Jason W. Strevell
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At St. Paul, they met with [[Jules Hannaford]], then general freight agent of the [[Northern Pacific Railroad]] and later its president. Most of the inventory for their future hardware sales would be shipped by this railroad, only part way, at first. A visit to Jules would become an annual event. They then continued by train to Bismarck and waited for their belongings to catch up to them via teams that had left Illinois traveling overland before and during the family's train travel. When they arrived, the journey continued, crossing the [[Missouri River]], passing through [[Mandan]] country (where Lewis and Clark had enlisted the previously kidnapped [[Shoshone]] [[Sacajawea]]. They came to the [[Yellowstone River]] about where the [[Powder River]] flows into it. At some point, they experienced a buffalo hunt, securing a head as a trophy, as well as an Indian scare. | At St. Paul, they met with [[Jules Hannaford]], then general freight agent of the [[Northern Pacific Railroad]] and later its president. Most of the inventory for their future hardware sales would be shipped by this railroad, only part way, at first. A visit to Jules would become an annual event. They then continued by train to Bismarck and waited for their belongings to catch up to them via teams that had left Illinois traveling overland before and during the family's train travel. When they arrived, the journey continued, crossing the [[Missouri River]], passing through [[Mandan]] country (where Lewis and Clark had enlisted the previously kidnapped [[Shoshone]] [[Sacajawea]]. They came to the [[Yellowstone River]] about where the [[Powder River]] flows into it. At some point, they experienced a buffalo hunt, securing a head as a trophy, as well as an Indian scare. | ||
− | Arriving exhausted at Miles City, they checked in to the [[Yellowstone Hotel]] and soon found a small almost finished house to move into. It had no domestic water, so | + | Arriving exhausted at Miles City, they checked in to the [[Yellowstone Hotel]] and soon found a small almost finished house to move into. It had no domestic water, so [[Looney Roach]] was hired to dig a well on the lot. |