Smoky Wilson recalls Custer battle and life on Crow Reservation
Charles Wilson known as Smoky, a 92 year old former slave and interpreter on the Crow reservation, recounts his journey from slavery to U.S. marshal. He recalls the Little Bighorn battle, burying the dead, and Plenty Coups speech that urged peace with whites.
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Glendolin Damon Wagner
Charles Wilson
Smoky
Montana
Fort Custer
U. S
Crow
Custer
Crow Reservation
Pretty Eagle
Plenty
Plenty Coups
Little Big Horn
Ter
Absarokee
Tom Custer
Boss Custer
Sitting Bull
Council
Stillwater
West
Buffalo Range
Custer Hill
Canada
Oiling Final Link on U S 91 Near Canadian Border
State highway crews began oiling the last segment of U S Highway 91 from Monida at the Idaho line to Sweet Grass on the Canadian border. The 465 mile route passes through Great Falls Helena and Butte as it links north and south.
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State Highway Department
Monida
Idaho
Sweet Grass
Shelby
Great Falls
Helena
Butte
Montana Cattle Do Not Wear Lanterns
A Birmingham reader asked the Montana attorney general if a law required cattle to carry lanterns at night. After inquiry, the office found no such statute and Montana cattle roam openly without lanterns between their horns.
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Alabama
Montana
Helen Lane
Birmingham
Lane
Attorney General's Office
Cost of Relief in Montana Monthly Report
The July filing shows $262,569 to administer $750,977 in relief, about 35 cents on the dollar, with $1,013,546 federal funds for relief. Payroll accounted for $262,569. $740,977 funded actual relief cases, plus $49,355 of state relief spent.
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State Relief Commission
John J. Holmes
Montana
Oil Film Strength in Refined Mineral Oils
Plain mineral oils have little film strength and oils over refined by new cleansing methods have even less. As motor heat goes up, these oils rapidly lose film strength.
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Conoco
Removal of Troops in 1881 Sparks Montana Protests
In 1881 rumors of withdrawing federal troops from Fort Benton caused widespread alarm in northern Montana. An order on May 7 to move troops to Fort Shaw provoked a protest led by a Benton River Press correspondent, who blamed the Indian ring and sutlers for pressuring the army while starving Indians faced a dire supply crisis.
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Fort Benton
Fort Shaw
Grace Stone Coates
Montana
War Department
Benton River
River Press
North America
Benton
Assinniboine
New England
Broadwater
Two Missoula Women Scale West McDonald Peak
The Missoula Mountaineer club records two women climbers from Missoula reaching West McDonald peak in western Montana. Mrs. Lou Ogg and Miss Helen Veblen scaled the 9,800 foot summit with a group and advanced up a narrow ledge toward the top.
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Montana
Missoula
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Prra
Charles
Smoky” Wilson
Timken
Fort Peck
Great Falls Tribune
Addison-Miller, Inc
Fielding & Shipley, Inc
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