TWO DOT WILSON, Our Yesterdays, Jefferson Co., MT USGENWEB NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by any other organization or persons. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material, must obtain the written consent of the contributor, or the legal representative of the submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. Files may be printed or copied for personal use only. "List transcribed and organized by Ellen Rae Thiel, thieljl@aol.com All rights reserved." Copyright, 1998 by Ellen Rae Thiel. This file may be freely copied for non-profit purposes. All other rights reserved. TWO DOT WILSON George "Two Dot" Wilson was an old timer in the valley, probably coming in the 1870's and settling on what was later known as the Sheehy place."Two Dot" no doubt got his nickname from his cattle brand which was recorded from Jefferson County as "oo" on the right hip and later in Meagher County as on the right and left hip. The story has been told that the brand "oo" was sometimes put on an animal by using a hot frying pan from the campfire. He was a partner of A. C. Quaintance for a time in the livestock business. The two of them once had a man working for them who had arthritis and, as with most arthritic people, he was much worse when there was a change in the weather. Two Dot had seen more than one man helped by putting them in a manure pile and covering them to the chin and leaving them for a day. So they did this to the hired man and when they got him out he was practically cured! Two Dot Wilson was an important man in his day. Besides running cattle he had a herd of horses. In the spring of the year, he and his Indian partner took the brood mares to Wilson Park on Bull Mountain to run them with the stallions. Of course range then was free for the taking. He had a corral, a cabin and a horse stable, traces of which can still be seen. That is how Wilson Park got its name. 1886 was a bad year. First there was a terrible dry summer followed by a hard winter. Many head of livestock left the valley and headed for the Judith Basin, a long hard drive. Two Dot left at that time and never came back. From Judith Basin he went south to the Musselshell where he put together a prosperous cattle and sheep outfit. The town of Two Dot, Montana, was named after Two Dot Wilson. Two Dot was never married as far as anyone knew, and like many men with no family to care for him, he wasn't always too neat about himself. One time he took a trainload of cattle to Chicago. After seeing they were properly unloaded and penned, he got a taxi to take him to one of the city's best hotels. When he walked to the desk and asked the clerk for a room, the clerk, upon seeing the dirty unkept man before him, drew back and said, "This is no flophouse. If you don't leave at once I'll call the cops!" Two Dot told the man before he called the cops he had better call his bank in Chicago. The hotel man was astounded to find Two Dot Wilson had a credit rating of $300,000.000 at the bank. SUBMITTED BY MR. AND MRS. GEORGE DAWSON