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So, what became of these children? Shaley George, who
spent years studying the project, said, "We have five gover-
nors, two congressmen, and we have state legislators." In-
deed, a newspaper article in the 1903 Butte Inter-Mountain
mentioned orphans becoming teachers, lawyers, clergymen,
bankers, businessmen, soldiers, and sailors and "39 rail-
road men, several being high officials." But there were just
as many who were never heard from again, or of whom no
remaining records exist.
We do know they became parents, with descendants
numbering over two million. Greenough did his part: his
obituary talks about eight children, 22 grandchildren, and
24 great-grandchildren. And it tells the story of a life rooted
in Montana, full of ranching, guiding in the Beartooth
Mountains, raising two world champion bronc riders—a son
and a daughter, being acquainted with Calamity Jane and
Sitting Bull, counting Plenty Coups as a friend, and last, but
not least, marching in the annual Western Day parade.
