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A view from 1939:

DODSON, (2,291 alt., 249 pop.), was named for a merchant who conducted a well-patronized trading post and saloon here, before the building of the Great Northern Ry. Local legend commemorates "Peanut" Parson, a bachelor who ate his peas with a knife ground to the keenness of a razor blade. An easterner who spent two weeks with Peanut in 1911, was about to object to this dangerous habit, when Peanut leaned apologetically across the table: "Pardner," he protested mildly, "every time you put that there fork in your mouth I shiver in my boots for fear you'll punch a hole plumb through your tongue."

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.