Brocken School composite photo from 1894. The school was three miles north of Somers and built in 1883. From left to right, starting with the back row: Dodo Wilke, Annie Wiley, Mary Wiley, Bessie Jordan and teacher Minnie Sinclair. Bottom row includes Clara Brocken, Lettice Jordan, Edna Brocken, Lee Mynott, Hattie Mumbrue, Henry Wiley, Jim Wiley, Carl Wilke and Lester Brown. (courtesy of the Northwest Montana History Museum)
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Women settlers brought community to the Flathead Valley
Women and their labor were vital to many aspects of life in the late 1800s and early 1900s. Some accounts from history might have you believe they were not in NorthWest Montana at all, but slowly and surely they made their way out West.