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Mammoth Hot Springs

August 31, 1877 - Tourist Richard Dietrich is killed

Several members of the Radersburg party and all members of the Helena party who escaped at Otter Creek found their way to Mammoth Hot Springs. The wounded man, Stewart, was put in a wagon and left for Bozeman on the morning of August 30. Richard Dietrich, a music teacher from Helena, stayed behind. Dietrich had promised the mother of 18-year-old Joseph Roberts that he would be responsible for him and he didn’t want to leave until the boy was found. Later that day a Nez Perce scouting party came through on their way to Henderson’s ranch but those remaining at the springs managed to evade them.

When Lieutenant Doane arrived at Mammoth Hot Springs the next day he found the still-warm body of Richard Dietrich. Apparently Dietrich felt the danger of the previous day was past and had been standing in the doorway of the hotel when a group of Nez Perce warriors approached.