News from the Red Caboose WINTER 2017

Harry Kaufman: A Ranger Who Inspired a Museum By Bruce Graham Harry Kaufman was born in Ball and donated to the forest day, even when the temperatures Pennsylvania on October 21, 1881. service along with the original were below zero. Harry spent a lot He began working as a guard copies, which are kept at the Main of time taking care of his horses, ranger for what would become the Boulder Ranger Station Museum. which included shoeing them. Absaroka National Forest in Harry worked in a lot of 1903, serving forty years as different areas. In June 1907 the U.S. Forest Service district he wrote that he was cutting ranger, working and living trail on the West Boulder and in the Main Boulder Ranger Davis Creek. After he built Station south of Big Timber, his duty station on the Main up the river from the Natural Boulder, where he lived with Bridge State Monument. his family, Harry helped build Harry married Coral ranger stations in other parts Knight on June 21, 1911 of the forest, including in Livingston. (See sidebar the West Boulder and story, page 11.) She was born the Deep Creek Ranger in 1880 and lived with her Stations. Sometimes he family on their West Boulder spent time patrolling in ranch. Harry, in his duties as In 1945 the Absaroka the Hellroaring, Jardine, National Forest was a ranger, often had contact consolidated into the and Gardiner areas. with the Knight family and From his diary entries, occasionally stayed with them and the ranger headquarters Harry (or his supervisor) when he patrolled the forest moved to Big Timber. did not define his job service boundary. (Coral’s Today, this area is part of narrowly. In 1903 he the Gallatin-Custer National brother also worked for Harry Forest. Just inside the Park County line, the ranger station was sworn in as a game occasionally.) Harry and now serves the public as a museum (above photo was taken in warden in addition to Coral raised two children 2016) dedicated to the time that Harry spent working there; his duties as a forest while they were living at the it’s open from July 4 to Labor Day, Friday-Sunday, and is ranger. During the Main Boulder Ranger Station. worth a road trip. summer Harry frequently Harry started keeping a checked fishing licenses diary as part of his work duties Harry generally worked at least and issued warnings about fire on June 24, 1903. He wrote daily ten hours per day, six days a week prevention to campers in the until December 31, 1923, perhaps and took Sunday off. He spent Boulder area. He also helped with longer. The diary was transcribed most days on his saddle horse, homestead and mining claims on by his daughter Elizabeth “Betty” riding twenty to thirty miles a (continued on page 11) Programs on the Horizon By Paul Shea, Director

We envision the museum as a programming, and given public Through these dynamic programs vibrant part of the communities programming outside the museum. we want people to understand that of Park County. We have great We need and want to do more history is fun and exciting. At the exhibits but they are only part of programs and are stepping up our museum you can see history unfold what good museums offer. In order outreach efforts. Here are some and how it touches you and your to meet the needs and desires of new ideas: family today. our residents and visitors we must If you have any feedback about • A Director’s Tour of the provide different kinds of historic these programs or would like exhibits with history insights interpretation. to participate as a tour guide or and a look behind closed doors. Public programming is the instructor, we would enjoy hearing Monthly small groups most important way we can share from you. Stay tuned for more by reservation. our history and simultaneously information. • A Downtown Historic let more people know that the And don’t forget to come to Walking Tour. Highlighting the museum exists. In the past we the museum. Bring your friends, early days of Livingston, tours are have been a little haphazard with family, and visitors. If you haven’t held during the summer once or this; program offerings are often been here in a while I think you twice a week. curtailed because of money and, to will be pleased and excited to find • History tours that explore a large extent, because of time. that the museum is a wonderful other parts of the county. We have successfully hosted place to visit and one more fun • History classes held at the speaker series at the library thing to do in Livingston. museum. and living history days on the • Docent Museum Tours, front lawn, increased our school held regularly. Sara Chaney: rummaging through outbuildings and wandering Newest Board Member around, finding old wagons, railroad spikes, and other artifacts. To this day she continues to explore By Sandrine Olds the country accompanied by her three children who enjoy exploring as much as she does. They love visiting Sara has always museums, buffalo jumps, and other places of felt connected historical interest. to her Sara’s passion for history led her to earn a B.A. roots. Her great- in History from the University of Montana. She also grandparents studied to become a certified acupuncturist partly came to the state because oriental medicine is based on more than around 1900. 3,000 years of history and experience. Sara grew up Sara remembers visiting the Yellowstone Gateway in Livingston Museum as a child, and is amazed of the progress and has been that has been made with the exhibits since Paul Shea interested in became Director. She said, "It is incredible what the history for as museum has become." long as she can Sara is very excited to be a member of the Friends, remember. As a and is looking forward to helping our museum keep child she loved our history alive for generations to come. PAGE 2 Volunteers and Staff Boards and Staff Friends Thank You, Volunteers! Bruce Graham, President Ray Alt Steve Fox Susan Sewell Ed Dodge, Vice President Merrilee Bryan Melissa Frady Amanda Shaw Sandrine Olds, Secretary George Bryce Jessica Guldon Carol Woodley Paul Shea, Treasurer Robert Buchanan Sabine MacInnes Ellen Zazzarino Judy Bonnell, Member Shannon Burke Allison Parrish And of course, our Sarah Chaney, Member Daniel Davidson Dona Poeschl board members! Robin Lovec, Member Rosamond Stanton, Member County Bob Ebinger, President Jem Blueher, Member George Bornemann, Member BJ Earle, Member Dale Guidi, Member Norm Miller, Member Bob Moore, Member Debi Nemetz, Member Andy Olds, Member Staff Paul Shea, Director Karen Reinhart, Registrar, Newsletter Editor Jay Kiefer & Reeva Williams, Experience Works employees Museum 118 W. Chinook Street Livingston, MT 59047 406-222-4184 [email protected] yellowstonegatewaymuseum.org Above, top: Ellen Zazzarino housing Above, top: Jay Kiefer greets visitors at pages of a scrapbook in an archival box.. the front desk. Bottom: Bruce Graham Bottom: Norm Miller installing train cataloging library items. order hoop in new exhibit, see page 4. museum hours WINTER: SUMMER: RESEARCH CENTER: 10 AM - 5 PM, Thurs. - Sat., (5/25 - 9/30) 8 AM - 5 PM, Tues. - Fri. special groups by appointment. 10 AM - 5 PM, 7 days/week Please call Paul Shea to make an appointment. PAGE 3 Collections Corner Curating Exhibits: A Creative Process By Karen Reinhart, Registrar

Museum staff and volunteers teacher, Hannah Roush, during in the army post-World War I, took frequently curate new exhibits. the first semester of the 2016-2017 notes and wrote prose and poetry. This involves caring for, school year. The students and Visitors are welcome to take a free cataloging, selecting, and museum staff chose and researched postcard that they can write a short presenting items to the message on and then, mail, in public for the purpose of an attempt to revive this form telling a story. I especially of personal communication. enjoy working toward People once tapped keys to creating a meaningful and relay messages on a telegraph interactive experience and a typewriter. My personal for visitors. favorite along this line was A few years ago I noted conveying a message via a train a beautiful, oak phone order hoop, necessitating a booth in our storage area worker—often a woman—to and dreamed of harvesting plant her feet and take a steady its story and displaying it. stance next to the train track, Farmers and ranchers made holding up the hoop, with phone calls in the booth the message attached to it, at the Livingston Milling while a locomotive blurred by Company beginning in in a fifty-mile-per-hour streak 1910. More recently, the with the engineer reaching building housed Agrineeds out to retrieve the message. The phone booth and other communication artifacts. and may soon be remodeled. People had to use this Last year Park High School daring technique because of students who are enrolled in Shift artifacts that richly illustrated our unreliable radio communication. Empowerment’s Community 360 theme of exploring the arch of The exhibit also explores how class accepted our collaborative changing technology. We used (continued on page 5) grant proposal to curate our stories of local people who used newest exhibit, Communication: A various technologies. Changing Conversation. Mountain We interpret the early day’s Sky Guest Ranch funded the project. pen-and-ink handwritten word, I worked with five students, with words that flowed down Alexandra Centofanti, Caitlin diary pages, challenging, perhaps, Eyster, Alexis Fitzpatrick, Desirree some readers today. Earl Hansen’s Hollo, and Barrett Neal, and their daily diary chronicled weather and chores on a Paradise Though this invitation is to a gruesome event, it is one of Paul’s favorite artifacts. “We have been given great information...provoking us to think Valley about how much we take technology for granted. We all have a new It is displayed on a bank of Livingston ranch Post Office boxes along with other pieces appreciation for history and the creative minds that have made our and of mail received there. Curious museum lives much simpler. Community 360 has empowered its students to Marvin goers can experience a full interpretation take action in communicating with others and to teach others the Wright, of the brutal crime that prompted the hanging at the Museum of the Beartooths importance of human contact—a very important factor in our world.” who —Alexandra Centofanti, Community 360 student in Columbus, Montana. Perhaps an served invitation to an 1889 Grand Ball would overseas be more inviting... PAGE 4 (continued from page 4) is fun to ponder printed words and mass media the relics of Watch for have affected communication. the past and Visitors are invited to sit down the innovative Upcoming Exhibits* and leaf through old newspapers people behind or magazines. them, and how Evander Skillman’s Two Rifles And of course, we interpret their inventions People of Yellowstone: Photography by Steve Horan technology as it advanced, led to what we Yellowstone National Park: the Local Connection displaying a RCA Victor radio and use today to stay Science: Rocks and Bones phonograph that uses an internal connected. Stories from A Chair’s Perspective speaker which improved sound; We’d love Agriculture and its Machinery Univex still and movie cameras to hear your The History of Park County Schools from 1939; two telephones from thoughts about The Livingston Underground the days when customers could communication only lease their phones; and a color and how changes *Preliminary ideas and titles. RCA television from 1953. in technology As Paul noted, the cell phone have affected your deposit it in the exhibit’s mail box. supplants all of the other devices life. We pose thoughtful questions If you would like to assist us with on display, making it the logical about communication technology this creative and rewarding work, way to end the exhibit’s story in the exhibit’s conclusion to get please give me a call. We receive a of communication. So much is the conversation started. Visitors lot of great feedback and it’s a lot packed into such a small device! It can jot down answers on a card and of fun, too! Reeva Williams: Getting Things Done

By Karen Reinhart

Reeva Williams moved to Livingston from northern Idaho in 2004. After working at a few locations in Livingston, Reeva began working at the museum in 2015. As an Experience Works employee she is learning a lot of new skills. Reeva primarily catalogs items, using PastPerfect (our museum database) and is making headway with our backlog of accessioned items. She has researched and described a variety of items—from a treadle sewing machine and a Connolly saddle to campaign buttons and historic photographs. She has to jot down the names of people on the back of the also learned Microsoft Word and Excel programs, as photographs—in pencil, not pen, to protect the photos. well as how to scan two-dimensional items and use a It’s very important information to include for your digital camera. family or for museum donations. Reeva said, “Before this job, all I knew how to do Reeva quipped that the “best part of my work is was turn a computer on.” She noted that now she seeing things get finished up.” It’s very satisfying to helps her partner, John, find things on the computer. catalog, properly store, and put away a box of artifacts And I’ve noticed that she often helps our volunteer on a shelf—ready to be accessed for researchers or our catalogers who work alongside her in the Research next exhibit. Reeva’s hard work and dedication has Center, making her doubly valuable. helped the museum tremendously. She’d like to remind people to please remember PAGE 5 Across the Transfer Table by Bruce Graham

This fourth article in the making the circumference Livingston Railroad Shop of the bored wheel slightly series highlights the support smaller than the diameter facilities on the west side of the axle. The wheels and of the transfer table. Most axle were then placed on a locomotives entered the machine where they were Livingston Back Shop from pressed together. Because the the west, rolling across the bore of the wheel was smaller transfer table into the shop. than the axle, over a 100 tons The Back Shop contained of force was required to put a transfer pit on the west them together; this force was side; a transfer table ran recorded and matched to each on rails in the pit from one wheel set. The axle and wheels end of the Back Shop to the Wheel Shop loading area, April 1986. both had a serial number so other. Laborers used a goat reused, and if they passed the if there ever was a problem, it (a gas-powered switching tractor) to test, they were cleaned, machined, could be traced back to the source. move locomotives onto the table and rebuilt for another wheel set. On the west end of the Wheel and then through the appropriate The bad-order wheels and axles Shop was an office for the Carmen door into the shop for repair. were hauled out of the shop and and a store room for small parts, The table was also used to move dumped into a gondola car and including car wheel parts, bearings, freight trucks into the shop to load sold for scrap. and brake shoes. and unload heavy items, such as Rail workers also received Howard Harper told me that generators and traction motors. carloads of new wheels and axles fifty to sixty Carmen worked in the Workers also rolled wheels from to be made into sets. Machinists steam engine days because they had the wheel shop onto the table so used a lathe to bore out the to check all the brakes on the cars that the wheels could be rolled wheel center to match each axle, to make sure they were working onto a track in the truck shop correctly. This was important area. Mechanics then attached the because a steam locomotive’s wheels to traction motors that they Movie Trivia brakes only held air for about placed under locomotives. twelve minutes before they leaked This area of the shops was made The Wheel Shop was located and the train rolled downhill. famous in a Hollywood film. When west of the transfer table on the Each diesel locomotive had an air men worked in the Carpenter Shop south end. Twenty to twenty-five compressor that supplied air for years ago they probably never men worked in this shop. Carloads the train’s brakes. This enabled dreamed that their work space would of new wheel sets and sets in bad trains to become longer because be used in a Hollywood film. order were unloaded and loaded by the new compressors were able to The dance hall scene in the movie a locomotive crane in an area west pump air farther and still maintain A River Runs Through It was filmed of the Wheel Shop. the pressure for effective braking. in the shop. How do I know? I was Carloads of used locomotive But during the cold weather of working on the film as a location wheel sets—each weighing about winter the train crew (engineer, advisor. Filmmakers shot the scene 2,000 pounds—were rolled into the conductor and brakemen) had at night so that there was no noise shop. Mechanics took bearings off to reduce the length of the train coming from Livingston Rebuild of the axles and pressed the wheels because seals leak and the air Center and very little from Montana off. Workers evaluated the bearings freezes up in a long air system. Rail Link. and axles to see if they could be (continued on page 10) PAGE 6 ConnectOutreach with Program your museum Museum and Gardiner School Collaboration CALENDAR By Suzanne Goodman

March 29—Wednesday Friends of YGM Annual Meeting & Program Visualizing History: Park County 6:30 pm (meeting); 7:00 pm (program) Livingston-Park County Public Library, 228 W. Callender

Following the meeting, Director Paul Shea gives a program that is an unconventional look at the early history of Park County. All welcome to attend the meeting and free program. Refreshments. © Steve Horan May (specific date TBD) Supaman Performance by Christian Parrish Takes-the-Gun Park High School Gym, 102 View Vista Dr., Livingston 6:30 pm Crow Hip-hop Fancy Dancer returns to Livingston for a Youth Empowerment program. All welcome to attend the free program.

June 2 & 3 — Friday & Saturday YGM’s 40th Anniversary Gala Events Friday evening, details TBA Saturday, Living History Day 10 am — 5 pm YGM, 118 W. Chinook St., Livingston Saturday: local artisans return for popular on-the-lawn event at the museum, demonstrating primitive crafts, including flint-knapping, blacksmithing, Dutch-oven cooking, and more. Free museum admission, tours. Food is available.

June 9 — Friday People of Yellowstone Exhibit Opening, Program, & Book signing 5:30 pm — 7:30 pm YGM, 118 W. Chinook St., Livingston Help us celebrate our newest exhibit, the People of Yellowstone. Photographer Steve Horan and author Ruth Crocker will give program about their new book of the same title and sign books. Free museum admission. Attendees must climb stairs to top floor of museum. PAGE 7

Recent Donations Thank you! ~

Collections Donors American Legion Park Post #23 ~ Olmsted County (MN) History Center ~ WWI &WWII rosters & employment info Photo of Judge Hugh Miller’s house N. J. Burnett ~ Dr. Townsend receipt for services Park County Disaster and Emergency Services ~ Augustine Duran ~ Yankee Jim Trading Post sign Emergency preparedness items Glenn Godward ~ Photo of Mar Yuen Dick Payne ~ NPR caboose mattress Doug Grieve ~ Downtown Livingston photos Shirley Petersen ~ Pajamas and robe from Japan Nicki Harrison ~ NPR train tickets and envelope and skirts from Mexico Alta LeDoux ~ Fringed jacket made by Doris Dona Grigsby Poeschl ~ Grigsby family photos Whithorn & Livingston city plan, 2008 Roddy Stanton ~ Haynes Souvenir Album and Robert Nickelson ~ Nickelson-Morse family history postcards, Yellowstone National Park Zak Zakovi ~ Original Water Plant photos

Memorials For Scott Garrity For Glenn Wildung For Susan Kraft By Michael Garrity By Bruce & Margery Graham By Thomas & Nancy Danaher For Donelda & Glenn Wildung By Deshler Morris House Committee For William C Scobie By Karen Wildung Reinhart By Christopher & Betsy Fryday By Margaret Scobie By Bruce & Margery Graham For James J Woodhull By Elizabeth Mitchell For Ed Skillman By Marilyn J. Woodhull By Bruce & Margery Graham

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on the railroad; you can see this

equipment in the summer as you

drive by a section where men are

working on the track. Larry Taylor

ran the Roadway Shop during the

time that I worked at Burlington

Northern. This area originally had

a boiler shop built on it.

Workers called a large building

that was west of the Electric Shop

the steel house because it was used

to store iron for the rebuilding of

locomotives. Boxes of filters and

locomotive axles were also stored

there. Railroad employees used

a diesel-powered mobile crane in Last day of Wheel Shop operation, May 5, 1986. 1. Gil Egeland, 2. Bill Van Pelt (foreman), 3. Norm Morgan, 4. Earl Stermitz, 5. Paul Boehm, 6. Willard Busby, 7. Gary the store room to load and unload

Smith, 8. Val Van Orden, 9. Harold Nichelson, 10. Dick Juhnke, 11. Ed Martin, 12. Irv wheel cars for both locomotives Hudson, 13. Gary Barnhart, 14. R. D. Peterson, 15. Ed Hanel, 16. Bill Phillips. and box cars. It was also used to

(continued from page 6) Carmen repaired some freight pick up and load scrap into cars

Dispatch center workers gave cars an area called the wind tunnel and to shift cars for workers to use orders to reduce the length of a northwest of the Wheel Shop—a in the Material Department area. train in cold weather, depending covered area with no door on The crane was also used to load on the temperature. either end. They worked in a and unload flat cars of roadway Railroad workers also had to Carpenter Shop in this area and equipment. deal with garbage and asbestos adjacent to that was the paint The final article of this series is in this area. An incinerator and stripping area where workers about the supporting areas of the a large smoke stack were next removed paint from locomotives railroad that existed separate from to the Car Shop office where and readied them for a new the shops—the depot, freight house, garbage from the Car Department coat of paint. Machinists and yard office, signal department, and was burned. During the steam electricians repaired traction section department. locomotive days there was a room motors, generators, and small behind the smoke stack where electric equipment in the Electric Consultants: Boilermakers ground asbestos Shop, which was next. Then there Stan Adams into a fine material that was then was an open area of tracks where Wesley Bull used to insulate the locomotive equipment was stored, waiting to Dale Guidi boilers. When the fluffy material be repaired. Sonny O’Neil told me Frank Hardesty was moved to different areas in that workers repaired boilers in the Howard Harper the shop on a normal, windy day, Electric Shop originally because John Hochmuht asbestos probably blew through the there was a large overhead crane Basil Jones air, affecting the whole east side of that picked up and moved the Sonny O’Neil Livingston. The asbestos work was boilers and the iron to repair them. Richard Playggemeyer not considered hazardous at the The final building in this row Hardy Pugliano time. Sonny O’Neil and Richard at the northwest end of the Tatsu Simao Plaggemeyer told me that they had transfer pit was the Roadway Shop Earl Stermitz asbestos in their lungs but their where mechanics repaired track Rick VanAken doctors told them that because equipment. The track equipment they didn’t smoke they had not consists of machines that a section All photos by and courtesy of developed lung problems. gang uses to replace ties and rail Bill Phillips PAGE 10 (continued from page 1) of hours maintaining a telephone The Wedding Dress that forest lands. Harry issued permits line from the Main Boulder north Was Never Worn to people so they could harvest to Livingston and also from his timber from the forest, some for duty station to the East Boulder On June 21, 1911 Harry picked up commercial use, and some for and Bridger Creek. Coral on his return trip to the Main settlers who needed wood to build Other diary entries revealed Boulder Ranger Station after working their homes and fences, and to that Harry worked out of Noxon, in Livingston. She was to ride with burn for heating. Montana as a crew leader during him as far as her brother’s home on the He also issued grazing permits the infamous 1910 fire season in West Boulder. to ranchers for their horses, Idaho and . In Coral’s daughter, Betty Ball, recalled cows, and sheep. Starting in June 1917 one of his fingers became the story of that day, “[Coral] was and continuing into July, Harry infected and he had to have it dressed in a fashionable riding habit…a counted sheep in a pen at the amputated. On September 12, divided skirt of leather with short Main Boulder Ranger Station as 1918 he registered for the draft at fringe on the bottom, long sleeved shirt, sheepherders took their flocks the Hawkwood schoolhouse on boots, hat, and gloves. Upon Harry’s into the mountains to graze. He the West Boulder but did not get arrival they decided to get married designated grazing areas up the called up because he was thirty- immediately, instead of in October, as Boulder and over the top of the five years old, had two children, planned. divide at Independence, an old and was already working for the “They left Coral’s parents’ home mining area in the 1890s, into the government. [where they got married], riding at a Slough Creek drainage just north The Yellowstone Gateway fast pace across Harvats Flat, as the of Yellowstone, often checking that Museum has numerous artifacts secret was out of a planned chivaree… the animals were grazing in the and photographs that were [They saw] two cars of Forest Service proper areas and not infringing on donated by the Kaufman family. personnel,… in “hot pursuit” … to areas permitted to other ranchers. catch the newlyweds, bring them back Harry drove a horse-drawn wagon to Livingston and …[make] Harry that he used for his and his family’s push Coral down Main Street in a transportation to Livingston and wheelbarrow. The autos were fast Big Timber or for hauling lumber approaching, and [by] this time the and firewood. To get to Livingston, couple was near the mountains… where the main forest service office They found a low space in the fence was located, Harry sometimes and Harry draped his riding slicker traveled north to Big Timber and over the wires, jumped their horses caught the train, or he followed over the fence and rode on into the the Swingley Road traveling west mountains, thus beginning thirty years to Livingston. But wherever Harry of marriage.” went, he multi-tasked: he repaired Coral never wore her wedding dress.” the telephone line as he rode, often navigating deep snow and muddy conditions to keep communication Left: Young Betty Kaufman Ball, the open. Harry spent a great number daughter who preserved her family’s story.

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See inside for Bruce Graham’s fourth article about the Livingston Railroad Shops, Across the Transfer Table

Electric Shop employees, second shift, February 1986. 1. T. Loungee (supervisor), 2. R. Eggar, 3. R. Dermer, 4. J. Ross, 5. R. Cardona, 6. R. Huson, 7. D. Schuyler, 8. D. Strong, 9. J. Scalise, 10. B. Lee III, 11, M. Scalise, 12. M. Martz, 13. D. Karell, 14. J. Peterson, 15. S. Boysun, 16. P. Houts. Photo by Bill Phillips.