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By Ed Kemmick
Billings, Montana (AP)
An amateur historian may finally have solved a mystery that is more than a century old.
Cleve Kimmel thinks he has discovered why Joseph M.V. Cochran, the first settler to file homestead papers in what would become Yellowstone County, was never compensated by the government for damages he suffered at the hands of a raiding party of Nez Perce Indians in 1877.
Billings, Montana (AP)
An amateur historian may finally have solved a mystery that is more than a century old.
Cleve Kimmel thinks he has discovered why Joseph M.V. Cochran, the first settler to file homestead papers in what would become Yellowstone County, was never compensated by the government for damages he suffered at the hands of a raiding party of Nez Perce Indians in 1877.
