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by
Bill Dedman
From Fort Bridger they traveled over the Teton Range, up the Snake River, and across the Continental Divide. Only fifteen or so of the party continued all the way on the Montana Trail to Bannack, others being diverted by news of gold in the Boise area. As a reminder of the constant danger on the trail, W.A. “saw the newly made graves of several recently murdered emigrants.”
I wonder if this grave site is the Ward massacre site. Which is down the street from me.
When his peaches froze solid on the journey, he sold them as “chilly peaches.” He bought tobacco at $1.50 a pound in Boise, Idaho, “with every dollar I had,” and sold it in Helena, Montana, at “$5 to $6 a pound.”
Anything with a local connection to me is going to get a highlight.
He told the citizens they would soon have a decent town with schools, churches, water, and roads. In 1909, a new Clark County was carved out with Las Vegas as its seat, one of the few lasting memorials to the Clark name.
The daughter of the man who founded Las Vegas lived till 2011!
That night, the Clark partisans celebrated by taking on the role of horses, pulling W.A. in his carriage through the streets of Helena. W.A. repaid the honor by buying drinks for the whole town.
An entire city with an open tab. Amazing. Has anything like this happened since?
