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Wednesday, February 1, 2012


Feb. 1 – On this day in history in 1953, the state was mourning the death of Belle Anna Conway. She was the captain, and the last surviving member, of the Fort Shaw Indian School’s 1904 world champion girls basketball team that won the title in a tournament at the St. Louis World’s Fair. The championship team has been popularized in recent years in the book “Full Court Quest” by Linda Peavy and Ursula Smith, as well in a public television documentary. It is believed that they were the only “world champion” sports team in Montana history. 

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