Ubet

A view from 1939:

3 m. from Garneill on a dirt road is the site of UBET, at one time the best-known stage station in Montana Territory. One or two of the old log buildings remain, used in the early 1930's by sheepherders. The story of Ubet is told in a book of that name by John R. Barrows, whose father, A. R. Barrows, established the post in 1880. There was a two-story log hotel—elaborate for the time—a post office, a blacksmith shop, an ice house, a saloon, a stage barn, and a stable. The name was a frontier improvisation inspired by the "You bet!" given by the elder Barrows when asked if he could think of a good name for the post office.

At that time there were hardly half a dozen human habitations along the stage route between Billings and Ubet. Ubet, with Mrs. Barrows' cooking and the comfort of the hotel, was therefore important. It endured until advancing railroads ended the need for stage service. Some measure of the settler's esteem for the post is found in the fact that Both Garneill and Judith Gap were first named for it. Many pioneers are buried on a hill to the north, but the graves are unmarked.

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.