Trask's Christmas Buffalo Stampede Ends in Disaster
Harley Trask, famed Montana buffalo hunter, planned a cliff stampede along the Yellowstone to rake in hundreds of hides. On Christmas Day 1873 his herd of 400 bulls plunged 100 feet from a river bluff, killing many and injuring others while Trask watched from a butte and counted fifty that crossed the ice unscathed.
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Dickin
Harley Trask
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Yellowstone
Forsyth
Rosebud County
Butte
Fort Ellis
Footsore
Plenty Coups
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Billings Museum Preserves Lincoln and Grant Scissors In Will
The Parmly Billings Memorial library receives a historic consignation from William D. White a Civil War veteran linked to Lincoln and Grant. The museum notes the scissors date to the Revolution and were used to cut buttonholes on George Washingtons suit and to trim Lincoln and Grants beards while traveling through war times.
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Gen. Grant
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George Washington
Gen. A. S. Grant
Theodore Roosevelt
Parmly Billings Memorial
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Library Museum
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General Grant
Teddy Roosevelt
Theirs Was No Sissy Game and the World’s Cutlery Scissors
A Billings library museum display centers on a set of Civil War era scissors carried by W. D. White and tied to multiple conflicts from the Revolutionary War to the Spanish American War. The collection includes pistols, a sabre, recovered passes, army envelopes with slogans, and a notable rusty pair of scissors highlighted as its centerpiece.
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W. D. White
A. S. Dobbins
Pilot Knob
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A. Lincoln
A. Johnson
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Wyoming
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Second Infantry
Montana National Guard
Dick Logan
Tom Logan
Clifford Chase
Albert Clanton
Will Parker
Ralph Morris
L. E. Yorrence
Conoco
Conoco Bronze
Continental Oil Company
Conocs
This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!