admin | January 25, 2010
Carl Haywood of Thompson Falls (“Sometimes Only Horses to Eat”) sent this note in last Thursday: Wanted to share an exciting bit of information with friends and relatives I think might be interested. An hour ago I received an e-mail inviting me to present a paper on Explorer David Thompson (the subject of my book) [...]
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 [...]
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 | November 10, 2009
Thanks to Carl Haywood for tracking this down. If you missed the initial showing of the PBS documentary on David Thompson last week, here’s the info for the next one. If anybody knows when else and where else it’s showing, let me know. WHAT: Uncharted Territory: “David Thompson on the Columbia Plateau” WHEN: Wed, Nov [...]
admin | November 9, 2009
OK, does this sound familiar? Yesterday was a day of misty weather, cloudy but fine in the Thompson Falls area. Today is a fine day again, but unmisty and not so cloudy. It’s what folks in T-Falls are experiencing this morning in 2009, and what David Thompson encountered exactly 200 years. It wasn’t easy at [...]
admin | November 6, 2009
We’re following DT’s week-long journey up the Clark Fork from Lake Pend Orielle to establish Saleesh House near Thompson Falls. We find the party in what’s now the Noxon Reservoir, in the vicinity of Rock Island. Nov. 5 was a Sunday, “A day of much Snow & wet weather but mild – At 7 ½ [...]
admin | November 4, 2009
Nov. 4, 1809 — David Thompson’s expedition of traders left early from an overnight camp on the Clark Fork River at Herring (Heron) Rapids, near the Idaho-Montana border. According to “Sometimes Only Horses Eat,” Carl Haywood’s 2008 book about Thompson in western Montana, the traders reached the camp of an old friend, Jaco Finlay, at [...]
admin | November 4, 2009
Actually it’ll be Ritchie Doyle doing a Chautauqua performance as Thompson at the Travelers’ Rest Chapter’s monthly meeting at 7 p.m. tomorrow (Thursday, Nov. 5) at the Lolo Community Center. Doyle has created his Thompson character over the past few years after concentrating on Capt. William Clark during the Lewis and Clark bicentennial. Here’s the [...]
admin | November 3, 2009
A couple of significant milestones occurred this time of year in western Montana, one 200 years ago and the other 150. In 1809, still barely three years after Lewis and Clark vacated the premises, David Thompson headed up the Clark Fork River to set up the state’s first trading post near Thompson Falls. In 1859, [...]
admin | June 28, 2009
When I first read A.B. Guthrie’s “The Big Sky” back in the 1970s, I figured it was a pretty good baseline for living in Montana. I’m having at it again this summer and wondering if it’s not something more than that. Take this passage, at a time in the novel when old-time mountain man Dick [...]
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