Word: kootenay
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...proposed $263-million federal Libby Dam (600,000 kw.) on Montana's Kootenay River is being blocked by objections from Canada, where the water would be stored, and by railroad and conservation interests...
...compel the unruly Sons to send their children to school. As opening day approached, indications grew that the Sons were getting set to defy Bonner and the "manmade" school law. Railway dynamitings and house-burnings, two favorite methods of Freedomite protest, broke out around their settlements in the mountainous Kootenay district. Several hundred Freedomites left their homes and set up a tent village at Perry Siding. None of their children showed up for classes when school opened. Instead, the parents stripped for their demonstration...