admin | March 31, 2009
A follow-up on the below post “cours de femmes”: Cindy Stalcup pointed out in a comment that Gustav Sohon supplied a drawing of Charles LaMoose that’s in the Smithsonian. The date on it is May, 1854. The title on the Smithsonian website is: “Portrait of Lamuh Called Charles Lamoose, with Hair-Braids And Buttoned Shirt (Lives [...]
admin | March 31, 2009
In December Bob Hayes, who lives at the top of Evaro Hill, told me a little anecdote about his ranch, which he was putting into a conservation easement. The story goes that in the 1840s a Hudson’s Bay Co. trader staged a footrace in which 40 Flathead women ran, across these same flats, around a [...]
admin | March 26, 2009
There’s a birthday dinner at Legion Post 27 on Ronan Street Friday night (March 27). The American Legion turns 90 years old this year and the national commander, David Rehbein, is on a four-day spin through Montana to help celebrate. Dinner tickets are $15 and reservations are required at 543-7391. Teddy Roosevelt’s oldest son, Ted [...]
admin | March 24, 2009
We’ve all heard about how the railroads changed the namescape of the country they passed through, assigning names to each station. Here’s an excerpt from a hard-to-read railroad column in the Weekly Missoulian in 1883, as the main line of the Northern Pacific was being completed in Montana: “The man who deals out names to [...]
admin | March 23, 2009
The recent death of Paul Harvey prompted local photo historian guru Stan Cohen to shuffle through his files to come up with this shot of Harvey, then known as Paul Aurendt, and his young bride, Angel, during their year’s stay in Missoula, where he worked for A.J. “Art” Mosby at KGVO Radio. According to a [...]
admin | March 10, 2009
Here’s a short article from the Dec. 1, 1909, Daily Missoulian: Missoula Given Right to Use River HELENA, Nov.30 — (Special) — At a meeting of the state board of health today permission was granted to the city of Missoula to dump its sewages into the Missoula river, upon the showing that the waters of [...]
admin | March 5, 2009
Who was the man who guided David Thompson to the Missoula Valley in 1812?
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