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Paymaster's Clerk Recall of Montana Frontier Days
Senator Arthur W. Miles recalls 1879 81 service as paymaster's clerk stationed at Fort Keogh Fort Custer and Fort Buford in Montana and North Dakota. He describes Buffalo hunts a hard winter Indian conflicts Sitting Bull Gall and 1881 Yellowstone trip and later frontier trading and settling as a merchant in Livingston and nearby towns.
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Arthur W. Miles
Montana
Arthuer W. Miles
Livingston
Clark City
United States
Nelson A. Miles
Joseph
Fort Buford
North Dakota
Yellowstone River
Yellowstone
Missouri
New Orleans
Miles City
George Miles
Yellowstone Valley
Rosebud
S. M. Fitzgerald
Yellowstone Park
Idaho
Miles
Fort Ellis
Bozeman
Mission Creek
Boulder River
Soda Butte
Clarks Fork Pass
Chief Joseph
Clarks Fork Stream
Fort Custer
Pilot
Index Peaks
Soda Butte Creek
Great Basin
Rocky Mountains
Cooke City
Barnitt’s Bridge
Mammoth Hot Springs
Fort Keogh
Bismarck
Glendive
Northern Pacific Railroad
Daniel Boone
United States Army
Bmrontana
Dakota
Tongue River
Main
Powder River
North Country
Missouri River
Dians
Sitting Bull
Chief Gall