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Walker Olson Commits!

kemajic said:
Billings was the largest city by far in 1960

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You gotta love AI! Your link to Copilot shows Billings with 60,000 and Great Falls with 50,000. Your link to the actual US Census for 1960 though shows Great Falls with 55,000 and Billings with 53,000 😏
 
br fan said:
You gotta love AI! Your link to Copilot shows Billings with 60,000 and Great Falls with 50,000. Your link to the actual US Census for 1960 though shows Great Falls with 55,000 and Billings with 53,000 😏
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Da Boyz Mom said:
Really? Prove it. Go back and get historical evidence that this is the case. To my recollection, he publishes his list before many, if any, of these kids are offered by either school. But I'm not the one making blanket statements.
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Why don't you offer a $100 bet on it?
billingsgriz said:
Following up, after thinking about it, Walker Olson or Jack Ryan could be--in 3-4 years--Billings next # 37 :) !!! While Clay Oven when he graduates probably designates another #37 from outside Billings, that # 37, whomever he is, could possibly turn to Walker or Dan if the stars align.

Billings currently has approximately 125,000 residents and 6 high schools: Class AA West, Senior, and Skyview, Class A Billings Central ( Catholic) and Lockwood, and Class C Billings Christian ✝️ ( Evangelical Protestant). And Lockwood, approx. 7,500 souls, is in no-man's land--this " census-designated place ," Montana's 18th biggest city, is unincorporated and is not included in Billings population, yet according to the USPS, Lockwood doesn't exist, as all Lockwood addresses are part of Billings, again according to the US Postal Service. ( Lockwood does have its own full-time fire department but no police department--that is provided by YSCO, Yellowstone County Sheriff's Office. Laurel, which is an incorporated Montana city, is about the same size as Lockwood, only just west of Billings.)

And while lot of attention is paid to growth in Bozeman, Missoula and Kalispell, Billings ia also growing and is over twice as big as Bozeman and Great Falls--Bozeman, if it hasn't already, will very probably overtake Great Falls to become Montana's 3rd largest city by the 2030 census, behind only Billings and Missoula. The growth in Montana is pretty much from Billings and to the west.

Bottom line: Billings with past great Griz names like Norwood, Curry, Scrafford, Gradney, and Bergen, and currrent names Oven, Fisher and Snell, has been and will remain very important to our recruiting going forward. !!!
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I've always wondered how Billings got its name. Disappointed you've never enlightened us.
 
mousegriz1 said:
Why don't you offer a $100 bet on it?

I've always wondered how Billings got its name. Disappointed you've never enlightened us.
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Because I usually just offer to bet jerks. She isn't one.

And, are we going to bet whether your source(s) on the new Billings West recruit are better than mine? Or, are you afraid to back up your big mouth?
 
SoldierGriz said:
I think I remeber Billings was named after someone in the railroad industry?

Or, I could just be making crap up which seems to be the eGriz.com way. 😀
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Frederick Billings was a very successful Vermont businessman and corporate officer of The Northern Pacific Railroad that engineered its financial survival, surviving the financial collapse of The Panic of 1873, but in 1874 his survey crews and LT. Col. George Armstrong Custer's 7th US Cavalry in Eastern Montana along the Yellowstone River started receiving a rather unfriendly welcome from some Native Montanans named Sitting Bull, Gall, and Crazy Horse and their Lakota ( Sioux ) warriors, preceding The Battle of The Little Big Horn on June 25-26, 1876. Frederick Billings would go onto to become NP President from 1879-81 : ).
 
billingsgriz said:
Frederick Billings was a very successful Vermont businessman and corporate officer of The Northern Pacific Railroad that engineered its financial survival, surviving the financial collapse of The Panic of 1873, but in 1874 his survey crews and LT. Col. George Armstrong Custer's 7th US Cavalry in Eastern Montana along the Yellowstone River started receiving a rather unfriendly welcome from some Native Montanans named Sitting Bull, Gall, and Crazy Horse and their Lakota ( Sioux ) warriors, preceding The Battle of The Little Big Horn on June 25-26, 1876. Frederick Billings would go onto to become NP President from 1879-81 : ).
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1876. I am celebrating the 150th of Custer getting his ass beat by the Sioux and Cheyennne.
 
billingsgriz said:
Frederick Billings was a very successful Vermont businessman and corporate officer of The Northern Pacific Railroad that engineered its financial survival, surviving the financial collapse of The Panic of 1873, but in 1874 his survey crews and LT. Col. George Armstrong Custer's 7th US Cavalry in Eastern Montana along the Yellowstone River started receiving a rather unfriendly welcome from some Native Montanans named Sitting Bull, Gall, and Crazy Horse and their Lakota ( Sioux ) warriors, preceding The Battle of The Little Big Horn on June 25-26, 1876. Frederick Billings would go onto to become NP President from 1879-81 : ).
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Then just head east and towns start getting named after calvary commanders. Custer, Forsyth, Miles City, Terry, Baker etc..
 
As I like to tell my MSU relatives, friends and colleagues when we thump them, like 2021 and '23, " The last time someone wearing the blue and gold got his a$$ kicked that bad in Montana, his last name was Custer : ) !!! "

Billings was founded in 1882, a year after Frederick Billings retired, and a year later ( 1883), long after Colonel Nelson A. Miles ( Miles City ) had chased Sitting Bull and Gall and their Lakota into Canada, Billings' vision of the NP becoming a transcontinental railroad was finally accomplished when Civil War Union Army Commanding General and former US President ( 1869-1877 ) Ulysses S. Grant drove the ceremonial golden spike on Gold Creek east of Missoula on Sept. 8, 1883, making The NP the third US transcontinental railroad.
 
billingsgriz said:
As I like to tell my MSU relatives, friends and colleagues when we thump them, like 2021 and '23, " The last time someone wearing the blue and gold got his a$$ kicked that bad in Montana, his last name was Custer : ) !!! "
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I still don't understand the obsession people have with celebrating losers like Custer. Why name so many places after a complete loser and fraud?
 
GriznMN said:
I still don't understand the obsession people have with celebrating losers like Custer. Why name so many places after a complete loser and fraud?
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Here in the USA we like our heros to be establishment yes men. We punish low level petty criminals, and we worship large scale fraudsters.
 
Full disclosure, Minnesota, I was a Ranger--Interpretive Ranger, National Park Service, at Little Big Horn--then Custer Battlefield National Monument, and I wrote for The Billings Gazette in 1991 a featured editorial complete with my mugshot, on why the battlefield name should be changed after I first met with The Northern Cheyenne Tribal Council in both Busby and Lame Deer 🦌. The Cheyenne, whose great war chief Two Moons and his warriors were a major factor along with their Lakota allies plus a few of their Northern Arapaho friends , in Custer's annihilation, were 100 % in favor of the name change along with The Lakota and Northern Arapaho specifically and Natives in general.

In my editorial, I pointed out that Waterloo was not named after Napoleon and Gettysburg was not named after Lee--battles are properly named after local geography, including Montana: Powder River, Rosebud, Wolf Mountain, Big Hole, Canyon Creek, Bear's Paw.

Finally on Dec. 10, 1991, President George H W Bush signed the bill to officially change the name.
 
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