# Presentation: 520493

## Bits and Pieces of Historic Deer Lodge

| Historical Buildings | People tied to
Grant-Kohrs Ranch | Did you know? | People tied to
Deer Lodge | Grant-Kohrs 
Ranch |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 |
| 20 | 20 | 20 | 20 | 20 |
| 30 | 30 | 30 | 30 | 30 |
| 40 | 40 | 40 | 40 | 40 |
| 50 | 50 | 50 | 50 | 50 |

## The library named after Conrad Kohrs’s 

- son.

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Category 1 - 10

## First college in Montana

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## The movie theatre built in 

- Deer Lodge in 1921.

## Where Montana criminals were

- housed for the first time on July 2,
- 1871.

## The church by the railroad tracks

- was once this important structure in
- Deer Lodge.

## This man is credited with being the

- first to winter cattle in  the Western
- Montana valleys in the 1850’s.

## This man bought the Grant- 

- Kohrs Ranch from Johnny
- Grant for his butchering
- business.

## Half brother of Conrad Kohrs

- who ran the operation of the
- ranch.

## This man started the Grant-Kohrs

- Ranch as a hired hand in 1929. He
- purchased the ranch, house, and trust
- in 1940. He is responsible for turning
- the ranch over to the National Park System
- in 1972.

## This shop can be destroyed if there are “too many irons in the fire”. 

- This shop can be destroyed if there are “too many irons in the fire”.

## The woman who married Conrad Kohrs.

## These were people that came from

- the east and others were immigrants
- from European countries. More than
- 1⁄4 of these people were African
- Americans.

## These wear down naturally, and 

- it is necessary to trim them.
- An iron shoe protects these, and
- they grow like fingernails.

## Moving cattle more than 10 to 12

- miles per day and up to a five month
- journey from Texas to Montana was
- an activity common during the early
- years.

## The year that electricity came to the

- Deer Lodge Valley.

## The elementary school named

- after these brothers. They were
- the first to find gold at the
- mouth of Gold Creek.

## This person has a mountain named 

- after him in the Deer Lodge Valley.

## This man has a small rural

- town in Powell County
- named after him.

## These people were the first to

- inhabit the Deer Lodge Valley.

## The two men that President

- Jefferson sent to explore the
- Louisiana Purchase. They entered
- Powell County on July 5, 1806.

## After a long day of driving cattle

- across the prairie you would
- find the cowboys at this place.

## This helped ranchers identify 

- their animals and discouraged
- thieves from stealing the cattle.

## The breed of cattle that Con 

- Warren operated with.

## The amount of money that

- Grant sold the entire Ranch
- to Kohrs for in 1866.

## Hay was stacked using this method. 

- This is still used today
- on some farms and ranches – even
- at Grant-Kohrs Ranch and the Avon area .
- Horses are mainly used instead of
- machines.

## What is the William Kohrs Memorial Library?

William died at the age of
21 while in New York at Columbia University.

He was Conrad’s only son.

- William died at the age of
- 21 while in New York at Columbia University.
- He was Conrad’s only son.

- What is Trask Hall?
- *First named Rocky Mountain College in 1878
- *Later renamed College of Montana

## What is the Rialto Theatre?

In 1998, the Rialto was added to the National Register of Historic places.

The Rialto burned down on November 4, 2006.

- What is the Rialto Theatre?
- In 1998, the Rialto was added to the National Register of Historic places.
- The Rialto burned down on November 4, 2006.

## What is the Old Montana State Prison?

## What is the depot for the Milwaukee Railroad?

-    The big bay windows were put in so that visitors could see the trains pulling in.

## Who is Johnny Grant?

## Who is Conrad Kohrs?

## Who is John Bielenberg?

## Who is Conrad Warren?

## Who are the Stuart Brothers?

## Who is Augusta Kohrs?

## Who are the cowboys?

## What is the Blacksmith Shop?

## What are horse hooves?

## What are cattle drives?

## What year was 1892?

## Who is John W. Powell ?

## Who is William Garrison?

## Who are Native Americans?

## Who are Lewis and Clark?

## What is the chuck wagon?

## What is a brand?

## What is a Hereford?

## .

- What is $19,200?
- That would have been about $500,000 in today’s currency.

## What is a beaver slide?