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Post by herosrest on Apr 2, 2015 20:14:53 GMT -6
DucemusWhat sites are underwater? The Missouri River and its tributaries in Montana are shallow, full of snags and sandbars, and characterized by constantly shifting channels, swift currents, and prairie winds. Navigation was difficult and boats often became irreparably damaged or mired down. Ice break-ups, boiler explosions, and fires also destroyed many riverboats. As a result, Montana’s rivers and lakes are thought to contain the wrecks of many vessels. Hundreds of vessels were lost on the upper Missouri River in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Among those lost in Montana are the Chippewa that burned at Poplar River in 1861, the James D. Rankin that wrecked on Yellowstone River in 1877, the Anna Lee sunk at Glasgow in 1881, the Red Cloud sunk at Wight Point in 1882, and the Butte that burned above Fort Peck in 1883. The location where the steamboat Red Cloud wrecked became known as Red Cloud Bend. As the river channel shifted over time, the Red Cloud became buried under land bordering the river. Ironically, the Red Cloud is again underwater because the area where it is buried now is at the bottom of Fort Peck Lake behind Fort Peck Dam. www.nps.gov/archeology/sites/statesubmerged/montana.htm
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Post by herosrest on Jul 21, 2022 3:03:29 GMT -6
1) Where was the Crow Agency located in 1876? Look it up [/size]; this information must relate to - and be related to, the village as it stood when Custer attacked it. The account is a nightmare to understand or interpret, but it relates the events Young Two Moon saw and participated in. When he first saw the soldiers they were just coming down the steep hill east of battlefield. They were on a lope and Indians were then behind them but they paid no attention to them, and this relates to the John Stands in Timber and Peter Powell accounts of the early fighting east of the river.( See note 1) 3) The Cheyennes camped across from the mouth of Medicine Tail Creek and Deep Coulee; that is what Lt. Clark's map shows and is how it must be understood. In 1877 Charles King visited the battlefield with warriors who fought Custer and four companies of the 5th Cavalry who escorted Sheridan and Crook. King learnt of the battle and published his information and a map.[/quote] A ponderous summary and incorrect. You only have to read 'Wooden Leg' to know that the Cheyenne camp was almost a mile north of MTC. Furthermore, any close examination of Clark's map disproves what you say. As to the King nonsense, you have tried it before, you have cited the website article as his before and you have been shown to be wrong before. King was never at the LBH in 1877. Once again you are wrong. Sherman was never at the LBH in 1877. Sheridan was and Crook was and in 1878 Sheridan and Forsyth provided a Report of that visit which does not mention Sherman. If he was there it was quite an oversight on the part of those two officers to forget that the General of the Army was with them. 0/10 I'm afraid. Regards. Hunk[/quote]By the way, Sherman was at the mouth of the LBH in 1877. Certainly a slip ofthe mind, pen and or tongue may have taken place after some dirigible fashion but he was there and there were boats, mechanics, horses, wagons, timber booms floatingin the river together with forests of felled trees, and reticence perhaps also but he was there. General Sheridan was not escorted by 7th Cavalry on his overland trip. No, another regiment provided that escort and the entire route was adequately mapped and shown camping opposite the battlefield Hill. You know the one? Now to Charles King's prodigious works.
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Post by herosrest on Jul 21, 2022 3:23:12 GMT -6
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Post by Colt45 on Jul 21, 2022 16:09:28 GMT -6
Another good find and post, HR>
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