Fort C. F. Smith and Bozeman Trail Relics in Decline
In 1866 the Bozeman trail through present Montana and Wyoming spurred forts and battles with Red Cloud. Fort C. F. Smith near Crow country now lies in ruins as adobe walls erode, with memory of Bozeman and Bridger’s expeditions fading amid history of sieges and Indian wars.
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Bozeman Trail
William A. Banfill
Big Horn River
Hundred-Mile
C. F. Smith
Montana
Red Cloud
Crow Reservation
Fort Laramie
North Platte River
Powder
Tongue Rivers
Big Horn Mountains
Little Horn
Big Horn
Fort Smith
Pryor Mountains
Clark’s Fork
Beartooth Mountains
Yellowstone River
Livingston
Bozeman Pass
Gallatin Valley
Virginia City
Bozeman
Nelson Story
Mr. Story
Texas
Fort
St. Xavier
Crow Indian Reservation
Montana's Wildest Buggy Ride Beats Butte Fire Team Record
In Granite and Philipsburg era days a Two-horse buggy ride ends in wreck and injuries after Denny Hynes a former Butte fireman tries to race with Billy Ryan. Hynes boasts of a Main Street run in 20 seconds and credits Butte fire department guts. Both men survive hospital treatment.
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Montana
Butte Fire
Butte
Philipsburg
Charley Langlois
West Granite Street
Jack Hawk
East Broadway
Tom Morrow
South Main
Marysville
Silver
Gus Johnson
Denny Hynes
Billy Ryan
Granite
Granite Mounain
Hynes
Quartz Street
Granite County
Fred
Denny
Con
Ryan
Bill
Main Street
Mercury
Philpsburg
How S Hughes Slipped Away From Indians On Yellowstone River
In 1865 amid Sioux Blackfeet clashes prospectors pushed into Yellowstone country. S Hughes and two Coloradan partners were ambushed by about 500 Sioux. Hughes killed four attackers, escaped through brush to Boulder Creek, then Yellowstone and was taken to Virginia City for treatment.
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Patrick Conner
Powder River
Buffalo
Wyo
Red Cloud
United States
Col. H. B. Carrington
Conner
Fort Reno
Big Horn
Yellowstone
Bridger
James Bridger
Carrington
Fort Kearney
Bridgers
Jim Beckwith
Beckwourth
Beckwith
John W. Smith
Fort Phil Kearney
Fort Smith
Driscoll
Wood
S. Hughes
Yellowstone River
M. E, Plassmann
Gros Ventres
Prairie
Black Hills
Montana
A. J. Noble
James Campbell
Colorado
Gallatin
Rosebud
Emigrant Gulch
Range
Montana Post
Hughes
Campbell
Boulder Creek
Virginia City
Noble
Post
Helena
Fort Benton
Wool trade activity links buyers from Harlowton and beyond
Report Manger Wool Sold Buyers from Harlowton and elsewhere are busy negotiating for wool in the White Sulphur Springs territory. Mrs. Harriet Tooley and E. C. Baxter of Wheat land county, and C. T. Bush of Big Tim ber visited prominent flock masters. Only one local sale is reported, that of the Manger ranches, 17,000 fleeces, at a price not made public but quoted as better than prevailing prices of last year.
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Harlowton
White Sulphur Springs
Harriet Tooley
E. C. Baxter
Wheatland County
C. T. Bush
Pioneer Matron Stricken
Mrs. Annie Murphy 69 a longtime Butte resident died at home after a brief illness.
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Annie Murphy
Butte
Also Mentioned on This Page
John M. Bozeman
John Jacobs
Big Horns
Jacobs
James Stuart
Platte
Dennis Driscoll
Platte River
W. J. Fetterman
John Phillips
Philip Wessel
John E. Smith
Granville Stuart
Crow Country
Sternberg
Corral
Custer
Red Napoleon
Victor
Wyoming
Missouri
Idaho
Lumbago
Bayer
Momoacetic Acidesier
Salley
Five Mile House
Three Mile
Three Mile House
Harding
Simon Estis
Sim" Estis
Estis
Sun River
Bouble Acting
Ines Yuan
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