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Three Trappers Face 1500 Sioux at Pryor Mountain Fight
Three prospectors Taze well Woody Lew Hubbell and Charles Cocke fought for survival against about 1500 Sioux on Beauvaix Creek Pryor Mountains Big Horn County June 24 1875. The trio held a defensive camp repulsed repeated assaults sustained with sharpshooting skill and endurance, with Cocke later killed and Hubbell surviving to recount the saga.
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Pioneers of
Montana
the Big Hole
Custer
Joseph
Bear’ Paw Mountains
Sully
Pryor Mountains
Big Horn County
Nez Perces
Fort Fetterman
Fort Phil Kearney
Forsyth
Forsythe
Roman Nose
Pryor Mountain
Tazewell Woody
Lew Hubbell
Charles Cocke
Yellowstone Valley
Livingston
Woody
Pryor’s Gap
Beauvaix Creek
Big Horn River
Old Fort C. F. Smith
Hubbell
Cocke
Eerer
John Yancey
Gardner
Black Hills
Pryor Creek
Missouri
Theodore Roosevelt