Our thanks to Seeley Lake Historical Society member Jean Lafriniere for sharing the following information.
On Aug. 28, 1917 a Seeley Lake related article appeared in the Spokesman-Review newspaper:
• About 100 fires were burning in western Montana, and in some cases, people were fleeing from remote mountain areas.
• "Driving their small herds before the farm wagons and prairie schooners, on which their household goods had been loaded, homesteaders...tramped into Corlett, a small town," near Seeley Lake.
• Most of the refugees "had fled in such haste that they had not even cooking utensils when...
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