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Nye Mines Boom to Bust in Crow Reservation Controversy
In 1880s Nye on Stillwater rose as a boom town amid a dispute over mining claims on Crow lands. Promoters struggled against reservation borders, Armstrong’s agency policies, and shifting capital as a smelter and town grew, then vanished with ore doubts and legal taunts.
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W. H. Banfill
Nye
Stillwater
Crow Reservation
Indian Service
William T. Wilton
West
Henry J. Armstrong
Armstrong
Horace Countryman
Yellowstone
Columbus
Rosebud Creek
Agency
Billings Herald
Hamilton
Jack Nye
Myself
H. McDonald
Joseph Anderson
A. S. Hubbell
Hubbell
United States
Crow Agency
Topping
Beartooth Mountains
Cooke City
Skookum Joe
Wood
Beartooth Lodge
Mr. Hamilton
Arm
Strong
Anderson
Jack V. Nye
Minneapolis
Minneapolis Mining and Smelting Company
Frank L. Mann
Billings
Old Coulson
Mr. Mann
Jackie
Granite Bluff
Bier Dee
Bill Hamilton
Fred Mashaw
Old Nye
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