Word: montana
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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About the only thing certain in the copper states of Arizona, Nevada, Montana and Utah is that this is going to be a bleak winter. The strike has already cost more than $20 million in workers' wages. Many families are subsisting on strike benefits of from $10 to $30 a week or on welfare payments from the states or from the Mormon Church. Menus in the workers' homes have turned to bread and potatoes, stretched out with deer shot during the October hunting season. Businessmen who depend on miners are hurting too. G. R. Harmon, a grocer...
...David M. Rorvik, 24, graduated from the University of Montana and went on to the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism, where his final paper was on the phenomenon of unidentified flying objects. He is reporting for Science...
Civilized Deer. Gone are the days when brutish nature and greedy hunters combined to decimate American wildlife. In 1905, Elers Koch, a federal forest inspector, spent an entire month on a pack trip through Montana's Sun River country and saw just one game animal in all that time-a scruffy mountain goat. "Today, if you want a deer or an antelope or a moose," says Cliff Rumford, a Great Falls sporting-goods dealer, "you just...
...slow, since the older boys were excused for harvesting in fall, planting in spring, and boys of all ages took a "potato vacation." Girls stayed home to help their mothers through a pregnancy or the canning season. Yet even though the potbellied stove never quite coped with the Montana winters, only temperatures under 45° below could close the school. "I felt as if each day in school was precious to the children," Miss Blachly recalls, "and that I must fill it to the brim," since a few months each winter was "all the education they were going...
...spread's white frame "Mansion," battling with squatters, poachers and Government agents. At off-the-ranch social occasions, he liked to bring along a pack of unhousebroken dogs to express whatever pique he might hold against his hosts. Found dead of a heart attack at 80 in a Montana creek, where he had gone on a fishing trip, J.I. had tried to preserve the ranch forever by willing controlling interest to a foundation ruled largely by his close friends...