This photograph was taken prior to the March 17, 1896, hanging of Cherokee Bill a.k.a. Crawford Goldsby. U.S. Marshals Service Historian David Turk points out how the outlaw stands closer to two deputy marshals. The story goes that he was snubbing the others because two of them had captured him by using a former girlfriend, while two others had engaged him in a firefight (which he escaped). In prison, he attempted to escape and killed a deputy U.S. marshal in the process.
– Courtesy USMS Collections –
John Bozeman died on his namesake trail on April 20, 1867. In Gallatin Valley, he had laid out the town of Bozeman, Montana, and about four miles away is the site of Fort Ellis, a post established the August after his death to protect Gallatin Valley settlers. Shown here is Lt. Col. Eugene M. Baker (fifth from right, by door) with his officers in 1871 at Fort Ellis. The site closed in 1886 and a historical marker is found on the trail, with some remains at the Fort Ellis Experimental Station of Montana State University.
– True West Archives –
Kate Rockwell gained notoriety as Klondike Kate by dancing in vaudeville shows during the Klondike Gold Rush. The rebellious dancer was engaged more than 100 times and married at least three.
– True West Archives –
The first settlers of Nebraska’s Custer County built residences out of prairie sod, “with some of Uncle Sam’s cedar for rafters,” as J.J. Downey recalled. He arrived in Dale Valley in June 1889, a few years after William Moore, who is shown here with his family in this 1886 photograph by Solomon Butcher. Although Custer County was more a “mecca of the cattleman,” sheep ranchers like Moore, the Haumont brothers and the Finlen brothers did raise some good-sized flocks.
– Courtesy Library of Congress –
Since Custer’s defeat at Little Big Horn in June 1876, the battlefield has been considered a sacred spot, a place of pilgrimage for friends and foes of the controversial American leader, including Custer’s Crow Indian Scouts who visited his death site marker in 1908 (left to right): White Man Runs Him, Hairy Moccasin, Curley and Goes Ahead.
– Courtesy the Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument –
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