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A blizzard blew hard across the Northern Montana prairie Christmas Eve 1920, and the last of the state’s notorious cowboy outlaws struggled to see the road that would take him to his sweetheart’s schoolhouse 30 miles northwest of Havre. Long George Francis had loaded a borrowed truck with Christmas presents and a box of apples — parting gifts before he turned himself in to serve a six- to ten-year stretch on a dubious charge of horse stealing. Not that he was an altogether innocent man. He was rumored to have helped himself to unbranded calves and to have purloined a horse o...

In 1912, Quincy residents were encouraged to shop at the A. Doerr department store at Sixth and Maine where, according to an ad, customers could “buy where holiday stocks are complete; holiday gift buying easiest; holiday goods handiest to see; where the Christmas spirit of good cheer and helpfulness abounds from basement to roof.” In contrast to today, where holiday shopping hours are longer, Quincy merchants in 1912 agreed to limit evening hours to the last five nights before Christmas. This was a change from the usual evening hours. According to The Daily Herald, the merchants wa...