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Story of Custer massacre wire first carried east
J M Carnahan, then manager at Missoula, sent the first brief notice that all the Custers are killed from Bismarck on July 5 1876. The news spread through Fargo St Paul Chicago and beyond as Carnahan transmitted official reports to the War Department and arranged a special for the New York Herald.
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Montana
Custer
Bismarck
N. D
Northwestern
The
Telegraph Company
Fargo
J. M. Carnahan
Western Union
Missoula
St. Paul
Chicago
Carnahan
Terry
War Department
Smith
New York Herald
Big Horn
Athens
Ohio
Scott’s Landing
Cincinnati & Marietta
Cincinnati
Nashville
Pacific & Atlantic Co
LaCrosse
Wis
Frontier
Fort Abraham Lincoln
Missouri River
Seventh
U. S. Cavalry
Fort Hancock
Northern Pacific
Fort Lincoln
Sitting Bull
the Little Big Horn
Reno
Colonel Smith