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		<title>A great Glacier trainwreck: Aug. 30, 1901</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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 &#8212; 17 miles down a steep grade, reaching an estimated 75-100 mph, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Montana&#8217;s first hanging today at Gold Creek in 1862</title>
		<description><![CDATA[At 2:22 p.m. on Aug. 26, 1862, C.W. Spillman, horse thief, became the first man executed in what&#8217;s now Montana. Spillman was strung up from a tree near Gold Creek, which appeared on maps as Hangtown for years after. James Stuart, one of the town&#8217;s founders, described Spillman as &#8220;a rather quiet reserved pleasant young [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tornadoes Part II. Stolen off a National Weather Service site</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Tornado resulting in most deaths - 2 deaths when a tree fell on two miners in Mineral county on June 10, 1923 (see previous post for another two-fatality tornado in 1935) Tornado resulting in most damage - an F2 tornado at Lewistown on August 14, 1999 Earliest tornados - March 2, 1991 near Arlee in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>On tornadoes in the Treasure State</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mullan Road from Milltown to Bearmouth</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We were in Milltown at the end of our last post. In just a few hundred yards, before you get to the churches and school at Bonner, turn right off Highway 200 onto Highway 210 through Piltzville. The Mullan Road tended to hug the base of the mountain tighter than the today’s highway does because [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Road trip! The Mullan Road east from Missoula</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It’s safe to say that if you’re going to follow the footprint of the original Mullan Road this summer, you’ll probably have one of those moo-ving Montana experiences. You know, the kind that occurs when your backroad is blocked by languorous broods of red or black bovines.  Admit it: you’ve leaned out the window and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Are you thinking it&#8217;s Little Bighorn time?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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 &#8212; in a nice electric storm on the plains, not the snowy white palette pictured to the right. We couldn&#8217;t stop. Here&#8217;s a tidbit that I found and am including [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://montanayesterday.com/?p=724</link>
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		<title>Traveling the Mullan Road in 2010, Part I</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://montanayesterday.com/?p=716</link>
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		<title>Creation of Glacier was &#8220;the start of American domestic tourism&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Anaconda Standard, for one, came close to &#8220;breaking&#8221; the story of the new Glacier National Park. In a story datelined &#8220;Washington, May 11 (1910),&#8221; 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 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://montanayesterday.com/?p=709</link>
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		<title>Gateways to Glacier. It&#8217;s all in the promotion &#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There was not a lot of fanfare surrounding the official creation of Glacier National Park on May 11, 1910, as Michael Jamison&#8217;s intriguing story in today&#8217;s Missoulian, &#8220;Glacier: A national park locals learned to love&#8221; related. But that doesn&#8217;t mean there wasn&#8217;t some local pride involved. Here&#8217;s an item from the Kalispell Inter Lake that [...]]]></description>
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