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That's where my father and mother were, and I was in a house that my mother lived in." But the stirred-up memories weren't all good. "It's a lot of sadness," said Snell, shaking her head. "It was a very hard life." Two of every five acres in Montana were settled by so-called honyockers in the decade after homesteads were enlarged to 320 acres by Congress in 1909. A decade before the United States suffered its greatest of depressions, drought struck the western plains. In the four years following World War three of every four banks failed.

In 1923, Adam Matsko died after a long illness. Helen was 7. She remembers the sad funeral procession in 1923, and the family's tribulations afterward. "I just felt like I never had a dad," Snell said. Her mother, who spoke only broken English, was left to raise seven kids.

"I know what my mom went through," she said. Still, she wouldn't have traded this day for the world. "I can't believe you did this, Jill," she said, giving her granddaughter a hug. Olson, whose husband Barry accompanied the entourage from Missoula, was thrilled with the day's events. "It's like going home, only to a home you never knew before," she said.

When the time came to go, Grandma Honey gave Dyer, the basket maker, a heartfelt kiss. "I'd like to come back and just sit here for awhile some time," she said. "Is that OK?" Reporter Kim Briggeman can be reached at 523-5266 or at kbriggemanmissoulian.com. Continued and she said, Dyer said. "So here we are." Not many days later, Olson popped into Littlebird's with her friend, Jenny.

She and her brothers, Tom and Gerry Steinbrenner, grew up in Missoula with summer cabins on Placid and, later, Big Sky Lake. Seeley has always been a second home to her family. Business and recreation in Seeley ground to a halt in August as the Jocko Lakes wildfire raged on the outskirts of town. By September, Olson said, "I was desperate for my Seeley fix." The first stop was at Littlebird's, where Olson wanted to buy a CD of Katie Williams, a local girl and current University of Montana student. As a senior project at Seeley-Swan High School, Williams produced an album with Missoula musician Eden Atwood.

"She's got this sultry, incredible voice that sounds like Nora Jones," said Olson. "I said, 'Jenny, I've got to get you one of these CDs. You're going to love Alas, there were no CDs to be found. But Olson's friend stopped to use the bathroom. When she came out, she told Olson there was something on the wall she ought to checkout.

What Jenny meant, Olson said, was a poster with a touching message about friendship. What Olson first thought she meant was a framed photograph of one of her favorite Blackfoot Valley scenes. What she ultimately saw, hanging above the sink, was a framed photo, history and copy of a homestead deed, signed by President Woodrow Wilson, for the Matsko place. Kopenhafer had composed the display after buying the place 14 years before. Olson sprung the surprise on her grandmother by showing her the display in Littlebird's last Wednesday.

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