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Livingston ENTERPRISE: November 1874 - "Snow - Just now we are having snow storms every day or two. Some are of the opinion that winter has come to stay. Those who were calculating on the same favorable weather of last fall this season are caught at a disadvantage - in fact few are prepared for such severity in the weather we are having at present." Item: "Arming the Crow Indians - The telegraph informs us that the general government has decided to furnish 500 Crow Indians, for the purpose of defending the settlements against the raids of the Sioux. This measure has been advocated by the agent of the tribes upon the Yellowstone and Gov Potts.

December 18, 1874 - Dr. Hunter is over from Crow Agency (on Mission Creek, near Hunter's property), and informs us that the party to select a new agency for the Crows left on Wednesday to perform the duty, accompanied by a military escort. The new agency, it is supposed, will be sixty miles lower down the Yellowstone than the present site."

December 25, 1874 - Dr. Hunter has returned to and located in Bozeman for the practice of his profession. He is an old practitioner of great experience, and is too well know in this community to need commendations from us."

From Susan Hunter's journal: "Our children was getting school age and their was great grief that we could not have them in a good school. We kept them most of the time in school at Bozeman. This winter we came back to Bozeman, Dr coming ahead to get a house for us so we started in with a freight train. It was very pleasant and only about 30 miles. We expected to get to Ginns ranch or into Bozeman that night so we only started with a lunch but we had not gone far till a blizzard struck us and we could not go very far as all the deep gullies were blown full of snow. The men shoveled a few out so we could cross, but there were so many, they gave out and could not shovel any more, so they turned the mules out and we had to stop. It turned awful cold, it was 40 below zero a terable blizzard and myself and four little children and two men out in the mountains. I beged the men to chop one of the wagons up and make a fire he told me the wind was so high it would not do any good so I kept my children up as well as I could for I had some bedding along and a feather bed. Got them all huddled together and spent the night rubbing them to keep them from freezing and without anything to eat besides. Oh what a terable night, I did not expect anything else but we would all be frozen before morning. I would run round and round the wagons till I was warm and then climb into the wagon and rub the children to keep sirculation up for they would go to sleep in spite of all I could do. Oh what a night. Only those that have been caught out in a blizzard with out food and fire can know anything about it. We were spared and the morning came at last the wind went down but it was still awful cold so the men dug a hole in a large drift and we put the bed and clothing in and put the children in there where the wind could not reach them. The men stayed and tryed to dig through another gullie but I went on a foot about four miles to a ranch or station to get help and when I got there I was frozen quite bad, my forehead, cheeks, back of my arms, chin and was so exhausted I could not speak but I could write, so some men rigged up a sleigh in short time and went back and got the children. By the time they got into the station we had something to eat and Dr Hunter had sent two men out with four horses and a sleigh to meet us. We went right on till we got to Bozeman but wasn't I a beauty for a few days, my face swelled terable where I was frozen and Mary my oldest had come out with her father and had a very severe case of pneumonia and did not expect her to live for several days."

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