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 By Shane Dunning    News    January 11, 2024

The Remount Program and The Tragedy of Heathermoon

The word "remount" as a modern word is a verb, meaning "to get back on [something] and ride it again." But if the term was heard during any period before the 1950's, another meaning would likely be...

 
 By Shane Dunning    News    June 15, 2023

The Plainsman Comes To Birney

It was the summer of 1936 when Hollywood disrupted the usual tranquility of Montana's lower Tongue River. Paramount Pictures was filming an epic western, "The Plainsman," and legendary director Cecil...

 
 By Shane Dunning    News    February 2, 2023

Moorhead: A Divided Montana Loses

In two previous columns, I described the unsuccessful effort to build a dam on the Powder River three miles south of Moorhead during the 1940s. My first column outlined the general history of the...

 
 By Shane Dunning    News    April 21, 2022

Death At The Birney Post Office

In 1886. the town of Birney was not located at its present location at the mouth of Hanging Woman Creek. The Birney post office was then located several miles south of present-day Ashland, which was...

 
 By Shane Dunning    News    October 28, 2021

The Ghost of Bob Ferguson

Find more from Shane at www.redshalereflections.com (Ed: A ghostly article presented by history columnist Shane Dunning for our Halloween week edition. Enjoy.) In January 1903, "a gentleman who has lo...

 
 By Shane Dunning    News    October 8, 2020

Sheriff Robert Guy's Deadly Chase

On Sunday, June 2nd, 1907, Rosebud County Sheriff Robert J. Guy was alerted by Forsyth resident James Anderson that three horses had been stolen from his pasture. Anderson discovered the trail of his...

 
 By Shane Dunning    News    August 27, 2020

The Fateful Ride of Charley Flory

On the early winter morning of January 16, 1927, Charley Flory got on his horse and left his homestead on Anderson Creek near Decker in Southeastern Big Horn County, Montana. He was headed to the hous...

 

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