My Great-Grandfather, Daniel Sullivan, decided to "Go West, Young Man, Go West" & headed to Montana Territory with his young bride, Jane Rainey Sullivan. He loved the place! He loved the wild Blackfeet Indians. He followed them from the area around Helena, (Townshend, MT) to "the Highline", an area just below the Canadian line, where he became,(in the words of Historians)"a ruthless cattle baron". My father said that "the old man" would have loved that term. My Great-Grandfather brought his widowed sisters from Boston, with fine, young, strong sons, whom he promptly married off to the daughters of prominent Blackfeet War Chiefs! It is from this stock I descend!
My father once said that it was a fairly fey experience to see feathered warriors, my Grandpa & Great- grandpa coming home horseback, singing,"Sweet Molly Malone". Shelby, Cutbank, Valier & Conrad have more than their fair share of Sullivans. The Blackfeet Tribal roles are full of Connelleys, Murrays & Sullivan descendents of the widowed sisters of Daniel Sullivan. (And a cattle empire is still present.) When I was about 8 years old, I asked my Grandpa Sullivan,(Edward Aloysious Sullivan) how long we had raised cattle. He looked at me, squinted, & replied; "Oh, about 6,000 years, my girl". He said, "You know, these Blackfeet could have been Irish, in fact, they could have been Sullivans, they were that oppressed by the British." That settled it for him, as we urged our horses on to town, where we would enter "Lum's Sweete Shoppe" & eat Banana Splits & drink Sasparilla before heading back to the ranch. Sullivan Bridge Road, where the over 100 year old Sullivan Ranch still stands, is still much used over the Marias River in Northern Montana. There's Sullivan stories by the hundreds in the local library,(which is run by a descendent of Daniel Sullivan.)
By: Maureen Sullivan
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Place: Montana
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