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Frontier Scout Norris and Sitting Bull Expedition Tale
An account by Colonel Norris recalls his perilous 1881 meeting with Sitting Bull at Poplar River and the subsequent Montana campaign. Norris details trading posts, General Miles, and the 1890 Standing Rock events, with Diehl from the Chicago Times documenting the episode.
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Lewistown
G R
Bill
Toxo
Norris
Montana
Montana Newspaper Association
Sitting Bull
Judith Basin
Miles
The
Little Big Horn
Northwest
Standing Rock
Sioux Reservation
Bull Head
Bujl
Milk River
Rascal
Fort Benton
Thomas A. Cummings
U. S
Idaho
Wolf Point
Wolf, Point
Poplar River
Oplar
Twerity
Tiges
Neapolis
Agency
Diehl
Major Ilges
Major
Bill Allison
Allison
Bull
Fort Buford
Chicago
Erry
Sibley
Missouri