The Great Plains
Mary Trotter Kion
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Stringham’s General Grocery Store in Garnet, Montana, was a keen rival of the general store owned by Frank Davey. Stringham also delivered goods to miners at their claims.
Garnet, Montana’s blacksmith sometime between 1896 and 1900. Billy Liberty was the blacksmith and made just about everything from horseshoes to ore wagons.
Frank A. Davey built Davey’s Store in Garnet, Montana in 1898. The store had an icehouse for storing perishables and contained secret compartments for storing gold that awaited shipment.
Robert Moore builds the ‘Bob Moore Saloon,’ in Garnet, Montana, then sells it to L. P. Kelly who sells a part-interest to Thomas Fraser. The saloon changes hands two more times but Kelly continues to run it.
Due to the Sherman Silver Purchase Act both gold and silver mines began shutting down. Now there were thousands of miners out of work, tramping across the land, looking for employment and something to eat.
The more profitable years in the gold-boom town of Garnet, Montana began in 1895, by gold miners who were more concerned with the riches that lay below ground than constructing an aboveground metropolis. However, like other mining towns, it did flourish, at least for a time.
Stormy Petrel and the Blizzard of 1871: part 5
Throughout the long cold day Stormy waits alone inside the wagon. At the close of day the wind increases and gradually grows colder. She can only wonder if her husband and brothers have perished in the storm.
Stormy Petrel and the Blizzard of 1871: part 4
After spending a frigid night camping the Stormy and the three men awake to a blowing gale and the fact that they are nearly buried in snow. The three men leave Stormy in the wagon and head through the blizzard for a small town near by.
Stormy Petrel and the Blizzard of 1871: part 3
In the warm balmy November weather in Kansas Stormy and the three men prepare for an extended camping trip to hunt buffalo. They give no consideration that the plains weather could make a dire turn for the worse.
Stormy Petrel and the Blizzard of 1871: part 2
Stormy attempts Kansas frontier housekeeping while her brothers scratch the prairie ground and plant their seeds, then lounge upon the porch waiting for their crops to grow and for the rain that never comes.