The Powder River County examiner and the Broadus independent. [volume] (Broadus, Mont.) 1919-1935, 1921-11-18
PIONEER PASSES
S4TH MILESTONE
ARCHIE MACDONALD, SURVIVOR
YELLOWSTONE EXPEDITION
HAS ANNIVERSARY.

S ~ s-
HAS ANNIVERSARY.
Came with Comstock, Discoverer Of
Famous Nevada Mine Which Made
Virginia City Famous, to Montana;
Fought Indians and Mined In the
Placers In His Youth.
At his comfortable home in Boze-
man, where he and his wife have lived
for 80 years, Archie Macdonald, q re-
spected pioneer, celebrated his saith
recently. He is in fairly good
health for one of his advanced years,
and enjoys talking Of his early-day
experiences much more than of things
that have happened to him in later
years. He has a good memory. es-
pecially when referring to matters of
historical interest. He is not only
q pioneer Of 1864, but is one of the
three survivors of the Yellowstone ex-
petition Of 1874 against the Indians.
Walked to Montana.
He is Of Scotch ancestry and was
born in the Highlands of Scotland Oc-
tober %. 1897. He immigrated to
Canada in 1854 and remained there
about 10 years, when he went by
steamboat to New York city and then
to Panama. He travelled around some
on foot, ON horseback and OCCASION
ally in a wagon in old Mexico and on
to California, and from there to Mon
tana, walking from Portland, Ore, to
Alder gulch, where he arrived in
1864, and engaged in mining during
the remainder of that year. He then
went to the Blackfoot country and
spent a short time at Diamond City.
He engaged in placer mining at Hell
ena for a time, and then returned to
Diamond City for few months, 60
ing from there to Hoggem, where he
had a claim.
He not only engaged in mining at
Radersburg, but bought a hotel there,
which he sold in 1858 to the county
commissioners for q courthouse. From
there he went with a team to New
Mexico and Wyoming, and for time
he was employed by the Union Pa.
cific railroad. He was member OF
q party organized at Cheyenne, Wyo-
ming, in 1870 to go to the Black
Hills. He was chosen captain of the
party of $50 men but the United
States troops would not allow them ia
go into the Black Hills on account OF
the Indians. who had been very trou.
blesome in that country. The men
then decided to come to Montana, and
Mr.. Macdonald is the last of the par.
ty which came to Bpzeman at that
time, the late August Gottschalck and
Charles Pietsch being among those Of
the expedition.
COmst0ck Joined Party.
The late Thomas Comstock, dis,
coverer Of the famous mines in Ne
vada bearing his name, Joined this
party on the way to Montana, having
traded the mine that he supposed a,
the time to be worthless for cayuse
He put his meagre belongings into
the wagon and rode his cayust
through, but seemed respondent anG
had little to say. A few days after
the party arrived in Bozeman Com
stock committed suicide by shooting
himself in the head with his pistol
His body was buried in the Bozemal
cemetery, where a gravestone was la
ter put up by Nelson Story Of Boze
man.
Against Indians.
Mr.. Macdonald spent the greater
part of the time during 1871, 1877:
and 1873 in Cooke City prospecting
In 1874 he Joined the famous Yellow
stone expedition from Bozeman dow
the. Yellowstone against the Sioux In
dams, and he and E. D. Ferguson
and James Gourley are the only thre
survivors Of that expedition. MI
Macdonald and some Of the other
went back to the Grow agency an
helped to keep guard. The Indian
killed Story's cattle herder an
threatened DR.. Hunters family at tn
springs. They were driven down tn
Yellowstone by the men Of this eS
petition, who took DR.. Hunter an
his family from Hunters Springs t
the Crow agency. where several Q
the men remained as guards for
few months.
| After spending nearly two years a
the Crow agency, Mr.. MACEDONIA
Joined party going to the Blac
Hills. where they prospected withou
success for q few months and the
returned to Montana, some Of the pal
ty stopping at Miles City, Mr.. Mat
Donald being one who returned t
Bozeman in the fall Of 1876, and h
has been here most of the time sinct
He was the first street commissions
for Bozeman and served in that CO
pacity for nearly IL years.
;. Married Thirty Years Ago.
Thirty years ago he was Marie
. to Mrs. Josephine Chavey, and the
have since occupied their present rel
idence, which has, however, been n
, modelled. They own other house
which the rent. No children were Dor
, to Mr.. and Mrs. Macdonald, but b
has been q kind father to her tw
children, by previous marriag
George Chavey, Bozeman bushes