Northern Cheyenne Warriors Battle Custer Then Serve as Scouts
Prominent Cheyenne fighters who clashed with Custer at Little Bighorn later joined General Miles as scouts. Two Moons as spokesman and Crazy Head led talks for surrender. White Bull and others were enlisted, aiding Miles in 1877 campaigns against Sioux and Nez Perces and assisting at Fort Keogh.
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General Custer
Little Big Horn
General Miles
Thomas B. Marquis
Little Bighorn River
Custer
Little Big Horn Valley
Upper Rosebud
Tongue River
Powder River
Tongueor
Marquis River
Buffalo, Wyo
McKenzie
Crazy Horse
Dakota
Hanging Woman Creek
Birney, Mont
Fort Keogh
Nelson A. Miles
Miles
Rotten Grass Creek
Big Horn
Fort
C. F. Smith
Bruyeer
Crazy Head
White River Agency
Red Cloud Agency
Ogallala Center
Pine Ridge
Fort General Miles
White Bull
Lame Deer
Cheyenne
Joseph
White Wolf
Montana
Bear Coat
Rain and drought linked to rising forest fire costs in Montana
Missoula Rotary heard Dean T. C. Spaulding of the State University school of forestry explain that decreasing precipitation trends in Montana and North Dakota predict higher forest fire protection costs. He cited 70 year rainfall data and noted past fires as context, with a forecast toward a 1940-like wet period unlikely amid current dryness.
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Montana
Dakota
T. C. Spaulding
State University School of Forestry
Missoula
Dean Spaulding
North Dakota
Montana-Dakota
Senator C H Williams Reflects on Deer Lodge Pioneer Life
In Deer Lodge Montana Senator C H Williams a prominent stockman banker and former National WoolgrowersAssociation president recalls his 1882 arrival in the town and the early settlement era He recounts wagon journeys from Iowa the Bear River valley Deer Lodge’s growth saloons and stages and notes wool prices the 1893 panic and WWI highs while affirming faith in the community and its bright future
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William Flynn
Deer Lodge
Montana
C. H. Williams
National Woolgrowers’ Asociation
Treasure State
Senator Williams
Cottonwood Avenue
Appannose County
Towa
Z. E. Williams
Jackson
Andrew Jackson
United States
Iowa
Great Northwest
Missouri River
Nebraska City
Lincoln
Hastings
Neb
North Platte
South Pass
Platte
Bear Run
Soda Springs
Idaho Falls
Eagle Falls
Washington
Butte
Nebr
Haymarket
Billy Coleman
William Coleman
Buck Jim
Bannack
Virginia City
Express Company
Williams
Eee
National “Woolgrowers’ Asociation
Powell County
Deer Lodge Bank and Trust Company
Montana Rotary Organization
Polson Fire Routinely Quelled at Cash and Carry
The Polson fire department extinguished a basement blaze at the Cash and Carry grocery on Main Street. Proprietor A. B. Salter says the fire was set with packing boxes and paper moved from the rear to the basement without his knowledge. State Fire Marshal W. G. Brooks will investigate. Fire alarm sounded by George Leach, night clerk at the Tasty Shop. Building owned by W. G. Emory.
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Polson
Polson Fire Department
Cash and Carry
Main Street
A. B. Salter
W. G. Brooks
George Leach
Tasty Shop
W. G. Emory
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Powder Rivers
State
Conoco
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