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 [...]
admin | December 22, 2009
(We ran this in the Christmas Day newspaper a couple of years ago, but things have changed only a bit at my house. Niki and Molly are home for the holidays from college, Kara just finished helping stage her first Christmas play as the K-4 teacher in Ovando, and — best of all — Marli [...]
admin | November 19, 2009
Thought I’d trot this one out again. We ran it in the paper in the lead-up to the 2001 “Brawl of the Wild.” Not everyone in Montana gives a damn about the Grizzly-Bobcat football game. But folks from all walks of life do, and don’t our peculiar walks define us? I’ve long thought the home [...]
admin | October 23, 2009
Maybe it was frenzy-whipping propaganda, planted by Montana stockmen to gain the sympathies of the public, which they no doubt did. But the horror stories perpetrated by wolves got plenty of ink in the late 1800s. From the New York Times in October 1894: “BUTTE, Mon., Oct. 6 — Reports of ravages by great packs [...]
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