Billings Farmer Helped Bury the Custer Battlefield Victims
Yellowstone county farmer Henry C. Kienck recalls helping bury 150 to 175 bodies at the Little Big Horn battlefield after the Custer massacre. He describes unmarked, three foot graves and improvised caskets made from timber and material from General Terry’s supply.
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Henry C. Kienck
Yellowstone County
Billings
Mr. Klenck
Arizona
United States Army
Geronimo
Mr. Kienck
Helena
Great Falls
the Tribune
Kienck
New York City
Sitting Bull
Fort Snelling
Fort Lincoln
Terry
Custer
Little Big Horn
Klenck
Benton
Colonel Weir
Big Horn
The Flight of Little Wolf and Dull Knife’s Northern March
After the 1877 surrender, Dull Knife’s band marched from the Big Horn to Indian Territory and then north toward their homeland. Little Wolf led a desperate retreat across plains battling U.S. troops, enduring scarcity, regaining supplies, and finally surrendering at Ft. Keogh where he and his warriors enlisted with General Miles.
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Little Wolf
Martha Edgerton Plassman
Dun Knife
Big Horn Mountains
Powder River
Dull Knife
United States
Indian Territory
Montana
North Dakota
Hardin
Second Cavalry
Northern Pacific
Troop C
Fort Lincoln
John J. Gibbon
Yellowstone Valley
Hayden and
King
Northern Pacific Railway
Fort Meade
Fort Ellis
Gold Creek
Hellgate Valley
Arizona
Nelson A. Miles
Klenck
Miles
Geronimo
the Kid
West Point
Leutenant
Fort Custer
Little Big Horn
Billings
Wolf
Arkansas River
Arkansas
Ft. Dodge
Platte River
Little Wolfe
W. P Clarke
Ft Keogh
Lieut
Clarke
Ft. Keogh
Litle Wolf
George Bird Grinnell
Nez Perces
Joseph
Arrow head found embedded in mountain goat skull in Beartooth region
Deer Lodge boy Billi Greenough finds a red flint arrow head lodged in a mountain goat skull during a pack trip with his father in Montana. The artifact's age is uncertain as the skull is bleached from sun and snow, prompting local interest and reflections on historic conflicts with Northern Cheyennes and Little Wolf.
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Beartooth Lake
Billi Greenough
Deer Lodge
Red Lodge
Montana
Ben Greenough
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Billings Farmer
Land of
Plenty
Little Chief
Congressional
Washington
Little
Martin Hall
Butte
Reno Sales
Ted” Baker
Northwest
Mr. Kall
A. C. M. Hardware House
Main
Quartz
Butte, Mont
Aspirin
Salieytienalé
Billings Polytechnic
Tractor Engineering
Lewis T. Eaton
Polytechnic
Anut Butte
DR. F. A. Ironside
W. Main St
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