Old Timers would like any Old time History on this town
How Your Town Got It?s Name
Courtesy of John WillardEkalaka--- David H. Russell, frontier hunter and the first settler in this area, married the daughter of a Sioux Indian chief named Ijkalaka, and Russell named the town after her. He was coming to Montana with a load of trade whiskey and his wagon got stuck in the mud. He said, ?Hell, any place in Montana is a good place for a saloon,? and he stayed.
Ekalaka Montana
(Pup Town)
OldTimers 
Warren White of the Carter county MuseumDear Don, Your information about Ekalaka is wrong on the web page. David Russell was the first white settler in Ekalaka and his wife was Ijkalka. But he was not the one hauling the logs. Claude Carter was the one hauling the logs and got stuck in the mud at Russell Creek. He was actually hauling logs and whiskey to the gold camps in western Montana. After his wagon got mired, he decided "Hell any place in Montana, is a good place for a saloon." So he built the first building in Ekalaka which was mud floored, sod roofed, log saloon. All the big cow outfits, like the "Hashknife"& "Mill Iron" all connected to the Continental Cattle Co. were maintaining large herds of cattle in this area. They were the prime customers for the saloon. This would have been in the 1883-1885 when this happened. The village had grown enough by 1885 to support a post office. An official of the government asked for a name for the town. They called it pup town in the beginning for want of a better name because of the prairie dogs and because everybody that came had two or three dogs. When no official name could be decided on, the official asked David Russell what his wife's name was. He told the offical it was Ijakalaka. The official decided the spelling was pronounced Ekalaka with an "e" and it would be easier for the post office to register that name rather than the Sioux spelling which was with a 'ij". At the time Ekalaka was named, it was a portion of Custer County. In 1913 it became part of Fallon Co. On February 22nd, 1917, it was designated Carter Co. It was named after the first congretional delegate to Washington from territory of Montana. In 1917, when most of the counties in Montana had already been named, the Legislature felt they needed to acknowledge the first delegate to Washington by naming a county after him
Ekalaka As Of Now 