admin | July 29, 2009
As Oglala Sioux war chief Red Cloud watched from a distance, U.S. soldiers packed up and left Fort C.F. Smith, beginning the abandonment of military posts along the Bozeman Trail. Early the next day, Red Cloud and his warriors swooped down on the fort and burned it in celebration. For two years they’d resisted construction [...]
admin | July 26, 2009
The Montana History Almanac in the July 26 Sunday Missoulian includes an item on the 1914 robberies by Ed Trafton and Charles Erpenback of 15 stagecoaches in succession in Yellowstone Park, all within an hour. News accounts in the days after the heists are interesting. The first of the robbed passengers to reach Livingston said [...]
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