Vast Western Travel and Local Happenings Ear on Urgent Topics
Passenger travel over the Union Pacific remains heavy westward while Conant goes east with his story man. The Muldoon is hoped to grow with the country as early days bring smoky stoves and scolding wives. Dealers ship apples by carload and forecasts promise cheaper fruit later. The era’s quirks include petrified giants debated as fraud, gold coin at par in Denver, and a new Rocky Mountain Courier rising from the Green River Press. Local construction, transit calculations, and a planned women’s hotel emerge amid threats to Isaac Edwards and a shift in regional publications. The region sees early large game movements, hints of a hard winter, and a demand for teams to move military provisions. A Lead City mine sale signals rising Californian investment and increased ore output.
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Union Pacific
Conant
Muldoon
Peter McKay
Geo
A. Draper
J. W. Wammond
America
John Harrington
Jacob
Red Cloud
Spotted Tail
Missouri River
Colorado
Cheyenne
Lead City
Black Wills
California
Sioux Removal Talks and Army Prep Spark Indian Tensions
Dr James Irwin reports a partial Washington compromise on Sioux removal to White river sites forty to fifty miles from the Missouri. Chiefs fear youth unrest while Gen Sheridan plans a strong force at Camp Robinson to ensure peaceful relocation. Also Sterling sustains a mountain elk duel then brings the carcass to the city, noting deer and antelope in the foothills.
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James Irwin
Red Cloud
Washington
Arapahoe
Railroad House
Wyoming
Congress
Missouri River
White River
Missouri
Dr. Irwin
Sheridan
Irwin
Crook
The Coming Indian Policy Reported as Peaceful Reform
The article describes a new policy direction for Native American affairs under the modern administration. Commissioner Hay signals reforms but affirms overall continuity with Grant era peace, promising prompt action on agreed measures. It outlines Sioux relocation plans, new permanent homes between White River and Big Cheyenne, Yakama lands in Washington, and transfers from several western states to Utah’s Uintah reservation, with remaining tribes placed in Indian Territory.
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Gen. Grant
Hay
Indian Territory
Northwest
White River
Big Cheyenne
Yakama Reservation
Washington Territory
Arizona
Nevada
New Mexico
Colorado
Utah
Indians Location Proposal Could Save Troop Transport Costs
A proposal outlines locating the Indians to streamline troop movements and provisioning. If realized, it promises substantial transportation savings and allows tighter government control over management practices.
The White Squaw and Indian Women in a Pictorial View
The excerpt portrays Native American women as downtrodden and burdened, their role tied to labor and subservience while the speaker contrasts beauty in Minnehaha with harsh conditions. It notes women’s cold, distrustful gaze toward whites and their equestrian riding style, reflecting colonial stereotypes of gender and race.
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Womin
Minnehaha
Black Hills Republicans Convene in Deadwood for Party Organization
A Black Hills Republican convention in Deadwood elected E. C. Briarley by acclamation to a delegate seat for Washington. Delegates from nearly all mining camps attended and resolutions backed President Hayes administration aiming for national reconciliation and harmony as in the past.
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Deadwood
Black Hills
Washington
New Territory
E. C. Briarley
President Hayes
United States
Greeley Gleanings: Freight, Wheat, Skunks, Coal Prospect
Greeley reports cheaper freight from Cheyenne via Longmont and Col lins by stage, with wheat arriving at twenty to thirty teams daily and prices around 180 per hundredweight likely to rise. Camping parties on the Poudre complain of many skunks as a Cheyenne girl nearly touched one. Dilackhurst claims a three foot coal vein on the bluffs south of town at eighty five feet depth, superior to Cation City coal for coke. Tribune.
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Cheyenne
Dilackhurst
Cation City
Tribune
Scott Davis the brave messenger's story unfolds
The Green River Courier highlights Scott Davis, a young freighter from near Fremont on the Platte River, who began hauling to the Black Hills in spring 1876 as wagon master. The piece defends his claims and notes two accompanying soldiers lacked grit to stand by him against robbers.
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Scott Davis
Brave Messenger
Scott
Platte River
Fremont
Black Hills
Green River
St Joseph as eastern terminus of Union Pacific debated
The St Joseph Chronicle reports active negotiations to make St Joseph the eastern terminus of the Union Pacific. Major lines would follow, creating a vast union depot. The city owns 500000 dollars in St Joseph Bridge Company stock, currently valueless, with mortgage debt looming. A conditional use of the stock to lure the Union Pacific is proposed, requiring daily passenger and freight service from San Francisco to St Joseph.
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St. Joseph
Union Pacific Railroad
Missouri Pacific
Atchison
St. Joseph Bridge Company
Union Pacific Railroad Jo
San Francisco
Military Matters Moves Troops West Across Frontier
The Thirteenth and Eighteenth regiments now in the east are ordered out west with several companies to Corinne and the rest to Montana. Companies B D HW and TF of the Third Infantry under Captain Penrose left Corinne on the 5th for Missoula with wagons and provisions. The remaining troops also left for Helena at noon Saturday. The Montana road from Corinne is reported heavily cut up with deep dust, hindering travel but offering marching benefit to the soldiers.
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Corinne
Montana
Third Infantry
Penrose
Missoula
Helena
Muldoon Monster Bone Story Sparks Debate
An Arkansas City letter reports a Grouse creek find of petrified bone thought to be a mastodon fragment. William Hatfield presents an affidavit confirming its identity to a township justice amid public fascination. Some say a hoax, others a natural growth. a facsimile might be made, but the relic owner won’t part with the original.
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Muldoon
Arkansas City
Kansas
Grouse Creek
William Huntfield
Hatfield
Barnum
Conant
Muldoons
Barnum Named in Allege Charges Amid Tour Sequence
The passage notes a coincidence of timing with a discovery and describes Barnum claiming a TV visit to his Des Moines show where seven men died in a railway accident. It states he then traveled to Kansas City Colorado to handle real estate, visit his daughter, and inspect a cattle ranche near Pueblo. No denial is given, raising suspicion.
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Des Moines
Iowa
Kansas City
Colorado
Greeley
Denver
Castle Rock
Pueblo
Barnum
Descriptive Telegraphed Battle In Bear Paw Mountains
Miles telegram to Gen Sheridan details three companies of the 7th Cavalry joining a desperate engagement in the Bear Paw mountains. Their exact whereabouts had been unknown until Miles sent the dispatch, revealing they had been on scouting duty unaware of the battle. Gen Miles encountered them and brought them into the fight.
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Miles
Sheridan
Bear Paw Mountains
7Th Cavalry
Custer
Doubt Cast on Guilt of Joel Collins in UP Train Robbery
Telegram from Kansas City questions Collins guilt after his death as a robber of the Union Pacific train. A Topeka law firm is hired by his father to probe the matter. Authorities say Collins could not have been at the robbery, and his possession of about 25000 dollars is linked to a sale of cattle from the Black Trills voyage. His arrest behavior is explained by a belief he faced robbers.
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John L. Redford
Hugo
Kansas
Denver Tribune
Denver
Redford
Deryer
Kansas City
Joel Collins
Union Pacific
Topeka
Collins
Black Trills
Eastbound car carries millions of fish eggs to New York
A car headed east recently carried several millions of fish eggs from the Pacific coast to a piscicultural firm in New York. Colonel Robert McGerson is quoted praising cookery as a fine art, arguing cooking surpasses lawyering and noting his own skill in cooking. He adds that banning frying beef steak should be a prison crime.
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Pacific Coast
Piscicultural
New York
Cot. Ropert Mgerson
Letters Endorse Dooley's Yeast Powder Over Rivals
Extracts from letters to the manufacturers of Dooley's Yeast Powder praise the product as superior and cost effective. The correspondents claim it is the best they have ever used and urge others to consider it for better health results and value.
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Dooley
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