News from the Red Caboose SUMMER 2013 The Knap-In: A Great Cultural Experience By Karen Reinhart, Museum Registrar

Our Spring Knap-In and collectively they helped many people had to practice several weekend event on May 18 and 19 individuals during the event’s day times to get the stance, throw, and was a great success. Locals and and a half. Tim Ryan, a member of follow-through motions correct. visitors from far-flung corners of the Salish-Kootenai Confederated the state as well as the region Tribe, was brought to the museum attended the event and enjoyed the with the help of Humanities diverse activities that the museum offered. We estimated that between 300 and 400 people attended the Knap-In. It felt like a step back in time—people working together to learn and practice skills that were once needed for survival. It was exciting and relaxing at the Liz Jacobson preparing to throw the atlatl same time. under Don Stafford’s expert eye

The demonstrators also had examples of their artistry—fancy projectile points and tools, woven willow fish baskets, atlatl darts, and more. One knapper had miniscule but very detailed sculptures made Tim Ryan showing young and old (continued on page 11) the art of making cordage

Montana and patiently guided Ray Alt helping a young knapper many hands in the art of twisting super-strong cordage from pithy Adults and children tried their dogbane sticks. Chris Newhouse of gloved hands at “breaking rock” Scoutcraft helped many students and some even made projectile of fire coax flames from a variety points under the tutelage of of primitive fire-making methods practiced flint knappers. Ray including the bow drill. Don Alt and George Bryce, local Stafford made throwing the atlatl Don Ellis, his daughter, Jody, and knappers, invited their friends at a target look easy, but most Mel Beatte admiring a sculpture Letter from the Director Reflecting on Our Accomplishments & Future Needs By Paul Shea

As I enter my fourth summer here Park County. teachers, have begun the addition at the museum I feel that we are We have also completed a of youth-oriented activities to our achieving much in making the preliminary inventory of archival exhibit halls, and will continue to Yellowstone Gateway Museum an collections that have been in add youth and family programs. exciting educational, interpretive, storage for years. This includes While all of this is going on, we and research resource not only for a large number of donated still have to maintain the buildings the residents of Park County, but photographs, railroad records, and and grounds. This year we have to for all our visitors. The museum personal family records. We will address the need for a new roof has just completed its first year continue to apply for grants to help on the main museum building. It of being open year-round. The process these collections and place has been more than thirty years response has been positive and the them in storage files and boxes since the roof was replaced and it number of visitors is growing. that meet museum standards. It is is showing its age. The northwest With the completion of the thought that this project will take section gets the worst weather, and first phase of infrastructure from two to four years to complete. it is in great need of replacement. improvements we have refocused We have a lot of archival material! We hope to have this done by the our energies on the collections end of summer. Another concern and exhibits. Two new exhibits is the back lot location up against are up: Re-creating an Ancient the ditch footing. This area is Technology—Modern-Day Flint degrading and stabilization of the Knapping and Mattie Culver—A footing is needed to ensure that Life Sketch. In the next two there is no failure. months we will be opening two Also looming on the horizon more exhibits. We plan to have one is the need to make our museum or two new exhibits each summer. accessible to people with physical We have spent much of the disabilities. As you know, the last year inventorying our archival museum has many stairs and collections. As we inventory and steps. If all goes well, we may be place them in file cabinets they able to start with some work on become available for research. A the front entranceway later this big part of this process has been summer. We also will have to to inventory and catalog all of address the difficulty of moving the papers that Doris Whithorn © Steve Horan around inside the building itself. stored here at the museum, as well The stairs present a problem to as those that were donated by her disabled individuals and to some family in 2006. Volunteer Ellen In addition to these archival seniors. The solution is to install Zazzarino, retired Denver Public projects we have expanded our an elevator. We need to address Library Archivist, has worked on school outreach programs, and this issue soon. this project for over a year. Ellen continue to explore new ways to All in all I am extremely is getting close to completing engage county youth. Museums pleased with the progress we have this project, which will be a story are seen as an extension of lifelong made in updating exhibits and in itself. With the inventory learning and what better way to working with the collections, while and information from Doris’s build future audiences than to staying focused on overall needs. papers we now have an incredible get them started now! We are I look forward to the future and snapshot of her life of research continuing to develop teaching the successes it will bring to the and writing about the history of trunks that can be checked out by Yellowstone Gateway Museum. PAGE 2 Volunteers and Staff We are Grateful to our Current Volunteers: Ray Alt Daniel Davidson Alta LeDoux Mary Jane Ammerman June Doolittle Jack Luther Judy Bonnell Nikki Fox Pat Miller Shannon Burke Jessica Guldan Harry Kolkmann George Bryce Georgia Hall Carlene Newhall Robin Brewer Robert Hartsig Donna Poeschl Carol Carver Bob Jovick Sherry Hatfield Cheryl Chmielewski Betty Lahren Ellen Zazzarino ...and our board members! Boards and Staff Friends Norm Miller taking photographs of Bruce Graham – President archived newspapers Rick VanAken – Secretary Paul Shea – Treasurer Dick Dysart – Publishing Ruth K. Dargis – Member Suzanne Goodman – Member Robin Lovec – Member Cheryl Chmielewski Norm Miller – Member working at the front desk Rosamond Stanton – Member County Are you looking for a Bob Ebinger – President Pat Davidson – Secretary rewarding experience? Jem Blueher – Member We are seeking volunteers Daniel Davidson working on the 1936 American LaFrance fire truck George Bornemann – Member who enjoy computer, Jan Buckner – Member BJ Earle – Member front-desk, education, and Bob Moore – Member program assistance work. Matt Smith – Member Please give us a call! Jon Swenumson – Member Staff Paul Shea – Director Karen Reinhart – Registrar, Newsletter Editor Paul Deyerle – Experience Works Museum 118 W. Chinook Street Livingston, MT 59047 406-222-4184 [email protected] Jessica Guldan & BJ Earle The Tipi Set-Up Crew: Robert Hartsig, yellowstonegatewaymuseum.org assembling a collections box Jem Blueher, Bob Ebinger, & Andy Olds PAGE 3 Fort Parker Day: A Rewarding Experience By Merrilee Bryan, East Side School Librarian

Fifth grade is a pivotal year for direction and clarity on top of the students in our school district. Crazy Mountains. He then spoke Among the many special courses of his experiences in Assisi, Italy in of study offered, we must fold in 1986 where he joined dignitaries the state-mandated curriculum of from the world’s twelve main Indian Education for All. This year religious groups for the World Day the culmination of these studies of Prayer for Peace. Pretty On Top took place Friday, May 17 at Fort represented native people’s beliefs. Parker, the first Crow Indian He reminded us we have only agency, situated ten miles east of today to make a difference and to Livingston. fill each day caring for each other. Twelve local fifth grade The following rainy morning we ambassadors met twelve fifth and gathered near Fort Parker where sixth grade students from the Pryor Pretty On Top donned his eagle School, along with Burton Pretty headdress and lit his ceremonial On Top and his family, at the pipe to bless every person present. Yellowstone Gateway Museum on He explained how the pipe could May 16 for ice-breaking activities. be used to alter the weather and Museum staff members, Paul Shea Burton Pretty On Top with his uttered some quiet prayers. The and Karen Reinhart, were also on ceremonial pipe at Fort Parker rain stopped and the sun shone hand. As part of Fort Parker down, creating a perfect day Day activities our students for the rest of our activities. taught their Pryor pen-pals Pretty On Top performed a about some of the local ceremony inviting Paul Shea plants, native and non- to be his brother. Shane native, to be found at Fort Doyle, from MSU-Bozeman, Parker. shared the pipe and then We adjourned to the sang a poignant honor song East Side gym that was to a retiring teacher. beautifully decorated by Our 110 students were fifth grade teacher Chris organized into six groups. At Gillespie and friends of the the nearby Mission Creek museum board member, Ranch each group in turn Suzanne Goodman. Earlier Shane Doyle drumming and singing learned about the Crow in the year our students hosted a honor song for Merrilee Bryan horse from Leslie Pierson, with dinner of locally based products Vicki Schwarz located the plants to raise money to purchase Tanka Paul Shea introduced Burton they had studied the day before Dogs (buffalo hot dogs) from Pretty On Top, the evening’s at the museum, and made willow Native American Natural Foods, a speaker, who participated in Fort game pieces with Chris Gillespie. Pine Ridge Reservation company. Parker Day through the generosity They used these pieces for games We feasted on the Tanka Dogs, of the museum. such as Run and Scream, Guessing prepared by Quentin Schwarz. Pretty On Top spoke about the Stick Game, and Double Ball at We also enjoyed pasta salad made traditional teachings that Crow the game station taught by Marla by Gillespie and Wilcoxson’s elders give to their children and Bray and Robin Lovec. huckleberry ice cream. related his vision quest pursuit for (continued on page 5) PAGE 4 Keeping History Alive

(continued from page 4) the rain once again dotted our windshield. Later, I heard that Park County’s First the rain had never stopped in Military Presence town. Hmm, I wonder if we can persuade Burton Pretty by Norm Miller On Top to bring his pipe for The first military presence in Park next year’s Fort Parker Day… County happened long before the This remarkable museum United States Cavalry and the and school partnership has Civil War and lasted only 2 days! changed the lives and This July 15 and16 marks the education of hundreds of 107th anniversary of the passing students, garnering both state Students making willow game pieces of the Corps of Discovery, better and national notice. We known as the Lewis & Clark Archaeologist Jeannie Moe and should all take pride in this Expedition, through Livingston in her assistant, Courtney Agenten, community-wide project. 1806. William Clark, along with from Project Archaeology, aided by enlisted United States military fifth grade teacher Kathy Francisco, men John Shields, George Gibson, helped each group locate artifacts William Bratton, Nathaniel still visible on the remains of Fort Pryor, George Shannon, Richard Parker. Volunteer Brian Sparks and Windsor, and Hugh Hall, as well librarian Merrilee Bryan shared as several non-military personnel, information about Fort Parker at arrived at the Yellowstone River the history station. near today’s intersection of Finally, our weary sojourners Crawford and 7th Streets. There, trooped back onto their busses, Clark painted his name and the waved goodbye to their Pryor date in red paint on a cottonwood friends, and returned to school to tree. After dining and resting reminisce about their experiences. their horses for several hours, the As we returned to Livingston, party proceeded along the river and camped near today’s Sheep Mountain boat access on Convict Grade Road. The next morning Student pointing out archaeological they proceeded downstream for evidence at Fort Parker four more days until they found trees large enough to build canoes. As we approach this historic Editor’s Note: Merrilee is the retiring anniversary remember the enlisted teacher mentioned in the article. She told me that the Fort Parker and Indian men who served under the Corps Education for All project “has been the of Discovery. Come check out the most joyful experience of my career.” museum’s Lewis and Clark exhibit Merrilee has been involved in the project featuring two enlarged copies of Students learning about native plants since its inception in 2007. William Clark’s maps of the area. PAGE 5 Roland Kaiser and The Geyser By Bruce Graham, President of the Friends of the Yellowstone Gateway Museum

Roland Kaiser grew up on a ranch as a clerk with International the museum’s public computers. west of Wilsall, Montana near Harvester in Helena, Montana—a The research library is open from Meyersburg, where he attended career that eventually took him to 10 AM to 5 pm, Monday through grade school in a small, one- Salt Lake City, Argentina, Ecuador, Friday. room schoolhouse. Rather than Peru, Bolivia, and Chicago. He Kaiser donated over 40 items to quitting school and staying home retired in 1957. the Yellowstone Gateway Museum, to work on the ranch, Roland How did I find this information including books, maps, postcards, elected to go to Park County High about Kaiser? His story comes from and photographs. His gifts give us School in Livingston. He enrolled his autobiography, From the Soil insight into the early history of his in the fall of 1913. During his of Two Continents (1972), a book family and of Park County. Your sophomore year he was employed that is in the Yellowstone Gateway donations can do the same for by the Livingston Enterprise as a cub Museum’s research library. Kaiser future generations. reporter to cover hotel registers, Please contact Paul Shea, court dockets, and society gossip. Museum Director, or Karen A year later, The Geyser, the Reinhart, Museum Registrar, at school’s first paper, was founded. 406-222-4184 if you would like It was named after Old Faithful more information about how to Geyser and, according to Kaiser, make a donation to your museum. “it continues to erupt regularly, spouting forth a shower of wisdom and jokes, leaving behind a rich Do you have any of deposit of school fun and happy memories.” He was the paper’s first these issues of business manager and staff writer. The Geyser? Kaiser graduated in May 1917. Because he had to leave six weeks before graduation to attend the Pre-1921 Reserve Officers’ Training Corps 1925-1927 during World War I, an early 1931-1937 commencement ceremony was 1946-1948 held honoring him as the first Park 1961 County High School graduate to 1966 serve in the war. The 1929 Senior Edition of 1970 At his San Francisco training The Geyser. Graham believes that this camp, Kaiser was given a routine booklet may have also served as the 1975-1977 smallpox vaccination. An enemy Park High School annual 1985 to present agent had reportedly poisoned the vaccine, which resulted in the also told his story in issues of The amputation of several soldiers’ Geyser that are at the museum. He If you have these or other arms. Some young men died. subscribed to the paper from 1957- years of the school paper that Kaiser was sent home with his arm 1959 and subsequently wrote a we could scan, please let us in a sling to convalesce for several story for The Geyser about his years know. We are missing some weeks. at Park County High School. issues for most years. Before Kaiser began his Navy I am scanning the school papers career in 1918 he worked briefly so researchers can view them on PAGE 6 An Index for the History of Park County, Montana 1984 By Dick Dysart

The Wan-I-Gan Press is publishing The Index also includes many a complete Index of names found special summaries such as Diseases in the “big blue book,” the History & Mortality, Cemeteries, and of Park County, Montana 1984. Mining—a boon for any researcher. During the History’s preparation The spiral-bound 8.5 by 11" twenty-nine years ago, all residents Index is about 250 pages. It will of Park County were invited to sell for $36 (plus $5 standard submit their family stories. The shipping). A ten-percent discount resultant book was published by is available to Friends of the the local county museum and the Museum members. Find the Index historical society, and contained and many other local history an amazingly thorough history of books at the museum, 118 West Park County. Chinook Street, Livingston. All The original 512-page volume is proceeds from book sales benefit now nearly out of print; however, the museum. copies still may be consulted at Reserve your copy now by the Livingston-Park County Public calling Richard Dysart at 406-222- Library and at the Yellowstone 6937, or the museum at 222-4184. Gateway Museum. As important, You may also send a note to: informative, and exciting as the Richard Dysart with the Index and the Wan-I-Gan Press History of Park County, Montana 1984 History was and still is, it had a Friends of Yellowstone Gateway serious shortcoming: There was no contains about 30,000 line Museum index, no convenient way to check entries, including the names of PO Box 815 from a name to the page(s) where many towns, schools, post offices, Livingston, MT 59047 that name was referenced. churches, residents, merchants, The new Index, compiled clubs and societies, doctors, and edited by Richard Dysart, lawyers, miners, and ranchers. Editor’s Note: See the back page for two stories gleaned from the “big blue book.” Museum Donors and Memorials

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Jim Bynum Margot Aserlind For: Vince & Altha VanAken Bob Ebinger Priscilla & Richard Dysart By Rick VanAken Scott Franzen BJ Earle Betty Lahren Linda Holland For: Lela & Raymond Bishop Vern LeDoux Huppert, Swindlehurst & By Robert & Marjorie Kamps Park County Commissioners’ Office Woodruff, P.C. Rich Semenik Robert & Stacey Jovick For: Placidia “Pete” Stoltz Jim Sievers Karl Knuchel, P.C. By Dick & Priscilla Dysart Fred Martin Kirk Michels Architect Stafford Foundation, Inc. PAGE 7 David R. Shorthill: Soldier & Homesteader By Norm Miller

While doing research for our new military history one of the first display, I stumbled upon the Shorthill Cemetery. shots to the One of the least-known cemeteries in Park County, head. Antietam the Shorthill Cemetery is on a beautiful plot of land was one of along McDonald Creek Road in Paradise Valley. It was the bloodiest named after David R. Shorthill, who dedicated this battles of the land as a final resting place for his relatives. Civil War, with Shorthill was born in Pennsylvania in 1831. At nearly 23,000 age 13 he was employed in lumbering high in the casualties. Allegheny Mountains. Years later he ventured into Shorthill mining. received a By 1861 Shorthill was commissioned as a recruiting wound thought Allen Nelson, descendant of David and officer for the Union Army and a year later he to be fatal but Margaret Shorthill, in Shorthill Cemetery enlisted in the 125th Pennsylvania Infantry. Shorthill was saved by his participated in the second battle of Bull Run and the friends. After a lengthy confinement, he received an engagement at South Mountain. honorable discharge in March 1863. When I visited the cemetery, Shorthill’s great Shorthill came to Montana in 1864 where he grandson, Allen Nelson, happened to be there. reportedly met Jim Bridger who informed him that According to Nelson, Shorthill was in the front line there was gold to be found in Emigrant Gulch. at Antietam with a young flag bearer who received Finding little gold at the mouth of the creek, Shorthill ventured six miles up the gulch where he found a considerable amount. This Join the Friends of the area became known as the Shorthill District. Yellowstone Gateway Museum TODAY! He eventually took up a homestead claim and began ranching along McDonald Creek. The mission of the Friends of the Yellowstone Gateway Museum of Park Shorthill and his wife, Margaret, had eight County, Montana is to support the museum, its successors and affiliates children. His original home can still be by raising funds for the perpetual care, growth, improvement and seen just below the cemetery that now bears expansion of the museum and by serving as a source of volunteers. his name. Shorthill’s great-great grandson, Annual Memberships: Harold, and his wife, Micky, reside in $25/Family; $15/Individual; Livingston. $50/Business

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Phone Email Please return to: PO Box 815, Livingston, MT 59047 Membership Perks: Free Admission to the Museum, Several large rock walls built by David newsletter subscription, gift shop discount, insider updates and more! Shorthill can still be seen along the road leading to the cemetery and are reminiscent of the stone fences of his native Pennsylvania PAGE 8 Connect with your museum CALENDAR July 12—Friday Mattie Culver’s Autograph Book Program 6:30 pm Livingston-Park County Public Library, 228 W. Callender Nan Weber, author of Mattie: A Woman’s Journey West, reveals how Mattie Culver’s autograph book uncovered the puzzle of her gravestone in Yellowstone Park. Refreshments. Free.

August 6—Tuesday Yellowstone Has Teeth! Program and Book Signing Ask about our new Museum 6:30 pm Explorer’s Journal! Livingston-Park County Public Library, Now available at the museum, it’s 228 W. Callender free and packed with fun learning Marjane Ambler, author of Yellowstone Has Teeth!, shares activities for the whole family! personal and neighbors’ stories of living year-round in the interior of Yellowstone National Park. Refreshments. Free. Stay in touch August 9—Friday A Military History of Park County with history! Exhibit Opening and Reception 4:00-7:00 pm —Like us on Facebook, Yellowstone Gateway Museum, another way to keep in touch 118 W. Chinook with local history and the An opening reception for this new exhibit that chronicles the poignant Yellowstone Gateway Museum. stories of residents who served in the Armed Forces from the Civil War forward as well as those on the home front. Free admission.

September 5—Thursday Modern-Day Flint Knapping —Visit our website: A Conversation with Ray Alt yellowstonegatewaymuseum.org 6:30 pm Yellowstone Gateway Museum, —Visit your museum and 118 W. Chinook research center! Museum Local knapper Ray Alt talks about the process of flint summer hours: 10-5, 7 days knapping, his shaft wrench theory, the development of a week through September; the exhibit, and more. The program is on the museum’s upper floor Research Center hours: 8-5, next to the flint-knapping exhibit. Unfortunately it is +not accessible to Monday-Friday, year-round. people who have trouble navigating stairs. Refreshments. Free. PAGE 9 Thank You Friends of the Yellowstone Gateway Museum 2013 MEMBERS and DONORS As of 6/21/2013

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Smith David & Shirley DePuy Tina Pidwell Joyce & Robert Hornbeck Anita Brawner Rosamond Stanton Dick & Priscilla Dysart Dalen Purkett Larry & Melinda Jones Merrilee Bryan David Stein Bob & Robin Ebinger Parks Reece Marjorie & Robert Kamps Milla Cummins Florence Taylor Bonnie & Ervin Ekstedt Martha Riddle Bill & Patty Kamrath Susan Dailey Chris Walker Adrein & Hank Fabich Doug Schemske Caroline & Melissa Klarr Ruth Dargis Margaret Weimer Cynthia Fargo Ann & Grace Scher Mark & Sandra Klawitter Ed Davison Denise Werle Mike Fleming Roger Selner Bruce & Carol Kron Dee Diedrich Mary Wiens Bob Frisbey Jane Skeoch Betsy & Jack Luther May Dunlap Carol Woodley Jay Lin Gao Karol & Robert Skillman Jerry & Lora Maxwell BJ Earle Wouldn’t YOU like to see your name here? Join our supporters and help keep Park County history alive! PAGE 10 (continued from page 1) the circle of knappers, and interesting interpretation of flint from dogwood, bark, and other eventually George Bryce was left knapping today. Visitors learn the natural materials. holding the last lump of lithic origin of point and tool names, (stone) material and was declared the process of flint knapping, and the winner of half the pot. the identification of parent rocks, which are paired with projectile points made from the same material. A four by six foot map of Montana shows the approximate locations of the state’s quarries and lists sources beyond Montana. The Boys making a Scoutcraft version of fire Yellowstone obsidian connection to Ohio’s Hopewell Mounds is also Breakfast of coffee and donuts, explored, and includes ceremonial as well as a lunch of freshly grilled stone replicas made by Alt. After burgers, were offered Knap-In experiencing this exhibit, people participants by the 4-H Shooting will have a deeper understanding Sports Group on Saturday. of how rocks have been used for Proceeds benefited the group and thousands of years. If you haven’t its travel to a national competition. stopped by the museum this In the afternoon the knappers summer, this exhibit alone makes held a two-inch goat-game contest your visit worthwhile. where participants had to give up George Bryce making a winning strike Admission to the museum was $5 to try to break a two-inch piece on obsidian in the two-inch goat game free during the weekend, giving of obsidian from the parent people a break from the rainy, cool chunk. The rock traveled around After the goat game, Ray Alt weather. It didn’t seem to dampen auctioned off an array of beautiful any spirits! and unique items made by the flint knappers or their wives to help cover the costs of the weekend, as well as to raise money for the Yellowstone Gateway Museum. We received a lot of positive feedback about our new exhibit, Re-creating an Ancient Technology: Modern Day Flint Knapping. Thanks to Ray Alt and George Bryce’s prolific and precise flint knapping, the three cases on the top floor landing George Bornemann making of the museum are a rich and A dedicated young knapper showing dogbane cordage his hard work PAGE 11 www.yellowstonegatewaymuseum.org

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Fifty Cents and a Saddle Horse

“Well, in 1931, it wasn’t all work on the ranch. If I could talk someone out of 50 cents and a saddle horse, I would ride to Bozeman Hot Springs for a dance. It cost 40 cents for the dance ticket and 10 cents for a glass of beer. No need to worry about Hard Times and Rabbits taking a girl home; they were not interested in riding a horse at that time of morning after an all “During the hard times in the 1920s, night struggle on a crowded dance floor. we ate so many jack rabbits, that every time the dog barked we had to drag the kids out from Many a Sunday, I would ride over to my Aunt Lily, underneath the bed.” on Reese Creek. She had a gas washing machine and she would wash my clothes.” –Jacobsen family History of Park County, Montana 1984, page 266 –Sid McElwee History of Park County, Montana 1984, page 324 ~Compiled by Dick Dysart