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Black Beard Billy Rowe Outsmarts Crow War Party
A retelling of Billy Rowe known as Black Beard for long braided whiskers. In winter 1868 he hunted on Milk River near Havre with Charley Rowe and others, stole horses from a war party of Crows, outwitted 11 braves, and fled with a herd across the frozen river. The Crow chief later cursed his bad medicine, and Rowe remained free of Indian raids.
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