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King was joined by Clarence Birdseye and the pair made major contributions on ecology of the tick-host cycle.
1910
Dr. Howard Ricketts died in Mexico of the typhus that he was studying there.
1911
The Montana Bureau of Entomology, Bureau of Survey, and the Agriculture Experiment Station began coordinating studies on control of RMSF by King, Birdseye, Arthur H. Howell, and M.H. Spaulding.
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Dr. Lundsford D. Fricks was sent by the PHS to replace McClintic at the Victor, Montana, laboratory.
1913
Montana State Board of Entomology is created with $5,000 appropriated for RMSF research and control. The State Board and the U.S. Public Health Service debate priority and eventually do research in different parts of Montana.
The Montana tick control program begins with livestock dipping and the shooting and poisoning of gophers.
George H. Cowan becomes a field worker for the Montana State Board of Entomology. He will be its longest-serving employee at his death in 1924.
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APRIL: Canyon Creek and Hamilton, Montana, voted to consolidate their schools in Hamilton, leaving the Canyon Creek schoolhouse empty.
JUNE: After the death of a prominent Montana State legislator Tyler Worden (died June 12) and his wife Mattie Candice Landers Worden (died June 6) from RMSF, the U.S. Congress mandated that the PHS to return to its research on the disease. Dr. Thomas Parran was sent to Montana to discuss how the PHS and the State of Montana could cooperate. Parker was employed by PHS to continue his RMSF studies and Dr. Roscoe R. Spencer was sent by the PHS to work with him.
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