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Title |
Hobbles for Horses |
Object Name |
Hobble |
Description |
Hobbles for horses; made of leather and metal. |
Provenance |
Ranch house and some property were bought in 1917 by Charles August Carlson (Gary’s grandfather) and his great-grandfather, Oscar Carlson. Oscar came from Sweden with his wife Matilda, and was in the Basin area in the early 1890s. Charles was born in 1891. He married Edna Williamson who was raised in the Bernice area. Her father was the first forest Service in the area. Charles and Edna had two children, William (Bill) Charles Carlson (born in 1920) and Bernice Carlson Neuberg (born in 1922). In the following decades, Charles bought adjoining lands, some from the Sockerson family who owned a store in Basin. The main industry for the ranch was timber sales. They had a Scandinavian crew of cutters who lived in the mountains nearby. Carlsons sold timber to the mines in Butte and later made charcoal for the Anaconda mill in Great Falls until around 1950. They also had cattle. Interesting note, in 1917 there was a terrible winter in the area. Ranchers had no grazing, so some lost most of their cattle. Some ranchers went to the Dakotas and cut swamp grass and shipped it back home for cattle feed. The house at Bernice by the Bernice highway exit, was the original house of Oscar and Matilda. Their son, Albert, and wife Marguerite, later owned the house. Marguerite sold it to Davidson and now Karen Davidson and Steve Olson own the house and some land behind it. |
Collection |
Ranch |
People |
Carlson, Charles Carlson, Edna Williamson Carlson, Matilda Carlson, Oscar |
Used |
Carlson Ranch |
Catalog Number |
2020.23.1 |
Year Range from |
1917 |
Year Range to |
1950 |
Date |
Circa 1900s |
Search Terms |
Bernice, MT Carlson Ranch |
Subjects |
Bernice, MT Carlson Ranch |