Aided discovery of Custer dead in 1876 battle accounts
Henry G. Rice of Bozeman recalled as the only surviving civilian scout from 12 who learned of Custer’s defeat. He described finding naked, mutilated bodies on the ridge, witnessing the return of troops to Reno hill, and the burial of the dead near the Little Big Horn in the June 27, 1876 confrontation led by Lt Bradley and Gibbon’s column.
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Northern Pacific
Crow Agency
Little Big Horn
State
Mr. Rite
Montana Territory
Fort Shaw
Seventh Infantry
Gibbon
Big Horn
4 Point
Yellowstone
Terry
Second Cavalry
Custer
Mr. Rice
Leftenant Bradley
Reno Hill
Reno
Benteen
Rosebud
Far West
Custer Hill
Tom. Custer
Geo. A. Custer
Battle of the Little Big Horn
Fort Lincoln
Bismark
N. D
Rice
Helena
Bozeman
Montana
Bradley
Joseph
Big Hole Pass
Larpenteur the Frenchman at Fort Union and beyond
This essay profiles Charles Larpenteur a French fur trader who spent years at Fort Union and the Upper Missouri. It recounts his background from France his travels with Sublette Campbell and Fitzpatrick to Pierre's Hole and his role as a clerk while noting his wit vanity and moral steadiness amid frontier life.
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Fort Union
M. E. Plassmann
Montana
Larpenteur
Upper
Missouri
Elliott Coues
France
Paris
Napoleon
America
Waterloo
St. Helena
Charles
Baltimore
Wheeling
St. Louis
Benjamin O'Fallon
William Clark
O'Fallon
O’fallon Creek
Glendive
Coues
United States
Mississippi
Des Moines
Louise Dauphin
Louise
General Ashley
New York
Ashley
Peter Skene Ogden
O’fallon
Sublette
Campbell
Lexington
Larpentenr
Stewart
Harrison
Edmud Christy
Stone
Fort William
American Fur Company
Pierre’s Hole
Fitzpatrick
Fitzpatrick and Co
The
Yellowstone
Missouri Rivers
Charles Larpenteur
Women’s Clubs Grow Power in Montana Communities
A Montana article recounts the rise of women’s clubs from Sorosis to a nationwide movement, noting the role of the Business and Professional Women’s groups in shaping home and community welfare. It highlights leaders, events, and cross gender collaboration potential, citing figures from Helena to Bozeman and statewide efforts on child welfare and school health.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
M. E. Plassmann
Montana
Hamilton
Lucille Folkenbrock
Missoula
Rita Anderson
Hartford
Indiana
Illinois
Sorosis
Mrs. Croly
Jennie June
Mother Club
Womans’ Club
Professional Women’s Convention
The
State Board of Health
Memorializing Albert Gallatin Statue in Washington Proposed
A Senate bill by Senator Walsh of Montana would grant a site in Washington for a statue of Albert Gallatin. The noted financier and longtime Secretary of the Treasury under Jefferson helped reduce the national debt and later served as minister to France. Gallatin declined personal wealth, saying a statesman who directed finances should not die rich.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Jefferson
Secretary of Treasury
United States
Senate
Walsh
Montana
Albert Gallatin
Switzerland
University of
Geneva
Benjamin Franklin
Paris
Boston
Maine
Machais
Gallatin
Harvard
Virginia
General Washington
Allegheny Mountains
Young Gallatin
Treasury
Pennsylvania
James Nicholson
Congress
House “Committee On Ways and Means
the Treasury
Ghent
France
Alexander Baring
London
Baring Brothers
Baring
Montanan Refused U S Army Release
War Secretary Davis informed Senator Walsh that resignations by West Point cadets will be approved only under exceptional circumstances. A Montana cadet seeking to resign to join his father’s business was denied and the War Department defended the contract to serve eight years.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Davis
Walsh
Montana
West Point
War Department
United States
IRS Closes Butte Division Offices Moves Records to Helena
The Butte internal revenue service division offices closed on July 1 and all records were transferred to the state headquarters in Helena. Washington ordered the move as part of a broader plan to close division offices in all but three of the nation’s largest cities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Internal Revenue Service
Butte
Helena
Washington
Govrnment
Land prices predicted for Froid area by lieutenant governor
Lieutenant Governor McCormack told the Roosevelt Farm Bureau picnic that land in the Froid section would likely be worth 40 to 50 dollars an acre within a few years.
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McCormack
Roosevelt Farm Bureau
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Henry
Seventh Cavalry
Great Falls
Livingston
W. J. Beall
John M. Bozeman
Beall
Lewis County
Wisconsin
Barker
Plains
Methodist Episcopal
St. James Episcopal Church
Tuttle
William J. Beall
Montana Path
Margaret Deschamps
Harlowton
Elizabeth
June Waters
Miles City
Sidney Edgerton
U. S
Montanan
U.S. Army
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