a time in Washington state. M[...] |
| [...]to #131 Central School. Some of the local people that taught there were: Winnie McNeil, Viola Kilpatric[...]homestead days is that straight stretch of land extend- Coal Hill School i926 ing from west of H[...] |
| [...]h row: Micky Bobmier, Lillian Olson and tuo girls that were grandchildren of the teocher, B.W. Pi[...] |
| [...]; another Bezouskas. None of them agree on dates. I haue tried to, that they moved to the area from Oregon in 1937. in th[...]bitten by a rattlesnake while out on the ranch. i889 in Prague, Czechoslovakia. She attended school[...]il 28, 1981, at the age of 92. Both source stated that Vaclav homesteaded in 1918. while[...] |
| [...]He hardly ever missed a meeting, the land, but he didn't have any horses or machinery. which was[...]me, unless him. Joe then farmed his own land, and that of someone passing by gave him a[...]by Ernest Hatell ' I was born September 28, 1912. We came to Montana[...]ry water to them. Some two weeks went by and when I was four years old. Dad came ahead in an emi'[...]ame the middle of May grant car. They were called that because you took every- and a big snow came and of course that ended the thing in it. I remember them loading it. Oats, hay, a garden. That was the first time I can remember my plow disc and harrow, 2 wagons, 4 horses, 2 pigs,[...]and a good chicken house. It was here that my grand- I don't recall much of the trip from Suffolk, which is father, my father's dad, Alexander McClemins (Mack) where we met dad, but I recall the little log house we Harrell, c[...]We wintered there. Dad built a He and my dad dug a well for water and walled it barn for t[...]ey hauled with a team and We had a lot of snow that first winter. Things got wagon. The we[...]water. The well was about 30 feet deep- but I remember once he took his old shotgun and came[...]people died. Everyone helped everyone else' I can still couldn't venture far outside. We had all been talking remember how sick I was, as was the rest of the family' about Christmas. A rider came by, it was late in the I had an infant sister, Martha Ann, who died in that evening and the.t dtnn *u. coming down. He wore a big epidemic" buffalo coat and I was sure it was Santa Claus. He was I[...]d a sale, then we moved probabiy the first cowboy I had ever seen" He stayed to Kendall which at that time was turning out a lot of the night and at th[...]his big coat in front of the kitchen I started to a real school here. The town was quite range and that's where he slept. But dad did have a well inhabited. My teacher had three grades and almost good barn for[...]60 students. How she managed I don't know, but I'll Our milk cow would wander away with the range say I learned and real good too. cattle. Many a mile my dad walked after that cow' but It was in Kendall that my oldest sister, Marie, was after that night those range cattle were kept away and born. the cow didn't stray anymore.[...]where dad was working. It was When spring came my mother and dad made a about 2[...]walked to school in the spring and fall plants. I can remember how hard they worked putting[...] |
| [...]ch grain farming One afternoon dad and I went to get the horse to and haying. I attended various schools and worked on bring the binder home so we could cut my crop. We just the ranch as a hand. I never had a full year of school. got the horse in and it started to hail. Now I've never By now I was around 13 or 14 years old. It was the same seen it hail in the mountains, but boy that was a hail old story, we survived by miiking a bu[...]and deliver cream some of the trees, and my wheat field, needless to say, and eggs. By now I could handle a team pretty well so was c[...]top. It was pretty fancy. We'd feed our So I rode for a cattle outfit for a few years and had[...]uld move the When spring came, this was L927-28,I didn't pass out bulls and late calvers. We would[...]guys. When they had been moved it school. By now I had two more brothers and a sister. was[...]into, no one can imagine. We had By now I had met and adopted a family by the name been to[...]in our of Zahn. They had a large corral that could be seen for minds. We conceived every way i[...]o ride we started slipping Holding cattle that are dry is one thing, but to bed a few head of range cattle in, that belonged to a large them down and keep them overnight is quite a job. ranch. and that ran loose all over the mountain, O[...]d saddle and The horses weren't gentle. My partner Tom Blair got got the big steer in the ch[...]s off his carry two people. We put the saddle on. My brother, rocker two days and then didn't feel too sharp. We were Butch, was to ride him. I was to open the chute. My five days travel from Hilger and then[...]ut how sweet it was when old steer down. But when I opened the chute, Jake Tom stood up[...]our destination". It cleverly stayed behind. Well that steer dumped Butch didn't take long to get packed and underway. It was a an[...]raight to the corral. was kicking and running and that new lining was It was open range s[...]ied chicken dinner for about twenty-two cowboys. that saddle, with a good spanking.[...]CBC had arrived with five to six hundred horses My brother Butch was going to high school in Hilger,[...]and about by now, so when the fall work was done I also started to 300 head of horses. But there was still plenty left to eat. school. We rode that ? miles every morning and at This was my home away from home for many years. night. I '*'as breaking small horses for a fellow. It didn't The next two summers and winters I spent there in take many trips to school to gentle them down. But the Crooked Creek drainage. I was riding for Disbrow and when it came the last of February, one morning when I McVey, yet. They shipped some drouthy cattle from went to school I kept right on going. And never went Mil[...]se. Larry Jordan back. Butch went on to graduate; I went to work for a came with them and a[...]built. Baulch, a moose of a man. When he got well I went to Summers I rode, winters I mostiy stayed at the work for Eno Jensen, at Hilger. I worked all spring and Zahns, helping where I couid. summer. then was fired. I worked for several other The outfi[...]Fergus Horse Ranch which people, then dad decided I should have a crop of my by now was mostly hay. i was in charge of breaking |
| [...]horses and haying, either one a big job. After I left there I tried another stab at farming. This was in the Armells area. I had a terrible time getting the crop in. The tractor broke down and I had to hire it done. Me and tractors were at odds. I worked on the home Fergus ranch. A man by the name of McKenzie operated it. One evening after work I rode over to my home and discovered that the grasshoppers had eaten everything in sight. We finished haying, which didn't take long, as the hoppers came on there too. I then went to fighting fire.[...]Ernest, Butch ond Joke Horrell. That fall we went to Idaho to look for work. Dad went[...]fter harvest, we moved the family to Idaho Falls. I worked the first winter feeding fat lambs for a big out- fit. In the spring I helped dad and rented an 80 acre farm, joining my dad's, and had a good crop. I worked in the spud cellars till the last of Janua[...]on the Horse Ranch in the early 1920's. Circa. I went to work for a big outfit that farmed something like 30,000 acres around Bakersfield. Dad broke his leg so I went back to be with him. We finished out the yea[...]on them. "That took the rodeo outa me," said Ernest,[...]"but all of my kids rodeoed." After that we moved to Montana. Ernest had a half[...]e in November of 1943, the day after the school That fall we were on Dad's place. The oldest boy was[...]homestead was 12 miles born during the time I was driving truck, hauling east ofRoy[...]moved over the Valentine road. so that Tom and Lewis build a bie ditch and the next morn[...]sed a few cows. Ernest also wind never forgot us. My brother, Harold, and I started went to work on a dril[...] |
| [...]ranch. Molly, their oldest daughrer, married felt that this was the best job he had ever had. The[...]their 65th wedding anniversary. In July of that year, George and Eugene were all born in L[...] |
| [...]oyed 238., near his brother, Anton. by them until I9b? when he retired and moved to He was[...]from Lons. same locaie in Minnesota that Joe was. Swoboda talked dale, Minnesota. He came[...]g Joe bought a father had sold the grain elevator that Joe was running relinquishment from Swo[...]160 acres. brothers at home on the farm, Joe knew that he could Pienty of rain in l9l5 made a bumper crop so Joe not stay on the home farm, and he didn't have any went back to Minn[...] |
| [...]ld a house. In the fall of 1916 elected to that position for the next 27 years. Joe also they bui[...]Emma moved to early pioneer parents when he said that "all ofthe sons Lewistown, when their[...] |
| [...]ouse from the homestead to it's The drilling rig that Joe Kalina used to drill water wells presen[...]They the installation of the telepho-^ i- 1962. Prior to 1961 a had a borrowed milk cow an[...]first gas station in 1961. 1950 in Lewistown. That same year they built onto the Larry[...]hens by ated from Roy High School at that time. |
| [...]he Bill Harvey ranch (the old Jennings place). In i980 they sold this ranch and pur- chased the home[...]rve in the Czechoslovakian army. During World War I, Ben and his brother Joe fought on opposin[...] |
| Coel Hrr-i- - BoHnutaN ConNrR[...]e again. It was no fun! other in the old country. That same year they moved to Kellner Sr. was a[...]get him. and all the way to Montana, he protected that gun like Mrs. Kellner and her son continu[...]ip, he took with his wife, to Michigan. He passed that job. While still very young, he remembered spend-[...]ngth of time, Heil decided to go see if he fellow that could make do with what he had.[...]g a round in A memorable invention was a shaver that somewhat the field. Kennedy was using t[...]On cold days, that was a chore indeed. Kennedy solved One time Mir[...]brother' work the land and seed the winter wheat that fall. He in-laws, Frank, Louis, Emi[...] |
| [...]n house into sleeping quar- his customers that owed him, from the hardware days ters, with meals[...]t the night there. in Roy. We are sorry we didn't write down the parties They were very kind hearte[...]standing bills that were never paid. Mother (Mary) would tend the[...]sale, east of Roy, and they found a calendar that Dad he'd go to the Missouri breaks with the team.[...]n for grving it to our family. Viktor Kolar about that time he lost his sense of direction, as there[...]he were no roads or trails. to follow. He decided that if he family. We still drive out to see the[...]the work, hardship and pleasure they had during that enough they stopped at the gate back home.[...] |
| [...]by Delphia Koliha Naylor My father, Anton Koliha, first came to Roy from St.[...]out binding and shocking |
| [...]srenN Fencus Cot sLr many materiai luxuries we enjoy today, the homestead atmosphere that prevailed. We received the basic values |
| [...]aul was born in 1921 and Geraldine in "I was ornery," she says recalling an incident when[...]uary 11, "We had cows for milk and chickens and I suppose 1974. Tillie Halla was born in Taber, South Dakota on hay. I don't know if she (mother) had a garden; I know September 20, 1894 and passed away[...]ed on her former hus- died a year later. They say that "Joe died of a broken band's homes[...] |
| [...]d Roy was in the Battle of the Bulge, that his entire platoon schools.[...]im eventually took over the farm. Lillian married didn't "Whoa" but went right through the wire gate. He[...]re and raised wheat, rye, corn and hay. I am now retired and still living on the farm. My son, They also raised all kinds of vegetables and fruit Marvin, is now farming the farm. All my children are (apples and watermelons). married. They had six cows that they milked and four horses[...]ippi and in Payettville, North Carolina. October 2i, 1939 she and Jim Martinec were married in[...] |
| [...]March they the Cook-Reynolds Railroad that was located on the had arrived in Stanton, Nebras[...]main problem was with the long horn cattle that ran at store in Tilden, Nebaska.[...]The winter was cold and the sagebrush fuel didn't other sister and family, Charles and Tillie Sebek[...]their first child, Vlasta Marie, was born. Their that was being settled by many who spoke his native[...]. John could brought such good money that the Maruskas were able water witch and he dug sev[...]h Roy to citizen. John filed on 40 more acres and that fall he sold Valentine" Later mail came thr[...]dlec. lies that received their mail on a daily basis. |
| [...]outside world. February 27, L97I. Betty has taught in the Roy school John bought[...]his years of John missed the abundance of trees that grew in his retirement, John Sr. was accide[...]10.00 a head. Hay was shipped in and was high. It didn't rain. The banks closed. The Roy Bank close[...] |
| [...]the barn. They later built related a story that happened before fences were up. the house. All th[...]- tance, moving closer. She realized that it was a band of vided shelter until a permanent[...]doors reached her little herd. She stated that as the riders for the livestock to enter. The chi[...]and for seed for the following year. Any plant that pro- voirs. They would pace the bank and c[...] |
| [...]ng clean odor. Occasionally stove. She related that a ball of fire then zig-zagged. P & G soap was p[...]. No one dared sneeze. the square pieces of paper that came mixed in with the The stripped feathers w[...]feather tick. early years. Mrs, Pospisil related that one day, while Mattresses were made[...] |
| [...]lived in Lewistown for a short time and then from I. to r. are: Rudolph, the next two (lady and man)[...]a castiron stand and a variety of shoe-like heads that fit the stand. She would place the shoe in need o[...]". a truck driver. They had 2 boys and I girl: Mark, Matt Sonny played guitar, Norman the[...]nd is a nurse at the Great Falls Clinic. marriage didn't last and she later married Marvin[...] |
| [...]for the many flowers, shrubs and trees that surround to pull many cars over the bridge and ro[...]of the depression and A hobby that started for the whole family, about p.roughts, a[...]o farrow was worth $5.00. One 1957, was that of creating many beautiful works of art time Leon[...]cob filed on a homestead of 160 acres, and also a that fall Katerina sold and disposed of their property[...]d They stayed in Milligan for 10 years. During that wagons. A two story house was built on[...]iece on top of the other, forming four walls to That fall, after Frank had come ahead, the fami[...] |
| [...]t the dance a hat would be passed Frank in i962, Emil and Willie in 1965, Rosie in 1975 around[...]After Frank had proved up on his claim he decided that 160 acres wasn't enough land to make a living. He[...]Back row: Joe, Frank, Louis, as fuel. People knew that there was coal in the nearby Emil and Bi[...]he son of Mr. and Mrs. John SkalkarHe that country. received his education there and migrate[...]they retired and moved to Lewistown. It was there that he met Frantiska Kasala, the daugh- F[...]by Frank Vlasak I have only visited Roy, Montana once. My father, of Ro-v. My uncle "proved up" on his, my father did not. FrankA.Vlasak,anduncle,JosephC.Vlasak,camein My father left the area in September of 1917 and my 1912 or 1913 and filed on homesteads somewhere[...]uncle in 1918. Both went off to World War I. My father |
| [...]rance and was wounded in combat. met my mother and was married. He bought a grocery My father was married when he came to Roy, but his[...]rvice connected disabilities pre. first wife (not my mother) divorced him there in 1914, in ve[...]ved the railroad was built had two sons, my brother died in infancy, I survive. only to Hilger so they walked to Roy. Bo[...]- When he became too disabled to work my father and I ters and built many of the early buildings in Roy[...]ing and even living for homesteaders of the area. My father, besides being a together in a sh[...]St. Patricks Day, 1957 at the age of 79. He and I were belongings, to their homesteads. He also had[...]their own bedding. Roy. I could write about my Dad, the brawler, veteran The brothers were aiso musicians, my Dad played of many early day saloon,fights and land disputes. I guitar and Uncle Joe the violin. They were much i[...]me he emptied a suitcase of clothing of a home- My father and his brother never returned to Roy afte[...]uld scarcely leave it out of his sight, World War I. When my father left, he just left every- and[...]nd let him carry it, walk- thing and went to war. I understand that my Uncle Joe ing all day to his homestead shack. And returning the sold his homestad, I do not know to who or for how clot[...]ply of groceries and laughing with him over the My father was one of those early settlers that came humor of the situation. and went; an adventurer, one of the last of the breed. He My Dad and Uncle Joe, who died in Sandpoint, Idaho w[...]ur Butte Mountain, a haunting refrain, that they too, trapping and was one of Omaha, Nebraska[...]ofthat ethnic background. For the past 16 years I have[...]Suchan was born at Jackson. Minne- spring of i944. Emma died on December[...] |
| [...]ing back and raise the baby, named was the ranch that became Jim Martinec's. He stayed Ma[...]raceks then built a stone barn for their milk 185i; died I October 1936, 85 years, buried in Roy[...]a (Railsback) came to the Mother and I would take the cream and eggs to town Roy area ab[...]rlan, November 12, the feed bags on. I was now ready for town and a six 191l-[...]e Brice Hospital in Lewistown. I remember how the train came into the depot and[...]ith our team and spring wagon to t,ake them home" I will never grocery order. forget that da1., we all thoueht she was a beautiful I vividly remember the new Ford touring car[...] |
| [...]ring back and raise the baby, named was the ranch that became Jim Martinec's. He stayed Mar[...]a (Railsback) came to the Mother and I would take the cream and eggs to town Roy area ab[...]Orlan, November 12, the feed bags on. I was now ready for town and a six 191 1.[...]cksmith shop. We nearly always visited the bakery i919, both born on the ranch and Wilma Jean, born[...]the Brice Hospital in Lewistown. I remember how the train came into the depot and[...]with our team and spring wagon to take them home" I will never grocery order. forget that da1', we all thought she was a beautiful I vividly remember the new Ford touring car[...] |
| [...]ms, chains, spare tire, and in that manner, is, of course, not known. lights. It was well equipped for those days. I could ram- The horse made his[...]show that he had been injured in any way. the Warner Homest[...]sident of the Roy country for dated November 8, 19i7.[...]y, was found in Box Elder Creek Friday I am Clyde Warner, youngest son of Arthur Warner,[...]er Creek, Thursday homesteaded in i914 and my Grandmother, Kate Rails- afternoon.[...]My mother and the five youngest children, which testimony of the witnesses showed plainly that the dece dent had met death by drowning. The[...]rday afternoon to the ing ihe death of my father. I was the last one to see him old home at Blake[...]alive. We were rounding up cattle and I had just left made. Two of his sons, Cecil an[...]his sons had been gathering cattle for I have some sad memories, also some happy times to several days in that section and last Thursday left their rem[...]rom box suppers and dances to attend. I remember the town the place they separated, e[...]One time my Dad was caught in some bad weather return hom[...]curly haired chaps to wear home. Many things like that it was learned that he had not returned a search was at co[...]the previous day, and taking up the I still remember everyone who lived in a five or si[...]ed the Ed Olson When near the river the horse that he had ridden was place after they left. I helped plant wheat in the fall seen standing[...]e the Valentine road by the Hala place. I think we down some three feet from the day pr[...]lowed received our mail once each week. I remember Frank the horse's trail from where h[...]article telling of frnding the found at about i0 o'clock Friday morning, Iodged against[...]strong but one of the boys swam out to My brother and I went in this cabin the last year we the islan[...]were in Montana, to escape a rainstorm. I remember a t<.r the shore.[...]sking questions- The general supposition is that Mr. Warner had maybe the guy wa[...]been taken; watch, been originally, thinking that the bridge was still there spurs, etc.[...]h water. Instead, the bridge had I also remember Joe Kaiina playing the accordian.[...]liked to hear him play and he seemed to enjoy playing. Warner was wearing knee length rubbe[...]extremely hard for any one to swim I think often of Monfana. I farmed all of my married once they became hlled with wa[...] |
| [...]orough and extended search for any evidence that may throw light upon the mysterious disappe[...]Nebraska. It was at the Taylor ranch that Rlndolph stopped on[...]on the homestead the rear of his car on that occasion that he appeared anx-[...]Opal, Clyde, Claire theory now is that he might already have made away[...]ond Doris. with Afflerback at that time and had the body in the car. el! It is the unanimous belief that Afflerback was mur- 0.. i dered by his prisoner and it is the hope that this search n. party may find the body o[...]son being, according to his grandson, Vernon, was that "he wasn't a very good business man."[...]was created in 19i8 from school district #178 Cimrhakl.[...] |
| [...]ril 28, 1878 in Walthill, Nebraska; I was six years old when we came to Montana so I died February 1958 and is buried in Walthill. can't remember everything that happened in the early Emma Madison Bare born January 22, L884 in Bill- years. I do remember when we landed at Hilger and ings, Mo[...]"When we first homesteaded, we lived in a tent. My and in Lewistown. brother and I would pick up sagebrush and cow chips The summer of 1916 many fine grain crops were and that is what we had for fuel for a short time" We[...]July 27 ,1906 issue of the Lewistown paper (Roy My Dad built a barn with a nice floor in the hay lofi Enterprise) that the County Agriculturist, Carl Peterson and we th[...]until a small house was built. stated that Frank Bare "has one of the best pieces of We us[...]nces and everyone had a wheat" that he had so far seen. good time. The music was an o[...]er Bare married Laura Larsen, daughter of Chris My Mother had triplets a few years after we came to[...]they moved to Billings. They had one son, Keith My parents left the homestead in the late twe[...] |
| [...]buried. The grandfather, bucket of boiling water that his mother was using to E.D. Johns[...]s across the Atlantic they passed by the ice berg that on occasion. He was found dead in his ra[...] |
| [...]bout being surprised by Indians several times. At that City, Texas. time they were friendly an[...], Grover Beal and was visiting in I974 and is buried there. Blazej died in John Tuma. Blazej usually hauled the coal and water 'I[...]ere purchased at the Puckett store at Dory. After that they went into Roy for their purchases. A team an[...]by Joe R. Pacousky My father, Joe Pacovsky, took up a homestead about[...]Dory, was named after Mrs. Dory Puckett. |
| [...]born March 22, 1890 in Czechoslovakia, married in didn't get enough money to buy another until after he[...](Campbell) born September 8, 1938 in Anna, who is my mother, in 1915. They stayed until Bozem[...]family moved to Winifred, she taught in that area. Montana from Thurston, Nebraska and homeste[...]remembers Valley View. Marie Limpus says that she remembered that when the trail reached Armells, it derailed. Several that he always brought cottage cheese in a jar for his[...]er father borrowed a grey mare lunch. She said that he didn't do much toward teaching and buggy and drove Mrs.[...]nery along with the lumber and Marie remembered that Grandma Puckett and her hardware busi[...]it is still doctor they had called from Lewistown didn't come. in use. The trees that they planted are still alive. Mrs. Martz[...] |
| [...]by Vernon Puckett My grandfather, J.V. Puckett, came to Montana in My father, Charles Puckett, homesteaded in 1913 and[...]east of Roy, Mon- built a home. My mother, Emily Nelson Puckett, tana on the Roy-Val[...]old his farm brother, Donald and I came to Hilger, Montana, in the near Pender, Nebr[...]wagon. My brother, Harold, was born in Lewistown in In ab[...]ver the Pacific Ocean. only one in the country at that time. He carried the mail My dad lost his homestead in 1929 and we bought a fr[...]place adjoining ours where we lived till I got married to engine and a threshing machine and threshed all the Arlene and I bought dad's share of the ranch in 1953. way from[...]e born in Lewistown and graduated from Roy High I had three uncles, Elvin, Foster and Joy Puckett,[...]d lives in Monument, Colorado. Nancy Montana too. My mother's father, Oscar Nelson, had a[...]ranch near Lambert, homestead next to our place, that my dad bought when Montana. We have[...]o Nebraska. Other members of My brother, Donald, was a school teacher at Cut my mother's family who came to Montana were h[...] |
| [...]all had left the area and we were the oniy famiiy that stuck it out,. A homestead of 320 acres was not enough for an economical unit and most homesteaders left in i920. We increased our ranch to about 6,000 acres,[...]the plague when rain once again 'brings to life' that advent of these new "contraptions". They[...]made. drives, nothing is impassable, or at least that's what is This wonderful scary intr[...] |
| [...]were still some who relied totally on My husband tells about his mother trying to learn to[...]uto. that it zoomed backward and right straight up the S[...]he doned. They were tempermental; it was thought that brake, *'ith the same results. A few[...]The drivers of these new vehicles often forgot that seats and backs were stiff and unyielding.[...]ele- than it u'as long; so top heavy that he was forever tip- gantly dressed women with th[...]One story that has become legend deals, not so much Learning[...]t it. Mr. Jones, the mail carrier, was there that day and of course he could drive a car. Joe di[...]e got the car cranked up and going. Oniy Jones didn't get in with him, he just stood there. Away Joe[...]to where Jones w"as standing and yell, "How do I stop!" Mr. Jones would yell back, bui by that time Joe would be out of ear-shot. He wo[...] |
| [...]a surueyor and his uehicle result that the car shot backwards at an unbelievable out f[...]did figure out exactly what stuck in that engine! and ruts he traueled enroute down the h[...]qualities about some minor adjustment that needed fixing. ofhis new car, a couple others sli[...]ars it sat. Maybe it is still there. No suggested that Bill show them how the car worked.[...]by Margaret Umstead Hedrnan To my grandkids at a parade it's, "Look, Grandma,[...]ruckstell axle was this side of heaven because |
| [...]alar:y. In 1917 it was reported in the Enterprise that J.E. Cox had just "returned from the east on a sc[...]celm THn Dav Or TsE BaNx Ronenny Early in 1922 I was invited to spend the summer with I got my groceries and came out and people were all[...]horse she rode to Ray One day it was my turn to ride into Roy and get the[...]the day of tlrc bank groceries and mail. I rode my faithful buckskin pony, Joe.[...]robbery. A former As I rode on I saw a car coming. It was going faster[...]f Winnie's, than most cars went. Also most people that passed[...]remembers that his This was different. Both men in the car lo[...]that the students I turned and watched to see where they were going.[...]couldn't reach When I got to Roy I tied my horse to the hitching rail[...]as the straight down the lobby to my office in the rear. Upon man who was robbed at gu[...]ount, as looking around from my desk, i found myself covered follows, was printed inthe M[...]"By a wave of his gun the robber indicated that he[...]*'anted me to go into the front room, which I did, and then Cashier F. B" Stevens of the[...]voice u"hich is out of the ordinar;- that I was able to robbery and the exciting chase wh[...]men suspected, who are now in "When I had faced around to the wall the second man ja[...]appeared, and I suppose it was he *'ho gathered up the "At about four o'clock I was alone in the bank, our[...] |
| [...]ve away, came in and "It deveioped that they arrived in Winnett at about 9:30 threw[...]d under suspicion two others, 'Tex' prehend that something might be wrong, and upon frnd-[...]izens and "Upon getting out of the vault I ran down the street, myself went after J[...]house after dark dur- hardware store where I asked them to prepare guns and ing a h[...]was taken by surprise and ammunition while I went for a car. I took E.O. Sandbo's captured without a fi[...]fastest car in town and with Grover Beal, "My identifrcation of him as the man who first entere[...]k Melstone Bank. He escaped trial in that case for lack of them in about 20 miles. We[...]about to stop and get clusive evidence that Jarrett and Jackson were both in out of the[...]saw a cloud of dust come up over Roy on that day. the hill to the left, and thinking the[...]"This is about the whole story to date. I will say, how- Beal got one shot when I discovered ihat McCain was hit ever, that while Mr. McCain's wound is serious and he and it looked so serious that I held up my hands in sur- will probably be in the ho[...]owed us to go and after getting over the that he will come out of it in good shape and will pro[...]etting into Grass Range the sheriff and "I wish to say that the county attorney and everyone two deputi[...]n the case in the way of collecting evidence, and I By that time a considerable number of cars were out and believe that there is a very good chance of obtaining a[...]"It is interesting to note that Jarrett furnished cash bail "We knew exa[...]that they planning for a rodeo the latte[...] |
| [...]VALENTINE RODEO, JULY 19, 1936 that will be appearing at this wild west show.[...]ROY RODEO, JUNE 22,I94I There will be bronc riding, surcingle riding (b[...]lanning to attend. A report in the paper states that the Fourth at Roy was a big was l[...]1949-George Komarek won the 'all around cowboy' that day. Lynn was known as an outstanding all around title for the 4th of July rodeo that he promoted in ranch cowboy - "broke horses and r[...]fington won the VALENTINE RODEO, AUGUST 2I,1927 team[...]riding, 92. each; It was on April 20th of that year that several community calf roping, $i5. and 5.; maverick race, one calf or g15.; 1/4[...]about as fast paced as the rodeo itself. During that time Baseball game following the rodeo; Flatwil[...]f the board, August 22, L927: Newspaper reports that Clyde Trepp wins bucking contest (well known mech[...]and to work out details on a dinner and a dance that manager; James Dundom, secretary and treas[...] |
| [...]-- :i :-i.!: Northern Montana Rodeo Assoc. champion[...]I g,--,.r;r-t!.ii times. "He had the ability to r[...]a tough '., i.[...].. ^ ,:;-::----!9 "* , ..-.:,-:i'.1 --y,ia;.;.[...]l were all excellent bareback riders. All Montana that euer rode "OId Blue". Old Blue was one of[...]pated in the first National a string of 63 horses that Joe Finley put together for[...]d a top rodeo pick-up man. Jackson Snyder recalls that Speed rode eleuen in an[...]There are several up and coming young cowboys that[...] |
| [...]and a smalj farmer-owned oil and gas cooperative. I have a fuel ticket from that gasoline cooperative dated Januaty 22, Ig45 with[...]a Gordon. The last Leacher was Margaret Cannan in i977-7E. The district was abandoned in lgSi[...] |
| [...]was built on one end that the family lived in. Jimmy[...]Ernest Harrell and sidewaiks and it's a sure bet that classes weren't dis- WiLliarn "Butch" Har[...]n 1941-42. The district ws reannexed to Fergus in i945. H |
| [...]that were matched and full of spirit.[...]My sister and I were riding in the back seat. I[...]was probably eight or nine years old and my[...]Ioaded, I couldn't wait to raise that umbrella. And I did! The horses went crazy and my dad couldn't do a[...]acher. eggs and cream everywhere. My dad jumped as lilyule ond Georgia Adoms; Ernest[...]es) and George Petraneh; Earl my sister in the stomach. My mom was at the Adams.[...]bottom of the coulee and couldn't walk. My dad[...]and lived there from 1937 to I was probably hurt the least. I landed on a sage 1942, when they moved to Lewist[...]brush with a skinned knee, bawling my head off. daughters: Doroihy, Heien, Shirley and Mary Joe. My folks sent me to one of our neighbors for Egge[...]help. They lived a couple miles from us and I married William Glenn Potterf in 1960. He passed[...]ay!" neighbors. My dad was a proud man and took a lot of pride in[...]t, and his mother and sisters at the community at that time, and was also an expert IJrban[...]infancy. Wight, remembers him saying that the ones bought John ma[...] |
| [...]tying baby ribbons on them. It didn't work for long as[...]battle with cancer. In the fall of that same year John John and Myrtie B[...]stown City Cemetery. Marshall rvas born on August i9, i911. Myrtie still m[...]eling to Great Falls to visit her son The house that is slill nrr tho.lo.o;c ih. ^.iginal one[...]on project. Blanche passed away in .FL^ D..*L-i-r..^.. L.-C I llE uul rf t l(liicn ll(t( sir chiidren: B[...] |
| [...]ulia was born at Ft. Maginnis, 5 April "I was born in my uncle Gabe Gardipee's log cabin on 1890; she died[...]en were: Joseph Walter, born 20 May My husband, Michael Morin and I lived in Roy when 1912, died in 1954 at Mesa, Ari[...]ey they were building the new highway - i91 and 19. We Morin, born 14 November 1914; Eugene[...]called "Landless Indi- Marie Doney Morin writes that her parents home- ans". They were lat[...]We traveled by team and wagon in the early years. My family left this area in 1933. My grandparents were John and Virginia Doney and Eli[...]ved. The big tree at the reservoir was pianted by my grandmother. My gnandad, John Doney, is the man who shot Rattle-[...]Joe H. Doney. Charlie LaRocque owned the place that later became Paul Bishoffs home ranch. J[...] |
| [...]dward had gone to work for a couple years. Marian that and the aunt was hard-pressed to eare for all of[...]n L927. We, Wyvle Adams and Ernest, were that time remembers the dirty 30's. After getting a lo[...]the railroad as a section hand, loan for feed that one winter, we had to have still but got laid off[...]we took our few 12 cows. So the banker said, "I'll send a truck out dollars and bought $20.00 wor[...]omorrow to get your cows." We had one 2 year old (that lasted all winter), two turkey hens and a gobbler, heifer that was ready to calve and the truckep wouldn't and moved down on my uncle's homestead, north of the take her,[...]We Horse Ranch, for two years. Then we moved onto my bought a black jersey milk cow at an au[...]il and feet had been frozen, her feet curled from my uncle's place, for a couple years. Ernie farmed up like horns, but she was a good milk cow. Both cows my Dad's place and raised a lot of corn and beans.[...]with the help of Ernie worked on W.P.A. and that $30.00 a month my folks we made it. They kept us in meat, gave us[...]ts and enough roosters to eat. with us. I often wonder what our poor neighbors What we ha[...]g of 1938 we moved to Roy and left there in 1942. My sister, Margaret Adams, lived with us in R[...] |
| [...]lol thought when they saw us moving in with that zoo. We came back to Montana in April of 1950. I went to |
| [...]re. Opal passed away ated from Roy High School in i939. Bud also attended in 19[...]There are five members in our family; my oldest brother, emigrated to America from Denmark[...]Dan, Lee and Jim (me). I am eieven years younger than[...]- They had one of the nicest homes in that area" Sections my brother Lee. The way I remember my Dad telling it, he traded the 20 and29,[...]perty at Roy for an apple orchard at Chelan. When I Their daughter, Lillian C. also took up a homes[...]y Hallock. family life. My parents were very devoted to one another. Lillian[...]esday at the Pine Nook I remember Pop telling about getting his hip injure[...]icksen, and Victor Abraham my Mom. He had digestive problems that he blamed on Hallock were united in marriage. The[...]said that he spent t$'o years on crutches, An inquiry was[...]My brothers were Veterans in WWII and I served in of Victor A. Hallock and he writes the following: Korea. My wife and I separated nine years ago. We raised "I can only relate to what my parents told me about three children; Lia, Jim and Joe. Lia is an air ttafEc Roy, as I was born at Lake Chelan, Washington where[...]the Navy; Jim is finishing his mechanical my parents made their home when they left the Roy ar[...]degree at Laramie, Wyoming and Joe is a My Dad was born in North Dakota near the Red River[...]Yours truly, family were railroad peopie. My Mother was born in Iowa[...] |
| [...]I'f,NUUJ[...]Elingson and others whose names I do not know. Many emigrated to the United States[...]s Louie in the neighborhood, hardware that was established at Fergus after the he liked peop[...]in 1936. that post office was closed in the 1970's. Before the[...]od water from wells and took claim on a homestead that was being vacited. It springs; timbe[...]About 1924, we got a 1919 Buick car. I remember helpful and sometimes much-needed neighb[...]ighbor, Pete Larson, told me this many years ago. I that car we got to see Valentine, Grass Range and a fe[...]rses to Roy eleven miles away r,o ger I, Norman, lived at the ranch until 19b6, except for a the doctor" My father told him, "Drive them hard but stint in the Army from 1942-1945. In 1956 I moved to don't kill them."[...]Shelly Grindheim. Front row: I. to r. Shari Grindheim,[...] |
| [...]steadily until in 1969 when he died Axel told us that *'hile he was pinned under the load of At that time he was living at the Leland Hotel. He is that fuel barrel, he began thinking that it was not good buried in the Lewistown City C[...]alone cowboys left. There was not much sleep that night. at night when a group of rowdy cowb[...] |
| [...]piasterer living in Lewistown, on November 11. i911 in Ella and Peter Nelson were chart[...]added five more children to their pretty good at that time. fami[...]August School was in Kendall at that time. There were about 22, lgLL and lived on a s[...]e worked it together. Most of the crops raised at that time Kendall hill, almost to home. was bro[...]Everyone was very family, a history that Euert himself had written (at the friendly[...] |
| [...]by Euert Hanell When I lived on the flat and farmed, Roy was my McFadden. I was close to the end of the bench, or flat, |
| [...]ro / o'clock. I was glad to see them. I met a man from out just a town of the past. The Bol' Scouts took it over" |
| [...]ew years in the early ranching business on my late Uncle Bob Irish's ranch. 1920's, and then they moved to Washington. I am married to Esther (Wright) and we had five My grandfather, P.J. Irish, moved back to Montana[...]l attended school in Roy and graduated and he and my Uncle Bob Irish bought the Kaaro[...]in June of 1956; Christine born in Dad married my mother, Lois Noonan in September November of 1959; Robert born in September of 1961 of i925. I was born in California in 1928; my sister, and Gary born in November of 1962. I also have two Frances, was born in 1930 and my brother, Jim, in older children, Ric[...]oved back to Montana in the middle My brother, Jim Irish, lives in Lewistown where he is 40's and settled at Fergus, Montana. My parents owned in the real estate busines[...]aths. Dad passed away in April of 1971 My sister, Frances Irish Conwell, and her husband at[...]Iive in California where they are retired. My family and I live at Fergus where we are in the[...] |
| [...]the kind of a girl ,"H".i1::);"" Who lo[...]And she wanted to marry a man from town I did chance to ride.[...]o couid dress in the latest style, And there I met a maiden,[...]And now if I had a million. I'd give it all today Tho many times I've been in love[...]For a smile from the lips of that little maid, I never was to stay[...]The queen of the old 4-J. 'Till I met that little maid, The Queen of the old 4J.[...]Dorman Jackson Sr. wrote that, "When this century When she was just[...]e there were just three marriagable girls That man has ever seen.[...]King was the daughter of Richard "Humpy" But I was only a cowboy,[...]Sadie as a special tribute. What show had I to win the heart Of the queen of the old[...]was a sister of Odin J. Romunstad. She was born that interesting locality.[...]g to grow alfalfa. The hay problem was partially that he did other things and eventually became an solved when it was discovered that the wild oats, employee of the General Electric[...]a pest at first, was the best polis and was with that corporation ten years, resigning[...] |
| [...]appear that you are really showing them a favor by your Joh[...]for you to say, "Well foiks, I'11 have to leave you today as I The foilowing story, written by him, appeared i[...]promised to visit Mr. and Mrs. Smith. I cannot disappoint March 1937 issue. them and my time is quite limited, as I have to be back in "Ridin[...]tand the above caption, but matters. I want to thank you for your hospitality and a[...]very pleasant visit." may not. So I'll endeavor to give you the formula.[...]Jit'ruy Kuno Jimmy Kaaro was born 21 June l9I7 at Great Falls, Belanger. |
| [...]by Alice Lane Kahler Henry Kahler and I, Alice Lane, were maried in John a[...]d a truck garden and sold pro- Henry and i had been transferred to Great Falls in Fletcher place. While at Fergus we lived on t[...]o Straw, |
| [...]I to[...]s" homesteaded at Fergus in 19i1. They went to Couer Pauline Elizabeth P[...]others, Rudolph and Theodore, 1899; Mike, born in i904; Rudolph and Theodore; two a[...]Katherine Hronek, who came I don't know too much about the Pelots. Aunt Mary f[...]at her home near Fergus, 5 was my mother's sister. January 1926,31 years old.[...]the for a big family reunion that rve had in 1988 and that Fergus community. John was working for the Wolfes[...]6. Bertie was in 1929. often teased that she married John to keep from paying him w[...] |
| [...]ere she boarded large garden of five or six dcres that they were able to with the Chris Christen[...]in Weinheimer in September of 1943 wagon, unaware that the person he purchased it from and moved to the Danvers area. Ervin and Stella have didn't have a clear titie. When he made a trip to Roy,[...]Charles bought the first new truck that was sold after The Petraneks started in the cat[...]by SteIIa Petranek Weinheimer One of my early' recollections of years on the farm pened that nighi, but the next morning she went to |
| [...]under them. About 10:00 m1' mother found that the colt back, but went in to talk to them about[...]d gotten under the manger anci could not get out. My him ieave our only 2 horses and only means of ma[...]k home the 20 could not stay there all that time. With a lot of effort she miles. In the spr[...]out of the manger and the our horses back but I can't remember who. What a colt '*'[...]day. When my father arrived home, with the mother, it I remember my mother telling about the time my jumped right out of the manger to[...]and Nellie, the work-horse, left her I can't remember too well but we would only get our colt behind as it was too small to travel that far. It was mail about every three weeks. When my grandparents locked in the barn. Our barn had ma[...]each died we always got telegrams (I believe) and someone side the length of the barn[...]glish on the Jim Patton place until December of that year. language from Helen Rindal. Kris an[...]king in the woods killed in a hailstorm. That was enough for them and until the Spring[...] |
| [...]heir only chiid, Alma Pauline, was born April 11, i923. get the snake to come out. She heard a r[...]ton she used to walk from and realized that the snake had come out the back door! her folks'h[...]with rattlesnakes over died on August 14,I974. Helen still resides in I-ewistown. the years, but they were lucky to escap[...]John and Ellen woman she said that it didn't worry her too much[...] |
| [...]Margrette the doorknob, and it would alert her to that fact. and Emmett. In 1914 Ellen marr[...]ldings. in the army for a short time in World War I, then Louie was on the school b[...]s. They lived next on the Wisokay that incapacitated him for some time before his death.[...]stories will be Melvin remembers an Auburn car that Louie bought listed separate[...] |
| [...]a; then they moved to Dallas, Texas. March 31, 196i and Ricky AIan born February 26, 1966. P[...]Mor,vrx Rwnal My first memories.go back to about 1932. We lived on[...]are war. Many of the eligible men started Fergus. My dad ran mostly sheep at that time with a enlisting and families move[...]number of students. In 1937 when I was ten years old, Dad bought some During my junior year in high school the school cows from E[...]es were then held in the Maginnis. Dad, Anton and I rode to the Phipp's place, present elemen[...]rom Murphy's off as we went by his place. Dad and I got home about Garage. The Women's Club Building also burned down. dark and I was glad to get there. We had two high schooi teachers at that time, Mr. and I went to elementary school at Fergus. My dad drove Mrs. Squire. Agnes Bauman was the janitor. My gradua- us to school except when the roads were b[...]y was held in the Presbyterian Church' snow. Then I rode a horse and dad pulled Donald on a I worked on my Dad's ranch after graduation- In small sled with a box on it with another horse, or we June of 1952 I married Ella Hitchcock and we moved walked. When[...]chool, we walked all the time. Milada earlier that year. It was called "The Jim Ranch" by the Walter was my teacher through the frrst six grades. o[...]any years. She married Milton Allyn while she was my teacher. We purchased the ranch from Dad in 1966' Wanda Gibson was my 7th grade teacher and Margaret We ha[...]School. was teaching at Kendall, died in April of that year. Linda Lucille was born March 29, 1953. She attended Donald and I were the only two students left at the[...]ena where Jerry is manager of the Helena Branch I started high school in Roy in 1941. There were fo[...]rn Engineering and Linda is a hostess students in my class when we started, but the rest at Frontier Pies. dropped out for various reasons and I was the lone David Melvin was born[...]78 with a degree in Ag Business. In December of my freshman year the Japanese[...] |
| [...]Doseln Anrsun RrNoer- I (Donald Rindal) was born on June I9,1929 in Lewis- daughters, Verna Dot, born in November of 1959 at town. I rvent fo school at Fergus (town of) for 7y'2 year[...]grade through high town. Marlene and I have a son, Chris Lee born Mav school in Roy, gr[...]31, 1971 in Lewistown. I worked on the famiiy ranch until January of 1953. In January of 1954 I opened the Phillips 66 Bulk plant in Lewistown as a commercial agent. In 1978 I pur-[...]2 yrs. 10 mo., and Rindal Oil Co. In 1954, when I started, I sold gas for 26Q Donald Arthur and diesei for 124 a gallonl I also have ranching inter-[...]Photo tahen On August 30, 1968 I was married to Vanda Marlene[...]Gi,nN Rrunar, I, Glen Rindai, was born in Lewistown. I lived and have two chiidren, Krist[...], Washington where Marty is in Fergus and at Roy. I graduated from Roy high school in th[...]strum and is working at Montana tunnel pro- moved I mile west of Roy to the Hickey place where we[...]ember 9, Chad was born April 24,I971and will graduate with 1978 to James Mar[...] |
| [...]she taught school in the Bad attended schools in that state, and his boyhood expe- Lands near Wi[...]haue been ommitted in this occount es site that was used by many neighbors for dinners and[...] |
| [...]r8i Both married and make their home in California;[...]1951, and three children, Bonnie, i\Iike and Pat. They have been |
| [...]27 years they town, Montana and built a Iog house that is now owned operated the store[...] |
| [...]I[...]T Machinery Co. of Billings where he resides. He i988.[...]upper end of our ranch. Some of the Larson fam- 19i2. We left Lewistown with my stepfather, George ily went there[...]the Van Cleave, driving a four-horse sled and I driving a church at Fergus. 2-horse s[...]blankets on hay in one end. They danced until My stepfather also bought the homestead next to us,[...]ce a year Hanson shipped dried ludefisk and and I first went to schoo] in a cabin on the upper end[...]rles and Bob. The last two were born after I left the under the school. Joe Stephens and I crawled under to ranch in 1918. chase[...]outside chased it Florence Van Cleave, my mother, died Christmas back in. When school took up, the teacher didn't seem to day, 1988. She was preceeded in d[...]nd like our presence and sent us home. Our mother didn't Lester Hall. either, and we got a bath[...]high school in Lewistown at the same time as I did. the Horse Ranch road: then in a homes[...] |
| [...]by Virgina Vestal Conrad My father, Finis Vestal was born November L7,1879. "Black Beauty", a spirited wild horse, presumably |
| [...]3 years when she passed away and never went back. I don't know what ever happened in 1[...]by Milada Walter Smart My parents, Joseph and Marie Walter, were early[...]ear Prague, In 1913 Marie and I started school at Feigus. Our Czechoslovakia. My father came in 1905 and Mother in school[...]hool. Our Nebraska and farmed near Pleasant Dale. My sister, frrst teacher was Mrs. Maude Misener. She was a very Marie, and I were born on this farm.[...]cause we had to learn to speak English. In 1913 my father decided the free land in Montana,[...]so the grant car, by railroad, as far as Hilger. That was as far coyotes wouldn't get them. The coy[...]living in started the sheep with bum lambs that Mr. Romunstad Montana on our prairie homestead.[...]t about pioneering. That was all we had to heat our house and fuel to cook[...]ark with wagon creaking and years we didn't. Dad rented some land from a fellow harness clank[...]and next to us, a Mr. Mclaughln, to raise singer. I guess he sang to himself all the long way grain and hay. In i919 there were no crops and no |
| [...]l liked. Jim Kaaro ran the store in the few bales that the train brought in. By that time the early 40's and then Glen Irish. Ta[...]hen the folks moved to Billings in the school. At that time there was no school in Roy. 1930's. They built a house and other buildings with the In my recoilections the Fergus store was buiit by Nels[...]a small truck farm there for a number of years. I name of Burdick had the post office. Then George[...]istensen place Hazel Kennedy was bom on May 17, i902 in Ashtobula, (formerly Jack Step[...] |
| [...]om March 16, 1875 to February 9, 1876. It appears that there was no post office for a couple of y[...] |
| [...]r-.j.,i_>*.[...]The Fort Maginnis School, i928.[...]25 head were bought at Shonkin and the detachment that was sent for them lost half of them due to poor h[...]snow storm. They were rescued by a trapper. After that incident beef for the post was bought from Stuart[...]s arose and Stuart finally informed the commander that if the soldiers persisted in disturbing his catti[...]thin the post, brief descriptions of events that affected the post or its personnel and oth[...] |
| [...]were born on this ranch: William and it was there that they became acquainted with the Ja[...]n the trip from Cali- tracks prove that the girls know how to handle a bunch of fornia. (There is a book on Indian Wars that mentions bovines about as well[...]purchased by Tom and Jen Link and is now In 186i he returned to Illinois but returned to the west[...]with her parents, sister and brothers. following that memorable massacre. At the end of his[...]ear the site of the Yellowstone River that fall and spent the winter at |
| [...]ease, near the true pioneer type and that friend and stranger alike present site of Custer. It was there that Tom first saw always found a warm wel[...]home." Kate and the minute he saw her he stated, "That's the Tom passed away August12,L9l2. His funeral service girl I'm gonna marry!"[...]ntry is still the same, only the people have said that she "possessed sterling qualities ofcharacter; changed. that her courage, self-reliance and cheerfulness were[...]ian women. One that i shall relate here: Reese's daughter, Sall[...]timber came to the Black Butte countrv in i880. She and her in the mountains[...] |
| [...]i91[...]him, "You have your orders now. I'll see to it that every about it. Of course, he was confronted by[...]der. Sallie told me that her father fought fires[...]so hard and so The commander stated he didn't have any orders to long that it impaired his health. causing his early death.[...]e physicians, it was found that the injury was not so[...]ng in the Fort Maginnis George's wife, Iva, didn't arrive in Gilt Edge until i900. Her father was a miner. Iva still remem[...]to extract gold from the ore had been built about i 887. It had the distinction of being the largest cyanide mill in the world, at that time. The cyanide method made it possible[...] |
| [...]miners worked seven days a week. Tha mi-i-6 h^^- rnganl growth for the little town. In fact[...]who rode into town on payday, residents of that section stayed to themselves and seldom went out[...]atter referring to a drinking establishment that operated without a license, with entry from a bac[...]lt Edge. "His horse went lame," says George, "and I was sent to fetch a bucket ofbeer for the outlaw." Alihough it wasn't known at that time, Kid Curry was fleeing from a bank robbery h[...]st over the mountain. Like most boys, at that time, George went to work early in iife. His firs[...]Ranch. He received 50 cents a day. "I've herded sheep, broke horses, punched cows and d[...]ld one as a sample," he says, "to make sure I got the right thing." The mills shut down[...]h of 9 children of Fred wild horses that once roamed the prairie lands of east- W.[...] |
| [...]There are some things that rile me[...]I mean those Casual Callers Their son, Jack Sherm[...]That giue o cooh a bad time. worked in the Roy area in[...]ke. The Beals had come from Iowa in 1910. decided that is where he would go. After his arrival he[...] |
| [...]lived for Harry admits to the fact that his dad, Nate (like several years and the[...] |
| [...]chool through his junior year in "One time, my Dad, Frank Gradle and Jess hig[...]Bilgrien were working in harvest with a header. I He passed his GED tests and received[...]illips went back and found the barn burning." That's and Don Imsande, he has been em[...]stown; Harry Lynn who happened to be going in 'that direction'." born February 27,195[...]o Los Angeles where she remained of course, we didn't have one, we weren't old for the[...]fession. enough. But it was of no importance at that time." Mae died in 1967 and her hom[...]s he was called was one of those things didn't go quite right he would issue forth with, wonderful characters I wish I could have known. The "Fighten By Jaysus". stories I've heard about Patty are delightful and those[...]- a happy smile. My husband, as a child, was awed by Patty's wonder-[...]t in his cabin, across the room, facing the stove that Maybe he did. had a hot roaring fire in it[...]r for himself, but he declared it "wasn't fit for that good bull to drink". He washed clothes,[...] |
| [...]as also put in canvas 1923-1982 and John William, i932-1960. bags to melt for[...]e more fortunate ones settled near ulcers; I'm sure the barrels were rinsed out before a strea[...]e water was only hauled when necessary; if people that tackled homestead life without a substan-[...]shed, there is still the back- many dead crickets that no one coulC bear the thought breaking ch[...]The ensuing years repeated the hardships that chal- approximately three feet in length and 12 i[...]body pitched in helping to make ice cream (that meant |
| [...]lard pail filled with ice and a small garden. As I remember, after those two chores were[...]water. The ice would melt and if we dropped done I rvas free to go swim with the rest of the kids or[...]would want a lunch, but that wasn't practical because The men took a walk t[...]e; on not the people shooting could con some kid (that was on the finding Pop home they woul[...]water. "I was here before you were born and you can't tell[...]iittle white to plow up something I might need for feed." I think horse during the 1930's, that my Dad bought from Jack they compromised that year. He could leave it if he Hemsing. By comfortable, I mean Stuby was fat enough promised[...]as an individuai who was definitely a compaiible, I mean Stuby wasn't exactly lazy but would[...]get your swimsuits on? We then had to run to the didn't realize the horse was learning bad habits, until[...]told to be sure and smell the fresh morn- one day my Dad said, "What have you kids been doing[...]er a bout with cold water and to Stuby?" It seems my Dad had gotten an unexpected fres[...]stunts was to have a kid, FARMING: A friend of my teenage grandson asked usually[...]horses. All this time you me one day, "Is it true that your dad made one trip an were suppo[...]hour around a field a mile long?" "Yes, it was," I re- Nature and wasn't it fun to get up early?! piied. I then explained that this was done with either a The onl[...]ned 4- or 6-horse team pulling the farm machinery that was when Pop couldn't work in the f[...]nd chirping. As the morning wore on, the highway that has now cut the field in half. This black'[...]irst cow? What brand did it have on? Were you I suppose it's not too surprising, the current gene[...]challenge. Later dur- of disbelief; while to us, my brother and I, it was a way ing the day the sun becam[...]as very humid. We were by see Pop once an hour. (My dad taught the family early[...] |
| [...]tasting clear alkali water sometimesl The fact that I was born in 1920, no doubt makes me a product of the late homestead era. My early childhood activities and experiences were v[...]r week was to take a r'-l ta waik with my mother and brother to Grandma Hems- ing's house. My Dad said "Its okay to call her Grandma, ,[...]dl t because you kids don't have a grandma." I still r remember the deiicious cookies, that so many Norwe- gian women were noted&r, that she would have ready. The nearest neighbors with children were eight miles away. By the timg I was school age I had practically no conception of how to play with other children. Needless to say, when my mother and brother moved to Roy so I could attend school, this all developed many pain[...]J- ", All of my twelve years of school followed the same pattern,[...]ad. Front row: Margaret's two years of the twelve I speak of, 1930-31, we moved to a[...]ry school some twenty miles in another direction. My mother batched in a small shack while the teacher[...]necessary for John to batch and among the people that stayed with him, Darrell White's name was most prevalent. His winters lapsed into summer, because he didn't leave. To winter with someone was a way of lif[...]e years went by and times were better by the time I graduated from high school. My dad could get a fair price for sweet clover seed[...]d get little jobs at school. Speaking of jobs, I remember one summer a neighbor who was going away to work asked, "Would I ride after his cattle?" That meant check on the reservoirs and coulees[...] |
| [...]nt and where. Those lars. Money had never entered my head, but with five were the days: before income taxes, before insurances dollars, at that time, I had the choice of a wrist watch, a o[...]ty numbers, driv- goes without saying, the reason I remember all this is er's licenses or overdraws. However, they no doubt had because I wore out a couple of catalogs trying to decid[...]age at some bank with one payment to be made what I really wanted. If I had my leather jacket today, I in the fall, which probably was a s[...]for a hard-working dry-land My mother, Roxy, died in 1951. Eight years later my farmer, was difficult. But there was compensation; that Dad, who had operated and farmed[...]As Bill grew up it became apparent that his main The family living in the living room-d[...]lucky to hear from the North American continent, that is from Fairbanks him. to a coa[...]briefly in Roy with a blue death, I was going to confirm a reservation already pick-u[...]would have brought it home. We also learned that in In Alaska, Charles was employed as an[...] |
| [...]homestead. When Warren It is thought that his Aunt Jane Thompson raised left he moved to th[...]arrell passed away December 23, 1986 in Lewis- I)arrell White r+'as born February 26, 1900 in Athe[...]Jane Thompson's homestead was in T 21N R 23E I)arrell spent his life working as a ranch hand. He[...]22 Jack was quiet and unassuming and all that he came ytars. His ranch was on the main road (Th[...]g place for all tribute to him, "It is seldom that one is intimately travelers on that road. acquai[...]s married to Miss Lillis Housel, of Jack was that way. This community was better and Maiden, only a[...]f brighter in every way with him in it." I9!)5, at age 44, of pneumonia. He was also survive[...]r or two after her son, homesteaded, and returned that time, Deaton was operating through Portland Loan[...]d twenty some miles from Another thing that baffled me was how a rider could get trrwn, your[...]d one on with the cinch noticably loose; but that is the way brother, were very numbered. As I try to recall those Jack rode. ycars, one personaiity looms in my memory very Jack worked constantly with leather strongly. I can safely call Jack Hemsing a personality,[...]use everybody in the neighborhood had iiccause as I remember, he was one of a kind either a bridle, martingale, hackamore or quirt that he - second only to my dad. To my childhood mind he was someone had made f[...]er who lived a quarter mile away and came to help my dad processing was quite a novelty. Just t[...]saddle horse would stand for smell. Once when my brother, Charles, and I were hours with the reins dropped on the ground, which indi- teasing my dad to make a little boat, he said, "I really caLcd some form of training. I found out later this was should get this plowing done. Why don't you g:o see callcd ground breaking. I remember in particular this Jack? He'll ma[...]elding, medium build, would Charles and I had the neatest, floatinest little wood stand in[...]ook of intelligence on his face trying to imply, "I'm boat, *'hy not willow whistles sm:rrt, I know how to act." Maybe this look, I'm trying to[...]As the years have gone, I gradually pieced together dr:scribe, was enhanced[...]rooming, such as events and realized how much I learned in the few short |
| [...]h a dorvn hill run for the old rvith no pretense. I doubt verl' much if he realized how[...]seems like simple philosophy, but there are him. I remember the patient advice about driving cattle[...]understand it. Jack was a person that we kids assumed horses it was just the opposite.[...]Bill Davis recalled an almost tragic incident that and spent some time in Canada before coming to Mo[...]he wore 7 pair of overalls at one time; at least that's[...] |
| [...]T 20 R :;i Sec. J7 Joslin School was built by comm[...]1916. It r,,'as in [)istrict =lis before 19I!l and ther.r became District Twenty[...]was the iargest enrollment and were the terms of I9l9 and 1922. School was continuous. with JosLin School 1919. Teacher: B.A. |
| [...]ry. late twenties, Mr. Jones sold Matt a Star car that he Tno Cess Fe[...]memory, along with a little set of blocks that my |
| [...]Hrsrony Op NonrneesrER^' FERGLIs Couxrr didn't have a music box, but a neighbor brought a por-[...], then turned it on. We boys make them last. I can remember wrapping a cloth |
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| [...]roRr- Or NontseesreRN Fencus CouNry or both of my brothers, and remember the field was as others in the area. I class my parents as some of the |
| [...]er there they moved to Grand- Later that year, on November 1th, the eighth child forks, B.[...]was born. In remembrance of Uncle Henry, he was that year William went to Wenatchee, Washington to named Henry. On that cold November day, there were search for work. An[...]chief attendant. Mother told me many years later that Washington in March of 1907 and from there went on it was cold in that room; she felt like sitting on the stove to Wenat[...]There was sagebrush to be cleared from born there i.n February of i910. some of the la[...]ar the Missouri River. hold of a beat-up baritone that had no mouth piece. New fence line[...]y of them were stuck together. With the i918) to the "dug-out", some of the boys slept in t[...]ilt a lovely, artistic was in this "dug-out" that Mildred rvas born 12 January fireplace with the o[...]n the ridge nearly every other day. I can still remember seeing was a l0 x 12 shack, 't[...]eef, pork and chicken meat, an addi- from England that their father, William Henry, had[...]by hunting sage passed away. The family requested that Uncle Henry hens, jack-rabbits,[...]o the activity of World ducks. War I, Dad tried to persuade Uncle Henry not to[...] |
| [...]nd for our iivestock. Addi- ing strap. When I started up, I suddenly had two teams, tional household water r[...]strict. A one-room Joslin school and threshing I had never heard or seen before. By was built in[...]ck or buckboard. harrowing before eating my lunch." Christmas was a very special affair at this school. Elsie and I remember this embarrassing incident. Tree decora[...]here was lots of excitement me on behind with my arms around her. Dad took off in when we heard t[...]of Santa. a hurry and we both slid off that wet horse right into After he entered with his l[...]sagebrush was a frighten- accomplished ail this, I'11 never know.) ing experience. George wrote in his diary that Herb and In the winter of 1919, George and Herb[...]n incident when he tied screamed. One of my earliest recollections of the home- Buster to a[...]d him...and stead was a fleeting moment when I was close to a when Buster took ofl the traiiing[...]r and carrying his lunch pail. David later wrote "I had been run over by a wagon. The boys giued it lost my lunch all over the place but stayed with the[...]ving a good sounding vio- related this one: "When I was only 9, I was finishing up lin out of a pine log. Ed o[...]and a tooth-harrowing job on Uncle Henry's place. I sat on sang for us. the harrow and ate my lunch while I rested the four In exchange f[...] |
| [...]ed the cream can, they found a small i.ng. The excitement of watching Mother and hole w[...]e along, singing sad cowboy songs as we David and I were finishing up the last wheat binding[...]ies which were was driwing the 4-horse team while I was the whipping shown in the Roy Hig[...]ry of Helen often piayed the player piano. that day. "I knew that there was something terrible There was one serious run-away episode here. Dad, coming in that approaching storm and Henry and I had Ed, David and I were harvesting wheat and plowing on to act in a[...]ould get through and we did. Back at our location I ing sides to ioad bundles in the hayrack, Dad threw the wrapped the lines as tight as I could around the binder reins across th[...]nry could only get one side of hit him i.n the chest and down he went under the horses the tongue strap loose so I ran around to get the other and wagon.[...]a wagon wheel one off. By the time we got inside that shock of wheat, severely broke his leg. David and I both responded to the hail hit. The lightning mus[...]made sure the us at least twice during the storm. I should have cut the team kept circling a safe distance from Dad. Ed went horses loose but I didn't. Once Henry tried to get away for the c[...]rom the large hail- Ed drove while I tried to hold the broken leg steady as stones and I had to pull him back. As we left the fieid,[...]e there was a terrible blizzard. I was concerned about Place with a wagon and fresh[...]the livestock. I bundled up, wearing two of everything |
| [...]NonrHne,srrnx Fencus CouNrv and a shau'l around my face, then walked the 4 miles in |
| [...]first crop for her. McCollum had a steam tractor that boarded with the Zahn family. When[...]nnie) Anderson, to Minnesota to visit her \Vhen that first crop of wheat was harvested, not father. That was the last time mother and daughter knowing wha[...]through own. It was not until 1958 that Lucille returned to the terrible flu epide[...] |
| [...]Curley Willmore and homesteaded in November of 19i5. Wit- nesses on his homestead entry filed on May[...]hip 20 N.; Range 23 East. Hart was one of those that had the distinction of arriving in this country v[...]by Dolores My grandparents, William and Nancy Henneman, |
| [...]arrier, self-employed, for the home- that a neighbor noticed Grandma walking behind the st[...]k for him. He played the repiied, "I know where in my duty lies". Later in life rve banjo and played f[...]of thinking! Ray was married later in life to my Aunt Lois; he Grandpa passed away[...]re run on the open range home ranch that produced a good amount of water, but area north[...]man Disbrow and McVey to ride herd on the cattle that they consumption and it had to be pumpe[...]rst in the state to breed One humorous incident that Helen related on the Paint runnin[...]ing ability. Larry was instrumental in the forma- that time all baking ingredients were kept in sealed[...]show in eastern Montana, and he got a big bite of that luscious looking pie that she realized loose. "We were showi[...] |
| [...]was the promoter of two very success- stay that way. No quiet retirement in the future for ful we[...]bruary 1887. November 1920 and I, Rose Wood Norlin and my three Two daughters were born to them while the[...]help in the war effort. Gladys, my mother, died 2 The Joslins started West,[...] |
| [...]During Some childhood memories of Emil. that time the eastern papers were carrying glowing acc[...]m separator. Turning the new homestead act stated that any adult could obtain handle and wat[...]s. Joslin district #52 was created February 25, 19i9. The first teachers were Ivy Davis and Fl[...] |
| [...]e, eerie feeling, for a homestead in October of 19i5. They came, not by little[...]why they could cellar to keep food in and stayed that first winter. He remain'*'hen so ma[...]breaks and so he hauled wood In i923 the crops were good, but part ofit was lost to[...]h water close hail, an occurrence that helped break the spirit of many by, but small gam[...]nd dances at one school or another, card parties, that the Corps was involved in. He received a medical[...]rley did not make miserable summer, that she gave birth to their second the move to Canada because he didn't want to live son, Robert Eric, in[...]and attended the Byford school. Other pupils that year[...] |
| [...]e Trout Creek property. The crops were good In i936 they shipped the frrst cattle, by truck, to th[...]wintered the cattle there. Warren married that fall and In 1939 the government, through the B[...]19?6 and Hailie Lynne born June 2I,1978. steaded. In October of 1952 he married Illa[...]a Dawn born Juiy 9, ber 5, 1957 and Ralph "Randy" I-.ewis on September 6, 1960' 1984 and Matthe[...]ntana State Highway Department born September 16, i973; Roxie May born August 9,[...] |
| [...]1952 - i988 by llla Willmore When I first came to the ranch in 1952 it was still[...]ad days. No modern with a lid on that was 'suppose' to allow no telltale |
| [...]ofl922Annawasstruckbylightning saying to Claude, "I'm going to shoot you." Clauds while hangi[...]pped her in the man, would you? Let me go and get my gun." The out- wet clothes, as she was bad[...]o the law let him go and, needless to say, Claude didn't go hospital in Lewistown, where she was unco[...]Claude in 1917, in Lewis- Claude died in i962 from heart and lung disease. lown.[...] |
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| [...]Ifaruest Moon I. Willmo Ereaks Coitntry[...] |
| [...]fith Summer Storm r-tii :i ;):;i:t ,a:t[...]Near the l{ead of Armells i I. lVillmore Gumbo Lily |
| [...]Dick Kaiina -_ I .'-. ,t&u ...[...] |
| [...]*-, .. i...i.l*-tr* Cone Flawers K.willmore[...] |
| [...]came to Mon- two and a half years that we \vere there he made 75q. tana in 1915. They bo[...]three children: Alice born 1908, My mother cried for the first nvo weeks that we were Catherine born 1911 and Wiiliam F. Jr. bo[...]CIara was born in July of 1916 while My folks never got tired of relling about the good t[...]tead and three others: Mary, times that we had there. They said that the best people Richard and Colleen were born aft[...]1962 at age 89, Catherine Sr. Wm. Jr. writes, "My father was a grocer in Des passe[...]April 1904. They lived in Michigan that Joslin School s'as built in 1916 with 26 children[...]d bought a fiddle for Wilbert at an born 20 May 19i4. Mr. Zahn had decided to go to Mon-[...]k and began constructing their first home of logs that he work. The winter supply o[...] |
| [...]old and Ernest took cow- and granddaughters today that tell how their mothers boy jobs and Herb,[...]nest bought Matt Arduser's homestead World War I took many of the young single men who and[...]ter they moved near Kachia and -i=- graduated from the eighth grade with Mrs. Rossi[...]i:l-:--, Anna Zahn about 1930 she[...]:.:'(i,i+: on the homestead. Da[...]E-;\i LT |
| [...]by Marie Zahn My mother, Elma Webb, and I came back to Montana stayed at the ranc[...]and joy and they have always been grateful 1935. I had completed my sophomore year of high for her lovin[...]She was profession. We decided to stay at Roy and I completed buried at Sunset Memorial Garden[...]Ernest and I spent 46 years on the ranch and raised Ernest Zahn and I had become friends duing the two horses and cattie. We saw many changes in the coun' years at Roy and I spent some of my vacation atZahn's try, from the open range we loved to ride, to grazing ranch. We were married after I graduated in 1940. districts and fence[...]he BLM in Lewistown. and Betty, born 15 November i957. Both were born at Ernest's failin[...]of 198?. Cancer claimed his life, 10 February My mother spent the summers with us and[...]rived, she gave up her profession and I have been heiping to make "Homestead Shacks[...]by Margie (Zahn) Campbell About 1945 or 1946, I remember W.E. Jones, our I recall that they always ran errands and brought mailman carri[...]Then Bill Marsh had the route for a number of that lived below my grandmother's (Anna Zahn) home- years.[...]. ir' I recall about 1950 that ofrattlesnakes was[...]and between my folks; Wilbert and Ava Zahn, along[...]Ray McNuLty in 1927. rattlers that were killed when a den was 'cLeaned'out Th[...] |
| [...]was livestock feed for winters in Montana. I started another and never get bittenll Sure helpe[...]h Frances and Wesley Bru, at the on the snakes in that area. Cimrhakl school. The Bru's had a daughter my age. During haying season in the summer I remember my Her name was Josie (Josephine). My first grade teacher job was to drive "Pat and Toots"; (Arnold's team of was Margaret Stephens and my second grade teachers horses) back and forth putt[...]the frfth grade, we took stacker by the buckrake. I raised it up to ihe top of the correspondence courses at home. From grade six on I hay stack so it could be layed out and topped, th[...]ented banjo piayer and a member of the dance band that he and his brothers organized. Dances were[...] |
| [...]g tc.r a farm near Belgrade. His homestead joined that of his brother, Frank's. He Their[...]Roy) which was moved in in is one that she wrote about Dad. 1942. Joe Medek's house was[...]eces of it were never found. Outside of the house that Oquist helped move in and the garage, Warren Will[...]overed the error. Frank thoroughly convinced her that he had eaten the pie and he never noticed any pi[...]Hts t,ld Altit' , r,'s l{ ('rt' scal hut I(ar), |
| [...]HrsTr,Hr Or N,.rnrHeesTERN FEHGtrs Couxt'i .4.s/ lir rrrrl liint .rjl,'.r sa1, I ant ktnell tortight I |
| [...]il lJ't.--^J ;r- il- *fr-:.. A. .I *-" {t:t'"'' T ':.d; #'[...]ne Richel', Lois Riche3,, Lois Martin, Eua I Lot itt. ? Chanrbers. CLarence Miller, Har[...] |
| [...]e of 82. He was born in Pardany, It was to Roy that they had to go for supplies of every Austri[...]get vaccinated, when word came Dakota. that vaccinations were required for everyone in school[...]Cemetery' John LeRoy and Barron are i.n western Montana, and Marl' was a grad[...] |
| [...]orraine and Lenore and his step- It is believed that Clarence Brownlee died in Califor- father[...]ail-route in 1913. They ranched beside the buttes that ranch and took back her maiden name. She[...]by Don Hardy My first contact with the Blood Creek area was in th[...]er. There were only two other spring of 1936 when my mother, Carrie Hardy, was student[...]ired by Joe Peoples to cook for his lambing crew. I was My new life was an exciting and adventurous time. 9[...]yscallon, Ireland and Lewistown area since before I started school. The coun- had emigrated[...]Hudson try was so big and the people were so few that it was Bay extension of the Canadian N[...]sburg, Saskatchewan. At the time of the Titanic I well remember the vacant homesteader shacks that disaster he had saved enough money to[...]to her homestead on Blood Creek, where I first got to southwest. It was lonely but the[...]Dakota but as far as I knorv there s'as never anv con- There was still one month of school to complete so I tact between them. walked the thr[...] |
| [...]38, Mom and Joe were The summer before I started my freshman year (1941) married. I remember they went up to St. Joseph's Hos-[...]the ranch to try to pital to see Snorvball Hughes that day. This was the recruit me for the Roy[...]f its real pioneers. After was unsuccessful. I wanted to go to Lewistown with the his death, his wife, Mary, and her sister continued to kids that I had been with the previous year. run the ranch for many Years. During my high school days I worked part time as a My grandparents wanted Mom and Joe to get a farm janitor at the school and used part of my earnings to in lllinois. Thel' did look at some[...]some of the, then, very abundant tax title land. I enthusiastic about the idea. Neither was I and was glad purchased the Charles Little, John Anderson and Tim that when spring arrived he returned to Montana and[...]ed the put in a crop on Mabelle's place. Mom and I foilowed Mabelle Galloway homestead from t[...]Life Insurance Co. I was looking forward to graduation In September I pnrolled in the ?th grade at Kachia' and b[...]Uncle Sam had other ideas' After high school I found Spiroff. I only lasted two days at school, then spent the myself in the army. Upon returning after my discharge next year in bed. That was a bad year for me' but I was I immediately resumed my plans. With the land I had helped by Bill Galloway' He brought me some o[...]s in addition of the Mary Stevens homestead I had 6 home- these that I first discovered the railroad advertisements steads. I was sure that I would succeed where so many which lead to my love of maps and map making' I others had failed. Mom and Joe had separated before I started writing for railroad timetables. Bill Gal[...]ly rode his horse the 3 miles to get our mail and I Even in the late 1940's we still had our[...]s. dances at the Valentine hall. I remember that one time In 1939 Joe bought the Andrew Murphy[...]"temporar' comedy. One Sunday morning I returned home from ily" moved into the one-room l[...]the dance just as the sun was coming up. Since I had season. There was one big advantage; Andy had a good plowing to do I started up the tractor and' went to the well of d[...]scarce in the field. All went well until i fell asleep and ran through a area. That temporary move became permanent' We[...]e. Little damage was done but it con' remained in that cabin until 1943 when Joe purchased r.inced me I needed some sleeP. the house Rollie Rossiter had[...]e Murphy place- It was a big improve- turned my dream into a nightmare. I was spending ment having three rooms. Joe had Fre[...]on the back" 1951 I gave up, made a deai with Ed and Mildred Styer[...]es of lambs and wool were very to run my cattle and went to work for Greyhound' I good. Joe prospered and added the Robert Covert, hoped to return to the ranch, even maintained my James Weir and 160 acres of Fergus Sheep Company[...]ng residence at Kachia, but as the years piled up I land to his holdings. realized that even though I had a special spot in my I attended 7th grade in Lewistown. The next year I heart for the area I would never return. It was in talk' started 8th[...]other kids were Aiice and Ida Potter bration that I realized I had left my mark on the com- and Joe, Earl and Harry Bevis' I rode the ? miles to munity when they sai[...]ack on a bicycle until the weather got too didn't know the former owner. bad then I transferred back to Lewistown.[...]T i8N R 258 Sec' 25 Enoch Houtes and his f[...] |
| [...]and were married in and enough to eat, that was what was important. York, Nebraska on December 27,lglL. I started school at age six and attended Valley View I, Ava Mae, was born in 19i6 in Roy, Montana. There school way out in the country. My first year of school, was a midwife in Roy who ha[...]Momma or Daddy would take me to school or my older behind her home where she would deliver babies and sister, Ruth and I would ride horseback to school and this is where I was born on a fall day in October. Her when it started to get cold my folks would take us on name was Mrs. Andrew Norby[...]and leave us there all week till Friday night' I weighed 4 pounds and was the smallest one at birth We would board right in the school house. All the of my brother and sisters. I have three sisters and one parents of the children that boarded at school would brother, but my brother died when he was a baby. furnish food and everything that was needed while we Homer Lawrence was the oldest[...]was a basement big enough where we had a table My folks moved from Geneva, Nebraska about 1914[...]Daddy took up a homestead would live like that from Monday until Friday, then our about 30 miles southeast of Roy, then my Grandpa parents would come and pick us[...]ok up a home for the weekend. homestead. My grandmother had died so he left My teachers name was Mrs. Rossiter. She was my Nebraska and brought with him two of his youngest teacher all the way through my grade school years children, my uncle, Cecil Oren, who was about 12 and except for about the last three months of my eighth my aunt, May Aita Kauth (Walker), who was about 10[...]o the Kachia school and when we moved it was in My mom and dad had my oldest sister, Ruth, and February. I stayed in a private home and then my they took up homesteads side by side. They lived[...]me for Grampa's house after they had proved up on my dad's three months. Then the next fal[...]students in this area that they moved the school house- While they were im[...]teaching. She rode horseback about three miles. I don't They would cut special sized sod blocks[...]with grass mixed in it and build them My best friend through all the glade school years wa[...]tone only they were sod pieces. There I recall a trip we took as a family in the fall of[...]out further west to Washington. pieces of lumber that were found were put on across the Daddy h[...]op ofthat to had a brother and two sisters that lived there. We make a roof. Then lumber was haul[...]others and it went through the whole country. I recall my mother being unhappy about the new[...]as time, we went to all the house as she said she didn't sleep well at night because Christmas prog[...]de, it always stayed an even tempera- I can remember always having Christmas in our ture[...]home and all the fun and excitement that went with it. This is where they were living w[...]Christmas morning. We Daddy brought me home afier I was born. would get up ea[...]and visit or dance. My dad and grandfather farmed and raised cattle[...]The spring of 1930 we moved to a different farm, my together for a living. My mother helped to raise Aunt parents wer[...]the move I changed schools. |
| [...]Htstonv Op NoRrueesrr:ns Fr:rr,rt's (.'r'\'r'\ I recall that Hallorveen while we were growing up. I\{-r'parents tor-rk me to Lewistown to be operated on. It |
| [...]in 19f6. It was located, In the meantime my father had written my mother which would be as of now, twelve miles eas[...]f Bohemian Hall. Reluctantly my mother did. She cried the day her piano We lived in York, Nebraska. By profession my father w;,ESold. The proceeds of this s[...]ain at Moccasin, Montana. The train for Lewis- I'll never forget the evening at the supper table when town didn't come until evening. papa announced that he had quit his job that day. I My mother took us up the street a block or two to a was old enough to realize that meant no income. In a hotel. The proprietor, a cheerfui lady, asked my mother day or two it came out - he was going to Montana and where she was going and my mother told her we were file on a homestead; he w[...]he and others had each spotted a years, I heard my mother say that she had enough place, but this particular area ha[...]en back to Nebraska by the government for filing. My father was asked to and maybe she should have returned. spend the winter here and watch that no one came in There was a restaurant across the street and my and jumped the claims. People living on unfiled claims brother, Delette and I were allowed to go over there for were called squ[...]sandwiches. I suppose we stayed with the younger |
| [...]- On Nonrnne.srtnN Fencus CouNTy children while my mother went to the restaurant. During the winter my father would borrow a team of |
| [...]timber breaks for fire Early in the winter of i914 grandpa came down with wood. The head of the family usually had to go down to pneumonia. My mother and grandma did what they[...]the harvest could for him but he stilj worsened. My father drove to fields to make a grub s[...]em for anything, doctor said they were doing all that could be done for in fact, it develope[...]st 1 mile east of which they thought reasonable. My grandparents re- Lewistown in 1918[...]years. He Being a Civil War Veteran he could do that in twenty- passed away in 1939. Cora[...]ck to Arizona. He lives in Lewistown. in running. I was in memorized speech but there was no[...]barber like his father. In 1941 he competition in that area. However, I did present my moved to Portland, Oregon where he[...]assed away in 1980. the high school dormitory and that was the ultimate. What a comedown to have to go back to our homestead school. By the next year i had finished the eighth g.rade and my mother was determined I should attend high school. t At that time girls could work for their room and board, but my mother knew I wasn't smart enough to do that In and go to school, so that meant moving to Lewistown. My sister, Virginia Grace, was born when we moved to L,ewistown. We had many frustrations. One in particular I remem- ber well. In the fall mama sent an order t[...]mpany for shoes, galoshes, caps, mittens, etc. At that time our post office was Lindstrom and the mail was brought our from Roy in a sack or two by anyone that happened to be in Roy. Then the mail was spread o[...]ard ond DeLette. 1920. By the end of four years I think we all had our fill of |
| [...]Lott Martin came to Montana to homestead in 19i6 heard as a child, once again shock and[...]town to get ii. Uncle Harry had moved to town by that interview with Leta McCIure, "the only one ief[...]ors to the north Nebraska to North Dakota. But that didn't work out. relation[...]he carne and preached. the service. (I don't They were in Dakota only one year, just[...]e Montana. "The folks were in a moving mood so that's couid read from the Bible. The servic[...]birihday, in April of 1916, he came to .,I can still see my dad, he had squatted down by the Montana to fi[...]car and returned to Mon- And of course that hit me _ I,d never seen my dad cry. tana. He came with the emigrant car,[...]with Ford cars. We went to Roy. The coffin "I can just remember so well, out there on the home-[...]"Dad had gone to Jones, he handled things like that north of Roy, 7 miles west of Valentine, by that range of (at the time Lott had gone in after the coffin) and had hills with the pine trees on it. I can't remember how we picked out a grave. Wh[...]Roy the grave got from Roy to Uncle Harrys but I do remember when hadn't been dug. Natur[...]Lester's death the folks couldn't leave the and I thought, 'How's she gonna feed us'.[...]log school house there was a bache- 1gLg, we left that spring." lor. Ed Foresman, who had a cabin, one[...]ved was gone for the winter, so we stayed there that winter, into Lewistown, but somehow it's nev[...]one seven of us, and we kids went to school and my Dad and he is still at Roy." spent the winter building the homestead house. That After the family moved to Lewistow[...]l he "The homestead was near Gene Galloways. I remem- had proved up on it. Leta and a cousin wou[...]est of us. Another incident, a happy one, that Leta remembered "I can see Gene yet. I was probably about 8 years old. about her chi[...]utiful saddle horse, a bay, and she proves that kids then, were no different than they are would[...]ther was entertaning on this particular day "My folks were on the homestead three years, until[...]d Les and Leta to 'be good'. They were in i919. It was during the flu epidemic that my Dad's their own way. They decided to[...]lle actors did in those days, and they used axel my Mother and Dad to come because they were all[...]ife, Isabelle, passed away in March of 1945. "I remember it was just beautiful weather. Les was s[...]McClure and lives doctor left and myd ad came in. I can hear him say yet, in Lewistown. She wo[...]l years "The doctor said it was fatal." And there I was that age (about i0), just couldn't accept"- - at[...] |
| [...]s, of pleasant early homestead days in Mon- tana, I wiil never forget. My father and mother, Orin and Cora McNeil, had read advertisements of beautiful grain land that could be homesteaded in Montana. In September or October, 1916, my father left our home in Everett, Washington and c[...]Winnie McNeil (Rife) My father soon got lumber hauled out to build the[...]for the winter. Papa worked for the railroad, I worked was to come. Mother, I and the four younger children in a real[...]ge garden. The summer was nice stead. Both my brother, Maurice, and my sister, Ruth, with quite a little rainfa[...]oved just a bit too close, Papa went off My father then went to Lehigh, Montana to work at on his head. Mama and I screamed, but luckily he the coal mine there. He ran the pumps that kept the wasn't hurt too badly and climbed back o[...]rking there he one child could sit with him after that. took the "1918" flu and wa[...]ometimes were told the Antelope Creek was so high that we would programs or pie suppers, etc. At[...]loor. that were people doing their chores and some from Mr[...]7 (APRIL but the summer was so dry that the grain was very FOOL'DAY)![...]Many neighbors said, "No, stay and get cattle." My flooring up over the rafters so with a bed spring[...]Barbara. Just east of to SAGE TICKS and we surely didn't like them. them were Mr. and Mrs[...]a cistern with a Guernsey cow for sale so he and I waiked over there gravel filter. Then[...]the flu. His helpful neighbor was Frank In June my father went back to Everett for my older Manseka. sister, Clara, who[...] |
| [...]a family reunion at the Rife Ranch, south of Roy, my nephew, John Rife, guided three of the six chiidr[...]r old homestead" northeast of Roy, the frrst home that I really remember. The cracked soil yielding sage-[...]ust as we left it 65 years before, and the cactus that I walked into pierced as painfully. We had some tr[...]ad not changed position. On the southern horizon I recognized Sandy Butte, and more westerly, Biack[...]th Johnson, Grace Biggs and Florence of World War I, my folks, at age 44,took up a homestead[...]ealthy in graphophone with cyclinder records, and I seemed to be spite of little food. After a[...]uld morning as she was washing dishes I licked my plate so play whiie the girls and Maury sang war tunes, "Good- clean that I told Mama she wouldn't have to wash that bye My Bluebell," and "Sweet Little Buttercup," and I dish. She said, "Um-hum," as she put it in[...]ords. Happier themes were, dishwater. I could not undertand that, water being so K-K-K-Katie," and "How Ya Gonna K[...]s encouraged us to use the best language we knew. I from the alkali water. never iearned c[...]d to the May apples grow," she mused. I then went out into "prove up" on the place. It wa[...]the hot sun searching through the sun flowers for that came home. When he needed something in the attic, he fruit, then that's the last I recall of the incident. But the would grasp my ankles and lift me up to the hole in the family said later that I "ran away" and they had some ceiling.[...]cream or trill, and no one At one time I took my naps on a piliow laid on two heard us.[...]facing chairs. Once I woke to a popping sound and an Mama was so in h[...]a little deeper in her morsels and gave me my first taste of popcorn. well. At last she came ba[...]s vial in her hand lunch to a cottonwood iree that they knew about some- she returned to her[...] |
| [...]K,qcure branches. i think that was the day I learned to slide off good farm here or back in Washington?" I had no |
| [...]tins and the South- into the Army. I can remember my father going back worths. There was a family name[...]ding horses, on a box car and shipping it back to My brother Clarence talked of him often' He is now where we had moved in Nebraska' I can very well retired from practice.[...]member unloading the car and have a very vivid I do want to mention a little bit about when, and memory of the horses that were shipped back' I do under what circumstances, we left the homestea[...]er now, how Wilbur, an unmarried man, living best that I can calculate we went out there in 1914, as I alone on what was supposed to be a farm, was[...]into the Army. No one ever adequately explained that but it doesn't seem very long before Wilbur was d[...]Ritchey, his wife Diva, and their three My father continued as a pastor-minister in Lincoln,[...]hat which was a tam-o-shanter which she wore to My earliest memories are from age 21/z to 5Vz years protect her eyes! My mother walked us all to the school and from 1915 to 1919. in 1915 I remember we raised house the next day and asked (told) him not to hit her wheat for what I thought of as the "Big Boys" who ch[...]ing. went to help in Europe. Later, in 1949, when my My parents left there after our house blew down in a husband and I were there he took a picture of me lightning storm. standing with the cows and I thought of it as producing My father died in 1951 in Ontario, California. Mv mi[...]The air was wonderful, the open space deiightful. My Loreen, who taught school part time, as[...]were not allowed full time work in California at, that best we could, during World War I and after' When my time! Lois and tr helped take care of[...]iife alone up mile to the school house, she and I went to our vegetable there without our father. She had three brothers who garden and chicken coup. I learned how to pick chicken visite[...] |
| [...]and moving into Miles Satterfield and John Beck, that hauled into Roy. Their City in 1970. hor[...]John (Marilyn) dances. Ivar Mathison recalled in i988, "I can hear Simmons and Mrs. Dennis (Lois[...]Harold "Flunky" died on February 2I,L978. I Fnsonr[...]ood River came with him. On their wav that had homesteaded there two or three years before, |
| [...]Fencus Couury from our town in Nebraska; peopie that Dad and his out to the homestead. We st[...]ch a neighbor had |
| [...]the community. Living was easier in that the R.E.A. came Judith Theater. Three shows in on[...]After much thought, Frank decid'ed that after frfty school was dismissed. Murna had a par[...]ranch in 1964 to Bob Murna graduated in 1922 and that fall she enrolled in Harvey who fit i[...]plant on the range, passed awa!'on February i6, 1988. Frank Southworth. She couidn't tarry long[...]y had to get married during Christmas vacation so that Murna's mother couid look after the childr[...] |
| [...]from the pen of Mildred (Mickey) Ellis Styer, as I know it. My father, Pearl Lee Ellis, and my mother, Jennie My parents moved back to Missouri in the summer of H[...]in Missouri: LeRoy 1914 with Hyman Cunningham and my uncle, Leonard and George W. They r[...]back to Roy and operated imately 18 or 20 miles. I was born in Roy, May 19, 1917. Nick Nickolson Cafe. There is where I met my husband- My brother. Ray T.Ellis was born in Roy, March 22,192I. to-be, Ed Styer.[...] |
| [...]. Children of Mark and June (Phillips) Haney when I met him. We were married June 29, 1935[...]rom Nicole, born December 3, i985. Child of Chip Styer and where my folks had homesteaded.[...]) Styer: Jason Wade, born December 3, Ed and I had two children. Alta Mae born August 3, 198i. Child of Jackie and Kyle Grimsrud: Kaylee 1936 a[...]If I could put everything down that has happened Children of Jack Styer and Sandy (Pollard): Mark since Ed and I have been married, it would be a book all[...] |
| [...]by Lewis W. Paulsen I, Lewis W. Paulsen, was born in Lewistown on May[...]wn at office work. She graduated from a 20, 1917. My Dad was George Paulsen. My mother was business college[...]paid $7.50 for her Edna Lindstrom Paulsen Jordan. My folks starved out final homes[...]. Land and gave up farming, east of Roy, in 1918. My mother Offrce in Lewistown on[...]4. went to her folks at Ortonville, Minnesota and my dad George Paulsen homsteade[...]arrived set in. Lennart also left. My Mother and Dad stayed at Green Bay. A few years later my mother married until the fall of 1918. I have a letter my Da{ wrote Rev. L.M.F. Jordan, the Presbyterian mi[...]Lennart, Edna and Agnes. was when my Dad went to his parents home and my Lennert came to Montana about 1907, when he was 21, Mother and I went to her folks. and took up land in the H[...]l snow on the ground, folks place saying that my Dad had died. That was in so his dad told him to get out and[...]sale to dispose of my Father and Mother's properties. that could be homesteaded. He contacted his two sister[...]Agnes and Edna. My mother traded some property dark and they found a[...]she married i,lr1924. who gave them a warm welcome and remained[...]the homestead, but it didn't "work out". When times got homestead.[...]rs of age. Agnes spent most of her life in land. I am not sure how much land my dad, George California, bu[...]the post office and store. Times I am now the owner of the Lindstrom homestea[...] |
| [...]ted as being a postmaster. Some of the families that were in that area and probably received their mail there were:[...]o St. Paul. sioners this week, on the grounds that said road will be The pre[...] |
| [...]T 18N R 238 Sec. i4 by Gloria,[...]William and his parents stayed on. In July of 19i8, and Fredrika, and four brothers, left Park Fall[...]William entered the army and served in World War I. son by train, bringing their tractors and thresh[...]ttended the East Box Elder machine in the area at that time. August Schulze did School (a ru[...]of her children; adjoining his father's. He sold that homestead, moved Mildred (Woodruff), F[...]were living in Washington at that time; and several He married Eva Mae Su[...] |
| [...]rn. Her husband had gone to the mountains who saw that they got on the right trains to reach their[...]p to this time, so she Sramek lost a pig that he had bought from the had to learn. Her big task[...]back on the table in The white mare that he bought from the John preparation for the next[...]s hauling grain from Winnett, camped It was there that she met Joseph Sramek, and on[...] |
| [...]that Comstock hadn't taken, and there was enough of it[...]replaced the four horse team that had done the field[...]the car staried to slide, her, they told him she didn't belong to him, and he left Sramek slammed on t[...]ramek and a friend were on but the car didn't respond like the horses. He never their way to Ro[...]quite a cared too much about driving after that and Mrs. little city in those days), they very ne[...]ed on the ranch, and is still there. Sramek about that time the motorcycle rider saw what was didn't get to enjoy his retirement. He died suddenly of a happening a[...], picks apples from her two trees and even prunes that they had been living in and they still had[...] |
| [...]by Marcella Swoboda Horyna My father, Joe Swoboda, was born in Veseli, Minne-[...]Siroky's piace and Joe Kalina's place My mother told me, many times, about a time when I was. Mail and groceries were gotren at Lindstrom.[...]crubbed the floors and as she moved a iors, which my father was at that time. The bachelors pile of sage brush (u[...]ith his team of horses and wagon, drove to I'm still leary of lizards! And there are still ple[...]e built A big treat for me, was when my parents went several homestead shacks in the area[...]olache now. It is the little house of Alois Docal that Perry Ed and she cooked coffee in an enamele[...]years old, that was indeed a big treat. In January of 1914, Dad[...]Dad had a chance to sell the homestead and he and my mother, Julia Kuchera, were married on the move. I was four, Charlie only a few months old. Dad 21st of that month in Glenn Lake. They came back to[...]stead until 1918. Mom, Charlie and I were taken to the train depot by Joe Three chil[...]Creamery in Roy. Mom would hitch up I married James Horyna on November 2, 1938, four a[...]ad up the cans full of years to the day that I first met him. Although my folks cream and the eggs from the poultry she raised and off knew the Horyna's, I did not meet any of the family to Roy we went.[...]every morning and again every Kalina. My Dad and Emma were cousins. evening to the barn to milk the cows, there was a I met Annie there at their house. Jim was there, bu[...]out working in the fields, suweying. One day, as I was walking behind my parents, Dad Later that fall I came to visit the Kalina's and went surprised a r[...]en on. My brother, Charlie, was kiiled during WWII in We[...]by Marcella Horyna My uncle, Jerry P. Swoboda, came to homestead in stead after the war, but he didn't stay long and moved |
| [...]g house at Lindstrom for a short time. ours. When I was a little girl he brought a tin cup for me to[...]in Roy. Sons Edgar and Roy both from. Up to then I had only a tin can." Marcy does not know[...]' LrrrLE Cnooxnn i916-1930 The Little Crooked post office was name[...]Rasmussen's; in the Bushman and the Fryman houses that were near the Jakes family who had nine ch[...] |
| [...]ived at this location and colt for $12.00 as he didn't want to take it on this long Crooked Creek in the[...]ho advertised at the post office. These com- I don't know that he reached Canada. but he was in panies quoted pr[...]lens were their close neighbors at the Butte. War I. In 1921 Milo married Mildred Effie Martin[...] |
| [...]owns. Daddy was We lived at the Horse Ranch and I remember Mother working in the gold mines and all the men were sent out saying that when Mrs. John Kaaro came to help her to frght the fire. that Jimmy would pull us around in our little red I married Ernest Westburg and six children were wag[...]1950 and Patricia Jane, 5 April 1957. My mother passed We were out on the homestead off[...]August 1968. Milo Buck died 25 October 1976, and my Daddy worked for the PN Ranch, haying and gath[...]ed in the ence was one of the cowboys that worked for Jack Maiden Valley where we lived and[...]miiy lived in Roy and he was toward Forest Grove. My sister and I used to go in the janitor ofthe Roy schoo[...]ings from our home at Burke, which came later. I Idaho by train to Roy, Montana. Grandpa Carter me[...]om Al Jolson's "Sonny Boy". Mom also told that she had a the Palouse country in Washington and homesteaded smali hoard of gold coins that she had saved from just across Crooked Creek, nor[...]and the usual root cellar for keeping supplies at my In order to keep us kids in sch[...] |
| [...]only frightened. The school going through. I got $20 a month and my board which was held in another deserted homestead house which was good wages for a kid and I was happy to earn it. I had two rooms, one used by the teacher to live in[...]Joslin two rooms had been built in such a manner that the two neighbor. Here, I learned to use a pitchfork and watch Bushman brothers could live together, each on his where I put my feet as rattlesnakes were common in the individua[...]frelds. There were some close calls, but I learned to rec' tice. Lola was just starting school. It was about a mile, ognize that distinct buzz. but often in the bitter cold winte[...]rter was running the Joslin store and and cry and I would practically have to drag her all the pos[...]l and where Little Crooked, about 4 miles. That summer Dad and I we lived, the rattlesnakes would den in the burro[...]nced, planted some fruit trees and built a little That spring, I was running home from school and res[...], skits and poems to wedding celebration. I went to school at Byford again, present at the b[...]Dad traded our Victorola for two cows that winter. with decorations made by the children fr[...]r only son, Homer was born there. They At home that year, we didn't have a tree, but hung up were going to move to Black Butte and Dad got their log our stockings. I got a whistle that you put in water and buildings and one became[...]We put in a blew to make it warble. Another time, I received a knife garden and watered it from holes in Carter Coulee, by with a chain to attach to my pants so as not to lose it. carrying water in buckets and watering each plant set One Christmas, I was given a dollar watch. These were in can[...]d food. The fruit came in dried varieties. and that fall. big game was scarce. A sage hen or jack rab[...]of the first green Crooked in 1921 and I remember ta.king part in games, things to appear[...]ed. He rode until the horse quit Arnold was about my age and Ernest, a little younger. bucking o[...]ath of Ai Green. dizzy heights. Years later, when I returned, I was We were living on our homestead in[...]had shrunk! We dry summer, our garden didn't turn out. When Dad made a few discoveries of ancient things buried in came home from harvest that fall, he found that Mr. those banks. We dug up whiskey bottles from t[...]andwriting on While still in the grades, one of my first jobs was for the wall-many homesteaders had left already) He and the Hickeys; Bridgie was my teacher for several years. I Dad made the deal and we moved to Marsh[...] |
| [...]re carried a great herds o1' horst's that grazcd the range in this small supply of coffee,[...]of motor oil-not many cars on the road I graduated from high scho<-rl in Lewistown. The fo[...]left Little Crooked and moved to Black Butte. I had a well for help when they got stuck in the mu[...]d our family moved to St. Ignatius. This has been my Button Butte, were the first to have a radio and we used home since that time. My parents and my sister, Lola to go hear the program by Henry Fiel[...]water, we leased a dam east of But' ton Butte and I went to camp and take care of the sheep and cattle. The first evening I set up my tent, unrolled my bed and started a fire to cook my food, the sheep decided to leave. I ran to bring them back to the bed' ground and when I returned the wind had blown the[...]ked Store and Post Office with Clarence fire into my bedding. I put out the fire and discovered[...]in front of it' the sheep were leaving again, so I took the tarp and the[...]in 1924. dog and stayed down wind with the sheep. I had a Modei T Ford and made regular trips to take Mom a barrel of water and juniper that I cut for wood. She would always have food and clea[...]ood set of buildings and a cistern to hold water. My brother, Earl was born in September of 1928. Not[...]ed the blaze. Had it not been for some extra help that day we would never have put out the fire. Luckily the wood pile was all that was lost. We had to haul another win- ter supply. I guess the happiest time of my life at this,point was when I helped gather the range horses. Charley Miller bo[...]the Missouri River at Rocky Point. Owen Davis and I had the job of holding them up on the nort[...] |
| [...]after the first winter, except for.the that had strayed down by Joslin. He rode his own Derrers. Blaines lived on a prairie dog town that was horse and brought one for me. I had tried to get just south of Button Butte. "Th[...]there to strut, but it was so horribly windy on that flat." so fast, then cut off and go down in the breaks and Others from Zion that also homesteaded in this area stop. In the meantime I would have gone by her. was an elderly couple by the name of Summer. They By the time I'd get back, she would have cut had evidently bee[...]e and be gone. "dressed up" most of the time and didn't go around "Freddie was following behind her, same as I much. They had the nicest house around. Other ne[...]rn on December 10, 1899 and her wrapped that ole cow with his rope, and son-of-a- brother, Er[...]y 28, 1901 in Zurich, Switzerland. gun if that old cow didn't just line out and head They were taken to Zion C[...]tolic Church of Zion- "I said, 'What about that cow?' I thought she'd Unfortunately for this group of[...]d of farming. Part of going to move.' She didn't either!" it is now in the CM Russell Game Range.[...]e. The It was in 1916, probably early winter, that Ernest and walls were double with the dirt in[...]sometimes on the bedding. put up barbwire fences that the day of the open range Ernest helped[...]as time. One thing Lydia remembers vividly is that surround- She contacted the principal of[...]g the "remuda" (saddle horses) was a large circle that Cummings, and told him how much she wanted[...]he - came outside that circle, we ate." Ernest explained that usually it took no more[...]d" her life there. It was there she met inside of that rope corral. h[...]rseshoe Bar) so little on the land that Gottlieb had to return to Chi Two of the cowboys that they remember in particular cago to[...] |
| [...]nce Ernest had was getting caught in a only thing that seemed to grow) the milk took on such a sto[...]ake sugarless, eggless cakes and bread with flour that horse and when he went back to the hotel to[...]where the ferry ran. There was a store there and that's girls, "supposedly their wives," would st[...]nia. Both Ernest and Lydia live in the Santa they didn't return home until the next day. Ernest[...]is 88, he is 87. Ernest loves to talk rememb'ers that particular dance- He had ridden down abo[...]arold Fox moved from Forest Green Place that summer. I, Arlene, finished the eighth Grove, Montana in a wagon to Little Crooked Creek in grade that spring in the Littie Crooked School. Mrs. 1933. F[...]way; it took aboul seven days. and i uould walk down there and get bum lambs, a[...] |
| [...]fenced gardens as tho they weren't there. That winter, area. They came frorn Minnesoto. The fami[...]fact, they did this twice that winter. They belonged to We landed in Roy about[...]the stockyards. Not far was either that or go hungry. away was a (as nice people would ca[...]. Just a tar-papered shack about Basin, I don't know what would have happened to us all. 12[...]eping quarters. in. Those that were too weak were left behind. So we I remember one tent was so big, it held five full-s[...]Dad learned how to shear them (after a needed all that !oom, as there were two families-five fashion), and Mother and Lulu (my oldest sister) carded in our family and six in th[...]of us were in the tent playing When I was 16, I went to Wilder, only a few miles cards and a quic[...]had a good fire in the ferry. It ended up, I not only had all the dirty work to do stove, so the boys jumped up and lifted that corner but also ran the ferry when t[...]ire out, and reset the pegs of the tent. I had just met George and he was about to enter the Well, this scared Esther and I so we moved into the Army. When he c[...]miles before it landed on a sand bar. Glad I wasn't on it, good wet snow. We herded about 15 c[...]Our transportation was by a team of horses until my of the coldest winters for years.[...]live out of Hilger. It was the first car I ever drove, at least I steered the 11 we had in the fall. We managed til[...]They just went through the rience. I've driven from east to west coast and north |
| [...]line; never an accident or a ticket. I remember our second winter in Montana. The folks didn't have enough money to buy coffee, so Dad bought a[...]otherrvise we did without. Same with the hens. I went to the Little Crooked School for lack of some- thing better to do. Ed and I walked to school, about four miles. My father heiped to build the school house. The men[...]ks and seats for the school; also the.blackboard. My sister taught at the scnool. Mail was delivered as far as the Little Crooked Post Office that was managed by a man called Mr. Marshall.[...]g, also for school and dances. We had that too. I told this to a college professor out here. He bro[...]ooked at me and said cows aren't very particular. I dances to chord on to accompany the fiddle and guitar said, "neither were we, when that was all there wasl" players. The ladies would eac[...]ter in the barrels The first sort of boyfriend that I had was none other from reservoirs, but a[...]oard and hung them on lines to dry mother thought I'd be her daughter-inJaw. They had o[...]y. five boys, and she wanted a daughter to spoil, I think. We did without doctors, mostly[...]s oldest son was born on their home- One thing I'll say for us early settlers, we weren't[...]kmen and the elements. It either son. My mother delivered him. No one expected any- dried[...]g else. Things did not alwal's turn out the best; my Water'/^;,There wasn't any. Everyone on 320 ac[...]ied in the old Roy tried to dig a well. They,like my family, had come from Cemetery. places w[...]. We were a hard Esther and Victor Sandstrom, and my brother, Ed) iook up bunch but still had fun. We didn't need drinks either a team ofhorses and barrels, c[...]k the next spring; not get was so full of alkali, I can't see how we drank it. We to farm thoug[...]'d catch some. Also, just below our I am the iast survivor of m5' family and t[...] |
| [...]. Greens were in charge of their place and no one that set beside the Rocky Point Trail and Green[...] |
| [...]d sheep. Later they acquired more homestead lands that joined theirs. After moving to the homestead,[...]en with i I |
| [...]Little Crooked were among the lucky survivors. My father use to tell area. He also had the mail rou[...]harvest. The men were paid Tippy. Lydia writes: "I would call, Tippy would come, with worthles[...]o somewhere to and he would take back the message I tied on his collar make a living and headed for California, which for to my mother."[...]st of Little Crooked. Lynn Phillips said that Smokie shot Green with a Then they went to the Li[...]eing a bit inebriated Lewistown News stated that he used a saddle gun. when they reached the site of the cache, Smokie could Lynn was an eye witness so I would take his word. not find the liquor and imme[...]with them and it was only by accident that his wife found that he including Lynn Phiilips and Ed Pugh and also Nels believed that he had killed a man in Montana' Thev Anderson. Wh[...]ere very much relieved to hear the story and find that a bottie and hit Smokie over the head, kno[...] |
| [...]in. securely. I can remember picking out the long Another son,[...]him (Jones Street); it is still there today. My My father, Luther, was born in Wheeling, West mother died when I was small, five or six years Virginia. I'm uncertain as to his birthdate. In his[...]d 4 little, then came to Rock- Jesse, my only sister, stayed with us kids and Dad well[...]In 1917 we joined Dad. He came after us which I learned my occupation later. In the winter, and we[...]is brooms for the ings we owned. I, George Jones, went to school to homesteaders[...]the sixth grade, but can't recall if my brothers or he rented. He made several homemade items such sister had much schooling. I was 17 when we as his own cheese. Luther made[...]moved to Roy. ters from molds and also I remember a small veh- Luther work[...]rts he made in a gar- on his homestead. I worked some on the railroad age. It had belt drive and gas motor. with my brother, Elmer, at Armells. He was fore- Da[...]ness was a full-time job. He man at that time. My father, Luther, spent his raised his own broom[...]bout six last days on his homestead. I'm now the last liv- feet tall and we'd break i[...]nels. Dad called it "cradling" 1984. I'm well and active. I have worked many it would then dry and be read[...]different jobs and had nine children of my own. a cylinder to thrash the seeds from the s[...], Russia was given as citizenship. He said that he had been a Russian the cause ofdeath fr[...] |
| [...]and Egglands were some of the sheepmen that he the littie boy were left on the homestead.[...]iid, beautifully untouched country the that didn't work out. He got five to eight dollars a head pre[...]brand, known as Pearl the prairies near Pierre, that she and her sister, ' Harbor, was us[...]s. Webb and Marie had sisters. So, as he put it, "I had nothing to lose." gone back to C[...]esota. He came It was while at Wilder that the Mathisons experienced to Montana in 1921, arr[...]some dis- there he went on to a homestead shack, that was aban- tance away. They looked back[...]home was burning up. Ivar says, "I was never so scared winter. in my life; I thought Grandma and Boots had burned Ma[...] |
| [...]. Because of a Jan- started a grass fire that would have reached their uary thaw that put even more water into the river, the[...]spring, the river became Mathison stated that, "in living so far away, people dangerous, so the[...]ke these." and stayed in a tent. The ice "jammed" that very night The Mathisons moved to Coi[...]ntana. Vivian became a nurse and was river bottom that night, they would have lost their ma[...]long sought They moved back to the old homestead that day" It was after dream, that of having her book, "Echos From The a long, hard,[...]They had two more close brushes with frre after that. Ivar has returned to the old country[...]nseparable companion of so many looked up and saw that the roof on the house was afire.[...] |
| [...]hool. grazing land at Jiggs, Nevada, out of Elko. That fall They ranched in the Missouri[...]ready on the River near Landusky. That fall, they trailed their big leased land in Nevad[...]the 11 June 1929, entitled Sheep Shearing relates that the shearing crew is stari- ing at the Nov[...] |
| [...]liii Jennie Cope. Crooked Store. Later that year, Abe's brother, Len,[...]Nou. 1961. came and stayed with them. He didn't homestead. Abe farmed and was a horse trader.[...]ght property there. Ira remained When World War I broke out, Ira joined the Army ahd on[...]acting. missed, her parents were frantic thinking that she had Joe Pipes died 7 Dece[...] |
| [...]ation left by 1921 for several reasons. World War I took the young men, dry wcather, economic[...] |
| [...]by Anne Stroble Blanchard My mother told me that I was born in Roy, Montana Our Li[...]s were Bakers and Jakes. on October 25, 1919, but I never could get a birth certifr- I remember well when Earl and Pearl (Jakes) were cate so I can't prove it. My parents, Minnie and Joe born. My sister and I had to give up our new dolls we Stroble, came to Roy from Minnesota after my brother, got for Christmas and had hardly played with because Francis, was born there in 1915. My sister, Alice, was our mother didn't have any other gift to give them. I born in Roy in 1917. We were there and at the homes- really didn't want to. tead until 1933 when we came to Washington state. We didn't see many people on the homestead; one We homes[...]hn Turner use to stop and visit on his School and I remember going to dances there and walk- way walking to and from town. I was always happy to ing home when the sun was com[...]stayed and accordian music still going around in my head. overnight. I remember my dad building dirt dams with horses I remember one year moving into Roy for the winter[...]hoes as big as dogs in the Sometimes my dad would be gone for weeks and winter. We melted[...]drifts would be higher than the My sister used to stay with, and help the Misses shanty. One spring when Dad was building a dam I Hickey who lived out in the sage[...]e saw their place was a good old well that we hauled water a huge brown tarantula running in[...]uld a stoneboat pulled by horses. That was when all the hear the coyotes singing their s[...]heated rocks to a school Christmas program. I forgot[...]tall Christmas and back again - that's when you learn what lonesome tree with burning wax candles. is, or when I did anyway! I don't remember too many teachers. One year our[...]eaded for some mother taught us and one year when my sister and I relatives in Washington. Dad had f[...]bed were the only two pupils, we had Miss Goheen. I trailer with a seat near the fr[...]one seat Model T. Three of us rode on that seat all the Mr. W.E. Jones,the regular mail c[...]white hair to help us on our way. I was too small to pick so I found and false teeth we thought he was teasing,[...]tayed in Roy and went to school. The only teacher I remember in town was a substitute named Mrs. Murphy, who stood me in a corner for pinching Agnes LaRoque; I was so humiliated. In town we had a lot of friends. I remember John- sons, Lanes, Oquists and Athearns[...]The Stroble children with a pump underneath. I remember the grain elevator[...]Francis age 13. My dad worked anywhere he could frnd a job, a[...] |
| [...]ronv Or NontreesrpnN Feacus CouN'rv settied here I grew six inches taller and Mom put on 40 home[...]est at Roy |
| [...]lee. The Wygal house was a One visitor that Mrs. Wygal and her daughters never large well built log house that was situated on the right forgot was a man wh[...]he could sleep, The large flocks of sage hens that abounded on the upstairs. After he had re[...]r source. It rained and pagers. It turned out that he was the Fergus often, during the time of their[...]Anton had hogs and fed anyones horses to It seems that almost everyone got stuck and all needed[...] |
| [...]is homestead a lot. the house movers so bad that they ran off and in their panic He was gone so long one time that fellows in the country they left their sin[...]and that. too. bothered him.[...]before they could decide on a site. In 1956, once I learned of the decision to build a bridge near the mouth of Armells I obtained 320 acres that are surrounded by the CMR to start a cow camp. In November I hired the Harold M. Coulter Drilling Co. to drill a 200 ft. well. When they told me they'd hit good water I couldn't believe my luck. I decided to build a bar, cafe and trailer court on my land. I applied for and received a beer license in July of 195?. We began to build on August 11, 1957. My wife, EDee, Clyde Coulter and I worked continuously for nearly 3 months to complete the bar before Christmas. One of the happiest days of my life was when we hung the OPEN sign in the window[...]st which named the new community to be, Mobridge. I have a letter from a man in South Dakota who wanted to start a bank. i think 1986 would have closed his doors. Since e[...]n was added. Once the construction workers left I decided to hold some rodeos. The first Mob[...] |
| [...]K upriver from Wilder. It was announced that the bridge (Winnett to Maita) at a cost of 9400,[...]g many histori- It was a gala celebration that was held on August 16, cal points of interest.[...]on Rocky Point showed more advan- And that homesteader child that gazed north wond- tages, not only in construction[...]ted out of Malta, in a south- was named i.n honor of the early explorer and settler of wes[...]ered once a month on a week day in Roy Enterprise that Father \ran de Broek of Lewistown ha[...] |
| 2i6 Hrs'ronv On No[...]rowds grew larger they moved to a larger building that known as Sacred Heart.[...]utherans moved alvay and the discontinued. Rev. E.I. Jones, who had Kendall, Presbyter[...]s and Roy, as his field, organized the Roy that the church bell was first rung. church and[...] |
| [...]for as long as it was used for church that had just opened. L.M.F. and his older brother did[...]When he came to the Roy Presbyterian Church I do In August of 1971, the National Missions Board met not know. It seems that he also served some other small with the Hilger a[...]They went to Wyoming after the5'left Roy. After that and expenses would be shared by all three and the[...]eath in October, of Roy, was scalded and died. At that time the grand- 1951. The heirs, Mrs. Jo[...]Djamond purchased the Jones, decided that the best way rvas to give the Roy land now[...] |
| [...]i961 1988 The Roy Cemetery sets at the to[...]almost forgotten, it's now, once again, a place that group of youngsters and adults would gather and w[...]shows respect and love for the pioneer ancestors that to make the hillside graveyard look just a iittle[...]Roy Cemetery can be obtained from the Roy History that they were unreadable. It wasn't long before she h[...]nd sat with with hundreds of white prairie lilies that the neighbors bowed heads until t[...] |
| [...]town. There are still beautiful biue spruce trees that mark the spot where the graves were. Creel's took all the stones and markers. The wrought iron fence that surrounded the graveyard was also taken down. It[...]ars and planted shrubs and flowers. Among those that were buried there were Ellen Romundstad, a daught[...]iendorf, wife of a homesteader. The story is told that it was so bitter cold when she died that her body was hung from the rafters in the[...] |
| [...]ed as a school. Mrs. Mathison remembers that her father put candles on thp tree' They we[...]from miles around were enjoying the dancing that followed the program, a wintry storm blew i[...]Teena's parents) remembers. home that day and the next night before venturing home.[...]too, mind, there's a load on the road'. But that load didn't as the hills were dotted with homestead[...]They were all considered accomplished musicians" That same year, -Roy Bros[...]p in Chico, California known as the Beati' during that time was instrumental in organizing the St[...] |
| [...]Missouri-Musselshell territory to deer hunting in that era. John Kahler was president; L.J. Mitten, Ray[...]serving flavor, several remarking that they were fully as good as table from 12 un[...]rnished amusement to the onlookers that ihey can and will distinguish between s.rge hens[...]to order a carload of J.B. Bowser reported that the three elevators at Roy |
| [...]ng any premium on protein in wheat. He discovered that the premium was near 500 a bushel. A further orde[...]. After This information wos taken t'rom records that James ond Marcy[...]nd he got a commission of lQ a after that. gallon.[...]esident from the office of the Red Liverv Barn at that time. He was National office "fo[...]al Life Association are in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. In i971 the name of the association was changed[...] |
| [...]ork began on the Equity Elevator and in August of that year it took in its first load of wheat. T[...] |
| [...]pressive bunch of Boy Scouts from Roy was Troop #7I that Edward Stice, a 6th grade teacher, organized. Ra[...]ady being an HD club (the Roy Women's Club was at that time affiliated with extension) in the Roy[...] |
| [...]r. Front row: Holly Peters, i |
| [...]Ror himself that no competition was in the offering. But as[...]other hardware stores or lumber yards at that time, |
| [...]h them. ing. There were three stainvays that gave ready exit, in Their main business was to he[...]and other supplies were sold. During that same year the The Roy Commercial club was organi[...]ch morning, Whitey Moran's Camp looming in that it featured an auto livery service. Jack installe[...]d was here. Bets were being placed two to one that it would be here Wed- E. Cox April 1914. The[...]treet from with lumber, freight, and people. From that day build-[...]t shop (Roy Enterprise). many horses and vehicles that it reminded one of David Berg h[...]be built to his restaurant building that will cover the These belonged to homesteaders who[...]will from a distance of many miles, often so far that it be24 x 40 feet, two stories high.[...]dly increasing thin partitions; so thin, in fact, that activities going on trade. in one room[...] |
| [...]J.C. Hodges had an Business was so brisk in that famous year of 1914 office in the Roy Hotel. Dr. G.M. \\'hite, a dentist, had that the following article appeared in the June 4, i9i4 an office in town. C.H. Ciaflin ra[...]ed the businessmen out of bus- high. Not only that but Roy is a center of interest to ine[...]vest in hundreds of outsiders and safe to say that not a day goes more cattl.e until large h[...]y, paying $10 to $50 per ton. But in spite of all that owned and operated by James Kouri was located sou[...]ing the farmers with very little horsepower, and that in Dr. Faulds had an office between the Post Of[...]But 1920 gave good returns on the small acreage that gatage called the Fordatorium was built a[...]d one south of the business that flourished during 1913 to 1917. Cattlemen Farmers[...]stensen ran a drav. John ship that couid occur in a countrf in such a short time' it |
| [...]eing but will be of real benefit to those that want to avail themselves of the opportunity of[...]alley farm will pay for a good farm here, that will raise as many bushels per acre on the aver-[...]le there are dozens of structures that have not had the attenrion of investors d[...]gger, Hubert Carter We honestly believe that the Roy territorl', though hard and George[...]n any country known. With a positive proof that wheat crops have been raised here in the y[...]oil throughout the whole territory, those that avail themselves of the opportunity of buying[...]The first telephone lvas installed in Roy iri 19i6. For installed on to Valentine. T[...]r surrounding received electricity in the fali of i93g. system the latter p[...] |
| [...]he early directors were Vernon it *'as with pride that residents of the community Puck[...]that first year because of many grass fires.[...]d in 1910. The first trustees school that year so the Roy Community Business Club were J.H.[...]en 1919 and were so successful that they had a lot ofpeople donating 1969 ser;eral di[...]year there was a little money lefi that was refunded to held at the Smith-Laraway Ranch i[...]. Mr. Bancroft was so busy with first schoolhouse'i'as built, located over the hill, south classes that he wasn't able to have much sports- How- w[...] |
| [...]ck Styer, Gene the history of Roy with 20 seniors that year. 1972 was Wright, Dan Cimrhakl, Larry E[...]ivisional track meet for the third year in a row. that time the annual was just high school'[...]when the school burned. 1960 it was thought that no one school would ever have In 1949, 6 man foot[...]There are many more but this is the information that school and the names were engraved each ye[...] |
| [...]h an * 'Ahl Hernard t 9i5.;ti Gallowa;.'. Geneva 1919-20[...]Luebach, Lucille 194 t..l I Ruckman. Francis r931.33 Al[...]9l5.l6 Gardipee, Mary l9i2-75[...]1978.?9 ISarsness, Elizabeth I 939.12 Groff, Eveiyn[...]195&55 Minett€, Joan i963€5 Srephens.Margaret l94I-43 19.{9-52 Bowland, Sally[...]1917.18 Brubre*', Ron i9E0.8l Heggem, Ronald[...]6l-64 Moore, Betty 1946-4i Stewan, Charles 194?-48 Burke, M- Caroline I943-.15 Helms, Genrude[...]1918-50 I VJI.DJ Hickey, B.A. (Miss)[...]964-68 Movius, Jacquelyn 1974-i5 Stockton, Patience 19[...]6 Honat, Alice i960.61 Newhall, kslie 1982-[...]f920.21 Cole, lone I 961.65 Horyna, Sherry Monison[...], Conklin, N.J. I91?.18 Hrubes, lrene[...]196749 Cowan, Vivian 1940-.{ I lmslund, Lillian 192[...]tvo / tu Davis. C. 19i6,17 Johnson, Hilda[...]77 Jones, E.L. I 9l 4-15 Patton, Pauline 1943.[...]? Jones, Marguerite I 9 1.1-15 Paulson, P.M. (Mr.) 191 9.2 I Underuood. Karen 1984-87 'Dav[...]n, G. landon 1929-30 \ an I rne. Deborai l9ti?6 Dick, Katherine[...]193$36 Dorsey, Marie I 9t 8-20 Koetirz. Ruth[...]1911-79 Eaton, Evelyn I 970-71[...]'LaFonci, Lloyd 19i1-i7 Rhodes, Mary 193&3{[...]lansbeny, i)arlene 19{l-43 Riddeil, Rulh[...]&69 Roberuon, Conrad 1973-'i6 Francis, Elizabeth 1915-17[...]1962.63 Fredette, Doris t921.3i L*wellen, Mary Jean 19[...]1979 Rowland, Gracia i9l2-15 Zieske. Clarence (Butch)[...] |
| 294 HIs,I.IIHT OI' NoH,I.HEASTERs FEHGTJS COUX'r'r[...]=I Glee Club 1922 in front of the high schoo[...] |
| [...]non Nelson, Roxie WiLlmore, Paulette Komarek, ilI i h a rn i, S a h u r a h o H a 1' a k a Ltt a. D a LL' n H[...]Loren Bttu,ser, TraL,is I"lelson' John Chetscman, Joe ,Sirolr-r', crrr.,fts[...]Sammy Stt'cher, Front dians: Vichi V'illntore and I)tattna r?rrbbirrs,6us[...]ommy r'hairrrtan; Lorry Kalirta. Rir'lt Rotlst'r, I)at,t' (]ar artd[...] |
| [...]Or Nor"r'uc.r,s'r'uH.r Fr:Ht;us Crrt'N1'\ I.F.e^ F[...]I The Wright district was created in 1917. The fir[...]I[...]y and B.A. Hickey. Some i |
| [...]After graduation, Marie Bowser Cimrhakl and I and I. As a family n'e did our part to maintai.n our[...]The *'ashed clothes in a tub on the rr'ash board. I cleaned boys were juniors by this time. Marie and I would hitch house. ironed, helped cook and get me[...]east Salutatorian, and Jim was causing too much I r+'as a junior in high school when we moved to Ro[...]When Mom's contract at Roy wasn't renewed she didn't hire Mr. Peterson for the coming year, much to[...]f they would hire me as their primary teacher. I sang in a quartet frequently. A 1-oung minister at I *'ould then earn $40 per month. (I seem to recall that Roy u'ould take our quartet group in his iittle roadster Mr.rm made $I25 a month at Roy). (three rode in the rumble seat) and we visited outl;'ing Marie didn't want to attend summer school and so churches and sang for them. I believe Eddie Dunn sang went home.[...]lace to stay w'hile she went to summer school, so I Our famil-"- attended the dances at the Btrhem[...]We even went to Valentine to a My brother, Fred, *'ho had been living with Grandpa, |
| [...]Chevy coupe, which he gave to from Lewistown. I taught that year, even though I was us. He taught me to drive, after summer schoo[...]drove to Brooks to settle in for school. Mom and I days. Vernon got a job at the Fort Peck[...]remained untii retirement. He Vernon and I moved to Ellensburg, Washington and iives in St.[...]started the O. K. Rubber Welders. I kept books. We sold I met Vernon Kramlich at a New Years Dance at the[...]. He had just got paid off after four lems. I finished my degree in education and taught for years in the N[...]r son was born in 1936 were married July 3, 1934. I had signed a contract to in Seattle and ou[...]mountains east of brick (this required heavy sod that would hoid the dirt Lewistown and exc[...] |
| [...]. and 1918. 'l'hen work stopped due to World War I and The population of Roy town[...]ar; and aiumni reunions every five years prairie that surround Roy and imagine the countiess[...], whose roots are in Roy. Week- homestead shacks that once dotted the countryside;pne en[...]ek recreation area and few gtoceries and realize that once Roy had a popula- along the r[...]rder or two-Roy kids needing a summer job-to keep that is supposed to be planted has not yet takentold,[...]th of Roy in the weeds of every description-seeds that have lain idle summer. The Ted Th[...]ster; a bar, The Legion, One thing that has not changed though, among those managed by Mike Shirey; the Roy Grocery owned and that remain, is their unshakable belief in tomorrow. o[...]drove a team and wagon from that relinquishment and filed on a homestead no[...] |
| [...]arber. t'*'een 1915 and 1935. School records show that he Effie Baker ran a bakery and lunch[...]ivorced and Effie married Carl Leon Baker, that time. Roennr Ssrnum Ba.[...]n interesting lot! They were the entrepreneurs of that era during prohibition. As |
| [...]bootlegger to them, then got worried that they might be lawmen, and maybe, when aske[...] |
| [...]g for a temporary job. They were from Chicago. At that time freight cars had'rods'underneath them and mo[...]r one of the first radios in Montana - in 1922. My Dad and Mother, Berthine and David, were[...]. Bed and bath were 254. At one area My dad contracted the flu of 1918-i9 and died of celebration they served a half a bee[...]soft ball, dlt the trimmings, including pie My mother iived in White Sulphur Springs. She died a[...]dollars a barrel. The water why he got there, I don't know. sloshed out and the barrel would be h alf empty by the To say that many homesteaders were "took" by Jim time the wag[...]uld be an understatement. The first year was a My Mother took up her homestead when she was at good crop, but that year used up decades of moisture. Stephens'. It w[...]s "The Great American Desert" was next to it now. My dad also had a'homestead in Badger not far off. Beginning with the second year, home' Basin. My older brother was born in Roy. He was[...]ll was president of the Great Northern Railroad I, my sister, Isabel, and brother, Sidney, were[...] |
| [...]s with more shack in 1914 and I, Mary Lucille, arrived L8 months children. John B[...]winters and were enrolled in St. Leo's school for that they'd never make it. But they continued on and five years. passed the sleeping young men that night, arriving at Dad w[...] |
| [...]drive us to school. When he gradu- ated in 1932, I batched behind Kalal's meat market with a classmate, Vlasta Marie Maruska Vanek. I went to business college Polytechnic, now Rocky[...]John also went to Polytechnic for two years. I was married to Don Walrod that fall and moved. to Nashua, near the Fort Peck da[...]ucille (Bishop- After his sudden death, I moved back to Roy and put Walrod)Umstead. my three school-aged children in Roy schools and[...]three children. Kathy Umstead LaFoun- Don and I had four children and LeRoy and I had tain and her sister, Susie LaF[...]oughout the state. Mexico. They have no children, I made up for them. Dad and Mom are both deceased now; but both lived My two oldest children, Dean and Delores were both[...]well known to Montana occasionally but didn't like it here. Mary on the rodeo circuit. J[...] |
| [...]sar-v a1 her horne. !i August 1957. until they retired an[...]al, 12 August tg6g ' Ozu iJe i rut ,[...]Ranch; herded (198Et nas born near I'landan. North l)akiira on March sheep in Phillips[...]he Finis Vestal dan. ('larir's sistcr. I),'rrr. died in Dakota of croup ;rnd a place near[...]icd us il .\'oultg nlrn, of appendicitis, August 3i, 1965.[...]Snlrrir' Nlountains south of L0rvisto\\'n. I\1om's father |
| [...]was French and her mother was Dutch and lrish. My Dad used to say the DeVaults were like gypsies[...]ved around so much. Mom liked to travel and Dad didn't. After Mom and Dad were married thev lived with[...]ear Armells, Montana. She cooked there and said that ifshe broke a dish, Mrs. Fergus would charge he[...]ses and cowboys. She liked to raise flowers but didn't have water to take care of flowers or a garden[...]needed, without patterns. The catalogs that had a radio program in Portland. They were called[...]ttended the Horse Ranch School, 3rd - 8th Mom didn't like Montana's dry sagebrush and cactus[...]ing sheep type of terrain very well. After she, my sisters and for Romundstads. He later jo[...]teered to find a location so that a transmitter would |
| [...]y was born shortly after they The combine didn't have a grain hopper, so it was arrived in the are[...]it piled up in deputy sheriff during the years of i916 to 1918. In his the center of the w[...]ce) and farmed until he passeci was born March 26,I876,the daughter of Frank Dvorak away in April of i935 at the age of 66. Rosie passed and Jose[...] |
| [...]ght after the shooting and punishment at that time, as it was alleged that Karau was was taken to Hiiger on the railro[...]d turned the aggressor and it appears that there is still some ill over to Sheriff Tul[...]Fnnn eNn LsoNe Conrs was born November 28, i866. Both were born in Ger- F[...]hn, Shirley recalls an incident that happened to her as a William, Frank Jr.. Fred and[...]ried in 1923' hair from the fever that followed and when it came She came to Roy[...] |
| [...]lotte was born in Lewistown on April 26, 1916. Ai that time her parents, LuElla and Clarke Belden. lived[...]ttended Eastern Montana College. I'm so glad to have Been a part of Montana from a[...]ors. Don't tell me there weren't 8-horse hitches. I Lee, have four children and four stepchildren.[...]Ken works at Northwest now. But I'm not sure I want to know.[...] |
| [...]Charlie and Matilda Edwards. Antoinette was 13 at that time. The Edwards lived south of the Lan[...] |
| [...]ve to the Chamberlain had claims that he did assessment work on. He con- and on their[...]is Browns. I\{r. and Mrs. Anton Hansen rvho settled in the Bla[...]25,L892in Beaver Falls, Minnesota. Died June 18, i958 buried at Stevensville, Montana. Emma[...] |
| [...]Luella and Rose Nell married Robert McWirk in 19i5 and later Ruth. John and Alma lived i[...]n 1938. They had two from Christensen on what, at that time, was calied children, Richard and[...]at the Heath plant, 14 moved up to the log cabin that Ed and his dad built. Ed years at a bakery[...]heir 53rd wedding anniversary on the 16th of May, I-:lping with the farm work, Ed made trips to Lewis[...]ome land, however, there were some on the train I was born February 24, 1886 in Indianapolis, Indi- who thought that we ought to go to Roy first, so we ana. I moved to Greencastle in 1909 where my father agreed. We finally located 4Yz m[...]went into business there. acres. I met Jim in 1911 and on May 15, 1912 we were mar-[...]we had gotten settled, Jim went to work for him. That is how he became a we walked into Roy[...]land being opened for home- was so thick that with every step we had to kick the steading in Mo[...]of furni- order for us to survive. One night I woke up and found ture, bedding and clothing and[...]Jim sitting on the edge of the bed. He said that he was Big 4 Railroad. From there we embarked on[...]rain for Montana. moving. I talked him out of it, but the next morning we I[...]oach there was a big stove discovered that the shack had moved four feet. Jim got where the[...]een In 1916 our son, Russeil, was born. I would pack eggs on a train. There were many exclamations such as "Oh, and when I went to town I would take a few dozen to look at that," and "Did you see that?" all day long. We trade for groceries. I would also take what butter I could had many conversations with our companions[...]s had during the four days we working and I needed to go to town I would walk across |
| [...]c1i a section of land and carry my son and wait for a ride to |
| [...]sloHr Or NonrHrasrERx FsRcus CouNTy "Ciiff and i lived in the wagon, Grandma musr have[...]unting and fishing, a favorite |
| [...].i@ the U.S. Army at the same time as his bro[...] |
| [...]in Timkin, working with a threshing crew. In 19i3 he moved to Montana and homesteaded about five m[...]to Czechoslovakia, their first since leaving that coun- country schools, "whichever one was operati[...]ried Dorothea Folda on the ?th Bohemian Orchestra that played for many dances of June, 194[...]e lives on the Siroky family ranch east of Roy. I.{ettie worked in the shipyards in Vancouver, Wash[...]7, 1,923. After their marriage they My dad was a fiddle player and played for moved to R[...]ed by the county dances all the years I can rememberfl remember on road maintenance and w[...]for WPA' went home in the daylight. I can remember sleep- In Washinglon there were alwa[...]lways brought cake and daughter, Dorothy, recalls that several times they sandwiches for th[...]s. I can remember going home in the daylight and |
| [...]ong the road. Dad, Herb and Wilbert Zahn and my uncle Chet Larsen played together for a number of years in the 30's. They were usually paid gi0; that was split betrveen them. Sometimes it was pass the hat and they got paid that way. Everyone always had a good time and loo[...]r in the Roy school for a number of years when I was growing up. It was probabll' about 1930 wh[...]mily moved to Harlowton in the late 50's. times that wasn't enough and we would have[...]ed 6 miles northeast of Roy in 1913, November 14, I9I2. Eva g'as born in Lewistown on[...] |
| [...]of years. He was president during the recession that followed WWI. As a merchant and business man[...]i.' ss IJ[...] |
| [...].l -i.l[...]by Libbie Hartman Newberg My father, John Hartman, was born March 29,1884 in A[...]l Schultz, herding sheep. When it became apparent that he could not toler:rte the sight of sheep,[...] |
| [...]area s'here through the darkness. my father purchased the Dave \\rheeier place, then In i930 our dad bought a baby grand Chevy; we being so[...]lso played for We all rvorked hard as a family. I remember clearly weddings and birthday parties. as a child when my father would leave very early in the In 1958 he retired and moved to Lewistorvn. My morning for Lewistown. He rvould hitch four horse[...]scarcely breathing, knowing for sure that if they were The family settled in Timkin, Kansas[...]an to Cook and Reynolds got that place; the windowless head west for Montana; home[...]little log house (Dunn's) that stands on the north side of a place west of Roy t[...]He recalls that when he worked for Joe Murphy, many happy hours t[...]his mechanical skills, Model T's were The house that they lived in had no windows, just a[...] |
| [...]Frank. Grandfather Anton, Frank Jr. and said he didn't have one" "Wait 10 days and we'll get you[...]l. Front row: Stan, John, one." Ten days later, "I found out that the Navy knew[...]Jerry and Ralph. more about me than I did!" he said. Jerry, now deceased, went into[...]-.*i:-EEi Martenic, had a sawmill in the Snowies.[...]-'i.H-[...].ji- .!,i and Don, Lincla, David and Dale. Don was killed i[...]H,i[...]the United States from Czecho- In 19i'). when Jim rv:rs four;rears old and Raymo[...] |
| [...]crop of wheat on his homestead in Montana was one that was broadcast by hand by Mrs. Vondracek. John pa[...]ead. In told by a gypsy in Czechoslovakia that harm would i910 he sent for his wife and son, Frank, to[...] |
| [...]own where they resided until his It is recorded that in July of 19i6 he soid the Roy Cafe death on February[...]istorvn where he worked for Bechand on July 15, 19i1. Stella was born on March 21,[...] |
| [...]William B. passed away on April 2i, 1961 in Minne- discharged from the service, they[...]at the age of 74. William, Stella and Glendive in i949. Richard passed away in June of 1963[...], by Antonette, Nettie, and I\{cAuley and Cox had run it before Leo sold it to[...]onette advanced the funds. She had a hotel. Early that October, she bought the build-[...] |
| [...]ar Valentine. herbs with her to cover any illness that might occur. Jack married Lillv Ha[...]tended a school near Valen- eyesight failed. This didn't stop her though. Alby would tine. The el[...]ing in WWI, he went into construction reply was, "I speak five languages. How many do you[...](Boulder) Dam when he met with the accident that Antonette was a favorite with her grand[...] |
| [...]by Dick Kalal My father, Ed Kalal, homesteaded in the area of wher[...]lVass. My grandmother, Antonette, told me many times of hav[...]iver, left their homesteads and went to World War I together. They served nearly[...]omesteads in the Valentine and Dovetail area, and that is where Ed met Gladys.[...]o,ofu Ed did various things after World War I to make his Gladys lrish Kalal living, s[...]and butchering, which was all field butchered at that time. Ed also put up ice for his meat market as w[...]stand that stood ouer the town ing the only telephone in the[...]Earl Jakes and they had two boys, high that only the roof of the house stuck out. I said, David and Doug. Joan lives in Moore, Montana as cioes "That's it. I don't want to live here any more." Doug and David[...]have also an ice jam. Marge recalled the ice jam that occurred had the misfortune of burning[...]to her mothers earlier. The r,r'ater rose so high that only Zortman where Perry secured a job[...] |
| [...]rner Ser- one daughter. Joanne married i\{ike McGuire and they vice Station.[...]ee Railroad reached came into Montana, as near as I can recali being told, Hiiger, h[...] |
| [...]*'n rapidly, so the dairy business was very good. I think it was about the time that Helen started to school that the folks decided to quit the dairy. They sold so[...]his until he passed away in 1947, According to my baptism record, I was the third child to be baptized in the Roy Pr[...]The date on the certificate is January 1916. I started school in 1921, in the school house that still stands. Unfortunately the building where I went to High School burned and so with it all of[...]d Leonard records were iost. Mrs. R.N. Jensen was my first teacher. about 1927. I have always felt a special cioseness to RHS, not[...]In the background only because I graduated in 1933, but the high school[...]are Alice Lane had closed in the early i920's. In 1927 or 1928 the city[...]ether and decided a high school was again needed. My father happened to be one of them. Each family pl[...]dited The church still stands that served my sister and me high school. N{r. Petersen \4'as th[...]il Walker. The attendance rapidly that church too. grew too. After Mr. Holmstrom came, Roy did get on the Some names that I recall were the Goves and Scotts. map, so to spea[...]harles Scott married Kathryn Gove and lived in I had the honor, also, of having my fathers name on Lervisto*'n. Mr. and lvlrs. Forseman were a couple I my diploma. He signed as chairman of the Roy[...] |
| [...]Roy stress. She made many of the clothes as I was gro*'ing school in Roy so I didn't stan school till I was age 7' I |
| [...]"Once when we lived at Armells we lived in that rhubarb was another thing they enjoyed eating. It white building that is now the community hall at too s[...]from Armells. There certain stem that grew in the middie that was were two rooms. One side was Mom and[...]le took care of "old" Biil Lane nack, that her Aunt Caroline used to make. Her and u[...]ne berries ("service berries A, which he "didn't know how to drive. I was is a terrible name to call[...]hing"), cur- scared all the way to Roy on that narrow road and rants, gooseberries[...]used in the pudding. home-When I saw it...Well my stomach just A gocd friend of her brothers that Rose recalled flipped. It was a little on[...]. He lived along the river. Al was Oh how I hated that place!" a horse trader. made moonshine and "I was in "My grandmother, Angeline Thomas Carrier, love with him when I was young. He was such a and my brother Frank were staying at Armells' I Iot of fun-a nut-that you couldn't help but like went to stay with them." him. I remember one time he came over to listen to "My grandmother died when she was in her our radio. I wasn't feeling very good and he and 90's and still had all her teeth, but they were worn my brother got to telling stories. My! You never down to the gums from chewing[...]heard such a bunch of lies. They were so funny, I ning them." laugh when I think of him yet." Al is long Rose rem[...]he inside and rolled the last memories that Rose has of her grandmother hides up, In[...]was quite young, 29 years, when she died didn't know how many times they got stung'[...] |
| [...]d four other children by previous marriages: that died; Rose didn't remember her given name Vict[...]He and his wife, I{arie, had two children, Ray- Joe was a ha[...]T i8N R26E Adolph (Jerry) Laschat was born 18 Febru[...]ountains during the forty years he lived at known that he worked at gold mining at Marysville Roy[...] |
| [...]cabin on rhe Al Knapron place, east of Ro5'. tili I started school. Most of my school years were spent in Roy. I remember when the -i school burnt dou'n. We went to school in a church[...]o piace next to the ceme- tery. During the summer I could stand outside in the Fil*' ev[...]n, dogs bark- ing, kids playing, people laughing. I guess the hill cap- tured the sound and bounced i[...]engaruer is the fellow to the left of the post. I live in Portland, Oregon now. I married Ellis Fish in Next is Wilbert Za[...]rge gained a reputation were divorced in 1975 and I married Eivin Pickard in as a roper[...]heard of. My brother, Steven William "Billy" was born J[...] |
| [...]oy Mann and Dolores Fink Mann I\'lar1 F irrk. Shc ntrrried Fred Hanel'. owned[...]4th of July, the day before Opal's 16th birthday, that[...]bride. There were so many young men at the dance, that Opal did not[...]the Missouri remember seeing him, but that fall he came with a crew[...]d Clark living room with Mrs. Clark In June of i918 the family moved back to Roy and[...]hc Valit'r \'-ion st'lrool distric't. .\.'leline, I'rene and Biil down and they lost everything. Clif[...]k school about 3 miles Adelirrc l'i nished sth Krade in this school and then |
| [...]serrse of hut-nor. She was a Jones. Later shr i.rnd Irenc bltte hed in a one roolr house[...]Roy, and Cliff worked ft.rr \\'PA In i9il thel' mt'ved to Le*'istorvn. Cliff passed away[...]the Ro5'sehool after on August 23, i977 and is buried in Roy. the fire in 1912. He then rvent to work for the county on A i'eu'-r'ears after Cliff s death Opal moved to Livi[...]passed arvay' there on April i4, i987 after a lengthy The coupie's fifth child, so[...]ncer. She is buried beside her husband and cember i939. Merle became quite ill with a throat infectio[...]Leah, The W.L. Marsh farnily in front of the tent that they mother L{aude, and father,lf[...]clerf: in 191S and continued in that position until 1947. Fergus Countl'. about 6 mile[...]lliam L. and Maude lr'larsh celebrated their 50th that year (191{r until a httme could be built.[...] |
| [...]d Sena Larsen, early homesteaders. The that time. They then moved back to Tacoma, Washing' tw[...]ut the western George and Helen were married in i931. They had a part of the United S[...]two daughters. He is a computer technologist for I.T.T. for many years.[...] |
| [...]e son of Mr. and Mrs. Bill Mayberry, who iived at that time on the place that Dorman Jack- son, Sr. owned. The family[...] |
| [...]ck in May of 1923. It was mostly secretarial work that'she In the office of McCoin and Johnson'[...]mells Creek, north of Roy. McCain so that we could listen to good music. We had no became a[...]ter; it was carried from an outdoor the ten years that he lived in the area. In addition to the pump[...]n rvinter we had a chemical toilet that fit in our par' interest in the McCain & Johnson[...]lived for a short time; she died in at that time that bananas were unhealthy, but the flu epidemic.[...]Mother had lived in Hawaii and knew that babies was a large house where Allison (Ally) and thrived on them, so every time that Daddy went to Winifred McCain lived. A man na[...]as we were. we traded our gassed in World War I. pee[...] |
| [...]l. The biggest event was the bank robbery. I remember Mr. Livermore jumping the fence be-[...]was a Deputy Sheriff for Fergus County at the that time. Uncle Ally died about 2 months after he[...]pid City, South Another thought No one knew that Mother was Dakota. having twins w[...]'s mother. Spokane. Dad told us that his friend, the famous artist Ted serv[...]the Census Bureau in Washington D.C. and and I have got to be the two ugliest men in[...] |
| [...]QAQ I{. O., Seoa AND JosEPHTNE MTLLER[...]by Josephine Miller Woodson My first memory of Roy is a cold day in February, |
| [...]Hrs'r'onr Or NoHrueesreRx Fcncus Cour.i'rr- Pur[...]and Regina Caine were mar- Arvbery in 193i, she died in 1980. They had two sons; |
| [...]same house for the next b3 years. During that time Eva taught for about 20 years, tak- ing[...]ears for Roth Construction in Montana that, Joyce taught at the Indian Butte School d[...] |
| [...]orked at various jobs, including managing Anthony didn't attend school, but then he attended[...]appy to spend some time together. They resided in that area until retirement when they[...]government. They arrived in a rest home there. As I remember they were laid to rest in[...] |
| [...]ic first thoughts when his ship was bombed were, "I sure Beach, a suburb of San Diego. He taught there 12 years hope my Christmas presents, which I haven't mailed untii retirment.[...]life certainly wasn't quiet. stock that he had stored when he went out ofbusiness. The[...]dated September 26, 1918. It stated that the guilty parties must have been watch- H[...] |
| [...]en he passed Shorty's main occupation in life was that of a bar- away. tender and card playe[...]der many interesting experiences of that time. in the Valentine area.[...]by Esther Cameron Noble I, Esther Vivian Cameron, was born March 29,1921 After Bill and I were divorced, Martin Noble and I |
| [...]in the early Let-rnard ('irine L() I\'lontirna in lir()ll. trt the trge of 15, 1900's[...]cy until his retirement and a daughter. I\{rs. Robert Anderst.rn, sun'ived him. ln lvDtl,[...]ark to the U.S. in 1878 with four children: Erick I, Amelia, Nelsine and Ferdinand. They settied in G[...]n: William, Ed, Stefrne, Nora and Erick II. Erick I had passed away shortly before the birth of Erick[...]a, Olsen *'as born in Lewistown in i912. Minnesota.[...]d to town. Eggs were 7 or I cents a Caroline, was born January 14, 1883, in Albert Lea, dozen at that time. Minnesota. Inga Beftina Brox, the daughter[...]e of his fa.,,rrite stories to tell. Another n'as that he |
| [...]tiy a man who seemed to be ahead of his times, in that he trucker. owned an airplane, motor[...]ccident. iocal men and remained i: -he area. Mabel was born September 18,[...] |
| [...]e time. A 1917 Fergus county tax receipt shows that Charlie paid a total of$118.51 taxes on $3235'00[...]Oquist $118.51 shows that: $8.09 went to the State Fund; .814- State Insane[...]und, Bridge Fund, County Fair and General.Fund); $i2.94-General School Fund; $2.00-Poor Fund;[...]914 he over of his outhouse at Halioween time' That MADE operated a pool hali.[...]Russell AND EDYTHE OQusr the oniy one that got tipped over'every Charlie married Julia And[...]In 1959 we bid in the mail route that went to and ran cattle north of Roy. We bought a[...]9' We We had the mail route that ran south of town too. Pat bought the Dotson plac[...]nter. There were no school I was a catechism teacher, 4'H and cub scout[...] |
| [...]Htsronv Op NoHlurestuHs FcHr;t's Couury I was a part'tinre flexible clerk in the post office St. Leo's. |
| [...]e other Piskac children have passed old Chevrolet that had no brakes, so he would tie sus'[...]try as young people. Jim sale at that time. They bought the Roland Place, now sailed fo[...]of boys by train to a farming community in hopes that in early August of 1929. far[...] |
| [...]ed in Texas in November of 193? at the age of 63. That is where the first service was held. His body w[...]-E."1 grt i*[...]''!5 .i[...]citizens that other buildings in the area were saued. It Ree[...]here'it was fell during a frshing excursion. They didn't think she[...]it and used it as a shop for a few years. that Joe buried his bride in the Roy Cemetery. Joe l[...]880 in Germany. His field, Illinois, that is where they settled. The only work paren[...] |
| [...]Roy worked on the railroad. He didn't like that kind of work.[...]to I nt e r national- M c C ormic k |
| [...]holic community had fresh fish brought on me when I openeci the lid.[...]he early dal's. Roy. From the time I can remember I was brought up in Instead of incioor bathrooms, we walked down a the Protestant church. That same church is stiil being columbine-iined board[...]iights which needed taught classes. I remember the many music programs frlling once a q'eek. that were given at Christmas and at other spe[...]s was the day Mom and Dad times. I enjoyed singing and accompanying for the Reis bought a piano so I could learn to play. At first I church services as I became older. Attending both the had corresponden[...]re local teacher's stimulating to me. I was able to help with the music for wives who gave me private lessons. In high schooi I both churches and considered that a privilege. became a music teacher, and planned my own recitals I attended school at Roy, from grade I to graduation for parents and children. The piano has enriched my from high school. When an elementary operetta was to life continually. I am eternally thankful to Mother and b[...]materials. In The 4-H Clothing Club was led by my noiher and one operetta I was cast as the mustard seed. My still though I did not like all the ripping I was required to do, dearest friend, Mildred Dunn Biggerstaff, had a beauti- I was pleased at the prizes I received at the Lewistown ful rose costume. Mine was just pretty green leaves. Fair. Later. when I married, I was thankful Mother had How I longed to be a rose. The mustard seed had the taught me to se*' well. As she made all my clothes, I lead part, which didn't impress me at all. The Roy sewed for our daughte[...]early years. Later they came in cars. As a child I new couple to their door where congratulations we[...]e all large notified by word of mouth that Roy had unwelcome social functions \4'ere held. As a child I learned to dance visitors. With the door to the street locked, I was brave in this hall. Once a year local talent[...]in 1937 Roy came to know dust storms that made hall. Vauderille shows brought their own big[...]. Other years grasshoppers were so thick Saturday i checked out books as I was growing up. they made slick roads to drive on. Farming was a When I rl'as in high school I was allowed to be an gamb[...] |
| [...]e heard the big high school music and I taught in elementary grades. bell, mounted on a[...]ill do volunteer work *'ith students. Mother and I threw on some clothes to hasten to the site I am thankfui for the rich inheritance that became and watch the excitement. The fire rig was small and mine because I had so many caring and sharing friends otten una[...]My sister, Margaret McCrery Toulouse, who was Th[...]ly so she could attend four years of they could. I remember Dad Reis hurrying to the bank.[...]for me because It was the only building in town that had a cement we became very close a[...]e, Montana where she lives and she, too, activity that I was drawn into since Mother always[...]er program. The took me. As the only child there, I amused myself by four children she a[...]ed are all married with families of their own. I and John Warden. of Lewistown. were married on[...]the rest after they left the area. now and farmed that land. Harry had a dairy at one T[...]Ciarence passed away in May of i975 at the age of 64 Clarence had married[...] |
| [...]the Judith good husband and father that he was, we miss him so. Mountains where we have[...]wwL south of Roy, and that is where he and his bride, Win- nie McNeil, frrst[...]to the Fergus area with his parents In i929, Olaf and Rose Baucke, daughter of John in 1[...]find so the older bo1's could start school. At that time Wisokay place. He bought his first ca[...] |
| [...]graduation from RHS Ralph went to work I After leaving the Air Force in 195? the coup[...]ge 11, Berre Arrenssnn'i' RINoeI- Owen age 3 and Stephen born in late 1988[...]nurse. She lived in llli' Scot was born May 25, i964 in Leu'istown. He is in no[...] |
| [...]y went east. Mrs. Parker hunted for that frequently occur at the opportune moment as the[...]he pasture infrequently visited became evident that she had gone some distance. Ed and[...]by Preston Sandbo My father, E.O. Sandbo, established and owned his shots of whiskey (I saw this!) and some bottles of liquor. lst drug store in Roy, possibly in 1913. I was born at Years later I discovered several bottles of Canadian home September 6, 1914. I was delivered by a non- Club in the garage at Stanford. Whiskey from my dad's practicing chiropractor, by the name of Jac[...]. town. My dad sold his store to A. A. Johnson who had a My folk's second car was a Hupmobile which dad small[...]sold to a barber whose only name I can remember was Weedell. My dad sold his store in early 1926 when we[...]e the car in rum-running. moved to Stanford where my dad bought a drug store. I What happened to him remains unkn[...]special qhoe with a thick sole. My dad's store at Roy burned to the ground about 1920 My mbther and several other musicians used to play o[...]There may have been another musician whom I don't a storage shed and coal bin" According to the story, I remember. The dance hall was near[...]e shed 1921 in the dance hall. My two sisters helped wind and cases of whiskey woul[...]crepe paper ribbons around a May Pole. wall. My dad left space by stacking his pharmaceuti-[...]a noted aviator, Charles Lindberg. He and space. My dad, I heard, was arrested as part of the[...]Someone of the "gartg" Lewistown. My dad and others talked Lindberg and his paid his f[...]partner in to bringing their World War I vintage bi- |
| [...]ght. There were two cockpits ahead of the piiots. I was a single rider in the front cockpit and the p[...]boys rode between the handlebars ahead of Joe. On my ride, we hit a culvert near the north end of the street and my. right foot got stuck between the fender and tire on the' front wheel. I spent a month in St. Joseph Hospital the summer of 1925. The cast came off about two weeks before school. I heard several men wonder wh1'the cul-[...]The two brick buildings were occuped by banks. My stories were set by hand. dad, Reed We[...]rs were interested in the bank The bank my father was interested in closed before about 3 lots south of my father's store. Almost at the the other b[...]tube leading into the bank. Rainfall was I remember a summer celebration with a verv small[...]rass band playing. iowing an extended dry period, I climbed a ladder at the I remember a celebration with a tug of war, possibl[...]le. It was The next day a bank employee announced that the then that I saw my first negto, a woman married to a gauge had measu[...]next paragraph.) Most people were wearing coats My mother directed a play a year or two after WWI[...]y end of a promontory just south of town. I remember across the street from my dad's drug store. Johnson, who had a hardware store, saying the coal My dad was on the school board at one time. I know had too much ash. He had tried bur[...]and wanted to get away from two old maid sisters that would accumulate enough cotton to just g[...]Antwerp, Belgium and sailed him on horses that would buck him off. He gradually to New Or[...] |
| [...]Rov smail town at that time. He found work on the William i[...]for coal. There were seventeen men I grew up rvith no children to play with until I was |
| [...]'oxy Or Nt)RrnEasrrRx Fsncus CouN'r'y didn't steal her poultry and even little pigs. They[...]could get. and I helped to load cattle into stock cars. In 1912 the family moved[...]',if |
| [...]hilarious and exciting gumbo as sticky as ever. "That Dodge car just kept a incidents. T[...]Hodges who lived at Hilger during that all the corrals etc. burnt up. [Nore: The vat was[...]olt battery *'ith a coil. He could reach out and that his dad was driving home from a field of hay he[...]bumpy roads. He broke up the still that was in the old red livery barn. fell or tripped i[...]owing as never injury and then told Mr. Simkins, "I couldn't have done before! a better j[...]cely. The wooden sidewalks that were in Roy in those eariy The Simkins had a homemade sled that consisted of days were about a foot[...]Kids runners. They went everywhere in winter in that sled, spent quite a bit of time craw[...]es. on their bellies looking for money that people had lost Brice loved to watch the frdd[...]1956 at the age of 76. All of their children are that wonderful fiddle.[...]in San Mateo, California. rvas a bad snowstorm that built a snowbank up against Brice[...]the Great Northern Railroad, for get a shovel so that they could dig their way out of the ye[...]by Euelyn "Toots" Simhins Hay Most of my memories of Roy revolve around farm iife.[...] |
| [...]ee, tea, etc. I remember horses, there were rodeos on Sunday and[...]at the Wass Mercantile. I remember the dances in Roy. We had a sleigh and[...]ome by train to Chicago, Illinois to I graduated from the 8th grade in Roy. The farm was[...]choice of Roy, Montana was influenced by the fact that depot at Armells between Fergus and Hi[...]beef still readable. It was so full and heavy that when it was from these herds to feed th[...] |
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| [...]Roger and his wife, Martha, are on the ranch that his Their two sons both married in 1987. Kenny[...]for the tropical locale. The article stated that several to El Cajon Valley in California. They pu[...]o- I\.q-lBcYs srrTr I dian. Later he rvent to work for the Montana H[...]) (-::., I[...]I[...] |
| [...]arried mail, ning of the transportation business that he continued freight and supplies, of all[...]rs. It was a great convenience to He recalled that the Red Barn, owned by Jack make th[...]The roads were gumbo traiis at frrst. He told that he was nowhere else to stay.[...]rgus Street, on the west side of 33 years old. In i919, a bleak year, Stendal told that he Roy. Mrs. Anna Stendal became the bookkeep[...]sold the firm. In 1966, fc.,llowing wagon traiis that were dim, with grass grow- Stendals m[...] |
| [...]ome- steaded in the Winifred area. When World War I came along, he sold out to Wherley's, and went in[...]ig garden. Lizzie remem- in the home that they moved into in 1939 and when bers one year, "[...]m 1914 to the Great Depression. My folks moved to Cal:for- 1931. Fred Bentley Stevens was born June 11, 188i at nia in 1931 and I stayed on in Billings to g:aduate Spencer, Iowa.[...]ly- in 1933. In California Dad and I worked on a wood, California. Belle J. Hinkey was born in 1883 in ranch until 1939. When I started with Walt Dis- Illinois and died in 1939[...]LeRoy Umstead was my best friend and we "Our mail came in by rail.[...]were very fond of his whole family. We were, I/elt, the post office. Mr. Marsh was postmaste[...]from the Roy Mercantile years that I lived there. Dad also wrote farm Company own[...]cery store. We bought our milk I was born in the little white house on the hiil at[...]the south end of Main Street. I attended school, chickens etc. from farmers[...]n Van Nuys, California and senior year in My mother ran a small bakery and lunch coun- Billings. Mrs. Jensen taught my 1st and 8th year. ter, in the old land office next to the bank after it My memories of my life in Roy, even the hard- closed, for abou[...]ships, are worth the world to me. I was able to Dad started the "First National Bank of Roy" draw on some of my experiences and the "look" of in 191.{. When[...]ings where Mother and Dad rvhere I was employed for 43Yz years (1940-1983).[...] |
| [...]o/.i- was robbed by a couple of men who were rvant[...]being rescued |
| [...]l OF NoR'fHEASTeRx FERr;r's Cr_ruNry All of my recollections of Roy are after 1925. I we moved quite often, always seem[...]about 1926 or Ig27. Roy. I was a freshman in high school when my |
| [...]el Freed came from Grass Range My grandparents died in their Roy home in the 30's to deliver her. My elder son, George, was born in my and are buried in Lewistown. My Aunt Ida May Dot- grandparent's house, 25 December L92g. My other son, son, sold their place[...]d to a Mr. Matheson (Dotson's My father bought a home in Siiverton, Oregon. He business associate) about 1929. My father bought a died in 1970 at[...]is buried there. ranch about ten miles from Roy. I taughi school across We moved ba[...]Larsen stayed with me and drouth. My husband, Ole, died in 1982 and is buried in took[...]Harlowton. I believe that was the year the drouth began and my [Ida Vodall, now 83 years lives at[...]ung people. In 1914, L.M.A. wrote in his diary that fine weather When Alby was 23, he[...]One of 100 men chosen for special training at the didn't read much. Instead, he sang to keep himsel[...] |
| [...]$1 for doing a day's odd jobs. medical man on the I15-man ship. He could not swim, so This wa[...]Alby on 31 March 1921 in Lewistown's that is, until her cousins and she found old First Epi[...]he youngest on the neck. and levels of expertise (i.e., amateur, semi-pro, and pro) Barnett H.[...]uding was the Seover home, built c. 1918, that L.M.A. and Alby Ed Kalal and Dan Kalal. It was po[...]Rod and Gun Club, school lunch. It took years to enjoy bananas again. L.M.A. board, vo[...] |
| [...]nator from Fergus County and was frrst elected in i932, serving through 1938. Under Governor Ayers, L[...]y to Bohemian Corner. This was known as the "road that went nowhere". but this stretch later dete[...] |
| [...]by Homer R. Willis My parents, Nora and Homer Willis and their daugh- t[...]Roy on June 17, 1934. They moved a house from Roy that fall to the Butterfield Ranch 1% miles east of Ro[...]es Lee, Alene Loraine (Mrs. Hall Cowen), Robert I remember in the 1950's how my parents, Mr' and Leon, and Joyce Joan[...]terfield, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Stepan I ieft Roy January 1941, returning to Roy in 1950 a[...].T. Piumb, who was the Milwaukee with my wife, Inga, and daughter, Diane. I worked agent in Roy, would have get-togethers occasionally at with Dad on the ranch and in i954 took over the gas each other's homes"[...]station in 1962 Dad passed away in November of i960 and Mother and continued[...] |
| [...]lick). June was a sister to Mrs. and two girls. My wife and I now live in Washington Gordon Ander[...]teve, Class of 73, lives in Billings where he is that time except for 3 years, from 1g78 to 1981, when[...]oky, daughter of Jim and Ruth Sir- lings. During that time Sherry and her husband ran the ok[...]dge of Chicago; Joe F. of Roy; Walter remembers that they went into Roy for mail Esther, the[...]and grocenes with horse and buggy, and once in a,,i,hile transfer and storage business in[...] |
| [...]cago in 1928 where he passed away in February of that year. Katherine returned to[...]' .i;.,, q.{ i ,'n started a furniture store in Roy. Harry stayed out on the l:f-Illlt{:. -.i rli i . homestead.[...]-!,I,[...] |
| [...]' i built up and was the important reason that he pulled through. Milk was deiivered to the Roy[...]. He built a one-room cabin of logs on his land that was home for the family during their nine years o[...]n Chicago, and three children, Jennie, Laura and 8i11. Mrs. Wright was born Mary Hennessy, a daught[...]knew all the .t-:i ,lft^\ brands in the Northeast section of F[...]';'" ,-i known as far away as Chicago", as reported in "Mon- '---i+[...]een remodeled and today is an new one that arrived, and for birthdays for the |
| [...]and retired to Lewistown. cause utterances that were "unbelievable". But Bill[...]by Walter A. Wright Born in Chicago, Ill., I came to Montana in 1913. I The good, old homestead days have come an[...]But memories still linger on. I don't remember much about those early years, I wouldn't trade one day back then except that everything seemed a long way off, and big[...]g round and round; Armells Creek, and it was just that-dry. We had to go But no matt[...]n the morning before daylight; Somehow, it seemed that I was the only one who could B[...]The rooster crows, the coyote wails, I picked lots of sage brush in those early days, an[...]In about 1924 we moved to Roy, and it was there that oats and hay; I received my education. Separates the milk in the old Delavell- I guess I have done just about everything in my life. Don't turn on, till he cra[...]when he can't hear the bell. tion", and paid all my expenses. I saw a lot of country Five-gallon can of cream, a dollar thirty-five; that I would never have seen otherwise.[...]nts a dozen for eggs-if they're nice; About all I get done now that I'm retired is a lot of Nineteen-cent wheat, not very much for oats or rye- nothing. I just live one day at a time, and sometimes[...]From that piot of g'round,[...]homesteaders on Dry Armells, T 20, R 21 and ized that fall. Mrs. Clow was a daring woman for her[...] |
| [...]a where he following a stroke. It was determined that he had been stricken[...]ot. We are doomed to spend one vear In the land that God forgot. We sweat, we[...]efenders of our Iand Nobody knows that we're alive, Right in the middle of no*'[...]Hoping that while we're away When we reach th[...]L. Ros6i!er. R. Rollr- WORLD WAR I |
| [...]Ii Alirrr fcrl I rrnrs,,n. R,,nrld Hans,'n Nrrrmrn l'sl!1. P{rr\ Ed i\laulund. (trirn \mr lt ( lrrrtn( l{,ird. I ),,nIld Kalina. I l,n;tld Sp[...]Irurr: T,,m lltdrnrn \l'M. (i Xrrliha.('harlcs Mockling[...]l).)n€t. \'irgrl fl,rarck. I rank taFountarn Ale 0[...]e. Gtorge t rrr John R I)uff). Chesler lloracek. ltrlph[...]lluciaiack, Wilham I:rRrrque Jr* Petrrnel. Frsnk[...]lr'nuld llrtcrnsr,n !\1i[, l-rlek,[...]Ramn,,rer. Bud Wight. Cari (,,nlll\ I'hfl,n iaorhon< Jr.. Frd[...]Rrllrcr. Victor Roben I ',tlrr'll Ed*in fieior. Cur[...]l!ils,,n. r,{rrlll (;ill)rrr I rnk B,,b Jakes tio'rgr tlen[...]Llnllng. ldurence Sandstr)m. I )al€ \TDlfe. Harold ,-,,Irr{'ll. Nl.i\ r') (;f,rlhotner.5lirn[...]Siroky, Jerrl' 7-aho. Arnold (i'$fn, HJll ll:rnrann- R[...]ith. Cla) | )anicls. ltill I llnr,n. llrr,,ld Kalal. l)ick[...]Emcrt. Charles C Harvey, I)on[...]lionrrrek. Dean Manin, Tenl I)ean Robbins. Many ilustnhirrk. Mcrl[...], l'ralk Robbins. Mike Husenbark, R'.i*rt Engtish..lim[...]Montgomery. Tim Sarerficld, Eddre I)ean Bus€nb!rk. Samm] English- Jim Sr. Horachek. I)on LaFlunrain, Gerald M[...]Ial_uunarn. Melr rn lli,vrrs. I)on Smith. Can- t ,,ulrrr lLnilld[...]Phillrps, Gmrge webs@r. l)oug I rrnrrls R,'lrrrt Itarrell Jr[...]Kanancn. Mike Russell L:ttengarver, Al I)uane Rindal. le Zahn, Wilbe[...]Harrison. I)ebhi! lrrcks,'n R,,lprts[...]men who went lo war from Central Montana-stories that were undoubtedly repeated many times over,[...] |
| [...]ember of 1942 to June of 1943. went overseas. He didn't see America for six long years.[...]its tour through were fed dog and cat meat, but that was a delicacy," Minneapolis, Chica[...]Lwes Losr Fon Oun CouNrny He said the Japanese didn't intend to keep them The following is a list of those that we know of who another winter when the bomb was d[...]are of men to battle. great Indian rl'ar that occured in the Valentine area. A few noteworthy items that have been collected during Mu[...] |
| [...]ts, etc., Kalal was secretary. By i919 there was a membership one had to redeem coupo[...]On March 23, 1943 it was reported that the Red Cross pound of sugar, a pound of m[...] |
| [...]y. only got $21 a month, not enough for anything. I was Everyone saved their newspapers a[...]Many were the women, and men, who were not cross that notifred his commanding officer, enabling[...]area. It was probably the wouldn't have accepted my call or a relative's call, but beginning of[...]surprise did them and did them father's funeral. "I nevgr was asked to repay them, well, even to the farming and ranching business. More although I did when I could afford to", Coulter said. surprising they found out that they liked working out[...]ly 60's the Department of Defense began that is visible, except at the control base, is a ceme[...]presence of air force person- The silo bottom, that houses the missiles, lies 82 feet nel that make daily checks, people tend to forget them. be[...]Robert L. Fink My boyhood memories, bring joy to With anxious eyes the house I watched Me now[...]For it was supper time. I remember well, that task at Hand.[...]nd. I made the biscuits disappear[...]This was my Mom's reward. The field was forty-four[...]My life had it's mistakes And in the blazi[...]With only me to blame I dropped the plow to the ground The fields and plows gtew larger My lesson had begun.[...]So supper is surely on. My lesson was in patience, The Master speaks "come", your One I truly learned Harvest does abound For if I was persistent, the last furrow[...] |
| [...]ffi:i,[...]e monster made the ground tremble ,Ior"i, were piled into'shochs' or small stachs a[...] |
| [...]door to ascertain the cause. She quickly noticed that something rvas partially shutting out[...] |
| [...]to his departure Southworth place. It is believed that Francis died while for the hospital, stated that he was covered with small[...]eruptions even to the soles of his feet, and that he had they lived at Staff. The \Vares came from[...]breaks. Rachel's status had changed tell Uncle Al that they *'ould have to return Rachel to abruptly from that of a carefree 16-year-old girl to a her mother. I[...]One bright note to Rachels life was her piano, a that Iived at Gilt Edge. The other two girls were adop[...]hired to relieve Rachel of some of the chores so that eventually settling in Spokane, Washington where[...]elters sold out and moved was 16 when she learned that the Eschmeyer's had[...] |
| [...]She studied all printed matter on nursing that she family made some progress. Three more daughte[...]He died a week later in Rochester in i926. It took several days to reach the homestea[...]ing snow, spending another few 1927. All that remained after 20 years of ranching were days at[...]clothes, an old trunk and a few coins. creek of "angry water" when the bridge caved in, the R[...]oyed traveling and she had a happy reunion blocks that Nick made with the assistance of Rachel[...]3 times weekiy. The mail still does this. In 19i5 Ben Bean donated land for the town of Val-[...]er steaders came into the area. There was a hotel that yard, and Dr. T.W. Nickel. The b[...] |
| [...]anized. There were various preachers and priests that held services in Val- entine but there was never[...]e socials, and box suppers. "There was one boy that used to bake bread there too. We used to call him 'Kill-a-man-off . I don't know what Valentine was a busy Place the daY photo his name was. I don't know what kind of bakery you'd[...]netirne after 1928. call it, but it was a dug-out that he baked bread in. It rvas good bread too, even ifit didn't look good" reported Bernard Lewis. Vale[...] |
| [...]ast girL in the row is Mary -\i Jone Casteel.[...]identified. i-']'[...]/i3,*--[...]x ScHoor Sage Creek district rvas created in 19i3. The first teacher was Mabelle Galloway and one[...]county. The part in Fergus county |
| [...]ble was rveek. always set with at least i5 places, as the Bean ranch In 1915, Ben Bean donated land for the town of ran many sheep at that time and had a big crew of men Valentine.[...]streets, avenues and alleys. It was said that Mrs. Bean Murphy, who later married Harry Mclaugh[...]line Summers in Washing- Many a time, I woke up in the morning and the bed ton. Harlan wa[...]to visit friends. He were enough of us kids that I usually slept with my liked what he saw and filed on a homestead 4Yz mi[...]ter "The next year we all moved to the homestead, my par- days sure took a lot of wood to keep[...]WalreH AND SrELr-A Bnvrs I can still remember that 12 x 16 foot cabin sitting in grass about three f[...]is wife, Stella, and a box car roof. By tar paper I mean the cabin was con- family came to the[...]ington. They had six children; Paul born in 1900, that was kept on by lathes. The best that could be said Esther born in 1902, Francis born in 1904, Fern born in was that the tar paper did hold out the wind, but the[...]ld "teil you lots of stories about the trials and that the community built the Valentine Hall. Les haule[...]hem!" back with a load from Winnett, he found out that he Once was when he and Dorothy decid[...]reversed the direction of the steering wheel so that Les to take care of their harvest. Thev hi[...] |
| [...]ht have to worry about the mud, but piece of pipe that he fastened so that it wouldn't slip they now can cross the[...]s; Joe, now of Bowman, South Dakota; mud. The car didn't have lights so they hung a lantern Earl[...]Kalispell. they were mud from head to toe, but that didn't dampen The Bevis's retired and moved[...]Wyoming to the Bohemian One day I looked out and saw our little Sammy with Corners[...]I still don't know how he kept from getting kicked.[...]bought the Anton We had a hen that layed her eggs in a bucket in the Koliha place. T[...]got up and the creek was running bank full. Late that farming.[...]t was greatly Merl started school that fall; Mae Jackson was his a nnrcci a fer[...] |
| [...]Hlsrony Or NonrHr..rsrERN FERGUs Couxr.i Martinec were in his grade. Merl helped his dad[...]Sam served in Germany, Korea and Viet Nam. He |
| [...]green and gawky country boy when he met me, but that wasn't true. I think he'd gone with every avaiiable girl in the[...]to homestead Eugene Covert was born Ma1. i 7, 1848, in Ohio" Mary about a mile from V[...] |
| [...]rst few months in Montana, father insisted that they do their reguiar ranch work Mrs. Covert and[...]ty and Sam and Zell Conolly warm. They didn't think he would live, but he made it. and Donald c[...]s and lived Then she took +,hem with her. in that until the men got the log cabin built.[...]s freshman year. weighed less than two pounds, in that time before incu- Donaid served in the Arm[...]n bed for several weeks to keep him Other than that he soent his life on the ranch with his |
| [...]fe in Roy. They lived in money that was in the home. They had only moved in a Roy aft[...]the flames spread so fast that only the walls remained[...]stantaneously, men years and prior to that time had ranched in that area. working beside him reported, and result[...]the Presbyter- was so impressed with the country that she decided to ian Church. He took gre[...]by Paul Fuglestad My father, Ole Fuglestad, purchased the Snowball[...]y as a in 1958. We lived in Lewistown until I gtaduated from sheepherder in Montana. He eventua[...]read with operations in For several years my parents lived in semi-retirement, Hardin, Crow Ag[...]Ole died in 1979, in Mesa, Arizona. Unfortunateiy my daughters Mary and Jeanne Powers, moved to the[...]e in 1982, Mary in Snowball place on Blood Creek. I was born December 1987. My mother, Ethei, Iives in Twin Falls, Idaho 11th of that year[...] |
| [...]furnished reasonable ground for the theory that Mr. A"J. Hughes, who had permitted the young[...]in, County Attorney Groene, made it apparent that the the former home of the young man,[...]of cheap transporta- was a full-time job that first summer to keep the range tion and free[...]y at the time. The Horseshoe Bar headquar- My dad was shown a hundred and sixty acre tract of[...]s the ranch manager. It lay next to some land that was not open to home- I remember one incident when a big Hereford bull[...]proved for came charging at our milk cows that were tethered frling. Later he filed on an a[...]eye put out. My mother grabbed a shotgun and shot the which was the maximum that could be home. bull square in the face. It didn't kill the bull, but it was ' steaded.[...]Montana. He had to have an auction I remember that we ate Cattle Co. beef when we of his livesto[...]accepted by the Cattle Co. and I'm sure that other In.March of '14 he was ready to go. H[...]eighbors lVe were met in Biilings by our dad. I remember we (where the Ed Styers live[...]ey got permission to start a school in a building that Lydia, were on the train with us from Nebrask[...]r The next day we went as far as Lewistown. I remem- headquarters. Mable Galloway was[...]s more than anything else about the time that we were on the homestead. Lewistown, on my first trip there. The next day we went[...]and buggy there father passed away and we didn't frnd out about his so we started out for the[...]o walk along behind and throw the circus tent that we had brought from Nebraska. Three sag[...]the furrou' and the other one piled it boys, my uncle, four horses, and a couple of cows,[...] |
| [...]ng, at least not with what we had to farm with at that time. For Thanksgiving of 1915 we had no meat,[...]r mom made a big meatloaf. We had some vegetables that we had raised and we ended up with a pretty good[...]and 13th Roy HaIm. By 19i5 there were 10 kids in school; two Living- stons. three Martins and five Gores. About that time a Mr. Slive (I think that was his 1918. Dad and I went there to harvest the grain that he name) decided to relinquish his claim and our[...]strict. where we had moved in April. Well, we didn't have to In 1916 there were 13 kids in school; fiv[...]illie (St' John) of Lewistown and The last time I saw the homestead was August of Glen o[...]and Jeane Hagen Heller. came along. My parents, Paul and Sadie Hagen, came to Montana My personal memories date back to the 1920's. Our fr[...]in home was a one room log house to which my dad and Petroleum County, about three miles south[...]uie Phillips', Nick Hayfields', and Bill My first grade teacher was Ruth Stephens. We first T[...]miles. The only attended the Long School but that burned to the ground means of transportation at that time was by horseback in 1929. so we went[...]three years. Mrs. ZeIl Conolly was the teacher at that appear in the 1920's. Neighbors worked together,[...]as often as possible. Hardly a Sunday snow, my dad would walk with us, breaking trail, then went[...]ddle player, Charlie Miller, who walked i started high school in Winnett in 1932 at the beg[...]stayed at the dormitory. Board and room that year was |
| [...]403 six dollars a month and my parents had a hard time |
| [...]known" wheat grower in that area. He was a true western pioneer. Before hom[...]orking and Turner, w'ho w'as home at the time, that he expected to die industrious[...] |
| [...]g was born in 1886 in Woodland, that year he died of a heart attack at his cabin. He i[...]frightened the boys, but Mrs. Lewis had been told that the men loaded the Lewis' belongings and supplies[...]Mrs. Harding had grieved so much that she had lost they started off to their new home a[...]the station and ate their "grub". Grub was a word that homestead of John Sinclair. Berna[...]", but stead of John. He wanted land that looked as much like |
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