Fort Pease and Major Pease D. Pease in Crow relations
Grace Stone Coates recounts Major Fellows D. Pease, first Crow agent and Fort Pease founder, and the 1876 Yellowstone campaign led by General McClernand. It covers Pease’s role in shaping Crow whites friendship, the fort’s brief existence, the Montana Column march, and Pease’s later life in Livingston with mining and lime ventures.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Grace Stone Coates
Mead
Mangel Wurzel
Montana
Cavalry Journal
Edward J. McClernand
Fort Pease
Yellowstone
Yellowstone River
Big Horn
Rosebud
George Herendeen
Fort Ellis
Second Cavalry
Major Pease and Crow Agency on Yellowstone Frontier
Major Pease served as the first civil agent for the Crows after 1870 guiding land treaties and language work. His agency lay at Mission creek near Livingston with Crow lands totaling seven million acres. He helped form Pease's Bottom colony in 1875 aiming to protect settlers and establish an Indian trading post before the Custer massacre.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Major Pease
Montana
Pennsylvania
Oliver Pease
Fort Berthold
N. D
Margaret Wallace
John Wallace
Pease
Wisconsin
Minnesota
William D. Gray
Sully
Gen. Harney
Pierre
Oak
Yellowstone
General Sully
Livingston
Wright
Judith Basin
Congress
General McClernand
Fort Pease
Clarke’s Fork
Bozeman Coal Company
Livingston Coal Company
Mr. Meyers
Meyers & Co
Northern Pacific
Duluth
Park Branch
Decker & Co
Sitting Bull
Red Cloud
Gall
Horse Guard
Iron Bull
Magtram
Jackson
the Fool
Gros Ventres
Crow's Breath
Poor Wolf
Bloody Knife
Blue Cloud
Medicine Crow
Ulm
Missouri
Abraham Lincoln
Knoxville
Indian Department
War Department
Department of the Interior
Crows
Mission Creek
Yellowstone River
Park and
Gallatin
Paul McCormick
Z. H. Daniels
Custer
Wolf Mountain
Old Chardon journal notes plague and Sacajawea link
A Fort Clark Journal entry from July 27 1838 describes smallpox affecting Mandan, and Baptiste Charbonneau marrying a 14 year old Assiniboine captive. The account includes a feast with grog and guns, while no Sacajawea burial is recorded and the diary omits her name.
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State Historical Library
David Hilger
Fort Clark
F. A. Chardon
Sacajawea
Baptiste Charbonneau
Wyoming
Charbonneau
Bird
Chardon
North Dakota
Montana
Old Bell From Yellowstone Steamer Set to Ring Again
The Yellowstone river steamer bell, salvaged after sinking in June 1879 near Miles City, will be housed atop the Elks home. Officials loaned the relic from the school district. a cupola will be built to display it, preserving its clear tone.
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Yellowstone
Elks
Miles City
Milwaukee
Old
Washington School
Foster Drug Store
Snell Bros
Lincoln School
Washington
Herman Klickman
Old Washington
Yellowstone River
Relief funds received from Reconstruction Finance Corp
Governor Erickson announced that $136,667 from the Reconstruction Finance Corporation arrived for relief work in 14 Montana counties. The sum represents December loans, marking the fourth month several counties have received aid through the federal relief fund.
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Montana
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
Erickson
Federal Relief Fund
Also Mentioned on This Page
Fellows D. Pease
McClernand
Reynold
Crazy Horse
New York
Chicago
Minneapolis
Northwest Fur Company
Peck & Durfee
General
Fort Keogh
Arapahoes
Department of the Platte
George Crook
Department of Dakota
Alfred H. Terry
George A. Custer
Seventh Cavalry
John Gibbon
Seventh Infantry
Fort Shaw
James S. Brisbin
Gibbon
Charles B. Scoffield
Crook
Lieut. McClernand
District of
Edward Ball
Valley of the Big Horn
Old Fort C. F.smith
Tullock’s Fork
Hos
Charles F. Roe
Lieut
Fort Smith
Sigismund Sternberg
Little Big Horn
General Gibbons
General Terry
Buffalo Rapids
Tongue River
Fort Tullock
Helena
Dakota
Gallatin County
Peasey
George
Crow Reservation
Grass Lodge
Captain Tom Custer
Detcers
Historical Library
Cobra
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