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In the fall of 1909 an influx of people came to the Fox Lake area to homestead on government land. This required living on the land for a period of three years. Many of these were bachelors while others had come with their families. Some of these early settlers had come by covered wagon, with later arrivals coming by rail to Glendive, Montana on the Northern Pacific line, or Mondak, farther north on the Great Northern. They staked out claims and fenced them, slowly pushing back the cattlemen. Whenever these newcomers squatted upon land already...
