Her death on the Bozeman Trail in 1864 is well documented. The 18-month-old child s burial site was recorded by her family and by members of a wagon train that came after the one the French family ...

And little Florence got the measles, too. Her mother, Margaret, tried to cool her, dabbing precious water on her brow. She shielded her from the sun with a comforter and oilskin s ...

Burial site of child who died in 1864 discovered on Bozeman Trail.

In 1863, mountain man John Jacobs and partner John M. Bozeman determined to find a better route connecting the Oregon Trail to new gold-strike country in what would later become Montana.

The first of Montana’s mysterious deaths of 1867 occurs on the Bozeman Trail – to John Bozeman ... to get up a militia to protect it. His death fuels further outcry, and Meagher will launch ...

The Bozeman Trail was a shortcut to the newly discovered gold fields of Montana Territory. The Bozeman Trail was an offshoot of the Oregon Trail, a shortcut to the newly discovered gold fields of ...

Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! Pioneer John Bozeman is best known for blazing a trail through the Wyoming Territory and into the gold fields of Western Montana. He also helped ...