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Livingston Man Who Fought With Custer Army Remembers
Joe Sohl, a Livingston resident, recounts his life from selling cigars to Prussian troops in 1870 to serving in the Seventh Cavalry with veterans of the Little Bighorn. He details frontier duty, the Ogallala campaign, Fort Robinson, and his later work building bridges in Montana and Yellowstone Park, shaping regional infrastructure.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. F
Joe” Schl
Uncle Sam
Army
Joe Sohr
Seventh Cavalry
United States Army
Battle of the Little Big Horn
Reno
Custer
Mr. Sohl
Little Big Horn
Joe Sohl
Bavaria
New York
St. Louis
Sohl
Fort Rice
Bismarck
N. C
Major Thornburg
Black Hills
Nebraska
Sidney
Neb
Indian Territory
Oklahoma
Platte
Missouri
Ogallala
Colorado
Fourth Cavalry
Fort Laramie
Camp Robinson
Third Cavalry
Niobrara Creek
Robinson
Fort Totte
Devil’s Lake
N. D
Grand Forks
Buford
Union
Yellowstone
Sitting Bull
Gros Ventres
Redwater Creek
Fort, Buford
Fort Totten
Montana
Hugh L. Scott
General Scott
Billings
Pine Creek
Livingston
Business
R. B. Smith and Sons
Fort Yellowstone
Mammoth Hot Springs
Park
Hiram Martin Chittenden
Northern Pacific Railway
Park County
Helena
Mr. Sohil
Minneapolis Iron Works
Minnetonka
Minnesota
Mike Saratog
Jacob Francis
Hardin