“Years ago,” said the story teller, when the Old Timers assembled in Assessor Cave’s office last evening, “buffalo were found by the thousands in the valleys surrounding Missoula, ranging through the Blackfoot valley, up the Bitter Root and in Frenchtown and Grass valleys. Everywhere that the land was free from Read More
Parishe – A Wealthy Bitter Root Indian A correspondent to the Missoulian says: The Indian feast given in honor of the dead Nez Perce chief, Parishe, took place on the creek near Stevensville on Saturday afternoon. A large number of both sexes went from town as spectators. Parishe, like most Read More
Buried Treasure In Jocko Valley In ’93 Reported “Allee Samee White Man – Relatives of Dead Injun Looking for Concealed Wealth.” That was the heading over an unusual story which appeared in July, 1893, in special correspondence to The Missoulian from Jocko, then headquarters of the Flathead Indian reservation. The Read More
Michel Revais – Brilliant Indian interpreter Michel Revais Life Ends After Many Useful Years Blind Indian Interpreter Dies on Flathead Reservation at Advanced Age of Eighty. Career of Old Linguist Is One of Honor, He Having Been Noted for Trustworthiness and Intelligence – A Friend of Chief Charlot. Arlee, Read More
Warrior With Chief Joseph Is Dead in Idaho Philip Evans Passes at the Age of 93 Years, Crossed Lolo Trail in 1877. St. Ignatius, Aug. 7. – (Special) – Philip Evans, aged 93, one of Chief Joseph’s warriors in the Nez Perce war of 1877, died at his home in Read More
Buffalo Saved by Walking Coyote Other Days by John Toole Some time in the winter of 1884-85, the body of Walking Coyote, a Pend d’Oreille Indian, was found frozen under the Higgins Avenue Bridge. Walking Coyote was dead from a monumental binge, made possible by his sale of ten buffalo Read More
Aged Indian On Trip Over Old Nez Perce Trail “White Hawk” Accompanies Historian on Jaunt Through Lolo Pass. “White Hawk,” 74-year-old Nez Perce Indian, who was with the band that in 1877 came from Idaho through the Lolo pass into the Bitter Root and south through the Big Hole country Read More
David Thompson’s Salish Offspring Duncan McDonald Visits Place Where Thompson Rested Memories Duncan McDonald Visits Place Where Thompson Rested. By Fred J. Ward. Thompson Falls, Sept 5. – (Special) – The writer had gone to the train to meet Dr. Paul Phillips, who was to come to Thompson Falls to Read More
AH-LA-KAT DOES NOT SEE PRESIDENT Nez Perce Chief Returns From Washington, Where He Met Officials. Chief Ah-La-Kat of the Nez Perce tribe of Indians and a ward of the Flathead reservation, was in Missoula yesterday, being en route home from Washington, D. C., where he went some time ago for Read More
Indian Swims the Missoula River to Rescue White Man – 1902 There was an heroic little act performed by an Indian in Missoula Sunday that is most worthy of mention, but unfortunately, the name of the red man on whom to bestow the credit cannot be learned. The incident occurred Read More