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Redington's Montana Scout Odyssey Across Lost Wilderness
Grace Stone Coates recounts Colonel J. W. Redington's 1870s Montana expeditions with the Nez Perces and Bannack campaigns. The piece follows his perilous journey from Deer Lodge to Gibbon's battlefield, evading hostile bands, trading horses, foraging for scarce bread, and surviving a swamp ordeal before tracking to Farnsworth Mine country and Horse Prairie.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Scar O. Mueller
Lewistown
Hank” Flannagan
Stevensville
J. W. Redington
Redington
Montana
David Hilger
Montana Historical Society
Mueller
Hilger
Flannagan
5Th
Massachusetts Infantry
Co. C
21St U. S. Regular Infantry
Fort Vancouver
Washington Territory
W. A. Clark
U. S
O. O. Howard
U. S. Army
Tim Baldwin
Oregon
Wasco
Grant
Ore
Idaho
Nevada
Howard
Department of the Columbia
Farrow
E. S. Farrow
Salmon River Mountains
Joseph
Nez Perces
Alps
Bloody Dick Quich
Farnsworth
Horse Prairie
William Farnsworth
New York