The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1921-10-11
PIONEER AMONG
. Nd. EDlT0RSIN
CITY ON VISIT
Col. LOunsberry, Founder of Bis.
marck Tribune, Renews Ac-
quaintances Here
HAS WRITTEN A HISTORY
Details Remarkable Story of the
Onward March of Civiliza-
tion in the West
HAS WRITTEN A HISTORY

Col. Clement A. Lounsberry, of
Washington, D. G.. today visited the
plant OF the newspaper lie founded, the
first In North Dakota. Col. Lounsber-
ry. a pioneer Of western North Dakota
and truly the pioneer newspaper man
OF the state-he founded the Bismarck
Tribune in 1878, the oltl.sL newspaper
in the state-has been visiting rela-
tives in Mandan and today visited in
Bismarck. rs
Fpr many years Col. Louns5erry has
lived in the national capitol Recent.
~ Col. LOunsberry completed an
" EARLY History 4 of North Dakota" a
book ofS642 pages, containing thrilling
stories i0f the pioneer days and an ac-
citrate history OF the development Of
he state and the figure; who led in
the pushing westward Of civilization
The book is dedicated to North Da-
kOta Pioneers. In the preface Coz.
Lounsberry details some of his per
sonal experience in the great west. He
says:
TN July, 1881 established the Bis
marck Tribune, the iirst newspaper
published in North Dakota. There
were then but five villages in North
Dakota Pembina, Grand Forks Far
go, Jamestown; no railroad, exceptn,,
the Northern Pacific under construc-
tion; no farms, no agriculture, excep,
the cultivation of small patches by
Indians and half bloods, or in connec-
ton with the military posts or Indian
agencies; no banks. no public Schools
no churches. Itwas my tate to be one
of five John w. Fisher, Henry F
Douglas, nc. Adams MIS-. w. C. Bos-
well and myself, to organize the
Presbyterian church society at Bis :
marck, the first church organization
in North Dakota, in June, 1873, and in
the autumn of that year ! was in.
strumental in organizing the Bur-
leigh County Pioneers, developed
through my direction into the North
Dakota State Historical Society, OF
which was the first president.
SEES ENGINEERS FIGHT
81 was at Bismarck when party
of Northern Pacific surveyors started
west to survey the line of the road
from that point to the Yellowstone
river in the spring Of 1878, and saw
the smoke of battle and heard the
crack of rifles, as the engineers were
forced to fight even before they got
as far west as the site of Mandan.
"I saw General George A. Custer
as he marched to his last battle-the
massacre of Custer and PSI men OF
the Seventh United States Cavalry on
the Little Big Horn, by the Sioux.
Accompanying him was Mark Kellogg,
bearing my commission from the New
York Herald, who rode the horse
that was provided for me-for I had
purposed going but could not-and
who wore the belt I had worn in the
Civil War, which was stained with
my blood.
II saw the wounded brought down
the Yellowstone and the Missouri, by
Grant Marsh, on that historic boat,
the Far West, and the weeping
widows whose husbands returned
not.
TRAIL or BLOOD CHECKED,
1.-THE trail of blood, beginning at
the Atlantic, taking fresh start at
the Gulf, extending to the Pacific
and, returning, starting afresh on
the banks of the Missouri, came to
sudden check on the banks OF the
Little Big Horn; but it was not end
ed, the blood already spilled was not
enough. The Seventh United States
Cavalry, Custer's Regiment, was
again baptized in blood at Wounded
Knee, and the end was not reached
until the tragic death of Sitting Bull,
Dec. Is, $780, ..
CONTINUED on page eight