Some of the early Norwegian settlers in Montana came from the Rushford area in Fillmore County, Minnesota. Several people in Rushford organized a society with the aim of exploring for better land in Montana. Because of several years with crop failures caused by hail, bugs, and rust in Minnesota they began to dream about better …
On May 25, 1866, the bark “Nicanor” left the town of Trondheim in Trøndelag, Norway. “Nicanor”, with a gross tonnage of 438, was built in Skellefteå in Sweden in 1857. When the ship set its course for Quebec in Canada, it had 233 steerage emigrants on board and five cabin passengers. Among the passengers were …
Gold discoveries led to settlement in the area west of the Big Belt Mountains on the upper Missouri River, Montana. Late in fall 1864 four former Confederate soldiers traveled south from Fort Benton on the Missouri River. Their destination was the Last Chance Gulch in Helena, but they wandered into a gulch on the west …
Confederate Gulch, Meagher County and the sheep business Les mer »