Below is a sampling of significant people from the countless early pioneers.
 

 

Jack and Anna Skyles, merchants, with four-year-old John, ca. 1906. See their names in brass in the sidewalk entering Montana Coffee Traders.
 

M.M. Hori, ca. 1930. The Horis were hotel and restaurant owners.
 

The career of James J. Hill embraced more than the building of a a vast railway system. Along the route of the Great Northern he diversified farming and new industry. He pioneered in conservation... so that the land should be developed but never despoiled. Thus, he became famous not only as a great railway builder, butt as the "Empire Builder." Continuing the tradition of ever-progressive partnership with the Northwest, Great Northern's finest train carried that same proud title
 
Austrian ski pro Toni Matt, principal, teacher and ski instructor Lloyd Muldown, and Big Mountain promoter Ed Schneck, ca 1970.
 
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