Billings Senior High School - Kyote Yearbook (Billings, MT)

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Historic Montana HIS is our state, our Montana, her glimmering lakes and her g5,jQ'Q5j5'i streantlets Bedded by rocksand with- torrents that join the vast seas and farned rivers, Her snow covered peaks and her mountains which lift their great crests to the heavens,- Her pines and her trappers in bnckskin, her bnffaloes which fleeing the arrow Of red inen on pintos, roamed freely the breast of the far-stretching prairies, - Knee-deep in the long waving grassesg all stand nnforgotten, tirnniortal, Monuments of her own consecration. ' You who believe in M ontana, her beauty, past, present and future, Hark to this record accounting her histtry of romance allnringg Hark to the past of M ontana, the land of the great shining mountains. Long ago within the boundaries of the state now called Montana Dwelt the Indian, the redrnan, in his hunting grounds unchallenged. Eastward of the mighty Rockies dwelt the Gros V entres and Blackfeet, Lived the S hoshones and N ez Perce's, lived the S elish and the C heyennesj Also in this state the Crows dwelt by the Yellowstone and Big H orn,' Fiercest of these was the Snake tribe, often called by some Shoshones' Dwelt- they all in happy freedom, nnharassed by white 1nan's habits, Satisfied with savage customs, with their primitive existence. Caine some whites from H. B. conipany, came from Santa Fe' some Spaniards, As the first white men recorded to behold M ontana's Rockies, As the' trail-blaeers to ' . f open all the glories of our country! ' And then Jefferson, our president, purchased all Louisianag Paid for all acquisition just a few cents for D each acre? 'Sa.nders, p. 63. 1'1743--Sand- ers, p. 56. 51803. 1875.000 sq. , , A s mi. for S15,000,000. Her glimmering lake ' 4 .

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Zllnrrwnrh ln dedicating this yearbook to Historic blon- tana, we have tried to recall for you a brief sum- mary of the real facts concerning the romantic days spent by the fur traders, the trappers, and the miners in the Land of Shining Mountains. At the same time we have tried to show you a little of the real beauty of our treasure state And so m carrying out this theme, together with a record of our hi h school life We feel that we have given you something which will increase in value uith the years We have enjoyed every minute spent in making the book, m'1v it also bring pleasure to you dear reader, as you look thru its pages K eq I I RX fx ,X . . 1 y. . . g i .V I . v . y. . . ,7- . Y . . . - C - I . , ' M , 'P-xN Q -gC,f N- I - 1,1 N ex -, , - V N, - -- V, 1' ', ,.. Ji' -I S-.N I, N ' N --3.59 '- N rim., ,' N .1 :L -4t'T' az' ' N T' - ' 6 , v,-3--1,--,sig ' rg j..fga,,'4r-a - - , - f'-Q,-1-'Z-5. 5 1:1-fm ' ff' 1 ' ' . v... , 24,4 ff' ', 551. L..-. 4. -.-QFQ.-32. fn, ' -' K ' 391- QL , 'F' ' . QU: IIMYI' ,?C l',- 1, 44' f- N s .Max -iff'-E I,.,' ..,. 1-, Xin? 'E l5'. . A ., ,. ff,- 41 X 1 Y ,411 1: 5. ,, VY V F' ,1 i I l

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That years later yielded millions with its re- sources and for-ming. Sent he out for explor- S ation Captain Clark and Captain Lewis' S aca ja-wea. with her small son led theni thrn onr plains and ranges And they passed thru pur- ' , ple sage brush and which lift their great crests to the heavens 007035 010' in is ty mountains To the ocean, the Pacific, while returning fo-und our rivers, Yellowstone and the Missouri, marked the trail found by the Spaniard And they passed tlzrn Poinpey's Pillar where Pompey, their servant was buried. ' Of grea-t value was this voyage, gave official news and records Of the west, stretched out our nation- for beyond the western frontierf 'Midst the other first explorers was M axnzillian, prince of Prussia, Curious of this western country, came for scientific study. Voyaged he zcfitlzin a steamboat np as for as Fort McKeneie.5 A Also Audubon, for science, spent eight months within Fort Benton? Then Sir George from Sligo, I roland, ca-me for pnre love of adventure And. an insane lust for killing, to explore these Rocky 11Iountains ' That the Indians about there called the Backbone of the N ation-.U The next division is an era picturesque, roman- tic, thrilling, I As the bnchskin covered trappers fought for life and wealth from rednzen. Tlzo these t-rappers left but legends of their individual efforts, 'Mon-g then-i there was Bridger, Wyeth. Bonne- , ville and many others, S tnrdy, honest worthy hunters, true to red- znan, self and morals. But the Indian turned trapper as the fur posts were established ' And the solitary trapper lost his lines, thus his C'.1'flllt'fZ'0ll.a1 ' Fur traders too were explorers, made their trails, established steainboats '1805-Wm. and'Me1'iwether. issanders. p. 86. 51883 on Yellowstone-Sanders, p. 111. 11843-Sanders, p. 116. ,I H1854-Sanders, p. 116. '7By 1840. Pushing Her torrents forever