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Newspaper
Choteau Acantha
Location
Choteau, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jan 03, 1929
Page
7
A historical survey traces river craft from the Indian bull boat and buffalo skin canoes to pirogues and keelboats, finishing with wood burning steamers that plied the Missouri to Fort Benton and the Yellowstone. The evolution marks early exploration, development, and settlement along these rivers.
The article details keelboats, mackinaws, and canoes used on the upper Missouri and Yellowstone. It highlights voyageurs as key oarsmen, the canoe as a vital courier, and the era’s rough river life from Fort Pierre to Fort Benton with shipbuilding, dangers from Indians, and routes to St. Louis.
A Sioux scouting party in eastern Montana selects a tree and hosts a night of brutal endurance as 15 young warriors endure a sun marked ordeal tied to a pole. Dancers, drumbeats, and pipe aids mark the ritual while ponies, bears, and sacred symbols accompany the ceremony.
Peter Witkaukas of Big Coulee admitted planting dynamite loaded wood in stoves at Ryegate sites and in the Ice home. Judge G. J. Jeffries sentenced him to 10 to 25 years in district court. Miss Dorothy Hall suffered severe injuries from the blast.
The year's activities show substantial expansion in the tie and treated timber sector across the Rocky Mountain region. About a quarter of a billion board feet of timber from national forests including lodgepole yellow pine fir larch and spruce indicates strong output growth.
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