By Friends President, Robert Luppi There are those who have distinguished themselves highly in America’s past and have been recorded in history as such together with their receipt of the honors, accolades and commendations demonstrating their achievement. (Artistic Portrayal, Harpers Weekly, December 28, 1895) And there are some of these achievers who simply later disappeared from life, were never seen again and their whereabouts became unknown and remain such. They become “l

By Jon G. James, Former Superintendent of Big Hole National Battlefield ( Editor’s note: Lt. James H. Bradley was to later become a member of the 7th U.S. Infantry, serve with Col. John Gibbon’s Montana Column in the Sioux-Cheyenne War of 1876 and later die at the Battle of Big Hole on August 9, 1877. He is the author of a highly acclaimed journal recounting his observations and insights during the Montana Column’s march, beginning in the spring of that year, from western Mon