Fort Assinniboine telegrams

Story by Ellen Thompson

Montana State University-Bozeman has preserved a piece of Hill County history, adding to its collections all of the telegrams received by Fort Assinniboine in 1881, the year of Sitting Bull's surrender.

Purchased in April and posted on the Internet in July, the telegrams are now available for anyone to access without fear of damaging them, MSU special collection archivist Kim Allen Scott said.

They contain more information about daily life at Fort Assinniboine than was previously known, Fort Assinniboine Preservation Association president Gary Wilson said.

The telegrams...