Nez Perces War Scout Memoir Recounts 1877 Far West Actions
An account by a scout under General Howard recounts Nez Perces actions after the 1877 Horse Prairie massacre. He describes marching with Howard, tracking the Nez Perces toward Birch creek, and encounters with freighters and Chinese workers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joseph
Howard
Gibbon
Ni Fork
Big Hole
Horse Prairie Creek
Bannack
Horse Prairie
Nez Perces
Salmon River
Helena NYA offers youth chance in aeronautics program
The Helena summer session will start June 9 offering 130 Montana youths a combined aeronautics and related trades training with NYA housing and pay. Applicants must be 17 to 25 and high school graduates in science math and drafting. tuition and lab fees are waived and registration closes May 31.
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Helena Aeronautics and Related Trades School
NYA
Montana
Ben Alberg
L. W. Fahrner
Helena High School
Payne Templeton
Helena Public Schools
J. B. Love
Helena Aeronautics School
Aeronautics School
Helena NYA _ resident center
Harmony
National Youth Administration
Fairgrounds
Helena
Alberg
Tracks of Nez Perce pursuit near Lemhi agency and Birch Creek
A band moves from Bannack toward Lemhi and Birch Creek to stop Nez Perce raiders. Col Shoup and Tenday leaders meet, horses are stampeded, freighters attacked, divisions split, and several dead or missing are recovered near Birch Creek after a night encampment and river crossings.
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Junction
Dempsey
Turner
Bannack
McIntosh
Dan Osgood
Jim
South Medicine Lodge
Joseph
Hawley Creek
Medicine Lodge
Frank Price
Grub
Lemhi
Birch Creek
Nez Perces
Colonel Shoup
Sand Hole Crossing
Nels
Fue
Yimpsey
Charlies Turner
Joe Sperry
Charles McIntosh
Horse Prairie Creek
Ency
George L. Shoup
Red” McDonald
Corinne
Union Pacific
Bil Falkner
Tenday
Jane
Jarvis
Falkner
Shes
Jack
Nes Perces
Dave Woods
Billy Price
Jim Hayden
Dan Combs
al Green
Hayden
Ila
al Lyons
Tof
Private Conoco Touraide Free for Your Spring Trip
Motorists are urged to obtain the Free De Luxe Conoco Touraide with patent-hinged road maps, side-trips, hotels, camps, color photos, and travel notes. Your Mileage Merchant at the nearest Conoco station provides this advance guide at no cost, promising a smoother trip and lasting engine care with Conoco Bronz-z-z gasoline and Germ Processed oil.
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Conoco Tour
Conoco
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AIR and Trade School
Searles Lake
California
Salmon
Lyons
Eagle Rock
Haven
Osgood
Price
Tendoy
Popompy
Ten Mile
Abe Sho
Rward
Shoup
Colt
Opal
Anaconda
U.S. Patent Office
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