Montana, its story and biography; a history of aboriginal and territorial Montana and three decades of statehood, under the editorial supervision of Tom Stout (1921) (14778168692)

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Title: Montana, its story and biography; a history of aboriginal and territorial Montana and three decades of statehood, under the editorial supervision of Tom Stout ...
Year: 1921 (1920s)
Authors: Stout, Tom, 1879- ed
Subjects: Montana -- History Montana -- Biography
Publisher: Chicago, American Historical Society
Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN



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and thistie has been held inviolate by both of them, andJudge Davidson takes great pride in this fact, espe-cially now that he is so far from his native heath. Some years prior to his fathers death Judge Da-vidson returned home to take his fathers place atYadlee, and remained there until 1882. or a periodof eleven years, and then said good-bye to hisfamily and sailed from Glasgow, Scotland, aboardthe ship Manitoba for the United States, landingat Point Levi, Canada, opposite to Quebec, fromwhence he made his wav to Kankakee, Illinois, hisobjective point. The trip across the Atlantic wasmade without anv untoward incident, and the passen-gers were troubled by nothing worse than a roughsea. .Andrew Davidson worked at various jobs at Kan-kakee and during the winter fed a bunch of cattle.In the spring of 1883 he wMth others from that regionwent West to look for land on the public domain. Helooked about him at Rea Heights, South Dakota, apoint on the Chicago & Northwestern Railroad, but
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HISTORY OF MONTANA 981 returned East and stopped in Tama County, Iowa,where he was a neighbor of Tama Jim Wilson,later secretary of agriculture of the United StatesGovernment, and found him an excellent neighborindeed. Mr. Davidson rented a farm, and when hehad harvested his fall crop sold it and came to Mon-tana. Upon his arrival in the state he engaged withTurner & Grimm at Lavina, Meagher County, as asheep herder. Leaving that firm he went to theSnowy Mountains and managed a sheep ranch fortwo years for Witmer Brothers. His next locationwas at Melville in the Sweet Grass country, and therehe bought a bunch of cattle and ran them until 1891,at which time he moved to Malta, moving his stockand establishing himself i^ miles north of that cityas a rancher on his homestead, which he called theYadlee Ranch. At once he embarked in the sheepbusiness, and ran his sheep until the dry-landerstook up the range and made the sheep business ahazardous venture. He disposed of his propertythere