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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMEAI_companies-f-and-i_Garryowen-MT.html
Companies F and I were found on the northeast slope of this ridge. Capt. Keogh was to the right with Co. I.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMEAH_calhoun-hill_Garryowen-MT.html
This position was held by Co. L commanded by Lt. James Calhoun. It may have been used to hold off Chief Gall and his Sioux warriors and thus protect Custer's advance. From here these soldiers could have attracted Capt. Benteen's column and the pac…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMEAG_medicine-tail-coulee-ford_Garryowen-MT.html
Chief Gall and his Sioux warriors forded the river here to attack Custer's troops on the high ground to the northeast.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMEAE_weir-point-fight_Garryowen-MT.html
This is the farthest point reached by Capt. Weir in his attempt to assist Custer. Minutes after arriving, his company was joined by Capt. Benteen's company and others. They remained about 45 minutes until mounting warrior pressure forced them back…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMEAC_custer-last-seen_Garryowen-MT.html
Gen. Custer and Lt. Cooke were last seen on this point by Maj. Reno's troops who were fighting in the valley.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMEAA_little-bighorn-battlefield_Garryowen-MT.html
This area was occupied by troops A, B, D, G, H, K, and M, 7th. U.S. Cavalry, and the pack train when they were besieged by the Sioux Indians June 25th and 26th 1876.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM685_kerchival-city_Mosby-MT.html
Competition to supply the mining camps was fierce in Montana in the 1860s. Many opportunists realized that the real money was not in mining for gold, but in "mining the miners" by providing essential goods and services. Fort Benton dominated upper…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM682_fort-musselshell_Mosby-MT.html
Fort Musselshell was located on the Missouri River about 35 miles north of here. It was a trading post in the '60s and '70s and as such had a brief but colorful career. The only whites in that part of the state were woodchoppers for the Missouri R…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM681_bearpaw-shale-and-the-inland-ocean_Mosby-MT.html
The black shale rocks seen in this area represent the muddy sediments deposited by the last ocean to exist in Montana. The shale, known by geologists as the Bearpaw Shale contains fossils of sea-going creatures that lived and died some 70 million …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM4A3_little-bighorn-battlefield-national-monument_Garryowen-MT.html
(Bottom of Marker):In memory ofOfficers and soldiers who fell near this placefighting with the 7th United States Cavalryagainst the Sioux Indianson the 25th and 26th of June,A.D. 1876(The rest of the marker includes names of the officers and soldi…