Trailing Sitting Bull Across Montana 1876 Diary Excerpts
Trailing Sitting Bull in eastern Montana during winter 1876 Baldwin diary excerpts describe crossing the Missouri with 20,000 pounds of grain and 6,000 rations aided by 100 men. The text notes Sitting Bull near Smoked Butte with 60 lodges, Miles’ command at camp, and plans for a mule detour toward Squaw Creek and Black Butte with four companies and artillery.
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Sitting Bull
Montana
F. D. Baldwin
Lou” Grill
Baldwin
Missouri River
Smoked Butte
Smokey Butte
Hazen
Miles
Big Dry
Missouri
Fort Peck
Johnny Brughier
Sioux City
Brughier
Tongue River
Mitchell
Porcupine
Fort Peek
Squaw Creek
Musselshell
Black Butte
Custer
Col
Nelson A. Miles
Liett
Cal. Miles
Musselshell River
Bennett
Carroll
Fourchette Creek
Statue of Pierre Wibaux Stands Beside Western Ranch Legend
In Wibaux Montana a statue honors Pierre Wibaux, the French immigrant who built the W Bar ranch. He forged a vast cattle empire, shipping 12,000 head in 1890 and branding 10,000 calves in one spring. The statue, placed after his death, shows him in cowboy attire beside the W Bar complex.
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Wibaux
MontAna
Prarie
Pierre Wibaux
W-Bar Ranch
America
Texas
Beaver Creek
Cyril
France
Jack Serrous
W Bar
W. H. Rucker
W. A. Orgain
J. C. Kinney
Arizona
Leutenant
Richest Butte geologist’s Penobscot mine and Vestal’s era
Nate Vestal built and developed the Penobscot gold mine at Marysville Montana, delivering a record bullion bar weighing 242 pounds valued at 54262.02 dollars. He funded Drum Summon, BeloMont and Whippoorwill Empire ventures, later moving to Alaska and California before dying in Oakland, survived by his widow and two daughters.
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Oakhind
Calif
Montana
Nate Vestal
Marysville
Helena Herald
Penobscot
Alta California
Spring Valley
Butte County
California
Thomias Cruse
Thomas Cruse
Cruse
Vestal
J. E. Murphy
H. C. Nash
W. H. Murphy
Snowdrift & Penobscot Consolidated Mining Co
John Longmaid
Longmaid
J. Henry Longmaid
Helena
Black Hills
Belmont
Whippoorwijiat
Legion
Alaska
Forest Hill
Oakland
Marching toward Sitting Bull camp near Carroll with Miles
Lieutenant Baldwin records a 28 mile march with six Miles command companies toward Carroll to pursue Sitting Bull. Weather cold then warm, terrain sagebrush and canyons, prairies. Boyd the trader’s clerk joins at 19 miles. snow falls next morning. Baldwin’s letter to his wife notes Miles sent two more companies and six to accompany him.
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Sitting Bull
Baldwin
Napoleon
Gebart
Carroll
Willow Creel
Willow Creek
Boyd
Fort Peck
Missouri River
Miles
Pope
Missouri
Bellows
E Company
Montrose and Kelley
I Company
March of Baldwin Diary Across Fourchet to Missouri River
Baldwin logs a grueling march crossing Willow and Fourchet creeks with few waters, battles through rough hills, and camps along tributaries. He notes dense fog, hard travel, scarce water, sightings of wildlife, and a perilous Missouri crossing with a raft attempt and eventual success against ice and currents.
State studies beaver deaths linked to new disease
The state livestock sanitary board is studying possible causes of two beaver deaths in Helena from Martinsdale district. The illness has appeared in beavers this year in the Hardin and Roundup regions, marking the first time the malady has been found in state beavers.
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State Livestock Sanitary Board
Helena
Martinsdale
Idiaventa
Beaver
Hardin
Prairie Fire Burns 7000 Acres Near Lodge Grass
A prairie fire started by embers from a prior blaze swept across more than 7,000 acres of southern Montana grassland near Lodge Grass Creek ten miles west of Lodge Grass. Civilian conservation workers and volunteers battled through the night to contain a six mile front, with livestock and ranch buildings reported unharmed.
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Lodge Grass
Montana
Contol
Lodge Grass Creek
County must appoint to fill senate vacancy ruling
Attorney General H. J. Freebourn rules that when a county delegation to the Montana legislature has a vacancy the county commissioners must appoint a replacement. The ruling addresses Hardin official Bert W. Kronmiller's question about filling the post left by the death of Senator Harry T. Mann.
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H. J. Freebourn
Montana
Bert W. Kronmiller
Hardin
Big Horn County
Harry T. Mann
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Lieut. Baldwin
Mon Tana Louw Grill
BUTTE
Katowice
B. Gowendro
Germany
North Sea
Europe
J. J. Gowen Jr
Gowen
Poland
Hitler
Montana Standard
Holland
Rotterdam
Southampton
Harding
Statendam
Hoboken
Schenleys
Pralae
Distillers Corporation
New York City
Fort Buford
Fort Leavenworth
Timber Creek
Fourchet Creek
Pouchette Creek
Rockies
Bailey
Hinkle
Roma Wine Company, Inc
Lodi, California
Jacobs Way
Jacobs
Jacobs Wind Electric CO
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