Watkins Creek Ranch Montana Farmers Institute 1913 RPPC Postcard Yellowstone
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| Management number | 788074 | Release Date | 2025/07/07 | List Price | $59.50 | Model Number | 788074 | ||
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Rare Montana, Wife Signed Mrs. J. Ricky Watkins Real Photo Postcard.
Pioneer George S. Watkins arrived in Montana in 1864. The cattle king of Madison County ultimately acquired thousands of acres, including much of the Madison basin. Here he built a summer cow camp with two large cabins, a barn, and a smokehouse (all extant) as well as extensive corrals and other outbuildings. The hugely successful rancher sold horses, cattle, and hay in Virginia City and later to concessionaires in Yellowstone National Park. He reduced his holdings in 1898, when the Madison Dam flooded his ranch near Ennis. When Madison Power and Light Company announced its plan to build Hebgen Dam in 1904, a disheartened Watkins sold out. Not all of the Watkins Creek Ranch ended up under water, however, and between 1906 and 1922 the un-flooded parcels were opened to homesteading
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