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- 19:14, 25 November 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+1,646) . . N Dusting Off the Old Ones (12) (Created page with "12. Whose Place Is On DeMore's Avenue? Our story this week concerns the platting of that section of land on which the Crossroads Inn and Leon Park are located. The portion of...") (current)
- 19:12, 25 November 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+1,684) . . N Dusting Off the Old Ones (148) (Created page with "148. A Toll Road We wonder how many of our readers have been obliged to pay a toll to use a certain strip of road or highway--well, we'll venture that if any have, it was not...") (current)
- 19:11, 25 November 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+3,142) . . N Dusting Off the Old Ones (152) (Created page with "'''152. A Visit to Fort Keogh in 1885''' While browsing around in the Historical Library at Helena recently, Shade Tree Bill ran onto a copy of the Northwest Magazine, dated ...") (current)
- 19:00, 25 November 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+1,704) . . N Dusting Off the Old Ones (8) (Created page with "'''8. Miles City's Postmasters''' Miles City's first water plant was located on the site now occupied by the Montana-Dakota Utilities Company's power house. The water was tak...")
- 18:59, 25 November 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+5,470) . . N Dusting Off the Old Ones (30) (Created page with "'''30. The Wool House Fire''' Shade Tree Bill tells us that the conflagration which probably caused more litigation in Miles City than any other fire here was the burning of ...") (current)
- 18:57, 25 November 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+2,006) . . N Dusting Off the Old Ones (109) (Created page with "'''109. Angel of Mercy''' Around the turn of the century there lived in our town a lady who was called more than once an "Angel of Mercy". This good person, who had a family ...") (current)
- 18:56, 25 November 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+1,388) . . N Dusting Off the Old Ones (98) (Created page with "'''98. Miles City's First Paid Fireman''' Recently we told in this column the story of how early day fires were fought by volunteer firemen who would man pumps wnile others f...") (current)
- 18:50, 25 November 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+1,885) . . N Dusting Off the Old Ones (91) (Created page with "'''91. The City "Eyes" Lansing Flat''' In two previous issues, we told you readers where Lansing Flat was, how it was sold to some promoters, was platted into lots and blocks...") (current)
- 18:48, 25 November 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+1,251) . . N Dusting Off the Old Ones (38) (Created page with "'''38. Jimmy Hanrahan was One of Them''' In relating the names of the automobile dealers in one of our recent articles on the early history of the automobiles in this communi...") (current)
- 18:47, 25 November 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+167) . . Dusting Off the Old Ones
- 18:46, 25 November 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+1,765) . . N Dusting Off the Old Ones (66) (Created page with "'''66. The Custer County Automobile Club''' The Custer County Automobile Club was organized here in Miles City in 1913. At that time there were 161 automobile owners in the c...") (current)
- 18:37, 25 November 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+1,720) . . N Dusting Off the Old Ones (84) (Created page with "'''84. A White Cap Message''' This week's story will concern an incident in the Powder River country. Along about the turn of the century, considerable feeling was being arou...") (current)
- 18:36, 25 November 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+2,318) . . N Dusting Off the Old Ones (92) (Created page with "'''92. Condemnation Proceedings Necessary''' During the past few weeks in these columns we have been telling the story concerning the Miles City Municipal Airport--first, how...") (current)
- 18:35, 25 November 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+1,779) . . N Dusting Off the Old Ones (110) (Created page with "'''110. Our Undersheriff Holds a News Conference''' The story today was probably not censored by the Chamber of Comerce if there was such an organization here in 1881. It is ...") (current)
- 18:33, 25 November 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+1,264) . . N Dusting Off the Old Ones (111) (Created page with "'''111. Reporting in 1880''' To-day's story will consist of a number of items taken from the local press some seventy-five or more years ago, and which are rather intriguing ...")
- 18:32, 25 November 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+1,629) . . N Dusting Off the Old Ones (55) (Created page with "'''55. The Other Row of Trees''' Last week we started to tell the stories of two rows of trees, but only had space to finish telling about that row which used to grace the ce...") (current)
- 10:05, 25 November 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+43,457) . . N Sitting Bull (Created page with "{{For|the western film|Sitting Bull (film)}} {{Infobox American Indian chief |name = Sitting Bull |image = En-chief-sitting-bull.jpg |caption = Si...")
- 07:36, 25 November 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+211) . . Dusting Off the Old Ones
- 07:36, 25 November 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+2,165) . . N Dusting Off the Old Ones (86) (Created page with "'''86. A Range War Episode''' Last week we narrated the method employed by stockmen to control the open range by purchasing scrip and locating it on water holes. In this mann...") (current)
- 07:35, 25 November 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+1,907) . . N Dusting Off the Old Ones (57) (Created page with "'''57. A "Touch and Go" Affair''' Some of the older residents of the Hathaway and Sheffield communities will probably remember some of the details of the story we are about t...") (current)
- 07:34, 25 November 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+1,987) . . N Dusting Off the Old Ones (48) (Created page with "'''48. Miles City's No Man Land''' Not many of the folks who picnic in Riverside Park in the summer months have any idea of the early history of this beautiful park. The hist...") (current)
- 07:33, 25 November 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+6,454) . . N Dusting Off the Old Ones (141) (Created page with "'''141. The Big Game''' Fallon, that little town about 50 miles east of us on the Northern Pacific Railroad was quite a shipping point around the turn of the century and ther...") (current)
- 07:32, 25 November 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+2,404) . . N Dusting Off the Old Ones (51) (Created page with "51. Why so Many Counties in Montana! In that period from 1910 to 1925, Montana's political body suffered many "growing pains" for it was during that time that 27 new counties...") (current)
- 07:31, 25 November 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+1,442) . . N Dusting Off the Old Ones (138) (Created page with "'''138. Two Landmarks''' Most of our readers know where Signal Butte is and also Carbon Hill. However, there are two landmarks in the community that should be equally as well...") (current)
- 07:30, 25 November 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+1,727) . . N Dusting Off the Old Ones (35) (Created page with "35. Who Owned the First Auto in Miles City? For the past two weeks, we have related the story of the automobile dealers in this community from the advent of the first auto un...") (current)
- 07:29, 25 November 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+1,792) . . N Dusting Off the Old Ones (153) (Created page with "'''153. A Great Horse Country''' Along about 1907, when the Milwaukee railroad was building into Miles City, the local Chamber of Commerce issued a thirty-six page booklet or...") (current)
- 07:28, 25 November 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+1,965) . . N Dusting Off the Old Ones (83) (Created page with "83. A Cut-Off That Did Not Materialize This week's story will be about a proposed cut-off of the Northern Pacific Railroad connecting its extention to Mott, North Dakota with...") (current)
- 07:26, 25 November 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+2,626) . . N Dusting Off the Old Ones (127) (Created page with "127. The Mizpah is Named Our stories are usually dated during that period when horsepower was measured by the number of horses hitched to a conveyance rather than the number ...") (current)
- 07:25, 25 November 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+1,406) . . N Dusting Off the Old Ones (70) (Created page with "70. The Big Horn Tunnel There is a point of interest on the Northern Pacific railroad between Miles City and Billings that perhaps few of the younger generation have observed...") (current)
- 07:24, 25 November 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+191) . . Dusting Off the Old Ones
- 07:23, 25 November 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+207) . . Dusting Off the Old Ones (124) (current)
- 07:23, 25 November 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+44) . . N Miles City livery stables (Birchy moved page Miles City livery stables to Dusting Off the Old Ones (124): fix title) (current)
- 07:23, 25 November 2013 (diff | hist) . . (0) . . m Dusting Off the Old Ones (124) (Birchy moved page Miles City livery stables to Dusting Off the Old Ones (124): fix title)
- 07:21, 25 November 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+5,645) . . N Dusting Off the Old Ones (108) (Created page with "'''108. Cahn's Coulee''' Practically all the small coulees and creeks in this vicinity have names. If one could run down the origin of those names, many interesting stories w...") (current)
- 07:20, 25 November 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+6,126) . . N Dusting Off the Old Ones (19) (Created page with "'''19. Miles City High School Graduates''' It is not long until commencement time at Custer High and it should be interesting to most of the Star readers to learn something o...") (current)
- 07:18, 25 November 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+3,891) . . N Dusting Off the Old Ones (105) (Created page with "105. First Two Story Dwelling in Miles City Our story to-day will be about what is believed to be the first two story house erected in Miles City. In the early days, few two ...") (current)
- 07:07, 25 November 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+2,408) . . N Dusting Off the Old Ones (26) (Created page with "26. What Building From Old Town Is Still Being Used On Main Street? "Old Milestown" or "Old Miles City" was established on the banks of the Yellowstone in the middle 70's at ...") (current)
- 01:37, 25 November 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+2,031) . . N Dusting Off the Old Ones (161) (Created page with "161. Social Life in Miles City in the Eighties This story will have to do with the social life in Miles City in the early eighties as described by Josephine Decker, who at on...") (current)
- 01:36, 25 November 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+1,551) . . N Dusting Off the Old Ones (156) (Created page with "'''156. A Business Index''' There was another pamphlet put out by the Chamber of Commerce prior to Buchanan's advent in Miles City. This one was labeled "In the Heart of the ...") (current)
- 01:34, 25 November 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+5,599) . . N Dusting Off the Old Ones (163) (Created page with "'''163. Miles City's First Football Game''' Our story today will concern the first football team and the first recorded football game played in Miles City. There are several ...") (current)
- 01:34, 25 November 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+40) . . Dusting Off the Old Ones
- 01:32, 25 November 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+9,080) . . Dusting Off the Old Ones
- 01:27, 25 November 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+8,190) . . N Dusting Off the Old Ones (1) (Created page with "'''1. The Passing of an Era, From Buffalo Chips to Natural Gas and Electricity''' When mention is made of the fuel used by the early settlers in Eastern Montana, if a person ...")
- 01:26, 25 November 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+269) . . N Dusting Off the Old Ones (Created page with "Dusting Off the Old Ones Originally published 1961, W. B. Clarke, Miles City, Montana *[[Dusting Off the Old Ones (1)|1. The Passing of an Era, From Buffalo Chips to Natural ...")
- 01:22, 25 November 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+1,437) . . N Recollections of Old Milestown (Post Mortem) (Created page with " A POST MORTEM Writing of only forty years ago, in this age of rapid development, is writing very close up to date, in so far as history is concerned, but in the individual l...") (current)
- 01:21, 25 November 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+16,865) . . N Recollections of Old Milestown (Vigilante Days) (Created page with " PART III: THE VIGILANTE DAYS IT WAS the incoming of the railroad that called the turn on our primitive life and introduced the manners and customs of the older civilization ...") (current)
- 01:21, 25 November 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+60,947) . . N Recollections of Old Milestown (Diversions ) (Created page with " PART II: DIVERSIONS OF A CARE-FREE COMMUNITY MILESTOWN has had several eras, each marked by its own peculiarities and intermediate intervals when the new vogue mixed with th...")
- 01:20, 25 November 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+34,760) . . N Recollections of Old Milestown (Main Street) (Created page with "PART I: STORY OF MAIN STREET WHOEVER attempts the story of early days in Milestown, must spin his yarn around Main street, where ninety per cent of the incidents dear to the ...")
- 01:20, 25 November 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+2,167) . . N Recollections of Old Milestown (Foreward) (Created page with "Some years ago, a half a dozen probably, a few of the old timers met by appointment to discuss the desirability of collecting and reducing to some form of permanent record, th...")
- 01:19, 25 November 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+6) . . Recollections of Old Milestown (current)
- 01:19, 25 November 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+57) . . N Miles City founders (Birchy moved page Miles City founders to Recollections of Old Milestown (Old Timers): FIX TITLE) (current)
- 01:19, 25 November 2013 (diff | hist) . . (0) . . m Recollections of Old Milestown (Old Timers) (Birchy moved page Miles City founders to Recollections of Old Milestown (Old Timers): FIX TITLE) (current)
- 01:18, 25 November 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+534) . . N Recollections of Old Milestown (Created page with "Recollections of Old Milestown Originally published 1918, Samuel Gordon, Miles City, Montana. Foreward [[Recollections of Old Mi...")
- 00:58, 25 November 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+49) . . Recollections of Old Milestown (Old Timers)
- 00:37, 25 November 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+3,618) . . N Recollections of Old Milestown (Old Timers) (Created page with "Along about 1910, when the rising tide of immigration was surely and rapidly submerging the early-day residents, the Yellowstone Journal printed a call for such action on the ...")
- 00:31, 25 November 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+252) . . Dusting Off the Old Ones (124)
- 00:23, 25 November 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+1) . . Dusting Off the Old Ones (124)
- 00:23, 25 November 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+5,390) . . N Dusting Off the Old Ones (124) (Created page with "ust as some of the best corners and locations in Miles City to-day are occupied by gasoline stations, which dish out the gas and oil that means so much to the present day tran...")
- 00:23, 25 November 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+684) . . N Hi Astle (Created page with "Hi Astle operated a livery stable on the south half of the 100 block of South Fifth Street in Miles City, Montana, across from Riverside Park...") (current)
- 23:55, 24 November 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+10,877) . . N Alvah Tilton (Created page with "Alvah Tilton (c. 1874-?) is best remembered as the person who killed James Pym, a decorated veteran of the Great Sioux War of 1876, who survived the [[Battle of Little...") (current)
- 23:19, 24 November 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+517) . . N Bernard Golden (Created page with "James Weeks deserted in Feb. 7, 1877, but was caught a few days later. He was shot and killed Aug. 27, 1877, at Crow Agency, which was near present-day Absarokee at the time, ...") (current)
- 23:19, 24 November 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+696) . . N John McShane (Created page with "John McShane met his end April 13, 1877, when he was shot while trying to escape the guardhouse at Fort Abraham Lincoln. According to the account of a fellow soldier, prisone...") (current)
- 23:19, 24 November 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+19) . . 7th Cavalry (→List of soldiers during the Battle of the Little Big Horn)
- 23:17, 24 November 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+517) . . N James Weeks (Created page with "James Weeks deserted in Feb. 7, 1877, but was caught a few days later. He was shot and killed Aug. 27, 1877, at Crow Agency, which was near present-day Absarokee at the time, ...") (current)
- 23:17, 24 November 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+8) . . 7th Cavalry (→List of soldiers during the Battle of the Little Big Horn)
- 23:16, 24 November 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+25) . . 7th Cavalry (→List of soldiers during the Battle of the Little Big Horn)
- 23:14, 24 November 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+22) . . N Day, John H. (Birchy moved page Day, John H. to John Day: fix title error) (current)
- 23:14, 24 November 2013 (diff | hist) . . (0) . . m John Day (Birchy moved page Day, John H. to John Day: fix title error) (current)
- 23:09, 24 November 2013 (diff | hist) . . (0) . . 7th Cavalry (→List of soldiers during the Battle of the Little Big Horn)
- 23:06, 24 November 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+18) . . 7th Cavalry (→List of soldiers during the Battle of the Little Big Horn)
- 23:05, 24 November 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+1,220) . . N Elijah Strode (Created page with "Elijah Strode was shot by another soldier, Thomas J. Whalen, at a Sturgis, S.D., saloon in February 1881. Newspaper accounts from the Black Hills say the pair had tuned up on...") (current)
- 23:04, 24 November 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+1,432) . . N John Day (Created page with "John H. Day came to his end at the hands of a Louisiana lynch mob 18 years after the battle. He'd made the unfortunate decision to reside in Monroe, La., part of Ouachita Par...")
- 22:55, 24 November 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+13) . . 7th Cavalry
- 22:54, 24 November 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+1,260) . . N French, Thomas (Created page with "Capt. Thomas H. French was slower drinking himself to death than Weir, but no less haunted by the Little Bighorn. His ghosts may have been more plentiful. A little more than ...") (current)
- 22:53, 24 November 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+18) . . 7th Cavalry (→List of soldiers during the Battle of the Little Big Horn)
- 22:51, 24 November 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+903) . . Weir, Thomas Benton (current)
- 22:50, 24 November 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+6,213) . . N Weir, Thomas Benton (Created page with "{{Infobox military person |name= Thomas Benton Weir |birth_date= 28 Sept 1838 |death_date= 9 Dec 1876 |birth_place= |death_place=New York City |placeofburial= |placeofbu...")
- 22:50, 24 November 2013 (diff | hist) . . (0) . . 7th Cavalry (→List of soldiers during the Battle of the Little Big Horn)
- 22:49, 24 November 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+16) . . 7th Cavalry (→List of soldiers during the Battle of the Little Big Horn)
- 22:47, 24 November 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+20,559) . . N Benteen, Frederick William (Created page with "{{redirect|Benteen|the music publisher and composer|F. D. Benteen}} {{Refimprove|date=September 2009}} {{Infobox military person |name= Frederick William Benteen |birth_date= ...") (current)
- 22:47, 24 November 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+22) . . 7th Cavalry
- 22:45, 24 November 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+16,601) . . N Reno, Marcus Albert (Created page with "{{Refimprove|date=October 2010}} {{Infobox military person |name= Marcus Albert Reno |birth_date= {{birth date|1834|11|15}} |death_date= {{death date and age|1889|3|30|1834|11...") (current)
- 22:45, 24 November 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+16) . . 7th Cavalry (→List of soldiers during the Battle of the Little Big Horn)
- 22:17, 24 November 2013 (diff | hist) . . (-7) . . James Pym (→Biography (short)) (current)
- 21:58, 24 November 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+4,641) . . N Little Bighorn River (Created page with "{{Infobox river | name = The Big Horn River, showing the Little Bighorn River as a tributary | image_name = Bighornrivermap.jpg | image_size = | image_a...") (current)
- 21:51, 24 November 2013 (diff | hist) . . (-3) . . James Pym
- 21:50, 24 November 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+33,836) . . N Great Sioux War of 1876 (Created page with "{{Infobox military conflict | conflict = Great Sioux War of 1876 | image = 300px| | caption = ''Custer's last stand at [[Battle of the Little Bighorn|Litt...")
- 20:11, 24 November 2013 (diff | hist) . . (-3,632) . . James Pym (→Biography (complete))
- 19:01, 24 November 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+501) . . N Reconstruction (Created page with "Reconstruction’ the name of Government policy to resolve the issues of the Civil War after the Confederacy was defeated and slavery ended. Reconstruction addressed how forme...") (current)
- 19:00, 24 November 2013 (diff | hist) . . (-888) . . James Pym (→Biography (complete))
- 12:42, 24 November 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+106,608) . . N Medal of Honor (Created page with "{{Other uses}} {{Good article}} {{Infobox military award |name=Medal of Honor |image=300px |caption= Army, Navy, and Air Force versions of the Meda...") (current)
- 12:40, 24 November 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+3,519) . . N Template:Infobox military person (Created page with "{{Infobox | child = {{lc:{{{embed}}}}} | bodyclass = vcard | bodystyle = {{WPMILHIST Infobox style|{{#switch:{{{width_style|}}}|narrow|person|auto=main_box...") (current)
- 12:34, 24 November 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+65,584) . . N George Armstrong Custer (Created page with "{{Redirect|Custer}} {{Infobox military person |name= George Armstrong Custer |birth_date= {{Birth date|1839|12|5}} |death_date= {{Death date and age|1876|6|25|1839|12|5}} |bir...") (current)
- 11:14, 24 November 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+31) . . Grant P. Marsh (→Grant Marsh takes "Luella" to Ft. Benton, Montana Territory and back, 1866) (current)
- 11:04, 24 November 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+13) . . Grant P. Marsh
- 10:54, 24 November 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+28,655) . . N Grant P. Marsh (Created page with "'''Grant P. Marsh''' (May 11. 1834 – January , 1916) (also know as '''Grant Marsh''', and '''Grant Prince Marsh)''' was a steamboat captain and river pilot for 60 years on t...")
- 08:34, 24 November 2013 (diff | hist) . . (-753) . . James Pym (→Biography)
- 02:13, 24 November 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+82) . . James Pym (→Further reading)
- 02:11, 24 November 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+39,925) . . James Pym (→Biography)
- 00:06, 24 November 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+12) . . James Pym (→Biography)
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