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Three Trappers Face 1500 Sioux in Pryor Mountain Battle
Three trappers Woody Hubbell Cocke faced 1500 Sioux in Pryor mountains on June 24 1875. They held a barricaded camp at Beauvaix creek near Old Mission after heavy fighting, killing a chief and several warriors while narrowly escaping death. They trekked 100 miles to safety and later confirmed by Crow accounts. Woody died years later in Missouri.
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Pioneers of
Montana
The
Big Hole
Custer
Joseph
Bear Paw Mountains
Sully
Pryor Mountains
Big Horn County
Indiana
Nez Perces
Fort Fetterman
Fort Phil Kearney
Forsyth
Forsythe
Roman Nose
Pryor Mountain
Tazewell Woody
Lew Hubbell
Charles Cocke
Yellowstone Valley
Mission
Livingston
Woody
Pryor’s Gap
Beauvaix Creek
Big Horn River
Old Fort C. F. Smith
Hubbell
Cocke
John Yancey
Gardner
Maasion
Black Hills
Pryor Creek
Missouri
Mountains
Theodore Roosevelt