Lindsey Defied Stockmen and Shaped Montana History
A reminiscence recalls Col. William Lindsey, Taft era U.S. marshal and gubernatorial candidate, who faced three cow outfits on Main Red Water Creek. He refused to move his sheep, outbluffed the bluffers, and helped shape eastern Montana’s development. The piece also notes a swift cross country car trip from Los Angeles to Lewistown by Anton King and family, completing the journey in under five days.
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Montana
Col
William Lindsey
United States
Taft
Dawson County
Redwater
Missouri River
Bill Lindsey
Lindsey
Ohio
Bluffers
West
Coast
Anton King
Los Angeles
Lewistown
King
Livingston
Far West on the Missouri River and the Custer Campaign
In 1881 the light swift Far West carried officers and families from Fort Assiniboine to Fort Benton, just as a tense summer linked the boat to the Custer campaign. Alongside General Terry and General Gibbon, the vessel ferried supplies and mail while rumors swirled of Sitting Bull and Crow scouts amid the Big Horn threat.
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Fort Benton
Far West
Missouri
Yellowstone
Helena
Fort Assinaboine
Col. Brown
Cass Durham
Hoyt
Capt. Hoyt
Fort Harrison
Yankton
Fort Lincoln
Powder River
Terry
Tongue River
Gibbon
Reno
Big Horn
Rosebud
Custer
Bismarck
Sitting Bull
Standing Rock Agency
Marsh
Little Big Horn
Curley
Joseph Mills Hanson
Scotts
Fort Buford
Hobson
Great Northwest
Montana Territory
The
Smuts Resigns Premiership After Election Defeat
Cape Town reports Premier Jan Christiaan Smuts of the Union of South Africa resigned from the premiership after his South African party was defeated in the recent elections.
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Cape Town
Jan Christian Smuts
Union of South Africa
Glendive Youth Pleads Guilty in Blackmail Case
Jacob Lotka 20 pleaded guilty in district court to blackmail for demanding 20000 in cash to be left at a designated spot near Glendive. Judge Leiper sentenced him to two and a half to five years with a suspended sentence. Two wealthy locals were tapped to contribute 30000 to the scheme. a second letter to banker Charles Krug warned of death if funds not delivered by May 23.
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Glendive
Leiper
Jacob Lotka
Frank Lotka
Crackerbox Creek
W. W. Wood
E. L. Hine
Lotka
Charles Krug
Krug
Liver-Eating Johnson and Sitting Bull’s Sioux War Band
Englishman turned frontiersman known as Liver-Eating Johnson earned his name after a 1870 encounter with Sioux near the Musselshell. He fought as scout and Indian fighter across Montana, earning fame for his size, beard, and buffalo gun. The piece notes his friendship with Captain Potter, his Montana roles, and his death in 1900.
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Johnson
Bull’s
B Johnson
California
United States
West
Montana
General Miles
Missouri
Black Bear
Northwest
W Johnson
Montana Historical Library
Capitol
Helena
M. W. Potter
State Penitentiary
Potter
Red Lodge
Santa Monica
Cal
Billings
Custer County
Coulson
Musselshell
Sitting Bull
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WM. Lindsey
Martha Edgerton Plassmann
Governor Edgerton
Ter
Absaroka
Captain Baker
Big ‘Horn
Cer
Pyradium “Company
Helens, Montasa
Glendive Youth
Lonely Place
Davis
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