I read this problem slightly differently based on the Charley Reynolds marker which is an interestingly difficult problem within a problem. For those interested in the what and why, you can wait for a published chapter or two with multitudinous crossrefernces and parentheses or, read on. There were differing opinions as to where Reynolds fell. There may have been two markers and one was relocated and the other is something of a mystery if there were two.
Some names . Well...... let me plagiarise my own plagiarism below.
An early superintendent of Yellowstone Park, recovered Reynold's remains in 1877 and left the location marked on a map. So, it is difficult to doubt this source. However, there was a story that a professor took them, that his remains were placed at the military monument, and there was even a battle participant of the wilder side who used Reynolds name. That was Brinkerhoff.
There is immense confusion through time but Norris, in 1877, located the remains. What to believe. Where the marker was located is a bag of bones also, and despite photo's of Reynolds supposed family at the marker with fencing around it, there are other different marker pictures. Of course four battle experts placing a marker in 1938 as reported in the newspaper - I forget which, probably isn't fake news. Brininstool, Albert W. Johnson, R.S. Ellison, E.A. Brininstool, Fred Dustin, Charles Kuhlman. The problem here is that Kuhlman's version of Reno's fight fell out of the rear end of a goose but was not bright.
It was dumber than ducks.
BeholdHENRY KEISER. — Coming from his West Virginia home to Montana when he was a mere boy, and being intimately associated with the pioneers of the state in its early settlement and subsequent development, Henry Keiser is well entitled to honorable mention wherever the deeds and achievements of the progressive men of Montana are recorded. He was born at Phillippi, W. Va., September 14, 1849. His parents were Daniel M. and Elizabeth (Auvil) Keiser, both natives of West Virginia, where the latter died in 1863. The father was of Pennsylvania Dutch ancestry, and a successful lawyer in that state until 1866, when he moved to Maryland, where he died in 1871.
Their son Henry attended school in his native town until 1864. At the age of fifteen he came to the northwest and has since contributed his share to the development and improvement of this section. After passing a few months at the.Gros Ventre Indian agency, he went to Fort Union, then in command of Maj. Pease. In 1866 and 1867 he was at the mouth of Milk river, engaged in hunting and trapping. He then joined the Crow Indian tribe at Fort Peck and remained with it a year. In 1868 he was at the mouth of the Musselshell, again enaged in hunting, trapping and fighting the Sioux Indians, who were troublesome at that time. In 1869 and 1870 he was interpreter at Fort Hawley for the Northwestern Fur Company, and during 1870 was mining in the Coeur d'Alene district. In 1871-72 he was in the Whoop-up country across the Canadian line, trading with the Indians, and from there went to Fort Claggett, where for two years he was in the employ of T. C. Power, the post trader.
In 1874 he went to the old Crow agency, near Livingston, and was employed by the government as sub-agent until 1876. In the winter of that year he established a trading post. on Keiser creek (named in his honor), where the town of Columbus now stands. He remained there until the spring of 1877, when he went to Fort Custer and served as guide and interpreter for two years. During 1879 and 1880 he conducted a post trader's store at Junction City. In the summer of 1880 he took a company of Indians east on exhibition, as part of a traveling show. From 1881 to 1885 he was employed as chief scout, guide and interpreter for Gen. Miles. He then went into the stock business on a squatter's claim near Fort Custer, and conducted that business in connection with contracting on the Northern Pacific Railroad until 1890.
He was also engaged in building irrigation ditches on the Crow reservation, and had an interest in three stores there, trading with the Indians. * In 1900 he sold all his interests in this locality and has since been engaged in construction work on the Northern Pacific and other railroads.
In politics Mr. Keiser is a Republican, but has never been an active partisan. He. was first married at Junction City in 1879. At Chicago, in 1897, he contracted a second marriage, uniting with Miss Julia Dwyer. By the first marriage there were three children : Maggie; Frank and Myrtle. By the second, one — Virginia.
Mennaparshu newspaper article copies 1934-1935 : the autobiography of Henry Keiser, c1848-1929.
Author: Henry Keiser; Billings Gazette. Special feature, Billings Gazette, Dec. 2, 1934-Feb. 3, 1935. "Topics mentioned: "Muggins" Taylor, John "Liver Eating" Johnson, Luther S. "Yellowstone" Kelly, Fur trade, Fort Stand Off and the whiskey trade, Custer massacre, Curley, Scouting for General Miles." Description: 29 leaves : illustrations ; 36 cm
Carrie Medicine Singer or Carrie Spies on the Enemy aka 'Bah koo day skash'.
Yeeehaw............... A three store, ditch digging, stock owner who scouted for Terry in 1876 and discovered Custer's body. I believe this gent to be a or the relevant ditch digger.
newspaperarchive.com/billings-gazette-aug-17-1938-p-1/newspaperarchive.com/billings-gazette-aug-17-1938-p-3/Billings Gazette Newspaper Archives -
Wednesday, August 17, 1938 - Page 1
Local Group Slated to Place Tablet at Spot Where Scout With Custer Fell. Paying tribute to the memory of one of the greatest of the early-day scouts and guides, Charley Reynolds, a bronze plaque will be unveiled Wednesday at the site where Reynolds lost his life in the battle of the Little Big Horn, June25 1876. The ceremony will begin at 4pm at the site of the battle, three tenths of a mile south of Garryowen on highway No. 87. Visitors will be able to drive cars directly to the site.
The tablet used to mark the spot where Reynolds fell was purchased recently by the Billings Lions club, and a group of well-known historical writers will have a part in the unveiling ceremony. The public, especially pioneers of this region, has been invited by the sponsoring group to attend.
Those who will have part in the program include George G. Osten, Yellowstone county clerk and recorder and a student of western history; Albert W. Johnson of Marine on Saint Croix, Minn.; R.S. Ellison of Tulsa, Okla.; E.A. Brininstool Hollywood, Cal; Fred Dustin of Saginaw Mich, and Charles Kuhlman of Billings. Ellison, who has assisted in placing several markers to permanently identify historic places in Wyoming, will give the dedication address. (Continued on Page 3, Column 5.)
(Continued From Page 1) Brininstool, recognized authority and writer Of many books and articles on the Indian wars of the northwest and a biographer of the life of Charley Reynolds, will unveil the marker. Reynolds was serving under Maj. Marcus Reno when he was slain at the battle of the Little Big Horn. His bravery in his last fight was vividly described by Maj. Luther Hare, at that time a second lieutenant under Reno, in command of the Arikaree scouts, who said, "I saw him (Reynolds) after his death and my recollection is that he was buried by the detail that I was in charge of, or it may have been done by the detail that Wallace had charge of, as we were working together. At any rate, Charley Reynolds was killed in the bottom and buried there. (Later the body was taken up and buried with the rest of the dead under the Custer monument.) I saw him several times during the fight and was impressed by his wonderful coolness and apparent indifference to the warm fire that was being poured in on us. It was my first fight, and my recollections of such men as Benteen, Godfrey and Reynolds have flashed across my mind in startling vividness in the beginning of every engagement in which I have since been present.