Helena Pioneer Samuel Ward Joins Early 1863 Bozeman Route Attempt
Samuel Ward of Helena, a member of the first party to attempt the Bozeman Trail in 1863, keeps a diary detailing hardships on the North Platte expedition from St Joseph. The entries note prairie telegraph news from Gettysburg and the group’s push toward the shorter route, amid Indian resistance and high prices at Fort Laramie. Ward’s son later became Montana Supreme Court judge.
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Gar
Samuel Ward
Helena
Bozeman
North Platte
John M. Bozeman
Jacobs
North Platte River
Bannack City
Placer
Beaverhead Country
Idaho
Big Horn Mountains
The
Platte
Samuel Word
St. Joseph
Gold Country
Word
Ward
Missouri
Marysville
Kan
Big Blue
Little Blue Rivers
Fort Kearney
Neb
Platte River
Lower Platte
Independence
Omaha
Fort Laramie
Box Elder Creek
Deer Creek
Fort Laramie Military Center
Gettysburg
Hooker
Lee
Robert Lee Word
Montana
Supreme Court
Bozeman and
Upper
Yellowstone
Montana Historical Society
Pioneer Bozeman Trail Expedition Detailed in Diary
The article recalls the 1863 Bozeman trail start near Deer Creek and Orpha Wyoming, guiding figures Jacobs and Rafael, with 46 wagons and 89 men. It notes difficult desert travel, Indian tensions, and diary comparisons of the guides while tracing the northward route toward Powder River and Lodgepole Creek.
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Platte
Deer Creek
Lockett, Wyo
Orpha
Wye
Bozeman
Jacobs
Rafael
Ward
Liquid Corn Rum Casings and Indian Patrols Near Great Falls
Two men in custody near Great Falls face charges over a still found at Prospect Park with a 40 gallon capacity in a hog pen. The 사건 includes witnesses T. H. Preston and John Erickson, a 1,000 dollar bond, and a large encampment of Cheyenne and Sioux warriors who parleyed with emigrants. The diary notes a retreat toward the Bozeman Jacobs trail with Gold discovery by old man Bovier and war news from Vicksburg and Port Hudson amid retreat pressures.
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Great Falls
United States Marshals Office
T. H. Preston
John Erickson
Prospect Park
Burr Hill
J. Q. Adams
Buffalo, Wyo
Sheridan, Wyo
Corral
South Fork
Lodgepole Creek
Deer Creek
Bovier
Jacobs
Bozeman
Oregon Trail
Ward
Vicksburg
Port Hudson
Lee
Sumpter
Son of Former Congressman Plans Alaska Air Prospecting Expedition
Merrill K. Riddick son of a former Montana congressman says an aerial Alaska expedition will uncover gold timber coal iron and copper. He notes iron near the coast can skew a ship compass and cites past overland delays resolved by airplanes.
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Montana
Alaska
Merrill K. Riddick
Riddick
New York
Air Reserve Corps
Klondike
Montana Men Serving in the U S Navy
A photograph features Montana men serving in the United States Navy. Names listed include Norton Belgrade Pitman Ford Livingston Miller Totson Richardson Mc Elwain Decker Ronan Clark Paradise Kuntz Hamilton Berry Missoula Tolson Great Falls Nelson Reed Point Robertson Great Falls Moore Culbertson DeMamphery Xavier Brill Billings Jarrett Roundup Hirt Glendive Butterfield listed as fourth from left front row.
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Montana
United States Navy
Howard Glen Norton
Townsend
Grenfall Pitman Ford
Belgrade
Byrle Walter Payne
Livingston
Charles Lytle Miller
Waterloo
Harold Johnson
Totson
Estel Ray Richardson
Three Forks
Harry Williams McElwain
Deer Lodge
Paul Richard Foresman
Decker
Glen Albert Woodard
Ronan
James Richard Clark
Paradise
Mike Joseph Kuntz
Hamilton
Lawrence Melvin Berry
Missoula
Charles Ward Tolson
Miles City
William Charles Butterfield
Great Falls
Charles Gelspy Nelson
Whitefish
Edward Carl Giles
Reed Point
Lester George Robertson
Mark Eugene Moore
Culbertson
Earl Arthur DeMamphery
St. Xavier
Willard Robert Brill
Billings
James Leonard Jarrett
Roundup
John Peter Hirt
Glendive
Butterfield
L. M. Gilbertson
Mr. Robertes
Treaties Might Bar War Debt Dodgers
John J. Holmes Montana auditor and commissioner of insurance reviews state law and treaties to decide if foreign domiciled firms that repudiated war debt may operate in the United States. The French Union and Universal Insurance of Paris faces application. decision not retroactive and not to affect insurers already licensed in Montana.
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John J. Holmes
Montana
United States
French Union and Universal Insurance Company
Paris
France
Youth Becomes Lost When Home Is Gone
Danny Reynolds of Butte, missing after his family moved from 941 West Granite Street to Jasper Street, was located by police at the old West Granite residence after his mother reported him missing.
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Danny Reynolds
Butte
Mrs. Reynolds
West Granite Street
Jasper Street
Danny
Big
RECORD RUN AT CANNERY POLSON FERA PLANT
The FERA canning plant at Polson produced a record run of salmon canning with 1 089 No 2 cans turned out. To date they have put up over 10 000 cans of fish.
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Cannery
FERA
Polson
Goatskin Called Toughest Skin for Furniture Upholstery
A claim that goatskin provides the toughest option for furniture upholstery appears in discussions of material durability. The assertion highlights goatskin as a preferred hide among upholstering materials.
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Thomas B. Marquis
Jack McCausland
Forsyth Independent
House of Representatives
Rosebud County
Powder River
Lodgepole
Stormer
Niagara
North Platte Trail
Bannack
Lieut
Merrill Riddick
Louise Vaughn
Rex
TREXS
University of Minnesota
College of Agriculture
Anaconda Copper Mining Company
Dept. C
Anaconda, Montana
U. S. Navy
Baking
King Bue
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