Archives West Finding Aid

Photocopy of a partial typewritten narrative written by Ethel V. Storm based on a conversation with her father, Maynard S. Bean, concerning the Cheyenne Indian "uprising" of 1897. In the document, Bean is paraphrased in describing the discovery of a murdered sheepherder named Hoover whose body was found near the Northern Cheyenne Indian reservation in early May, 1897 (Bean gives the date of June, 1897). The search for the body was undertaken by ranch hands led by Bean, and the subsequent confrontation between civilian and military authorities and the Cheyenne Indians is described. Bean's narrative identifies key figures in the events, which differs somewhat from official accounts recorded elsewhere. According to Ethel Storm, an edited version of the narrative appeared in the Billings Gazette on August 23, 1964.