An Illustrated History of the Yellowstone Valley

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Excerpt from An Illustrated History of the Yellowstone Valley: Embracing the Counties of Park, Sweet Grass, Carbon, Yellowstone, Rosebud, Custer and Dawson, State of MontanaOur subject remembers that when he was yet so young as to be unable to hold onto the pack horse, he was tied on and so accompanied the family in 'its wanderings as they removed from place to place in the work of prospecting. In 1883, our subject went to Nevada and Arizona and traveled well over the territories, prospecting and mining. In 1884, he went to Omaha and between that point and Kansas City he spent six years in timber contracting. In 1890, Mr. Powers came back to Montana and settled in Madison county, first, whence he came to his present place in 1896. Here he has remained since and he owns now a quar ter section of good land, all under the ditch.On January I, 1895, Mr. Powers married Miss Mary M. Love, the daughter of John and Jane (magee) Love. The former was born in Mercer county, Pennsylvania, there married and later removed to Illinois, whence he re turned to Pennsylvania and there remained until his death. The mother was of Scotch descent and her people were among the very first to settle in the vicinity of what is now Oil Mrs. Powers was born in Oil City, Pennsylvania.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.