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- 16:02, 27 November 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+2,735) . . N Dusting Off the Old Ones (126) (Created page with "'''126. The Naming of the Mizpah''' Our stories are usually dated during that period when parents supported their children, and in time the children returned the favor. Howev...") (current)
- 15:59, 27 November 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+2,307) . . N Dusting Off the Old Ones (125) (Created page with "'''125. Origin of Montana Place Names''' Our stories are usually dated during that period when the United States Land Office was located in the Federal Building here instead ...") (current)
- 15:58, 27 November 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+1,565) . . N Dusting Off the Old Ones (123) (Created page with "'''123. Early Montana Happenings''' It was in 1864 that the first schools in Montana were started at Virginia City and at Bannack--and it was on July 12 of that year that gol...") (current)
- 15:53, 27 November 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+1,439) . . N Dusting Off the Old Ones (122) (Created page with "'''122. Casey -- After the Ride''' Last week, we told you a part of the story that was published in the Saturday Evening Post concerning our good friend, Casey Barthelmess, s...") (current)
- 15:52, 27 November 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+2,078) . . N Dusting Off the Old Ones (121) (Created page with "'''121. Casey Defends Himself''' Some seven or eight years ago there appeared a little story in the Saturday Evening Post concerning our good friend, Casey Barthelmess-- we w...") (current)
- 15:51, 27 November 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+1,957) . . N Dusting Off the Old Ones (120) (Created page with "'''120. The Dream American Legion Team''' While this story will not date back to the time of the happening of most of our stories, we believe, with the end of the baseball se...") (current)
- 15:48, 27 November 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+1,641) . . N Dusting Off the Old Ones (119) (Created page with "'''119. Miles City's First Union''' Labor union activities and their presence in our community are so commonplace today, that we wonder if there is any reader who can tell wh...") (current)
- 15:27, 27 November 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+1,896) . . N Dusting Off the Old Ones (118) (Created page with "'''118. Election Precincts 1882''' In 1882, Custer County was quite a fair sized territory--its western boundary was well west of Billings, while the eastern boundary was the...") (current)
- 15:14, 27 November 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+236) . . Dusting Off the Old Ones
- 15:14, 27 November 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+1,912) . . N Dusting Off the Old Ones (115) (Created page with "'''115. Early Montana History''' It was on May 26, 1864, that President Linco1n signed the bill creating Montana Territory. Going clear back to the acquisition of the territo...") (current)
- 15:05, 27 November 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+1,433) . . N Dusting Off the Old Ones (114) (Created page with "'''114. Duke's Mixture''' To-day's story will be rather a "Duke's Mixture"--and by the way, how many of you readers ever heard of "Duke's Mixture"? How many of you know where...") (current)
- 15:04, 27 November 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+2,523) . . N Dusting Off the Old Ones (112) (Created page with "'''112. A Fantastic Scheme''' About Christmas time in 1881, there was published in our local paper a story in which the Yellowstone valley was to play an important part. The ...") (current)
- 14:36, 27 November 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+2,069) . . N Dusting Off the Old Ones (107) (Created page with "'''107. The Monkey and the Bronc''' Some time, just after the turn of the century, a circus came to town. Among the spectators at this show were four cowboys who had other th...") (current)
- 14:35, 27 November 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+1,970) . . N Dusting Off the Old Ones (102) (Created page with "'''102. Miles City's Cigar Factories''' Perhaps it is not generally known that it was not until recent years that cigars were machine made, but it is true that prior to that ...") (current)
- 14:34, 27 November 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+3,435) . . N Dusting Off the Old Ones (101) (Created page with "'''101. The Clarkes in Miles City''' Now that the insurance department of the Custer Abstract Company has been taken over and is now owned and operated by the Clarke Insuranc...") (current)
- 14:25, 27 November 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+4,789) . . N Dusting Off the Old Ones (100) (Created page with "'''100. Ekalaka''' A study of the derivation of the names of the principal towns in eastern Montana is an interesting one--most of the towns along the Yellowstone are named f...") (current)
- 14:24, 27 November 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+1,165) . . N Dusting Off the Old Ones (99) (Created page with "'''99. Did You Know?''' That as far back as 1879, newspaper items indicated that the development of Miles City was not dependent upon the coming of the Northern Pacific Railr...") (current)
- 14:23, 27 November 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+1,188) . . N Dusting Off the Old Ones (97) (Created page with "'''97. Early Day Fire Alarm''' The first record we have of volunteers to control any conflagration in Miles City is the story told by Sam Gordon in his "Recollections of Old ...") (current)
- 14:22, 27 November 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+953) . . N Dusting Off the Old Ones (96) (Created page with "'''96. Custer County in 1878''' In the January 1, 1880 issue of the Yellowstone Journal, there appears a report of the Territorial Treasurer for Montana for the year 1878, wi...") (current)
- 14:22, 27 November 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+1,727) . . N Dusting Off the Old Ones (95) (Created page with "'''95. No Pavement In Those Days''' This story will be about Miles City's first street sprinkler. It was in the fall of 1906 that the "City Fathers" instructed the city clerk...") (current)
- 14:20, 27 November 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+1,783) . . N Dusting Off the Old Ones (94) (Created page with "'''94. Early Day Cab Drivers''' This week we would like to ponder on a few of the folks who have been cab drivers in Miles City. No doubt there are a good many folks still al...") (current)
- 14:19, 27 November 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+1,429) . . N Dusting Off the Old Ones (93) (Created page with "'''93. One North Miles City Lot Still in Private Ownership''' During the past few weeks we have been relating the manner in which the city acquired title to the Municipal Air...") (current)
- 14:18, 27 November 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+1,392) . . N Dusting Off the Old Ones (89) (Created page with "'''89. Lansing Flat''' We wonder whether there is anyone who has lived in Miles City twenty-five years who could correctly answer the question: "Where was Lansing Flat?" Most...") (current)
- 14:17, 27 November 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+283) . . Dusting Off the Old Ones
- 14:17, 27 November 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+2,077) . . N Dusting Off the Old Ones (88) (Created page with "'''88. The 10 Mile Race in Miles City''' In the early eighties there was constructed at the corner of Pleasant and Eight Streets a building 50 feet wide by 150 feet in length...") (current)
- 14:16, 27 November 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+2,391) . . N Dusting Off the Old Ones (85) (Created page with "'''85. How the Open Range Was Controlled Before the Homesteader Took Over''' Our story this week will be concerning a method used by stockmen to obtain title to government la...") (current)
- 14:15, 27 November 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+2,148) . . N Dusting Off the Old Ones (82) (Created page with "'''82. Some of Miles City's First Hospitals''' The dictionary defines a hospital as an institution in which patients or injured persons are given medical or surgical care. Al...")
- 14:14, 27 November 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+1,224) . . N Dusting Off the Old Ones (81) (Created page with "'''81. The City Scales''' How many of you readers remember the city scales? The "last stand" for the city scales was just back of the court house where the Miles City Motor C...") (current)
- 14:12, 27 November 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+4,730) . . N Dusting Off the Old Ones (80) (Created page with "'''80. Custer County's First Fair''' Custer County's first fair was held under the sponsorship of the Custer Horse Sale and Fair Association. The dates were October 7, 8 and ...") (current)
- 14:11, 27 November 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+2,106) . . N Dusting Off the Old Ones (78) (Created page with "'''78. Aesculus Hippocastanium in Miles City''' This is the botanical name of a tree which has caused many folks to wonder as to its species and now that we have the tree cle...") (current)
- 14:10, 27 November 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+1,836) . . N Dusting Off the Old Ones (74) (Created page with "'''74. An Industry of Yesteryear''' Prior to the time our friend "Alec Trissity" moved into the community with his many gadgets, there was one crop in this locality which sel...") (current)
- 14:09, 27 November 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+1,995) . . N Dusting Off the Old Ones (73) (Created page with "'''73. Artesian Wells''' As we all know, there are a number of artesian wells around Miles City today, but we wonder how many folks know where the first one was drilled in th...")
- 14:08, 27 November 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+1,562) . . N Dusting Off the Old Ones (72) (Created page with "'''72. The Old Northern Pacific Passenger Depot''' We wonder how many folks recall the third building at the site of the Northern Pacific depot. There was the Northern Pacifi...") (current)
- 14:07, 27 November 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+1,747) . . N Dusting Off the Old Ones (71) (Created page with "'''71. Early Auto Proving Grounds''' In the early days of the automobile in this community, there were two places to try them out, one for speed and one for horsepower. In or...") (current)
- 08:47, 27 November 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+1,648) . . N Dusting Off the Old Ones (69) (Created page with "'''69. The Toboggan Slide''' With summer coming on it is hardly fit to be thinking of toboggan slides, but Miles City had a real one at one time. Undoubtedly, the only ones o...") (current)
- 08:47, 27 November 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+255) . . Dusting Off the Old Ones
- 08:46, 27 November 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+2,656) . . N Dusting Off the Old Ones (68) (Created page with "'''68. Early Car License Plates''' The first law enacted in Montana providing for the registration of motor vehicles was enacted by the l3th regular session of the Montana Le...") (current)
- 08:46, 27 November 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+4,201) . . N Dusting Off the Old Ones (67) (Created page with "'''67. Custer County's First Commercial Truck Garden''' Joseph Eichhorn, according to the records in the office of the county clerk and recorder, received a patent to about 8...") (current)
- 08:45, 27 November 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+1,656) . . N Dusting Off the Old Ones (65) (Created page with "'''65. How Cattle Were Marketed Before the Coming of Railroads''' After the first cattle were brought into this community in the late seventies, a problem presented itself as...") (current)
- 08:43, 27 November 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+3,242) . . N Dusting Off the Old Ones (64) (Created page with "'''64. The First Entry in the Journal of the District Court in Montana Territory''' For the benefit of folks who are interested in the early history of Montana and who have n...") (current)
- 07:46, 27 November 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+32) . . Main Page (→Resources to process / Todo list)
- 07:44, 27 November 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+45) . . Main Page (→Resources to process / Todo list)
- 07:42, 27 November 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+1,046) . . N Dusting Off the Old Ones (60) (Created page with "'''60. Annual Breakup''' It is about that time of year for the ice in the rivers to break up (this story was published March 3, 1956) and it should be interesting to observe ...") (current)
- 07:37, 27 November 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+2,423) . . N Dusting Off the Old Ones (59) (Created page with "'''59. Wibaux Park''' It was quite a few years from the time in the early eighties when Judge J. W. Strevell filed his homestead entry on the land now occupied by Wibaux Park...") (current)
- 07:35, 27 November 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+1,600) . . N Dusting Off the Old Ones (54) (Created page with "'''54. Two Rows of Trees''' This story deals with two rows of cottonwood trees -- one of which you readers see every time you go to the cemetery and no doubt pay little atten...") (current)
- 07:31, 27 November 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+2,321) . . N Dusting Off the Old Ones (52) (Created page with "'''52. The Original 9 Counties of Montana''' Ninety-one years ago this month, the first legislature of the Territory of Montana was in session, having convened in December, 1...") (current)
- 06:49, 27 November 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+2,239) . . N Dusting Off the Old Ones (49) (Created page with "'''49. How the Yellowstone River Got Its Name''' For many years the Yellowstone River was credited with being the swiftest navigable river in the world. How many of you reade...") (current)
- 06:49, 27 November 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+150) . . Dusting Off the Old Ones
- 06:48, 27 November 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+1,532) . . N Dusting Off the Old Ones (47) (Created page with "'''47. Orschel's Band Wagon''' In the not so early days -- say in the 90's and early 1900's, when there were several round up wagons working in the community -- that is, seve...") (current)
- 06:48, 27 November 2013 (diff | hist) . . (+2,099) . . N Dusting Off the Old Ones (46) (Created page with "'''46. Bender's Grove''' When the present inhabitants of Miles City hear of Bender's Park they naturally think of that tract of land on the east side of North Montana Avenue ...") (current)
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