Fighting Spirit Lives On In Northern Community of Shelby, Montana

On a hot July day in 1923 northern Montana served as the unlikely backdrop for a boxing extravaganza on the international stage. There on the plains right outside the City of Shelby http://www.shelbymt.com/ , Jack Dempsey defended his World Heavyweight Boxing Championship against the hard-hitting Tommy Gibbons – the only world championship fight that Jack Dempsey ever fought that went the full fifteen rounds.

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Today, a combination of “can do” spirit and strategic investments to support growing local companies and new infrastructure to feed new industries fitting with the region’s strengths place the Shelby, MT region in a strong position to beat the recession.

Shelby, Montana http://www.shelbymt.com/

by Doug McDonald and Delore Zimmerman

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