׉?4ׁB!בCט(u׉׉ 7cassandra://UmS9ioCzkMD3_uQSPC1ayNAJR7ggH_52ePTbQuG30o8`׉ 7cassandra://kc2A2M_xjCmAeoJVCXgZ8bnCmp7Pq7YuY1ujOWmQdao͔&`s׉ 7cassandra://T-iAYp2XumpQ23Q66J0TNCqpgogcrLG9d4jjBD7HazY+`׉ 7cassandra://N4qMPsBzFo0zUfqw4_1lqYmCRDTm0zQlN2zhnkHkLkcBl͠]dYHnט(u׈RנdYHnf 9ׁHhttp://montananewspapers.orgׁ ׁ Ј׈EdYHnq׉E]SEPTEMBER 2023 Ghost Towns and History of Montana Newsletter From The Madisonian, Sept. 17, 1903 Death Pursued Broadwater in His Ride from Bannack to Deer Lodge City in 1864 Accessed via: montananewspapers.org From The Glacier County Chief Newspaper, Feb. 25, 1938 Carson Lake, reporter for the New York Press, in 1890, had the following story as related to him about Charles A. Broadwater, uncle of Tom Marlow of Helena, and one of Montana's early millionaires. In the Gilsey House corridor a few days ago I met Col. C. A. Broadwater about whom I had heard a most exciting pioneer incident when I was in Montana last year. Colonel Broadwater is a pioneer Montanan and is wealthy. He is president of a railroad, proprietor of a famous natatorium near Helena and the owner of famous mines and cattle ranges. He is short and stout. In his younger days he must have been very athletic. Banished From Bannack The story is about a happening in the early ’60’s. Bannack City, the first capital had been overrun by a gang of desperadoes- A vigilance committee was organized. It hanged some and banished others. Two of the banished were Moore and Reeves. Broadwater and a young man named Pemberton (Judge W.Y. Pemberton of later days) had gone into the Deer Lodge valley where mining was going on, and had begun platting what is now Deer Lodge. One day Moore and Reeves arrived in the Deer Lodge locality and made their camp beside the Deer Lodge river in a clump of willows. They had no protection from the weather but their blankets. Their only food was beef washed down by coffee. Moore took sick. He had mountain fever (mountain fever was identified by its effect. If the patient recovered it was typhoid. If he died it was mountain fever). Broadwater, with the characteristic generosity of the old west, had Moore removed to a cabin and supplied him with food and medicine. 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Broadwater gave him another and promptly forgot all about him. Became Cattle Man Broadwater went from real estate and mining into the cattle industry. He bought beef in Deer Lodge and sold it in Bannack at a big profit. Payment was always in gold dust. On one deal he made $6,000. He was about the leave Bannack with his sack of dust when Moore suddenly turned up. He told Broadwater privately that there was a band of road agents at Bannack, with Sheriff Plummer at their head, and that they were planning to waylay Broadwater and rob and also possibly kill him. Moore, it seems, was a member of the road agent gang but this he kept secret. Photo by Jolene Ewert-Hintz Photo by Jolene Ewert-Hintz Moore further advised Broadwater to slip out of Bannack quietly and not to tell even his most intimate friend the hour of his leaving. Broadwater accepted the advice. He started for Deer Lodge early in the evening and rode until 3 a.m. Then he laid down to rest. The horse was tied to his wrist with a lariat. The horse awakened him with its snorts about daybreak—in time for him to see an Indian creeping toward him. He shot the Indian who, however, was able to run away. He resumed his journey. Ives and Cooper After traveling 20 miles he came upon two men seated by a campfire. They were George Ives and John Cooper. Both were doomed to be hanged, later on, by the Vigilantes for their many crimes. They were surprised to see him. Their behavior impressed him with the belief that they had been sent out to waylay him but had not expected him so soon. Their horses were grazing about two or three miles away from the fire along the foothills. They hailed him and urged him to wait for them. There were road agents along the way, they said. It would be better for the three to ride together. Broadwater pretended to consent. But, he said, since his horse couldn’t keep up with theirs he had better keep on riding; they would have no trouble in overtaking him. He further allayed their suspicions by dismounting within eye shot of them to lead his horse up a little hill. But as soon as he was out of sight he rode “hell for leather” for the second crossing of the river where the French squawman, Contway, was living with his Indian wife. It was the nearest shelter. It was a race for life. ׉ 7cassandra://yyKHfU2WwxhmY_xuaJtkd7FLWZ4Oh_yq8YEndjKtOaI&`dYHnt׉E dP a g e 3 G h o s t T o w n s a n d H i s t o r y o f M o n t a n a N e w s l e t t e r After 10 miles, Colonel Broadwater says, his horse began to tire. He looked behind him to see a cloud of dust about three miles away that was being raised by Ives and Cooper in hot pursuit. With a tired horse and 30 pounds of gold strapped to his waist he was under a terrible handicap. But he pounded onward. He reached Contway’s doorway with Ives and Cooper only 50 yards behind him. Ives pretended to Contway that he and Broadwater were having a race. Broadwater fell in with the pretense. Ives and Cooper decided to stop all night at Contway’s. Broadwater was forced by circumstances to do likewise. Broadwater took advantage of an opportunity to tell Contway the facts and to purchase one of the Frenchman's fleet horses privately. Under the arrangement the Frenchman was to saddle the horse –one of his fleetest—and Contway owned some fine horses, and bring it to the door on pretense that he, himself, was going to hunt for cattle. Broadwater was to notice the horse, admire it and mount it “to see how it behaved" with an eye to a possible purchase. The program was carried out with Ives and Cooper looking idly on. Their mounts were staked out on the prairie. When Broadwater found himself in the saddle he exclaimed: “I’ll keep him and pay you for him later, Contway. I must be on my way." “I have witnesses that you promised to pay.” the Frenchman said, after pretending to make an attempt to dissuade Broadwater from leaving until “the horse is paid for.” Ives and Cooper tried to persuade him to wait for them. "It isn't fair to ride off and leave us." they urged. But Broadwater said he had “business in Deer Lodge” and dashed away. He rode 20 miles without stopping—from the Frenchman’s ranch to Deer Lodge. He found on checking up that he had ridden 107 miles in 18 hours including stops—from Bannack to Deer Lodge. -Accessed via: https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/ Mary Fields. Also known as "Stagecoach Mary" or "Black Mary", Mary Fields was born into slavery in 1832 in Tennessee. Gaining her freedom after the Civil war, she worked as a chambermaid on the steamboat Robert E. Lee. In the 1870's, Mary began working at the Ursuline Convent in Toledo, Ohio with Mother Mary Amadeus as acting superior. Amadeus traveled to Montana to establish St. Peter's Mission west of what would become Cascade. When Amadeus fell ill, Mary hurried to Montana to nurse her back to health. Even after Amadeus was well again, Mary stayed on to work at the convent. She handled the stage, hauled and protected goods, washed clothes and tended to the chickens. But, because of her routine habits of drinking, swearing, fighting and gunplay, the bishop asked Mary to leave the convent in 1894. In 1895, Mary secured a contract to deliver mail between the convent and Cascade, a fifteen mile journey. Because of her reliability and speed, she earned the nickname "Stagecoach Mary". At 6 feet tall and 200 pounds, Mary was known as one of the toughest women in Montana history. She passed away in Great Falls, Montana in 1914. 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