Montana Yesterday

On tornadoes in the Treasure State

admin | July 28, 2010

Monday’s tornado in northeastern Montana was the strongest of a series of twisters that have done damage in the state this summer. The best known was the one in Billings on Father’s Day that ravaged the state’s premier indoor arena, the Metra, but this one was deadlier, killing a child and a 46-year-old man on [...]

Here’s what the Mullan gang was doing 150 years ago

admin | May 9, 2010

As the commemoration of the 150th anniversary of the Mullan Road  approaches (May 20-22, see previous post and the conference website) we should check in with the road-building crew’s progress in May of 1860. Remember, they’d wintered at Cantonment Jordan near DeBorgia, after topping the Bitterroots in late 1859, working their way eastward from Walla [...]