Boy Scout Joe Culbertson recalls clashes with Sitting Bull after Custer
In a memoir style account Joe Culbertson describes joining General Miles as a teen scout after the Custer fight. He details winter battles near Fort Peck and Fort Keogh, capturing enemy lodges and horses, and earning Miles praise before a 150 mile dispatch run to Fort Peck.
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Fort Peck
Baldwin
Joe
Wolf Point
Redwater
Fort Keogh
Missouri
Joseph Culbertson Scout and Interpreter with Indian War Ties
Joseph Culbertson a Fort Peck Agency interpreter in Northern Montana holds thirty two honorable discharges and a medal for services as a scout in Indian wars of the west spanning twenty years He is son of Alexander Culbertson a famed builder trader and influence in Blackfeet trade Culbertson recounts becoming a scout for General Miles at nineteen and four battles with Sitting Bull in the winter of 1876 77 shortly after Custer's Little Bighorn disaster
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Fort Benton
Alexander Culbertson
Fort Browning
People’s Creek
Dodson
Browning
Fort Buford
N.D
Jack Simmons
Fort Peck
James Stuart
Granville Stuart
Big Dry
Missouri River
Glasgow
Washington
General Grant
United States
Salt Lake
Helena
Sitting Bull
Powder River
Canada
Miles
Baldwin
Old Fort Peck
Bull
Missouri
Hill Creek
Lark Creek
Milk River
Big Bend
Saco
Fort Keogh
Redwater
United States Army
Joseph Culbertson
Culbertson
Montana
Old Fort Benton
General Miles
Little Big Horn
Memoir Snippet Describes 1876 Scout Journey and Sitting Bull Camp
The narrator recalls a harsh open winter of 1876 and starting a lone scouting trip from camp on Timber Creek. He notes gaining trust of eastern Montana Indian fighters and encountering Sitting Bull's Camp as snow falls on a fine morning ten miles from base.
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Timber Creek
Sheep Mountains
Old Sitting Bull
Montana
Sitting Bull
Judge A C Spencer Nixes Prohibition Case Strategy
District Court Judge Billings J A C Spencer halted prohibition enforcement by ordering the arrest of W L Kemper, the key state witness against Frank Swim, and then directed county at once to proceed. The move upsets prosecutors and reshapes the bootlegging prosecutions ongoing in the area.
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Billings
A. C. Spencer
District Court
Prohibition
W. L. Kemper
Frank Swim
County
Freezone Provides Quick Relief for Corn Pain
Advert reveals Freezone ointment to remove hard, soft, or between toe corns. It promises instant numbness and easy lifting of the corn with no soreness, sold by druggists in a small bottle for a few cents.
Court to file information against bootlegger Kemper
Judge orders attorney E. E. Collins to file an information after Kemper admits selling whisky under cross examination, marking the court action arising from his bootlegging admission.
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Torney E. E. Collins
Kemper
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Custer
Scout
Yellowstone
Kelly
Crow Creek
Old Fort Keogh
Little Porcupine
Chunder
Standing Rock Reservation
Wolf Creek
Circle
Custer Creek
Nelson A. Miles
Bayer
Frank D. Baldwin
Denver
Gordon Campbell
Big Montana Owned and Directed Corporation
KEVIN
Toole County
Gordon Campbell Royalties, Inc
Stem
Tom Stout
The
Democrat-News of
Lewistown
Charles E. Orchard
Harry L. Wilson
M. HE. Smeltz
Great Falls
Standard Oil Company
New Jersey
L. P. Jackson
Joe BR. Weese
Steele Building
Great Falls, Montana
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