Major Culbertson Outwits Crows at Fort McKenzie Siege
An 1870s narrative recalls Major Alexander Culbertson defending Fort McKenzie with 19 men against a Crow siege led by Rotten Belly. To deter the attackers from looting and reinforcing, Culbertson armed 19 fort squaws, who appeared to the besiegers as a larger force, prompting retreat and abandoning the siege. The Crow leader Rotten Belly later perished north of the fort, after criticizing his people's relations with whites.
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Culbertson
Fort M’kenzie
Stevens
Marias
Teton
Blackfoot
Fort McKenzie
Blackfeet
Fort Piegan
The
Beaver
Alexander Culbertson
Montana
Pennsylvania
Fort Peck
Gros Ventres
Yellowstone
Mary
Chittenden
Henneberry recalls Montana frontier life and Civil War era posts
James B. Henneberry, a northern Montana resident born in 1840s, recalls early life near Blackfeet country and Glacier National Park. He details his 1870s move from California, family mining ventures, Fort Assinniboine days, civilian work with Colonel Broadwater, and later land allotments on Fort Belknap and Blackfeet reservations.
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Egular
Montana
James B. Henneberry
W. W. Moses
Great Falls
Henneberry
Blackfeet Indian Reservation
Glacier National Park
California
John Henneberry
Blackfoot City
Carpenter’s Bar
Blackfoot
Lincoln Gulch
Carpenter Gulch
Judge Bills
Snow Shoe Gulch
Powell County
Elliston
Deadwood Gulch
Ed Rison
Fort Assinniboine
Sitting Bull
Canada
Broadwater
Sam Pepin
Havre
Mike Healy
Canadian Line
Malta
Belknap Agency
Milk River
Assinniboine
Yantic
Ball
Gros Ventres
Fort Belknap
Lodge Pole Creek
Hennebery
Colonel Broadwater
Tom Kern
Jack Larson
Ephc Fooley
Fef. Rainey
Ed Vance
W. P. Abbott
Abbett
Melena
C. F. (Foxey) Kinz
Helena Cab Company
Charles Smith
Harlem Mercantile Company
Fort
Louis Chambeau
Jack Brown
Murray Nicholson
Nicholson
Hayes
Belknap Reservation
Dad Minagh
Cut Bank
Sitting Dull
Trenneberry
Fort Maginnis
Moccasin Mountains
Maiden
Jerry Shinnick
CC. J. McNamara
Big Sandy
Maginnis
Fort Custer
Fort Benton
T. W. Wheat
Mr. Wheat
Blackfeet
Colville
Old Fort Assinniboine
Glacier Park Country
Civil War Cartridges Found in Missouri River Stub
A rusted iron box recovered on the Missouri riverbank near a park yielded two bundles of Civil War ball cartridges from 1864. The wrapper claimed manufacture at the St. Louis Arsenal and preservation appeared excellent.
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High Boy
St. Louis Arsenal
Missouri
Great Pally
Stanley Spenser
Central High School
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Big Horn River
Rosebud
Tongue
Powder Rivers
Martha Edgerton Plassmann
Edgerton
James Henneberry
FY. Assinniboine
T. C. Power
Young Henneberry
Unionville
Helena
Whitlash Mining Company
Flore Henneberry
Mr. Bynum
Teton County
Bynum
Deer Lodge
Conrads
Conrad
Anywoy
Billings
West
TIFE
Lewis TT Eaton
Polytrobnie, Mont
Pyradium Company
Helena, Montana
Missouri Business and Normal College
Missoula
WM. B. Finlay
C. P. A. Publtle
First National Bank
OATH
FE. F. Myland
Ford Muilding
Ultry
Montana Mest and Commission Co
Butte
Vlaherty Optical Parlor
Mont
ARK Hotel
HOTEL
Ainbow
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