Journey to Fort Benton by Cordelle 1852 Adventure
In 1852 Alexander Culbertson and Peter A. Sharp sent Louis Letellier to Fort Benton to build boats. A 75 foot cordelle hauled a flat boat up the Missouri with 25 men 12 Blackfeet and others, facing low water and fords. Two drowned, Indians seized horses, boys joined crew, and a smaller boat was built from cottonwood to carry freight.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alexander Culbertson
Fort Union
Peter A. Sharp
American Fur Co
Louis Letellier
Fort Benton
Letellier
Quebec
Upper
Missouri
Malcolm Clark
Prickly Pear Canyon
Baptiste Champagne
Clark
Fur Companies
Hamel’s Island
Discovery of Alder Gulch Gold By Fairweather Party Recounted
Henry Edgar recalls the 1863 Alder Gulch discovery by the Fairweather party led by Bill Fairweather. He details the march from Bannack through Ruby River country, capture by Indians, the west side gulch discovery, first pan results, staking claims, and survival feats including hunting for supper.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fairweather Party
H. Edgar
Alder Gulch
Montana
Virginia City
Butte
Helena
W. A
Clark
Toll Mountain
A. J. Davis
Col. W. F. Sanders
George Stapleton
W. Y. Pemberton
Madison County
Intermountain
West
Aladdin
Mark Twain
Thomas Dimsdale
N. P. Langford
W. F. Sanders
Henry N. Blake
J. H. Mills
The
Madisonian
Henry Edgar
Moonlight Gulch
Edgar
Plains
Mont
Fairweather
Sanders
Little Big Horn
Custer
Dumfries
Scotland
New Brunswick
Maine
Minnesota
Fergus Falls
Idaho
Canadian Boundary Survey Party
United States Survey Group
Surveyor’s Gang
British Columbia
Bannack
Aldergulch
Bill Fairweather
Barney Hughes
Tom Coover
Harry Rodgers
Mike Sweeney
Jim Stuart
Ruby River
Stuart
Louis Simmons
Ramshorn
Bivins Gulches
Meadow Creek
Gallatin Valley
Yellowstone Country
Big Horn
Louis
Bil Fairweather
Bill
Sweeney
Rodgers
Wallace Street
Coover
Alder Gulch Consolidated Co
Son Writes Father From Nazi Greece
George J. Butler received a long awaited update from his son John Butler who wrote from Paleohorion in Nazi controlled Greece. John said he was in Paleohorion practicing medicine and that all was well despite the bombing in the district. The exchange traveled ten months across the Atlantic and was facilitated by the Red Cross after the father appealed on October 2, 1941. John’s message dated April 20, 1942 confirmed his safety and wellbeing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Atlantic Ocean
Greece
Butte
George J. Butler
John
Paleohorion
Kenourias
Arkadias
Red Cross
Reduced allotments under Pittman Robertson act for 1943
Secretary Harold L. Ickes announced apportionment of 1,128,000 dollars among 48 states for wildlife restoration under the Pittman Robertson act for fiscal year 1943. Matched by states, total federal aid rises to 1,504,000 dollars. 1942 federal apportionment was 2,530,000 dollars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Interior
Harold L. Ickes
Alder Gulch Named After Creekside Bushes
In a trek to Bannack the party debated a gulch name. The narrator chose Alder Gulch after the bushes along the creek, and the name endures.
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Bannack
Also Mentioned on This Page
Henry E. Edgar
William Fairweather
George Ott
Bitter Root
Mexico
California
Hielena
Main Street
Jornd Photo Shop
To Believe Monthly
Lydia E. Pinkham
Pinkham
Fred Tripp
DuPont Paints
DuPont
Montana Hardware Co
Great Falls
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