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Professor Henry Newton (1845-1877) and Walter
P. Jenney led the Newton–Jenney Party of 1875,
a scientific expedition sponsored by the U.S. Geological Survey to map the Black Hills of South Dakota after Custer’s expedition into the Black
Hills and the subsequent Black Hills Gold Rush. The Newton-Jenney Party was escorted by government troops under the command of Lieutenant Colonel Richard I. Dodge. Calamity Jane was with the party. Newton and Jenney confirmed the presence of
products included mortars and gun carriages
as well as Rice & Sargent engines. He was also a director and vice president of the Providence Board of Trade and director of the Mechanics
Savings Bank.
Harvey Sanford Faucett (1845-1930), aka “Arapahoe Harve,” was born in Butler County, Ohio, and ran supply trains based out of St. Louis for the U.S. government during the Civil War. In 1863 he was
gold in the Black Hills fueling the gold rush and
the tensions that lead to the Great Sioux War of 1876-77 which included the famous Battle of
Little Bighorn. After the expedition, he continued to study the geology of the region. As discussed above, Newton died in Deadwood, Dakota Territory, on August 5, 1877, from disease, reportedly “mountain fever.”
The “college kid” Zechariah “Zack” Chafee (1859- 1943) was part of a long line of Rhode Island
family line of men to bear the name “Zechariah Chafee.” His father (1815-1889) was a prominent businessman from Providence, Rhode Island,
who ran the Builder’s Foundry in Providence,
which produced artillery and ammunition
during the Civil War and was the treasurer of the Quidnick Company in 1877, the trustee of the A.
& W. Sprague Manufacturing Company, and the president of the Bank of America in Providence
in 1880. He may have also been involved with
the Providence Tool Company although the
family’s connection to the company is not clear aside from it being based in their hometown
where they were prominent business men. His grandfather (1785-1840) was a master mason.
His son Zechariah Chafee Jr. (1885-1957) was a professor at Harvard Law School from 1916-1956 and drafted the Federal Interpleader Act of 1936, was on Senator Joseph McCarthy’s list of the seven people “most dangerous to the United States,” and also had a son named Zechariah (1912-1997). After returning home from the West, Chafee became a businessman in Providence like his father, including
part of General Bank’s expedition of the Gulf of Mexico which was shipwrecked when the steamer Nassau struck a sandbar at Brazos Bay, Texas,
and then worked as a scout and courier from Brownsville to various posts. In 1864, he returned to St. Louis and then headed to Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, where he joined a party headed to the gold fields of Montana. In 1870, he traveled to Elwood, Indiana, and worked as a druggist briefly before returning to the West and worked as a surveyor in Nebraska. By 1873, he was working
in real estate and shipping grain with William
Leese before heading to Texas with Canadian frontiersman William G. Milner. He returned to Seward in 1874 and worked as a merchant before joining George Armstrong Custer’s expedition into the Black Hills and stayed behind after the soldiers left to prospect the streams and reportedly found
a great deal of placer gold on the Indian land. The following year, General Crook kicked Faucett and the other trespassers off the Indian reservation land but returned with the next geological survey. In 1876, he worked for the government as a courier, scout, and guide during the Great Sioux War that resulted from the gold rush. He was reportedly captured by the Blackfoot during this period and was present with General McKenzie’s troops at
the Battle of Crazy Woman Creek in the fall. He is said to have fought off a wolf pack attacking the mortally wounded Cheyenne warrior Riskohonge and was given his scalp jacket and blanket which he later posed with.
28 as a president of the Builder’s Iron Foundry whose
SCOUTS AND EVENTUAL LAWMEN HANK WORMWOOD AND HARVEY FAUCETT PICTURED AT THE GRAVE OF "WILD BILL" HICKOK SHORTLY AFTER HIS DEATH.