A few days before I got through working for Jake Linville, young Doc Linville came riding in from a trip to Miles City. He sure was on the prod. He rode to Miles on horseback, it is a several day trip, almost a hundred miles each way. He was there to collect what the county […]

The Montana Sedition law, enacted in a special session of the state legislature in February 1918, criminalized just about anything negative said or written about the government or its conduct of the war. Stiff criminal penalties–a maximum of 10 to 20 years in prison and a $20,000 fine–conveyed the seriousness of the crime. Sedition is […]

One of those off and on guys – more off than on. Caused much trouble among employees with too much talk. Drank a good deal. Wrecked a truck and a valuable load when I was riding with him – R.H. Jarvis, Stevensville, MT reference for Albert Tracy

In early 20th century Powder River County records, mostly documented by the Broadus Independent newspaper, several people were committed to Warm Springs, an asylum and state hospital during the Kingsley era. These stories come from Powder River County (formerly part of Custer County): A son committed his father based partly on reports from his teacher, […]