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Historian Chester L. Brooks is working on identifying the “water hole battle” and where General Sully’s Native American guide was shot. He requests Ray W. Lingk’s help in obtaining a diary by Mrs. Wright which may contain information on the Sully Trail.
Theodore Roosevelt National Park
1953-12-02
Dana Wright thanks Harry F. Roberts for the maps. Some ammunition casings have been found near Flat Top Butte and Wright is interested in finding out what guns they fitted.
Theodore Roosevelt National Park
1953-09-31
Historian Chester L. Brooks encloses a notebook that Dana Wright left behind and is planning a trip to Square Top Butte with Harmon Olstad.
Theodore Roosevelt National Park
1953-09-23
Harmon Olstad found some old army cartridges northeast of Square Top Butte which may help corroborate Historian Chester L. Brooks’s findings that General Sully’s skirmish was near the water hole east of the butte.
Theodore Roosevelt National Park
1953-09-16