Emigrant Band Averts Massacre During 1867 Wagon Train
The Hilger family joined a 300 wagon emigrant train in 1867 from Minnesota to Montana and used a brass band to deter hostile Sioux and Gros Ventres. Captain and advisory board maintained strict discipline while oxen pulled heavy loads across Milk River country amid water shortages and buffalo herds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
David Hilger
Nicholas Hilger
Minnesota
Treasure
Milk River
David R
Minneago
David Er
Esota
St. Paul
New Ulm
Winters
Hilgers
Helena
United States Army Infantry
Fort Buford
Missouri
Dakota
Missouri River
Fort Stevens
Fort Assinniboine
Fort Benton
Hilger
Montana
Sheriff Seeks Old Dollar With Odd History of Conflict
The silver dollar once owned by former Park County Sheriff James McClarty reappears in a tale of wartime luck. McClarty gave the dollar to soldier Bill Wright in 1917 with a promise of $20 on return. Wright carried it through France, then returned the prize, but McClarty later spent it unknowingly. The coin bears The War's Over and battles names Chateau Thierry St Mihiel Argonne dated.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James McClarty
Park County
McClarty
Bozeman
Chateau Thierry
St. Mihiel
Argonne
Livingston
William O’hern
Livingston Enterprise
Bill Wright
Wright
France
Highway Patrol Expanded to Fifty Men for 1938
The state highway commission acting as the highway Patrol board enlarges the patrol to 50 men and abolishes the assistant supervisor post once held by Walter Beck. Board members cite four sectional assistants authorized by the last legislature as making the role unnecessary. Dunbar Bostwick, the poloist, is noted with his trot horse in attendance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
State Highway Commission
Highway Patrol Board
Highway Patrol
Walter Beck
Force
Smallpox Devastation Among Plains Tribes in 1837 Epidemic
The piece recounts the 1837 smallpox outbreak that spread from a St. Louis riverboat to Fort Union and across Piegan Blood and Blackfeet territories. It details tens of thousands of robe trade, mass deaths, and the impact on traders, with Fort McKenzie as a central site where vaccination reduced mortality. It notes key figures Maj. Culbertson and Captain Harvey and the spread via infected goods and blankets.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Three Forks
Belly
St. Mary’s
Canada
Montana
North Dakota
Serritory St
Asainniboines
Dakota
Fort McKenzie
Marias River
Maj
Alexander Culbertson
Plains
American Fur Company
St. Louis
Fort Union
Yellowstone
Barnard Pratt
Bill May
Missouri
Pratt
Harvey
LaDouck
Judith River
Major Culbertson
Culbertson
Viola
The
Judith
Missouri River
Antoine Dauphin
Dauphin
Sandoval
Montana Adds 11 Highway Patrolmen and Reorganizes Office
The Montana highway board appointed 11 new patrolmen from districts 3 through 11, intending them to report once equipment is ready. The board abolished the administrative assistant to patrol supervisor position, releasing Walter Beck, and outlined two branch structures for patrol operations, moving HQ to the highway building.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lou Boedecker
Walter Beck
Missoula
Montana Highway Board
R. Jones
Malta
Orrie Woods
Sidney
A. A. Anderson
Great Falls
Eugene Mora
Albert: Maes
Helena
Bodley Vacura
Plains
Richard Albert
de Borgia
William Elena
Butte
Walter Lyons
Lim
Yeass
Pacen
Patrol A Tion
W.opps
State Highway Commission
Capitol
Highway Department
The
Highway Commission
H. C., Tilzey
Tilzey
Guy J. Johnson
Judge, Just Send Us to Deer Lodge for 389 Christmas
Prisoners at Montana State Penitentiary enjoyed a Christmas feast arranged by Warden Theodore R. Bergstrom with about 550 inmates taking part. Breakfast included berry sauce cream of wheat syrup side pork shoestring potatoes and hot biscuits. Dinner featured roast chicken cranberry sauce scalloped corn candied sweet potatoes and cake with tea coffee and cream. The prison orchestra performed during dinner and a movie was shown in the theater in the afternoon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Montana State Penitentiary
Theodore R. Bergstrom
Poular Secctions
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Dian
Sky
Fort Plavens
Big Stone Lake
Devils Lake
Missouriver
Wis
Clark County
Gates of the Rains
Fergus County
Lewistown
Christina H. Fergus
William Fergus
James Fergus
State Historical Library
Fergus Ranch
Box Elder Creek
Dunbar Bostwick
Western Air Express
Salt, Lake City
Idaho Falls
Pocatello
Salt Lake City
Deer Lodge
Hannibal
Alps
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