Great Plains Studies, Center for
Date of this Version
1990
Abstract
Mary Tanner saw homesteading as "a togetherness" learned from neighbors. 1 In 1915 she and thirty-two families shared that togetherness at Round Butte, Dawson County, Montana, clustered around a school and post office that bore the same name. Neighbors got together and threshed grain, raised barns, or brought in crops for neighbors "laid up" by accident or illness. That same cooperative effort extended to the formation of the Round Butte school and post office, to community social organizations, and ultimately to the creation of a new county, Garfield, in 1919.
Comments
Published in Great Plains Quarterly [OPQ 10 (Fall 1990): 218-227] .Copyright 1990 Center for Great Plains Studies, University of Nebraska—Lincoln.