Age 26: Working as a farmhand in Kansas


Worked as an accountant for the Homestake Mine in Deadwood, South Dakota where it is said he killed two "indians". His gun was later given to his family in Kansas.

Newspaper aritcles from Deadwood place write of John Gutzman.

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Wilson Gutzman's history of his father says that John hauled freight for General Miles of the US Army during the Indian Wars. At that time he was shot in the leg with an arrow which caused him to limp for the rest of his life.


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Pommern Years

Butte, Montana Years

Salmon, Idaho Years

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John Ernest Frederick Gutzman's Legacy