Henry G Rice Scout Who Sighted Custer’s Dead Soldiers
Henry G Rice a veteran of Indian fights served under General Gibbon in 1876 and was among the mounted infantry scouts who discovered the Custer dead on the Little Big Horn ridge. He recalls Custer’s appearance and recalls the march from Fort Shaw to Crow Agency and the Rosebud valley campaign.
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Henry G. Rice
Gibbon
Custer
Bradley
Thomas B
Y G. Rice
Montana
Bozeman
Sappington
Mont
Fort Shaw
Dakota
Lieut. Bradley
Mr. Rice
Fort Ellis
Second Cavalry
Yellowstone Valley
Diamond R
Helena
Nelson Story
Crow Agency
Absarokee
Thomas H. Laforge
Barney Bravo
United States
Terry
Seventh Cavalry Regiment
Crook
Fort Fetterman
Wyo
North Platte River
Rosebud
Yellowstone
Reno
Little Big Horn
Pease Bottom
Big Horn
Big Horn River
Little Big Horn Valley
Heachland
Major Reno
Seventh Cavalry
Custer Cavalry Regiment
Panionus
Bradley Mounted Infantry
Gibbon Soldier's Tale of Custers Battlefield and Buffalo Bill
Henry Gibbon’s veteran account recalls the 1876 campaign along the Yellowstone and the Big Horn. Buffalo Bill Cody briefly joined then clashed with mounted infantry over firing rules. Rice confirms Indians fought on foot while soldiers pressed from the gulches, reshaping the battlefield memory.
Gibbon Pursues Sioux Across Yellowstone to Crow Agency Camp
In a push to curb Sioux incursions, General Gibbon moves his three cavalry columns toward a central target area south of the Yellowstone between the Bighorn and Powder rivers. He seeks Crow scouts to block hostiles, fights occur near river crossings, and men suffer boat losses while crossing the Yellowstone.
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Yellowstone
Stillwater River
Columbus
Stillwater County
Gibbon
Stillwater
Bighorn
Powder Rivers
Yelowstone
Big Horn
Custer
Insurance Group Tells Law Focus in State Insurance Controversy
The state board of examiners, Miller Insurance of Butte, and Pacific Fire Underwriters discussed economic contracts in a hearing. Attorney General Ray Nagle interrupted H L Maury to clarify the board’s stance. Maury, Miller, and underwriters’ representatives spoke on legal aspects of the dispute over a 9 million dollar coverage project on state property.
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State Board of Examiners
Miller Insurance Agency
Butte
Pacific Fire
Ray Nagle
H. L. Maury
Maury
C. E. Miller
C. E. Cook
J. A. Poore
R. F. Gaines
Miller
Cook
War Medal for Havre Officer Receives Purple Heart
Robert Patterson of Havre has been notified by the government that he has been awarded the Purple Heart for distinguished service in action as a first lieutenant in the 12th Aero Squadron in France. He was wounded Oct 12 1918 when his observation plane, shot down by a German pilot, killed his pilot Lieut Beuclerk. Three monks left Switzerland with St Bernard dogs for a new hospice in the Si La Himalaya pass on the Tibet border. Witnesses in French courts may tell more than the truth even when testifying and may rely on imagination.
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Mavre
Robert Patterson
Havre
Patterson
12Th Aero Squadron
France
Lieut. S. Beuclerk
Concord
N. H
Switzerland
St. Bernard
Si la
Himalaya Pass
Tibet
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Thomas Laforge
Far West
Fort Abraham Lincoln
Dakota Territory
Glendive
Divide
Buffalo Bill Cody
Merritt
Rice
Buffalo Bill
Cody
Mounted Infantry
Emis
John Gibbon
Lieutenant James E. Bradley
ATE Nursery & Seed CO
Benteen
Insurance Group
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