Cheyenne Local Items Hint Spring Business and News
In Cheyenne during March 1877 readers get quick notes on Mosquitoes in Salt Lake small-pox in Ogden and a humorous Eli Perkins lecture upcoming. Town progress includes Frau Gottstein Idelman’s wholesale liquor store opening April 1st, Snow and Fisk stores nearly ready, and a strong push for trees along Crow Creek to create a park. Community chatter mentions counterfeiters near Golden and a staged Arion club concert next week.
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Salt Lake
Ogden
Eli Perkins
Hellman
Helphenstine &Durbin
Timm Leader
Fisk
McDaniels
Arion Cluo
Black Hilla
C.& B. H. Stage Co
St. Louis
J. W. Kingman
Carey Block
Cheyenne
Holt
P.O. News Depot
Laramie
Denver
Gottstein & Idelman
Levy
Harrison
Justice Fisher
Golden
Colo
Crow Creek
Safe 6500-pound bank safe exhibited in Deadwood depot
Brother Post the banker lured a LADER reporter into a box car at the depot yesterday and revealed a 6500 pound Mosler Cincinnati safe. Yale combination and time lock, two compartments with safety deposit boxes above and space for dust nuggets coin below. Shipped to Deadwood at once for Stebbins Post Co branch banking house.
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Post
Mosler
Cincinnati
Yale
Deadwood
Stebbins, Post & Co
Miles to command new campaign against hostile Sioux
Bold plan would place General Miles in charge of a 2 000 infantry force and sixteen cavalry companies operating from Tongue River to crush Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse. Miles, in cantonment with the Fifth and others, may lead a spring assault by April after brief consultation in St Paul, with mules and grain being moved forward to Tongue River to sustain the campaign.
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Nelson A. Miles
Sitting Bull
Crazy Horse
Yellowstone River
Miles
Tongue River
Fifth Infantry
Twenty-second Infantry
St. Paul
Terry
Gaul
Modesty versus hype in Cheyenne's "Magic City" claim
The St Joseph Herald notes Cheyenne’s bold nickname and rapid growth due to the Black Hills rush. It reports new brick buildings, influx of Eastern capital, a daily mail to Deadwood, a telegraph line, and an armed, guarded route with a military bridge over the North Platte. About five hundred men depart weekly, seeking farther outfitting for northern ventures.
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St. Joseph
Cheyenne
DU. P
Black Hills
U.S
Deadwood
United States
North Platte
Yellowstone Field Notes Map the Big Horn Valley trek
J V Bogert records McClernand noting the Big Horn valley near the Little Big Horn, with wide grassy plains, timbered bottoms, and abundant water. He describes fort ruins, a fallen flagstaff, a soldiers monument, and a hunter’s paradise of buffalo elk deer and antelope, detailing camps, streams, and terrain as the party progresses toward Tulloch Fork.
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J. V. Bogert
Big Horn
Little Big Horn
Yellowstone
Beauvais Creek
Chis
Soap Creek
Fort Pease
McClernand
Montana
Old Fort C. F. Smith
Sternberg
Big Horn Canyon
Old Fort
Phil Kearney
Big Hill
Old Fort Smith
Pease
Big Horn Mountains
Wolf Mountains
Tullock’s Fork
Big Horn country praised as future Cheyenne Wyomin g link
Testimony lauds extreme beauty and fertility of the Big Horn region. Lieut McClernand and interior scouts call it the garden spot of the Yellowstone and foresee its future importance, vast extent, and potential population growth linking Cheyenne and Wyoming.
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Tullock’s
Big Horn
Yellowstone
Lieut. McClernand
Cheyenne
Wyoming
Northern Treasure Vaults Claim Vast Gold Quartz Riches
A veteran miner writes from Deadwood country praising the quartz belt and free gold quartz over the Deadwood mountain region. He cites Golden Gate milling, steam power, argentiferous galena, and vast water and timber resources, predicting immense value beyond Nevada and rapid regional development despite Indian danger and personal lack of quartz interest.
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Black Hills
Deadwood
Boulder Gulch
Deadwood Creek
Gryville
Golden Gate
Lead City
Gold Run
Whitewood
False Bottom Creek
Bare Butte
Juel
Belle Fourche
United States
Nevada
Barney Hughes Denies Wind River Digging Rumors
In Mixer's Deviant Wyoming on March 9 Barney Hughes writes to The Leader denying claims of a $10 diggings strike on the Upper Big Wind River. He says he was with the Jeff Standifer party in 1868 and again later, but never found payable pay dirt and warns the public and mining friends not to rely on those reports.
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Barney Hughes
Wind River
Mixer
Wyo
The
Leader
Evanston Age
Big Wind River
Ife
Toto
Jeff Standifer
Montana
Laramie Corners Culture Efforts Amid Tragedy and Trade
In Laramie a regular correspondence notes strong attendance at literary and musical gatherings, with Col S W Downey praised for a poetry address. The death of Mrs G P Murphy sparks appeals to fence graves, while city life proceeds with quiet elections, railroad pause, and resumed rolling mills. Local trade anticipates growth from Little Laramie river prospects and new mining routes in North Park.
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Laramin Crry
Col
S. W. Downey
G. P. Murphy
Laramie
Oliver Ames
Tocsin
L. D. Pease
Big Horn Country
Rawlins
North Park
Centennial
Gen. Worth
J. W. Boyles
Sheep Mountain
Last Chance District
Home Mining Company
S Place
Capt. Kelly
Foley
Tutn’s Peak
Heap Hostiles Arrive at Spotted Tail Agency
A Red Cloud Agency letter dated March 16 reports about 400 hostiles arriving at Spotted Tail Agency this month. No word yet from Chief Spotted Tail’s mission to Crazy Horse.
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Red Cloud Agency
Spotted Tail Agency
Spotted Tail
Crazy Horse
Sisters of Mercy Brutally Assaulted in Sidney Depot
Two Sisters of Mercy visiting Sidney to help small pox patients were attacked by a mob on the depot platform. They were dragged into an alley, robbed of trinkets crosses and Bibles, veils torn off, money taken, and left in a disgraceful condition as bystanders began to intervene.
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Sidney
Sisters of Mercy
Union Pacific
Indian Frontier Rations and New Posts Across the West
Indians at frontier agencies receive rations with Spotted Tail's guard exception. Sheridan plans two new posts on Tongue and Little Big Horn rivers, funded by £200000, with six cavalry and six infantry companies per site. Red Horse’s confession follows, detailing peace efforts, railroad tensions, and a desire to retain Big Horn and Black Hills lands. A Laramie City dance incident ends with a man joining hands and swinging a girl in a blue dress amid bells.
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Spotted Tail
Cheyenne River
Sheridan
Yellowstone
Fort Bufort
Congress
Tongue
Little Big Horn
Tongue River
Fifth Infantry
Miles
Custer
Fort Lincoln
Red Horse
Col. Wood
Powder River
Big Horn
Black Hills
Laramie
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Cheyenne Weekly Leader
Puttyhead Richardson
Scribner’s Monthly
Scribner & Co’s
Deadwood Gulch
Leander P. Richardson
Albert D. Richardson
Scribner
Glass
Brooklyn
Wiio
Sitting Bull and
Teutarus
Laramie Lines
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