admin | August 29, 2010
Disaster struck on the Great Northern Railway line on the southern edge of what would become Glacier National Park. The air brakes leaked on an eastbound freight train near Essex, and 28 cars detached from the engine. They rolled backward through the night — 17 miles down a steep grade, reaching an estimated 75-100 mph, [...]
admin | March 7, 2010
Our Sunday history almanac a couple of weeks ago in the Territory section of the Missoulian included an item about a brief strike by the motormen of the Missoula Electric Street Railway Co. in February 1893. It came from a Missoulian article that offered a fascinating and sometimes surprising slice of life in Missoula in [...]
admin | February 2, 2010
Here’s how John Neihardt described his visit to the highest of the Great Falls of the Missouri in late July, 1908: “I caught myself tightly gripping the ledge and shrinking with a shuddering instinctive fear. Then suddenly the thunders seemed to stifle all memory of sound – and left only the silent universe with myself [...]
admin | September 1, 2009
One of my late dog’s favorite places to romp was through Tunnel 16 1/2. It’s the train tunnel on the abandoned Milwaukee Road above what once was the Milltown Dam. In the 1990s until dam cleanup workers gated it off a few years ago, it was a palette for surprising splashes of “street art,” much [...]
admin | July 21, 2009
From the Missoulian in September 1904: STRONG PROTEST TO FOREST RESERVE Philipsburg Mass Meeting Declares That it Would Retard Industries and is Unnecessary “Residents of Philipsburg in the city yesterday stated that the mass meeting in the “burg” Thursday to protest against the establishment of the forest reserve in Granite county was largely attended and [...]
admin | June 16, 2009
If you missed it, read the post below about the worldwide celebration of “Bloomsday” each June 16. What’s the Montana connection? Stick with us here. Actress Millicent Bandmann-Palmer’s name pops up three times in “Ulysses,” which is set in its entirety on June 16, 1904, in Dublin. At one point, Leopold Bloom spots a theater [...]
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 | June 5, 2009
Rivers and streams in western Montana appear to be receding today, but that wasn’t the case 101 years ago. Late in the evening of June 5, the center of the Higgins Avenue Bridge in Missoula washed out as the Great Flood of 1908 reached its crest. It ended a long day during which Missoulians made [...]
admin | May 27, 2009
“You may think you know Missoula, but you don’t.” A Daily Missoulian writer at this time of year in 1900 toured the underbelly of the city after a late May fire. “You wouldn’t imagine there is an underground Missoula. You can’t imagine filthy little dens where you hardly have room to turn around, which are [...]
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