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A view from 1939:

TERRY, (2,250 alt., 779 pop.), seat of Prairie County, was named for Gen. Alfred H. Terry, who commanded an expedition against the Sioux and Cheyenne in the campaign of 1876.

Terry is the home of Berny Kempton, a former bronco buster and rodeo champion, who entertained Europeans with his roughriding, and astonished Australians by lassoing kangaroos. The rowdy vigor of the West is manifest here in the banter of cowpuncher, townsman, and farmhand, as they meet on the streets or congregate in the poolrooms and drinking places.

For a dozen miles the highway crosses a dry upland, parched by repeated years of drought. Only the scavenger magpie is at home in this waste.

Source: Montana: A State Guide Book; Compiled and Written by the Federal Writers' Project of the Work Projects Administration for the State of Montana; September, 1939.