Montana Indians and Horse Theft Raids in the 1880s
The 1886 account recalls a spike in horse theft across Montana involving Crow and Yankton Sioux bands and white range men. It notes stolen stock from Milner Live Stock Co and others, police actions, rewards, and debates over Indian reservations as fertile grounds for theft and calls to civilize by opening lands to nonreservation settlers.
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Montana
Lou” Grill
Miles City
Poplar Creek
Yellowstone River Valley
Fort Keogh
River Press
Fort Benton
Milner Live Stock Company
Shonkin
Missouri River
Crow Coulee
Milner
Maple Creek
Medicine Hat
MacLeod
Calgary
Mounted Police
Sanders
Gros Ventre
Huntly and Clark
Toston
M. T
Gallatin
Leighton and
Jordan
Eri Coggshall
Illinois and Wisconsin Cattle Company
Sam Pepin
William Cantrel
Bill
Meagher County
Helena Independent
Fort Custer
Crow Reservation
Yellowstone
Big Horn
Poplar River
Helena
West
Northwest
Troops Complete Stage Of National Forest March
Fort Missoula units of the First battalion Fourth Infantry conducted a multi day hike from Packer's meadow to Brushy creek and back toward Lolo Hot Springs with A C and D companies moving daily by road and supply truck maintaining contact with B company at the post. Investments in foos securities are increasing in
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fourth Infantry
Fort Missoula
Sacajawea National Monument Dedication At Lemhi Pass Picnic
The Sacajawea national monument near Lemhi Pass was formally dedicated during the Montana Idaho picnic. Montana and Idaho attendees heard remarks from Dr Grace Raymond Hebard and Archdeacon Nash. Foresters installed boundary markers for the 140 acre monument as Joe Metlen presided.
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Sacajewea National Monument
Dillon
Montana-Idaho
The
National Forest
Lemhi Pass
Beaverhead
Lemhi
Daughters of the American Revolution of
Montana
Idaho
Regional
Forest Service
Grace Raymond Hebard
University of Wyoming
Charles S. Passmore
Archdeacon Nash
Coeur d'Alene
O. A. Dingman
Montana School of
R. F. Hammatt
A. A. Simpson
Beaverhead Forest
Sacajawea Park
Divide
Joe Metlen
Beaverhead Mining Association
Veteran visits Yellowstone after 43 years away
Thomas F. Coyne of Kansas City revisits Yellowstone, recalling life in 1886 when patrols were scarce and Fort Yellowstone era scenes. He recalls icehouses, stagecoach robberies, elk trails, and early park figures while noting modern ranger patrols and a growing buffalo herd.
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Yellowstone Park
Thomas F. Coyne
Kansas City
Mr. Coyne
Jupiter Terrace
Mammouth Hot Springs
Capitol Hill
Fort Yellowstone
Sergeant Coyne
Dr. LaGuardia
Panama
General Goethals
Gorgos
Panama Canal
Jim McBride
Ed Wilson
Frank Jay Haynes
Pioneer Park
McBride
Crevice
San Francisco
Custer
Park
First Cavalry
Captain Harris
Coyne
Madison Basin
Deer Lodge
James Higginbotham
Snake River
Castle
Marquis de Morez
Canada
India
Georgianna de Paul
Gallatin Canyon
Henry Ward Beecher
Man Suspected of Starting Forest Fire Near Moosehorn Creek
A forest fire burned nearly an acre of timber at Moosehorn Creek head on Wisdom Gibbonsville pass. The Dillon forestry office reported the blaze and Ranger Ramsey notified Dillon. A man suspected of starting the fire prompted six Wisdom men to fight it. the fire was brought under control shortly after.
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Man
Moosehorn Creek
Wisdom-Gibbonsville Pass
Dillon Forestry Office
Ramsey
Dillon & Man
Wisdom
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Montana Stockgrowers Association
Sacajawea
Pacific Coast
Mandan
N. D
Intermountain
Youu
Intermountain College
Lena, Montana
Foos Securities
McBride, Wilson and
Haynes
Swan Lake
Golden Gate
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