“There is a balm in Gilead
To heal the sin sick soul.”
That old American spiritual was most important to early day ranchers and homesteaders alike coming into this new place now called North Central Montana.
With Easter just around the corner, it is a fitting time to see why those old timers named the lowly cottonwood trees “Balm of Gilead Trees”.
It is their perfume and perfect for Easter although it is too early to really get a good whiff of them Easter Week.
Those old timers travelled up Beaver Creek,. Clear Creek and Big Sandy Creek on picnics, smelled the sweet perfume of the Black Cotton...