The China War That Shook Alder Gulch in 1880
In Madison County Montana near Virginia City the 1880 China war between Chinese factions erupted in Alder Gulch. Two Chinese were found dead by knife, a jury trial followed with murder indictments and an eventual acquittal after grave reopening. The case highlighted tensions in the growing state and its Chinese community.
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Eric Thane
Montana
Virginia City
Alder Gulch
Madison County
Henry Plummer
Upper Gulch
Ruby Valley
Lower Gulch
Virgins City
M. D. Platner
Supreme Court
Cemetery Hill
Alderguich
Boston advised on cat eradication by Great Falls postmaster
The Boston Globe reports Great Falls postmaster McKenzie exchanging tips with Boston resident Eniger Bigy two Palsy eee fm on eradicating stray cats. The plan involves scent and alibi methods using catnip and alley action. The tale mentions a dusk incident at Snowe Place and a failed cat control effort tied to local residents.
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Falls
Boston
McKenzie
Great Falls
Cam Eniger
Annaren
Boston Globe
H D. Apollonis
Peign & McKenzie
Boston Ae
Disease hits beaver in three Montana districts
Beavers in three Montana districts have been found carrying tularemia. State fish and game officials warn the illness could threaten local beaver populations already reduced by prior losses.
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Montana
Fish and Game
Liver Eating Johnson and His Grim Frontier Nickname
Col. Jirah H. Allen recounts how John Johnson known as Liver Eating Johnson earned the moniker after boasting of severing and offering a Sioux liver during a 1870s fight near Musselshell Montana. The tale notes his size, build, and rough frontier persona amid scalp-hunting era violence along the Missouri River trade camps.
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John Johnson
Montana
Johnson
Jirah H. Allen
Columbus
Colonel Allen
Missouri River
Billings
Wfe
New Jersey
Missouri
Wood Camp
Musselshell River
Clendenine
Mummy sale to Edinburgh hunter ends in Indians’ pursuit
In 1879 Reed's Crossing Piegan village trades a preserved warrior mummy to Lord Jamison of Edinburgh for $150. Reed misrepresents the chief as his father in law. His wife mutilates a finger, pursues the party, and Jamison pays a $150 bonus to settle the dispute. Moscow's zoo now has 4,500 animals.
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Eric Thane
Musselshell River
Reed
Helena
Musselshell
Lord Jamison
Edinburgh
Edinburgh Museum
Jamison
Liver Eating Johnson and the Little Muddy Scout Mission
The account recalls Louis “Liver Eating” Johnson as a scout under General Miles at Fort Keogh. He describes guiding a detachment to locate Cheyenne forces on the Little Muddy in February 1877, surviving a chaotic clash as 10 scouts faced 1000 Indians, and later dying in 1922 in the Montana soldiers' home.
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Little Big Horn
Miles
Fort Keogh
Little Muddy
Johnson
Red Lodge
California
Montana
Soldiers
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