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 | February 16, 2010
Great news! The 2011 Montana history conference will be held in Missoula, Sept. 22-24, 2011. This is the annual conference sponsored by the Montana Historical Society and this year, co-sponsored by the Historical Museum at Fort Missoula and the University of Montana. The tentative theme will focus on war and peace, acknowledging 2011 as the [...]
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 7, 2009
If you get the chance, drop into the Veterans Day weekend program Sunday at the Rocky Mountain Museum of Military History at Fort Missoula. The program at Building T-316 starts at 2 p.m. and there’s no charge. This year’s program is a tribute to American POWs, and few have stories to rival that of WWII [...]
admin | September 3, 2009
Christine Nyholm of the Des Moines Examiner in Iowa posted a Q&A today that she had with the Gunny, R. Lee Ermey, about his show “Lock N’ Load” on the History Channel. Ermey refers to his trip to Missoula in April to drive and fire Hayes Otoupalik’s historic French-designed Renault FT-17, a World War I [...]
admin | August 11, 2009
They called them “vags,” the homeless and the drifters on the streets of Missoula in the summer after World War I. And, yes, they were a problem in the city’s eyes. Chief of Police Moore and Officer Bishop rounded up three “vags” on Aug. 12 and threw them in jail. Moore said the men would [...]
admin | July 29, 2009
As Oglala Sioux war chief Red Cloud watched from a distance, U.S. soldiers packed up and left Fort C.F. Smith, beginning the abandonment of military posts along the Bozeman Trail. Early the next day, Red Cloud and his warriors swooped down on the fort and burned it in celebration. For two years they’d resisted construction [...]
admin | July 28, 2009
Will Moss’s story in Sunday’s Ravalli Republic and Missoulian told of the end of the 2009 Chief Joseph Trail Ride at the Big Hole National Battlefield on Sunday. Today marks the anniversary of a notable Saturday night in the flight of Chief Joseph and the Nez Perce. Anybody out there have any Fort Fizzle anecdotes [...]
admin | June 22, 2009
From FWP: Visit Salmon Lake State Park on Saturday evening, June 27 and get a glimpse into the Nez Perce War of 1877 through the eyes of Major Charles Rawn. The program starts at 8 p.m. at Salmon Lake State Park’s campground amphitheater, approximately 5 miles south of Seeley Lake just off Highway 83. The [...]
admin | June 11, 2009
According to Keren Wales’ blog, she returned yesterday to the prison camp her father was held in during World War II, this time with a new friend — 68-year-old Helga Radau — who has an amazing exhibit at the camp. Keren is bicycling and traveling by train through Europe, retracing the steps her father Ken [...]
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