admin | March 21, 2011
A reader thought others might be interested to hear the story about the bodies that were found when the city was digging to lay the foundation for Rattlesnake School. On Oct. 14, 1992, a story written by Donna Syvertson appeared in the Missoulian. It was about a memorial at Rattlesnake School dedicated to the dead [...]
admin | October 17, 2010
Oct. 17, 1855 Indian leaders and Isaac Stevens, governor of Washington Territory, sign the Lame Bull (Blackfeet) treaty at Judith Landing, near the mouth of the Judith River. The pact establishes Indian hunting grounds east of the mountains. The gathering was slated for Fort Benton, but when river traffic could not make it that far [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 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 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 [...]
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