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Grass Range

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A view from 1939:

GRASS RANGE, (3,488 alt, 212 pop.), is a prairie town, spread out, in the words of one resident, "most as big as Chicago." Here, as in many other Montana towns, it is not unusual to see a rancher driving a late-model automobile with a sheep dog, a ewe, or even a calf in the back seat. Livestock paid for the car—livestock ride in it if the need arises. Most ranchers prefer the "pick-up" or station-wagon type of automobile, which can haul a load of salt, supplies for camp tenders, a ewe with lambs, or a barrel of water without difficulty. The typical Montana rancher puts the modern high-powered car to tests never thought of on the proving grounds; he drives wherever there is a track for one wheel, climbing rocky ridges that, a few years ago, he would have negotiated on foot leading his horses and wagon.

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.