Likely David Rea of the Rea Brothers, Billings Sheepmen, - See Dave Rea of Billings, Who Marketed Biggest Wool Clip, Billings Gazette, January 17, 1943. In 1881, Dave Rea's family took up land on Cabin creek, 15 miles west of Glendive, and it was on that ranch that the name William Rea & Sons first entered the sheep business. In 1897 the Reas, including Dave and his brother Will Jr., returned to Montana and located on the Cold Spring ranch near Forsyth. David B ""Rae"" who died at age 91 - See Billings Man's Rites, Billings Gazette, October 16, 1957 and buried at Mountview Cemetery is the same man with his name misspelled. He married Florence on February 24, 1919 in Billings. His wife Florence died about August 08, 1964, in Helena.
Creator
Unknown
Genre (Short List)
photographs
Genre (AAT)
photographs
Type
Image
Date Original
1890
Subject (LCSH)
Pioneers--Montana--Yellowstone County. Rea, David B. Rea, Florence. Sheep--Montana. Wool industry--Montana. Glendive (Mont.)
Rights Management
Billings Public Library is unaware of any copyright in the images in the collection. We encourage use of these materials under the fair use clause of the 1976 copyright act. All images in this collection may be used for educational, scholarly purposes and private study. We do request that a credit line be included with each item used. If you wish to publish or reproduce the material in any physical or digital form that exceeds that permitted by fair use or use them for any commercial purpose, including display or web page use, you must obtain prior written permission from Billings Public Library.
Contributors
Parmly Billings Library
Contributing Institution
Billings Public Library
Geographic Coverage
Billings (Mont.)
Digital Collection
Billings - Images of People
Digitization Specifications
HP Scanner, unknown model, unknown scanning software; 12,506,000 Bytes file size for master TIF file; 2941 x 2372 dimension size for master TIF file; web-viewable images created from master TIF using Microsoft Office Picture Manager and CONTENTdm 5.0.
Date Digitized
2007-02-05
Relation
See Billings Man's Rites, Billings Gazette, October 16, 1957.
