Fort Custer: Montana Cavalry Post and Its Turbulent Era
Fort Custer near Hardin Montana, established 1877, served 25 years as a cavalry post. Soldiers faced campaigns and Indian tensions, including Crows at Crow Agency, with notable actions by Lt Doane and Generals Buell Miles Ruger. The post aided in health, education, and frontier infrastructure before dismantling in 1903 and repurposing grounds as a golf course.
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Fort Custer
ORT Custer
Big Horn
Little Big Horn
Hardin
Montana
Big Horn River
Grant Marsh
Custer
Doane
Second Cavalry
Doane-Washburn
Yellowstone Park
Fort Keogh
Fort
Keogh
George P. Buell
Eleventh Infantry
Don Carlos Buell
Army of the Ohio
Charles Mahr
Billings
Henry J. Armstrong
Swordbearer
Williamson
Armstrong
Thomas Ruger
Department of Dakota
Pacific Coast
Tenth Cavalry
Arizona
Tenth
Coxey
American Railway Union
Cheyenne
Cuba
Las Guasimas
San Juan Hill
Indian Service
8. G. Reynolds
Crow Agency
Chief Plenty Cops
Pryor
Dudley
W. A. Allen
George
Daughters of the American Revolution
Changing Blue Spruce Color at Montana State University
Forestry students at Montana State University Missoula are testing methods to deepen the blue spruce color using 11 mineral elements. Prof. Dorr Skeels notes the two year study will also examine watering and spacing density. Large shipments of spruce and other evergreens have been sent to estates in Pennsylvania and Chicago for landscaping.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Montana State University
Missoula
School of Forestry
Dorr Skeels
University
Pennsylvania
Chicago
Hardin Turkey Pool Sold
The first turkey pool of the season at Hardin was formed recently as Thanksgiving birds prove scarce and not in prime condition. Growers are urged to hold turkeys for Christmas.
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Hardin
Turkey Pool
One's Character and Aims Rise Together
A concise reflection on how personal integrity shapes achievement. The saying suggests character sets the ceiling for ambition and success, implying noble aims lead to elevated outcomes.
Final Rites Held for Charles F. Murphy
Funeral services for Charles F. Murphy were conducted in Anaconda with many Great Falls officials in attendance. Murphy, mayor of Great Falls from 1909 to 1911, later served as Deer Lodge county representative and became general superintendent of the Butte Anaconda and Pacific Railway after leaving Great Falls in 1911.
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Charles F. Murphy
Ansaconda
Great Falls
Murphy
Deer Lodge County
Butte, Anaconda & Pacific
Old Black Crow Turns Hiwayman
An auto party from Big Timber to Billings lost keys to a clever crow that swooped down near Grey Cliff. Mr. Ullman of Ullman Lumber and friends rattled rocks and pliers at the bird who dropped the keys a short distance away, then returned and refused to leave until driven off.
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Big Timber
Billings
C. F. Ullman
The
Ullman Lumber Company
Grey Cliff
Mr. Ullman
Black Bird
Teething Fussiness and Castoria Guidance
Teething makes him fussy and uncomfortable. A gentle bowel-cleansing Castoria is recommended for babies and children to relieve colic and aid regular digestion. It contains no harsh drugs and is marketed as a safe remedy with the genuine Castoria name.
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W. H. Banfill
Blackfeet
White Sulphur Springs
Murdock
Browning
Forrest Stone
Blackfeet Reservation
Ringling
Cut Bank
United States Dairy
Heart Butte
Star
Heavybreast
Sturgis
Seventh Cavalry
Canyon Creek
Buell
Miles
Bennett Creek
Clark's Fork
Yellowstone
Oort Custer
Mahr
Henry Kaiser
Crow” Davis
Leutenant
Milk River
Missouri
Red River
Fifth Infantry
Guido Tiges
Crow
Poplar River
Sitting Bull
Gall
Fort Leavenworth
John Stanley
Absurokee
Rosebud Creek
Banfill
N. B.C
Butte
Baltimore
Los Angeles
Minneapolis
HE Polytechnic
Billings Polytechnic Institute
del Oy
Jintana
Lew
T. Zaton
Billings Gazette
Forestry
Old Black Crow
Hiwayman
Bird
Castoria
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