admin | May 25, 2010
The yellow sign in the rearview mirror said “No Regular Maintenance: Travel At Your Own Risk” and I had to laugh. From the stories I’ve heard, Lt. John Mullan probably should have been required to post such signs every few miles or so when he came through here with his road-builders in 1860 and 1862. [...]
admin | May 9, 2010
The Anaconda Standard, for one, came close to “breaking” the story of the new Glacier National Park. In a story datelined “Washington, May 11 (1910),” the day President William Taft put his John Hancock to a bill that had been wrangled over in Congress for two years, a special dispatch to the Standard said the [...]
admin | January 29, 2010
Thanks to Minie Smith for pointing this out. She’s been researching the Fires of 1910 for the Fort Missoula museum and came across a large ad in the Aug. 20, 1910, Missoulian (the day the fires took off). There’s a photo of the Merc in the middle top with “1885″ on one side and “1910″ [...]
admin | November 24, 2009
Warren Davis, editor and publisher of the Daily Missoulian, weighed in on a difficult subject this week in 1932: Thanksgiving. “There have been last Thursdays in Novembe of other years that maybe better exemplified the nationwide thought of Thanksgiving than does this day of 1932,” he wrote on the editorial page on Nov. 24. They [...]
admin | November 9, 2009
Our state’s 120th birthday came and went yesterday (Sunday) without much fanfare. Nov. 8, 1889 Following a series of “whereas” clauses, a proclamation signed by President Benjamin Harrison at 10:40 a.m. in Washington, D.C., concluded: “I … declare and proclaim the fact that the conditions imposed by Congress on the State of Montana, to entitle [...]
admin | October 8, 2009
The documentary on the kegger debuts tonight at the University Theater. That’s NOT the newer, smaller UC Theater on the third floor of the University Center, but the old one where, among other events, we children of the ’70s heard K. Ross Toole’s Montana history lectures. Bob McCue, executive producer, said the original thought was [...]
admin | October 7, 2009
Meriwether Lewis, by his hand or someone else’s, died 200 years ago next Sunday. The Lewis and Clark Trail Heritage Foundation, based in Great Falls, was in Tennessee today to memorialize the event. Here’s the AP account: HOHENWALD, Tenn. — Two hundred years after he died mysteriously, explorer Meriwether Lewis was honored Wednesday as a [...]
admin | June 16, 2009
It’s June 16, time for the annual “hooey” (as they call it in Ireland) marking the day in 1904 around which James Joyce centered one of the greatest English novels — “Ulysess.” It’s more than 700 pages of the daylong wanderings and meditations in Dublin of Leopold Bloom and Stephen Dedalus. According to an Associated [...]
admin | May 27, 2009
Ken Robison, historian at the Overholser Historical Research Center in Fort Benton, sends this post concerning next year’s celebration marking the 150th anniversary of the completion of the Mullan Road. … “We plan to hold the Mullan Conference 21-22 May 2010, probably with a reception Thursday evening the 20th. … We plan to set up [...]
admin | May 20, 2009
Historian Bob Swartout, who has spent the past 31 years teaching at Carroll College in Helena, is helping celebrate the school’s 100th anniversary this year by releasing his new book, “Bold Minds and Blessed Hands: The First Century of Montana’s Carroll College.” Years in the making, the new work looks at the school’s rise as [...]
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