Nancy, you are correct about the Cheyenne tepees near the Tongue River, and seeing them on Main Street wrapped in blankets...as kids we always wondered how they stood the summer heat with them on! Why they came to Miles City every summer? Maybe it was their idea of a vacation get-away!! Things were green and shady, and it was a change of scenery, and they bothered no one, so they were welcome. One, named "Sofie Wooden Leg", came down Knight St. in her Connastoga wagon to visit with my Mother every time she was in Miles City, and as she was elderly, and actually had a wooden leg, her trips became fewer and fewer. On her last visit he brought my Mother a pair of hand beaded moccasins as a gift...... My mother was very touched, as she simply thought of Sofie as a mother herself, and there was a common bond between them.....
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