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Three Trappers Fight Sioux at Pryor Mountain
Three Western trappers and prospectors Woody Hubbell and Charles Cocke fought a vastly outnumbered battle with about 1,500 Sioux on Beauvaix Creek in Pryor Mountains Big Horn County June 24 1875. They held off the attack with barricades and accurate rifle fire, marking one of Montana’s notable Indian fights. The trio escaped after night marches to the Old Mission, while reporting Crow accounts and a slain Sioux chief. Woody later guided Theodore Roosevelt in Montana.
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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