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Fireside Bell and Fort Browning Bones of Standing Buffalo
Helena tower watchman recalls early fire discipline and the 1870s watchtower on historic Hill. The article recounts Sioux and Gros Ventres conflicts around Fort Browning Milk River, and Colonel Norris's tale of bone theft to avert a larger Sioux war.
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Tower Hill
Helena
Main Street
Broadway
Charles D. Curtis
Montana
Old Fort Browning
Milk River
Blackfeet
Gros Ventres
Fort Benton
Missouri
Milk Rivers
G. R
Bill) Norris
Lewistown
Minnesota
Dakotas
Buffalo
Charles W. Price
George Houk
Assiniboine
Sundance
Price
Fort Browning
A. J. Simmons
Peoples’ Creek
Little Rockies
Dodson
Phillips County
Reed
Red
Clark
Hoozeman
Simmons
Fort Belknap
Assinniboine
Charle Price
Assiniboines
California
United States
Camp Cooke
The
Judith
George Hock
Chouteau County
Houk
Wells, Fargo & Co
Pease & Cullen
Indian Department
Beaver Creek
Big Sandy Creek
Bear Paws
Big Sandy
Standing Buffalo
Tom Bogg
Fort Claggett
T. C. Power and Brother
Charlie Price
Pouchette Creek
Old Fort Claggett
Missouri River
T. C. Power
Charles M. Russell
Bill Norris
Tom Bogy
L. V. Bogg
Chinook