When their son, Spencer, inherited the house many years later, he demolished it and replaced it with storage units. They hung on to their cattle brands long after the last cow had gone down the road, beautiful single-iron brands from territorial days.
Hereditary landowners who no longer lived on their land, they plied it for energy leases. The Quantrills were known for their philanthropy and for elegant parties, featuring such high jinks as horses in the living room and mock gunfights on the lawn. Quantrill had raised all kinds of hell getting the house listed in the National Register of Historic Places. Quantrill, a patent attorney attached to Montana’s burgeoning natural-gas industry. Quantrill lived in a beautiful old Prairie-style house built in the twenties, which she had restored to its original elegance with Mr.
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