Windham
A view from 1939:
WINDHAM (4,266 alt., 115 pop.), serves
nearby cattle and wheat ranches as a trading center.
Well known in this country was "Liver-eating" Johnson,
an old frontiersman, who hated Indians implacably. Johnson
received his name because of an often repeated threat to eat
the liver of the first Indian who came near his place; some
old-timers insist that he did eat it.
The MOCCASIN MOUNTAINS, whose low, rounded summits are densely
forested with lodgepole pine, are visible (L).
The BIG SNOWY MOUNTAINS are visible ahead (R), a chain of rounded
summits. Geologists call them laboratory mountains, because
they are old geologically and their gentle contours illustrate
the history of mountain building.
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.
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