Deaths detailed in;
Hell Gate Village: First Missoula settlement a place of violence, stories
Kim Briggeman Jan 27, 2013
...Stone detailed them in his column: the four road agents executed in January 1864, followed on April 3 by the hanging from the same corral gallows of a young Indian who’d killed a prospector near Clinton.
A man named Crow was shot in the autumn of ’64 by a ne’er-do-well named Matt Craft in Craft’s tent a quarter of a mile above the Worden store – perhaps where the Stahls raise sheep today. William Cook reopened the Hell Gate saloon that same fall after Skinner’s demise, but died there shortly after when he got caught in the middle of a shootout between two Irishmen. One of them, named McLaughlin, also bit the dust. J.P. Shockley, who had built the last house in town in 1864, took his own life the following spring.
Stone and others often contrasted Hell Gate’s violent history with the beauty of its setting.
“If there is much in the appearance of this valley that makes the name seem incongruous,” Stone wrote, “there is much in the history of the old town of Hell Gate that makes it seem singularly appropriate.
“During its existence, its maximum population was 14 – the average was 12 – but in the months that it was doing business there were no less than nine men who died there with their boots on. For them, surely, it was the entrance to Hades, though the growl of Cerberus took the form of the bark of a Colt’s army gun.”
Hell Gate Village: First Missoula settlement a place of violence, stories
Kim Briggeman Jan 27, 2013
...Stone detailed them in his column: the four road agents executed in January 1864, followed on April 3 by the hanging from the same corral gallows of a young Indian who’d killed a prospector near Clinton.
A man named Crow was shot in the autumn of ’64 by a ne’er-do-well named Matt Craft in Craft’s tent a quarter of a mile above the Worden store – perhaps where the Stahls raise sheep today. William Cook reopened the Hell Gate saloon that same fall after Skinner’s demise, but died there shortly after when he got caught in the middle of a shootout between two Irishmen. One of them, named McLaughlin, also bit the dust. J.P. Shockley, who had built the last house in town in 1864, took his own life the following spring.
Stone and others often contrasted Hell Gate’s violent history with the beauty of its setting.
“If there is much in the appearance of this valley that makes the name seem incongruous,” Stone wrote, “there is much in the history of the old town of Hell Gate that makes it seem singularly appropriate.
“During its existence, its maximum population was 14 – the average was 12 – but in the months that it was doing business there were no less than nine men who died there with their boots on. For them, surely, it was the entrance to Hades, though the growl of Cerberus took the form of the bark of a Colt’s army gun.”
Deaths detailed in;
Hell Gate Village: First Missoula settlement a place of violence, stories
Kim Briggeman Jan 27, 2013
...Stone detailed them in his column: the four road agents executed in January 1864, followed on April 3 by the hanging from the same corral gallows of a young Indian who’d killed a prospector near Clinton.
A man named Crow was shot in the autumn of ’64 by a ne’er-do-well named Matt Craft in Craft’s tent a quarter of a mile above the Worden store – perhaps where the Stahls raise sheep today. William Cook reopened the Hell Gate saloon that same fall after Skinner’s demise, but died there shortly after when he got caught in the middle of a shootout between two Irishmen. One of them, named McLaughlin, also bit the dust. J.P. Shockley, who had built the last house in town in 1864, took his own life the following spring.
Stone and others often contrasted Hell Gate’s violent history with the beauty of its setting.
“If there is much in the appearance of this valley that makes the name seem incongruous,” Stone wrote, “there is much in the history of the old town of Hell Gate that makes it seem singularly appropriate.
“During its existence, its maximum population was 14 – the average was 12 – but in the months that it was doing business there were no less than nine men who died there with their boots on. For them, surely, it was the entrance to Hades, though the growl of Cerberus took the form of the bark of a Colt’s army gun.”
Hell Gate Village: First Missoula settlement a place of violence, stories
Kim Briggeman Jan 27, 2013
...Stone detailed them in his column: the four road agents executed in January 1864, followed on April 3 by the hanging from the same corral gallows of a young Indian who’d killed a prospector near Clinton.
A man named Crow was shot in the autumn of ’64 by a ne’er-do-well named Matt Craft in Craft’s tent a quarter of a mile above the Worden store – perhaps where the Stahls raise sheep today. William Cook reopened the Hell Gate saloon that same fall after Skinner’s demise, but died there shortly after when he got caught in the middle of a shootout between two Irishmen. One of them, named McLaughlin, also bit the dust. J.P. Shockley, who had built the last house in town in 1864, took his own life the following spring.
Stone and others often contrasted Hell Gate’s violent history with the beauty of its setting.
“If there is much in the appearance of this valley that makes the name seem incongruous,” Stone wrote, “there is much in the history of the old town of Hell Gate that makes it seem singularly appropriate.
“During its existence, its maximum population was 14 – the average was 12 – but in the months that it was doing business there were no less than nine men who died there with their boots on. For them, surely, it was the entrance to Hades, though the growl of Cerberus took the form of the bark of a Colt’s army gun.”
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