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In this Feb. 12, 2020, photo, Jess Garfield shows visitors an 1852 log home on his ranch near Ryegate, Mont. In 1921, his grandmother Ruth Garfield became the first female sheriff in Montana at the age of 28. County commissioners offered her the job in the wake of a bizarre tragedy — the shooting of her husband, 37-year-old Sheriff Jesse Garfield, by a mentally unstable homesteader. (Larry Mayer/The Billings Gazette via AP)

In this Feb. 12, 2020, photo, Jess Garfield shows visitors an 1852 log home on his ranch near Ryegate, Mont. In 1921, his grandmother Ruth Garfield became the first female sheriff in Montana at the age of 28. County commissioners offered her the job in the wake of a bizarre tragedy — the shooting of her husband, 37-year-old Sheriff Jesse Garfield, by a mentally unstable homesteader. (Larry Mayer/The Billings Gazette via AP)

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