DISTINCTLY MONTANA MAGAZINE
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WINTER 2022-23
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Chef Michael, Catherine, and Eric
are so pleased and honored to receive
this recognition and really want to send
the message to all of our patrons
to the Steakhouse how much we appreciate
their ongoing support.
BEEF N BONE StEAKHOUSE
- Owner, Executive Chef Michael Shaw
www.beefnbonesteakhouse.com 406-866-2333 19 Ulm North Frontage Rd Ulm, MT
BEST STEAKHOUSE
Hogan would serve six months in Deer
Lodge for his stunt, but his brief celebrity
didn't do too much to destroy his career;
in 1895, Anaconda Mining Company re-
cords show he was back at the Moulton
mine, again working as a teamster.
As for Coxey himself, he finally reached
D.C. with some of his men. They camped out-
side the city for a while, but public interest had
begun to dwindle for the movement.
By the time he came to be on the lawn of the Capitol, he
managed to give a speech and was arrested for walking on the
grass.
Yet, a few short decades later, most of his ideas would be en-
acted by a federal government searching for ways to alleviate
the effects of the Great Depression.
As for Butte, silver was forgotten in favor of copper, enormous
quantities of which were suddenly needed to wire a nation for
electricity. The misadventure of Hogan's army faded into mem-
ory. Twentieth-century clashes between labor and capital in
Butte would likely involve bombings, shootings, or lynchings
rather than anything as prosaic as steam trains.
But there must have been those who, as late as the 1960s or 1970s,
still remembered standing on the platform, waving and cheering as
Engine #542 set off on its quixotic, ill-fated journey east.
Jacob S. Coxey