Name that Place, never-ending game

DaCruzNut · December 15, 2003

Surinam<>Miles City

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Miles City Montana got its start when Colonel (later General) Nelson A. Miles was ordered to build a cantonment where the Tongue River flowed into the Yellowstone. The Colonel and his men were sent in response to the Battle of the Little Big Horn, to protect settlers and freight wagons as they passed through the fertile Yellowstone valley. The cantonment was constructed in the fall of 1876 and by spring, a town had sprung up two miles away to provide rest and recreation for the soldiers.

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In its early years, Miles City was described by those who knew it as a "hoorah" town full of soldiers and cowboys, gamblers and barkeepers and the 'soiled doves' who provided much of town's economic backbone. From the outlaws like Butch Cassidy to the power brokers like Teddy Roosevelt, from Calamity Jane to Morgan Earp, from school marms to cattle rustlers, Miles City was home to them all.

DaCruzNut · December 15, 2003

Surinam<>Miles City

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Miles City Montana got its start when Colonel (later General) Nelson A. Miles was ordered to build a cantonment where the Tongue River flowed into the Yellowstone. The Colonel and his men were sent in response to the Battle of the Little Big Horn, to protect settlers and freight wagons as they passed through the fertile Yellowstone valley. The cantonment was constructed in the fall of 1876 and by spring, a town had sprung up two miles away to provide rest and recreation for the soldiers.

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In its early years, Miles City was described by those who knew it as a "hoorah" town full of soldiers and cowboys, gamblers and barkeepers and the 'soiled doves' who provided much of town's economic backbone. From the outlaws like Butch Cassidy to the power brokers like Teddy Roosevelt, from Calamity Jane to Morgan Earp, from school marms to cattle rustlers, Miles City was home to them all.