Stolen Horses Shock Deer Lodge in 1872 Frontier Turmoil
In Deer Lodge on November 9, 1872, Granville Stuart's stallion and Judge Dance's driving horse vanished. A lumber-yard driver reported the open stable and missing steeds, triggering panic, mob talk of hanging a hostler, and swift sheriff intervention that prevented extrajudicial violence while investigators searched for the culprits.
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Granville Stuart
Judge Dance
Deer Lodge
William Flynn
Murphy and Company Lumber Yard
Dane
Law and Order
Rezin Anderson
Anderson
Bank Exchange
Love
Brooks
Nobby
Wesley Jones
Bonner
Jones
Bonner Mercantile Store
Lumber Company
Dance
Olin
Freeze Out Ranch
Missoula
David F. Barry Noted Western Photographer Dies at 80
Pioneer photographer David F. Barry known as Little Shadow Catcher died in Superior Wisconsin aged 80 after a long illness. Born 1854 in Honeoye Falls New York he chronicled 7th Cavalry Indians and figures like Rain in the Face Sitting Bull and Buffalo Bill Cody. His work documents the Little Big Horn era and the settlement of the northern Rockies.
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David F. Barry
Barry
Buffalo Bill Cody
General Custer
Little Big Horn River
Montana
Blackhawk
Dakotas
Superior
Sitting Bull
Crow King
Chief Gall
Honeoye Falls
N. Y
West Frontier
Nelson ‘A. Miles
George A. Custer
W. F
Buffalo Bill” Cody
Monroe County
Otsego
Wis
Bismarck
N. D
7Th Cavalry
Rain-in-the-Face
John Grass
Eagle and Curley
Custer
Little Big Horn
Gall
Myles Keogh
Old Fort Keogh
Mont
Tom MacDougall
Charles Reynolds
Major McLaughlin
William S. Hart
Billings
Cody
Wyo
Superior, Wis
Beyond Law and Old West Justice
Frank B. Linderman’s novel Beyond Law follows Lige Mounts, a trapper and trader for the American Fur Company amid prohibition era whiskey smuggling and frontier danger. The story blends history, pursuit, and vivid frontier life, with Lige confronting colonial violence and a quest for vengeance, while marveling at Native cultures.
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Grace Stone Coates
Irvin S. Cobb
Frank Bird Linderman
Mr. Linderman
Lige Mounts
Lige
American Fur Company
Linderman
New York Sun
Frank B. Linderman
Plains
Bluebird
Maximilian of Wied
Missouri River
Angus Cameron
Cameron
Fort Union
West
Mary
Mount
Billings Eyes Summer Fossil Dig With Dr Barnum Brown
Dr Barnum Brown of the American Museum of Natural History will again lead a fossil reptile dig in the Billings region this summer. George Shea of Billings received the scientist's letter. an oil company funds the expedition. Initial work starts in the Greybull district, Wyoming, then moves to Hidden Dome in the Harlowton area.
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Barnum Brown
American Museum of Natural History
Billings
George Shea
Kalispell Man Receives Carnegie Award and Cash
H. G. Stafinbis of Kalispell earned a Carnegie foundation cash award of $1,000 along with a medal to help purchase a home. The gift supports rescuers who saved two girls, Alice and Adeline Wutzke, from a Lake side fire in 1931.
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Carnegie Award
H. G. Stafin
Bis of
Kalispell
Carnegie Foundation
Alice and
Adeline Wutzke
Lakeside
Brewery Equipment Ordered at Lewistown
Equipment for the Lewistown brewery has been ordered and plant repairs are underway. Beer will be ready for market after June 15, said Gus Hodel, the manager.
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Lewistown
Gus Hodel
Montana Man to Visit Western Montana This Summer
Clarence K. Streit, New York Times Geneva correspondent, will spend the summer in western Montana with Mrs. Streit and their two children. A Missoula resident, Streit is an authority on European affairs and former Rhodes scholar who has served as Paris and Rome correspondent and as NYT foreign service member.
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Clarence K. Streit
New York Times
Geneva
Montana
Missoula
Streit
League of Nation
The
State University
Rhodes
Oxford
Mlle
Jeanne Defrance
Paris
Philadelphia Public Ledger
Rome
Foreign Service
Asia Minor
Mustapha Iemal Pasha
Hafiz
Intermountain Association of Journalists
League of Nations
L. L. Streit
Norman
Bayer Aspirin Promises Fast Neuritis Relief
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Wisc
Kir. Barry
Montana Territory
Hell Gate
Jocko
Frenchtown
J. O. Marvin
Missoula County
Marvin
Chapman
Cedar Creek
Inother of
Soaking
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