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Special EditionExecutive Of ces: 2596 South Lewis Way Lakewood, CO 80227 303-292-2021 Fax 303-292-1980 www.mountainstateslegal.orgLouise R. Galt:Attorney, businesswoman, rancher & MSLF benefactor Louise R. Galt was born September 7, 1923,

in Lewistown, Montana. The oldest of six children, her father was a World War I hero and local attorney. It was hardly a surprise, therefore, that, after graduating from Fergus County High School, she studied law at the University of Montana in Missoula, where she was an editor of the Montana Law Review.

After graduation, she ran for Fergus County attorney, against two men in the Republican primary and a third in the November election; she beat them all and at 23 became only the third woman in American history to be elected as a prosecutor. In her first two-year term of office, she garnered 168 convictions; but, her biggest victory came in 1949 when her

victory before the Montana Supreme Court shut down slot machines throughout Montana.

Meanwhile, she was elected Montana State Young Republican Chairman, then Alternate-Delegate to the 1948 Republican National Convention. In 1949, she was elected co-chairman of the National Young Republicans, which took her all across the country on behalf of the party. Mademoiselle hailed her as a Young Woman of the Year and Look featured her amazing story.

In 1951, she joined Wellington Rankins law firm in Helena; later, they were married and practiced law and managed their ranches together. She became a skilled rider and a great admirer of horses. Mr. Rankin died in 1966. In 1967, she married Jack Galt and became a working mother to his seven children. They spent 40 years together, until Jack Galts death in 2007, relishing their family, politics, ranching, and traveling.

Mrs. Galt was proudest of the role she played in the election of Ronald Reagan. She was chairwoman of the 1980 Montana Reagan for President Campaign and Chairman of the Montana delegation to the Republican National Convention when Montanas vote made Governor Reagan the GOP nominee.

Jack and Louise Galt were decades-old, reliable, and generous supporters of MSLF and its defense of ranchers; thus, when Mrs. Galt passed away on November 21, 2013, she and Mr. Galt had made arrangements for a most magnanimous bequest in their names to ensure MSLFs perpetual defense of freedom.

We make a living by what we get; we make a life by what we give . Ronald Reagan,

40th President of the United States

85% OF AMERICANS GIVE TO CHARITY;SHOCKING: 6% NAME ONE IN THEIR WILLS!

Almost as shocking is that more than 60 percent of adults living in households with children do NOT have wills. You need a will if:

You are married; You have minor or special needs children or ailing parents; Your entire estate is valued at more than $50,000; You own real estate: You own a business; or You support MSLF!

You need to revise your will if there have been changes in your: Marital status; Desired executor or guardian; Finances; Beneficiaries;

Estate planning advisors recommend that, at your death, you leave a charity tax-burdened assets, such as:

U.S. Savings Bonds; IRAs and deferred compensation; Accounts receivable; Installment payments on land sale contracts; Unpaid commissions; or Commercial annuities;

which permits other, tax-free assets to pass to your heirs. Please consult your tax advisor.

Place of residence; Tax laws; Childrens financial needs; or Degree of support for MSLF!

MSLF BEQUEST LANGUAGE I [name], of [city, state, ZIP] give, devise and bequeath to Mountain States Legal Foundation (MSLF), (tax identification number 84-0736725) 2596 South Lewis Way, Lakewood, Colorado 80227, [written dollar amount or percentage of the estate or description of the property] to continue its mission to protect and preserve individual liberty, the right to own and use property, limited and ethical government, and the free enterprise system.

If you add Mountain States Legal Foundation (MSLF) to your will, please let us know! We want to add your name to the MSLF Legacy Society wall plaque. MSLF recognizes that your decision is an immensely personal one and that you have the right to change your mind regarding the beneficiaries of your property. As always, MSLF respects your privacy and your rights!

Thank you for your support of MSLFs aggressive litigation in defense of constitutional liberties and the rule of law. Please consider ensuring MSLFs ability to continue its courtroom battles across the country. I would be delighted to meet with you to discuss your support of MSLF in perpetuity, and to ensure that your name is on MSLFs Legacy Society plaque!

Leave a Legacy of Freedom for Future Generations!

A Charitable Gift Annuity (CGA) is a simple contract in which you agree to donate cash, stocks, or other assets to MSLF, in return for which MSLF agrees to pay you (and someone else, if you desire) a fixed amount each year for the rest of your life.

A CGA not only provides support for MSLFs aggressive litigation, it also provides you with these benefits:

Your initial gift to MSLF is partially income taxdeductible.

Your CGA payments (annual, semi-annual, quarterly, or monthly) are partially income

taxfree throughout your estimated life expectancy.

Your CGA payments are not affected by ups and downs in the economy.

You may provide that the payments be for one or two people; your spouse or another loved one can receive payments for life.

You may defer the start of your CGA payments.

You can usually eliminate capital gains tax on a portion of the gift and spread the rest of the gain over your life expectancy, if you transfer appreciated stock to MSLF.

Additional matters to consider: You can fund a CGA with long-term

appreciated assets. You can increase your income by funding a

CGA with appreciated stocks that pay low dividends.

You can use a flexible deferred CGA, which allows you to select the date payments begin, to yield even larger deductions and tax benefits.

Please consult your tax advisor. MSLF does not provide tax advice.

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William N. Neil (Hurry) McMurry Remembers MSLF

W.N. (Neil) McMurry, known as a result of this tireless work habits as Hurry, was one of Wyomings most astonishing success stories. He was born in Gill, Colorado on September 12, 1923, but lived most of his life in Casper where, in the midst of the Great Depression, he worked from the age of ten, graduated from Natrona County High School in 1941, went off to World War II to fly 29 missions over Europe, including two on D-Day, as a tail gunner, waist gunner, and ball turret gunner on B 17 Flying Fortresses, returned to Casper and, over decades of hard work, built Wyomings highway system and then, with a son and a partner, made the largest natural gas discovery in the nations history. Over the years, he generously gave away millions of dollars to Boys and Girls Clubs, education, and other philanthropic causes.

Nonetheless, Ann Chambers Noble, a historian and author of Hurry McMurry W.N. Neil McMurry, Wyoming Entrepreneur (VLM Publishing, 2010), argues, His biggest legacy is how he practiced business. He was a highly ethical man. It was known

that Neil McMurrys handshake was better than any written contract. As for recreational pursuits, what he called bad habits, he had none. He never golfed. He never fished. What he did was work, said Noble.

When he returned to Wyoming after the war, Mr. McMurry had few skills and but a high school education. So he teamed up with Vern Rissler, a man with a bulldozer, and went to work. They formalized their relationship in 1949 as Rissler and McMurry and set about to bid on and then build highways all across the nations eighth largest state. Concludes Noble, I would be willing to venture that you couldnt travel on a highway in Wyoming that, at least part of it, wasnt built by Rissler and McMurry, at least initially.

Then came Mr. McMurrys foray into energy. Today, the Jonah Field and the Pinedale Anticline in southwestern Wyoming are well-known as a world-class natural gas field, but in 1991, only Mr. McMurry, his son Mick, and his partner John Martin thought they could unlock the secret of an area where drilling had begun in 1939 with little success. There were a lot of opportunities in [natural gas] and no one else believed in it, says Mick McMurry, so we went looking for prospects that we could believe in and afford. Mr. McMurry hoped initially to produce a million cubic feet of natural gas a day from the three wells, but in September of 1993, he was reporting two million cubic feet a day.

It was not just the Jonah Field and Pinedale that McMurry helped unlock. The innovative new technologies utilized there led to the discovery of the Barnett, the Haynesville, the Fayetteville, the Marcellus, the Utica, and others across the nation where the oil and gas industry is using hydraulic fracturing to discover, develop, and deliver vast amounts of oil and natural gas, creating an energy, economic, and environmental miracle.

As a highway contractor, oilman, and rancher, Mr. McMurry supported MSLF almost from the year it opened its doors in 1977. Over the decades he was one of MSLFs most consistent, loyal, and generous supporters. When he passed away at the age of 88 on July 12, 2012, he left a magnanimous gift to ensure MSLFs defense of constitutional liberties and the rule of law into perpetuity.

Credit: Teen Becksted