Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. This little story gives some of the history of the beautiful Big Hole Basin and will, no doubt, be of interest to those who may - in fifty or one hundred years - call the place their home. When it was begun I did not know that it was to have been the first autobiography ever published in Montana. For that reason, if for no other, it will have a distinct historic value.