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Since Sitting Bull ambushed Custer by the Little Big Horn in 1876, Montana has had few major disturbances. But this year Montana's jutting peaks and high, scarred badlands, from Custer Creek to Hell Gate Canyon, have been acting up. Last January a Northwest Airlines Lockheed Zephyr shook off part of its tail structure, plummeted into Bridger Canyon, bringing ten persons to death. Last month the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific's Olympian dived through a trestle into Custer Creek during a cloudburst, killing and drowning 47. Following week the Olympian ran through orders near Roundup...
...years the Olympian, of the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad, made the run from Chicago to Seattle and Tacoma without losing a passenger. Then, fortnight ago, it plunged through a flood-weakened trestle over raging Custer Creek in Montana, carrying 47 persons to death. Last week the jinx again perched on the westbound Olympian's cowcatcher. Steaming over the same high Montana plain, the train passed the scene of the Custer Creek tragedy, pulled up at Miles City for orders, then raced on for Harlowton. At the way station Ingobar, 110 miles by train west of Custer...
...Custer County. Idaho, the ghost town of White Knob, once "the premier lead, copper, and silver camp of the West" was offered for sale to make up delinquent taxes. In 1915 it was sold for $440,000. In 1928 it was sold for $150,000. Last week there were no bidders for White Knob...
After several hours of oratory the meeting broke up peacefully. Meanwhile in Monroe, guardsmen (including a local howitzer company under Captain Brice C. Custer, great-nephew of General George A. Custer, who spent much of his early life in Monroe) stood watch. Only excitement to break the Sabbath calm was when Governor Murphy stopped in the town to attend church and visit St. Mary's College...
...item, of painting in the sale was Indian Warfare, by Frederic Remington, incorrectly subtitled Custer's Last Stand. Though not the traditional Custer's Last Fight, painted especially in 1888 for Budweiser Beer advertisements by Cassidy Adams, this canvas brought top price for painting. It went for $7,700 to a Manhattan connoisseur whose agents, the Macbeth Gallery, also laid out $10,200 for a pair of similar Western pictures by Charles Marion Russell: Hunter's Luck, a hunter stymied by a cliff, and The Holdup, a stagecoach robbery...