SEPTEMBER 2023 Ghost Towns and History of Montana Newsletter From The Madisonian, Sept. 17, 1903 Death Pursued Broadwater in His Ride from Bannack to Deer Lodge City in 1864 Accessed via: montananewspapers.org From The Glacier County Chief Newspaper, Feb. 25, 1938 Carson Lake, reporter for the New York Press, in 1890, had the following story as related to him about Charles A. Broadwater, uncle of Tom Marlow of Helena, and one of Montana's early millionaires. In the Gilsey House corridor a few days ago I met Col. C. A. Broadwater about whom I had heard a most exciting pioneer incident when I was in Montana last year. Colonel Broadwater is a pioneer Montanan and is wealthy. He is president of a railroad, proprietor of a famous natatorium near Helena and the owner of famous mines and cattle ranges. He is short and stout. In his younger days he must have been very athletic. Banished From Bannack The story is about a happening in the early ’60’s. Bannack City, the first capital had been overrun by a gang of desperadoes- A vigilance committee was organized. It hanged some and banished others. Two of the banished were Moore and Reeves. Broadwater and a young man named Pemberton (Judge W.Y. Pemberton of later days) had gone into the Deer Lodge valley where mining was going on, and had begun platting what is now Deer Lodge. One day Moore and Reeves arrived in the Deer Lodge locality and made their camp beside the Deer Lodge river in a clump of willows. They had no protection from the weather but their blankets. Their only food was beef washed down by coffee. Moore took sick. He had mountain fever (mountain fever was identified by its effect. If the patient recovered it was typhoid. If he died it was mountain fever). Broadwater, with the characteristic generosity of the old west, had Moore removed to a cabin and supplied him with food and medicine. He recover
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