Photographs of Sugar Beet Farming, near Sidney, MT in early 1930s
Last Updated: 6 Oct. 2001
Hein Family Working The Family Sugar Beet Fields of the Hein Ranch
Regina Hein (would m. Jacob Tetz), Bertha Hein (would m. Albert Strobel), Hired Worker, Ludwig Hein, the father of the three girls, Christine Hein (would m. Edward Lepp)
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Hired Worker, name not known, might be Lillian Hein, who's walking, and Bertha Hein with their brother Oscar seated on lifter.
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The Hein children worked alongside the hired workers and meals were prepared in the Hein house which had once been a large fort known as the Lone Tree Fort. The table was always surrounded by twelve to forty people. The kitchen was always busy and filled with the smell of fresh break baking everyday.
Richard Hein describes he and his father looking around to find a new ranch to buy in his book YELLOWSTONE COUNTRY: "We continued on our way back to Sidney and looked at more ranches and we looked at the old Bell Ranch ...After some inspection of the ranch we found it had a two-story log house and the lone tree which the lone tree creek was named after stood proud as could be on the creek. It was a giant Cottonwood tree about six feet in diameter. As for the house, it was an eight-room log house with ten-foot ceiling and from the upstairs window one could look every direction for a long distance. This was what was left of an old fort, Fort Lone Tree. This is where General Alford Sully camped before he assume his march to Fort Union...." Ludwig and Christine Hein purchased the old fort.
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