Hazardous frontier supply trips told by Captain Gilbreath
Captain Gilbreath, founder of Terry's Landing, served as a supply inspector for Crow Agency. He recounts perilous Montana duties, ice floods on the Missouri, ferry crossings, ferryboat hazards, thefts, and a sun dance interruption as he remained on duty at Fort Buford until September 23, 1886.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gilbreath
Terry’s Landing
Crow Agency
Montana
Self
Glendive
Borus Ranch
Buford
Missouri
O’brien
O'Brien
Etta
Will
Fort Buford
Poplar River
Roosevelt lodge Wildlife Viewpoint At Yellowstone Park
Visitors visiting Roosevelt lodge near Tower junction can see bears elk antelope and numerous deer in a four hour ride and a 12 mile trip leads to the buffalo ranch about 1 200 buffalo roam in summer. Notes on Captain E C Gilbreath and West experiences are presented in this installment condensed by W H Banfill.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Yellowstone National Park
Roosevelt Lodge
Tower Junction
Specimen Ridge
Ben Arnold
Lamar River
Roosevelt
John Burroughs
Hinsdale Area Road Job Completed Ahead of Schedule
Charles McChesney of Beaverton, subcontractor for dirt work on the Hinsdale to Phillips county line highway, has finished the project and delivered Valley county road machinery to Glasgow. He leased equipment from Phillips and Valley counties. graveling is nearly complete with about four miles remaining in Valley county.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles McChesney
Beaverton
Hinsdale
Phillips County
Winston Brothers
St. Paul
Glasgow
McChesney
Phillips
Valley Counties
Valley County
Swedish study totals 40 million lost lives from war and plague
A Swedish statistical society estimates that the combined impact of pestilence and the Great War cost the world up to 40 million lives. The figure underscores the war’s global human toll and the devastating reach of infectious disease during that era.
Fort Custer Officer Recalls Crow Agency Duty and Frontier Travel
W H Banfill recounts 1879 1882 service as inspector of supplies for the Crow agency based at Fort Custer. He details monthly agency visits, harsh frontier travel by stage and river, a perilous Yellowstone ferry crossing, annuity supervision, treaty work, and eventual transfer to Fort Buford.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
E. C .Gilbreath
Eleventh Infantry
Fort Custer
Fort Buford
West
William S. Gilbreath
Detroit
W. H. Banfill
Gilbreath
Agency
Crow Agency
Yellowstone River
Stillwater
Stillwater River
Columbus
Countryman
Yellowstone
Huntley
Custer
Hoppin
Second Cavalry
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Three Forks
Central Bank
Turkey
Japan
K. D. Swan
Ram’s Horn Peak
Ram’s Horn Lake
National Forest Service
Washington
Ohio
Department
United States
Crazy Head
White
Terry’s
Forsyth
Colonel Chipman
Dakota
Baltimore
Chicago
Missouri River
Kreal Health Food
Montana Flour Mili4 Company
Great Pols
Marievten
F. Nathaniel Perkins Commission Wool Broker
Summer St, Boston, Wh
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