Crow Indians Robbed of Ponies During Fort Custer Show
E M Locke recounts 1880 Fort Custer theater episode where Plenty Coups led Crow dancers in Captain John Smith was the play. A swift horse theft by Piegans triggered a chase along the Little Bighorn toward Tongue River ending with 96 ponies seized and five prisoners, then returned to Fort Keogh and Miles City.
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Pignty Coups
Fort Custer
John Ie
Montana
John Smith
Post
E. M. Locke
Uncle Sam
Northwest
John Maguire
Custer
Second Cavalry
C. M. G. and I
Bang
A. G. Brackett
Eleventh Infantry
B. C. FP
J. P. Buell
Miles City
Big Horn
Yellowstone
Smith
John Mix
Little Big Horn River
C Troop
J. H. Coale
Nick Gilman
Little Big Horn
Tongue River
E. L. Higgins
Fort Keogh
Higgins
Joe Hart
Red Lodge
Johnson
Rocky Mountain Dick Dies in Idaho Buffalo Attack
Theodore Dick Rock known as Rocky Mountain Dick, famed scout and frontiersman who rode with Custer and Miles, died at 55 after being gored by a buffalo bull he raised at his home near Henry's Lake on the Montana Idaho line. He later settled as a tourist and wildlife dealer, amassing a notable collection and supplying zoos before his death.
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Richard Rock
West
Rockies
Rock
Henry’s Lake
Montana-Idaho
Idaho
New York State
Wyoming
Montana
Custer
Miles
Snake River
War Department
Rocky Mountain Dick
Calamity Jane
Jim Bridger
Bonneville
General Miles
Major Reno
General Custer
Buffalo Bill
Wild Bill
Sitting Bull
Henry's Lake
Yellowstone National Park
Riverside
Targhe Pass
Monida
Eastern Zoological Garden
Bitter Root Mountains
Lindsay
Corral
Pinochle Player Holds 1000 Aces in Helena Display
Marie Hirsch, stenographer for the state livestock sanitary board in Helena, held all eight aces in a single pinochle hand with her mother. The feat, likened to a game winning moment in sports, marks a rare achievement in the pinochle world.
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Marie Hirsch
State Livestock Sanitary Board
Helena
Army
Montana
Gold Discovery Linked to 1857 Christmas Camp in Beaverhead
A Beavershead valley Christmas gathering in 1857 among pioneers and traders led to the Montana gold discovery at Gold Creek in spring 1858. The Stuart party traded stories with Captain Richard Grant as they celebrated, with a lone gold piece gifting a hint later proven misattributed to Gold Creek.
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Montana
Gold Creek
Beaverhead Valley
Shining Mountains
Utah
Stuart
California
Virginia
Idaho Territory
Dillon
Richard Grant
Hudson's Bay Co
Grant
Robert Hereford
Captain Grant
Montana Territory
Stuarts
Hudson’s Bay Co
Paradise Valley
The China War of Alder Gulch near Virginia City
In fall 1879 or 1880 a brutal clash titled the China war roared through Alder Gulch near Virginia City Montana with two Chinese men found dead by knife wounds. Sheriff M D Platner and deputies pursued leads, led to indictments for murder, and a series of trials culminated in acquittals after contested wounds and a missing grave. The episode preceded a sharp decline of Chinese presence in the gulch from about 200 to 10 over two decades.
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Alder Gulch
Alder
Montana
Virginia City
Ruby Valley
Varginia City
M. D. Platner
Madison County
Water Gulch
Cemetery Hill
Tiny Butte Girl Escapes Pin In Stomach
Three year old Thomasina O'Brien of Butte was found with an open safety pin lodged in her throat. Doctors shifted the pin to her stomach and after three days of diet the pin was expelled. She returned home under observation.
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Thomasina O’brien
James O’brien
Butte
Spokane
Thomasina
Health budget framed for Montana social security funds
Montana prepares budgets to seek about 40000 from federal authorities under the social security act. Dr. W F Cogswell, secretary of the state board of health, says approval would fund specific health purposes in the state.
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Montana Board of Health
Montana
W. F. Cogswell
State Board
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