This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!
North Montana narrowly escaped Sioux war fifty years ago
The piece recalls a near Sioux war era in Northern Montana centered on Fort Browning and Standing Buffalo. It recounts the fire tower in Helena, early volunteer fire service, and Colonel Bill Norris’s memory of an 1870s conflict where Sioux demands for Standing Buffalo’s bones nearly sparked wider hostilities along Milk River and Fort Bent on.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Montana
Chief
Tower Hill
Helena
Main Street
Broadway
Last Chance Gulch
Charles D. Curtis
Httle
Old Fort Browning
Milk River
Blackfeet
Gros Ventres
Fort Benton
Missouri
Milk Rivers
G. R
Bill) Norris
Lewistown
Minnesota
Dakotas
Buffalo
Charles W. Price
George Houk
Assiniboine
Sundance
Price
Fort Browning
A. J. Simmons
Peoples’ Creek
Little Rockies
Dodson
Phillips County
Major Reed
Reed
Red” Clark
Bozeman
Clark
Simmons
Fort Belknap
Assinniboine
Charlie Price
California
United States Cavalry
Camp Cooke
The
Judith
George Hock
Chouteau County
Houk
Wells, Fargo & Co
Pease & Cullen
Indian Department
Standing Buffalo
Big Sandy
Tom Bogg
Fort Claggett
T. C. Power and Brother
Pouchette Creek
Old Fort Claggett
Missouri River
T. C. Power
Charles M. Russell
Bill Norris
Big Sandy Creek
Tom Bory
I. V. Bogg
Chinook