Foreword
Some years ago, a half a
dozen probably, a few of the old timers met by appointment to discuss
the desirability of collecting and reducing to some form of permanent
record, the, fast fading scenes and incidents of the early days of this
community. [More...]
Part I: Story of
Main Street
WHOEVER attempts the story
of early days in Milestown, must spin his yarn around Main street, where
ninety per cent of the incidents dear to the memory of oldtimers
occurred. Unquestionably Main street should have been given a more
appreciative title, but [More...]
Part II:
Diversions of a Care-Free Community
MILESTOWN has had several eras, each marked by its own peculiarities and intermediate intervals when the new vogue mixed with the old. First we had the military condition, for the exemplification of which the town was founded.
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Part III: The
Vigilante Days
IT WAS the incoming of the
railroad that called the turn on our primitive life and introduced the
manners and customs of the older civilization into our little world,
deflating or inflating the currency -- we never could decide -- which,
for while it gave to the
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A Post Mortem
Writing of only forty years
ago, in this age of rapid development, is writing very close up to date,
in so far as history is concerned, but in the individual life it seems
an almost immeasurable gap between then and now. Many who were then full
of life and hope [More...]
Roster of Old
Timers
Along about 1910, when the rising tide of immigration was surely and rapidly submerging the early-day residents, the Yellowstone Journal printed a call for such action on the part of those concerned as would result in the formation of an Old Timers'
association [More...]
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S. G O R D O N
Who Compiled These "Recollections" and Who For
33 Years Was Editor of The Daily Yellowstone
Journal at Miles |