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Cut Bank Hotel Key Fob, MT - Cut Bank,Glacier County

Currency:USD Category:Collectibles Start Price:150.00 USD Estimated At:300.00 - 600.00 USD
Cut Bank Hotel Key Fob, MT - Cut Bank,Glacier County
IMPORTANT NOTE ON BUYERS PREMIUMS:

Lot 100 to 343 have a premium of 15%.

The rest of the sale is 19.5% as noted in the listing.

Lot Pick Up: Holabird-Kagin Americana,
3555 Airway Drive Ste #309,
Reno NV 89511,
Sunday - December 9, 10am-4pm
c1900-1905 - A large (3” diameter) brass fob cut with “sunburst” edges and holed at top for suspension. According to the Cut Bank Chamber of Commerce, the town’s history is briefly as follows: In mid-1806, Meriwether Lewis and three of his men from the Lewis and Clark expedition camped along what they called the north fork of Maria’s River where the river cuts into the white clay bank. This was in the heart of Blackfeet Indian country. Years later in the fall of 1890 Great Northern Railroad crews reached the site of present day Cut Bank near the place Lewis’ party had camped. They constructed a station and bridge before moving on. A small settlement grew up around the station, which was nothing more than a box car converted into a depot. On December 14, 1892, a post office was established with John K. Stauffer as postmaster. The post office was located in a salt box style section worker’s house. The 1894-1895 Montana Business Directory listed Cut Bank as having a general store operated by G.H. Kurdvek but this business didn’t last long. During these years, Cut Bank’s population was 26, with most of the people except for the railroad workers living on nearby sheep and cattle ranches. By the summer of 1900 the Great Northern employed 250 men at Cut Bank working on track improvements, in the quarry, and building a new steel bridge to replace the original wooden one. Eventually, more businesses arrived and the little town began to flourish [www.cutbankchamber.com/community/historyofcutbank.html].

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