Uploaded October 2023 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago
James Hamilton Mills is remembered as an important newspaperman in Montana’s territorial period. What he is not remembered for is being a Bozeman Trail diarist. In "James Hamilton Mills: A Diary from the Bozeman Trail," Charles Rankin, retired editor-in-chief for the University of Oklahoma Press, shares the colorful and candid observations Mills recorded about his 1866 Bozeman Trail journey as well as Mills’s recounting of the life, death, and scaffold burial of Lakota chief Spotted Tail’s favorite daughter, Mni Akuwin (Brings Water Home Woman) at Fort Laramie, Wyoming.
James Hamilton Mills is remembered as an important newspaperman in Montana’s territorial period. What he is not remembered for is being a Bozeman Trail diarist. In "James Hamilton Mills: A Diary from the Bozeman Trail," Charles Rankin, retired editor-in-chief for the University of Oklahoma Press, shares the colorful and candid observations Mills recorded about his 1866 Bozeman Trail journey as well as Mills’s recounting of the life, death, and scaffold burial of Lakota chief Spotted Tail’s favorite daughter, Mni Akuwin (Brings Water Home Woman) at Fort Laramie, Wyoming.
