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Reminiscences of Indians Across the Western Frontier
A first person recollection spans sixty years of frontier travel from western New York to Montana. The narrator recalls encounters with Tonawanda and Chippewa tribes, Cheyennes and Crow bands, wagon trains, stage stations, and a violent era around Bannack and Fort Benton, with reflections on tension between settlers and Indigenous peoples and on life in beaverhead county towns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Yellowjacket
Wisconsin
Leavenworth
Plains
Atcheson
Ray
Denver
Little Blue River
Kiawah
Stage
Pony Express
Idaho
Montana
Ft. Bridger
John Swing
Fort Bridger
Bannack
Buffalo Creek
Snag
Squaw
Buck Stinson
Fort Renton
Marias River
Cow Island
Fort Benton
Big Hole
Dillon
Anderson Bros
Virginia City
Doc Tabor
the Woods Ranch
Sheridan
Mr. Woods
Dec
Horse Prairie
Yellowstone Park
Buffalo Country
Yellowstone
Sim Estes Place
Barratts Station
Charlton
Weiel
Alber
Wren
Wrene
Ione
Thoredder