Indian Warrior Slain for Telling Truth About Whites
A Montana Assinniboine chief Wijunjon known as the Pigeon's Egg Head traveled 8,000 miles to Washington with Major Sanford's delegation in 1831. He wore a colonel uniform in Washington and amused spectators, later returning to native dress. His tales earned him fame as a medicine man whose truthfulness led to his killing by a tribal companion.
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Washington
Enbergre
Montana
Wijunjon
Yellowstone River
Major Sanford
Upper
Missouri River
Sanford
Eo Wilunjon
Fort Union
Yellowstone
Wilunjon
Wilunton
Willnson
St. Louis
George Catlin
Wis
New York
Philadelphia
Willnton
Catlin
Missouri
Pierre ‘Chouteau
American Fur Co
Yankee Doodle
Yankee
Doodle
Someowe
Squaw
Wifunjion
Coyotes Hit New Peak Under Montana Bounty Drive
Montana fish and game records show 5,000 adult coyotes taken under a special $2 bounty program, aiming for 5,000 total. State Warden James A. Weaver notes the concentrated hunt outpaced last year’s total of about 9,000 and explains the plan to curb a recent population rise.
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Game Department
Montana
State Fish and Game Department
State Fish and Game
James A. Weaver
Cavalry Saves Whites in Fort Peck Fort
A Sioux siege at Fort Peck ends after six hours as long range rifles deter attackers. Sitting Bull leads the Sioux in a cautious defense while the White garrison, aided by Sioux and Crow dynamics, faces heavy tensions over the Alabama cargo and padlocked stockade fort.
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Elno
Fort Peck
Baird
Alabama
St. Louis
Fort Benton
Virginia City
X. Bichler
Fort Peck Landing
Fort
Biedler
Yellowstone
Musselshell
Sitting Bull
Missouri River Source Believed Found in Old Volcanic Basin
Historical note recounts that Lewis and Clark failed to locate the Missouri's true source. Modern investigations place the origin in a mystic basin amid extinct volcanic craters at the Montana Idaho boundary near Beaverhead County. The river then begins as a small rivulet 8,000 feet up, growing through Culver's canyon and Red Rock lakes to feed the Missouri and Mississippi over 4,221 miles.
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Lewis and Clark
Northwest
Missouri River
Rocky Mountains
Missouri
Rockies
Montana
Idaho
Beaverhead County
Yellowstone National Park
Alaska Basin
Culver’s Canyon
Red Rock Lakes
Beaverhead
Jefferson
Mississippi
Nile
Great Amazon
Sioux lift siege as freighters bring cavalry to fort
Edgar Sears, a trapper, returns to the fort two months after leaving and is scalped by Sioux near the fort. The Sioux abandon the siege and head toward winter camp. A relief party arrives as a bull team freighter convoy and cavalry detachment led by Lieutenants Newman and Townsend enter the fort before sunset.
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Edgar Sears
Biedler
Bull Team
Newman and
Townsend
Ford Ends Diversion of Highway Money
James H. Rowe president of Montana Inc says the vetoed bill would have increased the highway fund far beyond the $50,000 borrowed while Gov. Sam C Ford vetoes the measure to advertise Montana, arguing it would divert money needed for construction maintenance and repair of highways from the highway fund.
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Ford
James H. Rowe
Montanans, Inc
Sam C. Ford
Montana
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Assinniboine
Western Seed CO
Denver
Old Volcano
Conoco
Continental Oil Company
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