Sioux Defeat Ends Long Sioux War After Custer Massacre
Sitting Bull and his followers return from Canada to the Fort Peck agency as cautious peace moves unfold. The Crow and Gall lead a growing, arrogant faction planning attacks while Agent Porter requests troops to guard the agency. about 150 soldiers face 1,000 seasoned opponents.
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Sitting Bull
Custer
Canada
Montana
Fort Buford
United States
Minnesota
Indian Department
E. H. Allison
Fort Peck
Allison
Crow
Gall
Poplar River
Fort Peck Reservation
Agent Porter
Porter
The
Thanksgiving Host Henry Plummer Faces Fate in Bannack
A long, vivid account recalls Montana territory's Thanksgiving 1863 at Bannack hosted by Sheriff Henry Plummer, a road agent leader. It contrasts his gracious persona with his lethal deeds, his 1864 execution by vigilantes, and the fates of associates like George Ives and Buck Stinson.
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Montana
Bannack
Henry Plummer
Jekyll-Hyde
Plummer
Turkey
Sidney Edgerton
Col
Wilbur F. Sanders
Henry
Salt Lake
George Ives
Ned Ray
Buck Stinson
George Lane
Boone Helm
Nevada City
Ives
Nicholas Thiebalt
Erastus
Red) Yeager
Virginia City
John
Lott
Ray
Stinson
Ife
Montana State College Announces Tuition Free Defense Training
Montana State college will offer tuition free engineering defense training courses starting December 1. The 12 week full time program covers engineering drawing and design for high school graduates or those with college work. Textbooks and board are the trainee's only costs.
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Montana State College
R. E. Gibbs
United States Office of Education
Gibbs
South Dakota State College
R. T. Challender
M. R. Good
Bozeman
Sitting Bull and the move to the reservations
The narrative follows Sitting Bull fleeing to Canada, surviving near starvation, then surrendering to U S authorities. Captain Grant Marsh moved the tribes to reservations with Sitting Bull among them. Sitting Bull, famed yet vain, charged $1 for autographs learned to write his name in Canada, and earned around $500 on the journey before being killed during the 1890 Messiah uprising when police shot him after resisting arrest.
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Canada
United States
Sitting Bull
Grant Marsh
Federal agents pursue cattle rustlers under new act
Federal agents of the Bureau of Investigation work with northern Montana cattle raisers to enforce the national cattle theft act, approved by President Roosevelt on Aug 18, giving federal jurisdiction when stolen cattle cross state lines. Rustlers previously escaped state controls with fast interstate transport. The act is hailed as the Dyer act for cattle.
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West
Department of Justice
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Congress
Roosevelt
Montana
Swift cattle theft law speeds justice in the South
The Dyer act and a new cattle theft law target interstate theft. Worthington and Miller stole four calves in Knoxville and drove them to Asheville before being captured near Johnson City. They pled guilty and began five year federal terms under both acts.
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Jesse Lee Worthington
Louis Hilton Miller
Knoxville
Tenn
Asheville
N. C
Worthington
Miller
Johnson City
Oat Hay Tops Winter Feed For Beef Cattle In Montana
The Montana agricultural experiment station reports oat hay as the most efficient winter roughage for beef cows at Havre in five years of trials. Oat hay outperformed alfalfa sweet clover blue joint and corn fodder, supporting a state goal to expand oat production by 55 000 acres in 1942 as part of the food for defense program.
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Agricultural Defense Program
Animal Industry Department
Montana Agricultural Experiment Station
North Montana
Havre
Food For Defense
Montana
Knights of Labor Set Labor Day in 1882
The Knights of Labor established Labor Day in 1882 as a celebration of workers and their contributions. The move aimed to honor laborers with a dedicated holiday and spurred widespread observance nationwide.
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The
Knights of Labor
Defense study approved for regional defense facilities panel
The senate military affairs committee approved a resolution by Senator Downey of California to authorize a seven member subcommittee to investigate defense facilities in the Rocky Mountain and Pacific states and in Hawaii and Alaska. Save a Life Today Drive Carefully.
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Senate
Military Affairs Committee
Downey
California
Rocky Mountain
Pacific States
Hawaii
Alaska
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Little Big Horn
Olive Branch
Fort Keogh
Majorges
Ilges
Milk River
Agency
Worthy
Siges
the Little Big Horn
Clark’s Fork Valley
Anaconda Copper Mining CO. Lands Department
Missoula, Montana
Sunny Brook
Kentucky
National Distillers Products Corp
N. Y
Roberts Loan & Cattle CO
WM. Spidel
Roundup
Schenley
Distillers Corp
N.Y. C
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