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

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On the uppermost Mis- t souri, built the fore- nzfost habitations. First, a Spaniard, M an- ual Lisa, built a post upon, la R o c h e Jaune IJ! As the first permanent dwelling built within the state Montana, On top of Montana Soon- came others, Ashley with them, who had private posts and business, Then there formed large corporations -which built posts zvithin our valleys Drove out all the private traders by their larger funds and numbers, Lisa, C ortefc: of the Rockies, started several corporations These with others, not iniportant, all dissolved because of fail-nre.T But the Rocky M onntain fur nzen built Henry and Ashley fur postsg And discovered they the South Pass, thus discovered they Green River, Opened land about Platte river, also S nuke, beside some others, The American fur company on the upper-most Missouri Built for important trading, Forts M cKenzie,i Unionf' Bentonff Others with less stable fur trade being organ-ized between theni. Gradually as competition twixt the corporations strenghened Their ideals and morals lowered and their conduct became shani-eful,' Crowds of gamblers, whisky' drinkers, scalawags, licentious, crafty Over-ran the trading region, sold the redman firewater, ' T Taught hirn all the 'white 1nan's vices, 'roused his distrust, fanned his hatred S -s he V y , s '. Killed the game and-sought the ' buffalo until- by the early f eighties e s All those herds of 'clumsy crea- -' 1 ' tures lumbered' no more thru the. sage brush, Sacred were they-to' the red- . T. nzan,' grievingaoatched he s ' V 'their 5 destructionif ' ' - '+E3r- 1940. 1' ,Fremclii 'called Yelf - ' 'lowstone la. Roche Jaurte, built in '1807 Sanders 121. 5-Sanders Ap. 121. t--Confluence of Missouri and Yel- lowstone. -1882 at mouth of Mar- V ias.. f-1828, Sanders p. 128 at junc4 The Bear's' Tooth. from which, by Indian legend, ' 'UW' Of -Y91.l0WS'C0Y19-- Bhd' Misioilff- 'the Beartooth mountatinsgot their name. it--1850. - ' -l 1

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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

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Now there came the mission- r at t aries: first the Selish' heard some rumors Of the white man s priest, his black robe, liked his Cath- olic ceremonies, Sent four men to the great father' to request one for th-eir people, Traveled they on foot the whole icfayf thru tribes hostile to the Selish, Tho they sacrificed their lives thus, stirred they interest for the rednwng Tho the priests sent by this interest went to other tribes for teaching Still they showed the whites, the redm-an too desired his salvation, .Spurned they then protestant teachings for their preachers wore no black ,robes , And they sent them three more pleadings before priest de Smet responded? Built he there S t. M aryls mission, won- the love of, all the S elish W' hen gained they the reservationw left they to the whites this building, Still a church but not a mission, tho there sprang from it nine others. 'Mong them thenwas St. Ignatius in the valley of Sin-Yal-Min,' For the Blaclefeet built St. Peter's, Holy Family, also St. Paul's. Other fathers were Ravalli, loved by all and harmed by no one, And .Father Point who was a helper, dearly loved at all the missions. N ow the -west is slowly changing, slowly going to the white man, i Gold is found and rapidly waning rednianis race is sent to reserves, Crows to one in C usterecounty, one tribe here, another yonder. Thus began annihilation of these children of the N orthwestf' A Group of Crow Indians The wild thrill felt by all humans at a gold call from the mountains, The distrust, success, and failures, petty brawls, grub stake investments Formed the background for the history of this era of Montana - is As the adventurous spir- its fought for gold among -our gulches Rough they were and c r u d e, ambitious, meeting sturdily, dis- - aster t X A 'In Bitter Root Valley. 'l'The Pompey Pillar, where Lewis and Clark camped and president. 52,000 mi. 121840. carved their initials Jncko. 'T Sanders, p. 143.