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 –
A lineman repairing telegraphs around 1862 had skills akin to a circus performer.
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