Out of curiosity, not bloodlust, twenty-one-year-old George Bruffey stood with the Nevada City mob. Townsfolk had turned the wood frame of an under-construction store into gallows.
They took meetings all day. Eventually, Kennedy got hungry. Wally Wong, the owner of House of Wong, was phoned and asked if he could arrange an off-the-menu request: Senator Kennedy would like some cream soup. Wong indicated he would provide it, and every indication suggests Kennedy thought it was excellent, if not Wong's typical fare.
Newspapers sensationalized her story. Some claimed she led the robbery, firing recklessly beneath a mask. Others called her astonishing, staggering, unprecedented—a woman who dared ride with train robbers. The truth was less theatrical but no less extraordinary: she had taken part, disguised as a man, and helped facilitate one of the most daring robberies in Montana history.
1955 Chief Crazy Horse, starring Victor Mature, is released to a largely tepid reception. It is, however, notable for taking a withering view of Custer's command. He is revealed, by the end, to have been incompetent. The first hints of sympathy for the Native American combatants sneaks into the narrative.
The largest Medal of Honor award ceremony in Montana history occurred on July 18, 1877, at Cantonment on Tongue River, where General William T. Sherman pinned medals on the dress coats of 31 enlisted men, all of whom served under the command of Colonel Nelson Miles during the winter campaign of 1876-1877.
Sturgis made provisions that a "special and comfortable stall" be prepared for the horse, and that he would no longer "be ridden by any person whatever under any circumstances, nor will he be put to work."
The next day they were honored by a parade. According to surviving accounts, as they walked through the encampment, two old men walked on either side of the procession intoning, "Look at these men for the last time they will be alive; they have thrown their lives away." Around noon, Reno's men attacked the village and the battle began.
The pass remained officially undiscovered until 1889, when the Canadian James Hill was pushing his St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railway west across North Dakota and Montana. He had reached Great Falls, with a spur to Butte. But Hill had more ambitious plans—a competitor to the Northern Pacific that would extend to Seattle.
The rest of Il Conte Biancamano's several hundred crewmen arrived at Fort Missoula a few days later. So did many other Italians thereafter. The majority came from other captured ships. Some, though, came from New York's World Fair. Authorities interned waiters, like Cipolato, and other workers from the exhibition's Italian Pavilion.
But by his year of exhaustion, freedom had begun to take another shape for Wright. "I could see no way out," he wrote. "Because I did not know what I wanted I wanted to go away... A true home is the ideal of man, and yet-well, to gain freedom I asked for a divorce."
This invisible assassin crossed the Rio Grande by late 1780 or early 1781, when it infected the Comanches, most probably through contact with Spanish traders in Texas and New Mexico. Far to the north, traders reported its presence among the Assiniboines and Crees in October 1781. As historian Theodore Binnema observed, “Never before had so large a portion of the population of the plains faced such a calamity.”
By the spring equinox, Owen summed up the winter as "one of unprecedented severity..." Francis Lomprey (Lumpré), a French trapper and interpreter, visited that winter. He had been in the area for some two decades and he told Owen "he never Saw the like."
In the midst of the hardship of frontier travel, Lucia and the other members of her party found ways to enjoy themselves. They collected wildflowers, swam in swift, cold riverbeds, and in the evenings around the campfire some pioneers played musical instruments while others sang and danced along.
Published accounts generally concur that aerial bombardment of the ice jam commenced at approximately 7:30 p.m. and was conducted at an altitude of 2,200 to 2,600 feet. An article published in The Billings Gazette on March 22nd specifically indicates that sixteen "250-pound bombs [were dropped] along a five-mile ice gorge." Destruction of a target that large by one bomber with conventional ordnance would, presumably, have required strategic use of the intervalometer.
This was the hellish reality facing Montana's 163rd Infantry Regimental Combat Team in the steaming jungles of Papua New Guinea. The men from Montana's small towns—farm boys and ranch hands, miners and shop clerks—were in jungle hell-holes, L-shaped to help them survive rolling grenades.
The most prolific Crow warrior-artist of his generation, White Swan was one of six Crow scouts detached to Lt. Col. George A. Custer's regiment on June 21, 1876. White Swan saw extensive combat in the Battle of the Little Bighorn, where he was severely wounded. He recovered sufficiently from that conflict to chronicle his military career in artworks. This robe, however, was devoted primarily, if not exclusively, to honors achieved in intertribal warfare.
Day after day, Richard witnessed the horrors of war—the loss of comrades, relentless shelling, and devastation everywhere. But on October 8, just north of Aachen in Übach, a military photographer captured a rare image of Richard at the piano—playing not for an audience, but for a moment of peace and humanity in the midst of war.
Buffalo Calf Road Woman did not hesitate to ride straight into the teeth of enemy fire and rescue Comes in Sight from what would have been almost certain death.
By the late 1800s, over 200 saloons, like the Graveyard, Cesspool, and Bucket of Blood, served a population of around 10,500. Plentiful establishments furnished gambling. And red lights burned, according to the Butte classic Copper Camp, on East Galena Street, where French Erma, Austrian Annie, Jew Jess, Mexican Maria, and Mickey the Greek worked.
He reiterates again the greatest hits of his career — he was a Pony Express rider, a rider and roper with Buffalo Bill who accompanied him to the World's Fair, and to Europe.
