Typical Free Trapper Joe Meek and Mil Sublette Tale
Life in the early forties details two rescue episodes that bound Joe Meek to Milton Sublette and to Umentucken the Mountain Lamb. Meek braves a January blizzard to save a trapped wife and child, earning praise as a fearless frontiersman and guide.
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Joe Meek
Milton Sublette
Meek
Willamette Valley
Oregon
M. E. Plassmannt
Gotia
Sublette
Portneuf
Umentucken
Rocky Mountain
St. Louis
Willamette River
Umentucken Sublette and the Indian Wife in Rocky Mountain Tales
The narrative recounts Milton Sublette's peril during a blizzard and his rescue of an Indian woman and child, contrasting it with lesser stories such as Raleigh and the velvet coat. It includes vivid details of Sublette's Indian wife Umentucken, her beauty, dress, and the horse All Fours, as well as Sublette’s later surgical operation.
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Umentucken
Tukutey Undenwatsey
Cinderella
James Oliver Curwood
Yellowstone
O'Fallon
O’fallon
Amentucken
Meek
Pluck
Powder River
Sublette
Walter Raleigh
Milton Sublette
Mook
Bridger
Romance of Meek and Bridger Ends in Tragedy on the Plains
The narrative follows Joe Meek and Jim Bridger amid 1830s fur trapping in the Rocky Mountain region. Meek faces conflict with Bridger over allegiance and contract terms, endures ambush near Pierre's Hole where Allen is killed, and reflects on the doomed fur trade as emigration and gold rush reshape the West.
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Anen
kHled
Meek
Fort Bonneville
American Fur Company
Rocky Mountains
Santa Fe
Lower Columbia
Hudson's Bay Company
Fort Hall
Bridger
United States
Pierre’s Hole
Jee Meek
Jim Bridger
Kit Carsem
Rocky Mountain
Joe Meek
Gardiner's Hole
Meek Shoul
Allen
Pierre's Hole
Blackfeet
Gros Ventres
Oregon
West
California
Lincoln County Contest Seeks Supreme Court Clarification
Lincoln County disputes over the timing to qualify for county offices. W A Wallace seeks ouster relief and asks the Idaho Supreme Court to clarify a statute. Judge Pomeroy appointed Callow. Wallace claims disqualification of the district judge and seeks court review. Attorney General Foot joins to resolve qualification dates for county treasurer and others.
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State Supreme Court
Lincely
Wei Anie Wahgee
Lincoln
Vomeroy
Pomeroy
B. F. Callow
Wallace
Supreme Court
Foot
Lincoln County
Roundup of Abandoned Horses Ordered by Wheatland County
County commissioners of Wheatland county issue a roundup for all abandoned horses on February 8 in the northern third of the county above the Chicago Milwaukee St Paul main line. Horses unowned and a nuisance to stockmen will be rounded up five miles north of Tiarlowton and disposed of as deemed best. John F. Ross named roundup foreman with charge of work.
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Wheatland County
Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway
Norsexk
Tiarlowton
John F. Ross
Nut Roast Featured as Central Christmas Dish
A synthetic turkey made from roast nuts mushrooms milk and eggs served as the central dish at the London Vegetarian Society Christmas dinner.
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London Vegetarian Society
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Wilderneces
United States Weather Bureau
Newell
Wallamet
James Bridger
Bayer
Sfectere Et Meneaceticacides
Ef Selicyticachd
Cee
Fronatiersman
Pierre
W. A. Wallace
Western Wallboard Co
Seattle
Plaster Wallboard
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