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Long and Clary Sheep Co Montana 1894 Winchester

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Long and Clary Sheep Co Montana 1894 Winchester
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38-55. Model 1894. Made in 1895. Antique does not require FFL Transfer. 26" barrel. Photo shown is not included with the firearm. Missing barrel plug and loading gate. Ex Thain White Collection. Thain White (1913-1999), Thain White was a Montana historian who focused on the history of western Montana, particularly the Flathead valley. The collection contains maps, artifacts, and documents concerning a variety of Montana historical topics. Tom Clary moved to Great Falls in 1903, while keeping up stock interests. By that time open-range cattle ranching had already peaked and was giving way to smaller operations and practices like winter-feeding. Stock trains to Chicago were the common method of hauling cattle east, where the markets were. CLARY DIED from injuries in a November 1909 train wreck in North Dakota while he was accompanying a load of cattle to market. Great Falls Daily Tribune obituaries on Nov. 7 and Nov. 10 reported that W.W. Van Orsdel, a frontier Methodist minister, conducted the Great Falls funeral service for Tom Clary and that Paris Gibson was among a host of honorary pallbearers. The writer commented that Clary "numbered among his best friends those who came to the country when he did." The elder Clary saw the early days of stock-growing in Montana; his son Roy turned to both cattle and sheep. As Robert Clary recalls it, his father Roy started out ranching with Tom Clary, then was outside foreman for the Conrad Investment Co. at Conrad. In 1908, he "walked into the office of J.B. Long (who headquartered in Great Falls) and asked for a job." PAUL C. HUSTED Real estate office Phil Gibson, son of Paris Gibson, opened a real estate office in Great Falls within months after the town was settled. The building at the head of Central Avenue also housed the Thomas E. Brady law office. Men in photo include Phil Gibson, S.H. Nichols, George C. Andrews T. Brock, H.O. Chowen, Thomas Brady, James Bennett and R.R. Hochkiest. (Photo by Dan Dutro courtesy of Bill Dakin.) Congregational Church formed in '84 That started a more than 30-year association with the Montana stockman, who had established a home ranch near Belt, and later added more ranches in Cascade, Lewis and Clark, and Judith Basin counties, running both sheep and cattle. He died in 1921. Clary became manager and eventually part-owner in Long's enterprise, and founded the Long-Clary Stock Co. with Donald Wilson in the late 1920s, after Long's heirs sold their ranch interest. Living in Great Falls much of his life, Roy Clary also was a director of the Montana Power Co. before his death in May 1953. MONTANA HISTORIANS Michael Malone and Richard Roeder note in "Montana: A History of Two Centuries" that Long would buy bands of wethers on the West Coast and trail them to Montana. In the spring. Long's herders would drive bands east from near Great Falls, moving them slowly to fatten the animals before loading them on rail cars In eastern Montana or North Dakota that fall. Camp-tenders on the long trips had the chuck wagon and horses; herders went on foot and used sheep dogs to control the sheep, Robert Clary said. Homesteading and other farmer-settlement put an end to such long drives by the early 1900s. But for a number of years around 1910, Clary and the Long Co. rented Fort Peck Indian Reservation land for summering bands of 100,000 sheep. Grazing that many sheep meant shearing near the railroad. A.J. Het-zel, a man hired by Clary to weigh wool in 1910, recalled that 42 carloads of wool, at 11 cents a pound, were shipped from a rail siding near Glasgow that year. A 50-man shearing crew using gasoline-powered machines filled about 70 300-pound wool bags for each of the 42 cars, he estimated. Robert Clary, born in 1915, and his two sisters were raised in Great Falls. The sheep and cattle work that Robert Clary knew from personal experience was from his "summertime cowboy" work at the J.B. Long and Co. ranch near Augusta or helping drive 65,000 sheep from winter range near Sand Coulee and Belt to summer pasture on the Blackfeet Reservation, where the company paid 13 cents an acre for grazing rights on more than 300,000 acres, he recalled.
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