Historic Gallery

Old homestead in foreground, after the sod roof was replaced with cedar shingles, next to large tent. This is the oldest known photo of the log barn and granary as we know it (a second log barn no longer exists). The stone house was built around 1903. (Photo circa 1910)

View of the Buffalo Jump in winter

Article from Great Falls Tribune, Aug 13, 1961 (page 1)

Article from Great Falls Tribune, Aug 13, 1961 (page 3)

Indian trail marker at base of Buffalo Jump

This is the oldest known photo of the homestead. The two sod-roofed log barns in the upper part of the photo are original. The sod-roofed log cabin in foreground is where Damon Gabriel lived before the stone house was built. (Photo circa 1880)

The Gabriel children, Martha Marie and Charles Jules, in front of the old log homestead cabin. The two adult women and man in window are not known

Gabriel family with horse and buggy in front of the stone house, around 1910. Charles Jules Gabriel and Martha Marie Gabriel behind buggy. Fern Freel in buggy. Man in yard is not known

Inabnit Family Christmas in Salesville, Montana, 1899. Sarah Hannah (Sadie) Inabnit Freel (later Gabriel), 3rd row-middle, her father Daniel Inabnit, in front of her holding son Fern Freel, and older son Fred Younker, middle front row

Damon Gabriel’s childhood home, Gabrion Farm, St. Polycarpe, Quebec

Daniel P. Inabnit, Sadie’s father, at his cabin on Camp Creek, around 1900

Damon Gabriel, Company E, 2nd U.S. Cavalry, 1873-1878

Sarah Hannah (Sadie) Gabriel, 1920s

Camon Gabriel, about 1900-1901

Damon and Sadie’s eldest children, Charles Jules Gabriel (born 1902) and Martha Marie Gabriel (born 1904)

Sadie and her sisters, about 1920. Sarah Hannah (1862-1929), Martha June (1868-1955), Nicey Ellen (1865-1945)

The Stone House, 1909-1910. Charles and Martha Gabriel. Fern Freel in buggy

Gabriel log homestead cabin, about 1909. Children of Damon Gabriel (Chalres and Marie). Women unknown

Damon Gabriel (born Damon Gabrion). He lives from June 1850 to July 1915. Shown here in 1874, in his Co. E, 2nd Cavalry regiment uniform, he served from December 1873 until October 1878

The Freel family home, about 1895, in Locas County, Iowa, where Sarah (Sadie) Inabnit Freel (later Gabriel) was born in 1862. From left, Sadie, son Fred Younker (age 7), son Fern Freel (age 2), half-sister Lizzie Inabnit, and father Daniel Parks Inabnit. Sadie moved to Montana in 1998

Charles Jules Gabriel and Martha Marie Gabriel on the ranch, with the Gallatin River in the background, spring 1905

Damon Gabriel in 1900 at age 50. He married Sarah (Sadie) Hannah Inabnit in May 1901. She was 39 at that time with two children from prior marriages

Damon Gabriel’s three children in about 1911: Charles Jules (born 1902), Martha Marie (born 1904), and James Leslie (born 1909)

Charles Jules Gabriel with fish from the Gallatin, 1918. Buffalo Jump and porch of old log cabin homestead in background

Fern Freel drilling oats in the field by the river, around 1919. Fern managed the ranch for a few years after Damon Gabriel died in 1915

Fern Freel, age 25, with fish from Gallatin, with the Buffalo Jump in background. Fern is the half-brother of the Gabriel children. Photo 1918

Sarah (Sadie) Hannah Gabriel with sisters Martha Pyfer and Ella Inabnit. Circa 1920

Sadie Gabriel, late in life, in front of her home on Lamme St. in Bozeman. She died October 2, 1929 at age 67

Sarah (Sadie) Hannah Gabriel, sister Martha Pyger, sister Ella Inabnit. Circa 1920

Earliest known photo of Gabriel homestead, well before 1900

Damon Gabriel homestead, about 1904-1905

Fern Freel drilling oats in field to the east of the stone house, around 1917. Fern Freel driving team. The seeder is still on site

Aerial view of homestead in 1964. The old log home stood until 1966

Damon’s sons Charles and James in the front yard of the stone house, June 1962

Charles and James Gabriel behind Damon’s headstone at Brondell Catholic Cemetary, N. 7th St., Bozeman, 1962

Gabriel homestead’s log barn in about 2002, before its restoration in 2004

Log barn roof before restoration

Side of log barn before restoration