The Chequemegon Shay-Wah-Me-Gon

New York: William-Frederick Press. Very Good+ in Good dust jacket. 1949. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. This book is in Very Good+ condition and has a Good only dust jacket. The book and its contents are in generally clean, bright condition. There is some light bumping to the spine ends of the book covers. The text pages are clean and bright. The top edge of the text block has foxing. The dust jacket has several large chips missing, including to the top and bottom spine ends. "After graduation, Allen returned to French Gulch to mine with his father. He also became associated with Marcus Daly in his Electric Light, Street Railway, and Water Works department. After his father's death in 1898, Allen began to develop his Elkhorn Mine at Brundy (later renamed Coolidge for the President). The Elkhorn Mine became a major producer with a large processing mill. For eight years, starting in 1903, Allen also was a timber developer. He then began branching out into other enterprises, becoming involved in real estate, fire insurance, banking, and railroads. During most of the nineteen-teens, Allen lived in Boston, Massachusetts, where he established important business connections, which he used to finance his Montana enterprises. In 1913 he established the Boston and Montana Development Company. A subsidiary, the Butte, Wisdom, and Pacific Railway Company, was incorporated to build a rail line into the Big Hole Valley from the Oregon Short Line at Divide. Nothing came of this project, however, until after World War I, when the Montana Southern Railway Company--a reorganization of the Butte, Wisdom, and Pacific--started construction of a narrow gauge line." (from Archives West) .