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Helena, Montana’s Confederate Memorial Fountain

By Makoto Hunter, Brigham Young University
On the late summer evening of September 6, 1916, Montana’s capital city of Helena formally unveiled and dedicated its newest landmark: a $2,000 fountain gracing the highest hill of a city park. George H. Carsley, known as “the architect of Helena,”…

Leesburg and Grantsville, Idaho

By Makoto Hunter, Brigham Young University
Along with others who migrated to the Rocky Mountain West during the mid-nineteenth century, former Union and Confederate soldiers mixed in remote western locales like the mountains and valleys of Idaho. Miners settled land and panned for gold in…
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