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Knew Judd and Eva well.

Judd trained pickup horses and picked up himself. Eva was always ticked at him because he would sell ones he had broke and trained and always be picking up on a half-broke horse. Which lead to more than a few wrecks. Tough bugger and heck of a horseman. And that guy could pound the Budweisers.

Some semi-tough guys:
The farmer east of Calgary, Alberta who got his hand caught in a machine while doing some maintenance work. After spending a cold night and most of the next day there, he amputated his hand with a pocket knife to get free.
The guy I know who went after a cougar in early December and ended up about ten miles from his truck, on the Bonaparte plateau, by the time he caught up with it. He was dressed in jeans and a quilted flannel shirt. He shot the cat and was packing it out when the wind started blowing from the north and the temperature plummeted. The dog kept trying to dig into the snow and finally would go no further. Bill spent the night dug into a snowdrift, cuddled up to the bluetick hound and the dead cat. It got down to -30 that night. He said the cougar was pretty stiff in the morning but it made it easier to carry. I was out the same night. I was pretty well dressed and spent most of the night huddled over a fire, with a half inch of frost on my back. I sniveled like a baby most of the night. I'm not tough.
My father-in-law flipped his Honda three wheeler while cruising a timber sale near McCall, Idaho; broke his leg in three places. He put a stick through the handlebar so he could support his busted leg, and rode several miles back to his pickup. He loaded the Honda in the back, then drove out to where he could reach someone on the radio. It was a couple weeks later when, wearing a full-length cast on his leg, he figured he could run the line machine since he was good for nothing else (it was his company). He was pulling a heavy load up when the tie back cable broke. The machine tipped down and tossed him out the front just in time for him to get swatted by the boom when the load came loose and the machine rocked back. Smashed five ribs and ruined the cast on his leg and rebroke the leg. The doctor said he was a tough old coot, but might want to consider a different line of work.
When a nephew of mine rolled a tractor into a ditch, in early spring, his dad laid in the icy water for nearly an hour, holding the kid's head above water until they could get the tractor off him.
A guy who was working for Ducks Unlimited, putting in a diversion dam, when the guy running the cheery picker took too much weight off one side of the truck. The truck tipped and dumped a bunch of concrete blocks on Jim. Jim lay there trapped, and directed the operator as to which blocks to remove without causing the rest to squash him any worse. Jim Lost his leg at the hip and his hand was badly crushed. Had he lost consciousness, or panicked, he would certainly have died.
None of these guys were from Montana, but they were all from the inland Northwest, doing jobs where toughness is commonplace. GD

He's one helluva man.
Tough as fughck.
Senior Saddle Bronc Rider.
Most Seniors can hardly ride the couch.
I've tried to model myself after these amazing men that I've known.
I'm sure I'll die falling short, but these guys built me.

Yep.

And funny as hell also.

Eva was a schoolteacher when I first met her and then Judd. I spent about 2 1/2 years there and loved it and would live there again if it was a possibility.

Still consider Garfield county as home of a sort. Some of my best friends in the world are there and I love the country and people there.

I was raised in Garfield Co. I have known most of the family's including the early ranchers and homesteaders.

My grandfather come to that area with a herd of Texas cattle with the long X brand. During the open range era the ran a far north a Canada.

my vote for hard tough would be Liver Eating Johnson.

Does the Range Riders in Mites City still display pictures of its members ? A member had to be in Mt. before 1910 I think.

Wasn’t there speculation that the Mad Trapper came from the Bainville area? Not saying he was born there though.

I have been to Bainville....that would certainly track.

Yeah, or NW North Dakota.

Liver eatin Johnson called Red Lodge home.... I suspect he was a badazz

Ya didn't expect him to die in a nursing home, did ya? ;-{>8

Johnson held a grudge fo sure...

Keith Jardine and Sean O’Malley might make the current list.

This guy is was the real deal. Born on a homested near Musselshell, Montana 1910. Drafted into WWII at the age of 31 and came home after spending the whole war in the Philippines, a place he had never heard of before he was shipped there in 1942...

I can see that ridge in the first picture from my kitchen window.