Marvels of Pioneer Trapper Pack Train Transport
The article recounts 1820s to 1830s fur trade travel led by William Ashley. It notes huge pack trains from St. Louis to the Northwest, their discipline, equipment, and defense against attacks. Packs used two pack mules per man with extended halters and stake anchors. Camps formed breastworks and sentry scouts guarded routes through Indian country.
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Lewis and Clark
Pacific Northwest
Missouri
Great Plains
Rocky Mountains
Pacific Coast
St. Louis
Northwest
Santa Fe
N. M
William, H. Ashley
Ashley
Great Salt Lake
Lexington
United States Army
Prota
Yellowstone Bears and Fur Trade in 1832 Western Frontiers
Officials warn travelers to keep away from Yellowstone bears as scouts and officers led a parade advancing into rough country. The article details fur trade practices with free trappers, prices paid per half-pound or pound, and a 1832 equipment bill for a three-man trapper crew totaling 1322 dollars. It notes Gardiner’s link to the Gardiner River and Johnson Gardner’s Fort Union records.
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American Fur Co
Fort Union
Johnson Gardner
Yellowstone River
Gardner
Johnson Gard
Ner
Gardiner River
Yellowstone Park
Gardiner
Chittenden
Fur Companies
Pinkham's Vegetable Compound Promises Nerve Relief
An elderly health ad urges women to try Pinkham's Vegetable Compound to ease nervousness irritability and general discomfort tied to female functional disorders. It claims decades of use and over a million testimonials praising benefits.
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Ydia E. Pinkham
Pinkham
Wheat stocks in Montana mills and elevators rise
Montana wheat stocks in mills and elevators on July 1 were estimated at 1,100,000 bushels, about 38 percent of the 10-year average, with a year ago gain to 800,000 bushels. Including farm stocks, total July 1 supply reach 3,401,000 bushels, about 65 percent of the 10-year average.
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Montana
Bureau of Agricultural Economics
Four Noted Montana Anglers Host to Herbert Hoover
Four Montana anglers known as the Four Horsemen of the Madison host Herbert Hoover during a Madison River season from Aug 1 to Labor Day. The group includes Malcolm Gillis of Butte, Will D. Thornton, Ben Calkins, and Charles S. Henderson. Hoover visits mark his third trip. guests include Thomas H. O'Brien, Tindall Evans, and James B. Howell. Henderson, a former Silver Bow sheriff now in Long Beach, heads a Perennial town network.
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Montana
Four Horsemen
Madison
Yellowstone Park
Charles S. Henderson
Long Beach
Calif
Butte
Malcolm Gillis
W. D. Thornton
Ben Calkins
Mr. Thornton
New York
Calkins
Los Angeles
Henderson
United States
Thomas H. O’brien
Inspiration Copper Co
Arizona
Tindall Evans
Greene- Cananea Co
Phoenix
James B. Howell
San Francisco
Four Horsemen's
Horsemen
Theodore Roosevelt
Washington
Will D. Thornton
Silver Bow County
Philippines
California
Smokers Cause Fewer Fires Across Regional Forests
Regional forester Evan W. Kelley reports 31 smoker fires this year through July 20 versus 55 the year before in the region. Nine forests are smoker-fire free so far, with small increases in St. Joe, Kaniksu, and Kootenai. Total man caused fires down to 84. lightning fires total 490, grand total 574 with 510 under a quarter acre. Fire danger rising. next weeks crucial as signs point to cautious use by campers and smokers.
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Forest Service
Evan W. Kelley
Lolo Forest
Deer Lodge
St. Joe
Kaniksu
Idaho
Kootenai
Montana
Kootenaé
Canadian
Washington
Priest River Experiment Station
Bridger Led 80 Trappers Against Blackfeet at Sun River
In April 1849 Jim Bridger led eighty trappers along the Missouri near present Great Falls to fight about 400 Blackfeet. The engagement left 47 Indians dead while no whites fell. The party, returning to Fort Cotten, had earlier stored furs in a Snowy Mountains cache and included trapper Charles Choquette who later documented the battle.
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Jim Bridger
Great Falls
Missouri
Bridger
St. Louis
American Fur Co
Fort Cotten
Missouri River
Fort Benton
Montana
Yellowstone
Mussel
Judith
Sun River
Milwaukee Railroad
Sun River Valley
Snowy Mountains
Fur Company
Blackfeet
Charles Choquette
Rocky Mountains
Teton County
Choquette
Robert Vaughn
Rockies
Mr. Vaughn
Pierre Chouteau
Fort Union
Antoine Busette
Louis LaBreche
Fourchette River
Girl Saves Own Life After Rattlesnake Bite
Mary Cooper, 17, of Helena, applied a towel tourniquet to her leg after a rattlesnake bite. She stopped the circulation to the infected leg and was rushed to Dr. James Flinn, who treated the wound and said no poison circulated through her system. Friends alerted Oscar Baarson, the city engineer, who drove her to town for care.
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Mary Cooper
Helena
James Flinn
Flinn
Miss Cooper
Oscar Baarson
Trout Creek
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Park
Herbert Hoover
Milk River
Little Rocky Mountains
Head
Little Big Horn River
Rattler
Dayton Ave
Seattle
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