Paperback: The History of Old Dawson County, Montana Territory, the Biography of Stephen Norton Von Blaricom H. Norman Hyatt Categories: Biography/Memoir, History, General Interest, Old West Step back into the rugged beginnings of Dawson County, Montana Territory, through the eyes of Stephen Norton Van Blaricom, whose memoir reveals the grit and spirit of the first settlers shaping the last frontier. Rich biography of Stephen Norton Van Blaricom, who left home at 13 to work Montana's earliest ranches and railroads Vivid stories of buffalo hunters, cattlemen, saloonkeepers, and early telegraphers braving a harsh, untamed land A window into the challenges faced by the original settlers of a 25,000-square-mile wilderness in the 1880s Chronicles both triumphs and tragedies in a vast, lonely frontier where survival was a daily battle Authored by historian Norman Hyatt, a descendant of Western pioneers, bringing authentic insight to this lost era