Historic Medicine Wheel in Big Horn Mountains Surrounded by Legends
The Medicine Wheel atop Medicine Mountain near timber line in the Big Horns draws legends of the Arapaho and Cheyenne. Grinnell notes its ancient circle of stones with a central hut and 28 spokes, linked to traveler trails and Venetian beads found beneath a spoke.
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Big Horn Mountains
High Mountain
Montana
Wyoming
George Bird Grinnell
National Parks Commission
Grinnell
Medicine Mountain
Old Mexico
Grand Canyon
Colorado
Big Horn Basin
Thermopolis
Cody
Yellowstone Park
Continental Divide
Wind River Mountain
Absaraka Mountains
Pryor Mountains
Owl Mountains
Devil’s Canyon
Big Horn Canyon
Billings
Soap Creek
Lodgegrass Creek
Wolf Mountains
Cloud’s Peak
Black Mountains
Little Big Horn
Big Horn River
Swede Wallin Gambler Known for Nerve and Word Keeping
The obituary sketches Sam Swede Wallin a Montana gambler famed in Butte and beyond for a steel nerve and unfailing word to debts. It recounts his New York visit with Emil Hanson and Heinze, carrying $50,000 cash, gambling in sketchy rooms, and laying down markers in a high stakes bid.
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Sam” Wallin
Montana
Warm Soprings
Sam
Butte
Helena
Warm Springs
Dame Fortune
Gates
Chicago
Heinze
Emil Hanson
New York
Wallin
Montana liquor board weighs high prices on imports
The Montana liquor control board faces steep quotations for imported Scotch Irish and Canadian liquors as taxes and tariffs push prices toward five dollars a quart. Domestic blends remain cheaper and should meet demand while centralized state control benefits distillers. Sales openings in Helena are postponed until funds are available.
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Montana Liquor Control
State Board of Control
Montana Liquor Control Board
Raymond T. Nagle
California
Montana
Helena
Chief Tendoy Leads Lemhi Against Crow Threat
In fall 1871 S G Fisher and party joined Lemhi under Chief Tendoy at Musselshell Idaho. They traded while Crow riders pressed buffalo herds, sparking Tendoy to warn he would move camp if Crow aggression continued. He rode ahead with a prepared band and guns drawn, but avoided battle.
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S. G. Fisher
Ross Fork
Idaho
Tendoy
Montana
Buffalo Country
Musselshell River
Chief Tenday
Tenday
Fort Hall
Smith & Wesson
Tendey
Eagle Loses In Five Mile Plane Race Near Red Mountain
Jim Atwell reports a dramatic race between an eagle and the National Parks mail plane near Red Mountain south of Butte. The chase lasted about five miles with the eagle closing to roughly 15 feet before giving up as pilot Ken Meinard failed to spot it. Trinidad’s public works program absorbs many of its unemployed.
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National Parks
Red Mountain
Butte
Jim Atwell
NRA Forest
Atwell
Ken Meinard
Meinard
Johore Declares Intensive War on Tigers
Johore in the Unfederated Malay States has launched an intensive campaign against tigers. The action targets reducing depredations as authorities mobilize local fleets and troops to curb wildlife attacks and protect livestock.
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Johore
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Joe DeYong
State Liquor Control Board
Liquor Control Board
Trinidad
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