Baldwin Command Returns After Winter Pursuit of Sitting Bull Band
Lieutenant Baldwin and his unit press through freezing December nights in 1876 to reach Fort Peck after deciding not to engage Sitting Bull. diary notes describe extreme cold, frostbite among men, and efforts to communicate with General Miles. Baldwin reports easing tensions and planning further moves as scouts report Sitting Bull's movement.
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Baldwin
Keogh
Sitting Bull
Fort Peck
Sittings Bull
General Miles
Big Dry
Bark Creek
Miles
Boyd
Fort Buford
Joe Culbertson
Milk River
Porcupine
Kansas
Whitten
Wolf Point
White Dog
Assinniboines
Glendive
Redwater
Yellowstone
Lambert
MacKenzie
Powder River
Bates Creek
North Fork
Wyoming
Second Cavalry
Col
R. S. MacKenzie
J. A. McKinney
Baldwin's Winter March Through Redwater Campaign
Baldwin leads a long winter trek with Soldier column from Fort Buford along the Redwater and Tongue river. scarce rations, deep snow, and wet gear shape a grueling march. Encounter with White Dog of the Assinniboines and notes on Sitting Bull frame the tense ongoing pursuit. Miles commands a broad coalition that defeats Crazy Horse and Lame Deer in separate actions, sealing major winter campaigns.
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Montana
Tongue River
Miles
Crazy Horse
Redwater
Baldwin
Cedar Creek
Buford Road
Fort Keogh
Smith
Morgan
Ewers
Custer Creek
Yellowstone
Fifth Infantry
Wolf Mountains
Birney
Little Muddy Creek
Lame Deer
Mont
Second Cavalry
Alfred M. Fuller
Iron Star
Butte Remembers 1895 Explosion Fire Tragedy
Butte marks the 55th anniversary of the 1895 explosion that killed 58 people in the Kenyon Connel warehouse district. Survivors Harry Kinney Fred Dugdale and Jack Flannery recall the disaster while Kinney notes there will be no anniversary dinner this year. The blast shattered homes and illuminated the sky as two more explosions followed injuring bystanders and trapping firefighters.
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Butte
Montana
Harry Kinney
Fred Dugdale
Jack Flannery
Great Falls
Kinney
Kenyon-Connel
Angus Cameron
Jack Sloan
Dave Mose
Sam Ash
George Fifer
Pete Norling
al Jackson
Dave McGee
Pete Steinborn
Livingston Grim Souvenirs Tie to Early Territorial Prison Escape
Billy Mitchell preserves a rusted pair of handcuffs once hung in Park County sheriff’s office linked to a 1883 Forsyth train robbery. A lower jawbone used as a pen rack in Garnier’s Livingston cigar factory completes the macabre pair tied to the Miles City to Forsyth chase and prison escape era.
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Elno
Billy Mitchell
Livingston
Montana
Garnier Cigar Factory
Mitchell
Billy
Park County
Charles Garnier
Northern Pacific
Tom Laughlin
Billings
Forsyth
Louis King
Miles City
Bonnie Hits the Top as Crow Reservation Story Echoes
Bonnie Baker of Orrin Tucker's orchestra renews fame on CBS Your Hit Parade after helping revive Oh Johnny in 1939. In Montana's Crow Reservation era history notes, investigators weigh the fate of a missing prisoner with handcuffs found near Absarokee, possibly tied to Len Williams and the Williams brothers.
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Wee Bonnie Baker
Orrin Tucker
Bonnie
Lucky Strike
Oh, Johnny
Legacy of a Wild West Prison Break and Odd Relics
In an old frontier tale two prisoners fled near Yellowstone after a derailment attempt, escaping under heavy gunfire and vanishing. A sheepherder later found a pair of handcuffs and a jawbone, later displayed in a sheriff’s museum and repurposed as a pen rack by Billy Mitchell during his Livingston tenure.
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Yellowstone River
Absarokee
West Boulder
Forsyth
Len Williams
Williams Brothers
Wisconsin
Lon
Lon Williams
Billy Mitchell
Deer Lodge
Laughlin
Yellowstone
J. B. Woods
Upper
Mission Creek
West Boulder River
Livingston
State Board Reports Collections And Tax Revenues
The state board of equalization collected 7 644 570.54 last year from 17 license fees and taxes, a gain of 10 702.09 over 1938. The five cent per gallon gasoline tax yielded 5 887 321.25 in 1939, up from 5 490 503.60 the prior year. The metals mine tax produced 163 190.74 versus 424 307.35 in the previous year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
State Board of Equalization
State Auditor Issues Gasoline Tax Refunds Totals
State Auditor John J. Holmes issued December refunds totaling 116510.84 to individuals and firms who bought gasoline not for highway use. The refunds equal the state tax paid on those gasoline purchases.
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John J. Holmes
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Montana Lou” Grill
Dull Knife
Elk Prairie
Joe Lambert
Missouri River
Badlands
Bettina Hall
Diana
Miss Hall
Providence
R. I
Boston
Clark’s Fork Valley
Anaconda
Pon
Seagram
Ant Alelon
New York
Territorial Prison
U. S. Bureau OF Mines
Copper Mining Company
Butte, Montana
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