admin | January 24, 2011
From the New York Times on Jan. 22, 1911, under the headline “Last Buffalo Hunt Now On: Michel Pablo Killing Off His Herd in Spite of Montana Authorities” CALGARY, Alberta, Jan. 21 – The last act of a spectacular deal is now being enacted on the plains of the Flathead Reservation in Montana, where Michel [...]
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 | June 1, 2009
Anybody heard of Amber Spring on the Flathead Reservation? There was one in 1892, according to the Missoula Gazette. Major Peter Ronan, the Flathead agent, called the spring discovered by Indians a “natural curiosity.” “It is a spring of crystal clearness, five or six feet in diameter, and deep in proportion,” the newspaper said. “In [...]
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