admin | May 27, 2010
I especially get the urge to get back to the battlefield this time of year. My daughter and I drove right by 10 days ago — in a nice electric storm on the plains, not the snowy white palette pictured to the right. We couldn’t stop. Here’s a tidbit that I found and am including [...]
admin | March 23, 2010
Think horse racing was on the minds of Missoulians in 1891? Here are two separate blurbs, posted on the same day (Feb. 16, 1891) in the Missoula Gazette: “Cashier Keith of the First National Bank is the possessor of a new horse which promises to make its mark on the Missoula track next season. He [...]
admin | March 9, 2010
Just a note: Today marks the 130th anniversary of the entrance of the first railroad into Montana (Territory). On March 9, 1880, the Utah and Northern laid tracks over Monida Pass. In their book “The Battle for Butte,” Michael Malone and William Lang wrote of the occasion: “Butte folks sipped champagne and listened joyously to [...]
admin | January 29, 2010
Thanks to Minie Smith for pointing this out. She’s been researching the Fires of 1910 for the Fort Missoula museum and came across a large ad in the Aug. 20, 1910, Missoulian (the day the fires took off). There’s a photo of the Merc in the middle top with “1885″ on one side and “1910″ [...]
admin | January 6, 2010
Ty Robinson remembers the impression the Missoula Mercantile made on him the first day he went to work for the downtown store in 1948. (See story in today’s Missoulian on the history of the Merc.) “I was taken downstairs and they must have had 2,000 or 3,000 pairs of horseshoes,” Robinson told me yesterday. He [...]
admin | November 9, 2009
Our state’s 120th birthday came and went yesterday (Sunday) without much fanfare. Nov. 8, 1889 Following a series of “whereas” clauses, a proclamation signed by President Benjamin Harrison at 10:40 a.m. in Washington, D.C., concluded: “I … declare and proclaim the fact that the conditions imposed by Congress on the State of Montana, to entitle [...]
admin | July 28, 2009
Will Moss’s story in Sunday’s Ravalli Republic and Missoulian told of the end of the 2009 Chief Joseph Trail Ride at the Big Hole National Battlefield on Sunday. Today marks the anniversary of a notable Saturday night in the flight of Chief Joseph and the Nez Perce. Anybody out there have any Fort Fizzle anecdotes [...]
admin | June 22, 2009
From FWP: Visit Salmon Lake State Park on Saturday evening, June 27 and get a glimpse into the Nez Perce War of 1877 through the eyes of Major Charles Rawn. The program starts at 8 p.m. at Salmon Lake State Park’s campground amphitheater, approximately 5 miles south of Seeley Lake just off Highway 83. The [...]
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