Sacajawea Story From Indian Brave Heroine Told In New Volume
The article recounts Sacajawea as the famous Bird Woman linked to Lewis and Clark and her capture by Mandans around 1794. It summarizes James Willard Schultz’s Bird: Woman, drawing on sources including Blackfeet, Otter Woman, and Red Arrow, and outlines Sacajawea’s early life with traders and Mandans plus the gateway to frontier literature.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sacajawea
Lewis and Clark
Charboneau
James Willard Schultz
Schultz
Hugh Monroe
Three Forks
Missouri
Otter
Red Arrow
Mandan
Montana Money and the Hearst Montana Mine Fortune
The article recounts how William H Hearst senior and partner Haggin financed the Montana Anaconda project through Marcus Daly. It notes Hearst's $25,000,000 cash windfall from the Amalgamated Copper sale, and how this wealth stabilized Hearst publications in New York and beyond. It also covers Phoebe Hearst's Montana interests and a long narrative about Native American life, captives, and marriage dynamics involving Red Arrow, Otter Woman, and White Grass, ending with Otter Woman becoming Charboneau's head wife.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Montana
William H. Hearst
New York
Chicago
San Francisco
United States
Cosmopolitan Magazine
Good Housekeeping
Harper’s Bazaar
Motor
Mo= Boating
Puck
Hearst’s Magazine
Senator Hearst
California
Haggin
Marcus Daly
Anaconda
Hearst
Heart
Butte
Amalgamated Copper Company
Anaconda Company
Senator Heart
Rothschilds
American
Examiner
Northcliff of
America
Phoebe Hearst
Bitter Root Valley
White Grass
Minnetaree
Otter Woman
Charboneau
Mandan
No Tobacco Famine Report Signals Steady Supplies
The census bureau notes only a small risk of tobacco shortage despite large shipments to armies abroad. Beginning stocks reached 1,176,234,657 pounds, up 12.6 percent from last year, with 1917 production totaling 1,196,451,000 pounds. Kentucky led production at 426,600,000 pounds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bureau of the Census
Kentucky
Hoover Dinner Reveals Horse Meat Hamburgers at Picnic
Fifty guests at a Lewis and Clark county farm bureau picnic near Canyon Ferry were served hamburger steak and fried chicken, with most diners unaware the hamburger was horse meat. The piece argues horse meat is nutritious, affordable, and palatable, urging readers to reconsider prejudice and judge by taste rather than stigma.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lewis and Clark County Farm Bureau
Canyon Ferry
Hess
Great Falls
Fourth of July in Early Days in Missoula
A historical recount of July 4 celebrations from 1806 with Captain Lewis and the Shoshone, through the first white commemoration in Missoula at Frenchtown in 1864. It notes the Lewis and Clark crossing via the Bitterroot, the Missoula mouth feast and pipe of peace, and Emma C. Dickinson as a survivor who recalls the day.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Montana
Missoula
Lewis and Clark
Louisiana Purchase
Bitter Root Mountains
Idaho
Lolo Pass
Bitter Root
Clark
Lewis
Grant Creek
Rockies
Missoula County
Frenchtown
John Mullan
Continental Divide
Fort Benton
Walla Walla
Missoula City
Hellgate
St. John’s
Emma C. Dickinson
Butte Miner's Hidden Savings Found in Chimney
Jacob Maki, killed in a Butte mining accident, kept about $300 in cash and a $100 Liberty bond hidden in a stove hole inside his cabin. Silver Bow Public Administrator Harrington is handling the estate. Judge Dwyer issued letters to oversee the proceedings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jacob Maki
Butte
United States
Harrington
Silver Bow
Maki
Dwyer
War Begins in September After Conference Says Caldwell
New York Representative Caldwell states that the war will begin next September with abundant material and ready troops to project American force, signaling anticipated combat for U S soldiers once preparations are complete.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
War Office
Caldwell
New York
America
United States
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Sacaj Awea
ARMY
Skeets
Forestry Schools
State University of Montana
Dorr Skeels
School of Forestry
France
Tenth Engineers
Forest
James H. Bonner
19Th Service Battalion of Engineers
Camp Devens
Mass
Bonner
Spaulding
Thomas C. Spaulding
R. D. Jenkins
Department of English
Camp
Joseph E. Johnston
Jacksonville
Fla
A.S. Merrill
Bremerton Navy Yard
Philadelphia
W. N. Jones
Lee R. Dice
Washington
Jones
Dice
Ina E. Gittings
Reed College
Portland
University
Jerry Nissen
Pacific Coast
Aviation
Northwest Fur Company
Father
Charbonneau
Pawnee
Turtle
West Coast
Great Falls Brick & Tile Co
Great Fall
Let
National Bank
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