Bicentennial Story #50-Silas Gregg (Gladstone)

Bicentennial Story #50-Silas Gregg (Gladstone)

Account of how Silas Gregg came to settle in Gladstone, ND in 1885.

7/9/1975

Father Louis Pfaller
Jack Hjort

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English

BS-050

Gladstone, ND

Copyright Stark County Historical Society and Dickinson Museum Center

One day in 1885, young Silas Gregg arrived in Medora after a trip from St. Louis. He checked into the Rough Rider Hotel and hoped to seek a job next day. But he got little sleep as "hell-raising" cowboys raised a din with their drunken whoops and pistol shooting. The morning after this nightmare, young Gregg caught the next train east and settled near peaceful Gladstone. In the next 50 years he often came near Medora while hunting deer, but he never in all those years set foot in the wild town that had impressed him as the back door of Hell in 1885. He died at Gladstone in 1935, and his daughter, Mrs. Anders Hagburg, gave me the facts for this.

Bicentennial Story No. 50, prepared by Fr. Louis Pfaller for the Stark County Historical Society

Interview with Mrs. Anders (Greggs) Hagburg, April 1975

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Bicentennial tape #2, Bicentennial stories 46-66