July 10 – On this day in Montana
history in 1894 units of the 22nd Infantry arrived in Livingston to
open the Northern Pacific Railroad lines and stop what had become a nationwide
railroad strike known as the Pullman Strike. Capt. B.C. Lockwood reportedly
said upon the arrival of his troops: “I am running this town.” It was a harbinger of the major labor strikes
that were coming in the next century.
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