Homestead Shacks over Buffalo Tracks: History of Northeastern Fergus County [Montana] (2025)

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	[...]and of this community. CI.ARKE AND LUELI..A BELDEN CHRIS A[...]Freddie and Patricia Vessey ARCH JOHNSON[...]I.A,URENCE AND MARGA.RET KAI,.NH JOSEPH[...]
	[...]LORENCE DUFFY LEONA I.A,RSON ERNEST ZAHN[...]V.A. "Bud" and Virginia Norskog[...]
	[...]- July 31, 1989 Boy, Montana, a tiny town Settling on their homesteads Just a srnall dot on the map[...]Each proceeded to build a life Told to us and our children[...]they struggled to fulfill their dreams Open a treasure chest of memories[...]ze acres that once were dotted Searching for a life that's free[...]A tremendous debt we owe them Their dreams saw[...]Who cleored a pathway for us Grazing on the grassy plain"[...]We won't let them be forgotten or To wrest a liuing from the soil[...]mber 1O 19?7. Jim came from Yugoslavia in 1913 at a-ge four, with his four aiet€r8 and broth[...]
	[...]to thank all the people it took to make this book a reality. people from the age of 12 to 87 helped with this book. Some people need special mention. A special thanks to our patient and fearless leader[...]e Zahn, Ella Rindal, and Donna Lund. They donated a lot of time and effort. The members of the com[...]Kalal. Thanks to the Roy School and B. J. Niemi, A special thanks to the students who helped: Geor[...]trunk Kananen for art work. These students were a great help. Thanks to Mary Ann Quiring and[...]os and information above the call of duty: Carley Graham, Edyth Kauth Oquist, Earline Tully McNeil, Hele[...]and Marie Zahn.Thanks to Monte Lund for donating a sculpture to be raffled. We would especia[...]it the space in the book. Don Hardy made us a set of eight maps showing the early homesteads. A[...]people are already talking about doing another in a few years.[...]
	[...]by Donna Lund The idea for doing a history of the Roy-Fergus-Valentine area had been tossed around for several years; it took the deaths of a couple of "Old Timers" to get the ball rolling. F[...]in with three families met and talked about doing a history. They started a list of names of anyone they could think of that[...]. Then everyone in the commun- ity was invited to a meeting. About 20 showed up the first time. More[...]all kinds of advice and ideas. We organized a history group wiih officers and a set of by-Iaws. It does help to have people support such a project. Most of the work has fallen on about fou[...]ng to sponsor raffles, pre-book sales, donations, a dance, the saie of special pens, paper and envelopes and in memorials. Ideally on a project such as this there should be one group of[...]nces. However we didn't have that many people, so a few did both. We sent form letters to all the people we had addresses for along with a geneology form and a request for addresses of anyone else. Response wa[...]es, as possible in working on the book. There was a book naming contest and a book cover designing contest. We gave a talk at the high school. Ilia put little items of[...]ana, and in other states, in an effort to put out a quality book at a price we thought we could afford. There are many[...]s file folders and lots of postage. There is a great deal of work in putting together a book of this type to be able to do it in t[...]
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	[...]started out to raid. But I also haue a natiue state But[...]enery, Some built up a homestead, In the south, Crow In[...]To help the country out. A wonderful state lihe this[...]Afraid, without a doubt. It was born in 1889[...]is a mixture of light greens, gtays and silvers, yello[...]e ridge and 2200 feet summer's heat becomes a powdery dust that whirl- on the bottom. winds, or even a cow trailing to water, can send blow' Black But[...]hwestern ing high into the atmosphere. A rain shower can boundary. Under the vast skyline, and clear atmos- quickly turn it into a sticky greasy glue-like substance
	[...],rn'r'irras'rl:Hl Fcnc;t's C0uxrr that can hair a vehicie's travel anci make wallling[...]extinct *,ith and cactus. On wet years it can be a sea of yelk_rw the rising waiers. It was a very small anima)., weighed clover. Prairie prim[...]bioom during wet seasons; There are a fes' remaining who were fortunate to see wild yel[...]e season. In dry years the semi-deseri can assume a tory. What once was bottom land on[...]conditions ofthe eariy 1g00's, all recent years) a busy highrvay, plus easier access and a but depleted wildlife. WWII was a boon for game. There high intensity of hunters ar[...]he fresh artesian water. over reservoirs. It is a country that can fool one. The seemingly fl[...]pull from its waters is the paddlefish, a prehistoric bad lands by the early French-Canadi[...]creature, with no true bone development and a long covered with juniper, ponderosa pine and so[...]posts to build fences. of the fish are a gourmet delight. A female can yield 10, Along the creeks that hea[...]By the 1880's the river had become a major transpor- poplar, birch, pine and fir trees. tation corridor for a flourishing fur trade. With the dis- Along the[...]sands of is prime wiidlife habitat and hunting is a major recrea- teeth and bone fragments[...]James McCollum, discovered the fossil of a mosasaurs Iarge fertiie lands once grew to[...]
	[...]not soon forgotten, were the annual roundups from a[...]n buffalo rock by the Indians and were carried as a good the Chicago market. luck piece. A man named Chamberlain is thought to have It is[...]gs, Cone Butte was named for him. He had a cabin there, salamanders, turtles, crocodiles, snails, clams and birds built for a line camp, that several homesteaders men- have be[...]U.S. Army Stephens. In 1898, W.D. Deaton, a colorful oldtimer of near the Bear Paws.[...]Horse Shoe Bar sp;ead. The Black Butte was once a favored Indian look-out, for Horse Shoe B[...]Oregon. William Fergus arrived a few years afler James Indians who inhabited this region were mainly the and built up a sizeable sheep herd on Box Elder. Oscar nomadic tribes of Assiniboins (a branch of the Sioux Stephens was located[...]Barn Ranch now owned and operated by Gary and -a tough and the half-breed Metis. It is reported th[...]ame to have sizeable flocks of sheep. A local woolgtowers at this time. These families se[...]grams, the cattle business still plays a major role in the early 1900's the ranges were dotted with cattle. A scene area's economy. Today, instead o[...]
	[...]abounds, ranches sonic booms. It has become a training flight area for are secluded, but where[...]of being in trouble with the for Carroll to erect a trading post for the I.G. Baker U.S. Marshal[...]s some years previous, Matt Carroll and Colonel C.A. ordered the liquor he received an order[...]ied up on the upper end of the bulls made a deep moaning sound that rumbled like bottom, a sagebrush flat and a twenty foot cutbank thunder, so differen[...]rgy and his bull- they would come in at a run and charge out into the wackers were already getting out building logs from a river-often crossing and goingrto graze on[...]f the bot- on the north side. When stampeded, a herd would wipe tom. None of the Broadwater-Carro[...]ir path. This was something to Augustus Tyler had a small log building on the extreme guard agai[...]d 25' Five dollars was the price given for a head and tail x 40' trade room with two counters and shelves in back cow buffalo robe. A family would bring from five to for groceries and[...]building was built for kitchen and and keep a few for himself, $ving the rest to the women dini[...]y men held $6,000 worth of stock and trade goods. A small did not drink.
	[...]to the post on the first boat in patched a French-Cree employee, Archie Amiott and[...]ess. The Blackfeet ier for T.C. Powers & Brother; A.E. Rogers, Broadwater and most of the B[...]ided to return to & Pepin Co. and John Goeway for a Boston firm. Daily, their Canadian reseryations to collect $5.00 per head these men sat in a row, with pencil and paper, counting fro[...]No. 1 and No. 2 that they could earn a better living hunting here. according to color an[...]pounds of dried buffalo meat and pemmican went to a hunting hard this winter to earn mon[...]ng war they were plan- The 1880-1881 winter waa a successfirl season. ning in Canad[...]last of the blankets were traded to the Cree and a camped near in the breaks and came to the post fo[...]ds to the post at supplies. One of this gang shot a young Cree boy as he the mouth of the J[...]he blanket left the post, this ended their trade. A Cree was sent to supply. The fifty blankets lasted only three days when Colonel Bartlett with a note from Schultz to take action they cam[...]antelope and other skins. ton and brought dowa a big supply of trade goods for Seve[...]of the buffalo Musselshell. However, they wished a trading post be trade, a sad day to see the demiee of these animals from set up there, and so Kipp readied about a thousand dol- the plains on which the Indians needs demanded. lars worth of trade goods and a samp outfit and dis- Goon Bur'rar.o Honsp Wes Wonrn A Iot[...]rr Roy, Grass Range and Judith Eany a8 they could. Basin county for a hide cornpany. Eli, an excellent rifle M[...]rocedure. Others would follow with teams and A good buffalo horse wae worth a lot of money for he wag:ons. Teams wer[...]s for drying and shipment east. well broken ao a rnan could ehoot a riJle from his back. Buffalo hidee, for a long time, brought only one doilar Flour was selling for $100 a sack at Rocky Point and apiece.[...]
	[...]de. Coal was also only went a few feet before he put the case down mined, as re[...]ll within our sight. I remarked to Dad, "It A number of men are still diggrng coal on the Butte[...]ral are through for the winter, having gotten out a lifted it the previous night to move i[...]e gold it was so heavy. estimated that around a hundred ton have been taken out Ten[...]ire winter'e bars were stoleh from a mine at Zortman and no supply of coal for the[...]ent. They could of commercial value and is on a school section, but it not figure out[...]hought of someone walk- One man can dig about a thousand pounds a day" ing out with that heavy a load, much less crossing Deposits of coal were a[...]ook the gold and the man at our house fit" When A mining claim of Pick Handle Bourke's lies some-[...]anybody in this area. A fellow by the name of Kies found $10,00[...]e west then in the late 70's a new surge began and the mines at side of Musselshell. He went to town, got a couple of Zortman, Landusky, Kendall and in the Judiths are fellows to join him in a mining venture and they started boomin[...]paid well in those early days: $8.00 per dav for a miner; $4.00 per day for laborers and timbermen[...]pped and the rigs are pulled up and gone before A story told by a rancher living in the area north of a[...]n as to what they found. In the winter of 1949 a man walked into our They never tell. Periodically a speculator will come in place carrying a small leather case. He asked to and lease the oil rights for a few years from local land stay all night. The[...]lly nothing else happens. But it all keeps him a ride, as far as the old King Trail, a mile alive the dream of an oil st[...]i5 slpim, "The Bull of miles north of Cone Butte, a mountain which arises the Wo[...]d is traveling toward China on An article from a local newspaper, titled Cone Butte his lead on EIk Mountain. He has a fine prospect. News, stated what the loca[...]
	[...]interest capitelints in the district running a tunnel on the Silver Crescent. They think they[...]and it is thougbt that by the judicioue use of a little have struck it rich.[...]e will not June 11, 1891. George A. Cunningham, of Cone Butte,[...]e to Scottsdale, Penn. Mr" seil for less than a mi.llion.[...]s Bince Teiluride Vincent Gies is drifting on a small vein of ore in May 1881 and ha[...]Butte district. He says he will put a good portion of his ore for shipping.[...]will be knowa as Black Jack Murphy is running a tunnel on the Phoenix. the Co[...]veloprnent of the Golden Jack No. 1 to strike a bonanza i-n about 10 days.[...]trict and known as "The Bull of the Woods" From a December 25 issue 1890 of a local paper it caught f[...]boiler. They had reacbed a depth of 107 ft. ia the shaft,' stated:[...]croescutting "Richard Gies of Maiden took out a Patent on his mine in[...]when the dieaster occurred. Tbe loss ie a eerioue one at the Cone Butte district. The property is known a8 "The[...]is known which passes along the ore body for a distance of200 feet. that the early day prospector found a lot of the ore The ore assays from $12 to $26[...]g mined today. There is still much cent lead. A shipment of a car load of ore was made firet gold to be[...]not yet been received. Mr. Giee has been offered a formed miilions of years ago from therm[...]uids. Those who have seen the mirre say it i8 a great bonanza." Problems between enviro[...]operations can be developed. Mining will take a big join the M.K. on the west and joins the Vo[...]development that Montana needs. Haneen has a claim next to the Voltair. Oecar and[...]found. Will Landru hauled water to the welle with a feet, hit gas at 1380 feet, with 425 pounds of pressure team of horses and a big steel water tank mounted on a coming out of the well. It[...]
	[...]", commanded by Captain fire by her rowdy crew in a drinking session; and when Abe Wolf, went h[...]was built on the west end of the levee, a three stgry boats, with 400 tons of cargo and 300[...]n "All trails lead to Fort Benton" was a familiar state 1875, which was called the Benton[...]was the anchor of the Mullan the Block "P" Line, (a box with the letter P in the cen- Road to Wal[...]nter of Mon- the steamboats. Captain Grant Marsh, a fabled Mis- tana at this period, with t[...]uing names were given these river-giants, to name a few: IDA STOCKDALE, MINER, CHIPPEWA, BENTO[...]
	[...]Danpopvrl, StnaMeoAr RAcED Missouri pilots were a hot-blooded breed and engaged narrow chute[...]short cut passable. contracts and while mostly on a friendly basis, some Spread Eagle's pilot suddenly saw the short route became a no-holds-barred, imperiling steamboat hulls[...]ding for the Montana gold fields experienced such a disable her. The impact *ss dnngerously ne[...]ch applause from the deck, the Spread Eagle built a the last pound of steam, causing her to g[...]pace for more Emilie and earned her owner a big share of the river than an hour. On reaching a point where the river split trade which more than compensated for the damage by a towhead (an island submerged by high spring[...]he banks of the open for river tra{c this late is a mystery to me. river, although steam boat haffrc had stopped a long The Gros Ventre was the name of the stern[...]- Supposedly received its name from a French trapper in the early 1860's. Armells als[...]A cowboy called Panhandle Bob, who came to Mon- been known by a couple of other names. Lewis and tana with a trail herd from Texas, was working for Clark on[...]iver called it Spud Stephens and was also a wolfer and a trapper. South Mountain Creek. The Indians name[...]d were being born. were killed when a high cut bank caved in on them. He was camped near the Red Barn Ranch, a few
	[...]cus Couvry miies south of Roy, when he saw a grizzly bear at the Side Bear River" named[...]Bob tied Meat River." his horse to a tree and slipped up close so he could Rottlesnake Butte get a good shot. As he fired the bear caloe at him,[...]higirway. A high point, from which one can see for which b[...]- Nn"'ed for Whisker Davis who had a[...]. It is in the Little Crooked area. Edge where a'red-light'wornan bandaged his wounds and took[...]would believe him. They thought he had been in a Musselshell River and the trail w[...]Chain Buttes So named because they are a series of -[...]- is on Crooked Creek about a half[...]mile from the head of Whisker Coulee. A log cabin once it was the scene of a great Indian War; so much used to be t[...]e - It reminded early arrivals of a shoe button. It is in the Uttle Crooked area.[...]- This butte, shaped like a cone, lies on the[...]Butte. There use to be a huge grove of cottonwood In early years there was a house on it that would mirage and look just like a grain elevator from a trees there but in the late 40's beaver dammed up a distance.[...]o have derived its name grave of a cowboy is on the ridge just south of the from a cattle rustler, by the name of Ford, who was[...]ember 21, 1889 issue of hung by vigilantes from a cottonwood tree along its Crooked Cree[...]- From a"Crooked[...]ets near the old 79 Ttail and ness. A preachers son, a bank cashier, or a Montanan resembles a haystack from a distance. Indion Butte An old Indian lookout and[...]the terrible Sullivan's skill as a guide led the hunting party out Missouri Ri[...]of its entangling meshes and then all were a trifle the fan-tail deer.[...]l wound its way River. According to a study made by a 'history through the breaks and down to King I[...]the creek after their Indian guide. In the 80's a big Stukists meaning Wolf Mountains.[...]
	[...]for watermark. Kountz employees promised a levee to be Mathew Carroll with Chas. A. Broadwater, a leading built, but was not done. Helena financier, a partner in the undertaking. Ttre L8752 The Co[...]the Crow Tribe nego- layover was hauled at a reduced rate as the freigh- tiated to trade t[...]Camp Lewis (Lewistown), one company at Caroll, a days. By Juiy 1875, Indian attacks wer[...]e, Katie and took many picketed horses. A complete herd of P. Kountz and the Peninah wer[...]m- mules were stolen from Din-ond City. A warning boats. The first vessel, Peninah arrived at Canoll on from a Camp Louis soldier stated, ,,rebove your May 8[...]in. Although the freight did it for you." A call for more military protection was a[...]
	[...]Fencus Courrv the snow never iay on the summit. A Roy science eral deg:ees warm[...]On the topmost part of Black Butte is a place that[...]It is said that whenever you see a halo on the Butte,[...]s when asked to pay up, he pulled a gun and tried to kill between Rocky Point and For[...]e two fired at Jim. Atkinson was a no-gun man but was cool- points. Freight brought up the Missouri River on the headed and a good shot he fired once and killed the[...]o the lower Yellowstone valley where he worked as a and scenic.[...]r and helper at the Burns Trading Post. In 1883 A road house called the "Mountain House" was[...]s- Stockyards are located. There was a good spring of pectors and trail-weary cowboys st[...]oyed hauling government freight and operated only a short time due to a tragedy. from Fort Benton to Fort Maginnis and supplies to the A killing took place over a poker game - the victim McNamara store at Fort Maginnis and the mining being a stranger who rode up and sat in on the gam[...]
	[...]the lonely Mountain prairie A symbol of pure freedom There stands a cabin oll alone On that[...]ne who really knows. On the wolls once were a few family pictures Just how far bach[...]on't get me all wrong Cuz euen now it's not a disgrace. Yes, I remetnber[...]aggy, weather-beaten and gray. In fact it's a great synbol Cause, I was raised in a cabin just tike this one To all who ride[...]plished. Time could be told to country has become a source of conversation among within[...]was never terms, called desire for adventure and a natural instinct considered wasted as the en[...]w they genuine. This was proven by a fire being built in the cook managed to survive and eke out a bare living is an stove and the prese[...]was understood that the company stay for a meal or The homesteader did a few improvements and with two. In la[...]faster trans- each passing year the place took on a personality that portation became used, if anyone would get in a hurry paralleled and conveyed the hopes and dreams of the and not stay for a meal they would quickly make an owner.[...]enemy, because refusing a meal, maybe only spuds and This raw country had[...]onven- eggs, was the surest way to make a homesteader angry. iences; no roads, water, house[...]But it held all In those days there wasn't a lock on anything. The the healthful qualities tha[...]als and freedom.- The home, by putting a knife in the door from the insiqe. stead was trul[...]door, for two reasons; first, they boundaries lay a challenge to the homesteader, and could trust all their neighbors and secondly, if a hungry years have proven only the toughest, most[...]ield, he was certainly welcome to stop in and fix a healthy in mind and body to withstand the hardshi[...]il and the " To this generation who have enjoyed a pampered[...]ited them by the size and shape of the fresh such a rough life. The life in question was a very satisf- horse tracks in the yard and by[...]t up, eat or go to bed. The amount of daylight in a have on their cars nowdays, so the d[...]
	[...]desert land was situated. to reclaim a tract ofthat land. could obtain 160 acres of free[...]r' upon it live upon it for five years, cultivate a portion of it and within four years. A fee of 254 for each acre of land to be make certa[...]have it surveyed as soon as possible; file a map of the Because there was easier and more ti[...]na until 1909 when the Enlarged Home- A patent could be issued any time within the four stead Act was passed. By this act a person could receive years with an affidavit[...]the land had to be cultivated con- made. A fee of $1 per acre, per year, for three years had[...]to be made. Residence upon this land was not a require- In i912 legislation was passed reduci[...]for ment. 'proving up'from 5 to 3 years with a 5 month's absence[...]Such land in a parcel of 160 acres could be entered by[...]cr any one person at a cost of $2.50 per acre. The Homestead Act read[...]Pnr.Euprrox the head of a family, or had arrived at the age of. 2t[...]nd law of the United States was years and who was a eitizen of the United States or had[...]but every person who resided on unsurveyed filed a deciaration of intention to become one, and who public land prior to 1891 could prove up on it as a pre- was not already the proprietor of more than[...]seven years. The government recognized no sale of a home- stead claim. Fourteen months from the date[...]Oquist sent this cord to his brother Chorlie in A Desert Claim could be taken out by anyone who[...]sota, from South Dakota, in Morch of 1910. He was a resident of the state or territory in which tbey[...]write were filing. They had to file, under oath, a deciaration Ioter." Euentually both of[...]
	[...]15 MlNnncL [,A].{n In 1901 there were a few million acres (approx. 6Yz Such land could[...]as the United States and the State of Montana for a fee of considerable improved land in Centra[...]y would son's on their own place. Some visualized a future 'squat' along a creek or near a spring; build a house of wealth from oil. But, for the most part,[...]e "his" land. These people came from the owner of a 160 acre farm was rich! early squatters pr[...]d seekers Most of these people couldn't even make a down pay- and homesteaders. These people were essentially ment on such a place. f[...]homesteaders These farmers farmed by a new concept called "dry poured into Central Montana, by the thousands, from land farming". It was a system by which part of the the mid-west, east an[...]ment had given the land that had produced a crop was 'summer. them if they would lay the tracks westward. fallowed'. It is a system still used today. The railroads enticed[...]d more per capita than the nation did as a whole. Some died traveled their course. Towns beg[...]d the exodus accelerated. American Desert" became a cattle kingdom. By open There were t[...]er half of the farmers lost their land through of a given brand each ran in their own territor[...]
	[...]ed. Montana was the only state in the 48 that had a steaders with only a milk cow or two, and back to large popuiation de[...]20's. iandowners. A small operation today is the fellow who In the[...]ngs began to get better again, and farms a couple thousand acres and runs at least a cou- with the outbreak of WWII another boom was[...]ple hundred head of cattle. It has changed from a ienced. farmer walking behind a team pulling a plow turning In the 50's Roy stiil had a grocery-mercantiie store, a over a couple of acres of sod a day to huge tractors grocery-locker plant, two service stations, a Farmers driven by one man, turning over a hundred acres a day. Union Oil and Hardware Company, two grain eleva- A homesteader, in the early days, might sell out for a tors, a cafe and hotel, a garage, two bars, postoffice, few hund[...]s of today are Today Roy has three businesses, a post office and the the children, grandc[...]great grandchild- school. Fergus has nothing but a seldom used commun- ren of the men a[...]its get larger. The area has gone from the era of a few order to survive, as they have.[...]nted And here we were in Montana, a place where what with-the remote range land of Ce[...]l, one of Hemsing, homesteaded adjoining property a few years the most devastating drou[...]and there I found the tools of my new trade; a the phone rang unexpectedly. It was bad news. Unc[...]d I, then boom! I hit something! It was a large "hidden rock" all of 15, would drive to the[...]telephone, no transportation and I didn't have a license, but I was going to be behind no car tools. So I went to the cabin of John Umstead, a the wheel. No driving exam could've matched what[...]icy seemed to be paired together for a mutual support, since all the way to Montana.[...]or 20 miles away in any What an adventure for a grandma, mother and son! direction.[...]feet. John toid me that that we'd be there nearly a year. Tom Cope, whose cabin was a 10 mile horseback ride The cabin, (12 x 24 feet, but to a 15 year old from the away might have a tool to take off the pan bolts. Sure city, it fel[...]hardly ready for its new enough, he had a hex J bolt wrench with six sockets. boarders. The[...]m was how to get to Roy, or Lewis- and shoes that a kid would wear in the Northwest.[...]
	[...]iver to town, one day, and that I could take a nap, which puzzled rrie A i,iruft iiirrr., 1r,i:1, probably ride in with them. It was almost a week before though, we crawled over to about 75 der,r. $orrre ,.,,t:re someone did show. I spotted a car headed our way, and lying down, as we[...]r. That was great excitement for this going to be a great day. d[...]Jensen and Woodcock advised us our next need was a headed back. So we parted, and I headed to Wass M[...]ies. I worked on the pond, cutting and would take a month or two to get a new oil pan. Ioading huge blocks 18 inches thick. My other option was to find a welding shop. But there In January the wea[...]r: and calm. was none in Roy. What I did find was a livery stable. During the second cold week a bachelor homesteader, Luckily, the blacksmith there said he could solder a Darrell White, from nearby rode in on his gray male suitable patch with a piece of tin. So I was back in "Sweetie"[...]to be no coincidence. He was a skilled survivor. He By mid-day I had a wheat sack loaded with six quart feigned[...]ng alongside the road with the saying he had a family there to see. Turned out, he had solder-patched oil pan, waiting for Joe Bell. a battery radio in his shack, and the weather repor[...]l. Two hours went by. Still heard indicated a blizzard was heading our way. So he no Joe. Three[...]ished I'd taken. About 10 that night I made it to a lost in a prairie dog town, the snow drifts making it cabin[...]as. Somehow, I knocked on the cabin door, and a man answered. around 3 a.m. I made it back to the homestead. "What do[...]the car battery inside, and "Will you lend me a horse?" to jack up[...]y morning We arrived at the homestead about 2 a.m. A week the tires were already well down.[...]r. The wind got ized that time on the prairie has a different dimension. stronger and the snow f[...]o Roy and Lewis- in the daylight, just a gray blue. It was brighter many town regarding U[...]ions were sacks for the outdoors 24 hours a day. We were stuck and of coal, which I was to l[...]ly ridiculous. To melt our ice for It took us a day to get our rifles from another ranch. drinking required that we keep a metal container on the That was yet one more lesson in time. What followed stove. the next day was a lesson in prairie hunting. Afte[...]s there was still no break in the Jess walked a few' minutes, surveying what he calied[...]
	[...]rning we packed our supplies from I discovered a mailbag was delivered by pack train Wass[...]g, but it communicate to the family back home on a weekly was the only way to keep the[...]smay that my precious fruit had frozen solid like a Woodcock cabin, as the weather dictated. The trip[...]as very disappointed, but everyone got cattle and a rare stock of supplies. I made pack trips to a chuckle out ofit. McNultys when the river hill wa[...]nd I took off to the Jensen tered ground was that a poor cow could freeze and Ranch, on S[...]y of the Jakes place. I topple over while eating. A gun was always handy, so rested a night at Jensens, dropped off the mail. I then th[...]around mid-day. It was a tough situation. We could only guess what Wouldn't you know it, a storm popped up so I didn't was happening to the[...]ter I would see that poor bird flying up After a month of these conditions our supply situa- and down like a roller coaster. tion looked pretty grim. We neede[...]t kerosene for lighting. And there was no sign of a let-up. winter, the last time late in March.[...]top In February I rode into Roy with Al Snook, a boarder over I stayed a day extra to help buzz firewood. at Umstead's Ran[...]and I set about to work. Suddenly a warm wind cropped When the temperature "rose"[...]unison. The eagerly awaited Chinook breeze was a balmy minus -24. Off we were to Roy, some 25-30[...]ing a break in the bleak winter weather had arrived.[...]I had never known such a feeling of relief. miles away. About mid-day,[...]We had to make frequent stops, After a brief spring break, the reservoirs filled, and ho[...]reservoir, filling the ice house on p.m. We faced a howling blizzardthe final 8 to 10 miles. Ea[...]we could take care of our horses. I'll never A winter as harsh as that of 1935-36 seemed to go o[...]For some folks to cook for us, and gave each ofus a cot and example, the McNultys filled their[...]36 inches thick. That was ouite The livery was.a small building next to Chet Bird-[...]
	[...]had an indescribable quality making wasn't a drop of drinking water for man or beast to be[...], 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 door, then awake[...], putting up morning to find bits of hide and a scattering of bones a drift fence to keep the stock in line. Then there[...]There were the trips into the breaks with A-l Snook,[...]suitable for market One day we received a letter saying a heifer with our small task.)[...]brand had strayed to another water hole, on a ranch 20 -noIt was a thrill to hear a low, powerful howl amid the miles away, and h[...]ock since water there was growing the howl of a wolf. I made one positive sighting, coming sc[...]d riding to get that within 50 to 75 yards of a wolf in company with three pair to the riv[...]Ridge at Armells Creek. I had heard of a fellow named "Dutch Fred", a char- I remember how sound can travel at -[...]mells'. 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. His "dwelling" was a dugout in out from her bedroom. The stove lid[...]ince my horse and I were very thirsty I asked for a Spring of 1936 did arrive. It was a short transition drink of water. "Dutch Fred" was a man of few words. from winter to summer in Fe[...]ose words was "nope". He The first of May saw a faint g:een coat on the prairie. pointed to the alkali buildup and went into his dugout. Less than a week later the ground had turned brown, He returned with a can of tomatoes and my drink of a and would remain so the rest of the year.[...]re trailed into Roy to the the winter. Jakes, a husky, good-looking man in his railroad stockyards. One impressive drive was a herd of 20's, came to live with us. He knew t[...]so you know it wasn't some- taught me to use 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 Hemsin[...]We rode the country from the river, south, a number and Jenny Link. Tommy tore off a finger roping one of miles to Armells Creek a[...]occasion during this "scouting period" was a sharp "dammit!" We had a car at camp so an excited cow ran bawling out of a coulee. Frank gave Tommy was driven all the[...]he saddle. Wow! unknown rider came albng with a slick calf on his rope It was a hot three day drive to the Roy stockyards. and a running iron on his saddle. Frank corrected the The first night was a dry camp. The second night the rider's manner[...]cow and calf pair drew and others took quite a toll on the cattle. $20-$25. The[...]nts per August or early September there began a general round- pound. up of all the are[...]Branding separated them by I was to bring a carload of cows by train home to owner[...]
	[...]I When I returned to LaConner I was but a year older, rode in the caboose the entire way. though having undergone a maturation that easily Federal regulations at t[...]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[...]The world was hot and dry that year. I didn't see a hobos on the freight cars"[...]ndest and most vivid memories of my ends for half a century. ho[...]rgaret Umstead and Jenny Link, whom I Then all of a sudden I was off to Roy, Montana. I told[...]I would betright back." I also maintain a gteat appreciation of Illa Willmore, (Later I cou[...]akota border near the present Fargo, N.D.) across a On July 15, 1867, Ruffee met Capt. Chas.[...]owners of the largest public notice promised a three year contract to begin transportation[...]Express line. This company had a stage line between Cariisle Doble and Chas. A Ruffee of Crow Wing, Ft. Benton and Hel[...]ore deso- would attempt the trips, and as a result mail piled up late country, was to st[...]s Musselshell River. He wished to establish a freight with four men and six horse each, le[...]direct route to Helena for the Pony boasted a stage line to the gold camp of Helena. Mr.[...]
	[...]so.J)A(orA[...]Peck and go up the Missouri River to Ft. Hawley, a decision was to terrify them with threats and set North West Fur post with a stockade. Hawley was them free with o[...]ce and "Seven-Up" left April 5, 1868. At a point eight of game, as well.[...]horses wounded. The savages withdrew, but only a severe winter of 1867-68, with violent blizzards[...]hadows between the on the Milk River and answered a call for men to get fires with terrifying[...]they managed to slip away in the darkness and a party of five, they left Hawley with two ponies[...]supposed area of Black Butte. Fred Rutschmann and a com- that he had been captured and ki[...]for Ft. Benton via Butte, they were overtaken by a party of Sioux war- Helena, which he reac[...]dians robbed them of everything except A decade passed by the time the Northern Pacific th[...]Ruffee and the Huntleys nevertheless played a
	[...]role - daring to conquer a thousand Courrny Posr O[...]ess plains, whose men braved numb- A small counhy post office was established in each[...]office in some r".ch house near the ties of a dozen hostile, resentful Indian tribes. There stage road. There was a post office near Brooks, one at the came a grim reminder of the gallant Northern Over-[...]n along the road to the mouth of train found a package of letters, so old and musty, it t[...]the mail to there i:r June of 1912. a note written on the package said, "found on the[...]he carrier defended his Following is a list of post offices in the area which charge[...]eekly stage from Roy. Edna C. Pierce P.M. been a Pony Express rider and had a dug-out in the hill to the west and across the creek, also a little 1917-18 Bundane - 25 mi. N.E. of Ro[...]a store. TgLEcRAPH 1882[...]190&76 Fergus - 6 miles west of Roy. A military telegraph line from Fort Buford, Dakota[...]from Roy. Wm. T. Harris P.M. Also a store. spanned the Missouri River; the second sec[...]stmaster. junction of the Rocky Point Trail. Here a line ran down 190&43 Valentine - Mary E. Bean, A.A. Peterson, Mrs. A.F.[...]. Mail carriers: Roland to Wilder where there was a station. From the Canoll Mat[...]e from the old line. In the 50's there were still a Semi-weekly stage from Roy.[...]
	[...]ntana Post Offrce has been serving area A new structure was built and relocated on the residents from 1892 to 1988 - a span of96 years. southwest corner of[...]and mail is delivered by mail truck, six days a week Ranch, west of Fergus). It was Peck who esta[...]epartment he asked for the name "Ray" in honor of a for lack of anyone desiring to be officer in charge. family member, but through a mistake, it received the About half of the[...]d mail is delivered to those who have Frederick A. Barney became postmaster on Dec. 16, bo[...]ds and remained there envelopes with a special postmark and design, and until moving to[...]e Rindal building. Mrs. Rife said that she served a thou- sand patrons during her tenure" Leon[...]
	[...]"THE WIND" Br-r-r-hear that wind a blowing The wind j[...]"The wind is lihc a boy that's gay Giuing the snowflakes n[...]ey in the distant zone. One day I heard a boy his mother ask, It tokes[...]n the night skies entertained- experiencedin only a few areas of the world - the rath[...]In very few other places can one see both ends of a lucky areas. Fantastic sunsets with brilliant ora[...]s and blacks all The lightning on a hot summer night, for those stout intermingled and bold can leave both a "foreigner" and of heart, make 4th of July fireworks displays dull in a native speechless. Sunrises can be no less specta[...]the memories of many who have like a gigantic incandescent bulb. There is lightning le[...]that looks like a million tiny veins, shootingdarting- The area[...]or Las Vegas light- of contact, maybe a dozen fingers touch. Scary-thie ing technician ca[...], which controls sometimes they will join, making a firll halo around the sun. the lives and livelihood of all within our borders, is a The harvest moon, in the still unpollute[...]
	[...]rs were finding And eat snow it can" It can turn a bitter cold below zero[...]their way across country a mirage could complicate day into a shirt sleeve day in a matter of hours. Even matters. A landmark could become lost amid the rising more[...]and falling of distant hills, trees and rocks. A lone bed at night with the temperature reading 2[...]to be a large rock; as related in the following narrative they haven't 'gotten' away. At the light of dawn a roar-[...]occur in all By 1911 there were a great many homesteaders in the seasons but are mo[...]ly, we could see only The where's and why's of a chinook are not yet fully two home[...], but on this occasion, understood by scientists. A chinook begins out over the while[...]right up and for a distance of twenty or more miies, was erly. As it[...]d and western side. Chinook conditions occur when a pres- . incoming up over a hill or rise in elevation in the road and sure situation results in a steady flow of air from the Iooking ahead of us, Dad said, "A new homesteader has west or southwest. A high pressure system to the south built a shack near the road, and lo there it was. It had to and a low to the west, moving across the mountains,[...]that time. It seemed to be about a mile ahead of us, but as[...]me smaller and as we reached it, it Just before a chinook occurs the cold air layer be-[...]was only a brown granite rock, about three feet, nearly come[...]opes before the warm air reaches the plains area. A chinook can remain stationary in a particular area, moving back and forth. Frost can[...]l. risen to a completely different world, than the one he'd A tell tale sign of a coming chinook are the appear- become accustomed to..."A queer, awesome feeling"" ances of mirages.[...]According to Webster a mirage is defrned as an opti-[...]cal phenomenon produced by the presence of a stratum Mrnecs[...]ted and air is sharp, one steps outside and views a landscape often distorted. When the s[...]directly above the heated area, such as a desert or road, rise up in the sky in shapes and[...]it reflects the sky, which to us looks like a pool of water. in fantasy paintings of the prairi[...]henomenon in which the air Dovetail Butte beeomes a lone mountain peak. As one appears[...]rd and Whatever-the mirage is a fascinating, unpredict- break off from the[...]
	[...]nN LlcHrs away or the lights on a vehicle traveling down highway A "Northern Light Show" can be spectacular when 191 will shoot into the air in a column many feet high. clear night skies become[...]Ixotalr Suuupn The Aurora Borealis begins with a sun storm, or Indian summer is a sheer delight in this area, an flare, which sends[...]There's a crisp, pure, tingly feel in the air; a snap and magnetic field which surrounds our glove[...]particles into streams of light which can be from a few miles to a hundred miles long. The larger country surrounding are a mixture of brown plowed[...]colors of gold, bronze and red. The sky is a pure blue. South of the equator is its counter-[...]ts channel as it continues its journey east and A sundog is always viewed when looking in the direc[...]e the rainbow is always viewed It's a very favorite and special time of the year. A when the sun is to the back of you![...]ed with them are indeed fascinating ice crystals. A halo usually signifies a storm coming in. topics. When the sit-coms o[...]training at St. Vincents. It one came up quick on a beautiful sunny day and caught was Sunda[...]ter wherever they could and stayed several days. A lot Montana in the afternoon, Roy dnd Mic[...]take her back to school. It had been a very nice day, but A truly bad one on March 28, 1938. It was all over[...]ouded over, the wind blew and Central Montana and a lot of cattle were lost. One it looke[...]r.y Emery walked in. He, Sandy, Mark and We had a whole two years of blizzardy winters from[...]almost half a mile home, without going in the ditch. I
	[...]st too scared to from the house. It was a real mess. turn the steering wheel, I guess.[...]us come hill and ihey had walked 3/4 of a mile into the storm home. Roads are closed." So w[...]l/2 mile with it to their backs. Nancy's face was a strangest thing happened. Three streaks of lightning mask of ice, with a long ice-cycle hanging from her broke through the[...]nsuiated along the ground; kinda like being under a bridge when coveralls; had gloves and were warm and okay. David a iumber wagon rolls over. I tried to explain that to had a cowboy hat, no gloves and a light jacket. His Roy, but he couldn't hear it or[...]aid hands and ears were frozen white. I ran a sink full of "You've been alone too long".[...]what I just saw and heard!" a pail of warm water and every time it felt cold to[...]it too." we'd put in a little more warm water. Her jacket was Marvin B[...]aten since noon, so I to the road. He sat down by a fence post and gave up. made soup, fried[...]The men finally bedded down on the davenports and a camp" about a hundred yards away. He made it there[...]the Nancy was so miserable I put her in a bathtub of hot greyhounds.[...]athroom heater on high. She had At 10 after 6, a lady called from the Red Barn. They tried to dress warmly; had on a warm jacket and heavy had gotten stuck on the c[...]house wool sweater, overalls, wool sox and a pair of her hus- and walked back to Woodards. No[...]ing. Jim Murphy came looking for them with a snow- Barn around the road. They called at 10 aft[...]All of the neighbors Roy took Nancy to a doctor in Lewistown where they were on the phones[...]ce of6ce would be called, "Roy East". In a few days he called in Great Falls to see if Carol could get a station down at back and said that there had been a station at Valen- Valentine. At the time they tol[...]Musselshell River. Carol had been keeping records a station and she told them yes"[...]
	[...]ober 26. And the shortest season was in delivered a weather reporting station to Frank Cim'[...]days - June 25 to September 25 - an aver' rhakl, a cooperative observet, on Aprii 21, 1938. This[...]- last few dry years, the average dropped from a high of and the highest was at M[...]ons in Montana,9S report less 10.61 for a total of 19.40 in two years.[...]ouched down on this ranch 15 miles NE of Roy, cut a 18.36 in less than four months. That was an almost swath one and a half miles long North and South and equ[...]e broken and Munay's ranch by less than a mile. No one living in big rains start i[...]in 1978 wiih 25.15 terrific destruction. A plane flying near Robinson - precipitation[...]On April 21, 1988, I was presented with a 50-year - imum was 33 below zero and maxi[...]ature was on August 5, 1961, and August has a record of 76 years as a weather obseryer, which is - 6, 19[...]
	[...]hovel out' the railroad. Many frost- only a few calf losses. bitten toes and noses. 1908-May and June. A big flood along the Missouri. The[...]day. all gone...located a jeep below a cake of ice...No one 1918, October. Cattle pri[...]range. ...Lived for 3 day's in a tent on the hills...Had moved No water.[...]cake of ice smash into the house and tear a roon off. 1919, August, Valentine. Worse hail sto[...]completely under water, destroyed crops and a truck...hail stones as large as[...].3 miles from the river said the noise of a glare of ice covering the country.[...]ic. 1922-23. The Fritzners and the Sandstroms had a few head Only the tops of t[...]hills. shape. Small losses. 1923, July 26. A lightning bolt entered through a barn door[...]d wintere in the Mieeouri Breaks coun- men, A. M. Stendal and Joe Ferdet, were knocked[...]cattle that might otherwiee have been lost. a hime afterwards. A lad, Vernon Marsh, who wae[...]p becauee of illness or entering the barn a horseback, was hit. The horee and[...]for rider were knocked to the ground. L.M.A. Wase, an .[...]ht children many hours. Alfred Halver, in a barn across the etreet,[...]terprise was also hit. The storm started about 10 a.m.[...]history began to break up. plains some of a numb feeling in one limb.[...]ned Potterf. Mr. Strausburg coming in just a few moments later found the boy in a dazed con- Road to Roy bu[...]
	[...].Many good bulls ExceRpr Fnorrl A Dnny Kept Bf Merue ZaxN emasculated becau[...]ie of coccidiosis due to water This was a record breaker! It began November 19th. We[...]the 1959, August. The earthquake which devastated a portion of west a lot, but not so much here, however Crooked Creek[...]y in throes of the toughest years went for a Xmas tree. The North Ridge road had been plowed[...]thawed from Turners on. Got a few greens and went on past 1962, June. Worst flo[...]attle stranded. Wilder. We walked back a little ways but very hard going and ...hous[...]ps of fence posts covered with Mark cut a small tree. The oniy one that looked suitable. We[...]ted home and when we got up by Shankline we found a on Roy Main street....water inside houses[...]fall. Matk water up to the door handles...a reservoir brimfull and running over the s[...]and Bon took the two to Billings and Hap got a lovely big one 1961-because of lack of wa[...]1908. from home to date. t977. A wet year. Most moisture arrived too late to help[...]t to Roy for euppliee on Jan. 6" stunted by a cool growing season. River was the lowest[...]ze over on were left on it and fed them and a few from behind the barn. November 21st.[...]torm. I fed everything Ieft at the barn including a L977-78. A winter of deep unending snow. It started the firs[...]w the barn and dragged balee out for them for for a week. the best place in the world in which[...]observe the phenomenon. It He'd bought a new battery for the tractor and we got it put in began at 8:30 a.m., lasted 2 hours and 20 minutes and[...]it and had to dig out slaing fey ftrg and a few days later the Central Montana area became[...]tractor. This is a great help, unless of course, it high centers covered with a fine coating of volcanic ash. Visibility during this time became poor. The condition lasted a and then you dig it out" few days[...]'E Jeff Willmore families went fiehing at a reservoir at Yz" cruet of ice all o[...]
	[...]e were still those that voiced the a very words that had brougb.t them here many years[...]in 1910 when the Oscar Stephens land was sold to a land division of the Milwaukee-St. Paul Railroad. In December of 1911 a large headline announcement from St. Paul stated[...]troin reached Roy. organized to conduct a general land, farming and livery business at Roy[...]etins preceded the railroad into town. Building a railroad was not an easy task. It took you[...]
	[...]r of L944,4000 ton of hay was shipped out freight a load of hay.[...]on the railroad. Better roads made it more today. A crew of carpenters started to work on the depot[...]sands were gone and trucks that could load Roy is a busy town today."[...]rs after the steel was laid to Roy an era came to a ofchickens, carloads ofcattle, sheep, horses, gra[...]the depot agents were: H.M. Underwood, 1916; W.A. March 19L7, a carload of potatoes shipped by Dengel.[...]They feed'em grain by hond, That used to wear a cow-horse down C[...]illies. And a man can't read o brond.[...]e to Mary Pollard has collected a number of articles from mankind than the horse. T[...]e 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 well-bred[...]
	[...]Shipments went out of Roy almost on a weekly basis forced many homesteaders to leave,[...]1985, BbO head shipping or trailing them out was a big job for the cow- were put across the ri[...]s and many were destined for the A week Later,27 cars of horses left from Roy by rai[...]bought by A.B. McCullough of Ft. Smith Horse and The first[...]rail. The follow.ing shipment of 20 cars went to Wisconsin and Illinois. Seven hun&ed head, contracted by[...]Indian Reservation range until they but a few of the thousands of head of horses that were[...]bought horses in phillips eorly days a steady market was considerably stimu- County for[...]pen range at the time. I was the seeds in a weed pod doing the rattling. A fan remember once when Steve LaRocque was herding for weed I think it was. Carmikle, a cowboy came in and scattered the sheep all[...]
	[...]rnery and hated to cook outside, so he headed for a had a pan of water sitting on it. Another guy with a nearby shack. A pack rat had already taken up[...]e in. Joe was deathly scared of pack rats. He had a which hit the rat killing it. All be[...]threw the rat over in Joe's direction!! There was a thick block of wood used for a stool. that THn Wnsr Wes Wn[...]ide for hours to "The cook was up fust at 3 a.m. and would start break- fast. At 3:30 Sid and Old Tom would get up and Old Tom get to a country dance. They were back at the wagon[...]at me. 'Hey kid, Jordan recalls a story when he was working for the you got som[...]g colts, castrating stallions and breaking "A snake had curled up around my feet to keep warm[...]ning. and had fallen asleep. Old Tom just got a stick and picked "They gave us this[...]ith Old Tom and others he worked with when he was a putting him on a picket line and kink his neck a few dder with the CBC, the Chapple Brothers C[...]ttle" during the depres- "We got a long rope and tied him to this log. Well, two[...]saddle horses by to conal them. Montana was a large, open country and many home.[...]rything on but our hats." Jordan was one of a raw bunch of cowboys who made[...]BC Jordan said the CBC took a bit of getting used to at rounded up wild hor[...]Jordan had his share of tough times and sustained a Jobs were hard to frnd and pay was often mi[...]orning until 8 or Jordan remembers a trip to the doctor two years ago 9 each eveni[...]pes of when he broke his leg afier a bull bumped him against a weather. Iron-handed wagon bosses kept strict[...]While working for the CBC, he was kicked by a big stud. boys suspected of abusing horses or[...]those days." he said. The giamour of beiag a tough cowboy drew many to the "We made $40 a month. It was hard to get a job riding. outfit and Jordan has many memori[...]There was always somebody looking for a job". of long rides and tough cowboys[...]night hawks who and "spotted pup," a dish of rice and raisins. Steaks, herded saddle horses at night, a horse wrangler who when available were usually horsemeat and a homemade herded the saddle horses in the daytime, a boss and the pie was true luxury.[...]"We thought if we could stay with the wagon for a full fear the crew would have to cook for the[...]remembers going for weeks without time for a bath or The CBC boys were tough and took pride in their work, shave, developing a set of values that would last them a lifetime. Jordan rode with CBC in 1932[...]with the CBC. from Miles City to Wolf Point. A former CBC rider and He was born[...]e than 60,000 Ismay and Ekalaka on a homestead. horses between the Yellowstone and[...]vers. Jordan remembers hearing a story about those early Most of the CBC han[...]with blankets. My mom insisted we go up higher to a
	[...]He began working with cattle early and had a job with _t the Bradshaw La[...]-! Disbrow and McVey Cattle Company for a time, swim. ming cattle across the Misso[...]_:'.i:_ri., One fall and winter he took a train to California and rode for a "cow outfit", returning to marry Helen Kudzia.[...]traiiing cattle and "met officially" at a country dance in Roy in the true western[...]ce how he and Mark Stanley were trailing a bunch of cattle from North Dakota. "He[...]se big batwing black and white chaps and a big hat. 'I'll pull horses with you,'Isa[...]Disbrow-McVey and Bickle cowboys tahe a well-deserued[...]pfire, at Cottonwood Crossing on I used to toke a job o' ridin:[...],?i/r, ;.2,,/_714,ll! ,\ :) A bunch of young cowboys during the early do[...]
	[...]sronv Riding in local rodeos was also a favorite pasttime and said he won $8[...]out some bucking horses and steers. A friend of his oniy won $50 for two horse[...]ofessional bronc riders of "It was a way of life," Jordan said. "You'd be a hero if the day. The day money was $25,[...]stand how rough these lands with a wild bunch of cattle and had me help take her to[...]iver here eroded soil Mr. Haney. I had a well broke saddle hotse, but Henry down over[...]ks and coulees were eroded was riding a young horse which had been ridden only down[...]twice before. We caught up to this bunch after a mile of allowed 640 acres as homestead lands[...]slowed down open for claims which permitted a homesteader to be to a walking gait. The King cow soon began to show[...]Creek, the he could work for others and make a "Grub Stake" to cows went into a shallow pool of water which was buy necessit[...]under a cutbank about 15 feet high. We could not drive In 1914 a Mr. Brockway and Mr. Vaughn (horse out-[...]re in the charge of Joe Searles. Indian Butte was a got off his horse. This cow had trie[...]and 90's, every higher point of ground was given a started running across the prairi[...]driving up the first lane, we came to a homesteader's traveled or grazed in gr[...], wishing to know if some through it. A young boy seeing the cow came out carry- of his horses had gotten into a wild bunch, asked me to ing a broom to drive her back. He just got back in the[...]Next we came to Box Elder Creek where there was a Butte. When the wild bunch saw us we were still a mile large county bridge. There was a lot of high brush on away and they went east at a wild run. We took after the norih s[...]il we reached again but we saw a cow puncher come riding towards Button Butte[...]Henry asked for help. Henry, being a good roper, coulees up hill and down. What a ride!! Exciting-yes, caught t[...]
	[...]the cow got up she cow made a lunge after the car but missed it by a few hooked the horse Henry was riding, then seei[...]us. When too far away on the tired pony, she made a run for me. I we were nearlyto[...]to the livery barn and got three mounted and made a fast run to and under the bridge, the cow[...]nt to supper after having that cow was mad and on a real rampage by now.[...]ss the bridge. I saw Henry a few days later and asked him who Henry and I head[...]anch and the cow chased me all the way. "This met a Ford car and the driver honked his horn, think- was a tease and a chase for about 10 miles. ing the cow would get o[...]nge to ride 'em on. But, Doc, it made me remember a Montana) reminisces his cowboy experiences. Singu[...]y E. Ayers, Montana's youngest district judge, is a John Rockefeller's iron horse[...]ession of the streams, and before we thought that a the outfits and he was still a good deal of a kid when he post hole would ev[...]lying east of of the range with affection and has a soft spot in his the Judith[...]t range heart for the cow-punchers. The other day a point came ever selected by[...]e Crows, we gathered the finest beef that ever to a reminiscent vein. This followed upon the heels of[...]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, and their etock in trade old forty-five st[...]ng and commodity of exchange was a post-graduate educa- on the same belt that I us[...]sun and buckle it on and climb to the middle of a cayuse and etars; they could tell when a stonn wa8 coming and comfortably seat myself in[...]cattle, and their judgement a6 to whether it was going to went away to study law, and second. there ain't no be a dry sumroer or a hard winter was ueually good. In horees[...]
	[...]39 A Great RounduP As sometimes happens, a stampede would occur, and The time of which I sp[...]he ranges, known as the Buffalo corral, more than a hun' calmness of a present-day delivery horse watching a dred cowboys made a roundup composed of men from all[...]cipal other that on one occassion a horse and rider were brands represented were: the[...]knocked down by one ofthe steers, a bonus by the fore Horseshoe Bar. the Circie C. and others too numerous to man of a new Stetson was offered to any puncher who mentio[...]tion got Get a Respite returns from forty-one mavericks branded[...]ingly as comfortable as see in every living thing a fellow mortal. And this is two chi[...]As they came to my notice these many moons ago, a[...]those partners of the range at daybreak in a nearby women.[...]s who followed them, and the Iong drive fiyst saw a Montana sunrise on a squatter's claim on the[...]rest of the outfit on the home ranch were sold to a bullwhacker transporting freight from[...]he tables they were turned out upon the range for a life of freedom of capital at the othe[...]as then that these brothers earned a commission for selling them to Swift companions o[...]endship and brotherly love for each other, became a[...]and in the summer must have had a good time, for they never pemitted himself to stu[...]grass was plenty and the water A Remarkable Pair[...]g steer would suddenly like many a puncher, must have seen some hard timee. show an[...]Often at night, under the shelt€r of a friendly cutbank, to the beet "rustler" Montana e[...]they heard the howl of the blizzard singing a song of through the herd, pushing other steers ae[...]w often they must have eeen each and bellow until a responge from Rye united them once[...]the grass wae all covered and the water content, a glance or low moo from one to the other wo[...]
	[...]r NonrxrnstsRN FnRcus CouNrv A Few of the Old Guard ha[...]on that roundup, but to me they have always been a You haue swiftly yiel.ded to the[...]his rough way, are trying to "make it" go on a dryland fam; eome are Shinned ahng[...]ill are, in the eheriffg Nou we find, a dry-land farmer's town. office, an honor to[...]arrogance where Buffalo corral gtood ie now a thriving community still sleims the Spir[...]range over which we worked, inetead of having a few ing side by side, an eternal continuation of the fiend- iaolat€d cow elmps, ie now a great eettled comunity of ship of Rock a[...]om Winifred east to called public domain, was all a part of the Louisiana the county line[...]River and south for about 12 miles. At a meeting held in township were reserved for the su[...]il 1934 Indian Butte was approved as a grazing district coop- when the Taylor Grazing Ac[...]zed the Montana Grazing eral government land, but a lot of county and state Commiseion,[...]y, school lands. They had blocks of school lands, a result to admininster the Taylor Grazing Act in Montana and of a trade of timber lands of western Montana for gras[...]such blocks of regulations. Senator L.M.A. Wass, of Roy, was the first school lands in our[...]Grazing Act, to figure the carrying capacity of a range land to free grazing.[...]r School house and in October of gummer a co'i/ and calf, on the average; less near the tha[...]te area met at the mountaine and up to a hundred in the breaks. There is Willmore ranch, t[...]Fergus No. 1 will summer one cow and a calf.
	[...]others have taken tricts. This qualified them for a permit on federal lands. over and served on th[...]ty and Joe Mauland. Vernon upper end receiving a life time lease. Several were Puckett held[...]ged many times over the years; many of In 1936, a very dry year, the grazing districts were[...]to do with its relationshp to the recipients of a program to build several stockwater CMR g[...]dlife until 1976 when the 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 is the only one of the original more than a mile for water. It was at this time that[...]ussell Game Refuge. formation of a grazing district on Antelope and Crooked In 19[...]hes that were members of these Creek held a meeting at Rossiters School House. The grazing d[...]get the state lands under lease. Frank Perry, A.J. Hughes and Mike Myers. ) From 1944[...]5,000 Permanent officers were elected: A"J. Hughes, presi' acres of county land. They had[...]1 area was Roy, Montana. too big, so at a meeting in November of that year inter- In[...]llmore Ranch and the Butte about building a fence between Crooked Creek Fergus No. I w[...]
	A{) Hrs'ron[...]d with rock Works Prog:ess Administration 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 projec[...]built loads each day. Vaughn Tindall, with a stone boat and about 3 miles apart.[...]foreman. to 12 four-horse teams. Each team pulled a 5-foot My brother-in-law, Frank Stepan and I, lived in a fresno, one behind the other. Everyone moved very fast. tent on the site, slept on a mattress on the ground and A helper would load the fiesno, holding onto a Johnson cooked with a small campstove for the 10 days each bar to stead[...]y, people on the job would be plowing, each using a one-bottom, sulky plow. Each living in[...]ur horses. All ground had to be as he had a tent on a hayrack with a bed, campstove plowed, as fresno's only picked up[...]areas, being built at the same myself $4, for a total of $85 for a 10 day shift. time. Some of the men working on ou[...]iroky, Joe Siroky, Frank Wilder still had a post offrce and store where we would Cimrhakl, Jo[...]Everyone appreciated the chance to earn $40 a month, Kasala and Guy Townsend, the time keeper.[...]em to this day. delivered hay to each site at $40 a ton and oats at $4 a Another WPA project was mattress making. R[...]n this job. Materials, sheet- Jess Woodcock, with a 1936 Ford truck and a 1000 gal- ing and cotton batting, were shi[...]work on a mattress at a time. When through they were Some had tents to[...]worked in ten day shifts, all that was allowed in a These mattresses were to replace the s[...]worked in the two $/ages, but each received a mattress. No mattresses shifts. For each l[...]
	[...]She wears o holster, packs a gun. Or ragged jeans, an old sweatshirt,[...]Her cheeks a-bl.oorn, her ntanner grand- Or dirty sneakers on her feet. (A bie raw corrot in her hand). Her fingernails are[...]loues to liue-she's neuer blue. 'Round her neck's a pretty locket,[...]gift to Mom ond Dod. She loues to swim, to throw a ball, Esther PotterfHill oflewistown was a 1942 Roy High School gradu.[...]ate. Clagsmates remember that ehe alwaye had a "flair" for writing. To clirnb a tree (and neuer fall).[...]. Mrs. Hill was, for a time, editor of the Lewistown News Argus; a[...]by Donna Lund The history of a country school is hard to trace as - she thinks it was Benjamin Pierce - put a lamp or schools were often moved around. Sometime[...]the ings were moved, sometimes school was held in a dif- top of the crate to warm her up. fe[...]ountry schools were good experience, as there was a called Smith's school even though the name in the[...]be single. But when there were not enough single a couple of months at a time. Then school might start teachers. the married ones were hired. Teachers often again in a couple of months, sometimes with a different did not mention they were married in order to have a teacher. better chance at a school.[...]ade. Weather could prevent the children a year in Little Crooked school. It could have been any from coming all the time, especially if they lived a ways country school, as the narrative is typi[...]e listed in the communities Winnie Rife recalls a time when a child in the neigh- where they were located[...]man The hot, dry, breathless summer of 1930 had a same moving to Little Crooked to attend[...]the teacher. My mother planned to move into a one our parents. A common practice in those days-keep ro[...]wo weeks for they told us we were make a run over there then you can see where you'll be
	[...]Iiving this school year." Happily we all fit in a topless Mrs. Jensens selection of musical[...]to her favorite instrumental side. You never and a rough road to Wilder Trail. Having crossed it we[...]ng to pick for you. Such as she could plainly see a huge log building, the Little Crooked migh[...]rses. partition the stage end of the building for a teacherage. This doesn't sound like much[...]had to be skidded into 1930's, picking out a good stick horse became quite an place between a reservoir and the school house. At one art. First you had to find a good willow not too big, not time it belonged to[...]too small. If you wanted a buckskin, you carefully Fall-f930. As I rem[...]d the very top of the bark off; and if you needed a the different atmosphere. The huge room had a bare lpalomino to put style to your[...]scraped deeper taking all the bark off leaving a pretty walls.[...]Charles, always had a big old clumsy stick just right with the pupil for class. The teachers desk had a very for a sheepherder, which he was when we played ranch pr[...]along with the more The building was heated by a wood burning heater in gentle type. the middle of the room. Our lights were either a kero- While Warren's semi-wild string always had the best sene lamp or a gas lantern run by hi-test gas and man-[...]ice and art education. For music, Mrs. Jensen had a wind- was thick on a near by dam. As I remember only about type phonog[...]ument . such as Spring, 1931. After a long winter, spring was rvel- violin, flute, horn[...]over the hills, watching the in note reading from a scale that remained on the last bi[...]dows with sea- before, we lived near a reservoir. Near the water was a sonal objects made from heavy construction paper.[...]s and an old tin frying pan someone had We had a 15 minute recess twice a day. Mrs. Jensen no doubt set up to make a meal. waving a hand brass bell in the doorway meant times I can remember us planning to build a fire in the up. If we had wandered too far out of[...]sight and the school house was quite a distance, we felt Mrs. Hart was our County Supe[...]schools. safe. As we were all watching a lizzard being boiled She had a chauffeur, and they came in a Model A alive, my mother came over the dam banking and need- coach. She would make a visit in the fall and another less to say we all got a licking, a scolding and lessons toward spring - then we had[...]25 miles east of Lewistown. There were three A half century has come and gone, but Mre. Duffy of[...]rt Maginnis still remembers the days when she was a the Dengel School. The young school m[...]then Anna Roberts, had completed normal a Miss Hanson, and learned that she aleo wae going[...]ear in Cascade County Lewistown to accept a school. They changed to the Mil- when ehe decided to accept a position in School Dietrict waukee i[...]
	[...]Aboard the train they made the acquaintance of a The Duffys had a total of seven children. In addition to young[...]California; and Mrs. Ruth Burnett, Fairbanks, A)pine.[...]m England. She came to this famiiy. She drove a team and buggy to school each day,[...]ing and continuing Whether as a student near Great Falls, or a teacher in until winter weather forced it to[...]Cental Montana, school has played a prominent part in always out before Christmas[...]Christmas program the students usually presented a pro- Anna Duffy passed away in N[...]Fergus County. Reaching the school was a major problem. The railroad only ran as far a[...]ould. Getting off the train in Roy, she asked a man how she could get to the 79. Pointing to a tall, lanky homesteader standing nearby, he t[...]ear Valentine; and she might be able to catch a ride with him as far as his place, since he was j[...]. Anna gave up her teaching career to marry a young homesteader, Francis "Babe" Duffy on De[...]ught schools in Central Mrs. Hart was a graduate of an eastern college and Montana rural[...]erintendent of era was her untiring purpose. Many a child in Fergus schools, and w[...]
	[...]College and received her B.A. degee at Colorado State Miss Elizabeth Francis[...]College of Education at Greeley. She was a member of to Montana in 1914 and homesteaded adjo[...]mories. A great big album to mahe. My brother, J[...]-Walter A. Wright The good old days haue c[...]
	[...]ory. Many of the ranches in this area were once a part of the Fergus family holdings, which took in[...]ich the registration their eighties, they took up a homestead on which the books are sti[...]still held in the log ranch house. A few years later a log stands. They lived there for several years, h[...]ol house was built on the banks of Armells Creek, a contented in their mountain home, making a modest short distance from the house. The two pupils listed on living, raising a wonderful garden and living until they the[...]the valley near more pupils came and a larger school was built nearby. the Judith Mounta[...]oad which planted perhaps 50 years ago bring baek a bit of from Helena to Fort Carroll ne[...]ght Among the early pioneers was one Tim Carey, a from Chicago in thirty days. T[...]achelor, who homesteaded, and for a few years, due to Indian attacks. The trail can s[...]d Fergus holdings. This ranch was a sort of headquarters worst liquors.[...]ed in the area, including early days and a commissary was run at the ranch. one Jack Maher,[...]inter of 1886-1887, many pioneers who for murder. A sheep-herder for the Fergus Ranch, went[...]severe losses wgre helped out by James Fergus. on a wild shooting spree one night and killed Jack Bar[...]Telephone service was maintained by a group of missionary minister who held the first c[...]Gilpatricks. Later Mining, too, had its day, in a small way, this side of they sold their[...]ringer-type antique phones were rvorked the area. A crew of ten men dug water ditches st[...]ck, Fred, by hand and spent the winter taking out a fair amount Charles and Larr[...]
	[...]tnN FeRcus CouNrv antiques still worked and were a comfort when help or abundance in the are[...]eally adapted ranchers who all did their share in a good, old- to the raising of cattle.[...]e sheep and cattle eat portation Co., with George A. Gilpatrick as proprietor and grow fat as[...]the Will Landru Wednesdays and Saturdays at 8:30 a'm. Fare to Deer property. The Landrus[...]12 to 1916 during the gradual closing being a small Rambouillet, Merino breed. The shearing of[...]the hard rock miners plant was run by a one-cylinder engine and part of the came into the[...]kel; Williard Lamphier enjoy living in a wonderful community with fresh and Jack Huber. M[...]ing on think we are lucky to live in such a wonderful part of them.[...]
	[...]n district was created in 1913. The trustees were A. C. Weideman and Edward Dougherty. Other families[...]er. Both Rose and Mollie Indiana in 1884. She had a homestead in Kansas before worked on[...]them the Horse Ranch when the Evert Harrells were a hotel in bheyenne, Wyoming, in 1909, enroute to[...]t Rose and Keoka left here in a team and wagon and homesteaded on Armells Creek when Keoka was about went to Shepherd, a trip that took a week's time. Keoka eight years old.[...]er away in 1971. grandmother, who was a nurse and was taking care of[...]county was first settied, his is the frrst from a natural Bianchard, a bachelor, died in January of 1896 at the[...]on killed Pool in self-defense on the run over by a wagon and had received considerable divide coming from Maginnis, a sheepherder was head injuries and never fully rec[...]by two rowdies at John headaches, melancholia and a change in disposition. Butterfr[...]man was frozen to death last winter at in 1881 a brother of his came to Montana and bought Oscar Stephens'ranch, a young man left Armell creek on a team, wagon and harness and headed for the Spring[...]d in the rope and was same time a maruleft lower Dog Creek for the Bear Paw's dragg[...]and was seen by a sheepherder offthe road going in the[...]wrong direction and has not been seen since, a sheep- Herbert was the last survivor of four ch[...]r had died years before. His mother was listed as a near Salt Creek and a young man from the "east," far "wealthy woman of[...]Louise came to Montana, from Minnesota, in a wagon coming to Montana.[...]
	[...]e Indians moved to Lewistown. He was a county commissioner, were so astounded by the mus[...]all was said county treasurer and also a state senator. and done, instead of fighting, the[...]o furnish light for an automo- Robert Dixon, a rancher of Armells, has turned out b[...]ved final papers Dixon has applied for a copyright on a song that he and from the U.S. Patent office. A patent has been allowed on his daughter, Edith, who is 12 years of age, lave just a wagon shoebrake, also one for automobile valve te[...]to his frrst love which soon faded away. He is a good R.H. Donevan, who sold his ranch locate[...]inally several years ago and done well here, A Mrs. Russell Donouan taught the Adams school. A but like many others, got homesick, sold out[...]ughter, Mrs. Antoinette Darrah with his father as a young man. They were miners in of Le[...]g:eat His death almost closes those portions of a chapter in grandchildren. Edwards was a menber of the United the Treasure State's history[...]out of Lewistown in 1898 on the was a member of the first graduating class of the 125 m[...]In addition to his military service, Edwards was a Hospital during the period when Gilt[...]endall were active mining towns. Mrs. Edwards was a contributed to the development of the state. On 1[...]iling health, to be where Helena. They settled on a stock ranch at Armells and her son Henry G. resided and spent her last days in a remained as ranchers until 1945 when Chari[...]
	[...]oTHERS James and Wiiliam Fergus were both born on a farm in Shawton Glassford Parrish, Lanakshire, Sc[...], his son, Andrew, was given the In 1885 he was a member of the state senate for home[...]ank Maury) the Horse Ranch. Montana Stockgrowers. A close frien$ of Granville Stuart, the two were ad[...]ment to rid the range of rustlers. Fergus was not a Andrew, son of James, married Hazel[...]Andrew along with his father and a hired man, came Fergus was a great reader and a free thinker. He did by wagon in 1880 to[...]his hired man returned home and left raised with a Presbyterian backg:round and was a Andrew who spent most of that fi.rs[...]eside his renegade Indians. He lived in a small one-room cabin wife, Pamelia, who died Octo[...]just west of Cone Butte. Stephen F. Gilpatrick (a great grandson) and his son, Andrew died[...]Box Elder Ranch, Fergus William Fergus was a farmer and a Presbyterian acres and was also one[...]veral hundred horses was 17, then went to work on a cousins farm, saving his and cattle. money[...]s'boarded the Prussia four horses and a covered wagon. He also had some at Glasgow, Scotland and sailed for America. After a saddle horses with him. It to[...]
	[...]Mrs. Rauch stated her father had a school house buiit Missouri River, and \.!a[...]church services were held about once a month. The Mrs. Rauch q as not sure of t[...]1882. For a time he was in partnership with his brother,[...]onument was erected by friends and rela- tiues as a memorial tribute to the Honorable James Fergus. I[...]e the old Fergus home was situ- ated and is onll' a feu feet from where this pioneer father of[...]
	[...]orge Gilpatrick'; William Fergus. '"{r a:*'[...]s. Newton L. Landru), Christine (Mrs. As a single woman in 1935 she acquired the Armells[...]post office and store. Early in 1937, during a blizzard the Dauid Hitger), Margaret (Mrs. J. B.[...]night clothes, heavy stockings and a fur coat' She man'[...]ncus secured and to push a 1934 International pick-up away b[...]d three children: Rescue came when the 11 a'm. stage driver trudged Agnes Abbie born in 1910;[...]oad Hazel was probably the first woman to drive a car and took her to Roy. Mrs' Sturdy, who ran a restaurant regularly in Fergus Countl'. Sh[...]
	<A Hrsrony Op[...]Gilpatrick came to Helena, high school; a business college in Helena and the State Montana[...]from Augusta, Maine. They had four sons: Charles, a Steve's wife Nellie, was born on a homestead south of steamboat pilot who lost his l[...]frnbaugh. Her brother is Pete Def6n- who was also a river boat pilot on the Mississippi, and baugh[...]h family members in 1863, Brother Van, a Methodist Circuit rider. traveling up the Missour[...]daughter of James Fergus. wouldn't give a domm for the whole country." The rest Stephen[...]andchildren of these miners: Biggerstaffs, became a plumber in Seattle; James a.carpenter and McBurneys, Busseys, Beattys[...]. He received his education there, later becoming a Monette Hall, a stepdaughter of Clyde Mariin. They bookkeeper in[...]ce. Fergus' cowboys, who was waiting for him with a sad- Monette is buried on the ranch. dle ho[...]d Nellie have loved their ranch home and It was a long ride for the "tenderfoot" and he said he t[...]n fresh air and the wild game; deer, elk, as soft a job as was his bookkeeping one.[...]. They aren't fond of coyotes which He filed on a homestead claim along the creek below the Fergus[...]roving up he sold it to his grandfather. This was a common practice and in this way the larger ranche[...]trol of the range. Fergus paid these homesteaders a reasonable price for that time; from $20 to $40 p[...]ig Sandy, the livestock shipping point, to attend a dance. Once when he was returning home alone he was caught in a snowstorm and got lost. Having been told before to let his horse "have his head" in such a situation he reluctantly did so. He was su[...]
	[...]* A farnily gothering is held. This photo was taken i[...]lived in for so many years. The scene below is a years. Their neighbors are the best too, in times[...]m lambing season, thanks to the neighbors, within a week another window the Judiths rise tall above them. Deer a new shed had replaced the old" Everyone pitched[...]on, Stephen G. now Steve and Nellie now live in a small comfortable home lives in the house[...]in the Navy in Decem- 20, L921. He was listed as a youth of high character, ber of 1920 an[...]Creek, sometime between 1912 and 1915" Madge was a and Harriet. They lived on th[...]
	[...]November Knapton was employed as a deputy sherifffor Fergus 1905 at Eagle, Nebraska[...]g at Armells. 1976. Al Knapton was a member of the Fergus Post No. He was employed[...]ey settled in managed to get the equivalent of a 4th grade education Mellen, a small town in the timber country of northern by the time he was 16. The kids always walked to Wisconsin. They also lived in Indiana before coming to[...]their three children; Mike, Mary feet was a common occurrence. In wintertime the and George, born in Wisconsin. Another son, John, was youngsters wore gr[...]st part,lived off the land. They before moving to a small farm, north of Fergus, which raised[...]were home-made and passed down from child child, a little girl.[...]such as attending church in Roy, traveling in a two States around 1908. seated buggy pulled by a team. He homesteaded just a few miles from my dad's The kids were kept busy; there was always plenty to homestead. He was a loner all of his life. He never mar- do. They[...]to hide out, chopped wood aunt Mary Pelot. He ran a small band of sheep and a and kept tlle woodbox full for it took l[...]cut hay with a scythe. But it was a "wonderful life". George Kurns remembers his a[...]chers in the area. Wages were about Mikil built a two room log house, with a dirt floor and $15 a month, plus room and board.In his adult life he a dirt roof, on their piece of land. He work[...]
	A-rurel q Cne px[...]lots of horses. Many times he worked just to have a roof over his head. As times got better he married and raised a family, "like we all did". He started a business of his own, a salvage yard, which he still operates today in th[...]without blueprints, just his brain". He has been a gas man and an electrician. Andy and his wife a[...]different parts of the country. John remained a bachelor. After his father's death,[...].1 passed away, September 9, 1967. John was a carpenter '[...]came to the United Statesrwith her fam- a Norwegian School in Canby. In 1895 he moved to il[...]is parents where they farmed rice and he attended a 22,1864. She was 17 years old when she arrived in[...]rairies and Primrose, Iowa. He came to Montana as a young buttes (Cone and Black) of[...]so in May of 1910 1885 at Fergus. They settled on a homestead next to he returned to Montana and took up a homestead. William Fergus. (Coledonia Ronch) On M[...]Will recalled that, "I went down to visit a friend 1889 in Madison, Wisc.; Ellsworth, who die[...]door. She had an ax in one hand and a tea-kettle in the Louisiana in 1901.[...]other. She was trying to kill a gopher and I thought to
	[...](with hat on) is a friend and neighbor, Louis Mitten. myself she sur[...]. 18, 1951 and 10. 1924. He was the first to ride a horse to attend school Thomas Wayne born J[...]Mae Wendt. They had Will and Harriet always put a great stock in friends. 2 children; Al[...]and Oscar. mines until he took up a homestead of 320 acres at Ellen[...]Ruth married Bill Rabe. They lived in Wisconsin and help of his sons took care of his home[...]
	[...]nd, Alonzo Olden lived in Round- Inga was a midwife and delivered many neighborhood up. They[...]ings with he came to the United States as a young man. He died their two children by her form[...]wistown Sweden. She came to the U.S. when a young lady. She and had fi.ve children: Joyce, Ro[...]Leona remained in the Roy area. For a time she was Art had gone to Michigan to find work in the married to Bill Davis and they had a daughter, Janet. factories. They returned to Mont[...]n and Jackie Styer for several years where he was a Fergus County jailer Grimsrud.[...]The Martin's had a son, Tommie, and two daughters He came to Monta[...]Cr.auop aNo Manv Bums Meunv Claude Maury was a grands6n of James Fergus, Claude w[...]amily stayed for two years then Butts, as a small child. moved to Oregon. There was also a brother, Marion, The Maurys had three children. Their eldest, Emory, and a sister.[...]passing on March 21, lg32 the fornia of a heart attack in January of 1946. She was l[...]
	[...]n of Gladstone. Victor and with a heart attack and died in L942. Clair came first,[...]es in Montana, attending summer Creek. They built a tiny frame cabin with a bed that school and the University whenever possible. She folded down against the wall. A table folded up against married Fred N. Thomson, also a teacher of Math and another wall, and the chairs[...]they brought Mary McKerlie moved to a small acreage in Beaver from Oregon didn't withst[...]reek Canyon close to Lewistown in the Snowy Moun' a spring flood their calf crop perished.[...]l stories about the hard times many years as a sort of engineer's uniform. After his on[...]ng to him and dis' had three children: John, a West Point graduate, is an covered that he[...]City; Judy Harris, back when they'd hit a particularly bad "thank you a retired teacher-librarian in the San Fran[...]for schools, community, The Mittens were two of a family of nine children and church and[...]linois where she Mrs. Will Landru was a niece of the Mittens'
	[...]28th, 1853 in Montana and became a sheep man not far from where Cook County, Illinoi[...]rian minister, Walter Peck had settled. A large operator, a Scotchman Reverend John Peck and Sarah Bremner Pe[...]y the name of William Fergus lived nearby and had a age of 12 he went to work in the offrces of the Erie family of three girls and a boy who were nearing school Railroad where he rem[...]rs he decided to join those hardy souls who found a West to join him to keep house for hi[...]rt Benton was the only woman among a group of fur traders. She was then the last nawig[...]ed to be taken to the Hotel There Wairer bought a saddle horse, a frying pan and but the driver shook his head and in astonishment said a small pail. For provisions he had a slab of bacon, a "No Ma'am that isn't a fit place for a lady. There ain't pound of tea, a sack of rice and some dried fruit. With[...]parts....just saloons and lodging Square Butte as a landmark, he left Fort Benton riding houses! I'll take you to Mrs. Ballinger's. She is a white directly across the open fenceless country[...]r comes for you." Zelinda spent a few days with Mr. and County on the North slopes[...]s. Mrs. Ballinger and there formed a fiendship which Here Walter found work on a large sheep ranch, taking lasted through their lives. part of his wages in a share of the lambs. In 1882 he took Zelinda, or Linda as she was widely known, stayed up a homestead 12 miles north of Fort Maginnis and[...]the home of Granville Stuart. Granville was a boister- acres and his band ofsheep to about 7000[...]er parents, one of 7 children, wife was a shy, retiring full blood Crow Indian. She in Nort[...]was finally forced to march toward the enemy with a The need for a neighborhood post office became gun tied to his b[...]apparent and induced Walter to promote a petition to and till the end of the Civil War was[...]nd they joined him in Raysville, Indiana to start a new error, perhaps in penmanship, when the official papers life. Here he rented a small acreage and managed, by arriv[...]ing for his landlord whenever possible, to put by a the name was given as Roy. small amount toward moving his family further west A drouth, followed by a severe winter caused Walter to into Illinois whic[...]sent his family to stay with her when Zelinda was a young lady of 19.[...]
	[...]to the area during About this time he learned of a general store in the next few years[...]personal integrity and with proved to be a thriving business. Peck ran the store until no co[...]dise Store which was said to handle anything from a youngest son, John, stayed in the Garneill area where he needle up to a threshing machine. Upon taking over the raised a large family, many of them still residing in that[...]urned carpenters and built the Fergus County, was a loyal and enthusiastic booster of lumber[...]Most of Montana's opportunities. He had lived in a number of the improvements on his farm[...], the son of Jacob and Shorthorn strain. A constant source of revenue was milk Elizabeth (Fo[...]Dayton, What he accomplished as a homesteader and farmer Ohio to Missouri in 1867 a[...]t the expense of public spirited partici- life as a farmer and died at Warrensburg, Missouri in[...]ntil he was twenty-two. He accepted the advice of a building less than two miles away. He w[...]ld friend urging him to go to Montana and take up a assessor for five years, serving un[...]h, loaded his _ Reddick, and Hughes. He was a Democrat and he was household goods and his family on a train dnd started reared in the faith of[...]ere he arrived in 1914. He brought was a director of the First National Bank of Roy and with him his wife and five children, and a cash capital of during the World War he and h[...]891, Miss Armeil postoffrce and station. He filed a contest on this Martha Burgard, who was born[...]re also adjacent and entered enough to finish out a section. German Baptists and moved from[...]Lizzie Strausburg, had acquired the knowledge of a sawmill and he con' Peter, Paul Silas, Mrs. Ruth Kahler of Lewistown, ceived the idea of saving a great deal ofcash outlay by Montana. turning the fine trees into lumber. He bought a small Mr. and Mrs. Strausburg h[...]
	[...]seven children. After his death and Martha a month later in Mav.[...]
	[...]Ln lJrO. born September 26, i9a3 (all in Lewistown) and Dan born March 5, L952 in[...]ing about her husband Fred: Fred worked for a large cattle outfit between Roy and (Valentin[...]ne old poor cow, that didn't die, so Charles drew a picture for Fred and left it in his house and[...]hing himself. They had sheep and cattle. hung a boy on a cottonwood tree. That was in the early[...]and bought a ranch. Fred also worked at a planer mill After Fred and Nellie were married they lived on a run by Potlatch Forests. ranch Fr[...]Fred died on February 26, 1962 of a heart attack at Creek near the Horse Ranch. Fred[...]a composite from the writings of[...]Sulphur Springs where Chris had a sister, Mrs, George County, Missouri on May 22, I[...]of Christian and Sibylla (Gutekunst) Wiedman and a family there while they[...]
	[...]Alan retired in 1969 and lived in a mobile home at the Ranch; the Coiver Ranch and th[...]Leda all attended school in Roy and are RHS being a cross-cut saw and a wood axe. graduates. Marcel[...]Fergus died in 1916, Mrs. Fergus stead he became a range rider and cowboy on some of married[...]ginal claims entered by his father and had a son, Jack, killed in the crash ofa B52 in 1971 an[...]other additional claims totaling 1180 acres. a daughter, Ethel, Iiving in Santa Maria, California. Mr. Albert Wiedman also entered a homestead adjoin- Charles Wiedman took a homestead near Christina. ing the location of his parents, and his individual He married a neighbor girl. They later divorced. They accumulations represent about a section of land. had a girl, Mary, who died inL9721, a boy, Wayne, Iiving Mr. Wiedman served as one of[...]Indiana. this vicinity. Politically he was a Republican in Charles later remarried[...]e of them until he died in fied. The Wiedman's as a family were members of the 1942. One girl[...]arried at Fort Benton, Montana on October 22,1904 a Miss Eiizabeth Bremner. Elizabeth was born in Abe[...]rents had died in Scotland. Mrs. Wiedman attended a business college in Scotland. The ranch was on[...]e was no charge for meals or horse feed. This was a heavy load for Elizabeth. The pioneer women are t[...]was Alan B., who was born August 19, 1905 and was a graduate of the Lewistown High Shcool. He is a Charter member of the Lewistown DeMolay or[...]
	[...]homesteaded in the Horse Ranch a niece of the couple. area in the 1920's. They liv[...]e Charlie Bishop house south of L.M.A. Wass' big house.) The last year house, down the[...]uley) school house at the age of98. to a pasture between the Indian Butte and Crooked[...]oved in the gumbo-mud and ranch as a hired hand in 1951. He went on full time in the h[...]fall the lambs were big and They built a house that fall. They have four children: travele[...]of Plentywood, Of course, coyotes were always a problem as some of who was born May 5[...]port and one coyote will kill 35 or more lambs in a ton Vance Thompson age 5 months); C[...]ard coyotes in the sheep at Larry A. Yaeger, second son of Charley and Esther, night[...]ried Betty Jane Pallett, one of a set of twin daughters of (King) "Betty" Ya[...]
	[...]rger blade of the knife and placing his frnger on a hard SHEEPHERDER AMPUTATES FINGER[...]utate the finger at the first R.S. Reid, a shegpherder in the empioy of Will Fergus,[...]arrived in town last Friday minus the end of a frnger on the blood flowing freely and wi[...]left hand, and in explanation of his loss related a snake, he put the stump in his mouth an[...]anch, two and one-half miles away. Arriving there a impossible. Mr. Reid said that on last T[...]and the intestines bound upon the herding a band ofsheep on Lower Dog Creek he laid down[...]to Lewistown and on when suddenly he felt a blow and a queer sensation on the Saturday had anoth[...]amputate the and at the same time jerked a rattlesnake out of the ciump finger again in order to get a flap. Reid thinks that resort of sage bru[...]knife was all that saved his life. and if it was a sure ing the danger he was in, Reid resoived to cut his fi.nger enough "rattler" and not a cactus thorn that came up off, and taking[...]menced to whittle on his frnger as if sharpening a lead required considerable nerve to amp[...]encii. Finding that this would not work he opened a with a dull pocket knife.[...]Black Butte is the area south of Roy. There was a Black Butte school, now a part of the Gary Blakemore's house. Most res[...]Listed among those in this area in 1918 were J.A. DeSilva, John Coleman, Jack Woodard, Burl DeSilv[...]ny Rife was going to country school he kept being a little late in arriuing. When the teacher questioned him about it, he said he had gotten caught in a fence and tore his clothes. One mor[...]
	[...]s to the homesteader's after parents at Glenrose, a community adjacent to the city proving up on[...]. cussing the idea of going to Montana to take up a In the fall of 1910 several land seek[...]Spokane paper Olson's (dad and 3 sons), a Mr. Burk, and Mr. Hatch, that the Milwaukee Land[...]he winter of 1910 and 11 and My father, who was a brick layer, had worked in worked for Be[...]e Spokane since the first railroad reached there. A neigh- spring of 1911. bor who had farmed in Ka[...]taken long ago. Then, as now, the material, a team of horses had to be purchased and a thinking of people is that the other fellow has t[...]Dad stuck with the homestead idea, We had a tent with us, as we had to wait in Lewis- saying it must be a poor stick that could not make a town a few days for the railroad to bring in some other[...]re then tana had turned down the chance of taking a home- told to get our tent off the railroad property; so we stead adjacent to, and where a friend had one on a moved it over the fence nearer the creek. creek and a band of sheep. The fellow wanted a partner When purchasing horses, there were[...]se from one of sorrels and the other gray in a week, and would go halves. Good land was to be ha[...]In April 1910, my father, my older brother Ted, a Mr. Carroll Trail in the early days. James Kno[...]walked on to the Chamber- $50.00 for showing him a piece of land, surveyors des- lain cabins (a Mr. Chamberlain had located on the cription. Homesteaders had to build a house on their creek many years befo[...]
	[...]rn Mr. Stephens breakfast. We let our horses rest a day. had built at an early da[...]with hay stored between them. There was also a large be the matter with it so he went to a veterinarian. sheepshed near the barn. "No wondel," he was told. "A two-year-old colt could There were Jake Miller, William Lome, Joe LaFoun- not make such a hard trip." tain[...]ilies, and the Gardipee family. These were all in a grow up. It later became a very good horse. radius of 10 miles of the town of Roy. Lumber was hauled and a 12 x 12 shack was built on Walter Hane[...]e Dad's homestead, the same size as my brother's. A land along Bear Creek east of the Red[...]ble was built for the horses. Mr. Know built a house and barn in 1909. had a house about twice that size.[...]rked helping get up hay. The and built a 16 x 24 one on the south side ofschool sec- men w[...], and Don (Pat) tion 16, which was about a mile and a half southeast of Cochran.[...]ith oats and Back in 1911 Mrs. Haney had a relative named Hazel loaded them (about a ton and a half) into our wagon. staying with her. T[...]The horses could not pull Laraway's about a mile west of Roy. This was a few the wagon and oats up the steepest part of th[...]Many homesteaders located southeast of Roy, and a top of the hill and went back for the other half[...]the hill we reloaded and L,ewistown was not a very big town in those first were soon on our way[...]avel was Some miles west of Roy we had to cross a dry weather on the Carroll Trail with no gr[...]. Holy, gee! All four River bottoms, some for a long time. They were nick- wheels sank nearly axl[...]round Ft. any further" Dad and I had to each take a sack of oats Maginnis, Giltedge, and Fergus[...]ile getting some dried timber from the east side, a Mr. Townsend, brother of Guy Townsend, was digging a hole in Black Butte some 50 feet deep[...](Haney.) In 1884 Mr. Stephens iost a whole band of 3,000 sheep in a blizzard.One man was sent to help the shee[...]
	[...]September 30, 1954 at the age of 94. She was a life time Dunleith, Illinois on February 27, 1860[...]r (Mrs. Frank Cimrhakl,) William Ernest end a son, home until their deaths. Jeremiah died on Oc[...]s old. moved from Lewistown to Valentine in 1917. A few BilI Bowser graduated from RHS i[...]made their home after his discharge, for a short time. For most of his life until the death[...]January 26, 1963, at the he was employed as a tree faller in the lumber industry age of 68. Hat[...]l his passing on November 2, 1985. Bill never was a member of Modern Woodman of America and she married. was active in the Sacred Heart A-ltar Society, the Amer-[...]eering tioned in Germany. Larry farmed at Roy for a few years Degree. He married his high school[...]have 3 children: twins, Mindy and Melissa and a son Germany also. He and Larry were both i[...]
	[...]Jim Hughes and they place, south of Roy, and run a successful sheep opera- ranch south of[...]Benrln BnowN A story about "Nigger" Bertie Brown as written in t[...]ly bad on top of her head and were so deep was a native of Missouri who settled on Brickyard Creek[...]ning some garments". the country" according to a Lewistown man who sampled When Gi[...]ea for five years. At bers "her place was like a bar is now. You could stop there the time of her death she was reported as operating "a for a drink," the old timer says. "She sold it by the d[...]the old Stoddard buildings". or you could buy a pint bottle if you wanted." He remembers Bertie Brown as a short, heavy-set per- son who seemed jolly and[...]pride in keeping her home spic 'n span. A man who lived above "Nigger" Beriie is reputed to[...]with Bertie, or about much else. He car- ried a gun up to the time he died in the '40's. Be[...]nal Revenue agent in those days. There is a story told of Jack Badger, moonshiner in Maide[...]often tried to capture. Hill knew the man had a still but could never frnd it. Finally he rode[...]Moonshiner's home. "Nigger" Bertie Brown, a Missour- horse." Badger did not know why[...]tely to the area, about 1910 (1914). Each took up a "They had a iittle band of sheep and a few cattle-for homestead. The home[...]
	[...]ads they bought out. They raised cattle and had a band of sheep. In 1945 they sold out to Don and[...]July 1938 helped raise a niece, Pearl Selchert. r Steve and[...]oved to St. Ignatius where Loyd "did any kind of a job to make a living" throughout the forties. Phyliis pass[...]1966. ment. He still resides in Kalispell and is a member of the Montana Fiddlers Association. T[...]on) passed away in 1gb0. on to become a County Extension agent in Montana. Herb and T[...]in 1914. Frank passed kinds of odd jobs to earn a living. Herb passed away in away in 1948; N[...]ed on 320 Minnesota in May of 1874" He worked on a farm near acres, which she homesteaded. Her acreag:e was near a Roy.[...]
	[...].) to move to Washington State where my Dad got a job as loved farming and if the machinery[...]ashington. He was a person that could just drive by a wheat field They decided to return to the Roy a[...]'d ask the people in the fall what their We had a dear friend and neighbor, his name was harvest ran and my Dad's figure was always within a Antone (Tony) Frehner. I located his name in a Bible he bushel or two! had given me. He see[...]y, seliing Stars and Durants and My Dad was from a large Irish family of 10 children whateve[...]' and went West* The rest of his family a great deal. I think they probably visited back and stayed close to home; all Iived within a 50 mile radius of forth. I remember going back[...]12 and stopping by Stabb's. I remember there was a[...]My Mom talked a great deal of Rose Scott Clow, a[...]and Dad married. Dad's attendant was a C.D. McCullen.[...]Courtney My Dad seemed to have a knack for mechanical Ella Stenson's[...]que dent. Owen Judson Davis passed away in a Lewistown at Gilt Edge in 1909' Thev had 11 child[...]ruary 22, 1932. exception of Jack who was born in a hospital in Lewis' The children attended[...]ali born in the log cabin that Whisker was a mile from the home. Owen Jr-, Simon, Rose, Nora built. One child died at birth and is buried on a hill not and Frances graduated from the eighth grade at the far from the homestead. Another little boy, a son of Joe Black Butte School. Bill and Kath[...]Fountain. Louise Idaho and then Montana. He spent a few years as a had a homestead 5 miles from the Davis ranch and 5 frei[...]. They lived there during the summer Edge. He was a farmer'stockman and raised horses, mo[...]eir home in Roy during the sheep and cattle; also a lot of hay and grain" Mr" Davis sehool month[...]business in Grass Range. On one Owen was a government trapper for years. He moved to occasi[...]rked for the Milwaukee Railroad' were spooked by a little dog and ran over him' He broke Louise died of a heart attack in the early sixties. Owen
	1A Hrsronv Or Nci[...]now lives in Arizona u'here he works for a Sumatra. They had 2 girls, Betty Jane and Nina. H[...]- worked on a ranch at Wilsall and then moved to the p[...]tired. He spends his Starbuck, Washington. He was a meat cutter until his time fishing and vis[...]early age. They Tom worked on ranches as a young man and is a lived on farms near the home place also at Fergus and friend to all. He was a meat cutter by trade and broke a Grass Range and Roy. Arnold was a horse trader at the lot of horses for his f[...]uld go help his brother Bill during Arnold was a truck driver and railroad man so they lambi[...]tates throughout their mar- Jack Davis was a truck driver for years and served in riage. Arnol[...]Nora worked for several ranches, after school, as a Donnie, Bill, Steven, Yvonne and Carla. young g:irl. Bill says of his sister, "Nora rode a lot of In the past years after several car a[...]on ranches near Roy; helping out when Nora had a daughter, named Nina Norrine, who was needed. She did a lot of canning so was in great born while they li[...]nd days she never changed. She aiways had a nice word to Lewistown. She later married Ted Han[...]t say something nice about someone don't say any- a great sense of humor and it was a joy to have her thing at all." She worked[...]many talents. She passed away at age cafe a few years and throughout her life worked in 34 in[...]and daughter. Perry lives in Livingston and as a young man worked
	[...]held that job for in 1921. His dad originally had a place in the Little 1472 years befo[...]and turning it overto Dan Horadrek Crooked area; a dug-out house, corrals and he ran[...]nd children, Cy, Mickey and George "Buck", He was a tough young guy; said he never owned a pair from Mosby, when they took over[...]honda, and her two One of the things he did as a young fellow was run a sons, Kevin and Cory, came back to Roy and he became trap line. Every Saturday a.m, he took off and would go school custodian for a couple of years and they both up the creek to the[...]Mickey is married to Dale Williams. They have a son Creek, around by Stoffields, over to where Wi[...]d of his own, Janet (Nelson), but today, "Hell of a long ways to go for a skunk or two and he helped to raise and put about 14 others through a few weasles. I don't know how I did it, must have[...]Shaun love to spend their summers with skunks in a snowbank." He got g1 to $1.25 for the[...]g:ad- Bill attended the Black Butte school and a half a year uated from RHS and reside and work[...]ed 5 kids to keep the school Bill has a wonderful sense of humor and a great out- going there - at least to[...]n he got mores live now. They had a large herd of dairy cattle. into a diffrculty with a teacher who was accusing him, According to Bill, one time a cow got down in the wrongfully, of cheating. Bill[...]help get her up. Mrs. Wright was a very short woman. from the teacher could get him[...]he Montana State Highway , floor with a cow sitting in her lap. department. He was[...]
	[...]Grass Range Grazing District and was a director fron: Regina Egeland, was born at Stavan[...]epression years. They sold the cattle in 1936, at a good profit and went into sheep. In 1945, they we[...]d built the Fergus Motel at Great Falls, Montana, a Fne[...]ied in In 1920 they relocated on a farm southeast ofRoy for Bozeman in June of 1896. a brief time then moved back to Moore; spent brief[...]ANroNn FnsHNnn Antone Frehner was a native of Switzerland and was Millie (age 6) Vogd, in Zurich, Switzerland. Frehner known as Tony, a very special friend to the George was[...]tes. When he died, December Frehner was a skilled meat cutter and he worked at 21,1928, he[...]Crane Lake on the C.P. & R. in Canada for a year. He tana. He spent his boyhood on ranges nea[...]tana he did some trapping at Amarillo, Texas with a trail herd heading north. The on the Misso[...]wder River, south of Miles City, he got a few head of beef and started a butcher shop in Montana. He worked for the Lazy S A outfit awhile and Zortman, Montana. He a[...]ther outfits. In '96 he rode for the Circle a small herd of cattle in the Wilder area. W[...]
	[...]e King and Wallace King and took in a hurry, but Walt followed him out and said, "You t[...]est man at reading brands until 1912. He took up a homestead that is now called in Montana[...]the Chicago stockyards. Walter Haney lived a very interesting life, coming up At one[...]oy. In later years the Fadrhonc years old. He was a good all around cowboy and well fami[...]stured on the creek bottom below the reservation, a bunch of braves would come put to nego-[...]o aliow passage bad weather and no feed. A good many years later Fred through their territory. One time the Indians burnt a Haney and Billy Johnson picked up a wagon load of cowboy to a wagon wheel and the band of cowboys[...]t pasture. Even found one buffalo skull. cornered a bunch of Indians in a dead end canyon. Bones were selling for $10.00 a ton. Word got to the Government Indian Agent and[...]ily into Roy and started there in time to prevent a massacre. buying the creek bottom and also the house, three Walt got into a fist fight with a fellow down on the houses from the schoo[...]general area. He knew he lunch. packed a rifle so Walter circled around to a sheep Walter lived by the code of the west and figured a wagon and borrowed the herder's rifle. By that ti[...]ach carload of cattle shipped, someone could have a free pass with them and a return trip on the Olympian and 10 days to fool around. One time Walt wenf to a movie, probably a Burlesque, which was pop- ular with the cowboys, and some fellow sat down beside him. In the dark, Walt felt a hand working its way up his leg until it reached[...]of Walter M. Haney 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[...]ough to. It used to brother, Jack Theo., was born a little over a year later be a pastime to talk and play in front of the post off[...]and attended come out and grab a couple of us and take us to the con'[...]Roy and round up a bunch of Bert Sargents cattle and father, F. "Spo[...]y and I found the whiskey cache of Fred relates a few tales of his childhood in Rov. the town bootlegger and took it all, a ten gallon wooden "These are a few stories I can tell." barrel, a two gallon keg and one gallon crock jug. The
	[...]ery littie. It is Every barber Roy had was a bootlegger and us kids ironical, but everyone that had a part or an interest in would pick up whiskey botties Sunday morning after a getting this deal made, have lon[...]tended Barber College in Spokane. He barbered for a short time in Lewistown before entering the servi[...]yed home got "fat" A bunch of young cowpokes, L. to R. are and wanted[...],. also on a place southeast of Roy where the children[...]ried a William Canet and they lived in Cayucos, Califor-[...]the picture, taken about 1962 is Bessie Kennett, a Roy[...]ura, Ber' 5 miles southeast of Roy. There was not a town of Roy nice and[...]
	[...]lVilliam "Bill" never married. He was a "long time" place where they lived until their homestead house was farmer of the Roy area, a veteran of WWII and was buiit.[...]at the age of 55. her other brothers, W. A. Olsen and Ed Olsen, all Myrtle ma[...]heir bearings and could see lights. My father had a big brown fur coat that was real long and would h[...]I started school in the Sunnyside school about a fourth of a mile east on the old Stillwagon place in the hous[...]sen, Helen and Chet. Close neighbors when I was a child were the Kaisers, Mr. and Mrs. George Juric[...]children attended the Sunny- they adopted a daughter, Bonnie. They too left Roy to side schoo[...]married to Edith Beam in 1945. Cliff and Ann had a Fogle were known as the "Midnight Rounders", a popu- daughter, Jean Lois, who now lives in Georgia and a lar dance band in the early day[...]
	[...]15 children all born at home. Mary never went to a children, Francis and Dorothy of L[...]John LaFountain or La Fontine was a brother to John, born at Wilder, died June 29,I[...]Lucille Purdy. belle LaRock of Roy was a sister-in-law. Albert. born December 28, 1910,[...]iiE 1915 and died in Billings August 76, 1947, in a rodeo[...]Butte. The story is that this child was bitten by a rattlesnake and is buried close to Black Butte.[...]The Demos lost a son, George, on June 26, 1923 after John LaFounta[...]. John always he was kicked by a horse. The child was born in Roy on claimed to[...]three tr:ns of hay, paying for it n'ith a check on one of D^.. ^^.,-,-.. rrli* +L^ r!w,\ l[...]town. Joe came to our cabin and said He ll'as a Meteetse. That is, his grandfather was one[...]
	[...]Stephens hired Joe to work for him. Joe also had a the site where those cabins were buil[...]moved up river a few miles to another and better site In 1935[...]g and ons and asked another old-time resident for a team and hunting. He had what was called a Red River cart. The wagon to haul wood on shares[...]res were rawhide. The next year he asked me for a team and wagon to The hunters w[...]so as to You come and get two or four horses and a wagon and I control the Indians and they received $1 a hide for will take four horses and a wagon and we can go skinning[...]led as high as Creek and north where years before a frre had killed could be reached and a quarter of a mile long. most of the timber which had dried and[...]te and had to sell wheat at 19 cents a bushel and good yearling we made camp at night. Sitting by the campfire Joe cattle at $20 a head." told me a lot of his early doings of which I will write[...]the antelope were very few. I did a lot of trapping," he said, Indians. The Indians d[...]" Joe said, "and many times the groceries brought a band of Indians saw him and came for him. He ran[...]y Point on steamboats were mostly already sold to a ridge where he knew a pond of water was on the to someo[...]s working sixties. And LaFountain wasn't just a pro[...]- he was a success on sculptures and drawings, His favorite[...]to get excited about." Asked how he thinks he got a quieter way than he once did.[...]ber you." professional rodeo circuit full.time as a saddle-bronc rider for His father ran a livery stable in Roy and worked for the almost 20[...]Falls in 1956, stage lines in those days. He had a homestead on the side, and didn't retire from working as a pickup man until the early originally set[...]
	[...]"Even back then, with gas under 20 cents a gallon, it was "the years got dryer and the mone[...]travel. We did okay if we were in the money As a child, l,aFountain worked with horses and spent m[...]e, it seemed like the "My brothers and I spent a lot of our time four or five miles only way to[...]on bridge is today," he said. "That After a few years of riding the circuit; small, local rodeos was before they made it into a big lake and it was better coun- and larger o[...]She went with him on the rodeo circuit "quite a little," while out and look at the stock and buy the good horses." they maintained a home north of Grass Range. Eventually "I guess[...]mer mayor, in the winter, sometimes by setting up a corral as a trap on top Robert LaFountain. of a ridge. Now they're all gone, but there were a lot of them Another event LaFountain rode[...]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[...]he other cities in the He went to high school for a year and a half, then quit to work East or the South, 6u[...]school in those days," he motioning to a sculpture of a cow's skull on a nearby table, said. "It wasn't like today 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."[...]alled. "I didn't me and got killed in 1948 when a horse fell on him in Billings. do any good, I got[...]d as many friends as any cowboy first ride was on a big black horse." e[...]t home $1200. The frrst-place winner from a police shotgun here in 1973 when some young officer took a $1700 purse, not much, he noted, compared to toda[...]probably as much to blame as they are, and I when a top rider can make more than $100,000 a year. shouldn't have ever got into[...]l good cowboys." the time," he said. "I bought a Model A Ford with a guy named After LaFountain quit rodeoing[...]to the road, riding as many rodeos quite a bit until the early seventies. His house near Gra[...]tates, and good rodeos, But there were a lot of cowboys who were better there still are.[...]never got to be 'the best.' "We tried to ride a rodeo a 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 m[...]Alrx LnFouNterN Montana lost a great and talented artist . . . and this Alex had gained much recognition as a "foremost" area lost a native son who deserved our pride; was how[...]
	[...]ed to Lewistown in 1946. For several years he was a ent display in the Lewistown First National Bank.[...]aughters Pennelope and He died trying to rescue a swimmer in trouble. His Candace; a sister, Lorraine (Mrs. Don Sandaine) and greatest[...]ecognition to his heritage, of which Ted Davis. A brother, Alfred, died in Butte on September he wa[...], the Walter Brasier's, Paul 4 years, but Dad had a yearning to go west, so they Townsend, an[...]iends, Guy and Edna went to North Dakota, renting a farm at Kempton, Townsend and girls. The Steve Bullock's had a phono- North Dakota. Alice was born there and the[...]the prairie dog towns, and rattlesnakes and filed a homestead claim located 10 miles south of a[...]barefoot when there were so many snakes. Dad made a Ft. Maginnis. My brother, Howard, was almost five[...]I was going on three years. winds, he made a sail to fasten on it and the wind gave The trip wasn't as hard as earlier trips west for mother us many a ride. We also entertained ourselves by getting an[...]it would into Roy by then. Dad met us in Roy with a team and be fun to jump off the chicken h[...]coaxed me to try it turned out to be somewhat of a shock, as the only first to see if it would work. I floated to the ground, building there was a small one-room shack. Dad gently, so[...]rned the assured my mother that as soon as he got a barn built umbrella inside out and he had a bad fall. Several years for shelter and care of the animals. he wouid build a earlier, the Indians had camp grounds here. Many new house. The buildings were built where a creek was happy hours were spent by us pick[...]violin, which was then usually called a fiddle. He With the much appreciated help[...]to nurse him with mother at this time. There was a doctor in Roy, but through it and take care of[...]erm, 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
	[...]e carried water ':. in a bucket from a place at the edge of town. When t'-l Marjorie and I would get almost home, a much larger girl had lots of fun spilling our wat[...]stead land could : never provide a living, so our family moved to l-ewistown in 1925 when I was ten years old. Dad worked as a carpenter until shortly before his death. Mother[...]d finally he chewed his twice. His first wife was a Cowen girl, whom he divorced thumb off in orde[...]imself. in 1923. His second wife, Mary?, was a "mail order Jake passed away about 1958. Mr[...]lle on December 9, 1963. She had Jake was minus a thumb on one hand. The story is been a resident of Roy for 30 years. Her obituary listed that while working in a granery one day he slipped and a daughter-in-law, Mrs. Prouty, as a survivor. fell and got hung up by his thum[...]
	[...]ma 12, 1935 he married Agnes Johnson. Charlie was a and Earl of Pleasant Hill, Missouri;t[...]rlier days Stewart) who was born July 7, 1927, on a farm a few there must have been very good grain[...]to come: drouth, army worms, poor crops and even a of us was paid for with the returns from a load of hogs cyclone. Our brother John was b[...]had lived in Oklahoma and knew a cyclone was com- The farm had been built by Wi[...]just to show us that watched the destruction. A quarter ofthe barn roof, the she could do it.[...]of the house, the corn crib and pig There was a ridge of rimrocks jutting out of the ter- she[...]of." He later repaired the barn rood but the rest a fresh water spring from which my Dad piped water to was never repaired. a tank for the livestock. Our drinking water was pu[...]r sister Bonnie was born February 17, 1933. up in a bucket from a well on slightly higher ground. When Jim[...]Dad's saddle horse. Florie. It was four and a half miles We loved to play on the rimrocks. It was a wonder- each way. I was almost seven. Our teacher was Adra fully interesting place. After a quick summer rain, Neuman. The other stu[...]were the Giant Strides. There was The farm had a very good barn with hay mow, cow a metal pole with several chains spaced from the to[...]tended. There were straps around There was also a large building, the upper part of a our thighs. We propelled ourselves in uniso[...]ere airborn. I have never several feet. It was on a hillside and underneath was a seen another "Giant Strides" since that one. chicken house, shop and space for a car. One lazy afternoon, Jim and I were riding Florie There was also a corn crib, hog shed and the two home fr[...]oad. Suddenly story house. The house was built on a hillside directly Florie snorted, side stepped and broke into a full gallop. beside a large root cellar, which had cement walls. The[...]ouse had been plastered but dumped. We had a moment to see, to our horror, a large
	[...]keeping only milk cows. They mostiy rattlesnakes. A rattlesnake den. Florie kept side[...]the sheep each day. Later our Dad and a neighbor Uncle Bill were there. We all got into t[...]here with the sheep while the other hood and with a shovel, whacked snakes heads off until[...], Claudia, was born in den with dirt and inserted a pipe attached to the Lewistown.[...]looked outside just for the sheep. A sudden electric storm came up, catching as our Da[...]by lightning part of the cultivator. I still have a sense of her terror, and killed. The next[...]ivator, startling the road to have a picnic in the mountains. His birthday team. He wa[...]been 43. In April of 1934, our folks purchased a ranch our Dad Mother called we chil[...]told us Butte and Cone Butte. It was owned by L.M.A. Wass our Daddy had been killed by a bolt of lightning. and about ten miles south of R[...]Roy for the school terms. Some years we took a milk Our Dad hired Willie Jones, who was about[...]ad been on I remember the scene yet. We came to a gate, the last welfare. Mr. Alva Fink asked her if she would take a one before reaching the buildings. I got out to o[...]r if they didn't hold The scene to our right, was a most beautiful field of school. Mom[...]and Momma was subsequently issued a permit. purple as there was a slight breeze.[...]o teach, taking Claudia, Bonnie floors. It was on a rounded knoll along side a gurgling and Johnny with her. Claudia[...]ol that year. creek, which was edged by trees and a variety of other Momma remembers[...]We walked the through May. two and a half miles each way. Jackie started his[...]une through August. Jim worked for Anton We had a few horses, some cattle, chickens and pigs.[...]ohnny worked for Charley Bishop, I worked Dad had a nice garden in a lower spot along the creek. I for Lynn[...]he ranch. remember his giving each of we children a tin can with Jeanne Fox stayed[...]
	[...]87 O'Reilly's place where they got a ride with them to Roy. In the spring of[...]stopped at Woodard's and Mrs" Woodard gave them a In September she went to teach i[...]and establishing our own driving along. They got a ride the rest of the way. They lives and f[...]isappeared. She said the flies has alu'a1's had a very special enthusiasm and interest burned up a[...]knees were bumped. Albert had his ear cut. He put a blanket over his shoulders and walked to Speed Ko[...]on of his work. Bonnie helped Arlene take care of Patricia. Pat said Bonnie could pick a calf. She picked a little brockle faced calf. When it was about ready to calve as a two year old it disappeared. Later they found it[...]I stayed with my aunt and her family and soon got a riviting job at Winnie McNeil Rife wit[...]n, Montana- I We were so happy to have a Iot of deer and antelope and was named after Orin[...]nd to sell about everl'thing in 1936. A good cow and calf Earl Rife. were worth $12.00 a pair, hard to believe now days. My older sister, Lila, and I started school at Blakes- We rented a house in Roy in 1937 and went to school lee,[...]ugh school. I went to work 1934 my parents bought a ranch 10 miles south of Roy. drivirrg tractor when I was 12 for 95.00 a month. At 13, I
	[...]on' Op. NOnrHEesreHx Fr;Hr;rrs CoLrw.l.r. got a job for $10.00 a month working at a garage. always remember. We didn't[...], 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 neve[...]life has been er's relatives, and then back home. A never to be forgot- very good to us. ten t[...]nstruction building roads. In 1959 we invested in a gold mine adventure in Alaska (a sure way to get rich). We moved to Alaska and worked for a year. Beautiful country, but no gold. We came hom[...]went well, but in 1972 we got the urge to move to a warmer climate. We looked around and bought a ranch at Elk" land, Missouri. We rented our Roy r[...]im, Joh.n, of our construction equipment and made a move we'll Jarnie, Janet. Front: Jan[...]e to the Corth's. Charlie Schaeffer had a homestead of his own. He Bertha Corth, who woul[...]served in World War I and was killed in a train wreck' would stay with Lily during the summ[...]at Creek and Homer moved to Hilger from Corth for a while and then moved back to Winifred to[...]est tax payer that year - $6,398.95' Stephens was a nently in the beginning of the town of Roy and is[...]Stephens was a native of Susquehanna County, In 1905, a year before his death, he was the largest Pennsyivania, where he was raised on a farm' He frrst individual land owner in the count[...]came to Montana in the 1870's and worked as a cowboy.
	[...]nieces and nephews. A brother, Alf, was postmaster in In 1881 he[...]hew, Frank 1881 on he accumulated and soon became a rich man. He Stephens, but everyone received substantial sums, never kept a set ofbooks. In conducting his business he except for a nephew, George Calph, who received one relied ent[...]of em- dollar. ployees, his checkbook and a vest pocket memorandum John H. Stephens[...]Carr married Harry Wright. Other descend- He had a big heart and stuck by his friends and[...]ny A. F. "JAcK" Woonano by Virginia Woodard Norskog A. F" Jack Woodard came to Montana from Missouri,[...]in, MO. Herefords. He met Mary Jane Harris, a born and raised Montanan The center of[...]s, dances, box socials, visiting and they took up a homestead, southeast of Roy, on what is occasionally a traveling preacher. They always found now part of[...]ably ran one town or where ever he could work for a month, then of the first school buses. S[...]car. Mrs. Bill Hinkley, Miss Blair fiater married a Hotel and for the Waite family at Utica.[...]oliha They said that World War One was over for a long Naylor. time before they got word.[...]n the sage- During the winter of 1918-19, after a dry summer, hens would move onto the meadows at the Red Barn, they trailed their cattle into Roy. A train load of hay around those Big Springs, i[...]Mom died on March 16, 1949 and Dad bought a ranch leased them some grass so they survived wit[...]then bought a place on Casino Creek, out of Lewistown. Their[...]the ground and I He sold this and bought a place on Warm Spring Creek was in the house alone[...]orking at the was milking the cows. She saved me, a basket and an age of 79 and moved into Le[...]ney ford Association. Jack worked with L.M.A. Wass to so they could set up housekeeping. They were generous bring relief and W.P.A. in the Roy area when things because no one had[...]ings Bonds during World War II. He also became a Dad won the lease to the Red Barn Ranch in a poker member of the Lewistown Chamb[...]
	[...]Blakeslee. He 1926 in Roy. She became a beauty operator in Lewis- moved to the Grass Rang[...]d and makes his home at Roundup, A.J. "Jackie" was born in January of 1929 in Roy. H[...]in Orville, Washington where he works as a carpenter. retired and now spend their time betwe[...]n 1980 to another ranch. Ranching has always been a way of iife for me. Roy and the Missouri R[...]
	[...]DnSir.va Will DeSilva was born at Dodgeville, Wisconsin 12 Montana. May 1861. The famiiy moved from Wisconsin to Aller- Grace recalled gathering b[...]op over Ada Stiles in 1885. They farmed there for a number of to do the washing and bake thei[...]oma. In 1912, the Mr. DeSilva was a devout Bible student. family came to Montana by c[...]Robert, Oliver and Buddie D.; Mr. Knighi died in a fire when their home burned" and thr[...]nde Halverson, born W.J. came and was followed in a September snow by on the Mgntana home[...]Meisser of William J. Rowland was a loving father and g:and- Moore.[...]a cially with daughter Gracia's help as a school teacher. taught school at several Central[...]the Minnesota Bench; and was always a favorite visitor at the homes of his Biake[...]
	[...]now (1989) residing in Bellevue, Washington. was a first cousin to William Jonathan Rowland and Their's was a musical family. They played for area lived in the[...]he piano and Ruth Eva, married Bert Cummings; and a son, Horace Clark, on the ukelele. In later years, Horace directed a dance who married Ada Thomas. Both Horace and Bil[...]ed which was the T. L. Peterson homestead. It was a two room frame house with a pitched roof. John Beck's moved this building a[...]house was set half way between the two families. A one room teacherage was located at the school. Th[...]son and Leilla Tullis. The frrst school board was A.J. Anderson, Fred Mabee and L.C. Willmore. Byfo[...]lace that Lillie Burnett now owns. He used it for a brooder house. District #207 was annexed to Distr[...]NnNe S. ANopnsoN Perhaps this is not a typical homesteading story, but which had b[...]soldier boy, and I soon had a homestead. I frrst came to Montana in the sprin[...]In September of that year the "Fad" gave me a week my vacation with friends who had come the ye[...]schools and had taken home. residence. A friend, Elmie Kronke, from the law offrce steads[...]weeks in of Belden and Dekalb took a week off to go with me. Winifred were so eventful they really sold me on This turned out to be a fun trip for Elmie and me. We Montana. I wasn't,[...]tore to stock up on Shanklin told me he had found a place for me six miles food for our week's stay and then went to the livery from them. A young man had entered the services and[...]xt morning. We wanted to relinquish his rights to a320 acre homestead. wanted to go that afternoon, but was told it would be "Do you still want a homestead?" Mr. Shanklin asked. too much for the team that night. We could, of course, There was a small house on the place and 20 acres[...]
	[...]he dishes knew very well, and another man who was a collector and some bedding. A telescope bag got the rest of the from a Lewistown wholesale firm were on their way to bedding and a rug. The mirror went in my trunk. Little Crooked where a small grocery store was located. Everything[...]I started for the livery stable once more. It had a Franklin car. They had just finished their lunch,[...]to get that stuff out to so Elmie and I just had a snack so we could get started. Byford. O.K.[...]Shanklin and his wife, Vanita, who had opened up a their business with the Scotsman who ran the stor[...]i told them I was moving out and had hired a dray to three miles north of Byford. By this time[...]carrier 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 at last there was a house with "Oh, don't worry," Harry said, "P[...]me of the soldier boy. As Elmie and I belonged to a wony." Back to the depot to wait! "I'll t[...]The wait at the depot 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'[...]laxed. "Here's After the men left us, we found a broom in a corner my stuff', I said. "Do you think yo[...]ordinary wagon much like wagons we store and had a snack and went to bed. It was g:eat! had[...]ged, my rain barrel, fancy quite roomy. There was a homemade table and chair in big box, tru[...]p there. We went to Crooked Creek, which was just a of it all, my cot and my groceries an[...]ay when we picked up our feet once in a while and great mud balls would fly. gear to catc[...]Travel was slow, of course, for we were carrying a big L9l7 . . . In March of the next year it wa[...]hey no longer to radiate confidence. In a short time, we came to needed. Daddy Smith gave me a saw, an axe, a ham- Edwards' hill. At the foot of th[...]to the Edwards' home. from my Bridge Club gave me a big mirror. The boys at Mr. Edwards came out and took the horses, and Peters the drug store got a big rain barrel for me and in it were took me[...]me to her and then left. Mrs. Edwards 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 had just baked brea[...]as 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 h[...]dwards and Peters came in and we all had gave me a lot of pretty cretonne for a closet in a corner. coffee and good new bread along with o[...]the mail, he said, and must put a tarp on the load too. The rain barrel[...]
	[...]HsesrnnN Fsncus Couury Next morning we all had a big breakfast together, io build a new school house to the west of my place. In and[...]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 f[...]rth quake", I thought. I went to my window to see a It was like a picnic out there among the sage. After[...]eters left me to tend the frre. He needed to take a horses driving them. The drive split at m[...]It was wasn't run over, but my yard was a trampled mess. The about 4:00 o'clock that aftern[...]the land office that anyone who would work on a farm "Oh, five bucks is plenty". I handed him the[...]esidence, 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[...]ge was motorized, and ran, I believe, three times a 1919. Once again I left for Lewistown and the land week. A young man, named Roseland, had a well of office. At the land offi[...]only well for miles around had secured a drought leave for all of us as the fields that had good water and he was a very popular young were dried up. N[...]nking. We all was very happy to get a job again. had rain barrels, but mine leaked badly. Mr. Jakes told There was a need of a bookkeeper at the Sweitzer me to get it down the[...]nch" were about the most wonderful friends I make a barrel out of something that looked like a big had there. They made many trips out to the Little sunflower. At last it looked like a barrel once more, so Crooked country, in[...]me back into the pool it went. Afler soaking for a week or so the from my little house. I ha[...]t with water and hauled it up to my house. It was a I don't think many of the folks w[...]asure so in my each day, to and from school, were a joy to me. My memories.Amen.... neighbor, Peter Roseland, and a young Canadian boy, (Nena Anderson liues in Minnesoto and still owns her David Bruce, who had a homestead near, were helping[...]
	[...]Rochester, In 1946, John opened a garage in Havre, Montana. Washington"[...]He had the American Motors dealership and was a Mom's maiden name Jane Muir. born 29 November[...]June Beck & Akerlund Garage. John had a natural knack for 1912, at Lebanon, Illinois. Two[...]he Veterans 15 December 1934 and we lived on a ranch southeast of section with Military Honors.[...]stayed at Ronan until May of the Medical Unit as a mechanic sergeant. He helped 1942 and[...]aries that were held in the 1954 we moved to a farm near Oakville and in 1969, Philippines near[...]reside. Bill passed way 20 John married Lillian A. Akerlund of Malta, Montana February 198[...]ois. They had no children. Ethel bought a farm in 1940. After a few years, they sold out Schaefer Beck died at Le[...]The Becks were very industrious people; farmed, a train at a crossing at Witt, illinois, 18 June 1958.[...]rpentering and fixed up this locality and took up a homestead22 miles north' a nice set of buildings on their homestead. They en[...]Uncle John brother, Johnie on the train. This was a long train ride. came with his pickup, to[...]In Billings, we saw our first Indians. There was a grub box and some gtoceries and just[...]kets and real Indians. What front seat. a sight for a seven year old![...]
	[...]when we finally arrived, for whenever we came to a steep hill, Mom and Johnie got out and walked an[...]this time, the land was not in one piece. One 40 A. was John and Ethel Beck r[...]my special den, when I was way across, then an 80 A. with another 80 A. on the hill. home. Mom and I did a lot of sewing and made many The 320 A. had been homesteaded and let go back, so it quilts and rugs. was again open. This place had a shack with a gabled I started school at Little C[...]nd store and was on the above Hennemans. Pop made a road across those four north side of[...]. He school building, which was used as a dance hall, meet. fenced all the land, but this p[...]and how to In the fall of 1923, the folks got a shack moved onto read and write and American history, so that he could the 40 A. where we were to live. It was roofed with[...]He was in our reading heavy metal roofing and a slate covered, heavy tar class. paper[...]attended the births of the Jakes twins, Earl with a heavy pale blue building paper, put up with lath[...]ray when Guilberi, Edwin and in one comer. We had a cookstove with two doors in the tiny litt[...]used to stay with Mabel oven, hearth in front and a water reservoir in back, tin and would ride their saddle horse, "Mistake", home in stove pipes and a )uretal roof-jack, so that no wood the[...]d be near the pipes as they would get hot. We had a milk cows and do the milking for Mabel an[...]h all her kitchen was used as the dining room and a place for the small children and coulcin't[...]r of milking cows. When we had company, there was a san- patent leather dress shoes with a strap. I cleaned them itary cot, with both sides[...]e and put them in the shoe box and wore open into a full bed. Space was necessary to move[...]to Illinois in 1g29 us three bedrooms and it had a brick chimney, also a to take part in my grandparents golden wedding cele little room that was intended for a bathroom (this was bration. Abe was never[...]bacco and never accomplished) and it was used for a clothes every other word was a cuss word. but he was verv kind
	[...]q7 and had a heart of gold. He showed my dad how to lay brick[...]came to Roy, in 1915. She was teaching a school near taught school in the area.[...]Virginia died of injuries sustained in a fall, on a frshing The couple had a son, Donald. ex[...]ised her sister, Virginia, and prob- being a "young woman of unusually bright disposition, abl[...]Their mother passed away when a high school graduate and a public school teacher. To Virginia was only 3 and[...]tion and her spirit of helpfulness Ivy also had a homestead; T19 R24 Sec. 2, and an[...]margo, for several years operated a millinery shop in Carlisle, Montgomery County, Ke[...]79 and Michael Angelo was They had a good start in the millinery business in born on J[...]e for the U.S. Navy and Michael obtained a teaching posi- one year in Carlisle, Kentucky for[...]osie received her Idaho Teacher's Certif- She was a teacher in Kentucky schools for 12 years a[...]
	[...]was tents. Later, with their own hands they built a wooden frame abode, more suitable for Montana liv[...]n, Bridgie's was the focal point of those visits. A School, Forest Grove School, Danvers School, Stub[...]year in Roy Grade Michael worked as a security guard in Washington School. During this term, she had her retirement checks State for a year, returning to Lewistown in 1946 where cancel[...]they used for traveling, passed away there a few years later. and how "one of the horses wouldn't let a man work After the death of Josie's hus[...]after school and she would help sustained a fractured hip, We have a photo of her riding them to learn to draw and paint. Because ofthe lack of a horse at her brother John's farm when she was 92 materials with which to work, one young girl painted a years of age. detailed scene of a covered wagon going west with She enjo[...]rd Jones in 1929 and Kentucky, as well as a Kentucky Colonel Commission had moved to Roy. Bridgie and Michael purchased a and letter and greetings from her many friends in Roy, ranch approximately a mile from Roy on the road to Montana.
	[...]She was a member of St. Patrick's Catholic Church and[...]Bridget Hickey was truly a remarkable lady. She[...]telephone, airplane, television and watched a man[...]keen intelligence. She had a positive influence on every-[...]hn Andrew, She died on September 21, 1981 after a short illness of also settled in Central Mont[...]19?1. Both are resting in the Lewistown Cemetery. a farm and six of their children were born there. T[...]the Ander- by train to Lewistown. There he rented a house and son's, the Mather's and the Norbeck's. bought some furniture. We stayed in Lewistown for a The Jakes had 9 children in all: Barba[...]and his sisters, Ullie (Burnett) and Pearl Later a kitchen and several bedrooms were added. That[...]then he retired and moved into Roy. wrap her in a blanket and hold her by the stove.lshe Ullie, a widow, was a tailor for 6everal years. She thought for sure mo[...]lives just outside of Roy and runs a small band of sheep. Six years later along came[...]e homestead. Thank heaven's she operated a small variety-drug store in Roy. After a neighbor lady came and took care of them.[...]by Richard Lucas This is a list of the people from Indiana that took up[...]ville Isaccs, Walter ter, who also took up a homestead. She married Ben and Mabel Ritz.[...]
	[...]and added it on to I rented a box car and filled it with a team, cows and his. Gatch and Sara Lucas came fro[...]winter and the following ones I did a lot of freighting[...]By the spring following, there was a shack on every 320[...]from Roy to the Missouri. Now it is nearly all in a barely pay interest on the money and not redu[...]but doesn't get enough rain to make a crop. Then by word of mouth I heard about[...]acres just by living on it 3 years received a deed. Later I delivered coal with a team all over plus a frling fee of $25 and making $400 worth of improv[...]ts of fun. There were nine another cousin had a homestead. That is - we marked out a place and "squatted" on it. It wasn't open for[...]Sunday we would get together and have a picnic or homesteading for thirty days. "Squatted" means putting something. up a $25 shack and staying there. I had a farm crop in We had 10 children and f[...]Ausunx Auburn had a post of6ce from 1913 to L934.Uzzie Williams was postmaster. Auburn was named for a "red-headed preacher" named Auburn Williams. There was also a small store. Auburn was south and east of Roy abo[...]W.G. Braiser, Wilma Marsh, Julia Sargeant, and B.A. Hickey. Helen Jordan was the last teacher[...]
	[...]rict was created in 1917. The first trustees were A.J. Burke and Frank Genther. The frrst teacher was[...]of where the old Trvin Sheds Ranch was. There was a post office named for the first postmaster. Nels[...]35 in 1921. Ella Stenson taught at the school for a fiue month term from September 5, 1916 to March 2[...]ey Christensen, son of PauI and Marie, and Lester A. Day, son of John McJonnett ond, Eualyn E. Christ[...]ken from the big open spaces more rented the A. M, Stendal ranch about 10 miles southeast[...]10, 12 miles south of Roy, under the a daughter, Rachel Ann, was born'. They built the b[...]art, writing and flowers which they worked into a beau- 1960's and moved to Lewistown.[...]tiful yard with fountain and waterfall into a lily- Their childhood yea:s were spent in Butte, Montana- attend- pond surrounded by a lilac hedge and yellow roses. ing the same school[...]a. volved with the Barnes-King Mine. Walter drove a Rachel married Wiiliam G. Cow[...]again. 'Gramp' and 'Nanny'enjoyed a close relation- Ruth always said "when the[...]
	[...]CALL IT A DAY AND RIDE AWAY.[...]WITH NEVER A DOUBT. Token[...]I'M CALLING TT A DAY.[...]n Digging the wells turned out to be a bigger job than cash. They only had enough Eoney[...]ssenger ship and Paal worked his would be a simple matter to just dig a shallow well and way over on a cattle boat" He landed somewhere north th[...]That was the end of that well and they got a profes- Carl, born in 1905.[...]the Smith.Laraway about 50 feet down hit a layer of granite. They were Ranch, west of Roy. T[...]of their ilons filed only able to get through a few inches a day, but finally homesteads 15 miles southeast of Roy by the rimrocks, they hit good water about a foot through the granite. east of the present highway. To prove up on a homes- Prior to the well drilling they ha[...]buckets of tead, it was required that they build a house, fence their water at a time on a framework across their shoulders acreage and dig a well. Irrigation ditches were required from t[...]the ditches were dug, homes- Paal had been a carriage maker and wheelwright in teaders would pull a barrel of water down the irrigation Denmark and he and several of the boys were good ditch with a team of horses, leaving the hole in the[...]
	[...]103 carpenters. They built a big house on the homestead. hou[...]$350. Paal and Marie retired in 1927 and bought a house in Paal died in Roy in 1[...]tensen. They lived in Roy and Grandpa C. smoked a pipe Casey, Iowa. He came to Roy with his parents[...]that smelt so good. I remember him as a very stern per- Pearl Irene Olsen was the daug[...]e and son. Grandma C. was a very sweet lady and ghe had the Inga Olsen. She w[...]ived with my parents until Dad had to take her to a ville, North Dakota. She came to Roy with her par[...]tore in Roy. We always got to go lived and farmed a place which they leased in the Fer-[...]in 1940. Chris and Em, lived a ghort digtance from ug. Evelyn writes:[...]8 John was working in the field on his Nels ran a post office on the Smith-Laraway ranch[...]lled when they first came to Roy. He then took up a home. the team over to the side[...]ce, went to the house and gathered all his things a community hall and post ofEce there. He held many[...]d. The only contact any of the where he worked as a carpenter and cabinet maker. He family ever had with him from that day on was a day in never returned to Montana.[...]
	[...]by train, shipping goods The area was in a very dry cycle their entire stay and by freight c[...]en their house burned down in the mid-1920's, and a night at the Stoddard Ranch in the eastern foothi[...]Cox left their homestead, about five As soon as a post office was opened at Roy, they used mil[...]back in 1925 for a briefstay. The school year of1925-26 Once mothe[...]er Roy Hill, Father and Perry fixed up a homestead shack near and saw a great circle of wagons and saddle horses on[...]ey and Merle going on. They got there just before a cowboy in the Cox. They later lived northwest of us running the middle of the ring mounted a horse and stayed with it Auburn Post Offic[...]Wilke family, who had moved to Nebraska before to a standstill. There's more to this story, but the h[...]after was Mick Green's saddle horse, though still a out their homestead at Sand Rock Springs, fiv[...]sen homestead one claim west of ours after a stint in with two married brothers, Herb and Wiil[...]eir families get established on There was a great deal ofreturning for a few years to their claims and then return to Fairmont Academy in a different homestead where buildings werq still st[...]remained and farmed on more fertile also take out a claim to increase their holding when he Iand[...]sell Rowland, did not leave his the north side of a rimrock and sand ridge. The only land, two and a half miles southeast of us on the bank remaining[...]ty No. 1 wildcat oil well had brought in a tremendous flow feet down in sandstone, en[...]
	[...]- range creek waterholes two and a half miles east. on his land,[...]Gallagher moved into a substantial homestead shack Between Christensen[...]Christensen School, together with Jess iater ran a pool hall in Roy and then moved to the oilfi.elds, Warren, a year or so before he removed to the Church- and h[...]ar of school, Mother his second wife returned for a short period in the late and she an[...]20's. school, for the worst six weeks of a bad winter. Ruth One mile south of us, the buil[...]ought west to help kill time in Churchwell place, a brother and sister named Hustad.[...]owed from the few Moore, for western Montana, and a newcomer, Jess homestead-ran[...]ve up still lived when we left. Later he moved to a ranch in teaching he had taught and preached, sometimes as a the rimrocks, five miles northwest of us, where a family circuit rider, for 53 years from Missouri to Montana. He named Flaherty lived for a few years and ran the was a grand old man. Auburn Post Office.[...]ven miles and wife went to Lewistown where he was a butcher. northwest of us; Evel[...]all; Lorraine Lenling; and Ruth and I Fulanwider (a name I shall never forget, as it intrigued[...]year, with my mother as leader. It served both as a northwest of us was known, went back to Boston. A learning (sewing) and social[...]aw required school to be held Rock Springs across a one-span iron bridge thrown e[...]rict, and with the Roy School district now across a gumbo flat on the north side of Little Box[...]n our district, Elder. The Paul Christensen's had a working well. agreed to pay b[...], Blakeslee, as mentioned with the CoxlDevine had a lived-on homestead, and his brother Rudy's[...]r. was still stead shack half a mile west of our ranch buildings,
	[...]eRn FEncus CouN'r'y which had been prepared as a schoohoom, but soon she served by a spur of the Milwaukee that passed from was boardi[...]loneliness. In 1927- Grass Range through a whistling post named Teigen 28, a first grader from the Fleharty family living in t[...]y-Grass Range road and then south to these parts; a seventh-grader who was unhappy with[...]e Christensen School, opened once more. This was a very Churchwell and Devine land, and to split us off from substantial white building on a high foundation; it had our school distr[...]0 been built in the halcyon homestead days not as a acres under fence with access to open range on three schoolhouse but actually for a dance hall. In those sides. We were[...]ed, and the next year as residents of section had a homestead bachelor or family on it, the[...]There were two sisters and a brother in Lewistown During the winter of 1916-[...]use to these education- had attended my mother in a delivery nearly fatal to dedicated people, it was ag:eed there be a joint school both her and me, realized she could[...]night, then home, begg:ing for hay was a state apportionment complication and the offr- that cost up to $35 a ton against a price of $5 or $6 for cials in Winnett, sa[...]he fall of 1929, we did light With a drouth from 1929; with 51% of our cattle dying ho[...]othing but Halberts managed, as rentals. I was in a class of eleven stacked g:een thistles an[...]-beds eighth graders under the superb teaching of a Mrs. and there being no money for bullets for the deer rifle, Jenson who came from a ranch on the river. Our family and the[...]having 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 other residents of eastern Fergus[...]accident in the Judith County, petitioned to have a new county, Petroleum, Basin where he had gone in late June to earn a spiit off from Fergus, because they were sure the new grubstake at $1 a day to see us through the winter[...]nty would let Ruth stay in school for a fifth year to keep me have to pay taxes.[...]alberts had left the hotel building but rented us a from before my time-the Golden West and the Bosto[...]Ruth was Valedictorian of the Class of 1932, with a two or three more a mile or two south of us, during the scholarship as a result. I was Valedictorian of the Class 1[...]
	[...]akota then married Charlie He advised us to go to a lower altitude, so soon after my Wahl in[...]had been no drouth there, places in a position with the Ford Tractor Division. and there was spring water feeding a good well and a I transferred to the University of[...]my late grandparents. of 1938, taking a major in journalism, and was gradu- Five days aft[...]nal homesteader, Frank Spoon of a small newspaper in Leola, South Dakota. My and wi[...]highway in 1965 with no time He was a journeyman printer. In 1948, with a Rhodes except to wonder where all the sagebrush h[...]rs in Baltimore, Maryland in the 1970's to borrow a jeep and wire-pullers and get where he[...]e no buildings teaching economics at Purdue University in Indiana; and where the grass came t[...]er education and old Rowland No. 1 artesian well. A big reservoir fed by other areas for t[...]wildcat wells had gone down. aged a bit of published prose and "other" poetry, but[...]I lived in South Dakota, have made a mark in the world of haiku poetry. then went to W[...]rs College in south- Ruth raised a family of 3 children. I raised two ern Minnesota[...]vesting. The railroad had not yet reached Roy. A trip was Shocking grain was done m[...]ing. done in Gilt Edge or in Lewistown, which was a long Transportation about the neighborhood was by a two trip over the mountains by horses.[...]ings, card Cooking was done on a wood burning stove. The games in various homes, p[...]rkettes, the hot water bath and a wash boiler. Fouch, Know, Pierce, Tully, Ole and[...]girl. That was my first experience at a funeral. It was ance was large. A few of the teachers were Gracia held in a church in Roy and burial was in the Roy Rowland,[...]Cemetery. Another death was that of a young man by Wilma Marsh.[...]lls. The stock-water father drove a make-believe hearse drawn by two was pumped by a windmill. The surplus water formed a beautiful biack horses- dam and a running creek" The dam was used by the The above is a summary of my seventeen years lived kids f[...]
	[...]faith in diversified farming would have a very nervous shock that might prove fatal were[...]six miles south of here and have him show a check he received for three ten-months-old[...]shoats to Roy Tuesday morning and carried a check home worth S99.70. To be exact these[...]nths and seven days old, were fed wheat as a grain food and allowed to run in a fair-sized lot along the creek bottom for[...]can state as an absolute fact that he realized a gteater amount of money for his wheat, lab[...]allzed what the many sketches that Benjamen was a graduate of National Normal Uni-[...]d was located about Mathematics. In 1897 he wrote a book entitled, "The 5 miles east o[...]tes", which was southeast ofRoy. A patent was issued in 1917. used in the college.[...]ars, until his death on back to school and became a minister in the Methodist- October 10, 1935 he pursued his duties as a minister Episcopalian faith. A second book was written and and[...]rles M. Russell was asked to share a meal with them. Times were very
	[...]asked to dine at this particular place he stabbed a piece of chicken with his fork and held it while[...]e plate! Washington Benjamin was a spendthrift, one of the reasons the[...]she was 19 when they married. Russell was a nephew of Stebbins place. The Tully family was li[...]-wasand one ball only - to play a game with. If the ball[...]I7; Max recailed one game when a player and the umpire Jack Robert, August 23, 1919 and Max Benjamen, had a difference of opinion. The ump threw the offend-[...]let him in again. school. At that time there was a horse barn at the He owned the bal[...]unty, Saltlick Town- about 1934, to Grace Strait, a widow. The Strait's lived ship, Ohio. He[...]visit in Roy occasionally and tend Max tells of a peculiarity that his father had. It seems t[...]Betty Phipps who married Jack Gallagher, a teacher by (Olin Baker) had three children. Wayne[...]t. He served in the 37th Infantry, Ohio Ignatius. A son, Gene Robert Baker, was born in May[...]es. Elgeva also had another son, is a retired federal employee and now works as a tax Timothy Mark Gonzales, who died at birth in J[...]in the Black Butte area, we children a wood and coal stove. Sometimes the teacher lived in a attended the Black Butte (Stubbins) school. There was small room in the building; later at a teacherage near one teacher for all grades[...]
	[...]Hrsrony Op NonruresrERh* FERGUS CouNry a sheep shed for Cliff Emery. This building was als[...]All the other homes in the area were heated by a I married in April of 1935 and lived[...], Montana. electricity, so water was carried from a well and heated All of us are still living except one sister, Phyllis, and on a stove for washing, baths, etc. We used coal oil[...]Heber Pierce, hauled mail from Roy to Auburn with a team of horses and a buggy for many years; twice a week. Then later he got a Model T Ford. Sometimes the roads were almost imp[...]aveled roads it was impassable. No one went to a doctor unless they were about to die. It was a long way to Lewistown with a team of horses and a buggy. My mother died in 1928 when I was 13 yea[...]n 1974. The eldest child of Claude and Mary was a son, John Mary Alice married Anthony M[...]r home. They moved to the Christensen place for a short time in 1938, then to Willie Olsen's homest[...]eir groceries in Roy. In the fall they would take a load of Clou.de J.[...]
	[...]as probably on their land. In September of 1914, a news article told of a number of watermelons Stubbin had raised and bro[...]As RBlreMeERED By Russnn A. Tulr,y - Julv 1966[...]ation prouided by Earline Tully McNeil Russeil A. Tully and Ella N. Cooley were married[...]town; there they stayed for two weeks because of a friend was a girl named Hattie Chris. Hattie married a snow storm. When the snow cleared, they t[...]an. Mr. Harris's heaith wasn't good, t\ey thought a far as the railroad went. There they hired a team and change of climate might heip so they iro[...]mately 36 miles. They stayed all night at a large sheep Harris drove a stage from Gilt Edge to Lewistown. Mr. r[...]was to iive in Mon- supper. They built a fire and slept on the floor that first tana for q[...]% of ihe NE% of sec. 18 T. 1?, R. 23" it would be a good idea for them to go to Montana with They started their homesteading by putting up a 12 x her and her nephe*' and put down a homestead claim. 14 tent, floor[...]
	[...]ouNTy opening. Mother managed to get it put out. A lightning on a Sunday r.r'hen all the stores were closed and Dad[...]the worst storms. wanted some lemons. A Chinese restaurant was open they had there. Fire[...]ing along the and as Dad started into it a Chinese came out and saw ground. Mother was so sc[...]the depot and they had to send suppose to strike a feather bed.) Wind and hard rain the Health Officer out who gave him a clean bill of took the tent partially down, so th[...]aded his stock and Dad stayed in the Fire Station a next day, Dad built a cyclone cellar in the ground and week befo[...]then went to Lewistown and bought lumber to build a Dad went to a sale at Fort Maginnis; that was the barn.[...]last time he drove a wagon and team any distance. He Mother wanted a log house. It would take time as made up his mind then to buy a Model T Ford; his first they had to go to Black B[...]heir car. "Will it run up hill as fast as a horse will trot?" homestead. So the barn came first. It was 14 x 16 feet, asked Basil. three walls, a roof and a bare floor. "You never did see One time th[...]rine and Ella canned the rest. those three walls, a roof and bare floo!," said Dad. Peddled out to the stores, the biggest amount to a George Geyer helped Russell cut timber for thei[...]ter, to keep them meals on the wagon wheel. "Many a meal was cooked g:owing, on the sled.[...]tana." Russell was breaking in a horse one time and he had On November 25, 1913[...]around and just at this time Russell saw a rattlesnake bors were over and a snow storm came up and they all run in f[...]w it on the next to the ceiling where Dad had put a shelf to store g:ound and trampled it to d[...]g to see the ceiling me shake." There was a straw pile close by that the come down upon them[...]rattlesnakes always kept getting into and a horse that Later Dad bought a two room house, moved it to their wasn't broke was really hard to handle when a snake land with the help of a neighbor who had a Ford trac- did get close to one. tor, and[...]the two houses and enclosed it. It was made into a hall and banjo and George the mouth harp. w[...]he well. One time stead. Her death was due to a doctor grving her strych' while carrying the wash water a snow storm started nine in place of other medication for a bad cold. Evi- and was one of the worse they had[...]nd realized the mistake, and was the well and use a post digger the rest of the way to headed[...]to save Ella and Hattie Harzis used to hang up a tea towel on the the little girl. She was burie[...]ghbors helped to fashion the casket for her. used a sheet if it was an emergency. Hattie's ranch was[...]rn in the log house on the across the road and up a small hill from the Tully's. homestead in August of 1926. For a period of around two years they returned to[...]born on March 5" 1918 in New Salem, A story she recalls happened at a time when her dad Missouri. was away. There was a big cave east of the house where In 1918 they[...]Montana. Dad came on what the wolves had a den. "Mom had seen a wolf running was called an 'emigrant' car with the railroad. toward it, she took out a gun and as the wolf had been Dad got the measl[...]was as coming from the ranch yard it had a chicken. Mom was sick as he had ever been in his[...]t into Harlowtown, Montana went over into a dip by the cave and old Frank, the
	[...]and is buried in St. Paul, Minnesota. Earline, a widow, sure she had killed "old Frank". She carri[...]lives in Prior Lake, Minnesota. She raised a familv of there as I couldn't run fast enough to[...]ne of the last times that I saw him, what kind of a gun she had and he said it was a war rifle, big, and a large shell was needed, either a BE/45 or 45/55. I know she used to shoot rattlesn[...]r had to give it up due to the depression. He got a job at a ranch close to Lewistown for 92.00 per day, 10 hours a day. Later he received $2.50 per day. "Hardest wo[...]o Redlands, California where he died in 1g72 from a tragically died at the age of 5.[...]uise Trumer, Minnie is now a patient of Jenkins Nursing Home in managed the Cl[...]wo brothers and thrbe step-sisters. Minnie was a traveler. She traveled all over the con- tinental United States, Hawaii and Cuba. She worked as a cook on a cook-car for the railroad, in restaurants, factor[...]was available to women at that time. She was also a beautician and worked at that trade for a time in Washington state. Minnie married Paul Smith, a railroad conductor, in Minneapolis when she was i[...]Minnie Trumer neor Block Butte. Dakota to be near a niece, Pearl Isaacson. She had no[...]
	[...]an area, 6 to Smiles east of Roy. There was once a school at the top of the hill, but Coai Hili was never a community - as such - with[...]of coal from deposits on Coal Hill. Today about a mile south of the hill at the junction of highway[...]lly for meetings and get togethers and rarely for a dance.[...]were John Drake, A.W. Warner and Frank Pospisil.[...]Bear Creek ran for a few years. The teachers were Coal Hi[...]The schools were combined into a central school called[...]it was long and level and perfect for a buggy race[...]
	[...]ith them for awhile. and Marie (who each also had a homestead), Ed, Ir{artinek was a carpenter. Wiliiam, Jim, Martin Jr., Helen and De[...]s origi- lived on the Koliha place for a year in 1954, when they nally from South Dakota)[...]Marie, were born while they lived on leased a place there. Linda is married to Dean Koma[...]
	[...]1937. in the following account, giue as accurate a picture as The Bezouskas had one daugh[...]webber). Vaclav Bezouska, a cousin of John Maruska Sr., was The[...]79 in Lubino, Czechoslovakia. Roy and a news item told of a time when Caroline was His wife, Caroline Pakerovia, was born on October 25, bitten by a rattlesnake while out on the ranch. i889 in Pragu[...]Caroline worked at St. Josephs Hospital and was a They moved to Salem, Oregon and lived there for 1[...]trips to visit his brother. He acquired a quit claim deed In 1911 Frank homesteaded in t[...]ased to an oil company for several apprenticed as a tailor, later moving to Rochester, New y[...]ork, on May 5, had sold his land (or a part of it) before his death. He is 1913. Anna had a son, whom Frank adopted, and this b[...]which was next to Frank Vodicka, who was a nephew vakia and Marie was born 6 December 1856,.a1so in the of Mrs. Cizek. They spent se[...]d in 1879 aird came to stead, but had a residence in Lewistown where Mr. America on their[...]They first settled in Cizek operated a shoe repair shop at the corner ofFirst Chicago an[...]mesteaders, Alois made many friends and worked as a farm laborer in Kansas and Nebraska.[...]
	[...], Alois dried the dishes, all the while whistiing a Mr. Dockal was a very short person. People wondered tune. Joe was[...]of Aloiso music, so-. how he could reach a harness to put it on his horses. Joe had buiit Alois a homestead shack, one with a Dockal was a member of the ZCBJ Lodge, since it's pitched roof[...]on beginning in 1925. He hardly ever missed a meeting, the land, but he didn't have any horses or machinery. which was held at the hall, once a month. He walked His neighbor, Joe Kviz, broke up[...]t of someone passing by gave him a ride. Dockal's, so now Alois did the cooking whil[...]re 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 r[...]some real good stuff; We kids started to a kind of school. We had to walk everything to start a farm with, and of course, dad had about 2 miles. It was held in a little homestead shack to go along to tend the an[...]ad and count Mother and we three boys followed a few days later in and write, but there was a lot of Sunday school too. the passenger train; a real experience for me. Mother Dad co[...]ing on the homestead so we had her hands full, so a nice man took me in tow and moved some 2 miles east. We had a nice house and barn helped mother with the other two. and a good chicken house. It was here that my grand-[...]moved into on our homestead. It was small, with a dirt place. The homestead is part of the Horse Ranch.) floor and a dirt roof. We wintered there. Dad built a He and my dad dug a well for water and walled it barn for the livestock and a place to keep the feed. with flat sandstone which they hauled with a team and We had a lot of snow that first winter. Things got wagon. The well turned out to be a great well, good cool pretty tough. Dad knew very[...]ook his old shotgun and came We had a lot of great experiences there' The winter of back with an old sage rooster and a big porcupine. 1918 was a hard winter' The flu epidemic hit and many Ran[...], as was the rest of the family' about Christmas. A rider came by, it was late in the I h[...]t evening and the.t dtnn *u. coming down. He wore a big epidemic" buffalo coat and I was s[...]He was In the spring of 1919 dad had a sale, then we moved probabiy the first cowboy I h[...]to Kendall which at that time was turning out a lot of the night and at the frrst light was gone[...]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[...]say I learned and real good too. cattle. Many a mile my dad walked after that cow' but[...]. We moved to a ranch where dad was working. It was When spring came my mother and dad made a about 2 miles, by trail, to K[...]d started tomatoes and cab- we d.rove a horse on a heavy two wheeled cart with bage plants a[...]
	[...]own, so we got it all seeded. It was a 50 bushel crop for In1924 we moved to the old[...]sure. We were farming two places at the time. a big bunch of cattle and also did much grain farmi[...]ome 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[...]seen it hail in the mountains, but boy that was a hail old story, we survived by miiking a bunch of cows and storm. Killed chickens[...]needless to say, and eggs. By now I could handle a team pretty well so was completely gone. The ground was as bare as a we'd take the buck board and team and go to town. The summer fallowed field. buck board had a top. It was pretty fancy. We'd feed our So I rode for a cattle outfit for a few years and had a lot team at noon, wait for the cream check, buy s[...]s left so we attended Wages was 800 a day, board and tobacco. In the school in Hilger.[...]out bulls and late calvers. We would have a herd of some 25 of the 8th grade. School was held in different houses. A to 150 head, 55 to 70 bulls. This job would[...]ct had been formed so it wasn't so far to a couple of other guys. When they had been moved it school. By now I had two more brothers and a sister. was back to the ranch to move s[...]ne. We had By now I had met and adopted a family by the name been to several rodeos and this was upper most in our of Zahn. They had a large corral that could be seen for minds. We con[...]and many an outfit stopped there to rest and get a something to buck. We built a big corral and after get- good home cooked[...]ding 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, Once we were down to a bit of hard bread and some Sometimes things ha[...]h cof- had his saddle repaired which had cost him a pretty fee in it. Going across Lukins[...]penny. New strings, new sheep skin. We had gotten a water holes first and had rolled and[...]ith Butch, holding the Hilger. It was quite a trip. But how sweet it was when old steer down. B[...]dn't take long to get packed and underway. It was a and jumped over the fence and staried running thr[...]t. Needless to say we sure had to pay for a fried chicken dinner for about twenty-two cowboys. that saddle, with a good spanking. The CB[...]y years. night. I '*'as breaking small horses for a fellow. It didn't The next two summers and w[...]ck. Butch went on to graduate; I went to work for a came with them and a drift fence, about 10 or 15 miles fellow who had a broken hip. His name was Harry long, had to be built. Baulch, a moose of a man. When he got well I went to Summ[...]anch which people, then dad decided I should have a crop of my by now was mostly ha[...]
	[...]- *'ork 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 br[...]were at odds. I worked on the home Fergus ranch. A man by the name of McKenzie operated it. One ev[...]ent to Idaho ahead of me. It was 1936. In Montana a person could make $2 a day - in Idaho one could make g6 a day. We worked in the beet and potato fields. Th[...]. 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[...]in the early 1920's. Circa. I went to work for a big outfit that farmed something like 30,000 acre[...]inished out the year Ernest rode in a lot of rodeos. Nona liked the rodeos. there then[...]. We needed potato pickers. Nona of a near accident. The horse tripped near the sidelin[...]After that we moved to Montana. Ernest had a half[...]ndal. Then we The wind would blow the sand so bad a person could moved over the Valentine road. so that Tom and Lewis build a bie ditch and the next morning it would all be[...]of peas growing but the We farmed a little and raised a few cows. Ernest also wind never forgot us. My brother, Harold, and I started went to work on a drilling rig. He first worked for Cot- to combine[...]shels trell, then he went to work for a big siesmographing to the acre, but the ground wa[...]ctors and mowers. They cut all those peas. We got a Cottrell. After about a year we moved back to the ranch thresher in there and salvaged as many as possible for a short time then we sold it to Ed and Chet Trusty[...]dren were born in Roy, except Tim and Tamie, have a large herd of hogs and they grew fat on th[...]
	[...]Lewistown. near Kimberly and he works in a beet factory. He is a We have lived in our present place for 27 years.[...]Coal Hill school. Miro oslovakia. His father was a tailor by trade and he also graduated from the 8th grade there. The rest all attended had a farm of about ten acres. His mother's name was[...]fall; enough was thirteen years old he worked on a farm for $15.00 a to last the whole winter. A whole large bag of coffee year. He learned his trade of blacksmith in two and a would be ordered, which they ground with a small cof- half years. Then he worked for six mon[...]d States. Most when they got their first car, a Model T. of his family stayed in the old country.[...]hree time he ever tasted soda pop; it was a wonder! days found employment in a blacksmith shop where he Miro remembers seeing his first airplane when he worked ten hours a day, six days a week for $49 a week. was about four years old. He heard a noise and saw The work was hard, but everyone seemed to be happy what at first he thought was a bird. Only it landed and and satisfied. He change[...]e In 1911 he decided to come to Montana. He got a job Bohemian Hall. It is still being used for community on a ranch for $40.00 a month and board. In the fall of gatherings. 1911 he filed on a homestead, built a cabin and stayed In 1958, Anton and Mary[...]oldest son, Miro, and his family took over he got a job in the New Year Mine as a blacksmith. He the ranch. Molly, their olde[...]n 1945 died of childbirth complica' wages were $4 a day. The mine shrit down in about five tions[...]d off. He went back to the George became a teacher. He married Shirley Lewis homestead.[...]hese people sixties, then at Red Lodge for a couple ofyears and then were family units, but most were single men and a few went to Philipsburg where he has since[...]and manages the Mary lived on the farm and raised a family of three Moore Cenex. sons[...]
	[...]Anton HeiI and A good crop about 1938. Miro HeiI in the bachground[...]Betty's roommate while she was in the service was a cousin of Miro's, who introduced them. The coup[...]spital in Lewistown, suffer- Lewistown. Hosna was a member of the Fraternal ing from a severe attack of typhoid fever and Anlon Order of[...]o look for work. His Joe into taking up a homestead. Young Joe bought a father had sold the grain elevator that Joe was r[...]younger claim. He figured it was a cheap rvay to get 160 acres. brothers at home on[...]could Pienty of rain in l9l5 made a bumper crop so Joe not stay on the home farm, and[...]and Emma Cervenka were marricd. He did as many a When he arrived in Lewistown he decided to come to homesteader did; once they filed on a homeslead they Roy and visit Joe Swoboda.[...]
	[...]they'd waltz, two-step and polka. Many a young couple[...]danced to his music. One time while playing for a dance at the Stoddard Ranch he played a solo dance for[...]From 1922 to 1926 Joe ran an Avery tractor on a The Joe Kalina family in 1939. Standing are Dick,[...]ront are Don and Milton. formed a company and bought the rig. Joe was one of[...]lped set up the fuL{ Farm Program'and them out to a12 x 14 homestead shack. Emma's mother wi[...]ommittee couldn't see her daughter living in such a shack, so she man from 1933 until 1948 when his son, Dick, was gave them 91000 to build a house. In the fall of 1916 elected to that position for the next 27 years. Joe also they built a 24 x 28 two story house, with the help of ran a grain elevator in Roy during the winter of 1933-34. homestead friends. One was a carpenter and the other Joe mapped and measured many fields. From 1938 one a mason, who did the plastering of the rooms.[...]d for many of hard winters during which they made a farm out of them. In 1949 Joe taught ve[...]d Don, took over and daughters ofhomesteaders owe a very great deal to the ranch, and he worked classifying land for the their parents for making a country and home out of the county. When he[...]lls for people in the fathers. The women gathered a lot of sagebrush, milked area. He had a high success rate with his talent. When cows, sho[...]all 3 boys, and for many years he played drums at a dance, somewhere, every Saturday night. He still does when the occasion arises. Virginia was a talented piano player and for years they,[...]
	[...]resent location on the honte place. The mouing of a for many a Roy former. This one he is drilling for Jess[...]u)as a. comtlon occurance in the homestead days.[...]After considerable chasing, somewhere in a cloud of before settling in Great Falls. They liv[...]cold as past win- The farm was 480 acres and had a three room house. ters to the famil[...]tallation of the telepho-^ i- 1962. Prior to 1961 a had a borrowed milk cow and thirty chickens. Their[...]ted the first crop was whead and rye, farmed with a 10-20 Kalina fo-... wrth Maruskas and Martinecs. Two longs International tractor, a Sanders plow, a combine, and a an.r a short would get an answer at the Kalina house. ho[...]ar- in Lewistown. Shortly thereafter, Dorothy got a gas- ters was in the Kalina yard and[...]ighway right-of-way reduced the Kalina In 1948, a 32 volt light plant was installed and the[...]
	19A Hrsronv Op[...]in the Presbyterian Church and Gypsum at Heath as a mechanic and later changed to United Presbyterian Women, a member of the Valley Bourke Implement where he wo[...]me Demonstration Club, American Legion Dorothy is a sales clerk at Anthony's in Lewistown. Auxiliary and was a leader of the Silver Sage 4-H Club. The family[...]n were married on Febru- Charlotte is a charter member of and was the Valley ary 1[...]
	[...]was born in Lipkov, Czechoslovakia ing many a day out on the prairie in scorching heat, and imm[...]ited States in 1907. He lived dust, amidst a few fierce storms, battling gtasshoppers, in Iowa for a few years, then moved on to North fe[...]n August some. Sometimes it would be a day or two before some 15, 1914 in Lisbon, N.D. T[...]t same year they moved to Kellner Sr. was a member of the ZCBJ Lodge. He Montana and homestea[...]of Roy. passed away at home on a stormy day, April 9, 1958. When the Kellners left North Dakota, for Montana, a Because the weather conditions were so bad it was a friend gave Jim an Egyptian 43 long rifle, which[...]Mrs. Kellner and her son continued ranching. a baby. His wife was very mad because it wasn't pot[...]et it, as long as he lived. her in a nursing home, mainly because she had never The[...]and would not have been able Their only child, a son, Jim Jr., was born in Mon- to communic[...]passed away in 1964. tana. In his youth there was a herd law in effect and Jim married Mary[...]14,1972" the Kellners like most everyone else had a few head of He had spent his entire life on the ranch, except for a cattle. Youngsters were delegated to watch and he[...]acute homesickness. His only other adventure, was a property. Jim was one of these youngsters who had[...]ng, he remembered spend- away in 1984 after a lengthy bout with cancer.[...]mesteaded in the area just north of out of a well he was digging. Coal Hill. In 1928 Anton Hei[...]d, part of which was in sight of Heils. But after a Miro Heil remembers him as being an inventor and a considerable length of time, Heil decided[...]needed help, as he never showed up making a round in A memorable invention was a shaver that somewhat the field. Kennedy[...]her pur' resembled and worked on the principal of a lawn poses. He had rigged up a cooker using the tractor mower. Rigged up with st[...]On cold days, that was a chore indeed. Kennedy solved One time Miro's fa[...]n coming over the hill, all he saw he rigged a chain from the rear tire to the crank ofthe was a strange tri-pod standing out on the prairie. All[...]r. He would put the car in gear and let it do the a sudden a carrier of sorts come qp out of the ground,[...]d Mary Kolar came to Montana frling for a homestead of 160 acres, about 15 miles east from[...]s own land he frled the appli- James. They leased a ranch south of Moore. In July of cation fo[...]cow, plow, household On February of 1912 a son, Adolf, was born. They goods and furni[...]
	[...]'rnnesrnnx FsRcus CouNry Dad decided to build a hardware store in Roy. He hardware business was good but the homesteaders built a two story structure, using the upper floor for pa[...]ks people moving to the Roy area the hardware was a bought a farm, 5 miles east of Moore. great asset to the c[...]idren were born at Moore: Karel Kolar, Dad did a lot of freighting between Hilger and Roy[...]Roy. The trips In 1945 the folks bought a farm west of Lewistown. to Hilger took 2 or 3 day[...]ht. The During the 1950's Dad received a check from,one of Sargents converted a chicken house into sleeping quar- his cus[...]live on the farm with her son, Ed. Then Ed built a freighting. During the summer months, on sunny da[...]were helping with an auction Dad always put in a supply of wood for the year, so sale, east of Roy, and they found a calendar that Dad he'd go to the Missouri breaks[...]ing his days in the Hardware in 1914. The morning a heavy, dense fog moved in as he was on his[...]her during sickness. Mother and Mrs. Zaruba saved a little boys life by making him drink whiskey while they sucked the poison from a rattlesnake bite. They made an incision where the[...]d Evelyn were both in Billings and was a self employed car mechanic, born in St. Pa[...]
	[...]e, Nola, iive in Yakima, Washington and they came a teacher. The first school she taught after had one son, Ronald. Milfred is a gifted poet. graduation was the Black Butte schoo[...]wn. The Koliha place is now a part of the John Maruska Charles lives in Stock[...]uncle, Joe, had come earlier grain on a hot summer day, my sister, younger brother and en[...]n homesteads. The my stomach on a bench along side the house and right country was[...]nce most of the land next to it I saw a huge rattlesnake. Luckily my father was already taken up, Dad bought out a relinquish- just happened to come home from the field and killed it. ment of 160 acres from a bachelor, named Adolph We at[...]ky gumbo in so Mother couldn't come until Dad had a place for them the spring of the year. to live. There was only a tar paper shack with no roof I like[...]on it when Dad came. With Uncle Joe's help he put a Lucille Turnbull. She is still living in Sumner, Washing- roof on and built a barn for the livestock, though it was to[...]ved by immi- 2nd grade teacher was a man named Lou Gerig. He was grant car as far as R[...]her not to be crops raised. We grew a garden without irrigation, able to see her family[...]omforters. She baked all our The crop failure was a disaster. Many of the early brea[...]ns. repaired our shoes. That winter was a cold hard one. The hay they bought[...]Lewistown on October 15, 1988 following a short illness.l[...]beginning and I enjoy everyone had a hard time, a few moved away' but the going back to visit old f[...]nd self-reliance. Adversity only slowed them down a early days of our lives there is much that[...]
	[...]hat prevailed. We received the basic values was a wonderful place to grow up and commune with[...]sacrifices and nature. There were no TV's, but a simple battery courage to survive in v[...]or bathroom facilities in the house, are a memorial to Each of us had daiiy chores to perform, such as chop these sturdy pioneers who blazed a path for us to fol- wood, feed the livestock, an[...]ms that ail the youngsters in the area grew up on a horse. We spent many hours riding and herding ca[...]biizzards, dust storms and sunny weather. It was a one room with dedicated teachers, who had all ei[...]. I know we kids were brought into this world by a mid-wife and never saw a doctor for many years. Outside of the normal chi[...]my second year of high school in Roy so I fought a long battle to regain the use of my limbs, espec[...]nd he worked in the smelter in was Emma McCarty, a sister to Mrs. Gradle. Joe met t[...]
	[...]and another time when she rubbed They lived in a tar paper shack and had, as Georgia Hele[...]h Dakota on hay. I don't know if she (mother) had a garden; I know September 20, 1894 and pa[...]llentine as is Helen who died Georgia remembers a time when she and her sister, in Apri[...]ey both passed Larry Kalina's place). They leased a parcel of their land away. to the ZCBJ Lodg[...]- Joe Kviz was a native of Bohemia. He came to Amer- members who read the entire ritual in Bohemian. Later ica as a young man and settled east of Roy in 1914. He a service was held in the Roy Church. Both father a[...]sselshell county before The Kviz's only child, a son Ed, drowned in a dam by coming to Roy in 1933. their house[...]and Jake lived and farmed on her former hus- died a year later. They say that "Joe died of a broken band's homestead. Jake passed away[...]rn 1924, attended Roy Kansas, she ionged to be on a hill, where she could see High in Freshman[...]James, Grandmother Anna Vondracek was a mid-wife and born in Czechoslovakia 1902, died Ma[...], living at Poulspo, problems. What a record!
	[...]NonrueasrBRN FnRcus CouNry Frank Martinec was a stone mason by trade. He built put the car in the garage and it was not used until one a stone barn, chicken house and out buildings on th[...]1945. Our father was a gentle man and he would use his Ann[...]y are both all it took to correct them. He bought a Model A Ford buried at the Lewistown Cemetery. S[...]raised a family of 8 children.[...]s from Czechoslovakia. They went to it on a canvas and hitting it with a pole and then blew Rush Center, Kansas, where the[...]s. They it out on the wind. They raised a lot of corn which they farmed there for eleven ye[...]d chickens. They stayed with friends in Roy for a few days before Vaclav Vondercek (Ann's f[...]here were about fifty Bohemians living around us, a rock house out of flat rocks and sand. It took father a and cousins. Jim Martinec farmed with the fol[...]1945. They then about 6 years. Father then built a two-story wooden moved to Lewistown and[...]Lewis- she wed Harry Huculak in Canada. Harri had a son, [own. Michael. Lena and H[...]
	[...]aruska; one of eleven children. 1896. A month later, on March 1st, they left Nebraska, The famiiy had a smail acreage of land, on the out- on[...]s of the village they lived in, where they raised a Montana. They stayed with the Sebecs until the first of garden, some smali grains and pastured a few animals. April when they left for[...]children tended the acreage in a newly purchased wagon pulled by four new horses.[...]was anxious to see her new home. It was a let down. school learning to make shoes. He pract[...]was gone, so John had to go to a straw stack, a quarter John had two sisters and two uncles who had already of a mile away, and frll a straw tick mattress. emigrated to the U.S. The tw[...]ox Elder Creek. They relocated their house nearer a with his sister and family, Agnes and Henry Koza, and water source; bought a milk cow, raised some chickens, worked on their farm. By fall he was working in a shoe enjoyed good neighbors and had a bountiful crop. Their store, repairing shoes. Eventually he bought a shoe main problem was with the long[...]large and had little respect for a fence, when there was In 1912 John headed west[...]urchase the The year of 1919 was a disaster. Crops failed; there materials for his 1[...]ing Times were tough, but there were a lot of good times up on his land, plowing with a moldboard plow, which too. Neighbors,[...]Anton Heil and Joe turned over one row of sod at a time; a very slow pro- Swoboda provided music f[...]ess. Sagebrush was pulled by hand with the aid of a area, who delighted in dancing to and[...]h songs. as fuei for heating and cooking. It made a hot fire. In 1923 they had a large flock of turkeys which Water was another[...]st car, an Overland Touring car, with red located a well with drinkable water. Water for house-[...]experience, hold use was carried from the creek, a half mile away, learning to drive! Befo[...]olutely necessary. Staples such as barrel created a mosquito problem, which was f[...]ished in the spring" John had to work out quite a bit, in order to earn Receiving ma[...]vered his ability to speak English and had become a U.S. weekly by the mail carrier who[...]lies that received their mail on a daily basis.
	[...]igh school Heil, went into partnership and bought a Woods graduation and served in England during WWII. After Brothers threshing machine and a Fordson tractor. the service he moved t[...]Josephine "Jo", whom he married in 1942 raised a machine and run it properly. The machine was stil[...]into the During 1925 and 1926 the family built a new house service in 1945. Frank became a field man for Farmers with a basement, near the creek. The house is still in[...]s with his parents and the eighth grade. John was a member of the school stayed on the ranc[...]ohemian Hall was built. The Betty was a school teacher, who was raised on a farm family purchased a radio and their home became a near Lewistown. John and Betty remain[...]y school John bought his first tractor in 1928; a steel wheeled system for the past several year[...]tally killed when hit native homeland and planted a variety of fruit and by a truck at a Lewistown intersection. He was 83 years shade tre[...]e 30's were tough years. Wheat prices fell to 250 a bushel; hogs sold for 2 to 5Q a pound; cows were 910.00 a head. Hay was shipped in and was high. It didn't[...]raska. kia on May 12, 1873. He came to America as a young She later married John Hartman. Er[...]Plainview on April 11, 1899 and later chose a bride Barbara Haba who was the daughter of emigra[...]d South Dakota in 1904 and later married a lady from she was 17. Their first born, Ra[...]
	[...]Krahulik place which with two teams of horses and a wagon and fbur smail was a shorter distance. After the water was hauled it c[...]wooden barrels and covered with tarp-like out as a domestic and Mr. Pospisil as a laborer. Some- cloths to prevent contamination. Every farm had a rain times labor was exchanged for board and feed[...]ebraska Once, while building a reservoir, Frank was driving the chiidren contrac[...]the team and Barbara was on the fresno. They hit a The childhood diseases took their toll on the chi[...]terrible sore but no broken bones. Frank had a terrible way. No medical facilities were availabl[...]infection in his foot one time. Barbara kiiled a hen and under adverse conditions the remaining th[...]Ernest who is was to melt the tallow of a skunk, which made them 90 and lives at the Centra[...]is period in their lives.) They used it as a chest and back rub-down. A favorite They arrived in the Roy area and took up a home- remedy for sore throat was a swab with Kerosene oil" stead. They had 6 chickens, 2 ducks and a milk cow Cough syrup was made out of honey and onions. they had gotten as a gift from Barbara's folks. They Barbara was a mid-wife for several in the Roy com- also had a team ofhorses and so were considered rich.[...]e delivered 5 of her own grandchild- They built a barn first and lived in one end of it and[...]inside' the barn. They later built related a story that happened before fences were up. the ho[...]one room the livestock when she saw a cloud of dust in the dis- home with a dirt floor was then constructed and pro- tance, moving closer. She realized that it was a band of vided shelter until a permanent house was constructed" horse[...]rds of livestock thus It was later converted into a blacksmith shop. gaining a few more horses. Since her horses were All timbers for building were hauled by wagon from a important to the farm she could ill af[...]one. She quickly gathered the children, grabbed a table built of poles and tin. The threshing machi[...]men. Most of the poultry was raised. There was a hatching They burned sulphur on the wood stove to kill any house, with probably 20 nests.'When a hen exhibited impurities; a kind of air freshner. nesting tendencies she was incarcerated in one of these Hgge gardens were a necessity for winter survival. nests and given 10[...]e and These were usually planted near a water source such as turkey eggs were also set under hens, who after the a hand built reservoir or creek, thus making it eas[...]as accessible from the house After establishing a shelter to live in the next order of itself, and one dug into a bank. The root cellar was business was to[...]
	[...]s were usually the items purchased. These played a large part in bartering with neighbors in[...]came in cloth bags. Washing clothes was always a big event. This was Their contents were tra[...]formally held "Nash Brother's" Coffee. The with a great fire in the wood stove with two copper[...]cases and for storing dry boilers heating water. A small table was brought into lentils. the porch, a round galvanized tub was placed on top. E[...]boiled for several hours to regain located near a tall cottonwood tree. Lightening struck their whi[...]as also made at home. All grease She suffered a ringing in her ears for several days. She was saved and boiled up with lye creating a thick con- also recalled a bolt of lightening which struck the coction whic[...]the door on the front of the "Lifeboy" which had a strong clean odor. Occasionally stove. She related that a ball of fire then zig-zagged. P & G soap was pur[...]rposes. around the room and finally hit a corner of the kitchen, Bathing was also an ord[...]lly neighbors tub or water trough was brought in. A fue was built and gathered and played cards by[...]could be called progres- sionally there was a community dance. Mrs. Koliha sive bathing as it s[...]done with borses and horse drawn in awhile a baseball game was held, giving neighbors a equipment. Later an old tractor was purchased to[...]evenings were spent with all family members with a binder, producing bundles which were then put[...]children. Four wagons for warmth. Occasionally a small glass of home-made and three hay racks were[...]s shrank so wagons and hay undress for bed in a sub-zero bedroom! racks were pushed into a reservoir and left until swel- During the ye[...]been got- gathered around the kitchen table. A pile of feathers ten. Later when coal was no long[...]s also an annual event. Some- Trips to town were a rarity. Usually annual or semi- one would create a broom looking apparatus, climb to annual t[...]
	[...]Maruska. Starting the vehicle u'as a real chailenge in[...]the extremely harsh winters. If a trip was necessary it[...]wide open and a cloud of steam coming from their[...]In the late 40's Mr. Pospisii purchased a house in[...]w Pospisil lived in Lewistown for a short time and then from I. to r. are: Rudolph, t[...]e stove and chimney flues. Bathing was definately a must after this chore. Mrs. Pospisil repaired a[...]re-cut sizes were purchased in Lewistown. She had a castiron stand and a variety of shoe-like heads that fit the stand. Sh[...]d. After an automobile was purchased trips were a little Haruest time in the early day[...]Henzler in Pierce, Neb- Barney is a truck driver. raska on May 19, 1932. They met while attending a Debra was born December 31, 19[...]children, Neil and Raymond. They live on a ranch and daughters: Norma, Helen and Evelyn.[...]as 2 children and February 7, 1953. They lived on a ranch there until 1988 is employed on the missiles. when they sold out and moved to a place west of Ernest was bo[...]the 60's and 70's, the "Stardusters". a truck driver. They had 2 boys and I girl: Mark, M[...]and Valerie. Al was killed in a truck accident on Kalina the drums and Virginia K[...]m on April 13, 1963. This and is a nurse at the Great Falls Clinic. marriage[...]
	[...]0 at the age of 75. Rosemary works in a Billings hospital; is married to Lillian resides[...]1887 in Czechoslova- Mr. Rellick was a WWI Veteran and a member of the kia, where he received his schooling. He came to the Roy Legion Post. Victor was a Marine and saw combat United States at the age of[...]d the homestead until 1949, tember 1917. They had a family of two boys: Milfred of when they[...]FneNx AND SrELr,A Ruznr (Ruzrcr)[...]ed to Lewis- town, after proving up, where he had a tailor shop. Frank enjoyed a good reputation as a tailor. The Ruzek's had three daughters: Mary ([...]ly and quietly in her sleep on March 2I,1943 from a heart attack. After living in Central Montana f[...]d with his daughter, Mrs. Henry of Oak A hornesteoder in Cool HiIl oreo eost of Roy[...]
	[...]s was the first artesian well in the area. It was a leased a farm from Walter Buechner and the following[...]gallons per minute. with horses; later he bought a 10-20 McCormick tractor. It was good soft[...]h years of the depression and A hobby that started for the whole family, about p.roughts, a sow ready to farrow was worth $5.00. One[...]chers who were agate collectors Lewistown for 100 a pound. Wheat was worth 17Q a ignited his interest. Soon Frank S[...]as enthusiastic as their son was and before long a One year army worms came. They crawled over eve[...]clock dead worms the oncoming ones used them for a bridge and lamp bases, vases, frames[...]Dorothy and with hard work and endurance built up a beautiful "Dottie" Sims and they live o[...]homesteads in what is now known as ing by farming a small acreage of land. In the spring of the Roy country, but was then only a wilderness with 1899, after much discussion, Fran[...]lligan, Nebraska where other only a wagon trail through the prairie and sagebrush. relatives had already settled. He located a farm and Jacob filed on a homestead of 160 acres, and also a that fall Katerina sold and disposed of their pro[...]desert claim of 160 acres. Frank and Joe each had a Czechoslovakia and with their five children: Joe,[...]igan for 10 years. During that wagons. A two story house was built on the Jacob time four[...]ed and left up land grants they found a night's lodging and meals home.[...]them out and show them his homestead and would be a better prospect than corn. After a family then where land was available t[...]onference in the spring of 1909 the family bought a kept busy hauling lumber for them so t[...]hacks. on the new farm the boys plowed and seeded a large It was rough going for the f[...]Frank had come ahead, the family make a neat sod house. The roof was made by placing sold the farm and came to Montana where they leased a poles across the top, from wall to wall[...]brush on top. The sagebrush was then covered with a good harvest for three years in a row. dirt. The sod house was used for a grainery. Mother and[...]
	[...]break out the coal and haui it home. It was a soft coal water was often bitter. Small dams were[...]the coal had been removed from the bank there was a found a good source of water in a coulee. After locating large dugout left.[...]the summer. Many gailons of water which was over a half mile away. It took sixteen ice cream.were made from this ice, in a hand cranked good horses to move the two story building. ice cream freezer; a treat for everyone. After the house was located[...]or- years before selling it and buying a farm near Moore. dian and music was furnished by[...]o play, The one in charge of the dances would buy a months later in April of 1947. Joe passed away in 1956, keg of beer and later at the dance a hat would be passed Frank in i962, Emil an[...]to and Louis in 19p4. pay for it. A lunch was served consisting of sandwiches[...]ank Siroky, developed; Bessie lives in always had a good time and looked forward to the next Idaho and Mary (Mrs. Charles Kolar) resides in a dance.[...]decided that 160 acres wasn't enough land to make a living. He sold out to Jacob and bought a place near Glengarry. As families with school age children moved in, the need for a school arose. Frank's 14 x 16 foot homestead shack was moved and used for a school, temporarily. It was known as the Sirucek school. Many children went to schooi there until a larger schoolhouse was built later on. Sage he[...]Sirucek place with their guns and ail would go on a rabbit hunt. They would spread out, far apart fro[...]e Sirucek farnily gathers to celebrate the Golden a fun day of hunting and visiting.[...]nt row: Rose, Mary (Kolar), Bessie hills and with a scraper and horses they would move an[...]rank, Emma and Joe. The l9l2 to homestead. He was a member of the ZCBJ children all attended Coal Hill School. Lodge and was a veteran of WWI.[...]own. FneNx A. Vusex -L JosEPH C. Vlasnx[...]
	[...]met my mother and was married. He bought a grocery My father was married when he came to[...]vented him from running it. He served as a municipal Fergus County. The settlement was $75.0[...]omesteaders of the area. My father, besides being a together in a shack back in the hills, for three years. He carpenter, bought a dray wagon and moved home- die[...]were belongings, to their homesteads. He also had a small the closest of friends. He tri[...]nd hotel in town where they slept, while locating a home- Zortman and cut timber up on the[...]the time he emptied a suitcase of clothing of a home- My father and his brother never returned[...]hes to him the next day, by horseback, along with a much.[...]e sounds of their carpenter hammers still born on a farm he naturally turned to work as a ranch echo over the plains and in the[...]g of this he tried fur Butte Mountain, a haunting refrain, that they too, trapping and was[...]helped to shape the community and build a nation! motorcycle policemen. (1911) He married, had prob- Note: They also built a Z.C.B.J. Lodge Hall and a lems, went to Roy to homestead with his brother. He grain elevator at a place called "Kolin". These were also ran a saloon in Clarkson, Nebraska and one in[...]settled largely by people Army in 1919, he became a grain buyer in Nebraska; ofthat et[...]been a National Director for the ZCBJ.[...]er, South Dakota. Harvey later became a Great Falls chiropractor. In 1915 she came to Lew[...]d. by a motor company until his retirement in November[...]of 1959. he and Emma were wed they took up a homestead in He was mar[...]
	[...]daughter, Martha, died at child-birth and a Kansas and then came to Montana with their child[...]stayed Martha after her mother and a boy, James yecha. The with them and worked, and[...]ildren himself and did not Anna Vondracek was a mid-wife and delivered all let the[...]to Montana. While they were gone, only a year or so, five children.[...]worked on ranches. Even though he was only a young- Czecholsovakia, 27 December 1853" Died 8[...]ruary Vondraceks then built a stone barn for their milk 185i; died I October 1[...]Jim Martinec later married a lady with two children; Vaclav and Anna Vondracek came to America from Bill and Steffie. A daughter Stella, was born to the family. Debrova[...]rea. there they decided to go west and locate on a home- MaRrHe Y[...]ed their grandparents, the Vondraceks and here on a homestead. They left a daughter, Martha[...]rtenic, accompanied her. Vaclav and Anna built a stone house out of flat sand rock; also a chicken coop as Anna raised many chickens[...]926; Opal Fern, March 18, the team to a little creek nearby to water them and put 1909 to[...]the feed bags on. I was now ready for town and a six 191l-[...]e depot and The only one in our family born in a hospital was turned around on a Y. There were two elevators which Wilma. Mother and the new baby came on the train did a lot of business during harvest. A reward of the from Lewistou'n and May Kennett met them with the trip to town was a sack of candy included with our team and spring w[...]y order. forget that da1., we all thoueht she was a beautiful I vividly remembe[...]
	[...]Their daughter, Martha, died at child-birth and a Kansas and then came to Montana with their childr[...]e stayed Martha after her mother and a boy, James Yecha. The with them and worked, and w[...]hildren himself and did not Anna Vondracek was a mid-wife and delivered all let them[...]to Montana. While they were gone, only a year or so, five children.[...]worked on ranches. Even though he was only a young- Czecholsovakia, 27 December 1853. Died 8 J[...]February Vondraceks then built a stone barn for their milk 1851; died 1 October 19[...]Jim Mariinec later married a lady with two children; Vaclav and Anna Vondracek came to America from Bill and Steffie. A daughter Stella, was born to the family. Debrova,[...]area. there they decided to go west and locate on a home- MaRrHl Yncse[...]ed their grandparents, the Vondraceks and here on a homestead. They left a daughter, Martha their aunt Anna M[...]rtenic, accompanied her. Vaclav and Anna built a stone house out of flat sand Later Martha returned to Roy to stay with relatives; rock; also a chicken coop as Anna raised many chickens[...]1976; Opal Fern, March 13, the team to a little creek nearby to water them and put 1909 to[...]the feed bags on. I was now ready for town and a six 191 1.[...]he depot and The only one in our family born in a hospital was turned around on a Y. There were two elevators which Wilma. Mother and the new baby came on the train did a lot of business during harvest. A reward of the from Lervistou'n and May Kennett met them with the trip to town was a sack of candy included with our team and spring w[...]y order. forget that da1', we all thought she was a beautiful I vividly remember[...]
	[...]stance below the point from where he ble on about a lot of things while living there ten years.[...]Mr. Warner had been a resident of the Roy country for dated November 8,[...]eight years. He is survived by a wife and seven children, The family left the ar[...]ath of the one of the boys being a graduate of the Fergus County father of the family as is recounted in a July 1, 1923 High School. art[...]MnuoRIEs Or Clvos We.RNnR The body of A.W. Warner, a well known farmer living 10 miles east of Roy[...]back, had a homestead which joined ours. This land is C[...]the place they separated, each of them taking a different of Roy, but not a lot about it. course. As on several occasions[...]near the Kalina place and Joe loaned him a pair of attached to his not being home Thursd[...]that it was learned that he had not returned a search was at comes to mind and the pe[...]I still remember everyone who lived in a five or six tracks of their father's horse wh[...]wheat in the fall seen standing alongside of a fence on the other side of the before we l[...]A few years after we came to Iowa we rdceived a dragging for the body commenced the body fina[...]iday morning, Iodged against remains of a Deputy Sheriff under the floor of a vacant a small island which the flood waters had created.[...]abin the last year we the island and fastened a rope to the body and brought it were in Montana, to escape a rainstorm. I remember a t<.r the shore.[...]. The article attempted to cross the creek at a point where a bridge had said none of his personal thin[...]or us at the Bear Creek School. Everyone into a swift current of water nearly ten feet dee[...]
	[...]sections, Sheriff Firmin Tullock has issued a call for a volunteer search party to assemble at the T[...]g Juiy 2, for the purpose of making a thorough and extended search for any eviden[...]pearance of John Afflerback of Grass Range, a former Nebraska sherifi who was last seen in[...]Father, Arthur, under a lot of bedding, and Randolph seemed nervous[...]just off the north Valentine road which ran about a mile north of the present Valentine road. Pucke[...]ding to his grandson, Vernon, was that "he wasn't a very good business man."[...]#17 to make them closer to a school. Dory was attached[...]
	[...]had to drive to the homestead with a team and wagon. Lewistown, Montana.[...]r, Roy but evidentally only lived a short while. was about 8 years old, and daughters[...]in Roy "When we first homesteaded, we lived in a tent. My and in Lewistown. brother[...]n crops were and that is what we had for fuel for a short time" We realized in the Roy-Valentine area and it was reported had only a camp stove until our furniture etc. arrived.[...]issue of the Lewistown paper (Roy My Dad built a barn with a nice floor in the hay lofi Enterprise[...]st, Carl Peterson and we then moved into it until a small house was built. stated that Fra[...]of We used to have barn dances and everyone had a wheat" that he had so far seen. good time. The music was an organ and a vioiin. Elmer Bare married Laura Larsen, daughter of Chris My Mother had triplets a few years after we came to and Sena[...]married Arthur "Chum" Larson, delivered them and a lady by the name of Mrs. Norby Da[...]Latham. She later married Nile Proffer. A widow, she and like most of the others they went[...]ork" Jos A,No Manv (Novar-CHAKA) Bant.q. Joe came to the[...]employed at a cement plant. In 1917 he married Mary Novak. She[...]Their only survivor is a niece, Millie Barta Horyna They farmed on the ho[...]t here. There another daughter, Barbara was born. Wisconsin. Frances Gertrude Kees was born in 1888 Don and his son Donny both died in a boating accident also at Chippewa Falls. They wer[...]ren. Francis Dorcas now lives at Sun- He also did a lot of trucking of wheat and cattle for[...]graduated Roy Grocery for about a year in 1947' from Roy High School in 1949. He married Margaret Bill Harvey was a brother to Robert S. Harvey. Spiroff. He ranched[...]orth place in the eariy 60's. Connie. They bought a place by Lewistown when they
	[...]well. His father helped Mr. the Dory area. about a mile and a half away from the Johnson make a little casket, Mrs. Southworth iined it Frank Sou[...]hen took the little The child *'as playing with a bali and fell into a boy, in his casket, to Roy to be b[...]ail; Amalie, Joseph, Edward, Jerry, Anna, Joe, a WWI Navy veteran, passed away suddenly on Adolph,[...]is ranch, at the age of 66. ida moved Kosir was a native of Moravia, Czechoslovakia, born into Roy[...]n Decembet 17, L974 at age 74. Both are Frank was a cabinet maker by trade. buried[...]; leaving rhe Port of Bremen, Germany and land- A bachelor, he stayed pretty much to himself and wa[...]1920's with her sister, return- ing to Minnesota a few years later. Joe and Ida were[...]
	[...]1957 until he retired in 1983 he was a Lewistown mail 1910. Both were originally from Cz[...]er. He and his wife, Barbara "Teddy" had four was a barber before they came to Roy to the homestead[...]ceased and is buried in Silver Springs, He was a partner in a threshing machine and steam Arkansas[...]fter that they went into Roy for their purchases. A team and wagon were the main method of travel use[...]ing the war. Charles came back to the ranch for a year after the service but because of the serious[...]returned to Lewistown. He worked for ten years in a hardware store and then from Th[...]e R. Pacousky My father, Joe Pacovsky, took up a homestead about to Nebraska rainfall[...]first rvorked on the railroad, which was being as a homesteader. He was lured by brochures put out by laid in Ro5'. Then he took up a homestead where he Cook and Reynolds Land[...]
	[...]ltberg, 2 1937 and also moved to Bozeman. A son, Charlie Pis- miles east of Roy in 1917 or 19[...]ked in the Red Elevator until WWI and upon bought a hammer and a square and a saw and became being discharged moved t[...]changed his name to Prescott and resided in a nursing town, as well as some farm buildings.[...]n Bozeman until he died in 1958. He also played a button accordion for dances, either Pacovs[...]mber 30, 1922; Vernon J. Pacovsky born bought out a relinquishment approximately 6 miles December 18,1927; all born in Roy, Montana; Patricia east of Roy and settled with son, Jerry, and daug[...]CHenlns A. PprunsoN[...]d on the 16 miles east of Roy in 1914. There were a number of homesteads when Charles moved to[...]rant train from the same Gustafson, who was a close friend, also moved to Win- area in Nebraska[...]everal that he always brought cottage cheese in a jar for his cars went off the track. Her father borrowed a grey mare lunch. She said that he didn't do mu[...]mber Company When they lived in Roy, a lady and her children, (Mrs. and elevator busines[...]on child- Company transferred him there to set up a new busi- ren came down with it. They were quarantined and very ness. Lumber was a thriving business durng the home' sick, also missed a lot of school. sieading years when everyone neede[...]heart. They are Frank and Charles mother. She was a teacher and retired and live i[...]
	[...]r. and Mrs. Alfred Peterson. for a number of years, building country roads with one[...]n miles east of Roy, Mon- built a home. My mother, Emily Nelson Puckett, tana on th[...]s born in Lewistown in In about 1915 he started a store and post office 1918. He[...]World War II when he named Dory, Montana. He had a Model T Ford, the parachute[...]My dad lost his homestead in 1929 and we bought a from Roy to Valentine. He also bought a new steam place adjoining ours where we lived till I got married to engine and a threshing machine and threshed all the[...]in 1953. way from Fergus to Valentine. Not being a very good We lived there till w[...]Schooi and from college in 1978. Frank is a Doctor of and their sister, Maude Puckett Wilson,[...]ontana too. My mother's father, Oscar Nelson, had a (Verschoot) and family have a ranch near Lambert, homestead next to our place,[...]s of My brother, Donald, was a school teacher at Cut my mother's family who came[...]away in 1954. brothers, Arthur and Ed Nelson and a sister, Mildred Twelve familie[...]stead in 1916. Note the root cellar ot the right, a must on all homesteads, where food was kep[...]
	[...]a and we were the oniy famiiy that stuck it out,. A homestead of 320 acres was not enough for an econ[...]tricts, sewed on the Roy Rural Fire board and was a faithful member and elder of the Roy Presbyterian[...]Dory in 1917. Dory it's first president. She was a member of the Roy school Iay 15 rniles east of Roy on the Volentine Road. In the board for a number of years.) doorway are Adolph Kosier, as a younEster, and J.V.[...]homesteaded east of New Mexico. He was a brother of Joy Puckett. He is Roy. He served in t[...]Rosstrnn Rolland Rossiter was a native of York, Nebraska. He taught scho[...]moved to Lewistown to make their home in Company A, First Regiment of Nebraska Volunteers at[...]913 where they lived for Rossiter was a member of William Meyersick Camp the next 21 year[...]by IIla Willmore A modern highway crosses the plains where once power and many'a owner of a 4-wheel has had to leave only wagon wheels[...]
	[...]learn to horse and buggy to travel. In the 50's a few still did drive. She loved to go visiting and so decided, one day, their ranch chores with a team, but by 1960 all had she would[...]ight, but in stopping she stomped There are only a couple of accounts of homesteaders d[...]ttered through out the prairie one can still find a g:ranary 'all and slid back down. In her[...]that brake, 'ith the same results. A few more tries and she only a man'could tame her wiles'. They were uncomfor-[...]ty-five to thirty mile an hour; driving a team which just kept going right on down the top speed! There are tales toid of these old Model A's trail. And they bften steered in the d[...]they ever got them of humor enjoyed by a bunch of country fellows. It out of town and home is one of life's mysteries. But they occurred at a dance at the Bohemian Hall. did, and then began[...]mastering the Bill had purchased a brand new car of which he was machine. These thi[...]rive. what, as every proud owner of a new car does. Whether "The car was delivered to the Wilder Post Office for Joe. It was a Model T touring car. It set there quite awhile[...]as there that day and of course he could drive a car. Joe did not know how to drive, so Mr. Jon[...]s feed was on the steering wheel and there was a pedal for low gear, a reverse and brake pedal. Joe got the car cra[...]ime Joe would be out of ear-shot. He would make a circle 'about a good half-mile, up the ridge and babk'. This pr[...]o up the hiil back- wardsl When one fellow bought a new Model T he solved the backing up problem by building a garage Mart and Curley Willmore and son's, Warren and with a door at both ends.[...]
	[...]under the vehicle, with the Tom Hutton pulling a surueyor and his uehicle result t[...]n the hill. One more story,, a mystery, from Harry McDonald. About 1920 a fellow rode into Roy and bought it was envy, just plain orneriness or the position of the himself a Model T at Joe Murphy's Garage. He moon or what, no one knows, but a few men decided to paid cash for it and took it out for a little drive. He play a prank on Bill. brought it back a little while later and told Joe While several k[...]nor adjustment that needed fixing. ofhis new car, a couple others slipped out the door and[...]Finally one of them - a brand new two-door coupe. For[...]WHar Is A MonEL T? by Margaret Umstead Hedrnan To my grandkids at a parade it's, "Look, Grandma, with a ruckstell axle was this side of heaven because at[...]funny top", or it could be, then you had a low gear with power enough to climb "Why do they[...]impossible to go up forward. But then it took a brave stories told couldn't have been true! But t[...]rse with tion they are very real. The Model T was a way of life, these newly accomplished dri[...]ed while my brave brothers rode. The Model T down a hill into a garden if the wheels weten't blocked. trie[...]hanics out of hors'emen and farmers. When viewing a torn and patched wire gate, of which[...]here were many in those days, one would know that a one strived to run it and the other strived to run. Can Model T had run through it a time or two. The reason you imagine th[...]m glad the Model T, with new paint, has To own a Flivver, one of the names for a Model T, obtained the dignity of a front yard.[...]t the and was made up of alJ local fellows. A few of the locals, frrst order of business for mo[...]rs but had been springing up all over, was to get a good baseball team semi-pros back[...]
	[...]asebali was serious business and piayers received a salar:y. In 1917 it was reported in the Enterprise that J.E. Cox had just "returned from the east on a scouting trip for ball players for the Roy team". Curt Wijliams, a pitcher, Bud Edmundson, 3rd baseman and C. Edding[...]on the left: Curt Wiiliams and Jimmy O'Toole. L.M.A. Wass is at the far right. Dan Cochrane the manag[...]Walter, their son, would be there also. It was a very pleasant summer and we enjoyed it a lot. Of course, there were chores to do; water to[...]Winnie Rife on the cows to milk and a large garden to tend.[...]robbery. A former As I rode on I saw a car coming. It was going faster[...]he stirrups. across from the grocery store. Mr. p.A. Weedell owned the store then. Roy BeNx Roeesny A first hand story as told by F.B. Stevens who was street, when a man entered the front door, and waiked cashier at[...]Montana Banker, July 10, rvith a gun and commanded to ,,put'em up." 1922.[...]"By a wave of his gun the robber indicated that he[...]It took them but a very short time. probably two minutes
	[...]nd then one of them went out the tify by a bullet hole clear through from the rear and whiel[...]"In probably less than one or two minutes a couple of over onto another. citiz[...]with car is Chas. Jarrett, proprietor of a'soft drink'establish" his face still covered. It took them a few seconds to com- ment. We soon had unde[...]Jackson, livine 18 miles east of Winnett, and a man by ing the front door locked with the s[...]g at the pool hall to give the alarm, and then to a Spellman. We arrived at Jackson's house aft[...]e I asked them to prepare guns and ing a heavy rain storm and he was taken by surprise and ammunition while I went for a car. I took E.O. Sandbo's captured without a fight. car, it being the fastest car in to[...]o first entered William Olson, farmers, and A"L. McCain, a hardware the bank is positive, and[...]trail. thing like a year ago charged with holding up the "We[...]of them in about 20 miles. We shot once at a distance of evidence. Spellman was heid for a few days and released about one half mile and they disappeared over a hill. We after proving his innocence, an[...]son were both in out of the car when we saw a cloud of dust come up over Roy on that[...]hey had gone on staried "They were given a preliminary hearing last Saturday up again,[...]vered them waiting for us to the right at a distance of fixed at $15,000 each, which[...]from falling out of the car, but the Range, a distance of eight miles.[...]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 we worked all night without getting a trace except as we conviction. wer[...]by Marie Zahn Rodeo has always been a big part of the lives of those Following ar[...]that they planning for a rodeo the latter part of July or Valentine and Fe[...]L927 _ JULY FOURTH ROY RODEO had a rodeo of sorts-mostly bucking contests and wild Roy town goes all-out for a big celebration. The town gets a cow milking or riding contests. Many times the arena thorough cleaning, board walks repaired and a rodeo ground was of the human kind. Peopie and au[...]nt. There is much enthusiasm by all boards formed a circle; several cowboys would hold the the b[...]e the (who usually had a few under rodeo promoters. horse and assist t[...]Roy Hanson from Crooked Creek has a good string ofbuck- his belt to 'loosen' h[...]
	[...]Jim Kipp and Ted Putro will be on hand to put on a to Johnnie Johnson, Miles City, first[...]ay race, wild cow milking and calf roping. crowd. A cowboy parade will go through the town and travel[...]eed and George, ing; roping maverick race (roping a calf and branding it) and were promoter[...]June 22,1941-Komarek Bro's producers of a Roy rodeo; Shorty Negard, Jack Milbourne, Johnn[...]Larry Jordan arena director. A big parade was held. DeSilva and the Killham boys[...]aFountain, 3rd. Cow milking; Don Doney 1st with A basebail game is scheduled between the Lewis[...]ery boys and the local team, following the rodeo. A 2nd. Larry Jordan won the[...]of In 1944 the winning team ropers at a Melviile rodeo were the festivities.[...]Jackson arena. Larry Jordan planning to attend. A report in the paper states that the Fourth at Roy was a big was lst in calf roping; Sonny[...]he six thousand people in attendance. It was aiso a beautiful day. Jackson arena rodeo. Jim Kipp and Lynn Phillips were a couple of the top riders 1949-Geo[...]onated by Olaf Unique feature: bulldogging from a Ford automobile. Rindal. Volunt[...]ary started August 18 - 19, 1928 A two day rodeo sponsored by Harry Dundom, general and to work out details on a dinner and a dance that manager; James Dundom, secretary and t[...]ldogg'ing, wild cow milking, reported in a June 1952 issue of the Lewistown paper: and fancy[...]made to entertain a large crowd at the first rodeo to be[...]hopes to make it an annual event and bareback at a Gilt Edge Rodeo. the arena has been built in such a way as to provide a[...]O. JULY 11. T932 a "success". A total of g5 cowboys vied for $1,000 in The Valentine Rodeo was a big success. A.n election rally prizes and 2,[...]
	[...]Roy cowgirls. Roy, and it was, as all have been, a roaring success. Bob[...]There are several others who have made a name for[...]themselves in the worid of Rodeo a couple became[...]years. He later was a promoter for high school rodeo[...]and was publisher of a rodeo magazine. Billy Phillips[...]also became a professional saddle bronc rider and rode A part of the crowd at one of the popular Mobridge[...]and win." Jim's son, Danny, was becoming a tough '., i.[...]described as "a hell of a good bronc rider." Jack Wood[...]saddle bronc riding. He and John Rife had a 'ride-off[...]these fellows participated in the first National a string of 63 horses that Joe Finley put together[...]c and bull rider. were 'tried out' the day before a PCRA rodeo by three[...]horses and pick-up horses and a top rodeo pick-up man. Jackson Snyder recalls tha[...]are making a name for themselves: Jess and Jerry[...]Knerr winning team ropers; Larry Sluggett who is a top[...]sey and Tyler. Harley was tops in cow cutting and A rodeo at Byford on July 4. 1917. Rodeo was held o[...]National High School Rodeo finals for 4 years in a Rtder is George Casteel. T-he pich-up man is Milton row; as a steer wrestler, team roper and calf roper.[...]
	[...]stmaster there. The completed townsite included a grain elevator, two dwellings, a store and post office combined, a school, a church, a community hall and a smalj farmer-owned oil and gas cooperative. I have a fuel ticket from that gasoline cooperative dated[...]r was built by Western Grain & Lumber Co. and had a capacity of 12,000 bushels. The Lewistown Daily[...]t ti. This did not consider the near neighbors. A community club organized January 25, 1919 held it[...]ge to hold their meetings in the various homes so a club building was purchased from near the Armells[...]volunteers io the Fergus townsite. The building, a community building at its old site, was re-roofed and remodeled in 1954 and a "homecoming" was scheduled. Past residents, friends and relatives attended from many areas. A yearly harvest dinner was provided by the club members and was well received. This was a Thanksgiving-type meal and enjoyed by many. The h[...]-state hunters who had been eating by campfire. A new foundation was provided at the club building,[...]ands in good condition. Farm consolidation took a severe toll of a once very active community. The elevator was dism[...]-o'o"a near the state ilighway and later closed. The chu[...]the school, which is closed for lack of students, a dwelling and the community club building which is[...]in manv of the stories. The Fergus school was a summer school at iirst, running from April til Se[...]ame the County Superintendent of Schools. 11 l91g a new building was built, the present buildi[...]
	[...]because the electrictl' rvas offl This school was a part of the Jesse Adams homestead shack. A log house[...]White, a homesteader north of the Adams, worked for[...]taught in Roy schools for a year or two. Fergus Schoot picnic held[...]rgia Adams, Ernest Harrell and sidewaiks and it's a sure bet that classes weren't dis-[...]
	[...]Morgaret Adams and He ordered a kit of new harness with open-faced[...]bridles, and two-seated buggy from a catalog. they[...]loaded up the eggs and cream. It was a hot day, so[...]mom said we'd take the umbrella; a big black one.[...]The horses went crazy and my dad couldn't do a thing with them. They ran down a.big steep[...]oved to Christina for it as she was a good sized person. two years, then to Roy and li[...]I was probably hurt the least. I landed on a sage 1942, when they moved to Lewistown. They had four brush with a skinned knee, bawling my head off. daughters: Do[...]5b. Wyvle then help. They lived a couple miles from us and I married William Glenn[...]neighbors. My dad was a proud man and took a lot of pride in When they found the horses all they had left his horses. He had a young team of sorrel mares wa[...]Onn Mrr,roN ALLYN Orr Milton Allyn led a short but exciting life. The cattle and horses. young Fergus rancher died May 19, 1936 in a plane He was married to Milada Walter, who was a long crash in front of the Fergus store. Allyn ha[...]ool at the time. They had exchanged His plane was a small mono style, weighing b50 pounds[...]Fergus area for paper in them." John was a cigar smoker. most of his life, except for a time spent in the Geraldine John was born on May 19, 1887 in Maiden. He had a area where he homesteaded and for a time when he sister, Nita, who married Pete Patterson, a Lewistown lived at Cheadle and at Stanford. At St[...]chiropractor, and two brothers, Charles, aiso a Lewis- his living as a cigar maker. He had the tobacco shipped[...]living in Stanford when John's only child, a son, Ralph
	[...]Ella passed away in January of 1948 after a long[...]married Myrtie Smith of Lewistown. She had a teenage[...]his graduation, he worked in Lewistown for a few years[...]88 years. Ralph and Mrrtie moved into a new mobile[...]charged in November of 1945 with a rank of Master[...]was sold he then was in a partnership with Rindal,[...]years. Ralph was a Boy Scout leader in Roy during the[...]active, raising chickens, with crafts and as a member of Fergus from Cook Re1'nolds in the early[...]s Fergus Women's Club (of which only a few members sold to GIen Rindal, after John's dea[...]h early so there would be enough students to have a ried in 1926 and moved tir the Fergus area, to th[...]school class. Danner place (H<,rse Ranch urea) a few years after The Burbridges went to Fairfield in 1939 to a new their marriage.[...]
	[...]912, time of his death. He also had a brother, J.T. Clegg, coming to Montana from Fayette, Iowa. He farmed in who was a pioneer rancher on lower Spring Creek and this ar[...]own. passed away April 23, 1926 in a Lewistown hospital. His daughter, Mrs. James Tuck[...]. Ralph LaRocque was Isabelle LaRocque's Julia A. Gardipee and Joe H. Doney were married, 24[...]er 1914; Eugene "Happy" lived in a house back ofthe grocery store for about three Do[...]traders, scouts, ex-soldiers and miners; a good many St. Paul's Mission, Hays; Charles "Lind[...]escent, and mainly had French names. These people A., born 30 April 1943 and Dwight F., born 28 Augus[...]Box Elder ranch for eight years A prominent name in the latter French Canadians, an[...]ls and got our Turcotte. to name a few." mail and groceries at either Fergus[...]
	[...]d died soon after Edward had gone to work for a couple years. Marian that and the aunt was hard-p[...]are for all of the Swensen married and lived on a ranch near the Cana- children. William went to wo[...]til her death in 1976. the age of 15. When he was a little older, he home- The children att[...]Armells townsite. was about a quarter mile from their home. Constance Edward[...]and had been to Roy High School. killed in a train accident. Edward and Alvina were[...]mestead. until 1943 when they moved to a ranch up Armells The Dougherty's had four child[...]that time remembers the dirty 30's. After getting a loan married June 28, 1930 in Lewistown, Montana.[...]the bank, for seed to plant for two seasons, and a Ernie was working on the railroad as a section hand, loan for feed that one winter,[...]r few 12 cows. So the banker said, "I'll send a truck out dollars and bought $20.00 worth of stap[...]old (that lasted all winter), two turkey hens and a gobbler, heifer that was ready to calve and th[...]e take her, so we got to keep her. She had a heifer calf. We Horse Ranch, for two years. Then we moved onto my bought a black jersey milk cow at an auction sale. Her Dad's homestead, which was just a half mile away ears, tail 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. had heifer calves each year and so we got a start again. Our first year was rather rough, but 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 seemed like a fortune to us then. some cows to milk and a dozen hens, loaned us their We moved to Lewistown in the spring of 1942. We incubator and, for 10Q a dozen for eggs, we raised 100 brought 4 milk cows, two horses, a pig and chickens white leghorn pullets and enough[...]had apple boxes to sit on and orange crates, with a piece of cloth over the front, for cupboar[...]
	[...]ney's and Ernie went back to Victor Con" I raised a big garden. Coming from Roy I could hardly[...]chickens for spending money. Ernie had a stroke and passed away in November of Pete For[...]Potterf and I were married. for me. Pete moved to a nursing home, where he passed He had four daughters: Glenna, Bev, Irene and Mary away a few years later, when Ernie sold our home and[...]nn passed away from luekemia October 1966. bought a trailer house and we went to Exeter, Califor-[...]Fnaxr A. aNo Mrlrbra Flr-rpr[...]Milena Kodejs Filipi came to Crete, a size 6 shoe. They also talked about being neigh[...]ch information 14, with her mother, Marie Kodejs, a sister, Bessie, and about their life in Montana. a brother, Joe Kodejs. Her older sister, Marie, mar[...]Antonie Filipi, moved from We have a cousin that lives in Lewistown. She is Nebraska t[...]ad no water where they May 9, 1944. Frank A. passed away on July 14, 1967 Iived and had to haul water from quite a distance. Dad and Milena on January 4, 1962. All are buried in told of a coyote that always followed him when he went[...]enough to shoot. Dad also said one time he helped a neighbor shingle the roof of fNote: The[...]was the result his house. His wife was expecting a baby and was also of o. pen-pol project[...]dmother, Edna Koll, Mother talked about having a garden and the potatoes the foct that Edn[...]Folda and family rented and moved it as a fun time, "There was quite a crew, most were to the Blanchard Ranch at, Fergus[...]Opal and children moved to Lewistown for a year all the snow fences along the highway[...]
	ro.a Htsronv Or[...]When I Their daughter, Lillian C. also took up a homestead was growing up, he had ten acres of apples, a section of before her marriage to neighbor, Victo[...]wheat land and three trucks. We had a nice home and parents were Abraham H. and Fannie[...]llian Christina Frederick- a steam engine on a threshing rig. This was before he met sen, daught[...]s were Veterans in WWII and I served in of Victor A. Hallock and he writes the following:[...]engineering degree at Laramie, Wyoming and Joe is a My Dad was born in North Dakota near the[...]l therapist." in 1891. His father had been a Civil War Veteran. His[...]34 & 35 Steve Ghezzo was born 7 August 1878, a native of on the ranch, he[...]sixties at this time. He also dug a rootcellar in a bank resided at Roy until his death 7 May 1953.[...]had been in the winter months. a miner the greater part of his life. He had been i[...]States. Burial was at the Lewistown Citv as being a rancher on his homestead"[...]
	[...]rhood had good water from wells and took claim on a homestead that was being vacited. It[...]re wood and log buildings. already had buiidings; a log house and a water well. There were neighborhood gatherings. We had picnics Her nearest neighbor lived a half-mile away and her at home unde[...], Katherine Knob Hill school was half a mile from home. Other was also in Montana for som[...]here were many About 1924, we got a 1919 Buick car. I remember helpful and sometimes much-needed neighbors. A father's first driving lesson.[...]that car we got to see Valentine, Grass Range and a few was born at home on a very cold January day and Pete other distant places. drove a team of horses to Roy eleven miles away r,o ger[...]Norman, lived at the ranch until 19b6, except for a the doctor" My father told him, "Drive them hard[...]they lived and worked in the Judith Gap area for a short time before moving back to Roy. They[...]
	[...]ergus homestead. This man, Axel O. Hage, was a very well liked person who had a pleasant, unassuming personality and tended to his own affairs in a private and quiet manner. In his years at Ferg[...]orv, were not the best of housekeepers. for a man of his age to be living alone; so very soon h[...]rished, however. began looking for a small plot near Lewistown on Axel made numerou[...]his one which to move. and only vehicle, a pickup truck. He was especially He did, in fact, find such a place about a mile south of included in holiday gatherings at t[...]- a small house and a few acres for a home, and also at the home of his brother, Ludvar[...]guson in 1955. The couple then made their home in a barrel of fuel from his pickup when the barrel fe[...]r E. Anderson. Shortly thereaffer Ella acquired a homestead near Fergus, Montana and proved up on it. One of her close neighbors was a girl, also proving up on a homestead. This girl eventually became Mrs. Marti[...]Etla Hage The two girls stayed together a lot because in those days, it was not *ise for a single young woman to stay by herself. Ella told[...]here was not much sleep that night. at night when a group of rowdy cowboys approached Transportation was a problem because the railroad their homestead. In[...]Ella Hage was married to Peter Martin Nelson, a
	[...]1951. Peter M. Nelson died Washington and Burton A. Nelson of Bellevue. August 6,[...]His wife had an accident by spilling kerosene on a hot Harrell and Sara Ann Bright in Lovington, Il[...]Aaron stayed on the farm in Illinois. into a large family of seven boys and three girls" The After drought, hail, and the death of a baby girl farms there were small so he worked out at a very plagued them they sold what t[...]as scarce. the homestead. Moving to a ranch near Kendall they He managed to complete t[...]hat time. There were about 22, lgLL and lived on a small farm. Evert and his 3,000 peo[...]during the gold mining days. brother Aaron rented a small farm also and they After s[...]in Hilger until people like Joe After farming a few years the urge was ,,GO WEST Pet[...]d the little school on the Charles Ille and found a place near Suffolk where they could. home- place restored. Evert was a school board member there stead. He returned to I[...]in. They did lots of haying there and ran cows on a box car, which took about two weeks to get to Suf[...]raising cattle. They It was very hard living on a homestead in a one room lived in Roy until their retir[...]mes Harrell of Idaho and Ruby Tull of Roundup. by a horse drawn cab was something else. The driver[...]rell lives in Lewis- helped, but in the confusion a man tried to steal one of town. (The baby girl who died was Martha Ann. born in her bags. A red cap caught him and so another scarey[...]good to see Evert w'aiting for them. Bui they had a time getting a IAfter Lucille Kalal didthe aboue story,[...]the night. Everyone was very family, a history that Euert himself had written (at[...]
	[...]on the east of me, Mr. I was close to a corner on top of the hill and a steep and Mrs. Charles Petranek on the west of me[...]Fadden, rough lock my wagon wheel with a chain for it was a where the children rvent to school. They had sehool in a steep hill. homestead shack that they mo[...]ll there When I came to this country I came in a box car. I was a big pine tree, so had to turn out around the tree. loaded all my things in a railroad car in Cadwell, There was a big root running on top of the ground and Illinoi[...]th the hind wheel of the iron load my car. It was a big furniture car. So I loaded all wheel w[...]couple pole in pieces so I had to cut a fir sapling, or little other end of the car and 2[...]or Suffolk, Montana. I was 2 weeks make a big hole that the coupling pin had to go through[...]e to come. make a hole large enough for the coupling pin to go When i got to Suffolk, Montana they set me off on a through an inch hole. I got it made and[...]. When they came together and it was a 2 man job to put the rack back on back they said[...]nor had the horses had nothing. together" One was a wagon with a box and the other I unloaded the wagon with the wagon box on it. Mr. was a low iron wheel wagon with a hayrack on it. We Bare lived a half mile on east but I had to go up a little loaded everything on the two wagons and I[...]as miles that was level. I had to put 4 horses on a over about 1 miles south and east. He got[...]on to puil the hills. I would put all 4 horses on a and we went to a good spring and filled our barrels and wagon for a few hills and then go and get the other one.[...]to the one the wagon for there was not a post any place. I went in and hayrack was[...]
	[...]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" n[...]o Idaho Falls, Idaho and in 1948 moved back me to a hotel and we stayed all night and left for Hilger[...]oy The railroad forked and they had two trains a day to from Mr. L.M.A. Wass and then sold it back to Mr" Wass. Hilger and one was a passenger train and the other was He had run a store in Roy. In 1970 my wife passed away a freight train. One went to Roy one day and one we[...]There was up with my daughter, Ruby Tull. a train each day to Hilger. The first day we got[...]ry big; 14x16. We ate and slept in it till we got a lean-to built on. It was 14 below zero when Heste[...]had it pretty tough the first few years. I had a sale in Roy the winter of 1919 or 1920. I moved to Kendall, a mining town, up in the Kendall mountains and worked for Dwight Cresap. He was my uncle's brother. He owned a place on the mountains east of Kendall. There was a store and a church and other business places. There was a parson- age for the preacher to live in" I lived[...]nce went down and Celebration of Roy, just a rnonth and a half before his the cattle trampled all the tombs[...]ore in 1910. August of 1967. Harrod was a store owner in Fergus for many years The Harrod's had a son Lee (of Polson) and a and after he moved to Lewistown he was in the gar[...]ried to Ed Kalal. She is the mother of P.J. was a horse trader, stockman and was under-[...]th are At the age of 89 she is living in a Lewistown nursing buried in Lewistown.[...]
	[...]onN Fencus Couury famiiy moved to Caiifornia for a few years in the early ranching business o[...]Glenda born 1933, both in Washington. We had a dairy farm in in 1948. Washington and[...]sther's sister, and operated the Fergus store for a few years and then Harriette. They have four children: Susan, Judy, James moved back onto a ranch where they lived until the and[...]Perry then left the ranch and went to live with a the end. daughter. He passed away a few months later in 1g85. Perry and Patience ha[...]d David are all buried at Beaver Lois (Sullivan), Patricia (Gleason) and Jean (Norskog- Creek.[...]ey. His parents were Mr. and Mrs. ing in a covered wagon to the time when a man walked Robert George Jackson. A liitle over a year later, on on the moon. July 3, 1884[...]kson's arrived in Lewistown. town. It is a part of the original Jackson place" He was a member of Fergus County High School's[...]children are Christine and Bud. The Dorm became a neighbor of Richard "Humpy" King fa[...]May of 1904 when he moved 567 head of cattle and a "Butch" was a top barrel racer and Bud one of the top string of[...]Bonine, is also a National Saddle Bronc Champion and He fenced in a saddle horse pasture of about 500 Bud's wife, Jimi, is a National Barrel Racing Champion. acres; the first built within a radius of 50 miles. Roy Dorman Jr. marri[...]Lewistown in the mid 1980's. Dorm was a school board years and raised a family of three daughters and a son: member, at Fergus and at Roy,[...]
	[...]Now don't think she was the kind of a girl ,"H".i1::);""[...]What good was a cowboy anyhow? Just across the big divid[...]And she wanted to marry a man from town I did chance to ride.[...]d dress in the latest style, And there I met a maiden, Who wasn't working for wages A maiden sweet and fair;[...]had already made his pile. Her eyes were of a velvet black, She'd dark and wavy hair. And now if I had a million.[...]For a smile from the lips of that little maid,[...]f the Judith River. They were, 19 She had a queenly pose; y[...]he daughter of Richard "Humpy" But I was only a cowboy, King and Lucy Louise King. Dorm wrote the poem to A working for small pay; Sadie as a special tribute. What show had I to win the h[...]JoHN E. eNo Elr,pN Kaano John E. Kaaro had a part in the ranching and farm retu[...]ohn mar- members of the Fergus community, playing a helpful ried Miss Ellen Romunstad[...]n the schools and church life of Kaaro was a sister of Odin J. Romunstad. She was born that i[...]ocality. in Wisconsin and was raised and educated there" The Mr. Kaa[...]one son, James, who was born in 1gl7, 16, 1871, a son of Evan and Isabel Kaaro" He had two[...]In August, 1908, Kaaro entered a homestead in Fergus The family migrated to the[...]orway and soon after the Montana was a team of horses, which cost $450 and family locat[...]arvested his first crop of wheat and oats. cents a day. He and a number of other boys worked Their plan originally was to carry on diversified under a rather savage boss, who carried a black snake farming, planting some whe[...]ectric Company in Minnea- considered a scourge and a pest at first, was the best polis and was with th[...]needs. Mr. and Mrs. Kaaro, in 1909, started a livestock in the Spanish-American War, with the Minnesota enterprise with a single cow and calf. The offspring of National Gu[...]these amounted to quite a few head of cattle. Along Mr. Kaaro was injured while in service, spent a time in about the same time Mrs. Romunstad presented them a hospital and was invalided home just befor[...]
	[...]jected on account ofphysical defects. He was made a Mason in Lewistown Lodge No. 37 in 1916 and was a member of Meyersick Camp No. 15 of the U.S. Spani[...]hose who succeeded in securing the shipping in of a carl.oad[...]good things are absolutely essential; good eats, a good Mountains. Mr. Kaaro was the first postmaste[...]your prey before you get a shot at thein. Try and make it of it.[...]appear that you are really showing them a favor by your John Kaaro passed away in 1942 at[...]having them on your list. Never must there be a suspicion Mr. Kaaro was also a writer of much talent. Though[...]ter you have established yourseif and he only had a third grade formal education he was well[...]kicks the cat, when the lord and master, usually a placid,[...]e- the 30's, in. addiiion to writing articles for a national[...]tle wife at the war veterans paper, he also wrote a column for the[...]The foilowing story, written by him, appeared in a promised to visit Mr. and M[...]ers. I want to thank you for your hospitality and a some of the youngsters, especiaily if they[...]arlance, is known as the "judicious To be a successful "rider" requires a technique of a high exit." It paves the way for a comeback. Who knows?[...]ohn and Ellen Kaaro on He was a trick rider-roper for Cole Brothers Circus their[...]animals and successfully broke and trained a zebra, in the upstairs of ihe ranch home. With hi[...]one that proved most to his liking, was a two-year old High School at Lewistown, Montana. white colt with a few black spots on his hind-quarters in 1939 Ka[...]e Cavalry and served that was in a bunch of wild horses that came from the almost si[...]t him when he came After his discharge, he joined a Wild West Show in through[...]
	[...]171 Jim became a unique performer, along with his speak- ing abil[...]t Fifth and Main in Lewistown. His popularity as a professional speaker and trick and a[...]ed the Jimmy Jim married Shirley Egger Hansen, a native of Roy Kaaro Award, which is t[...]eciaily proud to claim Jim as Labor at Helena, as a wage investigator. He had just one of[...]and was entertaining at the He was a member of the American Legion, National Montana S[...]ciation's Sheriffs Association and a life-time member of the pro- Convention when he was stricken by a fatal heart fessional Rodeo Cowbo[...]in Roy. Wilbur passed away in 1930. He was a senior at the time of his death, which came as a result of complications of diabeles. Henry conti[...]farm, community, N{rs. Kahler often a soloist at the Fergus although they moved a mile east of their original home church s[...]istown where she kept house for For a time she maintained an apartment at Soropto- Mrs.[...]the buildinss still stand. ing in a personal care center.
	[...]n moved to Great Falls. alfalfa seed and also had a truck garden and sold pro- Henry and i h[...]na Flour Mills. we moved to Roy and lived one and a half miles east of We have lived in our[...]cross the street. His wife then Henry was offered a part time job as manager of passed away[...]atton place, since the elevator house was used as a teacherage. Henry decided to work full time as[...]ld that job until 1951 when rve left. We also had a small Brocery store in conjunction with the post[...]na Elevator Co. We sold our grocery inventory and a Mrs. Wetzel became John, Al[...]House after their marriage. Later they moved into a small cabin up Spring Creek, when George got a job in a coal mine near there. They had no furniture and u[...]and Lars (Louie) Rindal. Front row: A friend of Chris Austed (Mero Siroky) place for a time before buy- Paulines, Pauline Rindal Knutson and Anton Rindal. ing a place southeast of Fergus. They were among the ea[...]r that Pauline would usually bring since they had a very good spring above the house and them a birthday cake on their birthdays. She also made piped it to the house with gravity flow. They had a lots of the traditional Norrvegian goo[...]48 and moved back to Lewistown Standard Rooms for a few years, then moved back to[...]
	[...]Daniel and Mollie Moltzau's place is now a part of history) George Heil's place west of Fergus. Amy was a very lively girl, "full of fun which was Moilie was a sister to John and Odin Romunstad and[...]went out on her own. presumably from the Strum, Wisconsin area. They had Their son, Romund, attended school in Wisconsin two daughters and a son. and[...]He was survived by his wife; sisters, Ann Beverly Wisconsin, with their children: John, born 3 October[...]AxroNr AND M.A,RY Pelor John married Libby Hronek, who had h[...]widow of Roy Wolfe of the for a big family reunion that rve had in 1988 an[...]
	[...]f 50 bushels of wheat. Their 6, 1914 and fi}ed on a homestead on the SW%NE% of frrst car was purchased in 1931, a Whippet. Sec. 31, Tn. 20, Rge. 21. He came here from Canada at In 1934, they got a bum lamb from the Horse Ranch, the urging of his brother, Williarr,, who had a home- which was the start of their she[...]ree children: Charles Francis Charles lived in a dugout in a bank until he could get was born on Octobe[...]n, George to Roy for lumber and tarpaper to buiid a typicai tar- Andrew on May 12, 1919 in Roy, and Stella A. on Janu- paper shack. In 1916, his fiane e, Marg[...]For many years, their main source of income was a eighth grade at the Fergus School, wh[...]graduation. In the early days, Petranek bought a team and She married Ervin Weinhe[...]e Danvers area. Ervin and Stella have didn't have a clear titie. When he made a trip to Roy, five children: Charlene Fu[...]cond World War, he was in the Sea- bought them at a sheriffs auction, so had to pay double bees. He was in a construction battalion and served in for them.'A team and wagon were necessities to[...]cking up calves at auctions. In 1932 they shipped a George married Janet Fritche in June[...]and weiglred 26,600 pounds and brought 4t/z cents a pound' Charles and George took over the operation of the Charles bought his frrst truck, a Model T Ford, in ranch. They have con[...]hen- check for tracks and there was a long bladed knife ever we went to do anything the[...]rs always said it was the They could be just over a ridge, along the creek or happiest[...]what the reservation. we were doing. A number of times they crawled on their[...]ard trying to make the neces- stomachs for nearly a half mile to steal chickens from sary[...]we were sitting around the tabie 4 hours a day. If there was no sun in Montana he was to wit[...]Some days there was no sun' was sure she had seen a face in the kitchen window' My but thi[...]e to Roy and wouid My dad borrowed a small amount of money (I beiieve not be h[...]
	[...]would not be back much before dark and the colt a living or transportation. He had to walk home the 20 could not stay there all that time. With a lot of effort she miles. In the spring some one[...]rses back but I can't remember who. What a colt ''as able to stand up, which it did[...]hem. inches off the floor so the cats could have a warm olace[...]on at the Patton place. John but was here only a brief time before returning to Nor- worked[...]1924 to care for Kristi. or oniy to Minnesota. A short time later, in 1910, the They moved[...]go home to Norway. None of them ever did a car wreck in October of 1926. John Rindal staved[...]r separate stories will follow. Margit, a sister of George Knutson, came to the U.S. in[...]orn in 1926. They returned the woods. Louie had a touring car, so Mike, Ingeborg, to the Ferg[...]ere in 1928 and their daughter, r remembers it as a cold, miserable trip of about ten days. Inez i[...]hey lost most of their sheep. In 1933, days for a replacement. Olaf and Kris returned to the[...]yway and 'as short seven bushels of because of a romantic interest in Margit Haugseth, who g[...]eed back. They then bought turkeys to worked as a cook-housekeeper for the Romunstads.[...]shington, working in the woods killed in a hailstorm. That was enough for them and until t[...]to go out on his own. He bought three yearlings, a Roy, close to Oquist's, then sold his relinquishment and team of horses and a wagon, took them and settled
	[...]Helen and Anton Rindal. about a mile north of Cone Butte" On his first night[...]ven stepped on one. One day, Alma was riding with a On April 26, 1922 Anton married Helena Alma girlfriend and they saw a rattlesnake go in a hole. Darrah, a daughter of neighbors, the Joseph Danah's. Alma got'a stick and was poking into the hole trying to Thei[...], i923. get the snake to come out. She heard a rattle behind her Before Helen married Anton sh[...]y and Needless to say, the girls moved in a hurry. her husband Charles, who lived a mile beyond the Red Some of the homest[...]nto the Barn Ranch. She remembers being chased by a herd of Rindal's holdings were: Ryan, S[...]y the Butch. Rattlesnake Butte, but she never saw a rattlesnake Anton raised Hereford c[...]asture in the fall She also remembers attending a party at the Art of 1936 he shipped h[...]Miller, Jim and Elsie Miller, and Whisker Davis. A blizzard came Gradle and Chink Jordan. I[...]len Rindal came to America from Norway in 1909 as a single, 23-year-old woman. She took up a home- stead southwest of Roy near the area where[...]here she worked for Dr. Bryce. She bought herseif a horse to "commute" from Lewistown to Roy, on her[...]work. When asked how she dared to live alone as a single[...]Bindal Haugen because there were a lot of other courageous people out there w[...]
	[...]mett both immigrated from Norway. John Haugen was a carpen- died in 1976. Trygve and[...]add to his other holdings. in the army for a short time in World War I, then[...]Roy for many years, serving as Board Chairman for a During the 1920's Louie had a threshing crew, and good share ofth[...]n particular were favorites with the many men who a double wedding.[...]kinson's Disease for several years and had a stroke make the payments. They lived next on the[...]Grace continued to live on the place for a while, then Louie did custom threshing until around 1938, travel- moved into a trailer house closer to Roy, later moving to ing[...]Lewistown where she now resides in a house formerly Mountains. Later he also did cusio[...]and Pauline Knutson. custom haying. He had quite a variety of machinery. Louie and Grace had seven children, all born in One was a Rumely tractor he purchased in 1924 or 25'[...]was born August 18, 1927; He custom combined with a 10-fooi International com- Donald Ar[...]rea or retain financial interests here. Noble for a horse named Brownie. Melvin rode Brownie[...]ool in 1956. She home from Christina. Brownie was a favorite of all the and Kay Wood went to Billings to college for a short Rindal kids for many years, along with Blizzard, pur- time then went to work in a bank. Lucille met Lawrence chased from Joe Komar[...]y were married August 17,1957. In 1946, during a lunch hour, a fire started in the Larry worked for[...]s were irreplaceable. Louie had previously bought a ferred to Hardin in 1961. In Ju[...]
	[...]hey were. married in June of 1966. They lived for a time in Billings where Neal worked for IBM. Their[...], Meluin Louie, Donald March 5, 1973. Shannon had a congenital heart defect Arthur. Front ro[...]everyone could listen to President Roosevelt and a place about 2 miles south of the original townsit[...]Fergus. My dad ran mostly sheep at that time with a enlisting and families moved io the coast to work in full-time sheepherder living in a conventional sheep war production factor[...]eld 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[...]oved to the Allyn place which was onto a place Dad had purchased from Jack Baucke only 3/a mile from school, we walked all the time. Milada[...]of Chen Northern Engineering and Linda is a hostess students in my class when we started, but[...]ated from MSU in 1978 with a degree in Ag Business. In December of my freshm[...]Exeter, California and they invaded Pearl Harbor. A radio was set up in the assem' hav[...]
	[...]n Denver and ated from MSU in 1983 with a Civil Engineering Lesa by an investme[...]through high town. Marlene and I have a son, Chris Lee born Mav school in Roy, graduatin[...]opened the Phillips 66 Bulk plant in Lewistown as a commercial agent. In 1978 I pur-[...]Donald Arthur and diesei for 124 a gallonl I also have ranching inter-[...]ry and Cari. Carl is employed Grocery and started a laundro-mat. After 2Vz years we by[...]in Townsend. lived for 17 years. Then we moved to a house which we Shelly was born January 20,1962 and is a graduate of built on a hill S miles west of Roy. All of this time, to th[...]August 6, 1988. Shelly is presently employed as a book- and also have billiard lounges in Montana a[...]nally settling in the Fergus area. John took up a homestead near Fergus and his sister, Ellen, and her husband, John Kaaro, Iater came from Wisconsin to live with him. In 1940 John moved to the Fer[...]ls death, John lived and worked with Axel Hage on a[...]
	[...]stayed close to home in ing her to cook on a wood and coal renge, the likes of order to help h[...]here from St. John is remembered by everyone as a quiet, good, Paul.[...]by Bessie Wiedman Odin J. Romunstad was a Montana sheepman for Hawley on the[...]nch. of the Fergus postoffice. Mrs. Romunstad was a daugh- James Fergus was then the head o[...]en years, Mr. Romunstad was born near Eau Claire, Wisconsin, made some capital for himself and whil[...]8, 1872. His father, OIe J. Romunstad, was a member of the Fergus famiiy, the daughter of William a native of Trondjhem, Norway and came to America Fergus, who was a half-brother of James Fergus. Mr. when a young man bringing with him a knowledge of Romunstad and Miss Eilen H. Fergus were married the trade of blacksmith. For a time he was engaged in October 19, 1904. She was the daughter of William and railway construction in Wisconsin, then took up a Helen (Hamilton) Fe:gus, and she and h[...]ad of local affairs with his neighbors, voting as a Republi- Box Elder Creek, Iater owned by Od[...]Romunstad's death in 1951 and then in 1953 Odin Wisconsin, Miss Gertrude Olson, who also was born[...]nd also had part of her education while living on a Wisconsin. Montana ranch and attended a business college in Odin J. Romundstad grew up on a Wisconsin farm, Helena. For a few terms she taught school in the Bad attended s[...]er, Jennie (or Jeanie) born in 1916. Montana with a party of Wisconsin men, both old and Mr. Romunstad cast his first vote for a Republican young. One of them was his uncle, Pete[...]idate. He was on the local school board who after a time moved to Idaho. Odin J. Romunstad[...]ng the World War he did town. Lewistorvn was then a hamlet made up chiefly of his part in the[...]erty Loan Drives. Mrs. saloons, livery barns, and a few wooden stores along Romunstad was one[...]hasers of the "Baby Main street. He found work on a sheep ranch east of the Bonds." The family w[...]Doanld Creek; and after the Fergus left a legacy for the construction of the present spring lambing season he worked in a restaurant at church building at Fergus. Fort Maginnis, for a time, and during the winter of 1890 lBessie Wiedman who wrote the Odin Romunstad his- took a bunch of cattle for Frank Fuller to old Fort[...]he following story. The first rual setting for a truly beautiful landscaping and picnic two paragr[...]ct and later both girls man-v years the ranch was a show place with its nat- attended F[...]
	[...]rations for years and take an pany and retired to a home in Lewistown where he acti[...]iife. lived until 1961. when he met his death in a car acci- The Vernon Taylors, o\\'n[...]Peerless the old Romunstad house in a charming New England Gas and Oil Co., built a lovely new western home in the style.[...]3 when they moved to the former Jim Patten ranch, a quarter of a mile west of Fergus" Jess and Aima raised two s[...]in 1979. Eddie married Mary O'Reilly. They had a son, Eddie Dean, born May 17, 1968. They lived in[...]he later married Vicki Baer Wlodkowski. They have a son, Todd Allen, born August 1, 1985. They[...]al years before selling out and Mero is a son of Mr. and Mrs. John Siroky Sr., Roy moving t[...]ple of suddenly at the homestead of a heart attack on 16 April German extraction,[...]15 June 1898, the son of Osseo, Wisconsin. Her parents. Andrew and Betsey Ralph and Ida Tai[...]Illinois. The family Iverson, bought a section of land at Acton, Montana, moved to Orego[...]Florence was eight years old. She was educated as a The Taits came to Montana in 1913 and homesteaded teacher and taught one room schools over a wide area. 8 miles east of old Fort Maginn[...]
	[...]during the 27 years they town, Montana and built a Iog house that is now owned operated t[...]forced Florence to retire and the post- lumber at a saw mill. They soid this place to Larry[...]Florence died in a Biilings hospital at the age of 67 on Fergus is only a memory now, a big vacant building the 29 September 1976, only a week after she retired. beside highway 191, seven[...]ice who survive him. The Taits were buried in was a cordial stopping point for transients as well as[...]Ft. Harrison. No Armells for some years. Dick was a Veteran of WWI and date known. There w[...]e round before being Vaughn helped his mother for a while, then went to hailed out. Han[...]some years before. The children attended the ran a boarding house and cafe. After Ernestine fin-[...]left the Fergus area to go to an irrigated became a nurse at St. Joseph's Hospital in Lewistown.[...]an and Vaughn Tindall, who was by a painter for Continental Oil Co. for seven years.[...]d Cement Factory. Vaughn then bought a place at Victor. Ernestine did special and Ernest[...]Vaughn was con- The cement plant closed within a year or so of their frned to a wheelchair so they went to Seattle to live near m[...]ckie. Vaughn died in September 1967 homestead for a time. Ernestine was having a diffrcult and Ernestine in September 19[...]here her parents were then iiving. Her mother was a Northwest Airlines for 38 years, first as a stewardess, trained mid-wife and Ernestine stayed[...]born. a manager in Manufacturing, Research and Develop-[...]was Fay Marie married Leo Labrie, a rancher at Harlow' employed at the mines t[...]
	[...]at Fergus, Mon- His son Ken, is a doctor of biochemistry, and is tana and attended[...]i resides in Raleigh, North Milwaukee Railroad as a iocomotive fireman. He went Carolin[...]lothing" Ray has been in business many years as a partner in[...]e went to school in the Van Cleave, driving a four-horse sled and I driving a church at Fergus. 2-horse sled, with[...]- On the fourth of July, there was a picnic at the ture. It took all day to get to Hil[...]he next day to get to the ranch. The had a dance in the barn and the children were put to sn[...]buy about six rolls, then open them and put in a teas- brought back an arm load for the house, as[...]nd put it in the cellar so it wouldn't dry burned a lot of wood.[...]en and two Moitzau girls Once a year Hanson shipped dried ludefisk and and I first went to schoo] in a cabin on the upper end of soaked it and[...]eaves had four boys: Jack, George, Cha- at recess a skunk was in the yard and we chased it[...]didn't Lester Hall. either, and we got a bath and our clothes were buried in Joe Dubois, August Diamond, whose father ran a the garden.[...]same time as I did. the Horse Ranch road: then in a homesteader's house[...]nuary 4, 1884 in Maiden, to Allison a train accident. and Elizabeth Frame. From the age[...]and at On July 18, 1901 she married George Hall, a Spanish- the time of her death.[...]
	[...]born November L7,1879. "Black Beauty", a spirited wild horse, presumably My mother, Mary E[...]oth were born in Also there was the time a defensive mama sow gave me Macon County, Missouri. a run for my life. In 1914 Finis was working on t[...]tana. (Probably in Roy). souri. Quite a car full They homesteaded; living in the iog ca[...]d there for the rest of their lives. My dad owned a my parent's deaths, I corresponded with Kate each[...]and later invested in farm and Christmas up until a few years ago, when I assume she rental[...]sed away August 12, 1959, at which Anticipating a new member in the family, my par- time I moved back from San Francisco, California, ents built a new home, which was completed and where I had lived since 1944. In 1960 I acquired a moved into when they brought me home. I was born wonderful husband and a college bound son, whom my August 17, 1919 at St.[...]h us, until his death ted Fever" when I was still a baby. Seems that what May 1, 1964. kep[...]Calif.) since my mother pounding on his chest for a matter of hours. early 1965, and our son,[...]The Horse Ranch was a big cattle ranch. They had a Eight children were born to the couple: Lloyd,[...]the catalog and Dad went to town once a month for grocer- homestead northwest of Roy" AII[...]was born in The winter of 1918 was such a cold one and Dad had January of 1921 when we were[...]Scarlet Fever, but Darlene just or 4 trips a week then. He went to Hilger, Suffolk, Roy, could[...]m Hilger came out and Christina; that was a hard winter on the folks.
	[...]49. Mother died he was employed as a plumber; on a gravel crushing November 17, 1960. Both are burie[...]e early home. Often he would stop for a drink of water or to homesteaders in the Fergus c[...]frrst teacher was Mrs. Maude Misener. She was a very Marie, and I were born on this farm.[...]father decided the free land in Montana, A new school was built in 1919-20. Dad bought us a created by the Homestead Act, sounded like a good saddle horse to ride to school.[...]. We could him. He came to Lewistown and chose 80 A. two and a take the saddle off when we got to scho[...]iles north of the little town of Fergus. He built a loose. He would graze all day. After school w[...]howl at us. Dad wagon and horses. We had brought a team, wagon, would have to chase th[...]hinery, milk cow, chickens, did build up a band of sheep and a cattle herd. We and a dog, just the necessary things to start living in[...]With the help of friends and neighbors Dad built a owned by Cook-Reynolds next to ours, so[...]orphaned lambs. We raised them to quite a band. We water from a spring two miles away until with thdhelp[...]two we got and rode them of friends and neighbors a well was dug. Water was with binder tw[...]unny sack saddles. We drawn with pulley, rope and a bucket. We were lucky to used to visit wit[...]k, and his get real good water. It must have been a lonely time for two dogs. all of us away fro[...]nd gather dry wood for our winter supply. learned a lot about pioneering.[...]years we didn't. Dad rented some land from a fellow harness clanking. He was a happy soui and a good who owned land next to us, a Mr. Mclaughln, to raise singer. I guess he[...]
	[...]0's. for livestock. Dad went to Lewistown and got a job on a T.E. Rice was Mrs. Harrod's father. Lucy was[...]ney to keep to her wheel chair, but was a pleasant lady. Then Harry things going on the far[...]had to Grimmet and his wife came. She was a relative of the take care of things at home without him. We'd drive to Pattons. A.G. Nelson had the post office many years; in Roy[...]s, after groceries and some hay. We were allotted a vicinity and well liked. Jim Kaaro ran the sto[...]Taits had the store when raiiroad had been built, a spur, from Roy Junction to it was moved down by the railroad crossing. Roy. We made a little money selling chickens, turkeys, Th[...]s 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 lumber on a little acreage on Billings Bench. They ran Hanson and his family in the early teens. A man by the a small truck farm there for a number of years. I name of Burdick had the post o[...]l and Peggy Wight came to the site, and built a garage there. Carl operated the garage Fergus are[...]place and one returned to the garage about a year later. In 1953 they from Finis Vestal. They[...]hey They sold their ranch to Carl's brother, Tom, a single then leased a garage and service station in Roy. man. Tom lived[...]ary of 1985 and Peggy continues to live in Lewis' a tract of land from Jimmy Kaaro at the Fergus town[...]born to them: Floyd, Harold, Roy Lee and a barber and is semi-retired as he still helps at o[...]worked in construction and Hazel worked as a nurses mother and two brothers who homeste[...]
	[...]e: Ruth, Gordon, Lucien and Robert. widowed again a few years later. She passed away on HARRY OQUIST- Harry Oquist came to Roy a little before July 23, 1986. Both Archie and Haze[...]children: Kav. Clifford 1910; filed a homestead in the Fergus area and lived with the a[...]rr Jr. and took over the Harry was a barber in Roy. They left Roy soon after their ran[...]G e rtr ude G ate s, daughter). John A. born August 16, 1957, Bonita L. born Sep- tember[...]steaded a mile west of Petraneks. Gladys went back to[...]ne 1914 the -Roy Enterprise reported on a with Lena's parents. The homestead was sold t[...]oved to Suffolk after their marriage. E.B. FRAME- A Box Elder rancher in 1917 was working on[...]Both died in the late 20's. boundaries of a new school district. The school house was built a[...]left in March of 1916 Belle was a sister to Jesse Adams. They built a nice log house to introduce the people back home in Toulen, Illinois, to and a big red barn between Adams and Petranek's" Belle[...]lace. Mrs. Kennedy was an Allyn. The place is now a part of Petraneks.[...]AND GILT Eocn Post Orrtcns There was a post office in the Fort Maginnis area as early as March of 1875 (then Choteau Co.) Henry A. Kennedy was postmaster from March 16, 1875 to Fe[...]876. It appears that there was no post office for a couple of years. In January 14, 18?8, it was re-e[...]was appointed June 12, L}IT but declined. Walter A. Harrah took over duties on October 20, 1917. On[...]ater moved nearer to the fort on Ford's Creek and a log building was used until 1911 when a frame building was erected. In 1942 #5 Alp[...]
	[...]the fort furnished telegraphic communications and a convenient place at which to purchase supplies.[...]rader, arrived about mid-month. The frrst baby, a girl, was born to the Frederick France family in[...]they lost themselves and the rest of the herd in a snow storm. They were rescued by a trapper. After that incident beef for the post wa[...]of the Leutistoutn News-Argus There were a lot of "comings and going" among the commanding o[...]ated in 1893. The first trustees were C.W. Allen, A.B. Frame and Owen Dunn. The first teacher was Mis[...], named for the judge who owned it. It doubled as a dance hajl and saloon. Later school was held in what had served as a hospital. In 1902 a large two story frame school was built. There wer[...]rooms on the first floor and the second story was a large room used for the Miner's Union Hall. There[...]Mary Green and Marvin Drinkard. The buiiding was a landmark for years until it was struck by[...]
	[...]Ken- City, where he conducted a blacksmith shop. He also tucky on August 16, 1831. He was the middle son of was a member of the famous committee of vigilantes. Wil[...]ary Payette, whose stepfather was Thomas LaVatta. a :/ounger brother, William, who became a dentist. This marriage took pla[...]f the Milwaukee Depot. rode on horseback carrying a child on her lap all the The follo[...]William Anderson, the father, died with fever a few f6, 1869 to ?; Jennie, June 8,[...]ctober 15, years after moving to Illinois. He was a very estimable 1873 to 1953;Josep[...]In 1880 he moved the family to Helena and drove a He lived on and owned a farm on the outskirts of herd of[...]th the Granville son's death, but Rebecca married a widower, Thomas Stuart's. In 18[...]there from Cuppy, in 1846. They moved to Iowa for a short whiie Helena. Two sons were[...]the other. Occupying the corner was a bastion which spring of 1853 Rezin (affectionatel[...]se. The reason for finished his apprenticeship as a blacksmith in the town this fortifrc[...]Mr. Anderson suffered many strokes over a period of He then went to California. We can f[...]ers, now known as Gold Creek by Francois Findlay, a Bill and George, lived on t[...]the ranch for her. An item from a September 1914 issue There Reese whipsawed lumber to make the first sluice of a Lewistown newspaper reads as follows: box used in[...]tracks prove that the girls know how to handle a bunch of fornia. (There is a book on Indian Wars that mentions[...]Milk Sallie sold the ranch to a Joe Vogl. The ranch was River to Helena to Deer L[...]n by their daughter, Kitty and her husband, Wayne a year later.[...]Duppv Falrrr,v Tom Duffy was a native of Massachusetts. He came Fo[...]ch was established in 1880. to Montana in 1875 as a soldier in the Indian campaigns[...]
	[...]Hrsronv On NonrurasrsRN FeRcus CouNrv a place called 'Froze to Death' or Ft. Pease, near[...]there that Tom first saw always found a warm welcome in her home." Kate and the minute he[...]Judith Mountains, now a part of the Link-Wyman Kate and Tom were marrie[...]son and Kate died suddenly of a heart attack while in Lewis- his family and Granv[...]ed overnight at have long gone. Only a trace remains of once plowed their place. Tom del[...]emain but there are fewer people. remembered". In a tribute at her funeral in 1939 it was[...]1885 at Pierre, Maginnis. He was a WWI Veteran and spent his entire South Dak[...]
	[...]- Maginnis were not turning a hand to help fight fires. frgh[...]except a few of those further back, were destroyed and the[...]doing nicely." McEvony was seriously injured in a freak accident, McEvony carried those scars for the remainder of his while a youth, as reported in a November 3, 1897 issue life. of[...]Charles McEvony, a nephew of Les, came to Montana "Leslie McEvo[...]n Newport, Nebraska in 1932. the explosion of a nitro-glycerine cap. The boy, together Charles married Fern Smith, a sister of Sonny Smith. r,r'ith several others[...]Les and Charles had a hotel in Judith Gap until playing with caps,[...]ay in 1949 and is buried in the Judith ran to a safe distance from the exoected explosion. As he[...]ildren as they pour from school for recess. A few buildings still stand as a reminder of the boom period in the early part of this century when Gilt Edge had a population of about 1,600. The pile of tailin[...]er in 1895 when he was two years old. His father, a carpenter, was already there. For a brief period the family lived in nearby Fort Magi[...]'t arrive in Gilt Edge until i900. Her father was a miner. Iva still remembers her trip from Ar[...]one week. The road to Gilt Edge was no more than a trail and there were no fences along the way.[...]ible to run 1,800 tons of ore through the mill in a 24 hour
	[...]on around the clock, and miners worked seven days a week. Tha mi-i-6 h^^- rnganl growth for[...]iles up the gulch. "Every place big enough to put a house on had one," George recalls. flon"[...]who owned it. The building also doubled as a dance hall and a courtroom. By the time Iva arrived, school was being heid in what had served as a hospital, although it was }ittie more than a frrst aid clinic for emergencies. Anyone se[...]ported to Lewistown. George's mother ran a combination rooming house and boarding house in G[...]+L'. .4.1" merchants was Norman Polland, who ran a general store. The Big Four Clothing Store, run b[...]fact he had four sons. Whiskey Annie ran a candy store, but George still believes it may have been a front for other activities. At any rate, it was a favorite place for young customers who enjoyed th[...]district also included drug stores, barber shops, a blacksmith shop, gtocery stores and livery stable[...]t Rdge, but for differeni reasons. Aunt Fanny was a midwife and officiated at many local births. To supplement her income, she took in washing until a laundry opened. The other black woman, Birdie Bland, ran a "sporting house." Although the town had its "red[...]oons and one "blind pig", the latter referring to a drinking establishment that operated without a license, with entry from a back ailey. George remembers one occasio[...]ame," 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 he had pulled in the little town of[...]sheep for N-Bar Ranch. He received 50 cents a day. "I've herded sheep, broke horses, p[...]idents often asked him to do their shopping. Once a lady had him select her a new corset. "she loaned me her old one as a sample," he says, "to make sure I got the right t[...]tly turn off Highway 87 east of Lewistown to have a Iook at old Gilt Edge. They sometimes ask the[...]illie Dundom's grave. town, in a converted dance hail. The first four gtrades Theo[...]and Walter. Most of them made a local carpenter. There were "miner's kids, ranche[...]Sam was a horseman most of his iife and was Sam was born[...]undom Sherman. His father was a ern Montana. Helivedtheruggedtypeof[...]
	[...]by Patricia Sherman Samuel Tekumseh died September 30, 1970[...]That giue o cooh a bad time. worked in the Roy area in the early 50'[...]arriue around 5:45 Jack is now deceased. Pat was a writer of poetry; with a[...]nd and stoll. sense of humor she could convey a message, as evidenced by the following p[...]her neighbors were Jack Gallagher and Allison had a brother homesteading at Wilder, Montana he[...]tqr moved back to Iowa via horse and He took up a homestead, proved up on it and sold it wagon. after a short time" He went to Gilt Edge where he[...]he Beal place and worked for Perk Burnett who had a stock ranch. John worked on[...],l Bundane consisted of a post office (191? to 1918) which was probably in the home of Roy Sinclair, the postmaster, and a school about a mile north. The post office was located on the[...]egon when they left here. There were two boys and a daughter Mable, who married[...]passed away in the Charles Downer, a homesteader on Sand Creek. The Downers retained t[...]e first teacher was Mary Scherzer. In lglg during a lightning storm the Bundane school was struck and[...]e ground. The loss was severe as the district was a poor one financially. Woods schooi was i[...]
	[...]Hrslonv On Non'rHsasrsRl FtRcus CouNTY A typical homestead.ing scene. Setting up housekeep[...]in #20?. in 1958, Speed and Jessie Komarek built a school near the highway. School board members wer[...]sure when his parents and then became a career salesman for Liggett and came to Montana, but he always believed it to be Meyers, a jobheheldfortherestof hisiife.Hesettledin aroun[...]in Roy. He has 23E Sections 20 and 21. They had a son, Raymond, who many memories of his ye[...]try. He was born in 1906 and had left behind, in a grave, 4n reiated a few of them: infant daughter.[...]ved near Nate was born and raised at Prescott, Wisconsin. Indian Butte, they had run out of hay and so, with Helen was born and raised at Hales Corner, Wisconsin. another family, went into Roy to buy s[...]r, then mid-winter and enroute home a blizzard came up. age 41, traveied to Californi[...]going in the right direction but the Mae Kurth, a nurse. While there she gave birth to[...]o, Nate, this is not the proper Harry Nathan and a month later returned home to wa1'." They were confused so they got down in a Montana with the newborn baby.[...]st gone, they'd burnt it up to later felt it was a big mistake. The family moved to a keep warm. They were 5 miles from the h[...]d, Nate (like several years and then they bought a piace just west of many others) sold a few bottles of bootleg whis- Roy from Joe[...]
	[...]geles and was cremated. Raymond possession of a "broken down" still which was is buried in Eugene, Oregon. laying in a caved-in root cellar.[...]e army. Bilgrien were working in harvest with a header. I He passed his GED tests an[...]e freld about one" moved around quite a bit, and except for a period of Two hours later someone said something about almost a year (1958-1959) when he sold cars for Cooley[...]and Don Imsande, he has been employed as a brake- the only fire Harry remembered, "gener[...]ers; waukee and St. Paul railroad as a conductor-brakeman they had some cattle, a fe'*' sheep, raised some out of Lewistown from 1952-1955. hay and a Iittle grain.[...]born Alfred LaFountain, son of Isadore, was a May 1, 1961 in Los Angeles.[...]18 Jim Rife, Alfred and Harry used to drive a truck Mae Kurth came to the Indian Bu[...]p on her home- knew Joe. No one ever asked for a driver's license; stead. She then went[...]for the rest of her life. She was a nurse by profession. enough. But it was of no i[...]atty are delightful and those Patty was a red headed Irishman. He worked in the who remember him do so with a smile Butte mines bef[...]e area. - a happy smile. My husband, as a child, was awed by Patty's wonder- Nobod[...]to him after he left the ful spitting ability. On a cold winter day, Paddy would area. He alw[...]m, facing the stove that Maybe he did. had a hot roaring fire in it. He always had a chew of tobacco in his mouth. Patty could spit cl[...]d then splatter all over the back and sizzie with a most unique hiss. Patty bought a bull he really prized from Jack Woodard. He had quite a time getting water he consi- dered fit enough for the bull to drink. He had a fair source of water for himself, but he declared[...]t good bull to drink". He washed clothes, once a year-in June; and in June only.[...]ore, Pot McKay, Ray McNulty, Bob Wil- Patty was a pretty even-tempered fellow, but when[...]
	[...]John Umstead came to Montana in 1914, filed on a The ice house can be described as a root cellar with a homestead, then returned to work on the Pendray[...]pany came, the frrst chore was to get out a chunk of ice the same; but there are more fences,[...]sian well, running the lids held down by a barrel rim. These barrels were in a much-appreciated, warm water, where it is needed.[...]rawn wagon. Can you imagine the fun kids had What a biessing. What an improvement in this genera-[...]cers; I'm sure the barrels were rinsed out before a stream. However, there were many die-hard type of[...]ry; if people that tackled homestead life without a substan- the dams were low from lack of r[...]ast, as it In those days water was obtained in a number of commands the most integerity[...]Second an oblong water tank wash clothes in, take a bath and wash your hair in. propped up on rocks so you could successfully build a When the rain water became low in the tank, with[...]e winter ice was put up off the frozen water from a frre and would come running at the sight of smoke. handmade dam; a dam buiit with a fresno and pulled \ow with the artesian wells scattered over the land, by a four-horse team. This operation was usually a one- producing an abundance of warm water f[...]erseverance the dirt fill was completed, awaiting a been eiiminated. rain. In winter, when t[...]slabs. upon us, we are back where we started a generation and These awkward cakes were grabbed out of the water by a half ago. WATER IS STILL KING!! a special-made tool calied 'ice tongs.' The cakgs w[...]dle. The thought of ice core homesteaders and a great amount of unsung praise cold water a short distance from the g'rabber's feet[...]e home- out of the icy water, they were loaded on a sled or stone stead days just happened. When[...]day's hauling unexpectedly they created a bustle of activity; every- usually filled[...]
	[...]- getring more ice from the ice house), cooking a larger ing time and started out shor[...]wo trips to the were loaded with a lard pail filled with ice and a small garden. As I remember, after those two chor[...]would want a lunch, but that wasn't practical because The men took a walk through the hay and grain[...]ng how many bushels John ever had a tractor he never would stop for noon." per acre i[...]the After, or before supper, or possibly during a meai, the number of acres under cultivation doubled. When the shooting at targets was a form of entertainment. The wheat allotment programs were introduced with a few targets were usually discs nailed to a post in the yard. If government men showi[...]shing up over the plowing; Pop anxiously reported a bullseye, they just gained momentum brag- throttled his tractor to a stop, anticipating company. ging and wasting more[...]agine his surprise when two strangers jump out of a Prairie dog towns supplied half-grown kids a few gray jeep-like vehicle. They[...]plant. After many the prairie dogs were so smart. A leader or sentinel unsuccessful attempts, the government men managed would give a certain yip and down in the holes they[...]to Everything went alright for a year or two until one shoot one he would fall dow[...]ou could drown them to plow up a strip about the width of a drill all around out. Big chance with water so sc[...]you were born and you can't tell me We did have a comfortable, compatible iittle white[...]Now Pop was an individuai who was definitely a compaiible, I mean Stuby wasn't exactly lazy but[...]watch the drops dam to water him. He couldn't get a good drink until he fall. All this pr[...]n doing ing air. One thing, after a bout with cold water and to Stuby?" It seems my D[...]fresh air, you could certainly eat a breakfast. Another dunking![...]one of his early morning stunts was to have a kid, FARMING: A friend of my teenage grandson asked[...]e alert to all the wo;tders of Mother hour around a field a mile long?" "Yes, it was," I re- Na[...]. I then explained that this was done with either a The only time we rode on the cattle[...]again the air necessary for the occasion; such as a plow, harrow or a was fresh from the rain, the morning[...]s black' horseback ride was made into a game. Who could see top was completed in 1959 or[...]op con- tion might iook at the story teller with a certain amount tinually put our intelligence to a challenge. Later dur- of disbelief; while to us, my brother and I, it was a way ing the day the sun became hot, the[...]e family early then thirsty and got a lesson on how lo lay on our in life to cail him[...]would look at stomach and drink out of a freshly filled water hoie the time knowin[...]
	[...]e fact that I was born in 1920, no doubt makes me a product of the late homestead era. My early chi[...]es and experiences were very limited. We lived on a homestead twenty-six miles from Roy" We had one close neighbor, one-fourth of a mile away. The treat of the day or week was to take a r'-l ta waik with my mother and brothe[...]dl t because you kids don't have a grandma." I still r remember[...]Of course, we did get home for some vacations and a few week-[...]rs of the twelve I speak of, 1930-31, we moved to a[...]miles in another direction. My mother batched in a small shack while the teacher did likewise in the[...]se he didn't leave. To winter with someone was a way of life, they called it working for your "gru[...]e spring the transient might roll his bed-roll on a pack horse, saddle another and ride to work on a seasonal job. To be sure, when school was out[...]he bed legs in kerosene in the yard. The wall had a fresh coat of kalsomine every spring also. The[...]me I graduated from high school. My dad could get a fair price for sweet clover seed and his cattle h[...]chool. Speaking of jobs, I remember one summer a neighbor who was going away to work asked, "Would[...]holes, watch for snake bites, etc. Of course, to a fourteen-year-old just being trusted to ride John anC ]!:,; t ht-,rseback alone, this was a wonderful offer. When fall came and this m[...]
	[...]rances dollars, at that time, I had the choice of a wrist watch, a of every type became a necessity, there were no prob- good ieather jacket or a dress and a pair of shoes. It lems with book[...]However, they no doubt had because I wore out a couple of catalogs trying to decide a mortgage at some bank with one payment to be made[...], I in the fall, which probably was a source of worry. But it know its quality would st[...]gy we endure today. The work in those days, for a hard-working dry-land My mot[...]ny memories. would have been a fair exchange. In the thirties the main structure[...]east end of Roy. delivered in a Karo syrup can for 120 a gallon. A wall, a reversible cupboard and a door divided the On November L[...]ne Robert Cimrhakl and Bill took a camping-vacation trip bedroom and the back door w[...]ished, enjoyed the scenery and took back yard was a, not-so-sturdy, common clothes line.[...]h Bill's About twenty feet from the back door was a hand brother, Charles Umst[...]various points, the furthest north was Nome, a very Umstead went to an electrical school in Detr[...]ttled in Alaska, Charles rode once a year, usually in February when he had a month's an Indian Chief motorcycle almost the ent[...]that is from Fairbanks him. to a coast town in Louisiana. He rode the motorcycle[...]s back to Detroit and stopped briefly in Roy with a blue death, I was going to confirm a reservation already pick-up hauling his Indian Chief and a refrigerator, made to fl[...]
	[...]o board most of the time. He alwavs had a new saddle Sand Coulee, east of John Umsteads (In[...]in T 21N R 23E I)arrell spent his life working as a ranch hand. He was Sec. 13.[...]King Trail) in contact with respected him. A neighbor wrote, in a to the river and was a well-known stopping place for all tribute to[...]acquainted with a person for nearly a score of years Jack was twice married. His fust[...]t way. This community was better and Maiden, only a year before his death in November of bri[...]in Lewistown for many years. several months, and a sister. His only child, son Jack Oline He[...]15 or 1916. settling in Seattle for a few years. She came to Montana .Iack did considerable riding for Murray Deaton. At a year or two after her son, homesteaded, and retur[...]by Margaret Hedman If you were a child in the 1920's and spent your pre- shiny hair, a well combed mane and a neatly pulled tail. school days on a homestead twenty some miles from Another thing that baffled me was how a rider could get trrwn, your acquaintances, beside[...]leather strongly. I can safely call Jack Hemsing a personality,[...]- it had to be a[...]borhood had iiccause as I remember, he was one of a kind either a bridle, martingale, hackamore or quirt that he[...]ind he was someone had made for them. To a six-year-old this leather who lived a quarter mile away and came to help my dad processing was quite a novelty. Just to see how a saw wood, butcher pigs, put up ice, etc. He usual[...]ing old hide could be made into something so rode a weli-mannered horse, for he loved horses and pretty and smooth and also have such a change in u nd erstood their ways. His saddle hor[...]e ground, which indi- teasing my dad to make a little boat, he said, "I really caLcd some form o[...]le wood stand in our yard with his reins down and a knowing boat anybody could wish for. Now if he could make a look of intelligence on his face trying to[...]
	[...]201 -years from Jack Hemsing For he u'as truly a cowboy this happens on a hot da,v rvith a dorvn hill run for the old rvith no pretense. I d[...]with understand it. Jack was a person that we kids assumed horses it was just th[...]pneumonia in November 1935. After a few short days in and let her pick the trail. To pick a detailed route for the St. Jos[...]Sec.27 Robert Purdy came to this country as a young man Bill Davis[...]girl. Biilings. Clara was a siter to Eva (Mrs. Frank Gradle)[...]Catherine Purdy. THAD CURRY- had a dug-out in Sand Coulee. He hand-[...]re. The herder was never found. This hap- built a road to it with wheelbarrow and shovel. He was[...]the Ro-v Cafe from A. A. Jcihnson. in April 1919. Buried in Bourbon, Miss[...]Anna horr many pair of suspenders were counted by a fellorv home-[...]orvned land at the mouth of Fargo Coulee and got a start in CECIL M. ROACH- T 2lN R 23E Sec. 25,50. Roach had a the ranching business. He[...]Murray. sheep camp and shed on Antelope creek. In a blizzard, one He rvas staf ing[...]orm and ended up Slim t orked irs a cow'bo-v and ranch hand in the Roy-Valentine at t[...]n where he had gone to live with his sister, rvas a doctor. He died at Staff and was buried in front[...]the place where Wilbert Zahn Sr. lives. There was a country store and ran from 1915 to 1921. P[...]
	[...]sed after the term of 1933-3{. Teachers were: B.A. Hickey, Flora Sandstrom, Ivy G. Davis, Eudora Bontrager, Mrs. \'ivian Dickamore, Josie Hickey, Bertha A. Dickson, Evelyn V. Riedel, Ida Mae Stervart, Mab[...]';:i: JosLin School 1919. Teacher: B.A. Hichey. Bach row L. to R. WiLbert Zahn, Earl Zel[...]ett. A. J. AND MINNIE ANDERSON T 20 R 23 Sec.27 A.J. "Albert Joseph" Anderson was born June 6, 1883[...]name of Minnie; the only name anyone, including a[...]niece, ever knew Mrs. Anderson to go by. She was a[...]i.r h\- t.:.1 ffi A.J. taught school for a few years prior to their maniage. The couple came[...]ffi They arrived with a team and a wagon load of lumber in the afternoon. The sound of a hammer[...]- the very next night the Andersons siept with a roof over their heads, in the[...]*'n: possibll'u'as the head of it one stall of a double-stalled barn with a dirt floor. ir.r the earll' 3ll's.[...]vorked for hirn at that time. Anderson was also a carpenter. Part of the house the[...]regon. Willmore famiiy stiil live in was built by A.J. alrout 1946. A.J. pussed itrvlty there on Ilt'tetrtber;ir. The[...]rvls still living irt tlrt'tinrt',,f A..1.'s prr-sitrg.
	[...]hen it would Ernest Zahn and moved to Roy. He had a house on not start, and had[...]ivities and was check on his welfare. a good neighbor and friend to all in the community:[...]City Cemetery. late twenties, Mr. Jones sold Matt a Star car that he[...]et Kochheiser memory, along with a little set of blocks that my on September 21, 191[...]brother, Richard, received. AIso, a checkerboard that to Spokane, Washington. Three boys were born there was in a box sent to us by our grandmother Kochheiser, -Jo[...]oolen scarves Cass family moved near Roy to start a new life on the around our faces w[...]o school, so our noses open prairie. They started a home, planted crops and wouldn't ge[...]few and lived some dis- would grab a handful of snow and hold it to our noses tance aw[...]untii they thawed out. A "frostbitten" nose seemed to The following reco[...]Iaiso remember Mother washed clothes on a wash- through 1922. board in a wash tub and boiled them in a boiler to get The following is from Gene P. Cass.[...]ections of life in Montana. Winter was a difficult iime to drl'ciothes and she had to Havi[...]years older than When we went for a ride in the spring wagon with the I, went to a one-room school with just two or three other team, Gert and Florie, it was a real outing. I believe children. A year or so later, I joined him. On the way to[...]team of horses that we had that school, there was a pond that I managed to fall into, or Mother would go near. I remember, on a Sunday after- get pushed in, by my brother every s0 often. The school noon, she would drive to a neighbor, with us kids, to teacher was a lady. I remember iiking her as she was visit. Or, on a holiday of some kind, we would make ice very help[...]h us. She would always cream in a freezer at the neighbors, or at our place. start[...]One Christmas, I remember my father taking us to a pulled out of the ice cream. It looked so good! program where there was a large decorated Christmas All[...]n't sound like much now, but out tree. We went in a sled, drawn by a dapple-gray team there on the ranch it was a ver]' bleak life. Anything named Gert and Florie.[...]cial, as extra or unusual was like a celebration. Even Dad let- our mother always had[...]m the gate up to the house in the wagon decorated a tree or bush of some kind. I got a little horn when he came home, seemed special. When Mother with a silver cord on it. This seemed to stay in my made bread or donuts. this was also a special event. We
	[...]Op NonrneesrER^' FERGLIs Couxrr didn't have a music box, but a neighbor brought a por- We had fer.r' toys, so learned to la[...]boys make them last. I can remember wrapping a cloth would look at the speaker and wonder how al[...]around one of the long clothespins to make a doll for music could come out of that small boxl[...]hat we tained for hours. One time, we took a shoebox and I had to eat. Nlother would bake the bread and can the fastened a piece of wood to it, then a string. It became a could get for winter. For[...]d - ail that theywould shred cabbage into a large our toys were very rustic; baking powd[...]for the wheels. We kept little things like full, a loose fitting top, made of wood, was the lid. A that to play with, somerimes using liitle ro[...]to pie. We would play for hours, sometimes on a make the brine or juice come out to complete the pro- smoothed off piece of ground that would become a little cess. I don't remember just how long the p[...]come down hard at times. I can vegetable soup or a delicious beef dinner. She would remember[...]them for their pro- gun. These, brought home in a "gunny" sack, helped tection. She didn't[...]raiding the garden. miiking, it would get a squirt of warm milk. We boys Mother made mincemea[...]the cat could get a good drink. We never had a dog. I Pigs also were part of the larder. Dad made a smoke- guess that would have been just one m[...]many, ail sang on different keys. They made a out. Al] parts of the pigs were used" I remember[...]ickens. The coyotes returned and ate the poisoned a galvanized tub, where it was mixed; then to the c[...]s. There was, ing. The food was sometimes kept in a covered tub on however, some reg:urgitate[...]orage. Of course, there was no electricity, so a coal oil iamp The following is from Mary Jane W[...]Her reply was that "she had it to do". She got a book to sewing clothes, washing, milking cows and[...]born, on a Thursday afternoon, August 28, 1919. I was Dad[...]hr':vest frelds to earn money to carry born on a Saturday night. I don't believe Mother called us[...]It was years when he came home, we would give him a big welcome later that Mother told us a[...]used them to cut and trim flowers at a cemetery in Spo- Usually it g'as oranges or some hard candies, a real kane and inadvertently left them at[...]cleaned, placed in a box, and not used for general
	[...]ut until years later. For instance, I didn't have a formal name until after my first birthday. Becaus[...]om my birth, until Grandma named me, I was called Patricia, Helen, Dorothy, and just plain baby. I do not know how old I was when I got a severe infection in one of the glands in my thro[...]mail at birth, because Mother said she could put a teacup on my head when I was born. One time the[...]ome, marked that he had to use a four-horse team to pull a just prior to our dinner. Mother had prepared all[...]f the dinner. There was barely enough to feed us. A stranger drought didn't get you, i[...]turned to Spokane. I house, with no trees, it was a mystery how he could was just o[...]Each of us boys were given a horse that would be ours had enough food for the[...]he macaroni and cheese the horses, a bay, was tied to the rear of the wagon. He dish.[...]my oldest brother, tried to call to a nice "doggie" one seen. How did he disappear in t[...]pening, gone during harvest time for many days at a time, help- called to Fremont and s[...]ted the needed beef and pork. Mother and Dad made a wonder- sound. ful sausage from[...]on the wagon for a long time, with the wind really blow- The[...]
	[...]iser Cass born when lr{other wiped the table with a wet cloth it would February 26, 18[...]as well Munnev A. nNo M.q.B EIcuKoLDT Corrn[...]s, Mr. and Mrs. and operated a water well drilling rig, Mae had the Roy Alfred E[...]e their home. Cafe and Melvin ran a garage and service station there In 1920, Murra[...]and home- before he became a school teacher. steaded northeast of Roy. Murray's father also home- Murray, a Fergus County resident for 40 years, died 3 stead[...]d June 28, Miami near Winnipeg in a frame house. 1898 in the Wesleyan Chapel, Barrow-[...]stove pipes red hot, started a fire in the attic and burned Wiliiam worked in[...]laying trade. At the time of his marriage, he was a Singer sewing machine out th[...]
	[...]n October of 1905 to which was sunk by a German submarine off the coast Fernie, British Co[...]In 1908 the Dunns moved to Seattle and moved into a George, Herbert and the other Dunn bo[...]ed his ciarinet in for planting crops and a garden. Timber for firewood the Salvation Army Ba[...]y cutting and snaking logs the cornet and Herbert a baritone. Herb had gotten in the breaks 10 miles north near the Missouri River. hold of a beat-up baritone that had no mouth piece.[...]osts cut from George conceived the idea of making a mouth piece out timber. Green timber was debarked and used for logs of a "bobbin"....and it workedl They played well enough and poles to build a barn and corral. Over a period of to play and march in the Salvation Army[...]n was made tle, and to play in local theaters on "a;nateur nights" for a basement-dwelling or "dug-out". From George's and[...]out last din from basement". boys. The arrival of a baby girl in February of 1913 was Timber was used to build the drvelling structure in a reai joy. She was named Elsie Mae.[...]m Seattle to Tacoma" covered with dirt. A cistern was dug in one corner to As usual the hou[...]d milk cool. The floor brickyard William acquired a load or two of bricks was an uncover[...]the help of the boys, he jacked up the walis, dug a basement, barn and the new chicken house. ([...]yet). It built up the walls with brick and built a lovely, artistic was in this "dug-out" that[...]i he was over 80 years old. Each spring a garden was planted to provide vege- In April 1[...]mestead. The flour mill in Grass Range. A fine alfalfa field was next month the rest of the[...], no running water. no indoor toilets, no After a team and wagon were purchased, the Dunns[...]tarted for their homestead site. When night feil, a ing were done by kerosene lamps; a kerosene lantern camp was pitched near the Clay E[...]very other day. I can still remember seeing was a l0 x 12 shack, 'thrown up' by Dad and Uncle[...]not to go. Dad and the boys built a dam in the southwest por- Uncle Henry lost his li[...]ia tion of our land and it r,r'as used a lot: swimming, skat-
	[...]water in summer. other south. Duke and a young black went right through Several homesteaders, including Dad and Mother, a fence and over into a watering hole. Such squeaiing petitioned for a school district. A one-room Joslin school and threshing I had nev[...]rowing before eating my lunch." Christmas was a very special affair at this school. Els[...]ode up to the school in the pouring rain, clad in a and chains of red and green paper loops, were made by slicker and leading a bareback horse for us to ride. He students. Wax[...]d the approaching sleighbells of Santa. a hurry and we both slid off that wet horse right i[...]brushed off the fluffy snow, he would announce in a Dad bought an ornery white stajiion. H[...]icklaying trade and this often were also a bit erazy. On one occasion he came in took him fa[...]ada and crossing the river at Wilder got stuck in a River. When he finished, he came down the river in a muddy crossing near our place. Dad iook the white stal- boat pulling a raft with supplies to Little Crooked Creek ii[...]on the 1983 map), and transported was a lot of money in those days. the supplies 10 miles south to the homestead. (How Dad The sound of a rattler in the sagebrush was a frighten- accomplished ail this, I'11 never know.[...]River near Wilder for Mr. rattles and a number of snake skins had been collected; Athearn...a dangerous business. For pay, each was some were used to cover belts and hat bands. When given a choice of a bronco from a string of horses. David was only 8 he wa[...]Riders of the Purple he came back out, a rattler coiled up and struck at him, Sage". Herb[...]my earliest recollections of the home- Buster to a 1og, not quite big enough to hold him...and stead was a fleeting moment when I was close to a when Buster took ofl the traiiing log scared the[...]ing this horse, since any unusual swung a hoe down on the snake's head. movement or noise[...]riding homestead. One day Dad brought home a violin which Buster 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 t[...]yed with the together, sent to Sears for a set of strings and strung horse by hanging on to[...]As he learned to play it. George acquired a guitar from a passed through an open gate, he threw the lariat[...]eighbor and Leonard learned to play the mandolin. A over his lefi side and caught a big solid pitch-pine post. snare drum with one[...]the coil of rope dropped over the like a bass drum. With a "4-piece" band the three boys saddle horn, forming a knot. The saddle cinch broke l1'ere ver[...]ing in the saddle....on'the ground, aliy in a school house, sometimes as far as 20 miles watchi[...]avid applied his ingenuity by carving a good sounding vio- related this one: "When I was only 9, I was finishing up lin out of a pine log. Ed often played his guitar and a tooth-harrowing job on Uncle Henry's place[...]
	[...]kim milk flowed from spouts Zane Grey books from a rancher's library. int[...]919 was the coldest on record in 40 years. It was a played at school, the lazy autumn[...]orn- When they checked the cream can, they found a small i.ng. The excitement of watching Mother and hole where a lot of cream had leaked out during the trip[...]arrival of the threshing crew. The preparation of a shopping.[...]f July celebration. Leonard were riding home from a dance at a place In 1924, the Dunns move[...]e between called Crooked Creek. When they came to a rain-soaked Roy and the Judith mounta[...]lived in Lewistown in 1926 while Cecil have been a painful experience for Leonard.[...]igh School. For Ed, David and myself, there was a final farewell Hiking and horse-bac[...]y and leave the ranch in time to be there binder, a precarious plaee for an 8 year old boy. Dawid[...]I were harvesting wheat and plowing on to act in a hurry. There was not much time enough to get a rented farm located a few miles from the Gove place. around to join Ed[...]ne day, contrary to Mother's wishes, Dad selected a Ed tried to get to his horse and come to our aid[...]ound to get the other and wagon. Either a horse kick or a wagon wheel one off. By the time we got inside th[...]I should have cut the team kept circling a safe distance from Dad. Ed went horses loose but[...]rove to Roy, the first leg of the 40-mile trip to a haiistones were floating on inches of water stand[...]way back from the Gove there was a terrible blizzard. I was concerned about Place with a wagon and fresh horses, but it was ail too[...]
	[...]HrsroRy Op NonrHne,srrnx Fencus CouNrv and a shau'l around my face, then walked the 4 miles in[...]e folks. Mother gently scolded me for taking such a risk but thanked me too. Dad's leg injury affecte[...]ational part of our lives. Leonard managed to get a piano for the family and Elsie began to take lessons. I sold my Hereford heifer for $30 in order to buy a tenor banjo. Leonard and Helen, Ed and I often pl[...]Roy area before their Cecii left, I learned to be a hospital technician to earn move to Billings[...]inter of '35 our youngest brother, Vernon, on a ranch near Fergus. Elsie married Larry Pierce of[...]. While at Luke he needed failed to arrive due to a snow storm. Although Air Force Base in Phoen[...]me to France. In 1946 I was discharged as a Captain. age Vernon to keep fighting for his life[...]is wife, Hilda, both homesteaded in the Wisconsin. Clay passed away in 1959. area north of Roy, nea[...]Mr. White came to get Mr. Edwards and Edwards was a sister to Roy and Elmer Hanson. h[...]hard to get heip". (Mrs. White sur- where he was a street car conductor. They last lived in vived, but it took a year for her to recover.)
	[...]by Marie Zahn \\:illiam L. Gibson, a native of Emporia, Kansas, graduated from Emporia High School and later took a course in law from LaSalle University at Chicago. In 1911 he was a railroad conductor in Oklahoma where he married A[...]t Office, where they began farming. Billy June, a victim of polio, passed away in Sep-[...]emorial Gardens in Lewistown tember of 1914 after a one-month illness. She was 19 besi[...]Wanda continued her education and became a The Gibson's house on the homestead was destroy[...]e died at age In the late twenties, they leased a farm three miles sixty-six. west of[...]entered St. Mary Hospital where they diagnosed a Joysie married Vernon L. Lindstrand, a native of brain tumor which was[...]r home in location and he died a few hours later. He was 57 years Great Falls wher[...]wing his Montana in 1916 to homestead. They built a two room discharge from the servi[...]part of the divorce settlement. some. A neighbor, Les McCollum, plowed and put in the[...]r first year and first crop for her. McCollum had a steam tractor that boarded with the Zahn family. When she was six years pulled a big plow and he did custom plowing for[...]A.J. (Minnie) Anderson, to Minnesota to visit her[...]ach other until Lucille was an adult, married and a granary and frlled it fuil. The room was never in a mother herself. Attempts to be reunited failed un[...]Henry became a supervisor with the railway marl
	[...]e former Mrs. John Trafton, were married. She had a daughter, Evelyn Trafton. Howard and Bess had a set of twins;[...]d). My uncie, Ray Henneman, Iived in the Roy area a good share of his iife and was another true cowbo[...]an. with no one being home, they decided to piay a trick and wrap the outside of the cabin with clo[...]elers to enter, that is, if they were in much of a hurry. That night Victor and Tom LaFountain came[...]out what was wrong. Ivar and Jess had a good laugh a little unhappy, finding the cabin wrapped iike a when they all got together again. package and had a heck of a time in the dark figuring Other[...]
	[...]r, self-employed, for the home- that a neighbor noticed Grandma walking behind the steaders in the Wilder area. Inside of his coat he sewed a wagon driven by Grandpa. It bothered the n[...]and by the time it took him to go it was a long walk from their home to the Kachia store. a[...]y she asked, "Why do you walk?" Grandma would be a week on horseback for him. He played the[...]e area. He was buried in Lewistown. and was also a city judge. He died in Maita, Montana. Grandma moved to Stevensville where she later re- A story about Grandma and Grandpa Henneman[...]rn Montana Chink, Mike and Orul'a all iived and worked in the in 1908, and homeste[...]m the Ismay area and where else, was a big problem. There was a well at the brought in cattle which were run on the open range home ranch that produced a good amount of water, but area north of Roy. He[...]le Crooked area; they iive, with the exception of a couple of years when later drilling ano[...]the time she Horses have always been a special part of their oper- was away at school bu[...]ioneers of Paint racing in the state trucking for a time.[...]tyle, breeding and days as man and wife concerned a pie she baked. At winning ability.[...]their expecting company and Helen wanted to bake a very outstanding stailion, Super[...]i dessert time when Larry took ing him at a show in eastern Montana, and he got a big bite of that luscious looking pie that she re[...]Tragedy struck one evening in 1984. A terrible wind
	[...]ly loosened some electrical wires, which started a fire in the Jordan's big horse barn. The Jordans[...]saddles and saddest of all, Super Nugget. It was a heart break. Larry has always donated his time[...], and has helped many youngsters get started with a 4-H project or in rodeo. Helen's foremost love ar[...]rry and man, Missoula and graduated from EMC with a high[...]rode on the rodeo circuit for 10 years; then was a director of the Professional Rodeo Cowboys Assoc.[...]became lives in California. B.J. spends a good part of his the 'biggest' event of it[...]
	[...]rite bachelors, Joe "Shebby" from Poland. It was a typical Polish wedding. The cele- Sheb[...]Twice a week, Mrs. Kudzia wouid bake bread, 10 to 12 I[...]visiting on baking day and always took a loaf of fresh 1912 workers were striking; times[...]Dances in the Joslin school house, Girls prepared a three-year proving up period plus 5-month absence[...]ut, often rid- for the chance of sharing a lunch with a pretty girl. ing the rods under freight cars.[...]a curling iron in the flame of a kerosene lamp to curl a miner in the Anaconda Copper Mining Co. Wages[...]lking 3Yz miles to school, carrying lunch boxes A year later he had saved enough money to send for and a water jug, with a cowboy to escort them through his wife and son. T[...]un by the Deaton Ranch. across country via train; a long, dusty and tiring trip. Horses gave way to mechanization. A McCormick- The Kudzias and the Medeks lived in[...]in shocks to await the in 1917 William filed on a homestead. Children, Komarek and L[...]where he had lived for northeast of Roy. Roy was a hive of activity when the several year[...]ater she in Roy, William and Grandpa Medek bought a team moved to Dillon where she p[...]in 1938 at the age of 77 year old Emil; Mr. Zahn, a carpenter; and other neigh- and Joseph in 1949 at the age of86. Both are at rest in bors, got a house built.[...]the horse barn and for fire wood. Estabiishing a school was one of the first orders of r bus[...]arie and Dorothy Spinner and Elsi Dunn. Raising a family and eking out a living was tough. The family learned to li[...]
	[...]Oklahoma and came with them and their brother, M.A. Hickey, to the Joslin area in 1914. She took up a homestead, T. 21N R 24E Sec. 29, 30, adjoining th[...]e home- steads joined. The Hickey girls were gone a good share of the year, teaching in various schoo[...]asty", as he was known, made many friends and was a kind, friendly and generous person. The depres[...]er Trail. He bought an old Fordsorr tractor and a few pieces of farm machinery and put the creek bo[...]Arnold Zahn and moved to Lewistown. He lived for a When Morris Rasmussen's pl[...]
	[...]to was none in sight. It was a strange, eerie feeling, for a homestead in October of 19i5. They came, not by[...]agon and team like most homesteaders, but by car. A Warren also remembers pumping a "lot of water" novelty....in those daysl!! They f[...]probably kept him "busy and out of a lot of trouble!" Curley built a 10 x l0 foot homestead cabin; dug a The well had fair water, the[...]e crops were good, but part ofit was lost to with a small hand sled. There wasn't much water close[...]asshoppers, In the summer of 1916 he worked for a cow outfit, the intense heat in sum[...]the winters. The following winter, Curley spent a lot of time with But it wasn't all bad. Neighbors appreciated and a neighbor, Glen Mangle, who had a team and they relied on each[...]the river, Signal Corps, until he was injured in a logging accident weekend dances at o[...]ties, that the Corps was involved in. He received a medical 4th of July celebrations,[...]Warren and it was on August 22nd, of a very hot and parents and siblings had moved. Curl[...]Brainard. The trips to and from under the rule of a monarch. Min[...]worked at the County terrible heat, a sick little boy and a baby....plus efforts Farm in Lewistown during the dry year of 1919. A to see her little girl, Lucille,[...]owing Bob's birth were good ones. later worked at a logging camp in St. Maries, Idaho. Crops were good and there was a steer or two to sell. By Mart cooked and Curley r[...]the fall of 1926 Curley had bought a tractor and built a logged with horses in those days. During the summ[...]wheat into Roy, pulling two 1920, they worked on a harvesting crew near Ritzfield, wagons[...]homestead (Cass's) and started to build them into a ranch. They built shack onto the house for a front room and bought a big fences and cleared sage brush and picked rock[...]ked out, part time, buiiding School was a haphazard affair for the boys. Warren the Bank Ra[...]Beck, Helen and Lily Jakes. acquired horses and 'a' cow. During the following years Later t[...]and they moved the Joslin Store and built it into a horse- Roy schools. They either boarde[...]es to barn; moved in two good granaries and frxed a shop, school. Mart stayed with them[...]y worked for their board. town, on the train, for a couple of ciays and the Shorts[...]
	[...]bales Warren had ever Sam spent and a year when his folks returned. They seen. Their ha[...]The Billings injuries he received as a child, and so remained on the Ivlarkei made a big irnpacl on this area as it became a ranch. good place to sell cattle and ho[...]loyment Kaiispell to winter. The railroad offered a'disaster rate' and went to night school to[...]of 18 he was in the Aleutian Islands with bought a place at Brooks and moved their cattle and[...]or many years until the Mart and Curley bought a gas station and cabins at early 60's[...]op. Now semi-retired, he does some ranch work had a mail route. They sold their cattle and equipment[...]Burney. brother in western Montana for a year. He attended his Following a dry year in 1952, the Fred Matthews freshman year[...]s- After Mart and Curley purchased a home in Lewistown in much discussion about what t[...]ome trucking. Mart thorough- Roy with his saddle, a few tools, a tractor and 25 head ly enjoyed town lif[...]Curley passed away on May 2, 1959 following a long Sam Dennis spent the winter of '40 and'41[...]scarce so they because Curley, like a lot of young men in those days, had to hunt "for[...]horses; rode the or to apply for a homestead. 'grub line' (especially at ranches whe[...]er 21, pretty young daughters) and in general had a good 1966, after a briefillness. time. Sam now lives at Corvallis, M[...]d in 1981. once was the torvn of Fergus. They run a few cattle; the They have two son[...]
	[...]ill usually hidden from view, behind a door or curtain, and pretty much as it was in homestead days. No modern with a lid on that was 'suppose' to allow no telltale hi[...]the house. 'gumboed' in for several weeks or even a couple of A slop bucket draws a toddler Iike honey draws flies! rnonths. I soon learned to buy groceries to last a winter. It became a menace to drive me almost insane. Toddlers One pa[...]. It rvasn't very slop bucket is just a mepnory! good stuff, I'm sure all the deer were l[...]to receive these advancements. Finally our light; a combination coal and gas stove cooked the[...]g water in the house. meals and heated the house; a gas refrigerator that had The kids went to small, one-room, country school a habit of sooting up and blackening the house kept[...]lk from spoiling and hid the food from the flies. A sie Komarek's kids and then to Bohe[...]n the original homestead house. The ing come from a land of electricity, was an iron. This[...]ings to the corrals to water the set a mile away. It once was home to Mom, Dad and cows;[...]s too small. they drank too vigorously it created a vibration that An electric stove[...]gerator, freezers and pounded the faucet open and a flood would ensue, lights have[...]ids and floors. I uncontrollable stove. A good artesian well has replaced could get a lot of miles out of a couple teakettles of hot other sources o[...]sight, and in their place, Baths were taken in a galvanized tub brought in from when t[...]the Little Rockies light up with a hundred bright lights Another use, it watered the trees and a few flowers. In from the mines and mi[...]in the Landusky. wading pool with a bar of ivory soap. We hauled our[...]lute quietness, with the privilege of living with a slop bucket in the house only the sou[...]n occasional vehicle motor can never imagine what a @#@*?!@ll il rvas. Peelings[...]
	[...]slin store hos been attached to the barn, marking a place for the horse stalls.[...]on an immi- said she had never seen such a desolate sight; no trees grant train, as a young bachelor. He had tools and or g'ras[...]no crops, with hail T 19N R 23E Sec. 6. He built a smail house and put storms, grasshoppers and then drouth. in a crop. He hauled wood from the Missouri River[...]was born on the homestead as Claude grew up on a farm near St.Joseph, Missouri, her mother w[...]on November 30, 1921. went to York, Nebraska for a two-year business course. Anna told of the[...], times were very hard. porch step, with a bowl of bread and milk, and when Crops failed and[...]He did odd jobs she later checked on him a rattlesnake was dipping into wherever and worked[...]He also the bowl and then Howard would take a bite. She worked as a swamper in a bar in Roy. One day he was grabbed the bro[...]t the snake off the porch scrubbing the floor and a gun slinger came into the bar. and killed it with a hoe. The man was in an ugly mood and pulled his g[...]rom St. Anna Siemens was born in Oregon and as a young Joseph's Hospital they moved to Le[...]the farm operator of the Fergus killed in 1908 in a haying accident, leaving a widow County poor farm. He farmed the land.[...]ars old and worked cows, hogs, chickens and a huge garden, raising most for Dr. and Mrs. Moore.[...]where they lived until Anna's death in 1945 from a doctor. like his father, and lived in Helena, Mon[...]e been caused from the lightnins Mrs. Moore was a very taiented iady and gave Anna bu[...]
	[...]torm r-tii :i ;):;i:t ,a:t[...]
	[...]ne Franz Wood came to Mon- two and a half years that we \vere there he made 75q. tana in 1915. They bought a relinquishment and proved He had brought a trunk from Ro1' to a homesteader. up on it. They had three children: A[...]9, Catherine Sr. Wm. Jr. writes, "My father was a grocer in Des passed away in 1983 at age 96, and are buried in Des Moines, he wanted a rest so we went to Montana. In the Moi[...]Anna Meska were born in took a iot ofingenuitl'to form school districts and buii[...]enrolled the first year. Bridgie -{. Hickey, a neighbor Whiie living in Michigan, two sons[...]son, Howard Clifford. The baby lived only a few hours William and Anna Zahn left Michigan w[...]When Wiibert was about 12 years old, he helped a planned to farm. Arnold Wiiliam was born at Apach[...]Later, he helped build a reservoir to earn money to buy Anna and the three boys went back to her family in a potato-bug banjo. Mr. Zahn encouraged his sons' M[...]rnest John musical abilities and bought a fiddle for Wilbert at an born 20 May 19i4. Mr. Za[...]o go to Mon- auction sale. He carved a violin for Ernest from a maple tana to homestead and left Oklahoma with a wagon plank, using horse hair for the bow. Ernest played this load of their belongings and a team of mules. Anna and at dances when[...]hbors, and with transportation They moved into a little log cabin on the south side of bein[...]Along with the good times there was a lot of hard filed on a homestead a mile north of the creek and began constructing th[...]auled from the Missouri Breaks. The log house had a the breaks which took a month to cut and haul by team dirt floor and they had a tent. The barn and corrais and wagon[...]own were built next. They picked rocks and plowed a garden to 40 degrees below zero and huge snowdrifts blew spot the spring of 1915. Then a field was cleared for a around the buildings. crop to be plante[...]ls for the children" It Anna Zahn was a mother not only to her boys but to
	[...]N FeRcus CouNry everyone who stopped by. She was a good cook and it Ernest and Mrs. Zahn ke[...]was her custom to feed all who visited. There was a iot Wiiliam died at the family home in 193[...]ntry and told them about Grandma Zahn's help when a baby machinery continued to ranch. ca[...]-, Anna Zahn about 1930 she was a star player on the Roy High Girls Basketball Team[...]The Zahn Brothers Bond u'ater before a spring tt,as dug out. Picture taken 1915[...]
	[...]ed pastures. The coming of Highway We built up a ranch on Crooked Creek, part of which 191,[...]Martinson, John Wiison and later, with a flow of 85 gallons per minute and 60# pressure.[...]and our four grandchildren. Bonnie Griffith is a radiologist where we lived.[...]Over Buffalo Tracks" a reality. Curt[...]ught mailman carried mail on the Wilder Route for a long groceries for oid John Turner, as he was an old hermit time. Then Bill Marsh had the route for a number of that lived below my grandmother's (A[...]a big den * dug out of a section of land below the old Cottrell place[...]shot hay stacker. The ouershat then was lifted by a pulley sys' tem with another team of horses (not[...]rattlers that were killed when a den was 'cLeaned'out These photos uere tak[...]
	[...]q'ould not moid and spoil it. This area with just a long stick and kill one snake after was l[...]Cimrhakl school. The Bru's had a daughter my age. During haying season in the su[...]tion at the Joslin School under the tutelage of B.A. Hickey, Flora Sandstrom, Ivy Davis, Eudora Bontrager, Mrs. Vivian Dickamore, and Josie Hickey. He was a talented banjo piayer and a member of the dance band that he and his brothers[...]Herbert died ai home 4 January 1965 of a sudden alfalfa on the creek bottoms and had some[...]e Roy Cemetery beside ful seed crops. Fishing was a sport he enjoyed a great his father.[...]discharge October 1945. enjoyed the life of a cowboy and rancher. He ranch[...]5, 1942.He was with Company C 343 1984, a victim of cancer. Burial was at Sunset Memorial C[...]Frank, March 31, 1894-April 29, Frans Zelenka, a native of Prague, Czechoslovakia 1975; M[...]ptember 1, 1979; Earl, June 24, lg02' America, as a young boy, with his parents' On Novem- No[...]married at Beile- Frans and Mary moved to a farm near Hilger and viila, Kansas. The family mo[...]s to then about 1928 they purchased a farm near Lewis- Oklahoma and then to Roy[...]
	[...]16. Hilger :rrea, later moving tc.r a farm near Belgrade. His homestead joined that of[...]len \r'ere: Elmer, Glacivs (Fred Tubb), Glenn was a veteran of WWI.[...]ay. Their children in Nebraska on a farm. Their children were: Dale, are: Toodie, Leo[...]d and Pearl. (There may have been more children). Patricia.[...]'s places, until Earl married Bertha A. Dickson from Minnesota. They the government boug[...]in the \:alentine area until 1935 or 36. Then in a dug-out (house) until he moved to Ernest's place.[...]and later to Lewistown. Frank's homestead is now a part of the Wilbert Zahn Earl u'[...]Everette have three children: a son Terry and two The buildings on Frank's pla[...]se was moved in in 1945 and was used for storage. A tall house, moved from the west with the help of Charles Oquist was used as a granary. The rest of the buildings were moved in from A.J. Andersons, Henry Edwards and Nellies 10 x 10 foot house, all used as grain bins. A garage was also moved in but a tornado took it in July of 1949. Most pieces of i[...]ors and skids to get the jobs done. Frank had a dry sense of humor. One harvest he hired Eleanor[...]for himself and one or two others. Eleanor made a cherry pie one day, but forgot to pit the cherries. Frank ate the pie, never say' ing a word. When the cook got around to tasting her pie[...]y either, because he'd slipped all the pits into a pocket on the leg of his bib overalis and dispos[...]Frank fed them all. One in particuiar developed a taste home in Leu'istou'n. for Frank[...]dn't get in she'd jump up and ln a ltotttt frtr tltt agtd. ort 11l/ 61711 frr.1 scl[...]Jusl rochtng atL al rtit h rtul a ('art' Frank never married.[...]
	[...].4- l'd ltht t,t fttllt,Lt tht cattle dou'n a dustl trail. And hear again the coyotes wai[...]mesteading days, T 20N R 24E Sec. 13. ers. He had a steam engine.[...]ier farmed in the Board was $1.00 a day.[...]T 19N R 25E Sec. 19 & 20 In a November 11, 1915 news article it, q'as reported[...]pe Creek, northwest of here. Mr. Rose is building a new store building to accommodate his increasing business. " There * as a lri-weekly stage service to Kachia from Roy. A[...]re, in later years, as Ava Zahn recalls "had jusl a ferv groceries in stock. It was in Harris'[...]
	[...]was 1920-21 Kachia building was used as a meeting place for the with Alice Martindale as the teacher. Other teachers graztng district and a polling place until 1967 when the were Carl Watk[...]1914. district for 3 years. In 1925 they moved a school to a central location and held school with Mabell Gal[...]il lJ't.--^J ;r- il- fr-:.. A. .I -" {t:t'"'' T ':.d; #'[...]Miller, Murna Martin. MabLe Rossiter A Sunday aftcrnoon gathering at the Alex Mil[...]
	[...]She became ill with the birth of from Janesville, Wisconsin to Roy, Montana. They her son and was unable to care for her baby Her were met by Mathias in a newly acquired wagon, parents,[...]adopted by Matt and Elizabeth. They and had built a tar paper shack which the family would[...]many tears. Len'istown. It was a new life for Elizabeth and Mathias who were[...]1928' She then had two bettering themselves. What a heady dream! Eight years years of nurs[...]d in death by kind. These trips, made about twice a year were made his wife. by the faith[...]me went by, mail delivery by car two times a week, became a reaiity, from Roy to Kachia, about 3 miies from t[...];L.o ptied his trade as a barber. His shop was in the Burke The Blum family: Etizabeth, Anna and Mathias with Hotel for a number of years.[...]homestead for awhile. children were born to them: a son, Clarence King Five child[...]ranch. Lorraine, lvho lives in Washington; only a few hours and is buried in the Roy Cemetery'[...]Barron are i.n western Montana, and Marl' was a graduate of the first high school class at[...]s Ra5- Brown of Lewistown. Nina was a school teacher, and no children.[...]
	[...]hn James Madison Galloway, his wife Elizabeth, a Gene studied art and received[...]Fergus County Their daughter, Mabelle, who was a teacher in this Court House for many years. area, was married to Joe Peoples, a neighboring rancher Carrie Belle marri[...]to the Billings area. They had a family of three sons, Son William took great in[...]nsend who g"rad- Mrs. Elizabeth Gallorvay, a charming intellectual, uated from Roy[...]the Pas area of Manitoba. Later he operated a hotel in Hughes pickup out to the Mabeile Gailowa[...]dy, Harry Mead, Charles Ireland for a visit. In fact, he had started his trip when Fors[...]ing on Little Crooked Creek, about 12 miles north a quarter mile north. Frank and Helen Messenger liv[...]and moved on the Will Schlecier homestead two and a half miles to her homestead on Blood[...]e rvere lots of new know him. Mabelle was a school teacher and had died experiences such as n[...]He had at least one brother living in North ride a horse.[...]
	[...]up to St. Joseph's Hos- the principai made a special trip to the ranch to try to pital to see[...]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[...]homesteads. Mom had already purchased the put in a crop on Mabelle's place. Mom and I foilowed[...]d in the ?th grade at Kachia' and becoming a full-fledged rancher on Blood Creek. The other tw[...]ing after my discharge next year in bed. That was a bad year for me' but I was I immediately res[...]e Andrew Murphy homestead we even had a movie there. It was a Joe E. Brown down on the main Valentine road and[...]had season. There was one big advantage; Andy had a good plowing to do I started up the trac[...]All went well until i fell asleep and ran through a area. That temporary move became permanent' We[...]nancing and moved it to the Murphy place- It was a big improve- turned my dream into a nightmare. I was spending ment having three rooms[...]1951 I gave up, made a deai with Ed and Mildred Styer During WWII pri[...]realized that even though I had a special spot in my I attended 7th grade in Lew[...]hey knew the Hardy place, but school and back on a bicycle until the weather got too didn't k[...]and his family lived about four miles and a son, Harold born in 1906' southwest of Valentine. He had been a miner at Butte. Inez married "Doc[...]
	[...]out in the country. My first year of school, was a midwife in Roy who had a littie place set up Momma or Daddy would[...]rseback to school and this is where I was born on a fall day in October. Her when it started to[...]ol would brother, but my brother died when he was a baby. furnish food and everything that[...]iola. there was a basement big enough where we had a table My folks moved from Geneva, Nebraska abou[...]or us. We or 1915 to Montana. First Daddy took up a homestead would live like that from Monda[...](Gusty Kauth) came out from Nebraska and took up a home for the weekend. homestead. My gran[...]h, and February. I stayed in a private home and then my they took up homestead[...]n the next fall there were enough land to make it a legal homestead. stu[...]s closer to Mrs. Rossiter's home so she continued a sod dugout.[...]sod blocks of hard think she missed a day, We were ali girls in the school. packed di[...]ool years was stacked one on top of the other for a house. They were Louise Beal. like brick[...]they were sod pieces. There I recall a trip we took as a family in the fall of 1928; were no trees to cut[...]e put on across the Daddy had just bought a new Chevy car and Momma top ofthe house and dirt or sod was put on top ofthat to had a brother and two sisters that lived there. We make a roof. Then lumber was hauled or bought and a visited all over the country. On the[...]hung up our stockings too. We always had a lot of improved on it for a homestead" Each time we moved, it community parties where everyone wouid get together was to a better homesite and house.[...]le The spring of 1930 we moved to a different farm, my together for a living. My mother helped to raise Aunt[...]beef cattle for a living. This was a better farm but with[...]
	[...]operution ut thut time. ourselves. We had gone to a Halloween party and they After m5'[...]She later whistle or squeak and they usually have a feather at purchased the Roy Cafe and[...]ork in the restaurernt, for Nickolson, for 910.00 a I blew this thing in her face and she just keeled[...]e wash dish with We alwal's thr.lught a lot of both our mom and dad old dirty water in it[...]t of it. She sure had tinre togelher as a family. was angry and we learned not to play pran[...]buried in Lewistown. The house we moved to had a big kitchen with a kind Lucille married Dick Komarek in[...]of "lean-to" built on to another house. There was a big married \\rilbert Zahn in September of 1936 and Edythe Iiving room and a big room which we made into a married Russell Oquist in the early 40's an[...]rea. place. We had to haul it from the well quite a ways from the house. While we were living on t[...]It was about two miles from our house. There was a caretaker that took care of the church; a Mr. Frank Barrels. I was baptized in the Presbyte[...]T igN R 25E Sec.31 Coy A. Lovitt was born October 15, 1886 in Illinois the patent on November 7,1917 for his land. and as a very young child moved to Nebraska with hi[...]
	[...]a Manor for many years. moved here. They attended a log school not far from Henry Ludeman, Sr. anC his wife homesteaded some their home. Henry had a blacksmith shop and people miles nor[...]Clyde married Florence Hall in 1941. He worked as a to Lewistown and in 1954 to Great Falls where she[...]ember of 1962 at the age of 83. had a stepdaughter, Monette Gilpatrick. George and Lillie had a large family of 10 children. George Jr[...]by Murna Martin Southworth Kachia became a post office in 19f6. It was located, In[...]The proceeds of this saie bought our tickets. was a barber and had his own shop. He became involved We left York, Nebraska at 3 a.m., Tuesday, December with politics and was appoi[...]. 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[...]was going and my mother told her we were file on a homestead; he wanted a piece of land. Within a going to a homestead. The cheerful lady threw up her week he[...]icket on the train cost hands and said a mother with four babies had no $25.01. business on a homestead. A number of times, in later In a few weeks time he and others had each spotted a years, I heard my mother say that she ha[...]watch that no one came in There was a restaurant across the street and my and ju[...]
	[...]During the winter my father would borrow a team of It was there that I saw the mountains[...]Early in April my father walked to Roy, caught a ride My father met us at the Great Northern Depo[...]Emily Fountain, from York, Neb. They unloaded a Iighted store windows, especially Powers. It was[...]into Roy on the first train. that would have been a three story building right next This time[...]aily from During the days my folks shopped for a sheepherder's Lewistown to Gilt Edge. This t[...]new Milwaukee Depot. It Grandpa built a nice frame house about an eighth of was on one of these walks that I saw a man kick and a mile from our house. One day papa was breaking ro[...]on the Lois, "Looky dere, Lois". There was a big rattlesnake road. So with three wagons and fo[...]nival." under the wagons on the ground. There was a good road over the Judith Mountains then, but we were so Richard and Lois had a teeter-totter. A log on the heavily loaded that we would probably[...]e had to drive around the what they put a board on. One day they were on it and mountains.[...]low boring travel we arrived at the down with a bang. He had broken the small bone in the home of Rollie and Mable Rossiter. They had a one elbow cavity. Needless to say, he wasn't taken to a room cabin and how they put us up I don't recall,[...]fourth of July came and our neighbor, Harry have a storm or blizzard in December I say to myself, Blank, sent word out there would be a come one- come "The Lord surely had his arms around us on that trip". all picnic at his place, with a dance. I remember there I think my mother walked a good share of the way being races. Mary[...]inter in ready for occupancy. How six of us A huge crowd came, some people driving ten or fifteen existed in a 12 x 12 tarpaper cabin for a few months, I miles. just don't know.[...]ted talking school and writing to It wasn't but a matter of days before Christmas was the Co[...]pon us. Papa went to the hills west of us and got a very started in a new community. It wasn't too long before small tree. There just wasn't room to set up a tree in our the bail started to roll. Men hauled logs and erected a cabin so my mother tied it to a bed post. good sized building[...]- all volunteer labor. There was a Late afternoon of December 24th my father start[...]dance on Halloween to help defray across country, a foot, to play for a wedding dance. He expenses. walked several m[...]cher was the only piece of music there. He caught a ride part way Mable Galloway, aunt of Lewisto[...]six months. In due time there were two which was a pot luck, at the home of Harry and Bernice[...]
	[...]w'elve to fifteen students each. There was always a hard times. The gardens were fair, c[...]water, every bit of water we used from a barrel hauled playground equipment, so we made o[...]ened. My father drove to fields to make a grub stake. Our years on the homestead Roy and sent Dr. Faulds out, who drove a car. The were rough and we wouldn[...]bill was $20.00 The family moved to a place just 1 mile east of which they thought rea[...]ve up on his homestead. Harry was a barber in Lewistown for many years. He Being a Civil War Veteran he could do that in twenty-[...]little girls arrived from Nebraska and located on a worth) homestead. They were only t[...]oved decided to take the four seventh graders to a track meet to Arizona in 1941. He lived t[...]th returned to Montana to attend a family reunion and contest, Carl Beedy in spellin[...]eech but there was no Richard became a barber like his father. In 1941 he competition in[...]home. memorized poem on one of the programs. What a thrill Virginia married Dick Kalina. (See Kalina) She was for all of us. A neighbor took us to Roy in his car and a well known piano player for dances throughout Cen[...]school dormitory and that was the ultimate. What a comedown to have to go back to our homestead scho[...]indstrom 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 on a table and anyone could come in and pick up mail for himself and a nearby neighbor. Mama had to reorder three[...]
	[...]o Montana to homestead in 19i6 heard as a child, once again shock and hurt. with his wif[...]of their three years in the area is the result of a taped town to get ii. Uncle Harry had moved[...]ott's brother, had come to Montana ,,A neighbor[...]recall his first name, he had a son named Ernest.) He which haiied out. Harry encouraged Lott to come to was not a minister, just a very religious person and he Montana. "The folks were in a moving mood so that's couid read from t[...]he had squatted down by the Montana to file on a homestead. He went right back to stove; t[...]our community there were two people (one a train'[...]stead-you see, we were just 26 miles east and a little "Dad had gone to Jones, he handl[...]es on it. I can't remember how we picked out a grave. When we got into Roy the grave got from[...]f us, and Uncle Harry's 6 of us to stay in a hotel so we had. to go back home and family of[...]f "Right near the log school house there was a bache- 1gLg, we left that spring." lor. Ed Foresman, who had a cabin, one room, but he "Mother alw[...]Galloways. I remem- had proved up on it. Leta and a cousin would. go along ber her the most, in fact[...]t our school when Gallowav. they got a school going near us, a mile or so west of us. Another incident, a happy one, that Leta remembered "I can see G[...]ath and She had the most beautiful saddle horse, a bay, and she proves that kids then, were n[...]happy." "Lester had spent the weekend with a boy friend, the Lott worked with his brother, Harry, as a barber after Livingstons, and came home sick. He[...]out towards the barns. The Leta, now a widow, married Earl McClure and lives doct[...]
	[...]n and came to find out for himself. Jack Sommers, a real estate dealer at Roy,, located a place for him. It looked good at the time. He fil[...]A young and charming their young son, Earl, ran the[...]her, I and the four younger children in a real estate office and the chiidren went to schoo[...]y, 25 miles to the home- in, especially a large garden. The summer was nice stead. B[...]Maurice, and my sister, Ruth, with quite a little rainfall. Mother canned a lot and the wanted to ride in the seat with papa.[...]otatoes were beautiful! rim so as they moved just a bit too close, Papa went off My father t[...]recover. The day was lovely, but 25 miles was a long way by Our winter was lovely on[...]in windows. We never felt alone out there on the a relative, Mrs. Harris, was there. The morning was[...]o frnd. Papa proved up Luckily Papa had bought a few sacks ofcoal in Roy on the place in[...]cattle." My flooring up over the rafters so with a bed springs and father wisely decided aga[...]ure. Soon Papa east of our place. He was a mechanic at the Ford garage built on two more roo[...]hape and was quite comfortable. The barn A young man named Kelley was just north of us and came next with space for a car also. Papa heard of a really improved his place a'lot. He built a cistern with a Guernsey cow for sale so he and I waiked o[...]
	[...]indale and lived on her son's homestead as he had a pool hall in lheir children, Todd, Buck. D[...]ace McNeil Riggs In July of 1987, during or at a family reunion at the Rife Ranch, south of Roy, m[...]ite of the tarpaper-and-lath cabin, gone without a trace except for the hollow from a cellar under it. The dirt road coming from the s[...]rence of World War I, my folks, at age 44,took up a homestead[...]ught it to her lips and said, "It's bitter!" What a children; Clara, Winnie, Florence, Ruth, Maurice[...]ource welis. She said she would go off on a hillside and cry it nearly a mile away and kerosene lights.[...]n she'd come back to us and try to be Music was a joy in our lives. We had an Edison th[...]I seemed to be spite of little food. After a meal we would wet a finger the one to roll them off the rocking chair[...]"Oh. to go down the lane once again where work at a coal mine in Lehigh while we stayed to[...]hen went out into "prove up" on the place. It was a gteat day when Papa the hot sun searching[...]trouble finding me out in the sagebrush where a herd of When anyone came it was a big occasion for we were range caltle wen[...]d 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 hopes of ha[...]ting white, fluffy and each morning she would dig a little deeper in her morsels and gave me m[...]she came back to the house announcing A tree was a treasure of refreshment. We took a picnic thai she had struck water! With a glass vial in her hand lunch to a cottonwood iree that they knew about some- she re[...]her. Dipping the vial into the water, she a marvel of creation, and we all climbed up in the
	[...]closer and "We sunk more than a thousand dollars into that lightning was slicing[...]drive out. We must hurry, but just let us linger a bit children have fond memories of those homestead days longer. The homestead was our tie with a happy child- and the carefree life[...]d raising her family at Roy. The I joined her for a moment though we knew we must[...]it. Our visits with the Rifes have included a trip to the would your mom and dad take up this[...]stead when they could have used the money to buy a He[...]ida and started building homes and had a real estate only 1 year old when we moved out to[...]n came my only later years in a nursing home in Lewistown. sister, Lydia E., who[...]ey had will be 85 years old this August and is in a nursing come from. They had 3 chil[...]ext was me, Rupert M. I Harry, and a daughter, Carrie, who married Claude was 75 years[...]rtificate gives his birth place as had a daughter named Nel, who at that time was not Roy,[...]married. What I remember about Mr. Soverign is a he was born out at the homestead, without the ser[...]neatly trimmed goatee, which was snow white. of a doctor, probably with the assistance of th[...]
	[...]n remember my father going back worths. There was a family named Blank, too, who had out to Montana and Ioading their personal belongings' a son who later became a doctor in Hutchinson, Kansas'[...]including horses, on a box car and shipping it back to My brother Claren[...]remember unloading the car and have a very vivid I do want to mention a little bit about when, and memory of th[...]1914, as I alone on what was supposed to be a farm, was drafied was born in 1913. Dad left Wilb[...]and their three My father continued as a pastor-minister in Lincoln, little girls; Lola, Lois and Loreen, located on a home- Nebraska. He came up when he could t[...]coldest months of December, January year, he was a real asset to the community. He held[...]school house. Lois' memories include a "whipping with a broom" by The Ritchey homestead is stiii in the f[...]ool teacher because she refused to take off Lol a Ritchey Schollenberger writes: her hat which was a tam-o-shanter which she wore to My earliest mem[...]y parents left there after our house blew down in a husband and I were there he took a picture of me lightning storm. sta[...]o older sisters walked down the narrow road, over a from time to time would tell us about o[...]Henry Latton. Besides Harold, the referred to as a "Roy farmer".[...]
	[...]Harry (T 19N R 25E Sec. 33) of Agra, Kansas; and a Harold moved to the Fergus area to[...]looking struction of the Miles City V.A. Hospital. He and Ruby team of horses, along wit[...]y, Clayton, Karl and harnesses were oiled and in A-one shape." Geary and four daughters: Mrs. Ray (Christine) Mace, Harold had a beautiful voice and use to sing at M[...]y surplus was eagerly December 6, 1878. They had a farm in Beaver Crossing, bought by other[...]er became Chief of Police. They have left behind a married daughter and another[...]Rose Sears Berry, born 1903, trained as a beautician ters, Rose, Lena, Alva, and Sylvia and[...]Leona Sears Alderson, born 1906, became a teacher. school. The children were awarded a New Testament if She and her husband m[...]ndays, and Lena received one. was a postmistress for many years. She now lives in I[...], the brother, Joe, Lebanon, Oregon. drove a buggy and the girls rode on the floor of the AIva Sears Lyngholm McKay, born 1g08, made a buggy with heated rocks. They were only able to g[...]eer with PennS"s in ladies ready-to-wear becoming a months because of the weather.[...]Sears. His mother del- Then later was a partner in the Sky Lite Night Club ivered her bab[...]help. The girls were sent to ride their ponies to a deceased. neighbors. Freddie was gone work[...]e girls Elmer Sears, born 1915, became a teacher and taught were surprised to find a new baby when they returned. for a year. He then went to work for Boeing Aircraft in[...]rom out here, on the train, they met a doctor from Okla- Wood River, Nebraska and filed on a homestead. A homa. They stopped at Ryegat[...]
	[...]his out to the homestead. We stayed in a shack, which was friend knew back there.[...]about three miles from our place, which a neighbor had Most of the land at Ryegate, that[...]Then Dad built the barn. Lewistown they contacted a man, by the name of Jay Homestead days weren't easy days, as a homesteader McCIain, who was a land locater and who brought had to[...]ewistown. All prove up on it, or to say, get a deed on it. Dad kept three filed on land that joi[...]efore he could move out here. He also had to have a just 160 acres, some 320 acres. Dad homes[...]was through high school, he and his Dad went and a friend each had a half of another car. that was in partnersh[...]time. The man who had they had built up a large holding of land and cattle. the other half of that car had two sons and a son-in-law, They'd gone through quite a few drought years in 1919 who was Dr. George White. Dr. White was a dentist in and the 1930's, and occasionally a year came along Lewistown for a good many years. Dad had to unload with[...]914. They saw the small towns grow for a good many His wife, Minnie L. Southworth, and[...]h left came on the passenger train, which arrived a couple of of them. days later. He had to st[...]- built so as to have a place he got the house and building[...]the first ones to arrive. Later on Frank had a nice raska. The family resided there for two year[...]se and all the children noted this. then moved to a farm at Wood River, Nebraska where Murna lived a quarter of a mile from school, had to they lived until 1914 when they migrated to a home- walk and just barely made it on tim[...]Murna Martin, In the fall Frank and they moved to a homestead twenty-five miles northeast Murn[...]st office was Lindstrom, Frank stayed at a branch of the Boy's Dormitory Montana,[...]town. This was at the time of World War I and a few was log; built by people in the community and[...]. People were dying all over the world by School. A box supper was held to raise money to[...]three years, which was all Roy had then, he rode a mule which he hated. He was always one of[...]
	[...]1923. He returned horse tripped on a loop of wire frozen to the ground, home rvhere he[...]rth, throwing him and dragging him a quarter of a mile. formed a partnership in raising cattle and small grain Frank and Murna rushed him to a doctor in Lewistown which was maintained until hi[...]ffort to help Frank. The girls learned to ride of a care-free bachelor. the range, work cattle, stack hay' and drive a tractor. In Murna continued on in school taking[...]56 Murna retired and lived at the ranch, becoming a music activities. Each year the music students pu[...]community. Living was easier in that the R.E.A. came Judith Theater. Three shows in one day the[...]that after frfty school was dismissed. Murna had a part in the 1921 years on one plac[...]ckyards for she and her husband moved to Madison. Wisconsin. frfteen years which helped him[...]ith his She immediately found employment with the Wisconsin friends. He was active in all Mason[...]na *'as active in Eastern Star and in her church. Wisconsin School of Music. Her marriage came to an[...]nk had alrvays wanted being able to transfer from Wisconsin Telephone to do. Company to the[...]tates Telephone Company. Frank, a much-loved pioneer of the Kachia area, who Things[...]on Tuesday, December 28, 1943. So they could have a honeymoon, they had to get married during Christm[...]en, as she taught school. Frank not only acquired a wife but inherited three children: Edward[...]
	9^ A Hlsroni'[...]y ranched in the area until 1956 when the-r' from Wisconsin in 1907. He worked for the Milwaukee m[...]aded in the Valen- and their son died in a boating accident in 1969. They tine area. Anna Ki[...]ttended Great Falls Beauty College. She worked in a beauty shop in Lewis- town. She married An[...]
	[...]245 and went to work for A.M. Stendal, for awhile, Then he[...]since Ed and I have been married, it would be a book all Edward, born March 3, 1960; Chip Wade, born March its own. And a lot of things people wouldn't believe, as 28, 196[...]ldred, born November 30, 1963. a lot happen ed in 52r/z years of married life. But[...]land until it was sold to Bill Harvey. John was a veteran of WWI. He served 18 months in France.[...]Ft. Harrison on April 27 , L944 at the age of 56. A military funeral was held in Lingerwood,[...]A good friend and neighbor. National Cemetery. He was survived by a brother, Albert, of North Dakota and a sister. JOHN B. AND MARY BEEDY- John and Mary[...]caused by complications developing Know, she was a relative of James Know of Roy. They proved[...]15. The witnesses were Matt survived by a son residing at Casper, Wyoming: a son in Blum, Harry N. Blank and Bernice Blank all of Kachia and Arkansas; and a daughter. (Obituary in Winnett Times dated James[...]N R25E Sec. 10. Burton Collier a few feet and covered with a tent. He and l5 cats lived in this lived about four miles west of Valentine. He was a chiropractor house together.
	[...]A Hrsronv Or'[...]e in Lewistown at office work. She graduated from a 20, 1917. My Dad was George Paulsen. My mother wa[...]r the Lindstroms. went to his folks at Green Bay, Wisconsin. He caught There was rain for a few years and then the dry years the flu on the train and died a few days after he 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 Presb[...]the Highwood Mountains. His dad A telegram was waiting for her when she got to her[...]father, L.W. Lindstrom, went to Roy to set up a Lennart went to the Roy area and found much la[...]Mr. Swarble had a sale and sold the things they had on Edna and Agn[...]d for homesteads. They planned their trip; bought a[...]t started to get dark, at which time they spotted a light in the distance. They sta[...]ness and met the Rev. L.M.F. Jordan whom stead of a family by the name of Al and Laura Swarble,[...]she married i,lr1924. who gave them a warm welcome and remained life-long[...]Lennart married a Texas girl and brought her out to friends. The ne[...]hard he worked on a railroad in Canada for a while and Lennart was the first of the three t[...]r at Great Falls. There he met Junietta He opened a store and the Lindstrom post office in a log Cable Thornton and they were married December 31, cabin on his homestead. He bought a house in Maiden 1920.[...]
	[...]indstrom, George Paulsen was also listed as being a postmaster. Some of the families that were in t[...]ntana were united in marriage with a brand new road. on Wednesday, November 25,LgL[...]We are now enjoying mail service three times a week. Evangelist Lutheran minister at the par[...]to Valentine on Tuesday, town. Mr. Paulsen is a well known contractor and has a Thursday and Saturday and rvill re[...]homestead in the Roy secton. Miss Lindstrom is a daugh- other days, arriving at Lindstrom at 10 a.m. ter of the postmaster at Lindstrom, Mont.[...]-$25 A petition was signed by upwards of 100 people, pro[...]January 10, 1918 - Frank Bare made a raid on the jack across Allbough Hill, was pr[...]and 2 miles from Lindstrom, Gerig was a school master and taught at the Weaver Montana.[...]her schools before buying the Busse After Hugo (a carpenter) built a house on his home- place. stead his[...]s two sisters, Busse moved back to Wisconsin. Mary and Lena, came out from Milwaukee and lived[...]and Cecelia Holoubeck. About 1921 he purchased a homestead about 2 miles from Blazej Lelek's place and about a mile north of the Lindstrom post office and store. Mrs. Lelek (Mary) was a sister to Edward. He was drafted for mi[...]
	[...]ged he returned home. He pur- William homesteaded a quarter of a mile from Lind- chased the land fro[...]that time. August Schulze did School (a rural school approximately 13/ miles from not hom[...]n in 1955 where they resided until the time of as a young man. He left and farmed in the Acton area.[...]s and moved to North Battleford, a teacher and elementary principal at the Moore School Saskatchewan, Canada, where they bought a farm and in Moore. Montana. raised[...]he originally homesteaded in the Garneill area on a place was survived by her husband, four[...]rence and Howard. a nurse. The ranch was sold to Frank's cousin, Harvey She had a homestead in the area. After the Spoons[...]brothers, Con Anderson and Theodore Anderson and a trying to save some of their belongings. In ihe s[...]One time, while in Roy, Frank interceded when a many years and was retired when he passed away on man rudely shoved a young boy off of the side walk. He Febr[...]. Frank was buried in hwistown. was attacked with a knife and severely wounded for his Listed among his survivors was a sister, Mrs. Avanelle efforbs. When he came to, h[...]oos Bay, Oregon. Frank is remembered for being a trader, "a natural born trader!"
	[...]oslovakia, Their wedding trip was a ride to their homestead near came to the United States in 1912 at the age of 17, it Roy in a lumber wagon, which hauled all of their was like a dream come true.[...]th of which the Vaneks had given them for a wedding her father when she was only three years[...]e was not quite six Their new home was a two-room cabin with a lean-to years old, hoeing beets and working at ha[...]family. put it in a barrel in the lean-to for storage. It froze solid The family all worked for a wealthy "baron" or during the winter[...]he had very little when she wanted some for a meal. Water was hauled schooling, only five or si[...]ould acres of barley and harvested only a small part, because not speak a word of English. She said all of the[...]by smut. emigrants were herded onto the boat like a herd of To keep warm and to cook, M[...]asick and in often times she was alone for a week or more. Her the crowded conditions, it wasn[...]Mrs. Sramek was alone when her first child, a baby and the emigrants were taken in charge by an[...]couldn't and the baby was born. It only lived a short Montana. time and there is a little grave on the homestead to At Stanford sh[...]ce she and Frank. While Martha was still a baby, her parents fixed her cousin, who also came to meet her, had to ride on a box on the binder and she rode along with them while top of a load of lumber in a lumber wagon. But at last they cut the gra[...]s of the discomforts, she was shorb to make a bundle, so Mrs. Sramek would take the very happy.[...]grain offthe platform and lay it in a pile, to be threshed Anna stayed with her relatives for about a week and later. then she went to work on[...]king up to this time, so she Sramek lost a pig that he had bought from the had to learn. Her[...]ope. Washing dishes and setting tables A cow which he had purchased for g?5 and which were[...]he dishes were washed had just produced a calf, was killed by lightning. they were turned o[...]ameks at Coffee Creek wandered off or was stolen. A Her next job was with the Jim and Joe Va[...]
	[...]oved them on their place. From the two they built a nice roomy house. The Roy home, a 12 x 14 structure[...]used as a wash house and later a chicken house. It is[...]Times got a little better and a John Deere D tractor[...]Another invention appeared on the scene, a Model T[...]made by wagon and took a good long day, and some- The Sramek family at Roy[...]occupied by the post office, and it was a meeting place[...]one time when the family was on the way to a wedding[...]e hollared "whoa" One day when Mrs. Sramek and a friend were on but the car didn't resp[...]eir way to Roy to do some shopping (Roy was quite a cared too much about driving after that and Mrs. little city in those days), they very nearly had a run- Sramek did most of the driving. away. A motorcycle came roaring down the road and[...]get to enjoy his retirement. He died suddenly of a happening and pulled his machine off the road and[...]In 1959 Mrs. Sramek had a chance to see her home- In 1919 the Srameks bought a place on Plum Creek land again. She and h[...]onths visiting there. They also rent,ed land from a man named Comstock Few of her relative[...]His sister who had been his housekeeper had died a now, but still drives her car. She has a small garden short time before.[...]hets In one of the cupboards, Mrs. Sramek found a jar or afghans and pillow tops to pass the time. But come glass containing a brown liquid like molasses. She spring,[...]eds again, long before four pigs and had borrowed a boar from one of the most people even think of a garden.
	[...]eli, Minne- Dad immediately gave orders; a clean cloth, a dish sota, March 21,1887. He came to Ilontana to[...]towel, had to be taken along to the spring, and a dipper in 1911. His homestead lay 8 miies east of[...]e My mother told me, many times, about a time when I was. Mail and groceries were gotren a[...]e up and had scrubbed the floors and as she moved a iors, which my father was at that time. The bachelors pile of sage brush (used for fuel) a lizard came crawling needed only a homestead "shack" as they were called t[...]rds! And there are still plenty of Hilger and got a load of lumber. He knew how much them around where we live. lumber to get for a particular size shack. He built A big treat for me, was when my parents went severa[...]able Uncle Vondracek's. Auntie always had a fresh kolache now. It is the little house of Aloi[...]Kalal has moved next to the highway and made into a lots of cow's milk for me. For a child less than four useable shed.[...]years old, that was indeed a big treat. In January of 1914, Dad went back to Minnesota and In 1918, Dad had a chance to sell the homestead and he and my mother[...]ed on the move. I was four, Charlie only a few months old. Dad 21st of that month in Glenn L[...]s buried in the Roy to Minnesota for a year; returning to Montana in 1926 Cemetery and C[...]ings. Dad raised gxain on his homestead and had a few Rudy was born in Billings and[...]I married James Horyna on November 2, 1938, four a team of horses and would load up the cans full of[...]. evening to the barn to milk the cows, there was a I met Annie there at their house. J[...]l I came to visit the Kalina's and went surprised a rattlesnake which was outside it's hole, so[...]a. cross the road to get water for the house from a spring Dad passed away, at age 80, in 1967. Mom is now 93 on Box Elder Creek, about a haif mile away. One day, (in 1988) and has spent the last several years at the Mom discovered a hair snake in her bucket of water. Vall[...]f Frankie Siroky's Jerry John, who was a plumber. place.[...]
	[...]MR. AND MRS. GEORGE HARRELL- They ran a hotel, "Charlie was a single man, a homesteader and a neighbor of restaurant and boarding house at Lindstrom for a short time. ours. When I was a little girl he brought a tin cup for me to drink Tbe chiidren went to sc[...]ns Edgar and Roy both from. Up to then I had only a tin can." Marcy does not know became Texas Rangers. They also had a daughter. what happened to him.[...]ohn Tobias home- JOE GERIG (GUERSIGT)- A teacher who taught at Coal ste[...]d post office was named for Little Crooked Creek, a tributary of Big Crooked. Montgomery Marshall ran[...]ne of several schools in District #101, which was a very large district. The furtherest school to the[...]Crooked and the Byford school. Baker Springs had a large enroll- ment and had school every year. The[...]fires for the crew. When the hall was completed, a dance was held to celebrate the occasion. The first teacher was Flora Sandstrom. The other teachers were B.A. Hickey, Vivian Dickamore, Hazel Duncan Ridgeway,[...]organ was the last teacher in 1934'35. This was a large district with several schools. (see[...]
	[...]xeo t(a EanlY De[...]only people and horses forming the arena, a bucking horse contest took place. The Little C[...]They came via horseback, wagons, buckboards and ,a few even came in cars. Little Crooked was situated out on the open prairie, quite a distance from any trees. One year, celebrants wer[...]icnic under. Willis Rainford loaned the community a large silk United States flag to fly on the flag[...]Jui.v 4tr., 1919 A gaia celebration took place at Little Croo[...]
	[...]33, 34 taking some horses. He sold Mrs. Webb a grey weaner and T 19N, R 26E, Sec. 3,4. He lived[...]n some draft-type trip. She grew up to be a beautiful dappled grey Per- horses. He got his ma[...]e trapped in the winter and sold his furs was a good work animal. to furriers who advertised at t[...]nie also Butte in the Little Crooked area. He was a blacksmith taught school. and shod horses a[...]attend His wife was Bonnie (Shanklin), who had a homestead school there.[...]d ran to Fergus. He used mowers, rakes, buckrakes a four-horse team and freight wagon, from Lewistown[...]e horses at at Hanson's Mercantile at Roy. A big event in their the Day Livery Barn. He was suffering with a tooth- Iives took place when on 8[...]
	[...]942; Claudia Marie, Milo had greyhounds and did a lot of hunting with 26 September 1944;[...]coyotes. 1950 and Patricia Jane, 5 April 1957. My mother passed We were o[...]worked for Joe Murphy in his Roy Garage. He was a huge sturgeon and we would have a big fish-fry for the good hand with horse[...]and Betty Zahn were married 20 October pulled by a little team of mules, Jack and Jennie. He[...]records. Some stead were 16 miles away and about a day's drive. Dark- of the records were: "Th[...]Jolson's "Sonny Boy". Mom also told that she had a the Palouse country in Washington and homesteaded[...]was no water under it. He We moved into a small shack south of the store on Dr. had a typical two room "boxcar" shack. This structure[...]gher than the side plates east. This was a white house with an upstairs and cel- with the ro[...]nailed to the side lar underneath. Mom had a 100-egg incubator in the plates, making the round[...]heavy roofing paper, which resembled the shape of a chicks. Thelr were put outside in coops[...]first year.) The inside walls mighi Mom got a fleece which they washed, carded and spun be cove[...]tted socks, caps and mittens. This There was also a small chicken house, barn and corral requ[...]winter of 1920, grandparent's home. He had fenced a small srain field the folks moved into an[...]the Fryman piace, a one-room l2xl4'house with a trap
	[...]N FeRcus Couxrv door in the middle of the floor, a ladder went down into milked cows, cranked th[...]own she wentl allow cattle to go under a fence and stop horses from Luckiiy she *'as not h[...]htened. 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,[...]er to live in. The shocked grain bundles for A.J. Anderson, a 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 t[...]tice. Lola was just starting school. It was about a mile, ognize that distinct buzz. but often in t[...]d onto their place. In the meantime, Dad filed on a had a jar of beans, we could warm them on the stove.[...]shed by Mr. Leathers which was north of There was a prairie dog town between school and where[...]fenced, planted some fruit trees and built a little That spring, I was running home from schoo[...]r held water, due to the soil). jumped right over a rattler. In the[...]y on John Beck's place Christmas at school was a great event. Students while they took a trip to Illinois for his parent's golden spent m[...]t on the girls brought evenings entertainment to a joyous close. west side. Their 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 our house. 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.[...]atering each plant set One Christmas, I was given a dollar watch. These were in cans with both[...]varieties. and that fall. big game was scarce. A sage hen or jack rabbit was We attende[...]he horse quit Arnold was about my age and Ernest, a little younger. bucking or was thrown. No t[...]chased frogs, money involved). There was a fireworks display at dark made lettuce sandwiches and baked potatoes in a camp- and a dance followed. It rvas marked by the sad event f[...]e were living on our homestead in 1923 and it was a amazed how much those high banks had shrunk! We[...]summer, our garden didn't turn out. When Dad made a few discoveries of ancient things buried i[...]
	[...]Mom became postmaster. The little store carried a great herds o1' horst's that grazcd[...]catrned nnd disposed of to make candy. There was a steel barrel with gasoline and a way for sheep and cattle. Iittle conta[...]ft Little Crooked and moved to Black Butte. I had a well for help when they got stuck in the mud hole[...]has been my Button Butte, were the first to have a radio and we used home since that time. My[...]. Another time when there was no water, we leased a dam east of But' ton Butte and I went to camp and[...]ing I set up my tent, unrolled my bed and started a fire to cook my food, the sheep decided to leave.[...]4. 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.[...]rooked Creek to the Spiker place rvhere there was a good set of buildings and a cistern to hold water. My brother, Earl was born[...]ere put up along the route. Mail still came twice a week. Swimming horses across the[...]ther fire. Evi- of the roundups. dently a spark from the cook stove ignited the wood supply[...]The (Picture) This herd was taken to a lease on the Indian po" Carter, Ti[...]
	[...]nd written story (1987) man with a huge white mustache, rode circle (about 25 T[...]words Lydia ever heard. Freddie The group rented a box car to bring their belongings to was a younger man; "Heck of a nice feliow." His folks Montana. The other families in the group beckoned by had a place down on the l{usselshell. "Oh how he could[...]" iand were: Mr. and Mrs. Marshall; ride a horse-he was like part of the animal," Ernest M[...]"One time Freddie went with me to get a cow to Lewistown after the first winter, except[...]slin. He rode his own Derrers. Blaines lived on a prairie dog town that was horse and brou[...]wrapped that ole cow with his rope, and son-of-a- brother, Ernest, on May 28, 1901 in Zurich, Swi[...]e Range. The Derrers buiit a two-story, two-room house. The It was in 1916[...]s. a 'mother's helper' for the Hodges. He owned the to[...]school, Mr. ing the "remuda" (saddle horses) was a large circle that Cummings, and told him how much she wanted to go to was outlined with a rope. "Not a horse A dormitory was under construction, and were a couple hundred[...]d board at the dorm than two trippings to educate a green horse to stay and "really enjoye[...]h were Bert McCracken and Freddie Fox. McCracken, a money to make the annual requ[...]
	[...]In 1918, at the age of 18, Lydia married a neighboring in the harvest to earn the winter "g'[...]rt Johnson (see Bert Johnson). The also worked as a bull cook for a construction crew build- families struggled for a few more years but in the early ing a tunnel near Lewistown, at one time. Once when[...]Ernest stayed on in Montana for a few years longer. For fruit they had one box each of oranges and He worked for a fellow near the oil fields, in the Win- apples, to last a year. There was a cow for milk and nett area. butter, but[...]One experience Ernest had was getting caught in a only thing that seemed to grow) the milk took on such a storm, west of Roy. He struggled and fought deep snow flavor they couldn't use it. They would find a few for a couple of days and finally made it into Roy. The[...]fellows had all left and gone home. Water was a big problem. Little Crooked Creek was[...]l the bar- of the fellows stepped outside for a moment and then rels up the river breaks hills an[...]Open- reached the top, much had splashed out. On a trip back ing the trap door upstairs, they found everything was to Montana and a visit to the homestead, several years all smoke and flames. Henneman grabbed a pan of later. the Derrers asked for a drink of water on a ranch water off the stove and managed to car[...]bed had gotten up warm from the afternoon sun and a host of mosquito against the chimney. There were feathers scattered larvae wriggled in it. It was a memory they had forgot- everywhere. They co[...]them down in the tick and tied a knot. Outside of some Another problem was the g[...]was well. At least, at 40 below, they would take a four-horse team to pull the mail through. still had a house to sleep in. The gumbo rolled up, filled th[...]runners" and their where the ferry ran. There was a store there and that's girls, "supposedly t[...]op and stay at where the dances were held. It was a two or three day the Spiker house. Their[...]ers would drive by their house to. the Fritzners, a distance of about five they could not see a[...]ll nicknamed him "Montana". of people dancing and a big story going around about Gottlieb[...]some outlaws and four or five 'crazy guys' got in a row- for many years after he moved to Califo[...]I, Arlene, finished the eighth Grove, Montana in a wagon to Little Crooked Creek in grade t[...]h them. Jenson *-as the teacher. They had a few head of cattle which John drove. We There rvas a sheep camp near Button Butte. Virginia cam[...]
	[...]1949 and Juanita died in May of the kids. He was a janitor at the school for awhile, and 198[...]got awfully cold, the men went out and butchered a beef strom), Aluin, Flora (Sondstrom), Millie (Ca[...]was either that or go hungry. away was a (as nice people would call it) house of ill A man who lived upon the flats had planted a lot of repute. They celebrated till all hours and[...]so he told us we could have all we moved, in a hurry![...]them, because they would turn could possibly rent a place. A clerk named Jimmy black and spoil[...]rvest in the Judith miles northeast of town. Just a tar-papered shack about Basin, I don't[...]have happened to us all. 12 x 16. At least it had a cookstove and table, so they In 1915 a sheep company brought thousands ofsheep pitched t[...]g, it held five full-sized gathered them up, a few at a time, till we must have had beds and had a big'corner left for a heating stove. We 30 or more. Dad learned how to shear them (after a needed all that !oom, as there were two families-[...]the wool to make quilts. One evening a group of us were in the tent playing When I was 16, I went to Wilder, only a few miles cards and a quick puff of wind same along. It literally[...]hotel and lifted the tent and let it fall. We had a good fire in the ferry. It ended up, I not[...]see me the last time, he made shack and slept on a cot in the corner. me pr[...]set out. Two hours on our way it started to snow; a miles before it landed on a sand bar. Glad I wasn't on it, good wet snow. We[...]his was one Our transportation was by a team of horses until my of the coldest winters fo[...]t's sure funny to think about winter, even though a big cattle company drove a herd it now, about 80 years later and a lot more driving expe- of 6000 cattle thro[...]
	[...]to the south line; never an accident or a ticket. I remember our second winter in Montan[...]'t have enough money to buy coffee, so Dad bought a bushel of wheat and had it ground. A certain amount we used for cereal; the rest Mothe[...]he Little Crooked Post Office that was managed by a man called Mr. Marshall. Isabel (Mrs.[...]Little Crooked Hall. It was used for church, when a traveling minister he had in other gul[...]nces. We had that too. I told this to a college professor out here. He brought our organ[...]there wasl" players. The ladies would each bring a cake or sand- He is a city man from Boston. wiches, and we had coffee s[...]assed the During the winter we had a barrel standing by the hat to give the musicians a iittle something for their kitchen range full of snow. We melted water in a wash efforts.[...]he barrel; added more snow, and We used to get a bunch of us in a sled and drive down so on. At least the w[...]to strain the bugs out than Lynn Philiips. He was a good looking cowboy and of every pail full. Those were the days we washed our a nice person, as was his older brother, Milton. Their clothes on a wash board and hung them on lines to dry mother t[...]or to freeze dry. five boys, and she wanted a daughter to spoil, I think. We did without doctors, mostly. If someone was She, too, was a good person. We used to like to go to[...]Lewistown, but hardly anyone could afford a doctor. and were at the one at Little Crooked whe[...]ur little ones buried in the old Roy tried to dig a well. They,like my family, had come from[...]After the first year of homesteading, a lot of people anyone left (gave up) their homeste[...]gave up and went back to the midwest. We were a hard Esther and Victor Sandstrom, and my brother,[...]h but still had fun. We didn't need drinks either a team ofhorses and barrels, churns, and cream cans, to have a good time. and a paii with a weight on it and drove to all the empty[...]but still had Mon- places to see if we could get a little water. What we did tana in our bloo[...]st survivor of m5' family and the Sand- house was a little coulee. Dad made a dam there too. as stroms too.
	[...]T 21N R 25E Sec. 30 John Gallagher, a native of Pennsylvania, came to Their son Jack, a machinist, worked for Dowen' Montana in 191? with[...]ennsylvania. Jeues A. GnrrN AND SusAN MaLoNn GnreN[...]1886. Eight child- years of age. She was a native of Harrisburg, West Vir' ren were born to[...]California; Mrs. H.E. Jim Green was a carpenter by trade and never lost Hineline, Blair[...]and Lewistown who resided in this area. Ruth was a teacher and was before they purchased[...]hn Athearn. Stop, where they lived for a number of years. Harland Harland and Marjorie Gre[...]arn ranch on the Missouri River. tana, a brave lady who has had many handicaps in She was[...]T20N R25E Sec.4 The Curtis house was a neat, square roofed cottage lon[...]
	[...]lrt,rtt 7 November 1888 at Lake Ben' to death b1' a horse, buried at Lewistown, Montana.[...]Oak Creek, Colorado on 4 Sep' Sr. * as a clock atrd u'atch maker in Lake Benton. Roy tembe[...]d Ted Putro, in Montana and rode a pinto horse to Montana in 1910 when the family bu[...]me to Montana in 1909 wirh her husband, Doctor G. A. Woodcock and their son, Jesse, who was born 25 November 1902, in Tama, Iorva. Bertha Woodcock was a native of Evanston, Illinois, where she attended college and became a teacher. Jesse was seven years old when they ca[...]herever he lived and went to school. He be- came a cowboy as his school days ended and he became inl[...]led on homesteads on Sand Creek, where they began a stock ranch - both cattle and sheep. Later they a[...]After moving to the homestead, the Jensons built a €; two-story frame hc,use[...]Little Crooked School. She taught a Mrs. Jenson w[...]I won in a jingle Although this was a small school, she gave a superior[...]for a new soap well-being of her pupils and was truly a great instruc-[...]Mrs. Jenson did the ranch bookkeeping, was a wonder- boarded one pupil, Marie Webb.[...]
	[...]rd) at the end of In 1936, Mrs. Jenson answered a radio soap advertise- Prohibition. ment and wrote a jingle for a new soap produci. She Woodcocks leased a ranch on the north side of the won first prize, a large kerosene refrigerator! This was Missouri River and moved there in 1937. In the early a great help to her as iceboxes and cellars were th[...]arriving at outlaying homes while doing his mail Wisconsin and lived in Minneapolis during his younger route[...]in 1915. In April of 1918 he October 2A,1920 in Lewistown. married Lydia Derrer, daughter[...]a with what they could pack into their 1916 about a half-mile from her parents place.[...]is mail route to Mother and daughier worked out a communication Myron Lempke, another Li[...]ke back the message I tied on his collar make a living and headed for California, which for to my[...]them was a wise move. Bert and Lydia both contacted the fl[...]by Marie Webb Zahn In 1921, there was to be a big 4th of July celebration sent the sheriff, b[...]ing day. Smokie served some time trees and it was a huge affair. at Deer[...]925. Mauland and Anderson and Rocky Point, bought a still Al Green is buried in the fence li[...]he did of the Roy Cemetery there was a marker set on his[...]ding on Big Crooked Creek Smokie was a tall man who wore his hair shoulder below the hor[...]Lynn Phillips said that Smokie shot Green with a Then they went to the Little Crooked gathering with revolver and kicked it down a prairie dog hole, but the another load and soon sold it. Being a bit inebriated Lewistown News stated that he used a saddle gun. when they reached the site of the cac[...]d also Nels believed that he had killed a man in Montana' Thev Anderson. When Smokie killed[...]ery much relieved to hear the story and find that a bottie and hit Smokie over the head, knock[...]
	[...]broom corn and made brooms for many a wooden vise with large clamps on both sides home[...]Ft. Dodge. He would put one end of the handle in a His youngest son, Raymond, stayed with the Ste[...]around to fasten it as it turned. He Roy and got a job with the railroad section crew. He then used his clamps to press the straw down to was a very shy young man and the teasing dished out[...]ge has written the following history was a finished broom. He worked very hard all his of h[...]life and many nights it was 2:00 A.M. before he Luther Thomas Jones - Father[...]ion later. In the winter, and we loaded a boxcar with what little belong- he cobbled sho[...], went to school to homesteaders there. He had a small shop which the sixth grade,[...]ed to Roy. ters from molds and also I remember a small veh- Luther worked for the[...]p icle he put together out of parts he made in a gar- on his homestead. I worked some on[...]ells. He was fore- Dad's broom business was a full-time job. He man at that time.[...]ifferent jobs and had nine children of my own. a cylinder to thrash the seeds from the straw.[...]er Ends Life" writes the Winnett Times: a later date than most. He spoke very broken Englis[...]n as citizenship. He said that he had been a Russian the cause ofdeath from a self-inflicted gun shot from a Cossack and had put in much military traini[...]valry. He wore the sash of the Cossack instead of a Petroleum County. Krafden had been employed by[...]e winter day, as he rode to Wilder, he stopped at a had resided on his homestead in Fergus County nea[...]Wilder postoffice and used to could not get a frre to burn. He cleaned out the ashes, ride hors[...]ing over night many times, as it was started a fire, cut and carried in a supply of wood. Thus quite a distance from his home" He had come to Ame[...]
	[...]of Marcott (Canoll) Coulee, three and a half miles east miles from their nearest neighbor[...]miles of Little Crooked, and fiIed for a homestead. He was the to the mailbox to get their[...]hat didn't work out. He got five to eight dollars a head prettiest on earth. And to it they returned[...]those canners. iong after they "semi-retired" to a ranch they bought He worked running[...]e area and for Charles Knox on Two Calf Denmark, a daughter of Anton and Elizabeth Hansen.[...]his cattle. His horse brand Margaret, grew up on a cattle and horse ranch. They was XA-[...]most of the time. but she and infant Marvin with a wagon and four horses. Snow was two feet deep "Boots" had come home for a few days. Her mother was and drifted. There were[...]t was bitter coid also staying with them. A man by the name of Krafden and tough going. He ma[...]heifers which were some dis- there he went on to a homestead shack, that was aban- tance[...]ots had burned Mathison remembers. "There were a lot of bad winters up." Boots and[...]
	[...]'ar. many a family from staruing. Iuar Mathison in 1929. eve[...]. Another time, a close call occurred when lightning The river had been high all winter. Because of a Jan- started a grass fire that would have reached their uary tha[...]had to rely on their common sense and have a plan of they themselves moved up onto a hill above the place action in cases like these." and stayed in a tent. The ice "jammed" that very night[...]ey could retained their place. They built a new cabin on it, where hear trees being snapped o[...]on the Roberts, Montana. Vivian became a nurse and was river bottom that night, they would[...]married to George Fogle. She passed away in 1979; a lives. As it was they lost a large alfalfa seed crop, worth shock from wh[...]death in 1981, not long after she achieved a long sought They moved back to the old homestead[...]r dream, that of having her book, "Echos From The a long, hard, coid trip through gumbo, snow and ice[...]. Ivar has returned to the old country a couple of times, One time, Dick Mackie, a biologist who was living and once with[...]Columbus and returns "home" whenever he bitten by a rattlesnake, They were all outside working[...]the last of the old on the dog, when the-'- heard a crackling sound. They timers an[...]
	[...]ember 1916, the old- home, he spent a few days at Tobe Machler's Sheep est of seven chi[...]Ranch in Petroleum County, where at a Sunday brand- McArthur. Walter McArthur suffered from a recurring ing session, he broke h[...]near Glengary. Warneke. Betty was a young widow with four children Julia McArthur and[...]In 1969, they sold this ranch and bought a ranch near as a bombardier and flew 67 missions during World[...]resided since. Frankie is married and has a son, Durck, He received his discharge in 1945 and[...]f Button Butte, where four big pine trees grew in a perfect square. Chariie Day, the Wartzenlufts,[...]bottom places) where Novaks lived. Stanley was a cowboy for the Horseshoe Bar in its[...]Josie Nouok era and lost fingers in a dally accident. (More than one man lost fingers dallying a rope.) Novaks ran sheep[...]feeding lamb. and cattle and had a nice set of ranch buildings. They had one ofthe first autos. A newspaper article of the 11 June 1929, entitle[...]Hutton, Stonley friends and neighbors, but bought a place at Hamiiton,[...]ontana when the dry thirties came and so moved to a[...]Hutton on Christmas Josie was a victim of cancer.[...]
	[...]h them. He didn't homestead. Abe farmed and was a horse trader. In February of 1930, Abe and Jennie were in the timber getting a load of wood when Abe dropped dead.[...]irst threshing machine in the area. Joe Pipes was a painter by trade, and he and the boys[...]ner came from Herman and Mae became parents of a baby girl, Hunningsberg, Indiana[...]e homestead. Their son, Glenn, was a baby at this time. neighbors and also J. Weldon Baker, a school teacher This was depression y[...]caused them to move to Great Falls and a daughter was frequent visitors at the Pipes. She[...]ives, where Ira worked at different Bob, went for a long walk down the road. When she was[...]ad Joe Pipes died 7 December 1932 of a paralytic stroke met up with a rattlesnake or some harm, and when they[...]s buried in the Lewistown City found her, she got a sound spanking for leaving home![...]
	[...]srnRN Fr:Hcus Corrxlr Mary Jane Pipes, age 72. a resident of Lewistown for Falls. Rachael[...]Jenes LnticueRy in Lewistown where he had been a painter and bar- James was a well known rancher in the Little tender, 12 Janua[...]ilment and complications after an iilness of over a was an invalid for the last several years and his wife, year. He u'as born in Clinton County, Io*'a in 1810. The Louise, cared for him in their home.[...]. post office from 1922-1923. They had a two-story white house with a brick chimney. They moved to Valentine where he went into the He drove a team of albino horses called the "Snowballs."[...]at Little Crooked in the early teens. They built a nice set of buildings, better structures than most, which were painted white with green trim. A cistern was buiit for water supply for the house, which was a first for this dry area. This property was locate[...]e Crooked Hall was built in 1916. Mrs. Spiker was a teacher, although she did not teach iocally. T[...]eir native state of West Virginia in 1921, surely a gentler life-style" He passed away in 1925. Mu[...]lie Fritzner Casteei and three children were here a 1938 and he and his brothers move[...]
	[...]Jakes. on October 25, 1919, but I never could get a birth certifr- I remember well when Earl an[...]ple on the homestead; one We homesteaded about a mile west of Little Crooked fellow na[...]ember one year moving into Roy for the winter and a fresno. Sometimes George Jakes helped him.[...]ed to rest once We had to have gardens and ate a lot of sage hens, and ate fried chicken out of a lard pail. cottontail rabbits and snowshoes as b[...]weeks and winter. We melted snow on the stove in a boiler to water would have to walk the 3[...]e Misses shanty. One spring when Dad was building a dam I Hickey who lived out in th[...]er at noon and we saw their place was a good old well that we hauled water a huge brown tarantula running into the sagebrush. from in a wooden barrel with a wash tub upended on Sometimes we saw antelope, co[...]e working were the times we would a stoneboat pulled by horses. That was when all the[...]place One winter night, Dad put a small granary on the would. blow away. The lightn[...]rying pan on the wall heated rocks to a school Christmas program. I forgot[...]the name of the school, but there was a tall Christmas and back again -[...]relatives in Washington. Dad had fixed a wagon bed were the only two pupils, we had Miss Goheen. I trailer with a seat near the front, to pull with his little reme[...]we thought he was teasing, but it was a baby-sitting job while we were there. After we got - true and she was a real teaeher. She taught us to sing. She brought[...]out Skookum apples from Wenatchee. She really did a good teaching job way out there. Part of the t[...]o 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, Oqu[...]- we girls would baby-sit for 25a all night. There was a fire bell on a stand in the middle of town The Stroble children with a pump underneath. I remember the grain elevator[...]Annie age 9, We had a barbwire fence around one house where we[...]s age 13. My dad worked anywhere he could frnd a job, as the depression got worse and his dream of irrigating many fields on a large homestead went by the wayside.
	[...]traueling from the homestead to Roy song. M-O-N-T-A-N-A Montana I love you. in early[...]recaLls that he attended lst and then uia a Red Flying Cloud. grade at Little Crooked School,[...]s was about seven miles from home. where he built a good little two-room house. He came John worked for some of his neighbors occasionally, frort a wealthy Nerv York family, was well-educated never being away from home too long at a time. He and had traveled. He was much interested[...]ng or shearing and well-read and informed and was a pleasant person to once helped John Beck[...]Wilder hired him to build a new roof on the garage that It was customary in the early days not to question a had been demolished in a twister storm. After that job, person's name or p[...]ime, did some trapping for beaver on the years as a respected citizen, which makes it doubtful[...]Mother left him in charge of the post John had a grey team of horses that he called of[...]Fair in Chicago and visited the relatives for a couple of their early years, when he drove them to the Basin for weeks. the harvest season. He built a good-sized reservoir In 1939, John sold[...]y hand and was intending their culture. Honey was a sweet treat when sugar was to move his hous[...]destroyed by fire. It was struck by lightning in a dry At one time, John Turner became interested[...]storm. He then bought an old homestead and bought a large incubator. He raised chickens and sh[...]e old team had become very gentie and up a piece of ground and put in alfalfa, hoping to rai[...]alth and old age were against him" At going by at a snail's pace, enroute to the mailbox for thi[...]m to go to the hospital and he John Turner was a tall, slender man, who wore high lost a leg in an operation. Soon after, he passed away a[...]We were in contact with his niece and always wore a flat cap. He was an exceptionally in New[...]d in Montana without inter- country, never owning a car or saddle horse. He walked ference from[...]. tinued and was it's last patron. He then put up a Srru[...]
	[...]last name was originally Simensen. When was, for a time, the Superintendent of Schools at[...]ng "The Kis- as Simon Antonson, later as S.A. Vontver. In Nor" kies" published in Montana Marg[...]vors were Mrs. Carl (Irma) Longfellow, a step-daughter Paul Wartzenluft and Lucy Mae Wil[...]lat", near Marcott Coulee. The Wygal house was a One visitor that Mrs. Wygal and her da[...]use that was situated on the right forgot was a man who rode in one evening when the side of Butt[...]ise attack. day's supply. Water was obtained from a small depres- After breakfast the next[...]Assessor! full. In the winter the pond served as a skating rink The Wygals helped the many who got their wagons stuck in a low spot where the Mussellshell Trail crossed[...]near Elevator Ridge Marcott, which was a short distance from their house. and rais[...]1930. In 1966, they were Iiving in Minong, Wisconsin where road." they operated a greenhouse. There were three children in the f[...]t,ittle Crooked and School a couple of miles away. They had to walk across are now a part of Mathisons' He went into the servic[...]
	[...]cBride worked out and was gone from his homestead a lot. the house movers so bad that they ran[...]cided to move his house, as identify them. was a common practice to do with abandoned houses in th[...]WESCOTT, JIM- a homesteader, carried the mail on the days. They came early in the a.m", wired the door shut so it[...]bone as well as of the lungs. He'd also been in a buggy wreck tunately McBride had returned the pre[...]f Highway 191, south of the Fred Robinson Bridge, a coupie of miles. In 1929 the federal government decided to build a bridge across the Missouri River. It took them almost 24 years 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 o[...]rly in 1957 and with it came an influx of people. A cafe was added and opened in May 1958 for the roa[...]h 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.[...]refigerators. In 1961 telephone service began and a gas station was added. Once the construction wo[...]ge rodeo was July 4th, 1961 and we had two rodeos a year for nine years. The crowds were always good.[...]ourists who were invading the area. First to land a plane on it were Bob Cimrhakl and Fred Sandstrom. A major flood on June 16, 1962 nearly destro[...]
	[...]1 A 3O-Ynan Pno.rncr In the early days homestead[...]ss Early in 1952 oil men began to push for a north-south the Missouri. During the late 20's th[...]ent of new oil fields", and interest, locally, in a proposed new road to Maita, a speculators were leasing the oil rights from ranchers. bridge across the Missouri River and a highway to The governor began to press for completion of the Lewistown. On a Iarger scale others were promoting an pro[...]wer Piant site and 10 miles One was at Wilder at a cost of $325,000; at the C K upriver fr[...]announced that the bridge (Winnett to Maita) at a cost of 9400,000 and one at the would become a reality within four years. Power Plant at a cost of $440.000. Oae south of Glas- Th[...]an, Wyo. had the low bid of $718,000. Other com- a bridge, the longest span of unbridged river in th[...]ide section was let for $451,000. By support, as a bridge there would provide the shortest Ju[...]he gravel work was completed and oiling route for a proposed highway from Canada to Yellow-[...]ld also follow along many histori- It was a gala celebration that was held on August 16, cal[...]int site was designated as the best spot to build a bridge was named for, on hand to cut, not a ribbon, but bridge. On July 28, 1930 a bridge picnic was sponsored a log. There were scores of other dignitaries as we[...]t Wilder ferry, bands, free boat rides, a huge barbecue and 10,000 cele- or Rocky Point, to promote this site. Lewistown had not brants. It was a 30-years dream come true and it made a as yet thrown its support to this site, they had[...]from an engi- eringly finally got to take a first-hand look at the neering standpoint. Six hu[...]yet, but in a vehicle across a BRIDGE! The road was surveyed during the 30's[...]ay. It miles of it was completed out of Malta, in a south- was named i.n honor of the early[...]trade with the Blackfoot from Bohemian Corners in a northeasterly direction, Indians in the[...]ge site, as eariy as stopping in the middle of a pasture. WWII came along 1831" and the c[...]om four months to five or six official records as a station of St. Leo's Parish of Lewis- years of ag[...]as reported in the Mass was offered once a month on a week day in Roy Enterprise that Father \ran de Br[...]signed to this parish, the old future building of a new church. In 1915 the Cathoiic bank build[...]d by the diocese of Great congregation of Roy was a mission of St. Leo's. Falls. It was r[...]r Molyneux officiated at the celebrated once a month. Church is still held in this first Mass held in Roy. It was held in a dance hall. Ten building.
	[...]cially crowds grew larger they moved to a larger building that known as Sacred Heart.[...]reet from the Legion Bar. Later they moved to the A home near Murphy's garage was used and also a Bishop building and then later on[...]Rev. To make money the ladies decided on holding a dinner. Michael O'Donohue; 1955-58 Rev.[...]" Lerohl. Succeeding inated on April 11, 1915. At a business meeting held in Pastors were: Rev[...]- from the notes of Opol Morsh In May 1917, a building was purchased from Mrs. A. A 600 pound Meniely Church bell was put in the Roy[...]In 1920 there were 10 members. In 1921 there was a September 24,1922. The bell was pre[...], vice presi' May 1926 the Roy Church was without a pastor. From dent; Mrs. J.[...]
	[...]stances in Hilger led to a merger with the Roy Church and a modification of the agreement in 1982. Services[...]by Lutheran Rev. Dan Holt. A joint service, with[...]ng to the One night, the family went to a new Catholic Church Presbyterians for as long as[...]the Iron Range in northern Minnesota as a missionary Rev. Armsirong served until Decembe[...]ad been paying most also was employed as a plasterer. of the Roy and Hilger expenses and wer[...]He married Edna Lindstrom Paulsen, a widow, from money. A plan was agreed upon, at this meeting, whereby[...]retired they moved to Fargo for a few years and then to Rev. Larry Vinson of the W[...]- In February of 1915 a little boy, Ernest Johnson, son in 1924[...]es, Opal, Doris and Earl father, E.D. Johnson and A. Djamond purchased the Jones,[...]
	[...]lend a generally clean, well-kept appearance to the[...]Standing about two and a half feet tall it has the original[...]1988 The Roy Cemetery sets at the top of a windy, sun[...]m Frank Cim- drenched hill overlooking Roy. It is a permanent rhakl, who alone had,[...]those pioneers who By early 1983 a new chain link fence, bought with fought the elem[...]le who had family members donated a new sign post for the entry which Chuck buried in[...]ell as graves, but keeping the whoie place up was a large chore by Cimrhakl, flowering crabs[...]ew; so in the 1960's the Silver Sage 4-H club, as a are flourishing. community beautification a[...]s 4-H club joined in the effort, and so each year a No longer does the Roy Cemetery stand alone and certain date and time in May was selected and a large almost forgotten, it's now, once again, a place that group of youngsters and adults would g[...]ors that to make the hillside graveyard look just a iittle better. rest there. In the early[...]place in Roy any more, but to the cemetery, took a "historical" interest in it. She occasionally a pioneer requests to be buried as near to began to[...]longer stood or with names so faded [A list ofburials in Roy Cemetery can be obtained fr[...]A 1913 FuNrnar, In 1913, after a sudden illness, a W.M. Rowland who A never-to-be forgotten scene occurred as the long[...]30 miles. The funeral itself was held in a beautiful little white Two young and car[...]to the Roy cemetery. working for the W.P.A. over west on the Romundstad We[...]hat her name place, digging gravel, when they hit a coffrn. One of the is. Evidentally no one[...]ffin accidently by the digger. country in a covered wagon on their way to California. Inside was the body of a little blonde girl, about ten They were out of money and stopped to work a short years old. She had long yellow hair,[...]
	[...]ugh between BIack Butte and the Judithsl there is a fied. There are probably many more.[...]n One rancher in the Valentine area discovered a grave shoe boxes. It is believed the-"[...]o the area rvhere Kenneth "Buster" Bischoff On a small knoll, high above the Missouri River, is th[...]e side of the river, near King Island, down-river a few Frank Bare homestead, lie the tr[...]held in the CZBJ Lodge" Ranch (now Roy Peters) is a small enclosed graveyard Frank Kosi[...]1918, are buried. The child, Dennison, fell into a gion", would conduct services for the dec[...]air, and baby girl, Phillips. 'buried' in a tree with all her clothes and jewelry. The The Bl[...]n maiden's remains. from its original location to a higher hill, before Ft. Peck How many mo[...]first wife Susie C. Maxfield, are both buried in a grave- disaster, sleep beneath the prair[...]d sons and dauehters? No one will There was a family graveyard on the Box Elder Ranch[...]ose that were buried there were Ellen Romundstad, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Odin Romund- stad, some of the Fergus family and a baby of Peggy and Bill Landru. In a small enclosed area on the Don Kalina ranch, west of the highway, Iies baby girl Sramek. She died a The family cemetery at the Romunds[...]ture, is the grave of Mrs. Wm. Stiendorf, wife of a homesteader. The story is told that it was so bit[...]the granary, so rodents wouldn't bother it, until a grave could be dug. The weather mod- erated in about 10 days and the chore was done. Her husband, a casket maker, made her casket. It was buried quit[...]round was too hard to dig in. Near Black Butte, a brother of Bill Davis is buried. There is[...]
	[...]e about 1922. She'd been in the area only a few short months. Much preparation had pr[...]festivities for this eventful celebration. A magnificent Christmas tree was hauled in fr[...]e community hall '*'hich also served as a school. Mrs. Mathison remembers that her father put candles on thp tree' They were lit for a while, but extinguished before the program[...]ying the dancing that followed the program, a wintry storm blew into the area, with snow and a bitterly cold wind. "Oh' it was terrible,"[...]ty ofpeople close around too, mind, there's a load on the road'. But that load didn't[...]homestead shacks in those come in for quite a while after the storm." yea[...]Each woman who came to the dance brought a cake or early years and both Mr. and Mrs. M[...]epared them well. During his early years as a cowboy, Mathison, at the store while the[...]fee who came to this country from Norway as a young man of was tied in a cheese cloth and dropped into an ovai 19, u[...]epole and other After lunch was served, a coilection was taken up to pay points in th[...]ere and another day money then. "But we had a lot of good times," Mrs. of riding to get h[...]members. They were: Chmelar playing the piccolo; a Mr. Cook, the trombone; Frank Vodicka and a Mr. Horacek, first and second alto saxo- phone; J[...]ass drum; Fred Fadrhonc and E. Edwards, cornet; W.A. Rowland and William Barbee, both clarinet; and a Mr. Porkarnay, baritone saxo- phone. The band l[...]-Roy Bross Brand - July 4, 1914. 1914, Roy had a big Fourth of Julv celebration for which the Bras[...]hilharmonic Orchestra. when his father bought him a violin. At the age of 87, Chmeiar played vioiin and directed a He lived in St. Louis, Missouri for 40 y[...]
	[...]cial Club was organized in 1913 with six members. A year later it had more than 50 active members. They began their activities by building a Iarge town haii, later buying a building and moved it to adjoin the hall for school purposes. A few of the important things rvhich the members of[...]hed during its fust year in existence were: built a town haii, furnished a school house for the town, influenced the Milwaukee Townsite Co. to donate a biock for school purposes, put through petitions[...]ing the immediate completion of the railroad, dug a well at a cost of several hundred doliars for the town and surrounding countryside, petitioned for a large bridge across Box Elder Creek, induced the[...]secure decent roads in the area; ofworking to get a co-operative creamery and ofthe ladies organizati[...]nd the roads leading into it. In 1926 W.E. Jones, A.M. Stendal and Roy Umstead were the committee wor[...]in the May 1930 issue of. The Household Magozine, a nationwide publication, for the work they had acc[...]g of the Roy High School and main- taining it for a full term; remodeling an old building and turning it into a club house; initiating a general town clean-up to clean up the "chaos" bro[...]ceding years; beautifying the cemetery; beginning a library A ladies club gathering in the early days. In the b[...]are: Mrs. Hill, whose husband ran an burnt up in a fire at a later date); and to urge citizens to eleua[...]Holbert, whose husband had a garage; Zell Conolly; An off shoot of the Roy[...]Mrs. Nickolson who had a cafe; Margurite Pratt Sim' trees. The railroad bu[...]kins; Ivfrs. W.A. Rowland, whose husband was a depot watering. The Walter Braisers donated trees[...]Reis: L[rs. A.A. Uane) Johnson: Mrs. Dunn and Lola cated t[...]
	[...]brought to a close by a thunder shower with Valentine in Roy, Aug.[...]their bags with the young sages and in only a few in- assembled there from all portions o[...]cooks refused to serve them, their Iimit in a short time and proffering their birds to the[...]cooks they were soon browned and ready to serve. A huge the picnic grounds during the[...]Mitchell and John sage birds and a great many of the guests at the picnic Kahl[...]game warden and both This picnic held in a grove of fine outspreading Box reported a successful hunt in our east country before turn-[...]ay team of Republicans and Democrats played a picked team again stage their annu[...]of tossers. Bing Vrooman as the ump officiated in a most when more attractions will be a[...]r and finally awarded ration for a much larger crowd. the game to the candidates by a very narrow margin on a Rov FennrRS UNroN Locnl N[...]ommon to both organizations. The locai was also a social organization which died out with the chang[...]ties which could be distributed to its members at a savings. ROy FAR)IERS UNION LOCAL NO. 3[...]B. twine and 400 pounds of coffee at 384 a pound were Bowser; secretarl'.rreasurer, A.J. Anderson. ordered. The first order of business was to order a carload of J.B. Bowser reported that[...]
	[...]heat. He discovered that the premium was near 500 a bushel. A further order ofbusiness was to order a portable loader; a blower kind. This was bought and put on front of a tractor and driven by a belt. This blower was to load carloads of wheat,[...]- the old station is now a shon[...]bu.; Wm. Schultze, 600 bu. and Joe Kviz, 1400 bu. A carload was about 1400 bushell.[...]hired as manager of the oil company and he set up a On November 17, 1931 a carload of dressed turkeys retaii[...]and the Farmer's Union was in business. In 1932 a pie supper was held ai the lodge hall where A few years later the gas tank was dug out and another all meetings were held. There was also a dance and hole was dug and the t[...]r. Farm and $66.00 and pies brought in $38.00 for a total of $104.00. ranch supplies were a[...]s pur- In the dry years of the thirties part of a railroad car of chased and again the under[...]the commodities. It took it over for a time and then Cari Christensen and was a reliefprogram sponsored by the organization"[...]them Pat and Patti Wherley managed it for a few years Horyno haue in their possession.[...]ny had expanded sales and sold lots of porated as a cooperative association with a capital livestock feed, baler twine, and a full iine of hardware stock of $100,000.00 on Apr[...]and set up near the Red Elevator. The manager, D.A. Fred Weinert was the fi.rst p[...]1 years and Paui Bischoff the years was 17 or 184 a gallon and he got a commission of lQ a after that. gallon.[...]In 1968 Jim Horyna received a plaque for 25 continu- Anthony Mushbacher had a radio repair shop in the ous years as a director and as president from the office of the[...]e insurance- Our earliest fraternal lodges were a part ofCzechoslovakia Benevolent Society, started[...]ated to WFLA. In our community on June 25, L925 a meeting was called to organize a lodge. Coal Hill school was the meeting pl[...]
	[...]rer for 55 years, since 1932. There are three WFI,A organizations: Black Butte, Green Valley at Dento[...], and they say the windmill is better now than a new one. The next meeting will be held in two wee[...]atively newcomers to our community and have taken a prominent part in the community work. The young folks are practicing on a play which they expect to give soon in connection with a dance.[...]4-H Cr,uss 4-H clubs have been a part of the rural scene for many years. Roy had a 4-H club in the early years and in later years the Black Butte Shadows 4-Her's were a[...]A meeting of the Roy 4-H CIub in 1936. In the back[...]b was active in the 50's and 60s. It was strictly a social club for young women, many of whom lived o[...]olated ranches, to get together for visiting once a month. As roads became improved and more c[...]
	[...]den mother for Cub Scouts. Again in the 70's, for a couple of years, there was a Cub Scout troop. But the most impressive bunch of Boy Scouts from Roy was Troop #7I that Edward Stice, a 6th grade teacher, organized. Ralph Beatty becam[...]In the early 50's the Roy troop was the winner at a state Camperell and was awarded a trip to Edmonton, Alberta Canada to help patrol the street for a visit of the Queen. Glen Rindal says it was an ev[...]ion) in the Roy area. The club, formed to bring a continuing education of new ideas and trends in the field of home economics and management became a community service organization as well. It sponsored health clinics, a 4-H club, spearheaded community needs and improve[...]ew club took over sponsorship ofthe Roy booth for a few years and then gave it up because oflack ofinterest. A new g'roup formed and under the leadership of Linda Komarek a younger generation has taken over and the Roy boo[...]odern Woodsmen had several members in Roy. It was a lodge. The Moose instituted a lodge at Roy in 1916. Fifty members were taken in. There was a Bridge Club and Roy.al Neighbors. A Carpenters Union organized in June of 1917 with a membership of 25 to 30. Rebecca Lodge No. 88 organized in October 1917 with a membership of 3?. Roy Lodge 100F organized Januar[...]steps to organize in June of 1919. There was also a PTA organization in Roy at one time.
	[...]Jennifer Miller. A [iJ Trin[...]ritten in 1963. It is thought that it was done as a project in one of the high-school classes for Roy[...]e, at that time, still around. Eva T. Murphy, L.M.A. Wass, Opal Marsh and Con Anderson all had a keen interest in recording history and most certainly they had a hand in preparing this account.] The first know[...]0, and other lots $200. Building Roy vicinity was a saloon, of sorts, owned by William began[...]at the soil was slight, if not at all. After 1910 a few homesteaders quite fertile, so they[...]eir friends to started coming in and the need for a place to obtain come out from the east a[...]int for homesteaders. Most of Christensen erected a small, two'room shack which them stayed long enough only to see the land agent and served as a place to obtain supplies. It was located to obtain a locater to help them find their homestead, about[...]The Milwaukee Railroad Company decided to build a steading and even those that had homest[...]ich to work around town. This caused quite a housing prob- would be created by the homesteader[...]l rooming houses could be built to accommo- build a new town at Roy, which was then only a post date them. office at Bert Sargeant[...]nge- first rooming house. ments made through a subsidiary of the company, the One o[...]t, on constructed such that there was a bar and cafe down- which to plot the towns[...]
	[...]lly had to sell their business. John Nylander for a place to set up a saloon and, in as much as they and Leonard Tronsdale were building a large grocery could not get Hansen to condescend[...]iiquor and Raben's building for a warehouse. (Hamm passed iicenses and moved out to[...]away April of 1967 in Spokane, Wash.) set up a saloon. This forced Hansen to obtain a whoie- Roy could boast of a bank in 1913, though it was sale liquor iicense and made things generally unhandy perhaps a modest structure. It *,as located on the for him since a thirsty traveler wouid rarely want to[...]st and Main and the first banter's name was drink a barrelful of beer to quench his thirst. Sturdy[...]t office was moved from the Sargeant ranch obtain a lot south of the European on which to erect a and located on the lot north of the Ro[...]saw the two was postmaster and ran a news agency as well. He sold parties making an ag[...]out known as the European. It could also boast of a cafe. three lots north of the Roy Mercantile. There were no Two men made the dwelling only half a lot wide at first. other hardware stores[...]e of the cafe most of them being built a year later. part since it would require little wa[...]e The Milwaukee Townsite Company formed a subsi- customers, so they thought. Things did not[...]nd is presently cailed the Roy Hotei A meat market emerged along the west side of main[...]e were doctors, for it possessed a billiards parlor. The six biiliard tables Iawyers[...]Meat Market. the proprietress. He was only there a short while until Harry and Charles Oqu[...]n the south end of be complete without a biacksmith shop. James Everin Main Street (south[...]fe and was very men, one of whom was a wheelwright, and himself convenient to travelers[...]ed to be no end of horse shoeing town. He was not a very generous man, and if a group and wagon repair at that time[...]therefore wili describe the various A dance was held in each new business shortly befor[...]furnishings were put in and everyone usually had a both.[...]altors J.C. Hamm and Peter Raben. Joseph Hamm was a con- to come to Roy. They[...]
	[...]was moved into the new brick building on Roy had a newspaper, but it was printed in Hilger. the corner lot. The elevator had a capacity of 25,000 Roy Kilmer was one of the people responsible for the bushels. There was a connecting warehouse where coal first Roy paper.[...]May 1913. same company constructed a lumber yard on the corner Through their efforts M[...]s were built in 1914, the Busy Bee hall served as a dance hall and later as a morsue dur- owned by Fred Munger, north[...]s located north of Early in the spring of 1914 a mere handfu] of build- Krahulek's meat ma[...]). ings marked the spot where later the same year a little William Giersch, owner of the Roy Cafe added a city of numerous business, residences and a population bakery to his establishment.[...]Earl McAuley and Hurley Cox bought the Roy Meat a lot back of the Silver Dollar Saloon and the name[...]a five passenger, 40 horsepower car. being rece[...]McCain and Johnson started a lumber yard where The first train which rolled i[...]K.W. Wright started a furniture business in a build- into Roy every Thursday and Sunday. Each t[...]ated just north of the Roy Mercantile. brought in a gro'up of people. Three automobile stages[...]nd out all the time. owned and operated a cemetery. Not only trains and autos filled the[...]Agnew and Ramsey set up a real estate office oppo- From noon until night,[...]of his lot. When complete the building will from a distance of many miles, often so far that it[...]ower floor present American Legion saloon. It was a two-story will be added to the resta[...]be heard throughout the entire build- A.S. Seyller started a grocery store known as Seyller's
	[...]office in the Roy Hotel. Dr. G.M. \\'hite, a dentist, had that the following article appeared[...]upplying hundreds of square miles of country, a town where the commercial tide runs[...]en out of bus- high. Not only that but Roy is a center of interest to iness. The bank[...]hundreds of outsiders and safe to say that not a day goes more cattl.e until large herds were built up. by in which outsiders do not want a connection with In 1919, came a total crop failure and the most severe Rov."[...]rs, and the flu raging among F. Follick started a tailor and cieaning establishment st[...]to put 40 car loads of gravel for the streets. F.A. (Dad) Lewis in a crop in the spring. built a big garage north of the Roy Post Office. Another[...]countryside once dotted with a homestead cabin on A cream station started up, Biil Lane operated one[...]ch more ing Munger's Cafe in the Roy Hotel. Dr. F.A. Barney land. was appointed pos[...]the Excerpts from a histor;- of Roy spring of 1916. The Montana Eleva[...]1917-Joe Reeble rebuilt the hotel. Two-thirds of a Ro;- is the terminus of th[...]Chicago story higher, it was better built and had a large dining and St. Paul Railrv[...]seat, and on the main trunk line of the room and a telephone office. The rooms were all[...]in the county, and is the distributing point for a vast terri- by a machine shed which was built the previous year.[...]ord creek and west to the European by Matt Oster, a merchant from Denton. Ed A[...]most of the home- Roy is a livelr'little town of about 100 inhabitants and a steaders being in their early twenties, were call[...]Everything organizations and a splendid grade and high school had to be bought a[...]ry hard' Stable. Bill Linster and Christensen ran a drav. John ship that couid occur in a countrf in such a short time' it
	[...]r inflation in land values. This has been a misforrune for those thar lived through i[...]themselves of the opportunity of getting a farm as land can now be bought for from S10 to[...]to suit any investor. Two ;-ears rent on a Mississippi valley farm will pay for a good farm here, that will raise as many b[...]urthermore Roy will be the center of actir"ity in a vast area for the exploration of oil. Thr[...]en about mid J7's. hit to begin with, has a brighter future than any country known. With a positive proof that wheat crops have been[...]acre on poor farming and 1921 considered a very un- favorable year, raised from 20 to[...]6. William is behind the counter waiting on a customer. EarI McAuley, proprietor.[...]received service about the same time. Smith had a phone in her store in Roy. In 1961 Mid-[...]The Roy community began r+,ork on a water-sewer surrounding received electrici[...]
	[...]New Years Eve Firemen's Ball 1915 they purchased a hand-pulled chemical wagon, as to raise necessary funds. It rvas a very popuiar event. described in an Aprii 29 issu[...]The volunteer firemen's organization became a tax The machine comprised of two 35 gallon drums[...]ng area around Ro1''. As pressure hose will throw a stream of fire destroying such the district came under ne' rules and a board of liquid from the end of the nozzle.[...]ointed, after which one or two new They also had a hose which hooked onto the railroad[...]trict, one from Roy and one from west of Roy, for a truck was purchased in 1953. It was quite d step[...]ated with the pur- Sometime later, in the 50's, a new fire station (in use .chase of another truck. It was a3/4 ton, 4-wheel drive today) was built with funds collected through dona- Ford with a 300 gallon tank. By the mid 80's the fire tions. Fritz Corth 'as very active for many years as a equipment was pretty well outdated a[...]nd energy Dodge was retired and a brand new GMC truck com- to*'ards the up-grading offire protection service, as did plete with a new pumping system and a 300 gallon tank L:,nn Phillips.[...]ry and O. Romundstad' The headed a drive to get donations to run the school. They fi[...]were so successful that they had a lot ofpeople donating 1969 ser;eral districis were transferred to #74, some a sum each month for five months and at the end of[...]first school was year there was a little money lefi that was refunded to held at th[...]hool was held there until the town of a sports program was planned for the future. Mrs. J[...]Murphy helped ai the high school by teaching a class In the fall of 1917 the Roy school offer[...]In September 1928 the high school had a 3 vr. high The Roy High School started Septembe[...]tees rented rooms over the Roy Mercantile Co. for a frrst since 1922. dormitory in charg[...]w" In 1936 a new addition u'as added to the school to The hi[...]June of 1922. Then the include a new gym and trvo ciass rooms. The head school clo[...]and began leaving the There was also a new furnace. area.[...]
	[...]eral Holmstrom was the coach. This year there was a giri's attitude. This program is still acti[...]nd her grandson, In 1950 there was a law passed forbidding girls to Monte Lund helped[...]stoves of each room, then their health. As a result there were no girls basketball return after school to clean in each room. On February games for a few years. They did have badmitten, 15, 1945 the[...]e Clyde school furniture and supplies were saved. A bond elec- Martin, Allan Christensen, Jesse Harrell, Larry tion to construct a new school was passed in the fall of Kalina, a[...]state Science Fair where Jesse Harrell was again a opened.[...]t the divisional track meet for the third year in a row. that time the annual was just high school'[...]Roy High School became the permanent owner of a fine In 1948 girl's and boy's basketball was st[...]started after not hav' any one athlete or even a group of athletes who could ing it for seven year[...]organized in the fail win this event 3 years in a row. Larry proved them very of 1947 under the direction of Mr. C.A. Kelly. Many of wrong. the instruments had b[...]ad Ander- expense to the veterans. They met twice a week at the son. On the team were Cy Mosby,[...]ick Thomp- Kalina as instructor. The prog:ram was a gxeat success son, Rich Bowser, and Randy Em[...]Marty Robbins, 1950. It was awarded each year to a Senior boy and girl Randy Emery, Mark Robbins[...]ion to the spirit of sportsmanship These are a few of the highlights of the Roy school. and fair play during the year. A plaque was given to the There are many more bu[...]dedi- cated to the youth of America by Babe Ruth. A medal was presented to each senior boy and girl.[...]e Girls StatelBoys State program in 1948. This is a program designed to give high school stude[...]
	[...]Graham, Margaret 1938-10 Martz. G[...]I VJI.DJ Hickey, B.A. (Miss) 1942-43 Morgan, Chas[...]Pettrson, A. Arlene 1952.51 '\'anGrieth[...]n 1910.{l Kelly. O.A. l9J8-49 Peterson, Myr[...]lmore. Shelly 1982-84 Egan. Roland A. r933.34 'LaFon[...]
	[...]tne 1989 Roy stud.ents burT' a time capsule to be dug up in[...]
	[...]school. He taught a course for the high school students. KomareL<. Fr[...]He also offered a course for adult education' Seueral in Pcrt Vv'oo[...]their teaclter, Mr. Larry Lewis, studying a course offered[...]from a hoohup to Bozeman. The computer has expanded[...]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 o r r e Il. H t' at h e r[...]
	[...]. Hill. The fust teachers were Josie Hickey and B.A. Hickey. Some i of the other teachers were F.A. Anderson, Josephine Sandstrom, Winnie McNeil and[...]te Estenson on July 2l , 1927 in Rock Rapids. Iou'a. Dean, Richard and Robert. They had a foster daughter, Holmstroms moved to Ro5'in 1933.[...]ched. In school here. A nephew, Lelan (Bud) Ramharter (class of 1934 Kelly became the Superintendent, a job he held '38) aiso[...]eterl- at returned to South l)akotli to teacb for a ferv vears. In Croo[...]
	[...]graduation, Marie Bowser Cimrhakl and I and I. As a family n'e did our part to maintai.n our[...]und an apartment and batched and pump ri'hich was a quarter of a mile away. Then they shared expenses. Mom continued to teach at Roy. The 'ashed clothes in a tub on the rr'ash board. I cleaned bo[...]ped cook and get meals" Mom would a ride home over the weekends once in awhile. sew,[...]k for teaching. Mom high grades. A prominent citizen wanted his boy to be as an exc[...]utatorian, and Jim was causing too much I r+'as a junior in high school when we moved to Roy.[...]. He expected us to study and we did. He had such a Mom and her family out of Roy. sense[...]. a reduction in salary and teach the upper grades fo[...]\,l'as our principal for m1'senior -vear. a month if they would hire me as their primary teacher. I sang in a quartet frequently. A 1-oung minister at I 'ould then earn[...]in his iittle roadster Mr.rm made $I25 a month at Roy). (three rode in the rumble seat) an[...]time. a place to stay w'hile she went to summer school, s[...]d the dances at the Btrhemian had a nerr'roctmmate and someone to share expenses. Hall oc'czisionally. We even went to Valentine to a My brother, Fred, 'ho[...]
	[...]for school. Mom and I days. Vernon got a job at the Fort Peck Dam. taught two years at Bro[...]arried Matt Palmer of Lewistown. He ated. He took a government test and passed; the high- pass[...]nt printing office. In Reynold worked on a ranch at Winifred after gradua- 1948 he graduated[...]down with pneumo- University and went to work for a computer company nia and passed away Ma[...]I kept books. We sold I met Vernon Kramlich at a New Years Dance at the in 1957, as arthritis was causing Vernon a lot of prob- Brooks Hall, 1934. He had just got p[...]n in 1936 were married July 3, 1934. I had signed a contract to in Seattle and our daughter, M[...]e on June 18th ond 19th of 1988. In anticipation, a surnnxary of 75 years written by Marie Zahn and I[...]form a thick wall[...]d to the present living standards, from a hillside or bank and the front logged up, the com[...]le as the modern earth home. Transportation was a slow process, in any form, with Many had[...]ground was best for this purpose as it required a modate the needs of these animals. Horses remain a thinner layer because it would crust an[...]tilation was necessary to keep cellars dry. ing a thousand miles in a covered wagon, with a Another need was water. It was pos[...]had to be replaced and bad built with a team and slip-scraper to catch run-off from water[...]did accidents. There was a new railroad to be built through Lewis- Once a claim had been selected a house had to be town on the Great Northe[...]ed including the one of the local men, L.M.A. Wass, was a surveyor. car-roofed tar-papered shack, lo[...]
	[...]Rov fresnos which hired a good labor force between 1913 O[...]to 100, depending a lot on the migration of teachers, Mining for g[...]of Once in awhiie Roy becomes a hive of activity. earning some extra cash. But 1[...]ball as "the game" and no means adequate to make a living in this country and everyone[...]annual Roy Rodeo (37th in 1988) so many left for a different way of iife.[...]ers make their way to Or to drive into Roy to a school event or to pick up a the breaks, the Crooked Creek recreation area and few gtoceries and realize that once Roy had a popula- along the river-for it is a popular recreation area. tion of 400 inhabitants[...]d, which was primarily responsibie for the being a part of the hub of an agricultural, mining and[...]d close to ranch buildings. The Rich Bowsers hire a CRP (Conservation Reserve Program). Where the grass herder or two-Roy kids needing a summer job-to keep that is supposed to be planted[...]Great Falls. office, Rosaiie English, postmaster; a bar, The Legion, One thing that ha[...]belief in tomorrow. operated by Lois Woodard; and a service station, G & S[...]ilts and enjoyed reading. sota and came to Roy as a young man of 21, with Fred She filed on a homestead on Little Crooked. She sold Mabee, in 1913. He drove a team and wagon from that relinquishment and filed on a homestead north of Beach, North Dakota to Roy. Roy and became a neighbor of Francis, He filed on a homestead about five miles north of[...]then near Fergus in 1930 (on the piace where the a bookkeeper and stenographer prior to coming to Roy" Jacksons now live). She arrived on a Saturday and went to work for McCain[...]fan, pieced several days, or even a week or more, before it was picked
	[...]RrHsnsrERh* FERGUTs CqqII up. Once in awhiie a trip rvas made to Lewistown, maybe the severe drouth and grasshopper plague of 1936. once a month in the summer, less in winter time, so most[...]nce in 1986 at the In May of 1937 they moved to Wisconsin following age of 93, and their son Jack[...]ta and Charles W. Charles became worked as a bartender at the "Silver Dollar Buffet" in a teacher and taught many Fergus County schools be' Roy's early days and was a barber. t'*'een 1915 and 1935. School records show that he Effie Baker ran a bakery and lunch counter; Block 7, taught Iowa Be[...]s in the Effie married Wiliiam H. Bell who was a home barber business and were known a[...]rbee, was born 15 May ness, operating a respectable gathering place in Roy. 1865 at Sprin[...]where he g:ew to manhood. Mrs. Barbee was a nurse and did practical nursing As a young man, Barbee moved to St. Joseph, Mis.[...]souri, 6 March into the world. She was a valued person in this com- 1871. They raised thre[...]moved to Lewistown. He died 22 the poolhall from A. W. Close and E. F. Cartwright, October[...].to John Mayberry. His establishment was strictly a Lewistown (sister-in-law of George Clegg[...]nia. His friendly and caring personality made him a re-[...]I'd have to cut hair!" All were real barbers and a couple stuck to making their living at tha[...]
	[...]h & Laraway Ranch Indian Butte area. He also had a ranch and barbering (which the Glen Rin[...]for many years) business in Roy. He was known as a "Whiskey Peddler" was built b1', or for, the Sharpsteins. and was a friend of the law-man, Burr Hill, who always There is a Grace Sharpstein listed, presumably a managed to be away when 'Sharpie' brought in his[...]another Roy barber whose sideline row a rifle from Ed Kalal. When Ed questioned him, he w[...]rovided spend- said he was "gonna shoot a coyote." So Ed let him have ing money for iocal y[...]col- the gun. lected the morning after a dance. The party[...]shop, making things pretty hec- counter'booze to a prospective customer. The customer, tic[...]He sold his barbering business to A.C. Neyhart in directory as a barber and a land owner. 1916 and with[...]estead which was in the Coal Hill area. It is now a building next to the present Roy Grocery, and soo[...]PrNry Last but not least was a fellow who may or may not asked if they couid buy some moonshine. Pinky sold it have been a barber. We do know he was a bootlegger to them, then got worried[...]e lawmen, and maybe, when asked, he claimed to be a barber. In so he went back and robbed[...]away car for gang- trap beavers without a permit, but there was a ready sters in Chicago and had turned state's evi[...]ristensen remembers Pinky, as does Wanen therb in a hurry. He was shot twice in the head during[...]ago but he made it to Montana after a dance (if he could beat Jess Satterfield to them)[...]was "an ornery old cuss", for 50 or 10c a piece. He never railroad, from Canada. There it w[...]jintland, in 1907, traveled from Stavanger, $3.50 a week. When a group of Iowa farmers organized Norway to Portsmouth, England on the Lusitania and a homesteader train, she joined. thenontoEllislsland,U.S.A.ShecouldenterAmerica, She worked as a house giil for the Lehman Store even though she h[...]Spring Creek and would fish from braces, because a brother in Iowa accepted her" the porch. Walter Lehman was the youngest son. She She worked as a mother's helper in Marshali Town at also[...]
	[...]uNrv Simon Duncan rvas foreman. David Berg and a friend, Art Anderson, came to the Red Barn looking for a temporary job. They were from Chicago. At that ti[...]lu of 1918-i9 and died of celebration they served a half a beef. Three meat balls, tuberculosis in Galen in 1934. the size of a soft ball, dlt the trimmings, including pie[...]do. How and from an out-of-town well, ten dollars a barrel. The water why he got there, I don't k[...]ll would be an understatement. The first year was a My Mother took up her homestead when she was a[...]rican Desert" was next to it now. My dad also had a'homestead in Badger not far off. Beginnin[...]Armin E. "Jess" Bilgrien was born in Iron Ridge, Wisconsin; one of nine children born to Herman and Elizabet[...]des' In 1916 Jess came to Montana and worked on a ranch[...]ar Ryegate for awhile. In Levyistown he worked in a butcher shop. He then returned to Iron Ridge wher[...]May 1918. He was discharged in April 1919. He was a charter member of the Roy American Legion Post #96 and was commander for a number of years. After his discharge he managed a ranch for the Butler family at Christina and late[...]hing, bought many horses which he shipped back to Wisconsin, and Ed Kalal and Jess Bilgrien stand i[...]l and Cafe in Roy. gas station. He was a state brand inspector; a job he When he returned in 1960 he lived there an[...]death. also had the cafe in operation for a few years. He sold Jess never married. t[...]in 1969 but continued to "heip out" at the Wisconsin Memorial Park in Brookfield.
	[...]Coulee. ln 1924 he went into part- nership with A.A. Johnson in the Roy Hardware store. When the sto[...]ts in Still- Daniel, David, Dale, and a niece, Linda, the children of water for a couple of years and then returned to Mon-[...]chek. tana to live. He was accidentally killed by a gunshot Anna passed away in Octo[...]came to arrived too late and a mid-wife, neighbor Mrs. Phil Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin. He had a farm, worked as (P.J.) Montang (Regina) assisted with the birth. a dray man and as a saloon keeper. They had two child- We always had lots of company, never a day seemed ren, Charles and Ann (who later marrie[...]ass without someone stopping to visit or to share a of Roy).[...]Dad worked in various places; as a brick layer at the Roy frrst.[...]a and graduated from business a laundry, did housework and worked in a dry cleaning college there, was a surveyor and court reporter, typing s[...]After grandfather was dragged by a four horse team, Charles followed his father to[...]help and couldn't stay alone any longer, So about a mile down Blood Creek from his father's ho[...]
	[...]the team plowing through knee high snow. We had a buffalo robe around our less. The school house was a two-story stuccoed building with a fire escape circling chute and a hole in the ground for a gymnasium, auditorium and boiler room. Later on we acquired a 1g18 Ford touring car and John was allowed to dr[...]1932, I batched behind Kalal's meat market with a classmate, Vlasta Marie Maruska Vanek. I went[...]eck dam and the shanry lowns. Then to Roundup on a sheep ranch and on to Billings. L. t[...]There Don worked for International Harvester as a Bishop holding grandson, Dean Wal[...]Helena where he works as a fiie clerk for the Veterans John Joseph Bishop went to Polyiechnic for a few Hospital and raises Chow dogs.[...]Grandfather John Baptise maintained a home in Shiriey Walrod Lenning also lives in Bili[...]Sec. 14 Walter Buechner was born at Butternut, Wisconsin. were also homesteaders and located[...]nts, Fred- The Buechners built up a good ranch, raised sheep rick and Freida Schulze,[...]e for thirteen years. They settled at Park Falls, Wisconsin. The Buechners Three daught[...]
	[...]JUO the P.A. Weedell Grocery Store, which they operated sar-v a1 her horne. !i August[...]BEN) eNn Ltu,rax Jexes BunNrrr Ben Burnett was a long-time Central Montana resident. He was born,[...]t married Lillie Jakes, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A.B. Jakes of Byford and Roy, 17 May Ig46 at Lovelo[...]Ben and Lillie Burnett Ben was employed as a brand inspector for the Mon- tana Livestock Commi[...]took up tailoring while in Biilings and developed a successful business. She still works at her trade in her Roy home. Ben Burnett had a great love of horses and the cowboy life. Ben was a member of the Roy American Legion Post #96. He died at a Billings Hospital, 12 August tg6g[...]his parents, near ME},1ORIES ABOLIT A DEAR AND GENTLE LADY Kendall on his father's home[...])akiira on March sheep in Phillips County; rented a ranch near Moulton 22nd. 1St)ir. Clar[...]r's sistcr. I),'rrr. died in Dakota of croup ;rnd a place near the Horse Ranch. He also worked[...]
	[...]ntana. She cooked there and said that ifshe broke a dish, Mrs. Fergus would charge her for it.[...]play her banjo or guitar and sing. She did have a lovely voice. Mom enjoyed reading detective[...]magazines when she lived in Montana. She could do a[...]but didn't have water to take care of flowers or a garden until she moved to Oregon.[...]ces, which he did in Montana, and joined a small group whatever we needed, without patterns. The catalogs that had a radio program in Portland. They were called wer[...]"Tiny's Wranglers". a home in the outside john. We got along without[...]ly in Oregon. jobs. She picked fruit, worked in a cafe, in a piastics Both Linden and Wesley picked fruit to earn money plant and in a cannery. She cooked for a rich family in and then in April of l942bot[...]e same bus from Portiand and during the war was a welder at the ship' Portland to report fo[...]g. Wesley was killed yards. Later she worked in a hospital as a nurse's aide. in action on March 25, 1945 on[...]ement' He fell and broke her hip and was put in a hospital. She[...]She was 9 years old when she moved to Oregon' Now a grade at the Horse Ranch School. He worked at hom[...]n Bridge- Dad worked for Reed West ("a very honest man") at water, Iowa, the youngest of[...]the Roy grain elevator. In the 30's he worked as a steel- sons,[...]Montana because of nb schools. for a few years where he was employed at the Heath Later a school was buiit and Carl received an 8th grade[...]g again to Roy, which Dad education. He continued a life-Iong love of learning calied "God's Country" he worked as a carpenter. In through reading and was an amateur[...]Farmers Union Oil Co., a job they had for 17 years' On October 3, 1928 h[...]in They expanded the business and saw a new structure Harlowtown. She was the daughter of[...], repair of television sets. Being a new medium he volun' 1910 in Litchville. North Dakota. teered to find a location so that a transmitter would
	[...]raised two children, obtained a college degree and lives Mother was the sister[...]Denver area. She has five children and is a professional band in business and handling the bo[...]Billings. She is the mother of three and is a banking same.[...]969. Carl retired from the FU in 1970 and retired a traveled widely. He received a college degree, is a truck mile from Roy where he lived until in the 1[...]Fergus County in 1927 - It had a Emma Eggerstad who was born in Nebraska. They[...]hortly after they The combine didn't have a grain hopper, so it was arrived in the area at the Smith-Laraway Ranch in 1913. necessary to pull a wagon along side the combine to Chris and Emma filed on a homestead southeast of catch the grain. Chris had a Hart-Parr tractor to puli Roy. Besides working his homestead Chris had a dray- the combine. Earl remembers spreading the wheat in ing business and a livery barn in Roy. He was also a the wagon to keep it from running o[...]31 and ranched there for some years. Chris was a good teamster, good at breaking and[...]Chris and Emma then moved to Lewistown where he a frnancial disaster for the Christensens. The summ[...]ed to live in was hot and dry and was followed by a bitter cold win- Lewistown until thei[...]ed from the shipped in to Roy at the price of $40 a ton. Most of their State Liquor Commission. Clarence was killed in a sea cattle lived through the rvinter only to die[...], Irene, was born in 1922, the year as a bartender. He died in 1972. Earl was a patent they lost their homestead and moved into R[...]n 1984 and lives in Delaware. Irene They rented a place through ihe Cook Reynolds Co. It[...]nd Josephine Lecktra. She settled in New York for a away in March 1931 at the age of 56[...]osie's death Bert was married to Julia Bert was a native of Vesely. Moravia, the son of Moravac, a native of Nepomerice, Bohemia. She was Frank Cejk[...]from Texas in 1913 with Julia had a daughter, Julia (Maravec Dahl), who grad- his fou[...]Bert was also a blacksmith in Roy as well as for the They homesteaded a few miles east of Roy (John Fergus Ranch where he was listed as being a repairman.
	[...]lso taken to Hilger in the same manner sons. From a Ma1' 1927 issue of the Lett,istown[...]eturned to Illinois where she was survived by a son, Arthur, and three step-children: married to[...]heir tember 14,1926. Fritz ran a dray outfit in Roy; hauling first child John was[...]coal to various businesses and homes. He was a'jack of He died in 1925. Their other children wer[...]all trades' and did many odd jobs to earn a living, but S-eptembet 1892-October 1917; Henry, January 1894- he was mainly a carpenter and painter by trade. November 1968; Mi[...]Leona and Fritz raised three daughters and a son. All 190?, all born in Parker, South Dakota.[...]irley recalls an incident that happened to her as a William, Frank Jr.. Fred and Tillie are all burie[...]h Dakota. her mother was lifting a boiler of hot water off of the[...]in 1921 and taught back in it was a medium brown color. Mrs" Barbee, a in Roy and Grass Range for 10 years.[...]ferring to Billings where, now retired, rvith L.M.A. Wass of the Red & White Store, which thev[...]ed to Mervin Tate and later to Bob and Ada passed a*'ay in August of 1984"[...]
	[...]when she and Kim lived with Bud and Shiriey for a year. Pauline passed away in June of lgT? and is[...]discharge, he and Roy Mathison, were employed on a seismograph crew. On December 10. 1958 he lost h[...]and Kay. spent one year in a CCC camp in Western Montana and in Washington.[...]ere until they Plant Breeders as a laboratory technician" Mickey moved to a ranch east of Buffalo on April Fool's Day,[...]Kay married Rod Hien of Sidney, Montana. After a Roy has worked at a lot of jobs during our life at Roy, sta[...]owns and manages Select Reality and Kay is a compu- around![...]ges. The coming of electricity and the telephone; a Kay born January 30, 1950. All graduated from Roy[...]ollege. I'm so glad to have Been a part of Montana from a Clarke now lives with his family in Billings an[...]tepchildren. saw 14 head pulling a load of lumber once! Mickey married Ken Gilber[...]s famil5' moved to the Fort SCS office in Roy for a year, then went to Lewistown Ma[...]
	[...]tired. Navy and spent all his time on Okinawa as a SeaBee. Elsie worked for Woolworths[...]time at the Bon Ton in Lewistown. Harrell had a well-drilling rig for awhile. He was man-[...]arrived in Roy in February of 1916. They moved to a homestead close to Rattle- snake Butte which Soph[...]ncle, George Kliegl. The family lived there in a 10 x 12 foot house until they moved to the Chambe[...]to the Mitten place about 1936. The Darrahs had a large flock of turkeys and won many blue ribbons[...]adopted daughter of Charley Edwards. article, in a May 1927 issue of the Lewistown News,[...]ton in 1926. Darrah, a famous breeder of bronze turkeys, moved onto[...]and other belong- ping out many turkey eggs at a dollar apiece..... ings, a piano which is now owned by Donald Rindal of Ge[...]Dorothy, Henry, Antoinette was workin g at a bank in Roy after[...]
	[...]work on. He con- and on their subsequent move to a house on the Romund- tinued to hoid the[...]Antoinette had sisters, Frances and Erica and a children in the school to keep it open. Others a[...]preceded him in death in 1960. Montana as a small child. He and his wife, Laura, were His list of survivors included two daughters; a Mrs. married in Lewistown in 1904. Mclaughlin and a Mrs. Martin Johnson of Seattle; a After his freighting days he farmed at Broadus before- brother, Archie, of Polson and a Mrs. Clara Sharp, a moving to Polson where he was employed until his[...]Is AND MARGARET DEvEREAUx Louis Devereaux was a French man who came "down often times! out of Canada"" He had been a professional ball player Devereaux[...]February L4,\928 at the age of62. to a place west of Roy. This place was later ow[...]
	[...]o Roy from Timkin, Kan- sas about 1913. Alois was a brother to Rose Horachek, Emma Washek and Frances[...]raw and was acting postmaster for a year and a half until Buffalo elevators. Their son, Enos, an[...]the time Seven Mine at Niehart. He left a wife, the former Fern of their move to Roy, The b[...]1929" From then until 1936 they Paul was a senior at Billings High when he suc- farmed south[...]losing one leg the previous year and a malignancy of his wife, Ida, passed away March 10[...]railroad construc- land in the year 1837. He was a giant in physique. His tion. Their children were: Elsy, Katie, Ira, Willie, and a wife Katie was small, wiry and full of energy. Sh[...]VanderValk) Later they boarded a wagon train and headed west. They migrat[...]
	[...]Rov tember 16, 1864 a girl, N1ary was born in Washington. About 1887.[...]The parents brought their household belongings in a wagon over the mountains before there were any roads. The sons, Ira and Willie and a son-in-law Charlie Pintler, brought the livestock[...]ary rode along on horseback. The Dundoms bought a ranch on Spring Creek, near Lewistown where they[...]open range, and it rvas time to quit. He became a stockholder in the Bank of Moore. Montana. Katie[...]he Sherman family lived in Chicago where they had a tho and Fred Sherman, Tom Sherman in[...]y, Fred left Ellen Gordner. home as a lad and enlisted in the U.S. Navy after the Civil[...]and the young couple tried to build their home in a little town called Anatone, in southeastern Washington. A frame Bill, Ottie and Winnie. Katie[...]iived near Great Falls where they built a ranch near Melstone, Montana. They had Fred Sr. w[...]liam Harry, man hauled gold ore from the mines to a processing Nora, Dorothy, Lucille, James and Ellen. Harry and site,.opened a coal mine, took up a homestead and cul- James were prominent horsemen. Both lived in the Roy tivated a garden. The family lived in a log and frame area. Harry married Pearl Beal. cabin at the edge of the mountain, about a mile west of Pearl married Sam Sherman soon after and they had town. They had a barn with horses, milk cows, chickens el[...]in 1892 and coal and fresh vegetables to miners, a fair living was they had five children.[...]1895. Nelle was born Jan- They built a ranch near Moore, Montana and had two uary 31, 18[...]and moved to Cat Creek, Montana and built a ranch grave was marked. John was born February 20[...]Thomas Wood, a prominent citizen of Coeur D'Alene. Els[...]
	[...]hanging jobs. 16th, 1935. They made their home in a house rented They moved to Lewistown[...]Mercantile store at this time. They iater bought a house the Power Store and one year at Sears[...]fford and Opal Marsh and Ed worked for a few years at the Heath plant, 14 moved up to the log cabin that Ed and his dad built. Ed years at a bakery and 10 years at the .Fergus High continued[...]t we might stay in Lewistown and pur- he operated a blacksmith shop. c[...]nally located 4Yz miles north of Roy on 160 built a greenhouse and went into business there.[...]d on May 15, 1912 we were mar- We built a tar paper shack, 12 x 74 fl., and this was ried. By this time father had a large greenhouse and our home. One day,[...], Jim went to work for him. That is how he became a we walked into Roy, and on the way ho[...]ng plants. could only take one step at a time because the gumbo We read so much about l[...]her ranches, in In the spring of 1915 we packed a few pieces of furni- order for us to survive[...]morning we In the back of each coach there was a big stove discovered that the shack h[...]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 s[...]
	[...]c1i a section of land and carry my son and wait for a ride to town. One cold winter day when we were[...]ed and broke the singie tree. i had to walk about a mile to Roy while carrying Rus- sell. I froze bot[...]d made and lined with wool that I had gotten from a neighbor and had carded myself. The lady at the store went out and got a[...]north of Roy. wrote a letter to my folks in Indiana, but I had no money with which to buy a 2 cent stamp to mail it. I borrowed 50 cents from[...]im to help with the greenhouse but we stayed only a 1933. With my son, Russell's, help,[...]. I carried returned to Lewistown in 1919 and ran a gleenhouse on on alone, with just the[...]ght me out. I con- been in it for six months when a fire started in the tinued to work a[...]f 1985 at the age eral Savings and Loan building. A fire on December 22, of 99 years.[...]fences and old build- ware building in a small building. ings and seeding grass on homeste[...]ant, Cliff, Lily and Returning to Minnesota for a few years he worked for the men's moth[...]area, where he learned the sheep shearing trade, a bus- Cliff was getting $20 a month because he was feeding iness he continued i[...]ota, this time to Saum, eggs were 8Q a dozen.
	[...]in the early -10's were from ?5c to $1.00 a dayl been living in the cabin.[...]They always enjoyed hunting and fishing, a favorite At shearing time I was so sick, aw[...]:. In fact I'd been to the doctor, I was so sick. A The family moved to the Roy area about 1933 a[...]and never moved again." Floyd had boarded for a cou- around Grass Range."[...]grade teacher was Bridgie Hickey, who hook up to a machine and advanced f5om there until he[...]r seventies, or nearing them, when she taught had a shearing crew of about seven or eight men.[...]With electric shears, which came in 1939, came a dif- During the children's early scho[...]45 and it was she who wrote to become proficient. A good shearer can shear a sheep the checks for the new school bui[...]ing into, she Emery's crew usuaily consisted of a sacker or bagger, had no bookkeeping or[...]n that which was usually Grant, four shearers and a tier. field, but as a teacher she had some knowledge of how a In the early days the crew would move from job to job school was run. via train and sometimes by a horsedrawn buckboard She wasn't[...]Teachers College in 1932. She taught some put in a warm dry bunk house; there were times they[...]depression and "every man and his wife" campers, a shearer's life became more bearable.[...]st herd the Emery's ever sheared was as a substitute teacher for many years in Roy. between 45,000 and 50,000 head. They had a crew of Lily resigned her clerk[...]t the board all quit too, and would next sheep in a pen for it's annual defleecing and then[...]s got drag it back to the pen, he could just grab a single sheep ironed out. out of the ehute,[...]early Roy team.Before coming to Roy he was a talented into Canada. They were well-known nomads[...]earing for shearing Cliff did ride a few broncs in his younger days. One rigs, a hydraulic bagger, (in later years) a portable memorable ride was at a rodeo in Winnett. The bronc chute s5"stem and the[...]and through a cafe window! The Emery's ran their sheep sheari[...]turned to Minnesota and was living with a daughter at They also did other jobs in and aro[...]in Minneapolis. In the off seasons as weil as run a small flock of their own February of 1985[...]s Manor in Lewistown where he'd been a resident for a Warren place" It is still being used today. They[...]f 1987. on ranches and Cliff also worked as a mechanic for Joe Lily now lives with h[...]
	[...]struction and then he entered the U.S. Arml' for a two- -"-ear stint. \Vhile in the service the c[...]oyd worked shearing sheep and in construction for a couple of years before becoming employed by the Fed- eral Fish and Wildlife on the CMR as a maintenance man, a job he has held for almost 30 years. Bev was employed at the Roy school as a cook's helper for a few years, until Floyd was elected to the Roy sch[...]Grocery for Lois Woodard. Presently she has quite a successful home business called, "Bev's Creations[...]e lives in Hobson where he is employed at a Dora[...]of Grant Roger resides in Bozeman, where he has a successful[...]cy, Montana where he is chief mining engineer for a mining company. They also have three children: Ni[...]n- is attending college in Billings after serving a three ika, graduated from RHS a[...]
	[...]w and by 1906 he also was in Timkin, working with a threshing crew. In 19i3 he moved to Montana an[...]tie later moved to Lewistown Fred Sr. was quite a musician and played his cornet and on May[...]ge of85' in the 50-member Roy band. He also was a member of the Their son, George, married Do[...]he joined the Army during World War II ington for a stint during World War II and then later, a[...]way in 1964 in Tempe, after returning to Roy, was a cook in the Roy school for Arizona. Alice mar[...]uzz passed away in In 1948 Fred and Nettie made a three month long trip April of 1988.[...]fter their marriage they My dad was a fiddle player and played for moved to Roy and Har[...]er on road maintenance and was school janitor for a dances in all the country school ho[...]e always jobs for the kids to ing under a bench in the winter or in the car in the pick up;[...]ngton in the summer to work. made in a big copper wash boiler and drank out of In the[...]t and bring in job again and so they returned for a few years. In 1943 the car seat so they had a place to sit in the middle they again ret[...]
	[...]n and my uncle Chet Larsen played together for a number of years in the 30's. They were usually[...]they got paid that way. Everyone always had a good time and looked forward to the next Saturday because there was usually a dance somewhere. Dad was also janitor in the Roy school for a number of years when I was growing up. It was[...]pot-bellied stove in every classroom. It took a lot Katherine, Verge. Front row: Haruey[...]Myrtle was employed by the school at one time as a George married Vivian Mathison after a stint in the cook.[...]1917 and 1918. He then was employed by Deaton for a through the 8th grade. He married Ad[...]freighter. After his death her mother married a man by Dam, Wisconsin, the son of Mr. and Mrs. John Gradl.[...]istown area. Both He came to Montana in 1907 with a railroad construc- passed on in the 30's. Eva had a half sister, Emma, who tion crew.[...]married Joe Koliha and also a half brother, Gene In Lewistown h[...]
	[...]d Ronald. Walter now and was always ready to lend a helping hand with any resides in Billings;[...]ary 12,7974. Both are buried in Jim was a mechanic for the Ford garage at Roundup Sunset Me[...]om North Dakota in 1915 and members. He worked as a clerk and was manager for bought a relinquishment.[...]in1927 and moved to Buffalo. They had one bought a relinquishment near Roy.[...], during WWII. Chevrolet dealership. Mae operated a rooming house Mae passed away August29,19[...]November 12, \97I. Alfred A. passed away July 13, On 3 October, 192[...]
	[...]route the fall and winter of 1927 -28. George had a ne\r' Durant car which he used when the roads were dry, however many times it took a team and wagon or sled and sometimes George used a saddle horse and pack horse. A news excerpt dated 30 March 1929 reads: Ge[...]st few months, left Roy Monday morning . with a team and bob-sled, expecting to make the round[...]. Roy. They were a popular couple and had many friends.[...]e moved to Fromberg where he managed a lumber and both born in Norway, the sons of Hans[...]r, Nels was tall, lean, handsome, with a glint in his eyes Carrie, came to the United States three years before and a smile on his lips most of the time. He was very P[...]imates and costs. tcok. Carrie married Ole Olness a merchant at Ryder, He ran the[...]
	[...]r'r' Seattle in 1943 where Nels worked in a cabinet shop and later owned a smail grocery store. He passed away in 1968 and[...]hants and stockmen, came to the United States as a young man and worked for several years at his trade as a carpenter in Fargo, North Dakota. Later he home[...]a El tr he became actively interested in stoc[...]o lL chased a ranch in the Armell's section.[...]Bank of Roy, after serving as vice president for a number of years. He was president during the recession that followed WWI. As a merchant and business man, he encouraged and[...]area. She married Robert Stoudt in 1939. They ran a grocery store at Polson for five years and later[...]Agency which is now run by their son, James. Now a widow, she lives in Missoula with a daughter. Pearl Irene, born December 12[...]
	[...]Theaters during \VWII. He rvas a special assistant to[...]R.S. Barbee cared for him n'hen he was a baby to save[...]graduated from UM with a degree in Business Admin- (in the middle)[...]istration. During WWiI he rvas a Major in the Corps of and Helen Hanson.[...]l. She married Bjorn Garnaas and a stock and commodity broker and in reai estate. He[...]held in Lewistown. After beginning a law practice in Billings Norman Ida remained in Missoula until she entered the Coeur was a special agent for the FBI in l94l-42. He served i[...]he age of nineteen he moved to Germany to work in a glass factory. From there he sailed on the ship,[...]and, Nerv York. This was in 1910. He stayed about a year with two haif-sisters and a half- brother, who taught him to speak English. L[...]A four generation picture. From L. to R.: Libby (Ha[...]six miles east of Roy, he managed to prove up on a homestead[...]t toler:rte the sight of sheep, he decided to run a and other merchandise to supol[...]
	[...]x FeHr;t,s Cor'^-r'r' him until tl-rey' found a homestead, a t*o"room house ies. He rvould visit[...], then In i930 our dad bought a baby grand Chevy; we being soid through the Yankt[...]vers. He also 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 th[...]ing for Lewistown. He rvould hitch four horses to a brother, Joe, owns the place, while i[...]GI-ENN Hour.rns Glenn Holmes was a telegraph operator and station Neb[...]married in Great Falls July 13, 1916. They had a son, ern Railroad. Capt. J.A. Holmes USN (1965). Holmes was born in Septembe[...]ettie, of the "Bootlegger Run", a irail the bootleggers used to and his son, Frank.[...]Stella. "the rifle" under a lridge. Those were exciting times! Coming first[...]g house (Dunn's) that stands on the north side of a place west of Roy to put up hay and to feed their[...]The house that they lived in had no windows, just a[...]n, in crates, and then were assembled in door and a partition in the middle to separate it into[...]Murphy's garage. He earned 304 a day" If he stayed all two rooms. Anna use to tell of a time when three very[...]
	[...]81 and now live in Le,'istown. Ralph resides a few miles south of Grass Range. He left Roy in 1[...]d, Oregon where he worked in the forests. He was a navy man in World War II. When he[...]-.i:-EEi Martenic, had a sawmill in the Snowies.[...]avid and Dale. Don was killed in an a# =l auto accident in 1986, Dan is the c[...]a--r:r:.;'=-\, more DVM and they have the Paul Bisc[...]ceased, married Bessie Lunda of Hilger. They had a place near Hilger and also had a coal mine in the Judiths" Frank adopted Bessie's[...]orachek. Dan's twin, Don, Lewistown where she was a maid fbr a well-to-d.o-fam- holding their sist[...]ncle. Stan ily until she was 15. She received gl2 a month, which Horachek. was.collecte[...]d to Roy in lg4b and Amyot. They had a son, Clarence, who was born in[...]She returned to Roy, with her son, and stayed for a Annir married Paul Bischoff. short ti[...]their States rvith her parents. John Horl'na was a cabinet possessi{)ns. hrrrs('s.[...]
	[...]h an acquaintance they got to Roy by wagon, where a dear man brought them to John Hartman's residence[...]d brought from Hilger, and could proceed to build a home. On New Year's Day, a day still vivid in Jim's memory, they moved into[...]e. The winter was tough; food scarce. John took a shot- gun and with son, James, they went to hunt[...]cook. For frrewood there were posts set in for a fence. John took them down to keep the stove goin[...]lger for groceries and supplies, before there was a Roy. In 1914 the Horyna's daughter, Ann, was bo[...]wherever eise he school system. can lend a helping hand. Howard, his wife Millie, and their daughter, Patricia, Gene now operates the ranch as the "elders" ha[...]For transportation Mrs. Hrouda bought a horse and married in Prague, Czechoslovakia. He was a cobbler buggy to get to Roy for supplies[...]e came to Kansas to homestead. In told by a gypsy in Czechoslovakia that harm would i910 he s[...]and son, Frank, to join him. come to him by a horse and so he feared horses. In 1913 they jou[...]any days to the iimber to cut down trees to build a he continued to work for the railroad. Joe and Mary log house. They then borrowed horses and a wagon to both passed away in Koli[...]
	[...]After several years, they moved to Roy and opened a pool hall and set up a barber chair, since both were barbers. In 1921 th[...]Archie, with the goodness of his heart, gave many a During ihe hardships of the thirties, many peo[...]A.A. AND JANE JoHNsoN A.A. Johnson was born in Indiana on September 14,[...]Illinois In 1918 they bought a drug store in Roy which they School of Pharmacy.[...]Roy in 1912 where he was associated in Superior, Wisconsin, where he grew up and received in[...]iamation. In 1938 thev moved to 1891 in Bayfield, Wisconsin. Six children were born to this union: Wiliiam[...]Johnson On a side street near the Johnson Lumber and Ha[...]
	[...]also moved tc, Glendive. June 29, 1944. He \4'as a \\'WII veteran. After being Wi[...]a) Ka.r-al by Grand.ddughter Carley (Wass) Graham and Great-granddaughter Lindsay (Graham) Story In Czechoslovakia, "ova" attached to a surname, ing in which the but[...]urchase and had been left fully stocked with kia, a village 60 miles south of Prague, Czechoslovakia.[...]a' and the girls dovvries. Antonette was to enter a Catholic bles. She planned to put in a full line of groceries. music conservatory, but a family debate ended her O[...]rk City on 28 May 1883, bought a hardware store in Valentine, Montana. Jim age 19[...]s unable to speak Horyna still has a clam post hole digger his dad got English, but we[...]she was always called tycoon, J. Morton Gould, as a nanny to his frve-year-old in Roy.[...]ld beef In 1885 she wed Jan (John) Kalal, also a Czech to Antonette. Her son, Dan, butchered the animals for native. He was a butcher and Antonette learned the[...]s. Horynas trade from him. They eventually oivned a grocery and delivered the meat[...]linois, Antonette owned and ran A tall woman, she carried herself well and dressed a boarding house. A knitting machine made socks and accordingly. She made many of her clothes, including a mittens for extra income.[...]arding the wool, spinning the thread, dyeing took a homestead near Roy in 1914. A pioneer all her it violet, and[...]this land too. Jim she had a dressmaker sew her good clothes. Horyna's grandfather, Anton Horacek, was a Chicago According to Jim H[...]ven- was Joe Shebesta's. He was a rug weaver. He collected tually became the owner[...]t of town, where she mount on a Model T. The vehicle could then act as a erected a small dweiling. Originally, she planned to tractor for plowing purposes. After a couple summers, open a boarding house in Roy, using the furnishings Joe wanted more money, this time for a rug weaving from her Cary establishment. However,[...]ine. Again, Antonette advanced the funds. She had a hotel. Early that October, she bought the[...]
	[...]ns tr-r take back to Ro1'. She errvisioned Roy as a green provided her u'ith eggs. communitlz and once hoped to run a tree nursery in Antonette never[...]polkas, and she loved flowers. She kept a beautiful a large wooden tank she had built. Unfortunately, t[...]in her garden. A month past her 93rd birthday In 1921, AIby wed Lindsay (L.M.A.) Wass. After the Antonette fell asle[...]Later he moved to World's Fairs. She ahvays took a satchel of homegrown the old Sharp pl[...]her raised in the area. They attended a school near Valen- eyesight failed. This didn't s[...]ldest, Lilly, did stay w-ith her grandmother, put a name tag on Antonette, and off she would go to Antonette, and attended school in Roy for a year or two. Florida for the winter. When this became too difficult, Jack was a tall man and was exceptionally artistic. the tag gave Sylvia's Wisconsin address, Antonette's His death was t[...]nto the barn bolted. After the bank crash, L.M.A. Wass bought Roy's After Jack was[...]stown. First Nat'l Bank buiiding, turning it into a general Jack was born in Chicago on[...]Roy. Destruction in- Charly died as a young marr, in Chicago. cluded her store and part[...]r his mother. He married Marie income, living for a time in a Lewistown house she Dorsey who had a homestead near Valentine and also owndd. She was[...]uages. How many do you work. He was a foreman on the building of Hoover speak?"[...]en he met with the accident that Antonette was a favorite with her grandchildren. claimed his life. He had a feeling of impending disaster Carley (Wass) Graham recalls "Grandma" took her, and[...]in Chicago-he died in 1933. finally put a stop to the adventures, as Antonette loved[...]Vancouver, B.C. A very good cook, Antonette often made gingerbread[...]arried Lynn Van Zandt in old wood stove and place a heavy iron kettle near the 1922. He was a cashier at the bank in Roy. fire. The bread dough[...]Van Zandt went back to attend college in Wisconsin in the boiling lard. Antonette also made h[...]
	[...]Perr1, Ed, Joan to sell his interest in a meat market, as well as other[...]rge Larson Kalal two years in Europe with Battery A.,348th Field Artil- July[...]st 60 pigs March 26, L97l and Gladys is living in a nursing home which were about ready for[...]tevensville, Montana. Being in a flood.is a frightening thing, recovering Perry Ed married Marjorie Larson. They tried their after one is a disheartening chore. Everything is full of luck a[...]ck raising along the river, on silt. "We had a couple feet of silt covering the floor. All King[...]bove normal Perry and Marge had rescued a lot of things, but June 'raise' of the Missouri R[...]so high that only Zortman where Perry secured a job with the highway
	[...]Rot department, a job he held for several years. They[...]Army, tion of Jess's Corner Service and built up a thriving then shortly after they were[...]engaged in farming and ranching in a bar in Zortman, Montana and within a couple of addition to running the cafe. years added a cafe (Miners CIub and Wapiti Hay Cafe). Perry[...]dren. Linda (Ras- The5' later built a garage with motei units, a mobile mussen) has three children; Margie, Heidi and Joe. home court, and a museum. Dick and Lucy sold their Heidi is a 1988 RHS graduate. Laurie (Kibbee-Bowser)[...]orn in Scotland, and migrated to For a time he drove the stagte between Roy and Canada a[...]recali being told, Hiiger, he operated a stage betu'een Roy and Hilger. In about 18[...]
	[...]'istown. She brought 'ith her three children by a previous marriage, Victor, Perry and Edith Arnau[...]in 1913 or 1914. Victor married Emily Cliff, a niece of Mrs. J.B. Sar. geant. Thef iater moved t[...]passed away now. The folks homesteaded one and a half miles east of Roy. Two daughters were born t[...]sible as she was quite small The folks operated a dairy and sold milk in Roy dur- ye[...]cows but kept the ranch. At this time they bought a house in town. Sarah LaRocque lives in the house[...]the bunkhouse in from the ranch and made it into a cream station. He bought cream for the Fergus Cou[...]Mother passed away September 10, 1923. This was a[...]s oil station, taken in 1927. he decided to build a garage and filling station on the corner and[...]d Refining Co. out of Lewistown. He soid this at a later date and built another station across the[...]about 1927. I have always felt a special cioseness to RHS, not[...]and A.A. Johnson. fathers got together and decided a high school was again needed. My father happened[...]were the Goves and Scotts. map, so to speak, with a new school and gymnasium. Charl[...]Lervisto'n. Mr. and lvlrs. Forseman were a couple I my diploma. He signed as chairman of the[...]Sunday schooi activities, and she was a beautiful seam"
	[...]u'ent to school in the old P.A. \Veedell buildine which I married Henry Kahler in 1936 in Lewistown. used to be a store. My first teacher was Miss Dubois.[...]town grew father had to pay so much a month. I did not finish rapidly after more settle[...]Leonard Dunn. I was born in a log cabin, the daughter of wonderful[...]lves, working for the government. Later he became a Pacific Northwest. farmer, then went[...]lost my mother when I was quite young, and it was a creamery and a service station. He was aiways a very one of the saddest times of mY li[...]Leonard and I have a wonderful son and family who When I was ready f[...]Dorothy passed away on 1 January 1975 in a Great came to Montana at the age of four from All[...]by IIla Willmore from a taped interuiew with Rose Gardipee. There[...]ose says that the daughters to a flu epidemic. 'old[...]neys and the Gardipees. as a youngster. Their homestead was in the vicin-[...]The Hanson would give us kids a big sack of candy'" LaRocques are of Indian[...]The kids always looked forward to that; it was a French descent. Rose is proud ofher heritag[...]At one place she remembers moving to, a scary Ralph LaRocque and Isabelle Thomas w[...]event occuned. They had arrived in a wagon at married on Septembet \2, 1898. The[...]all rvere cold and hungry' children. Rose (a daughter) listed offthose, as she "[...]in order of birth: Frank, Sarah, a fire. There was a Sranar)' near the house where Steve, Jim, R[...]and upon investigation he found a man, hanging all passed awa)' as you[...]
	[...]too she described as crisp and sweet. There was a Fergus. It was moved there from Armells.[...]d, though she had many. This one was into a log house."[...]bloom, the blossoms were made into a tea. It was rigs. He couidn't read or wri[...]n *'ashing. For She remembers a wonderful Indian bread, ban- several year[...]s house and some uncle would make a hole in the ground. They'd Iots to her.[...]let it bake. When done it was a delicious golden Chemewa, Oregon. Rose we[...]her food she remembers from these good as a result of a chiidhood accident while they were old days was a type of pudding called "son-of-a- playing, and was sent to a sanitorium in Pheonix, bitch in a sack"! After it was made it hung in a Arizona. Rose, Joe and "Aggie" also atten[...]her mother use Steve, came to get her in a newly purchased Model to dry lots of berries; June berries ("service berries A, which he "didn't know how to drive. I was is a terrible name to call such a good thing"), cur- scared all the way to[...]saw it...Well my stomach just A gocd friend of her brothers that Rose recalled flipped. It was a little one room tar paper shack. was[...]that place!" a horse trader. made moonshine and "I was in[...]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[...]wing hides when tan- heard such a bunch of lies. They were so funny, I ning[...]has of her grandmother hides up, In about a week or so, Oh they'd be rankl Carrie[...]listening to the music from the radio. "She was a looking tools, they had blades on them ab[...]ssed away April 3, 1966. She was gol each a flat stone and made it into a type of born March 20,1879 at Willow Creek, the daugh- hammer. They would take a few chokecherries ter of Mr.[...]most of ties out of them and put them on a canvas to dry' the other family mem[...]oy and was herding sheep in the would put a little grease in a pan and with a little Dupuyer area when he was[...]
	[...]ruck. In later years, Belle, by this time herseif a iived in Roy. Rose, at present, lives in Lew[...]still quite young, died by accideni:,il with a daughter.[...]'s children are Darrell, Frankie, a patient in Lewistown nursing home. Jim also[...]Cookie". but she rvas called Dodo. Karen was a step' Steve was also a railroad section man at Roy. daughter to Joe[...]e, I{arie, had two children, Ray- Joe was a handyman; Jack of all trades. He mond and Nanan, a nickname. Rose couldn't hauled hay, sheared sheep, worked as a ranch remember her name. S[...]her school in Roy for several years. Jim was a rail- crocheting and makes qui[...]Lewistown Carrie was killed when run over bv a[...]e worked at gold mining at Marysville Roy. He was a respected pioneer of this area. when it was Monta[...]. He died Montana where Mr. Latty was employed as a janitor at at the home of his brother, George, in Chicago 19 Sep- the Judith Theater for a number of vears. He later[...]
	[...]HEesre nr FcRcL:s CoL'\Tl Leqrstosn. We lived in a lrrg cabin on rhe Al Knapron place, east of Ro5'.[...]-i school burnt dou'n. We went to school in a church, tr barber shop, or rvher[...]George Richards. "Little" George gained a reputation were divorced in 1975 and I married Eivin Pickard in as a roper. He was liuing in Washington when last 1976[...]In spite of Bill's handicap he has led a very active life. the 10th grade. When Billy was[...]otterfs Cafe through the the. north side of the A.A. Johnson Drug Store. The 1940's unti[...]15 acres ofwheat yielded 180 In 1911 Madison, a widower, and his son, Henry, bushels. packed their possessions and livestock into a box car He died, October 4, 1915,[...]a Madison Ailbough, acres, making a total of 320 acres. Emma Madison Bare, Sim[...]
	[...]ied on January L2,L970 They raised, from birth, a niece, Mary Clarice Mann, in San Bern[...]Canada. in 19Sit Mary Clarice was a granddaughter of Richard and[...]information supplied by Adeline tr[a.rsh Dotson Clifford S. Marsh was born on Jun[...]ung at the time to homestead, but he later bought a relinquishment of another home- steader in the sa[...]an Agricuiture Coliege in Fargo, North Dakota tbr a year.[...]rds School of Business in Lewistown. It was at a dance at the Valley View School house on[...]with a paddle Cliff first laid eyes on his future bride.[...]i remember seeing him, but that fall he came with a crew[...]d then later in Great Falls when au'a1'. For her first 2 1'ears of grade school she boa[...]er's honrestead. The bank had first real home was a sod house on the upper part of clos[...]Tht,n in 11)11) rrt'te r thel"d savt,d a little more, the bank with their farm work and fa[...]In really cold homestead shacks together and made a house on his tirnt's ir.r[...]
	[...]hcr rvonder'1ul serrse of hut-nor. She was a Jones. Later shr i.rnd Irenc bltte hed in a one roolr house president of the Ro1'[...]hen rvent to work for the county on A i'eu'-r'ears after Cliff s death Opal moved to Living- road maintenance in the :-irea. a iob hc-held until his ston to be ne[...]passed arvay' there on April i4, i987 after a lengthy The coupie's fifth child, son Merle, wa[...]band and cember i939. Merle became quite ill with a throat infection son. of some sort in A[...]by Joann Marsh Bahr, a granddaughter[...]was commissioned as Postmaster of Roy, a job he held In 1913 William L. Marsh traveied t[...]until retirement in 1946. Maude Marsh became a postal Ottawa, Kansas and filed on a homestead claim in clerf: i[...]s in Roy. and household belongings. They lived in a tent part of William L. and Maude lr'larsh celebrated their 50th that year (191{r until a httme could be built. They u'e[...]e of tough to makc it liting and William L. found a summer their flimill- \\:[...]
	[...]d wife, Mary, and their children moved to Roy for a year Amy Larsen, sisters. The Larsen girls were t[...]rriage, stayed in the area for ton. He is a CPA and has a famiiy of six children' many years and raised the[...]George and Helen were married in i931. They had a part of the United States. family o[...]children. where he r,r'as employed as a janitor at the college. Earl was bo[...]hildren. Bill is Winnett. They lived at Moore for a time when Harold manager of the Con[...]d by Jim Bowser two daughters. He is a computer technologist for I.T.T. for many years.[...]ungest child, Sheryl, died in infancy. They had a large family of eleven children. Eight of[...]
	[...]here he resided. It was along about 1916 thai a Western movie pro- duction was made in the Zortma[...]Buttes area. Silent pictures, of course. John had a horse shot out from under him in one scene, and rescued a da#,sel[...]MayberrY in distress when the coach overturned in a creek and she came up under the wheel with her he[...]d due to inhumane use of animals. Mayberry had a good reputation and worked on[...]eleven years. ranches throughout this area, being a trusted employee When John came to[...]last ranch enterprise. His brand was a four hanging 27 and roads were choked with deep s[...]se, stage and train to John died of a self-inflicted gun-shot wound, at his Lewistown to secure a doctor's help for his friend. It Roy[...]John ranched on the south side of the river for a three sisters, Lillian Westerman of[...]s and Mabel Mayberry in California" John operated a ferry at the Towns bottom for awhile.[...]Barbee. when he was on the river and was a well-known cowboy He and Mike Machler operated i[...]ronica) Darrah were sisters. The McArtys took up a homestead close to the Red Barn. They soon sold their homestead and opened up a restaurant in Roy, which they ran for 12 years. T[...]then moved to Grass Range, in 1928, and operated a Kliegel restaurant[...]
	[...]e same time. His brother, Thurlow, came to Roy at a later date. Louisiana died in 1920, a victim of the flu epidemic, and was buried in Rap[...]estate and insurance businesses. Winifred became a Fergus County Deputy Sheriff. She was appointed t[...]y in the 1922 bonh robbery. street,. McCain was a large man; weighed over 200 pounds. McCain was one of eight brothers' Three survived He was a very popular man, liked by all.[...]furnishings for our home came from bride of just a. few months, Jane Hamilton McCain, auctions. Mother insisted we have a phonograph homesteaded on Armells Creek, north of[...]t we could listen to good music. We had no became a well-known stockman and merchant during[...]his brother, Allison, they The bathroom was a two-holer out back, but in owned the McCain & McCain Lumber yard and had an rvinter we had a chemical toilet that fit in our par' interest in[...]coid and lack of feed. He lost a lot of cattle and The following story of the M[...]We owned a touring car and later bought a Ford These are just bits and pieces from our memories: Ir{odel T. Johnsons drove a Buick, they had brag- Home in Roy: the first home was a log cabin in ging rights; but their c[...]pull them out with the Ford. where they built a house. The house is still stand' There was a church between our house and the ing. Our nei[...]nuts and candy to the children. Fruit was a wond- On the same street was the house wher[...]Many people believed mother McCain lived for a short time; she died in at that time t[...]had lived in Hawaii and knew that babies was a large house where Allison (Ally) and[...]ime that Daddy went to Winifred McCain lived. A man named Mitten lived Lew'istown he brought back apples, oranges and with them; in a tent in the back yard. He was[...]
	[...]town lvent out to Romundstads where they had a grove of trees and we picnicked and played ga[...]needed water for his engine. Mother gave him a teakettle full. The biggest event was[...]fence be- tween Johnsons and our home to get a gun. We saw parts of the trial in Lewistown and Allie's wife, Winifred, was a Deputy Sheriff for Fergus County at the that[...]blood A group of Roy poisoning.[...]fter Daddy died Mother kept it registered for a good many years. Roy Hanson Thurlow p[...]ssion to use the brand and now we Roy of a heart attack on July 23, 1926 atthe a ge of.44.He no longer have it registered.[...]epidemic, on the day we arrived. Daddy wanted a in 1937 and moved to Entiat, Washington[...]in Art at the Univer- ting his lariat out in a big circle, he would hold one sity of Idaho, d[...]Daddy died, Mother's brother came to Roy a program for children with dyslexia. She wa[...]
	[...]Miller Woodson My first memory of Roy is a cold day in February, 1925, when I was eleven years old. Dragging a sled loaded with bundles and with my kitty on top, in a gunny sack, with just her head sticking out, I fo[...]Sada Helen Nichols both boiled in a large copper boiler, and hung on the line to home[...]g, and First National Bank in Roy gave promise of a salaried brought the world much closer, withoutintruding on the job and a permanent home after years of insecurity. I freedom of the wide open spaces. think Dad was a farmer at heart-he soon had a large Dad worked hard to get R[...]garden in the vacant lot by the house, and built a shed 1928. It was only a two-year high school, that continued for chickens and a cow. He enjoyed his job, involvement[...]ork creating flowers and vegetables. She traveled a lot with Dad to our first high schoo[...]entine, as well I was sublimely happy. Dad got a lovely little brown as the high schoo[...]ed There were exciting summer events like rodeos, a circus, roads, for the bridge across t[...]education. He wrote a column for the Democrat Neri;s in In winter th[...]n moonlit nights. Standing on top of a column headed "Roy News". He was very unhappy the[...]for college in Dillon, knowing we had to move a*'ay and with cat-tail torches and a bonfire to warm weiners and I rvould[...]re were always the dances-at For a short time Mother and Dad lived in Winnett, The A[...]awdust moved to Lubbock, Texas for a year, then to California to find good chunks of i[...]California. My husband house, and for putting out a fire. For drinking and pas[...]
	[...]passed away in 1978 and was survived by a brother, They came to Roy from Anthon, Iowa an[...]nd they had Irene attended school" Montang became a contractor one daughter, Sharon (Boyes). Cook was[...]874in Jefferson. She died Decem- a RN. She married Lester Heller in 1951 and resided[...]rrton, Ross Fork, Montana, passing for a boy of 16. Upon Kansas, the youngest of 13 childr[...], Ella Mclaughlin, lived and went to work for the A team of horses she was driving spooked and bolted[...]xt few years he worked onto the track in front of a mowing train, killing his for ranches[...]juring an older sister and infant became a wheelturner for the railroad at Cheyenne, nephew.[...]hrough town by Wyoming. jumping into a box car and headed for parts unknown Returning to Valentine a few years later, Joe home- with only a feu' cents in his pocket and the clothes on his[...]He arrived in Laurel, Montana in the middle of a ated the Roy Garage. The garage was[...]t by blizzard and u'as washed off the boxcar with a high Joe and he ran it for approxim[...]e in pressure hose. After drying his clothes over a hobo's fire operation he sold Whipp[...]
	[...]gus County. The early 50's found her working as a plane spotter for the Ground Observer Corps. Du[...]Murphy with mately 50 years she also served as a public Notary and a[...]Grocen, for her brother, Glen Rindal, for a year. After worked for two years for Roth Constru[...]father's ranch. ing in Rc.ry and u'as a teacher's aide in 1g62. She clerked He lef[...]
	[...]y were working on construction and were liuing in a trailer park at the KX Bar at Mobridge. The India[...]urn-off to the Speed Komarek Ranch. Danny was a born cowboy, ,*'ith rodeoing and ranching his mai[...]and also a service station. Their first home was a house called "elevator shack". Anthon[...]a in the Anthony boarded with his teacher, Miss B.A. Hickey, winfer of 1941-42. In Sep[...]to turn the ferry sioning of his ship, a light cruiser, the USS Sante Fe. around in mid-ri[...]d War II and both brothers The family moved to a farm 1 mile west of Roy in 1927. were ha[...]from Pennsylvania to South Dakota where he had a job Lewistown and eventually spent the rest of th[...]ting aircraft for the government. They arrived in a rest home there. As I remember they were laid to[...]home for 31 years. Anthony was given a job as aircraft 1960 and she in January of 1966,[...]classes of 1931 and 1935. a position under the Navy department at the Sound[...]he was employed for 29 years until retire- opened a shop in Roy, but due to the poor economy h[...]
	[...]hony and Anna Station. This was the beginning of a love for San Diego.[...]t 1950. made their infamous attack. His ship took a direct hit, but (luckily) did not sink and was ab[...]tired. finished 5 years of college and became a Virginia, which sank to the bottom of the harbor.[...]ip was bombed were, "I sure Beach, a suburb of San Diego. He taught there 12 years hop[...]his father for a math teacher. Emil saw action in the very thic[...]mil's wife, Amanda, passed away after 19 years of a was promoted to Chief Petty Officer in either rad[...]war. He was in the Bernice Kistler, a widow. They lived in Pacific Beach Korean conflic[...]to retire in Idaho. Amanda Evans, who was a widow with 2 small children. T[...]able to attend college at night living a good life of traveling, doing whatever brings where he studied to be a teacher. After 20 years in the them[...]ToNv Musrcx Tony (Musek) was, for a time, in partnership with The[...]way from home after dark. where the road followed a cut-bank coulee which was The[...]about 20 feet deep. The road curved away to go up a County Attorney McConochie and h[...]of the occupants. Tony crawled had a gallon of 'white mule' in his possession. He gave[...]fted the car off of Carl who was quite a cash bond of $500 and the arresting parties confi[...]T 19N R 238 Sec. 18 Mr. Neff was a native of Ohio and came to Montana it is one of a kind. He had a neat two-room frame house in 1914, homesteaded at[...]his death. Charlie Charley Neff, a '*'idower, died at his home, 15 August u"as a quiet individual and a good neighbor. He farmed 1937 at ag[...]ewis, George and Frank. His body was forwarded to a John, made the trip to Moniana with his ir[...]
	[...]dy's Saloon in Shorty left Roy for a time and then returned in the Roy. His partner wa[...]now as the Yaeger in Lewistown as a bartender. He was married a second Ranch, for many years. He was a cowboy and hired man. time, to Ileene E[...]ssed Shorty's main occupation in life was that of a bar- away. tender and card player. He[...]In 1930 Nickolson opened a filling station in Roy for He and Libby J. wer[...]the Weiloff Oil Company of Lewistown, a Mobile Oil bought the European Hotel and Cafe at[...]d mining claims in On 11 March 1932, a surprise party honored the the Judith Mountains[...]Great Falls where he works for the city as a plumber I was married to Biil Lettengarver on O[...]school' I was to his passing following a stroke, on November 24, living there when Billy a[...]and John E. Nylander were in has sold a haif interest in the business to Leonard the merc[...]first and Peter Raben. They sold it to P.A. Weedell. to be called to our attention is Nyland[...]z and Maude Mr. Nylander, who has been conducting a successful Morton. general me[...]
	[...]'.1,1 0 Jorrx B. A\D M.AL;r)E NyL.q,sunn[...]August 27. 1967 in Eau Claire. His wife operated a farm implerr,ent agency until his retirement and a daughter. I\{rs. Robert Anderst.rn, sun'ived him.[...]o Roy with the rest of the family. Sophus \{'as a carpenter. Caroline was a midwife who The Sophus Olsen family. F[...]Wrr-r-nu AND INcA (Bnox) OI-sEs William A]bert Olsen,the sixth child of Sophus and[...]Eggs were 7 or I cents a Caroline, was born January 14, 1883, in Albert Le[...]he daughter of Ingvart William 'as a good natured fellow' and rvas loved by and Beret[...].r'ell. He loved to teli them stories. Inga ''as a North Dakota in 1906.[...]homestead, eight miles choked on a carrot. He is buried in the Roy Cemetery. southeast ofRoy, by n'agon. Sophus was a carpenter, so The child ren[...]
	[...]Or NonrHseslnnr- Fe ncus Corrru"rv bought a new binder in1927, and when they left the[...]oving to Bozeman area in 1934 he had never raised a crop to use it on. q'here she finished[...]Russell and Debbie. Bob has Anton Rindal. He was a good friend of Milton Allyn, a been engaged in farming, logging and is currentiy a man who seemed to be ahead of his times, in that[...]ker. owned an airplane, motorcycle, new truck and a new George Olsen was born Februar[...]ugh in 1955 in Carmel, Bill rn'as wellliked and a good worker. He joined the California. B[...]Air Force and now lives in Suisun. Nancy. He made a career of the army and was awar{ed C[...]he Bronze Star in Viet Nam. He retired in 1970 as a Betty, the youngest of the Olsen ch[...]ought his bride to Roy, Montana where he filed on a U.S. Government tromestead, southeast of Roy. Here he farmed the virgin land and established a home. Due to drouth, poor crops and hail, Edwar[...]Northern Pacific Railroad. They sold the place to a Fogie family. Marjorie died in 1929 after the b[...]n part as follows: about 1912. He ranched and had a threshing machine CERTIFICATE OF DISCHARGE BECAUSE ENGAGED IN and did custom threshing= It took a fourteen-man crew A NECESSARY OR AGRICULTURAL ENTERPRISE. to run it. Charies was also a blacksmith and had a shop Under the act of Congre[...]
	[...]'...-.-..,-'y Charles was appointed a Deputy Siate Fire Marshall on Jul1'13, 1929. He was also the town constable at one time. A 1917 Fergus county tax receipt shows that Charlie paid a total of$118.51 taxes on $3235'00 assessed value[...]Charles 160 acres ofland and a lot in Roy. A breakdown ofthe[...]Charlie, were in business together for a time at the Schooi Dist. #1?9; .31Q-Roy Fire. Tax[...]n time' That MADE operated a pool hali. HIM MADI Consequently his outho[...]returned to Roy for a couple of years in 1947 and 1948. Julia moved ba[...]Russell purchased a truck and did some trucking. They born on March 1[...]Russell was employed as a construction weldei. He Harry A. Oquist was born September 2, 1880 and was[...]January 21, 1976 at the age of56 years. kilied in a rock slide in the North Moccasin Mountains[...]She continues to live at Edmonds where she is a CPA. He married Olga Romundstad of Eau Claire,[...]house in Roy. Tom Link had built a log house on the and daughter Patricia moved to Roy in February of[...]at went to and ran cattle north of Roy. We bought a place 8 miles Mathisons, and[...]worked at the Roy elevator for a couple of years. Pat started trucking in 1951.[...]ldren in school and the roads a term on the school board. He rvas a volunteer fireman' were not kept open in the winter. There were no school I was a catechism teacher, 4'H and cub scout leader buses. We had eight children by then: Patricia, James, for several years. Jo[...]Pat hauled logs from Rocky Point and we put up a log Aprii of 1972.
	[...]tsronv Op NoHlurestuHs FcHr;t's Couury I was a part'tinre flexible clerk in the post office St. Leo's. beginning in IV1a1'of 1971. I was the school clerk from[...]stmaster there. works as a cowboy and ranch hand and he has the I graduate[...]n by Helen Hanson Hartman Jim O'Toole worked as a clerk in Peder Hanson's store. He was jolly and w[...]rn in Czech' oslovakia. Their homestead is norv a part of the Horyna ranch' The Piskacs got mail and groceries from the store in Rny. They sometimes used a horse to bring the gtoceries home, sometimes they'walked. Later mail was delivered by mail carrier to a box on the main road. Grandpa Piskac, who also wo[...]reground; Grandma Water was first obtained from a creek near Roy and Katherine and Gra[...]Marie, Charles, Jerry, Anton Jr. and Anna. from a cistern. The two-room house was located near the old Hart- had a dresser and a clothes cabinet, a small stove and man place and rvas built by Joe P[...]ighbors were the Horynas. Joe, Gerald, Vernon and Patricia. I recall, when[...]ion of the Morman crickets that ate up one of thc a stove (using sagebrush for fuei), large kitchen table, first decent crops. chairs and a cabinet for all the supplies" The bedroom[...]
	[...]finall;,the relatives got together and made a makeshift came irom Nebraska; a tradition we have kept up all dam[...]ack in Nebraska. Bohemian Hall. and it rvas quite a treat to go to the Rol' Anton passed[...]n December drug store for an ice cream cone or to a picnic at Black of 1956. Both are buri[...]away November 6, 1961 in Lewistown' He moving to a ranch at Circle' was a WWI veteran. Thel' weren't satisfied with the c[...]ved in Roy for several 1'ears after her hus- made a trip to Roy to visit the Maruskas. It was a very band's passing, then made her ho[...]ite, highway.'They carried on a dairy operation there. their daughter, was born.[...]tions in Roy at this time cation there and became a school teacher- They adopted and daily train service. \Valter a few years after Marguerites birth-[...]eral Walter was adopted when an orphan'age sent a bunch months at St. Joseph's Hospital rvhere he passed away of boys by train to a farming community in hopes that in[...]d for the rail- form of the railroad station with a group of people when road. A short time later they' moved to Harlowton these boys came off the train. Walter was just a little where Simkins passed awaY in 1[...]f 71' raised him as their own. This child gained a happy She was survived by three s[...]t)ka]" his education Lhere and came to Montana as a young He developed a cattle ranchirrg operation just south- man[...]
	Q=A HtsroRy O[...]on the ranch. Listed among his survivors were a son, JR, and a J.R. suffered a "heart stoppage" in December of 1984 daughter an[...]rers: Ann, Margie and and lapsed into a coma which lasted until his death in Dolly and t[...]nd the Roy Fire Board and did income rax rerurns; a tana. After his high school graduation he worked[...]J.R. was also survived by a son, Howard.[...]Judith Basin. In February of lgj\|, Reeble was a well-known hotel man in Roy's boom[...]during "zero" weother it burnt down, destroying a days. He was the proprietor of the stately Roy H[...]srnall building adjoining it. A stiff wind was blowing which he orginally built i[...]of the lumber to Kansas where'it was fell during a frshing excursion. They didn't think she[...]used to improue a ranch he had there and also to build had hurt her[...]e left side was still standing in 1g88. It Within a couple of days complications occurred and she[...]it and used it as a shop for a few years. that Joe buried his bride in the Roy C[...]d to come to John's father could get was a railroad section worker. the U.S.A. in 1890 to make their home. John was the[...]but they soon eldest of 4 children. As George had a brother in Fair- mastered it. When[...]
	[...]The store handled married in Lewistown and drove a Model T Ford out to[...]supplies. They had a Helen, in to live with them. She was 2Yz years ol[...]scale and also Helen's mother died when Helen was a week old. From[...]and foot and it was amputated. About a week later John did every repair job but building up heels on cowboy had a heart attack, on May 27,1945 and passed away. boo[...]e and postoffice to Charlotte away; couldn't make a iiving anymore. That fall Helen Oss[...]where they lived. Sam died October 16, L974. for a new location. When they looked at Cushman's[...]Roy, Montana. They were the happiest she received a certificate to teach, Helen taught in[...]was born in a log house on the Jenni homestead, 8 About this[...]ingly raised me artificial leg of a principal in high school. That awed at Roy from t[...]as 2t/z years old, in 1920, until I me as a chiid. graduated from Roy High School and attende[...]When I was very little the folks had a wood and coal in 1937 at Montana State University[...]ars at Roy were happy years for a small building out from the kitchen. There was a me. Our home was in back of Roy Shoe and Harness board walk from the kitchen. We had a metal stand in Shop, owned by Dad Reis and locate[...]t. I the corner of the kitchen with a rim at the top to hold remember watching hirn hal[...]hich we *'ashed. farmer's harness and, regularly, a leather strap on the Instead of a refrigerator, we had a zinc-iined wooden
	[...]fl0t NIr' box set dr-,'n inro the ground rl'ith a tight hinged lid. from Lervist.o\4'n to[...]he sectit-rn gang. During etc. More than once, as a child, a small Iizard surprised Lent the Catholi[...]the train for their congregation. A real treatl As child- Clothes rvere always hung[...]ched the train come in and leave. being washed on a wash board in a round tub set on a Fascinating to watch was filling the water tank on the stand. Mother had a copper boiler in which she boiled e[...]es also near the track. doubled as a bath tub. Hot rvater for a bath rvas heated There was one Catholic and one Protestant church in in kettles on a u'ood-coal stove in the early dal's.[...]of incioor bathrooms, we walked down a the Protestant church. That same church is[...]ld used for Sunday School classes. A lay pastor, Rev. winter nights rve had to bundle[...]. I remember the many music programs frlling once a q'eek.[...]oyed singing and accompanying for the Reis bought a piano so I could learn to play. At first I[...]had correspondence lessons. Each lesson was like a Catholic and Protestant summer[...]both churches and considered that a privilege. became a music teacher, and planned my own recitals[...]dearest friend, Mildred Dunn Biggerstaff, had a beauti- I was pleased at the prizes I received a[...]hankful Mother had How I longed to be a rose. The mustard seed had the taught me to se'[...]in turn sews Woman's Club sponsored a yearly declamation contest. for her children.[...]Mrs. Eva Murphy, a teacher, coached many of us. The Communitl' Life[...]music program was always strong. We had a band and area, and lvere very caring and support[...]rs. Lindsay Kalal Wass helped many students with a new baby in a family. Shivaree's were always given[...]ne brought noise community. She had a lovely trained voice. makers, food, and shower gi[...]the early years. Later they came in cars. As a child I new couple to their door where congratula[...]oudly voiced. Inside their home, socializing with a black-haired women with their volu[...]yes. Every store owner was Roy citizens buil,t a community hall where all large notifi[...]oy had unwelcome social functions \4'ere held. As a child I learned to dance visitors. With t[...]the street locked, I was brave in this hall. Once a year local talent provided an excel- en[...]wn for stealing anything an interlocutor u'ho had a sense of humor and could they wan[...]impossible to drive. This was a difficult time, especially library r,r'as alu'ays a fascinating piace for me. Every for fa[...]they made slick roads to drive on. Farming was a When I rl'as in high school I was allowed to be a[...]nature disaster was when the small creek Once a 'eek a sream locomotive train made its 'av[...]
	[...]August 18, 1910. We lived at Shawmut for a year, then street, the dray-man, using horses an[...]War II we moved to Washington where John taught a child it u'as scary when at night we heard the bi[...]I taught in elementary grades. bell, mounted on a stand above the town pump, ring We[...]ring and sharing friends otten unable to put out a burning business on main of all age[...]Ernest and Marie Jenni Reuss came to Roy to made a run on the bank to get out as much money as[...]ecause It was the only building in town that had a cement we became very close as sist[...]her Quilting on hand-made quilts at home was a social church in Havre, Montana where[...]lived in Roy for a time. He leased and farmed various places arou[...]eft the area. now and farmed that land. Harry had a dairy at one They were at Ft. Peck for a time when Clarence time when they lived in Roy. T[...]ry In 1956 John went to work as a surveyor for the Mon- 1956; Carson James, Aprii 1[...]uly tana Department of State Highu'a-vs. We continued to 1965.[...]ivened by our hunting river. We had a milk cow, 100 head of sheep, chickens and[...]
	[...]d all the children came home with ribbons. It was a Lewistown where Vicki is employed at[...]here. Later we moved to Lewistown where we bought a Ventures, a gold mine near Hilger, Montana. He is their home[...]homesteaded north of Roy. Stewart's place is now a part of the Speed Komarek ranch. Rife was a blacksmith by trade and he worked for Jim Vickory[...]usly been caught souri River. They had a truck garden in the 30's and in a trap and was minus a foot. sold wat[...]ores from Winnett to Stanford. Melons were 50 $25 a month, the first year, and $30 a month the second each and tomatoes L\/zQ a pound. While on the home- year. By 1927-28 he had[...]gh money to go out stead Olaf built a school with whatever himber he couid on his own"[...]that time Wisokay place. He bought his first car, a Whippet, in tbeir mail came f[...]
	[...]il at In 1945, Rose and Olaf bought a house in Roy, from the Mecaha (Garfield Co.) post[...]She was instrumental in starting the Rose had a bad experience in a Willys-Knight touring Roy TV Tax District. She operated a cafe in Roy for a car (only curtains, no windows). She was going do[...]ved to Lewistown in 1965 and operated the cats in a box tied on the front bumper. The car slid irr[...]e out, one by one. Olaf was following behind with a team on Casino Creek with an acreage w[...]had four boys: John born in November time, out of a shale bank. The cats all survived too!![...]1948. He worked there and in New Mexico for about a Sand Point for about 15 years befor[...]Joyce had nine children: Sandra (Town- John got a Cat and did some dirt work around the[...]Sandpoint, Idaho. They moved back to Roy; built a trailer court below Sharon died in infancy from pneumonia while John the rodeo grounds; bought a trailer house and moved to and Joyce w[...]nally settling in Sand and consumed a large amount of baby aspirin.[...]to Phil was born May 8, 1955 in lllinois. He is a RHS Michele Honeycutt. They have two[...]Olin born October 31, 1977. presently employed as a welder in South Carolina. They[...]istown. nois. She lives on the west coast and has a son, Corey. Lori (Mrs. Bill Adams) was born Mar[...]school and became a registered nurse. She lived in llli' Scot was b[...]964 in Leu'istown. He is in nois for a number of years and just recently moved to the[...]1, 1965 in Lewistown. Jodi is ment in a new hospital. also in the Air Force.
	[...]o worked. in Peder Hanson's store. There was also a daughter, Hortense. They once had the place which[...]lifeblood of this area, bringing Minnesota. While a child, he moved with his family to the h[...]Fergus County. E. Elliman, 7 October 1884. He was a railroader all his "Dad" Rowland, as he was affectionately known, a life, working in Iowa, Washington, Idaho and Montana. cheerful and ambitious person, contributed a great deal He came io the Roy area in 1910 and[...]miles around. above location. Walter Rowland was a brother to The Rorx'lands son, R[...]ny years. Waiter and Nellie celebrated their W.A. Rowland became Station Agent at Roy when[...]and telegraph operator at Washington. W.A. Rowland died suddenly. Memorial this post[...]
	[...]nterprise, May 29, 1919: The little two and a half-year-old girl of Mr. and Mrs. in[...]f the lowed the older children who were riding a pony in the child being lost, rec[...]pasture, and the supposition is, lost them in a coulee, father. Its discovery was[...]r husband when it child was in a portion of the pasture infrequently visited be[...]perished. As it was, had she gone into the creek a few feet Mrs. Dobeus did not know a child was lost and was out to on[...]inforrnation frorn Patricia Sandbo Hansen Edwin O. Sandbo and his wife, Florence, lived in Roy bought a drug store at Stanford, which they ran until from[...]1945 when they sold it. sota and was a registered pharmacist.[...]in Laverne, Minnesota. She died December 28, and Patricia Ann born December L2,7920. The children[...]mber 12, 1976. All are buried at and Patricia a first gtader when they sold out and[...]nadian home September 6, 1914. I was delivered by a non- Club in the garage at St[...]town. My dad sold his store to A. A. Johnson who had a My folk's second car was a Hupmobile which dad small pharmacy in a grocery store run by a man named sold to a barber whose only name I can remember was Weedell[...]um-running. moved to Stanford where my dad bought a drug store. I What happened to hi[...]t Stanford and graduated from lan a one chair shop and had a club foot and wore a high school there in 1932. special qhoe with a thick sole. My dad's store at Roy burned to th[...]house back Reed West, the cornet; a man whose last name was ofthe store, all one buil[...]There may have been another musician whom I don't a storage shed and coal bin" According to the story[...]of whiskey in the shed. There was a May Day celebration in the summer of A panel would be removed from the back of the shed[...]back crepe paper ribbons around a May Pole. wall. My dad left space by stacking his pharmaceuti- There was a harvest festival one fall with a man who cals forward of the wail and whiskey was stacked in the later became a noted aviator, Charles Lindberg. He and space. My[...]rd, was arrested as part of the a friend were barnstorming and did some aerobatics[...]d his fine in court at Great Falls. Dad also sold a few partner in to bringing thei[...]
	[...]e to Roy to offer rides at what may have been $15 a person a flight. There were two cockpits ahead of the piiots. I was a single rider in the front cockpit and the pilot h[...]hanic for "Dad" Lewis in his gar- age, had a motorcycle. One evening, after supper, Joe was gi[...]n the handlebars ahead of Joe. On my ride, we hit a culvert near the north end of the street and my.[...]the fender and tire on the' front wheel. I spent a month in St. Joseph Hospital the summer of 1925.[...]n the Catholic Church. The other bank the size of a 46 ounce can of orange juice. Extending was headed by a Mr. Stevens. from the center of rhe bottom of the cylinder was a The town pump had a platform over it wiih a railing. rather small tube leading into the bank. Rainfall was I remember a summer celebration with a verv small measured in a gauge, in the bank. One afbernoon, fol-[...]playing. iowing an extended dry period, I climbed a ladder at the I remember a celebration with a tug of war, possibly rear of the building and pou[...]homesteaders and townspeople. 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 measured a three inch rainfall. It took some man by[...]st people were wearing coats My mother directed a play a year or two after WWI because the weat[...]r of the Bill Johnson and others started a coal mine at the grocery store of Lindsay Wass. This store was directly end of a promontory just south of town. I remember across[...]s drug store. Johnson, who had a hardware store, saying the coal My dad was on t[...]ing the coal in his there were two church groups; a Lutheran Church on store which was at[...]store building had been a saloon until prohibition was Roy had a weekly newspaper briefly. The newspaper[...]Burt, came picking cotton knew he was a greenhorn and they over on a freight boat from England. He was eighteen would put a handful in his bag every little while. He and wan[...]o just get by. were raising him. His uncle was on a freigh't boat and Finally he decided t[...]had treight to Ner+' Orleans. Burt decided to get a job on this to learn to ride and cowboys had f[...]88. became a good cowboy and joined some other cowboys, He deserted the boat and Iooked for a job. The first one taking cattle up the old Chisholm Trail, through Kan- was picking cotton and pulling a long bag to put it in. sas and into Montan[...]attle ranches and practice to pick much cotton in a day. Women q"ho were eventuallv found his way to Lewistown. It was a very
	[...]and my dog. Once in awhile, a wagon or riders wouid Mrs. Cliff got so lonesom[...]them. Then they would go on to the was working as a lady's maid for a wealthy family in ferry over the Mi[...]she was met by several mem- Once a criminal, running away from the sheriff, bers of the Cliff family and rode to Gilt Edge with a came and stayed over night, and went[...]eumatism although she was alone a iot. My dad kept the dirt road and was in bed for[...]n repair, putting in culverts and Gilt Edge was a wild west town with shootings and wooden bridges. He would be gone 2 or 3 weeks at a fights at night, down-town. The Cliff Ranch was 3[...]their cabins built. went into Lewistown and found a housekeeping job at About 1907,[...]into the Roy was brought in with a light wagon and team, twice a country that same year. They purchased 158 acres[...]Finally the Ford car did the job. I can remember a widow, Anne Wight. This was known as the meadows[...]Burt and Emily were driving a herd of cattle through our yard to a Sarjeant homestead south of us. There was a bull in the herd and riders got to pushing the ca[...]e almost iost the baby then. with a lot of neighbors, and I would get to play with Wh[...]he-v put on programs. On the 4th of *"as put into a homemade box, Mother read some pray-[...]s rid- ers over him and he is buried up on top of a hill west of ing in them. This was after Roy was a town. the log barn. Jim Murphy and Dick Ka[...]
	[...]ry and even little pigs. They chasing a pretty girl with a horse and shooting to scare begged at the doors f[...]l they were 8 One time, I can remember he held up a hide that mea- or 10 years old. That f[...]In 1911 when Iwas 8 years old, my mother had a strict to keep order. One man teacher s[...]us breakdown. She was in the hospital a little ways and every morning he would cut three[...]ut was fairly good after that, aisles with a stick in his hand. He would tap you on the althou[...]ode 21/z miles to school. It was south of Roy and a studying. country school. Gracia Rowland t[...]chool. The first store in Roy was a small tar paper shack. It Later, the town got started and there was a school. It was the beginning of Peter Ha[...]t was so sat where the Woman's Club building was. A new much bigger. The town grew into a nice community, school was built two or three years later and I frnished had a nice hotel, two banks, two drug stores, a couple of eighth grade in it.[...]s, clothing stores, blacksmith shop, filling As a young girl I rode and helped my dad with brand-[...]I got ready for high school before there was a high until my marriage and have not been on a horse since. school in Roy, so I started in Lewistown in September In the early 1900's Roy was a rough town. Texas of 1918. The next year, a high school building was built, cowpunchers would[...]chrank came to Roy to William was a well known chef in Lewistown cafes. homestead in[...]passed away December 2, 1929 in Tampa, Peshtigo, Wisconsin area. Flori[...]n Great Falls where she is buried. There were was a clothes designer and seamstress for many years[...]V Morris and Murel, who were all born in Kansas. A 3on, ra,.-[...]912 the family moved to Roy and homesteaded about a half of a mile out of town, just a quarter of a mile west of the J.B. Sargeant ranch. Another son[...]ie, Glen and Brice. days. His first teacher was a Mrs. Debold and the 1st, 2nd problem to[...]hool building at that and 3rd grades were heid in a building downtown near time had a fenced in pasture in back of it in which to the M[...]mind. The road to Lewistown. which ran about a half
	[...]umbo as sticky as ever. "That Dodge car just kept a incidents. Take the time the dippi[...]Another gumbo'y event was going with his dad to a and one'ole' cow wouldn't go in. So she was assisted farm some distance from Roy to borrow a plow. They with a poke from one of the early da5' electric prods, h[...]ipping solution, the end result being There was a Dr. Hodges who lived at Hilger during[...]ttenrion. He often stopped iri at the Simkins for a quite different than todays. Joe Murph-[...]the end of a long bamboo pole; a piece of metal attached One time Brice was riding in the back of the wagon to a 6 volt battery *'ith a coil. He could reach out and that his dad was driving home from a field of hay he zap a critter from several yards awayl] was cutting with a scythe. The scythe was laying in the[...]pigs ail came mouth and applied it to the wound, a procedure he to feast, resultin[...]imkins, "I couldn't have done before! a better job myselfl" The wound healed nicely.[...]at were in Roy in those eariy The Simkins had a homemade sled that consisted of days were about a foot or more off the ground and pro- two logs hewed to make runners and a "box" set on the vided youth with m[...]in winter in that sled, spent quite a bit of time crawling around underneath \&'ay out[...]d, aware of the interest, and find a coin or two. contacted Joe Wright, who was going to Chicago with a The family moved away in 1924 and[...]d of cattle. He gave him 915 and asked him to buy a over. Blanche passed away in 1950 at[...]there in San Mateo, California. rvas a bad snowstorm that built a snowbank up against Brice and his[...]d pushed out over the snowbank to a trucker, mainly for the Great Northern Railroad, for get a shovel so that they could dig their way out of th[...]for jam; a garden for all kinds of vegetables and Summer was a time for get-togethers: men hunting[...]rkeys, sage hens, the women cooking them and then a big mutton. We made our own la[...]nd milk for Charlie and Louise Bishop and getting a taste of his cottage cheese[...]
	[...]really pretty prints then. Of course we each got a *'ood in for the stoves. penny to buy c[...]I remember the dances in Roy. We had a sleigh and We would play in the field while Mo[...]om the We went to church once a month. breaks and take some by train to Chicago,[...]ly opened here in the new country, it popped like a have been important in the settiing and developm[...]d to the other trunk. oppression of living under a dictatorship and miiitary As they bo[...]r luggage got separated from them, at they wanted a better future for their sons and daugh- ihe pier, and was put aboard a different ship so they ters. Stories about freedo[...]n was about 85 years old. Their row a team and wagon to meet the family at the stage ch[...]while Mrs. Siroky and the children had caught a ride to try earlier was now married to Richard Ko[...]to let him know where they were the Komarek's had a site chosen for the Sirokys adjoin- so[...]t to timber to cut the logs to border and boarded a ship and after a journey filled build their home. Siro[...]ong the nal log house still stands as a testimonial to his skilled way had taken advantag[...]family moved into the two rooms and attic. Later a eight miles north of Roy. When he stopped to rest[...]became naturalized citizens. A couple of months later he was joined by Mrs.[...]fields for crops and they slowly accumulated a herd of family left on a ship from Austria and it took a month cattle. The years were fiiled with hard work and the to come. Joe remembers the ship; a rat infested ship. hazard of having th[...]ut 5 years old when they came to crops. A cowboy roped him and tried to drag him this count[...]closed," he said telling of Siroky brandished a pitchfork and threatened to drive the one trunk.[...]remorse when they occasionally slaughtered a beef still readable. It was so full[...]
	[...]sons left home to marry, John Sr. deedcd each one a parcel of land to start his own ranch and all the[...]he same creek, near Roy, except Mero who obtained a ranch near Fergus. When the daughters married each one received a dowry. Jim remained at home with his parents to[...]'' \a-t:'-[...],:-,frt from his father, building up a modern ranching operation.[...]he Army. He and his wife, the former Betty Moore, a school teacher, lived east of Roy on their ranch for many years and raised a family of eight children. The oldest four: Claren[...]ut in the 60's and left the area. Clarence is now a veterinarian in Washington; Lawrence is the A four generation get-together on sheep shearing da[...]of Roy. Pictured (back to front) are: Mitchell is a mechanic in Billings; Ramona lives in John, 74; Ted, 5a; Marty,27 and Kyle 21,4. John neuer[...]ploce about 30 years ago, and Marty has been a sheep place in the original log house for several[...]Marie "Mary" Fadrhonc lived with her parents on a John and Mary had two so[...]
	[...]Siroky on the right. employed as a cook at the school. Their three children: Kevin,[...]elder in the Roy Presbyterian Church. Clara, a regis- Kevin remains in Roy and he is employed in[...]r special skills in Joe married Helen Kostoryz, a Roy school teacher, working with c[...]ed to dance and no dance at state affairs. Ken is a state director of the Farmers the Bo[...]to El Cajon Valley in California. They purchased a auto parties of friends from Montana had visited the fruit ranch there, and as reported in a September 1908 two bachelors during t[...]lorado. Can ranched with his brother, Doc, for a few years, buying some adjoining county land for[...]HOHTAI{A for a couple of -"-ears and then at the school as custo[...]. retirement in 1982. Pearl ran a drug-convenience store in Roy, in the old[...]ment" first time for a 7rd generation in the same f amily to[...]
	[...]369 iived in Missoula for a vear. He then moved back to Roy bookkee[...]iness. In 1971 he began the G & S Oil Company, a success- Gary and his wife, Jolene[...]Joe passed away in those early years, probably of a where he worked for the government, re[...]took over both homest.{d.. Jo" raised a family. He was a locksmith by trade. He is buried in Roy"[...]passed away in Washington. Gust was a veteran of WWI. He manied Mary Siroky.[...]T 18N R23E A.M. (Marcus) Stendal, son of Peter A. and Secilie ing between the tracks. Ma[...]and taking the mail to the Post brother, Rudolph A. Stendal, came to Montana in 1g11 Office[...]rail depot to Roy to be Stendal bought a truck with hard rubber tires when used to build[...]ity, as well as passengers. It was a great convenience to He recalled that the Red[...]stown and return on the same Stephens, served as a stopping piace for weary home- day. By t[...]one going, one steaders enroute to their claims. A restaurant, in the day in town and then return on the third day. office, served meals three times a day and sleeping accommodations were made. The w[...]graveled, but it was still a slow journey. March 1890, became the wife of A.M. Stendal on 5 March 1917.[...]treet, on the west side of 33 years old. In i919, a bleak year, Stendal told that he Roy. Mrs. An[...]er for the skinned dead horses and cattle to make a living by business. The Seyller store[...]ies. In 1920, Stendal traded his milk cows for a dray line; The Stendal Stage Line increas[...]tion Stendal Transportation firm grew to a fleet of 15 trucks, rvith the raiiroad. In 1923 he shipped a carioad ofhorses branching in five directions from Lewistown. The to Brainerd and bought a second-hand Model T. He and Stend[...]
	[...]h Cimrhakl. The couple Iived on the homestead for a few years and in 1938 they moved in to Roy. For t[...]1967.Lizzie stiii lives The Stepans always had a big garden. Lizzie remem- in the hom[...]in 1933. In California Dad and I worked on a wood, California. Belle J. Hinkey was born in 188[...]lifornia and senior year in My mother ran a small bakery and lunch coun- Bil[...]ife in Roy, even the hard- closed, for about a year. ship[...]was employed for 43Yz years (1940-1983). had a "Carmelkorn" store which failed because of[...]
	[...]o/.i- was robbed by a couple of men who were rvanted out-of-state for other crimes. Dad had repiaced his colt revolver with a candle and scrervdriver, in the vauit, a week before the robbery, so when the rohbers l[...]the 50th anniver- sary of Roy in 1962 and had a wonderful time. I got up early one morning (we slept in the attic of the Pete Rabin house) and took a tour of the old town while the residents were[...]evens and his wife, Ruth, raised two sons: Craig, a 'builder and designer of fine houses' in L.A. and Kent, a professor at the U. of Oregon in Eugene. When Arthur was asked about a plane ride he took with the envy[...]fifth trip Charles Lindberg in Roy, he replied, "A couple of barn- the pilot nosed ov[...]peller. I carved my name and date in a piece of the Jenny and i did go up for my first p[...]Rov exr SopHre Srunov Roy Sturdy was a truly unique person" Blind, he was a license. The licenses were granted to Roy Sturdy[...]ses and one firm had 2 lots.... knew how. Roy was a very congenial person and peopie[...]a new location about with only the aid of a cane.[...]ceived his education in Kansas and graduated from a[...]e late twenties when Mrs. Sturdy took Iooking for a place to set up a saloon. However there[...]She was a frne cook and served superb food. Excerpts from[...]The Sturdys moved to Winifred for a year and a half PubLic Opinion tell how the matter finally g[...]died in Maurice Lindsa5'. infancy, a little over a year apart, before the family[...]
	[...]1926 or Ig27. Roy. I was a freshman in high school when my I have a vague recollection that my parents,[...]out the Ivan and Gertie Syron homesteaded for a very year and then followed them, graduating from short time on a place north of Roy. The road went[...]When I lived in Roy there was a pump in the My grandparents, Frank and Nanc[...]We lived in the railroad house and a friend of pell and Tilford in Kansas City, Kan[...]uncle, Hubert Carter and his wife, Vida, lived a Brazier town house were the only[...]ng. graduated from Roy High School and married a During the later time when[...]here started moving Iived there. My'father was a railroad worker and out.[...]by Carley Graham Lynn C. VanZandt came to the Roy area after ser[...]ghter, and they were married December West Salem, Wisconsin. He filed for a homestead in the 29,7922. They bought wh[...]ntil about 1923, when Uncle Van and Aunt He was a bank bookkeeper and cashier for the First[...]of the bank when it was employed in a millinery shop while they were in robbed.[...]Missoula. His parents came from Wisconsin and lived here for a They later moved to Wisconsin where they owned short time in a small house next to what is now the Rov f[...]or- Elevator Company" My father, Enos Dotson, had a way in 1914. He served in the Army i[...]
	[...]on. David lived there, The elevator was sold 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 the age of 85 a[...]levator man lost everything. a house once owned by her father.] Tnp L. M. A. Wess Faun y (compiled 1988 by daughter Carley Wass Graham and granddaughter Lindsay Graham Story) Son of John and Jennie Wass, L.M.A. was born numbers, thus ending L.M.A.'s musical career. Lindsay MerleAlexander Wass, Lindsay a family name. L.M.A. loved all sports, from high school events in irish-born John was a farmer and merchant. He put five Ce[...]he Mare Island football $20 gold pieces under L.M.A.'s plate, pay for no smoking team. A member of Roy's first semi-pro baseball team, or drinking to 21. With the $100, L.M.A. headed for Brit- he played short stop, and for a short time after the ser- ish Columbia on 14 Sept[...]ays later and on the By 1917, L.M.A. had met his future wife, Alby Anton- 24th, he registered a homestead near Roy, Montana. In et[...]December 9th. He bought met L.M.A. at a bench get-together. Al, as she was often grub for[...]70. For $20, Shorty Beacraft hauled it all to L.M.A.'s became the Chicago Art Institut[...]im 7 miles north of Roy. On the 12th, he slept in a was in leaving Chicago she did not become a commer- sheep shed on his new place and the next[...]did teach piano for years in Roy and was building a 12' x 14' house, sleeping in it three days later. devoted to her many students, having a genuine love for (On 19 Dec. 1916, he proved up o[...]young people. In 1914, L.M.A. wrote in his diary that fine weather[...]mmon the first two months fiied on a homestead, but howling coyotes and first ofthe ye[...]as tar paper over wood, $800. with a crawl hole. Windows and proper doorway came[...]ducks behind the Kalal iater. The wooden bed had a sage-filled mattress and grocery. L.M.A. and pals put fishlines over the fence to was covered with tar paper. L.M.A. would build a fire in reel in roast duck dinner mak[...]not mentioned to Alby. up to 16 hours a day to stay warm. Having stove fire for WWI broke out and on 5 June 1917, L.M.A. joined the light and only two books, a cookbook and a Bible, he Navy. One of 100 men ch[...]needs, nursing and surgery. and water from a creek four miles from the shack. Upon graduation, L.M.A. went aboard the USS Loui- Tomato can lids covere[...]siana, the fleet's largest battleship. A flu epidemic hit Having $35 to last seven months, he bought carefuily the ship. L.M.A. had 82 flu patients and 18 pneumonia the first w[...]he spent 50 cents for beans, 35 cases. A bad storm shut down the fresh air system and cent[...]still had $5 left. The next year he could afford a horse. one. his assistants fell ill. This was an era before flu Later he got a Ford, trading the horse for meals at a Roy shots. The three doctors on board[...]r. ofasafoetida and band nevertheless. He managed a slide trombone by black coffee three times daily, L.M.A. never iost a man. following numbered notes. His perform[...]
	[...]everal doses, the next sailor candles. L.M.A. put up brown bags of candy for each got none. Finally, L.M.A. tied down the bunks. When youngster, adding to the excitement. there was a clean bed pan, he made hot chocolate. Cocoa[...]on an open elevator. Coffee and put on by a locai Lewistown wholesaler. "Waste not, want not"[...]ham and cheese sandwiches, and cookies were L.M.A. made 14 Atlantic round trips on the Louisiana,[...]fleet's newest, fastest came. Carley became a businesswoman young. A coffee destroyer. He made temporary Chief and was the oniy salesman once paid Carley $1 for doing a day's odd jobs. medical man on the I15-man ship.[...]sick bay when swimming tests sion, L.M.A. allowed her to spend the money in the store, were held. At war's end, L.M.A. had a choice between without a discount of course. After all, this was business. bacteriology school or more time aboard the Dent on a For 50 cents, she bought a small porcelain doll, which China Seas tour. Then[...]she still has. Earnings usually went into a Calumet those living west of the Mississippi and[...]"bank". discharged were told to step forward. On a snap deci- Carley was involved in other business ventures as a sion, he picked up his sea bag and stepped across[...]. Again she was not allowed to spend her After a year in Kansas City L.M.A. returned to Mon- savings, It was a rare treat to buy an ice cream cone... tana and w[...]ins and she found old First Episcopal Church. For a year, they ran the Fergus Store National Bank check books. They could then write a for Pete Hanson. They then purchased Antonette check to Uncle Ed Kalal for a nickel hot dog. Even Mr. Kalal's business. On 13[...]y moved Buechner would honor them for a nickel candy. When into the former First National Bank building. This they L.M.A. found out, the check writing stopped. renovated, opening a general store, the Wass Merc. They Child[...]ckers. aged the store from 1937 through 1949. L.M.A. and Alby The kids also fished there, wit[...]old horse Dolly, who roamed Roy in the Solo was a complicated card game more popular than[...]on poker in the early 1920's. It was played with a partner, the rump, the youngest on the neck[...]years, later did not mix. This was mainly because a good player did dying of typhoid fever at 38. He was a contractor- not want to be saddled with a bad partner. There were builder, constru[...]'s buildings. It about eight professionals in L.M.A.'s group, including was the Seover home, built c. 1918, that L.M.A. and Alby Ed Kalal and Dan Kalal. It was possible[...]bought and lived in for most of their Roy to $15 a night. L.M.A. won $1000 two years in a row, years. The boards for this house c[...]House across the street. There bringing in $1200 a year. Winnings went into a Sensa- were two "hook houses" in Roy, May's and Bess's. May's tion 5a cigar can. The game stake always came from this[...]e the stockyard is Carley Jean was born to L.M.A. and Alby in Lewis- now. They were real[...]Roy. and 5 to 8 g"irls per house. L.M.A. worked for Nylander Technically, Carley has no m[...]equate but strictly non-frivolous life, for a costly $1 each. Fellows would buy one and split.[...]store often turned up in her school L.M.A. was part of the Roy Rod and Gun Club, school lunch. It took years to enjoy bananas again. L.M.A. board, volunteer fire department, and[...]s. There were patches on mercial Club. A charter member of Roy's American patches, until t[...]ley remembers cold vice-commander once. A Knights Templar in Lewis' weather cardboard in sh[...]tree was lit with The Ciub was L.M.A.'s frrst real taste of politics and
	[...], serving through 1938. Under Governor Ayers, L.M.A. was especially proud of his efforts to see seven[...]tch later deter- mined today's highway route. L.M.A. introduced legis- lation to establish g'razing d[...]w took effect. On 5 April 1937 bars reopened. L.M.A. was the state's first Iiquor administrator. Liquor was the largest state-run business then. A 1937 legislation created the State Teachers' Reti[...]ing in g8 million per annum. Montana was known as a monopoly state. L.M.A. served as liquor administratoruntil 1941. Before[...]he Roy store. In 1937, AIby and Carley joined L.M.A. in Helena. Carley attended Helena High School[...]r, Carley, versity, now called U. of Montana. L.M.A. and Alby and granddoughter Lindsay Ann. joined her in Missoula, keeping a home there for nine Legion Auxilliary, serving as president. As a young years. WWII emptied the University. Air Corp cadets woman, Alby was a good shot and horsewoman. arrived. Carley was a volunteer in the American Service Meanwhile, Carley managed a new "cut rate" phar- \\:oman's Organization. She became a Kappa Epsilon macy in Butte. Retu[...]Woman's honorary member, Graham. They wed 22 May 1950. graduation in 1945. Dick was a pharmac_ist at Payless in Butte, so the In 1945, L.M.A. was appointed directorto the Office of[...]continuous Butte to try their luck with a pharmacy in Denton, Mon- policing of prices to pr[...]day dinner. Alby was a frne cook. Governor Ayers honored L.M.A. with the appoint- Prematurely bald at 30, L.M.A. sat forhours as young ment of Colonel in the Mon[...]olitics and was certainly not ment and a single new hair received rave reviews. They interested in a continuing career. L.M.A. and Alby mourned each passing when A[...]inging good friend, Vicki Lund. The Wass Yard was a limited. However, she did give large dinners for a circle wonderful place to play. It ran a half block in two direc- of friends.[...]r maple was perfect L,egion Hall with bidding for a box lunch at midnight. for even poor[...]On other days Alby and Lindsay would paint, one a *'as small, but benches along the side provided a nap- teacher, one a student. A good apple had to be mastered ping place.[...]
	[...]sronr Or NoHlunastt:nl FcHt;us Qot:xtr L.l{.A. and Aiby conrinued to live in Roy uniil Alby[...]en moved to Roundup, Mon- ried Keith Story, a mechanical engineering student" tana to where Car[...]Dick and Carley went back to cancer in 1977. L.M.A. died of cancer in 1982" Both are school t[...]1973 with doctor of pharmacy degtees. They bought a Grahams moved to Eugene, Oregon, where Lindsay[...]ss's in 1931 and left. They lived in Moccasin for a number of years and were in the mercantile busine[...]eed's sister, Pheobe West, also lived in Roy, for a time.[...]r Santa Fe Railroad in Colorado and New Mexico as a telegraph operator, until 1934, at which time the[...]ico, arriving in Roy on June 17, 1934. They moved a house from Roy that fall to the Butterfield Ranch[...]nces Dougherty, AIm.o The water supply was from a spring on the place Rindal (Sotterfield.) and until a well could be dug closer to the house.[...]March 1, 1908. tom, east of Roy. Charley also had a 320 acre home' Chiidren: Eunice Cind[...]station and garage in Roy. Built a new station in 1962 Dad passed away in N[...]
	[...]Betty (Mrs. Milford Rellick). June was a sister to Mrs. and two girls. My wife and I now[...]and her husband ran the oky. They have a son, Jordan, and a daughter, Amber. store,[...]y homesteader in Roy and also owned and operated a furniture store in Roy. Kerridge William Wrigh[...]n children, 8 boys and 3 girls. Their first born, a daughter named Laura, was born in 1gg9 and Iived only a couple of months. All of the children were born i[...]d his business interests in Chicago and opened up a furniture storein From L. to R.: Charlie,[...]he and grocenes with horse and buggy, and once in a,,i,hile transfer and storage business in Chi[...]stown on the train. His first K.!V.; Harry, a homesteader in Roy; Viney, who was sight o[...]
	[...]hed along the Missouri River and Stanley who was a student in Chicago. K.W. returned to Chicago i[...]homesteaded north of Roy and worked for his dad. A couple of years later his mother and three[...]' .i;.,, q.{ i ,'n started a furniture store in Roy. Harry stayed out on the[...]Esther, a registered Rurse, married Glen Irish Jr. Harry[...]ryl Ruth passed away in the fali of 1985 after a lengthy and Terry. Elaine is married[...]the Murray Deaton Cattle Company and had built up a county". Joe by 1930 had gone broke after g years of stake which enabled him to lease a ranch of 3,000 acres struggle on the homestead. He had then worked as a on which he developed a iarge herd of high grade Here-
	[...]379 ford cattle. In addition a herd of milk cows, tended by ti.3v,r' h[...]Milk was deiivered to the Roy Creamery and r.,'as a steady source of income for the family. Later on[...]rnarried on a homestead, 7 miles north of Roy.[...]in 1936. He built a one-room cabin of logs on his land that was home[...]a and 8i11. Mrs. Wright was born Mary Hennessy, a daughter of Patrick Hennessy, in County Limerick,[...]she immigrated to the United States and worked as a maid in homes of influential Chicago families bef[...]Joe and Laura marriage to Joe. She had a brother, Patrick, in New[...]Mauland York, and a brother, Michael, and a sister, Kate, in[...]picture. Wright was a staunch Democrat. He belonged to no fraternity or[...]. Jennie was known throughout Fergus county as a range rider. She broke her own horses, knew all t[...]/E Bill Wright. York. She was a popular young lady who began her cowboying days a[...]\& J leased a ranch from the Army Corps of Engineers[...]and Reese way in 1896. They operated a post office from their Anderson ranches, south o[...]many shared with her sister, afler Laura became a widow. youngsters grorving up in the[...]876 by "Aunt" Laura. She alwal's had a special gift for every Reese Anderson. It[...]
	[...]Htsrony Or NonrHp.A,srpRN Forcus Couxrv Biil ranched in partnership with his sisters, except accident. for a period during World War II when he served with[...]uddenly from loved his machinery; he would drive a tractor or truck a heart attack. Laura and Jen were as close as sist[...]ty Laura passed away in 1985 after a long bout with until he retired in 1959. Joe pas[...]a MnMoruss Or Lrpn ON A Hounsreen by Walter A. Wright Born in Chicago, Ill., I came to Monta[...]one day back then except that everything seemed a long way off, and big For all[...]shop's place just north of Roy, to A homesteader's work is never done. get drinking wa[...]he old milk pail; followed four head of horses on a drag harrow all day. Slop the[...]e hell, During World War II, Uncle Sam sent me on a "vaca- It's ready to go wh[...]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. Five cents 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[...]oats or rye- nothing. I just live one day at a time, and sometimes Took all[...]Just under a mound[...]Joe nickname was Turkey Red. A homesteader and horse trader, he "Frenchie" Fredette was a dray man in Roy. Later he drove was here in 1911.[...]the Lewistown stage for Stendal. He was a small, chunky BRANDMETER, JOHN F. (BRANDMEIR)- ca[...]nd taught primary grades in Roy. She was a small, very pretty opened a law office. He was a graduate of the lJniversity of young woman. It seemed as though every boy in school "had a Minnesota. He had been associated with the firm o[...]FORTE, PETER- was a narive of Asiago, Italy and was a CLOW, BYRON L.- in 1913 he was U.S. Land Commis-[...]eve Ghezzo. He lived in Roy in 1936. He had a sioner in Roy. In 1914 he was appointed a Justice ofthe Peace. brother, Christian, wh[...]ssibly in Roy. Pete In 1 91 7 he was secretary of a Federal Farm Loan bank organ- and Chris we[...]lls, T 20, R 21 and ized that fall. Mrs. Clow was a daring woman for her day. Her neighbors of[...]e seen O'HARA, BLANCHE- conducted a business school in Roy. when she walked!![...]
	[...]381 was a school teacher. Her sister, Alice O'Harra, was th[...]sota in May of 1920 when he accepted a position in the First as other towns. Homesteade[...]1955. He had lived in Roy for more than 35 years. A bachelor, area in 1914. The 5S-year-old rancher[...]arch 1885 in Montpelier, Iowa where he following a stroke. It was determined that he had been strick[...]rading crew working on the Rocky Point road near A daughter, Mrs. C.A. Johnson, of Clinton, Minnesota was the[...]It's more than a man can stand; Here in the land of norhi[...]We're not a bunch of convicts, Where men get mighty[...]And nobody gives a damn; Twelve thousand miles from you.[...]For two-and-a-half a day.[...]Ryan. Earl Vlasak. Frank A. Brase. Hugh Fox. l:arold[...]Kasala. Joe Moore. ChesF. A. Schife. Henry H. \{arc[...]S(hlf.!',r.,1il(i,h wass. i,indsaY M.A Chnsrensen. Andr Gorrjon. Roy[...]\elson A.G Schultz. lVilliam Conh. F red[...]Scott. Charlen I-. furll. lluncan A Cory. walter Hamrlton. Hiram l-r[...]Ho*ard Angelo tnrson. CIifford A. Pirs. Herman S[...]
	[...]llrdnrrr J,,hn A l\icl)"[...]ipps. Roget \\estburg. F0resl 1A allas ( hnstrn{ n llirrl.\ l[...]Simkin. lrlorris Wnght. l\alter A ( r,ulttr R,,lr,rr (;flndhflm. \',rman Jordrn. l)avid A. Ntarsh. Francis Simkin[...]career of this quiet, unassuming, Ensign Theron A. Conoily of Valentine rose from the[...]Moanahonga tug boat. \ralenrine and a 1936 graduate of Roy High School.[...]He a fine record and had many advancements. served on the LISS t,ardner, a destroyer. for a year in He was one of a crew of eleven of a large bomber the Guadacanal and Solt-rmon[...]
	[...]kett, were never Veteran, received a Presidential Citation for "meritor- found.[...]ious service as a diver" for services during operarrons The famiiy received a letter from Harold dated August agains[...]AlsEnr KonraRrx John Joseph Bishop was a member of the Marines and Albert Komarek was a member of the Army Air Corps had served 37r year[...]ls, he was selected to be one menu for Bishop in a Japanese prison camp, where he of[...]through were fed dog and cat meat, but that was a delicacy," Minneapolis, Chicago, Cl[...]ies. Bishop revealed. As punishment for stealing a small Albert retired in 1983 wit[...]f Master onion, the NATTC marine was beaten with a club and Sergeant. burned around[...]to keep them The following is a list of those that we know of who another winter[...]WWl-Airplane acci- about 130 lbs. He was normally a 6 ft. 2 in. 190 pound[...]acific- teeth; he had beri-beri. They kept him in a rehabilita- WWII. William Cook, kille[...]WWII. Eli tion camp at Farrigut, Idaho for aimost a year.[...]A WWII Sailor Boy[...]eet of Roy dur- Raising money for WWI a Parade down Main Street ing a celebration to raise funds for WWI.[...]BerrlecnouND DArA Wars and soldiers have been a part of history since ....It could[...]f how Blood Creek acquired its name is because of a fought on its sod and has sent its share of men t[...]Indian rl'ar that occured in the Valentine area. A few noteworthy items that have been collec[...]
	[...]NonrssesrerN FEncus CouNTy burial ground is no*'a prairie dog town.[...]shot through the finger by the enemy, WWi. He was a member of 163rd regiment, 41st division.[...]and Viet Nam. Roy, Montana a special dinner for all Spanish-Ameri-[...]....Nervton L. Landru, father of Will Landru, was a opposite sides in WWI. Ben was in the Czechoslova[...]eRoy Xalal, John Smith. Cla1 A. Kalal. Ed Ry-an, Earl Van Zan[...]'Toole, James Sandstrom, Fred Wass, L.M.A. English, James B. Kali[...]Heil, Miro Keefer, Robert D. A permanent charter was issued December 9, 1939 to Heppner, Fred A. Landru, Douglas A.[...]Higgens, William D. McConnell. Gary J. due to a change of name, formerly requested by the post an[...]Sehulze, William Anderson, W.J Bilcrien, A.E. Kalal, Ed[...]. McNulty, Ray Fields. lce D. Nelson, A.J. Tuma, John Distad[...]cers are: president, Regina Zahn; vice Hicker-, M.A.[...]throughout the years are: sending a girl to Girl's State LeRoy Coulter, Service Offic[...]ed for the Red Cross who supplied the WWII took a lot of young men out of the country,[...]Kalal was secretary. By i919 there was a membership one had to redeem coupons. Every citizen was alloted a of 123. coupon book. For so many coupons you could get a On March 23, 1943 it was reported that the Red Cross pound of sugar, a pound of meat, a galion of gas etc- goa[...]
	[...]to support the 'canteens' for Roy Coulter relates a couple of times he was assisted servicem[...]world. during WWII. On one occasion he was given a piace to The Red Cross units of Roy and Fergus were very sleep at a Red Cross headquarters in California. "We active and supported in a big way. only got $21 a month, not enough for anything. I was[...]cans which out of money and had no place to go in a strange city." children collected and deli[...]as probably the wouldn't have accepted my call or a relative's call, but beginning of the end o[...]that is visible, except at the control base, is a cement placing Minuteman Missiles in Central Montana. By pad encircled in a protective fence, above ground. the late 1960's t[...]beneath the surface in this area, six ofthem and a periodical updating, they have made littl[...]excava- But they are there, nevertheless, a constant reminder of tion is 92 feet long and over 13 feet in diameter. A steel the nuclear age we live in. and concret[...]Waiting for a sign Of a steel wheeled tractor. and a two A white flag waving to come in Bottom plo[...]Supper was a simple meal With our humble machines we[...]adows are growing long Across the field a tiny line, The white flag is a waving Waving in the heat.[...]
	[...]900's. It took 14 men to keep the one -o^hi^a onins Almost done. Soon the rig will pull out leauing a huge stack of straw behind.[...]gas. A'gas wagon' which hauled the fuel for the tractor[...]k shown here sitting on the back of the cook A load of grain heading for the threshing machine[...]a iJ\:: Mouing the threshing rig up off o riuer bo[...]used great excitement for kids 'of all oges'. On a cleor fall rig in picture aboue. (J[...]approach could be heard for miles' bindtes bt' a bind'er which was pulled bv a team' The For a homestead kid the arriual af the thresLting[...]machine. u,hich u'as bigger than his house, was a thrill Ioose grain stalks' Seed crops, such a[...]today's jets breahing the ing was generally a job performed by the women and sound barr[...]
	[...]Ohio. He was issued a teachers certificate in June of[...]A scary episode occurred during his teaching career[...]As Mr. Mclaughlin was sitting at his desk, during a[...]down to retrieve it a rattlesnake bit him through a[...]crack in the floor. He grabbed his hand in pain. A[...]g into The mother came, carrying a live chicken, which she the feeder u'hat spilled off the wagons. This huge rig split open with a knife. She had Mr. Mclaughlin thrust was a challenge to the young men who pitched bundles[...]he snake bite. the whole operation would come to a standstill and the jammed up machine would haue t[...]THEN AND Now hand. No easl' task on a hot day. Building a dam using a fresno pulled by a team. The.strata blou'er blew the straw into a stack. The men are sach.ing seed.[...]last week. )lrs. Hanson had placed the chiid in a cradle on the door step and returned to her housework within. In a short time she heard considerable commotion among[...]<,rpening anc as she reached the steps she found a large eagle hor-er:ng over her child, prepare[...]screamed and grasped the child. The bird flew a short distance and perched on a[...].r .. -: bird was a monster and fully strong enough to carry a[...]
	[...]p Company was incorporated on December l, 1909 as a general stockraising and real estate business. P.[...]ompany in the 20's and 30's. The land was sold at a sheriffs sale in 1934 to Union Bank and Trust Com[...]rn in Skorter, Norway and came to this country as a young man. He homesteaded in the Staff area and b[...]Bear and Box Elder Creeks. , . Olaf was a foreman at the Fergus County Sheep Company and al[...]mile west of Staff and lived there until 1936. A mail carrier who was known as "Coyote Jimmy", hauled the mail from Grass Range to Staff in a buggy OIaf and Hannah Eike. with a team of horses. In the winter he used a bob sled. Groceries and supplies came from Grass[...]away in February of of 2000 each. The Company had a shearing plant at the 1931. She is burie[...]Sage Francis Ware. They lived in the area for a number of Creek-Box Elder Divide. about 10 miles southwest of years before moving to Billings. They had a family of 3 Valentine. bovs and a sirl. He married Doris Ware, the daughte[...]
	[...]he Lewistown hospital last Sunday, suffering from a steaders in the Little Crooked area, as was their[...]ere attack of Spotted Fever, presumably caused by a Harold. When they lost the homestead they moved to a tick bite. place near Vale[...]difficult to remove his clothine at the northern Wisconsin rvhere Mr. Ware was employed in[...]ather in bunches on the lower lips, bellies and A May 10, 1929 article in the Winnett Times, about[...]ble age difference and they had never Her father, a soldier at Fort Walch, died before her[...]where Omar partners in a sheep-raising business. After their arrival passed away and Alice remarried a Mr. Alexander, a back in Montana they spent a couple of days purchas- kindly man, whom Rachel k[...]n Rachel to abruptly from that of a carefree 16-year-old girl to a her mother. It was a terrible jolt for a little girl to hear; married woman living in a remote area of Montana. this was the only family she really knew. But the aunt In a period ofone year she had only one opportunity an[...]to talk to another woman. Mail was received once a no place for a little girl.[...]ew was (who by then lived in Columbia Falls), and a step- no easy task, a wash tub of dough had to be made and father and f[...]One bright note to Rachels life was her piano, a that Iived at Gilt Edge. The other two girls were[...]rom her parents. It was hauled back and forth, by a couple in Great Falls.[...]f surrounded by paint- 18th, a year later, after a long night of struggle all ings, tapestries and f[...]alone. There were no doctors within a hundred miles. She had a private teacher, as there was no school near. The baby thrived. She slept in a shipping crate and As the couple grew older the[...]drank canned sweetened condensed milk. A man cook they sold their holdings to Oscar Stephe[...]to Lewistown. promised her to Nick as a wife. It was a shock. There Their son[...]
	[...]idents happened and deaths occuned. tually rented a ranch, now Lewistown Heights, and the Sh[...]hree more daughters could and took a correspondence course from a Chicago were born: Lucille, Florence and Margaret[...]School of Nursing which enabled her to get a certificate Seven years after being on the ranch, the owner, a of Nursing from Helena. She was called[...]ent on, to nurse the ill. his own place, filed on a section of land, using Rachel's Nick becam[...]eds area). They moved in put him on a train for Minneapolis. He never returned. Novembe[...]He died a week later in Rochester in i926. It took sever[...]ed. started out as beautiful weather evolved into a winter Forbes Leslie helped out by furnish[...]pota- blizzard. After several days of staying in a little shanty, toes. Florence's husband cut fir[...]remained after 20 years of ranching were days at a ranch, losing some of their possessions in a some clothes, an old trunk and a few coins. creek of "angry water" when the bridge[...]ears. Rachel again knew hard work and hardship. A well- When Margaret reached high school age they moved drilling adventure was a total loss. Water had to be into Grass R[...]hel boarded teachers and hauled from over a mile away. In winter snow was studen[...]l moved back to Lewistown more people moved near, a schoolhouse was built. Will and worked as a hotel maid and then she catered Townsend was one of the first teachers. Later a more dinners for prominent citizens. ade[...]ntually Rachel met and married Clarence Turner. A home was built. The main part was of cement They enjoyed traveling and she had a happy reunion blocks that Nick made with the assi[...]passed away on February 14,1967, thus ending a long learn practical nursing through experience a[...]ll. For this reason Ben and Mary Bean established a sheep ranch at what was known as "Blood Creek Crossing" on the old'79 trail. The Bean ranch became a stopping place for travelers and riders. Mrs. Bean realized the need for a post office to serve this area. She selected the[...]ome travelers on the '79 trail on February 14, in a year unknown. The post office was officially estab' lished in 1906. Mail was brought from Grass Range twice a week. Wm. Everett Lane was the first carrier unti[...]oyote Jimmy" Turner took over until 1916. Roy had a railroad so the settlers decided to have the mail[...]ce was in one corner. entine which grew to become a small village as home- There was a livery stable. McCain and Johnson lumber steaders came into the area. There was a hotel that yard, and Dr. T.W. Ni[...]
	[...]entine Cash store run by Waiter a popular area for picnics, swimming and $'ater ski[...]19.12. The old community hall remains as a landmark, in the BunneU buiiding. The post office[...]rother's old building. In December of 1918' \Irs. A. Kalal bought out the store. G"F. Budweiser ran t[...]922' There was no saloon in Valentine. In 1917 a Sunday school was organized. There were various[...]held services in Val- entine but there was never a church building.[...]efore the hall was built. Every fall therg was a fair or corn show at Valentine. The event drew p[...]ball games, baseball games and plays. There was a need for a community meeting place, so in 1928 W.R. Daniels and Clyde Stephens were hired to boss the job and with a lot of volunteer help Valentine Hall was built. T[...]o 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 wa[...]token, sornetirne after 1928. call it, but it was a dug-out that he baked bread in. It rvas good brea[...]ran into fund- ing problems and work halted until a year later. It was to be an irrigation project to[...]eral money and was sponsored by State Senator L.M.A. Wass. The men working on the dam slept in the Va[...]uild' ing and the school building was turned into a kitchen to serve meals. Milo Messenger was the fo[...]ake, who ran the Valentine Mercan' A group of neighbors in the Valentine area get to[...]n, Bernard Lewis, Mary Phillips, Jennie Lewis' as a wildiife habitat for geese and ducks hnd was a Mirldte Row: Vane Phiilips, Louie[...]to managed well. However there was a lot of The district 169 was divided because it c[...]was formed #90 Vaientine was declared a joint district' The first ran a short time. In 1g2b when Petroleum county[...]part to #140 Valley View' In 1959 there was a need for a school in east end of #140. \ralentine sch[...]
	[...]e committed suicide. to the well and got a drink of water and dropped right George married L[...]reek. He came they married. Her father had a band of sheep and he af'.er her, two or three tim[...]. She said she wasn't. He had team and a load of wool. They tied the team up there in some[...]35-Emery:T18N R25E Sec.31 Edward was a bachelor who lived on Sage Creek The[...]from the present Legion Bar) was the year he ran a threshing rig and threshed for theirs and they were noted for raising a good garden at neighbors.[...]n. Emery Arney was an early homesteader; he was a On April 26,L924, Ellen M. Emery died, at age 53. She brother to Edward. His wife, Ellen, was a native of was buried in the Lewistown Cit[...]by LeRoy Barnett Harry A. Barnett was born in 1880 at Greene, Iowa.[...]d Mae are buried at the Sunset Gardens in took up a homestead.[...]Edwin, Austin, and LeRoy. The Austin was a medic in WWII. He married Carol Tull boys went to[...]ch and retired to Winnett. The three boys formed a partnership to run the[...]900. Ben was from Vermont and was During a heavy rain and hail storm, prior to the home- a skilled carpenter by trade. Mary was from Boston, steaders, they lost a considerable part of their band of Ilassachusetts. sheep in a flash flood on the head ofBlood Creek. . Ben was a sheep man and later a U.S. Commissioner. Bean's ranch house was[...]he Musselshell steamboat landing There was a large bunk house for the men and a q'hich took goods bound for Bozeman, White Sulphe[...]groceries and it was well stocked. Ben built a large This was a main freight road about the 1860's.[...]
	[...]1906 the post office was granted and a contract was let In the dining room, Mrs. Bean had a pigeonhole case to bring mail from Grass Range by stage two times a for the few mail patrons. The dining room table w[...]r the town of ran many sheep at that time and had a big crew of men Valentine. He had it surv[...]tine on the North Valentine road. ing of a saloon in the town site. It must have been the[...]tablish the Valentine only town without a saloon. Post Office. She would ride over to Edgew[...]d to her old home town of neighbors. She did this a coupie times a week for Boston where she spent the remainder of her days. several years before she was granted a post office. In[...]ried Adeline Summers in Washing- Many a time, I woke up in the morning and the bed ton. H[...]ally slept with my liked what he saw and filed on a homestead 4Yz miles brothers. and on the[...]to the homestead, my par- days sure took a lot of wood to keep any warmth in the ents and fi[...]WalreH AND SrELr-A Bnvrs I can still remember that 12 x 16 foot cabin sitting in grass about three feet tall. It was a tar paper shack with Walter (brother to Harlan) and his wife, Stella, and a box car roof. By tar paper I mean the cabin was c[...]Marr when they were first married; Bevis did a lot of hauling for his neighbors in those later t[...]early days; first with team and wagon, later with a When their children began to reach school age the[...]uck. He later worked up to bigger "Ford" moved to a place 3A of a mile from Valentine and the trucks. He liked c[...]time. work, something he still does a lot of. Bevis says he It was while they were ii[...]bles with cars and trucks" as he's "lived through a building supplies for the job. One day, when he got iot of them!" back with a load from Winnett, he found out that he Once was when he and Dorothy decided to go to a had been hailed out. No one else was hurt by the[...]rooked. They started out in the dark but Les lost a beautiful crop ofrye, all his grass and th[...]
	[...]Vele xrtsE stuck. A fellow on a horse came along and tied a rope They moved to Cat Creek in 1941[...]break, the next morning they started up a welding and repair shop. for home. Out on the fla[...]et out and walk home. Les fixed the problem, with a Creek. "They might have to worry abou[...]six children: Marion, Another time they went to a dance at Dovetail, in the now of Las Veg[...]ota; mud. The car didn't have lights so they hung a lantern Earl of Lewistown, Montana; Bur[...]seven children: Lee, Ruth, town. He lived a week longer than his wife who died on Jessie, Mur[...]Adams was Sammy rvas just over a year and a half. We bought born in 1921 at Sun City, Kansas.[...]cattle and two teams, with the place, and spent a lot of were married in 1939.[...]rapped around one of the legs of the work ings in a pickup and were pulling a trailer with two horses. The horse wa[...]er and bought the Anton We had a hen that layed her eggs in a bucket in the Koliha place. This was a new adventure for us as we dry creek[...]out. The bucket down the creek quite a ways before it dumped Maruskas, Hor-vnas, Kalinas[...]erl started school that fall; Mae Jackson was his a nnrcci a ferl[...]
	[...]with edge of the stack; quite an undertaking for a little six their two children, Joshua and Bree[...]was in T 18N R 258 Sections 25,26 and 35. He was a staunch supporter of county division (Fergus-Petr[...]s. He had three sons: George, Roy, and Harry, and a daughter, Amelia. Hany homesteaded in T 18N, R 25E, Sections 2b and 26. He married a Tindall, they had four children: Clare. Do[...]
	[...]rs. Clifford Ciark class of 1952. He became a minister and now lives in of Valentine. They mov[...]Wenatchee, Washington. where Caulkins was a frsherman by profession. The Herbert[...]in the fall of 1975. Thelma lives Caulkins spent a couple of winters, during the off in Pal[...]Their oldest son, born in Indiana, lived only a few days. A daughter, Thelma, was born April 4, 1906, and Cl[...]ool at Sage Creek for several years. Clifford was a Petroleum County Commissioner in the 1g30's. The[...]n 1924. Clairmont. "He always said he was just a green and gawky country boy when he met me, but[...]iles City. back to the Valentine area. Except for a period of time Clifford passed away on Sep[...]he Valen- country schools and Clairmont worked as a rancher, tine area. Tom and Hattie Hogan[...]s very quiet. They had no children they purchased a store. They now spend their summers of their own, but raised a nephew, Earl Steele, who now in Missoula and thei[...]Peter Hagen was never married. He was a very nice They had two boys. Robert Wayne was b[...]vert was born Ma1. i 7, 1848, in Ohio" Mary about a mile from Valentine in 1913" They traveled[...]
	[...]The dances usually lasted until dawn, *'ith a supper Several of their children were alreadl'[...]teenage daughters, Ruth and without even a short nap. Nan, stayed with Mrs. Covert's older d[...]lder brother, Bob, went to the homestead to build a log were born to them cabin for their home.[...]Followiirg Frank Messenger's death, Helen married a stars at night.[...], since it had not yet Robert Aron, who died as a smali boy; Roberta been set up in the house. Ruth[...]n, who lives in Lewistown; and Mary Daley, of ing a large umbrella over their mother while she cooked[...]several young Lodge, Montana. couples shared a ride in a horse-drawn wagon. After the Cove[...]d with their daughter, Helen Mes- below zero when a group of young people drove ten senger, and later in Lewistown until his death in 1939" miies to a dance. Bob and his cousin sat on the spring[...]It was a chore getting to school, as often the only They came and pitched a tent. A strong wind come up means was on skis or ho[...]before they started to school. away, so they dug a cave in one of the banks and lived Then she[...]n got the log cabin built. Sam had a truck and did much trucking for a living, The Doughtys and Zell were formerly fro[...]s. sota, where Zell had received her schooling as a teacher. To this marriage three more children were born: She took a school near Pierre, South Dakota where she[...]l's mother delivered the babies. married in S. D. A baby boy, Franklin, was born to Donald[...]mother teaching them. Donald graduated She took a schooi in ldaho. They lived there for from Lewistown High School. Theron was a 1936 grad- awhile, then went to Wyoming wh[...]
	[...]Glendora folks. until the time of his death from a car accident in[...]and retired from teaching in 1942. ties after a heart attack. After Donald's death, they moved to Roy for a short -The[...]ght up most of the land he 1966, a week apart; Sam from Parkinson's disease and had[...]Sinclair Drq.ke Pewitt Arnold C. Drake, a \VWI veteran was born in Plank- Melv[...]n: Lola (Bailes) Arthur Dunn had a daughter, Phyllis, who home- born in June 1928 an[...]d ivlrs. Lena Cooper. They lefi the had a daughter. Margaret, who married Chet Larson. area[...]r daughter, Lillian, married Charlie Myers of was a logger. She died in Rainier on January 23, 1965.[...]s. Cooper *'as the rvidow of Earl Cooper. Cooper, a
	[...]r clothing, furnishings and Holms who was running a cafe in Roy. They lived in money that was in the home. They had only moved in a Roy after the marriage. Ali.ce was a sister to Mrs. Frank short time befor[...]Roy as he was loading his He had been a carpenter in the Roy area for over 30 car wit[...]working beside him reported, and resulted from a heart Alice continued to live in Roy unti[...]xander met and Mrs. Foresman, a lover of nature, had traveled widely. married aft[...]eaded in the Valentine She possessed a high artistic ability, a talent well illus- area.[...]five Follo'*'ing an accident in which she lost a leg, she sisters and one brother. He wa[...], retired from the teaching profession and opened a dress Ohio, 5 November 1850. He moved West while a young making shop, an enterprise in which she was highly man and settled in Iowa for a number of years. successful. In 1897, she moved h[...]up land near Valentine which he was a life-long member. He offiated at many commuting b[...]at his home on April 14, 1943. Foresman who held a claim nearby.[...]glestad, purchased the Snowball Ole got a good start on the place raising sheep Hughes home[...]roduction Credit Association in 1943. Ole had led a prices stemming from the war effort. By the[...]in passage expenses but soon went west to woik as a farming until the place was purchased by[...]lumberjack, in the railroad camps, and finally as a in 1958. We lived in Lewistown until I gtad[...]where she has a sister.
	[...]the body Roy. He was killed July 1, 191? by a horse belonging to furnished reasonable ground for the theory that Mr. A"J. Hughes, who had permitted the young man to Golliner stopped to make a cigarette, first having ride the animal afte[...]The body was shipped to Mineral Point, Wisconsin, County Attorney Groene, made it apparent th[...]esteaded in the haul water from a well about three miles awav. (the Valentine[...]Dad and Uncle Jim dug a well, but the water was so In the fall of[...]he railroad ads of cheap transporta- was a full-time job that first summer to keep the range[...]They landed in Lewistown where they were met by a Horseshoe Bar Cattle Co. was running ca[...]e Horseshoe Bar headquar- My dad was shown a hundred and sixty acre tract of ters was[...]home- I remember one incident when a big Hereford bull steading, as it had not bee[...]eye put out. My mother grabbed a shotgun and shot the which was the m[...]en we of his livestock and machinery and find a renter for the couldn't keep them o}t of o[...]Nebraska until river breaks to build a log house and a barn. school was out and then we too, headed[...]arence and they got permission to start a school in a building that Lydia, were on the train with us from Nebraska. had been used as a saloon close to the Horseshoe Bar The next[...]d our Grand- to Hilger by train. Ead had left a team and buggy there father passed away an[...]s so we started out for the homestead. It was a iong trip death until after the funeral, a[...]eks or so. of us kids, ages eleven to one and a half. In the spring of[...]d site. All earnest three horses and a walking sod buster. One the house we had was a small tar-paper cabin and a[...]one piled it boys, my uncle, four horses, and a couple of cows, up to burn. Actually[...]nd as the weather virgin soil. We raised a wagon load of watermelons, was warm an[...]
	[...]over in the breaks and killed some sage hens and a couple of jack rabbits. Well, they looked kind of[...]he meat off the bones, ground it and our mom made a big meatloaf. We had some vegetables that we had raised and we ended up with a pretty good dinner. Our uncle had invited three b[...]. three Martins and five Gores. About that time a Mr. Slive (I think that was his 1918. Da[...]ver the supt. office in Lewistown we got straight A's, although western United States, with only[...]in Cherokee, and then by putting on a rodeo for entertainment. Iowa. He died January 17[...]but also raised some beef cattle, as well as a few dairy Falis; Wisconsin. She married PauI March 2, 1913. The cattl[...]rsonal memories date back to the 1920's. Our from Wisconsin in 1913 and settled on a homestead in home was a one room log house to which my dad and Petroleum[...]t neighbors were John Sinclairs', Harry grew a little older. Barnetts', Louie Phillips', Nick Ha[...]of together socially as often as possible. Hardly a Sunday snow, my dad would walk with u[...]
	[...]403 six dollars a month and my parents had a hard time coming up with that amount. My mother[...]s safe enough for live- stock. My father built a dam with quite a large reser- voir, after having hauled water f[...]cially sanitary but no one ever seemed to need a doctor. It's a good thing because our nearest hospital was in Lewistown, some 75 miles away-quite a distance considering our means of trans- porta[...]es, as my little brother, Tommy, was killed in a runaway team acci- dent when he was four. Also[...]e late 1920's the Valentine Community Hall and a rodeo corral nearby were built. After that there were I had aiways wanted to become a teacher, so after rodeos, dances every month, h[...]help from my dinners, etc. Every fall there was a fair or corn show, as parents, student loans, and a part-time job, I was able it was called, and ev[...]cient at that time to display. There was always a 4th of July celebration and obtain a teaching certificate. I taught in rural schools also a big community dinner on New Year's Day.[...]stem in Montana. I also continued there. It was a great country, for kids especially. We[...]he Air Force during just being together. We had a happy life in spite of a World War II, then began farming in th[...]iiy lived in Hamil" no place where one can find a finer, more unselfish ton, Montana[...]1939 they moved to the Valentine area and bought a John E. was born in 1925. He bo[...]moved to In 1950 Doris died of severe burns in a fire at the Winnett. ranch h[...]
	[...]n the Lewistou'n City Cemetery. 60's and they had a daughter, Doris. They bought the[...]they ranched Gib Distad place and lived there for a few years, before about five miles[...]Horse Camp on Crooked Creek. There was also a sister Keith Thomas was born in 1932 and lives[...]T 18N R 26E Sec. 23 Neil Harris was a very old settler in the Valentine[...]ut the trees, then sawed the logs into Harris was a sheep rancher and Mrs. Harris worked in[...]The couple had a son, Donald, born in 1911.[...]r 29, 1937. He passed away on February worked for a number of years as foreman on the P.N. 3, 1938. He had a daughter, Mrs. O.W. Espe of Spokane, Ranch at the mouth of Judith. He came to Valentine Washington, from a previous marriage. Mary later about 1912. He and[...]he sheep raising business. They oflen hired quite a few[...]way Missouri River, working as a cabin boy on the river on Thanksgiving Day, 1929 in a Great Falls hospital. steamers.[...]He lived in Valentine for many years and was a "well he became ili. known" wheat grower in that area. He was a true western pioneer. Before homesteading He had a son and a daughter both of whom were near Valentine in 1912[...]born in 1900; Margaret born in 1905; sissippi to Wisconsin and finally came to Montana.[...]ined conscious long enough to give the address of a Louis Krugler, who has resided on a homestead on Sage Creek for the past four year[...]brother at Bangor, Michigan and a son at Roswell, South about one o'clock at the[...]enoon and Mr. Krugler was a man about 67 years of age and was walked over[...]he any moment. The Krugler home is about half a mile from came here from South D[...]he trip to which he has improved to a hieh state of cultivation.
	[...]olks died, ents (T 18N R 25E Sec. 23). He married a Cooper girl sometime in the later 2[...]orral and got badly traveled to Butte, Montana in a covered wagon from burned. He got[...]Woodland, that year he died of a heart attack at his cabin. He is Washington. She[...]d lunch for them. Albie, Iowa, in 1912 to take up a homestead on Blood Their night[...]had eaten, they were shown into a lean-to where Mrs. Lewis' father Archie Sinclair.[...]Mrs. Lewis' ing came in holding a pillow and called it her baby. She brothers, met them at Lewistown. After a few days rest, frightened the boys, bu[...]the Hardings had lost their only child, a baby girl, and the Sinclair wagon drawn by a four-horse team, and Mrs. Harding[...]ination. was rough and hilly, and at one spot on a steep hill the The trail was across country. At a place called Bear back wheels of the \4'agon were chained to make a Creek there was a water hole and they stopped to water brake. On th[...]d. walk up. They stopped to water their horses at a "way" It was long after dark when they arrived at the station and ate their "grub". Grub was a word that homestead of John Sincl[...]thing he remembers wanting was a drink of water. brush to cultivate the land. He wasn't sure what to William staked out a flat spot not far from the home- expect wh[...]
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