admin | June 8, 2010
We were in Milltown at the end of our last post. In just a few hundred yards, before you get to the churches and school at Bonner, turn right off Highway 200 onto Highway 210 through Piltzville. The Mullan Road tended to hug the base of the mountain tighter than the today’s highway does because [...]
Category: 1850s-1860s, John Mullan, Mullan Road, Railroads, Stagecoaches, Western Montana history |
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Tags: Bearmouth, Beavertail Hill, Clinton, Medicine Tree Hill, Milltown, Mullan Road, Nimrod, Piltzville, Rock Creek, Turah
admin | July 26, 2009
The Montana History Almanac in the July 26 Sunday Missoulian includes an item on the 1914 robberies by Ed Trafton and Charles Erpenback of 15 stagecoaches in succession in Yellowstone Park, all within an hour. News accounts in the days after the heists are interesting. The first of the robbed passengers to reach Livingston said [...]
Category: 1910s, Stagecoaches, Yellowstone |
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Tags: 1914, Jimmy McBride, Yellowstone stagecoach