During the 1959 Stockgrowers Diamond Jubilee in Miles City, someone placed a hangman's noose is a dead tree high on a hill, above a curve, within a mile of the Powder River bridge. Who recalls the time? Who has pictures? The highway was rerouted many years ago, bypassing the spot.

My husband Norm said that he remembers very well that a good friend of his painted a picture of it. We have a pencil sketch hanging in out dining room that our son purchased at a store in Butte, The tree is right at the turnoff going into my grandparents' homestead on Smith Creek. We lived just a few miles from it. I went to first grad at Locate School when it was down by the river.

The tree is monument to travel on the old highway. I have a picture of me in ‘68 with the “hanging tree”. Now on private land?