I hope he's open the week of May 21 because that's the week of my bucket-list trip to Miles City to look for family photos and the property that was once known as Whitney's "31-Mile Ranch." Grandfath + 137 more characters

Came across the Chroniclingamerica website accidentally a couple of weeks ago, clicked for the state of Montana, up came the massive Yellowstone Journal collection covering 1882-1893. Been reading eve + 235 more characters

Hi Amorette: My local library arranged an interlibrary loan of Hoopes' book "The Far West," and I found the picture of the cabin you said was the Whitney cabin. My news is that I blew up the photo on + 522 more characters

Hi Cindy: Your response is a treasure. A lead like this is overwhelming. Many thanks from all in this branch of the family. Luther Junior's other daughter, my half-sister Palma Jane Whitney lived in O + 328 more characters

Hi Amorette: Many thanks. My gratitude is unbounded. I have a photocopy of a map of MC from September 1893 and have sort of plotted the 80 acres mentioned in "Dusting Off #16." My local library is tr + 249 more characters

I'm daughter to(but never knew him) Luther James Whitney,Jr. b. 1879 Miles City. Luther James Whitney, Sr. was married to Jane (Palmer?). (1880 Census) Other sons were Edson Whitney b. Kansas 1871 and + 626 more characters