According to G. C. Muckelroy, a Montanan, opera baritone, fly fisherman, roulette player, part-time meteorologist, Jacks (“Knucklebones”) enthusiast, who picked up some angling, weather forecasting, gaming odds strategies, and musical composition tips from Lakotans he knew and grew up with, and history and law professor at Tulane University in New Orleans, wrote in 1907 “Hurricanes in the mid-1860s were not permitted to either self-identify, or be designated for name assignment by any government official or newspaper editor or staff reporter, columnist, or writer. In reality, few hurricanes back then in the 1800s were ever named after anyone, instead ‘The Great Miami Storm of 1837’ as one example being the prevailing manner by which to designate a storm, along with later ‘The Great Galvest
