Scene of Custer's Last Stand Impresses a Frontiersman
Gen W A Allen recalls leading a 250 person wagon train to Deadwood in 1877 less than a year after the battle. He describes pursuing hostile Sioux, reaching the Little Horn valley near Sitting Bull camps, and viewing the battlefield where Custer fell with many dead and scattered gear preserved by time.
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the Little Big Horn
Custer
W. A. Allen
Billings, Mont
Western Plains
General Allen
Ior
Deadwood
Dakota
Big Horn Mountains
WwWing
Montana
Itewood
Fort 8 i
False Bottom
Grille
Fort Sturgess
Spearfish
Beard
Benard
Colonel Beard
Calamity Jane
Dead Wood
Redwater
Tom Nicholson
Bronx
Jane
Nickolson
Ruimrock
Red Cloud Agency
Thomas Nickolson
Bill Baldwin
Rimrocks
Bill Allen
Big Horn
Tom
John Wusturn
Ozen
Patel
Montana Territory
Little Horn
Little Horn Valley
Rosebud Creek
Sitting Bull
HUes + Ster
Bill
Bob Jackson
Gaul
Red Cloud
Geogh
Co. I
Seventh Cavalry
J. J. Crittenden
Twentieth Infantry
Pryor Mountains
Clark's Fork
Old Bridger Trail
Carver and Curley Duel on the Plains for Buffalo Hunt Crown
Doc Carver, famed plains rifleman, faces off against Buffalo Curley in a $5000 challenge to shoot the most buffalo on a single run near Mud Springs. The match draws soldiers, Pawnees and Sioux, with Carver winning after a dramatic display that ends with Curley’s horse dying and a celebrated victory for the long-haired marksman.
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Carver
Frenchman Creek
Mud Springs
Big Jack
Buffalo Curley
Buffalo” Curley
Jack McCall
Deadwood
Wild Bill Hickok
Republican River
Red Willow
Plains
Kenown
Texas
Fort McPherson
Schwatka
White Clay Agency
Leutenant
D. W. F. Carver
DUD Nursery Plans Stock for Eastern Montana Farmers
The State university tree nursery, run with federal cooperation, will supply Montana farmers with native trees next spring. Located on 13 acres near Hell Gate canyon and the university area, the project will use extension services to distribute windbreaks and shelter trees to eastern counties. Experiments with global tree varieties will seek well adapting species and some output will serve denuded areas statewide.
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State University
United States
School of Forestry
Dean Spaulding
Forestry School
Hell Gate Canyon
van Buren Street
University
Montana
Montana State College
State College Extension Service
Indians and Butte Veterans Seek Leatherwood Pensions
The article recalls the 1877 Nez Perce War pursuit with Major W. A. Clark leading volunteers from Butte. It notes the Leatherwood bill passed by Congress to grant pensions to Indian war veterans and lists a Butte roster of volunteers and officers, including W. A. Clark and Charles Warren, with names of many privates. It mentions McDermott’s efforts to locate surviving veterans and historic Butte connections.
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Butte
Joseph
Montana
W. A. Clark
Main and
Broadway
Deer Lodge
General Gibbons
Big Hole Valley
Congress
New Perce
William McDermott
North Manheattan Place
Los Angeles
Cal
McDermott
Butte Battalion
Alex J. Johnston
M. Johnstone
Simon Haysworth
Alexander
Lyman W. Kennear
Northwest
Land of
Kennear
Jefferson City
Centennial
Pioneer
Finten
Sammy Alexander Bir
Sammy Alexander
Sammy
Charles
Volunteers
Charles W. Warren
James A. Talbot
L. W. Lowry
A. W. Bernard
Richard Pue
Ben Vernor
Patrick Foley
W. H. Archer
S. Kennegar
Robert. Simms
Patrick P. Alexander
Patrick Talent
L. W. Whalen
B. C. Benson
J. C. McLinn
Henry Suprenat
William Eaeriat
Addison Smith
C. E. Humphreys
N. L. Turner
E. W
L.S. Strickland
W. J. McNamara
Joseph Hectman
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Billings
Fletcher
Physicians
Doc Carver
E. Richard Shipp
Dr Carver
Curley
Brown Bear
Red Lips
Eva Raymond
Pahemin Nieminsh
Lieut
Wild Bill
West
DUD Nursery
Nez Perce
Bette
ITO
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