George Shannon Boy Wonder of Lewis and Clark Exploits
The account highlights George Shannon, age sixteen, as a fearless hunter and woodsman with remarkable endurance during the Lewis and Clark expedition. Separated from his companions, he hunted alone along the Missouri and Sun rivers, endured16 days of pursuit and scarcity, and finally rejoined his party near Volta after surviving on berries and a rabbit with a stick used as a improvised rifle.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George Shannon
Missouri River Country
F. E. Stranahan
Shannon
Missouri River
Sioux City
Drewyer
Droublard
Clark
George
Colter
Yellowstone Park
Great River
Great Falls
Missouri
Lewis
Marias River
Montana Power Company
Volta
Falls
Rainbow
Black Eagle Falls
Smelter Hill
Sun River
Fairgrounds
Captain Lewis
Bridger
Great Northern Railway
Yellowstone
Captain Clark
Little
Mandan
United States
Philadelphia
Nicholas Biddle
Biddle
Kentucky
Fiske Expedition Safeguarded Montana Gold Seekers
The 1862 Fiske led expedition escorted emigrants toward Fort Benton and the Idaho gold region. Capt. Langford and guide Bottineau helped meet Sioux threats while 117 men and 13 women, 168 oxen, 14 horses, and other cargo pressed toward the frontier. The trek produced deaths, births, a wedding, and a lasting westward route despite harsh terrain and Indian danger. George Shannon’s bold river crossing and boat-making feats preserved the party as they pressed toward the Pacific and final relief.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
M. E. Plassmann
Montana
Snake River
Missouri
Stevens
Jefferson Davis
Fort Abercrombie
Fort Benton
North Dakota
Red River
Bois de Sioux
Otter Tail
Upper
Assinniboines
Idaho
James L. Fiske
Tennessee
N. P. Langford
Fiske
Pierre Bottineau
Fort Union
Bottineau
Pembina
Langford
Walla Walla
Mullan
Coeur d’Alenes
First Missoulian Issue Published May 1 1873
Historical note recalls The Missoulian's May 1 1873 launch in Missoula after earlier Cedar Creek publications. The 400 500 residents awaited news. plant equipment traveled by stage before rail and university printing facilities. Early ads feature W J McCormick, Dickinson Piano, Worden & Co. Mercantile, Reinhard Hardware, and Bonner & Co. dry goods. News leaned from other towns with local items on prices and freights. Warren R Turk owned the paper, issued Thursdays.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Missoula
Cedar Creek
University City
Missoulian
W. J. McCormick
Washington J. McCormick
Higgins Avenue
William H. H. Dickinson
Dickinson Piano Company
Worden & Co
Montana Territory
J. P. Reinhard
E. L. Bonner & Co
Montana
Territorial
G. Edwards
Deer Lodge
J. Welch
Pheasants Poisoned by Grasshopper Campaigns Delayed
State Game Warden Charles B. Marrs said the liberation of pheasants raised at the state game farm is being delayed in areas where farmers fight grasshoppers. Several birds died after eating poisoned grasshoppers, prompting a postponement of bird distribution in affected localities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles B. Marrs
Marrs
Also Mentioned on This Page
Meriweather Lewis
Butte
Pacific
Wisdom River
Big Hole
Washington
Hudson Bay Company
Yellowstone River
Hudson Bay
Assiniboia
Red Triangle
Conoco
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