On the restoration front —When ripping off old drywall, we discovered the building is a bit older than we thought: Lining the original boards is newspaper from 1894. With a little digging, we were able to find some anecdotal history from descendants of the George family, who built the cabin: “Dad, Mother, and the big family moved to this new land in March, 1893. Dad and John began getting out logs from the Lime Kiln area in the Beartooth Mountains to build a house. They built it just across the East Rosebud from the present town of Roscoe. […] The log house we were raised in was a long rectangular building, with the parlor on the south end, kitchen on the north end, and the largest room, the big bedroom, in the middle. Curtains were used between the beds. If they wanted to have a party or a dance, they’d just take down or push back the curtains, move the beds out, and that made a lot of room. Mother and Dad held some dances in those early days, in the winter mostly. Then the neighbors would come in bobsleds, especially if they had a big family.” —Vic George, 1961, republished in the Montana Free Press, August 1994.
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