admin | August 26, 2010
At 2:22 p.m. on Aug. 26, 1862, C.W. Spillman, horse thief, became the first man executed in what’s now Montana. Spillman was strung up from a tree near Gold Creek, which appeared on maps as Hangtown for years after. James Stuart, one of the town’s founders, described Spillman as “a rather quiet reserved pleasant young [...]
Category: 1850s-1860s, Gold mining, Mining, Old West, Uncategorized, Western Montana history, history milestones |
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Tags: B.J. Jermagin, C.W. Spillman, Elk City, Gold Creek, Hangtown, Idaho, James Stuart, Montana hangings, Nathaniel Langford, William Arnett, Worden and Co.
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 [...]
Category: 1910s, Aviation, Butte, Firefighting, Mining, Missoula history, Montana local history, National Forest, Railroads, University of Montana, Western Montana history, history milestones |
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Tags: 1910, 1910 fires, Amalgamated, Anaconda Company, Anaconda Standard, Glacier National Park, Great Northern, Halley's Comet, Milltown Dam, Missoula County courthouse, Missoula electric streetcar, Missoula Herald, Northern Pacific, U.S. Forest Service, William A. Clark
admin | January 27, 2010
Why, for instance, is the Burnt Fork of the Bitterroot called that? Here’s the answer, thanks to a new Internet offering, mtplacenames.org, from the Montana Historical Society and the Montana State Library. “Burnt Fork of the Bitterroot River The name Burnt Fork dates from as early as the 1850s, when Major John Owen filed the [...]
Category: Gold mining, Mining, Montana local history, Railroads, Ranching, Western Montana history |
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Tags: Absaroka-Beartooth Wilderness, Absarokee, Alzada, Burnt Fork of the Bitterroot, Great Northern, Montana Historical Society, Montana State Library. Zurich
admin | December 8, 2009
We’re in the early stages of the 150th anniversary of construction of the Mullan Road (see story in Missoulian, Dec. 5) and if you’re like me you get to wondering what it was like around here in 1859-60. George Weisel’s trusty “Men and Trade on the Northwest Frontier,” a remarkable study based on the ledger [...]
Category: 1850s-1860s, David Thompson, Explorations, Flathead reservation, Fort Owen, Fur trade, Gold mining, John Mullan, Lewis and Clark, Mining, Missoula history, Montana, Montana Territory, Mullan Road, Native Americans, Western Montana history, history milestones |
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Tags: "Men and Trade on the Northwest Frontier", 1859-60, Angus McDonald, Bannocks, Blackfeet, Capt William Raynolds, Christopher Higgins, Flatheads, Fort Benton, Fort Connah, Fort Owen, Frank Worden, George Weisel, Gold Creek, Granville Stuart, Hellgate, Hudson's Bay Co., James Stuart, Kalispel, Kootenay, Maj. George Blake, Michael Ogden, Mullan Road, Reece Anderson, Richard Landsdale, Shoshone, St. Ignatius Mission, Tom Adams, Upper Pend d'Oreilles
admin | August 6, 2009
Johnny Dwyer left his family and homeland of Ireland in 1910 to come work in the Butte mines – and by 1918 he was dead at the age of 40. He died like so many of silicosis after breathing in tainted air while underground. Johnny’s grandson, 62-year-old Mike Dwyer of Boston, in Butte for the [...]
Category: 1910s, Butte, Mining, Uncategorized |
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Tags: An Ri Ra Montana Irish Festival, Butte, Irish
