Roundup High School - Rodeo Yearbook (Roundup, MT)

Page 16 text:

ou're our champion liar, John Colter I A very famous hunter, trapper, and explorer, heard this very fre- quently when he described nature's wonderlands in the Yellowstone Park region. Until scientists check- ed up on his stories, it was known as Colter's Hell.1 One of the most thrilling experiences thac John Colter ever had was when given a chance to out-run the Blackfeet Braves for his life. This he did, and managed to make his way back to Fort Manuel Lisa without any weapons, food, or even clothes. That “Grand Old Man of the Rockies was none other than James Bridger A3 a trapper, trader, guide, and scout, he was an authority on geographical routes and mountain fauna. His mind was full of imaginative stories and he had an abil- ity to relate the curious things he had seen. And so it hap- pened that in his later years, these yarns of the frontier were known as Jim Bridger's lies. he is considered the Daniel Bocne of Montana and was the true type of Mountain Man. Lieutenant Mullan, another pioneer, found an easy pass for the railroad. It determined the location of many of the pioneer settlements that later grew into some of Montana's finest cities, h© v as truly a great pioneer and pathfinder. Haven't you often wondered who suggested the name-- Montana? It was the “lather of Montana Territory, Mr. Janes Ashley, who introduced the bill in the Senate. Because of its Mountains, it was called Montana, the Land of the Shining Mountains. Goldl RushtI A better road was in demand. John H. Bozeman, a scout and pathfinder, discovered the Bozeman Pass. Due to the Indian trouble the road was closed in 1886 in an effort to appoase them. In spite cf all this, the Blackfeet Indians went on the warpath, raiding the little town cf Boze- man, killing settlers, stealing horses, capturing children, sind burning their homes. One of their victims was ohn Boze- man himself. Without Colter, Bozeman, Ashley, Mullan and Jim Bridger the history of our state would indeed oo lacking in its stir- ring adventure and romance. A

Page 15 text:

i.umiUt1. • »;u VrtVn W'... lUoHfj MW ■MMWWW »' r. • r • ffiVS!X » •$! $ • •■ ■,v-i »v»« v.‘.V . vv: » ;,;..w‘;j -.v '' ',’’,w ,' •.■ • • Mitxxvflmvv yrf ; »»T » »» » A » '(twliViiVt • •«»•» »»»v.

Page 17 text:

s uviq sttve o.pqufov Hfft-f-yKowfjLt ljK sH NDf}. BUSH HfjROlO.Ulip CJUJELES. W.POFOVICH LOU.H. Off JZiUthMt . SHQLL©W- LORR finL CHtJfLl HBNHtm. S wy V g Rtrrjt ro T ffLDtRTtf.C Bier DONffLO C BtCKCAQ H een DoLLv. f rs VIRGIN if} ClfRVtR JfNFS.CiLRR . QlORct R r petmottr D» iV. ViGHOLSON j A.cy - j ci wiNce-pi VIC l.P e HLLkH.KlNN. MtrcuH-L Pfeoy HOLLOWM mqrU Re oisK JlM Vl WlfK FLORFNCt A BffS NOFR. CL ff£NC£ JUNIOR cuon e.eewes. DO OfHSf W OOD AAff«Cf Sr JjfiT' FRffNK HfKPNiL L fkqtiH R.onuoen. GENS F.N£L £N LLI)INC.I)NO[RSON. wotfT KF.rzf)ft. £0 r goyj,£. J f ssit Jonss FRfNces.popouicH ?HC£ . NlfLL