Hank Wormwood
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(Created page with "'''Henry "Texas Hank" Wormwood''', ?former mountain man?, scout for Crook (1876), Miles City town marshall. [[File:HankWormwood.jpg|thumb|right|400px|This is said to be a ...") |
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C. N. Strevell wrote this about Hank: | C. N. Strevell wrote this about Hank: | ||
| − | + | :"...Hank Wormwood who posed as being a real tough, with long curls tied at the back of neck with a wide blue ribbon such as girls wore. Hank's principal act was parading up and down the street and loafing in the saloons. I never heard of him being involved in any real trouble -- just posing as a bad man." | |
| − | "...Hank Wormwood who posed as being a real tough, with long curls tied at the back of neck with a wide blue ribbon such as girls wore. Hank's principal act was parading up and down the street and loafing in the saloons. I never heard of him being involved in any real trouble -- just posing as a bad man." | + | |
In September 1877 a Battalion of the Second Cavalry had moved out of Tongue River Cantonment to scout the country going towards the Black Hills for a new improved road. At the same time a pack train travel party was coming the other way from Deadwood. Members in the group included several destined for notoriety or fame - including the Reece brothers (Bill & Frank), Ranger Hank Wormwood, Morgan Earp, Fitzsimmons, John McCormick, a few of their gals, and two other men. They arrived at Milestown in early October. | In September 1877 a Battalion of the Second Cavalry had moved out of Tongue River Cantonment to scout the country going towards the Black Hills for a new improved road. At the same time a pack train travel party was coming the other way from Deadwood. Members in the group included several destined for notoriety or fame - including the Reece brothers (Bill & Frank), Ranger Hank Wormwood, Morgan Earp, Fitzsimmons, John McCormick, a few of their gals, and two other men. They arrived at Milestown in early October. | ||
| − | [[File:WormwoodProvesHisMettle.jpg|thumb|left| | + | About [[May 11 1880]], Hank joined a party of travelers headed by Granville Stuart, and was hired with $40 to accompany them for the remainder of the journey. Stuart was scouting range land and had covered most of the area between the Bighorn and Tongue Rivers. Now they were heading north for Flatwillow and the Musselshell range. They reached Flatwillow [12 May 1880]] and scouted the area north of there. On [[198 May 1880]] the four "land scouts" rode westward to the divide between McDonald Creek and the Judith Basin. 12 miles beyond they came to the settlement of Red River Metis who had plowed and planted crops. They went through Judith Gap and by [[22 May 1880]] they arrived at Martinsdale, at the forks of the Musselshell. The town had four or five houses, but they found 30 soldiers. Stuart paid his three companions and waited two days for the stage to Helena. |
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| + | [[File:WormwoodProvesHisMettle.jpg|thumb|left|1200px|March-April, 1960 True West magazine.]] | ||
