Photo of Montana Pioneers
Courtesy of Michael A Woody 
Names of Montana Pioneers
Courtesy of Michael A Woody 
Courtesy of Michael A WoodySome of the trails into Montana were blazed by the men pictured above. Not a one arrived later them 1862 and histories of Montana contained numerous references to the parts that many of them played in the development of this state. The picture was taken in Butte in 1911 while the group was attending a convention of Montana pioneers. In The photo, from left to right, the pioneers the year of their rival are, first row John Neubert, 1857; Con Kohrs, 1862; M. H. Lott, 18627: Granville Stuart, 1857; Frank Woody, 1856; John F. Work, 1862; E. E. French, 1862. Second row- Ed A. Louis, 1857; W. F. Bartlett, 1862; John O. Ennis, 1862; James H. Gallop, 1861; the next man is either Lew P. Smith or Major J. B. Graeter, 1862; Narcisse LeDoux and James McGovern. Identification was provided in 1940 by the late A. J. Davis Sr. , Butte banker, who recalled that Con Cohrs built the first house in deer Lodge valley. Granville Stuart, the father of Montana gold-mining, missed the discovery of the placer mines of Butte because, as he put it, "I came up this stream on the wrong side of the creek. When Judge Frank Woody came to Montana there was no house between Fort Owen end St. Ignatius Mission." He Built a wooden plow and ran the first furrow in Hell Gate Canyon in 1859. He built the first house in the canyon in 1860. M H Lott with a member of the vigilante band that made Montana State for honest man. A.F. Graeter drove the first flock of sheep into Montana. These men packed their blankets, live on the country, shot their own meat cooked it by campfires and slept in snowdrifts if the occasion demanded, And they risk their lives among the Indians every hour in the day and night.