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Sod ‘n Seed ‘n Tumbleweed: A History of the Huntley Project. Yellowstone County, Montana, 2nd Printing 2003. Written and Compiled by the Huntley Project History Committee. Hardbound, Brown Leatherette with Gold Trim, 512 pages, numerous black and white photographs, Non-fiction.

Enticed by Government promises, railroad inducements, land office assurances, chance word-of-mouth and lured by high hopes for a good life on land of their own the homesteaders came from all walks of life and from all over the United States; some of them recent immigrants from European countries and from South America.

The history of the Huntley Project Irrigation District is the history of the transformation of a sagebrush and greasewood covered valley into a successful irrigated farming area. They came to a 27 mile long valley, tapering at each end but expanding to 4 miles in width, extending from the town of Huntley east to the Bull Mountains and nestled between smooth foothills of the distant Pryor Mountains on the south and the cottonwood-banked Yellowstone river and grey sandstone bluffs on the north and encompassing approximately 35,000 acres of irrigated land.

It promised hard work, heartbreak, independence, crop failures, new friends, unforeseen problems, mortgages, an excellent location, caring neighbors, rail transportation, tumbleweeds, the sound of train whistles, and hope. To many it became home. Some stayed because they were too hard up to move on; others left only their footprints here. This is their story.

Available only from the Huntley Project Museum of Irrigated Agriculture through the museum’s store.

$35.00 plus shipping or $100.00 for 3 plus shipping   

For ordering call 406.348-.2533 or email hpmia@huntleyprojectmuseum.org.