The Bozeman weekly chronicle. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1883-1889, 1883-10-03
CHAPTER xxv1v.

Early in the winler of 1877, the Nc
Adow brothers Of Bozeman saw, that all
danger from hostile Sioux being past, the
large and fertile stretch Of land, known
as Clarke's Fork bottom, would soon be-
come settled; 30 they located a large
amount of land in the lower end of the
bottom and built store. Other loca1ers
came and little town sprang up, which
was called Coulson. This town grew and
flourished till 1882, when a rich corpor-
alton bought the greater part Of the rail-
road lands, that lie in this valley and
laid out q new town about two miles from
Coulson, which was called Billings. With
the advent of the railroad the new town
grew fast and by the fall Of 1882 all of the
business men in the old town had moved
to it and Coulson became q thing of the
past.
A few people took ranches near the
mouth of Glendive creek and town was
laid out the summer of 1877, but not
much growth came till the winter of
l87O-Sl. Then the continuation Of the
Northern Pacific became an assured fact,
and the favorable location Of this place;
it being. where the railroad first strikes
the Yellowstone, caused q great rush to
it. This was the hardest town ON the
road and till June 1881. at which time
the track passed on and the rough ele-
ment went ahead for fresh fields, neither
life or property was safe.
Glendive has not grown in numbers
since that time, but the buildings and
quality Of people has improved and 1t is
now the centre Of prosperous grazing
and farming country.
In June of 1877 a man named Bill
Taylor started a little trading house on
the north side of the Yellowstone, short
distance abeve the mouth of the Big
Horn and opposite cantonment Terry.
Soon afterward Paul Mccormick located
there and quite lively trade started up,
with river men and soldiers. The. little
place was called Terry's Landing at first,
but saloons, restaurants and a dance
house and the usual accompaniments Of
a frontier town soon came and this name
was not dignified enough for the brisk
little town and it was changed to juno
ton City.
On the same side of the river and about
ten miles below, commenced the large
and fertile valley known as Pease's bot
tom. During the fall of 1876, the sAme
year that the Fort Pease adventurers
were taken away hy the military, John
Guy, ex-sheriff of Gallatin county and
his sons, located ground at the upper
end of the bottom. Afterward, when
other settlers came and the logs in the
buildings and stockade at Fort Pesse
were being hauled away. Mr.. Guy took
up and moved the bodies of those who
had fallen at this place by Indian hands
and buried them on a hill at the upper
end Of the valley. The survivors of Fort
Pease and those interested in it each put
in small sum and reimbursed him for
his trouble, and the project is now 1pe,
among those interested, to put an appro-
pirate monument at the heads of the Fl.
Pease dead.
This bottom (Pease's) is the most
thickly settled Of any on. the lower river
and is the highest in which farming with
out irrigation can be carried ON.
Near Guys place there is little town
called Echeta, which is from the Crow
and signifies horse. While the railroad
was coming up the river valley, there
was, ten miles below Echeta, a town
called Huntsville, which for meanness,
rivaled Glendive, but when the railroad
track went by, it wilted and passed away.
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