Excerpt from Contributions to the Historical Society of Montana, Vol. 9 In this volume the Montana Historical Library presents the remainder of. The contributions of Lieutenant James H. Bradley. Other manuscripts of his were published in Volumes II, III and VIII. His work, based upon close observation and information obtained largely from first hand sources, began in 1871 when he was stationed at frontier army posts, most of the time at Fort Benton and Fort Shaw, and ended with his death in the Battle of the Big Hole in 1877. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.