admin | January 24, 2011
From the New York Times on Jan. 22, 1911, under the headline “Last Buffalo Hunt Now On: Michel Pablo Killing Off His Herd in Spite of Montana Authorities” CALGARY, Alberta, Jan. 21 – The last act of a spectacular deal is now being enacted on the plains of the Flathead Reservation in Montana, where Michel [...]
admin | October 19, 2010
Oct. 19, 1911 President William Taft steps off a special train on a cold morning in Butte wearing a broad smile, and hustles into an automobile bound for the Silver Bowl Club and breakfast. There, in the heart of Montana’s industrial center, the Republican talks agriculture. “The last census brings forth the fact that the [...]
admin | May 9, 2010
The Anaconda Standard, for one, came close to “breaking” the story of the new Glacier National Park. In a story datelined “Washington, May 11 (1910),” the day President William Taft put his John Hancock to a bill that had been wrangled over in Congress for two years, a special dispatch to the Standard said the [...]
admin | May 9, 2010
There was not a lot of fanfare surrounding the official creation of Glacier National Park on May 11, 1910, as Michael Jamison’s intriguing story in today’s Missoulian, “Glacier: A national park locals learned to love” related. But that doesn’t mean there wasn’t some local pride involved. Here’s an item from the Kalispell Inter Lake that [...]
admin | May 8, 2010
This was a week in 1910 that saw, among other things, the creation of a national park and the first electric street car run in Missoula (see previous post and, I’m told, a column in the Sunday, May 9, Missoulian.). It was also the week that John Schaffer tried out his biplane outside of Missoula. [...]
admin | May 6, 2010
There may have been a week of more impact in Montana history than the one that began on Sunday, May 8, 1910. I’m not aware of it. President Taft signed Glacier National Park into being on May 12, and what stories that act has wrought. In Missoula, the electric streetcars, powered by the new hydroelectric [...]
admin | March 17, 2010
It’ll be several weeks before demolition of the old Florence Laundry building on East Front and Pattee is Missoula is complete. Jim Howard of Frenchtown sends these thoughts: “I have many good memories of the old Florence Laundry as my granddad and, later, dad ran the business. “One very important historical point, though, that wasn’t [...]
admin | March 7, 2010
Our Sunday history almanac a couple of weeks ago in the Territory section of the Missoulian included an item about a brief strike by the motormen of the Missoula Electric Street Railway Co. in February 1893. It came from a Missoulian article that offered a fascinating and sometimes surprising slice of life in Missoula in [...]
admin | November 27, 2009
Annick Drosdal-Levillain got back to me early Thanksgiving Day, too late for her thank you to the people of Missoula to get in the paper yesterday. The story, headlined “Missoula Cemetery mystery unraveled,” was a follow-up on a Nov. 7 feature on her quest to chase down the ghost of her great-grandfather, Haakon Hauge, who [...]
admin | August 25, 2009
I don’t know a lot of details about Missoula’s Victory Gardens that rose out of World War I, but an article that appeared in the Missoulian on Tuesday, July 1, 1919, seems to indicate they resulted in the town’s early farmers markets — or maybe the first. The headline: “Missoula Public Market To Try ‘Comeback’ [...]
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