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Charles Nylan recalls Slim Buttes frontier battle and era
Packer Charles W. Nylan who served under Crook and Custer recounts the Slim Buttes fight of Sept 9, 1876, the death of Buffalo Chips, and the broader frontier campaigns in Montana and the Black Hills, with notes on American Horse and other scouts and the aftermath at Deadwood.
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Charles Nylan
George Crook
Slim Buttes
Montana
Buffalo Chips
Buffalo Bill” Cody
Custer
Albert W. Johnson
Minnesota
Crock
Charles W. Nylan
Wyoming
Crook
Miles
Nylan
Jackie
Johnson
Sweden
St. Paul
North Dakota
Morehead
St. Patrick’s Day
Fort Abercrombie
Fort Carlin
Cheyenne
Black Hills
Fort Fetterman
George A. Crook
Crazy Horse
Reynolds
Powder River
Tongue River
Rosebud
Heart River
Dickinson, S. D
Anson Mills
Third Cavalry
Frank Giuard
A. H. von Leuttwitz
Prussia
Buttes
American Horse
Jackie” Nylan
Henry
Baptiste Pourier
Big Bat
Buffalo
James Jonathan
Charley White
White
Buffalo Bill
Cody
West
Can
Phillipines
Fort Robinson
Nebraska
Fort Keogh
Fort Feterman
Rogers
Seventh Cavalry
Big Bat” Pourier
Rocky Ford
S. D
Baptiste Garnier
Minneap
Pourier
Deadwood
Wesley Merritt
Ameri