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 [...]
Category: 1870s-1880s, 1960s, Little Bighorn, Montana, Native Americans, Uncategorized, War |
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Tags: Battle of the Little Bighorn (Greasy Grass), Custer, Maj. Marcus Reno
admin | May 9, 2010
The Mullan Road conference, marking the 150th anniversary of the road’s construction, is May 20-22 in Fort Benton and there’s still time to register. They want the registration forms by May 17 for those who want to take part in the whole shooting match, which includes what should be a great bus trip to the [...]
Category: 1850s-1860s, Explorations, Historic presentation, John Mullan, Missouri River, Mullan Road, Native Americans, Old West, Steamboats, Western Montana history, history milestones |
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Tags: David Parchen, Dr. Bill Youngs, Dr. Paul McDermott, Fort Benton, John Creighton, Ken Robison, Maj. Ryan Shaw, Mountain Press, Mullan Road, National Historic Trail, River Press, Ron Hall, Sun River Valley, Tom Minckler
admin | March 20, 2010
In the post below, I noted that Gary Moulton is working on a narrative of the day-by-day travels of Lewis and Clark. At a conference called “Science & Humanities: Inseparable by Nature” last Sunday in Great Falls, he talked about another research project concerning Sacajawea. How many times, he asked an audience that was clearly [...]
Category: 1800-1820, Explorations, Lewis and Clark, Missouri River, Montana, Native Americans, Western Montana history |
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Tags: Cameahwait, Gary Moulton, Great Falls, Lewis and Clark, Sacajawea
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) [...]
Category: 1800-1820, David Thompson, Explorations, Fur trade, Historic presentation, Native Americans, Western Montana history |
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Tags: Carl Haywood, David Thompson, Fur trade
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 | 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 [...]
Category: 1890s, Brawl of the Wild, Explorations, Football, Fur trade, Gold mining, John Mullan, Lewis and Clark, Missoula history, Montana, Mullan Road, Native Americans, Northern Pacific Railroad, Railroads, Ranching, University of Montana, Western Montana history, history milestones |
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Tags: Beavertail Hill, Bozeman, Charlie Russell, Coxey's Army, Deer Lodge Valley, Fort Keogh, Golden Spike ceremony, Griz-Cat, John Colter, John Mullan, Lewis and Clark, Missoula, Teddy Blue Abbott, Three Forks
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 [...]
Category: 1800-1820, David Thompson, Explorations, Fur trade, Montana, Native Americans, Western Montana history, history milestones |
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Tags: 1809, David Thompson, Saleesh House
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 [...]
Category: 1800-1820, David Thompson, Explorations, Fur trade, Native Americans, Western Montana history |
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Tags: Carl Haywood, Clark Fork River, David Thompson, Jocko Finley
admin | July 29, 2009
As Oglala Sioux war chief Red Cloud watched from a distance, U.S. soldiers packed up and left Fort C.F. Smith, beginning the abandonment of military posts along the Bozeman Trail. Early the next day, Red Cloud and his warriors swooped down on the fort and burned it in celebration. For two years they’d resisted construction [...]
Category: 1850s-1860s, Native Americans, War, Yellowstone, history milestones |
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Tags: Bozeman Trail, Fort C.F. Smith, Montana Territory, Red Cloud
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 [...]
Category: 1870s-1880s, Missoula history, Native Americans, War, Western Montana history |
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Tags: Capt. Charles Rawn, Chief Joseph, Fort Fizzle, Fort Missoula, Lolo Creek, Looking Glass, Nez Perce War, White Bird